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A34178	The Compleat statesman demonstrated in the life, actions, and politicks of that great minister of state, Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury : containing an account of his descent, his administration of affairs in the time of Oliver Cromwell, his unwearied endeavours to restore His Most Sacred Majesty, his zeal in prosecuting the horrid Popish Plot, several of his learned speeches during his being Ld. Chancellor, his two commitments to the Tower, the most material passages at his tryal, with many more considerable instances unto His Lordships going for Holland.	Dunton, John, 1659-1733.	1683 (1683)	Wing C5658; ESTC R35656	48,139	160

people have no claim of Property or Right in themselves or any thing else for he hath now declared that the peoples choice cannot give any man a Right to sit in Parliament but the Right must be derived from his gracious Will and Pleasure with that of his Councellors and his Clerks Ticket only must be their evidence for it Thus hath he exalted himself to a Throne like unto God's as if he were of himself and his power from himself and we were all made for him to be commanded and disposed of by him to work for him and serve his Pleasure and Ambition A little after there is an Instance of Chief-Justice Tresilian who was executed at Tyburn in the time of Richard the Second for advising the King that he might at any time dissolve the Parliament and command the Members to depart under the penalty of Treason Divers other Protestations were contained in that Instrument against the Arbitrariness and Tyranny of that proceeding and in conclusion they declare they will 〈◊〉 ●…t their complaints before the Lord against their powerful Oppressors hoping he will redeem his people out of the hands of wicked and deceitful Men. This protestation was signed by One hundred and seventeen persons whereof Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper the present Earl of Shaftesbury was one and many others of great Loyalty and Integrity some whereof are since dead and others still alive in great Honour and Office By this may be easily discerned the Opinion he had of the Illegal and Arbitrary proceedings of O. C. and how much of the sufferings of the Loyal Party would have been prevented had that point of a free Parliament been then gained His Majesties Restauration must have been the natural consequence of it The constant correspondence he always kept with the Royal Party and that almost to the hazard of his Life and Family are sufficient Testimonies of his sincerity to his Masters Interest and Service His House was a Sanctuary for distressed Royalists and his correspondence with the Kings Friends though closely managed as the necessities of those times required are not unknown to those that were the principal managers of His Majesties Affairs at that time This made that great Politician O. C. so apprehensive of this great Assertor of his Countries Rights and Opposer of Arbitrary Government and Enthusiasm that though his vast Abilities were known at least to equal the ablest Pilot of the State yet we cannot find him amongst the Creatures of his Cabinet or Council nor amongst the Eleven Major Generals to whom the Care of the Nation was committed No their Principles their Aims and Designs were incompatible one was for Subverting the other for Maintaining the Antient standing Fundamentals of the Nation which once dissolved it were impossible but an universal Deluge of Confusion Blood and Rapine must ensue This made our brave Patriot with divers of the Heroick English Race to the utmost oppose the growth of a Protectorian Power So that we find Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper accused before the Parliament in the year 1659. for keeping Intelligence with the King and for having provided a Force of Men in Dorsetshire to joyn with Sir George Booth in attempting to restore and bring His Majesty that now is to His Rightful Throne Many persons of great note were imprisoned on the account of this Plot and amongst the rest Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper who though at that time one of the Commissioners of the Army and a Member of the House of Commons yet was complained of to the Parliament for a great Manager of the Design and although no man knew better how to obviate the Reasons of the House and plead his own Cause yet was with great difficulty cleared and discharged of that Imputation by the House of Commons The Eyes of the great States-men were so much upon him that he was one of those Loyal Persons mentioned by Baker in his Chronicle whereof the Council of State was composed in which List we find General Monk to be the foremost and that Council the Chronologer calls men of Integrity and well affected to Kingly Government And he that will but consider how soon His Majesties Restauration ensued upon the Election of this Council will have good reason to be of the same Opinion And in the 673 page we find him to be one of the Nine of the Old Council of State who sent that encouraging Letter to the said General to promote his undertaking for the Advantage of the Three Nations Again we find him in the List of that Council of State consisting of Thirty Nine upon whom an Oath was endeavoured to be Imposed for the Abjuration of the Royal Line but by the Influence of Sir Anthony Ashly Cooper and General Monk upon Coll. Morly that Oath was opposed in Council as being a snare and against their Consciences This was strongly pleaded by the Soberer part of the Council whereof this great Patriot was one and so an end was put both to that Oath and to the Council Nor is it in the least unknown to persons then in being how much his Advice influenced the Councils of those times He was the person that was particularly singled out of the whole Council by Commissary Clargis in Novemb. 1659. and had communicated to him a dangerous Design tending to Involve the Nation in further trouble which this Honourable person imparted to the Council of State This-was that great Council that complied with General Monk in that great Revolution of Restoring His Majesty And if that great Action were the occasion of a candid construction put on all the former Actings of the General why they should not have the same Candour for this Noble person I think none can determine His Employment at this time was in places of the highest Trust and Importance an undeniable Testimony of the great Opinion the then great Mininers had of his Loyalty as well as known Ability for the Management of the then Intrieate and close Designs A further prospect will be taken of his Concurrence with Gen. Monk in that Important Juncture if we remember that his Regiment was one of the first that declared for the Parliament and General Monk in March 165●… So zealous was he in putting all his strength to the turning the great Wheel of State At the time of His Majesties Restauration as a most signal Testimony of His Majesties good Sentiments of his former Actions he was Advanced to be one of the first Rank in His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council and was placed above His Majesties Royal Brother the Duke of Gloucester and even Gen. Monk himself whom His Majesty used to call his Political Father And about three daies before His Majesties Coronation he was in the Banquetting-house created Baron Ashly of Wimbourn St. Giles's and another addition of Honour was conferred on him viz. Lord Cooper of Paulett And at last in the year 1672. he was made Earl of Shaftesbury at the same time when Duke Lauderdale

THE Compleat Statesman Demonstrated in the Life Actions and Politick●… Of that great Minister of State Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury Containing An Historical Account of his Descent his Administration of Affairs in the time of Oliver Cromwell his unwearied Endeavours to restore His Most Sacred Majesty his Zeal in prosecuting the Horrid Popish Plot several of his Learned Speeches during his being Ld. Chancellor his Two Commitments to the Tower the most material passages at his Tryal With many more considerable Instances unto his Lordships going for Holland London Printed for Benjamin Alsop at the Angel and Bible and Thomas Malthus at the Su●… in the Poultry 1683. A View of the most Remarkable Transactions of that great Minister of State Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury Baron Ashley of Wimbourn S. Giles's and Lord Cooper of Pawlett Descended from the Antient and Honourable Family of the Coopers of Wimbourn St. Giles's in the County of Dorset IT was an excellent Caution of the Moralist de vivis nil nisi verum de mortuis nil nisi bonum which if the Relators of our Age adhered to there could not be so many base reflections on the Living nor such inhumane Reproaches of the Memories of the Dead as we daily see imposed upon the too credulous World so that we often see the gallant actions of the most Heroick and generous smutted bespattered with false palpably scandalous Imputations and on the other side persons of little Figure small Demerit guilded and vernished with all the applause and encomium due to the Brave and Noble It is therefore the design of this small Tractate not to write after either of these two Copies but to manage this discourse with that deference to truth and the knowledg of the present Age that calumny it self may not find where to fasten upon any part of the ensuing Relation Nor would I have the Reader imagine that any design of being seen in P●…int or of reflecting on the present Administration of publick Affairs hath occasion'd the writing hereof but having heard that several Pens were employed in a work of this nature and being sensible likewise of the present detracting Genius before hinted I thought I might in some measure gratifie the inquisitive World by a sincere and candid Relation of the naked truth of things Some men may object that it cannot be thought proper to expose the Reputation of any person in an Historical way until he hath acted out his part be fairly gone off the Stage no more than it would be for a Naturalist to dissect a living person to discover the soundness of his vitals But as it 's reported of Queen M●…ry that on her Death-bed she said Had there been a Window to her Breast they might have seen Callis in her heart So doubtless could there be a view taken of the in-side of this Noble Peer we might see his heart filled with Loyalty to his Prince Love to his Country Zeal for the Protestant Religion the Settlement of which only can secure us from the Attempts of His Majesties and His Peoples Enemies Ye●… if it be a truth that the Actions of men are Mirrours in which their Souls are discerned we may by taking a view of some of the most remarkable Passages of his Life in some measure calculate the Dimensions and Complexion of his Soul The wisest of Kings tells us That in the 〈◊〉 of Councellor●… there is strength and how much it is the Interest of Princes to advance men of the highest Qualifications into such Trust the Experience of all Ages testifieth The Affairs of the Publick receive their Exaltation or their De●…ment from their Advices and according to the Qualifications and Inclinations of those great Ministers may be calculated the Fate of Kingdoms This hath obliged Monarchs to take to their Councils men of the largest Prospect the greatest Eloquence and steddiest Principle to the Interest of the Government persons knowing in the Laws and Constitutions of the Kingdom whereof they are Members that Espouse the Interest of their Country with an Inviolable Resolution of adhering to it with the hazard of their dearest Lives and Liberties such as prefer the Concern of the Publick above their own private Satisfactions and Enjoyments that dare deny themselves for the good of the Prince And of this sort without Encroachment on the just Acquirements of any other Minister we may affirm this Noble Peer to be With what Admirable Polity did he influence and manage the Councils he was concerned in during the Inter-Regnum towards His Majesties Interest With what exquisite Subtilty did he turn all the Chanels of their Councils to swell this Stream And how unweariedly did he ●…ugg at the Helm of State till he had brought his great Master safe into the desired Port A sense of these his great Abilities and Firmness to the publick good still kept him up in the Esteem of the Country who would alwaies chuse him one of their Representatives in the great Emergencies of State They knew him to be one of those that could not believe Prerogative to be incompatible with Property but as he believed that Motto Rex Legis Tutamen so he would not have that other Grex Regis Tutamen to be rejected In the year 1656 when a Parliament was chosen without the consent of the People and to serve a a private Interest we find him amongst those Worthies that Remonstrated against that Arbitrary proceeding for none were admitted into the House but such as received a Certificate in the following Form Comt. Bucks These are to certifie that is returned by Indenture to serve in this present Parliament for the said County and approved by His Highness Council Sept. 17. 1656. Nath. Taylor Clerk of the Commonwealth in Chancery Hereupon Complaint being made to the House that some persons returned for Members were not admitted into the House upon the question it was Resolved That those persons should make their Application to the Council for Approbation Hereupon several of the Members that were chosen to serve in Parliament and not Returned published a Remonstrance wherein they claimed the priviledge of the Antient Fundamental Laws and their Birth-Right as Freemen of England But the Remonstrance being much too large to be here inserted I shall only present you with one or two Paragraphs as a Specimen of those brave Hero's Resolution against a Protectorian Invasion And the greatness of their Courage and brave English Gallantry will be the more conspicuous if we consider this was done when the then Protector was in his Zenith when almost all Europe trembled before him and he gave Law to the Neighbour-Princes when he had in his hand that Thunder that had shook the Nation off her very Foundations And the House too filled with those who either were or seemed to be his Creatures Yet in a general Defiance of this so potent Conquerour did those Noble Patriots amongst other things Remonstrate When our Worthy Ancestors have been met