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A47919	A short view of some remarkable transactions, leading to the happy settlement of these nations under the government of our lawfull and gracious soveraign, Charl[e]s the II, whom God preserve by Roger L'Estrange.; Apology, with a short view of some late remarkable transactions	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1308; ESTC R3427	82,740	128

Collections the 1. and 2. Speeches in the book That nothing may be omitted on my part I must here take notice of the Bill for pressing of Souldiers now depending among you my Lords concerning which I here declare that in case it come so to me as it may not infringe or diminish my Prerogative I will pass it And further seeing there is a Dispute raised I being little beholding to him whosoever at this time began it concerning the bounds of this antient and undoubted Prerogative to avoid further debate at this time I offer that the Bill may pass with a Salvo jure both for King and People leaving such Debates to a time that may better bear it c. To conclude I conjure you by all that is or can be dear to you or me that laying away all Disputes you go on chearfully and speedily for the reducing of Ireland By whom Ireland was tumulted I do not know but that it was not by his Majesty is most evident Nor is there any Question but the Massacres there committed must lye upon the score both of the Actors and Promoters of those cruelties who they are when I know I 'll tell you Would you know who it was that interposed betwixt the Parliament and the Duke of Buckingham and would not permit the proofs to be made against him concerning the death of his own Father THis I shall satisfie you in A Letter was presented to the house from Thomas Haslerigg Brother to Sir Arthur which was read to this purpose That there was one Mr. Smalling a Committeeman of Leicester-shire who had been a Deputy-examiner in the star-Chamber and affirmed that above twenty years since there being a sute in star-Chamber between the Earl of Bristol Complainant and the Duke of Buckingham Defendant Concerning Physick presumptuously administred by the said Duke to King James the said Smalling took many Depositions therein and was further proceeding in the Examinations untill a Warrant signed by the King was brought him Commanding him to surcease and to send him the Depositions already taken which Smalling did yet kept notes by him of the principal passages doubting what further proceedings might be hereafter in a business of such importance Sir Henry Mildmay moved that Smalling be sent for and examined upon Oath by the COMMITTEE that penned the said Declaration but upon motion of the Presbyterians he was ordered to be examined at the COMMONS-BAR Smalling came produced the Warrant but no notes so this Chimera vanished Tertio Caroli this business had been ventilated and examined against the Duke and no mention made of Poysoning or Killing King Iames It was then only called an Act of high Presumption and Dangerous Consequence in the Duke nor was there the least Reflection upon KING CHARLES See the History of Independency par 1. p. 74. Would you hear who it was that made so light of Parliaments killing them as soon as born and making them a scorn by dissolution at pleasure and at length designed and in fine drew sword against the very Parliamentary Constitution after he had by imprisonments destroyed several eminent Patriots for their freedom of speech in the Parliament on the behalf of the Publick and in particular touching the death of his Father NO it needs not I can tell you that 'T was Cromwell and the secluding Members The RUMP That drew Sword against the very Parliamentary Constitution They clap'd up Sir Robert Pye and Major Fincher for but desiring a Free-Parliament on the behalf of the Publique sending their troops abroad to seize and Threatning themselves to sequester all the Declarers That which concerns his Majestie's Father is spoken to already WOuld the Scots know who it was that designed them to be the first Subjects of Slavery in spirituals and Civils who hated their very Nation though the Land of his Nativity who made a Pacification with them with a treacherous intent to break every Article and manifested it as soon as he returned from Edinburg to London giving special command to burn the said Articles by the hand of a Common Hangman and it was publickly done I 'll tell you that too 'T was the old Arglye But hold you Sir Touching the Treacherous intent did he tell you his mind But I confesse you are quick-sighted you could not see things else that have no Being as your own Piety and publique Tenderness You have approv'd your selves Searchers of Hearts indeed witness your Sacrifices to your MOLOCH the good old cause your Butcheries by Quartering and Embowelling poor Wretches only upon Frivolous and Incongruous Circumstances senselesly patch'd together by your Ridiculous and Suborned sons of Belial Because that your own Party did resolve at first to break all Oaths and has been only True in a fidelity to Hell and Wickedness you make no difficulty to measure others by your Impious selves you Talk and Act at such a Rate as if the Word of God were a Delusion Divinity an old wive's Tale and seriously not half so much Respect is paid to the Two Tables of the Decalogue as to the Orders of your Coffehouse I shall not ravel the Transaction sequent upon the Pacification you speak of But to your next WOuld you hear the Cryes of the blood of Rochel and of his own people sacrificed in that Expedition to a Forreign interest and of all the Protestants in France for his Barbarous betraying of them THe Rochel Expedition I 'm a stranger to so I suppose are you that make the Challenge But if you had told me of Jamaica or the Sound I should have understood you WOuld you cast your eye on past miseries and recollect the manifold intollerable Oppressions of People both in matter of Estate and Conscience and compare them with the indulgencies at the same time toward Papists yea and the designs laid to make use of Papists to destroy both Parliaments and godly people together NOw you say something surely The manifold intollerable oppression of People in matter of Estate and Conscience c. This I remember perfectly Your Major-General-Archy was an admirable Form of Government So was your Rump-archy Clap a man up and never let him know his crime nor his Accuser declare a Man uncapable of serving in Parliament for having Bayes in his Windows or a Minced Pye in Christmas sequester half the Nation because they will not swear back and forward sell Free-born Men by Thousands into Plantations and in fine beside Excise and other Impositions Arbitrary lay on the comfortable Load of 100000l a Month upon a Begger'd Nation and at the latter end of the day Is this the Oppression your wise Worship intends Now for the matter of Conscience I can help you out there too To shorten let the Oath of Abjuration serve for all You follow this with a sharp charge for making use of Papists I could retort this if I thought it valuable but frankly in a War the subject of the Question is not Religion but Assistance Nor do

of Rebellion and Bloudshed From hence the terible Trifle proceeds to the distribution of his Design into three Heads First what the CAVALIER saies Secondly what the PRESBYTERIAN thinkes Thirdly what the Armies best Friends scornfully called COMMON-WEALTHMEN and PHANATICKS do foresee concerning the present transactions in the three Nations And lastly his own Observations and seasonable Advice He tels us The CAVALIER's OPINION that the Generals intention is to bring in the King and grounded upon these Reasons First That upon the 11th of February last he sent an imposing Letter to the Parliament in scorn called the RUMP and thereupon without any Order from them marched with their Army into LONDON then esteemed and made by Him in destroying their Gates c. their implacable enemies and at night suffered so many Bonfires and ringing of Bels and publickly drinking healths to the KING and a FREE-PARLIAMENT Roasting and burning of Rumps hearing and seeing his MASTERS in open Street declared MURTHERERS and TRAYTORS c. Feasted and associated with the Kings Friends c. This is a grievous charge assuredly and by the license of our Observator This I Reply The General's Commission expired upon the Tenth of February so he was free the Eleventh Again it was the design of the Rump to make the General odious and therefore they imposed on him such barbarous Orders as probably might leave him to retreat While he professed to Act by any Derivation from Them malice it self cannot but say His Excellency stood firm to every point of Military obedience at last when they proceeded so severely against the City he interposed but his Mediation was rejected and more imperious commands sent to him this is enough to prove 't was not the General that made London the Rumps implacable Enemies but 't was the sordid Insolences of the Members that made the Conventicle hateful to the whole Kingdome and this appeared by the Universal Joy that followed upon their disappointment If the Rump at Westminster did by a Sympathy fellow-feel the suffering Rumps in the City the Case indeed was hard but for the rest the Murtherers and Rebels they were call'd methinks it should not trouble folks to be call'd by their Names that 's only Liberty of Conscience and I dare say the people spake as they thought Are these Gentlemens Ears so tender and their Hearts so hard Is the Sound of Treason and Murther so dreadful and the Exercise of it so Trivial I must confesse to stay away Ten dayes together from the 11th of Feb. til the 21th as that his Masters charge him with was something a long Errand But seriously Gentlemen considering 'twas his first fault forgive him The second motive to the Cavaliers Discourse that his Excellency will restore the King is that notwithstanding his engagement by Letter and Verbal promise to His MASTERS that had ventured their All to secure him from being ruin'd by Lamberts Army he yet admits the Secluded Members to sit most of whom he absolutely knew to be for the Restauration of CHARLES STUART c. To this it is notorious that Designes were laid to murther the General That the Rump Received and Kept in Members impeached That they promoted and gave Thanks for BAREBONES Petition containing matters of direct contradiction to their Professions In the next place instead of the Rumpers saving the General from being ruin'd by Lambert the General saved them and touching their Opinions concerning CHARLES STUART as this Villain prates the King The Noble General regarded their Trust not their Opinions nor did he enquire what they were Thirdly say they the General will bring the King in for he hath suffered the secluded Members to release Sir GEORGE BOOTH and his Party c. Again they have de novo voted the COVENANT to be Printed Read and set up c. acknowledging the late King's Posterity as likewise suffering to be maintained in the House that none but Iesuites and Priests are for Free-Sate Government Observe yet further sayes the CAVALIER that he imprisons Commonwealth-men and releases Royalists c. These Rumpers have gotten such a trick of breaking Parliaments that 't is their publick Profession now become to enforce them to the bent of the ARMY SUFFER still is the word The General SUFFERED the secluded Members to Release Sir GEORGE BOOTH The next point is yet more remarkable These very COVENANTERS ABJURE the COVENANT As for the SUFFERING there 't is again to be maintained that only Iesuites c. the General is not properly to take cognisance of what passes in the House the King was chidden for 't see Exact Collections the Petition of both Houses Decemb. 14. 1641. now for imprisoning and releasing If it so happen that some Commonwealth-men deserve to be laid up and some Royalists to be enlarged not as such it is but justice to do the one and the other for at the rate of this subtile Argument Free-state-men shall be Protected against the Law and Royalists so Persecuted likewise Lastly the Cavaliers conclude as much from the Generals countenancing the Militia being raised and formed to murther and destroy the Army and that the same thing was done long since in Scotland besides the Irish Army have proceeded answerable to himself And divers Officers that served the late King have had fair promises from him and several of the Kings friends are peaceably returned from exile c. and again there 's a Proviso in the ACT of DISSOLUTION concerning the LORDS being a part of the PARLIAMENT c. To be short the General encourages the Militia to Save the Countreys not to Ruine the Army next if long since done in Scotland the better done the sooner for England hath been only Rump-ridden for want of it To this the conform motion of Ireland proceeds from their Commune Concerne with England in delivering themselves from the Tyranny of the Rump for the Generals promises I am glad to hear it but truly I know nothing of it In truth 't is a sad business Alderman Bunce his return and the Proviso in the Act of dissolution for certainly by the known Law the Lords are no part of the Parliament To speak my thoughts freely I am very glad to hear that the Cavaliers are of Opinion that the King will come in but I believe it never the more for your saying it Now to the SOBER PRESBYTERIANS they sayes our Phanatick begin to suspect the General for the Cavaliers are at this instant arming themselves in all the three Nations and if CHARLES STUART comes he 'll bring with him Arch-Bishops Bishops c. and then in comes his Mother with her Iesuites Priests c. and this will make little difference betwixt us and the Sectaries Now do I dote upon the sincerity of this Bubble had he pretended to Religion himself h 'ad been ridiculous but putting that scruple upon the Sober Presbyterian 't is well enough The story of the Cavaliers Arming themselves is a Phanatick not a Presbyterian conceipt