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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47921	The state and interest of the nation, with respect to His Royal Highness the Duke of York discours'd at large, in a letter to a member of the Honourable House of Commons.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1309; ESTC R7627	19,626	35

forward to court the Son to the Crown and he became establish'd with all Prerogatives incident to the English Scepter What Acts he in the way of Revenge No he like a wise Prince feeling the Warmth of so Rich a Climate is so passionate to confirm his own Greatness that he not only forgets the Injury of his Mother but manages his great Affairs by the hands of those very Persons that were Contrivers of it yet through Her Bloud did he derive his Title Nor do we read of one of these Nobles or their Issue that suffer'd Diminution by any Resentment upon that account His wise Father also that had been beaten into the knowledge of the English Spirit writes thus Let no Passion my Son betray you to any study of Revenge upon Those whose Own Sin and Folly will sufficiently Punish theu in due Time Be confident that most of all Sides that have done Amiss have done so not out of Malice but Mis-information or Mis-apprehension of Things None will be more Loyal to Me or You then those Subjects who sensible of Their Errors and Our Injuries will feel in their own Souls most Vehement Motions to Repentance and earnest Defires to make some Reparations for their former Desects c. The like said he at his Last Hour But what do we Doubt or Distrust May we not have a Protestant Parliament upon all Exigencies and the disposal of Commands and Offices secure to us for a Time in case of His Majesties decease Have we not a Protestant Councel a Protestant Militia a Protestant Clergy and a Protestant People what can we in reason desire more § 7. AS to the Project of erecting a Cracht Title or a Single Person of another Line over and above the Heinousness and Impiety of the Proposition and to wave tedious Canvassings That must unquestionably be the most Desperate of all other Remedies and infinitely worse then the Disease it self For Thereby we should set on Foot a personal Quarrel and at the Long Run beyond measure Disgust the Spirits of this Generous People in that they will then be Subjected to their Equal who to retain his Usurpation will be forc'd to repeat and accumulate those Violences whereof we had most woful Experience under the Old Protector Otherwise he will soon be made the Object of our Contempt as was his Son with his Easie and Gentle way of Acting and his Name be used only as a Cloak to cover the Avarice and Exorbitances of a Ravenous Faction Nor can This Project prevent a Relapse into our former Calamities because our Fears will ever be Great and Continual and consequently our Charge proportionable In a word all the Evils and Miseries that were brought upon us by the Army the Rump and by all other Architects of our Slavery in the Late Times will certainly be found Tolerable compared with the Probable and Genuine Effects of such a Desperate and Unchristian Proceeding § 8. YOU will not expect from me I 'm sure Sir that I should so acquit my self of every Objection as to leave all men satisfy'd especially such as carry a Byass of Preferment Profit or Faction Men that have in Design Exorbitances of Power or Wealth will hardly with Arguments be reclaimed And some there are I know that have so long possess'd their Heads with strong Notions that they are not capable to take in Reason against them and thereupon run on Frantique in Error till there be a Rotation in their Brains Such there are that with Confidence so often have told a Lye that at length themselves believe it to be a Truth But we shall be too wise I 'm sure should ever that day come to preferr the Interest or Wilfulness of a Few to the Safety and Welfare of the Whole I shall not deny yet that it is easier to demonstrate what may be Evil then positively to assert what will be Good but however comparing Times with Things as is above represented I doubt not to Evidence that to keep where we are and to be contented with our Lot is a Course much rather to be embrac'd as that which in great Probability may be Good then by pushing at Incertainties to pull down most lamentable Confusions and Desolations upon our own Heads which certainly will be Evil I therefore ever was and still am of opinion that it is both our Interest and our Duty to embrace with Open Arms the ample generous Offers of his most Gracious Majesty in order to Provisions for our future Security in point of Freedom and Religion As for the Rest let us but have our Good Old Laws duly put in Execution and then by Gods assistance we shall be in a Capacity to Defie the Pope the Devil and all their Works come what will come § 9. Thus Sir have I run through the several Heads that you were pleased to propound I have in the First place given you my Reasons why I conceive the Project of Fixing a Free-Estate as your Friend thinks fit to term it here amongst us would be utterly Impracticable I have in the next place presented you with a Summary of those Mischiefs and Distractions which were the Consequents of a Like Attempt from 1640. to 1660. In the Third place you find the Natural Bent and Inclination of the People to Monarchy exclusively of any other Form of Regiment whatsoever fully demonstrated the Royal Prerogative Anatomiz'd and an Account of those great Immunities Blessings and Priviledges which the English do at this day enjoy under the present Government Establish'd both Ecclesiastical and Civil peculiarly and above any other People or Nation in the known World The Fourth rips up the Ground of our Fears and Jealousies of Popery and Arbitrary Power flowing in upon us should the Duke of York ever come to Sway the English Scepter and furnishes Arguments for the moderating and lessening our Apprehensions as to the One and for the proving the almost Impossibility of Effecting the Other were there never so great a Will and Disposition that way In the Fifth place you have represented the Danger and Impiety of Erecting a Crackt Title or a Single Person of a New Line together with the probable Calamitous Effects that would inevitably ensue upon such an Attempt And Lastly I have presum'd to offer my own Expedient in reference to the Security of our Religion and Freedoms for the Present and for the Future Upon the Whole Matter if by what I have written I be so fortunate as to make your Friend a Convert 't will be an Infinite Satisfaction to me because thereby I may hope to save a Soul but at the worst I may say with the Text that I shall hide a multitude of Sins Now should I frame twenty Excuses to you for the Length the Inequality the Insufficiency the Incoherence the Freedom the Extravagant Rovings and Impertinencies the Unskilful Management nay and for the Boldness and Presumption of this Discourse But I have neither Will nor Leisure to Trifle at such a rate I am conscious to my self no man more of my great want of Abilities requisite for an Undertaking of such Weight and Importance only I was resolv'd to let you see that no Considerations whatsoever were of force with me to withstand the Authority of your Commands I have unbosom'd my self to you Sir under the protection of a Private Letter with all the Frankness and Simplicity imaginable not doubting but you will make such use of it as may not redound to the Disadvantage of Sir Your most Obedient Servant Feb. 21. 1679 80.