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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86624	An inquisition after blood. To the Parliament in statu quo nunc, and to the Army regnant; or any other whether Royallist, Presbyterian, Independent or Leveller, whom it may concern.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1649 (1649)	Wing H3080; Thomason E531_23; ESTC R15284	7,785	15

his Parliament by force and remove ill Counsellors from about him long before he put up his Royall Standard and the Generall nam'd to live and die with them and very observable it is how that Generalls Father was executed for a Traytor for but attempting such a thing upon Queen Elizabeth I meane to remove ill Counsellors from about her by force 'T is also to be observed that the same Army which was rais'd to bring him to his Parliament was continued to a clean contrary end two yeers afterwards to keep him from his Parlement 'T is fit it should be remembred who interdicted Trade first and brought in Forraigners to help them and whose Commissions of Warre were neere upon two moneths date before the Kings 'T is fit it should be remebred how his Majesty in all his Declarations and public Instruments made alwaies deep Protestations that 't was not against his Parliament he raised Armes but against some seditious Members against whom he had onely desired the common benefit of the Law but could not obtaine it 'T is fit to remember that after any good successes or advantage of his he still Courted both Parlement and City to an Accommodation how upon the Treaty at Uxbridge with much importunity for the generall advantage and comfort of his people and to prepare matters more fitly for a peace he desired there might be freedom of trade from Town to Town and a Cessation of all Acts of Hostility for the time that the inflamation being allayd the wound might be cur'd the sooner all which was denied him 'T is fit to remember how a Noble Lord at that time told the Parlements Commissioners in his Majesties Name at the most unhappy rupture of the said Treaty that when he was at the highest he wold be ready to treat with them and fight with them when he was at the lowest 'T is fit the pres●●● Army shold remember how often both in their Propos●●● and public Declarations they have inform'd the world and deeply protested that their principall aime was to restore his Majestie to honor freedom and safety whereunto they were formerly bound both by their own Protestation and Covenant that the two Commanders in chief pawn'd unto him their soules thereupon Let them remember that since he was first snatch't away to their custody he never displeas'd them in the least particular but in all his Overtures for Peace and all his Propositions he had regard still that the Army shold be satisfied let it be remembred that to settle a blessed Peace to preserve his Subjects from rapine and ruine and to give contentment to his Parlement he did in effect freely part with his Sword Scepter and Crown and ev'ry thing that was personall to him Let it be remembred with what an admired temper with what prudence and constancie with what moderation and mansuetude hee comported himselfe since his deep afflictions insomuch that those Commissioners and others who resorted unto him and had had their hearts so averse unto him before return'd his Converts crying him up to be one of the sanctifiedst persons upon earth and will not the blood of such a Prince cry aloud for vengeance Let it be remembred that though there be some Precedents of deposing Kings in this Kingdome and elsewhere when there was a competition for the right Title to the Crown by some other of the blood Royall yet 't is a thing not only unsampled but unheard of in any age that a King of England whose Title was without the least scruple shold be summon'd and arraign'd tryed condemn'd and executed in his own Kingdom by his own Subjects and by the name of their own King to whom they had sworn Alleagiance The meanest Barister that hath but tasted the Laws of the Land can tell you that it is an unquestionable fundamentall Maxime The King can do no wrong because he acts by the mediation of his Agents and Ministers he heares with other mens eares he sees with other mens eyes he consults with other mens braines he executes with other mens hands and judges with other mens consciences therefore his Officers Counsellors or favorits are punishable not 〈◊〉 and I know not one yet whom he hath spar'd but sacrificed to Justice The Crown of England is of so coruscant and pure a mettall that it cannot receive the least taint or blemish and if there were any before in the person of the Prince it takes them all away and makes him to be Rectus in C●r●a This as in many others may be exemplified in Henry the Seventh and the late Queen Elizabeth when the first came to the Crown 't was mention'd in Parlement that the attainder might be taken off him under which he lay all the time he liv'd an Exile in France it was then by the whole House of Parlement resolv'd upon the question that it was unnecessary because the Crown purg'd all So likewise when Queen Elizabeth was brought as it were from the Scaffold to the Throne though she was under a former attainder yet 't was thought superflous to take it off for the Crown was lieth away al spots and darteth such a brightnesse such resplendent beams of Majesty that quite dispel al former clouds so that put case King Iames died a violent death and his Son had been accessary to it which is as base a lie as ever the devil belch'd out yet his accesse to the Crown had purg'd all This businesse about the playster which was applied to King Iames was sifted winnow'd as narrowly as possibly a thing could be in former Parlements yet when it was exhibited as an Article against the Duke of Buckingham 't was term'd but a presumption or misdemeanure of a high nature And 't is strange that these new accusers shold make that a parricide in the King which was found but a presumption in the Duke who in case it had been so must needs have been the chiefest Accessary And as the antient Crown and Royall Diadem of England is made of such pure allay and cast in so dainty a mould that it can receive no taint or contract the least speck of enormity and foulenesse in it self so it doth endow the person of the Prince that weares it with such high Prerogatives that it exempts him from all sorts of publique blemishes from all Attainders Empeachments Summons Arraignments and Tryalls nor is there or ever was any Law or Precedent in this Land to lay any Crime or capitall charge against him though touching civill matters touching propertie of meum and tuum he may be impleaded by the meanest vassall that hath sworn fealty to him as the Subjects of France and Spain may against their Kings though never so absolute Monarchs In the Constitutions of England there are two incontroulable Maximes whereof the meanest mootman that hath but saluted Littleton cannot be ignorant the first is Rex in suis Dominiis neque habet Parem nec Superiorem The King in his own Dominions hath neither Peer or Superior The other is Satis habet Rex ad poenam quod Deum expectet ultorem 't is punishment enough for a King that God will take revenge of him Therefore if it be the Fundamentall Constitution of the Land that all just Tryalls must be by Peers and the Law proclaimes the King to have none in his own Dominions I leave the world to judge what capacity or power those men had to arraigne the late King to be in effect his Accusers and Judges and that an exorbitant unsampled Tribunall shold be erected with power and purpose to condemn all that came before it to cleer none and that sentence of death shold passe without conviction or Law upon Him that was the head and protector of all the Lawes Lastly that they who by their own confession represent but the Common people should assume power to cut off Him who immediately represented God Cui dabit partes scelus expiandi Iupiter Well we have seen such portentous things that former Ages never beheld nor will future Ages ever be witnesse of the like Nay posterity after a Century or two will hold what is now really acted to be but Romances And now with thoughts full of consternation and horror with a heartfull of amazement and trembling for the flagrant and crying sins of this forlorn Nation which hath drawn such an endlesse warr and an unheard of slaverie upon it self I will conclude with this short prayer which carrieth with it as much of universall charity as of particular God amend all and me first FINIS

resolute generous Seamen bears up against him gives him a whole broad side and shoots him 'twixt wind and water so there happens a furious fight betwixt them which being ended the Marchant cannot deny but that the man of war though the first Assailant was necessitated to fight and that justly in his own defence which necessity he drew upon himself and so was excusable à posteriori not à priori As the Civilians speak of a clandestine marriage Fieri non debuit sed factum valet It ought not to have been but being done 't is valid whereunto relates another saying Multa sunt quae non nisi peracta approbantur There are many things which are not allowable till they are pass'd The Kings of France have had sundry civill warrs many bloudy encounters and clashes with their Subjects specially the last King Lewis the thirteenth which turn'd all at last to his advantage among other Treaties upon that of Loudu● he was by force of Article to publish an Edict Dons lequel le Roy approuvoit tout le passé comme ayant esté fait pour son service c. Whrein the King approv'd of all that was pass'd as done for his service c. and these concessions and extenuations are usuall at the close of most civill warrs but there was never any further advantage made of them then to make the adverse party more capable of grace and pardon to enable them to bear up against the brunt of Lawes and secure them more firmly from all afterclaps They were pass'd in order to an Act of Abolition to a generall pardon and consequently to a reestablishment of Peace now Peace and VVarr we know are like VVater and Ice they engender one another But I do not remember to have read either in the French story or any other that such Royall Concessions at the period of any intestin war were ever wrung so hard as to draw any inference from them to cast therby the guilt of blood or indeed the least stain of dishonor upon the King For Royall Indulgences and grants of this nature are like nurses breasts if you presse them gently there will milk come forth if you wring them too hard you will draw forth blood in lieu of milk And I have observed that upon the conclusion of such Treaties in France both parties wold hugg and mutually embrace one another in a gallant way of national humanity all rancor all plundrings sequestration and imprisonment wold cease nor wold any be prosecuted much lesse made away afterwards in cold bloud Touching the Comencer of this monstrous war of ours the world knows too well that the first man of bloud was Blewcap who shew'd Subjects the way how to present their King with Petitions upon the pikes point and what visible judgements have fallen upon him since by such confusions of discord and pestilence at home and irreparable dishonour abroad let the world judge The Irish took his rise from him and whereas it hath been often suggested that his Majesty had fore-knowledge thereof among a world of convincing arguments which may cleer him in this particular the Lord Maguair upon the ladder and another upon the Scaffold when they were ready to breath their last and to appear before the Tribunall of heaven did absolutely acquit him and that spontaneously of their own accord being unsought unto but only out of a love to truth and the discharge of a good conscience But touching those c●uentous Irish warrs in regard there was nothing whereof more advantage was made against His late Majesty to imbitter and poison the hearts of his Subjects against him then that Rebellion I will take leave to wind up the main causes of them upon a small bottome 1. They who kept intelligence and complied with the Scot in his first and second insurrection 2. They who dismiss'd the first Irish Commissioners who came of purpose to attend our Parlement with some grievances with such a short unpolitic harsh answer 3. They who took off Straffords head which had it stood on that Rebellion had never been and afterwards retarded the dispatch of the Earl of Leicester from going over to be Lord-Lievtenant 4. Lastly they who hindred part of that disbanded Army of 8000. men rais'd there by the Earl of Strafford which His Majesty in regard they were souldiers of fortune and loose casheer'd men to prevent the mischiefs that might befall that Kingdome by their insolencies had promised the two Spanish Ambassadors the Marquesses of Velada and Malvezzi then resident in this Court which souldiers rise up first of any and put fire to the tumult to find something to do They I say who did all this may be justly said to have been the true causes of that horrid Insurrection in Ireland and consequently 't is easie to judge upon the account of whose souls must be laid the blood of those hundred and odd thousand poor Christians who perished in that war and had it been possible to have brought o're their bodies unputrified to England and to have cast them at the lower House door and in the presence of some Members which are now either secluded or gone to give account in another world I believe their noses would have gush'd out with blood for discovery of the true murtherers Touching this last fire-brand of war which was thrown into England who they were that kindled it first the consciences of those indifferent unblassed men are fittest to be judges who have been curious to observe with impartiall eyes the carriage of things from the beginning I confesse 't was a fatall infortunate thing that the King should put such a distance 'twixt his Person and his Parliament but a more fatall and barbarous thing it was that he should be driven away from it that there should be a desperate designe to surprize his Person that Ven with his Myrmidons and Bourges with his Bandogs for so they call'd the riffraff of the City they brought along with them should rabble him away with above four parts in five of the Lords and neere upon two parts in three of the Commons Yet 't is fit it should be remembred what reiterated Messages his Majesty sent from time to time afterward that he was alwaies ready to return provided there might be a course taken to secure his Person with those Peers others who were rioted away from the Houses 't is fit it shold be remembred that there was not the least motion of war at all till Hotham kept his Majesty out of his own Town Kingston upon Hul where being attended by a few of his meniall Servants he came only to visit her which act of Hotham's by shutting the gates against him was voted warrantable by the House of Commons and it may be call'd the first thunderbolt of war 'T is fit it should be remembred that a while after there was a compleat Army of 10000. effect if Horse and Foot inrolled in and about London to fetch him to