that if he be not hindered by the Infirmities of Old-Age or Sickness he preach every Sunday in some Church within his Diocess 4. That the Ordination of Ministers shall be alwaies in a publick and solemn manner and strict Rules observed concerning the Sufficiency and other Qualifications of those men who shall be received into Holy Orders and the Bishop shall not receive any into Holy Orders without the Approbation and Consent of the Presbyters or the major part of them 5. That competent Maintenance and Provisions be established by Act of Parliament to such Vicarages as belong to Bishops Deans and Chapters out of the Impropritions of the several Parishes 6. That no man for the time to come shall be capable of two Parsonages or Vicarages with Cure of Souls and likewise that one or more Acts of Parliament be passed for regulating Visitations and against immoderate Fees in Ecclesiastical Courts And that they might be might be wanting in nothing if any thing could satisfie they declare in the close That if their Lordships shall insist upon any other thing which they shall think necessary for Reformation they were very willing to apply themselves to the consideration thereof And now let me ask any man whether these men acted like the Tools and Instruments of a Tyrant of one who was resolved to set up his own Will in opposition to the Nations Good or Contentment But yet all this was nothing the state of things is changed from what it was when they made their Protestation now no Peace no Reconciliation without the King 's taking the Covenant and thereby perjuring himself and signing an Act for others to be perjur'd as well as himself or else wholly to be laid aside as useless and unprofitable Members of the Body-Politick and to be wholly uncapable of any Place of Trust or Profit either in Church or State And here I now appeal to all impartial and unprejudic'd Readers who were in fault and who stood betwixt the Kingdom and a Compleat Happiness and what reason there was to continue such a bloody and unnatural War when a Peace was offered and might have been concluded upon such fair and agreeable Terms as these were And they therefore that at this time censure and reproach the Memory of King Charles the First must be men either of Resolved Prejudices or else of Profound and Stupid Ignorance who never gave themselves Leave to read his Story and thereby to be acquainted with true Matter of Fact The Truth is had such things been granted as to Church-Affairs when King Charles the Second was restored I am sure those men who at this Treaty scornfully refused these Offers would have thought themselves happy in the enjoyment of them and have blessed God for such healing Abatements and Condescensions but God's Justice reckoned with many of these men in 62 for their Cruelty to the Episcopal Clergy in 43. The other great thing that came under debate at that time was the Militia and what Moderation the King's Commissioners shewed and what fair Offers they made let any man read the Conference and then judge In short they consented That the Militia for three years should be in the Hands of Twenty Commissioners the one half by the two Houses which certainly considering the King 's Right to it and his Ancestors having alwaies enjoyed the whole Power of disposing of it was a very great Condescension on the King's part But alas it was nothing the Instructions on the other side were to have all or none and here they broke and certainly any Prince or any Noble Person deputed by him as these were would have broke with any Enemy rather than to have submitted to such slavish terms as these were For as the Commissioners told those that appeared in the Parliaments behalf that upon these Terms His Majesty for himself and his Posterity too would have parted with their peculiar Regal Power of being able to resist their Enemies or protect their good Subjects and with the undoubted and never-denyed Right of the Crown to make War and Peace He that reads over the whole Conference will find it was managed on the King's Commissioners side in all other things with the same Spirit and the same great Abatements of the Royal Power so that if there had been any real Inclination to Peace on the other side a Blessed and Happy Peace would have ensued and the future Miseries and Desolations of the War had been prevented but God did not see it good neither was the Nation worthy of such a Blessing at that time her Sins cried aloud for further Vengeance and she had it in very great proportions Well after this by the assistance of the Scots and the new-modelling of the Army the Parliaments Arms prosper at a great rate and the King's Affairs consequently went backward But however His Majesty upon all promising Opportunities or at least to gratifie the Tenderness of his Bowels towards a distracted and oppressed People left not off to shew his Zeal for Peace that his poor Subjects might not live in those continual Fears and Dangers they were in and therefore he sends from Oxford and tells them how deeply-sensible he was of the Continuation of this bloody and unnatural War and that he cannot think himself discharged of the Duty he owes to God or the Affection and Regard he hath to the Preservation of his People without the constant application of his earnest Endeavours to find some Expedient for the speedy ending of these unhappy Distractions Which Message when neglected and not answered His Majesty Good man ten days after send another to them extreamly wondering that they after so many Expressions on their part of a deep and seeming sence of the Miseries of the Afflicted Kingdom and the Dangers incident to his Person during the continuance of this unnatural War should delay a safe Conduct to the persons mentioned in the last Message who were to treat of Peace And again this Message being slighted within a few days after he follows them with another and tells them Notwithstanding the strange and unexpected Delays which can be Presidented by no former Times to his former Message therefore he will lay aside all Expostulations as rather serving to time than to contribute any Remedy to the Evils which for the present do afflict this distracted Kingdom And therefore he offers to put things into such a posture as certainly if they had designed an End of the Nations Confusions would have terminated in an happy and settled Peace But this taking no effect he presently in a few days sends another Message with such solemn and religious Professions of his Desire for composing the present Differences betwixt them that truly he that reads them must upon necessity unless he be all Will and Prejudice conclude that this Great King is very wrongfully blamed and barbarously used when he is called by such Names as very many of this Nation out of great Good manners and also
Tyrant It would be too tedious to entertain the Reader with what His Majesty made by way of Answer to these Propositions and besides swell this Paper beyond its designed bulk therefore I do refeâ—r the Reader to the Royal Papers themselves only thus much I must tell the World That His Majesty thought nothing at this time would so soon conduce to a Peace as a Personal Treaty which therefore he pressed hard for not doubting but by that means they might come on both sides to a true understanding of one another and therefore that he might not fail of having this Request granted him he ends his Letter to them with these words To conclude 't is your King who desires to be heard the which if refused by a King to a Subject he would be thought a Tyrant for it and for that end which all Men profess to desire wherefore His Majesty conjures you as you desire to shew your selves really what you profess even as you are good Christians and Subjects that you will accept this his Offer which he is confident God will so bless that it will be the readiest means by which these Kingdoms again may become a Comfort to their Friends and a Terrour to their Enemies Which words are not the words of a Monster or a Man of Blood as some vile men are now ready to call him the greater is their shame but the words of a truly-compassionate Father of his Country whose Heart bled for the Wounds of his Children and the Miseries of the Nation After all this the Scots notwithstanding all their Promises and Obligations sell him to the English Parliament and His Majesty is put into the Hands of Commissioners appointed to keep and watch his Person and brought by them to Holdenby-House in Northamptonshire where his Conversation was so agreeable and sweet his daily Discourses so strong and convincing that he changed the Opinion of many that were about him so that they became constant Admirers of his Virtues ever after and great Bewailers of having had an Hand in bringing him into those Streights out of which they could not now extricate him Now while he was here let us see what further Offers he made for Peace The first Message to both Houses from this place acquaints us with his bad Condition that his Servants were denied access to him unless it were a very few whom they appointed themselves and that it was a declared Crime for any but the Commissioners or such as were particularly permitted by them to converse with His Majesty or that any Letters should be given to or received from him a condition no man much less a Prince could be proud of Yet he tells them and therefore would not stand upon that That he preferred a Right Understanding betwixt him and his Parliaments of both Kingdoms which might make a firm and lasting Peace in all his Dominions before any Particular of his own or any earthly Blessing And to shew he was in earnest he then makes such Concessions to them as certainly would have been accepted of by any sort of men but such as had not yet satisfied their own Avarice Ambition and other Lusts and therefore were resolved to perpetuate the Distractions of the Kingdom in order to continue themselves in Places of Wealth and Power For he offered to settle their Church-Government for Three Years and at the same time the Assembly of Divines at Westminster and the Directory provided His Majesty and his Houshold were not hindered from the Form of God's Service which they formerly had Further he offers another Act for the better observation of the Lord's Day He consents that the whole Power of the Militia both by Sea and Land for the space of Ten Years be in the Hands of such Persons as the two Houses should nominate giving them a full Power during the said space to change or else to continue the said Persons in their several Offices Which when he had offered he conjures his two Houses of Parliament as they are English-men and Lovers of Peace by the Duty they owe to His Majesty their King and by the Bowels of Compassion they have to their fellow-Subjects that they will accept of this His Majesty's Offer whereby the Joyful News of Peace may be restored to this languishing Kingdom Which Offers had so great an eftect upon the Citizens of London tho' they had none at Westminster that they forthwith petitioned the Lord Mayor and Common-Council and tell them thereby That taking into serious consideration how Religion His Majesty's Honour and Safety the Privileges of parliament and Liberty of the Subject were at present greatly endangered and like to be destroyed and also sadly weighing with themselves what means might likely prove most effectual to procure a firm and lasting Peace without the further effusion of Christian English Blood have therefore enter'd into a solem Engagement and do humbly and earnestly desire that the whole City may joyn together by all lawfull and possible means as one man in hearty Endeavours for His Majesty's present coming up to his two Houses of Parliament with Honour Safery and Freedom and that without the nearer approaches of the Army there to confirm such things as he hath granted in his last Message in answer to the Propositions of both Kingdoms Which Petition you must understand was not presented by them called the Cavalier Party but by such as had ventured their Money and Plate for the Cause and had taken the Covenant and many of them exposed their Persons to fight for that which they through mistake apprehended Religions and the Nations Cause yet these men were so far from thinking His Majesty such a Bad man as some designing men now report him to be that they looked upon his Concessions as every ways answering that for which at first they took up Arms. Well after this the King upon more than ordinary grounds to believe that his Person was in danger at Hampton-Court whither the Army after they took him by force from Holdenby after many removes had carried him makes an escape from them by night but withal leaves a Paper behind him upon the Table wherein he gives an account with what patience he had endured a redious restraint which so long as he had any hopes that this sort of Suffering might conduce to the Peace of his Kingdom or the hindrance of more effusion of Blood he did willingly undergo but finding by too-certain Proofs that this his continued Patience would not only turn to his personal Ruine but likewise be of much more Prejudice than Furtherance to the Publick Good he thought he was bound as well by natural as political Obligations to seek his Safety by retiring himself for some time from the publick view both of Friends and Enemies And after he had appealed to all indifferent men to judge whether he had not just cause to free himself from the hands of those who changed their Principles with their Conditions and who were
both King and Parliament the one to see and hear of the Destruction of his own Children as I may justly call them and the other to hear so frequent Tidings not only of the loss of their Fellow-Subjects Lives but also of the ruine of their Lands and Houses Do not they both strive which should most court each other to Peace And do not they abate of their former Demands as well as stiff Adherencies Methinks the Cries and Losses of the poor innocent Inhabitants of the Kingdom should pierce their Ears and melt their Hearts and make them forget all their former Passions and Resentments Why truly to give the two Houses their due they did at this time send Proposals as if they had been truly assected with the Nations Miseries but in the mean time I am sorry I can say no otherwife they were such Proposals as they could upon all reasonable and fair Considerations and Debates with themselves expect no good Success of because they could not but know before-hand they would be denied insomuch as the King had told them again and again where he would stop and how far he would go especially as to Church-Affairs Nothing less in these Proposals would satisfie them than the abolishing by Act of Parliament the whole Hierarchy to which he was sworn by his Coronation-Oath settling the Militia as they pleased themselves the King 's disbanding his Army made up of the best Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom and withal which was a greater Assront to Majesty than could be supposed to them in coming to demand the five Members He must be obliged as it were and in effect to beg those Members Pardon for wronging them with what he thought and could by good Evidence prove Matter of Truth Which certainly was but to seem to desire Peace and at the same time to resolve to continue the War But now the next thing to be considered is after these Proposals how the King manages himself and what steps he makes towards a Peace and truly I think according to my poor Judgment he now acts according to what he alwaies pretended and solemnly avowed to wit as a true Father of his Country for he proposes That his Revenue Magazines Towns Ships and Forts may be restored to him that what hath been done contrary to Law and his Right may be recalled and that he will consent to the execution of all Laws concerning Popery or Reformation Nay he further tells them That he had given up all the Faculties of his Soul to an earnest endeavonr of a Peace and Reconciliation with his Subjects So that to me hitherto the Fault lies not at His Majesty's door say the Enemies to his Memory what they please for let them but abate of the rigour of their Demands and not ask him things wholly inconsistent with his Honour and Conscience with his Crown and Dignity and the issue of Blood is stopped presently and the Nation restored to its former state of Peace for still he stands ready and prossers again and again to sign any Bill that in his own and the Judgment of many Wise and Good men about him who were true lovers of their Countrys Licerties and Properties was necessary for making the Nation more happy in its Privileges than it had been in all Ages before And truly it so I see no Cause for continuing a Destructive War in the Bowels of the Kingdom nor for standing upon their Points at that rigid rate they did especially when so many of their Brethren and fellow-Members of both Houses upon great dissatissaction at their Proceedings had left their station and took in out of Principles of Loyalty and Duty with their Master's Cause venturing both their Lives Families and Estates upon it which no man can believe wise men would have done if they had not seen great Reason to question the Integrity of the prevailing part of the Parliament So that hitherto there appears no just Reason for those many scandalous Reflections that in Coffee-houses and other places of publick Intercourse or private Communication are made upon this great and excellent man And thus ended the year 42 all the King's Proposals and Condescentions being neglected and slighted The year 43. begins with a Treaty for Peace at Oxford Commissioners for the Parliament being the Lord Northumberland the Lord Wenmain Mr. Peirepoint Mr. Hollis c. who were civilly treated both by the King himself and many of his great Officers which Treaty was managed not by Commissioners on the King's side but by himself And truly he that reads it over must needs confess that His Majesty deserved the Commendation Mr. Whitlock who was one of them in his Memorials gives of him to wit That in this Treaty the King manifested his great Parts and Ability strength of Reason and quickness of Apprehension with much patience in hearing what was objected against him wherein he allowed all Freedom and would himself sum up the Arguments and give a most clear Judgment upon them This is Mr. Whitlock's Character And to let all the World see his readiness to do every thing which might reasonably answer the Kingdoms Expectation and make it happy he tells these Commissioners That he hath nor denied any one thing proposed to him by both Houses which in Justice could be required of him or in reason expected And the Truth of it is had not their Demands been so very high in this as well as in other Treaties which a man must think were made on purpose by the prevalence of a designing self-interested Party to continue the War I am certain Peace had ensued upon this Treaty for the King still like a tender Father groaned under the Oppressions of his Honour and Conscience were not concerned in order to put an end to that desolating War And therefore that this Treaty had no better effect was not the King's fault but of those that bound up their Commissioners to such narrow limits that His Majesty without doing Injustice to the Essentials of Regality could not comply with the Proposals that were offered And this he complains of himself That they bound up their Committee in that manner as to Time and Power as might wholly render it ineffectual 'T is true after the Commissioners returned home the Lords and Commons put out a Declaration upon the Proceedings of this Treaty which I shall no ways reflect upon but only tell the World the King presently put out an Answer to it which whosoever will be pleased to read will find His Majesty the same person still a man of true Honour and Conscience and ready to serve all the Needs and Conveniencies of his Country and no ways deserving those Reflections which were made by his Subjects at that time to render him odious to his People and I do desire the present Maligners of this Great Person to read over his Declaration in answer to the Parliaments and then tell me whether he designed any Tyrannical and Arbitrary Power and was
Treatise to vindicate this great Prince and if possible to shame his implacable Enemies who do shew by what they so frequently vent that they have neither Knowledge Wisdom nor Good-Manners nor indeed any thing else that belongs to the Human as well as Christian Nature the influency of either of which if suffer'd would make them tender of the Reputation and Memory of one whose Virtues and Graces were as conspicuous as were the Perfidiousness and Treachery the Hypocrisie and Perjury of those who imbrewed their Hands in his Sacred Blood And here I must tell the Reader that I intend only to run through the last Eight years of his Reign for tho' there might be some mistakes in his Government before as What Government is without them yet now he offers to redress all and did so as far as he could be satisfied things were out of order and I am certain from the beginning of the Long Parliament November the 4th to the day of his death January 48. that he did every thing almost that deserved a better reception than it met withal and made such various Offers and Condescentions as would have pleased any sort of men but those who were resolved to be Masters of his whole Crown and Dignity together with his Revenues and the Estates of all those who from Principles of Conscience stood by and asserted his just and righteous Cause And in this Undertaking I promise the Reader to be true and impartial and to offer nothing but what I have a good and truly-acknowledg'd Authority for for I scorn to set Pen to Paper with a disign to cheat and impose upon the World which when I have done I fear not the Reflections of any prejudic'd resolv'd and unreasonable men whatsoever When the Parliament sate down in 40. it is plain to any man that reads the History with a clear and equal mind That the King purposed and resolved to consent to every thing they could offer him which might be really for the Good of his Kingdom and that if any Grievance was left unredressed it should not be his but their own fault only supposing they would not make Grievances where there were none and overturn the Government instead of healing the Sores thereof And therefore in his first Speech he tells them frankly That he was resolv'd to put himself freely and clearly on the Love and Affection of his English Subjects and withal promises them at the same time to concurr with them so heartily that all the World may see that his Intentions have ever been and shall be to make this a glorious and flourishing Kingdom And I think he that reads the first half-years Transactions betwixt him and this Parliament will find he made his word good to a tittle for whatsoever they offered to him by way of Bill which the Nation groaned under before as a real nay but as a fancied Burthen he presently passes it As for instance The Star-Chamber had been long complained of as a Grievance and therefore he signs the Bill to take it away Further the High-Commission was a Court that most mens Mouths were opened against tho' it was well designed when in Queen Elizabeths days it was first erected and he consents to take that away too The Ship-Money tho' great and very learned Lawyers had given their Opinion That the exacting of it in some cases was according to Law yet he resolving to set all right at once betwixt himself and many of his discontented People he gives that up also and withal consents that the late Proceedings touching Ship-Money should be declared void And to please the Western Gentlemen and many others of inferiour rank he passes an Act against the Encroachments and Oppressions of the Stannery Courts And to please others throughout the Nation as well as them he signs another Bill relating to the Metes and Bounds of the Forrest and all these things done in a very short time And after this to let his People see that all Dangers from Bad mens wicked Counsels for the time to come should be prevented he signs a Bill for a Triennial Parliament wherein upon a Neglect at Court or from the better sort of men in the Country to summon a Choice he puts it into the power of the very Constables to do it namely to meet and chufe Representives Which certainly was as great a Condescention as was ever made by a Prince and would have satisfied any but those who were resolved to carry a Game further than was at that time seen by men of clean and undesigning Minds And after this when they thought things would never be well until all sorts of Subjects were conversant in nothing else but what was proper for their Calling and therefore fancied that if the Bishops were removed out of the House of Lords they would have more leisure to attend their Spiritual Emplâ—…ments why even this Bill together with that which offered violence to the Peace and Quiet of his Mind all the days of his Life namely the Bill for attainding the great Earl of Strafford he orders by Commissioners to be paâ—…sed And what can any man think after this could give occasion for Discontent or finding Fault If any thing could perswade men that the King was resolved nor to break with his People but to lay a firm Foundation of Duty on their sides for the time to come certainly a man would think this would do though God knows by the sequel we find it did not but the more he gave the bolder they grew in their Requests or rather in their Demands and therefore the next thing they presented him withal which was a thing I verily believe never a Prince that had sate upon the English Throne before would have granted Granted did I say nay would scornfully have rejected Yet to shew he was resolved to honour them with an entire Confidence he passes that too and with it not only all the future Comforts of his Life but his Life too and that was the Bill for the Parliament to sit during their pleasure Such an Act of Kindness as one would have thought should have obliged them for ever and shut the door against all Suspicions of him Great and Good man hadst thou had any jealousie of this People's Kindness and Duty to thee thou wouldst have suffered thy Hand rather to have withered off than by it to have signed a Bill whereby thou losest almost all thy Power at one blow And now surely all Clouds are blown away and the Sky looks clear and there is a mutual Harmony and an undisturbed Intercourse betwixt him and his People especially considering that he is so far from repenting of what he has done that he is still continuing to invite them both by Speeches and Messages to propose any thing to him that might make them both happy provided they did not invade the Essentials of an English Monarch and strip him of every thing but the Name of a King with all manner of
prosound Respect to his Royal Grandchildren now happily in the Throne think good to abuse him withal Now after all this the very month following tho' he tells them he needs make no Excuse if he sends no more Messages to them because he knew very well he ought not to do it if he stood upon Punctilio's of Honour yet nothing being equally dear to him to the preservation of his People His Majesty passes by many Scruples Delays and Neglects and once more desires them to give him a speedy Answer to his last Message for His Majesty believes it doth very well become him after this very long Delay on their side at last to utter his Impatience since that the Good and Blood of his Subjects cry so much for Peace Which words how much they look like the words of a Tyrant or a Villain as he is commonly called by our present pretending Patriots I leave any man to judge And in the month following in another Message he says thus Notwithstanding the unexpected silence instead of Answers to His Majesty's many and gracious Messages to both House whereby it may appear that they desire to attain their Ends rather by Force than Treaty which may justly discourage His Majesty from any more Overtures of that kind yet His Majesty conceives he shall be much wanting to his Duty to God and in what he owes to the Safety of his People if he should not intend to prevent the Inconveniencies that may any ways hinder a safe and well-grounded Peace Which words certainly are not the words of a Tyrant Well after these Messages from Oxford His Majesty for Reasons best known to himself leaving Oxford in a disguise and committing himself to the Scotch Army then by Newark pray let us see what he does when in his Enemies Hands Why Good man still he breathes nothing but Peace as you may see by the following account for from Southwell he writes to the two Houses and tells them That he withdrew from Oxford only to secure his own Person and with no intention to continue the War any longer nor to make any Division between his two Kingdoms but to give such Contentment to them both as by the Blessing of God he might see an happy and well-grounded Peace thereby to bring Prosperity to these Kingdoms answerable to the best time of his Progenitors And that he might satisfie them he was in good-earnest and designed no Tricks by way of Postscript he tells them That being dasirous to shun the further Effusion of Blood and to evidence his Real Intentions to Peace he is willing that his Forces in and about Oxford be disbanded and the Fortifications of the City dismantled they receiving Honourable Conditions which being granted to the Town and Forces His Majesty will give the like Order to the rest of the Garrisons And pray let the honest Reader judge where lay the fault now and who rid the Nation and prolonged its Miseries the King or those whom our present Pretenders to the only Loyalty to Their present Majesties call The Old Blades The Brave Fellows The noble Defenders of their Laws and Country though at the same time they trampled them all under their Feet and set up their own Wills in opposition even to Magna Charta if self And surely he that hath but half an Eye may see who were the Continuers of the War and for what reason namely To ride upon the high places of the Earth to kill and take possession And after this the Great and Good man sends a Letter to the City of London in which he tells them That nothing is more grievous to him than the Troubles and Distractions of his People and nothing on Earth is more desired by him than that it Religion and Peace with all the comfortable Fruits of both they may henceforth live under him in all Godliness and Honesty And this Profession says he to the City we make for no other end but that they may immediately know from himself his Integrity and full Resolution to comply with his Parliament in every thing for the settling of Truth and Peace Words becoming the Excellent and Religious Temper of this Great man After this he sends another Message from Newcastle to the two Houses in which among many other things he desires them That the Propositions of Peace so often promised and so much expected may be speedily sent to him that upon consideration of them he may apply himself to give such satisfaction as may be the founddation of a firm Peace And to convince every man who would be convinc'd that he was in all his Desires for Peace the very same man that is True and in Earnest the same day he writes this Letter to the Houses he sends another to the Governours of his remaining Garrisons telling them That having resolved to comply with the Desires of his Parliament in every thing which might be for the Good of his Subjects and leave no means unessay'd for removing all Differences between them therefore he had thought sit the more to evidence the Reality of his Intentions of settling â—… happy and firm Peace to require them upon honourable 〈◊〉 to quit those Towns Forts and Castles iâ—…ed to them by him and to disband all the Forces under their several Commands And pray what Tyranny is there in all this And upon what account is this Great man so basely accused as he is at this time by Thousands of this Nation Certainly when they read all this they must needs fall foul upon themselves for being guilty of so much Unworthiness and Dishonesty to the Memory of so great and good a man as he was But now some may say You talk all for the King here Pray what said the two Houses to all these Messages Were they wholly deaf to his Offers Did they â—…orn any Answer to his Proposals No no that they might seem to be for Peace they sent Propositions to the King at Newcastle but I must tell the Reader they were such as would make any man that wishes well to his Native Kingdom sick to read them such Demands as no man that had any sense of Honour could possibly grant For first he must justifie by an Act of State all that they had unjustly done to him he must be obliged to take the Covenant and sign an Act for others to do so too he must part with the Power of the Sword and indeed be thereby but a meer Cypher in the Kingdom and that which must needs grate upon a generous and noble Spirit such as his was he must pass an Act to except from Pardon and to lay at these mens merciless Feet the best and truest Friends he had in his Kingdom such as from Principles of Honour and Duty had ventured both their Lives and their great Estates in his Service And Good man because he would not sign all these together with many other unreasonable things he must forsooth be called then and now also a