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A86119	Knaves and fooles in folio. Discovered, and then advised, that once at the last they will grow both wise and honest. Or, a meanes to undeceive, and so to beget a right understanding and judgement throughout the three kingdomes, hitherto deluded by the aforesaids. Dedicated with all respectivenesse both for discovery and caution against the aforesaids, to all the wise and honest of the three nations, whom wee highly prize and honour, especially the Honourable Citie of London, whose goodnesse, piety, easie betrust, and credulity of such unworthies, hath been too much wrought upon and abused by depraved polititians of all sorts. In which tract is shewed the wickednesse of the one side in their severall pretences, and the weaknesse on the other side, in being through too much credulity surprized and circumvented by such pretenders, who intend not what they pretend; but bave [sic] their own self-ends to compasse under such pretexts. -Conceived very usefull to be taken knowledge of, by all sorts whatsoever. For that wee hope the reader will finde himselfe fully satisfied thereby, which may probably much check, if not totally break the neck of this uncivill Civill Warre. The contents of the booke are in the next page.	S. H.	1648 (1648)	Wing H121; Thomason E462_27; ESTC R202483	38,950	43

against us for this quereing and alleadging Scripture to satisfie our scrupulous conscience is against Scripture and Religion and so against God and what 's that but irreligion and atheisme and what are such but such c. 44. But our Covenant is first both in place and worth also absolute in rendring and in nature for rights of Kingdome and Parliament if conscience you make as you urge and pretend why then doe you so unconscionably invade the Rights of either for the unrighteous Your owne position as afore the Kings guiltinesse allowes not his erection to the prostration of both States Againe the Kings supportment in his height and priviledges are but respective and so of no respect if forfeited Consider can respectives both in nature in rendring answer to absolutes in both being forfeited also as afore c. 45. Oh English oh Scot oh all sorts consider what fell on the Jewish Nation for that their 12. Tribes did not call Saul to an accompt for some triviall wrong done to a paltry Pagan City did not 3. yeares of famine fall on them because Sauls plottings for their destruction and the blood he shed was not answered for Sure Saul would not punish himself who then but the 12. Tribes should have done it which cause they did not they are punished till Saul's 7. sonnes expiated for all and so retaliated satisfaction in being hang'd up by the Gibeonites which City demanded Justice and petitioned not for Sauls supportance against justice much lesse for his honor greatnesse Oh wise-headed Gibeonites oh foolish and giddi-brain'd English oh depraved Scot c. 46. Thus much for Land men let 's now see if Sea-men have more wit or more honesty so have any thing to say to this businesse Oh madnesse ther 's nothing but weaknesses or wickednesses in this world for Sea-men say the same and so Land and Sea and Aire are I thinke nothing but aire Well I will land the Sea-men and referre them for We say as much for the Armie if you will not helpe them for their own sakes yet help them for the Kingdomes sake your King if the end of Governours be King of all Governors what I have said to the Land-men and so let them goe For I resolve on brevity for to say againe what I have said is to present you with Coleworts twice sodde only hints the Reader cannot doe lesse then comment I conclude then is it not madnesse and folly if the Parliament have offended you or you are offended with it you will like Will Somers strike who ever is next you Is it not Treason to strike at the Kingdome which is the King King and yours If you know it not are you not weake If you know yet will not know are you not wicked Is it not a striking against the Kingdom not to strike its strikers or to bring in it's Vice-roy to strike and conquer it but you neither see nor intend any such thing ah weakenesse c. Your intentions we know not but your actions portend no lesse will you King the Vice-roy above the Roy Is a people for a King or a King for a people Whether is the meanes or the end King whether is physicke or health King If the Parlaiment have wrong'd you right your selves in a faire way so as you may not wrong the Kingdome like a foolish fellow who saith the Mr. of the ship hath wronged him and to revenge himselfe will drowne the ship that he may drown his Master though withall he drowne himselfe and all the rest in it c. 47. It may be I have suffered by the Parliament as much as any what then I will not Will Somers-like strike my next man or any much lesse my Lord and King the Kingdome no I will suffer againe and againe yea to death yea death it selfe rather then endanger or be the death of my Lord. I scorn to Traytor or Rebell it so so I will not oppose my wrongers to the wronging of my Lord yea I will helpe them to the righting of him c. And if I cannot right my selfe without wronging my Lord I will never be righted yet count I am right c. 48. Oh but some will newtralize it and not take part with either but defend against both or if they offend any it shall be the State who Are not these Traitos to K. Salus have offended them c. But are these sayings for Seniors for sage wise and grave Governours or for any If you travell and some of the formost of your company are set on by thieves and rogues c. will you newtralize it Are not those Thieves and Murtherers that oppose not Thieves and Murtherers to their power For by not helping you helpe to rob and kill the rob'd and kill'd c. 49. What if your Parents and Masters under whose roof you live so owe duties to them answerably If these were set on will you newtralize also and only sefly defend is not this murther and theft as afore if they miscarry so is it not treason in nature and reason to Parents and Pay masters or Maintainers to whom you are engaged in all faithfulnesse and loyalty and so to leave them will you to them turne Loyallists and treacherous 50. Again if they are conquered are not you your selves conquered they help you as well as themselves and doth not retaliation and relation so duty and reason say the same concerning you 51. Know you not oh weaklings that you are more engaged to the Kingdome then any child or servant can be to his Father or Master For parents and children are parted oft times you see to take the Kingdomes part to part it from dangerous encounters 52. Sure in a journey I will help my enemie how then him who is not mine but I am his and maligne him I know not why nor wherefore for he hath done me no hurt nor will but much good had I the goodnesse to acknowledge it Doth he not help me and fight for mee in fighting for himselfe yet for want of help may be conquered and then the conquest of me is more probable and easie Well foole fight The maligned Armie for thy enemie if so that 's engaged on thy side and side with him that he may be thy friend fight then for thy friend whose enemie thou art c. that he may continue thy friend But yet if thou beest so malicious thou wilt not fight for either fight yet with them though not for them yet for thy selfe and thy Father and Mr. in company c. 53. Thus fight with or for Parliament and Armie though they be So the Kingdome thy enemies or thou art theirs according to the premises apply and save me the replication Fight with or for them as it conduceth to the Kingdome 54. But the Armie is a company of Sectaries Independents c. Truly thou knowest not well what thou saist if well and wisely examined what a

stir up and second defensively against such offenders who would surprize us by preventing resistance by such aspersions they foment all they can by raising the Countries to raise them to the Countries razing If we foment not just defence against their unjust offence we are great ofders In short let 's not traytor it to our King the Kingdome nor to the Parliament nor the Army wherein they continue faithfull c. so nor to our selves nor ours but now before we part resolve to dissolve these fomenters these Achans these troubles of Israel c. And let 's learn to beare till we know how to help it lesser injuries from Parliament and Army if so ' rather then the great intollerable the inexpressables from the other side c. and consider and doe not we our selves foment our own miseries there was likelihood of a period before this but we cry out of Parliament and Army for not setling the kingdom and that they doe nothing thus long when as we our selves breed and * In that Some amongst us in plotting against the State the Army and Independents so called and inviting in the Scots also fiding it with the Roy and his Royalists c. Lastly to force home the King under pretence of a Treaty increase new work new troubles to them and our selves And now Oh State Representative a word or two to you and I have done onely to minde and hint you for more sure I need not doe if you be noble minded generous and genuine but if contrary as ignoble c. What shall be done to set you right I tax not but preventively caution Remember the universall naturall rationall precept Doe as you would be done to c. Is not this enough to Naturalists Moralists Gentiles How then if Christianity be added Shall it adde nothing If deducted lesse you cannot be and be men c. Statues you may be but not Statute-makers except as afore Would you be abused or treacherized with in the least of your trusts Surely no then doe not so Would you not traytor and skellom and base fellow that fellow that should so abuse you in the meanest betrust c. If so inferre * Which you may lose in a moment cause you are momentary Also are they of moment like your honour fame so the love and welfare of your friends and posteririties your quitting them from slavery Consider c. what 's due in just retaliation for failing in the greatest betrusts mortality is capable of as of Life Livelihood Liberties and Religion c. See to it O see to it I speak onely to the guilty if any be blemish not nor bespot your Honours by treacherous aspersions c. though many be laid upon you never the like on any Parliament before and that without controll or commination yet let it not be justly Remember the love of the people in chusing you so of their great hopes and joy in your faithfulnes forfeit them not we intreat you but free your free choosers so all your friends so your own posterities that they may blesse you in future times and your names and remembrances may be famous for ever else infamy for ever attends you so the cryes and curses of your choosers so of your children and posterities so of all your friends and kindred yea of the whole kingdome or people your true King who made you what you are and commissioned you c. but not to commit them c. On beslave not nor vassalage your Lords to any their Stewards Consider and digest what I say and digresse not c. O let not any insinuations flatteries hopes promises * Or in your power to keep as to give c. I adde to the aforesaid cautions nor let envy hate malice or revenge to or against any hurt the Generall quit thy self if thou canst if not reserve it till thou canst not offend preferments or dishonorable honours circumvent you and so beg●t contempt and jeering from your circumventers Is there any thing so comfortable and cheering as a cleare conscience even as a moralist c. None can give you or preferre you but you must first inable them by giving to and preferring them reserve rather then give to such to receive againe and so to be beholden and give thankes for what 's your * own But what are such givers and receivers also receivers again from such given to givers c. of what also is neither the givers nor receivers own but their Lords the Kingdomes their King What I say are such c. c. but c. Oh consider consider c. and comply to justice equity and all honorable things Honour your selves by your wisdomes and fidelity as you have done which preferre as more noble and withall immortall in that it shall live when you are dead before all other base and by-ends which shall when you are gone infamous you and leave a base and sordid stench of you to all eternity c. Give forraigne States cause to honour you and make not your selves a jeering stock to the whole world till it come to a proverb As ill as an Englishman as base as a Britain c. How wisely and ably did the Holland State quit themselves of their Tyrannous King continue faithfull to the people that followed them and govern them with peace and love cause with justice protection and safety Sure the same wayes would have had the same effects with us What shall I say It 's with the latest but not too late if this you will do Inform the people aright of their own rights yours and their Viceroyes when at the rightest also as now postur'd qualified and conditioned with all kind of wrong doings to a most righteous people to him Why spare you or feare you to speak May yea doth it not betray us If we have doe and must venture our lives what is' t if just and right and withall conducing shall silence us Had Hester been silent where O let not one woman put down so many men for courage faithfulnesse c. being also not so engaged as are you bad she and hers been You have fought against and dare you not speak nor give way to speak against in what 's just also when it is for the Kingdome and the people c. Conducingly give way and you shall finde men will speak out Justice and your ingagements the Kingdomes welfare and to prevent its illfare claimes this at your hands and we dare however quaere if it be not treachery to the Kingdome the people in generall our Generall or King c. Not to allow the exhibiting of the aforesaids as conducing to their delivery c. the children are come to the birth give strength to bring forth Now we have done and deliver up what is said with our selves to the judgement of the ingenuous And the blessing of God be with you c. DIXI Postscripts THis Book

followeth We have not time I say to deale with each of his particulars which had we we would c. so we must as we may Wee therefore in our Generall Position as afore answer and so put to silence all he or any one can say c. We then say Law so called is the Creature of its Creator the State at large made for its service and not to its dis-service much lesse to servile it by the States the said States Commissioners and that is way of Justice and Safety so all other accommodations of the said State and not to the King or any other against it Now if a Law so called which should be made as afore for the use of the State at large by the said States trusted to make lawes in behalfe of their Lord and not in behalfe of any his servants against him if they shall I say make and so call that a Law which is not so as being quite contrary to their betrust and the end of Law as in accommodation of some of their servants against their Lord. Quaere If it be not absolute treachery in them to betray the liberties and rights of their Lord to any of his Servants c. nay we say then it 's no law though made as afore also called so and complemented with * If a known long practis'd Physitian prepare as hee calls it physick for his patient and ceremonies it with the complements of a viall or galli pot and all other circumstances can all this make it physick if apparantly destructive to its ends and in stead of saving will kill may not such Physick be kild c. Apply c. ceremonials to make it passe so we say again it 's no law so binds no● nor may nor can nor shall it bind the Lord or any of his retainers so as to be abused by any his servants except in behalfe of the said Lord which just necessity warranting is sufferance no abuse In short we care not what Judge Jenkins nor any or the law it selfe so called saith or doth or would doe as to binde us to Kings or any Governours alias the kingdomes and peoples Stewards and Servants if contrary or destructive to its ends the freedomes and rights of the Generall c. whereas it ought rather to binde all Kings and Governours who are indeed most bound to accommodate the LORD * The State at large GENERAL though to their owne selfe-sufferings c. Thus much in short to Law so to Judge Jenkins his large and famoused Law-piece most infamous in that he aimes to treacherize it to his Lord and King the State at large c. and servile him to his servants c. Thus our just our rationall and as so our true and lawfull definitions of treason and rebellion c. stand good against Judge Jenkins his unjust irrationall and destructive and therefore illegall though called legall-definitions c. 87. Only I will tell thee thou h●st now no colour of ignorance left to prevaricate c. nor to beare out thy former perpetrations Forgoe them then and once at last turn wise and honest all thy undertakings against or neglect of thy Lord Salus must now needs proceed from impudence not impotence thou now knowest what the King so called in reality is I hope nor Titles nor Names nor rich Rayment nor a great Train or State shall now deceive thee Nothing can make a man more then a man lesse they may A Magazine is the richest place indeed but let each fetch away his treasure what is it 88. I am not factious nor partiall I am against both Parliament and King as they forfeit their ends and betrusts and are against the kingdome And I am for one or both as they are faithfull to their Trusts c. 89. More I hope I need not say but yet if any shall in pretence of love and duty to the King so call'd alias the kingdomes Steward be so treacherous to the Kingdome their true King so to themselves their posterities kindred and friends to oppose us in defence of the said King or Steward against the kingdome we heartily desire them to decline all base and treacherous ends to the aforesaids And if it be only their injuditious judgements after all we have said they will rectifie them and let them with ingenuity pursue the acquiring and purchasing the truth with us as wee will with them and let the convinc'd comply And we further heartily intreat them that they would as beseems the civil if they will needs reply perform it not perfunctorily but with Nervous and strenuous Arguments not idle and fallacious to abuse the people and lose time and as if they sought rather a vainglorious conquest then the true glory of truth Also that it may be without scurrillity or contempt and they shall be answerably dealt with For we hold exclamations jeerings and contempts to proceed of ill natures ill educations or weaknesse c. like Schoole-boyes who when 〈◊〉 weake in dispute doe in wickednesse fall to scolding and fifty-cuffs c. Dixi. Onely If nothing will do we are undone and so are most of our undoers FINIS ❧ AN APOLOGIE AS we have Cautioned in case any write against us c. So we hold it necessary also to say something lest any one in a pretence of love and loyalty to the King or Kingdomes Steward although it may be Demetrian selfe-love and not to Diana also hate to Paul c. may be the true ground and not love to the King but admit love c. to him it s not right nor just in opposition to his King the Kingdome However least they should in a purposed revenge upon us under the pretences aforesaid suggest This man writes against the King also dishonours him c. by meane Objection expressions and rendrings also intimates this or that of him c. Also the title is tart and offensive To the aforesaids I answer as followeth To the last first If the Title Answer should offend thee yet be not offended For thou either hast or wilt finde that those who conspire against the Welfare Crowne Peace and Dignity of our Soveraigne Lord King Salus are farre worse then Knaves for they are Traytors why then should we fear to offend them And those who are ensnared or deluded by them may they not rightly at the least be cal'd Fooles And to the former objection I answer I doe not intentionally to wrong dishonour or abate any thing of the S●ewards just Dues and The neglect of others necessitates us Rights but what I must doe of necessity in defence and vindication of King Salus And if so he suffer it 's sufferable what also if it be his insufferables are the cause of his sufferings But ther 's not any thing his due in opposition to the Kingdomes sufferance in safety justice and Rights for if more be given him then his due to the wronging of the universall so