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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31361	An epistle to King Charles the II sent from Amsterdam in Holland, the 28 of the 10 month, 1660 wherein is contained certain orders and laws there, concerning the liberty granted to those which cannot take up arms, nor swear, which laws there do yet continue : as also several arguments shewing that the people called Quakers are no popish recusants, who are cast into prison for not swearing : with advice & direction to King Charles, that his tendernesse may appear likewise to tender consciences, who keep to their yea and nay, that if they break their yea and nay, they may be punished as for breaking an oath / William Caton.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing C1513; ESTC R22831	9,863	16

AN EPISTLE TO King Charles the II SENT FROM AMSTERDAM IN HOLLAND The 28. of the 10. month 1660. Wherein is contained certain Orders and Laws there concerning the Liberty granted to those which cannot take up Arms nor Swear which Laws there do yet continue As also several Arguments shewing that the People called Quakers are no Popish Recusants who are cast into prison for not Swearing With Advice Direction to KING CHARLES that His tendernesse may appear likewise to tender Consciences who keep to their Yea and Nay that if they break their Yea and Nay they may be punished as for breaking an Oath William Caton LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the signe of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. Carole Rex FOrasmuch as the Lord hath been pleased to permit Thee to sit upon Thy Fathers Throne and to sway the Scepter in England after Thy sojourning some years in a strange Land where Thou was invironed with strangers and sometimes compassed about with many fears and then did grief with sorrow of mind attend Thee when Thy Subjects had dissented from Thee Thy enemies prevailed over Thee and Thy trusty Friends obstructed from communicating of their substance to Thee thereby to have done Thee a pleasure Dost Thou not yet remember how Thou was in those days dejected and cast down in Thy Spirit when there was scarce hope remaining of ever seeing such a day as this And was there not then also much commiseration in Thy heart in the day of Thy affliction when Thou was a sufferer Thy self towards suffering people And didst Thou not then cry out against the oppression wherewith Thy Friends were oppressed that could not conform in all things to the powers that then were the Supreme in the Nation of England And was it not an evil in Thy own judgement in them then that would not let people have their liberty to worship God in that way of which they were the most perswaded in their own hearts that it was according to the way of God whether they desired to have the Common-Prayer-Book or the Directory or to have their liberty to worship God without either of these in Spirit and in Truth which were before these were made and in which the Saints worshipped God before these were framed or composed Now certainly if it was an evil in them to debar people of their liberty in things appertaining unto the Worship of God then must it also be an evil now in them that will not give liberty to tender consciences in matters of worship which tendeth not to the breach of the peace of the Kingdom And inasmuch O King as Thou Thy-self hath found by experience an excellency in the liberty that was afforded Thee with Thy Friends in the time of Your exilement in things appertaining unto your Worship It is therefore the more hoped by some that thou wilt yet excel other Princes in this particular considering Thy own condition Surely if Thou with those that out of love to Thee exposed themselves to the inconveniency of exilement with Thee had not been allowed to refide in any place except You had been conformable to their Religion and by an Oath to have bound your selves to have been true and fa●thful unto their Discipline though it had been contrary to your consciences this would by You have been accounted hard measure nay moreover not only to have been debarred of your liberty in the place but also to have forfeited your goods chattels and your whole substance unto the Supreme Mag●strate of that place except you would have acted contrary to your consciences surely you would not have approved well of this neither would you have had it thus done unto you And now be it known to Thee O King that the Lord God of Heaven and Earth hath a little Flock in that Nation where the Lord hath set Thee to sway the Scepter and they are exceeding dear unto him and pretious in his sight for they tender his Glory more than their natural lives his Commands more than their liberty wherefore if thou desire that it may be well with Thee and that Thy dayes may be prolonged in Thy Realm be cautious how Thou layeth Thy hand upon them as thereby to afflict them or of suffering them to be oppressed by the Laws of Thy Kingdom for abiding in the Doctrine of their Lord For it hath been upon me from Him to signifie to Thee That if thou suffer them to incurr the danger of premunirae upon them for abiding in the Doctrine of Christ Know from the Lord that their Estates their goods and their Chattels shall not make Thee rich neither will they be blessed to Thee and moreover if they be excluded out of Thy protection for doing the will of their Master and for obeying his Command they shall not therefore be shut out of the Protection of their God who is both mighty to save and mighty to deliver And if thou should exclude Thy self out of His protection by Thy sinning against Him and oppressing His people then all Thy Forces under Thy Command within Thy Dominions would not be able to deliver Thee out of the hands of Thy enemies nor yet to preserve Thy Treasures out of the hands of spoilers It is well known already upon this side of the Seas what a snare the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy are made unto the People of the Lord within Thy Dominions and how that many of them are already cast into the common Goals for refusing to take them Even as it was in the dayes of Oliver Cromwel many of them were cast in prison by such as acted in his name for not taking the Oath of Abjuration and other Oaths And because they did not take it therefore were they deemed to be Jesuites by such as made that a snare for this People even as they now that act in Thy Name make the Oaths before mentioned a snare to this People and because they now take not these therefore are they now deemed to be Popish Recusants as before they were supposed to be Jesuites when that some of them who was accused to be Jesuites had never learned the Accedence and so were far from being Jesuites and now many of them are judged to be Popish Recusants who peradventure do not know what a Popish Recusant is Moreover it is well known that many Popish Recusants in the Nation go free and have not these Oaths tendred them yet through the envie of many that are in Authority this People before mentioned are brought into external trouble about this very thing which they are clear of as they may see that do understand the true intent and meaning of the Act which was made Anno tertio Iacobi Regis chap. 4. For the better discovering and repressing of Popish Recusants in which Act the Oath of Allegiance is contained and as for the other Act made Anno primo Reginae Elizabethae in order to the restoring to the Crown c.