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A53069	An answer of the Right Honourable Earle of Newcastle, his excellency &c. to the six groundless aspersions cast upon him by the Lord Fairefax in his late warrant (here inserted) bearing date Feb. 2, 1642 by the Earl himselfe.	Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.; Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, Baron, 1584-1648.	1642 (1642)	Wing N875A; ESTC R29559	8,212	16

them by their Fathers upon Arbitrary Votes So a Theefe may terme a True-man a Malignant because he doth refuse to deliver his Purse upon demand So the Wolves in their Treaty of Accommodation with the Sheep desired the Dogs to be delivered up to them as Malignants Those have hitherto been esteemed Malignant humours in the Body Naturall which being stubborn Rebellious Venemous are with difficulty reduced to their right temper either by strength of Nature or skill in Physick not those which are not easily infected or distempered This is new Learning and requires a new Dictionary to warrant it Before they conclude them Malignant they should doe well to prove them to be Peccant against any authentick rule The Apostle saith Where there is no Law there is no transgression To accuse boldly is not sufficient to convince If a common Adversary did not keep them in a kind of Herodian Vnity for a time your Brownists would soon condemn your ordinary disciplinarians for Malignants and your Anabaptists againe your Brownists c. Thirdly you charge me to have Invaded this County of York An insolent and presumptuous Challenge Can the Kings Forces be said to make an Invasion in His own Dominions The second blow may be said to make the fray but it is the first that makes the Invasion Say in good earnest did not your Forces first make Inrodes into the Bishoprick of Durham under my charge where they had no pretence of imployment Did they not Rob and Plunder sundry of His Majesties Liege People at Dornton in such cruell manner that the prime Officer of the Town died of griefe within three or foure Dayes Did they not give an assault upon Piers-bridge to their losse And when I come to chastise these Intruders can it be called an Invasion Neither did I then set foot into this County but upon the earnest Sollicitation and Intreaty of the Prime Nobility and Gentry of Yorkeshire to secure them from your violence and oppression If Protection be Invasion then this is Invasion I could nourish little hopes that these restlesse Spirits who could not be bounded within their own calling would be contained within the limits of a County Or that they would spare me any longer then untill they had fully subdued their Neighbours and fellow-Subjects at home Neither could I have been ever able to have given an Accompt to His sacred Majestie for such an unpardonable omission if being armed by His Goodnesse with sufficient power to represse such tumultuous disorders I should see before mine eyes His Loving and Loyall Subjects trampled upon by His and their Enemies in His Cause and for His sake and whilest they seek to me for succour I should be wanting in my Duty to my dread Soveraign and my necessary assistance to them All this while the Lincolnshire Forces are quite forgotten they were Brethren no Invaders The fourth charge ariseth yet higher For killing and destroying some numbers of the Religious Protestant Subjects Where did ever my Forces kill one man who did not take up Arms against us or was not ready to have killed us first if he could The weight of guiltlesse blood is more heavy then a Mountain The staine thereof not to be washed out with all the water in the Ocean but onely by the tears of Repentance and the blood of Christ This weight and guilt of blood shall lye heavy upon the heads of those men and of their seed after them who have been the authors and fomentors of these horrid distractions when Peace shall be upon the head of our Soveraign and his seed and his throne for ever They that take the Sword without a lawfull calling shall perish by the Sword And He that sheddeth Mans blood without a Commission from the King of Heaven who onely hath originall Power over the lives of his creatures and no multitude of men in the world collective or representative whatsoever by Man shall his blood be shed The supreme Magistrate is Gods Vicegerent And Beareth not the Sword in vaine but those who presume to use the Sword and can derive no Power from him it were meet for them to make their Accounts betimes with God lest they dye in the state of Murtherers both of themselves and others both of soule and body It is an easie thing for an Orator to cast a mist before the eyes of Vulgar People and make them a plausible Discourse of the Cause of God the true Religion of suppressing Superstition and Idolatry and setting up the Right Worship of the Lord They had hard hearts if they could not afford themselves a good word But admitting not granting all this to be true which is most false will this plea yet serve before the Judge of Heaven and Earth Nothing lesse These very Men and their Predecessors have taught the contrary have protested the contrary have printed the contrary Ante mota certamina before these unhappy differences began whilest mens eyes were not fascinated with faction and prejudice Then themselves condemned this very Doctrine which now they practice as Antichristian and Anabaptisticall and their present practice which they now defend as seditious and sinfull this would be truly laid to heart And withall that if the Lord Fairefax and his friends had been men of their words or performed that agreement to which Honour and Justice did oblige them all the blood which hath been spilled or shall be shed hereafter in this Cause had been saved And upon their score it will be cast in the end both by God and Man It would be known who they are whom emphatically if not exclusively he calls Protestants Are they the Successors in Doctrine of those first Reformers in Germany whom from a Protestation made they named Protestants No what these old Protestants allowed and practised as lawfull and necessary these new Protestants condemn as superstitious and Antichristian This is beyond the power of Omnipotency to make both parts of a contradiction to be true Protestants whilest they continue the same to be no Protestants and no Protestants to be Protestants If they do cordially love the thing as they do hugge the name why do we not all shake hands and become Friends And so from murthering their bodies he proceeds to sterving their soules that is by Banishing and imprisoning the Zealous Ministers This is my fifth charge I envy no mans zeale but wish them Discretion proportionable to their Devotion To satisfie their charge home first de jure what may be done It hath ever been accounted lawfull to binde a phrenetick mans hands Shall it be lawfull for these seditious Orators to bring railing accusations into the Pulpits daily against the Lords annointed such as Michaell the Archangell durst not bring against the Devill and yet be free from question May they prostitute the Ordinance of God to the rebellious designes of ambitious men yet be free from question Could these Embassadours of Peace keep themselves to that Theame which was bequeathed to them by the

AN ANSWER Of the Right Honourable the EARLE OF NEW-CASTLE His Excellency c. To the six groundlesse aspersions cast upon him by the Lord Fairefax in his late Warrant here inserted bearing Date Feb. 2. 1642. By the EARLE Himselfe The Protestation of the afflicted Ministers Printed 1605. Pag. 4. Though the King command any thing contrary to the Word yet we ought not to resist but peaceably to forbeare obedience and sue for grace and when that cannot be obtained meekly submit our selves to punishment And Pag. 18. It is utterly unlawfull for any Christian Churches by Armed Power against the will of the Civill Magistrate to set up in Publique the true Worship of God or suppresse any Superstition or Idolatry Printed at Oxford and reprinted at Shrewsbury 1642. IT is my Will and Pleasure That this Answer together with the Lord Fairefax his Warrant be published in all Churches and Chappels within this City and County of Yorke W. NEW-CASTLE AN ANSVVER OF THE RIGHT Honourable the Earle of New-castle his Excellency c. IT is no new thing though it was never so frequent as now for Incendiaries to accuse Innocents as disturbers of the Publike tranquillity of the Countrey So ugly is the Face of Rebellion when it comes unmasked without some Cloake or Vizard over it that even seditious persons cannot fancy it in themselves The charge which the Lord Fairefax gives against me in this Declaration is like that of a Roman against his fellow Citizen That he did not receive his whole weapon into his body He was angry that his neighbour should defend himselfe and my Lord that I should protect His Majesties good Subjects from his violence And though a generall accusation might justly be sleighted as a slander to which by the Laws of this land no man is bound to answer to which it is impossible for any man to make a direct answer since it is not invested with the due circumstances of time and place and persons neither is the Lord Fairfax able to bring one particular instance to make good his generall calumniations yet since it proceeds from a person of his eminency I have thought fit as well for the vindication of mine own honour as for confirmation of the minds of His Majesties well affected Subjects in their layalty to repell his slanders in the Presse as I doubt not by Gods assistance to do his Forces in the field Yet give me leave to wonder who they are that have such an influence upon his Lordships understanding as to draw him in six lines to Publish to the world six groundlesse aspersions against a person that hath not deserved ill of him without the least provocation The first is That contrary to the Laws of the Land I have raised a great Army I might answer That the Laws are indeed an excellent standard and measure of Justice so long as they are common to all parties but when they become like spiders webs to intangle some and let thorow others when some men must observe Law others will be free from all Law it is the greatest partiality and the falsest measure in the world And as our Saviour said to the Pharisees If I by Beelzebub cast out Devils by whom do your Children cast them out They shall be your Judges So say I If I be a Delinquent against the Laws for raising defensive Arms by vertue of His Majesties Commission with whom alone the power of the Militia is intrusted both by God and Man what is the Lord Fairefax and his parteners for raising offensive rebellious Arms against their fellow Subjects without nay against His Majesties authority But he hath appealed to the Laws to the Laws let him go Let him shew but any one particle of known Law Statute or Common which I have violated and I shall lay down Arms as cheerefully as I tooke them up But if this be impossible as without doubt it is then cease at length to tell us of Laws in the clouds or of Laws written in the Sybills bookes which no men ever read or heard of but your selves All true English men will disdain to exchange their inheritance the ancient Laws of this Land under which they and their progenitors have already injoyed such happy and Halcionian dayes and hope still for better from His Majesties greater experience and late Acts of Grace either for a Company of far-fetcht dear-bought principles drawn without Art or Judgement by factious unskilfull persons out of the Law of Nature or of Nations as a Lesbian rule to serve their ambitious ends Or for Arbitrary Government which knows no bounds or limits but the will of head-strong discontented persons With what face can these men name the Laws of the Land when one of them hath lately told the world in print that they are but the inventions of men Yea morall precepts fitter for Heathens then Christians In a word I raise Arms by the Law and for the Law to protect the Laws and Religion established you to subvert them both I raise Arms under His Majestie for His Majestie you without him against him by vertue of your own warrants If it be not so shew us but one Text one Statute nay but one poore Case or President for your Justification And that you may see I am in earnest I desire God to vouchsafe his blessing and assistance to that party which stands truly and cordially for the defence of the known Laws of this Realm and to deny it to all others The second charge is That mine Army consists of Papists and other Malignants That I have in mine Army some of the Romish Communion I do not deny yet but an handfull in comparison of the whole Body of it I beleeve not above one of fifty and I wish their Consciences as well satisfied as mine own of the Truth of our Profession These I admitted for their Loyalty and Abilities not for their Religion as was most lawfull for me to do a course warranted by the examples both of God and Man and chalked out to me by themselves yea it was a note higher in them in a Warre pretended against Papists to make use of Papists in places of great trust and command nay do they not still admit all sorts of Sectaries Brownists Anabaptists Familists c. I have demonstrated the equity of this course to the World which they know not how to answer the fidelity of the one shall rise up in judgement against the Rebellion of the other and condemn it Certainly in this particular service they shew themselves better friends to the Protestant Religion then the others But they are not satisfied to robbe me of them unlesse they may sweep away all the rest under the stale and empty name of Malignants I doe not much blame them their intended worke would be more easily atchieved But let us inquire who in their Dialect are these Malignants Are they who do not willingly part with their Religion Laws Liberties Lively hoods left