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A80456 A copie of a letter from a principall person in Paris, in answer to one received from his friend in England, touching the estate of the present affaires: and his opinion. Principall Person in Paris. 1647 (1647) Wing C6117; Thomason E398_29; ESTC R201705 4,162 8

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A COPIE OF A LETTER FROM A Principall Person in PARIS In answer to one received from his friend in ENGLAND touching the estate of the present affaires And his opinion July 17 Imprinted in the yeare 1647. A Copy of a Letter from a principall person in Paris in answer to one received from his friend in England touching the estate of the present affaires and his opinion July1 1647. SIR I Thanke you for your advertisements of the Affaires of England by the last Post and whereas you desire my Opinion of them and what I conceive may be the issue It is yet very early dayes to make my judgement of the successe which is like to depend upon the future management and pursuit of them for certainely this great turne by the Army may produce great good and happinesse to the Kingdome by setling a firme and well conditioned Peace if it be really and cordially their intentions as they professe and I am apt to beleeve it is for as they seeme to be men led much by their Conscience so there must be this right done unto them that they have been very exact in point of their reputation to have the Articles and Capitulations of their Treaties upon the rendring of places to be punctually performed and have heretofore showne a great sence and dislike at the Houses violation of them and doe now insist to have them justly performed and the former breaches of them to be repaired which sheweth them to be people of truth and of just dealing and likewise to have honour in recommendation if I say their intentions be the same which they yet pretend which is a settlement of the peace of the Kingdome which useth not to be of the Souldiers Trade God may make them the instruments of great blessings unto their Country even to be Deliverers of it not onely from the Sword and Warre but from the mercilesse Government of those who under the shelter of their Power and Conquest had usurped over them and the whole Kingdome an absolute Arbytrary Dominion limited by no Lawes nor bounds but by their owne wills and at such a time when no humane prudence could tell from whence to looke for deliverance which God hath now raised up and begun by them and probably may be effected by them if they hold themselves to their professed integrity set private interests in the last place and pursue these their beginnings with that wisedome and expedition which truly by their former Actions may well be expected from them in this But if they shall pretend one thing and intend another and make the usuall specious shewes of Liberty and Reformation onely as the approaches to their Interests Ambition or Faction my feares are that they will prove a Torrent quickly dryed up and will involve this Kingdome againe in many great miseries and a new effusion of Blood and themselves in few moneths be reduced to a very sad condition whereas if such be Gods Will they may probably be the Instruments of setling our happinesse in very few dayes and without the spilling of one drop of blood the way whereof which occurreth unto me is briefly this That they send presently unto his Majesty honest and equitable Conditions but such as may give unto the Kingdome good satisfaction both in point of their ancient Liberties and Priviledges and his Majesties new Concessions with such inlargements as shall be thought fit that not onely an Act of Oblivion and generall Pardon be agreed on but such further security as after so great provocations understanding people will expect by the way of the se●ling the Militia for some time and some other necessary provisions That the King declaring his willingnesse to condescend to what is propounded unto him and giving his Royall Word for the performance thereof they immediatly carry the King to London that he may be in the condition of a Free man for that all that he doth under actuall restraint will be of no validity There let all particulars be debated and setled and then let the Accusation of the Army be agitated as likewise all other things that will require time for the debate and se ling of them As for the Lawes of the Land the Kings Revenue and the right of the Crowne all such as he doth not limit or passe away will of course returne into their wonted Channell The King will be there as well as at Newmarket under their protection But by this meanes the Kings power that of the Houses of Parliament and City of London being all united will presently recover a generall reverence and obedience Whereas on the other side if there shall be any delay made in this settlement and conjunction of Powers and time shall be spent in particular debates betwixt the Army and the King or the Army and the Houses and things remaine in suspense The Houses which the Army must now judge their Enemies and all that they do for their present satisfaction is but in compliance with them and by constraint in regard of their present danger and otherwise not reconcileable having declared their Government Tyrannicall and demanded that many of their leading Members shall be called into judgement and be sequestred so high at breach of Priviledge that when the King onely desired that some of them might be legally proceeded against by the course of Justice they withstood it and voted it the highest breach of Priviledge that had been offered to Parliaments If these distractions shall hinder their conjunction the Army will daily sinke in reputation the Presbyterian Party will have time to gather courage and to fit those places of strength and the Navy which hold for them and the King and his Party perhaps confiding in neither will susspend their choyce unto which Party it will be fit in wisdome to adhere In the meane time the Kingdome of Scotland with those specious Arguments which they will have of upholding their Covenant which both ●ingdomes are sworne unto and the freeing of the person of their Native King surprized by a mutinous Army and held prisoner by them as is publikely declared without his former consent or present approbation will arme to a man to returne into England where they have been so well paid for their comming in and their returne bought at so high a price And to this purpose if we be not here mis-informed in Paris they have already voted the whole strength of their Kingdome to be put presently in a readinesse which they here affirme shall be of twenty thousand Foot and six thousand Horse within a short time to be ready to march And in this quarrell they are there very confident that my Lord of Mentrosse and all the Kings Party in Scotland will most readily joyne with them insomuch that it is in debate if it be not further proceeded in That the Prince be invited to come into Scotland and to be Generall of their Army to rescue his father out of the hands of the Army that