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A89881	Interest will not lie. Or, a view of England's true interest: in reference to the [brace] papist, royalist, Presbyterian, baptised, neuter, Army, Parliament, City of London. In refutation of a treasonable pamphlet, entituled, The interest of England stated. Wherein the author of it pretends to discover a way, how to satisfie all parties before-mentioned, and provide for the publick good, by calling in the son of the late King, &c. Against whom it is here proved, that it is really the interest of every party (except only the papist) to keep him out: and whatever hath been objected by Mr. William Pryn, or other malcontents, in order to the restoring of that family, or against the legality of this Parliament's sitting, is here answer'd by arguments drawn from Mr Baxter's late book called A holy commonwealth, for the satisfaction of them of the Presbyterian way; and from writings of the most learned royalists, to convince those of the royal party. By Mar. Nedham.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1659 (1659)	Wing N392; Thomason E763_5; ESTC R202968	47,454	45

common enemy It is brutish therefore to clamor and cry out that the Laws of the Land are not maintained when as onely the Law of that form of Government is abolished together with the Prerogative of the King Priviledge of Peers and the like which were but the excrescencies of Arbitrary power which had in a great measure over-grown not onely the Laws Municipal concerning our Rights Liberties and Properties but exceeded also by usurpation the bounds of that very Law of the Kingdoms Constitution upon which King and Peers themselves had a standing and were to stand To sum up all in a word the people have or if they would be pleased to settle may and will more sensibly have their old Laws to be governed by onely all the harm done is That for the former Constitution or Form of Government they have in their reach and partly in possession a better viz. A Fundamental Constitutional Law of Freedom lawfully purchased by this Parliament and by them ready to be settled unto us and our Children after us There remain two Objections more used by our Author and Mr. Prynne and other Malecontents First That this Parliament was actually dissolved by the Protector No such matter Vltra Pesse non est Esse he had no power to do it therefore it could not be done by him But you will say We saw he had power that actually enabled him to effect the dissolution To this I Answer A Dissolution it could not be but as now it is called it is rightly termed onely An Interruption of its sitting for in matter of power by Law the Lawyers know well enough it is a sure Maxim Id solum p●ssum quod jure possum i. e. That a man can do nothing that is valid but onely what he doth according to Law Now then if the Protectors Act of turning out the Parliament were a valid Dissolution it must have been so by some Law and that Law must be either some Law of the Nation that enabled him to do it or else it must be the Law of War As to the former it is evident he had no Law of the Nation to justifie the Action and so if any Law it is that of War which must make it good Now that he could not do it by the Law of War is evident likewise because his Military capacity was derived from the Parliament they who had the whole Right of War in themselves having given him his Commission to Militate for them that is to say for the people represented by them and so he could not properly or lawfully Militate or use a Right of War against them who had no lawful power but what he derived from them whereby it being evident he could make no Legal Dissolution of them Ergo By Law notwithstanding him the Parliament remains in being and the Soldiery having withdrawn the force that was over it it followeth without straining That having never been lawfully dissolved they remain legally the same Parliament they were before Secondly But there is a further Objection yet to be dispatched which is That many of the Members of this House having sat intermediate Parliaments called by the Protector have thereby acknowledged this House was dissolved by him 1. The Answer to this is naturally consecutive to the former viz. that seeing the Parliament was still in Being being only suspended for a time from the exercise of the supreme power then all that was done in pursuance thereupon in reference to the exercise of supremacie must in Law be void and null and the intervening space of time be reputed as a great Chasma a praeternatural vacuity or dead Interval wherein all the Acts of snpremacie and matters relatiug thereto that were used became legally defunct as soon as they were done coming into the world still-born and so those Intervening Assemblies of the people not having had the legal Force and vertue of Parliaments they are now properly called Conventions for distinction sake Besides as they were nothing in Law of themselves being creatures of another extraction so he who created them by his own Power presently uncreated them to their first nothing because as he was a man of high courage and great spirit he could not endure to see the work of his own hands rise up and dispute as he conceived against him 2. As to the sitting of some Members of the present Parliament in those intermediate Conventions They did it not as owning them for legal Parliaments but sat only in respect to the Interest of the people who Originally and Fundamentally alwaies had and have a Right to meet to consult for common Good and if being under a Force they be hindred that they cannot doe it as they ought and as they would yet it alwaies concerns them to doe it as they can and as they find Opportunity upon this Account some of the Members did sit in those Conventions with intent to have made use of those Opportunities God did put into their hands for the Publick yet without any further respect to the Power assumed to call them than a mere appearance For in the first Convention they presently fell to claiming their Right in the behalf of the people and so they did in all the following Conventions for which cause seclusions were used against them But some will say if they did not own the Power and those to be Parliaments why did they complain so much of their being then secluded as an Infringement of the Peoples Right in Parliament The Answer of this is reer of kind to the former their Complaint concerning breach of priviledg was not grounded upon supposition of any Right or priviledge of sitting derived unto them from the Protectors writ of summons for they were alwaies so farr from acknowledging him that they kept on foot a Continuall Claim and thereupon opposed him to the utmost of their Power but their Complaint of violation was grounded only upon that general Right inherent in the people which is if they cannot meet in a regular way then as I said before to doe it as they can and as they find opportunity for asserting their own Rights and so upon this Account it is that being forced away from the meeting they might well complaine that complaining must be construed to be an effect of the sence they had of the injury done to that general Right of the Peoples meeting rather than a sign of any acknowledgment of the Protectors power or of those Meetings to be Parliaments Lastly What if some Members of the present Parliament had acknowledged or did acknowledge the power summoning them to meet and those meetings to be Parliaments yet that could be no prejudice to the whole Body of this Parliament now sitting because a Body of Men remaining all in equal power and right cannot be concluded by particular Acts done by some of their own number without consent of the rest yea if all of them at once had sat in any one of those

should make so that had they had their purpose the whole Cause Parliamentary and its faithful friends must have been clearly betrayed into his hands But it must not be forgotten how craftily they went to work for the completing of their design and it is the more needful to revive the proceedings because the same spirit appears at work again in the like method by those who have now taken Arms those who favor the present treasonable undertaking Their method I say and pretences appear one and the same for those did what they could to irritate and engage the Citie of London In all Counties they had their Emissaries and Agents concurring with those employed by the King to form new Insurrections which you know afterwards brake forth all over the Nation and to usher in these the people were stirred up to frame Petitions all cloathed in fine language with fair pretences viz. That they might have a full and free Parliament they pretended for the Liberty of the Subject also to free them from the oppression of an Army and to be for the Law of the Land against the arbitra y power of a Faction in Parliament setting up and supporting themselves above Law by the power of an Army They pretended likewise to be much for the ease of the people to free them from Taxes and Contributions to an Army and to be for settlement that there might be no need of an Army They pretended for Religion too against Sectaries yea and that no pretence might be wanting they pretended for the army it self also as to the body of it That all but a Faction of some Officers might be satisfied their Arrears Pray you now compare these pretences with those published by the present Rebels in Cheshire and the language of those that savor them in other places and judg whether the spirit of the same corrupt party be not now at work again by new Instruments who would likewise if they might have their ways give up not onely the present Parliament but with it the whole Parliamentary interest of the Nation and all men of all parties yea and themselves to be disposed of at the will of the Son for what can hinder that Sea of boundless tyranny from overflowing when the breach is once made and he let in just as the other would by bringing on a Personal Treaty to conclude with the Father have yeilded all up to his pleasure Actors you see are now on foot again disguised and cloathed with the very same pretences and therefore what can be more clear than that these men are studying to bring the Yong Man upon the stage to perfect the Tragedy which was plotted so many years ago in that endeavor for a restitution of his Father which would assuredly have been compleated in an absolute Tyranny had not the Army then taken up a noble resolution to prevent it by secluding that desperate party which ruled at that time in Parliament So much though much more might be said for the justice and necessitie of the Seclusion 2. Let us see how the remaining Members behaved themselves upon this Occasion They did not as Mr. Pryn and our Author and others have scandalized them drive away their Fellow-Members nor encourage the Army to do it as Mr. Pryn and his fellows had before encouraged the Apprentices to drive away the Speaker and the best part of the Members but when the Seclusion was made the House presently sent out the Serjeant with the Mace to the place called the Queens Court where those Members were then detained to command their Attendance in the House but the Guards of Souldiers would not permit them to come So the Serjeant was sent out a second time and then the Officers would not permit him to pass which was entred as a Contempt in the Journal-Book they being startled at the sudden force upon the House and therefore they concluded also not to proceed in business until their Members should be restored and in the mean time ordered That the General be sent to that the House might know the reason of the Armies so proceeding Which being done the General and Council of Officers sending to the House their Reasons which necessitated them to the Action and manifesting therein That there was no other way to preserve the Rights and Interests of the Nation which those Members had laboured to destroy thereupon the House who of their own knowledge could tell the particulars charged were true being earnestly importuned by the Army That they would proceed to save the Nation and secure the good Cause they had fought for against the King and his Party chose to sit notwithstanding all the difficulties and clouds of envy that were gathering over their heads and to proceed towards the Nations settlement in such a way as God in his Providence according to his Will should direct them rather than desert their Trusts not consulting therein with Flesh and Blood which because of the hazard of their own personal concernments might have taken them off but with a Good Cause and the common Good which then lay at stake and had been utterly lost if those Secluded ones might have had their wills who now again make it their business by clamours to set the world on fire about their ears care not though themselvs perish at last in the combustion 3. Let us see the Reason why it is that being once Secluded they have never since been admitted and are still kept out The Reasons are evident for they were no sooner Excluded but they went on Plotting and contriving as a distinct Assembly without the House to carry on their design as they did before within To this purpose they joynely put forth a Declaration Entituled A Solemn Protestation against the House and the Army declaring all void and null that should be done their absence and inflamed Mr. Pryn a necessary Tool of the Party because be can say and Print any thing for them and yet not be in danger of his head who put forth in his own name a violent virulent Protestation against the House the Army their Cause and all Proceedings and divers other fierce Papers he hath let flie from time to time so did his Parry also the like under the Title of Declarations c. And to this day they have never omitted any occasion they could lay hold on to justifie themselves and revive that destructive design for which they were at first Secluded this is enough to shew There was and is reason to keep them out of the House still Unless any will imagine it reasonable they should be re-Admitted to take an opportunity which they can never otherwise have for the finishing of that mischief which they like a sort of Madmen by restoring the Ejected Family would bring not only upon the Parliament and the well-affected but on all Parties of men yea and themselves in conclusion as they may sufficiently perceive if God gives them hearts to weigh what hath

been from reason deduced in the former Sactions But now let us return to our Author again He saith This Parliament is no Parliament because by Law it is Dissolved through the Kings Death that Called it So saith Mr. Pryn also and others Thus when men are over-heated with Prejudice and Passion they know not or remember not what they say They affirm The Parliament dyed together with the King and so can no longer have a Being yet they keep a clamour to get into the House and then they will be content it shall be a Living Parliament again although the King be Dead and shall serve the turn and he … ed a Full a Free and a Good Parliament but you may suppose to no other purpose but their own Why else did William Pryn and his fellows make such a stir to get in And why doth the 〈◊〉 Pa●er subscribed G. Booth intimate That if the House will let in the Old Members again all shall be as well as if it were a new Virgin Parliament By th●s the world may plainly see it is not the Publick Interest of the Nation though they pretend it but their own which they seek If the seclusion of them be taken off that they may sit then it will be as good a Parliament as it was at first or as any new one can be Speak out then and say O House of Parliament ye shall reign and we will be content provided we may reign with you And who knows forsooth if such a bargain could be made whether they would not upon those terms leave Charls Stuart to commence his Reign Ad Graecas Calendas or Latter-Lammas But they have more wit than to believe such a bargain possible therefore not being able to get into the House their best way is to say it is no Parliament and upon that account keep up a faction to bring in Charls and try whether they can reign with him by perswading the Nation they are undone and neither have nor can have any Government without him Thus far I have argued this business Argumento ad hominem that is to say in a way of Argumentation good against Mr. William Prynne and the men of his party quatenus Prynne and that party so that they above all other men ought to hold their tongues But because it is necessary that both they and the Cavalier Objectors should be confuted and that others should be satisfied and likewise that the mindes of friends should be confirmed and all mens scruples be removed touching the legality and equity of this Parliaments sitting I shall now descend to handle the question Argumento ad Rem that is to say by an Argument to the purpose making good the thing it self as it now stands against the world of Malecontents of what party soever they be and this I will do not by such principles as may be said to be onely our own but from such as are owned by some of those of the Presbyterian party who appear opposite to the Parliament and by others also Royalists of high reputation and judgment in the world This leads me to make Reply unto what our Author further saith viz. That not onely many of the Members of this Parliament are secluded but they were first dissolved by reason of the death of the King that called them so that legally they could sit no longer and at last by the late Protector Which dissolution was acknowledged by as many Members against themselves as sat in intermediate Parliaments Here you see the utmost that the Cavaliers and which Mr. Prynne and the other Malecontents do or can say against this Parliaments sitting For Answer whereunto give me leave to lay down these Prolegomena or Previous Positions which are not points of my own invention but as well founded upon the judgment of the learned as agreeable to my own which perhaps is but weak 1. The first Position is drawn from Mr. Baxters own words in his late Book entituled A holy Commonwealth and I suppose whatever he saith his Brethren will approve He to justifie himself for his finding with the Parliaments Arms against those of the King declareth That the King by the constitution of the Kingdom had the Title of Soveraign but not so as that the Soveraign Power was wholly in him for that according to the constitution was divided betwixt him and the Parliament and so p. 46. he sheweth how that in this Kingdom the Title of Soveraign given to the King was Honorary and ought not to be interpreted contrary to the constitution of the Kingdom which allowed him but a part onely of the Soveraignty So that though the persons representing the people in Parliament were being taken in their personal condition each of them but Subjects yet in respect to the publick constitution of the Kingdom they revera had one part of that Soveraign Power of Parliament as the King had another part and could really claim no more but his part in the Acts of Supremacy For proof of this Mr. Baxter in Page 463 464 465 466. citeth the Kings own Answer to the Nineteen Propositions and from thence inferre that large his Royal acknowledgment of the truth of this assertion therefore I suppose neither the Cavaliers will contradict this seeing the King acknowledged it nor the Presbyterians because not onely Mr. Baxter writes this but because also they all engaged in the War upon this principle for the Parliament against the King and questionless a righteous principle of engagement it was 2. This leads me to a second Position viz. That in a Kingdom where the Soveraignty is so divided if the King shall grow insolent and by Arms seek to invade that part of the Soveraignty which belongs to the people in Parliament he may by arms be lawfully opposed For proof of this Mr. Baxter because he would now be courteous with the Cavaliers and win them citeth the judgments of two the most learned Royalists that this later Age hath produced viz. Barclay and Grotius which citations being large I for brevities sake omit them onely one out of Grotius give me leave to repeat in English because it hath the full sence of the rest It is this If the Authority be divided betwixt a King and the People in Parliament so that the King hath one part of is the people another the King offering to encroach upon that part which is none of his may lawfully be opposed by Arms because be exceeds the bounds of his Authority And not only so but he may lose his own part likemise by the Law of Arms. 3. The third Position is That a King carrying on a War upon such terms against the people to the death and destruction of his people while they are contending for their right remaine no longer a King having dissolved the constitution of the Kingdom but hath lost his Kingdom and becoms an enemy and a private person For proof of this against the Cavaliers Barclay the great Champion of

Monarchy in his Book Contra Monarchomacos doth grant it onely he saith Vix videtur id accidere posse in Rege meni is compote It seems almost impossible a King should be so mad as to proceed on that manner and yet we all know who was so mad as to do it And for further proof of it both against Cavaliers and Malecontented Presbyterians together the same Mr. B. in Page 483. tells us That Grotius and other learned Politicians conclude That if a King shall thus make himself an enemy of the people engaging in War against them he deposeth himself and may be used by them as 〈◊〉 enemy 4. The Fourth Position is That the constitution of the Kingdom being by this means dissolved and the Nation put into a state of War being divided into two parties these two parties though really they make but one Nation yet during the War they are no longer to be reckoned as one Nation but as two Nations contending for distinct Rights So saith Mr. Baxters Royal friend Grotius in his Tract De Legatis 5. The Fifth Position is That if while the War lasteth the two parties are to be reputed two Nations then the Rights and Laws of War do belong unto either party against the other as absolutely as they can belong unto one Nation against another when they are at War Besides that this is confessed the Reason is evident because no War can be managed or regulated unless Jura belli the Laws of War be admitted for the direction and decision of matters relating to the Warlick occasion and Controversie The state of War hath its known Laws among the Nations as well as the Civil state of a Kingdom or Commonwealth hath known Laws in its particular Nation whereby matters of difference are to be ended This is a confessed point Why else are so many Books extant touching the Laws of War The main point of the Soveraignties being divided heretofore betwixt the King and the Parliament and acknowledged to be so by the King himself and the other Positions premised being proved by the Testimonies of such as are reverenced by both Royalists and Presbyterians I trust then that by building upon Foundations of their own I shall give both of them satisfaction in the Building and be able to convince them that there is both Law and Reason for the sitting of this Parliament As to the grand Argument which both our Author Mr. Pryn and others doe use that according to Law the Parliament was dissolved by the Kings death T is true that it was so provided by Law that the death of a King dissolved a Parliament but you are to observe that this was a Law relating to the Constitution of Parliament in the ordinary Course of its regulation and respecting only the formality of the Writ summoning the Parliament to advise with the particular person of the King in whose name the writ was issued forth and truly when the old Constitution remained without disturbance it was reason it should be retained in its ordinary Course but in an extraordinary case as that of this Parliament hath been in all the great revolutions from first to last when the very Constitution Parlamentary it self as to the nature of the Powers and Rights of the several parties King and people therein concerned fell under Question and when the sword was drawn betwixt the parties to decide it and the King persisted to claim the whole Right of Soveraignty contrary to that antient Constitution and referred his Claim to the determination of the sword and thereby according to the equity of our sundamental Laws sorfeited his Kingship and became a private person dissolved the Constitution of the Kingdom introduced another Law viz. the Law of Arms to trie his Cause by and pleaded it with sword in hand to the very last is it reason in such an extraordinary Case of this that the surviving party of that King should ground an Argument upon the formalities and ordinary usages of a Constitution whenas that Constitution it self hath by the King himself been dissolved long agoe what legall or rational Plea can now be made upon the account of his Regal capacity who by proceeding contrary to the very Law and nature of the Constitution upon which he stood justly lost all the Benefit of it and became a private person and having made himself an enemy to the people deposed himself as Mr. Baxter tels you out of Grotius and therefore might be used as an enemy with what face I say can any man after all this talk of Law in relation to him who had not only violated all Law in the Branches but pluckt up the very root of it in destroying the Parlamentary establishment of the Kingdom as much as in him lay and would refer himself to no Law but as I said before the Law of warr Let the impartial part of the world then yea and our Adversaries themselves from their own very doctrines here cited be Judges The consideration of these particulars may serve sufficiently to clear 1. The justice of secluding those Members who in endevouring to bring the King after all to the Throne again made themselves Criminals because they would by treacherie have betraied the whole Soveraignty contrary to the Fundamental Law of the Constitution into his hands which Seclusion is to be justified not only by the Law of Necessity as they pleaded that acted it but by the Law of the Land which might have called them to account for their lives and also by the Law of Nations which in such case as this alloweth the victorious part of the People to create a new Law for another Constitution of Government 2. This shews the sufficiencie of that Authority which brought the late King to Justice According to the Royal and Presbyterian doctrins he made himself a private person as well as a publick Enemy therefore having shed so much blood and done so many mischiefs deserving death he might legally being a private man be put to his Trial according to Law for lesser Crimes as well as for that transcendent Crime of dissolving the Fundamental Constitution of the Kingdom by warring for the whole Soveraignty in himself 3. This sheweth as is hinted before the Legality of the remaining Parliaments sitting to form a new Government for though they were but a part of the Parliament heretofore yet being the only ones that remained faithful to the Peoples Quarrel against their Enemy the King and the former Government having been as the forecited Authors confess dissolved by the King himself certainly the Law of God the Law of Nature and the Law of the Land intending there should be some Government and the Law of War which the King himself brought in having transmitted the Soveraign Power into their hands for the People they by all manner of Laws are avowed to be the Supreme Authority and Parliament of England and therefore legally qualified to sit to secure and settle a new Fundamental Law of

Interest will not Lie Or a View of ENGLAND'S True Interest In reference to the PAPIST ROYALIST PRESBYTERIAN BAPTISED NEUTER ARMY PARLIAMENT City of LONDON In refutation of a treasonable Pamphlet entituled The Interest of England stated Wherein the Author of it pretends to discover a way how to satisfie all Parties before-mentioned and provide for the Publick Good by calling in the Son of the late King c. Against whom it is here proved That it is really the Interest of every Party except only the Papist to keep him out And whatever hath been objected by Mr. William Pryn or other Malcontents in order to the restoring of that Family or against the legality of this Parliament's sitting is here answer'd by Arguments drawn from Mr Baxter's late Book called A Holy Commonwealth for the satisfaction of them of the Presbyterian way and from Writings of the most learned Royalists to convince those of the Royal Party By MAR. NEDHAM London Printed by Tho. Newcomb dwelling over-against Bainards-Castle in Thames-street 1659. Interest will not lie Or A View of ENGLAND'S True Interest c. The Preamble IT is a Maxim among Politicians That Interest will not lie Which prudential saying hath a twofold sense the improving whereof is very useful to a man either in the conduct of his own Affairs or in discerning the conduct and end of the Affairs and enterprises of other men One sense of it may be this That if you can apprehend wherein a man's Interest to any particular Game on foot doth consist you may surely know if the man be prudent whereabout to have him that is how to judge of his designe For which way soever you foresee his Interest doth in prudence dispose him that way provided he be so wise as to understand his own Concernment he will be sure to go and so his Interest provided also that in your calculation thereof you be not mistaken will not lie to you it will not deceive you in your judgement concerning the mans Intents and Proceedings The other sense of that Maxim is That if a man state his own Interest aright and keep close to it it wil not lie to him or deceive him in the prosecution of his Aims and ends of Good unto himself nor suffer him to be missed or drawn aside by specious pretences to serve the ends and purposes of other men This being so and Designs being now generally laid to engage the People a new in blood and confusion and this fawning Pamphlet having for the same cause been dispersed throughout the Three Nations it was necessary for the right information of our Countrimen of all Parties to give them a view of their true Interests for fear lest by this and the other treasonable Papers which fly up and down or through the slie insinuations and perswasions of cunning men any one Party should happen to be seduced from a right understanding of their Interest at such a time as this and imbarque themselves for the Interest of a Publick Enemy upon supposition of attaining thereby their own and the Publick welfare Therefore give me leave to trace and overtake the Deceiver I mean this Author in his own Method in the prosecution whereof I shall endeavor to manifest That as it is a main Point of Interest among the Grandee-Cavaliers both here and beyond-sea by spreading Libels false Rumors fair Promises subtile Arguments of Perswasion and all other waies imaginable to rub mens discontents and bewitch their senses that they may not be able to discern their own Concernments So on the other side We who are the People of all Parties considering that those Cavalier-Grandees are concerned to draw us in if they can to do their drudgery in War at the hazard of our Necks ought to conceive it a principal part of our Interest to understand theirs and not to suffer our selves to be trepann'd by fine pretences and devices to venture our own bloods and shed the blood of others for the erecting of their greatness upon our own particular and the general Ruine And because this Author saith one thing well That the real go●d of the Nation consists not in the private benefit of single men but the advantage of the Publi●k and that it is made up not by the welfare of any one Party but of all Therefore when I have made it appear by scanning the Interests and Concernments of all Parties among us that no one party no not the Royalists themselves except only the Papist can hope for any good by the restitution of Charls Stuart but must necessarily partake in the common calamity as well as others then I suppose the Conclusion will naturally follow That it is the Interest of all to keep him out SECTION I. Of the Papist whom our Author calls by the more splendid name of Roman Catholick HIs words are these T is the Interest of the Roman Catholicks to bring in the King for by that means the heavy paiments now on their estates with other burthens will be taken off And as to the pressures of Penal Laws they cannot but remember how far from grievous they were in the late Kings time the Catholicks living here notwithstanding them in more flourishing condition than those of France Italy or Spain did under their respective Princes and would do infinitely more under their natural King than if any Foreiner should acquire the Power by Conquest Besides they generally having adhered to the late King in his Wars have no reason to distrust a favorable treatment from his Son 'T is well done of our Author to speak out and what he saith we will easily grant for the Papists cannot deny their own Interest so far as not to endevour by all means imaginable to restore the Son who hath made as fair professions to the Pope as ever the Father did and no doubt he would were he restored as really perform them We cannot forget what Transactions passed betwixt his Father and the Court of Rome at the time of his being in Spain and what a Letter of assurance he then wrote to his Holines nor how both the Father and Grandfather betrayed the Protestan Cause in Germany France and all over the world and how that to make way for Popery Superstition was countenanced Papists preferred to greatest places of Trust and were in greatest credit at Court while the best sort of Professors were forced to quite the Nation and retire into wildernesses in another world But to encourage Papists they as our Author saith had all burthens taken away from them and lived here in a more flourishing condition than those of France Italy or Spain did in their own countries He doth well also to remember us how close they stuck to the late King in his wars and we cannot forget that they had reason considering how close he stuck to them They know how it came about that some Hundred thousands of Protestants were by unheard of and most inhumane butcheries offered up in sacrifice

man get in who is heir to the principles as well as the pretensions of his family And what a friend that Family hath been to Religion and its Professors is worthy of your most serious consideration If we view them in their English Extraction the Book of Martyrs will tell you how the Sluces of Blood were opened by King Henry and his Daughter Mary If we look on the Scotish side it is sad to consider how much blood was spilt by her of the House of Lorraine who was our King James his Grandmother She being gone her Daughter King James his Mother Mary a fierce Papist succeeded who after she had massacred her own Husband the Father of James by poison Gun-powder and halter for the love she bare to Davie and Earl Bothwel her Adulterers persecuted all of the Reformed Religion endeavored to poison James her own Son shed blood likewise by raising Civil War at home against her Protestant Subjects and conspired with forein Papists to destroy Queen Elizabeth For all which God found her out and gave her a due reward by the loss of her head in Fotheringay Castle The next was King JAMES who wrote his Beati Pacifici in blood too For to say nothing of the death of Overbury which blood he took upon himself by pardoning the Murtherers nor of that of Raleigh meerly to serve a turn of State it is well known his son Henry came to an untimely death and though it be not directly known by what hand he was taken away yet as a late Historian observes there was a strange connivence and little mourning at Court after it was done To these may be added not unjustly the Blood of the poor Protestants in Germany which must be laid upon the score of that Family for had K. James performed the duty of a good Protestant or a loving Father he might if he had pleased have presently stopt the Issue that ran there 30 years together I might insist likewise upon his son the late Kings betraying the Protestant Cause also in Germany and throughout France especially at Rochel where under a fained pretence of assisting the Protestants with ships c. he gave order to his shipping to serve on the contrary side to the utter ruine of that Cause and Party in France and the loss of many gallant English-men's lives by him exposed to destruction for when Buckingham was questioned for it in Parliament the King himself to signifie to all the world that what his Favorite had done was by his own approbation stept between the Duke and the Parliament and so took the guilt of all upon himself All which most treacherous Actions towards them of our Religion abroad were in those daies and have been ever since resented by all the Protestants throughout Europe and the present exclusion of that Family is lookt on now by the most pious of the Nations round about as a just recompence which they have long expected to fall from the hand of God upon the Family for the Treachery of their Fathers toward his Church and people But that which exceeds all comparison is their guilt in reference to the barbarous Massacre in Ireland No more of this but that it cannot be imagined any Religious man who hath heard of these things should imbarque himself with such a Family the guilt whereof hath hitherto sunk all the partakers I might likewise add the Negotiations of the Young man that now is with the Pope by his Agents at Rome Copies whereof I have by me in Italian Latine and French and shall in due time publish them Thirdly if Religion cannot move ye what thinke ye of your Liberties and the Nations Liberties Promises are but Baits that may draw you to the Net The Chronicles will tell you that when K. John had granted Magna Charta and Charta Forestae because he could not help it and 25 persons were chosen as Trustees for the people in the Government yet the King after a short time worm'd them out of all power and undid all that he had done before and was revenged at last upon them all The like misery fell out by trusting Henry the Third who having warred with his people they got the better one while and the another and these vicissitudes were frequent betwixt them and all that the people gained by trusting him was the better learning of this Lesson Put no confidence in Princes for at every turn no sooner did he by subtilty get the Power but he fell heavy upon those that had opposed him especially the Londoners whose Charter he called in and all his daies after made them examples of his vengeance the like he did to the other Corporations So Richard the second becau●e the Londoners had opposed him as soon as he got opportunity he cusrtailed their priviledges and placed continuall marks of his displeasure upon them I need not instance how neer Edward the First was to have burned the City upon the same account after he had plagued it over and over because I would not be tedious in particularising these or in citing other Instances out of our own stories which every one may read at leisure Fourthly admit that Charls himself would be of his own inclination better than his Predecessors yet his party are hungry and will not be satisfied And he having occasion to use them must not denie them their pleasure but must above all things keep his own party in heart else they will not be firm to him and so he may be exposed to danger from all other parties whom it will be his Interest to hold under that they may never be in condition again to lift him out of the saddle No doubt but he and they will remember his Fathers words in a particular manner The pride and power of the City of London Fifthly as to the pretended Title of this young man pray you what is it It will be found upon search like all the rest of the Titles founded upon usurpation one after another since the Conquest If we look up to Henry the Seventh its original there will be little cause to admire it for he only descended from a Bastard of John of Gaunt who though ligitimated for Common Inheritances yet was expresly excluded by Law from Succession to the Crown And as for his Wives Title you know he never thought that worth the using and yet from this spurious slip of the Lancastrian Root it was that King James derived his Claim and that but collaterally or at Second Hand being in effect a meer Stranger in blood to the English whereupon we may justly wonder what Policy guided this Nation in those days when it so strangely bowed down its Neck to the Yoak of a Stranger But admit this Title had been without Flaws in its derivation yet this Man's Fathers Treasons and his own as is proved in the former Section have most deservedly caused the cutting off the Entaile Besides it is evident what a Governor for you this Pretender would prove who suckt in his Fathers Principles with his Mothers milk hath been bred up under the Wings of Prelacie and Popery and as he suck't both brests heretofore so he hangs upon them both at this very day One who from the beginning was engaged against the Cause of the Commonwealth and your City and who hath the same Counsellers his Father had besides a more intimate acquaintance acquired beyond Sea with the Jesuits to remember him both of the old Designe and the ways to effect it one who hath been bedabled in the Blood of England Scotland and Ireland and hath both his Father's and his own Scores to clear out of your Purses and hath long made it his Business to cajole and cheat all parties in hope thereby to get in upon us with a desperate Rabble at his heels to execute his Revenges What shall we say then of such men that now make shipwrack of their own Principles to seek to let him in and would be opening sluces of blood out of their Countrimen and nearest Relations for the Interest of their own and the publick Enemy Lastly as to what concerns your Trade its easie to guess what will become of that when it shall be counted Reason of State to keep you poor and low For the inference is ready at hand for him viz. That if the Father complained of Pride and Power in you and hath recorded that from thence proceeded the first Causes of his ruine then the son is concerned to pull down your pride if I may use the Royal phrase and hold a strong hand over you And how do you think Trade can thrive upon his restitution when as you may read in the third fourth and fifth Sections there will be a necessity of trebling Taxes and perpetuating of them past remedie to maintaine another kind of Army than we have now to tame dissenting Parties and to keep the Nation in an asinine posture of submission to bear all burthens that shall be laid either upon the Estate or the Conscience by the Lords of the Court and the Lordanes of Episcopacie As Trade therefore is the particular Interest of your City so be wary that the want of it at present do not irritate you to fall out with the publick Interest of your Country but remember that it being once setled Trade and all other Concernments will soon flourish again and that the way to settlement must be as our Author well said by giving satisfaction to all parties which as I have before manifested from his own words cannot be expected from C Stuart and his party but may and will be easily had from the way of a free Common-wealth so that all we have to doe is to stick close to the Parliament that they may be enabled to establish it and employ our utmost to keep him out because otherwise war will follow and that will inevitably bring on a destruction of Trade with the ruine of Religion Liberty and your Renowned City All which may prosper if ye please 'T is you that have given all this Pail of good Milk and what a thing would it be that any of you should aim to kick it down in the dirt En quò discordia Cives Perducet miseros Westminster Aug. 12. 1669. 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