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A86119	Knaves and fooles in folio. Discovered, and then advised, that once at the last they will grow both wise and honest. Or, a meanes to undeceive, and so to beget a right understanding and judgement throughout the three kingdomes, hitherto deluded by the aforesaids. Dedicated with all respectivenesse both for discovery and caution against the aforesaids, to all the wise and honest of the three nations, whom wee highly prize and honour, especially the Honourable Citie of London, whose goodnesse, piety, easie betrust, and credulity of such unworthies, hath been too much wrought upon and abused by depraved polititians of all sorts. In which tract is shewed the wickednesse of the one side in their severall pretences, and the weaknesse on the other side, in being through too much credulity surprized and circumvented by such pretenders, who intend not what they pretend; but bave [sic] their own self-ends to compasse under such pretexts. -Conceived very usefull to be taken knowledge of, by all sorts whatsoever. For that wee hope the reader will finde himselfe fully satisfied thereby, which may probably much check, if not totally break the neck of this uncivill Civill Warre. The contents of the booke are in the next page.	S. H.	1648 (1648)	Wing H121; Thomason E462_27; ESTC R202483	38,950	43

stir up and second defensively against such offenders who would surprize us by preventing resistance by such aspersions they foment all they can by raising the Countries to raise them to the Countries razing If we foment not just defence against their unjust offence we are great ofders In short let 's not traytor it to our King the Kingdome nor to the Parliament nor the Army wherein they continue faithfull c. so nor to our selves nor ours but now before we part resolve to dissolve these fomenters these Achans these troubles of Israel c. And let 's learn to beare till we know how to help it lesser injuries from Parliament and Army if so ' rather then the great intollerable the inexpressables from the other side c. and consider and doe not we our selves foment our own miseries there was likelihood of a period before this but we cry out of Parliament and Army for not setling the kingdom and that they doe nothing thus long when as we our selves breed and * In that Some amongst us in plotting against the State the Army and Independents so called and inviting in the Scots also fiding it with the Roy and his Royalists c. Lastly to force home the King under pretence of a Treaty increase new work new troubles to them and our selves And now Oh State Representative a word or two to you and I have done onely to minde and hint you for more sure I need not doe if you be noble minded generous and genuine but if contrary as ignoble c. What shall be done to set you right I tax not but preventively caution Remember the universall naturall rationall precept Doe as you would be done to c. Is not this enough to Naturalists Moralists Gentiles How then if Christianity be added Shall it adde nothing If deducted lesse you cannot be and be men c. Statues you may be but not Statute-makers except as afore Would you be abused or treacherized with in the least of your trusts Surely no then doe not so Would you not traytor and skellom and base fellow that fellow that should so abuse you in the meanest betrust c. If so inferre * Which you may lose in a moment cause you are momentary Also are they of moment like your honour fame so the love and welfare of your friends and posteririties your quitting them from slavery Consider c. what 's due in just retaliation for failing in the greatest betrusts mortality is capable of as of Life Livelihood Liberties and Religion c. See to it O see to it I speak onely to the guilty if any be blemish not nor bespot your Honours by treacherous aspersions c. though many be laid upon you never the like on any Parliament before and that without controll or commination yet let it not be justly Remember the love of the people in chusing you so of their great hopes and joy in your faithfulnes forfeit them not we intreat you but free your free choosers so all your friends so your own posterities that they may blesse you in future times and your names and remembrances may be famous for ever else infamy for ever attends you so the cryes and curses of your choosers so of your children and posterities so of all your friends and kindred yea of the whole kingdome or people your true King who made you what you are and commissioned you c. but not to commit them c. On beslave not nor vassalage your Lords to any their Stewards Consider and digest what I say and digresse not c. O let not any insinuations flatteries hopes promises * Or in your power to keep as to give c. I adde to the aforesaid cautions nor let envy hate malice or revenge to or against any hurt the Generall quit thy self if thou canst if not reserve it till thou canst not offend preferments or dishonorable honours circumvent you and so beg●t contempt and jeering from your circumventers Is there any thing so comfortable and cheering as a cleare conscience even as a moralist c. None can give you or preferre you but you must first inable them by giving to and preferring them reserve rather then give to such to receive againe and so to be beholden and give thankes for what 's your * own But what are such givers and receivers also receivers again from such given to givers c. of what also is neither the givers nor receivers own but their Lords the Kingdomes their King What I say are such c. c. but c. Oh consider consider c. and comply to justice equity and all honorable things Honour your selves by your wisdomes and fidelity as you have done which preferre as more noble and withall immortall in that it shall live when you are dead before all other base and by-ends which shall when you are gone infamous you and leave a base and sordid stench of you to all eternity c. Give forraigne States cause to honour you and make not your selves a jeering stock to the whole world till it come to a proverb As ill as an Englishman as base as a Britain c. How wisely and ably did the Holland State quit themselves of their Tyrannous King continue faithfull to the people that followed them and govern them with peace and love cause with justice protection and safety Sure the same wayes would have had the same effects with us What shall I say It 's with the latest but not too late if this you will do Inform the people aright of their own rights yours and their Viceroyes when at the rightest also as now postur'd qualified and conditioned with all kind of wrong doings to a most righteous people to him Why spare you or feare you to speak May yea doth it not betray us If we have doe and must venture our lives what is' t if just and right and withall conducing shall silence us Had Hester been silent where O let not one woman put down so many men for courage faithfulnesse c. being also not so engaged as are you bad she and hers been You have fought against and dare you not speak nor give way to speak against in what 's just also when it is for the Kingdome and the people c. Conducingly give way and you shall finde men will speak out Justice and your ingagements the Kingdomes welfare and to prevent its illfare claimes this at your hands and we dare however quaere if it be not treachery to the Kingdome the people in generall our Generall or King c. Not to allow the exhibiting of the aforesaids as conducing to their delivery c. the children are come to the birth give strength to bring forth Now we have done and deliver up what is said with our selves to the judgement of the ingenuous And the blessing of God be with you c. DIXI Postscripts THis Book

men as well as fooles Will you have him home without cautions and security from him and them against his and their beslaving you If you bring him home like a Conquerour it 's you the Conquerours are conquered and leave your posterities slaves and capable of cursing you their foolish fathers c. I have told you before and now tell you again They pretend the King onely to draw you on but onely intend themselves c. 20. Was Kent never conquered hitherto And shall their follies now foile and conquer them Fooles be wise for shame know and be certain See Sect. 44. if fit to treat with So Sect. 46. Is not the Kingdome Lord King c. Se Sect. 46. Is it for the honour of the guiltless Lord to treat with his guilty servant I am abasht at its basenesse c. that you be secured and that not with words for they are wind of safe and just conditions before you entertain him that so you and your posterities may live free according to your birth-rights and not as slaves Remember the Northern protestations and oathes broken being so solemnly taken at his coronation doe they not crowne all for fooles that trust any further then groundedly secured 21. To treate with is the pretence but the intention is to make use of the ignorant and giddy-brain'd idolatrizing people to throng in threans and multitudes to him and so over-power themselves and theirs yea the whole kingdome with their weight and levity He will then scorn to treat or intreat but will intreat all his opposers as his deposers How think you fools will that be Surely to your not being when it will bee too late to help either your selves or your posterities c. 22 Oh but the Citizens no nor the Countries will not fight against Kent Essex nor any the Countries they will rather fight for them c. But know they what 's for them See Sect. 24 27 33. 23. What are the grave Citizens such fooles what if against Kent or Essex be for them however for the kngdome how then I say 24. Is all Kent or Essex or the Countries thus befool'd I cannot think it but admit so we ought be against them in all unjustnesse or endangerings to themselves or the kingdome and in being against we are for Fooles know it 's not words or expressions or oculars define but things natures intentions intrinsiques and occults 25. We ought also to be for our selves and ours in safety and justice so for the kingdome and that first of all though against the Countries if so it were but so it is not but for them Also c. But Kent and the Countries promise well in such and such particulars as appeares by their petition and its Comment The Comment speakes commendably and better then the Petition what then These are but words who shall secure us that that is their intentions onely May it not be to insinuate and so by degrees in the interim to gather company to side with them and stave off all opposers for who would not side with and who will oppose such petitioners such Commenters if their aimes reacht not beyond their words and promises 26. And therefore yet again who but fooles would side with them c. such and such being their Leaders Heads and Commanders and who but Fooles Knaves or both would not oppose them having such petitionary commands and prostrating Commanders except they change their Commanders so their commands and demands of forcibly bringing in the King they are not to be communed with but commined rather c. 27. If you will not be against the Countries but for them then open their understandings by discovering the adversaries cunning pretences and deceits and the error of some particulars in their petitions Let the righteous smite me and it shall bee a kindnesse let him reprove and it shall be an excellent oyle c. Oppose them in this sense for their own and the kingdomes good Better are the rebukes of a friend then the kisses of an enemy 28. Blandishments blind fooles but friendly checkes open the eyes of the wise But who is so faithfull to give them or so wise to accept of them 29. Well but the Parliament hath abused you and them c. as you object and except but admit so so now you will not comply to them any longer but defie c. What then Will you right you selfe the wrong way Will you out of the Frying pan into the fire Is not pinching better then fleying c. But know fooles the Parliament is forced for necessity and policy sake to doe many things they would nor and deny many things they would grant and to conceale many discoverables because time is not yet for them and you are brainlesse ignorant opinionated and wilfull withall and so not able to beare or digest them though for your good such is your badnesse 30 Hath the Parliament wrong'd you Admit so what then will you accept therefore no righting at all nor any right things from them Sure in not complying to you in your preposterous pretended treaty with the King intended fiding with him to inslave your selves and your posterities and the whole kingdome they have righted you and complyed to you in that they have not complied to you for your destructions by murthers losse of friends husbands parents children also in that they would preserve your grain your fruit on the ground which the rampant horses would have ground to powder for you and against you c. 31. In short be wise at last suspect and search into the pretenses of your suggesters and prompters of such petitions they have their own ends not yours except your ending Remember what your Commanders are and their ends c. many their Officers are for plunder and what 's yours more then for you c. Clergy-men are many of them great cheaters of the people for their own ends urging Demetrius like Diana Diana so they the King God Religion Liberties and against the Parliament but all is for you to fight to force them under the ground aforesaid till you are groundlesse c. 32. Inforce not the Parliament by importunities as Phaeton did Phoebus for the guidance of the Sunnes Chariot it 's beyond your management keep in your orbs and spheares of understanding and reaches lest you be out-reacht yea lest you out-reach your selves which is soon done by reachlesnesse and ignorance c. 33. But yet again the Citie will not fight against the Countrey lest the Countries combine against them A fine pretence and a foolish feare because the greater feare should feare away the lesse As for aiding or being against what is so see before at Sect. 27. Inform them well and you shall form them anew and they shall finde it 's for them Am I against my father or am I not rather for him if in his error wilfulnesse or passion he were ready to perpetrate murder or treason

against us for this quereing and alleadging Scripture to satisfie our scrupulous conscience is against Scripture and Religion and so against God and what 's that but irreligion and atheisme and what are such but such c. 44. But our Covenant is first both in place and worth also absolute in rendring and in nature for rights of Kingdome and Parliament if conscience you make as you urge and pretend why then doe you so unconscionably invade the Rights of either for the unrighteous Your owne position as afore the Kings guiltinesse allowes not his erection to the prostration of both States Againe the Kings supportment in his height and priviledges are but respective and so of no respect if forfeited Consider can respectives both in nature in rendring answer to absolutes in both being forfeited also as afore c. 45. Oh English oh Scot oh all sorts consider what fell on the Jewish Nation for that their 12. Tribes did not call Saul to an accompt for some triviall wrong done to a paltry Pagan City did not 3. yeares of famine fall on them because Sauls plottings for their destruction and the blood he shed was not answered for Sure Saul would not punish himself who then but the 12. Tribes should have done it which cause they did not they are punished till Saul's 7. sonnes expiated for all and so retaliated satisfaction in being hang'd up by the Gibeonites which City demanded Justice and petitioned not for Sauls supportance against justice much lesse for his honor greatnesse Oh wise-headed Gibeonites oh foolish and giddi-brain'd English oh depraved Scot c. 46. Thus much for Land men let 's now see if Sea-men have more wit or more honesty so have any thing to say to this businesse Oh madnesse ther 's nothing but weaknesses or wickednesses in this world for Sea-men say the same and so Land and Sea and Aire are I thinke nothing but aire Well I will land the Sea-men and referre them for We say as much for the Armie if you will not helpe them for their own sakes yet help them for the Kingdomes sake your King if the end of Governours be King of all Governors what I have said to the Land-men and so let them goe For I resolve on brevity for to say againe what I have said is to present you with Coleworts twice sodde only hints the Reader cannot doe lesse then comment I conclude then is it not madnesse and folly if the Parliament have offended you or you are offended with it you will like Will Somers strike who ever is next you Is it not Treason to strike at the Kingdome which is the King King and yours If you know it not are you not weake If you know yet will not know are you not wicked Is it not a striking against the Kingdom not to strike its strikers or to bring in it's Vice-roy to strike and conquer it but you neither see nor intend any such thing ah weakenesse c. Your intentions we know not but your actions portend no lesse will you King the Vice-roy above the Roy Is a people for a King or a King for a people Whether is the meanes or the end King whether is physicke or health King If the Parlaiment have wrong'd you right your selves in a faire way so as you may not wrong the Kingdome like a foolish fellow who saith the Mr. of the ship hath wronged him and to revenge himselfe will drowne the ship that he may drown his Master though withall he drowne himselfe and all the rest in it c. 47. It may be I have suffered by the Parliament as much as any what then I will not Will Somers-like strike my next man or any much lesse my Lord and King the Kingdome no I will suffer againe and againe yea to death yea death it selfe rather then endanger or be the death of my Lord. I scorn to Traytor or Rebell it so so I will not oppose my wrongers to the wronging of my Lord yea I will helpe them to the righting of him c. And if I cannot right my selfe without wronging my Lord I will never be righted yet count I am right c. 48. Oh but some will newtralize it and not take part with either but defend against both or if they offend any it shall be the State who Are not these Traitos to K. Salus have offended them c. But are these sayings for Seniors for sage wise and grave Governours or for any If you travell and some of the formost of your company are set on by thieves and rogues c. will you newtralize it Are not those Thieves and Murtherers that oppose not Thieves and Murtherers to their power For by not helping you helpe to rob and kill the rob'd and kill'd c. 49. What if your Parents and Masters under whose roof you live so owe duties to them answerably If these were set on will you newtralize also and only sefly defend is not this murther and theft as afore if they miscarry so is it not treason in nature and reason to Parents and Pay masters or Maintainers to whom you are engaged in all faithfulnesse and loyalty and so to leave them will you to them turne Loyallists and treacherous 50. Again if they are conquered are not you your selves conquered they help you as well as themselves and doth not retaliation and relation so duty and reason say the same concerning you 51. Know you not oh weaklings that you are more engaged to the Kingdome then any child or servant can be to his Father or Master For parents and children are parted oft times you see to take the Kingdomes part to part it from dangerous encounters 52. Sure in a journey I will help my enemie how then him who is not mine but I am his and maligne him I know not why nor wherefore for he hath done me no hurt nor will but much good had I the goodnesse to acknowledge it Doth he not help me and fight for mee in fighting for himselfe yet for want of help may be conquered and then the conquest of me is more probable and easie Well foole fight The maligned Armie for thy enemie if so that 's engaged on thy side and side with him that he may be thy friend fight then for thy friend whose enemie thou art c. that he may continue thy friend But yet if thou beest so malicious thou wilt not fight for either fight yet with them though not for them yet for thy selfe and thy Father and Mr. in company c. 53. Thus fight with or for Parliament and Armie though they be So the Kingdome thy enemies or thou art theirs according to the premises apply and save me the replication Fight with or for them as it conduceth to the Kingdome 54. But the Armie is a company of Sectaries Independents c. Truly thou knowest not well what thou saist if well and wisely examined what a

our loyalty to our Lord Salus enjoyns a plaine discovery of all particulars concerning him to prevent if it were possible murthers massacres c. Quaere if it be not treachery not to treat hereof or to intreate amisse Quaere the intreater thereof c. The Parliament and peoples rights also are not known which cleered would cleere all c. and make all cleere up c. Pressures from Parliament as said to be incite also so want of justice c. the remedies known the cure may be easie if care be The bounds of obedience so of Treason and rebellion not by lawlesse law only but by law rationall and so binding are not knowns and so the ignorant are bound to their good behaviour against all good behaviour c. 59. Is this or that treason c. against the K. Steward of the kingdom Queries concerning rebellion and treason so of disobedience as selfly considered so much in every mans mouth or not rather as hee relates to the State at large his Lord so it 's for his Lords sake not his Quaere also If it be not as he continues in his sphear of government or Quaere The State at large rather in the execution of government according to the will of his* Lord exprest in his Lawes so in all faithfulnesse to him c. Quaere If out of his spheare he be not a privat man c. so not obeyable but resistable c. St. Paul I knew him not to bee Gods high Priest Quaere Why Because his actions were below his place as a Judge Ignorant he could not be that he was the high Priest c. 60. If to raise Armes against the kingdomes Army the Kingdome being King by Sect. 46. if it be not treason the said Army continuing Quaere faithfull to the kingdome in its defence is it not to take up Armes against the kingdome itselfe 61. If an abusing the Army it continuing faithfull before be not an affront to the Kingdome which is King 62. If newtralizing that is not helping siding and taking part Quaere with the Army against the Kingdomes enemies be not treason to the kingdome how then to take part against it to suppresse or enslave it by raising Forces of their own Faction to keep it under or to leave the Kingdom naked to self insurrections or forraign invasions c. also to have brought the King forcibly home to have born out and coloured all their designes c inforcings c. If it be not lawfull to make the foresaid quaeries and the like without Quaere querelous inquisitions and exceptions 63. Oh thou Citie of London so all the Cities and Countries of England Application c. yea each individual man therein read reason and call to mind as thus These Rakeshames that pretend the King intend themselves and are the same that fought against us as afore to inslave us and we against them for our liberties c. why expended wee our blood and meanes What to yeeld and entertain them at the last Much better might we have yeelded at first and spared all then now at the last seeing also by our affronts their revenge is aggravated to the uttermost even to the nullifying our Religion and enforcing upon us a Regiment or imperious government under its name so our lives liberties and estates are gone and we are in their hands like Rogues and Gally-slaves * King of England c. befools fools the wise have eyes Lord Mayor of London c. Are they any any more then Titles Is not each ones life land liberty and estate his owne by Law and Nature It s onely the highest Title of honour allowed by the State So Prince of Wales Earle of Essex c. As for the King we now understand our selves better then before he is by Sect. 58. the kingdomes Steward the peoples and kingdomes welfare as the end of Kings and all Governours is Lord and King He hath also forfeited all by his faithlesnesse to his Lord he is to the kingdome as is the Lord Mayor to the Citie and no more chiefe Deputie Governours both of them yet not by any selfnesse but as in favour conferred on by and for the State the Citie † The Lord Mayor is by R●x King of the City in respect of all subordinate Rulers 32 Kings that is Lieutenant Governours of C●ties Joshua conquered on this side Jordan May the Mayor take up Armes against the Citie or rob them by Sea or Land or rebell and traytor them or burn their houses c. And must the Citizens for all that petition intreat and treat with their abusive treacherous servant c. Is not the Mayor a traytor a rebell for so doing Apply them c. Rex is Ruler not King So by Rex all are Kings or none are c. It 's falsly translated Ki●g● or applied onely to one more then another the word will not beare any thing but Ruler yet that will hardly be rul'd nor will the Hebrew or Greek beare the translation King at all c. Why then to these more then others Ruler is also unruly so not right as too selfly Steward sends to a Lord c. May the Mayor master the Citie will the Citizens side with him against themselves hath hee any commission to kill rob rape c. As for the Parliament and Army if they have wronged us yet will not we wrong the kingdome to right our selves of them but let 's help them all we can if not for themselves yet for our selves so ours c. Yet why not the Army for themselves also seeing they have done us no hurt Newtrality will nullifie us in our Religion Liberties and Lives we have experience of their trustinesse and we have experience except we want sence of the perfidiousnesse and treachery of the other Armies they are genera●ly Atheists their commanders men of no Religion onely politick pretenders to deceive their actions and designes define them as afore As for the Army if Sectaries if Independents c. yet we know not well if so because the true definition of either is not agreed on However what is it to us If faithfull to us and the State it 's to God not to us They suffer us to Presbyter it Justice requires we suffer them to Independent it Destroyers of Fundamentals so Blasphemers they allow not of often declared by them Thus qualified how is it we allow not of them seeing God himselfe doth by Rom. 14. Well let 's weigh all aforesaid and let 's immediatly send them all the help we can if not for their sakes yet for our own and ours and the Kingdomes to set a period to these troubles c. For if the adverse Army have the better we have the worst of it We are politickly called Fomenters of Warre we must be wise and not feare words we must foment if foment they call it that is we must

Scorpions to whip thee So manicles and Fetters for a Turkish inslavement also to support him that should be thy protector in all Revellings Maskings Pleasures Playes and Delights c. by the ruine of thee and thine whilst thou and thine thus opprest are pining and languishing with griefe and pressures c. Now for the Parliament let 's see what they have done to thee admit much amisse yet beleeve the Scots in this that the King the Kingdomes Steward is cause of all for if he had not done the aforesaids these after necessitated doings by them had never been done So when thou accusest them thou dost implicitly accuse the accuser and misuser of them and th●e as the originall cause of all Is It not the aforesaid doings of his by the Scots own saying that hath been the cause of all these Warres Bloodshed Losse of Estates Plunderings ●olland payes ●xcise without exception losse of trade So excise c. that thou so exceptest against Lay it then where it should be and not upon the immediate occular instrumentall inforced Afflicters of thee to whom no question it s an affliction thus to afflict thee c. Is not thy Lawyer Councellor and Atturney inforc'd oft-times to undoe thee with charges and expences against thy offending adversary who will have the Cloak from thy back and next thy suit yea thy The spirited man chuseth to yeeld to this rather then to his insulting adversary shirt and so strip thee to nakednesse if thou defendest not another keeps back or layes claime to thy Land and estate and will unstate thee if thou defendest not Yea also it may be though thou defendest his might will out-right thee and the expences may exceed the principall that it had been better to have yeelded at first But who knowes the issue of things It may be thou mightest on easie tearmes have recovered all of others then others have done so Adventures must be adventured on or else we must give up our rights as our Cloakes and Clothes c. to each unrighteous challenger which no spirited man can yeeld to Adventure we not our lives and all wee have on darings challenges and abuses rather then be out-braved and insulted over A stomackfull resistance and defence is an honor and it oft prevents offences c. Thus by the Scots own saying the Kings offence hath inforced the Parliaments and thy defence and that defence these expences pressures and undoings c. But thou wilt yet say the Parliament hath opprest and abused thee beyond a just and necessitated defence Be it so this yet justifies not thy unfaithfulnesse to thy Lord the Kingdome if his Steward 's contrary to his will who provided them for thy protection and to doe thee justice abuse thee right thy selfe of the Steward as thou canst without wronging thy Lord see for further satisfaction at Sect. 47. But oh you fountaines of justice let your honours your fames and your names be more precious and blemish them not by such proceedings but for this see in full at Sect. 64. 56. c. But now last of all I have met with a list of their extravagancies enormities c. as great offices places incomes c. as Colonels in the Warre keepers of Townes Cities Castles Houses Parkes and Forrests Also great advancements by Bishops Lands and lastly by depraved injustice oppression corruption and bribery c. These last are justly exceptable against if high and heinous c. Trivials must not be too much prest or censured thou canst not Angelize men David that man of men bid Mephibosheth and Ziba divide the Land whereas the whole was Mephibosheths c. But let 's examine the other which before I doe I will place thee their accuser in their places cause by reflection thy accusation will be the better judged of c. Lets now see how thou canst come off c. Admit the Offices c. places before-named so the keeping of Castles Townes Towrs and Forts were in thy disposure by consent of the Kingdome as are many places in the hands of each Lord Major By custome and consent of the City c. but in speciall in the hands of the King when time was it s not then a power usurp'd so farre as confer'd by consent by way of betrust c. Doth not nature and reason first accommodate ones self and theirs as nearest before remotes provided they supply those places with persons faithfull and each way fitting If this they faile of they are faulty for they ought prefer the universall in justice safety and rights before selfe-ends that are not right Said not Solomon to his Queene thou shalt have sonnes to make Rulers over all Lands Did not Eli and Samuel make their sonnes Priests and Judges and they might had they beene right why should not honour pleasure and profit be theirs seeing confer'd on them provided universally improv'd as upon or to others Who is' t that having friends kindred or children would not doe the like as for the adventurous and faithfull in the Wars they are worthy of it so are the States if they would improve themselves worthy for the universall Is not his Excellency the Lord Fairfax so Lieutenant Generall Cromwell worthy of their confer'd honours and remembrances Nature reason justice and policy of State enjoyne honours and rewards to all deservers Men are men and need encouragement c. and the State as Judges ought to consider of it and performe accordingly to all and I would they did no State no Prince but does will may yea ought to doe it c. But what if we now parallell or discrimen the Parliaments and Kings actions c. Those of the King what he did and that not of necessity c. Note Went he not against Scotl. with force to have setled Episcopacy c. but of a high hand and with intention c. projecting the utter beslavement of the people or Kingdome and to have also ruined Religion and only allowed some Complements and Ceremonials which hee would have called Religion to have deceived weakelings therewith They are I say apparant at Sect. 71. to F Those of the Parliament at Sect. 71 from F to 72. The Parliaments actions are not originally-intentionally or volunrily c. but contrarily inforcedly for the universall so thy particular defence and so farre is just and approveable and of thee to be approved of what 's beyond I disapprove but it s not easily apparent what they are but this remember that both of thy inforced suffering so of thy unjust suffering by them the Scots make the King the originall cause of all sc by his still continued offensive contending Note for the command of thy life liberty estate and religion c. Rememher the Instance before in a Law suite and answer thy s●lfe Hee is at this instant the cause of defence and so of thy pressures in expences feares and inforcements c. which

lying by me some time after it was written by reason of some hinderances it hath now furthered it selfe with the addition of some second thoughts I hope very conducing as to the generall so to particulars c. Is not treason the betraying of just trusts and ingagements Is not Quaere again Of Treasons that of a Kingdome the greatest trust Are not all sorts ingaged to the Kingdome before the Steward or any Nay are they ingaged to the Steward at all but for the Kingdomes sake And is not their failing it alone how then in siding with the Steward or any against it the greatest treason What is it then in the Steward most ingaged by oath betrust and allowance not onely to faile or neglect but to endeavour his uttermost against his Lord in the highest degree False Trusts Oathes c. to faile for true and just ones is not treason but faithfulnesse and justice as to faile the Steward in behalfe of his Lord. If it be not treason to preferre any selfe-end or any one as the Steward Quaere called King or his sonnes called Prince or Duke or any one or any thing whatsoever yea though it be Religion Gods worship or Service as cal'd or indeed c. before the generall good to its sufferance cause it 's King and Soveraigne and God himselfe preferres it before the aforesaids ●s I will have mercy before Sacrifice c. the Sabbath is for man in humanities c. Traytors however smiled on are smit with contempt as the basest of men and are not trusted of their Trusters but in cases of necessity and that with much feare and jealousie c. See to this all sorts from the the Throne to Threshold it imbaseth the best See to it I say Parliaments Kings Princes Peers Priests c. the corruption of the best is worst of all 66. Oathes Covenants c. in behalf of the Steward against his Lord Of Oathes Covenants c. the kingdome binds not all sorts are bound to breake them except they will bind themselves to be Traytors Murtherers and Theeves 67. Rebellion is to resist just Governours in their just Governments Rebellion disobedience is the same else it 's none Quaere If the most ingaged Governours or Stewards that affront their Lords Salus and his Lawes and their ends of Government Justice and Protection be not the greatest Rebels Oft-times they rebell first and most and yet tax the faithfull to their Lord for Rebels cause they side not with them in their rebellion against their Lord. Will the Steward urge his Lords servants to keep false Oathes and Trusts to him against his Lord and yet hee makes no reckoning of true ones Sure he by unjustly accusing of them he justly accuseth himselfe much more 68. Murther is without just cause to kil or nor to save if we can what Murther is it then in the most ingaged Stewards to save and protect yet contrarily to murther or endevour the murthering of their Lord Salus and his faithfull servants cause they will not side with them against their Lord c. What is' t also in the servants that side with them against their Lord to ruinate him so his faithfull servants is it not murther as well as treason The justly inforc'd to kill either in defence of their Lord Salus or of themselves though they kill I say yet they murther not c. 69. Hath the same definition or bounds that murther hath the unjust Theft Robbery Of Warre sides taking is theft the other is none The name and countenance of warre quits not nor qualifies it from murther and theft on the unjust side it aggravates rather by its continuance and violent perpetrations also as done with defiance and a high hand openly c. as if justifiable as also by the Steward against his Lord c. Application 70. See to the aforesaid definitions of Treason Murther Theft and Rebellion c. all sorts both States the King Princes Dukes so cal'd yea Peers Priests and Prelats So all Countries and Cities c. Names Titles c. of Kings Princes etc. with the rest alter not natures but ingagements make the aforesaids more unnaturall and greater Treasons Thefts Murthers c. yea each individuall and apply as cause i● and for future let it lessen thee to lessen the aforesaid offenders c. 71. Well but the King wrong'd them not as hath done and doth the Parliament nor can they be greater slaves to the King then Object the Parliament makes of them c. by imprisonment by plunderings and contempts c. I answer If it be the objection of Malignants and Royalists see then in part to Sect. 55. in speciall in generall to 47. Answer If it be the good deserving and faithfull party that complains see to Sect. 56. so 47. and for full satisfaction as followeth Yet all sorts by the Scots position may charge their sufferings originally on the King Each one forgets what the King did so what they are freed from being onely taken up with their present sufferings of which they are most sensible also they minde not or call not to minde what the King intended to doe the which I hope when I have minded them of they will be of another minde c. Hast thou forgot the infinite Monopolies as of Sope Tobacco Pins Leather Wines c. and indeed what not also the ten shillings Scarce any commodity exempted all in time would have come under the Monopolists But all this is forgot a peece for the needlesse freedome called the new Corporation c. and the rest of which were coming on ad infinitum And amongst the rest Pole and Ship-money as Capitals Was it nothing to quit thee of the charge attendance trouble and vexation c. one way or other to an undoing thee in thy estate and in the peace of thy minde c. By the Staring Star-chamber and the High-Commission c. What sayst thou to the vexations suits troubles and attendance at Doctors Commons twixt the Parson and thy person about trivials as Holy-dayes keeping or not besides infinites more which I need not stand to name Did not the Court of Wards keep watch and ward over thee Now thou mayst doe as much by it c. Hast thou forgot the German Horsemen projected for thy projection and perpetuall inslavement and not for a present defence as are ours The Spanish Navy had the same intention and had done the deed if Note All these purposel● intentionally not inforc't thereto Hurrying it in the popular streets in their popular Chariots statelinesse the Hollanders had not undone it c. Privy-Seales for money and the prison for non-payment thereof opprest the able and rich circularly c. And all these not for thy just and necessitated defence but for thy offence as on purpose to raise a stock a Magazine of money means from thy self to provide