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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74788	The jovial tinker of England: willing to hammer the Covenant and Scots commissioners into English. And to mend the breaches, and stop the holes of the Crowne of England, (miserably torne and bruised, both within and without) with the best mettle he can get. And at a very reasonable rate. Provided, he be not compelled to take the Scots sense upon the Covenant. He will rather walk about the countries, & cry: Have you any work for a joviall tinker. / By Borialis guard.	Borialis, Guard.	1648 (1648)	Wing J1119; Thomason E424_3; ESTC R204544	10,341	16

it meerly an aliquid nihil But what if other men be of other mindes and have not we cause to bee so and to thinke it unsatisfactory for is not the Prince in his capacity as bad as the King principled by father and mother to begin where he leaves is not the Parliament put in trust by the people to provide for their security and shall they bee so base as to expose posterity had our forefathers been so selfish the Free-men of England might have been like the bondmen in Scotland where the common people speake broken French The reason of the negative voyce is as they affirme because regall power and authority is chiefly in making and enacting Lawes and therefore object That the new preface takes away the Kings negative voice and cuts off all royall power and right in Law-making wherein by the way they play the Sophysters being excellent School men in State matters for when they speake of the Militia which is lesse concerned in terminis in the Coronation oath which principally respects Civil matters yet they bring it for a proof as to that saying That all Kings are obliged by their Coronation oath to protect their Subjects but as to his negative voice the exclusion whereof is both the substance of that oath and this preamble they blanch it taking and leaving as makes for their turnes in Oaths and Covenants and making at best that oath as to the Lawes speake but the language of the Cavalliers whose interpretation of only protecting the Laws they take up and decline that of the Parliaments of confirming and making them so fully evinced in their Declarations to be the genuine sense thereof and in right reason and true construction it must needs be so That he sweares to confirme and grant all such Laws as his people shall choose to be observed not hath chosen for first the word concedis in that oath were then unnecessary the Lawes formerly enacted being already granted by foregoing Kings his predecessors and so need no more concession or confirmation else we must conclude that all our Lawes dye with the old King and receive their Being a new by the new Kings consent Secondly hereby the first and second clause in that interrogatory viz. Concedis justas leges permitt 〈◊〉 protegendas are confounded and doe but idem re●●●●●● Thirdly Quas vulgus elegerit implies only the act of the people in a dis-junctive sense from the act or consent of the King but Laws already made have more then Quas vulgus elegerit in them they have also the Royall consent too so that that phrase cannot mean those Laws wherein the act and consent of the King is already involved But though the Scots Commissioners approve not of it to be the meaning of that Oath yet they affirme it undeniably as a position of their owne That regall power is chiefly in making and enacting Laws that and protection being of the essence of Kings The Scots say its essentiall to the King to make Laws the Preamble to the Propositions sayes so too That it 's the duty of his office yet they that affirme that oppose this so that there must needs be some great mis-understanding for there is no difference which is this The Scots when they say It is essentiall to the King to make Laws speake by a figure incident to their dialect that is They speake one thing when they meane another you may finde the name of it in Hocus Pocus his politicks intending thereby That it is essentiall to him not to make Lawes elegantly asserting the negative which they contend for in the affirmative For they speake all in the plurall number Kings and Kingdomes nothing but joynt interests and equall jurisdiction municipall lawes are out of doores And let it be granted that it is a principall part of even our regall authority to make and enact Lawes for the Coronation oath saith as much That he is to confirme and grant such Lawes as his people shall present so also sayes this Preamble to the Propositions and what get they by it why then say they to take away the Kings negative voyce is to cut off all power and right in making Lawes nothing lesse this is a meer non sequitur for to make him that he cannot but make them is that to make him that hee cannot make them There are somethings that God himselfe cannot but doe which is as well his perfection and power not imperfection and impotency as those things he can chuse to doe and does that therefore imply that he cannot doe what he cannot but do Things essentiall are not arbitrary but necessary so is making Lawes to the Office of a King but so is not his not making them It seemes by the Scots creed translated into English for they are not of this faith at least not of this practice at home nothing's royall but what 's arbitrary a position fitter for Turkes and Infidels to maintaine then Christians and men of erudition that so preferres will to reason and the will of one man laps'd and relaps'd to the reason of a State making that which is the worst to rule by the sole or principall rule of all rule and Government They are now attain'd to that confidence as after all that 's done and suffered by the Parliament and Kingdome for an establishment of liberty and safety openly to advocate it for the King against these preferring their interest which is against them above their Covenant which is for them notwithstanding the profession they made to the contrary and the money viz. 600000. li. 100000. li. at their comming in 200000. li. at their going out 250000. li. for coales at Newcastle 50000. li. when they lay before Hereford are such another summe when they lay before Newarke besides free-quarter a●bitrary assesements and exactions which in computation during their long stay to little purpose amounted to above as much more They have had for their seeming serviceablenesse thereunto And now all the courtesie we must expect is onely this for they are their owne words It is not our desire that Monarchy should be at the absolute height of an arbitrary and tyrannicall power Implying an allowance or content of some yea a great deale of arbitrary and tyrannicall Monarchicall power and for this it seems they contend the whilst they go about to erect these two Pillars of it in the Crown a Negative voyce and a Regall Militia and indeed the Crowne having them what can hinder it of an arbitrary tyrannicall power even to the height thereof if he that weares it be so disposed for by the power of the one the people can have no Lawes but what hee le grant them and by the power of the other they are never the better for them nor surer of them when they have them the Militia investing the King with a negative power of undoing at pleasure what he of curtesie hath done or granted to them and so his people are stript

THE JOVIALL TINKER OF ENGLAND Willing To Hammer the Covenant and Scots Commissioners into English AND To mend the breaches and stop the holes of the Crowne of England miserably torne and bruised both within and without with the best Mettle he can get And at a very reasonable Rate PROVIDED He be not compelled to take the Scots Sense upon the COVENANT He will rather walk about the Countries cry Have you any work for a Joviall Tinker By BORIALIS Guard LONDON Printed for John Hickman 1648. THE Covenant and Scotch Commissioners translated into English for better understanding ENGLAND is unhappily become the Tennis-ball of mis-fortune betwixt a Scottish King and the Kingdom of Scots Epitomiz'd in those State-Merchants their Commissioners The one striving for an absolute separate interest the other for a joynt A designe in practise ever since King James first set foot over Tweed wherewith he traveld all his life but wanting the Midwisery of a Covenant to bring it to passe but now we are shared out by the Meere-stones of mutuall agreement betwixt His Majesty and His Native Subjects who formerly promised them three Counties but that not contenting them he hath now undertaken for the whole kingdome to let them play the best of their Game and they to him for the Crown to make it Independent wheras the Identity and self-samenesse of interest ought to be 'twixt him and his People as betwixt the head and body naturall and certainly the cards play faire for them by the Cavaliers on the one side and the Londoners on the other the one sworn slaves to Prerogative and the other for the most part to the Scotch glosse upon the English Covenant who long to feast the Mayor of Edenborough at Guild-hall For the Scots finding the waters troubled and humors stirring they think now is the best fishing and the fittest time to work their ends and therefore Print their papers in spite of the Parliament in hope therby to set England on fire that they may come to warme their hands at it a practise never known in use by any Ministers of State but these nor by them in no place in the world but here because their warpe is weaving in our Looms They find the Round heads á stiffe people not easily bent but resolved to the death to maintaine entire both the freedom interest of England without mixture or thraldom therfore Acheronta movebunt they now renounce brotherhood and contrary to Covenant fawne upon the Principles of the Cavaliers face about to the common Enemy towards whom throughout all these wars they carried themselves very inoffensively doing them no more hurt than what necessarily conduced to their owne particular advantage in taking a few northern frontier Garrisons and knowing them to bee mostly prophane Esaus a people not much considerate of their owne concernments they hope to buy out their birth-rights with a messe of pottage and yet the Cavaliers hate a Round head he cannot lightly love a Blew-cap so that they may perchance find it prove the onely stay to part two fighting Mastiffes is to turn a Beare loose upon them both And as for the Londoners they are so confident of them as already they call London where their Papers of the disposall of the Kings person was printed Edenbrough upon the frontispiece therof nor is it improper for the Metropolis to change her name when the Kingdome changes her interest And which is the worst part of machiavell they make religion even The solemn League and Covenant to father all their bastards for my owne part I am one that have taken it and wish all did so that will make conscience to keep it but cursed be that English-man that takes it with the Scotch corrupt paraphrase of a joynt interest which ipso facto renders him perjured as to the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy inhibiting all English-men to betray or communicate their publique interest especially legislative to forraigne States and better it were the Covenant were neither given nor taken then pressed in policy as it is by the Scots to hand-fast English men in a joynt interest and propriety or taken with perjury as it is by the Cavaliers who make no conscience in swearing nor for-swearing But we now plainly see what were our brethrens ends in their first propounding this Covenant not Religion and Conscience but Designe and Incroachment I dare not judge so undivinely of their Divines who I am confident had honester purposes but whatsoever was their divinity in it their equity is starke naught the Commander in cheife whereof in his transactions here in England hath carried himselfe extreame immorally to the scandal of Presbytery and meriting the stoole of repentance and yet it cannot bee denied but that what he hath done hath been equitable for the King raising him by I know not what mystery of State from his deep displeasure to that height of Honour can hee doe too much for such a Master that not onely forgave him but gave him Who is their main pillar of policy and strikes the greatest stroak in this master-piece of transmigration of interest and like Chancery Bills affirms any thing but proves nothing in his papers knowing that a bad cause is better maintained by a brazen face bold assertions than iron arguments Therfore they never offer to reply save with a deaf ear to the House of Commons Answer to their papers touching the disposall of the King in England wherby is made evident that neither as to that particular nor any thing else either in or relating to the Covenant they have any right or interest to order or dispose thereof by any joynt or united property The words of the Covenant being expresse and clear to the contrary in every Article of it engaging both each Nation and each person To endevour both one thing and other in our severall places and callings in our severall Vocations and according to our places and interests So that though the Covenant by these definit expressions purposely provide against confusion of Interests that England and Scotland being severall distinct kingdomes and each one onely to act in his severall place Vocation calling and interest yet without replying to these reasons brought against their indirect quoting the Covenant in abstract Positions thereby to compasse their end of joynt interest they still persist from this Covenant to entitle themselves to the right of exercising a joynt power not onely of disposing the King but the kingdome also though the Covenant be contrary to the exercise of any joynt power which was severall and distinct before the making thereof and although the joynt exercise of such power be a breach of Covenant both of us respectively being therby obliged in our severall Vocations mutually to preserve the rights priviledges and Liberties of each Parliament and kingdom and the exercise of such a joynt power which gives a negative voyce to either Nation towards other is a manifest breach of those Priviledges and Liberties