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A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

I related my Condition unto her and what a Danger I had escaped that day she rejoyced greatly at it and said that she was heartily glad of my safe Arrivall there for she had heard much of me but was never before so happy as to see me and casting her eyes towards the Chimney which was then adorned with Summer-like Ornaments as green Boughs green Rushes and Flowers she meerily said Sir though you be a stranger yet I believe at this time you have more need of a good fire then of green Rushes and forthwith she commanded her Servants to disrobe the chimney of all those Ornaments and quickly to make a good fi●e which together with a bottle of Sack and other good cates she presented us with did much refresh us after our wet Journey and there we both reposed our selves together for that night and in the morning betimes my loving fellow Traveller departed and wen● and certified my Friends with whom I had formerly been how well I was got off and how far I was on ward on my Journey and soon after that he was gone I did arise my self and took some good refreshing and with much thankfulnesse to the house I went away and ben● my course towards the other side of Suffolk and it was well that I made so much has●e for within an hour after that I was gone from thence as I was not long after informed the bold Black-smith and his ragged Regiment were come to that Town with an Hue and Cry to search after me but they came a little too late God be thanked And yet further also if it please your Majestie about a year or two after I did hear to my great comfort that this Black-smith was become a convert for whether he was convinced in his conscience to see the gracious deliverance that God gave me out of his hands and thereby was occasioned to consider the better of me and the good Counsell I had given him or whether he was utterly ashamed of the base Treachery that he had practised against me true it is that he removed from Dalham to another Town some 7 or 8 Miles off and there fell quietly to his work deserted the Rebellion and never medled any more therein Now I was upon another foot March to find out new adventures and glad to accept of the meanest entertainment I could meet withall being enforced sometimes to lye in a Lowsie Al●-house but in short time I did happily arrive at a Mansion place of good Hospitality being the refidence of two most Worthy * The Lady Jermy and the Lady Waldegrave Ladies the Mother and the Daughter being both of them Widdows and there I met with some Gentlemen that were in mine own predicament where by these Ladies Noble favour and free entertainment together with our own Royal I discourse we did much revigerate our spirits And here we had Noble and Free Quarter for a good time and yet ever and anon we were Alarumd with those Trooping Spirits that continually haunted the Country both night and day for there and at other places where I had formerly been many times a Messenger would come to the house and inform the Servants that if any Gentlemen were there that loved the King it were best for them to look to themselves well for there were Troopers at hand and upon such warning given my custome was still to walk out into the Fields and ruminate and yet once at a place where I was being above in a Chamber a reading the house was filled with Troopers before I was aware of it and I fearing that if they should search the house and find me there shut up alone they might suspect me and take me for a prey did come down confidently amongst them and talked so boldly and yet warllie that the fellows not finding him they looked for went very fairly away and had not me in suspition for ought that I perceived But now the goodnesse of these Ladies was a main motive to make me fearfull of being the least Instrument to occasion them any trouble and this I feared more then any danger that could accrew to my self wherefore I though● i● not fit to ●arry there too long at that time least greater notice should be taken of me then my private Condition was then ambitious of And upon this confideration my self and a Divine of good note that was there with me did soon withdraw our selves to an honest Gentlewomans that lived very privately where allowing something for our Die● we lived like to Recluses allmost as Anchorites but in a few weeks I was weary of that and thought it better to live like a Prisoner in my Wifes Custody then any where else and therefore I drew towards home yet not without some ill favoured affronts and dangers too tedious here to relate Well in the night time I vvent home and there continued about 3. Months in a little Chamber never going dovvn unlesse it vvere in the night and then my Wife vvould not suffer me to go out neither untill she had sent some discovering Scout● abroad before me for indeed sometimes they had espied some good Instruments sculking about my Yards and Orchards to ●●y surely if they could hear any noise of me and therefore I vvas driven to speak vvith a more submisse voice then I had formerly used vvhen I pleaded at the Barr and yet alas I vvas not afraid of such Wretches at all but very loth to be a means to encrease their condemnation by their treacherous murdering of me for othervvise I feared not the face of the proudest Rebell in England had it been his Oxcellence himself But I vvas of a stirring Spirit if it please your Majesty could not abide to be alvvayes mued up and therefore out I vvent again to venture another voyage and presented my self to some that I had good confidence in and that were sufficiently able to have afforded me good comfort but alas I did find their looks to be downward and their courage cold pretending much fear to entertain such as were in my condition and this was most irksome to my Genius to see people of quality more cautious of giving offence to the Devil and his instruments then they were of shewing any fear towards God or any love to their King and his Friends and so this journey of mine producing but little effect besides mine own grief travell and trouble within a fortnight or thereabouts I returned home again to mine old Cabine and was then again in danger to have been discovered for being near my house it being late in the evening I met in the High-way with a Cart and 2 or 3. men therein and one of them bad me Goodnight and when they were a little past I heard one of them say sure this same was Mr. Wenlock and another answered him perhaps in good will to me pish no it is not he for he is quick enough of his tongue but this man hath been at

that worthy and religious Esquire of the body to that mighty Monarch Darius when he contended with his fellowes which of them should write the wisest sentence It was the desire of his soul to be instrumental towards the re-edifying of the decayed Temple and City of Jerusalem and in respect of those good desires it pleased the good spirit of God to inspire so much Wisdome and Understanding into his heart a● when the Conclusive part of his sentence which was That above all things truth beareth away the Victory came into consideration before the wise and mighty Princes he then who had undertaken the patronage and desence of truth was without contradiction applauded to be the wisest man by that generall shout of the People great is truth and mighty above all things and we need not doubt since by the alon● mercy of God those dark and prodigious Clouds of Ignorance perversity and sedition that have so long obnub●lated the understanding of this Nation do in some measure begin to be now dispelled by the Glorious splendor and sun-shine of your Majesties most gracious and long-desired presence but that such of your true and loving Subjects as with loyal hearts and sincere and just expressions though with seeble hands and weak abilities do now cordially endeavour to imploy their talents and lend their aid by the casting of a mite into the Kingdoms treasurie towards the rebuilding of that Sacred Temple of truth and peace amongst us shall never want the happy influence of your Majesties good countenance and protection nor the favourable censure of any that have but ventured to keep themselves immaculate or but lately learned to be unspotted lovers and mainteiners of the truth For whosoever he be that hath attained any sound notion of truth must of necessity love the same in his inward parts neither dares he at any time forsake or deny the defence thereof For indeed God himself and his Word is the truth that every true Christian to his power ought to justifie and defend and if any person be so Sacrilegious as to deny this he may too soon find it to be true that he which denies the truth doth deny God who is truth it self and our Saviour saith That if they deny him before men he will deny them before his Father which is in Heaven Most Royal Sir I humbly crave your Gratious pardon for my presumption in thus boldly vindicating the truth for the sincere maintaining whereof both my self and all mine all circumstances duly considered have as deerly and deeply suffered as any other that have escaped with their lives And I doubt not but that I may with a safe Conscience and without Ostentation speak it that I have alwayes endeavoured to the uttermost of my Abilities and upon all occasions to do and perform both unto your Majesties blessed Father and also to your Royal self far more cordiall and constant services then many others that now participate of the bright Beames of your glory but I do envy no mans happinesse nay let them take all since my Lord the King is now returned home in peace And as your Majesties happy access● to your just and indubitable rights of the Crown of England will I trust adde some repose and tranquillity to my poor aged body and mean Estate so above that I desire if it please God to be at peace and quiet in my mind at which Haven of happinesse and content I should scareely ever have arrived if I had not made the Adventure of thus rendring these intiinsecal thoughts and conceptions of my mind to the publike view Neither could I devise otherwise how I might make your Majestie and other Worthies of the Nation acquainted with the truth of my demeanour and sufferings which I much desired to publish to the intent also that some who are deeply drowned in the oblivion of their sins may hereby if they please be put in mind of the ugly deformed shape and the base and absurd malitiousnesse of Rebellion and truly to repent of their former Follies and do no more so and that my Posterity and others by mine Example may be encouraged to the imitation of my Loyalty and faithfullnesse in succeeding ages But I confesse that formerly I had good Friends which might and would if they were now extant have commended the truth of my Condition to your Majesties Royall and Religious consideration but the change of times and death hath deprived me of such comfortable Assistance and being I was made to reprove others I am now in a manner lest Friendlesse alone and am as a by-word and wonder unto many and yet no wonder it is Libere enim sine adulatione veritatem praedicantes gesta pravae vitae arguentes gratiam non habent apud homines And yet why should I tremble to make this my addresse to your Sacred Majestie that is so lively a representation of my Creator for to his allmighty mercy in the merrits of Jesus Christ who is for ever truth it self I may at all times with a pure heart and humble Spirit be confidently bold to make my approach and I beseech your Majesty to be pleased to assure your self that it is the truth and vigour of my Conscience that hath compelled me to adventure upon this declarative discourse a conscientious feare of the worst is a strong motive to an honest heart Nam a recta conscientia non oportet quenquam in omni vita sua transversum unguem discedere And forasmuch as in this whole Treatise I have sincerely endeavoured to make truth my Center and Loyaltie and Faithfullnesse my circumference I am strenuously induced to believe that in your Majesties judicious and exquisite eye and in the secret Cabinet of your rare and choycest Intellectualls my Errors will be accounted more venial than those of others that have so long been instrumental to obstruct the course of Truth and Justice and yet in the conjectural opinion or judgement of many of your loyal and learned Subjects do still endeavour or seem to hinder the progresse thereof Aliena peccata approbare peccatum est negligentia tacere in q●● parte possit homo proficere si innocentiam probatus fuerit amisisse and it is the saying of Solomon he that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just ●ven they both are an abomination to the Lord for it i● not good to accept the Person of the wicked to overthrow the righteous in judgement and if srail men forgetting their Duty shall attempt to act any such injustice it will not be long available to them or their Adherents but their Purpo●●● and Projects will fall in the Dust for the Psalmist tells us that the Lord executeth Righteousnesse and Judgement for all them that are oppressed with wrong and the Lord helpeth them to right that s●ffer wrong and who then are they that dare to contest against their Creatour for the Prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds and till it come

it pleased God to form your Subject of such a temperature as he could see to suffer from the beginning and is like to continue still in a suffering Condition to his latter end if your Majestie prove not a very good Lord and Master to me and my Posterity but my Loyalty did never live without hope either for this present life or my future interest in the World to come and I have thought sometimes that my constellation and Genius did argue something more then ordinary because from my very Childhood ever since that I could well read I have taken an especiall regard and notice of this Proverb My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are seditious or given to change and it had taken so deep an Impression upon my heart as all the Rebells in England were never able to wipe out unlesse they had pulled out heart and all Quo semel est imbuta recen● serva●i●●dorem testa diu and I blesse my God that it was so with me Nam quod ●●venture non discitur in matura ae●ate saepiùs nescitur and this hath been lately too much verified by sad Experience And when I first began to bend my mind to the studie of the Laws of this Kingdom I did soon perceive in my self a greater proclicity and delight in the apprehension and learning of such passages therein as had referrence to the true and right maintaining of the Royall Majestie of the head thereof rather then to those that meerly concerned the body and inferiour members of the same Many have much marvelled that in the late so terrible times I durst so freely utter my mind upon every occasion and have often advised me to be more wary but my answer was ever to this effect That I did no more then my duty required and I ought not to suffer sin upon my Neighbour but to reprove him for it and if it were not the will of God to protect me in mine innocency and integrity I was sure tha● he would quite cast me off if I turned an Hypocrite for there is an woe to the sinner that goeth two wayes and the triumphing of the Wicked is short and the joy of the Hypocrite but for a momen● they are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low the light of the Wicked shall be put out and the spark of his Fire shall not shine but who shall abide in Gods Tabernacle He that speaketh the Truth in his heart and in whose spirit and lips there is no guile and to them that rebuke the Wicked shall be delight and a good blessing shall come upon them and since that propter tim●rem mortis tacere veritatem impietas est how solicitous every soul of us ought to be in the declaring and justifying of the truth and in the performance of our best duties and endeavours towards the fostering and furtherance of the same Et b●●arum rerum etsi successus non fuerit conatus tamen ipse honestus est and a wise man sayth refrain not to speak when there is occasion to do good and hide not thy Wisedom in her beauty for by Speech Wisedom shall be known and Learning by the word of the Tongue in no wise speak against the Truth but he abashed of the error of thine own ignorance Strive for the Truth unto death and the Lord shall fight for thee Et non solum proditor est veritatis qui mendacium pro veritate l●quitur sed qui non libere pronuntiat veritatem quam pronunciare oportet aut non libere defendit veritatem quam defendere oportet Nam qui veritatem occultat qui prodit mend●cium uterque rous est ille quia prodesse non vult i●●e quia nocere de●iderat May it please your Sacred Majesty I have almost learned Divinity and Philosophy enough to contemn the World and am but very little ambitious of Preferment and yet I confesse that I would willingly imply my poor Talent and the small remainder of my dayes to Gods glory your Majesties honour and service and the good of my native Country and most gladly would I find out a way how to refresh my poor Family that for so many years together by the malice of the Times and in the very despite of my Loyaltie have been exposed to so much hardship and danger of utter ruine and destruction yet I am ashamed to beg so mean a Place as my weak deserts do seem to require It is not for Kings to give Trifles said a Noble Prince but to give royally like themselves In which respect I think it is the best policy for such Suitors to submit wholly to their Soveraigns goodnesse Your Grace in my conceit may well challenge a double Title to be called the most Christian King and in that regard also your Majesty may very fitly be esteemed to be the prime Deputy of God Almighty upon the face of the earth and we know that in the pure eyes of his heavenly Majesty then a true and faithfull heart there can nothing in the world be more acceptable and therefore your poor Subject having no other gratitude at the present doth most humbly presume to present and offer to your Sacred Majesty the true sacrifice of a loyal and loving Heart not fearing to find the fruitfull successe thereof knowing that your royal and religious Majesty will adhere unto and stickle to be of the same mercifull minde with your Almighty Creator Et ille apud Deum plus ha●et loci qui plus attulit non argenti sed fidei and if your Majesty will vouchsafe and please to look upon me I dare promise that by Gods grace my works and actions in the time of prosperity shall be as full of Faithfullness and Loyaltie as ever my works were in the time of my adversitie Tune enim veraciter fideles sumus si quod verbis promittimus operibus complemus and let the World think or say what it please I do protest that I propound these things not so much for mine own interest and advantage as for your Majesties sake and for the deep imprinting and high advancement of Truth and Loyaltie and the memorie thereof in the hearts of the People for although I do freely acknowledge mine own defection comming far short of my duty towards his late Majesty and your Royal Self yet my Conscience doth urge me to tell your Majestie plainly that my Loyaltie and Sufferings are so remarkable as if I should chance unhappily to be neglected and quite forgotten the consequence thereof would be so bad that Truth and Loyaltie would be esteemed but at a very low rate in our Country be made a meer Ludibrium amongst many in that factious seditious schismatical corner where it hath pleased God to lay out my residence I most humbly beg your Majesties gracious pardon for these my bold expressions and I hope I shall have it for I desired never to rest