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The charge of the Army, and counsel of war, against the King. With a brief answer thereunto by some of the loyall party.
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1648
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Wing C2059; Thomason E536_20; ESTC R205339
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seems Buckingham applyed a plaster and gave King Iames a Drink when he was sick of an Ague this may be true But doth this argue that it was by consent of the Prince with intent to murder his Father the poyson of Aspes is under their tongues was he not Heire apparent to the Crown and by consequence of time it could not be long before he enjoy'd it neither could a son be more dutifull to a parent then this Priâ—ce was to his Royal Father Indeed King Iames forbearing his accustomed exercise betook himself to drink more then his accustomed use was to doe which occasioned a Feavorish Ague and a droppicall humor to predominate whereupon impatient of pain he resolved to make tryall of that plaster and Drink that he knew but a while before had cured a great Person of the same Discase besides the Physitians and Apothecaries knew all the Ingredients to be good The Kings body being opened was found fair and cleer Neither had Prince Charles knowledge of applying the said plaster and Drink and yet is adjudged by them to be guilty of murder and patricide For betraying his Trust breaking his Coronation Oath or raising money c. What hath he suffered for these 7. years but for maintaining his Oath the established Religion and known Lawes and Statures Had his subjects been half so consciencious of Perivry as his Majesty England had not been at the passe it now is For Ship-mony Monopolies Oaths c. What was it then to this now have we not Loans extorted Customes increast Exize Contributions Sequestrations Fift parts Twenty parts Meal-mony sale of plunder'd Goods Benevolences Collections on Fasts Fifty Subsidies Compositions sale of Bishops Lands Impositions on all Merchandizes and contradicting Oaths Covenants then pray who is most guilty His Majesty or you But he complyed with Papists Else he had not known his Wife But were not the Laws and Statutes duely executed against Papists and popish Recusants impudence cannot deny it For his Answer to the Popes Letter What he did in a strange Country was for safty of his person For his Religion I refer you to His Protestation But Rochel was betray'd for want of aide the Windes were the Traytors then yet they were so really a yded that Cardinal de Richilieu had cause to remember it besides it was a forrain war so as what his Majesty did he might do lawfully and no doubt But justly in respect of his own Conscience For the Spanish Fleet If the Kings ships had joyned with them where had the Hollander been then but his Majestie was so farre from the least intention thereof that he suffered a great affront in his own Harbors not for want of strength For raising war against his Subjects it could not be for the King knew That his strength lay in the number of his People and to destroy them was to destroy himself he was not the first that raised Forces and when he did it was to defend himself first using all fair means to prevent the shedding of innocent Blood on any conditions as might stand with his Honor with out breach of his Coronation Oath conjuring them by all the bonds of Duty to desist from their unnaturall Rebellion but they would not Therefore he calls Heaven and Earth to witness That He would wash his hands from all the Innocent Blood that must necessarily be spilt in that Quarrell For Ireland It could never be prou'd that ever he gave the least countenance to that Rebellion much less ever granted them Commission as is by some idly suggested and by Mr. Peters was so labored to prove Indeed when his Majesties Honor was troden down here they had an Evidence and example to Rebell there and when their owne party were used so rigerously here to use the like cruelty or worse there over our Protestant Brethren For His Majesties having a hand in bringing in the Scots I beleeve is as true as the rest and better known to his Majesties Jaylors then my self Thus you make the King the foyle to set off you brightness and yet you prove but the cloud that darkens his Light FINIS
THE Charge OF THE ARMY And COVNSEL of WAR Against the KING With a brief ANSWER thereunto by some of the Loyall Party Printed in the Yoer 1648. The Charge of the ARMY against the KING I. THat his favourite the Duke of Buckingham by his consent laid a Plaster to King Iames and gave him a Drinke when he was sick of an Ague although the sworne Physitians had forbidden any to presume to give the King any thing without their Directionâ— of which Plaifter and Drink applyed to him he dyed not long after his body presently blistering and swelling up with the poyson thereof being an Act of a transcendent presumption and of the highest Treason and cannot be judged by us any other then Murder and Patricide II. That he hath betrayed his Trust reposed on him by the People Broken his Coronation Oath raised Moneys unjustly by privie Seals Monopolies Ship-money unjustly imprisoned Sir Dudley Digges and Sir John Eliott and caused new Oathes Ex Officio c. to be imposed and forced on the People III. That he hath complyed with and favoured Papists as may appear by his Letter to the Pope carrying on a D signe to introduce Innovations Seperstition and Popery into the Church and Tyranny into the State that the whole Kingdome might be brought into irrecoverable slavery IV. That he kept back supplyes from going to relieve Rochel so that many Protestants were betrayed to famine and the sword of the Enemy V. That he occasioned the bringing in of the Spanish-Fleet into England VI. That he raised a Warr upon his Parliament to destroy the very beeings of Parliaments for ever after VII That he endeavoured to bring over the Irish to destroy the parliament and gave Commissions to the Rebells in Ireland and made stop of the Ammunition sent by the Parliament for the relief of that languishing Kingdome VIII For his guilt of shedding all the innocent Blood in the three Kingdomes IX For his late inviting in the Scotts to invade this Kingdome FOr these Reasons it is concluded by the Generall Counsell of the Army That all such shall be proceeded against as Traytors who shall act or speak in the Kings behalf till he shall be accquitted of all these Charges against him and of the guilt of shedding Innocent Blood A brief ANSWER to the Charge against His MAJESTIE WHo can behold the Pride and aspiring Ambition of these Martiall Tyrants their deep Plotts and Treacheries against God and Man Gospel and Law Nature and Reason King Parliament and Kingdome without being palsie-strook at the sad consideration thereof especially considering That a Free-born People but lately complaining of their slavish servitude under the King and his Cavalry and the cruel Bondage they groaned under by this present Parliament their griping Committees and the rest of their Tormentors should now without any distrust so willingly lay down their necks to be troden on by an audacious malâ—ipart over-ruling Army of Independents who having usurped a Power contemne and controul King and parliament City and people gulling and decoying them into a belief of Liberty and Freedome the better to colour and drive on their Designes when really they intend nothing less then to linke and yoak the deluded people to Slavery and Bondage whil'st their Estates Lives Fortunes Liberties and Resigion must all be forced to prostrate themselves to the glittering of a Naked Sword all being at the Armyes command and disposeable at their pleasure who mean still to persist in cruell murders and unnaturall Discords as if the spirit of Discord had quite vanquished the Spirit of PEACE and Love and nothing could be concluded of but by Blood and Rapine Mutinies and Treacheries the subvertion of the KING and his Posterity Parliament City and Kingdom and the utter extirpation of all Law Government Religion changing or converting a well-regulated Monarchy into a Military Anarchy chosing a popular Parliament of unquallified Commons unexperienc'd in the Laws of the Land such as many of them cannot write nor read to Rule and Govern us which New parliament shall alwayes be at the beck of the Army for what can be else expected but a continuall trade of Warre and Tyrany so long as the Sense of the Army shall be the Supream Law of the Realme Besides how strange will it be to the People that were lately Govern'd by one KING now to be govern'd by above 400 Tyrants and they but lately ruled by a well regulated Monarchy now to be govern'd by a Military Anarchy or Democracy that were once gently chastiâ—ed with rods now to be scourged with scorpions O ye deluded people be not deceived by these Deceivers who not long agoe in their Declarations Remostrances Proposalls and Letters protested They would endeavor to preserve the Prerogative and Honor of the King and settle him in Peace and happiness in his Throne maintaine the Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty of the Subject establish a true and sound Religion and settle a firme and lasting Peace in this Kingdom and are they not as good as their words when they goe about to murder their Soveraine Is this their way to set him on his Throne in peace It is indeed to settle him in his Throne in heaven Is it to uphold the Priveledge of Parliament to seize on 11. Members upon a meer pretence of some great thing laid to their Charge when nothing could be proved against them and under the same pretence to carry away above 40 more all being rightly elected Is this their way to uphold the Priviledges of Parliament surely it is the way to disolve the Parliament and the Priviledges thereof Is it for the Liberty of the Subject to rob and plunder Halls or prey on any that are well-affected to the King and parliament Is it to settle sound Religion to make Gods House a stable nay a Jakes and to tollerate all religions but the Catholick And are we not like to enjoy a lasting Peace when wee and all we have are at the mercy of their Swords O the delusions of these Deluders Cursed be their Rage for it is fierce and their Policy for it is Devillish But now we will briefly Answer your severall Charges against his Majestie First for his PERSON it is well known to most of his Subjects That he hath alwayes been as Vertuous God'y and temperate a Prince as ever Reign'd in England an Example to all his Subjects for his constant Deuotions to God Wise Just Merciful and prone to Clemency goodness For his consenting to the poysoning of his Father we shall not need to take much paines to Answer it being but an ugly vizard they put upon His Majestie to make him look deformed in the eyes of his Subjects not any Naturall Deformity in his Countenance or Minde for which supposed crime and the raising of a Warre upon his Subjects His Majestie said he would never ask God forgivenesse for the least thought of either never entred into his Princely breast But it