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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

Patriots as you call them of our liberty the Rumpers I mean with their own valour and wit upon their own Charges have defeated the King and all who should appear for him upon the score of the expensiveness burdensomenesse uselesnesse and dangerousnesse of his Office and publiquely avowed this to be their quarrell I le grant you then their actings might have been justifiable upon the title of Conquest and a posteriori for Originally they could not be so considering the paucity of their number but when it is evident that not they but the major part of the Nation many by actuall appearing in Arms all by Countributing Moneys carryed on the War from the beginning to the end now at last for them by complyance with a corrupt mutinous Souldiery to imploy the Victory to other nay clean contrary ends then for which Arms were first taken and Moneys raised to turn out all that with them for Eight years together carryed on the War joyntly because at last they could not in Conscience and would not joyn with them in so detestable perjurious actings to murder destroy and plunder as many as durst oppose these palpable Praevarications if I say these actions do not point out Saints in grain the most barbarous of Murtherers to wit Regicides the most abominable sort of Thieves to wit Sacrilegious Robbers the most damnable of Professors to wit Hypocrites the most corrupt of English Commoners to wit Rumpers I shall leave it to any of their friends to consider at least if ever God should open his or their eyes or they come upon their Death-bed I am sure no Cordiall unprejudiced English-man can think of those unheard of practises but with the like affection wherewith Aeneas at the Request of Queen Dido made relation of his past miseries which he with his Countrey suffered Infandum Regina jubes renovare dolorem Yea I question not Mr Milton but succeeding ages will esteem of it next to the rejecting and crucyfying the Lord of Life Jesus Christ the most detestable example that ever any people who were really or desired to be reputed the people of God acted or abetted But Sir whatever you have said as to this Argument I shall have occasion to meet with and speak to in proving my own assertions and therefore I shall with as much brevity as perspicuity will admit discourse of and by solid reasons confirm the same Kingship I affirm to be the only desirable government in the world and of all sorts of Kingly Governments or Monarchies ours of England was most exquisitely composed equally tempered and suited to a Nation really free and yet truly Subject where Majesty and subjection made a true harmony and the most inferiour members were as equally necessary to the good of the whole as the chief In it the King was Supreme the head of Law and Justice and yet himself never had power to make or to execute any Law the governed people propounded formed and modelled such Lawes by which they were to be ruled The peers who also had a share in subjection yet a degree advanced above the Commons they had likewise a hand in Laws that were to be enacted to whom therefore they were brought for approbation And being thus formed and approved they were lastly presented to the King for his Royall confirmation Thus the Commons propounding and framing the nobles approving and Consenting the King signing and confirming Lawes were made Where now is flavery where the bondage and vassallage which you made so great a noyse concerning Was it in having any Laws at all Truely Mr Milton however you palliate things I believe verily there lyes the knot that troubles you there your shooe pinches I find generally such Christian Libertines as your writings shew you to be one of come at last to throw off all externall coercive or binding lawes and desire only to be governed by the Law within them which in truth is a spirit of Lawlesnesse To this your doctrine of divorce seems to incline therein you complain much of bondage and thraldome vassalage and what not only for standing indispensably obliged to your wife after the Covenant of God mutually passed between you what wonder then if you account it vassallage to be held by an Oath of Allegiance But as there have been and are many who account themselves at a much greater liberty being engaged in an inviolable bond to a loving wife considering the frailty of their nature cannot abide a single life so I question not but thousands of sober spirits Judged themselves farre more free when we had our KING and kept our Oaths by which we were indispensably ingaged to him Conscientiously and firmly then since by Hypocrisie Perjury and Rebellion we have gained this much talked of Libertye But to return to our former and not by humane Art amendable form of Government if you will yeild it convenient to have any Laws what can be better then those of the Peoples own making they propounded they framed them unless you would have their Resolves to be Laws without any Concurrence of Nobles or Consent of the KING If so what monstrous Liberty would you have when virtually two thirds of the Nation must be content with what the Commons do or as the Proverb is turn the buckle of their girdle behind them and seek their amends where they can get them The KING his Family and Posterity had a Revenue of their own for which he was not engaged to the present people He had lands by due title as any Commoner in England and was suable in case he detained any mans Land or other of his estate illegally and the Law equally free against as for the King Now the Royalties which belonged to him as supream viz. Customes c. were his by descent and antient prescription in wrong of no Subject or if any thing did pinch upon any Subject as the forfeitures of felons goods wrecks c. these had the Commons with the Lords adjudged them a burthen might easily have been taken away and the King would willingly have been content with a more equitable income of the like value The Nobles also had very large Estates and Revenues And so had likewise the Bishops and such who attended the se●vice of God who had great possessions Who should represent these in a bare house of Commons Experience shews us that no sooner were the Bishops c. put down by these reformers but their Lands were all alienated from the Church and sonld and turned to impious uses namely to reward the Souldiers for what English bloud they have shed and this done by those who never had the piety to give any thing to the Church But of such Church robberies I shall be silent hereafter because the lands thus ravished away from the true use to which they were intended were publique lands but being once dedicated to God many good Christians could have wished they had still been reserved to the same ends though perhaps the

or unsetled in their Constant Resolutions toward you for whose prosperity and speedy Restitution to your Just Hereditary Rights and long and happy injoyment of the same hath been is and shall be God assisting the constant Prayer of Most Illustrious Prince Your Majesties most faithfull And Loyall Subject And humble Orator G. S. A Serious and Seasonable WORD TO A Sober People BEfore I come to what I intend shall be the subject of this ensuing Discourse I think it very necessary to make way for what I shall hereafter say by removing in the first place whatever in probability may raise a prejudice against what I am about to write that so nothing of exception may lye against any circumstance after once the matter of my Discourse is allowed First I question not but my person will be enquired after and perhaps soon found out and known and it may be wondred at therefore why I do not as well set down my name as the two first letters of it If so let me crave of thee Reader not to harbour any Prejudice against the subject matter of the following Treatise therefore which I did for the end to avoyd prejudice thereby For I am not ignorant of the ability of Mr. Milton whom the Rump which was well stored with men of pregnant although pernicious Wits made choyce of before others to write their Defense against Salmasius one of the greatest Learned men of this Age both for reality and reputation who therefore was Royal prefessor of Philosophy as I take it but will not be positive herein in the Vnited Provinces and at his Majesties the present Scotch and Hereditary English King's request undertook the Defense of our Protoroyall English Martyr against those of his Subjects who with as much Treachery as Perjury and with as much cruel inhumanity as both murther'd him at his own Gate in the face of the Sun and in the presence of that God and before many thousands of that people by whom and before whom they had sworn with lifted up hands that they would with their lives defend his person Posterity and just Power with many other particulars contained in their Oath as may appear by it self known formerly by the name of The Solemn League and Covenant taken by all the Members of both Houses that remained sitting at Westminster after such who had left them were withdrawn and convened at Oxford Nor seemed it enough to them to take it themselves but it was by their authority tendred yea strictly imposed and upon severe penalties injoyned to thousands of men all the Kingdome over besides a Vow and Protestation equally sacred and binding to the same things which in the League and Covenant were upon Oath promised all which notwithstanding this their Liege King was murthered being sentenced and executed by those very men that had sworn to defend him the Parliament Garbled as to the Commons House and dismembred as to the House of Lords by those very men who had sworn to maintain and defend its Rights and Priviledges and severall both Nobles and Commoners lost their lives being sentenced by an High Court of Justice a stranger and contrary to our known Fundamental L●ws which was chosen and impowred by those who had Covenanted and sworn to maintain with their Lives and Fortunes the Fundamental Lawes of the Land And yet these men thus acting call themselves by the name of Gods people and the faithfull adherers to the work of Reformation and the Good Old Cause although nothing appear in their actions but Treachery Perjury Murder and Cruelty Against which Rebellious hypocrisie the most learned Salmosius under the borrowed name of Claudius Anonymus inveighed most justly and truly as well as Oratorically and no lesse deservedly then Eloquently Which Defense of his no lesse judicious then well-composed as for Language did render the deserevdly abominable Actors both notorious and odious among the foraign Nations of Europe the fame thereof by this Learned mans Eloquence being written in the Latine Tongue sounding far and neer To remedy which inconvenience if it might be done the Rump which now began to stink in the nostrils of every honest and wise man this bloudy butchery of theirs vying with yea out-doing not only the actions but the worst of the Jesuites professed Tenents and therefore to the perpetual ignominy of the Reforming Protestants justifying the fraternity of Loyola and silencing the others make choyce of Mr. Milton to be their Champion to answer Salmasius who as may be conceived not vulgarly rewarded for this service undertakes it with as much Learning and Performance as could be expected from the most able and acute Scholar living Concerning whose Answer thus much must be confessed that nothing could be therein desired which either a shrewd Wit could prompt or a fluent elegant style could expresse And indeed to give him his due in whatever he vomited out against his Majesty formerly or now declames against Monarchy in behalf of a Republique he then did and doth now want nothing on his side but Truth and the honesty of his Cause or Subject on which he did or doth discourse So that it was wisdome as I judge it in me being to reply to so acute and universally owned a learned man to conceal my Name at least not to expose it obvious at the first view that the prejudice which the known inequality of the Antagonists at the first sight begets in a Reader causing many Tractates to be thrown aside without reading being taken away or at least suspended till the Treatise is read the thing contended about may be judged according to the weight of the Arguments on either side and not according to the estimate of the persons allowing then Mr. Milton all the advantages which an acute wit ready invention much reading and copious expression will give him I shall only trust to the goodnesse of the Cause for which I plead in which had there been any proportion or equality between that which he and that which I contend for I should not only doubt but despair of conquest of which as the case falls out I am assuredly confident But expecting to be known both who and what I am I must expect to meet with such Questions as these What need you meddle with affairs not only out of but so far distant from your Sphere your profession much differing from Politicks and the Concernments of Majesty being far above your station This Objection if not satisfied because it may much prejudice the acceptance of what I write in the opinion and esteem of many Readers I shall therefore first speak to it before I proceed in my intended task and whether what I shall say prove satisfactory or no I shall leave to the judgement of the Candid Reader sl●ghting in the mean while the dissatisfaction of the obstinately or rashly censorious I answer therefore first that though the affairs of politick forms are besides my practise yet not besides my cognisance and

our present shackles and to declaim against our formerly enjoyed most happy Government of KINGSHIP And as this fag end of the English House of Commons was inconsiderable in number so was neither their quality likely to argue an excellency in what they set up beyond what we before were governed by for first the two hou●●s after the end of the warre had frequently treated with the King and also had upon a late yea their last treaty determined and concluded that his Majestys answers were so farre satisfactory as to proceed upon the settlement of the Nation This last treaty was occasioned by the Petition of the Citizens of LONDON the remonstrance of severall Ministers the addresses of many Counties with severall thousand subscriptions in concurrence with that Petition of the Londoners To this the sad distractions by a long bloudy warre did seeme not only to agree but also to inforce Well the two Houses being petitioned and addressed to remonstrances made and sent them Reason inviting Religion binding the necessity of the Nations calling for it petitions pressing in a word no other safe discreet honest way appearing treat with the King God so orders his heart that they receive if not plenary satisfaction yet so much as they vote his Majesties answers a ground on which to proceed to the settlement of the Nation The RVMP by help of the mutinous Army dismember four parts of five of their Fellow-members and unhouse all the Peers then Vote against this Vote as a breach of Trust in the Voters not considering they were the major part of the House but presupposing themselves the better part that had thus out-witted and by Force secluded the other greater But if so it is strange that the number of the RVMPERS was so long a making up and so small at last Good God! what a condition was this Nation come to that of so many who were Representors of the People so few should have the justice and magnanimity to perform such an action or approve it afterwards if it were indeed just and Magnanimous as Mr. Milton would have it The whole House of Peers although excluded by an after Vote yet they spontaneously adjourned rather than to have a hand in so base and so barbarous an Action Against which the godly Divines undauntedly protested the conscientious Citizens and Countrey-people joyntly dissented by Petitions the Scotch Nation equally concerned with the English declared and thereupon Preclaimed and Crowned their Hereditary King by Succession CHARLES the Second whom God preserve The Irish Nation not the Rebels disowned so irreligious Treason and take up Arms Where then is the Justice of abolishing Kingship The Peers have an Interest in the King to whom many of them are allyed and Kinsmen and whom he in Honour vouchsafed to call Couzins he is the Fountain of their Honour and they therefore an House of Parliament by Priviledge and Prerogative Yet they are of us our Lords and our Kinsmen by Estate and ability far above us yet bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh What Justice was there in Discarding them Mr. Milton and cheating them of the thing fought for when in their custody and possession after they had born a considerable burden of mannaging the Warre Put all the Cost together and they bore their full share and therefore of due Justice ought to have had a Voyce in disposing of his Majesty after the Warre who had reduced him to that Condition by Warre But alas The Scots had expressely declared that they would have the King to be Treated with with Freedome and Honour and the Nobles with the Commons had Resolved his Majesties Answers to be satisfactory so far as to proceed upon them to settlement of the Nation What Justice then can be pretended that one part of six if so much of the House of Commons should destroy the KING and abolish Kingship Will you say the Army would have it so Then it was so far from being just and magnanimous as it was neither but contrary to both What more unjust then for a few to carry on a bloudy Treason with perjury not only in contradiction to but exclusion of four times the number of their Fellows and the whole House of Peers equal in Power to them and their Fellows put together at least so far equal as that their Nay was a bar to any thing the others would have enacted or repealed What more sordidly cowardly then for fifty or threescore Commoners who with their Fellowes and the Lords had mannaged Seaven years War against the King and all his Forces now in complyance with a few Army Officers to betray their Trusts their Fellow-members the Priviledges of Parliament and all that is sacred honourable to murder their King break all their Oaths and Vowes only to satisfie the Exorbitant Lust of some few aspiring Army Grandees who all of them were their Servants Raised Armed Commissionated Impowered and Payd by them for other ends then to be commanded by them to act things contrary both to their Oaths and Consciences Could they who but few years before had ingaged England in a bloudy quarrel and called in the Scots to their assistance and all to defend as they pretended the Priviledges of Parliament when their lawfull KING their sworn Soveraign demanded but five of their Members to a Legal tryall upon a Just Charge which he proffered against them suffer their Servants who received their pay and had been sworn to their Obedience to secure imprison and detain forty at a time of their Fellow-members and after exclude and drive away nigh two hundred more How then did they adjourn and continue to sit in a Committee in London till that pretended and in comparison of this not imaginable Force was removed And now can they keep their seats and continue sitting Then they resolved into a Committee now they remain as an House nor remain only but act nor act alone but prescribe Qualifications to such as shall be readmitted to sit by which it is apparent that they were not compelled by force of the Soldiery to what they did although that had convinced them of pusillanimous Cowardise in stead of Magnanimity but they complotted with contrived and invented what the Rebellious Soldiery acted among whom all were not alike to be taxed for the then Generall now the Lord Fairfax was so far from contriving or countenancing that he was unsatisfied with those proceedings against his Majesty which was indeed as after appeared evidently the sole Plot of OLIVER the Copper-nosed Saint and some other Schismatical Army Officers together with a few treacherous perjur'd Commoners who forcibly secluding most of their number and the House of Lords willingly adjourning till this bloudy Tragedy might be over unlesse by God prevented and so Disavowing the Murder had the Honour to be infamous by themselves an stained with Sacred Royall Blood I grant you Mr. Milton that these Patriots as you style them did this but while they did not

plunged in those crying sinnes which the Lord who is true and just hath declared he will not pardon But Noble Senators I am confident God will give you that wisdome and true piety that you will effectually wash your own hands and I hope cleanse the whole Nations in generall from these crying Land destroying State overwhelming impieties by laying the fault and guilt upon those who are really guilty of the same That so once more our Foundations may be layd and we may be established in Righteousnesse That this long afflicted shattered Nation may once more take root downwards and shoot forth branches and bear fruit upward to the glory of God and the reviving heart refreshing joy of all those who fear him For this end I humbly begge of God in ●o●r behalf and am with good hope persw●ded that these Two Houses will not undertake the Patronage of the grand Causers of all our past and still continued calamites by desiring a generall Act of Amnesty which will neither be for Gods glory nor yet for our settlement It will skin over the sore leaving it full of corruption in the bottome For the Lords sake I pray heartily that your Wisdomes may be kept free from making your selves guilty of that innocent bloud both of Majesty and severall others which lies yet only at the Rumpers dore and those who were Members of that Monstrous Sloughter-house the High Court of Justice nor upon all of them alike for many I conceive to be free from all malice and known shedding of innocent bloud but only deluded and deceived by the insnaring devices of the chief Contrivers whose impiety as it amazeth my spirit so it staggers my Rhetorick that I cannot finde out fit expressions to suit their execrable deserts Bloud defiles a Land nor can it be cleansed from it but by the bloud of those who shed it Because Manasseh shed Innocent bloud much so that he filled Jerusalem with it therefore the Lord would not pardon Israel from going into Captivity The sins of those in Authority bloud especially is oft almost ever punished by Nationall miseries the whole Nation bleeding largely oft times for the bloud of a few innocent persons whose bloud is not publiquely required and avenged Manasseh had shed innocent bloud much which the Lord would not pardon although Manasseh had been carryed Captive into Babylon and there as to himself repented his Idolatry Murthers and other Abominations Josiah also followed him a holy tender hearted Prince who restored the Worship of God to its purity and made such a Reformation as none ever did before him nor after him of whom it is testified to his Immortal prayse that no King was ever like him in Jerusalem yet for the bloud-shed of Manasseh the Captivity should not be turned away God would not pardon it Doubtlesse many of the Nation were Instrumentall in shedding this bloud some as false witnesses others as Executioners whom Manasseh when he repented or his Son and Successor good Josiah ought to have rewarded with bloud without which Justice the Nation is not cleansed from the guilt thereof for want of which in probability most holy unparalel'd Josiah contracts a guilt upon himself and the Nation for which he in the flowre of his Youth falls by the hand of Pharaoh Necho and all his people felt the miseries of Warre Bloud-shed Famine and final Desolation which ended in a long and grievous Captivity in his Successors dayes My Lords and Gentlemen God hath given you wisdome and I humbly implore his Divine Majesty in your behalf that he would be your faithfull Guide and Counsellour in this particular It was not the actual sinne of the Nation nor of the Parliament of England but of a Combination of the perjur'd Treacherous part of Englands Commoners with a Rebellious Soldiery whom some hypocriticall grand Officers deluded into Rebellion against that Authority which raised empowered and payd them and to whom they were sworn and ingaged to be true and obediently faithfull who plotted contrived and put it in execution whom it were as much pity as impiety to shelter from Justice However our King may truly be said to be as was said of the Kings of Israel a mercifull King His sweet Disposition notwithstanding the great provocation of his Dear Father Bloud I know is so inclined to compassion and to forgivenesse that I doubt not but all Offences against his Father and himself save only the wilfull malicious shedding Royall innocent bloud he will of himself freely passe by and of those who had their hands imbrued therein I doubt not where Charity it self can excuse the Offendor to be deluded and not an Active Ring-leader he will be more inclinable to mercy then justice Yea and even those whom Mercy it self cannot plead for I know he will pity and weep over their causelesse malice and obstinate impenitency Who can plead for such Worthy Senators who boast of that at which the Sun even blushed and count it their glory to have their hand in our better deserving Kings Bloud Of whom one most impudently said That he reputed it his Honour to be one who was active therein and would have the memory of it Eternized upon his Monument as a most heroick commendable Fact Monstrous Villain of whose minde my self have heard others for whom what can be pleaded Yea my Lords and Gentlemen pity these Rumpers and their Bloud-hounds if ever they shewed pity to any who crossed their corrupt designs have regard to their Lives and Fortunes if ever they regarded Vowes Oaths Covenants Honour and Honesty Pity their Posterity if they themselves do it whom they care not to enslave and destroy while they secure only and indemnifie their own persons Endeavour to make their peace if they have not alwaies endeavoured and desire still to enflame the Nation and destroy you and yours and are not now labouring to kindle a new fire in these already wasted Kingdoms But if it be most certain that they at first unhappily and impiously involved these Nations in bloud and confusion and still endeavour to do the like a new to continue our distractions and hinder our settlement and are impenitently stained yea overwhelmed in Royall innocent bloud Perjury and Sacriledge which they obstinately justyfy in gods name give them leave who thus sow the wind to reap the whirlwind Immedicabile vulnus Ense rescindatur ne pars sincere trahatur Most Noble Senators the Parliamens of England were and ought to be in most venerable esteeme being the only Physick for the state in distemper it is next under God the staffe and beauty of the Nation its strength and glory This title these Rumpers usurped and kild their King imposed perjurie by force upon all and who would not actually forswear himself in imitation of them was denyed all benefit of protection The Vilanies by them perpetrated are without president only themselves may become a president for future if by connivance at these they be countenanced Then for