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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90657	Veritas inconcussa or, a most certain truth asserted, that King Charles the First, was no man of blood, but a martyr for his people. Together with a sad, and impartial enquiry, whether the King or Parliament began the war, which hath so much ruined, and undone the kingdom of England? and who was in the defensive part of it? By Fabian Philipps Esq;; King Charles the First, no man of blood: but a martyr for his people.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2020; Thomason E1925_2; ESTC R203146	66,988	269

the Kings Seal since it was carried away by the Lord Keeper Littleton should be Null and of no force in the Law and that a new Seal should be provided The King therefore seeing what He must trust to 19. September 1642. being at Wellington in Shrop-shire in the head of such small forces and friends as He could get together for the Parliament that very day had received letters That the King but the week before having a muster at Nottingham there appeared but about 3000. foot and 2000. horse and 1500. dragoons and that a great part of His men were not provided with Arms made His protestation and promise as in the presence of x Almighty God and as He hoped for His blessing and protection to maintain to the utmost of His power the true Reformed Protestant Religion established in the Church of England and that He desired to govern by the known Laws of the Land and that the Liberty and property of the Subject should be preserved with the same care as His own just rights and to observe inviolably the Laws consented to by Him in this Parliament and promised as in the sight of Almighty God if He would please by His blessing upon that Army raised for His necessary defence to preserve Him from that Rebellion to maintain the just priviledges and freedom of Parliament and govern by the known Laws of the Land In the mean while if this time of War and the great necessity and straights He was driven to should be get any violation of them He hoped it would be imputed by God and man to the Authors of the War and not to Him who had so earnestly desired and laboured for the Peace of the Kingdom and preservation thereof and that when He should fail in any of those particulars He would expect no aid or relief from any man nor protection from Heaven And now that the stage of War seems to be made ready and the Parliament party being the better furnished had not seldom shewed themselves and made several traverses over it for indeed the King having so many necessities upon him and so out of power and provision for it might in that regard onely if He had not been so unwilling to have any hurt come to his people by his own defending of himself be backward and unwillingly drawn unto it we may do well to stand by and observe who cometh first to act upon it 22. of September 1642. The Earl of Essex writeth from Warwick that he was upon his march after the King and before the 6. of October following had written to the County of Warwick with all speed to raise their Trained bands and Voluntiers to resist his forces if they should come that way and to the three Counties of Northampton Leicester and Darby to gather head and resist him if he should retire into those parts and by all that can be judged of a matter of fact so truely and faithfully represented must needs be acknowledged to have great advantages of the King by the City and Tower of London Navy Shipping Armes Ammunition the Kings Magazines all the strong Towns of the Kingdom most of the Kingdoms plate and money the Parliaments credit and high esteem which at that time the people Idolized the fiery Zeal of a Seditious Clergy to preach the people into a Rebellion and the people head-long running into the witchcraft of it When the King on the other side had little more to help him then the Laws and Religion of the Land which at that time every man began to mis-construe and pull in pieces had neither ammunition ships places of strength nor money nor any of his party or followers after the Parliament had as it were proclaimed a War against Him could come single or in small numbers through any Town or Village but were either openly assaulted or secretly betrayed no man could adventure to serve or own him but must expose himself and his Estate to be ruined either by the Parliament or people or such as for malice or profit would inform against him All the gains and places of preferment were on the Parliaments part and nothing but losses and mis-fortunes on the Kings No man was afraid to go openly to the Parliaments side and no man durst openly so much as take acquaintance of his Soveraign but if he had done a quarter of that which Ziba did to David when he brought him the 200. loaves of bread or old Barzillai or Ittai the Gittise when he went along with him when his son Absalom rebelled against him They should never have escaped so well as they did but have been sure to be undone and sequestred for it So much of the affections of the people had the Parliament cousened and stoln from them so much profit and preferment had they to perswade it and so much power to enforce those that otherwise had not a minde to it to fight against him Who thus every way encompassed about with dangers and like a Partridge hunted upon the Mountains marcheth from Shrewsbury towards Banbury perswading and picking up what help and assistance His better sort of Subjects durst adventure to afford Him in the way to which On Sunday the 23. of October 1642. for they thought it better to rob God of his Sabbath then lose an opportunity of murdering their Soveraign The Earl of Essex and Parliament army powring in from all quarters of the kingdom upon him had at Edge-hill compassed Him in on all sides and before the King could put His men in battel Array many of whom being young country fellows had no better Arms then Clubs and Staves in their hands cut out of the hedges and put His two young Sons the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York in the guard of a troop of horse at the further end of the field and had finished a short prayer a bullet of the Earl of Essex's Canon grazed at His heels as He was kneeling at His prayers on the side of a bank for Blague a villain in the Kings Army having a great Pension allowed Him for it had given notice in what part of the field the King stood that they might the better know how to shoot at him But God having a greater care of his Anointed then of their Rebellious pretences so ordered the hands of those that fought for the King as the Earl of Essex was so loaden with Victories as he left five of His men for one of the Kings dead behinde him lost his babbage and Artillery retired back to Warwick and left the King to bless God in the field where He supped with such Victuals as the more Loyal and better natured neighbours sent him when the worser sort refused to do it and lying there all night sent warrants out the next day to the neighbour Parishes to bury the dead drew off His Ordinance and marched to Banbury and yet he could not forget to pity those which were at such pains and hazard the

the Money Arms Ammunition and strength of the Kingdom in their hands and multitudes of deluded people to assist them and so hunted and pursued him from place to place as it was come to be a saying and a by-word among the apprentices and new levied men at London they would go a King-catching and were not likely therefore to be guilty of so much patience as the King who was so much in love with Peace and so thirsted after it as that and his often sending Messages and Propositions for it would not permit him to make use of any victories or advantages which God had given him But twice suffered the Earl of Essex to attempt to force Him from Oxford and Sir Thomas Fairfax once to beleager Him when He had power enough to have made London or the associate Counties the seat of the War and it would be something strange that He who when He had raised forces against His Scottish Rebels and found himself in the head of so gallant an Army as He had much ado to keep them from fighting and His enemies so ridiculously weak as He might have subdued them but with looking upon them but a fortnight longer could not be perswaded to draw a sword against them would now begin an offensive war without any power or strength at all against those that had before-hand ingrossed it Or what policy or wisdom could it be in Him to begin a War without Money or Men or Arms to go through with it Or to refuse the assistance of His Catholique Subjects and Forreign friends and forces or to spend so much time in Messages and offers of Peace to give them time and ability to disarm Him and arm themselves If He had not utterly abhorred a War and as cordially affected peace as He offered fair enough for it Or can any man think that the King did begin the War when what he did was but to preserve His Regality and the Militia and protection of His people which the Parliament in express terms as well as by Petitioning for it acknowledged to be His own being but that which every private man that had but money or friends would not neglect to do Did He any more in seeking to preserve His Regality then to defend and keep himself from a breach of trust they sought to make him break Or could there be a greater perjury or breach of trust in the Kingly Office then to put the sword which God had given him into the hands of mad-men or fools or such as would kill and slay and undo their fellow Subjects with it or to deliver up the protection of His people into the hands of a few of their ambitious fellow subjects who did as much break their own trust to those they represented in asking of it as the King would have done if He had granted it Or why shall it not be accounted an inculpata tutela in the King to preserve and defend that by a War which the Laws of God and Man His Coronation Oath Honour and Conscience and a duty to himself His Posterity as well as to His people would not permit Him to stand still and suffer to be taken away from Him But if the King by any maner of construction could be blamed or censured for denying to grant the Militia which was the first pretence of beginning of the War by those that sought to take it from him for till the besieging of Hull the 16. of July 1642. after many other affronts and attempts of as high a nature put upon Him the most malicious interpretation of the matter of Fact cannot find Him so much at all to have defended himself as to have done any one act of War or so much as like it who shall be in the fault for all that was done after when he offered to condescend to all that might be profitable for His people in the matter of Religion Laws and Liberties Was it not a just cause of War to defend himself and his people against those who would notwithstanding all He could do offer make a War against Him because He would not contrary to His Oath Magna Charta and so many other Laws which He had sworn to observe betray or deliver up his people into their hands to be governed or rather undone by a greater latitude of Arbitrary power then the great Turk or Crim Tartar ever exercised upon their enslaved people and put the education and marriage of his own Children out of his power which was never sought to be taken out of the hand of any father which was not a fool or a madman nor yielded to by any would have the Credit to be accounted otherwise or because he would not denude himself of the power of conferring honours or vilifie or discredit his great and lesser Seals and the Authority of them from which many mens Estates and Honours and the whole current of the Justice of the Kingdom had their Original or perjure himself by abolishing Episcopacy which Magna Charta and some dozens of other Laws bound him to preserve Or if that be not enough to justifie him in his own defence had he not cause enough to deny and they little enough to ask Liberty of Conscience and practise to Anabaptists Blasphemers of God deniers of the Trinity Scriptures and Deity of Christ when the Parliament themselves had taken a Covenant to root them out and made as many of the people as they could force to take it with them Or had He not cause enough to deny to set up the Presbyterian authority which would not only have taken away his own authority but have done the like also with the Laws and Liberties of the Nation and the ruling part of that which they now call the Parliament did utterly abhor Or if all that could not make the war which he made to be defensive lawfull had He not cause enough to deny and they none at all to ask that He should by Act of Parliament consent to make all those to be Traitors that took His part their Blood and Posterities attainted and their Estates forfeited when as some of the Parliaments own Members were heard to say when those Propositions were sent unto him That if he yielded unto them He was the unworthiest man living and not fit to be a King For certainly if the Laws of God and man and the understanding of all mankind be not changed there was never a juster more defensive unwilling and necessitated War then that of the Kings part since man came out of Paradise And if such a War should not be lawful after so many provocations and necessities for the defence of himself his people so many after generations which this War of the Parliament and the curse of it is like to ruine and leave in slavery under what censure and opinion may that of i Abrahams with Chederlaomer the King of Elam and Tidal King of the Nations be when he fought with