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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80507	The coppy of a letter written to the lower house of Parliament touching divers grievances and inconveniences of the state &c.		1641 (1641)	Wing C6176A; Thomason E167_9; ESTC R318	12,938	26

for a Merchant to become a Judge for I have ever heard that there are five things necessary in a Generall to wit knowledge valor prevention authority and fortune The last whereof but one had beene better spared at the Isle of Rhee for also late authority joyned with wilfulnesse of the Commander was the utter bane of the action as the relation tels us And it is no marvell for according to the old saying the best Fencer is not alwayes the best Fighter the fairest Tilter not the best experienced Souldier nor the eare of the favorite at the Court the best Generall of an Host And whosoever every takes upon him that command beholds himselfe in a false Glas that makes him seeme what hee is not as on the contrary experience is the Mother of prudence and prudence will not take Councell least shee joyne her will with her will hastinesse causeth repentance and frowardnesse causeth hinderance For the evils that followed upon these two voyages your selves are sufficient witnesses and can judge of it As namely the billetting of Souldiers in the Countrey and bringing their Ships in harbours not abating the entertainement of the one nor the wages of the other And yet notwithstanding this needlesse cost and charges our ships and coasts are daylie infested in such sort as we dare not peepe out of harbour Were the carriage of things now answerable to the prudence and presidents of former times wee cannot pretend a feare of invasion because our Ships are divided into severall harbours and our Souldiers billetted in inward Countries besides the season of the yeare giveth no oportunity to an enemy to attempt it Here is a masse of wealth carelesly consumed whether the King or Subject beare it no man bettered but onely those that have the titles of Souldiers yet never had the happinesse or honour to see what appertained to service they are taught insteade of worke by which they have lived and beene bred now to spend their time in idlenesse ale-houses and to forget their occupations their example of disorder encourageth other to follow their liberty People that were wont to live poorely yet safely are now by their fellowes and their followers robbed and spoiled and no remedy for redresse The rich stand upon their guard and dare not resort to Church least in their absence their houses bee surprized and rifled The Justices have onely the name of Officers but have no power to punish injustice all mens prayers are now a dayes to bee defended from the wroth of a mighty man and the tumult of the people Garrisons in England which have no strong walled Townes nor is used to the disorder and loose carriage of Souldiers is more perillous uncouth and straying then where Warre is practized innovations in all states are dangerous especially where there is a diminution of the Lawes or a feare to execute Justice through too much liberty given to Souldiers No Countrey but hath more hurt by their Garrisons then by their enemies Enemies onely rob the frontiers others the whole Countrey The enemy may bee resisted the other not spoken against The enemy giveth a sudden attempt and returneth the others doe every day rob and spoile The enemy surpriseth with feare the other have neither feare nor shame The first lessoning the greatnesse of the Romane Empire who by the insolency of Souldiers and the first raising of the house of Ottoman was by promission and his conniving at his Army What man is so old in England that hath seene or what youth so young that ever thought to see Scottishmen and Irishmen garrisoned in England and no enemy appeare against us or who could have imagined hee should have ever a seene our owne people tyrannized over in our owne Kingdome by this of our owne Nation and those Scottish and Irish yea and dare not so much as complaine Would our fore-Fathers have thought it safety or policy to drawe 2000. Scottishmen and Irishmen into the Isle of Wight for their defence against France when they of the Isle desired it not nay when they opposed it Would they have thought it wisedome that 2000. mouthes besides the Inhabitants should live on the food of that Island and so bring themselves into want and penury of victuals if they should in earnest be attempted by an enemy Would they have thought fit the charge of it should bee required of them And yet they to suffer all injuries from the hands of strange Souldiers where the meanest boy in the Island is thought to manage Armes better then the best of them that are therebilletted No but they would rather have thought it discretion upon the returne of those voyages to have caused the men to repaire to the place where they were pressed and to have ordered that each parish should have set them on worke for their maintainance with command to be ready upon warning to repaire to the place of randevous There is no part or place in England so remore from the Sea but they might have resorted to the port assigned before the Ships could be furnished or drawn together They would have thought it more wisedome to have retired to their owne harbours and to have had their men discharged then to have continued this needlesse and expencefull course that is taken They would have judged it better to have supplied the Isle of Wight with 2000. men out of the maine land when they feared any evill to the Island then to send for them into Scotland and to keepe them in continuall entertainement They would have thought it more fit to have returned the barbarous Irish into the Countrey from whence they came then to make them a vexation to the places and parts where they remaine seeing no shadow of reason can be pretended for it England wants no men and hath as good and able men as either of the other two Nations if his Majesty had occasion to use them England with small charge and trouble can raise what men his Majesty pleaseth to command and that suddenly and discharge them againe without trouble or charge as quickly The Wisemen of England would have thought 2. or 300000. pound better spared then thus wast fully consumed and disorders committed wee may compute it to that summe and yet keepe our selves within compasse and notwithstanding the want of money and the wayes to exact it of the subject is all the song now sung Hee that sees or complaines of the evill managing of things is either imprisoned banisht the Court or censured for a discontent There is no Englishman but knoweth the heart of every other true hearted Englishman and with one consent will all obey their Prince and to his person owe all due reverence and wee may truly say no King is more happy in Subjects for their love nor never subjects readier to serve their King with their purses persons nor never people was better blest with a King who is endued with all kind of vertues staynd with no

conscience with danger to his soule with suite to his children and curse to his heires his desire is to live poore to die rich But as these vices are made vertues even so is hee honoured for them with title of Nobility It is a strange ambition of some of them to purchase the degrees of Earles Viscounts and Barons of other Countries as of Scotland and Ireland onely for the name of a Lord for no other priviledge they can challenge in England if they commit any criminall offences they shall bee tried by an ordinary jury and hanged if they stood in danger of arrest as I thinke they are not much inriched by their title they are subject to catch-pooles and a Dungion in the Counter may be their Sanctuary And seeing their pride makes them covet to divide themselves from you and to become Scots and Irish you can doe no lesse in requitall but make an Act that so long as they hold the titles of Forrainers they be made uncapable to sit in the House of Parliament or to enjoy any freedome more then his Majesties Subjects of Scotland or Ireland Few of you are there that have not seene Nobility highly praised in England and much esteemed abroad and none of you now liveth but to see it abused and liberty with too great familiarity in use the State of the Court and reputation of Lords are much decayed and boldnesse with contempt crept in and no way to bee redressed but by argentle speech in Parliament that so his Majesty may see the mischiefe of it and reforme it for it rests onely in his power who onely hath power to create honour When Philip the second King of Spaine entred with Armes upon his Kingdome of Portugall and that with his sword hee might have any fitting lawes yet were there foure priviledges which the Portugals besought they might enjoy One whereof was that the King would make no unworthy person noble without their approbation which was granted them And to this day they hold that freedome which keepes that Kingdome in the ancient state honour and dignity That is to say two Dukes one Marquesse and eighteen Earles and thus much for the point of honour The second grievance I will recommend to your viewes is the carriage of our Warres the excessive charges vainely spent therein the unworthinesse of the people imployed the grave experience neglected the designes not warranted by reason and discretion and the executions worse performed with many other circumstances that depend upon it But before I proceede herein I must crave leave to speake to two points The one to declare the property and condition of Impostures and Deceavers of Princes In the other I must cleare the House of Parliament of an imputation cast upon it Abusers of Princes are they that perswade them to Warre to become poore when they may live in peace and become rich when they may be loved causeth them to bee hated when they may enjoy their lives securely put them in hazard of crosse fortune rashly And lastly having necessity to use their Subjects puts them into that necessity as they refuse to doe for him all this is pride of the perswader as Socrates saith In the second I will cleare the Parliament in which I was a member of an ingratefull aspersion cast upon it that is to say that the Parliament was a cause to draw his Majesty into Warre and failed on their part to contribute towards it These have beene often repeated and the Parliament accused the contrary hath beene as often reiterated and the truth expressed how farre the Parliament proceeded therein but to stop the mouths of such false reports and to free the Parliament of such a calumniation I must use this Argument At the assembly at Oxford the Parliament being prorogued thither money was required of us towards the furnishing of his Majesties Fleet then preparing upon many reasons alledged too tedious now to repeat with one consent it was refused whereupon there was offer made by him that next the King seemed to have best authority that if they would but contribute 40000. l. they should choose their enemy Whereupon I enferre that before that proposition there was no enemy and therefore no Warres The motion of money being denied the Parliament instantly brake up and seeing no enemy was nominated nor money consented to by us I see not how the house can bee taxed for peace breakers but rather the name cast upon some young men for youth by nature is prone to pride especially where experience wants they are credulous what they heare that pleaseth them and incredulous with what is told them by wise men they are despisers of others Councels and very poore in their owne they are dangerous for Princes to relie on for selfe-will is of greater force then precepts Now to proceede in October following the Fleete put to Sea and what they did is apparant by relation written by their Generall at his returne The voyage being ended another followed the next Summer under the command of that noble Lord the Earle of Linsey which through the weakenesse and dissability of the Ships was not able to performe what he had in charge and what he desired The last and most lamentable was that to the Isle of Rhee which I likewise referre to a man I have seene and to the Bookes printed and extant These with that to Algiers to make up a messe of Island voyages I wish might be referred to examination of choyce and experienced souldiers by land and by Sea to report their opinions of it that so their errours their wastfull expences their negligences their weake designes and want of experience may appeare with the successe that might have proved if advice and councell had had preheminence above will and arrogancy for hee that is ignorant of truth and knowledge and led away with pride of his owne opinions must needs erre After it hath past your approbation it is worth his Majesties view who then shall see the difference of actions well managed and rash and heady enterprises undertaken by ignorance and performed with folly Busines of so great a consequence ought to be considered of Councell and not onely of the necessity profit and honour but of the possibility that was like to follow for an action well begun is halfe ended My experience in Discipline of Warres by Land and Sea can say no more then to referre it to others for it is a course I never was bred to in my youth and now to late in my age to practise onely one thing I observe that in the two vogayes of Cadeze and Rhee in the first a Land souldier commanded at Sea who knew not what belonged thereunto And the other was carried by him that was no souldier neither by Land nor by Sea and the successe proved accordingly in both yet their errours were never questioned but they both highly advanced In my opinion the charge they tooke upon them was as improper as