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A92926	A letter from an ejected Member of the House of Commons, to Sir Jo: Evelyn: shewing, the constitution of that councell, and the influence it hath had on the present times, with a judgement of future events.	Skutt, George.; Evelyn, John, Sir, 1591-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing S26; Thomason E463_18; ESTC R203469	15,283	28

vanquished foes with savage ferity and over your Confederates with falshood fraud and treachery For you may call to mind if you please your signall ingratitude to the Scots to whom you owe first the very Being and after that the Wel-being nor onely of the Parliament but of your selves your Wifes and Children who in all humane reason had inevitably fallen under the power of the King's justice had you not been rescued from it by the assistance of your Brethren of Scotland when you had with most pitiful moans and Messages called upon them for it Then your ingratitude to the City of London who was your Judas to carry the purse for you without carrying the Parallel any further unlesse I should say that ye may perhaps in one thing be like our Saviour Christ too that as he was crucified so ye may be all hanged These acts of high persecution of your Enemies and shamelesse ingratitude and falshood to your Friends renders you equally hatefull to both And if that of Claudian be true neque enim libertas tutior ulla est Quam domino servire bono then are we become the greatest Slaves in the world because we serve the worst Masters whose arts have not been very admirable neither since it did not require any great reach to carry on designes with that rule of making great Engagements and Promises and of never keeping any But I le be brief with you and tell you That there was a time when the name of Parliament was used to intimidate Kings and Princes and the Great men of the earth so now the time is comming and is at the very dore when the Name of a KING a Name in which there is power saies Salomon shall by the revolution of Divine justice intimidate all the lofty Titles of Members Chair-men Committee-men and whatsoever other Offices and Dignities are thereunto belonging I know very well the religious refuge you make to your famous Mother Shipton from whose Oracles you think your selves ordain'd to depose not only the King but the Throne it self in the succession of the Royall Line because she hath said there shall be no more Kings and Queens of England which is a truth the Devil hath told you enigmatically to make you more sure his own For I am ready to believe as well as you that there will be no more Kings nor Queens of England and yet I doe believe too this Monarchy was never at that height it is now about to arrive to by the blessing of God on the present undertakings of men For the union of the 2 Crowns of England and Scotland so prudently fore-laid by Hen 7. in the Marriage of His Daughter Margaret to James 4. King of Scotland had no sooner received the wisht-for successe in the Person of our late Soveraigne King James But both Kingdomes entred into a Treaty of rendring the Peace and union between them inviolable And the wisdome of the Commissioners of the Kingdome of Scotland then employed to the Parliament of England for establishing that union considering that to advance the same it would be profitable to remove all memorials of the disunion and separation endeavoured also that the common name of Great Britaine might be reciprocally taken up by both Nations Which though it produced no other effect at that time then a Proclamation from K. James as I remember yet that shewed a true understanding that wise Nation had in improving the union to the utmost both in name and interest And to this day the same hath been prosecuted in the transactions between the Parliaments of both Kingdoms and was intimated by the Lord Lowden in a Speech at a Conference of both Houses and will no doubt have its just and reasonable effect upon the setling of that Peace both Kingdomes are now fighting for against a generation of Vipers would eat out the Bowels of their Native Country with a malicious and obstinate endlesse Warre to maintain the variable revolutions of their fancies humours and passions which they call their Conscience and support the necessity of their fortunes which they call the Liberty and Property of all the Subjects of England I say that you and I shall in a short time live to see this Riddle of your Prophetesse made good against all the malice and power of your wicked sense and actions and these two Nations united into one common name of Great Britaine And His Majesties residence being drawn into the middle part of this hopefull Empire which the world will then grow jealous of may perhaps give a further issue to your reverend Sibylls Prophecies that Yorke shall be Where His Majesty and His Posterity no more using the stile of Kings and Queens of England shall be saluted Kings and Queens of Great Britaine to the worlds end which God grant Is it not time then Sir for you to look about you and in stead of wishing me the Honour of being a Member wish your self the happinesse of being none Give me seriously in one breath the just account of those vast sums you would willingly give to have lived these last fix years at my little private Tusculanum reaping the joyes of innocent and peacefull houres free from the disorder and affranation of Tumults prejudice of Factions and injuries of Warre And tell me freely or rather tell your own heart what course of life you would not rather undertake were you to begin again then the unprosperous profession of a Souldier For beside the envy and rage of men the spo●les rapes famines slaughter of the innocent wastings and burnings and other miseries laid on the labouring man by you have been so great that were not the merc●es of God infinite it were in vain for any of you to hope for any portion of them seeing the cruelties by you perm tied and committed have also been infinite Your Votes for a Personall Treaty can give us small assurance of your affections to Peace since you seem to be necessitated to them by the importunate desires of the people whom it was necessary to suspend by giving them a crust or something to baite upon while your selves acted all the while artificially and cunningly to render your own Councells ineffectuall for to that purpose tended the neglect of your own Votes after they were made your clogging them with preparatory Bills your receiving Petitions praying you to proceed in your own way your discountenancing others desiring a Treaty not to say taking occasion from thence perhaps to murder and destroy the Petitioners themselves your limiting the place of Treaty to an Island which is it self but a larger Prison your attending the businesse with men of war which invades the freedome of it So that what you were ashamed to deny in words you professe not to like in actions and so long as Treaties and reconciliations are made up of the same ingredients as the late Warre Feares and Jealousies 't is not like that any other fruit should be expected no more then

we can expect grapes from thornes And whatsoever the pretences of some be 't is notoriously known that those who are esteemed stars of the first magnitude in your Faction by whose influence you act and move have openly declared their Antipathy to all Treaties and tenacious resolutions to have the right of all controverted interests ended by the Sword because they very well know the dissolution their principles bring with them upon the present state of England and the novelty upon the whole world will render them hopelesse of an establishment by deliberation and Counsell And if the worst should come to passe the successe of your designes I mean which God forbid I doubt whether any acquisitions could give rest to the turbulent activity of some of your minds or whether there be any Kings under the Sun whose means are answerable to some of your desires But to me it would seem a great wonder did not the consideration of the fraile state and continuall fluctuation of all sublunary things hinder from whence I see the present state of the war quite altered from the principles of the first undertakings because the worser sort of men perhaps by the variable succession of time and accidents are grown worse then they intended to be That about five years since the Committee appointed to manage the Treaty at Oxford in March 1642. should be tied up to Treat onely with the KING when He was free and had many Noblemen and Privy Counsellours about Him to have employed in that businesse And at this time when He is a Prisoner and denied the accesse of His Servants and Friends it should be held so piamlous and perilous and undertaking to Treat with Him alone when there is no body else to doe it for Him If the thing were unreasonable or disadvantageous to you yet many wonder you should run into a worse hazard by chusing of two evils much the greater in displeasing one whole Kingdome and probably the much greater part of another in which you yet presume to sit and rule like Tyrants thereby preparing the hearts of others to use you just as you were using them so long as you had power to doe it For all men are now grown full of hope that the Hornes of your strength and power are much shorter and as you grow lesse able to offend so much the more will your majesticall offers of mercy and indemnity be contemned and derided That Indemnity you sent to the County of Essex shewed the weak and shallow state of your Authority For after a few Gentlemen had raised the County into Armes against you you held forth your golden Scepter of Indemnity which the Gentlemen for themselves accepted of but not being able to lay down the Armes they had raised went home to live in Peace leaving the Country to fight it out with the Parliament which they have done to some purpose whereby you are gull'd of your mercy and your honour both at once To the incomparable merit of that gallant old Peere the Earle of NORWICH who went out of SUSSEX into KENT to embarque himselfe amongst Strangers in the cause of Loyalty where he assum'd the conduct of a businesse as full of hazards as the Sea is full of waves and when the successe of that undertaking fail'd put over into another County at the Isle of Dogs where he was received by a currish generation of men making such effectuall opposition with the advantages they had that Sir William Compton was forced to article for the Souldiers that at such a place within a miles march they should all surrender their Armes whither being come and finding their condition desperate they resolutely refused to part with their Armes and in case they were denied would force a passage which having effected the march'd to Bow Bridge where they plac'd a Guard while their painfull old Generall sent to Chelmsford and next day rode thither himself alone to understand the result of the Rendevouz there who by the example of their newly arrived neighbours and friends past so many hazards to come to them and the encouragement of their gallant Country-man S r Charls Lucas resolved to joyn Bodies and so march'd to Colchester So that if Kent have not done the work alone yet it hath given fire to the train which is like to run through all England and hath begun a work will end in the greatest happinesse this Kingdome could ever expect viz. To unsettle this Parliamentary Army which is to settle Religion Laws and Liberties And in spight of all your confidence in the arme of flesh you will find your glory is setting and the fortune of your Armes changing the Lord Fairfax being about to lose together with his 50001. per annum all the honour Sir Thomas Fairfax won and the Predictions of your own Saint Mr Saltmarsh to be fulfilling upon you who before he died declared his revelations of your approaching ruine And therefore as Lot said to his Sons-in-Law so say I to you Up and get you out of this place for the Lord will destroy this City Gen. 19.14 Your condition seeming to me very desperate for as you have ordered the matter what confederate States have you abroad to help you and receive you as once you had of the Scots in the like necessity Or if you had what Ships have you to carry you thither Are you not in a pound and will not every Petty Constable be helping to catch you when you run away your very faces will betray you being complexionall Traytors and Rebels by elementall constitution for who can look upon Corbet Gourdon Say Scot Armyne Cromwell Rainsborough Heyman Ireton Holland Westrowe Boys Vane's Father and Son Morley Weaver Martin that rapsody of all villany and legislative Priapus who was sent for from fortifying of Reading without impeachment of High Treason because though he be not for the Parliament in all things yet if he be against the King in all things he is an instrument par negotiis Wentworth Hill Bond Ashe Rous Hoyle Pury Strickland Blakeston Walsingham Allen Harvy Walton Skippon Ven Livesey Luke's Father and Son Vassell Love Prideaux and the rest of the Saturnine crew and not presently see strange apparitions in their very Phisnomy of Churches overthrown Towns flaming Houses plundring Widowes crying out for their Husbands and Children and Orphans for their Moneys I must tell you Sir your very face though it be one of the best in the company looks strangely when you come abroad amongst honest men Some believe God hath suffered this defection amongst you to produce some great good to this Kingdome For this state being to suffer a totall abolition of the Government Ecclesiasticall so long exercised in it and to admit the erection of another with many alterations and qualifications in matters Civill upon which depended the good estate and happinesse of great numbers of men and families besides the questions in Divinity set on foot and maintained plausibly by very learned and pious Doctors and Preachers would probably have had no rest so long as all those persons whose dependances and relations were also great should remain unsatisfied either in interest or conscience Which work how to effect it seemed impossible in the eyes of man and therefore Almighty God by raising up a third sort of people teaching principles and doctrines destructive of all the politique forms maintained by the other two hath begot an union betwixt the Royalist and Presbyterian and engaged the Scots upon such good and acceptable offices to the King and His loyall Subjects that whereas all the world expected with hopes a great contest betwixt the two Nations about setling of their Church discipline in England it is now like to be received aequo grato animo and all matters candidly carried to a lasting good understanding between both Nations which God of his good mercy grant That at last we may see an end of this devouring Faction whereof you are the Head and is directed by your Councels and maintained over us by your commands and authority whose ends are without end and vary according to the liberty they take of thinking A company of men that agree in one only resolution of undoing of King and Kingdome and are made up of as many different opinions among themselves as must certainly ruine them when they have ruin'd every body else Such as God hath suffered to get together that being now known and cast out of the Common-wealth the Kingdome may hereafter be secure and the Government flourish In order to which we see every day strange beginnings which in a short time will evidence I hope to the setled world That as Saul travelling long and far with little successe seeking Asses found a Kingdome So you to invert the Simile having seven long years given chace to a King and lifted up your selves in the high confidence and assurance you had of obtaining a Kingdome found at last you were your selves but Asses And so I rest Sir Not of the House of Commons I thanke God and therefore the more likely to be Your faithful and humble Servant G. S. Aug. 16. 1648. FINIS