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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66753	Fides-Anglicana, or, A plea for the publick-faith of these nations lately pawned, forfeited and violated by some of their former trustees to the rendering it as infamous as fides-punica was heretofore : it is humbly offered to consideration in a petitionary remonstrance to all in authority on the behalf of many thousands to whom securities were given upon the said public-faith and was prepared to have been put forth during the sitting of the last Parliament ... / by the author George Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing W3157; ESTC R27622	56,067	97

to that day are generally pardoned and that the Tenants who ought to have paid them lay hold on that Act and disobey those Orders by which means Officers are only benefited and the suiters more damnified by expences instead of getting relief So that whereas Purchasers are invited to bring in their deeds to be cancelled upon promising that they should receive all Rents due at and before Michaelmas last it would be plainer dealing to tell them they should have a Quarters Rent to relinquish their purchases for in truth it amounts to no more from June 24 to Michaelmas next following Furthermore there being nothing promised by King or Parliament as aforesaid in their Declarations in relation to the Old Tenants of Prelates Lands the said Tenants having had pre-emption before all other when the said Lands were sold enjoying also their full term without interruption during their respective Leases and being no otherwise displaced then they usually were formerly when the said Prelates pleased by Concurrent Leases or otherwise to take these Farms into their own hands or for the benefit of their children and relations at the expiration of their Terms it had been more candid usage to have absolutely signified to the Purchasers that the said Old Tenants should be preferred before them rather then to permit the said Purchasers deluded by a vain hope to consume money and time in seeking for a Composition and to suffer the said Prelates in the mean time to receive their whole Rents to eject the Purchasers by force when they had paid all Taxes with other duties not without great expence bestowed in fencing soyling plowing and sowing the said Lands and also to grant Leases as they have done to the vacating of all the cost and labour of the said Purchasers in pursuing what seemed graciously intended both by King and Parliament on their behalf These and many other passages which this Remonstrant hath observed makes it appear unto him that there is not that care yet taken to preserve the honour of the King and of this Parliament in giving satisfaction to Purchasers as might be wished and that there is not that respect had to Justice and good Conscience in satisfying them as hath been heretofore vouchsafed by Princes States and Parliaments in the like Cases In true Reason which distinguisheth Men from Beasts as Justice and Mercy differences them from Devils this Remonstrant conceives that the whole matter in Fact and Judgement concerning the said Sales and Securities must unavoidably be brought to this Dilemma to wit either the Long Parliament had Power to make such Sales and grant such Securities as aforesaid or else they had not If they had such a Power then their Sales and Securities must be allowed and confirmed or at least if in Law or Equity restitution of what was by them sold ought to be made to the former possessors then recompence must be given another way else injustice is commited GOD and the Nation are dishonoured and many thousand Families and innocent persons will be unmercifully exposed to ruine and that severity and want of compassion for which they were visited in wrath who last abused their Power will be more then doubled GOD is the same he was and if private men for not performing their Covenants made to and with each other though to their own hindrance shall be excluded from his Tabernacle doubtless an equivalent Judgement will be extended to States and Parliaments or those whom they represent Then on the other part it 〈◊〉 should be granted that the foresaid Parliament 〈◊〉 and exercised wilfully a Power not thereto belonging to the damnifying of those who confided in them that Parliaments successors ought then in Justice to award satisfaction out of their estates who arrogated such an unwarrantable Power as far as they will extend if they can be distinguished from those among them who were guiltless And if that distinction cannot be made or the damages exceed their abilities then condign satisfaction should be made out of their Common purse who intrusted those with the Publick-Faith For the greatest part of the People have often been too careless upon whom they impose that confidence and perhaps will be more wary when they have well paid for it what persons they chuse and be so wise as to consider that they who have not wit enough to govern their private estates or they who consume many thousands of pounds in Ale houses Inns and Taverns whose reckonings as this Remonstrant hears are not yet paid to procure themselves to be Elected by Feastings and Drunkenness had probably some worse ends in being so prodigal then a sincere intention to serve GOD the King and their Countrey Yet neither this Remonstrant nor as he believeth many of the said Purchasers and Lenders do expect satisfaction should be made them at full for all their damages though in justice it ought so to be but considering the Publick wants and other private mens necessities as well as their own with how much it may tend at this time to the settlement of Peace and Amity that every man should enjoy a comfortable subsistence they would rest contented with so much only toward a repair as might discharge them from their engagements occasioned by the said Loans and Purchases to the redeeming the loss of their liberties and to preserve a competency proportionable to their several degrees and the condition of their nearest relations which might be raised without overburthening any if such Expedients might be speedily taken into consideration and vigorously prosecuted as may be hereafter proposed whereas the course which is yet pursued will neither be a means of relieving many nor of so reconciling disagreeing Parties but that the Breaches will daily grow wider and encrease Animosities till they become irreconcileable and kindle such an universal flame by private fewds and vexatious suits that it will never perhaps be quenched whilest ought is left unconsumed or whilest any considerable number of them or of their Posterities are living who were unhappily engaged against each other in the late war And for prevention whereof there will be no possibility in nature but by a general Forgiveness on all sides mediated by a moderate course to preserve in some indifferent measure that Interest by which each man may be comfortably maintained For until that be sincerely endeavoured prosecuting the rigour of the Laws by imprisoning suing hanging beheading and quartering will terrisie few of those who have neither estates to lose nor an outward condition of life worth preserveing Nor in such cases will preaching the principles of morality or Evangelical Precepts prevail much but with men naturally meek or perhaps cowardly or such as are of so true a Christian and sanctified a temper that according to the doctrine and example of Christ they can freely forgive their enemies and submit to any thing wherewith it shall please GOD to permit the Supream Power to exercise their Faith and Patience which number is so small

FIDES-ANGLICANA OR A PLEA FOR THE PUBLICK-FAITH Of these NATIONS Lately pawned forfeited and violated by some of their former TRUSTEES to the rendring it as infamous as FIDES-PUNICA was heretofore It is humbly offered to consideration in a Petitionary Remonstrance to all in Authority on the behalf of many thousands to whom Securities were given upon the said Publick-Faith and was prepared to have been put forth during the sitting of the last Parliament By the Author GEORGE WITHER It comprehends likewise an Expedient whereby the Honour of the King and Nations may be preserved in redeeming the same without oppressing private persons or overburthening the Publick And thereto are added two or three Examplary Narratives out of Antiquity evidencing that Neglect of Justice is dangerous and that the freedom of expression assumed by the Author is neither needless in such cases nor unjustifiable by warrantable precedents Veritas non quaerit Angulos LONDON Printed in the year MDCLX FIDES-ANGLICANA OR A PLEA by way of Remonstrance for the Publick-Faith of these Brittish Nations humbly offered to all in Power and Authority joyntly and individually by whatsoever Title or Name they are lawfully active and to whom a care of preserving the Peace and Honour of these Kingdoms doth appertain Psalm 82. v. 1 2 3 4 c. GOD standeth in the Congregation of the mighty he judgeth among the Gods How long will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked Defend the poor and fatherless do justice to the afflicted preserve the poor and needy out of the hands of the ungodly c. WHereas in the Hopes entertained rationally by this Remonstrant and others upon his Majesties late voluntary and gracious condescentions without any care taken for our Indempnity at his Restauration by the Trustees of these Nations they rested thankfully therewith contented being much comforted in the Kings prudent and tender respect vouchsafed to their sad condition and have ever since though it be now about eight or nine Moneths waited in a patient expectation of some timely settlement according to his Royal Declaration Speeches References and Commission notwithstanding many of them have in the mean time been almost quite destroyed in their estates and credits and some utterly ruined by the impatience of their Creditors by the violence of untimely Intruders upon their possessions by vexatious suits commenced against them and by paying great taxes and other duties for those Lands by them purchased which are intruded upon contrary to an Order of Parliament and other Prohibitions as also because some of the said Purchasers have been so impoverished by former Oppressions that to the Publick damage as well as to their own much of the said Lands lyeth waste in regard they have neither wherewith to stock those which came lately into possession nor means to demise them to Tenants whilest their Titles are disparaged Which with other destructive grievances daily multiplying have constrained this Remonstrant who in his own person is made sensible of other mens afflictions well near in every kind both for preventing the utter undoing of himself with his Relations and of many thousands more together with their Creditors and Relations humbly to Remonstrate as follows That the long delayed and justly expected Relief of the said Purchasers and Lenders of which this Remonstrant is one seems to him prolonged by the sinister endeavours or neglects of some from whom they hoped better things occasioning no less dishonour and hazard to the King and Nation then injury to their patience whose dammages are multiplyed thereby For instead of what was rationally hoped for this Remonstrant and many more are among other frequent upbraidings and provocations jeered with this untimely and unsavoury caution Caveat emptor which hath obliquely a worse reflection upon Venders then Buyers in their condition implying rather Caveant Venditores in regard it is a Caveat to be given before-hand and to those only who contract with persons justly suspected to be either Cheaters or Beggars and ought not to be applyed to them who were Purchasers from States or Parliaments who have engaged the Publick Faith of a whole Nation to confirm their Sales and Securities For they should with reverence be confided in by all under their Authority lest such become guilty of exposing it to contempt and therefore the said Purchasers and Lenders were not till really damnified to suspect or question Whether the Grants and Securities to them offered would be valid or invalid or Whether the Estates exposed to sale by the Parliament were justly or unjustly bargained and sold because it was to be presumed that States and Parliaments are not only at all times able to make good their Bargains and Securities or to give full recompence to those who shall be thereby damnified if it prove otherwise but that being thereto obliged both in honour and justice they will also punctually perform the one or the other without receding from their Bargains or hagling like broken debtors And therefore by one of these wayes the said Purchasers and Lenders presume they shall accordingly be saved harmless And it is their humble desire it may be timely and effectually done in respect of those destructive necessities afore-mentioned whereinto many of them are plunged and that they may not be listened unto who seek to perswade those who should relieve them that as affairs now stand there is no obligation upon the Supream Power or upon the Representatives of this Nation to take cognizance of those engagements For whatsoever they think the Publick Peace and the honour of the whole Nation together with their Kings and Parliaments will therein be much concerned whether their Power who granted those Estates and Securities were justly or unjustly constituted or exercised considering it was then the sole visible Power in being assented and submitted unto as an authentick Authority by the greatest number of the people of every degree and qualification in these three Nations without any open contradiction which implies an universall assent or what is so equivalent thereto that a factious or rebellious combination could not be justly thereto imputed It was acknowledged to be then the Supream Power not only by popular voices in the air but by voluntary subscriptions also under the hands of well near all the Magistrates Knights Citizens and Burgers of all Counties Cities and Corporations in these Dominions without any open protest made against it and de non apparentibus non existentibus eadem est ratio Those things which when they should appear appear not reputed are among the things that are not Moreover it was actually owned and obeyed by the Nobility as the Supream Authority and by the reverend Judges of our Land in every Court of Record by the Pastors of Parochial Churches and Congregations of each several judgement to be by divine Precepts and the examplary practise of Christ and his Apostles that Power being then the Power which had sole visible being whereto obedience was due