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A86627
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A letter to the Earle of Pembrooke concerning the times, and the sad condition both of Prince and people.
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Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
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1648
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Wing H3085; Thomason E522_5; ESTC R206205
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what a barbarous devilish office one had under colour of examination to torment poor silly women with watchings pinchings and other artifices to find them for Witches How others by a new invention of villany were conniv'd at for seizing upon young children and hurrying them on ship-board where they were so transform'd that their Parents could not know them and so were carried over for new schismatical Plantations My Lord there is no villany that can enter into the imagination of man hath been left here uncommitted no crime from the highest Treason to the meanest Trespasse but these Reformers are guilty of What horrid acts of profanenesse have been perpetrated up and down the Monuments of the dead have been rifled Horses have been watred at the Church Font and fed upon the holy Table Widows Orphans and Hospitals have been commonly robb'd and Gods House hath been plundred more then any with what infandous blasphemies hath the Pulpits rung one crying out that this Parliament was as necessary for our Reformation as the comming of Christ was for our Redemption Another belching out that if God Almighty did not prosper this Cause 't were fitting he should change places with the Devil Another that the worst things our Saviour did was the making of the Dominicall prayer and saving the Thief upon the Crosse O immortall God is it possible that England should produce such Monsters or rather such infernall fiends shap'd with humane bodies yet your Lordship sides with these men though they be enemies to the Cross to the Church and to the very name of Jesus Christ I 'le instance only in two who were esteem'd the Oracles of this holy Reformation Peters and Saltmarsh The first is known by thousands to be an infamous jugling and scandalous villain among other feats he got the Mother and Daughter with Child as it was offerd to be publickly proved I could speak much of the other but being dead let it suffice that he died mad and desperate These were accounted the two Apostles of the times My Lord 't is high time for you to recollect your self to enter into the private closet of your thoughts and summon them all to counsel upon your pillow consider well the slavish condition your dear Countrey is in weigh well the sad case your liege Lord and Master is in how He is bereav'd of His Queen His Children His Servants His Liberty and of every thing in which there is any comfort observe well how neverthelesse God Almighty works in Him by inspiring Him with equality and calmnesse of mind with patience prudence and constancy how He makes His very crosses to stoop unto Him when His Subjects will not Consider the monstrousnes of the Propositions that are tendred Him wherein no lesse then Crown Scepter and Sword which are things in-alienable from Majesty are in effect demanded nay they would not only have Him transmit and resign His very intellectuals unto them but they would have Him make a sacrifice of His soule by forcing Him to violate that solemn sacramentall Oath He took at His Coronation when He was no minor but come to a full maturity of reason and judgment make it your own case my Lord and that 's the best way to judge of His Think upon the multiplicity of solemn astringing Oaths your Lordship hath taken most whereof directly and solely enjoyn faith and loyalty to His Person oh my Lord wrong not your soul so much in comparison of whom your body is but a rag of rottennesse Consider that acts of loyalty to the Crown are the fairest columns to bear up a Noblemans name to future ages and register it in the temple of immortality Reconcile your selfe therfore speedily unto your liege Lord Master think upon the infinite private obligations you have had both to Sire and Son The Father kiss'd you often kisse you now the Sun lest he be too angry And Kings you will find my Lord are like the Sun in the heavens which may be clouded for a time yet is he still in his sphear and will break out again and shine as gloriously as ever Let me tell your Lordship that the people begin to grow extream weary of their Physitians they find the remedy to be far worse then their former disease nay they stick not to call some of them meer Quacksalvers rather then Physitians Some go further and say they are no more Parliament then a Pye-powder Court at Bartholomew-fair there being all the essentiall parts of a true Parliament wanting in this as fairnesse of elections freedome of speech fulnesse of Members nor have they any head at all Besides they have broken all the fundamentall rules and priviledges of Parliament and dishonoured that high Court more then any thing else They have ravish'd Magna Charta which they are sworn to maintain taken away our birth-right and transgressed all the laws of heaven and earth Lastly they have most perjuriously betrayed the trust the King reposed in them the trust their Countrey reposed in them so that if reason and Law were now in date by the breach of their Priviledges and by betraying the double trust that is put in them they have dissolved themselves ipso facto I cannot tell how many thousand times notwithstanding that monstrous grant of the Kings that fatall Act of continuance And truly my Lord I am not to this day satisfied of the legality though I am satisfied of the forciblenesse of that Act whether it was in His Majesties power to passe it or no for the law ever presupposeth these clauses in all concessions of Grace in all Patents Charters and Grants whatsoever the King passeth Salvo jure regio salvo jure coronae To conclude as I presume to give your Lordship these humble cautions advice in particular so I offer it to all other of your rank office orders who have souls to save who by solemn indispensable Oaths have engaged them to be true and loyall to the Person of King Charls Touching His politicall capacity which fancy hath been exploded in other Parliaments except in that mad infamous Parliament where it was first hatched and Acts passed that it should be high and horrible Treason to separate or distingnish the Person of the King from His Power I believe as I said before this will not serve their turn at the dreadfull Bar of divine Justice in the other world Indeed that Rule of the Pagans makes for them Si Jusjurandum violandum est Tyrannidis causa violandum est If an Oath be any way frangible 't is frangible for a Kingdome We find by wofull experience that according to this maxime they have made themselves all kings by violation of so many Oaths They have monopolized the whole power and wealth of the Kingdome into their own hands They cut shuffle deal and turn up what trump they please being Judges and parties in every thing My Lord He who presents these humble advertisements to your Lordship is one who is inclin'd to the Parliament of England in as high a degree of affection as possibly a free-born Subject can be One besides who wisheth your Lordships good with the preservation of your safety and honour more really then He whom you intrust with your secretest affairs or the white Jew of the Upper House who have infused such pernicious principles into you moreover one who hath some drops of bloud running in his veines which may claim kindred with your Lordship And lastly he is One who would kisse your feet in lieu of your hands if your L dp would be so sensible of the most desperate case of your poor Country as to employ the interests the opinion and power you have to restore the King your Master by English waies rather then a hungry forrain people who are like to bring nothing but destruction in the van confusion in the reare and rapine in the middle should have the honour of so glorious a work My Lord So humbly hoping your Lordship will not take with the left hand what I offer with the right I rest Your most truly devoted Servant FINIS