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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52759	Honesty's best policy, or, Penitence the sum of prudence being a brief discourse, in honour of the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftsbury's humble acknowledgment and submission for his offences ... on the 25th of Febr. 1677 : together with the several proceedings of the said Right Honourable House ...	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing N390; ESTC R20017	20,550	16

and the Recorder-keeper in this instead of being a Friend to him speaks worse than an Enemy Besides you may remember his Lordship himself in his fore-cited Speech to both Houses gives him the lye having therein told them and all the World on the same 5th of February 1672. That we were to bless God and the King that the Church of England was then the Kings Care and that our Religion was safe by consequence then what needed his Lordships Defence of it by a New Act Or how can it be thought the King would turn him out for Defending what His Majesty Himself had under Care to preserve These things do not hang together And yet the Recorder in his following words in the same page will needs become his Lordships Friend again and says that his Lordships Defence of that Act c. did not only cost him his Place but was the Moving Cause of all those Misadventures and obloquy which His Lordship afterwards lay ABOVE not Under I will not say Dignum patellâ Operculum What a lucky Defender and Advocate is this for his Lordship I mean rather an unlucky That he who in a Treasonous Libellous Pamphlet industriously now spred and dispersed into all hands about the Kingdom to rail down both Houses of Parliament his Royal Highness all the High Officers of State the Kings Privy Council the Principal Secretaries all the Judges all other Officers of the Government and the Court it self and then concludes all with a vile Jeering Caress of His Majesty Himself should in the same Book appear to be a Trumpeter of his Lordships Vindication and Praise It looks ugly but far be it from us to think that there is any understanding betwixt him and the Author 'T is only his Lordships ill luck that in divers other like Pamphlets the Knaves have been so bold as to commend him and who can help it And yet on the other side the Recorder to serve the Faction makes it part of his business to reckon up before 1673. while my Lord was interested in the Counsels at Whitehall as many Faults as he supposes in the Government as afterwards when his Lordship was gone This is indeed a great Fault in Mr. Recorder to let things drop that reflect upon so good a Patriot as well as upon Whitehall For besides Roman Idolatry and English Slavery he rails at Compliance with the French War with the Hollander breach of the Triple League Shutting up the Exchequer in the Counsels whereof before 73. my Lord Shaftsbury was no stranger and as forward as any man and he reaped the benefit as cleverly For they can tell at Sir Robert Viners who in probability it was that knew of that of the Excequer for asmuch as Sir Robert Servants remembred afterwards and smiled to think that his Lordship a few days before the Shutting it up was so wise as to call in 3 or 4000 l. out of their hands for his Lordship is wont to do all things with very good Consideration Besides he hath been so boldly generous as to justifie all the rest of the foregoing Particulars which are railed at by the Recorder For in his forementioned Speech on the 5th of Feb. 1672 to both Houses as Chancellor he told them that as to the point of Poperies having been designed it was a great Calumny His Majesty having so fully vindicated Himself from that Calumny concerning the Papists that no reasonable scruple can be made by any good man And the Church of England and all good Protestants have reason to rejoyce in such a Head and such a Defender He was born and bred up in it It was that his Father Dyed for We all know how great Temptations and Offers he resisted abroad when He was in His lowest condition and He thinks it the honour of His Reign that He hopes to leave it to posterity in greater Lustre and upon surer Grounds than our Ancestors ever saw it Those very words were a part of his Lordships 〈◊〉 ●peech in 72. and may serve for Answer to the Scandal of any design for Roman Idolatry Besides as to the Fear of Englands Slavery you had his Word and Engagement in the last page of the Speech That our Properties and Liberties are safe Then as to the breach of the Triple League the War ensuing with the Hollander and compliance with the French and the Black-heath Army which are the Scandals mightily bandied about by the Recorder and all the Factious ill willers to His Majesty hear also the Report of His Lordship the good Patriot while he was at the Helm and in at all the most intimate Passages of the Cabinet so that not a French Mouse could an wagged there without his knowledge to the hurt of England and he justifies all the Counsels to the height concerning those Matters For in several pages of that Speech of his viz. the 6 7 8 9 10 and 13. you will find things to have been thus He takes off the imputation of that War and of the breach of the Triple Alliance from the Counsels and Counsellers of the King and chargeth it wholly upon the Hollanders themselves that they brake first for that besides their denying His Majesty the Honour of the Flag at Sea they disputed His Title to it in all the Courts of Christendom and made great Offers to the French King if he would stand by them against Us. At this Season our King and his Ministers had a hard time of it and lay every day under new Obloquies Sometimes they were represented as selling all to France for money to make War Portsmouth Plymouth and Hull were to be given into the French hands for Caution The next day news came that France and Holland were agreed Then the Obloquy was turned from Treachery to Folly The Ministers were now Feels that some days before were thought Villains For if that Conjunction had taken effect then England had been in a far worse Case because the War had been turn'd upon Us. But both Kings knowing their own Interests resolved to joyn against them who were the common Enemies of all Monarchies and I may say especially to ours These are his own very words And as he charges that War and by consequence the breach of the Triple League upon the Hollander So he takes off the pretended Scandal of it from the King and his Ministers and lays it upon the Parliament also as well as the Dutch saying in the same Speech openly to both Houses You judged aright that at any Rate Delenda est Carthago that Carthage was to be dectroyed that is to say that the Dutch Government was to be brought down And therefore the King may well say to you 'T is your War He took his measures from you and they were just and right Ones And if after this you suffer them to get up again let this be remembred the States of Holland are Englands eternal Enemy both by Interest and Inclination By these words our Factions Ill-willers