sometimes united by the malice of his Holines Though armed with no more naturall weapons then what her mony puts into the hands of strangers the most unhappy Militia a State can imploy Yet because all her Senatours look one way and not a squint upon Forreign Interests as the Privadoes of our Kings have beene knowne to doe in relation to their respective Pensions Unity improves their small force to so much advantage as they have for these latter yeares not onely disputed the dominion of the Seas with the Grand Seigniour but forced him to wash away with his peoples bloud divers markes of advantage his multitudes of Souldiers had purchased him in the Levant So as if Monarchs were owners of so much Christianity as to spend but the tith of what is consum'd yearly in Masques and such unnecessary vanities this way a thing not to be hoped for till our good God have discovered to all Nations the curse of monopolized authority this enemy to Christ might be easily reduced Since all the force he can make returnes him from this single State nothing but dishonour and losse whereas the greatest German Caesar was never yet able to beare the least branch of his power without imploring and receiving aide from most of Christian Princes who are now so weltered in their own blood as they omit the opportunity Thinking themselves more charitably imployed in the ruine of their own people or Neighbours A Lunacy could never befall them were they not agitated by such ridiculous humours as Common-wealths disdaine to be affected withall where there is no roome for any disputation about such triviall things as crabbid Titles Legitimacy c. all being ejected there as spurious that conduce not to honour or safety And what advantage this State hath in the wise Conduct of affaires may be easily discerned by any eye that shall passe over the Transactions of this Senate and Paul the fift during the Interdict and compare them with the Treaties of our King James with Spaine the first redounding no lesse to the honour of that Republique then the latter to the shame and losse of this Nation Neither are these advantages peculiar to Venice onely but to all found under this Government which officiating in the double capacities of a King and a Councell both cannot choose but be wiser then the first and lesse subject to corruption then the latter it being as unnaturall for them to betray their owne power as it is usuall with the greatest Courtiers to sell the revelation of their Masters most secret Counsels Though Offenders under Free States are punished with the greatest severity it is with the least injustice and partiality Single persons being more subject to be agitated by the tempests of Fury Prejudice or Revenge then Popular Tribunals which in all reason are not capable of so totall a distemper as to utter such intoxicated Censures as ordinarily drop from single judgements who rather then confesse a mistake will with the Tyrant in Seneca make three guilty because they find one innocent Neither doth Covetousnesse the root of all evill prosper so well or spread so much in the hearts of Senaters as in those of Kings lest their Posterity should be forced to disgorge what they had devoured Too vast estates being so formidable to this Government as they cannot be pass'd by without observation and jealousie by such as know the cause of the reduction of the State of Florence under the House of Medici But Kings are such bottomlesse pits that they proclaime themselves responsible to none but God for all their rapines and injustice By which they doe not onely adjourne all reparation to the day of Doome but leave their oppressions for lawfull inheritances to their successours As the Monopoly Queene Elizabeth granted upon Glasses was improved since to very Raggs and Marrow-bones All a Senate can justly be charged with by way of disadvantage after perfectly founded is division which if pure from popular ambition may possibly occasion more good then hurt by keeping them upright One Faction remaining as a guard upon the rest Their owne safety perswading all Corporations to intend the generall welfare in which Reason gives the right hand of advantage to the Government by a Senate rather then that of a King whose best designes are retarded if not buried with his person whereas this Jurisdiction is never sick much lesse subject to drink or death but reacheth through a continuall suppliment to as immense an eternity as Providence hath afforded any humane Society not being apt to be scared out of the paths leading to their advantage consisting of too great a number to be subject to any clandestine attempt or abused by evill Counsels or corrupted by rewards whereas experience teacheth that Kings may be forced through feare or allured by flattery to resigne their reason and concede things not onely contrary to their peoples but their owne interest as appeared by that celebrated Prince Henry the Fourth of France who was not ashamed to confesse he durst not for feare of his owne life but revoke the just Ban he and all the Parliaments of France had pronounced against the bloudy Jesuits whose expulsion the Venetians make good against all their machinations threats of the Pope and mediation of Princes From whence I may observe That though experience proves by this State and the Catholique Cantons c. that the Roman profession may sute in some measure with all kinds of Government yet undeniable Reason of State renders Monarchy most acceptable to the Pope as it doth the Reformation to Free States who are too wise to admit willingly a Forraigne interest into the Common-wealth by a multiplicity of Ecclesiasticks independent on any other power but that of Rome which Kings being but single persons dare not resist for feare of the Knife it being besides a maine disadvantage in worldly policy to professe a Religion so odious to their neighbours that they are looked upon under no better notion then Heretickes and so no faith to be kept with them nor marriage contracted but by an especiall Indulgence from his Holinesse which Republickes have no use of And being already under the ill opinion of the Roman Church doe but desire a faire opportunity to free themselves from it and make booty of the Religious Houses long since looked upon by them as dens of Traiters and idle persons Therefore such as desire a through Reformation displease their ends by abetting Monarchy Kings being knowne not onely to have beene the Begetters and Nources but the onely Maintainers of Antichrist if the POPE be the man And if any in opposition to this truth object Queene Elizabeth her Brother Edward's Youth and short raigne rendring his inclinations abortive to the benefit of the Nation I answer whosoever considers how resolutely the Pope denied to reverse her Illegitimation refusing to give a decent reception to her Embassadours And with what affection the Parliament out of pure zeale hatred to the
in one single individual it cannot but be most safe to divide it amongst more Many not being so apt as one to be intoxicated by the fumes of power and flattery The childish Love the Common people beare the gaudy person of a King gives occasion to beleeve that popular Goverments are rather results of Princes disorders then the naturall effects of the peoples inclinations and therefore founded with the more difficulty But after establishment easiest maintained wise men being apter to connive at a fault in this Goverment out of hope to have one day the happinesse to mend or commit it themselves The first Monarchies were purely tyrannicall as Babylon and Persia who used to try both Plaintif and Defendant in a Starchamber of Beasts Yet though absolute tyrants over their people so much enslaved to their own passions as what was uttered against the life of the Prophet in folly was not after repealable in judgement And under these arbitrary Monsters the world laboured till necessity the pregnant Mother of all conveniency taught their Subjects to temper them with Lawes But sinding absotute Princes of so faithlesse a nature that they were not tenable by compact delighting like the Demoniaques in the Gospell to rome in the estates and among the graves of their Subjects some Nations exploded them quite as formerly severall Citties of Greece and Rome c. and of later years the united Provinces who having obtained their liberty and so not being exhausted by the exorbitant and vast expences of a King nor shackled by the distracted and contrary interests of a foolish and suborn'd Counsel were able from their infancy to teare such morsells out of the throat of his great Catholick Majesty as the weakenesse of France suffered him to swallow and the feares of King James caused him to sell to prevent the danger he was perswaded by his jealousies and some of his Counsellors more servants unto that State then to him wayted upon the delivery or deniall of the Cautionaâ—y townes to the King of Spaine which this poore spot of Earth doth not only dare to owne as their birthright But have brought him to that passe as he hath twice concluded peace with them under the free notions of an Independant State And some Nations never at all admitted any Kings and such as are celebrated for most wisdome felicity and continuance Apparent in the State of Venice who hath outliv'd the story of her own birth and seen the often repeated funeralls of all the Kingdomes in Europe being now by her account onward of her twelfth Century And though France seems to boast of little lesse continuance deriving her originall from the uncertain history of Pharamond supposed her first King Yet the impartial reader may find her subject to the discipline of strangers and her own inferior Princes till Lewis the eleaventh's wisdome had compounded for her wardship and if Edward the fourth his contemporary had been owner of so much prudence as the Free Cantons of the Swisse he had mis'd of his marke Fulnes of bread that inclines a people to Idolatry makes them so proud and wanton as to think any of their own body too mean to Governe choosing rather with the Froggs in the Fable a Storke for their King though it be his nature to devoure them then a selected number of their own tied in reason to preserve them Not perceiving that Monarchy is a sacrilegious overcharging a single person with more honour and power then so fraile a creature is able to beare without falling into the distempers of excesse which renders industrious Nations more capable of freedome as neerer to a parity then such as time and luxury have overstock'd with Nobility and Gentry who scorning to be subject to those of their own quality and not so well able to tyrannize over inferiours upon their own single score cry up Princes whose faults they cover with a false varnish made up of an imaginary Divine Right glistering only in the eyes of fooles wise men owning it as borrowed from the Easterne Idolaters who were never better pleased then when they saw something carried before them gloriously adorned with the eare-rings jewels and spoyles of the people Which gives all Politians occasion to to pronounce that a Prince cannot disparrage his affaires more then by suffering his power to fall under a popular contest Nor a Republick decline sooner into a tyranny then by continuing that shadow which decency constraines Free Governments to retain of Monarchy too long in one Family as the Dutch did without change or some vigorous opposition For however Insurrections like thunders are terrible for the present They render Liberty more serene and cleere Princes being apt with Alexander to apprehend themselves more then humane unles they be now and then besprinkled with their own blood Affliction and opposition being better able to put them into the way of duty then flattery or prosperity so as if Feare were not more prevalent with them then Love Subjects would be farre more miserable since it is without question that the interest of Princes lookes with a contrary aspect to that of the People His gaine being for the most part their losse as in case of illegall taxes which if once carried cleer without question are conveyed as an inheritance to their posterity who improve rather then diminish any thing layed in charge by their Predecessours Therefore Governours out of their own body in reason should be more naturall then these fathers in Law who see nothing about them but what they falsely imagine to be their own Now though a Senate may have inclusively the same power they are more tender of using it for feare the evill consequence should reach their Children who in these impartiall Governments mingle among the people and participate of all their inconveniencies unles wisdome and good parts makes them capable of their Fathers dignities which happens rarely Able Statesmen finding their virtues commonly wanting in their Children And this discovers another grosse inconvenience in successive Kingdoms where not only Law and Custome but Religion if you trust Regall divinity teacheth the people to cry Hosanna to the next Heyre Though nature or which is worse his wicked inclinations render him unworthy the government of a Asse Whereas a Senate is continually fill'd with the most able men Not to loose time in casting up the account Antiquity made of this Government upon whose approbation it is the nature of men to looke through the prospective of multiplying opinion as they doe upon lesse remote verities with the eies of envy and contradiction The progresse and vertues of the State of Venice are patterns not found in the greatest or match'd by the best of Kings Who hath received nothing her situation only excepted but from the benevolence of Heaven and her own vertue which hath inabled her though but a Pamphlet in comparison of the Voluminous power of other Nations to beare the opposition of all her Neighbours in their turnes and
quiet and timely submission would estate them or their Children in an undoubted capacity to share in what is or shall be established Inabling them to alter what they may find amisse Whereas otherwise it would be an act of the highest indiscretiō for people so long beaten by the cruell stormes of a Civil Warre to refuse for the present any Harbour though never so incommodious and to venture againe the wrack of so sacred a Vessel as the Common-Wealth for no richer commodities then an uncertain hope of boying up such Honours profits and Jurisdictions as the feares wilfulnesse and evil Counsels of those formerly at the Helme caused them to cast away since experience hath taught us we may live happily without them Neither are those thus desirous of alteration able to procure it by their own strength but must borrow of such suspected friends or known enemies as are unlikely to shew much more favour to their Inviters then those that shall labour to keep them out Were it not more discretion to let her lye quietly a while in the Dock under the trimming of our new Masters Who cannot be long uncompel'd if not by affection to themselves and their Children yet by strong necessity to set her a float under Justice and good Government hitherto obstructed by your selves and new declared Malignants who have nothing to shew for their Lives and Fortunes but the mercy and courage of those they so bitterly exclaime against Yet are not able to screen themselves from their Power although as far from being pleased with it as they can be safe without it Others presuming on the Articles conceded at Oxford or elsewhere protest themselves injured by that innocent Act for Subscription But did they please to look back now upon the naked condition they stood in then destitute of all hope of Reliefe they might find greater cause to celebrate the goodnesse then arraigne of rigor those did begirt them For had the total destruction of those Lords and Gentlemen been so gratefull to the State as some in spleen others in ignorance doe since represent the siege need have been continued but a few daies and all must have perisht by the hands of despaire or without caution have cast themselves into those of Mercy or say the Commanders in chiefe never known prodigall of blood or time to give an honourable pretence for the rendition of that place which the enemies had made impregnable by so many Oathes nnd Protestations did yeeld to more then in reason could be asked or granted from so imperative a Power It cannot be imagined they meant to situate them in a higher condition then they were themselves making that arbitrary and at the will of the Vanquished which is imposed without exception on all that Overcame By which they had not only bound their own hands from punishing all future disobedience but left their enemies the liberty to subscribe to the ruine that they refuse to the preservation of themselves and their country Consult seriously your own consciences and catechise them with this Question What Oathes Confiscations Restraints and Obligations should have been imposed on all had survived your revenge In case providence had cast the Die of War to the like advantage on your side And you will not only blush at your own shame but confesse your selves doubly subdued first by the Valour then the Civility of those you pronounce the meanest of men The Norman Conquest hitherto the fairest flower in the Crowne of our Kings and this of the Armie's were cut out with the same Iron by the hand and direction of a like Providence The difference is he was a Stranger these Natives He established a Monarchy whose nature is to decline into Tyranny These a Government stiled by all Politicians Free And if you find it otherwise you may thank your selves who will neither be happy nor suffer others But oppose so obstinately the Publique Establishment out of no more weighty reason then to reinitiate splendid Titles so farre from being essentiall to humane felicity that such Nations as have them were never thought the happiest no more then those that want them the most miserable Were I so uncivil as to draw the curtayne charity hangs before the Actions of dead Princes I could match out of the Annals of your own Government as great disorders and oppressions as you note in this The latter being rendred so much the more excusable because not only precedented by the former but created and continued to prevent such mischiefs as your implacable Spirits doe foment in the hearts of ignorant and abused people To whom though a Government be most necessarie this kind or that is as absolutely indifferent Yet if your doctrine be infallible That a King is only responsible to God for his worst actions it cannot but increase al wise mens affections to a Jurisdiction so modest as to acknowledge their best correspondent to the people at least in their Representative And if you will suffer such a Government as these drive at quietly to be setled it may be gest by Venice and the Vnited Provinces though inconsiderable for strength in respect of England what wonders may be expected the first having stood a bulwarke for above a thousand years against the Turkes as the later hath from her infancy a wall to the King of Spaine's incroachments I doe not believe those daily Alarum 's you give the State are beaten by your consciences but the lowder Passions of Ambition and Revenge And if you could remaine quiet you might abundantly satisfie both by sharing in the Government and helping farther to chastise the perfidious Scot who under God's vengeance for our Sins was you think the cause of all these distempers You are to blame if you have not already done your best to set up that Interest your Consciences for the present taught you to maintaine and if so you are freed from the shackells of all former Oaths and engagements Man being bound to no performance beyond possibility yet least this should seem too weake a discharge for so much honour and fidelity as you pretend to owe your King God hath called him to an higher Court And that he hath reserved all cognizance of the manner of his removeall wholly to himselfe appears by placing the Authors of it above the reach of any power but his own It shall not be the project of this Discourse either to naturalize or make invalid the Lines of Princes though the truth or falsehood of them is made so contingent by the infidelity of Women as it doth much abate my zeale and may doe all others in the prosecution of their interests before that of a Free State in a Nation so exhausted and tattered by divisions already as it cannot but expire under a milder conflict then these new and Victorious Governors will make rather then part with their power on which depend their heads as deare to them as a Crown can be to those that bid for it
are so modest as to confesse themselves and their judgements implicitly contain'd in the suffrages of the Major part though the Law pass'd be never so contrary to their sense And I cannot but admire from whence this Infallibility should at first be derived which were no lesse madnesse for the people to give then presumption in any below a God to receive Such as allow the King a Negative voyce forget they place the Abstract of all the Prudence Power and Probitie of the Nation in one Individuall Juells of too high a value to be packt up in so single and weake Vessels as our English Monarchs appeare to have beene But were they better they might upon this account enervate the gravest results of the Supreme Councell yet denied by Law and Custome the ability to quash the sentence of an inferiour Court of Justice Then if no Example can be produc'd of any King that hath voluntarily and out of no more impulsive respect then meer conscience and indulgency to his poor prince-trodden people offered a Bill to abate the power he found so abused by his Predecessours and not likely to be better employed by such as might succeed What greater Impudence can there be then to maintaine That this Negative vote is claimed only to avoid the abolition of good lawes and to hinder the passing of worse Since it is notoriously knowne that all the customes people complaine of have beene intruded and still kept in being by the countenance of an exorbitant power pretended by Kings And therefore such a prerogative cannot be look'd upon as naturall and convenient but destructive to the very essence of Liberty and consequently void in it selfe In case of Minority Madnesse and Folly the triall of the Kings sufficiency is without question in the Parliament and if that be allowed to determine the extent of his power in contingencies no wayes chargeable upon any as faults Shall wicked contumacious and destructive principles and practises be exempt from their cognizance Since the fool or mad man cannot be lyable to so severe a censure as he that imployes his wit wholly to the destruction of his people And if we trace our Kings through all the paths their incroachments have made over the peoples immunities we shall find it was not Charity hath kept them from being more tyrannicall but Weapons and constraint all our priviledges having beene first written and in all ages forced to be copied out in the peoples bloud An argument sufficient to prove that little is to be expected from them in favour of the Publique but by constraint Kings intending nothing more then the augmentation of their owne Arbitrary power Therefore Flattery rather then Truth fonted them Fathers of their Country to which they are in nothing sutable unlesse in correction the severest and least hospitable part of Justice They indeed as domestique Fathers are oftentimes suborn'd by a particular naturall love to doe that which is destructive to the generall well being of a Nation as where an equall affection to their children shall cause a division of their Kingdome into severall Cantons by which the whole is weakned in regard of the expence of more Courts and expos'd to ruine by division as is not without a precedent in Story Next the affection they beare to their female issue makes them raise great taxes to marry them not onely sutable to their birth but unlimited ambition By which meanes a people are often made subject to the curse of a forrain Jurisdiction And in case it should happen to light upon France or Spaine or any Prince else unwilling to remove his Throne further from the Sun they must run the fortune of Naples Sicily Millan Navarre c. who are so miserable as to be under the Regiment of unnaturall Strangers And say they should be so mad as to follow their ambitious humours in quest of honour out of their owne territories as Francis and John of France did they may like them fall into captivity and tie their Kingdomes to harder conditions and a greater Ransome then all the particular benefits redounding from that government are able to compense or all the inconveniencies objected to a Popular State parallel who are confess'd on all sides to be responsible for their misgovernment in parcell as particular Members or in grosse as the whole Councell when dissolved Whereas the flattering Clergy and Courtiers by perverting the Scriptures have in a single person situated Regality out of the reach of all question so as he may shake or kicke about the world without any feare of other danger then what the Poets faine fell to Phaëton from Jupiter himselfe Which cannot but perswade wise men to keepe it out where it never was and upon all advantages to explode it where misfortune hath brought it in Queene Elizabeth though an excellent Prince yet incroach'd upon the English Liberty by denying them to enquire who should be her Successour The unnaturalnesse of this tyranny being hid from the eyes of the people whose interest it was to know it by the delicate and soft hand she carried over them defective in nothing in their imagination but that it was fraile earth and so subject to mortality which made the Commons winke at the commitment of Pigot and Wentworth valuing the satisfaction of her mind before the Members of their owne Body Neither could they well have found weapons to have revenged this unparallel'd outrage she standing so faire painted in her Subjects hearts Therefore though they did well to passe by a fault they could not punish yet the goodnesse of her raigne cannot be said to expiate the curse she brought in by this example the unnaturalnesse of the Scotch Line tooke advantage of which I believe had never come in especially without Caution but that the feare of the Londoners wanting time to secure their wealth and the basenes of the Nobility tempted them to betray themselves into the hands of those who were ever enemies to this Nation Now if there was so little care found in a Queene raised from a prisoner and goodnesse in a King taken from the barren mountaines of Scotland Who could expect more gratitude then we have found in his Son that to make good his Fathers Monopolies and his own illegall taxes covered the Kingdome with a Sea of blood It is impossible for a Popular Government to be so expensive as these two last Kings though with Ieroboam they should sell themselves to work wickednesse not having whereupon to bestow it without making so palpable a demonstration of their Covetousnesse as the people would soon take notice thereof and redresse it by their change or ruine which might be obtained at an easier rate then by a Warre without which no Monarch though never so bad is able to be removed who commonly hath a power to defend him proportional to his prodigality and the Honours he throws about by which those multitudes who only hope are as strongly taken as the few that enjoy
at to repaire the utensils of a Crowne which the charge or fate of warre hath exposed to sale or ruine We see it is the fortune of most private Families notwithstanding their severer education to fall within two or three generations under a foole or which is worse one so infatuated with an immoderate thirst of pleasure as to hazard the cutting off the strongest Intaile And can people be pronounced so happy who have no more to shew for their felicity but the crazied and uncertain life of a King rarely found to be indifferently good in the first but ever intolerable in the second or third Descent as a Senate which never dyes but growes daily more acquainted with the Constitution of the Nation being taught by experience how to administer to the peoples necessities Whose children doe not remaine a burden and terrour to the Common-wealth as those of Monarchs Which makes the Great Turke to strangle them like Vermin and the Persian to put out their eyes lest they should bewitch their Kingdomes into seditions as in the Annals of our English Monarchs is legible in red letters though many deepe markes of bloud have beene expunged by their power or covered by the flattery of such as pen'd their Stories And if we would seriously consider it without prejudice we might clearly foresee That no State is able without stocking up the ancient Nobility and Gentry to beare the true much lesse the borrowed issue of three Queenes in succession so fruitfull as our last Mary The pregnancy of whose head for mischiefe hath not yet beene so fatall to this Nation as her wombe may prove hereafter to Posterity that perhaps may be ignorant how few Kings come to the Crowne unspotted with the bloud of their Predecessours And that Nature is so farre buried in their jealousies and feares as oftentimes she cannot be heard in behalfe of her owne Children manifested in Philip the Second of Spain who put his owne Son and Heire to death A Tragedy since revived and acted by the same Kings Players upon the person of Prince Henry in England at the especiall command as was thought of c because he seemed averse from a Match with the Infanta for whose sweet sake his Brother undertooke that honourable journey into Spain by which not to reckon the vast expence and shame it brought the perpetuall quiet of this Nation was in hazard And till any can parallel this with a like absurdity committed by a Senate they must excuse all who thinke Monarchy not the wisest or happiest Government Neither are the progeny of Kings lesse unmindfull of their filiall duty since it is notorious that Lewis the XIth and Charles his Son were found in the head of an Army against their Fathers before discretion could securely intrust them with a Sword for feare of hurting themselves the eldest not having attained the age of twelve yeares What Tragedies the Royall issue have acted in England is well knowne But in Scotland they have beene so frequent and dismall that their Crown seemes rather a snare to catch unadvised fooles then a Symbole of Honour proving as fatall to most have worne it as the Shirt of Hercules the Drab had poysoned Though a Senate may be tempted to severity at first out of care and love to the people and themselves The disturbers of peace being subdued or reformed it is as contrary to their natures and discretions to delight in bloud as for a wise Physician to use Phlebotomy when the distemper is over Whereas under a Monarchy the Nation runs a hazard of blouding upon every change being ready to fall into a Feaver by the contrary humours and claimes of those of the same line who upon the least nicety they are able to create raise a civill and destructive warre as betweene Lancaster and Yorke which lasted so long as the people out of meere poverty and wearinesse were willing to sell themselves for Slaves to the succeeding Pharaohs of the prevalent Line And having found such mischiefes to result from contrary claimes they to perpetuate a single Title made the justest endeavours to oppose it Treason and so entail'd a perpetuall inconvenience unto Posterity that fell into the clutches of the Law upon the least offer they made to free themselves from these arbitrary Taske-masters at whose devotion they have ever since eaten the bread of affliction and constraint which they might have avoided by changing the Government But that like Lucian they lay under so strong a fascination as they were in their abused judgements capable of no cure but first by recovering a Conjunction between the Roses and then an union with Scotland And though the vanity of this conceipt be made apparent by 40 yeares contrary experience yet the generality cannot be wooed to assume their naturall shape of Free-men but desire rather to remain Asses still under the heavy pressures of a King not considering that the old Line is so exasperated That if any of it come to succeed they cannot in Prudence or Safety but so bush up all waies leading never so little towards liberty as we may well groane but shall not have so much as hope to be heard or redressed hereafter When those that stand for Kings shall receive as severe a doome as the rest out of feare they may another time be as well able and as willing to oppose as now to assist them After having weighed the deeds of the Vnited Provinces and Venice Consider what despicable Nations if capable of that Title these had been under absolute Princes Or what King deduction being made for the expense of his Court only without reckoning the concomitant vanities of Plaie Revels c. in which our last Kings spent more then they have done in bringing home Victory from Spaine or Turkey would be able with so small revenues to pay so many Garrisons and maintain such an Army as the Dutch have done for 80 years Neither is the advantage lessened by objecting the vast sums they stand accountable for to the Subjects of stranger Princes which being intrusted without paune is the greater honour all mens repute in the world having been sutable to their debts Therefore since no Prince was ever thought capable of so much credit with his Neighbours as to be intrusted with the like inestimable sums as these and other Free States are known to be who are made depositaries for the Fatherlesse and Widowes it is an infallible argument of their lesse esteem of Kings never found true to their natur all Subjects which makes none willing to lend to them but out of feare or constraint when mony is by heaps layed voluntarily at the feet of this more free government And what is to be expected frō our redemption out of Monarchical thraldom may be guest by the words of the Kings own Agent who urged as an inducement to Holland to favour his party that if England could be free they would be formidable unto them not only by interrupting their