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Englands concern in the case of His R.H.
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total destruction depriv'd our late Sovereign of his Life and Crown which I am confident was not by the major part first intended in 1640 and had like to have kept his present Majesty in perpetual Exile had not Providence wrought Miracles in his favour and in spite of all the Artifices of his Rebellious Subjects restored him to his Throne without Blood or Violence among which I cannot but remember that devilish Pamphler intituled A Letter from Bruxelles c. mention'd in Baker's Chronicle publish'd after his Majesties Declaration from Breda insinuating That notwithstanding his Promises if they suffer'd his Return he would with all imaginable Cruelty revenge the Death of his Father and not forget it to the third Generation of those concerned in that horrid Murder This put the People into a great Consternation yet his unparallell'd Clemency and his so often pressing his Parliament to pass the Act of Oblivion sufficiently prov'd the Malice of that Invention But I hope this Cheat is now so well known that it will gain no Credit with considering Persons I onely wish some care were taken to undeceive the weak and unthinking that Peace and Unity which seem to have parted from you with his R. H. might with him be once more restor'd and the happy Vnion of both Kingdoms be made perpetual by suffering no rent or gap in the Royal Line which all of our Nation and we hear those of Ireland will not be less forward are not onely oblig'd but have vow'd to maintain with the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes a Necessity we hope you will never put upon us as well for your own sakes as for the Peace and Quiet of this Kingdom wherein he has not the least Concern who is and always will be Your most humble and most obedient Servant c. POST SCRIPT JUst now I hear of a new Project set on foot to give the King 600000 l. of which he may dispose one at pleasure on condition he will consent to the Bill of Exclusion and that in return he shall have Power by Act of Parliament in case he have no Issue by his Queen to settle by Will the Crown upon any of his Natural Children To manage this Design a new Set of Ministers is contriv'd A great Lord whose Son most if not wholly influences the House of Commons is to be made a Duke another Earl to be Treasurer Sir W. J. is to be L. C. J. Col. T. to be a Secretary of State c. I am very sorry to perceive the Differences between the King and his Subjects are fomented by Persons of the same Humour with those in 1640. who meeting at Sir Robert Long 's undertook if his then Majesty would do so and so he should govern the Parliament to all Intents and Purposes The King consenting to every excepting one their desir'd Preferments was refus'd crying out One and all having before bound themselves accordingly One of the then leading Men has in this Parliament a Son whose Power and Ambition falls very little short if at all of his Fathers and if you have a mind to discover Hercules his Proportion by that of his Foot compare the Remonstrance and the late Address and without naming you will find the near Relation of the Authors For shame let not such Proceedings be nick-nam'd doing your Country Service I remember to have heard that in the short Parliament before that of 40. when some more zealous than wise Members spake too extravagantly a sober Gentleman and no Courtier stood up and said he was for more moderate Counsels lest their present heat and exorbitance should put that King and his Successors for ever out of conceit with Parliaments who depended upon his Pleasure I wish the whole Kingdom as well as their Prince may have no reason to grow weary of and dislike the setled Constitution of Commons in Parliament chusing rather to have as formerly the whole Power in the King and his Great Council of Lords and Barons Extremes are near one another and many by grasping at too much have lost the little they enjoy'd This is as foolish as with the Dog in the Apologue to lose the Substance for the Shadow And since Prudence tells us A long provok'd and incens'd Clemency turns into the greatest Cruelty you ought to bridle your Passions and Ambition lest you too late repent your Madness and your Folly This Consideration has carried me beyond the usual length of a Post script wherein I design'd to have said little more than that I understand the D. writes this night to the King his Brother That if he can be secure his Parliament will agree with him upon quitting his Interest that he should not longer struggle for him who would not onely hazard his uncertain hopes of a Crown but would with joy expose his Life to do his Majesty service whose long Reign and Happiness notwithstanding all the Forgeries of his Enemies he as heartily wishes as any other the most Loyal Subject in his Dominions Consider the Greatness of this Generosity and let not Malice for ever prevail to the defamation of Innocence and the disturbance if not the ruine of these Nations FINIS
be a greater Evil than that from which we intended to be freed The two first parts of this Assertion are very plain because Religion or Christianity alters not the Political Constitutions of any Society and because Popery in England hinders no man from being Heir to Real or Personal Estates the third therefore is to be made evident to wit That Prudence and Reason tell us the D. ought not to be barr'd of Succession I say then This Act is not onely unjustifiabie at present but in future and consequence as what will bring upon the whole Nation irreparable Mischiefs Where there are more hazards of an ill than a good Event the Action is in prudence to be avoided In great and momentous Instances new Experiments are not to be tryed nor indeed in any Case or Distemper where the Remedy is like to prove more fatal than the Disease Now to give or allow so boundless arbitrary and despotick a Power as that of putting by the next Heir or punishing ex post facto either in the King alone who is obliged under the Obligations of Oaths and Interest to govern by the stated Measures of Law or in him when advising with both Houses whose Power is so far from being co-ordinate or independent that it is onely communicated or derivative from the Prince as Streams from the Fountain and therefore can add or give him nothing new is to subject and enslave our selves and our Posterities For if every one be a Papist whom Faction or Malice Presumption or slight Circumstances and no positive Proofs have made so and if the right Heir on this account or for being really a Papist may be despoiled of his Right by Parliament since there can be greater Crimes or Evils than Popery which we all acknowledge consistent with Salvation what can secure all future Princes even the King at any time in being from being laid aside and dethron'd To endeavour so absolute a Subversion of our Government if it be not Treason is to design if it be pursued that which cannot but happen Anarchy and Confusion and all the Calamities of an unnatural Civil War Against this there is but one Objection That in the notion of a Parliament a King is implied and nothing can be supposed to consent to his own Ruine This I confess is true in nature in Thest but not in the fact in Hypothesi for what has been once done may be again Tumults and Factions Cunning and Address may make a Prince quit his Crown to save his Life and yet none ever lost the first but soon after did the second nay every Flower or Jewel he parts with is a step or advance to his Grave And the Considerer of the Weighty Considerations leaves in this Objection no Force by mentioning the Seconds of the Edwards and Richards deposed by Parliamentary Authority he might have added to his Catalogue the late Royal martyr'd CHARLES While this Book in many Passages treasonable is publickly sold before the Doors of Parliament who can lay aside fatal Apprehensions especially when Two Houses of Commons have successively prepared a Bill disposing of the Crown contrary to the King 's express Commands and former Presidents And because I will not run to far back and that Queen Elizabeth is renown'd for one of the best of our Princes I will instance what in some great Points hapned in her Reign concerning the Commons intermedling in the Ecclesiastical and the Crown Affairs their Right and her Prerogative In the Twenty third year of her Reign when the House of Commons first ordered to have a Time of Prayer and Humiliation appointed in the Temple on Sunday-fort'night after the Queen hindred it and sent a Message to the House by Mr. Vice-Chamberlain declaring That her Highness had great admiration of the rashness of this House in committing such an apparent Contempt of her express Command as to put in execution such an Innovation without her privity and pleasure first known And thereupon Mr. Vice-Chamberlain moved the House to make humble Submission to her Majesty acknowledging the said Offence and Contempt craving a Remission of the same with a full purpose to forbear the committing of the like hereafter And by the consent of the whole House Mr. Vice-Chamberlain carried their Submission to her Majesty Likewise in the Twenty eighth year of her Reign the Queen said She was sorry the Commons medled with Chusing and Returning Knights of the Shire for Norfolk a thing impertinent for the House to deal withal and onely belonging to the Office and Charge of the Lord Chancellor from whom the Writs issue and are returned In the Thirty ninth year of her Reign the Commons by their Speaker complaining of Monopolies the Queen made answer by the the Lord Keeper That she hoped her dutiful and loving Subjects would not take away her Prerogative which is the chiefest Flower in her Garland and the principal and head Pearl in her Crown and Diadem but that they will rather leave that to her disposition In the Thirty fifth year of her Reign Mr. Peter Wentworth and Sir Henry Bromley delivered a Petition to the Lord Keeper desiring the Lords of the Upper House to be Suppliants with them of the Lower House unto her Majesty for Entailing the Succession of the Crown whereof they had a Bill ready drawn Her Majesty was highly displeas'd herewith as contrary to her former strait Command and charged the Council to draw the Parties before them Sir Thomas Henage sent for them and commanded them to forbear the Parliament and not to go out of their several Lodgings After they were called before the Lord Treasurer the Lord Buckhurst and Sir Thomas Henage Mr. Wentworth was committed by them to the Tower Sir Henry Bromley and other Members of the House of Commons to whom he imparted the Matter were sent to the Fleet. And in the same Parliament when Mr. Morriee Attorney of the Court of Wards moved against the hard Courses of the Bishops Ordinarles and other Ecclesiastical Judges in their Courts and spake against Subscriptions and Oaths offering a Bill to be read against Imprisonment for refusal of Oaths the same afternoon Sir Edward Coke then Speaker was sent for to Court where the Queen her self gave him a Message to the House declaring It being wholly in her power to call to determine to assent or dissent to any thing done in Parliament That the calling of this was onely that the Majesty of God might be more Religiously observed by compelling by some sharp Laws such as neglect that Service and that the Safety of her Majesties Person and the Realm might be provided for It was not meant they should meddle with Matters of State or Causes Ecclesiastical and she wondred that any could be of so high commandment to attempt a thing so expresly contrary to that which she had commanded wherefore with this she was highly offended And because the Words spoken by my Lord Keeper are not now perhaps well remembred or