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The true Protestants humble desires to the Kings most excellent Majesty. Or, Protestant-like propositions for His Majesties perusall, tending to a safe and well-grounded peace. VVith a commination or chorus of the people against those that desire it not.
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1647
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Wing T2866; Thomason 669.f.11[79]; ESTC R210645
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The true Protestants humble Desires to the Kings most excellent Majesty Or Protestant-like Propositions for His Majesties perusall tending to a safe and well-grounded Peace VVith a Commination or Chorus of the People against those that desire it not 1 THat your Majesty will be pleased to signe To nothing that may after cause All former Statutes to decline And grate our Fundamentall Lawes And your good Subiects shall daily pray God preserve your Maiesty 2 That your Majesty would never let The Scottish Government be erected For feare lest when their Lawes we get We with their treasons be infected 3 That your Majesty would never give The staffe out of your hand againe For though as slaves we will not live Yet we will have a Soveraigne 4 That your Majesty as you are sworne Would maintain the Church in that good state As your Forefathers did it adorne And hath been taken away of late 5 That your Majesty would graciously please To hearken to none would innovate For so we shall nere cure our old disease Occasioned by riots intemperate 6 That your Majesty would please once more The simple people to instate With the Common Prayer Book as before They are not for extempore prate 7 That your Majesty would not yeeld Your friends who ventur'd their state and lives Fighting for your honour in the field Should be cut off as their Enemy strives 8 That your Majesty would please nere to admit Any Committees the plague of the Nation Who while like Censors in chairs they do sit Do wrack the poor Commons in grievous fashion 9 That your gracious Majesty would abhorre The thought to consent your Sisters Sonne Brave Rupert should die for maintaining a warre As every good Subject ought to have done 10 That your Ma. would please that famous Newcastle Whose religion makes not his loyalty less Who once for you even with Mavors did wrastle May not lose his lands be it he did transgresse 11 That your Majesty would make Jockey to pay Interest on interest for that vast sum of gold Which he took for your person but the other day When you to your better Subjects were sold 12 That your Majesty would please though we hate superstitions Yet we may have one religion or other Any thing but that of the English Precisians And that of Iockeys our most deare Brother 13 That your Majest wil please to have your old rent That is now behind for many years past Due to be paid by your Parliament Who are bound upon bond to pay you at last 14 That your Maj. wil please again when you get Your ships into your own hand as you ought Officers in them more trusty to set Then those who assented for coine to be caught 15 That your Maj. wil please to give him his due That late hath insranchiz'd you from your confinement He deserves honor that hath so helped you Both in his own person and by his designement 16 That your M. would please the lands two eys Now dim'd may be restor'd to their old wont I mean the two famous Universities And we not mistake a bason for a Font. 17 That your Majesty would please to call A Synod a body of learned men For ours in four yeares have done nothing at all We are not the better for their purse nor their pen 18 That your Maje would please to send for the Prince To avoid the imputation that some Cast on him who say he on purpose went hence Himself to ingratiate with the See of Rome 19. That your Majestie would please to send for your Spouse Who in France like a Turtle forsaken doth moan She cannot the least disturb either house If she will then why do not they lie alone 20. That your Majestie would please by a Declaration The deluded Commons to undeceive That you hate the acts of the Irish Nation Contrary to that some would have them believe 21. That your Majestie would please ne're to hearken to those That would have the Lawes in English translated So we may have bald Rime for verie good Prose And have our calamities still propagated 22 That your M. would turn daies of humiliation And our daies of thanks for we know not what With our strange Fast-daies for peâ—turbation For those which the Service-Book stil pointeth at 23 We beseech your Majestie all qualifications Not heard of but lately all negative swearing All Protestations and foule Abjurations May never be licenc't againe to have hearing These things great Sir if you please to afford We shall have a safe and well-grounded peace All this is allowable by Gods holy Word if observ'd may occasion our weal to increase And your good Subiects shall daily pray God preserve your Majesty A Commination to be confirmed By a Chorus of the people SInce that by Gods Command we may Curse those that doe the truth betray Let us take up our curse and say Cursed be he that hates the King And would his State to ruine bring And scornes to be wedded with a Ring And all the people say Amen Cursed be he the Queen that hates And ' gainst the Privie Counsell prates And doth delight to cause debates And let all the people say Amen Cursed be he is Enemie Unto our harmelesse Liturgie And to the Bishops Hierarchie And let all the people say Amen Curst with a horrid curse be he That would have the Scottish Presbytrie For to take root in Britanie And let all the people say Amen Cursed be he that with hand and heart Doth not take the Armies part ' Gainst those that would our Lawes subvert And let all the people say Amen Cursed be he or they or all Wish not his Majestie in White-hall As great as ever before his fall And let all the people say Amen Cursed be he would not the Queen Should once more with her Lord be seen And in that pomp she once hath been And let all the people say Amen Cursed be he doth not desire The Prince from France should now retire For to behold his King and Syre And let all the people say Amen Cursed be he that doth not use All meanes that may a peace produce And doth to lend his aid refuse And let all the people say Amen Cursed be all Inscendiaries Schismaticks and Sectaries And all Inventors of new Fegaries And let all the people say Amen Cursed be he that doth not pray The Excize may quite be taken away And all Traytors to come to decay And let all the people say Amen FINIS Anno 1647.