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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70276	Divers historicall discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland tending all, to the asserting of the truth, in vindication of Their Majesties / by James Howell ... ; som[e] of which discourses were strangled in the presse by the power which then swayed, but now are newly retreev'd, collected, and publish'd by Richard Royston.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1661 (1661)	Wing H3068; ESTC R5379	146,929	429

the time of the League the King replyed Puis que Monsieur de la Chatre vous à liguè qu'il vous destigue since Monsieur de la Chastre hath leagu'd you let Monsieur de la Chastre unleague you and so the said taxe continueth to this day I have observed in your Chronicles that it hath bin the fate of your English Kings to be baffled often by petty companions as Iack Straw Wat Tyler Cade Warbecke and Symnel A Waspe may somtimes do a shrewd turn to the Eagle as you said before your Island hath bin fruitfull for Rebellions for I think ther hapned near upon a hundred since the last Conquest the City of London as I remember in your Story hath rebelled seven times at least and forfeited her Charter I know not how often but she bled soundly for it at last and commonly the better your Princes were the worse your people have been As the case stands I see no way for the King to establish a setled peace but by making a fifth Conquest of you and for London ther must be a way found to prick that tympany of pride wherwith she swells so much Patricius 'T is true ther has bin from time to time many odd Insurrections in England but our King gathered a greater strength out of them afterwards the inconstant people are alwayes accessary to their own miseries Kings Prerogatives are like the Ocean which as the Civilians tell us if he lose in one pla●…e he gets ground in another Cares and Crosses ride behind Kings Clowds hang over them They may be eclypsed a while but they will shine afterwards with a stronger lustre Our gracious Soverain hath passed a kind of Ordeal a fiery triall he while now hath bin matriculated and serv'd part of an Apprentiship in the School of Affliction I hope God will please shortly to cancell the Indenture and restore him to a sweeter liberty then ever This Discourse was stopp'd in the Press by the tyranny of the Times and not suffer'd to see open light till now A SOBER and SEASONABLE MEMORANDUM SENT TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE PHILIP late Earl of Pembrock and Montgomery c. To mind Him of the particular Sacred Ties besides the Common Oath of Alleageance and Supremacy wereby he was bound to adhere to the King his Liege Lord and Master Presented unto Him in the hottest brunt of the late Civill Wars Iuramentum ligamen Conscientiae maximum LONDON Printed in the Year 1661. To the Right Honourable PHILIP Earl of Pembrock and Montgomery Knight of the Bath Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Gentleman of His Majesties Bed-chamber And one of His most Honorable privy Counsell c. My Lord THis Letter requires no Apology much lesse any pardon but may expect rather a good reception and thanks when your Lordship hath seriously perused the contents and ruminated well upon the matter it treats of by weighing it in your second and third thoughts which usually carry with them a greater advantage of wisdom It concerns not your body or temporall estate but things reflecting upon the noblest part of you your soul which being a beam of Immortality and a Type of the Almighty is incomparably more precious and rendereth all other earthly things to be but bables and transitory trifles Now the strongest tye the solemnest engagement and stipulation that can be betwixt the soul and her Creator is an Oath I do not understand common tumultuary rash oaths proceeding from an ill habit or heat of passion upon sudden contingencies for such oaths bind one to nought else but to repentance No I mean serious and legall oaths taken with a calm prepared spirit either for the asserting of truth and conviction of falshood or for fidelitie in the execution of some Office or binding to civill obedience and Loyaltie which is one of the essentiall parts of a Christian Such publick oaths legally made with the Royall assent of the Soveraigne from whom they receive both legalitie and life else they are invalid and unwarrantable as they are religious acts in their own nature so is the taking and observance of them part of Gods honor and there can be nothing more derogatory to the high Majesty and holinesse of his name nothing more dangerous destructive and damnable to humane souls then the infringment and eluding of them or omission in the performance of them Which makes the Turks of whom Christians in this particular may learn a tender peece of humanity to be so cautious that they seldom or never administer an oath to Greek Jew or any other Nation and the reason is that if the Party sworn doth take that Oath upon hopes of some advantage or for evading of danger and punishment and afterwards rescinds it they think themselves to be involved in the Perjury and so accessary to his damnation Our Civill Law hath a Canon consonant to this which is Mortale peccatum est ei praestare juramentum quem scio verisimiliter violaturum 'T is a mortall sin to administer an Oath to him who I probably know will break it To this may allude another wholesome saying A false Oath is damnable a true Oath dangerous none at all the safest How much then have they to answer for who of late yeares have fram'd such formidable coercive generall Oaths to serve them for engins of State to lay battery to the Consciences and Soules of poor men and those without the assent of their Soveraign and opposit point blank to former Oaths they themselves had taken these kind of Oaths the City of London hath swallowed lately in grosse and the Country in detaile which makes me confidently beleeve that if ever that saying of the holy Prophet The Land mournes for Oaths was appliable to any part of the habitable earth it may be now applied to this reprobate Iland But now I come to the maine of my purpose and to those Oaths your Lordship hath taken before this distracted time which the world knowes and your conscience can testifie were divers They were all of them solemn and some of them Sacramentall Oaths and indeed every Solemn Oath among the Antients was held a Sacrament They all implyed and imposed an indispensible fidelity Truth and loyalty from you to your Soveraign Prince your Liege Lord and Master the King I will make some instances Your Lordship took an Oath when Knight of the Bath to love your Soveraign above all earthly Creatures and for His Right and dignity to live and die c. By the Oath of Supremacy you swear to beare faith and true allegeance to the Kings Highnesse and to your power to defend all ●…urisdictions Priviledges Preheminences and Authorities belonging to his Highnesse c. Your Lordship took an Oath when Privie Counsellor to be a true and faithfull Servant unto Him and if you knew or understood of any manner of thing to be attempted done or spoken against His Majesties Person Honour Crown or Dignity you swore to let