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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62416	The Earl of Anglesey's state of the government & kingdom prepared and intended for His Majesty, King Charles II in the year 1682, but the storm inpending growing so high prevented it then : with a short vindication of His Lordship from several aspersions cast upon him, in a pretended letter that carries the title of his memoirs / by Sir John Thompson, Baronet.; State of the government & kingdom	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Haversham, John Thompson, Baron, 1647-1710.	1694 (1694)	Wing T1000; ESTC R1565	19,674	41

Place but in that the only Supreme Court of the Kingdom 2. It will be your Honour and Safety to incourage and imploy your Ancient and deserving Nobility and Gentry whose interest in their Countries will be of more use and avail to your Majesty then all the bold and confident undertakings of those who seek themselves chiefly in all their pretences of Love and Duty to your Majesty and really weaken and diminish the Admiration Affection and Esteem which otherwise from your Gracious and Wise Government your Majesty may have will all your People who are the most Dutiful and fond of their Prince in the World if well and kindly used as the most Turbulent and Fierce under the Sun if by ill or unsteady management of Affairs and too much subjecting of them to the Will and Humour of their fellow Subjects and the oppressions which their too much presuming on his Favour brings upon them which they easily discover being a discerning People they find themselves transferred from the Clemency Bounty nad Kindness of their Soveraign and abandoned to the Pride Malice and Imperious Arbitrariness and Will of those who are but Subjects as well as they and who want that natural Affection and Tenderness which their Soveraign Liege Lord cannot but retain towards them and whose Wisdom which God who advanceth them to the Throne usually indues them with must needs perswade him that he is weakned and made a less Monarch by loss of the Love and Duty of his meanest Subject 3. The Two Great Instruments of Government with which your Majesty in Right of your Imperial Crown is solely intrusted by the Law are Reward and Punishment Let the first be always dispensed freely freely as your Personal Knowledge or the best information that may be had shall Guide you by your own immediate Hand that others may not receive the Thanks and Dependance due to you alone Sir Henry Sidney Great Sir Philips Father who was Lord Deputy of Ireland many times and my Great Grandfather Sir John Parrot who succeeded him in the same Great Charge and Trust and divers others though they refused not to serve your Predecessors yet grew weary of the place when in those troubled and dangerous Times they were forced to spend of their own to support the Dignity and Honour of the Crown Such as serve your Majesty so in expectation of future regard to be had to their deserts ought not to be forgotten when higher Preferments or more profitable permanent and easy happen then those they served in with Submistion and patient expectation Nothing is more discouraging and offensive to the generality of Subject then to see Men rise over hastily and before their Merits are known or taken notice of perhaps whilst their Demerit hath brought them into disesteem wherewas those that are advanced by just degrees are seen Shining in Merit before they are cloathed with Honour or Preferment rejoyce the Kingdom and are no more Maligned then those who have served their Apprentiships and come to be Lord Mayor Thus in the best time Men have risen in the Kings Houshould and in other Establishments from low Degree and after long approved Service and Faithfulness to high Preferment and Trust And this incourageth Industry and Dutiful Service and is a Bond of Safety whereas bought preferment or attained by Ill Arts is Odious and Dangerous to the Master and when Mony is the only qualification People mind solely how to come by that let the means to compass it be what they will As for the other which is Punishment let your Majesties Love and Clemency to your People make it appear to proceed from you unwillingly and of necessity for the support and strenthning of Government and be so executed that it may not seem or so much as be suspected to come from any Principle of Cruelty or Delight in the Pressures of Fall of any Persons The known Clemency of a Prince and Inclination to Mercy doth more to oblige Subjects then the strongest Impressions of Dread or Fear it being natural to the veriest Worm to turn again if he be unmercifully trod upon and despair to Please or causelesly conceived Jealousy many times occasions the loss of most Useful and Honest Servants 4. I know your Majesty to be a great Patron of the Church and Church-men and therefore for their sakes who are seldom wise for themselves I presume to implore that you will never Countenance and of them that shall busy them selves with matters of State and Government out of their Sphere In all my Reading and Experience I find that in the most dangerous Disorders and Revolutions of the World they have ever had a principal Hand when their chief work should be to pray for and promote the Peace of Church and State in the Calling God hath set them And it never yet came under my Observation or Knowledge that any Kingdom was Happy or Prosperous where they had too great and influence since the Primitive Time and Zeal nor that ever it succeeded well to themselves or gained upon those under their Charge when they shewed themselves Active in Temporal Affairs having a Calling competent to imploy the whole Man and are to give themselves to all diligence and piety wherein they are promised a Blesling as their great Master hath warned them that his Kingdom is not of this World and that they should not Fight nor Strive nor Intangle themselves with the Affairs of this Life It s observable what the pretended power of one to do so In ordine ad Spiritualia hath brought the World to and how difficultly Incroachments of that Tribe are removed your Majesty is not to scruple the distinct and incommunicale exercise of that Authority which the Law gives your and all your People have bound themselves to acknowledge your peculiar It s a hard Imposition on your Majesty that you should who are the Father of your People be called upon to Imprison Consiscate Banish or otherwise Afllict and Distress any of your Peaceable and Industrious Subjects because other taken upon them by what right let them consider to denounce them Excommunicate that were to punish their Bodies because their Souls are punished for the Clergy cannot so much as pretend a Power to go further And the Magistrate hath little reason to hearken to those Clergy-men who are so diffident of their pretended Authority that though they cry up the power of the Keys as their Office yet when they have done yield it to be so uneffectual a shadow of Power as can do nothing without the Civil Magistrates force below whom it is to be debased to be the Clergies Executioner in punishing before he have tried the Cause The Magistrate that seeth a Man Excommunicated for this fault should rather delay his Civil Force against that Man to see what effect his Excommunication will have for the Conjunction of the Sword with the Excommunication makes the fruit of it undiscernable so that none can see whether it did

taken of every step leading thereunto Pick-thank Informers and Sycophants are the worst Instruments that can get into Princes Courts but if they do they are not to be admitted to the Kings Ear nevertheless if Intruders happen let your Majesty be so upon your Guard that no Man be undermined born down or ruined by a Whisper It is but Justice for your Majesty to heart Servant you have esteemed or perhaps rewarded as Faithful before you condemn or grieve him or to make way it may be for a worse prejudice your self and undo him and his Family such Errours many times cost Princes dear and your Resolution being known to hear before you Judge you will be delivered from Tale-bearers and mean Spirits that have not the Courage of Honesty to avow the Accusations they make and when just Complaints are brought before your by honest and owned Informations your Majesty may be Judge your self whereas otherwise your Majesty is but made the Executioner of Vile-mens Malice Villany or Ambition and your best and most useful and faithful Servants may be Whispered from your and your Majesty lest in the hand of those who for Ends Human Frailty and designing Ambitious Men are subject to will not spare to runine or betray your Majesty for advantage the same secret way they destroyed their fellow Subjects unseen Whereas those who intend your Majesty real Service will openly and like Men of Honour who fear the Frown of no Man charge the Guilty for Justice sake Another main branch of Justice is that you may be King of all your Subjects Hearts To find out ways to unite your People and for that Happy end to avoid countenancing divided and dividing Addresses and Invasions upon the Liberties and Franchise of your People granted by your Royal Predecessors or your self especially when the train and design of them is visible or hath its rise from your own Court or tend to soment heats and discontents and raise jealousies The great Lord Bacon Viscount St. Albans who was not only a Wise States-man but Lord Chancellor of England adviseth the King to be of no Faction or Party but to make use of and be above all if any be in his Kingdom or they will much prejudice his Authority and Business If any great Man or others be suspected on good Grounds Guilty of dangerous Practice or Crime let the Authority of the Law and not the Cry of the People whether by Art of Inclination drawn to it bear them down who bawle Hosanna and Crucify with equal Zeal even against their Saviour better it were that Ten Malesactors escaped then one Innocent Person should suffer by Practice Injustice or Violence I should rejoyce to see your People unanimously kind to your Majesty but for any to pretend it in diminution of better Subjects then themselves and in ways provoking Offensive and Reproachful tending to the disquiet of your Majesty and disturbance of the Peace of the Kingdom all Good and Wife Men from their very Souls abhor as time will shaw when this Land Flood of Contention and Humour if not Jesuitical Practice hath spent it self which it will soon do it not dangerously kept up and countenanced in which Case as a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand so if my Fears upon such Intrigues succeed till the breach be wide as the Sea I have delivered my own Soul by this timely warning which I hope you will graciously consider And the working Pens of Libellers being daily at work to undermine our Peace and soment Divisions not unlikely imployed by the worst Enemies of this Kingdom and Government it will be the highest recomendation of your Majesties Kindness to and Care of your People that this soul common-sewer of distempered Brains and tainted Hearts be diverted or shut up least it Infect and Poyson the whole Kingdom past Recovery and render the happiest Church and State in the World a Scorn to Fools And to prevent so great Mischief it will be Glorious in your Majesty to discountenance even the Libellers boldly pretending to write in support of the Crown which God be thanked stands os untaken upon your Majesties Head as upon that of the greatest of your Ancestors as to punish others upon vain pretences taking the same License so that the Silencing and Confusion of all Libellers as far as the Law will warrant may be one happy effect of your Majesties good and powerful Government and when the make-bates and Sowers of Division cease then mutual Love may be restored 5. The last thing I shall trouble your Majesty with is concerning the provident management of your Revenue which will be the greatest help to keep all the parts of your Government in order I know well and can make it manifest beyond Contradiction that vast Reducements may be of your charge in England to general satisfaction and with the discontent only greedy Officers and Suiters whose places may be better supplied of Meritorious Persons or their Issue who being intayled to the Crown by former Favours to them or their Ancestors for just Merit must be accounted better and stronger supports to your Majesty then those whose Ambition or Covetousness makes them croud the Court yet never intail your Favours to any will beget Diligence and raise expectation in your Followers and Dependents I beseech your Majesty to consider what great things the Crown of England hath done in former Ages with its own bare Revenue and by the Love of his Subjects both in England Ireland and Foreign Countries how your Majesty comes now to be in pinching wants and none of those great undertakings upon your Hands is fit to be inquired one thing is obvious to me which will perswade that other instances of ill management and mispense may be produced Your Majesty spends now Yearly in Irelands full Peace more then served to defray the Charges of the Crown in the greatest Rebellions of the Oneils Tirones Desmond and others nay I want not good warrant to assure your Majesty that the chief Governours prosits alone in that Kingdom amount to more now then maintained the Government of Ireland both in the Civil and Military Estate thereof in some of the troubled and dangerous times of that Kingdom and hath incident to his Office divers Favours Civil Ecclesiastical and Military to oblige your Subjects both Great and Small with which should most properly be dispenced by your Majesties own Hand to weaken dependance on fellow Subjects and fix greater and stronger on your Majesty To Conclude Though your Majesty is in your own Person above the reach of Law and Soveraign of all your People yet the Law is your Master and Instructer how to Govern and your Subjects assure themselves you will never attempt the enervating that Law by which you are King and which your have not only by frequent Declarations but by solemn Oath upon your Throne been obliged in a most Glorious Presence of your People to the maintenance of and that therefore you will look upon any that shall propose or advise to the contrary as unfit Persons to be near you and on those who shall perswade you it is Lawful as Sordid Flatterers and the worst and most dangerous Enemies your and your Kingdom have What I set before your Majesty I have written freely and like a Sworn Faithful Councellor perhaps not like a wise Man with regard to my self as things stand but I have discharged my Duty and shall count it a Reward if your Majesty vouchsafe to read what I durst not but write and which I beseech Good to give a blessing to