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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

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

high Treasurer of England and in the Reignes of King Henry the 6th and King Edward the 4th there was another of my name that was a Knight of the Garter and of the Rhodes and also a Noble and warrlike Baron of Wenlock in the County of Salop from which place my Ancestors were first derived and had their Extraction as appears by Antient evidence Records I shall be heartily glad if I can but make your Matie to smile at these my Relations but I entreat your Majestie to beleeve that it is not fondly a vain glorious humour that prompts me to relate these things but my desire is to give a gentle caution to some gilded Mushromes or pursie supercillious Upstarts of the new edition that esteem themselves to be the only brave men d●spising others that are brought low by their sufferings and contemning all learning and loyalty that is destitute of a golden key which they corruptly conceive to be the only means to open the doorlock that leads to preferrment but your Majestie well knows how and when to conferr your Favours and though some of your Majesties suffering Friends are not looked upon so soon as they expected yet their hopes are still firm enough and we know that Deside●●ta diu dulcius obtinentur and we can wait with patience but must not be too negligent pe●entis negligentia reprehend●tur ubi de dantis miserecordia non du●itatur and of your Majesties mercie there is sound experience and it is a prime policie for your Grace in convenient time to reward Loyaltie for in so doing it will give Occasion to others to have the better esteem thereof Regis ad exemplar totus componitur orbis but if vertue be now neglected let pass without regard how few hereafter will ever endeavour to be good in so bad times and one saith that both pitie and sin it were that such whose light the late Aegyptian Darkness could never extinguish should now be suffered to sit in obscuritie Som● perhaps that shall read this book will take my expressions to be rash and violent savouring more of animosity then prudence but when Croesus his life was in danger it made his dumb son to speak and cry out and when the King the Father of our Countrie the Church our Mother and the peace of the whole Kingdom were so treacherouslie exposed to the danger of utter ruine what true hearted Son or Subject could be so supinely silent as not bitterlie to reprove such horrid actions Quitacet consentire vide●ur but such as have tasted any true rellish of Religion do well know they must not be mutes in matters of such moment Dissimulation may serve the turn for a time and in the view of a carnal eye it may seem to procure some good but we ought not to do evill that good may come thereof Hypocrisie is a sin so odious in the sight of God and so contrarie to his divine nature who is truth it self as those that practise the same can never expect to be matriculated members of the celestial Societie but such as wait for their souls comfort must be content to forsake all rather then to part with a good conscience and so endanger the soul But I fear that too many of late have stifled their Consciences to keep their estates and maintain their reputation amongst the Vulgar but such policie will not allways go away with the Garland it was well said of a Noble Spaniard once in England that he would never forfeit his Soul and his Honour to save his Life and indeed some brave Spirits but meer Moralists have thought it a more Noble Exploit to preserve Honour then Life and could never buckle to any dishonourable thing but in despite of Ambition and desire of gain or the pressures of Necessitie they have still resolved to tread in the path●s of Virtue And how many Heathens as Codrus a King of Athens Cur●ius a Noble Knight of Rome and allmost infinite others recorded in Historie have freely exposed themselves to unavoidable danger and death for the good and safety of their Country whose memory ever since hath been immortall and can Christians adventure upon any design too dangerous when the glorie of God the Honour and Power of his sacred Deputie and the ●eligion and Peace of their native Nation lay all in the dust involved in blood Pardon my presumption I beseech your Majestie in what I have here inserted amiss or unworthy the view of so roial and exquisite an ●i● and then I cannot but be confident that your Grace will take some piti● upon me being now grown into years and disabled by my great sufferings and losses to put on and preferre my self as some others ●● for I finde the Poet to be a true Prophet that long 〈◊〉 said Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusti domi but this defect may soon be supplied by the least glimpse of your Majesties favour and I am sure your Majestie well knowes that it is the Masters honour to take notice of a faithfull s●rvant and that such as dare declare and stand to the truth in bad times of danger are none of the worst subjects And I doubt not but that your Majesty in due time will most roially perform whatsoever your loial and loving subjects may in truth of modestie and justice expect from your gracious bands and that your Grace shall attain unto and accomplish all those happie and blessed intents and ends for the which your Omnipotent Creator hath so justly and mercifully restored and advanced your Grace to the glorious throne of your so eminent Ancestours Where God grant that your Majestie and your Roial posteritie may safely sit and triumphantly reigne to Gods glorie the Churches peace and these Kingdoms happinesse even so long as the Sun and Moon shall shine upon the face of the earth So will ever Pray Your Majesties Loyal Humble and Officious Subject Iohn Wenlock To the Kings Most Excellent Majestie Most Royal and Magnificent Monarch and my Soveraign Lord IT is a Proverb of the Wisest amongst Earthly Princes that righteous lips are the delight of Kings and they love him that speaketh right for he that speaks the truth sheweth forth righteousnesse and all such a● be true in heart shall follow the same and there is good reason for their Encouragement to proceed on in such a Virtuous way as tendeth to eternall felicity for certainly the time will come when that saying of the Psalmist will be verified and made manifest to the World There is sprung up a light for the righteous and joyfull gladnesse for such as be true hearted and the Lord God likewise layeth up sound Wisdome for the righteous and is a sure Buckler for them that walk uprightly for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdome and a good understanding or successe have all they that do his Commandments the praise of it endureth for ever And this was truly experimented in