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A89919	A project for an equitable and lasting peace. Designed in the year 1643. when the affairs stood in ballance before the second coming of the Scots into this kingdom, from a desire to have kept them out then. With a disquisition how the said project may now be reduced to fit the present conjuncture of affairs, in a letter sent to divers prudent persons of all sorts. For preventing the Scots bringing an army into England a third time, or making themselves umpires of our affaires. By a cordiall agreement of the King, Parliament, City, Army, and of all the people in this kingdome among our selves.	Nethersole, Francis, Sir, 1587-1659.; England and Wales, Army.	1648 (1648)	Wing N498; Thomason E459_16; ESTC R203019; ESTC R205087	17,014	32

persons among which Articles these two were the principall That they have traitorously indeavoured to subvert the very Rights and being of Parliaments and that for the compleating of their trayterous designes they have indeavoured as farre as in them lay by force and terrour to compell the Parliament to joyne with them in their other trayterous designes and to that end have actually raised and countenanced tumults against the King and Parliament yet this heavy charge against the said persons being themselves members of Parliament was not further prosecuted against them neither was the suggestor thereof made knowne through whose default it belongeth not to your Petitioners to inquire or judge otherwise than in our private consciences so farre as the said default is one of the hinges upon which the justice of the late Warre hath been and ought to be turned But as one the one side we humbly conceive that either justice ought to have been prosecuted against the said accused persons and the suggestor of the said Articles according to the Lawes already in being or if upon this occasion there were any defect found in the above-recited Lawes and Declarations of Law then some sufficient provisionall Ordinance in amendment of that defect might have been devised and applyed to the present case by the wisedome and authority of your Majesty and your Parliament that justice might have proceeded So on the other side we hope we may presume to say because in truth we think that no inconvenience which might have occurred through any legall proceeding either against the said accused persons or their secret accuser can any way countervaile the many mischiefes which have ensued upon the interruption thereof For in your Petitioners poore observation grounded on divers Declarations of your Majesty and of your two Houses of Parliament particularly that of your Majesties of the twelfth of August 1642. and that other of the Lords and Commons of the beginning of the said moneth the obstruction of justice in this case first hath been the scandalous occasion whether given or taken of a like stoppage in the case of many other offenders and more especially of some not long before and of others soon after by Parliament accused of the same horrid crime of having intended force against the Parliament which accusation notwithstanding was not further prosecuted against them And this unluckie disturbance of the due course of justice in the supreme Court and Councell of the kingdome occasioned a fatall division in it and them and was the true rise of the two actions at Warre the one between your Majesty and your Parliament and the other between the Parliament and your Majesty which hath since overrun this whole Land with such violence that no preeminence of the Crowne or liberty of the Subject how well established soever have been able to stand before it But force throughout prevailing above right a sea of confused disorder brake in upon us and a face of barbarous anarchy for a time covered this whole Realme In tender consideration whereof and prevention of that utter desolation which must needs speedily overwhelme this miserable kingdome if an other like floud of civill warre should rise upon it your Petitioners humbly prostrate at your Majesties feet do there implore your gracious protection And do most humbly pray your Majesty as they do also your Parliament that due and speedy justice may passe upon all persons of what degree or quality soever that may be found guilty of any intention of over-awing or over-ruling your Majesty or your Parliament before or since the beginning of the late War the cursed issue of that highest misdemeanour and treason can be devised against your Majesty and this your kingdome and respectively declared to be such by your Majesty and by your two Houses of Parliament Or if this in which there seemeth to have been some difficulty in time of peace should now be grown lesse possible after so long a warre That then for the time past your Majesty of your owne Princely clemency and by authority of your Parliament would be pleased to passe an act of oblivion and to grant your full and free pardon to all the aforesaid respectively accused persons and to all other that may be guilty of the same misdemeanour and treason as also to all those that have been involved in the late warre through the failer of due and timely justice in those originall and criticall cases And howsoever that for the time to come the Militia of the kingdome may by act of Parliament be for ever setled in such a way as may safegard the Parliament and all the Members of both Houses thereof and above all your Majesties sacred person aswell against all tumultuary assemblies of the people as from all attempts by way of force though under pretence of authority from the King Which we humbly conceive is not impossible to be done without making a divorce between the Scepter and the Sword which have been for so many ages joyned in marriage by the providence of God and Law of the Land And that in and by the same act of Parliament severe defences may be made against all other unlawfull practises that may be found to be any way to the prejudice of that intire freedome which ought to be maintained in all Parliamentary proceedings by all that wish well to their King or Countrey That immediately upon the passing of this Act the whole souldiery in this kingdome may be disbanded the Committees for the safety of the respective Counties dissolved and that your Majesty thereupon returning to Westminster all other matters either now in difference between your Majesty and your Parliament or between the two Houses thereof or mentioned in your Majesties most gracious Message of the twentieth of January 1641. or in any other Propositions and desires either of your Majesty or of the Lords and Commons especially those which concern the purity of Religion of the Worship of God and right government of his Church may by the united authority of your Majesty and of your Parliament be setled in such a manner that the Throne of the kingdome of Jesus Christ may be erected in the due height thereof in this Realme and the Throne of his Vicegerent therein may not be abased nor any liberty of any the freemen of this kingdom infringed in the least degree without your Majesties and their free and full consent in Parliament it being as we humbly conceive altogether unjust and unlawful and therfore clearly cannot be either profitable or durable for the Kings or Subjects of England to attempt the making of any change even to the better of the Lawes and present Government in any other fashion That as the most probable and powerfull meanes to put an end to all strife and to prevent all partialitie or suspicion of partialitie in these supreme Resolutions all the Members of both Houses of Parliament may by an Ordinance be enjoyned to take such an Oath as may be

A PROJECT For an Equitable and lasting PEACE Designed in the year 1643. when the affairs stood in ballance before the second coming of the Scots into this Kingdom from a desire to have kept them out then WITH A Disquisition how the said Project may now be reduced to fit the present conjuncture of affairs In a Letter sent to divers prudent persons of all sorts For preventing the Scots bringing an Army into Enland a third time or making themselves Umpires of our affaires By a cordiall Agreement of the King Parliament City Army and of all the people of this kingdome among our selves Pro me praesente Senatus hominumque praeteria viginti millia vestem mutaverunt Quum omnes boni non recusarent quin vel pro me vel mecum perirent armis decertare pro mea salute nolui quod vincere vinci luctuosum reip fore putavi Cicero in Orat. ad Quirit post Redit Saluberimum est Reip. si magna Imperia diuturna non sint ut temporis modus imponatur quibus Juris non potest Tit. Liv. Printed in the yeare 1648. A LETTER sent to divers prudent Persons of all sorts SIR I Humbly pray you to take the paines to peruse first the Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament of the fourth and his Majesties of the twelfth of August 1642. After them the considerations dedicated to the Lord Major and Aldermen of the City in the yeare 1642. Comparing the second sheet therof with a part of the Declaration of the Army of the 14. of June 1647. from those words But because neither the granting of this alone c. to these we desire that the right and freedome of the people to represent c. And in the last place the Project I send you with this built upon the same foundation which was first layed in the Considerations and which the army once thought firme enough to support their hops of Common and equall right and freedome to themselves and to all the freeborn people of this Land at as much leisure as you may obtaine from your many other great occasions and with as much attention as you may think fit to bestow upon a piece of no more worth bearing these thoughts in your minde while you are reading it 1. Whether it had not been honorable for the King and his Party safe for the Parliament and theirs and equitable for both to have made a Peace upon the termes therin designed at the time of the writing thereof which was upon the first newes of the Scots resolution to come into Enland the second time and from a desire to have kept them out then by agreeing among our selves 2. Whether under favour and with all humblenesse be it written it had not been more conducible to the Reformation and establishment of Religion in the Kingdomes of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God which ought to be the onely rule thereof and to the extirpation of Popery Superstition Haeresie Schisme Prophanenesse and whatsoever may be found contrary to found Doctrine and the power of godlinesse And to the preservation and defence of the Kings Majesties person and authority of the rights and liberties of the Parliament of England and the liberties and publique weale of this Kingdome for the King and all the subjects thereof at that time to have come to a Peace among themselves upon the said designed termes than to have continued the Warre by calling in strangers to their respective assistance upon the terms practised by one side and in probability designed by the other 3. Whether it may not be thought more expedient for the two Houses of the Parliament of England and the whole people thereof to come to an Agreement with his Majesty upon the same terms at this time notwithstanding the great alteration of affaires in their favour since the Project was designed than either to ingage in a new War against the Scots with such a division among Englishmen as will be an indubitable consequent if not an antecedent therof or to admit them to be Vmpires in the affairs of England as they will become if the differences between his Majesty and his English Subjects should by Gods mercy come to an Accommodation upon their third as those between his Majesty and the Scots did upon their first bringing an Army into this Kingdome 4. Whether any and what exception can be taken to the justice or equitablenesse of any particular Article of the Project even at this time without having respect to the practicablenesse thereof whereof perhaps there may be lesse doubt ere long though I yet see no other sufficient ground for it but this that methinks the tide is turning Such are the revolutions of humane affairs And lastly in case any of the said Articles shall be judged though neither unjust nor unequall yet impracticable as things now stand whether the said Project may not be reduced to fit the present conjuncture of affaires with some additions abatements or alterations and what alterations abatements or additions may be found just and reasonable for the two Houses of Parliament to insist upon and for his Majesty to yeeld unto in respect of the change and present state of affairs Secondly to passe your censure and let me know your sense upon all the foresaid particulars with the freedome of a freeman of this Kingdome for whom I conceive it to be lawfull with due submission to those in Authority to conferre together in a private way about the best meanes to recover and maintaine a lasting Peace in the Realm especially at a time when there is cause of feare that it may be yet longer discontinued by the coming in of strangers in Armes which is once more our condition at the present And in particular How you conceive the Militia may be setled so as may bee honourable for the King and yet safe for his Parliament and Kingdome of England according as is designed in the Project Vpon the receipt of which favour from you I do hereby engage my selfe to make you a returne of my thoughts upon the fifth and last Article and by way of Advance do now let you know that to the three first I should make a short Answer in the Affirmative to the fourth in the Negative In the last place I do here promise you to keep your Answer to my selfe only if you shall so require me or if I shal publish it with your leave yet never to discover your name if you shall command me to conceale it In exchange of which promise I must crave one from you to suffer no Copie to be taken in writing nor any new Impression to be made either of the Project or of this Letter untill I may finde the season opportune for the Publication of them which I do not as yet And for that reason though I send you them in Print to ease the trouble of transcribing I have made