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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31642	Treason's master-piece, or, A conference held at Whitehall between Oliver, the late usurper, and a committee of the then pretended Parliament who desired him to take upon him the title of King of England ... : wherein many of the leading-men of those times did, by unanswerable arguments, assert and prove monarchy to be the only legal ancient, and necessary form of government in these kingdoms / collected by a faithful hand.; Monarchy asserted to be the best, most ancient and legall form of government	Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.; Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 6.	1680 (1680)	Wing C19; ESTC R14983	78,281	128

Treason's Master-piece OR A CONFERENCE Held at WHITEHALL BETWEEN OLIVER The late USURPER AND A COMMITTEE OF The then pretended PARLIAMENT Who desired him To take upon him the Title of KING of England c. with an intent to exclude the ROYAR LINE WHEREIN Many of the Leading-men of those times did by unanswerable Arguments assert and prove MONARCHY to be the only legal ancient and necessary form of Government in these Kingdoms Collected by a faithful hand LONDON Printed for Daniel Major at the Hand and Scepter in Fleetstreet near St. Du●stan's-Church 1680. THE PREFACE IT may be said and that very truely That this Island of Great Britain which though so called is but as it were a Span of ground if compared with many Islands in the Universe hath been a greater Stage or Field of Blood for many Centuries of years last past than any other Island or Nation in the world though of far larger Dimensions and capacity of People And what hath been the occasion of those tragical Revolutions which have happened therein especially in the last Age is too easie for any impartial man to judge if he observe the Series of the several Passages from 1641 to 1659. The strange Jealousies of the Government which had crept into the minds of the People and the desire of Change a thing natural to the Vulgar together with the subtile Artifices of the principal Engines of the late Confusions who stimulated the Disloyalty of the People under a specious pretence of Piety and Reformation when indeed nothing but Covetousness and vile Ambition as the chief End and Rebellion as the means to attain to that End lay like the Snake in the Grass did diffuse such a general Infection through the Veins of the whole Kingdom as if nothing but the Swords of the Incendiaries could have been the Instruments to let out that ill Bloud They directed their Points against the credulous People as well as against the King who they said had offended They slaughtered many and many thousands of poor cheated and deluded men as well as embrued their hands in the bloud of their sacred and lawful Soveraign They deceived their ignorant Fellow-subjects as the Turkish Emperours are mentioned in Story to impose upon their common Souldiers who when their Armies were to ford any unpassable River were wont to perswade them that as many of them as would throw themselves in and make a Pile with their Bodies which should fill or dam up that depth should be sure to go to Elysium Thus did these Time-Reformers wade through the Gore of the ignorant People till they had arrived to the desired shore of their Lust and Ambition But no sooner were they gotten into the Seat of Supremacy but they fell out amongst themselves like so many Robbers for a Booty who should have the greatest share in the Spoil and Havock they had made of a Rich and Opulent Kingdom and who should be the Governours to prescribe Laws and Methods of Regiment over the People And at last the stronger Party of them found it was necessary to keep that Power they had by Arbitrary Government viz. force of Arms such a Force as before they dreamt was intended against them And when they saw their illegal form of No-Government was not like to be long-liv'd and found by Experience that the Nation could be no longer supported under nor relieved from the Exorbitancies of their confused Anarchy then they had Wit enough to prove by Arguments that MONARCHY was the onely LEGAL ANCIENT and NECESSARY Form of Government though they had not so much Honesty as to restore that King to his Throne who had Right to rule over them but endeavoured to set up an Usurper From whence may be concluded That it was not Monarchy alone they first struck at but the utter Exclusion of the Royal Line And this Artifice had certainly taken effect had it not been prevented by the under-hand Policies of Lambert and some others of the then Ring-leaders for though Cromwel made a seeming Denyal yet it might have been fatal to have trusted him too far And now Reader having said this I think I need not make any Apology for the publishing the ensuing Collection at such a time as this is a time which looks so black and dismal which seems to be as it were the Ghost or representation in Effigie of 1641 a Time wherein the Government is threatned by two vast Extreams and seems to stand inter Scyllam Charybdim And I could heartily wish that a due Consideration of what is herein contained may serve to the converting the mindes of several persons who I fear are almost ready to revive the Good Old Cause and act over the old Tragedy again And seeing Regal Government is the great Basis on which the Welfare of this Kingdom stands I wish that all English men would be so far from thinking of the alteration of this admirable Constitution as to bless Almighty God that we have a King already such a King whose transcendent Clemency towards us hath far exceeded our deserts such a King to whom next under God we owe our Laws Religion Wealth Liberty and Property and who graciously condescended to pass An Act of Oblivion upon his Restauration Therefore pray for an Establishment of the present Government to the end of days as prayeth A hearty lover of his King and Country C. C. Thursday the Ninth of April 1657. ORdered by the Parliament that a Committee be appointed to wait upon his Highness the Lord Protector in reference to what his Highness did yesterday propose in his Speech now reported to the House Resolved That this Committee have power to receive from his Highness his doubts and scruples touching any of the particulars contained in the humble Petition and Advice formerly presented and in answer thereunto to offer to his Highness reasons for his satisfaction and for the maintainance of the Resolutions of this House and such particulars as they cannot satisfie his Highness in that they report the same to the Parliament The Names of the Committee Lord Whitlock Lord Broghill Master of the Rolls Lord Commissioner Lisle Mr. Waller Lord Chief Justice Sir Charles Woolseley Gen. Montague Col. Jepson Sir Thomas Jones Sir William Strickland Col. Thistlethwait Lord Commissioner Fines Sir Richard Onslow Sir Rich. Lucy Mr. Secretary Atturney of the Dutchy Atturney General Mr. Godfrey Lord Howard Col. Jones Col. Carter Col. Whitgrave Col. Brooks Mr. Lee. Mr. Jenkinson Mr. Bampfield Mr. Drake Col. Ingoldsby Mr. Pitts Mr. Pickering Lord Cockram Mr. Grove Mr. Lloyd Mr. Nath. Bacon Mr. Ingoldsby Lord Provost of Edenb Mr. Bedfor Col. Ireland Col. Hacker Major Wagstaffe Mr. Franc. Bacon Mr. Downing Mr. Price Maj. Gen. Whaley Sir John Reynolds Mr. Steward Sir Christ Pack Mr. Lawrence Alderm Foot Capt. Lilburne Sir William Roberts Mr. Trevor Mr. Baron Parker Mr. Tigh Sir John Hobart Mr. Hamden Mr. Cromwell Mr. Throgmortou Mr. Fleetwood Mr. Philips Maj. Gen. Goffe Mr. Fowell