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parliament_n	house_n	sir_n	william_n	3,051	5	7.6129	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76640	A true relation of a wicked plot intended and still on foot against the city of Glocester, to betray the same into the hands of the Cavaliers. Discovered by Captaine Backhouse who was wrought upon to have betrayed the same by the sollicitation of one Edward Stanford Esquire, a grand Papist but a lieut: colonell amongst the Cavaliers; and by himselfe set forth to give the Parliament and his Excellencie satisfaction and the better to vindicate his owne integrity. Together with severall letters from my Lord Digby and Sir William Vavasour to Capt. Backhouse concerning the said designe. 4. Maii. 1644. It is this day ordered by the committee of the House of Commons for printing, that this relation be printed by Edward Husbands. Jo. White.	Backhouse, Robert, d. 1645.; Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.; Vavasour, William, Sir, d. 1659.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1644 (1644)	Wing B265; Thomason E45_12; ESTC R2502	27,077	33

A true RELATION of a wicked PLOT Intended and still on foot against the City OF GLOCESTER To betray the same into the hands of the CAVALIERS Discovered by Captaine Backhouse who was wrought upon to have betrayed the same by the Sollicitation of one Edward Stanford Esquire a grand Papist but a Lieut Colonell amongst the Cavaliers and by himselfe set forth to give the PARLIAMENT and his Excellencie satisfaction and the better to vindicate his owne Integrity Together with severall Letters from my Lord Digby and Sir William Vavasour to Capt. Backhouse concerning the said Designe 4. Maii. 1644. It is this day Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons for Printing that this Relation be Printed by Edward Husbands Jo. WHITE London Printed for Ed. Husbands May 7. 1644. A true Relation of a wicked Plot intended and still on foot against the City of Glocester to betray the same into the hands of the Cavaliers c. VVEre the Intentions of our Enemies or the grounds of their practice yet questionable Nay were not their cause already brought to a self-conviction the manage of their designes and their constant proceedings are enough to convince the world or amaze it Doubtlesse destruction misery and desolation must needs be the end of those pathes of fury malice treachery and deliberate cruelty the whole series of the Complotment is like it self and the Enemies of God and the King having desperate and horrid intendments have resolved upon proportionable meanes For wicked purposes and mischievous counsells can never take effect without the height of iniquity first resolved upon and if either shame or conscience hath the power to check such an undertaker he mistaking his principles must needs fall off or fail in the enterprize But that cause which is grounded upon truth and righteousnesse prospers by the same truth Besides a just and an honourable action doth abhor the use of such meanes and a minde truely great and noble will not blemish the bravenesse of his end and doth rather chuse to be vanquisht then to gaine an inglorious Victory But malicious guilty persons being conscious of the vilenesse of their ends upon which they are desperately engaged have not onely hardned their hearts and steeled their faces against the imputation of the extract of Villany but oftentimes burst out into unnecessary wickednesse almost to the preventing of their own purposes by rendring themselves odious to the people the strength of their Malignity scarce permitting them to be true to their own ends Thus the condition of the War on their part forces them upon the wayes of deceit and violence the injustice of their cause makes it a bootlesse labour to stand upon honorable at chievements and their owne violent malice oft times prevents the occasion and out runnes necessity Had we to deale with an honourable Enemie the grand interest we have in the publique cause could not forbid us to love their personall vertues to imbrace their goodnesse 'T is base and ignoble to derogate from the worth of an Enemy as none but Rogues would have rayled at Hanniball even in Rome But that party dayly adds to the necessity of their just confusion when their implacable malice shall urge them to transgresse that common right which open hostility preserves inviolable There is a kinde of deceit that is commendable but to conspire against thine adversary with a bosome friend of his is a part of detestable treacherie practised by none but such that seek to triumph rather in revenge than glory For 't is a point of common justice which every one demands to be secure among his own and 't is the greatest tyranny to inforce them either to accuse or betray For by this meanes faith and truth is quite lost and all inte course between man and man made voyde Therefore brave men are content to submit when over matched by power or skill but if betrayed their hearts can never comply but carry revenge to their grave So impatient are we of delusion Now let themselves judge whether in this case they have not offended against that prime law of nature Quod tibi steri non vis alteri ne feceris And let them know there have been some so Noble as to scorn their tender of treason Let this represent to the view of the world the vilenesse of their actions and in particular the wickednesse of that Plot which is discovered in this Relation that all men may detest their courses that Neuters may be roused into zeal against them and their own Novices who are not yet desperately hardned may shrink at the horror of these things and fall back while there is a possibility of returning The Plot runs thus The 19. day of Novemb. last Master Stanford sent unto me in whom he conceived he had much interest by the hands of a good friend of mine this Letter as followeth GOod Robin It is not unknown to you that once I loved you and therefore I send this to advise you whilst it is in your power to make use of it and take my word I am confident as yet you may not onely have your pardon but raise your self a greater fortune than the condition of those you serve are able to afford you This you may gaine by the delivery you may guesse my meaning of what place which is not hard for you to do You know the old saying Fallere fallentem non est fraus this is the advise of him that when you shall desist the cause will ever be Your loving Friend Edward Stanford This Letter being reade by me and conferring with the Messenger my friend who told me that if I would undertake the same businesse I should have 5000. l. for my reward Instantly I went unto the faithfull and worthy Governour and shewed it unto him and told him from whom it came by whom and what reward was proposed and withall declared my dislike thereof Whereupon the governor considering thereof advised to imbrace the businesse and practice the doctrine propounded in the Letter of fallere fallentem c. and that for these reasons 1. That the Net which they would lay for us might be a snare unto themselves 2. That other Plots and Treacheries against the City might not be contrived so long as they had a fair probability of prevayling by this 3. That the Country adjacent to the City which was by the Malignant Gentry of the Country and other evill counsellors decreed upon a Petition by them preferred unto His Majesty to utter desolation ruine and depopulation might by this meanes be preserved and spared by the enemie in hopes to enjoy the benefit and assistance thereof themselves 4. That this Plot and expectation of the Enemy might be procrastinated and led a long at least till the Country had vented in the Market their spare Provisions of corn and cattell which they then had and for the doing whereof the time was then at hand 5. That such their hopes of obtaining