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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55791	A paralel between the proceedings of this present King, and this present Parliament		1648 (1648)	Wing P337A; ESTC R221396	9,060	13

impoverishing of them to encrease their own wealth If the King had such desires to enrich his Subjects how came those unknown Taxes of Ship-money Knighthood Loan-money c. Not to note a kind of covetousnesse in the King unsuitable to so great a Prince though to charge the Parliament with such impoverishment Prejudice it self can hardly do it although in particular persons it were to be wisht there were occasion of more just vindication § XVI The King accounteth his own Goods to be the Goods of his people they reckon not onely their goods but even their bodies and their lives also their own This is meer presumption as a particular insistance on both parties would cleer in reflecting onely on the intentions of either Party § XVII The King severely revenged the publick injuries done against the Kingdom and easily pardon the wrongs done to himself these men most cruelly revenge their own and pardon what is done against others For the King the Isle of Rhee businesse with that of Rochel is not forgotten and how sensible he is of particular injuries they that know his disposition can best tell nay it is affirmed by some of his own Party that the letting fall of some sharp speeches hath caused not a few to appear against him as for example he told Pembrook he was too long by the head c. whereas all the Kingdom may know how mercifull the Parliament have been to them whom they overcome and let any indifferent man judge whether such quarter would have been had had the other side prevailed nay whether they have not suffered by their too much slacknesse § XVIII The King willingly would forgive the offences of other men but is of his own failings a severe Judge wheras these bloody villains sharply revenge even the least offences of others but unto themselves are most favourable This is in effect what was spoken of in the last Paragraph yet has not the King been noted as any such severe Judge of himself but rather of a stiffe nature why complies he not else with the Parliament while they by their severall contrary Votes shew they are unvvilling to stand to that long vvhich they suppose not so convenient And for their hatred of Pamphlets as Elencticus complains let him speak if ever he knew one State in love with them The truth is they connive at them too much § XIX The King alwayes endeavoured to maintain his Subjects in Peace and unity whereas they strive still to set them at oddes and by that means to ruine one another and with the confiscation of their Land Goods enrich themselves If it be so why did the King desert the Parliament and never yet return to it and how much are they to blame when the frequent insurrections of the other Party have set the Kingdom in a flame § XX. The King advanced to the highest degree of honour the best and most vertuous men but these men promote the greatest theeves and villains whom they use as spunges to suck the wealth of the people If the King advanced none but the best men how came such a contamination of the Nobility the King advanced many who since have adhered to the Common-wealth either this assertion is false or the men are good still did all at Court enter the Temple of Honour through that of Vertue you that remember those times call back your thoughts a little c. Are they all bad the Parliament employes or are they employed to that purpose it cannot be denied but that some have been faithfull to their Charges and must passe to Posterity with the character of Honesty § XXI The King frankly bestowed the greatest and most gainfull Offices of the State upon men of best deserts who free from bribery and corruption might defend the people from all injury and oppression whereas these Rebels set them to sale to those that will give most for them and by their robberies and unreasonable exactions keep the people under Was bribery unknown at Court far be it from me to charge the person of the King or were all men that were advanced seraphicall was there not severall and horrid corruptions else why were so many impeached and discharged of their Offices the very beginning of the Parliament But can you charge the people with setting to sale any one Office but rather disposed them into those hands who have been most active and constant in the Cause of the Common-wealth which now groans as little under injustice as ever it did say the adversary what he will § XXII The King was ever ready to expose his Life to any hazard for the good of his Subjects they durst never stir their Arses in their defence but require it a duty to perish for them in their unjust quarrels Instance us one eminent hazard and adventure of the King the most of them we know had Military Commands and Offices which they valiantly and faithfully executed from the beginning of the War till a particular Ordinance proclaimed them and ordered their services to Westminster § XXIII The King notwithstanding all the malice and venome of scandalous and detracting tongues pens is still beloved honoured of his Subjects these envious tyrants hate them all and are reciprocally of them hated There is no body that as a Subject does not honour and love the King yea hate them that any way unjustly asperse him but if a malignant humour prevail in the Kingdom against the two Houses that may be the fault of the people themselves and not theirs for if they hated the people they had never done so much as they have done and suffered for them § XXIIII The King in time of War had no other recourse but to his own loyall Subjects when they have no other War then against them How came it then that he had such assistances came over from Holland and other places to fight against his Subjects why hath there been such solicitations of forreign Princes and why was there a peace made in Ireland and Rebels brought over while the Parliament held off their hands from any such engagements and were desirous if it had been possible not to have made use of the assistance of their Brethren of Scotland whose coming in notwithstanding brought those undue aspersions upon them of calling in forreign Force but this was without reason as I have made it good in sundry other places which whoso pleaseth may read § XXV The King had neither Garrison nor Guards but those of his own houshold whereas they dare not shew their brazen faces without Garrisons and Guards and Armies of the most dissolute and desperate Villains that the whole Kingdom affords to protect them in their tyranny and to keep the poor Subject in a continuall slavery What Garrisons or Army were needfull for the King in time of peace when all the Kingdom was under his onely beck and all the Militia of the Kingdom in hands of his own when the Parliament were