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A63934	The joyful news of opening the exchequer to the gold-smiths of Lombard-street, and their creditors as it was celebrated in a letter to the same friend in the countrey, to whom the bankers case was formerly sent / by the author of the same case.	Turner, Thomas, d. 1679.	1677 (1677)	Wing T3339; ESTC R17753	4,362	11

The Joyful News OF OPENING THE EXCHEQUER TO THE GOLD-SMITHS OF Lombard-street and their CREDITORS As it was celebrated in a LETTER to the same Friend in the Countrey to whom the Bankers Case was formerly sent By the Author of the same CASE Justitiâ stabilitur Solium Prov. 16.12 Optimè hoc Exemplum Principi constituo ut se talem Civibus praebeat quales Sibi Deos velit Seneca de Clementia Lib. 1. Sect. 7. Licensed April 7. 1677. ROGER L'ESTRANGE LONDON Printed by T. N. for William Place at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holborn and Thomas Basset at the George near Cliffords-Inn in Fleet-street M.DC.LXXVII The Joyful News of Opening the Exchequer to the Goldsmiths of Lombard-street and their Creditors c. SIR I Am now to inform you of one of the most glorious Pieces of Royal Justice that perhaps any Age hath afforded His Majesty hath heard the Cries of his Loyal Subjects and in imitation of the Divinity hath been pleased to come down and deliver them I will no longer either amuse or torture you with Expectation but shall now at once overwhelm you with the Joyful Tidings The King hath setled the Debt of the Gold-smiths and their Creditors and the Letters Patents are now ennobled under the Great Seal of England When this Heroic Act of Justice was lately propos'd by His Majesty in Council the Noble Lords and other the Worthies of the Council assented thereunto with the most generous Unanimity and Concurrence that ever hath been known not so much as one contradicting And particularly that Noble Lord who hath the Administration of the Treasury hath upon every occasion contributed to it all the furtherance imaginable Neither is it to be forgotten that One Illustrious Person who in truth was concern'd to have obstructed this Settlement with all his vigour and puissance for I should have told you this Debt is charged upon the Hereditary part of the Excise was pleas'd notwithstanding to relinquish his own Interest and the Grandeur of his Person to that degree as to become even the very indefatigable Sollicitor therein I say Sollicitor for by that very word himself was often pleased to express his Fervour and Zeal for the accomplishment of this Business An Action certainly of great Glory fit indeed to be illustrated with a Beam of the Sun and to be celebrated with due praise by every good Englishman to the end of the World I remember you told me two or three Moneths ago that this Debt had been then dead and buried five years compleat and that Miracles were ceas'd and therefore Men did in vain expect the Resurrection thereof But you see now it is a Prerogative peculiar to God and his Vicegerent the King to restore to Life and Vigour what in humane Apprehension was long since dead and extinct Sir This Glorious Action hath replenish'd all Places here with Exultation An inexpressible Joy hath hereupon invaded all mens Souls Upon the breaking this Box of Precious Ointment the whole Kingdom is fill'd with the Redolency and Sweetness thereof If I should tell you that this happy News was received here with the same Transports of Gladness that those People which inhabit that part of the Globe where there is a Six moneths continued darkness do entertain the first Returns of the Sun I should give you but a very languid and faint representation of the Joy for indeed while I labour to disclose so stupendious a passion I find Nature wanting to me in Metaphors and Similitudes It shall suffice me then to tell you onely That the Tears of the Widow are now dried up the Cries of the Orphan are quieted that the Aged poor man weeps no longer unless it be for excessive joy and that all Mankind here hath conceiv'd an unspeakable Contentment in the Action Neither shall you need to wonder Sir that all men here whatsoever take themselves to be sharers in this Jubile for though every individual person 't is true is not immediately concern'd in the Debt yet I must tell you Sir every man is concern'd in the Justice and Generosity of his Prince though shower'd down upon his Fellow-Subjects To say nothing that there be few persons in the Kingdom but will by this Emanation of His Majesty's Clemency receive direct and real advantage to Themselves or Relations in some Capacity or other Sir The Fraternity of Kings are the Subjects of God as the rest of Mankind are of Kings whom the Scriptures likewise call Gods And can there be any thing more Divine than for a Prince thus to handle his Subjects with the Passion and Tenderness with the which he desires the Immortal God should treat his own Royal Person The great Roman Emperors valu'd themselves more upon their Stile of Fathers of the Countrey than upon all their other August and Illustrious Attributes because that Compellation exprest as they conceiv'd some Affinity with Divine Honour If thou art a God as thou pretendest said the Scythian * Qu. Curtius lib. 7. Ambassadors to the Great Alexander when he was about to invade their Masters Territories thou oughtest to be a Benefactor to poor Mortals not to commit Rapines upon them for in doing so thou wilt be less than a Man And it was not without Mystery that God chose the first Governours of His People from the Flocks and the Sheepfolds that they might be the better instructed to become the indulgent Shepherds and Pastors of Mankind Nay we find that the very first Question made by the first * Saul King that God Almighty appointed in the World was Quid est huic populo quod plorat What aileth this People that they weep Without all peradventure Sir the Redress of Grievances of this kind and the obliging of the World with Clemency and Justice is the very Pinnacle of that Renown which a Mortal Nature can hope to attain to in this Life This was the way Sir this was the way by which the Hero's of old time consecrated their names to Immortality by which they ascended the Triumphal Chariot of Glory and were at length ascrib'd into the number of the Deities And if this be a true Doctrine as I think no man will doubt it how precious and sweet will the memory of his Majesty's Name be to the Present and Future Ages by reason of this so magnificent an expression of His Grace and Justice to His People Sir You cannot with any reason suppose me herein to play the Parasite or Flatterer you well know the aversions of my Nature to all the servile Arts of that kind the true and substantial Greatness and Glory of this Action will acquit me from all those little Surmises and Suspicions For my own part I cannot but declare to you and all the World that if the like Act of Justice had been done by a Prince that Reign'd here a thousand years ago or by a King that at this time inhabited the farthest parts of the Indies I could not but have conceiv'd in my