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A26825	Some particular animadversions of marke for satisfaction of the contumatious malignant with some other generall and remarkable observations, on the summons, of the late dissolved, and of this Parliament upon the Kings deserting the House, and his retreat to Yorke, 1642 ... : together with the severall fights ... betweene both armies, with the differences and divisions of the county of Pembrooke and the finall over-throw and beating out of Generall Gerrards last plundring army out of that county, and the miraculous reduction of all South Wales by Major Generall Laugherne ...	Batt., Gil.	1646 (1646)	Wing B1143; ESTC R580	43,999	56

Some particular ANIMADVERSIONS of MARKE for satisfaction of the contumatious MALIGNANT WITH Some other Generall and Remarkable observations on the summons of the late dissolved and of this Parliament upon the Kings deserting the House and his retreat to YORKE 1642. But more particularly of the swift Motions of the Cornish Men and those of the South parts of the PRINCIPALITY in their inconsiderat and unnaturall taking up of Armes against their Conservatory and principally of the various Passages of the County of PEMBROOKE under the Tiranous Command of Generall GERRARD where the War hath bin most barbarously cruell Together with the severall Fights Defeates Siedges Skirmishes Routs Retreates betweene both Armies with the differences and Divisions of the County of Pembrooke and the finall Over-throw and beating out of Generall GERRARDS last plundring Army out of that County and the miraculous Reduction of all South-WALES by Maior Generall LAVGHERNE With some humble Propositions both for the suppression of the Insolencies of the Souldier and speedy Reparation of such as have suffered in the losse of all their Estates for the publike Cause Humbly adrest to the High Court of Parliament LONDON PRINTED Anno Dom. 1646. For the Right Honourable LORDS the Peeres and Gentlemen of the Honourable House of COMMONS THe Author as to the first part of his Animadversions touching the late motions of the State in the visible pursuance of Arbytrary power presents them not as newes to a Court of Parliament the evidence whereof being obvious to all the world onely hee ranckes them here in a new fyle for satisfaction of the incredulous Malignant not capable to owane his owne friends neither will be sensible what your indefatigable labours have beene or take notice of the pains you have taken during these foure yeares for Preservation of the common freedome and liberties of the Kingdome As to the second part which is a narrative touching the Warre under the conduct of major Generall Laughorns it is offered to all of discerning Iudgements how mirakculously Gods speciall providence hath evidently appeared as well in that particular of the County of Pembrook as in the Generall prosperity of the Kingdoms armes The conclusive part is both humbly monotory and petitionary that that poore dessolated County with the parts adiacent may be timely taken into your compassionate consideration and such a speedy course taken therein as may best suit with your present great and urgent affairs The distressed condition whereof through Gerrards cruelties is truly laid open unto you as also the way of this Counties repaire in some competent measure humbly presented in a few Propositions which may both rectifie the many grievances and dissentions of this County together with the disorder of the Souldier without other charging the State or farther troubling your important Consultations otherwise then in your timely designation of some honest and able Gentlemen as your Commissioners to examine all grievances especially in the behalfe of such as have suffered in the losse of their whole estates in the publike service and are at present reduced to extreame want and penury the care whereof in all humblenesse is desired and left to your pious providence least the constant party there should bee utterly disheartned and at such time as there may be present use of their farther service since probable it is that the Irish Rebels on their late victory may thrust over such Forces into that County and Milford Haven as may turn the Skales of your Victories here if not timely prevented by garding those Coasts with a strong Fleete both the Welch Nation and English Malignants in the generall howsoever now mastered retaining still their wonted hearts may in all likely-hood on all occasions joyne with the strongest And thus in all humilitie hath the Author taken the boldnesse to present unto your wisdoms the whole scope of his poore indeavours and humbly craves farther leave to concludewith the Oracles of two great Princes wishing that they may profit such as they most concerne The strength of a King is the preservation of the State the foundation thereof is the people and woe unto them which devides the weale of a King from that of the Kingdome How guilty the Delinquent and malignant party have beene in the fomentation of the present devisions the appeale is made to their owne Consciences which have most unnaturally invaded the people in their representative and have indeavoured to deprive both King and Kingdome of their great Councell Aequius est me tot talium amicorum consilium quam tot tales meam unius voluntatem sequi How averse His Majesties great heart hath beene in following the vestigia of this famous Emperor and how fatall to himselfe let 3. ruined Kingdomes be the Arbiters and his owne conscience the faithfull umpier Your most constant and faithfull Servant Gil Batt Some particular Animadversions of Marke for satisfaction of the contumacious Malignant with c. Humbly adrest to the High Court of Parliament AFter so long a time in the mysterious s●erages of Court and State during the last and of this raigne It is now confest and knowne to all the Kingdome that the late dissolved Parliament was assembled to one and the selfe same end as that of Ireland was somwhat before by the late Deputy Straff●rd only to raise mony for the managing of a most unnecessary and injurious Warre and as unadvisedly undertaken against the Scots without any respect to the generall Reformation here either in Church or State both then growne sick even to the very highth of sundry and various distemperatures and as we may safely judge through the defects and want of the due effects of most of our latter Parliaments Courts which have ever bin the great and supreame regulating Councells of this glorious Monarchie As also in pursuance of the grand designe to make conclusions on the natives by stealing in upon them by degrees some innovations in their Church discipline as Tryalls or precursions to future incroachments to bee introduced in their Civill Administrations all conducing to bring in absolute power throughout the three Kingdomes in one compleat conformity to inthraldome This Kingdome with that of Ireland having by finenesse of wit and the contrivance of cur late Artizans of State bin aforehand readily trained and inured to the impatient sufferance of Ship taxations and other arbitrary levyes whilst that of Scotland different to the others in sundry poynts of their fundamentalls and the soveranty there some what incongruous to either stood as a Remora and in the way of our grand Masters and Ingeneeres of Court The Scotts being a people quick-sighted and incompactible to indure all changes and Innovation in Government necessarily made the worke where to begin so much the more difficult in this that to reduce them to the like conformity might in the issue prove a dangerous ingagement of both Nations in a direfull warre This being providently foreseene by the late *

Parliament and in common Prognostication of the best discerning judgments what the event of such a Warre would be An assured weakning of the puysance of both Kingdomes Yet our high bearing statists strong in their owne vaine Imaginations conceived it to much losse of reputation to sitte still with safety but after a just * Royall pacification granted reperswaded the King topursue the designe in a second preparation of war contrary to his Majesties faith given to the Scotts Nobility that they should remaine as they were without infringment of their Nationall Covenant instituted by the late King 1580. It is as precisely true that this Parliament so much in the eye and odium of his Majesties aversation and of so terrible an aspect to the many Delinquents was at such a time assembled as that the Kings hopes and designes on the comming in of the Scotts at Newborne 1640. were at an instant turn'd about to an after Game or to check at Chesse without either possibility of remotion to go on with safety or backward without extreme losse of honour at home and reputation abroad into so intricat a laborinth and toyle of embroylement had the Cabbinet Councell then both ingaged the King and indangered all the Kingdomes And at such a season and in the close of so long a calme of Peace and tranquillity as the three Kingdomes never yet attained unto both the late King and his Majesty now regnant having alwayes beene in perfect peace and amity with most of the Princes of Europ neither for thirty six yeares to gether had they any other warres but vapours * or such as our of the voluptuousnes of the times wantonnesse of the great privadoes of Court were as rashly undertaken as vainly prosecuted without either sufficient grounds or foresight of their issues hence it is as wise men have long since observed that from the very first treaty with Spaine for a Mariage with the Infanta an * evident improsperity hath inseperably hanted the affaires of both Raignes To speake in tearmes of plainenesse the principall Instruments of state in this Raigne never exceeded more then a Triumviratora knot of some few all others being but for stales or uses work-men ordinis secundi of a subordinate degree though all united Concentring in the advance of the grand designe and Master-peece viz. Absolute Soveraignty over the Vniversall people ● men rather cryed up by ignorants and those of their owne followers and faction for persons of waight and of worth then parted and indowed with abilities in the true prackticke of State affaires either befitting Military employments or in times of peace with judgment and moderation so to manage the Royall and publike administrations as to conserve them in the same posture of felicity wherein at their first arrivall to grace and favour in Court they found them but only applying themselves rather to comply with the Kings inclinations as having aforehand learned the Scope and measure of his propension then by safe and honest Councells † to allay and divert the heat of his Majesties affectations in the advance of the Soveraigntie to some higher pitch and straine then other stood with his Oath and honour to affect or with his power to accomplish otherwise then with greater hazard then the acquision of them could bee possibly worth either in true valuation with himselfe or estimation of others of judgment and solidity to discerne the sequell and dangers insident to all innovations and changes in a long established Government And thus were the Kings Councells carried along or as we may better say swayed by a few * unfaithfull to their master and perfidious to the State And by two of them how soever we may hope they are now with God yet living of inexorable natures and of immoderate aspirations the other of another kinde of temper subtile untrusty and umbrating an affected wylinesse under the vayle of a Spanish garbe or Gravity But joyntly all three bigge with Innovation as if in want of other employment they had them studdied how to discompose the common tranquillity and by cutting out some new and destructive worke to thrust out the kingdomes into combustion The state of the Kings and Kingdomes affaires so lead on and to render them in plain Caractors of truth strenuosly inforst and driven on * paucis nec non honestis rerumque novarum cupidis Insomuch that when this Parliament was out of necessity to be assembled neither the King nor those his seemingly wise and over-bold instruments could possibly discerne the way whither they would goe or how to drive on their designes with any warrantable hopes answerable to their expectation In this perplexity and amidst the concussion of both Nations before generally in good tearms of brotherly affection one with the other this so formidable and persecuted Parliament with that of Scotland were then thought fit to be assembled as the only means remaining both to recover and inlarge the King and to quiet the Kingdomes when at their very first sitting downe all former sterages of State and Court contrivances tending to the subversion of the fundamentalls of the ancient government together with the Authors of the Scottish troubles and brochers of Innovation both in the Church and and Common-wealth we are all called to accompt as the first and most proper worke of a Court of Parliament and then evident it was that their future course would be to reduce all new-cut-out and indirect streames and straines of government into their old and usuall Channell A labour of a very high and difficult taske if considered what time had wrought through the long disuse of our Parliaments which had they been more frequently called would doubtlesse have stayd or thwarted the * Kings egar pursuite in new moulding the old frame into some other modell so long aforehand prepared and in a faire progression only by the Regall power whence it was apparent that the work became the more unweldy and the knot of Arbitrary contrivements then more hard to bee untyed by this Parliament then others formerly had ever bin accustomed unto Wee need not presse this on the common beliefe that Parliaments at any time were otherwise pleasing to the late King then as the exegencies of his wants urged their summons to serve the present for replenishing of his empty Coffers nor that His now Majesty would ever have summoned this in being much lesse to make it perpetuall but meerely out of the extremity of inforcement to disingage himselfe of an incombrance from which without a Parliament there appeared then no medium to recede or any by way whether he might handsomly make his retreate wheras had it been his Majesties good fortune to have been faithfully councelled and at his first accession rightly instructed as it was his ill fate alwayes to be misinformed by such of his * Ministers of both roabes as have had the honour of his eare of the