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A91901	The petitioners vindication from calumnie and aspersion. And the young mans animation to the building up of Zion. Published in their defence, against a scurrilous book or pamphlet lately written against them by I.W. and scandalously intituled, Petitions against bishops and their votes in Parliament. Subscribed unto after a clandestine, delivered after a tumultuous manner, and falsly going under the name of a whole county or town, proved to be both contrary to our late taken Protestation, as also utterly unlawfull by many other cleare and evident reasons. Now answered and refuted, and petitions delivered unto the Parliament, by impregnable reasons proved to be both lawfull, and according to the petitioners duty, and the late taken Protestation. With many other remarkable passages worthy of observation. By T. Robinson, veritati devotum.	Robinson, T., fl. 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing R1715; Thomason E146_24; ESTC R212725	45,496	53

THE PETITIONERS VINDICATION from CALVMNIE and ASPERSION And the Young Mans Animation to the building up of ZION Published in their Defence against a scurrilous Book or Pamphlet lately written against them by I. W. and scandalously intituled Petitions against Bishops and their Votes in Parliament Subscribed unto after a Clandestine delivered after a tumultuous manner and falsly going under the name of a whole County or Town proved to be both contrary to our late taken Protestation as also utterly unlawfull by many other cleare and evident Reasons Now answered and refuted and Petitions delivered unto the PARLIAMENT by impregnable reasons proved to be both lawfull and according to the Petitioners duty and the late taken Protestation With many other remarkable passages worthy of observation By T. Robinson Veritati Devotum Prov. 26. 24 25. He that hateth will counterfeit with his lips but in his heart he layeth up deceit Though he speak favourably beleeve him not for there are seven abominations in his heart LONDON Printed by T. P. and M. S. and are to be sold at the Castle in Cornhill 1642. COurteous Reader for your better understanding of this Book I have first recited the Author of the book I answer his matter with the folio of his book wherein it is then as I handle his particular sayings or assertions I denote them alphabetically both in his matter and mine as for example In his Ingression or entrance fo 2. of this book he saith viz. For him who is but a private subject and no Law-maker to give his hand in a factious way c. I first undertaking to clear that scandall set the letter a at the words factious way and so likewise in my answer thereunto And thus throughout the whole Treatise that wheresoever a letter by it self is in any part of my Answer you may look back to the same in my Authors argument just precedent and discern more plainly the thing by him affirmed or implyed and by me refuted And if I had not so done I know not how you would rightly have understood him For he hath observed neither rule or method in his discourse or argument but heapeth up many things confusedly together thereby to perplex the mind and darken reason that so like a cunning Merchant he may the better in a bundle put off his suffisticated ware for sound and currant unto men T. R. THE PETITIONERS VINDICATION FROM Calumnie and Aspersion And the Young Mans Animation to the building up of ZION THe Author of the aforesaid book folio 1. doth by way of Introduction first imply the importuning will of some friend by him there called Mr. Cachisme for his hand to a Petition such as by his discourse appeares have of late by severall parts and persons of this Kingdom been delivered to the Honorable House of Parliament Secondly his unwillingnesse to subscribe the same and willing mind to satisfie him therefore albeit as he saith he shall be alwayes readie and willing not onely to give his hand but his heart and purse likewise for the good of the Common-weal County or Parish wherein he lives and for that cause hath been both active and passive severall yeers together Where he properly liveth or what his proper name is I know not nor hath he declared it may be he doth here but reside or sojourn upon some negotiation and his true living may be in Spaine France Flanders or elsewhere and so what he hath apologized may be * For the good of the common weal County or parish wherin he lives good otherwise the sequell of his writing in my judgement doth plainly render him evilly affected to our good viz. to the Republique of this our England and the common cause in hand For his pretended satisfaction tends meerly to the diminution of the courage and constancie of good men the freezing of the cold and the incouragement of the wickedly bold And his Ingression But for me who am but a private Subject c. is palpably a slye insinuation of a matter of * The best glosses are often put on the worst commodities and the worst wine into the purest glasses The Authors Ingression conscience for the not subscribing his friends Petition the better the reby to gain credence and persw●sion from the hearts of people and that principally from the greater multitude the ignorant and indifferent But by the way a word of that viz. But for me who am but a private b subject a c Protestant and no d Law-maker to give my hand in a factious a way and without e command from Authoritie to will that there should be f no Bishops and that they shall have no voice in the House g of Peers is against my h conscience and that i light of reason and understanding which I have received And I dare not comply with the k distempers of the people and follow the streame of a multitude to do evill on these grounds follooeing Ye have him in his own words verbatim Lo here he concludes both Petitions and Petitioners to the House of Parliament to be a * Mark doth he not impudently asperse the whole Parliament hereby as if they did countenance both factions and factious persons for they accepted both the Petitioners and their Petitions factious a phrase wholly scandalous Answer and used to deter others For what disturbance or commotion was thereby either plotted or practised through them either against King or State what breach of Law or publique peace only as members sensible of the great jeopeardy the whole Body was in they humbly fought for redresse to the Fountain of succour and justice And every one as a private b man hath an interest in the publique state and cause of the Land For it is not onely one mans cause but every ones and we are all members one of another And as every particular member doth participate of the universall health or sicknesse of the body and as every member naturall doth grow and prosper according to the distemperature or sound constitution of the heart or brain from whence and on which its whole life and motion doth depend so is it in every member politique And as the members corporall being hurt sick or any wayes grieved do by a naturall instinct and way inscrutable forthwith look and send unto the prime parts before named for strength and comfort yea and secretly excite all the other parts also to be assistant So questionlesse may the members of the Body politique finding themselves wounded weakned and many wayes grieved by their oppressive foes and distractive fears lawfully look up and by humble Petition sue unto the King and Parliament both which are one the verie heart and head life and being of this pristine land and Nation and of every true member of the same yea and invite others also to assist them therein The woman in her distresse cried to the King of Israel for help when it was not in his power to help 2

and yet prove our selves both loyall Subjects and conserve our Oath Acts 27. 28 29. Thus much for my Authors grounds the which I hope have been sufficiently refelled Now he comes to shew you further cause why he would not subscribe his friends Petition nor conjoyne in a petitionary way And this he usshereth in with an Adverb saying fol. 5. viz. Moreover the manner of the proceeding doth not satisfie me The Authors 1. cause First because it is not done in that f right way it ought to be For that which is to go under the name of a County or Town ought to be first k assented unto by the Sheriffe Justice of Peace or other Magistrates respectively and then they may be publiquely propounded and condiscended unto or contradicted that men may be incouraged or disswaded by good reasons pro con And this is that i lawfull and usuall way for the g election of Knights and Burgesses for the Parliament and of other Officers and matters concerning the publique Wherefore h clandestine and surreptitions actions going about from house to house by h night and without the l consent and commission of Authority to m ingage people to the breath of their Protestation and to make it an Act of a County or Town and in a manner to n force men thereunto are but unlawfull works of darknesse and will not o endure the light All his former grounds alledged for his non subscription to Answer their Petition are taken by him though falsely out of the Protestation Now these subsequent which he calleth causes are taken a modo from the manner of the action viz. because it was not done in f the right way For that which is to go under the name of a Town or a County ought to be first affented unto by the Sheriffe c. then publiquely propounded c. and this he subtilly doth exemplifie by the g election of Knights and Burgesses And for that their Petitions were not so obtained and approved therefore he most ignominiously termes them h Clandestine that is close surreptitious nightworks and works of darknesse not enduring the light How forcible are right words but what doth this arguing reprove Job 6. 25. In what manner the petitioners gathered hands I am ignorant But that is not pertinent the action being free and the end lawfull For it is not the doing of a lawfull work by h night or in a private assembly that maketh it unlawfull more then the doing of an unlawfull work by day and in a publike assembly doth make it lawfull And to frame a Petition to the Parliament comprehending not factions or * As the last of the County of Kent so much countenanced by Sir Edw. Deering and others may justly be suspected factious implications but the just fears and grievances of a City or County and the causes of them and to get others like sensible of them for testimony to subscribe the same is lawfull I am certain and past all controversie for neither the matter nor the manner is contrary to Law nor by Law prohibited nay the matter is for law and the manner both humble and peaceable free and voluntary and therefore also lawfull And a man may as soon and sooner if the heads or chief proposers be not honest and sound men be seduced and drawn to set his hand contrary to Law against his will and * Witnesse the Petition above noted Protestation in a publique Assemblie or meeting as at a generall Assizes then in a private Because the greater sort of men are like sheep led by example some relying on the judgement of particular men who are eminent amongst them for knowledge others being afraid to refuse the thing though they doubt and inwardly are unwilling lest they should be counted singular and more nice and wise then all the Countrey Whereas whatsoever is propounded in private or at home is alway more maturely digested the person taking boldnesse to require respite both to examine and consider it And for my Authors i example it is not consonant it concurreth not For what is done in that election is according to the great Charter of England and by the Kings speciall power and Prerogative The Sheriffes Justices and other Offices do nothing therein of their own free motion by vertue of priviledge onely as the Subjects do which petition But in obedience to his Majesties Writ and precept And how expedient it is that the whole County or City even to the lowest member should consent to the election of the person which is to be instead of their persons and the head and mouth of them I appeal to all men For the particular estates interests and liberties of every one of them is intrusted with him But in case of petitioning there is no such necessity every man feels the generall evill but every man desireth not the expurgation of it nor doth every man know the cause of it and therefore cannot make a particular remonstrance and sue for peculiar redresse And because every man seeth not the reason of the epidemicall maladie and so knoweth not what meanes to use for remedie and others that do see it as dead members desire no cure of it shall not therefore such as both know the cause and way of cure and thirst after it use the means law and liberty hath allowed for the effecting it it were unreasonable to deny it Neither doth the assent of a k Skeriffe Justice of Peace or other Magistrate argue any thing lawfull no more then the preaching of false doctrine by a publique Minister doth prove it true the Laws are to be the rules of our civill actions and not their licence Too many things fresh still in remembrance have been both commanded and countenanced by Sheriffes and * Prophanation of the Sabbath seizing of mens goods and imprisoning of their persons Magistrates which we know will neither stand with the Law of God nor of the Nation And if the Sheriffes or Magistrates assent and proposition make an Act lawfull then the bloody Rebels in Ireland are justifiable For as report tels they had for their beginning the consent both of * Sir Phileme Oneale and ochers Peers Justices of the Peace there Sheriffes and Magistrates yea themselves affirm authority for their present actions Again as there is no generall rule without its particular exception so there is no particular or extraordinary example to be taken for a generall rule Ergo though a universall suffrage and assent be necessarily required in the choice of Knights and Burgesses for the Parliament yet it followeth not that the like is requisite in the way of Petitions to the Parliament Now whereas he cals the Petitions Clandestine actions that is hidden and close done in hugger mugger and surreptitious that is as it were by stealth how unsavourie this is let every one that hath but a clear sence prove and trie These are breathings of a corrupt stomacke and the stench

thereof is odious even as that of a rotten sepulchre Insomuch that he may justly be challenged for one of those the Psalmist denotes Psal 5. 9. But herein he resembles those shagg headed Sages who call the Kings best Subjects * Thus it is said the Damme Boyes or Long-heads at Yorke served the Lincolnshire Gentlemen others that petitioned the King to return to His Parliament Round-heads I am sure they are Grosse Heads making good the old Proverbe More haire then wit Meere Caca-fucoes and would you know whose Agents Plutoes But their madnesse is apparant to all men and their own venome will in the end burst them For were not the Petitions and the Petitioners purposes evermore notified and made known even before they came up and presented them how then were they done in private and in the night time it may be some mans hand might be had in the night whose businesse kept him all day abroad Truly they may rather be said to have done it on the house top so publique have they been Nor is there any reason why they should be so close in this good action For of whom should they be afraid it is neither Rebellion Treason nor Commotion the black deeds of Papists and Bishops which they contrived and what man good and wise would go about to barre them of so just a priviledge And for that he saith they did it without the l consent and commission of Authoritie I answer They had authoritie both strong and sufficient First their own right Secondly the Parliament the onely object of their suits a Commission better then any that issued out of the High Commission and such a one as my Author though perhaps he love them not dares not question For this is one of the prime proprieties appertaining unto Parliaments to receive and hear the grievances of the people and a grand priviledge of the Subjects freely without curb or prohibition of Magistrates and Officers to * See the right worthy Worthy Sir Arthur Haselriggs Speech in defence of himself and the other accused Members impart their grievances and seek for relief to the Parliament And if we might not petition without the Sheriffes Magistrates and Officers consent of the City or County where we live we should be but still in bondage For our task-masters would but revile us when we should come to crave their assents and say with my Author that we were idle and factious For it may be these are the very causes we must complain of and it cannot be that they will write against themselves And so the evill causes might still remain and we poore Subjects still groane under the miserable effects For the evill the Parliament knoweth not it cannot amend Besides admit that not onely Magistrates but all sorts of people as there are too many evilly affected should dissent to joyn with me in petition for redresse and reformation Is it unlawfull therefore for me to petition because I am left alone and the cause is diserted of all men No. to omit private interest and respect In case that the welfare and being of the Land and Nation City or Countrey where I live and whereof I am member is in jeopardy and danger I ought and it is my bounden dutie though it be with my life in my hand to make known the distresses thereof to the Ministers raised by God for preservation and redresse and also to use those means God hath put into my hands for the redemption and deliverance of that place and people Read that history of Esther from the 4. Chap. to the last Ecclesiastes 9. 14 15. Then he further shamelesly affirmeth that people are thereby m ingaged to break their Protestation he might better have said they were thereby ingaged to keep their Protestation for that had been truth But this is like the rest and ill will never spake well For is a certifying of their griefs with humble supplication that they may be eased and all things troublesome to conscience against which they have vowed removed a breach of their Protestation Contrarium verò verum It is onely the reall keeping of it indeed had they been perswaded to subscribe for the maintenance of such things as they have protested against then had my Author hit the nail on the head But none of them against whom he intends have been thus * As were of late some Kentish men insnared and therefore-his words here are both unjust and scandalous Neither have any been n enforced as he despightfully speaks to subscribe their hands for their own free wils have been their first movers and their own understandings their chief Councellors Nor is their ground or reason to force any in this action where is their authority where their justification neither would it ought avail or be profitable Yea it would prove very pernicious and prejudiciall But because my Author hath seen such great multitudes to accord in this thing therefore I beleeve the greater hath his spight and grief been And now I hope I have effectually proved those works by my Author injuriously called unlawfull and works of darknesse to be both lawfull and works of the light as clear as the Sun in his strength And whereas he saith they will not o endure the light Omnibus est notum It is well known to all men they have endured the very eye of light for all they against which my Author writes have had the full approbation and kind acceptation of the Parliament who are even as an Angel of light And so I come to his second and third cause why he is not satisfied with their manner of proceeding For I will put them both together because they are both of a nature fo 6. 7. viz. Secondly it is justly to be feared that these wayes are sinister in The Authors 2. and 3. cause the undertakers being very probable that some of them do it out of ill will hatred and malice as well to the government and governours or for favour and affection to some whom they suppose it pleaseth or for q gain and profit or fear of displeasure of p Landlords and Customers or for r vain glory that it may be said this is the Babell which they have wrought with their own hands and some few of those shall ingage and prejudice others and not without cause as it is to be feared by false informations and reasons to make men subscribe Thirdly the like sinister proceedings are to be supposed in the subscriber These kind of wayes by tumults and multitudes without legall allegations and probations to compasse that by will which you cannot obtain by reason is of a dangerous t consequence and threatens u the subversion of all government and governours For which of them be they never so good shall be secure if the multitude of distempered people please to will the contrary These cause much distractions hinder the s proceedings of the State and the relief of the oppressed breake