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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89890	A plea for the King, and kingdome; by way of answer to the late remonstrance of the Army, presented to the House of Commons on Monday Novemb. 20. Proving, that it tends to subvert the lawes, and fundamentall constitutions of this kingdom, and demolish the very foundations of government in generall.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1648 (1648)	Wing N402; Thomason E474_2; ESTC R202961	27,530	32

the People But if we do but scand the Proceedings of the Abbettors of this Remonstrance since their Faction came in power the World cannot produce greater or more odious Examples of Hypocrisie Treachery and fained Protestations then they have manifested by their Breach of Faith and Promise with the King and Kingdom as I shall prove in due place by and by Another Argument of theirs why an Agreement now cannot be safe is The Facility of a Prince's finding occasion and quarrel after such an Agreement to make a Breach when he 〈◊〉 his Advantage And this they fear the King may easily do for several Reasons which I shall but touch because I must be brief First because the King is conceived to be in prison still at least not so free as he ought to be during the Treaty it being so expressed by the Prince in his Declaration in Answer to the Earl of Warwick's Summons and so nothing can be concluded now but may upon that pretence be broken hereafter Besides they say The Inlargement now afforded the King with the pettit State added is but a Mock-liberty and Counterfeit of State onely to set him up in a colourable posture to Treat but not being free from Force be cannot be so free in what he grants as to render it oblieging when granted Where take notice of the desperate Hypocrisie and cunning of these Followes that they should declaime against Force as rendring the Treaty in vaine when themselves have put this Force upon it so that it is evident That all those additional Forces lately joyned to the ordinary Guards of the Iland were sent thither unpurpose to raise a prejudice upon the Treaty that so they might have some plausible Pretence to except against an Agreement by it Secondly Because if the King comes in with the Reputation of having long sought Peace by a Personal Treaty he will be looked upon as the Repairer of Broaches the Restorer of Trade Peace and Plenty and if the Army should keep up as it must to be maintained by Taxes then the Houses and they would be look●ed on as Oppr●ssors and so the Jealousies and Discontents of the People be raised and 〈◊〉 against them and make them apt to joyn Issue with the Kings Interest again against the Publike Let the World take notice of this strange way of Arguing Because the King is like to be hugg'd and beloved by his People therefore they cannot trust Him but fear by His Interest in their Afflictions they may be called to Accompt for all their Doings Observe likewise that they make it their Interest to keep their King in prison the Kingdom out of Settlement and the People in perpetual Taxes and Payments to support these their Taskmasters in their new established Tyranny in opposition to His Majesty So that the People of England so long as they have no King shall have neither Trading Peace nor Plenty Thirdly they insinuate how easie it is not onely for a Prince to make a Breach to the prejudice of the publike Interest but also the hazard of those that ingaged for it against Him by making use of the Peoples Affections after an Accommodation For they say 't is possible the People may yield them up a sacrifice to appease the King and his inraged Party Here indeed the shoe wrings Them and the Curse of Cain pursues Them supposing their Iniquities are greater then can be forgiven and being of the same Faith with the Italian Atheist that Injuries done to Princes may sleep a while in their m●mories but revive again sooner or later as they finde an Opportunity to Revenge Them Some Examples there are indeed of this Nature but very few among the Princes of this Nation The most notorious Rebellion next to this that ever was in our Iland happened against Henry the third whose sufferings were parallel to those of King CHARLES in every point He was bandied against in Parliament driven thence forced to Surrender the Royal Authority into the hands of twenty four Persons taken Prisoner and carried up and down in an Army afterward was confined close upon the very same Pretences and so continued till the People being tired out by the new Tyrants in Arms and Taxes he recovered their Affections and His Crown both together And now when the chief Ring-leaders expected nothing but Revenge from their abused Prince He pardoned those lives which were forfeited to His Mercy not so much as one man of them being executed but had a general Act of oblivion and liberty to sue out their Pardons upon very moderate Fines of which incomparable piece of Clemency that ancient Record called Dictum de Kenelworth remains a Monument to this day And though the Beateseus of our Age being conscious of their heinous guilt might hope as little for pardon as those their Elder Brethren yet I am confident were our King restored to His pristine power they should all of them the worse of them even the very Cromwelites among them taste of the same Bounty and Mercy For look upon him impartially in all the Passages of his life and you may dismisse him with a Quo nihil in terris clementius aspicit aether even with this Character that the world cannot produce a more rare patern of piety patience and humanity But suppose that we grant all they pretend to That King 's are such faithlesse Creatures as they would make them and that our King intended to make a Breach hereafter and to recover that by Fraud which he lost by Force and to be revenged c. yet what ground of Iealousie will be left when their safety is so fairely provided for in the Propositions of both Houses For if there be an Agreement upon them his Mai●sty it is apparent to all the world must return so naked and devested of all power and with his hands so tyed behind him that he will remaine no more but a Cipher of Kingly power not able to help himself or friends and become far lesse than Buchanan's King or a Duke of Venice He will not have so much as a voice in the Senate nor an Office in the Common-wealth nor so much Power left as the meanest petty Constable further than his Guardians shall be pleased to indulge him his Person and regall Authority being wholly surrendred up to them in Wardship Hence then we may justly conclude against the sence of the Remonstrance that were the King led by principles of Falshood and Revenge yet being so bound up in point of power by the Propositions it will be safe as well as iust for the Houses to make an Agreement with him by the Treaty I am sure it must be done one time or another why then not now an Accommodation with the King being the only Basis of a settlement in the Nation except the Houses have so little courage as to comply with our Remonstrants and let it continue no longer a Kingdome but change the whole Frame of Government and turn all

are not binding without the Royall Assent However afterwards they fell to practise the contrary as the Breach grew wider betwixt them and His Majesty It being false then which they here suppose viz. That the Kings negative voice hath been the Ground of the Contest in the late Wars for the Houses never so declared all their Arguments following against the King being founded upon a false Supposition are utterly inconclusive though if their Supposition were true I could not allow them as justifiable But I shall not stand to prove that now onely I shall trace them in their own way For they charge the King to have stretched his negative voice so far as to advance his own will and Interest onely in an unlimited power over the lives liberties and goods of the People For this they urge the frequent dissolving Parliaments but if it were true that the frequent dissolution were acted on purpose to invade the Liberty of the Subject as all the World knowes it was not but was occasioned by the petulancy of divers Subjects who under the shelter of Parliamentary priviledge indeavored to establish a Faction contrary to the received customes and policy both of Church and State as the event hath manifested yet what Inconvencie was crept into the Kingdom through the discontinuing of Parliaments for which His Majesty did not graat a Remedy in the beginning of this Parliament And did He not likewise to remove all occasion of Jealousie co●cerning the like pressures in time to come give His full and free Consent for the calling of Parliaments hereafter every three yeares whereby all grievances might have a certain Remedy Nay He proceeded so for that to give Satisfaction He granted that fatall Act of eternity to this Parliament that there might not remain the least shadow of Arbitrary power to Himself and therfore it is apparent that the Ground of the Contest betwix● Him and the Houses could not be occasioned by any designe on His part for the advancing of an unlimited and unlawful Prerogative by making use of His negative voice either to the dissolution of this Parliament or denying remedy to their Grievances But rather that it was occasioned through a designe on their part after His Majesty had granted so much still to invade more of His just Royall Rights and Prerogatives as the power of the Militia without which He could not be a King c. whereby He was given clearly to understand that they intended to leave Him nothing at all before they would be satisfied Thus having cleared His Maj●sty from occasioning the former War I shall examine their Charge against Him concerning the later Which say they was raised by Commissions from Himself and the Prince to force the Parliament in a personal Treaty to seek Peace at his will and that to this end the Scots last coming in was procured The malicious vanity of this is very evident seeing He had neither Scale nor opportunity to grant Commissions all men being barr'd of accesse to His Majesty and he utterly ignorant of Affaires and so kept at that time when the Scotish Ingagement was first set on foot and the general discontents of the Kingdom had made them break forth into Insurrections And for what was done by the Prince that cannot be charged upon His Majesty his Highnesse having acted therein for his own Interest as Heir apparent of the Crown which was invaded and rifled by sacrilegious hands and as a dutifull Son for the restitution of his Royall Father from a barbarous Imprisonment By which it is manifest that His Majesty was wholly passive and not at all active in relation to the last War and so this Charge is fully refuted After this they charge His Majesty with refusing the four Bills presented to Him at Carisbrooke Castle upon no other consideration but meer Interest of will and power alone without a Parliament To refute this I shall prove that the Bills were rejected meerly to preserve the Interest of both King Parliament and People according to the Law For as being destruct●ve to the Legal Interest of the King They were called the four dethroning Bills This will appear by that Bill for the power of the Militia to be in their hands for 20. yeares and after the said term of 20. yeares it prohibited the King or His Heirs to exercise the Militia without the consent of the Lords and Commons but they only to Act and all Bills drawn up by them for levying and raising of Forces to have the Force of Acts of Parliament without the Royall Assent Which Bill if it had been granted as it would have taken away the Kings negative voice invested in Him by Law and made an Ordinance equall to an Act of Parliament so it would have setled an Arbitrary power in the Lords and Commons over the Estates and persons of their Fellow-Subjects and have caused the same miseries to return upon us which happened in the dayes of our Fore-fathers under Henry the third when the 24. Conservators of the Peace were called totidem Tyranni so many Tyrants For what might not our Grandees have done when the Sword had been theirs by Act of Parliament Besides if the King had given them His Sword they might have taken all the rest of the Propositions demanded without a Treaty Nor had the granting the four Bills been destructive onely to the legall Interest of the King and the liberty of the People but also to the Freedom of Parliament one of the four being for Adjournment of both Houses to any other place besides Westminster c. Which was a Plot of the Grandee-Faction in the Houses and Army to gain power of Adjourning the Houses from time to time to or near the Head Quarters of the Army where those Members that would refuse to be of their Party should neither sit with accommodation nor safety and so be shaken off at last which had been a new way of purging the Houses and so His Majesties passing those four Bills would have been destructive likewise to the Interest and Freedom of Parliament Whereby it appears that His Majesty in rejecting those Bills was not swayed with any consideration of establishing His own will and power above or without a Parliament but with a tender respect onely to His own Legal Rights the Priviledges and Freedom of Parliament and the Liberties of the People Having hitherto manifested the vanity of all their Suppositions and in particular those by way of Charge against His Majesty I shall in the next place examine their Inferences against Him which being raised upon such sandy Grounds cannot stand For taking all for granted which they say they first affirm That there can be no just ground of a Treaty or accommodation with the King First because by perverting the Trust reposed in him to the hurt and prejudice of the Generality and indeavouring to establish himself in a tyrannical power he hath forfeited all that trust and power and doth set the