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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55774	The mystery and method of His Majesty's happy restauration laid open to publick view by John Price.	Price, John, 1625?-1691.	1680 (1680)	Wing P3335; ESTC R30537	81,380	190

even above the Temptation of Sovereignty it self as did after wards fully appear Nay and so glorious was the atchievment also that there was more in it then the single Restauration of Charles the Second even the recovery of lost Monarchy to the Royal Family it self to whom the Diadem of Right belonged though at that time it was left a prey to Usurpers as they could play their Game He Lov'd his Prince and he lov'd his Country and as a True English-man judged them to have one and the same Interest And thus his Actions justified his Declarations which were to reduce the Military Power in obedience to the Civil The Soldiers of England having then Erected a distinct Interest from the People of it Nor was it an easy matter to have reduced them had not the Army by His most Excellent conduct I will rather say by a Divine been divided and set at odds It now only remains my Lord t●…at I deliver this Memorial to Posterity under your Patronage In which I purpose not to touch upon things known and allow'd any otherwise then barely for Method sake the stress of the Controversy not depending upon Them but upon General Monks designed Loyalty to restore our Sovereign and our Laws to us Now because he was short sighted and could not discern at a Distance it has been suggested to me more sarcastically then wittily as if that Imperfection had reached his understanding also and that he could not see so far as to the Restoring of the King Let others who are as tender of the honor of the late Duke of Albemarle as I am and ought to be contribute to the vindicating of his Memory from this Calumny in what proportion and with what solemnity of attestation they please to gain Credit As for my self being of an Inferior rank I do foresee that what I shall deliver will not by a great many easily be believed yea I am before hand threatned that it shall not whether it be upon the Score of my fidelity and secresie in that great affair or of the prosperous close and Issue of it in my deceased Lord I shall not trouble my self to determine against spite and Prejudice But contenting my self with the answer of a good Conscience that I have not forged things either to greaten his Honor and Loyalty or to lessen it by relating some few passages to which I was privy or in which I acted Envy having pursu'd even a Fly upon this fortunate Wheel of Revolution though not making the noise of a Qualem or Quantem pulverem I shall presume to pray your Lordships protection of the ensuing Narrative and of the unworthy Author of it who is My Lord Your Lordships Obliged and Devoted Servant John Price THE MYSTERY AND METHOD Of His MAJESTIE' 's Happy Restauration c. AUGUST 1. 1659. Sir George Booth now Lord De la Mere by compact at his day appeared in Arms be it Recorded to his Eternal Honour and ●…ent forth a brisk Declaration manifesting the justice and necessity of them For at that time the whole Nation groaned under the insupportable Servitude of the Tyrannical Oligarchy sitting at Westminster under the notion of a Parliament against whom a very powerful Combination was then made Many of those who had sormerly fought under them complained that they w●…e deceived nay and diverse even then actually in their service were so ingenuous as to confess that That could not be their Countries Freedom where the worst of Tyrannies under the 〈◊〉 of a Commonwealth a●…d the good old ●…use were like to be perpetuated And however the great Officers might thrive whilst they were in powe●… yet they saw full well that their Posterity would be forced to pay back to t●…ose li●…entious Usurpers whatever their 〈◊〉 had got should the Government still rest●… an Oligarchy which is the corruption of the worst of Governments a Democrasie and consequently the worst of Tyrannies Thus we ●…ee tha●… the State o●… Three Kingdoms was then most deplorable The King compassionated their condition for him●…elf had the greatest share in the calamity and though his Royal Person was safe from the fury of his Enemies yet was he so nea●… that by his authority he was still ready to contribute to the vindicating the just rights of his Subjects and his own To this end there were constantly residing at London some Noble Persons of great Honour and 〈◊〉 Loyal●…y in spight of Axes an Gibbets a●…ter they had lost the Field who were commissioned by his Majesty both to hold correspondence with him and to issue forth such commands from time to time as occasion should offer for his Majesties Service And the occasion was eminent now upon the return of that Thing called a Parliament who had been respited from their Power by the Monarc●…ical Interposition of their General Oliver Cromwel and his Son and that too by the space of about five years This Restitution was mostly procured by the Army who feared that a National Interest like a Deluge would have broken in upon them had they suffered Cromwel's Son and his MockParlia●…ent to sit longer in Authority And the Armie's pretences being for Commonwealth they had no nearer a Sanctuary to flye unto then this Long Parlia●…ent as they called it whose guilt they knew to be at least equal with Theirs and distasted and abhorred by all tha●… were not their own and even by ●…ome of Them too wherefore the Presbyterian Party began now at last to awaken into Loyalty and chose ●…ather to joyn with the Cavaliers as they pretended then to see their Country ●…o enslaved and indeed the Cavaliers 〈◊〉 quieted their Jelousies for his Majesties Commissioners consented that the Presbyterians should have the chief command in all places and that their Declaration should only be for a Free Parliament and against publick grievances And now Sir George Booth Lord De la mere undertook ●…or Cheshire and the Counties adjacent Sir Thomas Middleton for North Wales Major General Massy for Glocester and South Wales The Lord Fairfax for the North The Lord Roberts now Earl of Radnor and President of the Council for the West Colonel Alexander Popham and Col. Robert Rolles for Wiltshire Somersetshire and Devonshire Col. Norton for Portsmouth and Hantshire and Sir Horatio now Lord Townsend for the associated Counties and in like manner diverse others in all places through out England solemn Protestations and Assurances being given that they would not fail each other Not long before this Sir John Greenvile the now Earl o●… Bath who was one of those Honourable Commi●…sioners residing at London for his Majesties Service had received a particular Commission to treat secretly and privately with General Monk in Scotland The King it seems having these thoughts about him that if a dexterous Application could be made to him he might be gained to his Service as having been in his Fathers in which he was taken Prisoner and his Releasement neglected But the Parliament having experienced