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A67890	The three royall cedars or Great Brittains glorious diamonds, being a royal court narrative of the proceedings ... of ... Charles by the grace of God, King of Great Brittain, France and Ireland, His Highness Prince James Duke of York, and the most illustrious Prince. Henry Duke of Glocester. With a brief history of their memorable transactions ... since their too-much-lamented Fxile [sic] in Flanders, and the Lord Chancellour Hide, the Marquess of Ormond, the Earl of Norwich, the Lord Wentworth, the Lord Digby, and many other nobles and gentlemen, created lords of his Majesties privie-council. Also, the resplendent vertues appearing in these princely pearles, to the great joy of all loyal subjects ... By E. Sanders Esq; a lover of his countries liberty, and a loyal subject and servant to his Sacred Majesty.	Sanders, Edward, 17th cent.	1660 (1660)	Wing S573; ESTC R208691	5,867	10

The Three Royall CEDARS Or Great Brittains Glorious DIAMONDS BEING A Royal Court NARRATIVE of the Proceedings Travels Letters Conferences Speeches and conspicuous Resolutions of the most High and Renowned KING CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France and Ireland His Highness Prince James Duke of York and the most Illustrious Prince Henry Duke of Glocester With a brief History of their memorable Transactions Results and judicious Councels since their too-much-lamented Exile in Flanders and the Lord Chancellour Hide the Marquess of Ormond the Earl of Norwich the Lord Wentworth the Lord Digby and many other Nobles and Gentlemen created Lords of his Majesties Privie-Council Also The resplendent Vertues appearing in these Princely Pearles to the great joy of all Loyal Subjects who have for their Sovereign a just KING to Govern a Valiant DUKE to Defend and a Wise COUNSELLOR to Advise By E. Sanders Esq a Lover of his Countries Liberty and a Loyal Subject and Servant to his Sacred Majesty LONDON Printed for G. Horton living near the three Crowns in Barbican 1660. The Three ROYAL CEDARS DIvine Providence having been pleased to return the Subject to his due Allegiance and to give encouragement to those who have constantly continued Loyal that they may at length once more enjoy happiness and every man sit under his own Vine and under his own Figtree which the God of Heaven be praised we have now greater hopes of then ever Moderation and Impartiality are the chiefest Virtues of a Loyal pen 't is such a task I chiefly aim at no less then the difficult Travells of our most high and renowned King with his exiled Nobles Charles the second Heir a parent to the Crown of Great Brittain and Ireland and Crowned King of Scots touching whom I intend to treat He was born on the 29 of May 1630. to the great joy of the King Queen and indeed the whole Kingdom for never yet had England a Prince born of so Noble an extract and Grand Alliance his Father by Lineal right and descent King of Great Brittain and Ireland his Mother Daughter to that thrice Illustrious Prince Henry the 4th King of France and worthily sirnamed the Great and Isabella Infanta of Spain By his Grand mothers side was he near allyed to the Kings of Denmark by the Marriage of his Ant the Noble Princess Elizabeth to the Elector Palatine of Rhine and King of Bohemia and afterwards by the marriage of his Royal Sister the Princess Mary to the Prince of Orange Thus was he allied to most of the most potent Princes in Christendom And happy might this Nation have been under his Government if we may believe the vogue of that wisest of men Solomon who pronounces that Kingdom blessed whose Prince is the Son of Nobles But to return to his Majesty in Flanders of whose itenary life we have already given you a particular account it will not be impertinent to say somewhat of his sedentary and reti●ed living that by his oeconomy we may judge of his Monarchy and of the government of those few subjects in his Family of that of his three Kingdoms His Majesty hath spent most of his time wherein he hath been out of his Dominions in Flanders under the protection of the Catholique King of Spaine● nor had he ever anywhere else so setled a Court and habitation as here where his chief attendants are the Lord Chancellor Hide the Marquis of Ormond the Earl of Norwich the Lord Wentworth the Lord Digby and many others Nobles and Gentlemen whose Loyalty to his sacred Majesty and his Royal Father hath made exiles to their Country a particular number of which he makes use of for his Councell doing nothing without serious and mature advice and yet being of so sagacious a judgement that whatever he sayes is seldome contradicted by the most ju●icious of his Councellors not out of fear or flattery but out of a real assent to and concurrence with his judgement And indeed those great opportunities which he hath had by his so long being abroad of diving into the great Councels of Forr●in Princes and States must necessarily make him a person of a very perspicuous understanding endow him with all those qualities which may deservedly attain the name of Great and render him as well an able Statist as a King he having during his expulsion travelled through and lived in the Countries of three the most potent Princes in Christendom viz. the Emperour 's of Germany and the Kings of Spaine and France and so to the Germain resolution added the Spaniards prudence and the Frenchmans expedition To these extraordinary helps which never Prince in Christendom can boast of we may yet adde those more then ordinary gifts wherewith nature hath been pleased to endow him which being so extreamly improved we can hardly now discern but that it may be known what they were take the character of an Honourable Lord upon his death bed who speaking of him when about fifteen or sixteen yeers of age hath these words Truly I never saw greater hopes of vertue in any young person then in him Great judgement great understanding strong apprehension much of honour in his inclinations So that both nature and industry have seemed to use their utmost endeavours to make him a perfect Prince his very affliction turning in this benefit and making him in knowledge and sufferings the Refiner of knowledge unparralel'd Some forreign Princes as well envying as pittying his expulsion This perfect knowledge of his he hath indeed had but small occasion to practice except a little in Scotland where I think he demonstrated himself a person so prudent and careful in his affairs that it is beyond my pens expression His Subjects good was his onely care nor did he ever act any thing but what might tend more to theirs then his own interest still consulting whether it might benefit them not himself His Letter to Col. Mackworth Governour of Shrewsbury sufficiently demonstrates his affection to his very enemies he would win not conquer the hearts of those who though they have broke their Allegiance to him yet he would esteem still his Subjects He would not conquer with blood lest he should be thought a Tyrant He endeavoues by fair means to attain the love of his Subjects that what ever his very enemies think of him he may approve himself to be a just Prince And did fortune give him power yet would he rather attempt blandishents then force He knows that whilst he kills a Subject he weakens his Kingdom Rebels themselves may be found usefull and though justice cannot yet his Majesties clemency will admit their pardon but if they resist to the utmost their blood is on their own heads What man is not willing to destroy him who he knows would his murderer Thus is his justice and his clemency mixt together he would not kill where he might with safety save Not does his unspott●d innocency raise fancies or fears in him As he

is guilty of nothing so ther 's nothing he fears Whilst he endeavours to be true to his Subjects those endeavours force a belief in him that his Subjects will be true to him His very nature enclines him to a compassion He pities those that will not pitty themselves and whilst they are conspiring his destruction his prayers procure their safety Nor can the utmost of their injuries provoke him to a retalliation He hath learned not onely of God but of the King his Father to forgive his enemies Nor is it his desire to obtain his Kingdoms that makes him willing to forgive his enemies but his desire to forgive his enemies that makes him willing to obtain his Kingdoms he counts the possession of his Royalties but as a transitory dignity the pardon of his enemies a Divine and lasting one Neither is his pitty less then his justice they are both in the Superlative degree he hates wickedness not because the wo●ld should see him glory that would make him an Hypocrite but because God abhors it 't is Love not Fear makes him Religious he Fears God onely because he loves him He hates not the Vicious hut abhominates their Vices his hatred extends not to persons but to things He dislikes not the swearer 't is his Oaths he abhors he hates not the Drunkard but his Drunkennesse Yet does his mercy extend beyond their sins as he is a King so he is a God he is gracious to pardon as well as just to punish nor can a submission or reformation but overtake his remission His constant service of God excites others to live by his example he sleeps not without invoking the blessing of the Almighty nor do his eyes open without a returned thanks He knows 't is God alone which can restore and protect him nor can the wickedness of man prevail against Him Nor does his publick devotion shew him less zealous then his private the one demonstrates him full of Zeal the other void of Hpocrisie he would have others holy as well as himself he knows that saying concerns him being a King above all private Men Non nobis solis nati sumus Private persons are not alone born for themselves muchless Kings the publique concern is their duty 't is not enough for the Master of the house that he be godly whilst his Family is wicked There must be Precept as well as Example and if need be correction as well as instruction This makes his Majestie deservedly famous he counts it as great a fault to suffer a sin in another whilst he hath power to correct it as to commit it himself He knows that what crimes soever a Magistrate suffers willingly to be committed he brings upon his own head He is therefore above all things careful not to farther vice lest he should be accounted vicious he detests that in another which did he commit he knows he might justly detest himself for and endeavours by Example to reform that in others which he knows were it in him would seem odious He abhors vice as well because it is so as because God abhors it His nature inclines him to vertue and as he cannot admit it contrary in himself so he cannot endure it in another His constancy in Religion is no less conspicuous then his piety His discerning judgement knows what is truth and that truth is followed by his setled will Yet he hates not the Popish Religion but their Idolatry he abhors not them but their false worship He loves all that know Christ at all but wishes that they might know him more His stedfastness in Religion proceeds not from self interest he sticks not so much to the true Protestants because he knows the English to be addicted to that Religion because he thinks it for his benefit because he imagines that it would prove very difficill to obtain his Crown and leave it Bvt because he knows it to be true He knows the Prince is born for the people as well as the people for the Prince He knows their interests to be interwoven He knows that without them he cannot stand yet will he sooner loose them relinquish ve●i●y He is the perfect pattern of Piety but more of Patience his afflictions have not made him repine he knowes God to be just he believes that as God restored Job twofold so will he likewise restore unto him his Kingdoms Yet he thinks it just in God to suffer them to be detained from him He laments more his Subjects slavery then his own Exile he grieves that they have been so long blind yet rejoyces for their sakes that they have now a Glimmering he constantly prays for the restoring of their sight not so much because they should restore his as their own Rights and Priviledges He is inwardly troubled and perplexed at the many Schisms Sects and Heresies that are raysed in the Church of England he is sorry that their rise is from some mens envy towards him he pitties and his pitty produces his prayers for them He is willing that though they will not obey him yet that they may serve God He was never heard to curse his enemies many times to pray for them and desi●e God to forgive even his Fathers Murtherers his good will surpasses their cruelty And whilst they are conspiring his destruction he is p●aying for their salvation He is a perfect enemy to all debauchedness he is sorry those who pretend themselves his friends in England are so great a scandal to him He wishes that they would so carry themselves that he might adventure to own them as his friends for he understands not the good will of those who drink his health for the liquors sake nor wishes for their help who over their Sack only swear they will fight for him He is no greater a hater of vice then a cherisher of vertuous actions he loves them in his very enemies and oft he grives when he finds occasion to think that many of them will rise up in Judgment against his most pretended friends He is most exactly just in all his Commands and faithful in performance of all his promises Take the Character given him by the dying Marquess of Montrose For his Ma●esty now living saith he Never People I believe may be more happy in a King his Commands to me were most just in nothing that he promiseth will he fail He deals justly with all men c. So punctual is he that when a word is once gone out of his Mouth he will rather suffer by it then break it To conclude he is the pattern of Patience and Piety the most righteous and justest of Kings The most knowing and experienced of Princes The holiest and the best of Men The severest punisher of vice The strictest rewarder of Virtue The constantest perseverer in Religion And the truest lover of his Subjects This a short Character of his illustrious Majesty which I fear those that know him will rather think to come short of then reach his due praise so sweetly vertuous is he in all his carriages so affable in his discourse so void of passion and anger that he was never yet heard or seen in Chollor the utmost extent of any passion that ever was discerned in him being towards one of his Menial servants who justifying himself in what he had done amiss his Majesty with some motion told him that he was an insolent fellow Yet this is that Prince whose vertues we have given leave to Forraign Nations to admire whilst we our selves have ●ested as well ignorant of his deserts as destitute of our own Liberty whilst either infatuated or blinded by those who have Tyrannically usurped governments over us we have been contented to sit still and see him expul●ed and exiled from his due Rights and Royalties and our selves from our Freedom and Priviledges Nor hath God alone been mercifull to us in endowing his sacred Majesty with such Heroick virtues but he hath given us a stock of Noble Princes who seem to emulate Virtue in one another and grow up like Royall Oaks to maintain the honour and glory of this Nation but are yet and have a long time been the disgrace of it all the Nations in Europe laughing at the English folly who slight that happiness which they might enjoy As for the illustrious Duke of York his Fame is spread so far over the World that my self have heard the very Turks commend and applaude his Vallour which was so esteemed of among the French that before he arrived at twenty one years of Age he was by that King thought worthy the command of Liev. General of his Army's which he managed with such care and prudence that seldom any affair he took in hand produced not its desired success and since his being in requital of his services complemented out of that Kingdom of France though he hath not had such eminent commands conferr'd on him by the Spaniard yet have they alwayes thought him worth the Highest imployment and respect As for the Duke of Glocester he is esteemed by most to be fitter for a Counsellour then a Souldier His carriage is grave and somewhat severe of a Sagace Genious and understanding and very much prying into State Affairs which have made most judge him fitter for a Council board These three Princes are like three Diamonds or Pearls which we have ignorantly cast away and not come to know the worth of them till we come to want them Their vertues having made them resplendent throughout all the world and rendred them if we justly consider it the only means whereby we can attain to happiness for what Nation can be more blessed then that which hath for her Prince a just King to Govern a Valiant Duke to Defend and a Wise Counsellour to Advise FINIS