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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

free consent and pious suffrages of so many most worthy Princes and lawfull and questionlesse Parliaments And as your Majesties ever loyal Subjects do much congratulate and highly commend the good endeavours of all such and do envie none of their present honours as have late in any degree been instrumental towards the so happy just and royal accesse of your Majesty to your Crownes and Kingdome so I beleeve it can never enter into any of their Imaginations that your Majestie in your true justice and judgement will ever in the least degree undervalue or neglect those that have at the first ventured their Live● 〈◊〉 and Fortunes for the keeping and preserving of your Majesties blessed Father and his lawfull Heires and Successors if it had so pleased God in their just and Royall rights without any alteration or diminution for those were the true Subjects that strived to nip Rebellion in the bud And if others after their so long strong seductions be now by the mercy of God returned to their due Allegeance and have done any acceptable service to their King and Country let them bless and thank God for it and not be elevated in their mindes as if they had done some strange work of supererogation when alas all that they have performed is but the ministring of an emplaster to the ●ores of some of their own making and what the exigencies and extremities of themselves and their Native country did enforce them unto and what was also commanded and required at their hands by the Law of God Nature and Nations and by the municipal Lawes of their proper Countrie which how obsolete they were become and how grossely and persidiously the same were wrested and abused both in the letter and sense by too many that impudently presumed to deal therein both a● Bar and Bench for the venerable regard which I am bound to bear to the gravitie and honour of that profession I am most heartily sorrie and much ashamed to remember And if any have so far forgotten the discipline of their own Profession as they be abashed to think of any return or retrospect thereunto yet having now abandoned their uncivil courses if they will turn so civil as to cast an eye upon the first Paragraph of Justinians law they shall see that Justitia est constans perpetua voluntas jus suum cuique tribuendi whereby they may plainlie perceive that whatsoever hath been transacted in or towards the restauration of your Majesties rights or the Countries liberties is but an act of justice and then no men of integritie will ever expect a bribe or reward for their well doing But if by your Majesties roial beneficence any of them do or shall still meet with honours large benefits or other advancements yet in truth and equitie they ought to esteem them all as meer acts of grace and no otherwise For a natural born subject is by Conscience and Allegeance strictly bound to the service of his lawfull Soveraign when he hath done his deepest devoires in helping him to so rich a jewell as a Kingdom that is his right yet hath the Subject acted no more then his duty requireth if he should afterwards be denied a promised reward for his paines yet in truth and equitie he ought not to repine thereat and this in effect as I remember was the opinion of the learned Counsell of Conscience to a mightie Monarch in Christendom upon a question propounded upon the like occasion I doe insert this to preserve some from being betraied by vain-glorie and not to perswade your Majestie to be too parsimonious of your Favours when desert requireth Honos enim alit artes c. and although it be true that Virtus in se perfecta est nudo bomine contenta yet I beleeve that Candor virtutis per munificentiam principis saepè nutritus est Constancie and confidence are very requisite virtues in an eminent Prince but as he is confident so he must also be cautious Qui ante non cavet post doleat and I doubt not but that your Majestie hath cast your judicious eye upon some passages of the Historie concerning the life and successe of Lewis the IVth King of France which was for many years an ●xile from his right and that your Grace is also well read in those prudent and politick instructions that Charles the Fifth and famous Emperour of Germanie did once give unto his dearly beloved Son Philip the 2d. King of Spaine But a Prince that will truly prosper must take God to be the Alpha and Omega the first and the last the beginning and ending of all his intentions and actions the word of Truth is the best compasse both in calme and tempest that he can steere his course withall and to utter the very thoughts of my heart the most strange and miraculous Deliverances which your Grace hath received from the power and hand of Heaven do sufficiently inform my belief that you have truly taken that Word for a light to your feet and a lanthorn to your steps And that God Almighty hath hitherto preserved and raised up your most Royal Gracious and Sacred Majesty and your Royal Heroick and Magnanimous Brother that armipotent Duke of York for some memorable adventures and noble exploits to be performed on the earth to all your High Renowns and to his own eternal glory And next to the Sacred Scripture of Gods own Pen-men I believe that your Majesty without offence may have an especial regard to the godly Writings and pious Admonitions of your truly Religious and Royal Father of Glorious memory the true and transcendent Charity of a Christian at the point of death doth forgive all the World and yet this doth not tye the hands of such as survive from the due performance of Justice according to the Precepts of the Law of God or Man Justice and Judgement are of so Divine a nature as they be called the Habitation of Gods Throne and Mercy and Truth shall go before his Face and when Mercy and Truth do meet together then Righteousnesse and Peace will kisse each other and I doubt not but that your Majesty is Divinely taught by the Spirit of God how to establish your Throne in Righteousness and Solomon again sayth that because Sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the children of men is fully set in them to do evill And there be too many yet in this Kingdom with the grief of my Soul I speak it that be but slenderly convinced of the foul Facts of their late most impious absurd seditious errours and it were lamentable if that saying Impunit as semper ad deteriora invitat should be verified in any of them such as be truly humbled for their former offences will hang down their heads and obscure themselves and not seek and still strive to look up alost as if they forsooth had been ever free from all tincture of Treachery a mist may

Judas-like betray'd their Faith's defender VVhom next to Jesus Christ they did dilate A Supreme Governour in the Church and State Are they not void of true Religion's sense That dare not preach against that foul offence VVhat Christian heart that doth not sore lament VVho lives on earth that needs not to repent Our crying sins from Gods impartial hand Have pull'd these Plagues on this unhappy Land But God will lend a more propitious eye If we this Rebel-devil do defie And frame our practise by St. Peters tenor To fear our God and earthly King to honor For if in truth we long to take delight VVe must relinquish all Rebellion quite And to the Lawes both Humane and Divine Our Hearts estrang'd obedience must incline And if we wish good dayes and happy chance Our Second Charles his Name we must advance Gloria Deo Soli. In honour of the Birth day of his Royal Majesty King CHARLES the Il. With an Encomium upon the Lord Generall George Monk Written in May 1660. YOu mournfull Muses of these Brittish Isles Now cast off care and deck your face in smiles Advance your tones with melody to sing And celebrate the Birth of CHARLES our King Let Bon-fires burn let Princely musick play This Halcy on happy twenty ninth of May When God these Nations with a Prince did bless Virtue and true Religion to profess Whose Valour and endowments to rehearse Would daunt the Monarchs of this Universe And whose decreed as my fancy rings To place his Throne above all Earthly Kings And give Religion a bright lustre far Beyond the force of any English Star And Christian Faith that 's Orthodox defend So far as Phoebus shall his beams extend 'T is for some high design that this brave Prince So long hath been preserv'd by Providence A chosen shaft in the Almighties quiver To pierce the Pope and make the Turk to shiver Then let 's salute his Grace with state and glory And not forget to sing the famous story Of him who hath so instrumental been To wellcome King and Government agen That brave old Heroe that hath shined forth So rarely from that late unlucky North And let no loyal Scot his Bag-pipes lay Obscure so long as he hath breath to play Let English Scottish Irish sound his praise Give holy Monk a Crown of Sacred Bayes Were I but of the Romish Churches dition I sure should doat on Monkish Superstition Howsoe'er the name I needs must honour still With a true genius and officious quill And will no more account St. George a fiction Since George is Englands Champion in affliction The first with courage stout did once repair To succour Sabra Ethnick Aegypts Heir With Sword and Lance he did the Dragon quell But this hath quencht the fire-brands of Hell Such Hydra Monsters as his labour 's more Then Hercules had e're perform'd before And by his prudent valour made a way To dump our darknesse and to spring the day Of all our hopes and made us bold to render Our true Allegiance to our Faiths Defender What Subject lives in all our English quarter That merits more to wear the George and Garter In honours Emblems he may share a part Hath born so much their Motto in his heart Our Soveraign sure will have regard to such As have adventur'd and deserv'd so much And may his off-spring to perfection come And prime their Fortunes till the day of Doom And may they flourish with renown the rather As Branches of so just a Loyal Father May the just Guerdons of such Royall Ideroes Confound the projects of all bloudy Neroes May showers of grace descend with Heavens amends On our brave King and all his faithfull Friends And Christian mercy and true justice meet Reciprocall in every publick street And that these blessings may these Realms befall Let 's cry to God Creator of us all Let City Town and Country ring With Ecchoes loud GOD SAVE THE KING John Winlock Written by the Author about the year 1644 and sent to his Wife when she and his Children were in great want and calamity together DEarest Companion of my blooming years The memory of whose Virgins love appears Still fresh and pleasant in my constant mind As when my thoughts to love were first inclin'd Accept this kindnesse I thee gently pray A Token true my Love doth not decay Religious Love is constant firm and sure Grounded on Truth that ever shall endure When frail affection by each slender Crime Shall blemisht be and quite outworn by time But think not loving Soul that time or trouble That change of Fortunes or Afflictions double That Youths decay that frustrate hopes or losses Domestick jarrs or all such wedlock crosses Or all thy Feminine frallties ever can Make me to thee a false unconstant man No I resolve in love to live and dye And leave Memorials of my Constancie To my Posteritie which may them guide An honest Wife to honour like a Bride Upon her Nuptiall day when Friends agree To Crown her Fortunes with felicity Even so I wish God knows with all my power To cause thy true content each day and hour That I shall live and what hath been amisse Between us Love let 's quit our selves in this That for thy failings thou shalt pardon have And the like grace at thy sweet hands I crave This Christian course will make affection truer Sweeten our Sorrowes and Gods love procure If we endeavour our defects to mend And for relief on Christ alone depend This will us arme against the Worlds assaults And sweetly cover all our former faults This will a comfort to our Conscience be What better blessing in Extremity No refuge here like Faith no stay so sure No feast on Earth without a Conscience pure But having that Gods Angels all agree To guard our Tents and we shall blessed be Inspite of Enemies of degenerate mind Inspite of Fortunes frown or Friends unkind Inspite of all Oppression fraud or guile Inspite of rapine schisme and treason vile Though Satan rage and all that hellish rout From all afflictions God will help us out Afflictions cup our Saviour drank before us And he again to comfort can restore us If we with Faith and patience wait his will As he hath done he will protest us still Which grace Jehovah grauut us to our end So prayes thy Spouse thy Loyal Faithfull Friend J. Wenlock Written to a Gentlewoman about the year 1643. from whom the Author had then received a Letter of some very harsh news Vl●tuous and Honour'd Lady if my quill Had Virtue to expresse my hearts good will Not all the Worlds distractions could prevent My Muse from flowing to your sweet content In high strain'd Poem● which in spite of Fear Might lend you courage to abandon care And force a sweet smile from that lovely face That Embleme true of Modesty and grace But these sad noises in the Lawyers Skull Do make his Poets fancy wondro●s dull Yet to tell truth there is