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A46843	King Charles I, no such saint, martyr or good Protestant as commonly reputed, but a favourer of Papists and a cruel and oppressive tyrant all plainly proved from undeniable matters of fact : to which are added Dr. Burnet's, now Bishop of Salisbury, and other reasons, against the keeping up any longer the observation of a fast on the 30th of January : as also short answers to these three questions, I, what is the occasion of the clergies pride and lording it over the laity, II, why they and many of the laity cry up this king for a saint, martyr, &c., III, what is the true reason that the generality of the clergy, and many of the laity, both lawyers and others, are constant advocates for kings, tho never so wicked, and sacrificers of the people.	D. J.	1698 (1698)	Wing J7; ESTC R444	18,954	30

many years His intending to bow or break his People to perswade or force them to slavery is so clear by the whole course of his Reign that 't is amazing that men even of the highest stamp of Toryism should have Front enough to deny it He turn'd the Lord Conway out of his Secretary's place because he would not make the necessary advances to Rome but refused to receive the Sacrament in Henry VII's Chappel after Popish Laud's way which was not in Bread but in Wafers His undermining our Religion and Government his raising an Army of English Scots Germans and bloody Irish Papists to subject his Peoples Fortunes to his Will and Power and make good the Breaches upon the Liberties of England That never was inclined to Parliaments nor to call them but for a greedy hope of a whole National Bribe his Subsidies and never loved never fulfil'd never promoted the true End of Parliaments the Redress of Grievances but still put them off and prolonged them whether gratified or not gratified That caused Court Letters and Intimations to be sent to deter the People from their free electing the best affected to their Religion and Countries Liberties That could not forbear declaring that the execution of Strafford stung his Conscience and no marvel when he was the chief Author of those Misdeeds he suffered for This Stafford was one of the boldest and most impetuous Instruments that the King had to advance any violent or illegal Design He had ruled Ireland and some parts of England in an arbitrary manner he had endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws to subvert Parliaments and incense the King against them He had endeavoured to make Hostility between England and Scotland he had counsel'd the King to call over that Irish Army of Papists which he had cunningly raised to reduce England as appear'd by good testimony then present at the Consultation For which and many other Crimes proved against him in 28 Articles he was condemned of High-Treason by the Parliament This pious Martyr could highly demonstrate his remorse for the Blood of Strafford that all good Men acquitted him of but not the least sorrow for setting up his Standard and causing a Sea of innocent Blood to be spilt by the Civil War occasion'd by his Male Administration That according to his own confession violated the Privileges of the Commons by going in an Arbitrary way into their House That as his Cabinet Letters declare call'd them a mungrel Parliament that vext his Queen with their base and mutinous Motions A special Bargain of such a Queen at whose landing at Dover the 25th of June New-stile 1625 the Sun withdrew its Beams as being unwilling to shine upon a Descent so mighty fatal to this Nation and the Night hid the Miseries which that Day were brought into this flourishing Island upon her arrival On the 26th the Queen with the King made their entry to London having among others in her Train A Roman Catholick Bishop on whom King Charles was obliged to settle a Pension of 4000 l. a Year Four Abbots under the Title of Almoners on each a 1000 l. Two Chaplains Priests 1400 l. Two Clerks of the Chappel two Grooms Moreover 12 Priests of the Oratory on whom 6000 l. were to be settled for their subsistence and maintenance But besides all the Ecclesiastical Persons the Queen not to trust to Protestants brought over with her a Train of Roman Catholicks whereof she form'd her House and as it after prov'd a Seminary in the Kingdom four Ladies of Honour for her Bedchamber six Ladies of Honour with their Governante and one under her besides Servants 18 Gentlemen six Valets de Chambre a Chamberlain a Secretary five Chambermaids Semstresses Laundresles a Physician an Apothecary Chirurgions a Pantler Cup-bearers Cooks Potagers Roasters Bakers Stewards Coachmen and all the Officers of her Stables At her coming up to London almost all the People of that great City went before her just as heretofore the Trojans did the Horse that was the cause of their destruction in triumph into their City with demonstrations of joy But to their great sorrow these Halcion days lasted but a short time for they soon found the Queen's numerous Train of Ecclesiasticks caused no small clamours and murmuring amongst the People all over the Kingdom for these Vipers were in perpetual motion and continually running from House to House under pretence of Conversion-work openly boasting they had already converted many thousands in the little time they had been in England Whereupon the King received divers Complaints as well from Protestant Bishops and Ministers as from the Masters of Families who accused those Priests not only of perverting their Servants but their Children and that by their wicked instigation unknown to their Parents several of them were gone away beyond Sea to be put into Colleges and Convents for their more commodious being bred up in the Romish Religion But upon all matters that happened as to that subject the Queen still stept into the Breach to prevent by her Credit any Mischiefs that should have fallen on the Priests But the Complaints of the People against these Vermin the Queen brought with her were so great that the King was necessitated to send them back into France which was done in August the same Year he was crown'd But at the same time to prevent their complaining the King heaped Favours Benevolences and Present upon all the Fry of Clergy to reward their labour of the Tares they had sown and left behind them in England However all this Liberality of the King was not sufficient to hinder their Complaints nor their Sollicitations in the Court of France to return into England to gather as they said the Fruits of their Labour The Queen on the other hand saw her self forestall'd of her desire to propagate the Catholic Faith especially in her Kingdom of England and being push'd on by her Confessor and others of the same brood did not fail to write of this matter very smartly to Lewis XIII her Brother but particularly to the Queen Mother And the King of France being pushed on by the Queen Mother took as a very great and sensible Affront the sending back of all the French that belonged to the Retinue and were the Domestick Servants of the Queen his Sister The Cardinal that was absolute Governour of the King was so angry to see the French returned for that grievously broke his Measures in England and prevailed so much on the King his Master that he got him to send over an Embassador Extraordinary to confer with the Queen and to make his complaints of it to the King And that Minister did his business so effectually that those who had been dismissed and obliged to leave the Kingdom return'd to their former Post about the Queen their Mistress and began their old trade of perverting people to the Romish Religion which lasted as long as the Queen continued in England Whilst the King was thus govern'd by his

factus est Rex ac Comites Barones qui debent ei Fraenum ponere The King of England hath for his Superiors both the Law by which he is constituted King and which is the measuring of his governing Power and the Parliament which is to restrain him if he do amiss Bracton l. 2. c. 16. Fleta l. 1. c. 17. That the King by his Coronation Oath hath a power to rule his People for their best advantage to administer to every man his just rights to confirm such Laws that the People make conducing to the Common Good c. And no other Authority can he with justice claim That it is against the Moral Law that a Kingdom should suffer it self to be unkingdom'd ruin'd and destroy'd having power in their hands to save themselves self-preservation being natural even to brute beasts when disturbed That God doth sometimes require that One should suffer for all but never that All should suffer for One. That Rebellion consists in resisting of just Governors in their just Government and not in defending legal rights against a Tyrant That it is unlawful to keep any Oaths Vows and Covenants to or for the King that are against the good of the Kingdom for the performing or keeping them would be an adding sin unto sin wickedness unto wickedness that is to do Evil as well as to promise the doing thereof He that covenants to do things unlawful covenants with Hell must therefore the League of Hell and Death be maintained These things one would think should have some weight with our Nonswearing Jacobites who choose rather to break the solemn Oaths they took to feed their Flocks than to comply with swearing Faith and true Allegiance to that Prince that Providence in a most miraculous manner raised up to deliver these Three Kingdoms from the Egyptian slavery it groaned under A Prince who by his own Merits and the Peoples Election can justly claim the best Title that ever any King of England had let the Fools and Knaves who madly dote on the Divine Right of Succession c. say what they will to the contrary That the Oath of Allegiance is not made to the King Warring or any ways Acting against the welfare of the Kingdom but to him as Governing for good according to the Laws of the Land That the Oath of Supremacy doth not allow him to be the Supreme Legislative Power of the Kingdom and that he is in all Cases the sole Judg and over all persons an absolute Lord unto whose Will and Pleasure the People are bound to be subject Actively or Passively for such a Power becometh only those that are perfect as God himself is perfect That all Oaths Vows Covenants and Compacts whatsoever are conditional reciprocal and mutual the King being as well bound to the People as the People to the King That the King 's voluntary and plenary breach of his Agreement with the People doth ipso facto discharge the People from their Vows and Covenants until such time as the Agreement and Compact between the King and People be again renewed and united The Nobility Gentry and Clergy have in their noble assistance in the late Revolution justified this Position to the height and also that Kings are accountable to their Subjects for their Male Administration That the People of England cannot give the Parliament a power to enslave themselves for thereby they would be Self-betrayers and in a degree Self murderers Neither can the People de Jure make Laws destructive to the Common-safety or give any Power to others to the making of such Laws That what King James the First told the Lords and Commons in the Year 1609. is certainly true viz. That he is no King but a Tyrant that governs not by Law That there is a very great and dangerous defect in the constitution of the Government of England if the same Power that gave the Coronation Oath cannot judg whether the said Oath be kept or not and call to an account for the violation thereof Bracton Fleta the Parliament of 1640. and the late Revolution seem clearly to allow Kings being accountable c. That Kings and all Magistrates ought to be Nursing Fathers not Bloody Tyrants to make their People miserable to reward Virtue and not to encourage Injustice Oppression and Vice That if they would answer the end of Government which is the Publick Good they ought to study the happiness and welfare of their Subjects equally with their Own Lastly That if they will not govern thus according to Law and Justice they must not think the People of England will be such Fools as to stay for their accounting in the other World for they do not love the Welshmans reckning which was to let her alone till the last Judgment and then her would account fairly for all her Rogueries c. I am very well satisfied let the wretched Advocates for Tyranny and Arbitrary Power say what they will to the contrary That these Doctrines or Maxims cannot destroy Government because they will not permit Governors to destroy the People Nay they will establish a Just Government by rooting out the Unjust The Throne will be established by Righteousness but ruined by Wickedness Those Doctrines that rectifie Governors in the administration of Common Right and Justice do fasten the Crowns of Government upon their Heads for by doing every man right their Throne is set up in every man's Heart and not only so but the promised Presence of an Infinite Power will ever secure and prosper such Administrations These pious Doctrines do not implead Government but the Evils thereof and are all included in this The Safety of the People is still the chiefest Lord Rule Reason and Law These Divine Truths will I hope be highly acceptable in this age of light and knowledge tho Laud Sibthorp Manwaring Mountague and other wicked Clergy-men of those and later times have unjustly esteemed them Rebellious I could produce many more Instances to inform the deluded part of mankind that this adored Prince was far from being a pious One but for the present shall give but one more clear Demonstration that is His causing a Declaration to be published and read in all Churches that all Sports c. whatsoever were lawful on the Sabbath-day How agreeable this most wicked Act can be to Religion I cannot conceive and I am of opinion it will puzle all those that in a blasphemous strain call him a Saint and Martyr to defend him from this horrid impiety See the Declaration at large printed in the Book called A Vindication of the Parliament of 1640. Neither can I see for what Reasons any of his adorers can make him a Martyr for the word Martyr in the Greek Martur signifies Testis a Witness In Ecclesia dicitur Testis Confessor Veritatis Verbo Dei patefactae singulariter autem ille qui propter Confessionem Evangelicae veritatis sustinet Afflictiones ipsamque adeo Mortem Our pretended Martyr God

knows cannot come under any one of these Characters for it is plain that he did not dye for being a Witness or Confessor of the Revealed Truths in God's Word neither did he suffer Afflictions even unto Death for the sake of owning or professing Evangelical Truths No the Parliament did not oppose or prosecute him for being a Protestant but for favouring Papists and subverting in a most arbitrary manner all the Laws and Liberties of England I shall now proceed to shew that this King could not be a firm Protestant His Letter to the Pope printed at large in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. and the People of England against King Charles the First and his Adherents in answer to the Letter he received from the Pope is enough to startle any but such as Land 's Protestants He calls the Pope Most Holy Father and tells him I shall never be so extreamly affected to any thing in the World as to endeavour an Alliance with a Prince that hath the same apprehension of the True Religion with my self Mr. Rushworth hath it in these words Your Holinesses Conjecture of Our Desire to contract an Alliance and Marriage with a Catholick Family and Princess is agreeable both to your Wisdom and Charity for we would never desire so vehemently to be joind in a strict and indissoluble Bond with any mortal whatsoever whose Religion we hated And towards the end of the Letter I entreat your Holiness to believe that I have been always very far from encouraging Novelties or to be a Partisan of any Faction against the Catholick Apostolick Roman Religion In another place he protested That he would expose Life and Estate in the Exaltation of the Holy Chair This cannot redound to the honour of a Protestant King for the Holy Chair in its proper sense means nothing but down-right Popery In another place he tells the Pope I will employ my self for the time to come to have but one Religion and one Faith Having resolved in my self to spare nothing in the World and to suffer all manner of Discommodities even to the hazarding my Estate and Life for a thing so pleasing to God This Resolution cannot look like his converting the Pope and others to the Protestant Religion but directly the contrary And in his Reply to the Nuncio upon his delivering the Popes Letter to him which you may read in Cabala or Mysteries of State pag. 214. he says I kiss his Holiness Feet for the Favour and Honour he doth me so much the more esteemed by how much the less deserved of me hitherto and his Holiness shall see what I do hereafter And so did England Scotland and Ireland and the whole world His Bishops and Chaplains pressed Popish Innovations and preached Doctrines of gross Popery And I think my Father will do the like so that his Holiness shall not repent him of what he has done His marrying a violent Papist and making Articles with France in favour of Papists read his Articles at large in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. c. His stopping all Prosecution against them His preferring many of them to places of eminent Trusts particularly Weston to be his Lord Treasurer Arundell Weston Gottington and Windebanck who all died Papists His pardoning Mountague his Chaplain for preaching down-right Popery His unlawful corresponding and conspiring with the Irish and French to land Forces against the Parliament He was kind to the Irish Papists And in his third year against the plain advice of Parliament like a kind Pope sold them many Indulgences for money Advised with them on all occasions admitted them to private Consultations with him and his Queen His sending one Dillon a Papist Lord soon after a chief Rebel with Letters into Ireland and his dispatching a Commission under the great Seal of Scotland at that time in his own Custody that they should forthwith as formerly had been agreed cause all the Irish to rise in Arms. Read the Commission at large in the Book before mentioned His causing ten thousand Popish Irish Soldiers to be ordered for England by the Earl of Glamorgan do all shew he had more confidence in Popish Irish than in his Protestant English Subjects A rare Protestant I profess These with his betraying the Protestants of the Palatinate Isle of Rhee and Rochel and the poor Protestants of Ireland to the number of 154000 shew the slender affection he had for the Protestant Interest either at home or abroad From such a merciless Protestant Good Lord for ever deliver these Kingdoms Read his Letters to the Rochellers and their Remonstrance upon his betraying them both printed in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640. and you will have little cause to admire this Martyr And also the Sheet called Murder will out printed in the same Book which makes it appear he had a hand in the horrid Irish Rebellion In the next place I shall plainly make it appear beyond all doubt that this King was an oppressive Tyrant and should I proceed on this melancholy Subject so largely as with the greatest truth and matters of Fact I might I should have cause to cry out with the Poet Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem Many Instances of his Arbitrary and Illegal Government being printed in the Book called A Defence of the Parliament of 1640 c. and also the following Papers which set this King out to the life viz. The Pope's Letter to King Charles I. and King Charles 's Answer His Articles of Marriage with France His Declaration of Sports on the Lord's Day His Letters of Assurance to the Protestants of Rochel and their Remonstrance on his deceiving them His Commission to the Irish Rebels and Rorie Macquire and Philem Oneal 's Declaration thereupon K. Charles II. Letter to the Court of Claims in Ireland in behalf of the Marquess of Antrim for acting by King Charles I. Order King Charles 's Prayer taken out of Pembrook 's Arcadia An Abridgment of the Articles of Peace that King Charles I. made with the Irish Rebels Lord Anglesey 's Memorandum and Walker 's Reasons against Eikon Basilike I shall now content my self with enumerating a few more Instances of his grievous oppressing the People of England as a Tyrant viz. By his raising without Act of Parliament 200000 l. on the poor Merchants for Ship-money Coat and Conduct money His great Minions and Favorites inventing new methods of Monopolies without ever acquainting the Parliament to enable him in a full time of Peace to live without a Parliament as he did about 11 Years together Compulsive Knighthoods the seizing not of one Naboth's Vineyard but of whole Inheritances under the pretence of Forest or Crown-lands Corruption and Bribery compounded for with Impunities granted for the future Arbitrary and excessive Fines on those People that stood in the gap against his Tyranny besides the barbarous Slashings Whippings Pillorings and horrible Imprisonments for

unhappy for his Kingdom And were such persons as these fit to be trusted by the people Men that laboured all they could to make the King a powerful Tyrant and his Subjects a miserable enslaved people Besides could rational men think it safe to permit such a King and his Evil Counsellors to carry on those their Arbitrary Designs apparently destructive to the happiness and welfare of England If they had permitted these Evils to come upon them they ought not only to be beg'd for Fools or Madmen but deserved to lose the privileges of a Free People But God be praised for inspiring and assisting them with greater Wisdom and Courage than foolishly and tamely to suffer their Religion Laws and Liberties to become a Sacrifice to that Tyrant or his Crew His governing ad Libitum Regis by his own arbitrary Lust and Will and not per Legem Terrae and calling but three Parliaments in all his Reign which to the sorrow of England was almost twenty four years must naturally create enemies against him To conclude this Head His whole Reign was such a continued piece of Popish Tyranny and Oppression that the people of England with the greatest chearfulness ran the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes to free themselves and posterity from them both and I challenge the greatest Advocates for this pretended Saint and Martyr to disprove the least matter in this Book laid to his charge nay I 'll go farther I challenge them to give me or any one else a satisfactory account of one good Act he ever did for the glory of God or the good of his three Kingdoms except constrained by his people thereunto For a conclusion of this Discourse I shall make a few Remarques which I hope if well observed may be very useful not only to this present age but to posterity 1. I shall give a short Answer to this Question Why do the generality of the Clergy and Laity so much adore and idolize all Monarchs whether good or bad above the People The Reason is plain The People have nothing material in a Monarchical Government to bestow upon these Court Parasites for the Kings have the disposal of the Bishopricks Deanaries Prebendaries Archdeaconries and most other great Livings and also most of the Temporal beneficial Places as Chancellors Judges and other great Offices from such a sort of men as these nothing but Court-Doctrines can be expected for they are well assured should they preach or write for the Rights or Privileges of the People in Arbitrary Reigns it would be the ready way to dash all their hopes of preferment into pieces And here I cannot but make a melancholy Observation as to the Clergy in general of the late Reigns viz. That by all I could hear or read they have been so far from being Christian Advocates for the Rights and Privileges of millions of people that they have in a most wicked manner promoted and preached up those Doctrines that plainly tended to make them miserable and lasting Slaves Indeed I must confess some few of them have signalized themselves for the good of the People and against Popery Particularly that incomparable Phoenix of our Age Mr. SAMVEL JOHNSON a person that by his sensible Conversation and his golden Works hath done more service to rescue England from Popery and Slavery and secure English mens Rights and Privileges than most if not all the Bishops and Clergy-men ever did since the Reformation His Works are so excellent and highly valuable that they will preserve his Fame long after he is dead and will make good that Motto Vivit post funera virtus And I could wish the Nobility and Gentry would encourage by subscriptions some Bookseller or Printer to reprint all this great Man's Works in one Folio that the Divine and Noble Truths therein contained might be handed down for the publick good to posterity I am extreamly well pleased that our Gracious King WILLIAM hath in some measure tho not so much nor so soon as I could wish tho he had merited more than others rewarded his inhumane sufferings and eminent services for these Kingdoms I would never have a good man have the least cause to say Virtus laudatur alget and that Aude aliquid brevibus gyaris aut carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquid Was the right way to preferment 2. What occasions the Clergy's usurping one Province more than belongs to them viz. the Law when God knows they have work enough to preach the Gospel as they ought to do that their Flocks might be well fed with the Milk of God's Word 1. Want of that true Piety that would keep them closer to their duties to God and men 2. As I hinted before they pick up scraps of Law to make Princes great that they may get promotion thereby tho to the sacrificing of their Country Lastly The imprudent familiarity the Nobility and Gentry have with them many of whom are poor ignorant impious and scandalous fellows that arise from being Parish Boys c. which makes them so proud as to strut and lord it over the People to a prodigious degree I would by no means be thought by this to be an enemy to pious good Clergy-men that as Christian Ministers discharge their duties for I solemnly profess I have the highest value and esteem for all such holy men And I observed in my Travels in Holland that the Dutch did highly respect their Ministers whom I must really confess I believe to be famous for good Lives and Conversations far beyond the generality of the English Clergy Yet they kept these good men at a due distance not suffering any of their Ministers to be seen at any time in an Ale-house Tavern or in a Coffee-house except on their Travels where refreshments must be had to support nature And if any of them shall transgress in this matter they immediately forfeit their reputation and esteem with the people And if they should in their Pulpits presume to meddle with State-affairs and the Magistrates hear of it they send them a pair of Shoos and order them to be gone If Mountague Sybthorp and Manwaring of old Pelling Sherlock Cartwright White Lake Watson Crew Thompson Collier Snet Cook Hawkins Hicks Wilson Long Thompson of Bristol Hollingworth Milbourn Birch and a great many more of the same stamp in the late Reigns had been dealt with according to their deserts I know what would justly have become of most of them 'T is observed that the People of England are famous for punishing little Rogues such as Pick-pockets c. but carelesly and imprudently pass by those Clergymen and Lawyers that have to the greatest degree robb'd them of their undoubted Birthrights and greatest Privileges by whole-sale and endeavoured to establish a Government over them as absolute as the Grand Seignior's 3. I shall take notice of the Observation of the 30th of January in that solemn manner as now kept and if I make some close Remarks thereon I hope