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A47805	L'Estrange his apology with a short view of some late and remarkable transactions leading to the happy settlement of these nations under the government of our lawfull and gracious soveraign Charles the II whom God preserve / by R. L. S.; Apology, with a short view of some late remarkable transactions	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1200; ESTC R6545	90,755	142

he means the Protestant and Cause that is the Peoples Laws and Liberties was irreligiously betrayed by our late Soveraign Who lost his head in defence of one and th' other the Caution he puts in against the Son is of the same alloy a Person so indulgent to his People that out of his particular Necessities he yet relieved the English prisoners that were taken in Flanders although his Enemies and in point of Conscience further so tender that he preserves the Church of England in the Dominions of the King of Spain and still his Honour with his Religion But let us a little examine his Instances for he pretends now to proceed to proofs The Scotish Ministers as he tells us proclaimed and published in 1644. That the late King had spilt more blood than was shed in the Ten Persecutions of the Christians and the Ministers of London declared him a Man of blood c. That is the High Priests and Officers cryed out saying Crucifie him Crucifie him That 's the Original But to come closer to the Business the Scotis● and the Scotch Ministers are a clear different thing Scotis● denotes the Antient Faction● of the Nation No Favourers of Kings and Scotch relates to their Nativity alone abstracted from the Party First they were Argyles Creatures selected to promote Argyles designs So not the Ministry of Scotland but a Pack of Scotish Ministers Next of no more Authority to the Rump against the King than to the Nation against the Rump in which they are as much unsatisfied The Ministers of London did as much he sayes That 's something truly till we consider what those Ministers were and by whom placed and moulded for that purpose Marshall was the prime person in the Agency betwixt the two Nations He that cursed MEROZ He that was sent Commissioner into Scotland taught them their Lesson there and then returning taught some of our reputative Divines to sing the same Tune Here. This is the Man that clos'd with Nye when Presbytery went down and carried the 4. Bills to ●he King at Carisbrook-Castle for which they had 500 l. apiece I could tell you of some more of the Gang that under question for confederacy with Love after a due formality of seeking God delivered as upon accompt of Inspiration that Oliver Protectour was the person and his the Gov●rnment of all that ever were or should be the most agreeable to God This is not to lessen the esteem of Holy Orders neither to fix a rash irreverend Censure upon the Ministry No Man reveres the Character of a Church-man more than my self But 't is to shew the World how much our Pamphlet-Merchand is steer'd by Interest and Passion and how little by Reason and Truth The grinning Whelp now betwixt snarling and fawning would fain perswade the General and his Officers and all the world beside that the Resolve of Non-Addresses by the Lords and Commons was introductive to the MURTHER of the King Murther I say that 's the Plain English of what he stiles A MOST NOBLE ACT OF IUSTICE His Method lyes through direct Contradictions to the Universal Rules of Logique Truth and Honesty By this Insinuation he charges that Exorbitance upon the two Houses and drawes an inference from the Impardonable Quality of that Action to the Necessity and Reason of pursuing it This he pretends to make appear in spight of Ignorance and Envy from the Commons Declaration in persuance of the resolve of Both Houses conteyning the Reas●ns why no further Address and thence proceeds to a Determination upon the Fathers Life and the Son's Inheritance as po●itively fixing upon the Kings Accompt those Plagues this Nation has endured as if the Graceless Villain were of Counsell with the Eternal Wisedom I shall observe in order and First I 'll prove that the vote of Non-Address was not properly an Act of the two Houses or if it were so that it did not rationally direct to the Kings Life Secondly That Declaration of the Commons SINGLY declaring the Reasons of the resolve of Both Houses Joyntly does not amount eitheir to a justification or intention of taking the Kings life No not though I should grant the Members Free which I cannot and the Authority Full which I do not To the First They were under a Force Upon a Debate in the Commons House concerning the Answer to the 4. Bills presented to him Dec. 24. 1647. and debated Ian. 3. Commissary Ireton delivered himself after this manner The King hath denied safety and protection to his People by denying the 4. Bills that subjection to him was but in lieu of his protection to his People this being denyed they might well deny any more subjection to him and settle the Kingdom without him That it was now expected after so long patience they should shew their Resolution and not desert those valiant men who had engaged for them beyond all possibility of retreat and would never forsake the Parliament unless the Parliament forsook them first From hence naturally results the menace of the Army in case the Parliament should forsake them and Ireton understood the Souldjery too well to mistake them As yet here 's nothing Capital pretended against the King After some more debate CROMWELL urged that it was now expected the Parliament should govern and defend the Kingdom by their Own Power and Resolutions and not teach the People any longer to expect safety and Government from an Obstinate man whose heart God had hardened That those men who had defended the Parliament from so many dangers with the expence of their Blood would defend them herein with Fidelity and Courage against all Opposition Teach them not by neglecting your Own and the Kingdomes safety in which their own is involved to think themselves betrayed and le●t hereafter to the Rage and malice of an irreconcilable enemy whom they have subdued for your sake and therefore are likely to finde his future Government of them insupportable and fuller of Revenge then Iustice Not● lest Despayr Teach them to seek their safety by some other means than adhearing to you who will not stick to your selves how destructive such a Resolution in them will be to you all I tremble to think and leave you to Iudge This Speech concluded the debate and the better to Impress his meaning he laid his hand upon his sword at the end of it If this be not a Force what is The Power and Inclination of the Army being the only moving Arguments to obtain the Vote The Question was then put and Carried for no more Addresses But no pretence still that extends to Life I shall appeal now to the Declaration it self to which our Regicidall Babler refers the world for satisfaction First the Sectarians had stoln a Vote Ian. 4. to Engarrison Whitehall and the Mews the Lords not mentioned in the case their manner of obtaining it was this 'T was Noon and the Independent party called to Rise The Presbyterians went their wayes to Dinner the

the Cavaliers are of Opinion that the King will come in but I believe it never the more for your saying it Now to the SOBER PRESBYTERIANS they sayes our Phanatick begin to suspect the General for the Cavaliers are at this instant arming themselves in all the three Nations and if CHARLES STUART comes he 'll bring with him Arch-Bishops Bishops c. and then in comes his Mother with her Iesuites Priests c. and this will make little difference betwixt us and the Sectaries Now do I dote upon the sincerity of this Bubble had he pretended to Religion himself h 'ad been ridiculous but putting that scruple upon the Sober Presbyterian 't is well enough The story of the Cavaliers Arming themselves is a Phanatick not a Presbyterian conceipt As to the Queens bringing in Jesuites c. It needs not the Independents have enow for her Majesty and themselves too How the changeable Buttersly flutters from Party to Party and whereever he seizes he stains As to his concluding Opinion that the King will put no difference he may live yet to change that opinion He comes next to the Armies BEST FRIENDS as he terms them and they preach nothing but Fire and Sword if ever the King come Oh this pestilent MILITIA Alas poor Wretch Away with your Improbable Lies The Secluded Members threaten the Army Yes 't is a likely matter Come Gentlemen you are safe if you continue honest and lost without it Do not you know that these very persons that now Flatter you are the people that have taken your meat out of your mouths that have received sufficient for six Armies from the Nation and yet have left you monilesse and ready to perish for want of Bread Nay suppose their Arguments were more rational than they are and that the King were a Person as famous for Cruelty as he is for Clemency you were still safe You are below the stroke of Revenge They are fearfull for their own Heads and pretend to concern themselves for you They talk of Treachery in case you should recede from their Designs They tell you of Engagements Promises c. and so do I. Remember but your Oathes and Covenants and if you do you will not mix with them they promise you the glory of after-Ages yes you shall be Renown d if you engage with these Desperadoes Look back into old Stories enquire into the different reputation of the Brave Mayor that kill'd the Rebel-Patriot and of the Libertine himself that fell a MARTYR your hot headed Councellor would call him Are you ambitious to be Chronicled with JACK OF LEYDEN KNIPPERDOLLING CADE TYLER RAVILLAC BALTAZAR GERARD c. Desire your brainsick Illuminates to tel you Muncer's Story go to beware of separating Remember them that cried You take too much upon you ye Sons of Levi the Congregation is holy every one of them and the Lord is among them To come a little nearer home Reflect upon the deceas'd Patrons of their Frantick Zeal their very slesh is not more putrid than their memories Come nearer yet and look impartially among your living Partizans I speak of such as our Pamphleter stiles Patriots do not you finde them cloth'd with the Spoils of Widdows and of Orphans Nay look into their Morals even toward those that with the loss of Bloud and Peace have rais'd them how Thanklesse and how A varicious are they Examine now their Principles of Courage and their Military Vertues do they not sneak into Committees and there dispose of all the Advantages of your Unchristian Hazzards YOV kill the HEIR but THEY divide the INHERITANCE Having abundantly perplex'd the mindes of his weak Brethren he 's as intent now how to entangle the Interests of the Nation The man is willing to do any thing that may help on the work of undoing All and here he 's ballancing Accompts casting up how many millions will pay the Court-debts and repair the Losses of His Majesties Friends For that I think the next Parliament may as well compose the Difference as either he or I this only I may say 't is not the care of the Publick which imploys him so much His sins are greater than he can bear All this is nothing compar'd with what he has yet to tel you Observe him well and ask him how he looks when he lies Vpon his knowledge the Militiaes are resolved to cut the Soldiers throats in their beds Why does he not discover who they are Still the bloudy 11th and 21th of Febr. runs in his Head The Villanies of that night how hardly does he digest them and then the Catalogue of Saints the Holy-ones of the Rump that nettles the Bum terribly That marks them out for a Massacre he sayes The Worthies have behaved themselves well the mean while that call themselves the People Why at the worst if the People have a minde to destroy themselves they cannot begin better than at the Breech that 's a good way from the Heart The Story of your Governor is every bodies tale I 'll only take the Applicable part We love the TREASON but we hate the TRAYTOR 'T was you Betray'd your Countrey 's trust to the Army They love the Treason but they hate the Traytor 'T is as fit as if it had been made for you Now your Advice which is scarce worth a Fee for you propose things Impossible Rendezvous first you say why you Phansie sure that the General is of the Plot and that his Officers are all mad and then you propose a Confederacy as 't was at NEW-MARKET your little Agitators c. Fie Fie Gentlemen here 's the difference of the Case the Nation then was with the revolted Party against the Great ones Now they 're Unanimously against you in any such Design Your General is a Gentleman and a Soldier and every Man that is either in the Kingdom will die at 's Feet His Officers are Persons that understand Honour and the Discipline of War There 's not a man among them but when he comes to passe a Sober Thought upon so base an action as a Mutiny would rather Perish than promote it Beside you are discovered with the first breath that utters the least Syllable tending to Conspiracy Could I believe the Conscience of that Traytor that advises you to this would let him Sleep I should believe his Councel but a Dream 't is so remote from any due Coherence of right Reason Come shall I Counsel you a little Be obedient to your Superiors Compassionate to your Countrey Just to your Equals In fine serve God and honour those whom he hath set over you for your Good 'T is not the Fool 's Reviling of his Betters that mends your Cause or makes ours worse There are as he sayes Ropes twisting I believ 't but they are for such Imps as himself He tels you Gallows are setting up for the executions of your friends and he accounts himself one of your friends who knows what may come on 't He concludes with a Proverb Men ARM'D are seldom HARM'D Take mine too and so shall I conclude Save a THIEF from the Gallows and he 'll CVT your THROAT April 4. 1660. Libido Dominandi Causa Belli THe Militia of the Nation being at present in good forwardnesse toward a settlement was yet quickned by Lambert's escape out of the Tower which was understood to signifie more than his particular Freedom and Safety by reason that he had already refused Liberty upon engagement to be quiet Hereupon the General placed four Companies of his own Regiment in the Tower and the Council of State issued forth a Proclamation against Lambert and his Complices requiring all persons whatsoever to be assistant to the Suppression of them The Citizens repair'd their Posts and Chains strengthened their Guards and in short the whole Nation was as vigilant as possible to disappoint the Grand Conspiracy of the Phanaticks About this time they made several Attempts in order to a general rising but by the care and Conduct of the Council the General and the Militia all came to nothing the heart of the Design was almost broken and yet they would not leave their Pamphleting Particularly Milton put forth a bawling piece against Dr. Griffith and somebody else another scurrilous Libel entituled EYE-SALVE I did not think it much material to reply upon these the people being already convinc'd of the Right but however being excited to it by a private Friend I return'd these following Answers