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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

was to meet with my Wife telling him also that I feared she was not well in regard I did not hear of her according to the intent direction of my last letter sent unto her surely quoth he there i● some obstacle in the way that hinders much but if you please to be content Sir you shall soon know what the matter is for my Brother hath a good Horse and I will send him over to your house and he shall bring you notice how things are there at the present and what is the reason that Mrs. W●nlock doth not come as yet I was much glad of his kind offer so not long after the Messenger was sent accordingly returning the next day he did certifie me that my Wife and Children were in good health and that the Cause that she came not was for that she could not procure Horses as yet to bring her thither and alas she was not then so much as worth one her self being very loth also to trouble her Friends in Cambridgeshire so much as to send so far for Horses to convey her thither but she hoped that ere it were long she should find a means to come and see me and the residue of her good Friends there and accordingly within a week or two after she did come and there by the large and loving respect of that noble Gentlewoman her mother-in-law and another good Lady the relict of my wives brother before mentioned we did enjoy a free and cordial entertainment with much solace and com●ort but this our glimpse of happinesse if it please your Majesty did admit but of a very short continuance and must soon suffer an eclipse for we had not been thus together much above a week but some that I fear resolved to work us mischief were as evidently envious that any other should do us any good for there was a Letter conveyed unto me which came from my wives own Nephew her deceased elder brothers Son who was then a Deputy Lieutenant of the Shire a Justice of the Peace and one of the Grandees of the Committee or English Inquisition intimating unto me That he well understood in what place my abiding was at that time and also how violent my ordinary and constant discourse was against their proceedings and therefore I must not be suffered by any means to rest any longer in that Country But an Order should presently be taken to apprehend and secure me or to this effect with some other passages therein very abusive and scandal● us to my credit a notable Nephew and sincere Saint in the interim thus to offer me such a reforming curte●●e in this case of my calamity and so Iudas-like to go about to betray and aff●ight his loving harmlesse Aunt after so many bitter pills of affliction as she had formerly swallowed and only upon this occasion because she had a Husband that durst speak the truth a coarse complement from a true Christian or a generous Gentleman and yet we were in doubt that he might prove a man of his word and therefore to avoid our own danger and the detriment that might arise to the house thereby the next day with sorrowfull hearts we went away from thence to shift about as well as we could But so soon as I was gotten out of his purlieu I saluted his worship with a thundring Epistle enough to startl● and rowse his conscience if he had any and I do hope that my reproof and good Counsell did work something upon him for after this I ventured divers times to come into that Country again and yet I never heard of him any more in this kind And the truth is as I have been credibly informed that upon the most barbarous assassnation and more then hideous and horrible Murdering of his late Sacred Majestie this grosly seduced young Gentleman was strucken with such terrour and amazement in his soul that he presently deserted and gave over all his Offices and places of trust and command and was never after that any agent or instrument in that devillish Rebellion and hereupon within a while following he was in great danger himself and had surely been sequestred had it not pleased God in his mercy to take him away from his Wordly Estate here that was fair and great and to give him I hope upon his true Repentance a farr more Blessed and Glorious habitation i● the Heavens to all Eternity And so I trust that for our Eternal good the Lord was pleased to lay out for us the bitter portion to be such pitifull pilgrims but my Wifes condition could not long endure this manner of misery for she of necessity must go home again to her poor Children where alass there was little left but the bare walls and their own weak labours and endeavours to sustain themselves withall and I must still travell about I knew not well whither and my successe and fortune was very various sometimes fair and pleasant and soon again stormy and troublesome and yet I confesse and praise the goodnesse of God I did meet with many good Friends whose names and charitable deeds towards me and mine were too tedious here to be related but I hope they shall not be forgotten in Heave● and yet I should think my self guilty of ingratitude if I should not make mention of the many good respects and great kindnesse which I received at the hands of a Noble hearted Gentlewoman then dwelling at Hit●●am in Suffolk who was a deep sufferer her own self namely Mris. Bing the Wife of Henry Bing Esq then a Captain in his Majesties Armie and the Grandchild unto that honourable and famous Father of the Law Sir Edw. Coke Knight late Lord Chief Justice c. and also from the hands of another worthy Gentlewoman in the same parish who was likewise a great sufferer namely Mistris Breton the wife of Mr. Lawrence Breton Batchelour in Divinitie a learned orthodox and worshipfull Divine Neither must I omit the remembrance of the good love and favour of my noble and old acquaintance Sir William Denny of Norfolk Baronett nor the great kindnesse of Thomas Jermy of Me●●field in Sussex Esq Son and Heir of Sir Thomas Jermy Knight of the B●●h and of John Risby of Tho●p Esq Nor the kind love of my Reverend and worthy Friends Doctor Pierse of Wangford Mr. Thomas Greek Rector of Carl●on whose Grandfather I take it was one of the Barons of the Exchequer M● Sendall R●ctor of Brin●kley and Mr. Vnderwood Rector of Cheving●on and although they bee l●st here mentioned yet meriting of me as much respect as any two friends that I found in all my travels viz. my loving Kinsman Mr. James Floid then of Weston in Cambridgeshire and Mr. Tho. Ward of Abington Thus after a long and tedious perigrination I came at length by the mercie of God to the Mansion-house again of the two good Ladies before mentioned and having heard that his late Majestie had deserted Oxford and rendred

of that grosly ignorant dis-ingenuous and inconstant multitude and which unhappily made them to be so instrumental not only to themselves but also such real auxiliaries to the long continuate sad distractions and ever to be lamented miseries of these late so wilfully distressed Nations And in truth your Majesties Subject might have just cause to fear that some or other of his Neighbours so notoriously envious might be drawn by some Diabolical instigation to make an Oath against his Life as well as his Libertie for he had good reason to misdoubt the worse in regard he was so palpably guiltie of such high Crimes as true intelligent legal Loyaltie and just Integritie were then esteemed to be and also because his place and station was under a Climate where the farr major part of the people were so prodigi-Ously zealous and fanatical and where but very few of any note or qualitie thereabouts had the happinesse or honour of a just occasion to be put into the Catalogue of Sufferers with that eminently Loyal and ever to Honoured Knight of St. Johns in Colchester now the Right Honourable the Lord Lucas and that most Noble and Loyal Baronet Sir Benjamin Ayloffe and that worthy to be remembred and discreet Knight Sir Thomas Wiseman the Elder deceased and therefore your Majesties Subject well considering that his so constant opposition to the violent force and torrent of Rebellion would every day more and more stir up the stomachs and provoke and sharpen the edge of his pernitious and inveterate Enemies so cruelly bent against him and that such also of his Neighbours as he esteemed to be his Friends durst not make any manifestation or testimony thereof for fear of being marked with the brand of Malignancy and so in danger likewise to be exposed to the fury and madnesse of the multitude for his sake and knowing for certainty that his own Conscience in point of Religion and his knowledge and judgement in the municipall Laws of his Country would never permit him in the least tittle to alter his resolution in the progresse of truth and Loyalty did hereupon conceive and believe as aforesaid that a private departure from his house for a time would prove his best visible posture of defence And so towards the latter end of the year 1642. your Subject with some reluctancy God knows did depart from his dwelling place leaving his dear Wife and small Children as the fate and face of the Tyrannical times did then appear in a Forrest or Wildernesse amongst Bruitish and Barbarous animals and yet with a competent and sufficient estate for their comfort support and maintenance in my absence if their innocencies had not been injuriously deprived and violently robbed thereof within a short time after my departure And so it was if it please your Majesty that the change of aire did never breed the least change or alteration in your subjects minde and affections but wheresoever he came and upon all occasions his discourse was still pathetical on your Majesties most glorious Fathers behalf very freely reproving the crosse hallucinations perversities and rebellion of the times and vindicating his Majesties regall rights and just and lawfull Prerogatives to the uttermost of his power in so much as many times he found that he gave offence to some and made others of a more honest condition somewhat timorous to entertain him for fear of the Bugg-bear and his r●mbling ubiquitarie spirits that then kept the bewitched Countrey in so much awe for alas the most part of the people thereabouts were so sottish as to idolize meer shaddows and yet fondly to neglect the Almighty God that made them and ready to offend and grieve his good spirit by their irreverent despising and horrible rebelling against his most perfect and specifical Image that then was upon the face of the earth which profane impiety your subject could not pass by without ministring some reproof although some that pretended to be his friends did divers times tell him that he did procure his own wrong and prejudice thereby yet your subject having a more assured regard and a more firme and vigilant eye upon the future then the present time could not upon any occasion refrain in a Christian and moderate manner to declare himself and in despite of all opposition still persisted in that religious and heroical resolution of loyalty and the discharging of his own conscience before God and the World and thus after many sore rubs dangers and affronts your subject approached unto the village of Dalham in Suffolk the * Thomas Dalton now Dr. in Divinity Rector whereof being my kinsman and one that I may well affirm to be a very loyal learned and orthodox Divine did give me most free and noble entertainment and where by the means of the great love and especiall regard both of himself and his vertuous wife expressed towards me being in that distressed condition and whom in truth of nobleness they esteemed as their Kings friend above their own kinsman and together with the civil courtesies and generous respects of another noble Gentleman then Lord of that town and others of his worthy family at Dalham Hall your subject did receive and enjoy a comfortable rest and residence for many weeks together being linked in a pleasant and sweet society with some royal bird of his own feather and where quotidian and frequent discourses did pass amongst us concerning his late Sacred Majesty and his affairs at Oxford whither your subject● said kinsman intended suddainly to repair and also offered to my self a friendly and fair means of conduction thither which I did thankfully imbrace and approve of yet before I undertook so long and dangerous a journey I was very solicitous to see my wife and children and to take my leave of them not knowing what had success I might meet with as the times then were nor whether I should ever live to see them again in this world or not after which resolution thus taken without delay I began to ma●ch and did beat upon the ●oof homewards as I was driven to fetch my compass I beleeve above four miles at the least but when I approached the territories of my own unhappy Countrey that profest stage of rebellion mine ear●s were sa●ly saluted and summoned with the beating of drums and thundring of guns for indeed the most part of the people in that quarter were so much holy mad that their most continual practice and greatest endeavour was to seek occasions and prepare materials to macerate themselves and to muster up the ruin and confusion of these once so happy and late most flourishing nations And further to trie my patience when I came within a flight shot of mine own house I was casually met withall and discovered by a man that dwelled in the same Town of Dedham where the rebells were then a training up themselves to work mischeif which party I durst not well trust in regard that some of his neighbours but