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A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

I hope that hereafter all those that are truly Religio●s and lovers of virtue and Loyalty will not suffer the light thereof to go out and be quenched thorough negligence or disrespect or the vigour thereof to be utterly extinguished in Oblivion but that they will lend a principal eye of regard thereunto and justly and duly encourage and advance the same both for the glory of God and their own special interest and concernment and in truth I do believe under favour that if those two little Books last mentioned were revised and reprinted by Order of Authority and so freshly exposed to the publick view they would do much good and operate very well upon the minds and affections of the youthfull and vulgar people of this kingdom and indeed this Nation hath need enough of good and wholesom counsels and cautions to rectifie their so long depraved judgements and of such religious animadversions as may totally deterr them from the practise of that uggly horrid and diabolical sinne of rebellion and from the least hunting after the track scent or savour of such seditious and schismatical delusions as of late they were so grosly and abominably infected withall considering also the lamentable and fearful consequences that have ensued thereupon both in Church and State and the most horrible and prodigious tragedies that have been acted upon the theatre of this Kingdom by occasion thereof being even more bloodie vile and villanous then the seditious Jewes that Josephus writes of who wrought the ruine and utter subversion of their famous City and countrie did ever enterprise or intend as I could instance in some particular● which are so odious and notorious to the world as I shall not now need to d●file this paper ther●with But in truth the carriage or d●meanour of some people still is so p●evish and perverse as my conscience doth urge me to relate some passages that concern my self which I would willingly omit and passe over were not my charitie to reform their ●rrors greater then my desire to defame their actions for certainly my self and others were of a blind belief and stupid understanding if we did not palpably perceive the dolefull and dangerous defect of contrition and the crooked conversation that yet remains in these men who seem to be of the Spiders nature sucking poyson out of the same flower from whence the harmlesse Bee doth gather honey and it is to be feared that some acts of grace which might well have served for their present advantage will in the end by the bad influence of their corrupt nature conduce and redound to their future and ●verlasting overthrow for in the very place where the constancie and integritie of my truth and loyaltie hath been eminent enough and where the sufferings both of my self and family for the same have been such and so great as many of mine enemies have had once a little compassion upon us yet even there have I found lately but few Samari●ans to bind up my former wounds but some passe by without regard thereof and too many are prompt enough to make my sore the deeper by their peevishnesse and malice for but a little time before your Majesties most happy accesse to your royal government I was required to pay some assessments which for the present I did refuse to do in regard the payment thereof was ordered by an illegal power and for that I was in good hope of your Majesties sudden approach to right and protect us and after that your Majestie was so happily landed and come to London the Collectors again did demand the same of me and said that if it were no● presently paid there must come troopers to ●evie the same To which I made answer they might come if they would but there was no need of any such trouble for if I could have the least notice or intimation that your Majesty had commanded or consented to the payment thereof it should then be very soon discharged but otherwise I would not pay it as yet untill I heard more and were better satisfied in the matter to which they had little to say but went their way and for divers weeks after whilst I remained at home in the Countrie I never heard any more of them but the very next day after that I was come away towards London to petition your Majesty about my former sufferings these Collector● came to my house with ●bout a dozen or more Foo●-souldiers whereat my Wife in my absence was much affrighted and yet they left half of them there to quarter untill the money were paid who behaved themselves basely enough and would tar●y there in spite of her teeth to her great disturbance and she not having the money was enforced to maintain them all until she could procure the whole sum which they demanded and at this the contemners of my loyaltie did laugh not a little and please themselves to see my house thus abused and so suddenly after my Kings comming which I had so long hoped for and so much rejoyced at a● was sufficiently seen and made manifest And since the sitting of the late Parliament or Convention and but a little time before your Majestie● most blessed accesse into England there came a gallant Gentleman to my house and desired to speak with me and when we came together he civilly requested me to excuse him for he thought he had brought a Message that would not be very pleasing unto me and yet he believe● that it would do me no great hurt but a friend of his had earnestly enjoyned him to tell me of it and to hear my answer thereunto Well Sir said I what is the matter I pray It is quoth he a Rump businesse How so said I is not the Rump Plag●e over yet what is the news with them now Why said he this Gentleman that intreated me to do this Errand hath laid out monies about the Purchasing of your Land and I think that he would willingly learn how he may come in to his monies again Yes marry said I that were well for as yet there is a Fool and his money soon parted for if it be laid out upon such termes as you do intimate then your friend if he meets with his lawfull and due desert may very fairly totter for his pains for in truth had there not been such sottish and covetous Contractors for the purchasing of honest mens Estates there had never been such unjust and impious wretches as would once have offered to make Sales of the same But I pray tell me said I who is this your friend that hath made such a blind bargain for himself he is said the Gentleman a Barrister at Law and hath a place in the present Parliament and he hath sent down Letters of Attorney to one here in the Country to demand the Rents of your Lands and to fore-warn your Tenants from paying you any more Rent Indeed said I he is a pretty Lawyer and hath proceeded well doth

Here the Author did intend to have placed his Effigies and Coat of Armes but the exact Sculpture thereof being so chargeable and his Sufferings so great for which he hath yet no recompence he is enforced to be frugal in expences and therefore intreats the gentle Reader to accept of the Verses that he composed to be printed underneath the same and courteously to correct the Printers Errata These are the Verses This Figure here doth lively represent A Courage bold but clearly Innocent Not prone to injure feeble Age nor Youth But ever zealous to divulge the Truth Who Schisme and horrid Treason did defie And unto Heaven for Truth and Justice crye Who for his love to Englands King and Church Hath been despis'd revil'd and suffer'd much Yet Truth of worth and Honour gained so By being dubb'd the Tyrant R●bell's soe Peruse this Book and you may surely see Some Signal Emblems of His Loyaltie J. W. Fidelitatis Feodum Felicitas To the most Illustrious High and Mighty MAJESTY of CHARLES the II By the Grace of God KING of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. The Humble Declaration of JOHN VVENLOCK of Langham in the County of Essex Esquire an V●ter Barrister of near Forty years continuance in that Honourable Society of Lincolnes-Inne Being first A Supplicatory Preface and Discourse to His Majesty and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous Troubles and intollerable Oppressions of Himself and His Family and the true occasion thereof in the wofull Times of these late most unhappy Distractions Wherein the perfect Loyalty of a true Subject and the perfideous malice and cruelty of a Rebell are evidently deciphered and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours as a Caution for England Hereunto are annexed certain Poems and other Treatises composed and written by the Author upon several Occasions concerning the late most horrid and distracted Times and never before published Nemo plus videtur aestimare virtutem nemo magis illi esse devotus quam qui boni viri famam perdidit ne conscientiam perderet Sen. 72. Ep. Fortitudo tua fiducia fidelis conscitnciae Bern. Conscientia mala benè sperare non potest Aug. London Printed by T. Childe and L. Parry for the Author and are to be sold at most Booksellers shops in London and Westminster-hall 16●2 ERRATA IN Page 9. l. 2. for are read us in p. 13. l. 23. for happily r. unhappily in p. 14. l. 11. for for any r. or for any in p. 18. l. 1. for gratitude r. gratuitie in l. 6. for stickle r. strive l. 11. for works r. words l. 19. for defection r. defects in p. 29. l. 11. for months r. twelve months p. 30. in the title for demeans r. demeanour in p. 34. the last line but one for to themselves r. to the ruine of themselves in p. 35. l. 14 for to honoured r. to be honoured p. 37. l. 21. for four r. fourty p. 38. l. 12. for there r. and there p. 40. for very proper r. prime and proper l. 19. and p. 52. for nor r. and. p. 56. l. 1. for fanings r. failings p. 64. l. 37. for coarse r. course The Epistle Dedicatory To the High and Mighty Majesty OF Charles the II. By the Grace of GOD King of Great Britain c. Defender of the Faith c. Most Royal Religious and Sacred Soveraign WHen I had first most humbly presented my petition to your Majesty upon the Long Gallerie stairs towards St. James his park in Trinitie Term 1660. I did presently implore your Majestie to be pleased but to peruse the same and then my self your poor subject should reap abundance of satisfaction therein and your Majesties gracious answer unto me was with a reiteration of these words I shall I shall and within lesse then an hour after I did hear that your Majestie had performed your princely promise for which I have ever since desired to render to your Grace the most humble and hearty thanks of a loyal and gratefull subject And now most humbly prostrating my self at the feet of your Maj●sties clemency again I do most submissely and earnestly begg at your gracious hands one favour more beseeching your Majesty to be pleased to accept of and to patronize these my weak endeavours which most humbly and thankfully I do Dedicate and present to your Grace beseeching your Majesty to vouchsafe the perusal of this Treatise at some time when the heavie burden of those so serious and urgent affairs imposed upon you will admit of an intermission and so your Majestie shall be truly informed what my condition is and hath been which being once known to your Grace I shall rest in abundance of quiet and with alacritie submit to such success as the good Providence and will of God and your gratious Pleasure shall thereupon suffer to be produced Royall Sir I am one of those that have been a Cordiall loving and obedient Subject in my Dutie and Allegiance to your Royall and Religious Father and Grandfather of glorious and blessed Memorie yet my Fate was never hitherto so propitious as to afford me any further favour then the common protection of a Subject and if the unhappinesse of the Times by the occasion of our sins had not late deprived us of that royal Favour then in all probability I might have been in such a posture before this time as I should not now have been necessitated to seek an Office to maintain me in my old Age But I have almost been bereaved of all my means and practise from my Age of 40 years to 60. the best time of proficiencie in all a mans life and yet I praise God for it I can with a good comfort and courage say to your Majestie that I am no absolute Beggar but only in Relation to God and your good Grace that is his lawfull and undoubted Deputie here upon the Earth for by means of Gods mercie and your Majesties so happy and Fortunate Accesse to your just and Royal rights I am still in lawfull possession of an Estate in Lands which although it be but small yet it is of a Noble Tenure being late holden of your Majestie by a whole Knights Fee and which hath lineally been enjoyed by my Ancestors and continued in my name for the space of near 500. years ever since the Reign of King Henry the 3d. and that is more then some great Ones are able to assert and certainly a blessing hath been upon it in the so long continuance thereof being at first honestly bought with their Money and a Bargain I think more justifiable then some kind of purchasing either of Honour or Offices And although my name be at present and of late in some obs●uritie yet it hath not been allwayes so in the times of Antiquit●e for in the Reign of that Valiant and Famous Prince King Edward the 1. there lived one of my name which had the Honour to be Lord

fair curtesie then I could ever have expected from any man in so soul a function We two withdrew a while and had some conference I shewed my paper aforesaid and left it with him intreating him to communicate it to the rest of his brethren the Committees when they met and desire them to consider of it and that I might soon know the result of their considerations therein all this he promised me faithfully to perform but I heard no more of the Committees nor they of me for 3. or 4. years after And being thus left destitute of all manner of relief from these Religious Rebels although I desired n●t so much of them as was duly and truly mine own both in Law Reason and Religion yet their wretched and perverse wills most vvickedly contradicting all the sound and perfect rules both of divinitie and humanitie therefore my poor distressed companie must still continue in that irksom and greafie trade of carding and spinning to my no little grief and vexation and yet oftentimes I did encourage them to wait upon God with patience and to remember how their Fathers Loyaltie was the occasion of their present miserie and although that the root which they now tasted of were bitter yet it might produce and bring forth some better and more pleasant fruit in the end and I did oftentimes merrily tell them that upon the matter they were in truth the Kings Spinners and therefore people of a farr better rank and quality then the base World esteemed them to be and thus with as much alacrity as I could I waded thorough a sea of miseries continuing still in my discourse and otherwise as true stout and high a Royalist I beleeve as ever breathed in England insomuch that divers of the blind beetles would say that I was as bad still as ever I had been and that it was pity that I was suffered but I little regarded their censure knowing that it was my duty to speak aloud when the Glory of my God the Honour and Safety of my King and the good and quiet of my Native Country was in so great hazard or j●opardy One Sunday a● I came walking with the Minister from Church and many others following of u● close at the Heels I said unto him that above all men I did much wonder at those of his Coat which had so grossely forgotten themselves for I beleeve said I that if it pleased God to permit the Devill himself to assume the shape of a man and to put on a Parsons Gowne and come up into a Pulpit to preach yet he is so knowing a Spirit and doth so tremble at the Judgement to come as he never durst entertain the impudence to utter so much Blasphemy and Treason as some of yo● have ventured upon Another time I told him that it behoved him to be very cautious of medling in such matters for if he chanced to offend i● that nature his offence would be greater then other men● he asked me why so and I made him answer the reason was aparent for there be many shuttle braind Fellow● that have lately come into a Pulpit who trusting to a confused memory and the volubility of the tongue do often times ex impr●vis● and without any premeditation presume to vent and utter some und●cent and irreligious absurditie● whose rashness ●s to be pitied and doth somewhat extenuate though not excuse their presumptuous folly and prophanesse but you it is well known do study and write down every word in your Sermon and make a constant use of your papers in the Pulpit and therefore if any vain impertinent or ●rronious doctrine doth proceed from you it must of necessity be after your premeditations and so upon malice prepensed which is a sin with a witness and much aggravates your offence and makes it the more unpardonable and certainly my plain dealing did the man no harmor prejudice for he waxed still more and more moderate but I could not endure to come at his Mock fasts and Thankgivings but ever diswaded him therefrom with the best reasons I could remember either out of the Scripture or other Learned or Historicall Authors and once I told him that I much feared I should forsake his Church I hope not so quoth he yes truly said I for I do seldome come there but I see that which doth much offend me I pray Sir what is that quoth the Parson I answered him that whensoever I stood up in my Pew being so near the Pulpit I could not chuse but espy his Directory or Devils story lie still in his Desk and I could not endure to behold such an uggly and deformed Imp of schisme and sedition and then he replyed unto me that if it offended me I might take it away if I pleased not so quoth I for it is a parcell of your Churches goods and so I may be questioned for committing of Sacrilege I will by no means soul my hands by medling with it but if it lies there long I will not come at the Church the next time I went the bable was gone and departed down I think to the place of darknesse where it was first hatched for I never saw any more of it Now about the time that his late Majesty was brought from Holmby to Newmarket there was news spread about that the sad affairs of the Nation would soon be drawn to a better passe and that his Gratious Majesty should be restored to his Regal rights and we that were sufferers to our lands again with some recompence for our former losses and upon these reports the Sequestrators and their Adherents that seldome or never thought upon God did begin yet to be afraid of the law and the Lawyer and thereupon they presently deserted and wholly gave over the possession of my Lands and soon after without any application to the Committees or any of their great Masters that set them on work I made an entry upon the most part of my Estate and held the same untill some were so venturous as to hire some part of the Land of me to farm and the rest I kept in my hands and made hay in my Meadowes and got money for it and took in Cattle to pasture upon my ground for I had not moneys enough to buy anie my self neither durst I procure anie means to have cattel of mine own lest the seditious should drive them away But now by the help of a little Countrie practice in my profession and these monies taken for hay and pasture our condition was much amended and our hearts so well refreshed as we did a little remember our selves and so we did totally desert the cards and the wheel and began to appear and shew our selves in a gentile garbe again in hope that the most part of the storm had been over but alas the worst was yet to come But my courage being high and remembring the cruelties that my poor wife had sustained and undergone by these villains in the

of Jesus Christ and where and whensoever any true reformation hath hapned it was allwaies set on and brought to passe by the means of a lawfull Magistrate set up and authorised of God and not by the dull endeavours and injust power of a few bestial and serpentine spirits raised and conjured up by the madnesse of the people Such prodigious devices were not in use untill the old dragon begun to rage because his time waxed short but all along the primitive times notwithstanding those bloudie heavie and horrible persecutions imposed upon Christians yet those that were true godly Saints did never so much as dream of rebelling against their Governours for ever still in their strongest extremities their sharpest weapons were preces lachrimae a sure symboll of a sacred heart but all violent courses to protect themselves they utterly disclaimed There is a generation yet amongst us that can never be so soundly sensible of their souls solace as they might be if they were truly convinced of their late errors and seriously sorrowfull and humbled for their former offences but so long as they meet with pardon and preferment they think all is well but alas it is not so for too many still fare the worse for these mens late unjust and impious practises I wish them to remember that God is a righteous Judge and will render just measure in due time for oppression will ever cry to heaven for vengeance there be many matters which they have had a shrewd hand in that will be a bitter blemish in their armes as long as they live and as the vulgar saying is may grieve them in their graves when they be dead or at least stick sore at their souls hereafter if they bring not forth better fruits and effects of true repentance then can hitherto be seen or perceived in them by an impartial eye Such as seek to cover their sinnes cannot prosper and some there be I fear whose sormer faults being now shadowed under a fair pretext do still by their connivancie and countenance encourage others to be more stubborn and refractorie in the yeelding unto and performance of such things as a good conscience will lowdly call for at their hands and by this means also it is probable enough that some of your Ma● subject● that have evidently demonstrated their love loyaltie to their King countrie are still kept under and had in de●ision and contempt being basely abused and discouraged by too many of the late stupidicies to the dishonour and shame of this Kingdom both at home and abroad and clean contrary to your Maties good meaning and most royal disposition and sore against the reputation of a righteous Cause without question and if old Gamesters begin once to belive and find that there is now a dayes no difference at Dice but that cogging and cheating may as well win the Game and go away with the Garland as fairly as honest and square play it may hereafter be a means to indu●e some to be cowardly and loath again to venture themselves and their estates so valiantly unless it were upon better terms and at such an ill consequence or event the enemies of the truth will be ready to rejoyce but all your Majesties Well-wishers would be most heartily sorry for it In truth it is now time under royal favour if it so please God and your Majesty that your Graces poor suffering friends should be a little looked upon and considered of who have been so couragiously constant in their saddest sufferings abhorring to defile themselves with the least tincture of Treason but alwayes labouring to imprint Loyalty in the hearts of others and frequently and faithfully improving their best faculties for your Majesties service and the good of their native Country Some of my Opposites have said unto me that they believed it was impossible to turn me from the way that I walked in and that although they were not of my mind and that I was their enemy and did them more hurt in their Cause than many that fought against it yet they could not chuse but honor the memory of me in regard that I had ever stood so stoutly to my Principles It was truly said of the Wiseman that when a man is well proved then is his faithfullness known and certainly I may say to your Majesty with a safe conscience that in the time of the late Anarchy my fidelity to your Grace was sufficiently tryed to the proof for amongst all the revolutions and alteration which happened in that slippery State and wherewith the most part of the people being desirous of novelty were well pleased in hope of some melioration thereby yet the Doctrine that I did ever divulge amongst all such as I conversed withall was still to this effect that all those alterations could never conduce to any good but only draw on more and more Confusion untill all were ruined for alwayes my saying was that right must have right and that there could never be the least expectation or sign of any security or settlement of peace here amongst us untill your Majesty were restored unto all your just and lawfull rights and royalties for whilst that came to pass and was happily effected the full wrath and vengeance both of God and man would continually prosecute these rebellious Nations Some factious and seditious Ignorants would now and then be carping at your Majesties title to the Crown of England and affirm that it came in first by William the Conquerour and being gotten by Conquest it might as well in the same manner be lost but my answer to this was that the Case is not the same for William the Conquerour was a forein Prince and by the law of Armes might make a Conquest of this Nation but no Subjects can ever conquer their Soveraign for although they do over-powre him by force and violence yet that is no Conquest but a meer act of rebellion and no wayes justifiable either by the laws of God or man and besides I commonly said unto them that if any of their Ancestors had been sei●ed of an Estate in Lands for the time of about 600. years they would then think it to be more than a sufficient prescription to maintain a good and unquestionable Title thereunto But ● had a stronger argument than this to refute that Norman fallacy for I was so good an Historian as to tell them that within a few Discents after the Conquest the antient royal race was again restored and also such an apt Antiqua●y and Herauld as to derive your Majesties pedegree ab origant and to shew them clearly how by Gods providence and the policy and good successe of many happy and fortunate Marriages your Majesty was now the true undoubted Heir unto all those famous Princes that ever had any lawfull colour of Competition or right unto the royal Crownes of England and Scotland And sometimes I have related unto them an old story of the Abissines who bragg that

not he deserve to be degraded or worse that thinks Gentlemen can forfeit their Estates for refusing to be Traytors the Law tells him That it is the committing of Treason and not the disclaiming or refusall thereof that brings men within compasse of the forfeiture either of their Lives or Estates and therefore surely his Learning in the Law or rather ignorance therein doth deserve far more punishment then preserment Yet truly quoth the Gentleman he is an honest man and was drawn in to lend money and to obtain the same again he was offered and enforced to take a grant of your Lands but he desires to do ●ou no wrong but will gladly accept of a reasonable composition Then I asked him how much money his friend had disbursed about the bargain and his answer was with a specification of many hundred pounds Well I am sorry for him said I for the truth is that I will never give him so much as the skin of a Lowse and I much marvell that any man now dares be so impudent as to talk of any Rump businesses considering that we hope the Kings Majesty will be amongst us ere it be long Yes it may be so said he if this Parliament will allow of him They allow of him said I why is that the chief point to the purpose I trust these will approve themselves to be wiser then some of their Predecessors or else they must look to find the like fortune for his Majesties Motto is Dieu mon Droit and that in Gods good time will bring him to his Crown in spite of all opposition Thus I so lectured my Gentleman that he much commended of my resolution and discourse and said that he was of my mind and so we parted in a very friendly manner And yet these and other numerous pranks of the like nature that for so long a time together have been played upon me were sufficient to penetrate the patience of a more patient and lesse passionate man then my self but it pleased God to make me remember Qui patitur vincit patientia sola triumphat And I most humbly beseech your Majesty to believe and be confident that all your Loyal and Loving Subjects that have been constant sufferers in the late unhappy times will never in the least degree go about to nourish or flatter themselves in the repining against that which is your Majesties good will and pleasure for we are well content still to endure any thing that may truly tend to your Majesties safety and advantage and we do fervently desire and incessantly invocate the Almighty Majesty of Heaven in whose hands the hearts of Kings are that he will be pleased in his abundant mercy and goodnesse so graciously to direct and dispose of your Majesties Councils and Affairs as may be most requisite and pliant to the performance of his blessed will revealed in his word and for the maintenance and upholding of the true Doctrine and Discipline of the Orthodox Church of England as the same was setled and established at the Reformation thereof by regal lawfull Authority And I doubt not but that your Majestie is well pleased with us in these our good desires for alas it is too manifest that the late counterfeit though specious shew of Reformation and the crying down of the Church-government was a great instrument to beget and breed up that furious and giddy generation of Scismaticks that have so long troubled and almost confounded the whole Nation And it is to be feared that some will think it now scarce consonant to distributive Justice that such as have been so much hindred and almost undone for their Loyalty in the late times should still be oppressed in their Purses to help to beare out other Mens misprisions and perversities or that constant Loyaltie and his inveterate opposite and antagonist though in a changeable coloured Coat should yet walk together in aequipage and be equivalent in countenance and respect And yet notwithstanding we are content and do rejoyce only in submitting to your Majesties good will and pleasure therein and though perhaps for some serious considerations of State not yet well known or apprehended by us we are at present debarred from something which the benefit of the Law our birth-right might very fairly have afforded us yet we gain this honour and satisfaction thereby that it is now manifest to all the world that can see and will not be wilfully blind that all the Rapines Wrongs and Oppressions so lately imposed upon us were utterly illegal and that we had a good and just right of recompence for the same both in point of Law Equity Reason and Religion and especially such of us as had been constantly loyal and wrought no detriment to others or else to what purpose was there any new Law made to deprive us but pro tempore of that legal Legacy and inherent Inheritance which the great Charter of England the continued will of so many famous Kings and Parliaments for so many hundred years had in lawfull manner bequeathed to our Ancestors and in them to us and our Posterities But I touch not upon this string to any other end or intent then only to restifie how I do believe that some others as well as my self have met with occasion clad or dressed in a more discontented habit then was expected for none of us are so deficient in understanding but that we are apprehensive enough not only of the greatnesse of the grievances we have endured but also of the smallnesse of the regard and countenance which at some mens hands we have received for the same and yet as we cannot but be sorely sensible of our Sufferings and slightings and the slender notice that is taken thereof So we will not at any time be emulous to accomplish the right of our desires not so much as in thought otherwise than the correspondent good will and pleasure of your Sacred Majesty and the known Laws authorised by the same shall give us free liberty and we are sufficiently confident that upon the true resenting of our Loyalty and Losses and the due consideration of the nature and of other passages thereupon now so fast knit to our Obedience your royal Majesty will soon conceive that in point of honour and conscience your Grace is the more engaged to look upon us and without that favourable aspect we not only fear but find it too evidently hitherto for a truth that the Chamelions of this age who feed upon the Utopian aire of their own frothy inventions and conceits will never come near us and so be adapted to turn themselves into our colours and constitution but rather with reproach abandon us and so totally deprive themselves of that good which our Councell and Conversation might minister amongst them and were it not great pitty that so worthy Qualities and Faculties as Loyalty and Courage should unhappily prove and become the Ushers in of Obloquy and Contempt or that so rare and precious a