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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

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