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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86163	An admonition to my Lord Protector and his Council, of their present danger, with the means to secure him and his posterity in their present greatnesse: with the generall applause and lasting tranquility of the nation,.	J. H.; Heath, James, 1629-1664, attributed name.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666, attributed name.	1654 (1654)	Wing H1317; Thomason E813_2; ESTC R207329	8,665	15

Governments in those that have the possession of the Militia it is better both for defence and offence that the General and civil Magistrate should be all one than that a gallant Army and Nation should be ruined as Hannibal and his Carthaginians were by the delatory and malicious practises of Hanno a Senator with his faction But to return to our purpose for the satisfaction of all interests and first for the souldiery because they have fought hard for it I should propose to your Highnesse to have all officers of the Army above the degree of Captaines to have votes in your Highnesse Councill of State at those times that they are free from their more urgent imployments in the field So will each souldier of the Army be sure to endeavour by his extraordinary deserts to rise by degrees to the State preferment he sees his officers so justly rewarded with Then for this next Parliament though they should not have power to alter the Government I could wish your Highnesse and Councill would consult with them about your late establishment and hear what objections they have against it And if the Parliament and Army should joyn in a petition to this purpose I presume you would not deny it And it were better to offer at acts of Grace before they were asked Lastly if my reasons for an hereditary Monarchy be satisfactory I most humbly beseech your Highnesse and Council to consider whether the establishment of the succession after your Highnesse in an usurping line will not expose the Nation to all the miseries I have mentioned in an elective government and if this be doubted be pleased to look over our own Chronicles and you shall find variety of examples without going further then the time of the conquest For first Harrold by his usurpation encouraged and occasioned the Conquest of England then was there another deluge of blood occasioned by the usurpation of Henry the first and again what slaughters and rapines did this miserable Nation endure by the unjust ambition of King Stephen in detaining the Crown from Maud the Empresse which fire could not be quenched but by the succession of her son the right heir which was at last agreed to by King Stephen But to come nearer home you shall find that Henry the fourth saw his country bleed in his life-time for his usurpation though he came in with the generall good liking of the people and thought he ha● secured himself by the Kings murther But though his industry secured the Crown to his son yet was his sons death conspired by his principall friends just as he was setting out for the invasion of France but that conspiracy being detected he by his unparallelled vertues and successes and the weaknesse of the true heir avoided during his short life any storms at home But they fell most heavily upon our flourishing Countrey in his Successor Henry the sixths time who could never have lost the Crown by his weaknesse if his title had been good as appeareth by the notable contention between him and Edward the fourth but between them were many thousands of Orphans and widows left weeping over their own and their Countreys desolate and bloudy ruines and at last the ambition of Henry the fourth was justly punished in the ruine of his Grandchild and a hatefull memory for his unjust Ambition and the sad consequences of it But if these examples do not sufficiently convince the reason of the thing doth for there will alwayes be a conscientious and a necessitous party for the true heir in any Nation against an Usurper besides malecontents which are still the greatest number because many must necessarily be injured and more unrewarded that think they deserve it and even all men that are unconcerned will be for the true Heir and be pretended lovers of Justice and with much reason must hate presidents of wrong least they should time other time suffer it And so I may conclude we are as certain of a civill warre from an unjust succession as from an Elective Government And the incomparable miseries and ill consequences of that I have already declared though our own experience might partly have saved me the labour But your Highnesse may think an invincible Fleet a sufficient security for an Island against a Forreign Nation that may interpose at such a time of our destructions But I answer that if none of your shipping should revolt yet might our next neighbours the French if they should then make peace with their other enemies take the opportunity of the same storm that shall force your Fleet in the Winter into Harbors to blow them over the short passage into England if they have any party to secure their Landing here But if this be thought frivolous I suppose I have said enough besides to make it appear that the true interest of your Highnesse and your posterity with that of this Kingdome to think of a treaty with Charles Stuart if he will accept of the Crown after your decease upon the same terms you now hold it I mean the same Councill and limitation of power with a competent maintenance for him in the mean time in some such remote place as you shall need lesse to fear him then you do now if he should incline to the breach of such an agreement as may be secured by Oaths Hostages and by the mediation of such States whose interest it is in respect of their greater neighbours to be alwayes friends to the peace of England and by stricter ties then are here necessary to be mentioned besides the honesty discretion and temper of the young man who notwithstanding his great courage shews he inherits the mildnesse of his Father and Grandfather on the one side and of his Mother and Grandfather on the other side which great King Henry the fourth of France after he had victoriously broken the heart of that great Rebellion called the Catholique League notwithstanding received the only head of it then living the Duke of Main into his protection and favour and never took the least revenge of him or any other of that Rebellious crew in all the time of his reign But above all things the Kings own interest and the good of his Countrey will oblige him to bury his resentments and both to accept and keep such conditions as redeem him and his followers from misery at the present and secure him and his posterity in the end to the re-enjoyments of all their rights without the slaughter or destruction of any part of his Kingdomes which he is most tenderly sensible of and what doubt can there be but that he will rather expect quietly the decease of an old man as your Highnesse is then run an improbable hazard of all his fortunes for a few years which he must have stayed for till his fathers death if he had not been untimely cut off and that he was willing to do so your Highness knowes by his pious and earnest sollicitation then to you