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A39358	The letter torn in pieces, or, A full confutation of Ludlow's suggestions, that King Charles I. was an enemy to the state by the author of two papers formerly published, viz. the Vindication of the honour of King Charles the First and the Earnest call to the people of England, &c. ; in which there is a clear vindication of His Majesties carriage towards the church.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing E679; ESTC R41119	5,615	8

the Fundamental Privileges of Parliament as to deny them the Liberty of Voting I and No freely Certainly the little Finger of a Jack Cade or a Watt Tyler is far heavier than the Loyns of any King P. 66. In the Third Year of KING CHARLES the Lords and Commons in their Petition of Right when not above 2000 or 3000 Souldiers were Thinly Quartered upon the People but for a Month or Two Complained thereof to His Majesty as a great Grievance contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Realm and humbly Prayed as their Right and Liberty according to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom that he would remove them and that his People might not be so burthened in times to come which His Majesty Graciously Granted Yet now we are Ten Thousand times more oppressed with them and if these Quarterers offer Violence or Villainous usage to any man in his House or Family or commit Murther or Fellony they are Protected against the Laws and Justice of the Land and Triable only by a Council of War at the Head-Quarters where a Man can neither obtain Justice nor seek it with safety Tho' the Kings Oversights must be Tragically publisht to the World yet the Hainous Crimes of the Godly must ly hid under the Mask of Religion P. 91. You now make all that is or can be near and dear to the People liable to the Passions of Three Committee Men to Judge and Execute according to their Discretion without Law or so much as a formality thereof The Second Part of the History of Independency P. 23. It is not all the 〈…〉 the Thousandth Part of them but a few Covetous Ambitious Men that desire to bring the King to Capital Punishment and Subvert our Fundamen al Government P. 34. One day an Officer of the Army having taken some Members going to the House and secured them in the Tobacco Room under Guard the Speaker not being able to muster enough to make a House was fain to send to the said Officer to lend him his said Prisoners to make up a free Parliament P. 35. They Garrison'd Black Friers and St. Pauls Reforming it from the Church of God to a Den of Thieves Stable of Horses and Brothel of Whores P. 56 The Commons Resolved to rid their Hands of a KING and LORDS together And now Reader I shall most earnestly entreat thee to Consider whether LUDLOW and His Complices or KING CHARLES the First offer'd greater Violence to the LAWS of this Kingdom yea whether the Distemper which the Body Politick Labour'd under by reason of the Miscarriages of the King in His Government were not as Inconsiderable in Comparison of what it suffer'd by the Outrages of the Prevailing Rebels as a very Tolerable Ague of short continuance would be in a Mans Body in Comparison of the PLAGUE I think it necessary I should take particular Notice of LUDLOW's Attempt to expose the Memory of this Blessed Prince to the Odium of the Populace by telling them that he did lend Eight Ships to the French King to Fight against the Miserable Protestants of Rochel Letter P. 10. I shall not undertake to Explain the Intrigues of that Affair the Lending of those Ships but this I shall Affirm that most certainly it was not done out of any Ill Will to the French Protestants and that the King was so far from being an Enemy to those Protestants that he was their Great Friend and most Charitable Assistant Which I shall here prove by the Testimony of those Protestants themselves in a Letter to His Majesty in the Suppliment to the CABALA P. 204. The Protestants of France to CHARLES King of Great Britain SIR THe Knowledge and Resentment which it hath pleased your Majesty to take of the Misery of the afflicted Churches of France hath given us the boldness to awaken Your Compassion in such measure as our Calamities are Aggravated by the unmerciful Rigour of our Persecutors and as the present Storm doth Threaten near at hand the Total Ruine and Lamentable Destruction of that which the Mercy of God had yet kept intire unto us since the Desolation of Rochel And as we have adored with Humility the Judgment in this bad Success which we impute only to his Wrath justly kindled against us for our Sins so our silence could be thought no less than Ingratitude if we had not at the beginning of our Assembly resolved the most Humble and Affectionate acknowledgment which we now render to your Majesty for the Great Succor which you have sent us Interesting your self so far in the grief of our Oppression and in the means of our Deliverance P. 208. The Duke of Rohan to His Majesty of Great Britain 12 of March 1628. THe greatest Support which God hath raised unto them is the Succour our Churches have and do look to receive from Your Majesty In the same Book P. 232 I find a Council Table Order against hearing Mass at Embassadours Houses March 10. 1629. At this Sitting the Lord Viscount Dorchester Declared That His Majesty being inform'd of bold and open repair made to several places and especially to the Houses of Foraign Ambassadours for the hearing of Mass which the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom do expresly forbid his Subjects to frequent And considering in His Princely Wisdom both the Publick Scandals and dangerous Consequence thereof is resolv'd to take present Order for the stopping of this evil before it spread it self any farther And for this purpose has Commanded me to acquaint the Board with his Pleasure in that behalf c. By this and a multitude of other Passages in the Reign of this Blessed Prince it is manifest how far He was from being a Papist tho' to Persons of that Perswasion He often shew'd his Christian Lenity and Royal Compassion His own words are most Efficacious to convince the most stubborn of his Enemies of the sincerity of His RELIGION which was always accompanied with Joy unspeakable and full of Glory so that in all his Conflicts He was more than Conquerour His Expressions are so Genuine and Unaffected so Lively and Vigorous that any man who understands them must needs be sensible that they are the True and Lively POURTRAITURE of his Conceptions I shall therefore recite some more of them upon the many Jealousies raised and Scandals cast upon the King to stir up the People against Him I will not justifie beyond humane errours and frailties my Self or my Counsellours they might be subject to some miscarriages yet such as were far more repairable than those Enormous extravagancies wherewith some men have now even wildred and almost quite lost both Church and State No men were more willing to complain than I was to redress what I saw in reason was either done or advised amiss and this I thought I had done even beyond the expectation of moderate Men who were sorry to see Me prone even to injure Myself out of a Zeal to relieve My Subjects Time will best inform My Subjects that those are the best preservers of their true Liberty who allow themselves the least Licentiousness against or beyond the Laws They will feel it at last to their cost that it is impossible those men should be really tender of their Fellow-Subjects Liberties who have the hardiness to use their King with so severe restraints against all Laws both Divine and Humane For Mine Honour I am well assured that as Mine Innocency is clear before God in point of any Calamities they object so My Reputation shall like the Sun after Owles and Bats have had their freedom in the Night and darker times rise and recover it self to such a degree of Splendour as those feral Birds shall be grieved to behold and unable to bear For never were any Princes more glorious than those whom God hath suffer'd to be tried in the Furnace of Afflictions by their Injurious Subjects Nor shall their black vails be able to hide the shineing of My Face while God gives Me a heart frequently and humbly to converse with him from whom alone are all the Traditions of true Glory and Majesty Thou O Lord knowest My Reproach and my Dishonour My Adversaries are all before thee My Soul is among Lyons even them that are set on fire even the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows their tongue a sharp sword Mine Enemies Reproach Me all the day long and those that are mad against Me are sworn together O my God how long shall the sons of men turn my glory into shame how long shall they love vanity and seek after lies Teach me Dauids patience and Hezekiak's devotion that I may look to thy mercy through man's malice and see thy justice in their sin Though they curse do thou bless and I shall be blessed and made a blessing to my People To them He shall be a Blessing indeed in this and in all future Ages who shall have the Grace to Imitate the Example of His Virtues by a sincere and constant dependance upon the Divine Wisdom Power and Goodness Loving in Sincerity the worst of their Enemies and rejoycing in the greatest of their Sufferings FINIS

The LETTER Torn in Pieces OR A Full Confutation OF Ludlow's Suggestions THAT King Charles I. WAS An Enemy to the STATE By the Author of Two Papers formerly Published Viz. The Vindication of the Honour of King Charles the First And the Earnest Call to the People of England c. In which There is a Clear Vindication of His MAJESTIES Carriage towards the CHURCH 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prov. 10. 7. Licensed Sept. 29. 1692. Edmund Bohun LONDON Printed by T. J. and are to be Sold by Nich. Hooper in Amen Corner near Stationer's-Hall 1692. 1. NO doubt but HELL is more Enrag'd 'Gainst Saints in HEAVEN then when they 're here Hence 't is that LVDLOW's Pen's Ingag'd To Blot Great CHARLES's His Character 2. Such Painted Crimes on Him to Place Doth to His Lasting Glory Add True Goodness Shines with greater Grace By the Enmity of All that 's Bad. 3. A REGICIDE must needs Hate KINGS But all his Fury's Spent in Vain His Conscience has a Thousand Stings His Soul 's still full of Rage and Pain 4. Go Fiend Incarnate do thy worst Fill all the Earth with thy Dire Name Let All Men see that thou art Curst Thy HELLISH MALICE to Proclaim Anno DOM. 1691. THE LETTER Torn in PIECES c. WHatsoever Errors or Miscarriages in Government Our Gracious Soveraign K C. the First had been Guilty of either through ill Advice or the Common Frailty of all Mankind most evident it is that he made full satisfaction for them in Granting the Petition of Right And as to those Fears and Jealousies which were rais'd against Him after the Granting of that Petition as if he Design'd to Act Contrary to the Laws of the Land so that he could not undertake to justifie His Actions to His own Parliament and to all the World as agreeable to His Just and Honourable Professions to prevent all Appearance of Reason for such Fears and Jealousies he bound himself by a Law not to Dissolve the then Present Parliament as long as they desir'd to Continue upon which Act His Majesty Reflects thus in His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By this Act of highest Confidence I hoped for ever to shut out and lock the Door upon all present Jealousies and Future Mistakes I confess I did not thereby intend to shut my self our of Doors as some Men have now requited me True It was an Act unparallel'd by any of my Predecessors yet cannot in Reason admit any worse Interpretation than this of an Extream Confidence I had that my Subjects would not make ill use of an Act by which I declar'd so much to trust them as to deny My self in so high a point of My Prerogative Sure it had argued a very short sight of things and Extream Fatuiry of Mind in Me so far to bind My own Hands at their Request if I had shortly meant to have used a Sword against them To thee O my God do I still Appeal whose All-Discerning Justice sees through all the Disguises of Mens Pretensions and Deceitful Darknesses of their Hearts Let thy Grace Teach me wisely to enjoy as well the frustratings as the fulfillings of my best hopes and most 〈◊〉 desires Thus have they Requited me Evil for Good and Hatred for my Good-Will towards them O Lord be thou my Pilot in this dark and dangerous Storm c. All Men but such as are Blinded by the Darkness of HELLISH Malice may clearly Perceive that this Most Christian Prince by the Excess of His Desires to satisfie the utmost Doubts and suppress the Fears of any of His Subjects did so Strengthen the Hands of the Traiterous and Sediticus that they Acted so Subtilly and Vigorously upon a Pretence of the Authority of Parliament that within a few Years they got their KING into their Power and Murther'd Him to the Regret even of divers both of the Lords and Commons who continued Sitting till they were Excluded by the ARMY And so in the sight of all the World they Subverted the whole Government both of Church and State I shall here Recite the Relation of some of their Unparallel'd Enormities and most Prodigious Outrage which was Publisht by a Person that had a full View of them In the Mystery of the Two Juntoes Presbyterians and Independents P. 3. We find these words There hath been given away to Members openly besides innumerable private cheats mutually conniv'd at at least 300000 l. in Money besides Rich Offices Imployments in Money Committees Sequestrations and other Advantages Such as have gone beyond the Authority given by Parliament and Sequestred Men unjustly and so withheld their goods under pretence thereof and such as have Levied Taxes Three or Four Times over are quit from private Actions and the Benefit of Law and Justice taken from the Oppressed to secure Country Committees and Sequestrators and others not Prerogative but Legislative Thieves contrary to Magna Charta which says Nulli negabimus nulli differemus justitiam aut rectum We will deny nor defer Justice and Right to no Man Oh Prodigeous Acts and of greater Tyranny than any King ever durst Adventure upon P. 6. How frequently the Country Committees Act contrary to the Laws of the Land How they ordinarily turn well-affected Men out of their Freeholds and Goods Imprison and beat their Persons without any known Charge Accuser or Witness against them nay Murther them as in the Case of Dr. Rawleigh Killed in Prison at Wells by the Committees Marshal and the poor Men Murthered at Bridge-Water whose Bloods were shed like the Blood of a Dog and no real Prosecution thereof How they Excluded all other Magistracy Ingrossing to themselves the Power of Sheriffs Justices of Peace Church-Wardens c. in an Arbitrary way keeping Troops of Horse upon Pay and Free Quarters for their Guard like the Thirty Tyrants of Athens and if any but speak of calling them to give an Account they presently Vote him a Delinquent and Sequester him The History of Independency P. 46. Anthony Nichols was Arrested upon the way into Cornwal by the Army and dispightfully used and when the General was inclined to free him Cromwell told him he was a Traytor to the Army You see now upon whom they meant to fix the Peoples Allegiance for where no Allegiance is Due there can be no Treason P. 47. The Speaker pulled a Letter out of his Pocket from the General and General Council of the Army it was accompanied with a Remonstrance of Villainous Language and Threats against those Members that Sate while the Two Speakers were with the Army calling them Pretended Members charging them in General with Treason Treachery a Breach of Trust and protested if they shall presume to stir before they have cleared themselves that they did not give their Assent to such and such Votes they should sit at their peril and he would take them as Prisoners of War and try them at a Council of War What King of England ever offer'd so great a Violence to