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A89030 The copy of a letter sent to the King by Sir Jo. Meldrum. Meldrum, John, Sir, d. 1645. 1642 (1642) Wing M1640; Thomason E123_3; ESTC R15324 4,228 10

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The Copy of a LETTER Sent to the KING BY Sir Jo. Meldrum London Printed for Joseph Hunscott Octob. 18. 1642. Most Gracious Soveraign IT is held a common Tenet That an Apologie doth imply an offence Whereof if I were conscious to my self in the least breach of Allegiance due to Soveraignty I would not blush in the ingenious acknowledgement of my guiltinesse but would in all humility throw my self down at Your Majesties feet though culpable in nothing else so far as my conscience doth suggest but of a great aversenesse in disposition and a great reluctation I have had within my self against all the late proceedings have been attempted in Your Majesties Service which if it should be found criminall there are not many of Your Majesties best advised and best affected subjects or servants of any quality who stand either for the glory of God The Honour of Your Maiesty or The peace and happinesse of the Kingdom who in foro conscientiae can plead guiltlesse in that point And if there be any of a contrary sense who are considerable It will appear upon a strict search That flattery spleen or emulation hath rather transported them then any thing else will be found essentiall to make such a breach as the Kingdom is threatned with which unprevented may bury them and their posterities in the ruines thereof The Zeal I have had to Your Maiesties Fathers Service in Ireland in setling the Province of Vlster and to Your own Service at Rochell which in my time hath had no example will vindicate me from any aspersion may be cast upon me either of ingratitude or disloyalty And that all Your Maiesties favours have produced no other effects to me but to have been made the subiect of all calumnies and detraction that malice could brand me with and a deep engagement in 2000 l debt after the spending of 36 yeers of time in Your Maiesties Fathers and Your own Service I did adventure upon a great freedome of discourse with Your Maiesty at Newcastle upon the subiect of War which if it had taken any impression sutable to the sincerity of my heart as a businesse of so high a Nature did require Your Maiesty might have avoyded many unhappy accidents which have encountred all Your Attempts since that time which cannot be interpreted to have sprung from any other source th●n from the rashnesse arrogancy and ambition of some presumptuous spirits who have drawn Your Maiesty upon ruinous Precipices which could not but bring forth the like wretched effects Their aym was at nothing so much as at the disgrace and overthrow of all Your Maiesties well-affected and loyall subiects and servants who were not stamped with the Character of the time and to engage Your Maiesty in their unhappy Interests of ambition gain malice revenge despair and emulation as if Your Maiesties Crowns and their desperate Fortunes had had but one and the same Center as if both had been cast in one Ballance to stand or fall in the distractions of the times When I did look upon the lamentable posture of three Kingdomes reduced to a great height of desolation and misery When I did perceive that no corner in all Your Dominions that could afford one good man that was sensible of the purity of Religion towards God of the Honour Peace and Safety of Your Maiesty and Kingdoms who did not groan under the exorbitances of the time And when there was small probability unlesse by miracle that Your Maiesties Diadems could retayn that ancient lustre and beauty nor those Halcyon dayes of publike prosperity Your loving subiects and their Ancestors had formerly enioyed under the Raigns of your Royall Progenitors whilst they kept a regular course of Government with their Parliaments I could finde no better way to do Your Maiesty a more agreeable Service then by stopping the course of a Civill War so far as could fall within the compasse of my endeavour to embrace any fit opportunity offered as to cast my self within Hull whereby my real and affection to the publike good might be demonstrated in a service for the common Interest of Your Maiesty and the Kingdom which whosoever shall go about to separate cannot but expect such fearfull events as ordinarily do accompany all such who would entertain and foster a wofull Divorcement betwixt a Prince and his People a wretched div●sion betwixt the head and the members which of necessity must bring forth prodigious issues as may not onely shake the foundation of Monarchy but also overflow the fertile and pleasant fields and valleyes of this Kingdome with streams of innocent blood which might be more safely reserved for more advantagious and more honorable employments then profusedly s●ent in the ripping up of the bowells one of another of Your Maiesties good subiects by an intestine War which will divide the father from the son the brother from the brother and the neerest kinsman from his dearest friend and that which is most deplorable the ground of the War must arise from the unsetled and unconstant appetites of some factious and turbulent spirits overladed with the bitternesse of their own passions and interest and at such an unseasonable time when a more iust and a more honourable subiect for a War cannot be long wanting if the unseasonable distempers of the time could allow your Maiesties good subiects a little time to breathe in the calm ayr and happinesse of a blessed peace untill such time as France and Spain by their mutuall clashings have so far debilitated each other that both might run the hazard to be made the Stage for Your Maiesties just indignation provoked by the affronts have been put upon Your Maiesties Father and Your Self in the uniust detention of the Patrimony of a Grand-childe of this Crown if there were a happy attonement with Your Maiesties loving subiects strongly cemented by a strict correspondency with the Netherland Provinces whose friendship or immunity may do more good or hurt to these kingdoms then the friendship or immunity of France and Spain ioyned together The miserable sense of that War in Italy by the pertinacious obstinacy of Charls the eighth which was stirred up and fomented by the ignorance and ambition of that proud Prelate the Bishop of S. Malo which did draw on his shamefull expulsion out of Italy at the expence of his reputation and hazard of his life The deplorable event of that War violently prosecuted by Charls the more hardy then wise Duke of Burgundy against the Swisses which had no other ground but unmeasurable ambition and the refusall of redresse to some of the Swisses who had but a Cart full of Sheep-skins taken iniuriously from them going to their Market by the Count of Romont which was paid home by the losse of his Baggage by the losse of his reputation by the losse of his Family which for four Generations had stood in competi ion with the Emperour and the French King and in the end by losse of his life