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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52302	The present interest of England, or, A confutation of the Whiggish conspiratours anti-monyan principle shewing from reason and experience the ways to make the government safe, the king great, the people happy, money plentifull, and trade flourish.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1683 (1683)	Wing N111; ESTC R16235	30,815	50

the King according to the accustomed goodness of his Nature with a gracious smile only made him this mild reply Mr. Alderman I know not how to make you confide in me but you shall do well to believe those that lie least Now to apply this passage I will beg the Readers Patience to enquire into these particulars and to examine who have spoke the greatest truth the Kings in their repeated promises to secure our Religion Properties and Laws or the Faction who have made such extraordinary promises to the Nation in all these particulars and have endeavoured by assuming to themselves all the glory of securing our Religion Laws and Liberties most invidiously to cast an Odium upon the Crown as intending to divert the People of them I do therefore in the first place peremptorily challenge the whole Faction to give one single Instance during the whole Reigns of King James King Charles the Martyr or his Illustrious Son our present Sovereign King Charles the Second wherein any mans Property to particulars or that of the English Nation in general hath been contrary to the known Laws of the Land invaded or to shew wherein the Monarchical Constitution hath governed Arbitrarily What life hath been taken away except in the just defensive War against the Rebels but according to the known Laws of the Land Who hath been outlawed or banished disseized of his Freehold imprisoned or any other ways damnified by the Kings or their Ministers but per legale Judicium Parium by the Common Law of England and by the Verdict of their Peers What mony hath been raised but by legal and Parliamentary ways What Force of armed Men hath been made use of to overawe the Nation how much necessity soever there hath appeared of more then ordinary Force both against Foreign dangers and intestine Rebels Certainly if there could have been found any Instances of this nature we should have had them soundly repeated in the Ears of the Nation and every man of the Faction would have been a Trumpeter to proclaim them for it is a maxim with them never to conceal any Action that may redound to the disparagement of the Government and rather to create falshoods where they fall short of truth And for want of particular Instances wherewith to charge the Government and fortifie their Calumnies the Faction have always been so well aware that in all their Clamorous and most virulent Pamphlets which have been stuffed out with so many bitter Invectives against the Government upon this Topique of Slavery and Arbitrary Power breaking in upon the Nation they have either charged the Government with Design and Intention only or else with Generals only cunningly foreseeing that if they had descended to give particular Instances they must have betrayed the weakness as well as falseness of their accusation and have exposed themselves and Cause to the View of the whole World as guilty of Forgery and Imposture and the two most remarkable Pamphlets of this kind intituled the first and second Part of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government the one written by Marvel sometime one of Oliver Cromwell's Latin Secretaries and die other by that notorious Traitor Ferguson the Independent Tubster the most daring and malicious of any thing of that Nature yet have strictly observed this Rule and have therefore indeavoured to impose upon the Credulous or those that were willing to be deceived by charging the Government with Generals and wresting the most innocent Actions and Words of the King and his Ministers to make them depose some extorted Sence tending towards introducing of Arbitrary Government in these Nations but from the one End to the other more cautiously then honestly avoiding the giving any particular Instances wherein the King or his Ministers have actually exceeded the Limits of the Laws Which is a Demonstration as clear as the Meridian Sun that they durst not adventure at what they knew there was no possibility of proving and consequently that the Government is clear and innocent of what they accuse it But now on the other hand notwithstanding all the horrible Outcries against the Government and all the smooth Pretensions which the Commonwealth Faction have made of securing the Nation against Arbitrary Power and Slavery there is not any one Branch of Liberty and Property which they have not violated and wherein there may not be a thousand dismal Instances given of their Exercising the most illegal tyrannical and exquisitely Arbitrary Power over the Lives Liberties and Estates not only of some particular Persons their Enemies or Opposers but of the whole English Scottish and Irish Nations Volumes will not contain the Murders Rapines Oppressions Sequestrations Decimations Imprisonments and what ever can be thought of that was Cruel illegal Unjust or Arbitrary which were exercised promiscuously over their Friends and Enemies by those Persons to whom the Gracious Act of Oblivion was granted at his Majesty's happy Restauration And who were these Arbitrary Tyrants but those who complained of the danger of that Bugbear from the Monarchy who fought with the King to secure the English Liberties as they pretended and who so often promised the People to ease them of their Grievances and defend their Liberties and Properties but the Liberty ended in the most absolute Slavery Nay I do positively averr that the Slavery of the English Nation under this usurping Republican Faction was in some measure greater then that which is exercised by the Turkish Sultan for where he Conquers he leaves the Vanquished at intire Liberty to keep their Religion Whereas when these English Turks had gotten the Victory over the King and the Royal Party though they tolerated all Sects Heresies and Schismaticks yet so far as they could they made it Unlawful and Criminal for the Loyal Subjects to Exercise even that Protestant Religion which by Laws unrepealed and the most solemn Oaths from which they could not be by any Power whatever dispensed with they were bound to perform So that they had no Choice left but Perjury or Punishment For during all the time of the late Usurpation the whole Body of the Clergy many of those who were the forwardest even from the Pulpit to promote Rebellion such as Barges Marshal Nye Case c. were under the Obligation of their own voluntary Oaths of Supremacy and Canonical Obedience to their Ordinaries the Bishops and the King as supreme Head and Governour of the Church and to his Majesties Ecclesiastical Laws and the whole Body of the Laiety of the Nation were obliged by the Act of 1. Eliz. for Uniformity and all those other Statutes made during hers and the Reign of King James for maintaining Episcopal Protestancy both against Papists and Schismaticks which then and to this present Day stand unrepealed Insomuch that by obliging the whole Nation to take the Solemn League and Covenant and thereby to Swear and Vow the utter Extirpation of Episcopacy the Liturgy and all the Ceremonies of Divine worship which were established

did afterwards transport them the Debate was how to Escape the odious Character of Rebels and yet decently to destroy the Government by taking off the Wheels from the Chariot of State and for this purpose nothing appears it seems so conducive as No Money Nor was his Lordship singular in his Judgment the whole Body of the Faction in their smart Adresses to the Patriots of their Party collected into a Vox Populi or Vox Patriae sung the very same note and were all set to the same Tune of Without ever a penny of Money and at the same instant that they were so profuse of their promises to their popular Tribunes to assist and stand by them with their Lives and Fortunes yet the sting in the Tayl of the little Cockatrices vvas still Not to part with any Money or at least not vvithout good Security the Mortgaging of the Crown Jewels to the Faction the King if he would have any money tho' they knew Tangier ready to be lost and made the Nation believe the French Philistims were upon them yet must pawn the Militia Forts Magazines Navy for their Security all which must be put into the hands of the principal men of the Faction who were to be the Royal Pawn-Brokers or else No Money Nay this would not satisfie them neither the King must also by a Bill of Exclusion sacrifice not only his only Brother but the very succession in a lineal and hereditary descent and by consequence the Monarchy it self otherwise Not one peny of mony Nay so eagerly was the Faction set upon this No Mony Expedient and at this mark were all their hopes of success in their wicked Designs so fixed that they became resolute not only not to grant the King any supplies of mony except upon these terms but lest he should be able to subsist for the present without it and by advancing Mony upon the Reputation and Credit of his Established Revenue preserve Tangier then in imminent danger of being lost and and support the Government the inraged Faction that they might do their utmost to reduce the Crown to the last extremities raised those tempestuous Votes of Jan. 7. 1680. Resolved c. That whosoever shall hereafter lend or cause to be lent by way of advance any Mony upon the Branches of the Kings Revenue arising by Customs Excise Hearth-mony shall be adjudged to hinder the sitting of Parliaments and shall be responsible for the same in Parliament Resolved c. That whosoever shall accept or buy any Tally of Anticipation upon any part of the Kings Revenue or whosoever shall pay such Tally hereafter to be struck shall be adjudged to hinder the sitting of Parliaments and shall be responsible therefore in Parliament It was then become a terrible thing to be Voted a hinderer of the sitting of Parliaments and to be responsible in Parliament for the next Vote was to brand them for Favourers of Popery and Enemies to the King and Kingdom with which Characters they stigmatized the Lords Halifax Clarendon and Feversham and the now Earl of Rochester for adhering to the King and opposing the Faction and doubtless could a Vote have made it Capital and high Treason for any person to lend mony by way of Anticipation they would have proceeded to that too And the practice hath held an exact conformity to the Principle upon which it is grounded for not one single Farthing hath been granted to the Crown since this Faction of Shaftsbury-Commonwealths-men have had any manner of power to hinder it By all which it doth most evidently appear that the subverting of the Government which was intended was to have been effected by bringing the Crown into the utmost necessity and distress that the King might not have a penny to help himself withall and consequently be forced into those compliances destructive to the very Essence of the Monarchy But now in regard it must appear even to the most indifferent apprehensions most undutiful unnatural and unreasonable for the Representatives of the People to treat the Father of their Country their natural liege Lord and Soveraign at this unkind rate therefore the second Engine of distracting the People and alienating their Hearts and Affections from the King is next to come in play and to be advanced as the Reason of the former It would appear barbarous and lay the Design too open and bare faced to deny supplies necessary for the support of the Government and to be able to give no Reason for it and because it is impossible there should be any true Reason assigned therefore that defect is to be supplied by such Artificial Reasons as may recompence what they want of truth by their being plausible fair and popular For this is most certain that there are some things which the Populace will always believe to be true though they are never so false And there are some things which the Popular Ringleaders of Faction know to be most false yet because they are apt to be credited by the Jealous Multitude they industriously endeavour to impose them upon them as the greatest Truths As for Example the People are always easily persuaded that they labour under real Grievances though they be never so imaginary and then again they are apt as readily to believe that these pretended Popular Patriots will as they constantly pretend really redress those Imaginary Grievances The Faction constantly accuse the Government of Miscarriages in the management of publick affairs and though nothing be more false yet the People will believe the accusation A more pregnant Instance of which cannot be given then in the Case of Ship-mony This was represented as the most intolerable Grievance and illegal Imposition upon the People though all the Judges except two gave their Opinions for the legality of it But so was the matter managed and improved by the popular Men of the Faction that the whole Nation seemed to groan under the burthen as a most insupportable Grievance the great Sticklers Pym Hambden Strode c. ingratiate themselves by opposing it and inflame the People against the King and Government for imposing it The King upon their Remonstrating and Importunities takes it quite away by Act of Parliament But what was the event Did these Patriots ease the People ever a whit the more No such matter their Design was to lessen the Crown not to Ease the People For did they not invite the Rebellious Scots to invade the Nation which cost the People above a Million of Mony And after they had accomplished their own design in cutting of such a limb of Prerogative and by other ways so weakned the King as that they durst venture to grapple with him in Rebellion in the open field they thought no longer of Redressing the Grievances or easing the People of illegal Impositions but on the contrary laid such intolerable Impositions and Arbitrary Taxes upon the People as had not the least colour of legality to countenance and support them insomuch that