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A35034 The plea, case, and humble proposals of the truly-loyal and suffering officers Croft, Robert. 1663 (1663) Wing C6980; ESTC R4768 14,341 36

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that Voted This Money and the Commissioners that are to Distribute it All Their Names are Printed and where 's the Greater Hazzard of Printing Their Names too that are to Receive it IT is a Dishonour for so many Persons of Quality to be Publisht for Indigent besides the Inconvenience of being Laid open to their Creditors and the losse of other Preferments by being known to be Necessitous FIrst The very Act require that They be Publiquely Certify'd and Publiquely Registred as Persons that have not a sufficient Livelyhood so that as to the Point of Publishing Their Indigency the Thing is done Already Secondly Touching the suppos'd Dishonour of being known to be Poor let it be consider'd That every Mans Loyalty and his Poverty are Recorded together and certainly no Person of Honour will Think it any shame to Proclaim to the world that He has spent his Fortunes in the Service of a Prince that laid down his Life for the Preservation of His People Another Branch of This Objection is concerning the Consequence of appearing Necessitous which in This Particular we are so far from fearing that we Reckon the Enlisting of our Names upon a Publique Roll to be the only Secure and Honourable way of Redemption whereof our Condition is Capable First as to our Creditors our fair and warrantable Debts do by such a Record become virtually the Debts of the Nation and they are Effectually so Acknowledged both by the King and Kingdom in the late Act of Parliament where it is Declar'd For the Perpetual Memory of the Eminent Deservings of the Loyal Party and for the Encouragement of Loyalty to future Ages that Their great Services and Sufferings exceed all possibility of present Compensation from a Kingdom Exhausted by the Rapine and Oppression of a long Rebellion From whence it appears that Our Necessities are but Dependent upon the Necessities of the Publique Shall the Kings Party now be Asham'd to Publish Their Wants when His Sacred Majesty is Content to Confess His Own or What better Security can our Creditours either Wish or Expect than to find us Recommended as in another place we are to future Employment and further Reward which will Enable us to satisfie them And This Recommendation will be most Solemn and Effectual upon a Publique and Inspected List Whereas otherwise for the shadow of a Reputative Disgrace we quit the substance of a lasting and monumental Honour Concealing our Disease out of a scruple at the Remedi till at last we Perish One by One unknown and the whole Party sinks by degrees into a Condition both Wretched and Ridiculous Again that the Printing of our Names should be any Hinderance to our Preferments without the greatest Indignity possible to his Majesty is the Thing we cannot upon any Terms either Admit or Comprehend If we Consider the Party take their Character in the Preamble to the late Act for their Relief It is That Loyal Party Which through all Hazzarde and Extremities in the Defence of the Kings Person Crown and Dignity the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament the Religion Lawes and Honour of the English Nation did bear Armes by the Command of His Late Maiesty of ever Blessed Memory according to their Duty and the known Lawes of this Land and did with an Unwearied Courage Faith and Constancy with their Lives and Fortunes Oppose that Barbarous Rebellion raised against His Most Excellent Maiesty in the year 1642. That Loyal Party Which after the Horrid Murther of Their late Glorious King with the same Uigorous and Active Loyalty asserted the Rights and Interests of his Royal Successor and with the same Restless Zeal Opposed all succeeding Usurpations untill His Sacred Maiesty Return'd in Peace and Triumph c. Will it binder any Mans Preferment now to have his Name affixt to This Character Where 's the Gratitude and Justice of the Nation If Those Persons that have Ruin'd Themselves in the service of the Publique shall fare the worse for being known to have done their Duties Where 's the Wisdome of the Nation if it be rendred more Beneficial to subvert the Government than to uphold it and if the Reward of Struggling with all Hazzards and Misfortunes to preserve the Lawes must be either Reproche or losse of Preferment to such as shall appear to have been undone in the Contest Lastly Where 's the Faith and Honour of the Nation if after a Parliamentary Declaration for the Encouragement of Loyalty People should speed the worse for being Published to have been the Eminent and Miserable Assertours of it So that the Community is cleerly of us With us and For us Wee 'll now Advance our Argument a little higher Shall we lose our Hopes and Preferments if we be once known to be Poor upon so Publique and Noble an Accompt This Objection vanishes for ever when we Reply that The King is the Fountain of all Considerable Honours and Preferments and that He is a Pious a Prudent a Just and a Gratious Prince What is our Unhappiness even at this Instant but the want of such a Roll as is now the Question We do not speak of a List of Enquiry which is only Previous to Another and serves but to Discriminate the Right and Wrong but of a Try'd and Examined List of such Officers as have stood the utmost Test of Misery and Persecution Nor is this any new Thing Forasmuch as there be many Old Servants and feeble that have Dispended their Youth in the service of my Lords my Grandfather Father and Brother whose souls God assoile and also with my Lord that now is whom God given good life and long some without any Livelyhood or Goterdon so that they be now in great Mischief and Necessity and some but easily Guerdoned and nought like to their Desert and Service Wherefore I desire that there may be a BOOK made of all the NAMES of such as have so Served and been Hnguer doned or nought Guerdoned like to their Desert to the Intent when Offices and Corodies fall that they might be given to such Persons they having Consideration to the Ability of them and to the time that they have served in the same wise as of Benefices to Clerks Henry the Fourth of France did for the Relief of such as had been Maimed Wounded or Begger'd in his Service Grant by an Irrevocable EDICT The Royal House of Christian Charity and the Money growing upon the Remainder of Accompts of Hospitals Almes-Houses Leprous-Houses and other such Companies and of the Vsurpations and Alienations of the Revenues thereof Revisions of the Accompts and Abuses and Disorders committed in the Government and Administration of the said Places together with the Money which should arise of the Places and Pensions of Religious Lay-men in every Abby and Priory of his Realm being in his Majesties Nomination The Consideration of the Horse was referred to the Duke of Montmorency and of the Foot to the Duke of Espernon who were to make