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A70748	May it please your Lordship, having formerly discourst amongst the crowd of arguments which have been vented since the knowledg of the peace; ...	Orme, Thomas, d. 1716.	1690 (1690)	Wing O435A; ESTC R6411	20,658	27

turned to my Inconveniency or Prejudice therefore I crave your Lordships Pardon in general for the trouble that these Papers may have occasioned promising that if I remain after this Sessions discountenanced both in the attempts for making the Militia more useful and also the renewing and better settling the Annuities I will never set my hand again to a Publick Print as I do to this rather by way of Declaration than Recantation of what I have unhappily published to my loss and the dissatisfaction of a particular Lord from whom I do hereby solemnly declare with Truth and Sincerity that I have received more Favour and Kindness than any Man Living both at Court and in his own House and Family and that I think my self oblig'd to Serve him and them with the utmost of my Ability and this is all I can say towards an Attonement for what is past if it stands as a Fault Recorded which can be no worse Character'd than the Latin affords Nil habet infaelix Paupertas durius in se Quam quod Ridiculos homines facit My gross Presumption was Printing a Favour without License for and with which I humbly offered a Reason and endeavour'd an Apology so that I can say no more till I hear what Submission is made for Printing Letters of those of the Highest Quality and Exposing them to publick Sale which I have by me and by Purchase which with Submission tho they tend to the same purpose are not more Emphatical or Essicacious and why he shall rest unrecriminated that exposes Quality to publick Sale and I generally blam'd for communication to the Pares of the Original Author is I yet hope not so much a Fault as Misfortune being sincerely intended as a step rather towards corroboration of Honour than disturbance or any inconveniency if these approaches can not prevail for a Pardon I must farther follow the advice I long since learnt Dum Furor in cursu est currenti cede furori Humbly assuring your Lordships that for the future I shall be very Cautious of presuming to discourse either of or with Honour or Honours but rather observe the Scripture instructions When thou comest to a Rich Mans Table put thy Knife to thy Throat i. e. converse with none but thy equals And this Causes me to look back into this Paper to review and consider whether I have not presum'd in saying the Nobility of England never put themselves into Arms with more Willingness and Readiness than they did at King James's Access to the Crown Now finding it so nice and Difficult a Point to mention Honour I must enlarge by observing also That when the Protestant Nobility understood the Dispensing Power was putting in practice for relaxing or setting aside those Laws which had been many years and several Reigns in making for defence of the Protestant Religion we now pretend to and that all Eneavours possible were in agitation for introducing the Popish Persuasion the Protestant Nobility and Gentry quitted their Posts in the Army and other Employments and Trusts as fast as any sober People in the World ever did for altho they have a great regard to Monarchy yet they will not so much indulge it as arbitrariously to disannul those Laws by which we enjoy as happily as any People in the World our Religion and Property which God continue long For I am near an assurance it is not in the power of Foreigners to give us any great Disturbance so long as we continue the present appearing mutual Affection and interchangeable Addresses and Answers as have past betwixt the King Lords and Commons this present Parliament who if they continue like the Sheaf of Arrows are not to be broken but should they unhappily separate then our Neighbour by the Instigation of the lurking Jesuit may break or snap us in pleces like dry Reeds and Tobacco-pipes I must request leave for two or three Lines towards explaining my self for keeping my peace with the Souldiery who I hope will allow me to explain my self thus That I think it absolutely neceslary they should continue in the Station they seem settled for this year and also fill'd up to a compleat number equal to their Officers if occasion requires or a greater Number upon emergent Necessity such as has been discours'd of the French Landing For the Militia must be dwindled below Effeminacy and become as inconsiderable as a cast Mistress not having been look'd upon these seven years last past she has been mentioned and so far enacted several years as to be in readiness not with Arms and Ammunition but with a Months Pay in their Pockets If this be all the Improvement that can be made of her it 's time to lay her aside absolutely and inlarge and encourage those Military Powers who have put a stop to all designed Insults over us either by French Power or Popish Designs and I doubt not are of Courage Disposition and Affection to preserve the present King with the Religion and Property of all his Dominions both from Foreign Powers and Domestick Enemies This I say because I in part know and am apt to believe more than I know that many of Quality great and good Estates have ventur'd Lives and Fortunes rather for preservation of the Constitution and those Laws that preserve cur Religion and Property than obtaining Self interest It s apparent few have gain'd Advantage by these Wars and it 's now as clear to the World by the general Peace that the major part of the Confederacy entred into and maintained the War the best they could rather upon the Consideration of Property than Religion For we hear very little of any Article in the Peace concerning Religion unless some mention of the Vaudois But many in this Island have ventured their Persons and all of us our Money very freely by Sea and Land and the main of the Argument has been the Defence of Religion For which I have heard several Officers declare themselves such Champions that if the King shall think there is any Danger they are ready to obey his Commands yet if the Wisdom of the Nation think it secure they are willing to turn their Swords into Plow-shares These Dispositions are to be esteem'd and admired and deserve Encouragement by Honours and Rewards It 's much to be lamented Conquering time should deprive the World of such Men who have charged and as it were bid Defiance to Death by their hazardous and fatiguing Voyages and Marches by Sea and Land not regarding their own Safety in Sieges and Battles whilst the Honour and Preservation of their own Country with the Good and Safety of their Neighbours and Confederates were in their thoughts these Men are immortal whose Fame may last long after they have yielded their Couragious Heads to the Summons of pale Death upon a soft Pillow For it 's doubtful whether they will be succeeded with the like Principles after a long Peace It is natural for couragious Men to love each

other for ever after they have past through Difficulties and Dangers especially Officers and Souldiers their Commanders and General and more particularly after so long Experience and Acquaintance for above seven years in all which time we have not heard of a Mutiny or Desertion in the Army which is a clear demonstration of Affection to their General whose prudent Care and great Example in Religion and Morals as well as Military Courage and Experience without all doubt will keep the Army steady to him tho he should out-live most or all of his Veterane Souldiers The Inconvenience or Danger of a Standing Army in this Island will be at the change of the Persons at the Helm of the Government for tho we have all the Assurances Man can wish for that this King who has preserv'd our Constitution from dangerous Attempts and it 's not to be feared will all his time establish or amend our Laws But the Doubt or Fear is whether his Successor or Successors having a mercenary Army at their Command may not alter the Constitution to their own Humour or in case of a Minor or weak King or Queen unexperienced in Arms or in case of Want of Pay for the Army may not the Army carve for themselves and set up whom they please or in case of Competition it 's natural for them to adhere to those who will pay them best and gratifie their Humours several Instances we have of this kind in History The Roman Histories afford innumerable Instances of their Potentates and Generals coming to untimely Ends by the Revolts Mutinies and Bribings of mercenary Men when they had declined employing their Arms abroad and fell into Animosities and Contentions among themselves which has been more fatal to England than Foreign Enemies nor did ever any Foreigner come here without Invitation And as for our Animosities those in the year 1641 were the Original of my Ruine Therefore tho a Militia may not be so proper and effectual to make Inrodes into Foreign Countries as a constant disciplin'd Army and tho they may be look'd upon as Raw and Undisciplined and Cowardise may be imputed to them compar'd to those whose Fortune and Business it is to be always in Agitation and Management like a Trade yet it 's undeniable both the Constitution the Government and Governours and every individual Man's Property is best secured by his own Eye and Actions having his Estate and Family at the stake and in as much danger as his Person These Considerations will unquestionably put every individual Man of Estate and Family upon ready and hearty Endeavours for making the Militia more useful according to the Methods the Parliament shall think proper This was my weak Opinion in King James's Parliament when I was in the Army and as near a Souldier of Fortune as any body for that Pay was my chief Subsistance and it 's these principles and Duty for the good of Friends and Relations and the Preservation of the Constitution and also for an essential Good and Security to the Nobility and Gentry and others that have Opulency and a visible Posterity which may put every one upon rational Means and Methods for securing themselves to future Generations rather than any Ends of my own for I am as free and fit as any Man to repeat the Old Saying Nec habeo nec careo nec curo For my Time is so far spent in this World the Appetites for it are near wearing out and the Estate near being crumbled to pieces by long and various Turmoils nor have I Posterity to take care for if my Family or Estate were material all which being decay'd rather through Duty and Principles in my Father than prodigality therefore I may more plainly express what I hope may be for the Safety and Joy of future Times and Generations Which that your Lordships and your Posterity may enjoy are the hearty Wishes of Your Lordship's most Humble Servant at Command THO. ORME FINIS