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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87928	A letter from a grave gentleman once a member of this House of Commons, to his friend, remaining a member of the same House in London. Concerning his reasons why he left the House, and concerning the late treaty.	Grave gentleman once a member of this House of Commons.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1403; Thomason E102_13; ESTC R21285	19,142	24

prevaile with them to oppose and usurpe all the Rights and Power of the King Have not they since with great Justice to the Lords House prevailed with the House of Commons with the helpe of the Common People and Common-Councell as wholly to swallow up the Lords Power as their Lordships former concurrence had enabled them to devoure the Kings And have they not again squees'd that Power into a close Committee and thence again into a sub-Committee yet closer then that that is in to themselves And by their sole Orders and to their sole ends is not this whole Commonwealth upon the matter wholy governed and disposed Doe they not not only justify all this to be Law in time of Warre though indeed they only offer such Reasons for it as will as well justify any unpaid Souldier in their Army to Plunder Legally according to the same fundamentall Lawes of Nature and Necessity but even as to the unjustifiable Illegall Votes and Actions publisht and committed before the Warre doe they either make any acknowledgement or Retractation of or give any satisfaction for what is past or offer any such security against the like for the future as the King hath done for those things for which the Iealousies are still pretended to continue against Him And therefore if you be jealous still of the King and they having done all this and in this manner you are notwithstanding not jealous that they will continue the same things as long as they continue in the same Power I cannot but wonder to see you so jealous on the one side and so secure on the other unlesse perhaps what I imply they will doe be a thing so evident to you that you count it the object rather of foresight then of Iealousy Fourthly I answer That supposing you had no grounds to be jealous of them and had grounds to be jealous of His Majesty yet this were no sufficient excuse for the Countenance you give by your Presence and for the Assistance you give by your Purse to those Armes which upon no stronger a ground are raised against Him For it is not justifiable in you to violate your duty for feare least another may not discharge his Consider this as seriously as the matter deserves and you will be of my opinion that when that sinne shall be laid to your charge at the day of Iudgement it will be then found that a future possible Tyrant will not excuse a present certain Rebell But Sir I will count all this cast away upon you I will be confident that since in order to Peace and immediat disbanding of the Armies the King desires nothing but what is Law and denies nothing that is so since He askes not all that by Law He might aske but only that so much as was by violence taken from Him before the Warre may be now quietly restored to Him and submits all the other Injuries He hath received and all those Delinquents He hath been so charg'd to protect to be considered and tryed in a full peaceble and secure convention in Parliament since after this offer nothing can be so impudent as to pretend your Armes to be any longer necessary and defensive since you can say nothing to perswade the King to yeeld to what they aske but only that unlesse He will yeeld to what you will not say is reasonable they are unreasonable enough to choose to destroy the Kingdom by continuing the Warre I will be confident that suppose this unreasonablenesse seem a Reason for the King to take their Conditions it can appeare none to you to take their Parts and you will never continue with those men of whom you have those thoughts No Sir you are too much a Lover of unity and Government too good natured too much a Gentleman to be a ROUNDHEAD that is to fight to introduce nothing but Brownisme Independance Insolence Hardheartednesse and Parity and to put the Kingdom into such hands as before this businesse began were known to few men in it I know you were ingaged into this insensibly and by degrees and though you had then both a worse Opinion of the Court and a better of the House of Commons then their different demeanors since hath by this time perswaded you to have yet if you had ever guest it would have come to this you would as soon have medled with a Serpent as with the Militia and would have left them as soon as I did I know nothing but the unjustifiable shame of confessing a past Error to avoyd a perpetuall one hath since kept you with them and therefore doubt not but you will now submit to that shame as a punishment due for the fault of having been ashamed to doe your duty so long and as a trouble that will bear no Proportion to the delight of having at last satisfied your Conscience and leave those who in my Conscience love those among you who stay with them and are not of them worse then they doe any evill Counsellor in Oxford and who when you have sufficiently establisht their Power for them will sufficiently show it And in confidence upon these Reasons that you will bring me a sudden Answer to this Letter your selfe I remaine SIR Your much pleas'd and very humble servant Oxford Oriell Colledge the 4. of May 1643.