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A31932	The Kings cabinet opened: or, certain packets of secret letters & papers, written with the Kings own hand, and taken in his cabinet at Nasby-Field, June 14. 1645 By victorious Sr. Thomas Fairfax; wherein many mysteries of state, tending to the justification of that cause, for which Sir Thomas Fairfax joyned battell that memorable day are clearly laid open; together, with some annotations thereupon. Published by speciall order of the Parliament·	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.; Sadler, John, 1615-1674.; May, Thomas, 1695-1650.	1645 (1645)	Wing C2358; ESTC R200152	46,993	62

endeavoured likewise to lay a great blemish upon his royall family endeavouring to illegitimate all derived from his Sister at once to cut off the interest and pretentions of the whole Race which their most detestable and scand●…lous designe they have pursued examining witness●…s and conferring circumstances and times to colour their pretensions in so great a fault and which as his sacred Majestie of England in the true sence of honor of his Mother doth abhor and will punish so he expects his concurrence in vindicating a Sister of so happy memory and by whom so neare an union and continued league of amity hath been produced between the Families and Kingdoms That the particulars in which his Majestie doth desire his assistance are in the loane and raising of men money armes and Ships all or such of them as may consist best with the convenience of his own affaires And of such in the first place as may be most requisite and a wanting to his Majesty That to set his leavies on foot and put him in a posture to protect his subjects in all places that adheare to him and receive their contribution 100000. li will be necessary for him which his Majesty desires way by way of loane And for the restitution of it besides his Kingly word and solemne engagement upon this treaty he is contented of such his Crowne Jewels as are in his disposure to leave his royal pledge if it shall be desired The particulars of Armes that he desires are 6000. Musquets 1500. Horse-armes and 20. pieces of field Artillery mounted Assistance of men he desires onely in Horsemen and to know in what time they may be ready and how many That the Holy Iland or New-Castle are designed for the landing of the said Horse and M●…gazin of the said provisions for reception likewise anprotection of such his Ships as he shall thinke fit to employ for the countenance and security of those his Subjects that shall trade upon these Coasts and for ascertaining the correspondence and intelligence between the two Kingdomes in which the number is left to be proportioned as may best sort and agree with his owne affaires And for which the Holy Iland is conceived one of the aptest Harbours in his Majesties Dominions being capeable of any Ships whatsoever in a very great proportion an excellent ro●…de at the entrance a ready out lett and a strong fort under his M●…jesties command That in Lieu of his assistance contributed by the King of Denmarke his Majestie will obliege himselfe and ratifie in expresse articles to restore into the Magazines of Denmarke a like proportion of armes and ammunition to 〈◊〉 and defray the charges of the money lent and leav●…es of Horse ●…nd so soon as his 〈◊〉 sh●…ll be settled and himselfe in a condition to doe it upon all occasions to contribute the assistance of his Fleet in maintaining his right and Title to the Customes of the Sound against all persons whatsoever and to ratifie the Treaty that was made last by Sir Thomas Roe to enter into a league offensive and defensive against intestine rebellions In pursuance of which Treaty while the negotiations and articles may be severally perfected his Majestie doth expect this first supply of moneys and armes present affaires not admitting a delay in the same That in case the King of Denmarke will lend money upon Jewells there is in Holland a great Collar of Rubies and another of Rubies and Pearle that may be sent to him or delivered to his Agent here Who may have order to pay the money here or any other Jewells That there have beene in Discourses severall Propositions of Accomodation made by them to the King to which the King hath at all times made more advances on his part then in reason could have beene expected from him and the difficulties have still risen on theirs And that wheras his Majesty doth understand that a Person is addressed to the K. of Denmarke from his Parliament to insinuate misunderstandings abroade with his Majesties Allies as they have done at home among hi●… People his Majesty expects that he be neither received nor permitted to remaine within his Dominions to become an Intelligencer and Spye upon the Treaty and Negotiations betweene their Majestyes but that he be diomist and sent away so soone as ever he shall arrive ANNOTATIONS Much use may be now made of these precedent Papers many things therein will appear very worthy of our Notice For 1. It is p●…aine here first that the Kings Counsels are wholly governed by the Queen though she be of the weaker sexe borne an Alien bred up in a contrary Religion yet nothing great or small is transact●…d without her privity consent See Pap. 38. If the Prince make suite to bestow a place in his own Bedchamber upon a Gentleman of extraordinary merit The King cannot grant it to save his Sons reputation already ingaged by promise till He hath sent into France and beg'd the Queen grant See pap 11. 2. The Queens Counsels are as powerfull as commands The King professes to preferre her health before the exigence and importance of his owne publick affaires See pap ●…4 c. He avows constancy to her grounds and documents See pap 5 c. 3. The Queen appeares to have been as harsh and imperious towards the King pap 34. as she is implacable to our Religion Nation and Government She doth the offices of a Resident in France to procure imbargoes of our Ships to rayse forreigne Forces against us and in this she is restlesse to the neglect of her owne health She vowes to die by famine rather then to faile the King in such like negotiations See pap She confines not her agency to France but sollicits Lorrain for Men the Prince of Orange for Shipping She sends Armes for Scotland to Montros speeds Colonell Fitz Williams his Commission for Ireland pap 20. 21. The Counsels also in England which she gives the King are of very pernitious consequence thereby the Parliament must be disbanded pap 27. Treaties must be suspected great care must be had in them of Her and Her Religion pap 30. Bishops and Catholicks must be specially provided for pap 31. The King must be forwarned that He cannot be safe longer then he defends all that have served Him pap 31. That peace cannot be safe to Him without a Regiment for his Guard ●…ala mode du France pap 30. She interposes so in the businesse of Ireland that the King is not seene therein nor oblieged to any thing immediately pap 29. 4. The King doth yet in many things surpasse the Queene for acts of hostility and covering them over with d●…eper and darker secrecy He imployes Collonell Coockrayn to sollicite the King of D●…nmarke making not onely Papists our enemies for religions ●…ake but all Princes though Protestants for Monarchies sake rather then fai●…e of ayde from thence He stirres rumours about his Mothers chastity He promises to disobliege the Hollander in

THE Kings Cabinet opened OR CERTAIN PACKETS OF SECRET LETTERS PAPERS Written with the Kings own Hand and taken in his Cabinet at Nasby-Field JUNE 14. 1645. By Victorious Sr. Thomas Fairfax Wherein many mysteries of State tending to the Justification of that CAUSE for which Sir Thomas Fairfax joyned battell that memorable day are clearly laid open Together with some Annotations thereupon Published by speciall Order of the Parliament LONDON Printed for Robert Bostock dwelling in Pauls Church-yard at the Signe of the Kings-head 1645. IT were a great sin against the mercies of God to conceale those evidences of truth which hee so graciously and almost miraculously by surprizall of these Papers hath put into our hands nor dare we smother this light under a Bushell but freely hold it out to our seduced brethren for so in the spirit of meeknesse labouring to reclaim them we still speak that they may see their errors and return into the right way For those that wilfully deviate and make it their profession to oppose the truth we think it below us to revile them with opprobrious language remembring the Apostle St. Jude and that example which he gives us in his Epistle They may see here in his privat Letters what affection the King beares to his people what language and titles he bestowes upon his great Councell which we return not again but consider with sorrow that it comes from a Prince seduced out of his proper sphear one that has left that seat in which he ought and hath bound himselfe to sit to sit as the Psalmist speaks in the Chair of the scornfull to the ruine almost of three Kingdoms hath walked in the counsels of the ungodly and though in our tenents we annex no infallibity to the seat of a King in Parliament as the Romanists do to the Papall Chaire since all men are subject to errour yet we dare boldly say that no English King did ever from that place speak ●…estruction to his people but safety and honour nor any that abhorred that Seat and Councell but did the contrary Therefore Reader to come now to the present businesse of these Letters thou art either a friend or enemy to our cause If thou art well affected to that Cause o●… Liberty Religion which the two Parliaments of England and Sco●…land now maintain against a combination of all the Papists in Europe almost especially the bloody Tygers of Ireland and some of the Prelaticall and Court Faction in England thou wilt be abundantly sati●…fied with these Letters here printed and take notice therefrom 〈◊〉 the Court has been Caiolde that 's the new authentick word now amo●…gst our Cabalisticall adversaries by the Papists and we the more beleeving sort of Protestants by the Court 〈◊〉 thou art an en●…my to Parliaments and Re●…ormation a●…d made willfull in thy enmity beyond the help of miracle●… or such revelations as these are then t is to be expected that thou wilt either deny these papers to have b●…en written by the Kings own hand or else that we make just constructions and inferences out of them Or lastly thou wilt deny though they be the King●… own and beare such a sense as we understand them in yet that they are blameable or unjustifiable against such rebels as we are As to the first know that the Parliament was never yet guil●…y of such forgery the King yet in all the Letters of his which have been hitherto intercepted never objected any such thing and we dare appeale to his own conscience now knowing that he cannot disavow either his own hand writing or the matters themselves here written All the Ciphers Letters all circumstances of time and fa●…t and the very hand by which they are ●…igned so generally known and now exposed to the view of all will averre for us that no such forgery could be possible As to our Comments and Annotations if there be not perspicuity and mode●…y in them there is no common justice nor place for credit left amongst mankind but indeed most of the main circumstances want no illustration at all to the most vulgar capacities and therefore we affirm nothing necessary to be beleeved but what the printed papers will themselves utter in their own language and yet for that which is not so clearly w●…rranted here we have other Papers for thei●… warrant were they not too numerous and vast and too much intermixed with other m●…tter of no pertinence for publication at this time Touching the last objection if thou art a perfect malignant and dost not stick to deny that there is any thing in these letters unbeseeming a Prince who professes himself Defender of the true Faith a tender Father of his Countrey and has been so sanctimoniously ingaged with frequent speciall vowes of affection candour sincerity and constancie to his ●…articular protestant subjects of England and Scotland Then know that thou art scarce worthy of any reply or satisfaction in this point Our cause is now the same as it was when the King first took up Armes 〈◊〉 as it was when the King made most of these oathes and professions Our three propositions concerning the abolition of Episcopacy the setling the Militia of the three Kingdomes in good hands by advice of Parliament the vindication of the Irish rebels being all our main demands at the Treaty in February last and no other then the Propositions sent in June 1642. before 〈◊〉 stroke struck will beare us witnesse that we have rather straitned then enlarged our complaints But were our cause altered as it is not or were we worse rebels then formerly as none can affirm which takes notice of our late sufferings and our strange pa●…ience even now after the discovery of these Paper●… and our late extraordinary success in the Field yet still this clandestine proceeding against us here and condemning all that are in any degree Protestants at Oxford as also granting a toleration of Idolatry to Papists indemnity to the murtherous Irish in a close trading way for meer particular advantage cannot be defended by any but by the falsest of men Papists or the falsest of Papists Jesuits Hitherto the English have had commission to chastise the Irish the Irish have had the like to chastise the English both have spilt each others blood by the Kings warrant yet as both have been in part owned so both have been in part disowned and the King himselfe has not appeared with an open face in the busines but now by Gods good providence the traverse Curtain is drawn and the King writing to Ormond and the Queen what they must not disclose is presented upon the stage God grant that the drawing of this Curtain may bee as fatall to Popery and all Antichristian heresie here now as the rending of the vaile was to the Jewish Ceremonies in Iudea at the expiration of our Saviour 15. Oxford Ian. 9. Deare heart SInce my last which was by Talbot the Scots Commissioners have sent to desire me

hath thirty thousand pounds ready ten thousand Muskets two thousand case of Pistols eight hundred barrells of Powder besides his own Artillery and is ascertained of thirty thousand pound more which will bee ready upon his return That he hath intelligence from his Ships that divers Hollanders and Dunkirkers come in daily to him In Order to this service he commanded mee humbly to put your Majesty in minde of his Commission and that hee may in fitting time have such command in these Counties as may bee sutable to his imployment and conducing to the service in hand These being Counties in which if other designes of Landing faile he can land in And that your Majesty will seriously consider the services he hath done you in composing the distractions of the County of Monmouth And that you will bee pleased to countenance Sir Thomas Lunsford and graciously relieve the Countrey in such things as without prejudicing your service may ease them Concerning the County of Monmouth only That by his Lordships meanes who hath now raised two Regiments himselfe Sir Thomas Lunsfords Forces will bee one thousand eight hundred foot and seven hundred horse which horse is intended to bee quartred in the Forrest of Deane in places of secure quartring as Langot attempted to have been taken by Sir Iohn Winter a place of great conce●…ment both for the reducing the Forrest and securing Monmouth-shiere That by his Lordships intervention and endeavours your Majesty really sees he hath much quallified the sence of the grievances of the County and moderated their complaints by subducting the intended Petition and therefore hopes your Majesty will so specially commend their humble sute to Prince Rupert as it may be successefull That though the prayer of their Petition is to reduce the contribution to the proportion set by the Parliament at Oxford yet his Lordship hath so wrought as these Petitioners have under their hands obliged themselves to continue the double payment for two Months more and doubts not but in rela●…ion to the exigence of your Majesties service to prevaile for further time His humble sute is that I may carry with me into the Countrey your Majesties Order that the Forces of Sir Thomas Lundford may not bee removed but upon urgent occasion untill his retuine And that only upon your Majesties or Prince Ruperts speciall Order otherwise it will be a great obstruction and discouragement in raising or continuing the number proposed That your Majesty will be pleased in their favour to write your Lette●… to Prince Rupert and that the Country may have the honour to present it to the end they may be eased of Free Quarter exactions above their contribution and unnecessary Garrisons that Chepstow and Monmouth may be the better strengthned That Sir Thomas Lundsford may bee qualified with Authority to protect them according to such order as the Prince shall make March 21. 1644. These presented by your Loyall Subject Edward Bosdon This a true Copy Zouche Tate Colonell Fitz-William humbly prayes and propounds as followeth THat your sacred Majesty will vouchsafe to prevail with his Majesty to condiscend to the just demands of his Irish subjects the Confederate Catholikes in his Majesties Kingdome of Ireland at least in private That upon the consideration thereof Colonell Fitz-William humbly propounds and undergoeth with the approbation of Mr Hardegan now employed Agent for the sayd Confederate Catholikes in France to bring an Army of ten thousand men and more of his Majesties subjects in his kingdom of Ireland for his Majesties service into England That Colonell Fitz-william undertakes for the summe of ten thousand pound sterl. to leavy ship and arm the said ten thousand men and so proportionably for more or lesse and that the said money may be put into such hands as may be safe for his Majesty as well as ready for the Colonell when it shal appear the said Army shall be in a readinesse to be transported into England That upon the landing the said men there shall be advanced to the Colonell one months pay for all the Army according to the Muster for the present support of the Army That Colonell Fitz William may bee Commander in Chiefe thereof and dispose of all the Officers and onely be commanded by his Majesty his Highnesse the Prince of Wales and Prince Rupert and qualified with such Commissions as hath been formerly granted to his Majesties Generalls that have Commanded bodies apart from his Majesties own Army as the Marquisse of Newcastle the Earle of Kingstone and others hereby the better to enable him in the Leavies as well as in the generall conduct of the businesse and that in respect the Parliament gives no quarter to his Majesties Irish Subjects therefore that the said Forces shall not by any Order whatsofover be devided That the Colonell may be supplyed with a body of horse of at least two thousand to be ready at the place of landing That the Colonell may be provided with Amunition and Artillery or with money requisite for himselfe to provide necessary proportions for to bring with him That the Army shall be paid as other Armies of his Majesties Having taken these Propositions into consideration We have thought fit to testifie our approbation and agreement thereunto under our signe Manuall assuring what hath been desired of us therein shall be forthwith effectually endeavoured and not doubting to the satisfaction of the Confederate Catholikes of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland and to the said Colonell Fitz-William so that wee may justly expect an agreeable compliance and performance accordingly from all parties in these severall concernments This is a true Copy of the Originall sent by her Majesty to the King May 16. 1645. A Lowly Secretary to the right Honourable the Lord Iermine A true copy Zouche Tate To my Wife 14. Jan. 1644 5. by Choquen Deare Heart POoly came the 12 22. Jan. to whose great dispatch though for some dayes I cannot give a full answer I cannot but at this opportunity reply to something in thy Letter not without relating to something of his Discourse As I confesse it a mis-fortune but deny it a fault thy not hearing oftner from me so excuse me to deny that it can be of so ill consequence as thou mentions if their affections were so reall as they make shew of to thee for the difficulty of sending is known to all and the numbers of each Letter will shew my diligence and certainly there goes no great wit to finde out wayes of sending wherefore if any be neglected more then our wits are faulty but to imagine that it can enter into the thought of any flesh living that any body here should hide from thee what is desired that every one should know excuse me to say it is such a folly that I shall not beleeve that any can think it though he say it And for my affection to thee it will not bee the miscarrying of a Letter or two that will call it in question but take heed