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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74776	Down-right dealing, or The despised Protestant speaking plain English to the Kings most excellent Majesty the honourable houses of Parliament. The city of London. The Army. And all other peace-desiring commons of this divided and self-destroying kingdome. / Written by J.H. an impartiall observer of the present transactions of the court, city, and camp.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1647 (1647)	Thomason E408_17; ESTC R202555	7,727	16

welfare of the people and altogether destructive therefore to be prevented and removed And certainly what cannot be repelled by policy maybe by power for if there be not a sufficient means left for the attaining the end it is altogether vain and to no purpose But to every end there is a sufficient means therefore if the welfare of the people cannot be secured by one means it may by another if not by policy then by power according to the Parliaments ow● language to the King The Kingdome must not be without a means to preserve it selfe And truely if the kingdome hath a means to preserve it self against the King being then acting against the welfare of the Kingdome It hath a power likewise to secure it self against the Parliament and Army too if they shall act in the same way and shall not prosecute the main end to wit the peoples welfare How comes it to passe I beseech you that there is such sidings among you one great man favours another and stomacks his opposer and let him be never so bad so he will side insecuring some great persons particular interests in power among you he shall not only scape Scot-free but be countenanced and protected among you Little theeves are hangd and great ones let go Is this to be single hearted will you that have taxed the King and Parliament of partiality be partiall too what a blemish will this be to all your former actions That you should now fawn upon those for favour who would have rejoyced to have seen both you and the kingdome weltring in flouds of blood and confusion and who it is to be feared by your too great indulgence and credulity are plotting your destruction I beseech you gentlemen consider you stand upon a sandy place which will if not carefully looked to devoure you Lay aside all interests and be what you have pretended to be let not your own honour or promotions be onely aimed at but have sole respect unto the peace of the Kingdome I have with sorrow observed That there are I may say too many among you too great in power who are swaid by passion not reason who speak much against injustice in others but never knew what it was to be just them selves men neither of discretion nor religion what ere they may pretend who do vehemently act for to gain applause and the favour of great men and not for any love to the peace of the Kingdome now it is very unlikely that ever such a man can do or at least intends a generall good unless it may advantage his own interest I beseech you observe and beware of such persons you may easily finde them for such persons in your Councells will do you more hurt then all your other enemies be not deluded by pretences though never so specious those persons that plead so much for delay and argue so critically intend no good to you but carry on a dangerous design against you and the whole kingdome And you may assure your selves the Adversary with whom you now run a contest could never have gained so much time nor brought you to such an exigency had they not been encouraged nay assisted by some that have too much power and influence in your Councell Gentlemen the eyes of the Kingdome are upon you and unless you answer their expectations and perform your promises and engagements and that speedily truly you will stand at as great a distance in their affections as others have done before you lose not this opportunity seek the peace of the Kingdome now and seek your selves afterward lest while you contend so earnestly for a shaddow you lose the substance be for pure justice without respect of persons and let the kingdome see That you will not favour or disfavour any person for siding with or against you or for being of this or the other judgement But that all persons of each party shall receive from you equall respect according to their merit But if you shall appear partiall to some and severe to others if you shall do the works your selves which you condemn in others if you shall pretend to free us from one form of slavery to involve us in another assure your selves Division and Confusion will follow and a worm will rise from your own bowels which will certainly devour you and consume your former glory Read and practice prevent Farewel To my fellow Commons which desire Peace MOderation in a multitude is Rara avis in terra especially in England of late years where rage not reason hath had the Rule and Soveraignty when the reynes of the bridle are thrown in the neck the unruly beast runneth where he listeth And truly such hath been the practice of you my Fellow-Commons for this seven years almost although you have received many a curb and oft bit of the bridle for it yet still like a head-strong horse you are stubborn and untamed fearing neither Switch nor Spur and it is to be feared you will still persist until you are quite tyred To prevent which give me leave to expostulate with you a little It hath been often said that misery is a schoolmaster to wisdom and that wit is the best when it is dearly payd for and truly I beleeve you have payd enough for it Hath not the plundering of your estates the burning of your houses the murdering of your children the inslaving of your persons taught you to hate War and love Peace How comes it to pass then that there are so many murmurings amongst you one part for the King another for the Parliament another for the Army another for neither what are you frantick hath reason given place to rage wisdom to folly meekness to madness Have you been so patient under seven years sufferings by War and cannot you contain your selves one year in peace what like children all at an instant or none at all Just like a fool that because he could not be rich in one day would be a beggar all his life Certainly a spirit of fury I may say folly hath bewirched you and put you upon the purchase of perpetual desolation to your selves and posterities and you with eagerness pursue it in despite of those that would prevent it In a word know therefore unless you do with patience wait for the establishing of that peace which you desire and give limits to your unlimited contentions unless you lay aside your prejudicacy and censuring until you see the event unless you seriously apply your selvs to make up the breach between your selves and your Soveraign the Parliament Army and City and one another and every one in his place and relation set his hand to the reducing of things to their proper center unless both Magistrates and people do I say with one accord seek peace and establish judgment and righteousness in vain are and will be all these mutterings and commotions and do what they and you can confusion and desolation wil break in upon them and you and then when it is too late you may repent but not prevent your destruction This is the sence of him that sees great cause to fear this wil be the end of all this division if providence do not interpose very suddenly Postscript I Beseech you labour to love one another and to be faithful each to other Let Soveraigns seek the good of their Subjects and Subjects the Honour and Peace of their Soveraigns Let Parliaments be faithful and people peaceable Let Souldiers be valiant for Justice but not factious for preferment Let King Parliament City Army and People unite and joyn in the bonds of love and leave judging suspecting and reviling one another Then shal you see and enjoy a happy peace and the fruits thereof Then shal the Lamb lie down with the Lion Then shal not the voyce of the oppressed be heard in our streets but joy peace plenty and the most wished delights that are or can be imaginable or desired be freely communicated unto you by the hand of Jehovah who is the God of Peace and hath annexed a blessing to the lovers thereof Farewel Thine if thou studiest the Peace of England J. H. FINIS

Down-right Dealing OR The despised Protestant Speaking plain English To the Kings most Excellent Majesty The honourable houses of Parliament The City of London The Army AND All other Peace-desiring Commons of this divided and self-destroying Kingdome Written by J. H. an impartiall observer of the present transactions of the Court City and Camp A Kingdome City or House divided against it self cannot stand Printed in the Year of Discoveries 1647. To the Reader Reader WHat ere thou chancest to be I neither fear nor care the frown of the mighty the fleer of the froward nor the censure of the severe shall neither distaste nor deter me from publishing these few following pages Onely to prevent prejudicacy know that these are not the fruits of discontent nor blessinge● of Fact●●●… neither are they intended to kindle that fire which already though seemingly smother'd blazes too fast but rather to quench it It may be one will tax me of Arrogancy another of simplicity a third of singularity 't is no matter for that what J have writ I have writ truth it is J am sure and more J beleeve then some will be willing to hear let him that is the most guilty be the least offended least they make the Proverb true and prove his own discoverer All J desire is that who ever shall vouchsafe to peruse these following pages would do it seriously and judge impartially and then let them praise or dispraise frown or smile I care not TO The Kings most Excellent Majesty Most gracious Soveraign LEt it not be thought a crime unpardonable if one of the poorest of your subjects presuming on your clemency doth offer unto your Majesty what he hath observed to be destructive to the peace of this poor Kingdome and dangerous if not speedily prevented to undermine not onely the honour and safety of your Majesty and Royall posterity but also the supporters thereof to wit the Law of the Kingdome and peace of the people in the ruin whereof your Majesty and posterity must certainly bear the greatest share and sustain the greatest losse the law of the Kingdome and the peoples peace being altogether essentiall with the honour and kingly domination of your Majesty and without which both King and people must necessarily run into confusion the truth hereof your Majestie hath had experimentall knowledge of for these late years and at this day cannot want examples to demonstrate the truth of this particular Now forasmuch as what is past recall is also past cure since what might have been commanded cannot now be entreated since power cannot policy must since rage cannot prevaile let reason reconcile make necessity a ve●●…e and rather conquer by courtesie then compell by Soveraignty And now most gracious and great Prince suffer this humble but serious capitulation Can it consist with Wisdome if it be according to God to esteem any thing to great or good to be parted withall for the 〈…〉 ence for the making up so large a breath for the stopping the torrent of such a doluge of crimson confusions as have already and do dayly again threaten to break in upon your kingdomes A good sheep-heard will give his life for his sheep a gracious King for his people And will not your Majesty part with a superfluous sprig a meer pun●●●…o or thread bare excressence of honour or power for the saving of your poor people What man would not lose one member to save all the rest Are you so far in love with the shaddow that to preserve it you will hazzard the losse nay ruin of the substance Are you so far in love with some few perhaps flatterers if ●…ot traytors that to be mercifull to them you will be unmercifull and unjust too to all the kingdome certainly most gracious Soveraign there may be wisdome in so doing but it cannot proceed from God neither can it conduce to the good of your self posterity of people surely if your people were made for you you were likewise made for them one for the good of the other and not one to destroy another you were made a Soveraign that they might be Subjects not slaves that you might protect them not devour them that you might do justice and execute judgement to the poor and to the rich impartially not suffer the rich and mighty to eate up the poor and devour the Widdow The Magistrate that is of God is not a terrour to good Works but to the evill not a persecuter of the people of God but a protector and preserver of them and what Magistrate soever shall pretend to have received a power from God if he imploy it not in all things according to Gods end he will certainly come to naught he shall perish and those whom he hath cast down and endeavoured to destroy shall rise up against him and he shall not be able to stand in that day but shall ●lee● before them To conclude if your Majesty according to your so often reiterated expressions in your Declarations do really intend to take all oppertunities to save this poor kingdome in a right sense now is the time to manifest your self herein and by some self denying testimony effectually act for the re-establishing the poor Commons of England in their ancient birth rights and securing them therein providing for a due execution of justice and countenancing of godliness in your dominions which being speedily cordially and effectually done your Majesty need not doubt but to finde your present losse to produce a future gaine by the increase both of your power and love of your people which will cause such a mutuall confidence betwixt you and your subjects as will both comfort your heart and strengthen your hands against the secret complotments of foes at home or publike attempts of enemies abroad and cause all your now discontented and distrushing people to be united and with one heart and assent to cry Long live our gracious Soveraign c. To the Parliament Grave Senators AFter seven yeare sufferings and tedious expectation to be delivered from our then declared pressures and grievances give us leave for loosers should have leave to speak to tell you we cannot but with bitterness of Spirit declare That we wonder by what strange and unheard of presidents this Parliament hath acted there having been never before any visible rule for such actions in or by any Parliament But leaving things that are past cure let us come to expostulate with you about future security Can it think you consist with the peace and wel-fare of the Kingdome especially considering the state and temper of the people and the present exigences of the State That you who should be acting joyntly for the securing of the Kings authority and Subjects liberty should be divided into Factions and acting for your own particular interests Is this to discharge that trust which you have in the presence of God sworn to perform Surely so long as you thus continue to beate and bandy one against another to