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A47805	L'Estrange his apology with a short view of some late and remarkable transactions leading to the happy settlement of these nations under the government of our lawfull and gracious soveraign Charles the II whom God preserve / by R. L. S.; Apology, with a short view of some late remarkable transactions	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1200; ESTC R6545	90,755	142

Another Declaration Ian. 23. wherein they express'd all Tenderness possible for the Publique in a Fawning Canting way and especally Insisting upon such Particulars as might tender their Design of setling in a Free-State the more Plausible to General Monck who was now as far as Leicester toward London This Declaration moved me to Print this Ensuing Paper A PLAIN CASE Ian. 24. 1659. IT were no hard Matter to Trace the Course of Government thorough all it 's sever●l Forms and Mixt●res from the very Fountain of it and to Deduce the Story from it's Original in Parad●se down to this wretched Place and Instant The Sanction and Assignment of it being proved That the Almighty Wisdom placed ONE RULER over the World Enquiry might be made into the Reasons and Equity of those ensuing Changes which either Force Craft or Agreement afterward produced To come a little neerer Home much might be added concerning our Religion Parliaments Magna Charta c. but the Presse groans under the Subject and the Nation under the Dispute Conviction puts an end to Argument The Question is no longer Right but Power and our Reasonings are only Answered with Blowes It 's true in the Infancy of the Quarrell when Rebellion like a Painted Whore under the Masque of Loyalty and Conscience Cheated the People into an Engagement when onely some Mis-governments in Church and State were to be Reformed and that Pretence back't with a Thousand Oaths to strengthen the Delusion Dominion and Obedience Law and Conscience were then a Proper and a necessary Theame to undeceive the Nation but now 't is out of Season The Sword 's the onely Iudge of Controversies Our businesse is to Talk more Sensibly and lesse Learnedly Alas to tell the Simple that which they can never understand and the Wise that which they know already Who 's the Better for 't The Injuries we suffer are Notorious and Understood as universally as Felt. The skill would be to find out a Fair Remedy for a Foul Disease In order to that I shall be Plain and short Prove what I say and keep my self within the Compasse of my Page This Nation is at this instant upon the Brink of a Reprochfull and Ridiculous Condi●ion of want and slavery Nor is the Truth of our Calamity more evident than the Reason of it Half the Revenue of the Land is already shared among the Saints and in Reward for robbing us of That we are to Give the Rest and purchase our Bondage dearer than our Fore-Fathers did their Liberties Indeed a Hundred Thousand Pound a Moneth when we have scarce Money left for Bread is a modest Proportion and to endear the Proposition to us 't is to maintain a warre against the established Law and consummat● our Thraldome After this Tax is paid they 'll Ask no more but Take the rest without the Ceremony and we deserve to Lose All If we Levy This. By Violence they keep themselves In and their Fellowes Out By Violence they Sit and Vote and Ex●cute They 're not the Twentieth part of those we Chose and then the Quality of the Faction is as Inconsiderable as the Number The Nation looks upon them as a Herd of Wolves they live by Blood and Rapine and 't is the Publique Interest to Hunt the● They are too Few for us to Fear too False to Trust too Wicked and Imperious to Obey 'T is not their Ianizaries that will doe their Businesse when the whole Body of the People is united against them The very Souldier that hath Raised them Hates 'em as being at once Instrumental to their Guilt and to their P●nis●ment They are neither to be Obliged by Oathes nor by Benefits How meanly have they treated the very Officers that preserved and Restored them and Perfidiously all that ever Trusted them Those Summes which were designed for the Satisfaction of Publike Accompts they divide among themselves and Turn those Troops to Free-quarter whose Pay is already in their own Pockets After all this the Laws must be as well subdued as the People no other Title left us to our Lives and Estates but what depends upon the Vote of a Legislative Committee It is already construed Sedition to Demand what the Law tells us is Treason to Oppose and the bare mention of a Free-Parliament puts our blessed remnant into a Sweat There 's Violence designed upon us and Violence must meet it The Axe is laid to the root the Commune Freedome of the English Nation lies at stake and 't is our Commune Interest to defend it The Iust and peaceable assertion of our Undoubted rights is Voted Breach of priviledge and he that draws his Sword to save his Countrey forfeits his head for 't This will not doe These worthy Squires of the Fagg end must take their Turns too Suppose the City should refuse the Tax the Countries are resolved upon 't How Certain and Inevitable is their Ruine The ve●y fi●st attempt of Force sets the whole Nation in a Flame They Rise together and the Work is done 'T is not the stifling of the Presse can break their Correspondence nor the Old Cheat of Creating New Plots that will divert them These Iugglers have shewed all their Tricks and the whole World 's Convinced of their Intentions The Design walks bare-fac'd It is now evident that they purpose to make us perpetual Slaves and to enure us to no other Law than the Imperious Will of our hard Masters Their very best Friends and Assistants are now discarded by these Thanklesse Wretches the Scrupulous and Congregationall Party being cast into the Ballance with the Commune Enemy and both alike Excluded from the Government they promise us to shew that their Ambition is as well Insociable as Boundlesse To Finish All what Security or Quiet can that Faction expect which never Requited a Friend or Spared an Enemy What Comfort can that Nation look for that subjects it self to the Faith and Mercy of such a Faction UPon the 25 of Ian. Sir Robert Pye and Major Fincher were Ordered to the Tower for Presenting and Subscribing a De●laration from Ber●sh●re for a Free and Full Parliament It being Voted A Breach of the PRIVIL●GE of PARLIAMENT SEDITIOUS and tending to the Raysing of a New War The Squires of the Rump Scot and Robinson were by this Time doing their Complements to his Excellency and the City-Commissioners upon their way toward him In which Juncture came forth a Paper Entitled A Letter of General George Monck's Dated at Leicester 23. Jan. and Directed to Mr. Rolle to be communicated unto the rest of the Gentry of Devon Occasioned by a Late Letter from the Gentry of Devon dated at Exceter 14 Ian. and sent by Mr. Bampfield to the Speaker to be commun●cated unto the Parliament Read in Parliament Jan. 26. To this Letter I took the Liberty to Draw what followes in Answer Addressed To His Excellency GENERAL MONCK A L●tter from the Gentlemen of Devon in Answer to his Lordships of January 23.