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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52855	Plato redivivus, or, A dialogue concerning government wherein, by observations drawn from other kingdoms and states both ancient and modern, an endeavour is used to discover the present politick distemper of our own, with the causes and remedies ...	Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.	1681 (1681)	Wing N515; ESTC R14592	114,821	478

Empire he may notwithstanding change the Government at the present and calling Parliaments no more administer it by force as it is done in France for some good time Eng. Gent. In France it has been a long Work and although that Tyranny was begun as has been said by Petition from the States themselves not to be assembled any more yet the Kings since in time of great Distraction have thoughr fit to convocate them again as they did in the Civil Wars thrice Once at Orleans and twice at Blois I would not repeat what I have so tediously discoursed of concerning France already but only to intreat you to remember that our Nation has no such poor and numerous Gentry which draw better Revenues from the King's Purse than they can from their own Estates all our country people consisting of Rich Nobility and Gentry of Wealthy Yeomen and of Poor Younger Brothers who have little or nothing and can never raise their Companies if they should get Commissions without their Elder Brothers Assistance amongst his Tenants or else with the free consent and desire of the People which in this case would hardly be afforded them But we will suppose there be idle People enough to make an Army and that the King has Money enough to Arm and Raise them And I will grant too to avoid tediousness although I do not think it possible that the people will at the first for fear receive them into their Houses and Quarter them against Law nay pay the Money which shall be by illegal Edicts imposed upon the Subjects to pay them Yet is it possible an Army can continue any time to enslave their own Country Can they resist the Prayers or the Curses of their Fathers Brothers Wives Mothers Sisters and of all Persons wherever they frequent Upon this Account all the Greek Tyrants were of very short Continuance who being in chief Magistracy and Credit in their Commonwealths by means of Soldiers and Satellites usurped the Soveraignty But did ever any of them excepting Dionysius leave it to his Son Who was driven out within less than a year after his Fathers death Many Armies of the Natives have destroyed Tyrannies So the Decemvirate was ruined at Rome the Tarquins expelled before that Our own Country has been a Stage even in our time where this Tragedy has been sufficiently acted for the Army after the War was done fearing the Monarchy should be restored again held Councils got Agitators and though there were often very severe Executions upon the Ring-leaders did at length by their perseverance necessitate their Officers to joyn with them having many good Head-pieces of the Party to advise them and so broke all Treaties And the Parliament too adhering to a small Party of them who consented to lay aside Kingly Government and afterwards drove them away too fearing they would continue to Govern in Oligarchy I am far from approving this way they used in which they broke all Laws Divine and Humane Political and Moral But I urge it only to shew how easily an Army of Natives is to be deluded with the Name of Liberty and brought to pull down any thing which their Ring-leaders tell them tends to enslaving their Country 'T is true this Army was afterwards cheated by their General who without their Knowledge much less Consent one Morning suddenly made himself Tyrant of his Country It as true that their Reputation not their Arms supported him in that State for some time but it is certain that they did very often and to the last refuse to be instrumental to levy Moneys though for their own pay and so he against his Will was fain to call from time to time Parliamentary Conventions And it is most certain that he did in the Sickness of which he died often complain that his Army would not go a step farther with him and de facto some Months after his death they did dethrone his Son and restore the Remainder of the old Parliament upon promise made to them in secret by the Demogogues of that Assembly that a Commonwealth should be speedily framed and setled Noble Ven. Sir I am satisfied that an Army raised here on a sudden and which never saw an Enemy could not be brought to act such high things for the Ruin of their own Government nor possibly would be any way able to resist the Fury and Insurrection of the people But what say you of a Forreign Army raised by your King abroad and brought over whose Officers and Soldiers shall have no Acquaintance or Relations amongst the people here Eng. Gent. All Forces of that kind must be either Auxiliaries or Mercenaries Auxiliaries are such as are sent by some Neighbour Prince or State with their own Colours and paid by themselves though possibly the Prince who demands them may furnish the Money These usually return home again when the occasion for which they were demanded is over But whether they do or not if they be not mixed and over-ballanced with Forces which depend upon the Prince who calls them but that the whole Weight and power lies in them they will certainly first or last seize that Country for their own Soveraign And as for Mercenaries they must be raised 't is true with the Money of the Prince who needs them but by the Authority and Credit of some Great Persons who are to Lead and Command them And these in all Occasions have made their own Commander Prince as F. Sforza at Milan drove out by this trick the Visconti ancient Dukes of that State and the Mamalukes in Egypt made themselves a Military Commonwealth So that the way of an Army here would either be no Remedy at all or one very much worse than the Disease to the Prince himself Noble Ven. Well Sir I begin to be of Opinion that any thing the King can grant the Parliament especially such a Parliament as this is which consists of Men of very great Estates and so can have no interest to desire Troubles will not be so inconvenient to him as to endeavour to break the Government by force But why may he not for this time by soothing them and offering them great Alliances abroad for the Interest of England and ballancing Matters in Europe more eaven than they have been and in fine by offering them a War with the French to which Nation they have so great a hatred lay them asleep and get good store of Money and stave off this severe Cure you speak of at least for some time longer Eng. Gent. There has been something of this done too lately and there is a Gentleman lies in the Tower who is to answer for it But you may please to understand that there is scarce any amongst the middle sort of People much less within the Walls of the House of Commons who do not perfectly know that we can have no Alliance with any Nation in the World that will signifie any thing to them or to our selves till our Government be