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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25601	An Answer to the Lord George Digbies apology for himself published Jan 4, Anno Dom. 1642 put in the great court of equity otherwise called the court of conscience, upon the 28th of the same moneth / by Theophilus Philanax Gerusiphilus Philalethes Decius.	Decius, Theophilus Philanax Gerusiphilus Philalethes.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Lord George Digbie's apology for himself.; Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677. Two letters, the one from the Lord Digby, to the Queens Majestie ; the other from Mr. Thomas Elliot.; Elliot, Thomas.	1642 (1642)	Wing A3421; ESTC R8961	70,751	74

through your hands and how great an enemy you are to Parliaments for these are your words And you seem to be very sensible of this latter most grievous and as you expresse it venemous imputation Whereas I find no sillable to that purpose in the Glosse made upon the copy of your Lordships letter to the Queens Maiesty of the tenth of March which is all that ever I have seen published with any Glosse besides those of the 20. and 21. of Ianuary and I have enquired diligently of some other who are in a trade of news and can hear of no other letter of your Lordships published in print And yet that ingenuity I have observed in your Lordship in many other occasions will not suffer me to imagine that in this you have framed a charge against your selfe upon such an article as was never put in against you that from thence you might take an occasion to make such a defence for your selfe as you conceived would be to your advantage Such little plots are womens worke unworthy of a man of your parts and when they are discovered as they seldome fayle to be ever come home with the giving of a shrewd counterbuffe and therefore I will passe this over To that of your Lordships having had so great a hand in ill Counsells which are expressed to be of his Maiesties removing from London to a place of safety and the like I will not re-inforce the inferences you say have been made out of your letters by your enemies because I would not willingly be taken for one of them But as your humble servant observe two things to your Lordship which I perswade my selfe you did not well observe in the writing of this part of your Apology The first is that you have therein entered into such a contestation as I beleeve no subiect of this Kingdome before you ever undertooke against the two Houses of Parliament For they in that Declaration of theirs wherein they have set forth the Grounds and Reasons that necessitated them to take up Defensive arms among others make mention of the uniust charging of some Members of both Houses with Treason of the Kings coming to the House of Commons with a Troop of Cavaliers to fetch those of that House away by force of the pious and generous resolution of the City of London to guard the Parliament in regard of this greatest violation of Parliament that was ever attempted of certain wicked persons who had engaged the King in the above mentioned design and practise against the Parliament of their having been so grieved and enraged by this action of the City that thereupon they made his Maiesty forsake WHITE-HALL under pretence that His Person was there in great danger which they say is a suggestion as as false as the father of lyes can invent And yet your Lordship hath been bold to averre the truth of the danger of His Majesties person was therein at that time by avowing that there were Tumults then which the Parliament hath denyed in one of their Declarations and your Lordship saith you saw them with your eyes and then by giving three severall in●tances of most dangerous indeed desperat words spoken in those Tumults against the King two of which your Lordship saith you heard with your own ears and the third you say you can prove to have been spoken by a leader of those people in the heat and violence of the Tumult His Majesty on the other side in his Declaration of the 12. of August wherein he hath graciously descended to give his Sub●ects an account of the Reasons of his having taken up Defensive Arms among other things alledgeth his having done it to preserve the Freedom Priviledge and Dignity of Parliament awed and insulted upon by Force and Tumults whereof his Majesty giveth many particular instances and offereth to prove them And your Lordship saith you have known such Members of both Houses marked out by the multitude for blessings and such for sacrifice You say Advertise His Majestie you did Advise him you could not you had neither the ability nor the opportunity But you ask if you had been a Counsellour what you had been if having seen what you had seen and heard what you had heard you should not have advised his Majesty to withdraw to a place of safety not from his Parliament but from that insolent and unruly multitude who had already brought into so much hazard the persons and the Liberty of this till then most happy Parliament and not ●taying there did so loudly threaten ruine even to the sacred person of the King which is a most full averment of one great part of the Kings charge against those whom his Majestie stileth the Factious part of the Parliament though not a charging it on the particular persons accused thereof by his Majestie And whether this being laid to the early knowledge your Lordship had of his Majesties deliberation whether he should betake himself to a safe place and to the many inferences have been made upon your severall Letters which I will not repeat may not amount to a probable Argument that you had some hand in the Counsell of his Maiesties removing from London to a place of safety and the like I leave your Lordship and the world to iudge By this time I apprehend your Lordship may well conceive me to be in the number of your Enemies because I have been so sharp and pressing upon you in this last part of your Apologie Which I have been with an intention to do your service by putting you to think whether you should do well to lye at this guard if you should come to be questioned for your lifey our Lordship may have heard if not my Lord your father can tell you particularly how the great Oracle of Parliamentary proceedings in his time Sir Henry Nevill by name lost himselfe in the last he was of commonly called the Undertakers Parliament The sum is this he had done the greatest service to his Countrey that perhaps was ever done by a private Gentleman in a time of peace by procuring the Assembling of a Parliament in the time he did upon the hopes he gave that the House of Commons might be induced to grant a supply of Subsidies to the late King our Soveraign of blessed memory without questioning his power of imposing if his Maiesty on his part might be pleased to grant them such and such things upon such and such conditions which were so much to the advantage of the Subiect that I doubt we shall never have the like bargain offered again yet this great service of his and of other leading men with whom he conferred about it having been decryed in that Parliament under the title of undertaking he suffered that mis-conceit to prevail so far in the House before he tooke the courage to avow what he had done and as I have heard from wise men might have had thanks for doing in the fair way he did

witnesse that they are thereunto moved onely and meerly by publick considerations and in such cases there never want false tale-bearers who may have told your Lordship many strange stories of the ill acts us'd by your enemies to bring this afliction upon you and of their resolution to destroy you published not in whispers or in the dark but by their known tampering with very many persons both by threats and promises to accuse you and they may have damned themselves if all this be not true And yet though I am very confident that the deepe sence of your afflictions hath had no power to transport you to heigthen the representation of these imaginary injuries to the least degree beyond the truth of your Lordships belief there may notwithstanding peradventure be no reall truth in them Nay my Lord it being an observation made by the person of greatest experience this day living in Europe that he never knew a spy that was not a double spy which it may be may hold in Tale-bearers also why is it not possible that the news of your Lordships treating with the Danes and other forreign power of the great Treason plotted and discovered at Sherburn which I never heard of till now and of your being at tht head of the Rebells in Ireland may have been at first treated by the same tale-bearers who have abused your Lordship if there be good rewards stirring for such like discoveries as commonly there is in such times as these we are failen into not more full of false then of true fears which giveth great advantage to calumny and may incline the wisest men sometime for a while to lend both too open and too secret an ear to the conceiving of s●ch untruths as when they are produced may prove monstrous I humbly beseech your Lordship to take good heed that you do not do the same injury you complain of and to be as carefull to keep your self free from all uncharitable judgements and traducements of others as you desire they should be towards you A heart top full of a mixture of sorrow and innocence with so much passion as is but usuall and naturall to keep them company being a vessell of such a form as doth not stand over-firmly of it self may easily be inclined by the best observer of his advantages and the quickest catcher and cunningest handler of them to sway so much on the more corrupt side that a great measure of thoughts and words unbeseeming a good Christian may from thence be made to vent themselves out of the mouth of the best of us And if by this and other means he can prevaile to set brethren at variance it is his sport to see them fight in any fashion as it is ours to see other creatures ●ursue and kill one another knowing as we do that the prey and he that rejoiceth that he hath caught it are both his without repentance For though we thinke we have all faith yet without love to all our brethren none of us shall ever see the face of our heavenly father and how hard it is to love them in that degree he requireth if we once conceive them to be our enemies and that wrongfully I would we did not all find too well I humbly crave your Lordships pardon for this bold but as I conceived necessary digression having as much assurance as a constant good fame can give of the integrity of one of those persons a stranger to me whom I have reason to induce me to believe your Lordship intendeth for one of the enemies of whom you make so sensible mention For I was at a great part of the Lord of Straffords tryall and if I be not mistaken there tooke notice of one of those expressions which your Lordship fortuned to use the unlucky acception whereof you conceive drew upon you a sharpe malignity from some persons of much interest in the House of Commons by the token that the most remarkable word in one of those expressions was a noun substantive derived from a verb of frequent use in Aristotles historia Animalium which it is possible that Gentleman who I then apprehended might take offence thereat though he be learned yet had never read and then I need not tell your Lordship from what other roote he might deduce it and so come to take snuffe in the nose without any such cause given by your Lordship as he might suppose he had● Whereas I that knew some reason why your Lordshp and hee might be good friends and had never heard of your being other conceived the short Speech then delivered by your Lordship to have been made in his favour which I here protest upon the faith of a Gentleman and there is a very good friend of that Gentlemans who upon some occasion heard me soone after make this construction of that passage of your Lordships referring to him I hope he may receive some satisfaction from this relation of mine I am sure I should thinke my selfe a very happy man if I could do any good office between you and yet I have been told that when time was I had no great obligation to that Gentleman in a businesse concerned me and that upon that occasion he let slipp some words at which I might justly take more offence then was given him by your Lordship And therefore judging of him by my selfe as every man is apt to do of another your Lordship may please to pardon me that I cannot believe a Gentleman of much reputation for Religion should out of so poor an accident as this● suck so much venome as may have been capable to manifest it selfe upon every the least occasion ever since But my desire to do all that in me is towards the reconcilement of persons whose enmity must needs be prejudiciall to their Country as well as to themselves hath drawn me too far upon this subject and yet I cannot leave it without craving pardon to make one note to your Lordship which it may be may prove of some use in your life if you shall do mee the honour to allow it a place in your remembrance That a sharpe wit is like a sharpe knife with which a man may assoone hurt himself as another if he be not very carefull to carry it in a good sheath and to have both his eyes about him when he useth it I come at last to the last part of your Lordships complaint about your being charged with treason which is the amendment of the charge by this addition That you had leavyed war against the King of which crime of all other I verily believe some other persons not long before accused thereof could as little suspect themselves guilty as your Lordship And yet after that they were not onely suspected of but charged very loud with so loud a crime how it came to passe I know not but if I do not mistake the charge slept as long as that against your Lordship so that in this