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A59014
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A Second return to the letter of a noble peer, concerning the addresses
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Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.
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Wing S2332; ESTC R9938
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all the Parties together Presbyterian Muggletonian Anabaptist c. being as the Colours of Yellow Tawny Green c. by which the several Regiments are to be distinguished And these you think meet the City of London should lead the way to address for their Protection until they may conveniently be as is aforesaid united and formed into a Body that can defend and set up for it self But your Lordship is still unfortunate advising impertinently for the City seeing the Design hath in the Lord Mayor and Lieutenancy taken a truly safe commendable and contrary way to your prescription and so have bid your Honour good Night wishing you to sleep for more wit And when Parliaments shall in stead of Endeavours to perfect the important matters of the Kingdom sit down and spin out more time in doing nothing than other Parliaments have taken to dispatch Multitudes of Affairs or rather in doing nothing but chalking out unwarrantable Rules for the Subject to grow licentious and act as in an authorized Disobedience What Reason is there that good and peaceable Men should not make to their Prince grateful Addresses for his Care of them in dissolving such Parliaments and scattering the impending Mischiefs which threatned Ruine to our Universe As an Anniversary day of Thansgiving for our Deliverance from the ineffable Calamities we sustained by that trayterous Convention called a Parliament assembled under K. Charles the First whom they devilishly persecuted unking'd and murthered is appointed upon the day of his Sacred Majesty now reigning his Birth and happy Return it seems to me as reasonable that those days whereon his Majesty secured the Liberty of the Subject by dissolving the last Parliaments be kept Festival in Commemoration of our Deliverance from those great and apparent Dangers wherewith we were compassed while they were in Session Neither are all Associations as either your Nine eyed Perusal reads or your distorted and grieved Fancy interprets them abhorred in any of these Addresses which detest only those two Diabolical ones the first of the Soleâ—n League and Covenant and this seized in the E. of S.'s Closet but are themselves pious and Loyal Associations excellently adapted to use your Words for the Preservation of his Majesties Person and Dignity and the Protestant Religion now by Law establish'd But for your so justly abhorred Association which you would insinuate was to have had the Royal Stamp pray tell me where and when those audacious Russians who would not allow their King in the Management of his setled Revenues the Priviledge which the meanest Owner of a Chattel Lease hath in the disposal of it did agree and consent more than in the taking the Covenant to ask the King's Leave and Liking Or rather tell me whether you would not first have taken it and have afterward upon the Point of a Spear tendered it to him for his Approbation and Stamp at Holmby House the Isle of Wight or Hurst Castle How strangely you say it looks that the Mayor of Gl. who is recorded to have done Service against Ch. Stewart at Worcester should now be hugged for advancing these Addresses From a Person of good Credit I am assured that this Gentleman now Mayor of Gl. was in those times with all the Family 〈…〉 pelled that City because Persons of known Loyalty But if it be as you say it is not so strange to see deceived men undeceived which happening none are wont to be more zealous Maintainers of the Cause which they once opposed But it may be you reflect on him and the eminent Magistrate in the City of London by reason of the Opinion received by many â—â—at Rebellion is never truly repented of But 't is a Mistake for although it be rare yet we have seen divers Eminent Person great in the Rebellious times far greater in the King 's as Col. J. B. and D. L. H. one of the five Members yet since a Privy Counsellor and Ambassador entrusted with the weightiest Affairs of the Realm and above all the E. of S. whose Riâ—â—es Honours and Trusts were almost unaccountable yet to say these were not Men of Principles acting uniformly but swayâ—ed by Interest ready to engage with the same heat in every thing that lieth in Subserviency to their Gain What is this but to upbraid those pious great and wise Ministers of State with Insincerity which must be an Inlet to all Villany and Corruption which for you to think or me to say were a Crime never to be expiated Therefore if nothing in Mens Actions and Manners doth appear but what speaks them obedient all good Men will rejoyce at their Conversion notwithstanding the affrightful Blackness of their former Transactions As for your Brethren and Fathers of your Protestant Corporation and Interest discourse them as you please at your own Leisure But while your Zeal to the former Times transport you no wonder you mistake Men and Business and dream all things transacted after the Usurper's Mode as if the Country-Gentlemen Grand-Jurors and chief Burgers of Corporations in these days are like your Upstarts who were indeed mere Tools and must be managed like Puppets ere they could squeek a partiful Address to those Bables of Authority And then you mentioning the different Opinions of the Papists in our days from those in Queen Elizabeth's Reign in the Cause of Succession make we wonder at your either Error or imposing Conscience if you either believe or would persuade others to believe the whirling Zealots have not a Papistical Rule and Method for all they do and say and change Sense and Language as they are taught from Rome You now all along say expresly the same which they then but the Doctrine introduced under the Title of the whole Clergy Nobility Gentry and Courtiers Arguments concerning the Succession of Mary Queen of Scots is wholly false for whereas some of the Puritan Gang which then began to be somewhat in esteem with Religious Time-servers did preach up and throw forth such Discourses as you mention yet was it far from the Sense of the Clergy or sincere States-man who would not alter from the Pattern of Loyalty set before them and sealed with the Blood and Sufferings of those who drew it in the Case of Queen Mary's and the Lady Jane Grey's Title to the Crown Tho' they saw the Danger yet they had learned to believe in and relye upon the Divine Providence which takes Care for the Safety of the Church and blesseth it chiefly when the Governours thereof renounce the Refuge of indirect Politicks And then what a Story you tell of Associations in Queen Elizabeth's Time Which had they been entred into without her Consent and of such a Draught as this abhorred one which you so much dandle no Ignoramus Jury should have rescued the Abettors and Concealers from the Gallows And yet you presently destroy your own rare Tale in the following Paragraph by pratling where the King should reign even in the Hearts of his People which