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A89914 Considerations upon the present state of the affairs of this kingdome. In relation to the three severall petitions which have lately been in agitation in the honourable City of London. And a project for a fourth petition, tending to a speedy accommodation of the present unhappy differences between His Maiesty and the Parliament. Written upon the perusing of the speciall passages of the two weeks, from the 29 of November, to the 13 of December, 1642. And dedicated to the Lord Maior and aldermen of the said City. By a Country-man, a well-willer of the city and a lover of truth and peace. Country-man, a well-willer of the city, and a lover of truth and peace. 1642 (1642) Wing N495A; Thomason E83_38; ESTC R5547 9,713 15

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CONSIDERATIONS UPON The present state of the Affairs of this KINGDOME In relation to the three severall Petitions which have lately been in agitation in the Honourable City of LONDON AND A Project for a fourth Petition tending to a speedy ACCOMMODATION of the present unhappy Differences between His MAIESTY and the PARLIAMENT Written upon the perusing of the speciall PASSAGES of the two Weeks from the 29 of November to the 13 of December 1642. And Dedicated to the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the said City By a Country-man a Well-willer of the City and a Lover of TRUTH and PEACE PHILIP 4.5 Let your moderation be known to all men The Lord is at hand JOB 13.7 Will ye speak wickedly for God and talk deceitfully for him 2 COR. 13.11 Be perfect be of good comfort be of one minde live in Peace and the God of Love and of Peace shall be with you London Printed Anno 1642. HE hath not the heart of an English-man or of a Christian in his brest whose bowells do not rowl within him when he considereth the miserable Distractions of this divided Kingdom threatning a Germane desolation thereof and of the Church of God therein I have therefore much wondered to see so many religious men and good Patriots more ready to bring Fuell and Breath to the kindling and encreasing then tears to the quenching or hands to the putting out of that fire which in a short time hath already seized on all the Parts of the Kingdom and if it burn a while after the rate it hath begun is like soon to make us the scorn as we have long been the envy of all our Neighbours But I was altogether astonished to finde the sheet of the speciall Passages of the other week to begin with these words This Week hath produced matters much conducing to the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom A Petition against an Accommodation unlesse the King come to the Parliament from divers well-affected Citizens of LONDON And yet I would not be thought to differ from men so well-affected in this judgement That the Kings return to that his great and most faithfull Counsell were not the most sure and speedy way to recover a right understanding between His Majestie and His Parliament and that happynesse of a well established Peace throughout the whole Kingdom which no man without breach of Charity can suspect His Majesty doth not most sincerely affect and so much more then any one of His Subjects as His interest therein is greater But because I conceive it as hard to induce His Majesty thereunto as to perswade the Parliament to adjourn to another place till those vehement though groundlesse Jealousies which either of them hath of each other be extinguished or at least allayed I can therefore by no means approve of the counsell for good being as I doubt impracticable though I believe as much as another of the good intentions of the persons that gave it For if there be cause to fear That the King will never be drawn to agree to any reasonable tearms of Accommodation while His Majesty is imprisoned by the Cavaliers and encircled by those wicked Counsellors who by this Writer are presumed to be about him and to have power to seduce Him Can it be reasonably thought That the Cavaliers will be lesse vigilant to keep His Majesty from making an escape Or those Counsellors to charm Him from stirring from them though it be for the Peace of the Kingdom till their own be first made with the Parliament But the Petitioners advice is To have those Cavaliers and Councellors pursued and His Majesty freed from them by that means perhaps this may prove a thing easier to say then to do as experience hath shewed Let us not so soon forget what we have lately learned at our great charge His Majesty had erected His Standard at Nottingham to which there was no such mighty nor hasty confluence as was expected The Cavaliers which tearm I would not consent to abuse if it were not at the present impossible to reduce it to the right use again had attempted Warwick and Coventry and failed in both They had marched against the Forces of the Parliament neer Southam in no very unequall strength though the numbers were somewhat unequall and had fallen off in a disorderly Retreat without striking stroke This was likely to give so much discouragement to the Kings Party not too forward to shew it self before that it was thought a matter of much difficulty if not impossibility for His Majesty to raise His Forces then very weak to a compleat Army in time to oppose that of the Parliament then ready to march and abundantly provided of all necessaries for the War Hereupon the Parliament rejected a reiterated Offer of His Majesties to treat and with high Wisedom as then in hope the King might have been necessitated to have abandoned certain Delinquents or they the Kingdom besides the weighty Reasons expressed in their Answers But whether by Gods blessing upon the sincerity of His Majesties Protestation most solemnly renewed neer Wellington with a necessary Exception thereunto Or by the Industry and courage of some persons active enough before but then quickned by their desperate Condition Or by what other more secret providence or means I know not sure I am That in a very short space of time the Scale was so far turned even beyond the expectation of Cavaliers and Counsellors as may be shewed under their hands that His Majesties Army gave Battell to that of the Parliament fought it so well that it is not yet agreed who had the Victory But if the Cavaliers were defeated they marched within seven miles of the Parliament after their Defeat there stood in Battell again and thence made one of the most resolute if not the most souldierly Retreats hath been heard of in our Age so improsperous is the excesse of confidence in the successe of War as well as of Duells and let us therefore beware of stumbling again at that stone as the Petitioners might have observed the Parliament to be Why His Majesty hath no Money and without the strength of that sinew of War His Cavaliers as gallant as they are can have but paralitique Arms. A vain conceit That silver and gold should not soon be brought under the power of Brasse and Iron Or that he that is grown well-nigh Master of the Field should not in humane reason soon become Master of this whole Kingdom for want of Money or Ammunition I forbear to say by what means lest I should be thought to have a minde to give crafty counsell to the wicked Counsellors of which they have no need nor I any disposition if I had ability to help them And besides may it not be feared That the Parliament may ere long have no superfluity of that all-working Engine when the Petitioners who have born the greatest part of the charge of the Warre and whose Purses have been so open hitherto upon