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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48313	A letter to Dr. E. Hyde in answer to one of his occasioned by the late insurrection at Salisbury.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.; Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1655 (1655)	Wing L1882; ESTC R21394	12,255	18

Wagstaffe Collonel Penruddock c. seised on the Judges at Salisbury took away their Commission and carryed the High Sheriffe prisoner with them to Blanford By the way Sir I do not write this as a parcell of news to you for I will not take upon me to be your intelligencer for such matters as you may know by prophecy and I but by History or hearsay I only touch that here as a Chronologicall note of conformity betwixt their high attempts and your high demands Vpon Tuesday morning the 13th of March came Mr. D. to me with another Gentleman whom I forbear to name I supposed them as soon as I saw them sent by you for no good to me and therefore I told them I would not speak with them both together but apart So the other Gentleman withdrawing Mr. D. stayed and told me he came to offer me 300 li. a year for the Rectory of Brightwell and on Friday morning March the 16th he sent me a letter dated the same day wherein he offered the same and named sureties for performance of that he offered both in that writing and in conference when a few dayes before he came unto me I took time until the next week to consider of an answer to his proposal being doubtful whether I had not promised to some of my chiefe Parishioners upon his falling from his own offer the year before not to let it to any one but to keep it in mine own hands and when such a promise was remembred and claimed by them I told Mr. D. I was not free to accept of his offer but if I were I knew not any man who would bid so much and was so well able to make good his word as he was It seemed very strange to me that he who had refused to be Farmer of the Parsonage the last year upon easier termes yea who would not deale with me for it upon any termes as he wrote to me “ the 9th of Iune should about 8 Moneths after come of his own accord to bid me more for it than ever I asked He told me it was because I had taxed him with breach of promise in Print But why then did he not tender his Motion and tell me his reason till March 13. when that I printed came to your hands 4 Moneths before and from you the notice of it was brought very neer Mr. D. within a while after and it is like so intimate a friend as he should be informed assoone as any especially since he was concerned in it as well as your self though not so much and for the time of this last offer I suppose it was rather of your choice than his as the reason of it might be better known to you than to him When I had given my negative answer to Mr. Day the next week after I received your letter of the 29th of March in due order of time both inrespect of the publique proceedings of your party of your own private negotiation for Brightwell For 1 the condition of the Commonwealth seemed on the suddaine to be strangely changed even to astonishment in that so small a number of Cavaliers at Salish durst raise their insurrection to such an height as there they did when the solemne Assembly of the Judges High Sheriff with his armed attendants Justicee of the Peace Grand Jury c. were to cast an awe upon the whole County then and there for such as they so few to affront and outface that venerable Authority and to bear themselves as a triumphant Army before they had been a militant troop was a prodigie of presumption which might amaze the people as it seems it did into a fear both of resistance and defence 2 It was not probable they durst have been so rampant but that as hath been partly touched before they had strong hopes 1 That other Counties would turn Royallists and rise with them 2 That the Antiroyallists were so divided among themselves that enow of them would not unite to make head against them 3 That Forreign Forces would come into their assistance 4 That our wooden walls were so far distant from our own Coasts that they could not stop them Sutable to such general conjectures they gave out particular reports as Col. Penrudduck did encouraging others to embody in that Rebellion by telling them that the Lord Fairfax had 8000 Sir William Waller 4000 in London ready for the Kings service with many more some more probable others but possible but if impossible you have a phansie and a faith of as vast a compass as your * desires for the Ruine of and for the Restauration of else you would not have believed as you said to some body about six weeks after your party was routed at Worcester that 40000 Swedes were up in arms for Charles the second and that he was in the head of them But for the late Plot which is our Theme at present I doubt not but you confidently conceived it would proceed so prosperously that your hopes and my fears would grow apace up to their Achme and that the face of publike affairs like a picture on a furrowed table would so frown upon me while it smiled upon you that I would be afraid to make any long aboad at Brightwell and so would soone run away and make you room and opportunity for you thither and then it would be no matter how much was bidden for the Parsonage nor what bonds were given for I durst not stay to claim the one nor must be allowed in case of forfeiture to sue for the other In your prevailing this way but God forbid you should do so I could not but account all my temporall livelyhood if not my life as utterly lost and so not only one fifth part of the P. of Br. but all five would be yours again Howsoever Sir if that which was your chiefe end were not attained Mr. D. his offer then which at another time would have been too much might serve you for a fair colour to exact the fifths with rigour according to his rate and this was a secondary end you aimed at if you were disappointed of the principall which you discovered by your letter so soon as seasonably you could that is the next week after I had given my negative answer to Mr. Day For then you wrote and sent your letter of demand for fifths according to the proportion of his promise All this sorts well with your high time in that notion which symbolizeth with the designe and doings of Sir Io. Wag. at Salisbury Your next words are screwed up to an unreasonable height by the like contemporary influence and aspect Dr. H. It is high time say you to send this letter to demand what remains still due upon your account for the year 1653 as also for some reckonings of the years before Answer If you had not been too high in your hopes of more then your right in a way of violence you would

not have made a demand so contrary to all reason and conscience as to require an account of me for arrears of the year 1653 and for the years precedent to that when you do or should remember that for those years even to the year beginning Aprill 11 1653 and ending Aprill 11 1654 I have made an account unto you and that so exactly as if I had been to passe it upon my Oath and have received acquittances from you under your own hand in full discharge of each whole year severally which if you deny I can produce to convince you of untruth By this unjust demand you manifestly shew that if your party had been predominant and I forced to sodain flight from my present habitation you might and meant to make my Books and other goods which I could not carry with me lyable to any demand or charge you would please to put upon them in my name Dr. H. But for this year 1654 I know the proportion I have reason to expect viz. after 300 li. per annum for so much you may have for the living by Mr. Day and such security as you can not but approve Answer If I confessed a right of fifths due to you or yours I should not be unwilling to pay them in a due proportion but you know Sir I resolutely deny it and have rendred reasons of my deniall whereof you seem to take no notice because you have no minde to meddle with them if you have and please to make an answer to them and I cannot confute it I will either fairly part with Br. or freely pay a fifth part to you according as the profits of it come into me but not after the proportion of 300 li. per annum Because First this is more by above a fourth part then communibus annis computatis computandis I can make of it whereof in a letter to an eminent person whom you know I have shewed such reasons as any intelligent and indifferent Judge will acknowledge both for just and weighty Secondly though you and Mr. D. or you by Mr. D raise the rate of the Parsonage the new Farmers bring it down abating no lesse then 4 li. of 14 li. a year for the Tithes and other rights of the Parson not taken in kinde of the Farm of Brightwell for which abatement they plead by such reasons as I and my friend who in such matters hath ten times more knowledge then my selfe cannot readily answer 3 Mr. D. his offer was but the acting of your device upon me as I have already shewed wherein he gave evidence of his good will to you as you did of your love to your self and of your ill minde towards me and if he had bin taken at his word and made to keep it he might well have accounted you his dear friend for he must needs have lost a great deal for your sake had he been as punctual in his performance whether with or against his will as he was prodigall in his promise But you thought it more likely that I should lose all than he any thing by his undertaking and I think it was no more your meaning really to ingage so good a friend than it was his to be so far ingaged to his prejudice but to entitle your self to a demand and to entangle me to the payment of a fourth part in stead of a fift Having followed you thus far I will not leave you until you come to your final period and now you draw neer unto it in your next words which are Dr. H. Therefore having performed my part of the agreement I expect yours Answer I shall answer you here with a question or two What agreement Sir do you mean and when was it made If you mean that of the 19th of October at Reading or that of Iune the 13th at Wallingford you have an answer to them both in the three last pages of the Book I sent you if any of later date say what it was when and where it was made and you shall have mine assent unto it in word and deed or just reasons of my refusall of it You conclude with some good counsell to me and that consists of two particulars First Dr. H. Follow that Rule of Do as you would be done by Answer That Rule I grant is a most righteous Rule given by our blessed Saviour himself Mat. 7. 12. and a most just standard if rightly understood whereby we must measure our mindes and dealings towards others I say if rightly understood that is when the understanding is truly informed and the will and desire rightly ordered otherwise the application of it to practise may prove unjust and absurd 1. Unjust as when a Judge on the Bench will not passe sentence upon a Malefactor at the Bar because he loveth himself too well to be content to be condemned or when a man hath a faulty friend who deserveth to be punished and he intercedes for favour for him to free him from the stroke of Justice as Agesilaus did when as “ Plutarch reporteth he wrote to a great Lord or Potentate for one Nicias in this manner If he have not transgressed deliver him for justice sake If he have deliver him for my sake but howsoever deliver him So no doubt he would have been dealt withall himself had he been in the offenders case but so it was not lawfull for him to do by another 2. Absurd as thus A Master as our great Master Christ Jesus maketh the comparison when his servant commeth from the field will say unto him Make ready wherewith I may sup and gird thy selfe and serve me till I have eaten and drunken afterward thou shalt eat and drinke Luke 17. 7 8. because he would have his servant so obsequious unto him were it not very absurd if he should receive the like command from his servant and submit unto it But to take and apply the Rule as you would have me the meaning of it according to your minde will be this Doe as you would be done by that is Pay the fifths of the Rectory of Brithwell to Dr. H. for the use of his wife and children and pay them freely and fully as you would have him do to you were you in his case I will answer you not in your way of protestation 1 in verbo Sacerdotis but on the faith of an Evangelicall Minister and if you could see into mine heart you should not see there a syllable or a letter contrary to what I now professe as in the presence of the Omniscient God viz. that knowing what I do of your state and mine own and of both our relations to Brightwell I durst not out of conscience require at fifth part of the Parsonage of you and out of ingenuous civility if I had not a nobler principle of operation in me then that I would scorne to presse you with such undue demands as you do me and to put you to the triall of