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A78467 Certaine considerations touching the present factions in the Kings dominions. 1648 (1648) Wing C1697; Thomason E466_3; ESTC R205217 8,885 13

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CERTAINE CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE PRESENT FACTIONS IN The KINGS Dominions LONDON Printed in the Year 1648. Certaine Considerations touching the present Factions in the KING'S DOMINIONS THe Dominions belonging to the Crown of England are divided into three Kingdomes Every Kingdome is divided into three Factions 1. Royalists 2. Presbyterians 3. Independents I rank them according to seniority not forme for every one knowes that Loyaltie was before Presbyterie in time and Presbyterie before Independencie though now according to the good pleasure of God the last is become first and the first last Of ENGLAND ENgland is divided into 1. Independents 2. Presbyterians 3. Royalists The Independents make the Army the Committee of Safety at Derbyhouse the Committees in the Countries have all the Garrisons and Castles in the Kingdome in their hands and are a great part of the House of Commons who being countenanced with power without doe by their unity assiduity and resolution within either intimidate or insidiate the judgements and affections of other men and so carry on all their designes with the forme of Supreme Authority Which was first wrested from the KING by the Presbyterians and now cheated and wrested from them by the Independents who like cunning Masters of their Art open not all the boxes of their Principles at once The Presbyterians make a great part in the House of Lords cleerly And so they doe in the House of Commons notwithstanding many of them have turned Renegado's and gone over to the Independents when they dare meet and stick to one another which is accidentall they being dis-united by fear interest discorrespondency indifference of affection and instability of judgement For I esteeme all the remnant of Royalists who remained in the House of Commons when the KING went away to be of the Presbyterian perswasion as it is most favourable to Monarchy though as I said for the causes before they give way to the Independents by their absence or servility of nature as at first they did to the Presbyterians How the rest of the Kingdome are affected this way appears first in the City of London Where without question much the supernumerary part are Presbyters and are awed only by the activity of the Independent Faction who working by Authority of Parliament with whom they correspond daily are made to serve them though not to love them The rest of the Kingdom are generally Presbyterian not so much I suppose because their names are upon the Covenant Roll which however ought to be regarded as because they find the oppression of Warre and a headlesse Government And that Monarchy is more favoured by the Covenant which they remember to have been lesse grievous and not so perpetuall as the Government on foot is like to prove For Kings may die or their humours change As for the Townes and Corporations many of them have nests of Sectaries yet they are not all Independents though they all hope for Liberty from them and so by fighting with them against all others they suppose they fight for themselves But from these there is no fear of great dangers were one Army of them broken for they are not a considerable part of the Inhabitants and all that can runne to defend the common Cause as they call it in the Armies leaving no propagation of their Sect but what is between man and wife which must have some years to grow up For it may be confidently averred there hath been no considerable encrease of these parties ever since they had power to perswade and terrifie both which they have done which shewes they are no growing Faction and being at their height are endangered by one considerable check For fear will then drive many off whom interest or affection now makes to adhere and confidence and courage restrain others whom force at present hath enslaved to their designes The Royalists make a distressed company of Noble-men Gentlemen and others who having engaged their Estates and Credits to compound with the Parliament are all retired to a private life to eat the bread of carefulnesse expecting Gods good houre for their restauration who are beaten out of all their defences but that of a good Conscience which remaines impregnable These it did import the Parliament whose power could not compel the judgement and reason to have allured by soft and amicable entreaties to a good assurance of peace and quietnesse which after the rough and destructive variations of an unfortunate Warre might perhaps have made impression But the contrary being put in practice and proceeding from those whose principles have cried up Liberty of Conscience and Christian Charity so much and yet in their actions are the most sanguinary and inflexible persons in the world it begat only an indignation against the hypocrisie of proud Conquerors and left them fitted with vindicative resolutions to engage with the next party should appear which hath caused the late emergent troubles and may cause more upon the like probable overtures if God prevent it not Of SCOTLAND SCotland is divided into 1. Presbyterians 2. Royalists 3. Independents not purely and properly so but corruptly and upon designe The Presbyterians make up all the Parliament the Army the Committee of Estates at Edenburgh and all the whole Kingdome who are thereto engaged by the Covenant universally taken there and as really adhered to in terminis except by some late discontents who would advance their humours and passions above it and contrary to it The Royalists are made up of those who were so before the Covenant and such as were so by vertue of the Covenant Of the later fort I may call all Scotland now but Argyles faction For t is by obligation of the Covenant they come now to fight for the King against the Parliament as by the same obligation they came before to fight for the Parliament against the King The difference onely is that then they broke it and now they keep it though God seemes to punish them now for breaking of it then But the Royall part I meane are such of whom the famous Marquesse of Montrosse was Head and by whose courage he was the scourge of all Scotland when they were assisting their false brethren in England And such others as now are incorporated without doubt into that number who have resolved to rescue their King from base imprisonment There wants onely the presence of that incomparable and gallant Person the Marquesse of Montrosse and then the undertaking is compleat For it were a strange improvidence to let so much honour and virtue as is experimentally knowne to be in that Marquesse fall to the ground who being both a Presbyterian and a Royalist is the onely fit instrument to correct the turbulencie of Argyle infelicity of Hamilton and perhaps not over-much integrity of Both. I write not this partially or as a suborn'd person for God knowes I am equally unknowne to them all The Independents as I said are such as are so not because they have not