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A85519	The grand concernments of England ensured: viz. liberty of conscience, extirpation of popery, defence of property, easing of taxes, advance of trade, soveraign powers of Parliaments, reformation of religion, laws and liberties, indempnity, settlement, by a constant succession of free Parliaments, the only possible expedient to preserve us from ruine or slavery. The objections, answered; but more largely, that of a senate. With a sad expostulation, and some smart rebukes to the Army.		1659 (1659)	Wing G1492; Thomason E1001_6; ESTC R204729	70,399	77

Coats that they may pick our pockets and it is wonderful if they do not pick out our eyes We should soon be reduced to no better condition then that of Shimei Go dwell in yonder place and stir not thence and if it shall be told saying He is gone to bring back a run-away servant or to seek an Ox or an Asse that was gone astray yea it may be though it were but a say so yet his bloud must be upon his head and it would be rounded in our ears Thou knowest all the wickedness thy heart is privie to that thou didst to my Father therefore the Lord doth return thy wickedness upon thine own head Fourthly T is the common interest of the Nation to be eased of Taxes To this I think no body will say nay That the bringing in the late Kings Son is a hopeful remedy for the disburdening us of that heavy load of Taxes that have almost bowed us together is demonstrable from the deep arrear he is in to the Commanders and Soldiers of his and his Fathers Armies every body knows how pitifully they were paid from time to time whereby they were necessitated to make Plunder their help at a dead lift and if where it cannot be had the King must loose his right so must his Servants too he could pay no farther then it would go and a poor pittance it was he could raise and much of that borrowed of his creatures for which he remains their debtor this would go but a little way to stop so many mouthes as he retained in his service the Parliament having the purse of England at their girdle let it then be considered what a vast charge the pay of his Army amounts unto during those many years they were engaged against us if our Arithmetick will reach it and then let it be thought upon how little money they have fingered and by the affaires of the Parliaments party who notwithstanding Crown Lands Delinquents Lands Bishops Dean and Chapters Lands are most sold to satisfie the Arrears of our Armies who were yet three to one better paid then the Kings through the help of Excise and Contributions to a far greater value then the King could possibly command notwithstanding which many of the Parliaments old Soldiers cannot much brag of being overpaid to this day and thereby it may be shrewdly guessed Whether it be not likely to prove a very notable expedient to ease us of our Taxes to pay these old scores which though we should think fit to dispute I doubt we should not know how to refuse when they shall bring in their King who must pay them their Arrears if he will keep them his friends whom in all appearance he should not do well to disoblige being more trusty to his interest then to be laid aside upon easie terms and verily he must be guilty of an implicit faith for all the confidence of my Gentleman that dare believe the Cavaliers will remit his Majesty and the Nation their debts if ever they shall have opportunity to put their Debenters or Royal saith bils in suit neither do I know how the Master hath more right to the Government then his Servants to their wages and they that are so conscientious of the one will in reason finde as little scruple for the other unless there be some prety fine distinctions that every one is not aware of Besides what hath been said it must not be forgotten how long he hath been upon the ramble at meer expence in Holland France Flanders and Germany and mistake if you can who are like to pay the reckoning Fiftly Advance of Trade is the common interest of the Nation But most probably it is not so obvious to every understanding how Trade should suffer a discouragement by the return of our old Monarchy that it should be taken for granted upon a bare Proposition and I the rather suspect it because the calling him in would not finde so many Advocates and Votaries but upon a mistaken belief that Trade would thereby lift up its head however some there are very conversant in Trade and most studious for its promotion who are not in doubt to conclude That it must needs be a great disturbance to Trade for a while because there must necessarily attend it a general expectation and silence till the issue of such an adventure which ever makes Trade as st●ll as the times yea and when this cloud shall be blown over which cannot be in hast yet shall Trade receive no benefit thereby for besides that the same oppressions that are the now destroyers of Trade must of necessity be continued notwithstanding there should be peace for the raising of monies to supply the necessities that would occur I say besides this Trade would ●e a sufferer by the return of our Monarchy What have the best of all their Majesties that ever Reigned in England done for the encouragement of Trade If they had done any thing Material England had been more bound to thank them then it is Something it may be hath been done for the benefit of particular Trades but Trade in general hath been little befriended Trade and Tradesmen all along have been the very scorn and envie of the Court not fit to keep a Gentleman company but at his distance though ten times better then himself in estate must be looked upon as sorry Mechannick fellows notwithstanding in other Nations or Common-wealths their best Gentry Lords Earls Dukes hold it no disparagement to Trade Hereby Trade became of so good esteem that a Gentlemans Son should be bread up for the Gallows rather then be dishonoured by a Trade Hence a man might play the good husband Cart Plow buy and sell Hogs Sheep Horses Cowes Oxen Hens Geese and yet be a tolerable Countrey Squire but a Trades-man no by no means the time was when these were not fit to be numbred with the dogs of their flock It was a noble knack to encourage Trade and Tradesmen that care must be had least they should be too fine and be mistaken for Gentry and by all means their wives must be dressed according to Court directions least they should vye gallantry with the Madams of Prerogative by all means they must know themselves and t is pity some course is not taken now that we may know a Trades man from his betters and however this may rather provoke some to laughter then a serious thought about it yet ●t is not of so light consideration for whosoever is concerned to keep Trade under he hath two things to do that will effect it One is Set Trade into a condition of contempt and this will keep a people of high Spirits where the Gentry are highly honoured it will keep them off from Trades and make them seek their fortunes some other way and if this prevail then some reasonable boones may be granted to those few that maintain the Trade for some Trade doth well under the greatest Tyranny but if men will

of Penal Laws they cannot but remember how far from grievous they were in the late Kings time the Catholicks living here notwithstanding them in more flourishing condition then they of Italy France or Spain under their respective Princes and would do infinitely more under their natural King then if any forainer should acquire the power by conquest Besides having generally adhered to the late King in his Wars have no reason to distrust the finding favorable treatment from his Son and to share in that indulgence he is ready to afford even his greatest enemies i. e. such are Presbyterians and Independents this is Authentick Yea and besides all this who can tell he hath not sucked in some of his Mothers milk Thirdly The defence of Property is the common interest of the Nation I will not mispend a word to prove this least I should reproach my Countreymen of so much easiness as ignorance of such a foundamentall in reason as this Whether Properly be in danger of being invaded by the calling in the late Kings Son is more worthy of our enquiry How many purchasors are there of Bishops Lands Dean and Chapters Lands Delinquents Lands and Crown Lands whose Fee-simple would be no very wise title but much worse then Tenure in Villenage let any man of reason imagine this will not only concern Roundheads but many who in other matters are at no great distance with Episcopacy have their hands full of them they being bought and sold over and over many to whose hands this will come will no doubt be sufficiently sensible hereof that these are alienated upon as good if no better reason then were the Abby Lands c. in Hen. 8. time none that were the first buyers had I believe any jealousie to the contrary nor hath any man any thing material to object against it King and Delinquents Lands were justly forfeited for raising and levying War upon the Parliament the Bishops Lands because those men involved us into those Distractions and abetted and adhered unto that party and drove the Chariot of the Church so furiously that they were like to overthrow all wherefore the State found it good prudence to take down their mettle by making better use of their Lands to satisfie publick debts and so to leave them disabled for the future to disturbe our peace which if their Lands had been reserved they would have been alwayes attempting to recover and therewith the Government of Church and State too the other Church lands went in company to help pay debts being exposed to forfeiture by the general malignancy of the incumbents besides were of no other signification then to maintain a company of lazy Lubbers the Nation is hereby generally concerned to secure them their purchases as those were secured and untouched in Hen. 8. time that Qeen Mary could do the Pope no courtesie in the former my Author denies not that if any should go about to attempt the latter it would cost him hot water I do most willingly believe however as the one was attempted so most certainly would the other and with much more violence the temptation being now far greater since he must be a sorry King that hath lost his Estate Queen Mary was not altogether so nearly concerned Is it imaginable when he shall return King of these Nations he will endure to see the Crown Lands fallen into the fingers of John an Oakes and John a Stiles himself King of England and not a foot of Land could he say soul take thine ease while those Loyal hearts that followed him through thick and thin in peril at Land in peril at Sea remain fleeced of thousands and some it may be of ten thousands per annum all the Church Lands gone and nothing left to oblige those props of Prerogative would this give his Majesty a competent satisfaction to sit down and let it rest thus I trow not How can he look upon himself as other then a burden to his Countrey if he must live upon the Charity of well disposed people such too would be the case of his Sequestered adherents and could this comport with the honour of his Majesty could he see his Bishops Deans and Chapters thus brought to desolation so far from having their k●ngdom in this world that they should have scarce a hole to put their head in and would not this be a hard Chapter Could he look upon himself under the first consideration and believe he were The high and mighty Prince CHARLES King of England Scotland c. or under the second and not think he had lost the Crown of his Crown could he believe himself Defender of the Faith It is come to this issue Either Purchasers must be robbed of their Estates for which some of them have paid dear enough and ready money or he must live upon a general Contribution which latter I have so honorable thoughts of him as to believe he would not endure the former would be dishonest the latter ignoble the former would be an oppression the ruine of many the latter an intolerable burden upon all How well then they will befriend him that shall put him upon this Dilemma let our adversaries themselves be the judges Besides no body knowes how many new Delinquents must be made it would be no easie matter to perswade every man that hath adhered to the Parliament that their Estates should be so much their own as at the pleasure of Prerogative yea should the strongest obligations immaginable be fastned on him to bind up his hands from doing these Roundheads and Puritans harme yet would they hardly bind Him and his Heirs for ever Whence must come those rewards that our Author promiseth they shall be sure to finde that have served him in any kinde especially they that are instrumental in his restitution Certainly want of money which he must needs be reduced unto to gratifie them being abundance almost innumerable swarmes of crawling croaking creeping things that helped to undo his Father and him in the late Wars will make invincible necessity good reason of State for some arbitrary proceedings and then this decayed threedbare Courtier will beg that Roundheaded dog for a Ward and that beggarly Cavalier will beg this Puritan that Presbyterian the other Independent or Anabaptist for a fool and veryly I would have them beg us all for fools when we have no more wit And however he may be engaged to forgive us yet can hardly be obliged to forget us we shall be as bad as bound to our good behaviour it must needs be enough being added to our former transgression to entitle us to beggery if not to the Gallows to pisse against a Church wall The Cavaliers that cannot contain themselves from looking us through and through and cursing us to our faces while they are scarce yet in so good condition as to call it a State Militant will make no great trouble of it when they arrive at their State Triumphant to pick a hole in our

And therefore it was not unlike the Disciples of Machiavell to drive us from a settlement hoping to crumble us to dust before we could arrive to a better constitution If it were their plot as I know no great ground to believe and Mr. Rogers hath well answered more then to distract us I suppose they meant us no good by it but they are fallen into the pit they digged for us the Lord is known by the Judgements he executeth the wicked are snared in the work of their of their own hands Higgaion Selah We are now in a hopefull way of setling a Common-wealth and we shall quickly understand what advantage such a settlement would yield to the Papist It is not at all to be disputed but another Queen Mary would do their businesse as well as a Common-wealth who would hardly be perswaded to joyn our Nation to Saint Peters Patrimony I appeal to all the World whether their designs be not more easily wrought out of a private interest then a publique Whether it should be harder to make one person for them or the whole Nation We are no strangers to the genius of our Native Countrey If the single person should deny to pleasure them it were no hard matter to take their revenge there by Poyson Ponyard or Pistoll They could quickly remove out of their way an Edward the Sixth or a Prince Henry if they were like to spoyl their designs Were they not more likely to advantage themselves by matches of our Kings with Popish Women Doth not Mr. Pryn acknowledge the Jesuites had a great number of Colledges in England in his forecited Book Do we not all know the Papists had as much countenance as they can imagine under our Free State Remember what my Author saith which I mentioned before Yea have not our Parliaments been their greatest Enemies I appeal to Mr. Pryn If the House of Commons have been any of their best friends since our Nation hath been Protestant He tells us himself How angry the Papists were at the Propositions of the Isle of Wight which the King consented to against the Papists We all know whose was the contrivance Yea all the Papists of England appeared for the King in his warres against the Parliament you will judge then whether they be for a Common-wealth against Monarchy or whether they mean us a settlement of our Common-wealth especially since Monarchy is now cryed up hotter then ever by that party and their Agents or any thing rather then we should settle in the way of an equal Common-wealth which certainly if ever they put us in pursuit of they never meant we should reach or overtake But let my Expedient be put in practice the Nation setled upon the Foundations of Parliaments and my life for it the Papists shall receive their deadly wound which shall not be healed nor shall they have power to vex our Nations any more for they have been the mortall enemies of Parliaments engaged in wars against them all along and alwayes practising sedition against them Instances are familiar here and in Ireland whereby they have engaged the Parliaments their everlasting foes so that those of the Parliament that would have restored the King shewed their good will unto the Papists by causing the King to agree to their persecution Yea Parliaments ever since Queen Mary especially have shewn their teeth at them and bitten too as often as they have been able to reach them till they have been rated off by their Masters And it cannot be but their sins must come in remembrance before our Parliaments And then falling into their hands whom they have obliged not to befriend them they may expect what will follow even the wages of their iniquities which I see by their bustling they are well aware of their Religion is an enemy to our Peace They have done nothing to merit the Parliaments favour nor can finde any advocates in that Assembly that dare speak out for them no Cottington no Digby There shall be Episcopal Presbyterian Independant and Baptized all vying their zeal against them who shall most fervently express his anger at them Yea and he shall think he hath sufficiently purged himself from all Damnable Errors that shall wou●d the Hairy Scalp of the Scarlet Whore The Papist will have good luck if they do not receive at their hand double for all their villanyes being more like to give them bloud to drink who have drunk bloud in abundance then to give them any encouragement or toleration among us Yea the very Fift Monarchy-men who of late years have been mentioned with as much detestation and indignation as if they maintained some damnable Opinions or Doctrines of Devils are as forward as any to shew their zeal in this particular Thirdly Defence of Property This Parliaments must necessarily make good for their own credits 'T is irrationall to fear that Property in generall should be endangered by a Parliament but those Estates which have been sold by former Parliaments must be made good by following Parliaments else they crack their reputation and undo their credit They who have been faithfull to the Parliament need not fear no nor the Cavaliers for having compounded there will remain no more sacrifice for their sin if they live peaceably in the Land Besides for crown-Crown-lands and church-Church-lands they can have no temptation to alienate them from the Purchasors since it cannor be but they will have a Stock going in them themselves and Kings Bishops Deans and Chapters being outed the Nation there will be no occasion of those Lands to maintain their Grandeur And for Delinquents Estates that are sold there can be no thought of their restitution for care will be had that their Provender do not prick them to sedition against the State However if any of their Estates have been sold without due proof of their Delinquency as it is pretended of some God forbid but their estates be restored them the Purchasors receiving their Money from the State or satisfaction some other way So that without peradventure Every man shall enjoy the purchase of his Penny under the Supremacy of Parliaments And yet would there be no cause of Contest but it would be a matter of generall content and applause if the Parliament should be so highly just as to enquire in good earnest into the frauds of the Common-wealth and make them pay the full value of their Purchases who have plaid the Knaves and cheated both the Souldier and the State and then they too may enjoy their Purchases when they have paid the same rate for them with other men who were forced to pay to such a value or go without them Fourthly Easing of Taxes This is so absolute a benefit that we have had by the House of Commons formerly so called that our Kings looked upon them only as our Pursers And our last Lord Protector in his Speech to the other House and the Commons assembled in the late Lords House directed himself to