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A96391 The copie of a letter sent out of the Netherlands, to a gentleman in England touching the present distempers of this kingdome, or some particular relations how the affaires goe in England, observed by the Netherlands. Waersegger, Abraham. 1642 (1642) Wing W192; Thomason 669.f.6[36]; ESTC R212375 1,889 1

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THE COPIE OF A LETTER Sent out of the Netherlands to a Gentleman in ENGLAND touching the present distempers of this KINGDOME or some particular Relations how the Affaires goe in ENGLAND observed by the NETHERLANDS Noble Sir TYED hereunto by the many obligations of friendship received from you during my aboad in England in satisfaction of your importunity to certifie you how we discourse here of the great distempers of your Kingdome and what my opinion is in particular touching the same according to the measure of my weak abilities and the small observations I made of the severall passages of State which fell out whilst I sojourned with you and my meane intelligence kept in that Kingdome since my departure thence unto this present time I thus proceed Our discourse as it usually falls out in all Republiques so is it here very free and various but in the generall as wee favour the cause so we pittie the case of your Parliament that is forced to struggle so long with so many great difficulties supported onely with the tottering foundation of the unsteady resolutions of the giddy headed multitude And we are exceedingly transported with admiration to heare that so many thousands who are so neerely concerned in their good in the happy progresse and conclusion of that great Consull and in their undoubted ill both present and future in the subtill interruption and fatall dissolution of that great Assembly should be so strangly altered upon no true ground that wee can heare as to cast calumnious aspersions upon those that with so great hazard of their own lives and Fortunes like renowned Patriots doe yet constantly persist in their unwearied indeavours to rid your Nation from the most grievous burthen of an overgrowne Monarchy and to suffer themselves to be so farre deluded by the cunning working of the Royalist Hierarchian and Papist the three great incendiaries of your Kingdome and indeed of all Christendome as voluntarily to thrust ●heir necks into the yoake and to resigne up with their owne hands their Religion and Lawes unto those who could never by violence have beene able to have wrested either of the twaine from out their possession and to be talked into an undoubted slavery under the spatious shew of a royall protection To deliver my particular opinion touching the Originall and the various and disguised wayes of advancing your unhappie Iarres cannot be comprised within the narrow limits of an Epistle you see the Scots have made a volume of theirs and I recommend it to you as a peece worth your reading and whence I beleeve your owne ●ngenuity will be able to gather more satisfaction in these particulars then I shall ever bee able out of my poore observations to acquaint you with For though it was the businesse of another Kingdome and is now happily composed and may therefore seeme either not to concerne England at all or at least not at this time yet if you paralell the passages there with those that have happened with you some yeares past and especially since your Parliament beganne you will easily beleeve that if not one man yet men of the same mind laid the Machavillian ground work of both your disturbances and how many other things soever have in shew bin offered as happy meanes to maintaine Monarchy and Hierarchy yet there were two other whites onely shot at the silencing of the Lawes and the alteration of the Religion in both Kingdomes The maine block in the way to hinder these designes we say is your fixed Parliament and are therefore perswaded that what ever else may be pretended yet the drift of the plot at present on foot is this to cause that great Assembly by little and little of it selfe to languish unto that death unto which by violence its enemies is not yet able to bring it and therein to make good the Proverb to doe that by the Fox which is not feasable by the Lyon For my owne sence of the businesse thus much in short The ambitious Clergie will never willingly hearken to any alteration for the better much lesse to a perfect Reformation in the Church and in this the Papist and Libertine will certainely joyne hands with them The Royalist will hinder in what hee may the pu●ging of the State and he will be backed by Davids guard though in a far greater multitude mentioned 1 Sam. 22. Cap. 6. 2. And for the foolish neutrall that hopes to have his throat last cut it is likely he is not an inconsiderable part of the Kingdome so that now if you can conceive that the remainder is a stronger and as resolute a party as these there is good hopes of a good Conclusion else without the omnipotent hand of Heaven miraculously assisting I feare that a short lived man may live to heare that the bravery of the renowned English walkes hand in hand with the sordid vassalage of the French and Spanish Nations And that the Language of your Magna Charta and Leges consuetudinis Regni bee translated into Sic volo sic jubeo stat pro ratione voluntas The Jarre of which string because I know it must needs grate your eare I will forbeare any more to strike it and doe heartily wish and pray it may for ever bee dumb as I will be for the present after I have onely said Noble Sir I am Your humble Servant Abraham Waersegger Vltra traiect 18. Junii Stilo veteri Printed for B. A. in the yeare 1642.