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peace_n	england_n	king_n	scot_n	3,692	5	9.7269	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35045	A letter to a freind [sic] shewing the illegall proceedings of the two houses of Parliament and observing God's aversenesse to their actions, which caused the authours returne to the king and his alleagiance.	Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.	1645 (1645)	Wing C7; ESTC R13193	10,170	22

absent from the Parliament he might alwaies give his Royall assent by Commission under the Great Seale and by that it seemes he had liberty to be absent if he would When Rich. 2. refused to come to his Parliament the Lords that threatned to depose him onely averred that by an old Ordinance of Parliament if the King absented himselfe forty daies then they might every man returne quietly to his owne house and that they would doe so if he came not but they pretend no law to raise armes to compell the King to come And surely had there beene any colour to justifie it they would not have omitted it and if there had beene any law or precedent though by Popish Parliaments since Ric. 2. time to raise armes or make lawes without the Kings assent Master Pryn's Zeale to the Cause and hatred to the King would have found it before now Since therefore that the two Houses cannot without the Kings assent make a new nor abrogate an old law cannot without the Kings assent raise armes to execute a person condemned by Parliament with the Kings assent as in Hu. De le Spencers case but they must have a pardon for it In what case are we that have without the Kings assent nay contrary to his expresse Command contrary to Mag. Char. contrary to our Petition of Right 30 Car. by armes taken the 20th part of every mans estate imprisoned their persons imposed new loanes and new impositions hanged Citisens and Gownemen contrary to the Priviledges of Parliament executed even Members of the Parliament by Martiall law and at the Parliament doore while the Houses of Parliament were sitting the Kings Bench as we pretend open at Westminster the Gaole-delivery for London and Middlesex in the Old Baily Nay contrary to our Petition of Right our Statute made this Parliament have we not in the Kings name because we could not in our owne pressed our fellow Subjects and by armes compelled them to fight Contrary to their sworne allegiance and vowed Protestation which is to maintaine the reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England Yet we fight to turne out the Liturgy and prayers ordained by the whole Church of England and which we have long knowne to make roome for the extemporary and unknowne prayer of a single man and him often unlearned sometimes debauched and this according to the Kirke of Scotland not of England to defend the Kings Royall Person His Honour His Estate yet we iustifie them that fight against him that permit nay licence libellous Pamphlets against him and his honour that robbe his Exchequer by receiving and keeping from him his Revenew to maintaine the Priviledges of Parliament yet hale the Members to prison nay to execution by Martiall Law to Maintaine the lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject yet fight to have our Estates Liberties and Lives taken away by Votes Ordinances and Martiall law and against the Kings command We have protested to preserve the peace of England Scotland and Ireland yet fight here among our selves to annihilate and breake the Cessation of Armes and the peace there and send for the Scots hither to robbe murder and if God be not better to us then we to our selves utterly subdue and inslave us to set up and enrich themselves By what law can the Scots prescribe us a Church government by what law have they our Homagers a voice in the settling of our Militia and the lawes of our Nation To conclude we fight to save a few close-Committee men our State-actours that have perswaded and voted us and inforced the poore common souldiers to commit rapine bloud-shed Sacriledge and Rebellion to protect them who with Shimei reviled and flung stones and dust at David by their Declarations and Pamphlets who by their Remonstrances and Votes endeavoured to discover with Cham the nakednesse of their father who following the Counsel of Achitophel have in the sight of all Israel lyen with Davids Concubines by usurping his Authority and Royall power We fight to secure them whom an act of oblivion cannot and therefore must have the Militia at their sole dispose that the swords and lives of the poore souldiers may protect whom the law cannot justify We fight to make London an Independent City to make the Maior Aldermen and Common-Councell a third House of Parliament and give them the Tower of London with the Militia of the City and Suburbs lest the King being but Gods Vicar on earth their only supreme Governour and Soveraigne Lord as severall Acts of Parliaments have declared lest he should rebell against them his native his locall and his sworne Subjects We fight to abolish the ten Commandements the Creed the Epistles and Gospells because not consistent with the Scots Presbyteriall Discipline What one act of Charity or Mercy have these reformers of Religion done Where have they offered to the King to part with any thing of any pretended right liberty or priviledge to settle a peace in this Church and Common-wealth Nay which of these is not greater in estate and wealth in power and authority then he was before the Civil Warre beganne or shall be after the Warre ended Have not the Earles of Warwicke Manchester and others that you know much inriched themselves and freinds by the harvest of this Warre Have not their Chaplaines Burges Sedgewicke Case Peters and others treble revenues and in-comes to preach Doctrines answerable to the occasion of raising money men or Armes or crying no Treaty no Peace Doctrines sutable to their Church and practice that have in cold bloud murdered many poore Protestant English-Irish for being on the Kings side While on the other part the King not delighting in bloud hath pardoned divers whom the law condemned nay he hath proclaimed pardon to all that would take it and to purchase Peace he hath offered to part with his right to divide his Militia putting it into the power of twentie men whereof he to name ten and the two houses ten Commissioners He desires and offers that Popery may be supprest according to Law and not Papists murdered because Irish He is willing that both Church and Common wealth should be rectified according to law and according to law he offers to have all persons to be tryed by law He commiserating his oppressed Subjects the distracted Church and ruined Common-wealth hath offered and desired a Cessation from Armes but cannot obtaine it and then shall wee not beleive him the true father that would save the child God would not have his Temple built by a man of bloud though even David nor would Christ have his Church reformed with the bloud of Christians The King of peace cannot delight in warre Upon these Considerations Cosen I am resolved to leave their party that have misse-led me and my poore Country-men to our ruine and I will now lay hold of the Kings mercy and pardon offered by his Proclamation and by a hearty repentance I hope to expiate the bloud the treason and sacriledge I have countenanced by my former opinions and supported by my purse and perswasions And I doe heartily wish that my poore Country-men and Neighbours that by an illegall presse are forced from their Wives and Children from their parents and freinds to fight against the English Protestant Religion and Liturgy to set up a Scotch Directory against their King to pay a tribute to their fellow Subjects against their Protestation to protect such as have seduced and deceived them and their nations that have raised this unnaturall warre upon pretences feares and jealousies and by the murther of many thousand English Christians keepe themselves from a legall triall that they may still sit quietly voting at Westminster and eate the fat of the land Cosen I doe heartily wish that both you and the rest of my poore Country-men would consider and weigh these things and that God would give you relenting hearts truly penitent for these horrid sinnes and then I would not doubt but you and they would end this warre for 't is in your powers by returning to the English Protestant Religion and Liturgy to your sworne alleagiance to your Anointed King and then to your owne vines and figge-trees And no doubt but both you and they shall receive from God and the King the blessings due to the blessed peace-makers which is heartily prayed for by him that will lead you the way Fleet-streete May 15. 1645. A. C. FINIS