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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52220	England bought and sold, or, A discovery of a horrid design to destroy the antient liberty of all the free-holders in England, in the choice of members to serve in the Honourable House of Commons in Parliament, by a late libel entituled, The certain way to save England, &c.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing N101; ESTC R10091	15,117	14

Subject and gives you additional ones that are at present most necessary to be considered In this Juncture of Affairs we are now in it is thought by those that have seen and examined it that there cannot be a more ready serviceable Book to publick use and benefit than this that is offered you by Sir A hearty well Wisher of the Prosperity and Happiness of the King and Kingdom The Title of the Book is The certain way to save England not only now but in future Ages by a prudent Choice of Members to serve in the next Parliament in a seasonable Address to the Freeholders and other Electors Sold by Richard Baldwin in Ball-Court in the Old Baily price Six pence If to Calculate the Nativity of the King be thought so dangerous a Presumption as by Law to be adjudged Felony during Q. Elizabeths Life what may we think of the Crime of this Conjurer who gives so positive a Judgment of King Parliament and Kingdom pronouncing Magisterially the future Fate of England Upon the Elections says he depends the Weal or Woe both of King and Kingdom not only in this Vide Co. 3 Inst f. 6. De vita Principis inquirere presertim per astrologos capitale neque hoc solum sed etiam de ea dubitare vel desperare pro crimine Majestatis laesae habitum esse si indiciis esset aliquibus ea desperatio patefacta scip Gentil lib. 1. de Conjuratione but future Ages But the best on 't is He is but like the rest of that Tribe who being ignorant of their own Destiny yet will pretend to Prophesie of other Persons And I hope England will when he is either forgotten or only remembred for Infamy see many Wise Prudent and Loyal Parliaments * p. 4. He prefaces his Discourse with the popular Theme of the Horrid Popish Plot upon which he lays a Load not more than it deserves but that is not so much to run down the Papists as to serve a Turn which afterwards he discovers and is so hot upon it that his Patience would not give him leave to tell it out without a necessary Parenthesis against the Bishops whom like Traiterous Joab he Salutes and Stabs at the same time For says he ' the Papists had a Design to remove and deprive all Protestant Bishops and other Ecclesiastical Persons and God knows what a number there is of them in this Nation from their Offices Benefices and Preferments One would think this a vindication of the Bishops and Clergy but lest he should do them a service in comes a malitious Parenthesis in a Roman Letter and with a Romish Design and God knows c. Why Sir and do not you know too Have you never read Dr. Oates's Depositions he makes them all Protestant Bishops but though you and your Party who may Defame the Kings Evidence Cum Privilegio Two years ago would but allow two Protestant Bishops and one you say is fallen off since and for the Clergy they are all Tantivies and Popishly affected as you persuade the People And the Parenthesis in a different Letter is designed for a Remark upon them lest some of your Party should mistake you But that which surprised me was the Impudence of the Man who at the same time when he justly charges those Hellish and Execrable Plotters with the guilt of endeavouring to rob the King of his Royal Crown and Dignity by malicious and unadvised speaking writing and otherwise he himself was advisedly doing the same and with one or two more Aggravations Printing Publishing and dispersing this seditious Libel against the King and Kingdom but because though a man sees all other Mens Faces but never his own without a Glass I present him this which will tell him his Face as well as his Pen hath been in the Ink-pot In the next page he addresses himself to the People and the more to intimidate them Pag. 5. thereby to prepare them for his following Impressions he paints their danger with all the terrible Aspects which his Art can invent to render it more formidable and in short informs them that their ALL is now in hazard and that Self-preservation exacts from them not to suffer any but who he advises them to be Elected into any places of Office or Trust within this Kingdom Now first I observe that he never qualifies this principle of Self-preservation with any Limitation of doing what we lawfully may do in order to the preservation either of our selves or our ALL and indeed he is a man of large principles Quicquid libet licet I suppose is one of them Secondly It is to be observed that he never tells the People how solicitous the King is for their Safety how he hath done all that possibly he can to secure the Nation turned out all the Popish Lords out of the House of Peers disarmed all the Papists throughout England Married the Lady Mary to a Protestant Prince to secure the Succession permitted the Law to have its full and free scope against all the Conspirators of what degree soever hath importuned the Parliament for the vigorous and speedy Tryal and Prosecution of the Popish Lords and though he hath not been treated with such deference as a Prince who never denyed his Subjects any thing but one might have expected yet still he continues his care of his People But not a syllable of this must the People hear but on the contrary two most malicious Reflections upon the Crown where he tells them such Members as he is about to advise them to Elect will maintain all the Kings just Honours and Prerogatives this word just is a suspicious word It is just such a word as was in the late Solemn League and Covenant and is to give the People to understand the King hath some Honours and Prerogatives which are not just And for fear this Hint should not be powerful enough he treads upon their Toes again with another happy Parenthesis and tells them how they will maintain these just Honours by taking away our great and many I cannot say how well or ill-grounded fears and jealousies of Arbitrary Government Well then if you cannot say how well or ill-grounded why do you say it at all and if you can say why so squeamish all of a sudden I tell you Sir you will run the hazard of being more Knave and Fool a Knave to say a thing you cannot justifie and a Fool for so plainly shewing your self a Knave when it was your great Interest to have passed currant for a Man of superfine Honesty And I must assure you this flaw in your Credit and a Crack of your own free voluntary and uncompelled making will render your Reputation suspicious in whatever you say hereafter Then he passes on to his Qualifications which if he had left in their Scripture Purity without the Glossary of an Author in his Margent who dedicated his Labors the sucking Usurper Richard quondam Protector they would have

been much better relished by Persons of Loyalty To pass by his limping paraphrase upon the first Men that fear God i.e. Halt not between two opinions which yet is not without its design against all those Gentlemen who are zealous for the present Establishment in the Church who are ever represented to the People as halting between God and Baal Popery and Protestantism and in that sense incapacitated by this Gentleman for Representatives of the Commons of England His Second Comment is stollen from the late Rebel-Parliament who are very ill Patterns for the People to choose by Loving Truth i. e. Such as the King and Kingdom may trust All they did in the late Rebellion was for the good of the King and Kingdom they chose into the Parliament all that could be pickt up that had manifested any Animosity against the King or His Government for the good of the King and Kingdom they displaced all His Friends under the notion of Evil Counsellors for the good of the King and Kingdom and they raised an Army against the King under the Earl of Essex for the good of the King and Kingdom they fought against him in the Field and Bullets flew as thick as Hail about His Head for the good of the King and Kingdom and in fine they cut off His glorious Head too for the good of the King and Kingdom And for the Third hating Covetousness he is quite by the Cushion with his i. e. For it clearly intimates that they should chearfully assist their Sovereign with necessary Aids Subsidies and Supplies But he knows what hath gone abroad of late as a State-Maxim If upon any Terms we part with our Money till we are sure the King is ours the Nation is betrayed And yet Cicero a better Orator I cannot say a greater Common-wealths Man positively affirms Imperium sine vectigalibus retineri nullo modo potest which it is to be feared is the true foundation of the fore-recited Maxim And because this Adviser like the Jesuits doth not think the Scripture a sufficient Rule He proceeds to lay down Truths and Counsels as plain as possible he can and by his Recommendatory Letter he would have his Traditions make out the Insuffciency and Obscurity of Old Jethro's Rules who being a Priest or a Prince or both may be thought too much inclining to the Court Party as I suppose Solomon and St. Peter for the same Reasons are quite omitted or otherwise those who Fear God and Honour the King and meddle not with such as are given to change whose Calamity ariseth suddenly and who knows the Ruin of them both might have bid fairly to have been admitted for such Counsellors in whose multitude the safety of King and People too consists And now this Quack State-Doctor begins to talk learnedly of Critical Days and times and I pray consider says he this is a Critical Time upon your well or ill chusing depends your well or ill Being and you had need to do that well which you do not know whether ever you may do again Your Fate may not suffer you to offend twice in this one Particular Indeed this is an Amazing Paragraph This Fellow is the very Epitome of the Consult of the Jesuits at Wild-House as Doctor Oats in his Narrative Deposes That they intended to effect their wicked Plot Pag. 67. by disaffecting the Kings best Friends and Subjects First Charging him with Tyranny and Designs of Oppressing Governing by the Sword and without Parliaments Secondly By aspersing Deriding Exposing and Declaiming against His Person Councils and Actions in Parliament and elsewhere Nothing but the Impudence of a Plotter such a one as the Doctor describes could give the Lye to Majesty The King assures His People he will meet them in frequent Parliaments and here comes an Adviser to tell the People they do not know whether they may ever chuse Members for Parliaments again that their Fate may not suffer them to offend twice in that one Particular which is only in softer words the better to deceive the People to promote the Popish Plot by persuading the Nation they are like to have no more Parliaments These two Paragraphs of Doctor Oats which I have mentioned are in truth the Contents of his whole Book and the Libel is only an culargement upon these two heads of the Plot And if that be the way to Save England God deliver all good Protestants from such Savers and such Salvation And I desire the Reader to carry these Expositors in his mind for he shall find him all along indeavouring to traduce either the King or the Government or both upon which he is so violently bent that he persuades the People to whom for their Edification the Discourse is addressed That Kings have been their Constant Enemies for says he Liberty and Property were rescued by Inches out of the hands of incroaching Violence and this is another of his stabbing parentheses When in truth the People owe all their Liberties Franchises Charters and Immunities and even that great one of Commons to represent them in Parliament to the Bounty and Goodness of former Kings and never any King either did or attempted to deprive the People of the Grants of their Predecessors Let the Charter of London now publickly Printed and Sold be looked into and it will shew from William the Conqueror to His most August Majesty King Charles the Second what vast favors the Kings of England have con-ferred upon that City which it is to be hoped will incline them to Loyalty and Gratitude to His Majesty and to stop their Ears against such Charming Seducers as this and other Libellers especially if they remember that the first violaters of their Charter and the great Charter of England were the late Usurpers who dethroned and murthered their Lawful King by the very same popular Arts the Fears and Jealousies of Evil-Counsellors and Arbitrary Government Consider saith he you trust the Parliament with your Estates Liberties Religion and Lives And do the People chuse the Parliament too or only the House of Commons Are not the King and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal to be trusted A late Libel has indeed said we want a King and a Government that we may trust c. And now comes in our Commentator and obtrudes the word Parliament as if it only consisted of the Lower House and the whole trust were in them as presently after he adds they have the Interest and Charge of us all upon them For saith he should you be undone in any of these when it 's too late you may lament that you are undone by making such a choice as hath undone you by Law A fair prosecution of the Design and Plot mentioned by Doctor Oats but that will not satisfie him the man is for speaking plain Truths and Counsels and therefore he does it to purpose in the next page How your Expectations have been frustrated your hopes blasted you feelingly bewail Pag. 9. exactly as the

Apostate's Soldiers or the Primitive Christians I have learnt to obey and not dispute the Determinations of Kings and Parliaments and can acquiesce in their definitive Sentence But because this Gentleman hath so recommended Queen Elizabeth in his Postscript and there as in his whole Libel with design to reflect upon His Majesty I will shew him the Pourtraict of that Queens demeanor in a parallel Case of Succession by which the People shall see it is no such Tragical Thing for a Protestant Prince to deny the Importunities of a Parliament in the point of Succession Whereas Princes words do enter more deeply into Mens ears and minds Cambd. Eliz. An. 1566. take these things from our Mouth I that am a lover of the simple Truth have ever thought you likewise to be ingenious Lovers of the same But I have been deceived For I have found that in this Parliament Dissimulation hath walked up and down masked under the vizard of Liberty and Succession of your number some there are which have thought that Liberty to dispute of the Succession and to establish the same is forthwith either to be granted or denyed If we had granted it these Men had had their desire and had Triumphed over us And if we had denyed it they thought to have moved the hatred of our People against us which our mortallest Enemies could never yet do But their wisdom was unseasonable and their Counsels were hasty neither did they foresee the Event Yet hereby we have easily perceived who incline towards us and who are adverse unto us And we see that your whole House may be divided into four sorts For some have been Plotters and Authors some Actors which with smooth words have persuaded some which have consented being seduced with smooth words and some which have been silent admiring such Boldness And these certainly are the more excusable Do ye think that we neglect your Safety and security by the Succession or that we have a will to infringe your Liberty Be it far from us we never thought it But indeed we thought good to call you back when ye were running into the Pit Every thing hath its fit season ye may peradventure after us have a wiser Prince but a more loving towards you ye shall never have For our part whether we may see such a Parliament again we know not But for you take ye heed lest you provoke your Princes Patience nevertheless of this be assured that we think very well of most of you and do imbrace every one of you with our former kindness even from our Heart But to proceed Not such says he as play the Protestants in design p. 17. but are indeed disguised Papists They have industriously fixed the names of Masqueraders and disguised Papists upon all such Gentlemen as are zealous for the Church of England as now by Law established both against Papists and Schismaticks who according to Dr. Oates his Evidence were to be assistant to the carrying on the Plot Ibid. p. 67. by seditious Preachers set up sent out maintained and directed what to Preach in their own or other private or publick Conventicles And 't is such Masquerade Jesuits as this Libeller that laugh at the Plot disgrace and dis-believe the Kings Evidence in this so evident and considerable a particular That if ever Popery comes into England it must come in like the Trojan Horse by him mentioned Milite Plenus by breaking down the Walls of the Church by Toleration the Gates being too narrow to let it in But he goes on and is not content to blast a few but like a Contagion or Pestilence endeavours to sweep away a whole Nation with the Impudent Brand of Irish understanding and Tories A Tory is a Rebel an Out-law a Robber and Murderer and is a Name and Character that exactly fits himself who is so notorious a Robber of his Prince and Murderer of the Reputation of so many worthy and innocent Gentlemen as he hath indeavoured to Defame Whoever have been Neutrals in the grand Contest between Popery and Protestant Religion and particularly in that Branch of it before recited let them be rejected for I joyn with him in opinion That they who are not with the Church of England and the Government as now by Law established are against us and that these only wait the good Hour when they may safely shew their Teeth and bite which now like this Libeller in Policy they hide with all the Artifice Imaginable For his last Qualification of such as have obstructed Parliamentary proceedings by unseasonable and unreasonable insisting upon un-Parliamentary Priviledges he must unriddle it for it is un-understandable by the People and therefore he might have left it unwrit unprinted unpublished and unrecommended by his Letter which hath another UN in it viz. To Undo the Nation His Conclusion is like his Premisses Canting and Cunning without either Truth or Honesty p. 18. and so I leave him to the more just Animadversion of the Laws and his Superiors with this Recommendation that no man hath more artificially endeavoured to ruin the freedome of Elections more maliciously Calumniated His Majesty and the Government nor more wickedly laboured to alienate the Affections of the People from their Soveraigns and by Seditious Forgeries to bring all the Calamities of a Civil War and Ruin upon the Nation For his Postscript I could give him some hints of the Courage of Q. Eliz. mentioned by Cambden Lord Coke and others but I am not for making or enlarging Breaches and I wish he were of the same mind I will only recommend to him by way of supplicant what our Law supposes the most excellent Qualification for persons to be Elected Representatives of the Commons for the Preservation of His Majesties Person the Security of the Protestant Religion and the Government which would have spared him all his pains and carries the stamp of Authority with it It is the Proem of the Act of Parliament of the Thirteenth of Car. 2. cap. 1. An Act for Preservation of His Majesties Person c. THE Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament deeply weighing and considering the Miseries and Calamities of well nigh twenty years before your Majesties Happy Return and withall reflecting upon the Causes and Occasions of so great and deplorable Confusions do in all Humility and Thankfulness Acknowledge your Majesties Incomparable Grace and Goodness to your People in your Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion by which your Majesty hath been pleased to deliver your Subjects not only from the Punishment but also from the Reproach of their former Miscarriages which unexemplacy Piety and Clemenry of your Majesty hath inflamed the Hearts of us your Subjects with an ardent desire to express all possible zeal and duty in the Care and Preservation of your Majesties Person in whose Honour and Happiness consists the Good and Welfare of your People and in preventing as much as may be all Treasonable add Seditions Practices and Attempts for the time to come And because the Growth and Increase of the late Troubles and Disorders did in a very great Measure proceed from a Multitude of Seditious Sermons Pamphlets and Speeches daily Preached Printed and Published with a transcendent Boldness defaming the Person and Government of your Majesty and your Royal Father wherein men were too much encouraged and above all from a wilful mistake of the Supreme and Lawful Authority whilst men were forward to cry up and maintain those Orders and Ordinances Oaths and Covenants to be Acts legal and warrantable which in themselves had not the least Colour of law or Justice to support them of which kind of Distempers as the present Age is not wholly freed so Posterity may be apt to relapse into them if a timely Remedy be not provided We Therefore c. Now whether this Libeller doth not fall within the descriptions of this Proem as well as many others have done of late and whether they will not all come within the compass of the Act in point of Punishment is not my business to determin I will only recommend to his and all honest mens Consideration a piece of Solomons Wisdom to close with all in English as he hath fronted his with Latin These six things doth the Lord hate yea seven are an abomination to him a proud look a lying tongue and hands that shed innocent blood an heart that deviseth wicked immaginations feet that be swift in running into mischief a false witness that seaketh lyes and him that soweth discord among Brethren FINIS