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A77694	A key to the Kings cabinet; or Animadversions upon the three printed speeches, of Mr Lisle, Mr Tate, and Mr Browne, spoken at a common-hall in London, 3. July, 1645. Detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous observations made upon the King and Queenes letters.	Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5181A; Thomason E297_10; ESTC R200224	40,321	55

never so foolish and ridiculous and receive no present Answer to that which they have said They make that advantage of their getting Plutarch no Answer which Cato they say made when he could get no Statue who gave out that it was more for his Honour and Reputation that posterity should enquire why Cato had no Statue then why he had And therefore I shall take them all three in order as they lye beginning first with M. Lisles Oration whose masculine eloquence it seems was thought worthiest to enjoy the Mayden-head of the Citties Attention who bespeaks them in the manner following M. Lisle his Speech My Lord Major and you worthy Gentlemen of the Famous Citty of London I am commanded by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled to observe to you some passages out of these Letters which you have heard They are passages of that nature though it be most happy to this Kingdom and Parliament to know them yet my very heart doth bleed to report them Animadversions Well said good obedient Oratour Higgin you have said nothing it seems but what you were commanded But I say not well done my Lord Major and you worthy Gentlemen of the famous City of London for you have done a thing which no body could command you you have resigned and given up your sences and your understanding here to three Brothers of the Observance as if you were able to marke nothing of your selves but what they Observe unto you What my Masters are the Walloones that came over lately crept already from the Campe into your Councell that a Common-Hall at London cannot understand English when they heare it Have you not only lost your Loyalty but your very Language that you must have an Interpreter to your own Mothers tongue take my word for it the Letters although they were not the old English foretoppe in their forehead of After my hearty commendations remembred unto you hoping to God that you are in good health as I am at the writing hereof yet they are writ in nothing but errand English The King and the Queen as much as you suspect them for superstition are not yet come to that height of Popery as to write their mutuall private Letters in an unknown Tongue For shame then be not such Wittalls to your own understanding as to say you know not English when you doe I can tell you the Cost of this Interpreter may chance prove greater then the Worship you see M. Lisles heart bleeds in the very begining of the businesse It was never known but Bloud would have Bloud you know and I feare your Hearts also that is your Purses will bleed before ever it be done There is so much of the Pharisee between you that if his Trumpet should goe before and your Almes should not follow after I would sweare one of you were very much out in playing of his part but M. Lisle is not out for he goes on Mr Lisle The first thing that I shall observe to you is concerning the King's endeavours to bring Forraigne Forces a Forraigne Prince with an Army into this Kingdom By His Letters to the Queen which you have heard read He endeavours to basten the Duke of Loraine with an Army into England It is well known to the Parliament that the Duke of Loraine is a Prince highly esteem'd at Rome the most complying with Iesuites of any Prince in Christendomes and yet the King writes to the Queen to hasten the Duke of Loraine to come with an Army into England Animadversions If the Major and his Brethren must observe and note this as a piece of Novelty which they knew not of before namely that the King did intend to bring in Forreigne Forces me thinkes the Exchange had been a fitter Theatre then the Guild-Gall to have call'd the Citizens together to have heard it and Mr Lisle's heart needed not to bleed for that But if they must observe and note this as a piece of Tyranny in the King as a breach and violation of any knowne Law in the Land and to that end it is most likely he would have them to observe it Then truly does Mr Lisle deserve to have his Nose bleed as well as his Heart he deserves to be well beaten for offering such a Cheat unto the Common People For Gods sake why may not the King bring over Forreigners when He shall be deserted and derelicted of his own Subjects Why may not the King invite Forreigne Forces hither now at the last for his Preservation and Reliefe whom the Rebels themselves have entertain'd already this two whole yeares and over for his Destruction and Ruine I cannot imagine why the worthy Citizens of London are to note and observe this as any unlawfull thing unlesse Mr Lisle will undertake to prove that the King by bringing in of such Forces into the Land does trespasse upon their severall Acts against Forreigners which are of so great force in London For I know no other Law written against which He does offend For I demand either it is lawfull for the King to defend himselfe by Force against those that doe rebell against him or it is not lawfull If they say it is not lawfull for him to defend himselfe by Force then have the Rebels the same argument against the King's raising of his Domestique Forces from amongst his owne Subjects here at home which they have against his bringing in of Forreigne from abroad For if it be not lawfull for him to defend himselfe by Force then is it not lawfull for him to raise any kind of Forces If they say it is lawfull for him to defend himselfe by Force then doubtlesse are all kind of Forces in themselves equally lawfull Because in this great Action of Defence no body but the King himselfe indeed is a proper Agent All others whether Persons or Things are but nearer or remoter Instruments used and employed by Him for his best advantage and therefore he that saies it is lawfull for the King to defend himselfe against Rebels with a native English or a Welch man but not with a Dutch or French man not with a Turke or Jew and thinkes he hath spoken high reason to the point that is in question He saies nothing more in effect then this That it is lawfull for the King to defend himselfe against the Rebels with an English Sword but not with a Spanish Blade or that it is lawfull for him to shoot powder at them which is made for him here in England but not to shoot that which is sent him hither out of France Or lastly that it is lawfull for him to charge the Rebels upon a Horse that hath been bred for him here at Brackley but not upon a Horse that hath been brought him over hither from Barbary For as all sorts of Weapons so all kinds of men are but the Kings Instruments in this great Action of his Defence and it is as lawfull for him to use the One for

his defence as to use the Other That which is there added concerning the Duke of Lorrain's estimation and power in the Court of Rome and concerning his complying with the Jesuites is meere froth and fume For does not all the World know that the Rebels themselves care not out of what quarter of the Compasse the wind blow so it doe but hoyse the Sayles up of their seditious Designes Alas there needs no breaking up of Cabinets or forcing private Letters to come by this Intelligence which all the World knowes namely that at this very instant the Rebels have their Factors and Agents with the King of Spaine and the King of Spaine questionlesse is a Prince full of as great esteeme at Rome as the Duke of Lorraine can be And that he complies faitely with the Jesuites too there is more then a suspition or a saying For it is notoriously knowne that the Rebels of Westminster who have so often exclaym'd and inveigh'd against the King for suspending the execution of Law against Recusants as if he savoured of Popery have themselves notwithstanding at the sollicitation and instigation of some Agents for the King of Spaine pardoned two Jesuites of late out of their pure zeale unto the Protestant Religion Mr Lisle The next thing that I shall observe to you are Endeavours to overthrow the Law of the Land by Power to repeale the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme by Force and Armes Endeavours by Force and Armes to repeale all the Statutes of this Kingdome against Papists I shall read a passage to you which you have already heard out of one of the Kings Letters to the Queene The Letter was dated the fifth of March 1644. I give thee Power in my Name to promise that I will take away all the Penall Statutes in England against the Roman Catholicks assoone as God shall enable me to doe it so as by their meanes or in their Favours I may have so powerfull assistance as may deserve so great a Favour When we Consider that the Statutes of this Kingdowe against Papists must be taken away by Force when we consider that the Lawes of this Kingdome are to be Repealed by Power who cannot but when he calls to mind the Declarations that have been made to put the Lawes in execution against Papists of the Protestations that have been made and have been often made to maintaine the Lawes of this Kingdome who can chuse but greive to thinke of it Animadversions I remember a report that goes of Socrates who being instigated once in a dreame to make some Verses was very much afflicted the next day when he awak't how he should doe it For accounting Poesy nothing but Colour and Fiction and having been himselfe all his life long a profest Votary to Truth He found that he wanted the faculty of making probable Lyes and therefore he went and took Aesops Fables which he knew to be nothing else but Fictions ready framed to his hands and put them into Verse that he might in some manner satisfie the will and pleasure of his Inspiration You see Socrates was much troubled here to make Verses because he could not lye But if you doe but sever and divide these Complicated aspersions which are here cast upon the King you will easily see that Mr Lisle is not much troubled how to lye because he makes not Verses for in all that hath been said here there is not so much as one tittle of considerable Truth that colours for a Crime The principall Ingredients to this Oleo of malice are three First that the King endeavours to overthrow the Law of the Land Secondly that he endeavours to overthrow that Law by Force and Armes and thirdly That he endeavours to doe both notwithstanding all his Declarations and Protestations which have been made unto the contrary For the first of these If by Overthrowing the Law of the Land be meant a totall eradication and extirpation of all the Ancient Lawes which are of the Foundation of this Kingdoms Government as if the King purposed to new mould the Common-wealth and to let nothing passe for Law but what he likes Then that which is here said is very considerable indeed and to the purpose but it is not true For I hope no man of understanding will suffer himselfe to be convinced by this Argument The King will take away all the Penall Lawes in England which have been made against Recusants Therefore the King will take away all the Lawes of England that ever have been made And if by Overthrowing the Law of the Land be meant onely the Suspension or the Annihilation of so much of the Law of the Land as concernes Recusants and was made but since the beginning of the last Queenes Raigne Then that which is here said is indeed very true but it is no whitt considerable or to the purpose For against what Law is it to have a purpose or a resolution to Repeale any Law Certainly the Lawes made here in England are not like the Lawes of the Medes and Persians that never must be changed They may be sometimes abrogated by consent they may be sometimes abrogated by dissuetude and disuse They may be sometimes abrogated by continuall contrary Practises and Vsage And those Lawes which seem to have the best and strongest Constitution are notwithstanding subject to this just Fatality that they never live longer then their Reasons And then doubtlesse if there be no sinne in the Repeale it selfe of any Lawe there can be no very great offence in the Resolution of Repealing I take not upon me now to meddle with the Religion of those Lawes which were then made against Recusants or how farre it may be or may not be Lawfull to use outward violence in matters that concerne inward perswasion although I professe I am apt enough to think that that is not Religion which doth force men to Religion and that those men who by the sence or expectation of any thing which is evill to the nature of man as fining imprisoning or the like doe endeavour to compell the Will of man to an assent of those conclusions whereof he is not in the least measure convicted in his understanding doe but only let him see that they want better arguments I look only now upon the Reason why those Lawes were made And certainly those Lawes were not made to determine the Truth of those poynts in controversie which then were and still are between the Church of England and Rome for if so then doe we our selves strike against a worse rock then that which hath already shipwrackt them for whereas they only make their Church we make our State Infallible The State may make Lawes against Recusants and yet that which those Recusants doe believe and teach may be True and the State may repeale Lawes made against Recusants and yet that which those Recusants doe believe and teach may be still false And it is no better argument to say the King will