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A75409	An ansvver to a pamphlet, entit'led, a declaration of the Commons of England in Parliament assembled, expressing their reasons and grounds of passing the late resolutions touching no further addresse of application to be made to the King.	Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing A3323A; Thomason E438_3; ESTC R204748	7,853	17

the Clergy which is no great signe that He makes slight of His Engagements of which it is so universally knowne that He ha's been so Religiously Carefull as I hold it a wrong to His Innocency to seek to clear Him of such Slaunders for which there are no Proofs alledged for Malice being once detected is best Answered with Neglect and Silence And was there ever greater or more apparent Malice then to offer to put the horrid slaunder of Paricide upon Him who was eminently known to be as obedient and loving a Son to His blessed Father as any History can make mention of But indeed the losse of Rochell doth fitly follow to show how Malice when it is at the height is ordinarily accompanied for there are none but ignorant or forgetfull Men who know not that it was meerly the want of Assistance from the Two Houses of Parlament contrary to their Publick Generall Engagement that lost Rochell and there is nothing more clear to any who hath known French Occurrences then that reall Assistance which the KING to the uttermost of His Power gave to those of the Religion at that time made the Cardinall of Richelieu an irreconcileable enemy to the KING wherefore I cannot but say that it is a strange forgetfull Boldnesse to charge the KING with that which was evidently other mens faults There are also other things that to any knowing Man will rather seem Jeers then Acusations as the German Horse and Spanish Fleet in the yeare 1639. But my Affection shall not so blind me as to say that the KING never erred yet as when a just Debt is paid Bonds ought to be cancell'd so Grievances be they never so just being once redressed ought no more to be objected as Errours And it is no Paradox to affirme that Truths this way told are no better then Slaunders and such are the Catalogue of Grievances here enumerated which when they are well examin'd every one of them will not be found such as here they are described to be Now as concerning those Discourses which mention the Beginnings of these Troubles which are in Two severall places of this Declaration I will onely say this that what the KING did upon those Occasions was meerly to defend the Rights of His Crown which were and are evidently sought to be torne from Him nor can I acknowledge all those Relations to be true such as Private Levies of Men by Popish Agents Arming of Papists in the North Calling in of Danish Forces and the like And as for the stale Slaunder of calling up the Northerne Army now renewed it is well known that the Two Houses even at that time were not so partiall to the KING as to have conceal'd a Practise of that kind if they could have got it sufficiently proved But if the Irish Rebellion can be justly charged upon the KING then I shall not blame any for beleeving all the rest of the Allegations against Him onely I protest against all Rebells Testimonie as good Proofe it being most certaine by experience that they who make no Conscience of Rebelling will make lesse of Lying when it is for their Advantage And it is no little wonder that so grave an Assembly as the House of Commons should so slightly examine a Businesse of that Great Weight as to alleage that the Scots Great Seale did countenance the Irish Rebellion when I know it can be proved by Witnesses without exception that for many Moneths before untill the now Lord Chancellour had the Keeping of it there was nothing at all Sealed by it Nor concerning this Great Point will I onely say that the KING is Innocent and bid them prove which to most Accusations is a sufficient Answer but I can prove that if the KING had been obeyed in the Irish Affaires before He went last into Scotland there had been no Irish Rebellion and after it was begun it had in few Months been subpressed if His Directions had been observed For if the KING had been suffered to have performed His Engagements to the Irish Agents and had disposed of the discontented Irish Army beyond Sea according to His Contracts with the French and Spanish Ambassadours there is nothing more cleare then that there could have been no Rebellion in Ireland because they had wanted both Pretence and Meanes to have made one Then when it was broken forth if those vigorous courses had been pursued which the KING proposed first to the Scots then to the English Parlament doubtlesse that Rebellion had been soon suppressed But what He proposed took so little effect that in many months after there was nothing sent into Ireland but what the KING Himselfe sent assisted by the Duke of Richmond before He came from Scotland unto Sir Rob Steward which though it were little will be found to have done much service as may be seen by the said Sir Roberts voluntary Testimony given in writing to the Parlament Commissioners then attending the KING at Stoak And certainly a greater Evidence for Constancy in Religion there cannot be then the KING shewed in His Irish Treaty for in the time that He most needed Assistance it was in His Power to have made that Kingdome Declare unanimously for Him and have had the whole Forces thereof employed in His Service if He would have granted their Demand in Points of Religion they not insisting in any thing of Civill Government which His Majesty might not have granted without prejudice to Regal Authority and this can be clearly proved by the Marques of Ormonds Treaties with the Irish not without very good Evidence by some of the KING's Letters to the QUEENE which were taken at Naseby that are purposely concealed lest they should too plainly discover the KING'S detestation of that Rebellion and His rigid firmnesse to the Protestant Profession Nor can I end this Point without remarking with Wonder that Men should have so ill Memories as again to renew that old Slander of the King's giving Passes to divers Papists and Persons of Quality who headed the Rebels of which He so cleared Himselfe that He demanded Reparation for it but could not have it albeit no shew of Proof could be produced for that Allegation as is most plainly to be seen in the first book of the Collection of all Remonstrances Declarations c. fol. 69. 70. Thus having given a particular Answer to the most materiall Points in this Declaration the rest are such frivolous malicious and many of them groundlesse Calumnies that Contempt is the Best Answer for them Yet one thing more I must observe that they not onely endeavour to make Fables passe for currant Coyne but likewise seek to blind Mens Judgements with false Inferences upon some Truths for Example It is true that the KING hath said in some of His Speeches or Declarations That He oweth an Accompt of His Actions to none but God alone and That the Houses of Parlament joynt or seperate have no Power either to make or Declare any Law But that this is a fit foundation for all Tyrannie I must utterly Deny indeed if it had been said that the King without the Two Houses of Parlament could make or Declare Lawes then there might be some strength in the Argument but before this Parlament it was never so much as Pretended that either or both Houses without the KING could make or Declare any Law and certainly HIS MAJESTY is not the first and I hope will not be the last King of England that hath not held Himself Accomptable to any Earthly Power besides it will be found that this HIS MAJESTY'S Position is most agreeable to all Divine and Humane Lawes so far it is from being Destructive to a Kingdome or a Foundation for Tyrannie To conclude I appeale to GOD and the World whether it can be parallel'd by example or warranted by Justice that any Man should be Slander'd yet denyed the sight thereof and so far from being permitted to Answer that if He have erred there is no way left Him to acknowledge or mend it and yet this is the KING' 's present Condition who is at this time laid aside Because He will not consent that the old Fundamentall Lawes of this Land be changed Regall Power destroyed nor His People submitted to a new Arbitrary Tyrannicall Government In page 4. line 4. for to be qualified read so qualified FINIS * 5. 15. 26. 29. of Decemb. and 15. of Jan. 1645.