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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88002	A letter really written by a moderate Cavallier to an intelligent and moderate Independent of trust and credit in the now marching army. Occasioned by a discourse between them entertained at London, June 16th concerning the present grand affaire.	Moderate Cavallier.	1647 (1647)	Wing L1587; Thomason E394_4; ESTC R201619	2,276	7

A LETTER Really written by a MODERATE CAVALLIER TO AN Intelligent and Moderate Independent of Trust and Credit IN THE Now Marching Army Occasioned by a Discourse between them entertained at London June 16 th concerning the present Grand Affaire June 26 LONDON Printed Ann. Dom. 1647. A LETTER Really written by a Moderate Cavallier to an Intelligent and Moderate Independent of Trust and Credit in the Now Marching Army Honoured Sir VVHen I looke back upon ray promise I am at a doubt whether I should be still your debtor or make payment with Coyne lesse current by clipping or allay of which there is an unavoydable necessitie the shortnesse of time not sorting with a liberty to write much and the greatnesse of the subject requiring to write nothing but what may abide the Test But having a confidence that your goodnesse will bury my errours by a kind suppression I can the better adventure upon your judgement which will communicate nothing that may be of no farther use then the reproofe of the Writer It is a Chrysis of time wherein each man labours of expectation and before the maine Birth which we hope will be specious be produced there is a production of Monsters according as the various size of mens understandings the condition and interest of many and the feares and guilt of not a few doe frame suggestions It is and must be neverthelesse the glory of that Army which now makes businesse for every thought to be pious in and constant to prepensed Principles that accident which will be encountred make no visible Mutation in the maine Designe of the contexure of which your yesterday Discourse seconding his Excellencies Declaration begot in me a very wealthy Opinion And to the progresse and value of which I hope the scandals and pretences scattered will be neither a Remora nor an Allay The cure of every Malady is then most easie when the Disease it selfe is throughliest knowne This Common-wealth was six yeares fithence pretended to be sicke and was committed into the hands of Physicians who have practised upon the body by Purgings and Phlebotomie till if before it abounded with ill humours it is now deficient in good bloud and spirits and rather put into a condition to be still wrought upon untill destroyed then in any way of health or renewed strength after so long a languishing Certainly it is now high time to change its Doctors and finde out such who will apply some cordials and restauratives to a worne-out body and recover it by degrees towards which they may make advantage of the past Errours committed by such who have pretended to operate for its health viz. an Eradication of the Kings Prerorogative while they pretended onely a circumscription or modest limitation A Monopolising of power by pretence of Law against Law and confounding all freedome in Notionall and Phantastick at least unascertained Priviledges An unbounded Liberty given at first to the Plebs while it conduced to ends and at last a shortning of Liberty and Property into a Vassalage and slavery And in all a totall defection wrought in the Government and Countenance both of Church and State and a shufling of order and Discipline into rudenesse and Indistinction The Publique-Faith the Kingdomes reputation hackneyed upon all occasions and forfeited at last and the Souldiers after having served a purpose so farre as that it was able to walke alone without so costly supporters neglected and affronted in pay and credit In so farre that if the Land were or invaded by a Forraine or embroyled with an intestine Enemy those Mannagers could neither finde Coine nor Hands to officiate to its preservation or defence And albeit we have not Lawes to the Letter of which these misdemeanors are applyable by the names of Treasons yet taking their own liberty of supposing constructive Treasons their reduction of this distempered Kingdome in these years past to its present condition will carry a sence of a complicate crime not lesse then for what they have sought and taken the blouds of some and those no obscure persons No man will therefore reprove your Armies Demand of those Members who are conceived guilty of these heights of Impiety but each moderate man will hope that they shall not be denied though it were just to them if they were the Liberties of a legall triall though themselves and partie give out that a triall by the Law Martiall is onely intended for them yet the Common Lawes will bee found sharpe enough to correct them and doubtlesse God will bee better pleased with the sacrificing of such men by the hand of Iustice then with their familiar Solemnities and Celebrations of Fasts by which they have upheld a reverence in opinion to their godlesse actions You have a great Worke to doe to restore Religion and Law upon which depends the Kings re-enthronement and re-investure with his just rights the Parliaments ascertainment of their just power and equall Priviledges and the peoples restorement to their known Liberties and Properties as to their limitted and fitting obedience and subjection which all are so concatenate as that an omission of either makes the whole worke ineffectuall and leaves the Common-wealth in a condition prepared for new and bad impressions and subjected to changes as occasion which will not be long unoffered shal be administred to its innovation What influence honor or comfort can be derivable from a King meerly nominall what converse can there be with a people impoverisht and embased and what Peace with a people uncircumscribed and irregulate what expectation of Iustice from an aggregate number of men entrusted with a Kingdomes concernment who will pretend to have no boundaries for their Priviledges but an involution of all dispository power of the peoples lives and fortunes which the free condition I meane the antient freedome of this Nation not yet extinct in the English breasts will no more rellish then Kings will Rebellion or then Subjects Tyranny If you come therefore as I will untill otherwise convinced believe prepared to state the case of the Kingdom and to stand by as Protectors to Justice while it dispenceth equally to King Parl. and People your swords will be the honour'd propagators the whole Kingdom the happy partakers of a lasting Peaces but if a defection be in advancing any of those great concernes we shall have but a seeming quiet or Cessation meerly to take breath for a new Embroilment and have found away by a slight skinning of a sore to fit it for exulceration and by pretermitting a part of the remedy prescribed to render the disease incurable Iunii 17. 1647. Sir I am Your affectionate friend and humble Servant FINIS