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Englands remembrances
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advice of their Commissioners being then in Westminster who lukewarmly declared against that horrid act and so did the Committee of Parliament in Scotland as Lukewarmly act at that time in Scoâ—land the Kings best friends there being excluded from sitting but it is well knowne what passed betweene Argile and Cromwell at my Lady Humes house in Edenburgh concerning the Kings death And after the Kings horrid death for breaking their Treaty made at Breda fully consented unto by this present King before they would suffer his Majesty to land in Scotland hee then lying upon their Coast in great perill and danger of the Englâ—sh Parliament ships then near his Majesty whose deliverance God prevented at Sea upon the coast by a great mist and for Inforcing a Declaration upon the now innocent King after his landing by the power of Argile and the Church to take the Guilt of that kingdome upon his innocent selfe and afterwards by jubjugating his Majesty under the pretended power of Church Government and Cromwels Creatures For delivering up their Army at Dunbar so much purged by the Church by the Treachery and Correspondence of some few persons when Cromwel could not have stayed 6. Dayes longer in the country and offered Scotland satisfaction for the damage he hed done to that kingdome and would have left it and returned into England with 3. or 4. Troops of horse for delivering up there Forts and Castles upon Treachery and for mony As Edenburgh castle by Dundas old Leisleyes Son in Law and Sterling Castle upon conditions to save their owne particular Goods for delivering the Records of the kingdom for their design at the comming in of Duke Hamiltons Army in Anno 1648. not for a clear intent to relieve England and themselves from the present treason and slavery then hathing by some compact persons of England and Scotland but intending to have the whole power and domination of the whole English nation to themselves as it hath been clearely seene since and confessed by themselves and God prospered it accordingly and in the Worcester businesse noe English power nor Army must be raised but under Commission and power of the Scots and hath not God for their sinnes and their only Acting the Scotch interest inslaved them wholly to the English and made ther Kingdome a Mercinary Province or Commonwealth in subjection unto England betrayed and voluntarily submitted unto by Argile and some of their country men lately sitting in the late howse of Commons in England onely for mony profit and their particular advantage Scotland is never to be trusted for the interest of England unlesse the Exchequer of Edenburgh were greater then the Exchequer of Westminster and that Scotland were England and England Scotland and is not this a greater judgment from heaven upon Scotland but blame not the whole nation for many of their rulers have caused them to err although the Commons at this time who have beene formerly to much inslaved by their Lords and Landlords are to much addicted to their lucre and profit wherein the English have indulged them with long Leases and by laying the Chief Burdens upon their Landlords for the more quiet of that kingdome but let Duke William Hamiltons ingenious confession a little before his death and his affection to the King then also expressed at Worcester to a noble English Lord now living and the Marquesse of Moniros his and the Lord Nappiers Loyalty and some other Lords in custody in England and others in Scotland upon their Parrol have that everlasting memory which their blood and honors have purchased And England which is now prevalent in power but odious by its Governours both at home and abroad unless to such who are involved in guilt and profit with them If England repent not of its perjury oppression and injustice to its country men bretheren and of all the innocent blood it hath spilt in England for its breach of faith solemnly ingaged in and out of Parliament before God Men and Angels to the whole world witnes their declarations and for suffering a compact number of conspirators cunningly to deceive the people under pretence of Reformation in Religion and the kingdomes abuses who have brought in a far greater destruction of Religion then before and overthrown all the liberties of the subject inslaving them to an absolute illegal and arbitrary power and to the bloody lust and wils of any persons whatsoever that may or can hereafter get or obtayne any unlawful power or Government whatsoever who have destroyed the ancient safe healthful and fundamentall constitution of England by King and Parliament ad introduced varieties of mock Parliaments to color there wickednes and to make monstrons Courts and constitutions only to serve their own lust ambition and Avarice and for the enslaving and murthering of their fellow subjects who with their Cap. General Oliver Cromwel the grand Protectorian brooke of the personal Treaty in the Isle of Wight with the last King when his Majestey had fully consented unto the parliaments propositions and given ful satisfaction for a firm and lasting peace in his three Kingdomes and was to come to Westminster by agreement to confirm them in ful Parliament The Parliament having voted the Kings concessions satisfactory wherin his Majesty had given the subjects more liberties and freedomes in that treaty and Consent then al the Kings since William the first and afterwards the said Cromwel with these Conspirators did expel most of the members of the howse of Commons and imprisoned them in Hel and two common Inns in the strand only leaving such other members in the howse as were his Conspirators and pentioners who sold their owne Consciences and the blood lives and liberties of the subject by setting up a slaughter howse their high court of justice a meer extrajudicial thing in law on purpose to blood and terrifie the people and to ingross the power and wealth of the Kingdome to themselves and the Committee men what wast sums of mony and plate they have given to themselves it is partly in print but far more concealed and can ye expect justice from them who make themselves judge and party whose iron hands you have sufficiently felt and afterwards openly committed that horrid and Barbarous Act a thing never parralleld in the world many or most of them now convened in this Fleeting wood Parliament being those monsters with there journy man Lentall the old Speaker who corresponded with the last King for his peace and assurance that have brought al these miseries upon the nation and do now follow the same dictates of blood and innovations and if ye suffer them to fit you must expect nothing but blood ruine of your estates and destruction of the kingdom by all illegal and arbitrary waies whatsoever and to sel your remaining monuments of the kingdome churches and noble houses and put the money in what Purses they please and weaken the kingdom for a prey to a forraign Nation These will be like the
few persons your lawfull King is an Englishman born and in heart and Affection the same although loving and just to all his subjects of whose Gracious disposition and Princely parts his Enemies must and do Confesse and for his mercy let him Confess it that the King pardoned in Scotland who was sent out of England to murther his Majesty as he voluntarily Confessed himself after his apprehension and for his care of his Subjects let his peaceable and unhurtfull march to Worcester with his Army by his Majesties especial Command testifie wherein the kingdome received not the least damage by it The kingdomes Terms may be honorable gracious and secure with the King who thirsteth to come unto the Crown by the interest and love of his own people His Majesty also hath two Royall Brothers to Confirm his subjects security The world cannot equalize such three Princes whose fame soundeth loud abroad and do not think but God which so miraculously preserved his Majesty in going to Scotland and afterwards in Scotland in so many dangers and Casualties and also when two were sent thither to murther him and after the Defeat at Worcester God so miraculously delivered him and sent his Majesty safe into France in which escape he shewed more then Kingly Courage and Resolution and God which hath delivered the Duke of York in so many hazards and desperate Charges and Dangers in the field wherin his Highness hath performed to Admiration and the Duke of Glocester who by especial providence of God was sent out of England young not out of Cromwels affection to his Highness but fearing his Title to the Crown and the peoples affection to the Royall Family who in the last assault before Dunkirck fought like a Prince and never left his Royal brother the Duke of York a swords length and how they charged again and again what service they did there is well known for ther Everlasting honors and do not believe but that Almighty God had reserved these three great Princes for some great work they are bone of your bone and Flesh of your Flesh and if England will not be just to its self in doing justice where God requireth it God may be Graciusly just to their Lawfull King who never offended England but desireth its good heartily and loveth it and restore his Majesty upon the injustice of a perjured nation doubt not but in a general peace there will be a consideration for him by other Princes who may be served as he now is by their own subjects whose Justice and right it is to be your K. have a care of the old Motto seâ— sapit ingratus Therefore England make it thy work alone and have the honour and happiness of it thy self without thy neighbours The King is your father your country is your mother and until father and mother be united the family must be divided And as he is your natural and only lawfull King so no King under Heaven hath a clearer Title most Kings not so clear the Saxon Norman English and Scotch Race solely and wholly centring in his Maj. And if the armies by sea and land are sensible of their own honors profit and advantage and security and the kingdoms happinesse they will rather serve the King and kingdom then these Fleeting masters every day changing upon uncertainties and upon this just settlement of King and people Their Arrears will be payed and satisfied and the Commanders and Souldiers imployed for the honor and advantage of the nation And is it not more noble and beneficial for ye to be in a continual and honorable imploiment with the love of the kingdom then upon these uncertainties ye now are in with the kingdoms curse upon this just settlement of King and people the discipline of our religion will be setled the nearest way agreeable to divine Scripture truth withall respect to tender consciences your King and his two royal brothers are reformed Protestants in which reformed religion with Gods grace they refolve to live and die for which Rome is not their great friend And upon this just settlement oblivion of all errors will bee passed in free Parl with full indempnity the exceptions included with your own judgments Estates comprimized and secured by Parl his Maj. Court regulated the Law rectified the kingdoms abuses reformed Trade restored and enlarged manufactures increased Land improved and a great part of the kingdoms charge taken off mens minds setled in peace and quietness and the people governed by law and love penalties confirmed by Parliam against distinction of nick names whereby the nation may be brought into an amiable posture and condition and a full and perfect Act of amnesty and oblivion passed and confirmed by King and Parl. with invocation unto Heaven for its observance and noble Acts advanced for just and honourable ends for the honor and advantage of the nation Experience having improved your King and our English nation by awaking them out of the drowsiness of a slothfull and luxurious Peace This Comenting at home of King and people will prevent all forraign designs and make us formidable and terrible abroad and on the contrary by our divisions indanger us for a prey to other nations Therefore again England have the honor of it thy self without the help of thy neighbors who brought thee into confusion And all ye loyal subjects of England and excluded Members of the long Parl. by Cromwel that were for the personal Treaty in the Isle of Wight and all ye Nobility Gentry Commonalty Justices of Peace Sheriffs of the several counties and shires and all cities and towns corporate all Magistrates and Members of the kingdom whatsoever who have all your rights from the Crown your lawfull King and his Heyors and that do enjoy your laws liberties francheses and freedoms from the concessions of King and free Parl Rise up as Thrasibulus did against the 30. Tyrants of Athens and as one man put your selves into a posture of defence against any power whatsoever that shall invade your Rights and Liberties and debar ye of free Parl which are your birth-rights and inheritance and then treat with your King from whom you may have honorable and safe conditions for the honor happiness and safety of the nation the children not bearing the sins of their Parents as in the Prophet Ezekel and make your selves famous over all the world to all posterity And unto the opposers of this happiness and settlement throw into their hearts and faces with invocation up to Heaven the breach of all their Oaths Vows Covenants Protestations and Declarations for the honor and happinesse of the King for the freedom and Priviledges of Parliament and for the good and liberty of the subject as Amutath the great Turk did against Vladislaus King of Hungary The Time and Covenant Breaker when his Army was almost lost before his Invocation unto Heaven and then gave him a wonderfull victory over the Hungarians that ye may be hereafter governed by law and not by the lust of men and be confident God will bless ye in it and wil strike such a daunt and terror into your Enemies hearts that oppose your just and righteous Cause that 10. of ye shal chase an hundreth and 100. of ye put 1000. to flight but you must do it with zeal and dexterity for all the Kingdome to Rise as one Man on one Day and God bless ye in it Ye have men enough to head ye The protection and enjoyment of your lawes lives liberties and Estates being all taken from ye Therefore ye must protect your selfes as ye are bound by the law of nature that afterwards ye may have a free Parliament called to settle and confirm your laws liberties and Estates and in your rising use the people as Brethren and country men not cruelly but kindly and be sure ye are not created by independent treaties nor long winded speeches let them seem never so religious you have experience enough of that untill you have a free Parliament chosen not only to confirm your old Magna Carta but to make a new Maxima Carta Truth doth rest and is quiet when its just ends are granted but falshood never where is now Quintus Curtius that stopt the Gulf of Rome and Scevola that lost his hand to save the city remember Sisia the noble Bohemian that defended Prage against the whole Imperial Army take but courage you have 9. parts of 10 of the Kingdome for ye therefore O English Blood and hearts redeem your Liberties and declare only for a free Parliament for the settlement of your laws liberties and Estates a most just cause and most safely may be Acted with a good conscience and God bless and prosper ye in it that his infinite Majesty may have the honor and glory and the whole nation and your posterity after ye may have the benefit and your selves of this age be engraven in everlasting monuments for the restorers of your Kings and countries liberties upon the Principles of Truth justice mercy and amnesty for so prayeth every true hearted English man Printed at London the 12. of Iune 1659.