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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90209	The independent's loyalty. Or, The most barbarous plot (to murther his sacred Majestie) very fully discovered. With a cleere and perfect answer, to the Lord Wharton's evasions.	Osborne, Richard, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing O528; Thomason E452_25; ESTC R203027	16,982	23

would multiply if they were bought up too fast as he went once about to do by a Pamphlet which discovered another ignoble Action of his steeres another course in the Compasse and causeth the Letters to bee published himselfe but with an answere whereby he might anticipate the credulity of the People and make his own Defence among them Not long after Master Osborne discovers himselfe enters his Appearance makes affidavit of his discovery and confirmes it by such pregnant circumstances that most men are convinced of the truth Rolfe being by this time acquainted with the Passages comes up unto the House presents himselfe with a a Letter from the Governour dated June 21. which pleades his Case denies the Designe chargeth Osborne with Treachery and very much extolleth his owne care of his Duty and tender Usage of his Majesty for which hee citeth his owne Testimony not withstanding the Lords finde cause to commit Rolfe to safe custody where hee remaines untill he be forgotten or by the policy and strength of his Partie quitted from the Charge or released out of Prison The Lord Whartons Answere examined His Lordships whole Answere may bee reduced unto foure heads which shall bee brought unto the Test in their Order The first is That Osborne is a Traytor by the Lawe of the Land because hee entertained communication divers times with one that intended to take away the Kings life by Poyson about that Action and concealed it whence hee would inferre That Osborne is to have no credit given to his Testimony To this is Replyed First That if the Letter of the Lawe were truly urged yet it cannot reach Osborne because first it is supposed the Lawe is in force and can take place where this Communication is had Secondly The Persons who are possessed of the Authority or Power in that place bee not guilty nor accessary to the Treason Thirdly That the witnesse can with safety of his owne life and the Kings make his addresse to those persons But let all England judge whether Lawe bee in force in that place where the King is kept in prison which is Treason in it selfe by the Lawe and by Lawyers is interpreted a Designe against his Life Where Souldiers one of which once answered a Statesman What doe you talke to us of your Lawe that weare our Swords by our sides rule all the Rost The persons in most power there were eyther Principalls or Accessories in the most favourable construction to be suspected of it In the Designe Rolfe was in command there and Principall The Governour in command of the Island in chiefe and at least likely to bee of the Councell Rolfe suggested that hee had received Letters from the Army to that purpose that hee was unwilling to concurre not out of horror of the wickednesse but feare of his pay Master Osborne could not choose but understand by their familiarity that their interest was all one that such Actions are never owned by all that are of the conspiracy Often times great men who are the first movers can stand behinde a Curtaine during execution of their owne Designes and as the Ape that thrust the Catts paw into the fire to take the Chesnut out for his owne Palat put an inferiour Instrument to act the disgracefull or dangerous part of their contrivance The suspicion may bee great against the Governor since hee pleades in his defence and did himselfe suppresse the Letter which Osborne wrote to the Lord Wharton which his Lordship tells his friends and did tell the House upon his Honour That hee sent immediatly to Hammond yet hee suppressed for above ten daies without securing Rolfe or acquainting the houses therewith Now let all the world Judge whether it had beene best for Osborne in relation to the Kings safety or his own to complaine unto these men or by holding them in suspence for a while in the meane time endeavour the prevention 2. Master Osborne did reveale this the hazard considered as soone as hee could unto the Lord Wharton 3. Hee did reveale it to his Majesty and some other who might assist him in the prevention thereof 4. Graunt that Osborne were as guiltie as the Lord Wharton doth suggest hee might as well be allowed for a competent witnesse as Master Edward Waller was against his brother Tomkins and others The second head is That Osborne did this not out of any intent of good or love unto the King but to free himself from his perfidiousnesse to the trust reposed in him by the Parliament in his attempt to carry away the King God knows whether to the danger of his person to procure for himselfe libertie and fredome from Justice which he fled from To the Negative part hereof it is answered 1. That is spoken Gratis and upon his Lordships own presumption 2. Against common reason can any man thinke the Gentleman should run that hazzard endure so much reproach loose so great friends for one he wished noe good bare no affection unto 3. Gaunt this for true it agrues the conscience of his Allegiance and sence of so great a sinne to bee the more in that hee would endure so much for to avoid it To the first part of the affiirmative wee Answer 1. That every man ought to bee sensible of and desire to vindicate his honour from an unjust aspersion wee wish the Lord Wharton as able to doe that as willing to quit himselfe of the true charge 2. That surely the matter of trust which the Parliament and Generall reposed in the Kings attendants was not I know not what it is in his Lordshipps constructions to assist in the Murther of his Majestie nor stand by spectators thereof without his rescue but to use all meanes for preservation thereof which was done by him 3. That all superior trust doth null and invalidate a subordinate ingagement when they are incompatible Now whether a trust which a man is oblieged to by expresse Oath as that of Allegiance to omit all other bonds doth or should cause all Subjects to preserve the life of there Prince to a Supream Governor of the Kingdome enjoyned by law bee not first to bee satisfied before a verball promise or perhaps but an implicit trust to fellow subjects in a questionable if not unlawfull Action as the imprisonment of the King is let all wise men Judge 4. That the intention of his Majestie might bee to come and these Gentlemen to bring him up unto his Parliament for all is yet known Hee hath often desired that of late and surely the Kingdome is convinced where the impediment is as wee may guesse by their petitions 5. That the Kings person could not possibly be at so much danger in the power of the grim Tartar or Turkish pirates as in those hands hee hath beene trusted and it is easie for to prove it To the second part of the affiirmative wee answer 1. That if it bee meant by his Lordships freedome and libertie to come into the face of

a jearing manner asked him why the King came not down according to his appointment and afterwards in great indignation and fury said hee had waited three houres under the new platforme with a good Pistoll ready charged to have received him if hee had come one sufficient to manifest their most ungodly purposes That base and scandalous Libell or Declaration of lyes which by their authorities was published in all Churches and since with all diligence in Dutch and French what was it but an antidated sentence before his Majestie was heard one word and what conclusion can bee parralell therewith but execution as preposterous what could it presage but an assault upon his Person after the murther of his honour That unworthie usage and those vile affronts they have continually offered unto him will make any considerate man conclude they never dare looke him in the face again whom they have so provoked The Speaker of the House of Commons dreamt and told it himselfe That His Majesty came to the House of Commons doore and knocking thereat all the Members ran away and hid themselves at which hee awaked and was verie glad for hee was heartilie affraid also Dreames are the revolutions of the daies thoughts if hee were affrighted at a vision of the night how would hee bee appaled at the Reality and Performance A Lord in the debate of a petition for a Treatie in their house was not ashamed to say They had as good petition we should hang our selves There are very few men that can bee spoken withall but thinke they doe intend to cover their shame in his blood and intercept that feare by the height of this farther guilt 4. That notwithstanding all pretences to the contrarie there is like to be but a sleight search of this Villanie and a lesse punishment of the Authors How can any man expect other measure at their hands the world hath experience how closse they stick one to another how hard it is to have Justice against any one of the fraternity in what cause soever how one man may interrupt by captious and pusling interposures the proceedings of any Committee nay of the whole House what straines of art and finenesse of wit must wee looke for in this case where so many of the tribe are concerned their cause lies at stake For my part I give up the poore Gentleman who makes the affidavit as a Victim and foresee bayes provided for the head of the assassinate according to former practises and events in the like case At least the businesse shall bee huffled in a silent forgetfullnesse untill the sence of the People is worne out and this tempest blown over at which time they may securely dismisse their associate and revenge themselves by some advantage upon their adversaries 5. That wee their fellow Subjects or rather Vassalls can expect but poore Justice at their hands when wee have occasion If it fare thus with the Ceder how shall it with the shrub If they doe thus by their King how shall the Subjects speede Take but the paines to turne over their Journalls to examine their Committees to tread upon their heeles in their eccentricall actings in their severall Countries I doubt it will bee a hard matter to finde one Act of Justice which hath beene done this whole seaven yeares unlesse a Member or an entire friend have had the right and selfe interest beene the spurre unto it It must needs bee a question when a confident of their own even Mr. Lilburne hath proclaimed it in print and many more of their friends nay their Members when they are out of the walls and in an impartiall fit doe daily confesse and for injustice and oppression you shall see such Mountaines that it may be boldly averred That all the Courts of Justice all the persons in judicature since the Conquest did never cōmit so many if they were mustred together by the one halfe If these men do behave themselves thus whiles they are but probationers candidates of Soveraignty we must expect that our Judgments must be unrighteous our Justice turned into Gall and Wormewood Their finger shall bee heavier then their Loynes and whips turned into Scorpions when their Empire is setled over us our hands are tied and our mouthes choaked up 6. That the King is a rare example of Wisdome Patience Fortitude and other Vertues Although most vertues bee strongly concenter'd in his Majestie yet these are the more eminent because they had the greatest objects because his Majestie hath beene clothed with the contrarie vices by his enemies and exposed into that deformitie to the world by them as the Christians in former times were covered with the Skinnes of Beares and Woolves that Doggs might bee the better invited to teare and worry them For his Wisdome Marke without prejudice his Messages his Answers his Declarations even as they print them in their own books Read his Letters which were writ in private even as they are exposed in as bad scraps as they could break them and joyn'd with a distorting Comment and you shall be convinced of what one of their own Members said That one Lyne of his was more worth then a Volume of their owne Consider those Transactions of his since they bought him of the Scotts and you shall confesse That in so little you never read more Take notice of his equall Deportment in all his Conditions and how he hath won upon most persons even his deadly enemies who have conversed with him Cromwell said that hee employed Huntington as the Man about him yet hee is so bewitched with the King that I am afraid of him Col. Whaley was under jealousie also for the expressions he many times let fall The very Governor of the Isle of Wight hath given him a large Character for all Honor and Accomplishment unto very many Master Carill their Chaplain worte home to his wife from New-Castle That he found him another Solomon Master Hinderson found this in his last discourses and disputes with his Majesty and therefore at his poenitentiall expiring Declared him to bee a most Pious and a Learned Prince and was sorie hee had beene so farre injured Their Tub-Preachers Master Kiffen and others upon their little acquaintance have done him that right and for that been so enamored with him Nay the Houses have no other Reason nor none so great for their feare to Treat in Person with him suffering him to come into play then that he is too wise If you did on the other side surveigh their Actions and Councells which somtimes you could not thinke but they had their rise in Bedlam it would render his Worth the more conspicuous and you must confesse That my Lord the King is even as an Angell of God For Patience Though Satan and his Instruments have winnowed him almost as much as Job Though he have passed through the furnace of sorrow Though so many indignities and affronts have beene offered him by his Vassals such as have beene