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A81469	The royall apologie: or, An ansvver to the declaration of the House of Commons, the 11. of February, 1647. In which they expresse the reasons for their resolutions for making no more addresses, nor receiving any from His Majesty.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing D1447; Thomason E522_21; ESTC R206215	46,522	48

party that first gave the houses notice of this busines hath often sworn that all he said concerning the King in this businesse was in relation to the said petition but that the King could never have nor had notice of the proposition of bringing up the Northern Amy for that being his own motion he presently seeing it disapproved especially his having the cheif Command and Conduct of the Action revealed it before the King could possibly have knowledge of it which party is yet living and certainly will avow as much But presupposing the King should have gotten knowledge of the motion which doth in nothing appear the King seeing the great tumults the great hazard that his own person was in as well as the freedom of Parliament might He not have reason by His own Army raised by Himselfe and payed by His own moneys as it had bin for many moneths endeavored to have secured His own safety and the freedom of Parliament without cōmitting any such crime as meriteth to be deposed or used as now He is Let it be compared with that which the now prevalent Party in the houses have don who seeing themselves like to be over-awed by the presbyterian party finding no other means not to be overborne thought it fit to have recourse unto the present Army of Independents although the then house of Cōmons had voted a petition of the said Army to be burnt such to be enemies of the State as should adhere thereunto yet the army was drawn up towards London the house forced to sequester eleven of their most eminent members when the City or Apprentices had restored the said 11 Members as they had in former times don the five Members the Speaker all such as had deserted the parliament had fled to the army were by force again reestablished the new Speaker M. Pelham was unchaired and all that party were driven away some forced to fly others were impeached the now prevalent party possessed themselves again of the houses the power they now have of deposing the King keeping of Him Prisoner There is a great dfference betwixt what they have really don by this army for the turning upside down the Parliament and what was ever spoken of of the Northern Army But Successe and Power will make the same things though acted commendable in those that prevail which they will have capitall in those who never passed further then discourse They then begin to speak of the tyrany towards Scotl. Ireland c. For that of Scotland which is formerly answered I shall only ad the ful satisfaction which the Kingdome of Scotland received by their own acknowledgment expressed by a petition made since the Kings last coming from Scotl. viz. That Whereas The Kings most sacred Majesty's royall zeal constant resolution of maintaining the true Religion preserving the laws liberties of these kingdoms is so undoubted that to call it in que c. could not be construed in any but an unchristian distrustfulnes in us his Ma. Subjests of this His aucient native kingdom the height of disloyalty ingratitude if we should harbor any scruple or thought to the contrary having so many real recent evidences of his Royall goodnes justice Wisdom in setling establishing the trne Religion the Laws Liberties of this His kingdom to the full satisfaction of all his good subjects And nevertheles prerceiving by his Ma' Declarations other printed papers that foul malicious aspersions are cast on his Ma. tending to be and his sacred person deprave his royal Govern ' c. we conceive our selves bound in duty to almighty God by whom we have sworn to defeud maintain the person greatnes authority of our dread Soveraign Gods vicegerent to the utmost with our means lives in every cause which may concern his honor as may apear by that which by the warrant of the Act of the generall Assembly we have all sworn signed to our king country and to that we ow to our honor reputation to represent to your Lps. the desires we have to expresse make known to his Ma. all the world that we are fully satisfied and perswaded of his Majesties royal zeal resolution that malice detraction cannot prevail to make the least impression in our loyal hearts of jealousie or distrust And therfore we have taken the boldnes humbly to petition your Lps. That as his Majesty hath graciously condescended in his letter to your Lps. printed by your warrant for satisfaction of his good subjects to expresse his Royal goodnes desire that all grounds of jealousy may be kept and removed out of the hearts of his good Subjects of this Kingdom So it may please your Lordships to think vpon some course that his Majesty reciprocally may be cleered and assured of our constant affection c. and that we are not so unthankefull to God or to his Vice-gerent nor so little tender of our own honor and credit as to forget so soone that duty incumbent to us by so many obligations and so often promised by us in our foresaid solemn Oathes which are published to the view of the whole World c. As for the Rebellion in Ireland they make use of this to the same end they do of all things else in their Declaration That knowing that horrid rebellion to be so detestable to all men as it justly deserveth they would fain draw part of the hatred of it on the king although it be with never so improbable or false pretext And they think in the meane time that it will serve the present turn of making the king odious till He may have means to cleer it by His answer which they never intend to afford Him untill they have established their tyranny and then they will not care to be fought against with papers But their Declaration in this point of Ingland besides that the points conteined in it have been so often answered in print doth so confound all times all actions either in the War or whilest there was a Cessation and all the circumstances and reasons which may justify such actions at one time as might be blameable at another that the answere must be applyed to the generall Scope of the Declaration which is to insinuate unto the world that the King did abet and favour the Rebellion which not only the Kings many Declarations but his reall and effectuall actions do evince of falsehood and detestable malice For He did wholy put the Irish businesse and the prosecution of the businesse into the hands management of the two Houses and consented to an act of parliament giving them power to raise men mony and all other necessary provision for that war notwithstanding that they had subtilly inserted into the preamble of the said Act a clause debatring Him and His successors from the power

of levying men by way of presse without consent of Parliament although it had beene alwayes used by His Predecessors But such was their art by the inserting of the said Clause that they would either gain the disclaiming of that power to presse men or else would render the King odious by publishing his refusall to doe that which by the Houses was thought necessary for the suppressing of that horrid Rebellion This artifice hath been since used by clogging most Bills which would be plausible to the people with some clause or parenthesis of great prejudice unto the King which He hath been often forced to passe by to avoid the distaste which the denying of those plausible Bils would have brought upon Him so He did in this Besides this his concurrence in all that was desired of him being at Yorke having some beginning of power he offered to have passed in person into Ireland for the subduing of those Rebells and to let the world see that He desired rather ro imploy those forces against the Rebels in Ireland then by them to raise the least jealousie of raising a war in England But this His Majestyes offer was by the Houses rejected and the King did then see that the forces and the moneys that were levyed by his consent and Commission were in part imployed against Himselfe to strengthen pay the forces that were designed to march against Him whereby the War of Ireland which had beene most prosperous under the wise and faithfull Conduct of the Marq. of Ormond for which the Houses sent him publique thanks a present began to be very dubious by their neglect their applying of the moneys forces pretended for Ireland against the King so by degrees the English Armies in Ireland were reduced to those great streights for want of pay provision by the ill Conduct of the Houses that after many sollicitations both to the King and Parliament by which little or no releife was obteined there was a necessity of coming to a cessation of Armes for one yeare which was done by the advise of the Councell of Ireland at the earnest petition of the Lords of the cheif Officers of the Army of whom the Lord Inchiquin was one as appeares by their own booke of Exact Collect. page 344. To 2. where likewise the necessity of the said cessation is at large set downe And the King seeing Himselfe much over-power'd like to be overborne by the Rebels in England was inforced to make use of the forces offered Him from Ireland who were there ready to sterve which certainly would have beene a great imprudence in Him not to have done and is as great an impudence in them to charge this as a fault or crime upon the King to assist Himselfe of His own Subjects for His defence when they at so great an expence to the kingdom have hired in a forraign Nation the Scots to subdue Him Next they alleag concerning the proclamations That though they declared that the Rebels in Ireland stiled themselves the King Queens Army yet they could not obtain a proclamation against them in divers moneths then also but 40 Copies might be printed c. The first perfect advertisement of the Rebellion of Ireland came to his Majesty Counsell in England from the Lords Justices Sir William Parsons and Sir John Burlace and Councell of Ireland wherewith they sent the draught of such a Proclamation as they conceived best for the suppressing thereof and because those Rebells did pretend that what they had done was for the service of the King and not without some authority from him it was by the said Lord Justices Letters desired that 20 copies of those Proclamations might be sent over signed by the Kings own hand whereas the usuall course was to send over only one so signed that besides those which they were there to print and publish after the usuall manner they might send some of the Originals so signed to some of the chiefe of the Rebells to manifest the falshood of the said traiterous pretence And though Proclamations which the King Signes either for England or Ireland never use to be printed yet it was now for better expedition held fit by his Majesty the Lords of his Councell whereof divers of those now sitting in the house of peers at Westminst. were then present that those 20 proclamations his Majesty was to signe should be printed and the Secretary being directed to cause it to be forthwith dispatched did accordingly presently send a warrant to the Kings Printer to print about 40 Copies and to send them to him for his Majesties service and to deliver out none to any other for that those were to be Originals for the Kings signature only to be by them reprinted in Ireland according to the usuall course And to have any copies of them dispersed in England before they were proclaimed in Ireland where they were principally of use as it was never practised so it was conceived it might have bin of some prejudice for that the said Irish Rebels who had forged the former false pretence might if they had gotten any Copy thereof before they had bin proclaimed in Ireland have divulged some other traiterous fiction to have rendred the Proclamation of lesse credit with their party so have frustrated the good which His Majesty and his councell of both Kingdoms did hope that proclamation would have effected And whereas it is alleaged as a fault that there were but 40 of those Proclamations sent into Ireland it is well known to the Lords of the Councell now sitting at Westminster that it was twice as many as was desired And whereas they say that the Irish Rebels called themselves the King and Queens Army It is the constant practice of all Rebels at the begining to countenance their Rebellion with the pretence of the Kings service and that they take Armes against the oppressions of evill Councellours and Ministers that seduce the King The like was done by themselves at the beginning who only pretended to remove Malignants and evill Councellors and to bring Delinquents to punishment and then their war was in the name of King and Parliament as some of their own have not of late forbore to put them in mind But now it is to remove the King from the government and to settle another of their own making without the King or against Him For the disbanding the Irish Army although the King had great reason to demur upon it yet such was his desire to gratify them that He condescended unto it themselves consented that they should take any forreign imploiment whatsoever but afterward would not give way to the transporting of them by that meanes much strength was added to the Irish Rebellion all which they themselves cannot deny And upon such malicious false inferences as these depend all or most of their instanced Accusations in this their Declaration They say the

could when hee pleased have dissolved them But if they have committed Treason or Felony and that that which their Oracle Sir Edw. Cooke Mr. Solicitor and that reverend old Eleazar Judge Jenkins doe say be true That Treason and Felony do supersede all priviledges of Parliament And although a Corporation cannot commit Treason yet every person of the Corporation may and if one then ten if ten then a hundred and so all And if that House have had the ill lucke to commit Treason or Felony although the King by reason of His restraint should not dissolve it yet it may become Felo de se and may destroy it selfe And it is much doubted whether the King can raise them from the dead Then they come to their standing amazed at the Kings solemn Protestation of having never any thought of bringing up the Northern Army or levying of forces to wage war against his Parliament or to invade the rights of his Subjects or bringing in of forreign forces They should have done well to have set downe the date of the said Declaration as likewise the particulars wherein He hath satisfyed His said Protestations and not to have kept themselves still upon the fraud of generalls nor confounded the times before they had entred into Armes with the times after the King had proclaimed them Traitors and Rebells times and circumstances do often justly alter Councells and make those Actions necessary and good which without them might have appearance of blame But if the particulars shall be set down with the times and circumstances the falshood as well as the malice will appeare of their so often reiterated reproaching their King with breach of Oaths and protestations They doe farther then charge the King that He endeavoured to get out Cannon Powder and Shot out of his own stores and they have a letter to that effect to Sir Iohn Heyden They say likewise that Hee did attempt to have forced Hull in an hustile manner Two such faults in the King as doe marvailously justify their resolutions and usages of him which they set down to be the Scope of this Declaration In the one the King would have imbezel'd His own proper goods and in the other He would have come into his own Town had not the Traitor Hotham kept him out for which they have given him such a reward as others may justly expect if their repentance and the Kings goodnesse doe not prevent it It was not long they say before the King proclaimed them Traitors and Rebels and set up his Standard against the Parliament which never King of England did before Himselfe Herein they are mistaken for the King did not set up his Standard against His Parliament His Parliament was never named at the setting up of His Standard but it was set up against those whom Hee had first proclaimed Traitors and Rebels which hath bin often done by the Kings of England And so did His Majesty now against an Army marching toward Him to surprise His Person and that within few dayes after gave Him a battell and did their best to have slain Him under the command of the Earle of Essex with whom they had all sworne and protested to live and dye But that which they say that never any King before set up His Standard against his Parliament it is true for no King ever needed a Standard against His Parliament for that at their pleasures they could dissolve it with a breath and so might his Majesty have done now had not His goodnesse and unprovident desire of gratifying them restrained Him by assenting unto that Act for the continuance of this present Parliament which they themselves protested in one of their Declarations they would never make use of to the Kings disservice but only to the ends for which it was granted viz. to be a security for the raysing and paying of moneys which how they have performed let the world judge it is then said the King called a mock-Parliament at Oxford It is true that the King having declared the Members sitting at Westminster to be Traitors and Rebels and Treason as themselves have often acknowledged discharging all Priviledges Qualifications Capacitie or abilities to act as a Parliament the King was enforced to call to His Councell and Assistance His loyall Members of both Houses that had bin wrongfully or by force and tumults driven from the Houses at Westminster and to require of them in His so great distresse their helpe and advice but it is conceived that they will not be able to shew that the King ever stiled it his Parliament but an Assembly of the Members of the Lords and Commons convened at Oxford And for that which they instance of private letter intended only for the sight of the Queene His Wife they will faile of the end for which they produce it which is to withdraw the affections of His faithfull Servants which they call His own Party from Him by telling them that they may perceive what reward they may expect when they have done their utmost and ship wrack't their faith and consciences to His will and tyranny But his party as they terme it which are His faithfull and loyall Subjects as they have already most of them lost their Estates and Fortunes for their Conscience and Loyalty to Him so they will sacrifice their lives willingly for His service and restitution And as for that by-name of a mock-Parliament which they give unto that Assembly They may remember that there was double the number of Peers more then remained at Westminster and for the Members of the House of Commons they much exceeded in their Estates and Fortunes all those that were left behind them They may likewise remember that they have not wanted their by-names in print as the Jugles Hocas-pocuses at Westminster and by some who have ever adhered to them have been stiled a Linsey-wolsoy-Parliament and their own Army in their Declaration have called them a Parliament swayed by a factious prevolent party that governed by an arbitrary tyrannicall Power These things I must confesse are set down by me that have been a Member of the House of Commons with great grief remembring the respect and reverence which in former times was born unto that House and now changed into so great Scorn and Derision as weekly comes forth in print They then adde His often breach of trust with the Protestants of France Scotland Ireland and England with all other His unjust oppressions and His often endevours to enslave them by German Spanish Lorraign Irish and Danish and other forrein forces Those other forces must certainly be of Turks Swedes or Polands for they have particularly recited almost all other Nations when now in all this their Declaration except such from Ireland who were His own Subjects and who were bound in duty to come to the succour of their King being invaded by a forreign Nation called in by them to conquer Him they have not been able to instance in so

Certainly they have done ill to passe by their many reasons for these few have been much too weak to support so great a weight as the wickedness of their deposing their King and the using of Him as they do and it is to be beleived that they would make use of the best of those reasons having so great store out of which to make their choice In the next place they say They will notwithstanding indeavour to settle the present Government as may best stand with the Peace of the Kingdome It is likely indeed to be a righteous Government and to last long that a prevalent party in the House of Commons shall settle without the King and against all Law WHAT hath been hitherto said hath been to shew how free the King is from the Aspersions endeavoured to be cast upon him by this Declaration together with the great malice and falshood of it First many things in matter of fact are most untrue as that the King should have a hand in the Irish Rebellion That there was a Designe of a generall Massacre of all the Protestants in England That the Spanish fleet that came into the Downes 1629. was to enslave the Subjects c. with many more such ridiculous falshoods Other things are perverted by false application of the facts as that the Horse that were spoken to be raised in Germany were for the enslaving of England whereas the truth is that if that designe had gone forward as it did not it had been to recover the Palatinate In other things were the facts untrue by concealing part of the truth and the circumstances which do clearly justifie the said fact The Malice and Fraud of the Declaration is made most apparent as when they speak of slitting of noses branding of faces cutting off eares the facts were true But they conceal that all these things were done by course of Justice against notorious Malefactors And so that which they should have called Justice they now bring for an instance of Cruelty Fourthly it is remarkable that all the greivances complained of throughout the Kings whole Reigne though wholy redressed according to their own desires yet they are recharged and the redresses not spoken of So likewise are all the Objections which they have formerly made either of the passages of the War or concerning the Treaties although they have by the King been formerly fully answered yet they obtrude upon the people all the said objections and conceale from them the Kings satisfactory Answers and all this in so venomous and spitefull a language that it is plainly to be seen that their end is to make differences irreconcileable and the King odious that they may have the more colour to destroy Him It will now be necessary to speak a few words of their other Proposition viz. that a King that should be culpable of those Crimes suggested in this their Declaration may be proceeded against as they do now proceed with the King for to that end they have written this Declaration as conteining the reason of their Resolutions and Proceedings This position is worse and more dangerous then their present Rebellion for that by Gods goodnesse may soon have an end but this Position is a source a seed-plot and nurcery of perpetuall Rebellions So much hath been written by all sorts of Christians against this damned Maxime that here it shall be very briefly spoken of and onely shewed that it is full of Impiety Perjury and Treason Impiety towards God who hath in his holy word so often commanded obedience to the Powers by him ordained over us and hath prohibited Resistance upon pain of Damnation and that to Heathens Tyrants and Persecutors of his Church even to that monster of mankind Nero Perjury by breaking so many Oathes Protestations and Covenants of bearing unto the King true faith and allegeance of defending His Person and Honour with all His just Rights and Dignities Treason the levying War against the King the adhering to His enemies the indeavouring to alienate the hearts of the Subject from the King to remove the King from the Government or to imprison His Person to subvert the Lawes to indeavour to change the government either Ecclesiasticall or Civill to reforme the King by force and many other things are by the Lawes and Acts of Parliament and not by Ordinances declared to be Treason and most of them so confessed by themselves this Parliament to be so and for the pretence of some of them the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and the Earle of Strafford lost their lives And here I shall leave that damned Position that Subjects may depose their lawfull hereditary King for so the King is in effect upon suggestions of His failings or any other cause whatsoever It remains yet to speak something of the Scope of their so bitter railing and reviling of the King with so foul a pen as Tyranny Cruelty betraying breach of Oaths c. which is to make Him odious for answer whereunto there shal be only offered unto the world and them such truths of the King and his Deportments as the fiercest of His enemies shall not deny He is known to be a Prince of a most pious life which He daily sheweth by His constant practice of all Acts of devotion as Prayers Sermons and frequent receiving of the holy Sacrament No blood hath been drawn by his Anger or Revenge no noble Family dishonoured by His Lust no Debauchery or Excesse hath received encouragement by His Example no Oathes or Profanesse have been heard to come out of His mouth His prudence ability invincible courage and industry are not unknown to themselves nor His patience and composedness of minde in the highest afflictions and wrongs that have ever almost befallen any King and lastly his goodnesse and clemency in desiring to put all by-past Injuries into perpetuall oblivion Let these His known and undenyable vertues besides His Royal De●●●● and undoubted Title for six hundred years in England and of 108 Kings in Scotland be put into the ballance against all those malicious and 〈◊〉 Aspersions that have been raked together against Him and then let it be judged whether it will not be an ill change for the people to leave the subjection and Government of such a Prince to put themselves under the Tyrannie and Arbitrary Power of such a Parliament and such an Army One thing more shall onely be offered to the consideration of the People whether if the Houses should condescend to a Peace upon no more then what the King offereth besides all the Concessions He hath granted this Parliament and what He hath offered from Holdenby from Hampton Court and Carisbrook Castle before cited the English Nation should not be the freest and happiest Subjects in Europe And whether if they continue under the present usurped Power of the House of Commons and the Army for the Lords serve now onely to be subservient unto them they shall not be the most miserable of all people by having their Religion Lives Liberties and Lawes changed and to be disposed of by the Wils and Arbitrary Power of their fellow-Subjects It is againe desired as it hath been in the beginning of this Answer that what is herein set down may onely stay mens judgements and put them into a deliberation untill the King who hath perfect knowledge and information of all the particulars which in many things are wanting to the Writer hereof shall Himselfe set forth His full Answer which is not likely to be long for that those who have the worst opinion of the Proceedings of the House of Commons cannot suppose them to be so irrationall and barbarous as not to let the King have a sight of this their Declaration and to afford Him all necessary means of making and publishing His Answer FINIS