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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

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 PROV xvi 28. A Tale-bearer maketh Strife and a Whisperer separateth chiefest Friends LONDON Printed for T. O. 1681. England bought and sold c. THERE was never any Design so black and Criminous but found some persons so Profligate as to become its Patrons there wanted not an Iscariot for Thirty pieces of Silver to betray his Master nor a popular pretence saving of the State lest the Romans should come and take away their Place and Nation to put the better colour upon the Murder of our Saviour And a nearer Instance will abundantly refresh our Memories without more than the trouble of remembring Jan. 30. 1648. The worst Surfeits are taken by the most lushious Fruits and no Poyson can be so dangerous as that which has the name of an Antidote written upon the Box. There was never any mischief in State or Kingdom but the People were first drawn in to believe that the Projectors were their Friends and then those Juglers pre-possess them with false apprehensions of things and undertake to redress all their Grievances They are prodigal in their fair Promises and flattering Speeches like Absalom when they intend the foulest Enterprizes Certainly the happiness of a People consists in Peace which is the Mother of all desirables of this World and Peace most certainly depends upon the due Subjection and Obedience of the People to their Sovereign and the wise and wholsome establishments of Laws And therefore they who design to subvert the one or disturb the other always represent the Laws uneasie or the Sovereign unjust and apply their whole endeavours to create foment and increase Mis-understandings between the Prince and his People Whoever goes about to divorce these two whom God hath joyned together ought to be reputed an Enemy to both a betrayer of his Country and a most dangerous Incendiary a pestilent Fellow and a mover of Sedition Now as the greatest Artifice is to conceal the Act so I find the Author of this Libel by which he pretends to save England so great a Master in the Talent of deceiving that he might have been Tutor as he is certainly the Scholar to that old guilded Serpent who deceived Eve For he has not planted his Battery against any particular part of the Government That would have been too visible but he has undermined the very Foundation and has endeavoured to spoil the whole frame not by open breaking the whole but by altering the weights which keep the Movement right and in due order He has first violated the greatest Priviledge of the People of England indeavouring to rob them of that ancient right liberty and freedom of Election of persons to represent them in Parliament imposing upon them by the specious way of Advice Restrictions Limitations Rules and Directions in their Choice Secondly He has violated the priviledge and honour of the Commons-House in Parliament who have ever endeavoured to have their Reputation secured by the freedom of the Election of their Members And I remember that even the Commons of that Parliament of November the Third 1640. who are sufficiently memorable and possibly for which this Libeller has a veneration when some great Lords only writ a Letter Recommendatory about the Election of an inconsiderable Burrough voted it a high breach of Priviledge And yet our pert Libeller or Legion for any thing I know has had the confidence to write and for expedition to Print a Letter Recommendatory and disperse it to all the Counties and Cities Burroughs and Corporations of England thereby to forestal the Elections One of which Letters by mistaking his person came to be discovered and you shall presently see the Tenor of it Thirdly He has by many false disloyal not to say traiterous Insinuations indeavoured to defame His Sacred Majesty and the established Government and to bring a general Odium upon both thereby to alienate the affections of the People from their natural Liege-Lord to the impairing of his Honour Justice and Wisdom the great supporters of his Imperial Scepter Crown and Dignity Fourthly He has indeavoured to heighten the present unhappy mis-understandings and to possess the People with Fears Terrors and dismal Apprehensions of I know not what Despotick power Tyranny and Arbitrary Government that is coming in upon them and that their ALL Lives Liberties Religion and Estates are at Stake with such fulsomly Rebellious reflections upon the King and Government as may animate the People by a desperate effort of Sedition to Rebel against their most Gracious Sovereign Fifthly He has cunningly aspersed and vilified a great number of His Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects of all Orders and Ranks as Enemies to the Kingdom Pentioners Courtiers romoters of a Popish Interest and Succession and defames by whole-Sale many worthy Gentlemen of most approved Loyalty and Fidelity to their King and sound principles in the Protestant Religion as by Law Established thereby to incapacitate them from being Elected to serve their King and Countrey as Members of Parliament by rendring them suspected and odious to the Electors And indeed the whole drift of the Libel is to prevent such as are of known Integrity to the King and the Church from coming into the next House of Commons and to persuade them to choose Men of large Principles as he calls them which I need not I think explain for he does it himself as you shall see hereafter This is a great and heavy charge but I will make it out true to a Tittle and yet shall draw but a few strictures upon a Libel for which at some times the Author would not only have lost his Ears but hazarded the Head that framed it and let him have a care Justice and the Vengeance both of Heaven and of Kings that have long Arms. The Letter will make good the first and second Articles and the Book both them and all the rest The Letter was superscribed and sent by the Post and has the Post-mark Feb. 5. stamped upon it but the Contents to the Surprize of many worthy Gentlemen to whom they were directed were in Print as follows SIR THere is newly published a small stitched Book well worth the serious perusal of all your Electors and I think if you would put your self to the small charge of buying a parcel of them for your Countrey People It may be one great means of keeping them tight and steddy in their Choice of good Protestants and true Englishmen for their Members in the next ensuing Parliament whereupon depends the Weal or Woe both of King and Kingdom not only in this but in future Ages It has comprised in it all the material things that were in any of the former sheets upon the same

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