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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92926	A letter from an ejected Member of the House of Commons, to Sir Jo: Evelyn: shewing, the constitution of that councell, and the influence it hath had on the present times, with a judgement of future events.	Skutt, George.; Evelyn, John, Sir, 1591-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing S26; Thomason E463_18; ESTC R203469	15,283	28

in adversity and broke when you were out of it and in the Solemne League and Covenant How you have kept your Faith with the people in securing to them their known Laws and Liberties And How you will keep your Faith with them in paying them all their monies agen God knowes And our own sad experience in humane Affaires hath told us now sufficiently that Nulla fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur For I look upon you now as Souldiers and your mercenaries wear not more iron then you doe about your hearts where no precepts of vertue or Religion can make impression Which made you so great enemies to peace and innocence that you have not been satisfied with breaking your own Faith and Obligations but have made others break theirs too As in the North West parts of England in the infancy of these troubles when the Counties there had agreed upon Articles between them and thereto engaged their Faith to remaine Neutralls you held it an odious resolution and caused those of your Faction to break it against the Lawes of Justice and Honour All which with too many more of your Actions have made the times so tragicall and disastrous that the prudence of those former Councellors of State seemes fully vindicated who mistaken by the vulgar sense to have done dis-service to the Common wealth well judging of the temper of late Parliaments put a stop to their dangerous effects by dissolving them And however it sounds to the ear to wish for no Parliaments yet it is hard to wish what we are all bound to doe I think that God would have removed far off from us this day of affliction and not also to wish we had had no Parliament By this time you will believe I have not argued my selfe into a desire of being amongst you agen or think my selfe or any of my expulsed companions covetous of the Honour of being of a Parliament which is neither just free nor compos mentis though it have somtimes lucida intervalla which happens when some moderate men are onely left in the House And whatsoever scandall you labour'd to raise upon us for deserting our Trust as you call'd it when we fled from the guilt of your designes and left you going about by fine arts and force to raise the Ball of dissention betwixt the KING and His People we know very well that Game if it began with Pym Hampden c. and was handed over to Hollis Stapleton c. is caught up now at last by Cromwell Ireton and their Complices and whither it may be carried God knows But through all these alternative designes and variable interests it cannot be said I hope that nothing hath been done but what the people at first entrusted you to doe When it is notoriously known that even at this time the people every where dislike what you are now a doing and are ready to pull you off those Benches did not the Army you keep up restrain them And though it be a long time since you branded all those who concurred not with you in your actions and designes with the malevolent note of Malignants yet now that all England is about to turn Malignant with what pretences and arguments you will support your undertakings we daily expect If that of Salus Populi have any truth or reason in it as your controversal Writers for the cause have taken most exact paines to prove by discourse you must now prove it by your example and yeild your selves a sacrifice to the common good that the Kingdome may be restored to the peace it groans after and is only obstructed by your obstinacy and malice for as long as you sit together at Westminster the people can neither be safe nor quiet And truly I have alwaies esteemed it a notable effect of Gods divine anger upon you designing you to that just destruction God hath prepared for you that as the case stands you did not all before this time rise run away Whence the generall hate and detestation of your very Names and Persons proceeds you need not much wonder if you call to mind First that imprudent and irrationall demeanour of yours towards all those whom you had the fortune to reduce to your obedience For among them who came in upon overtures of favour and candour held forth in your Declarations as many did upon that Declaration of both Kingdomes of Jan. 30. 1643. how were they received with neglect looked on with contempt and scorne enough and the favour signified delusively denied or detained till your distracted Proselites gnashed their teeth at their supine errour and folly of giving credit to your words and promises And were not all those that made Conditions upon Surrender of Townes and Castles like to have found little use and benefit of them if the Honour of the Generall had not interposed to make them good against the implacable and vindicative spirit of some amongst you whom no Reason nor Religion could rule against the swinge of their own violent wills Contrary to the justice of all Contracts humanity of fellow-subjects and policy of all conquering Parties and your own Interests whom it concerned alwaies not to dis-oblige Country-men friends neighbours and allies but rather by love and mercy to work them over to receive with willingnesse your dominion For it is a sure maxime that Patestas humana radicatur in voluntatibus hominum Where is then your power among a people that generally hate you of whose affections while you are never sure so consequently never of your own peace and safety It is said of Caesar Quâ vicit v●o●●os protegit ille man●● And by that means the infortunity of the Roman Conquests became sweetned with the prorection and security the Provinces received from the Roman Laws For without question the greatnesse of that Empire did owe as much to the heads of the Conscript Fathers as to the hearts of the Praetorian Souldiers It being the manner alwaies of the Roman State after a new Conquest to release unto their new Subjects half of that Tribute they had been wont to pay to their former Lords which wrought so much upon their affections that 't was no mervail that Petellia a City of the Brutians in Italy chose rather to endure all extremities of War then forsake the Romans and that too after the Romans themselves had confessed they were unable to relieve them and wish'd them to provide for their own safety having been faithfull to the uttermost And as this liberty of Rome made her a most indulgent Mother to all her Citizens so was it exhibited to other Cities to let them have a tast of her excellent Government and in time became extended to those far off even to Tarsus in Cilicia where Saint Paul was born whence it was that he claimed the priviledge of a Roman Acts 22. Which examples have been so ill followed by you that in stead thereof you have injur'd all men triumphing over your