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A81428 A dialogue betvvixt a courtier and a scholler: Wherein severall passages of state are briefly discuste for the further satisfaction of the common people. 1642 (1642) Wing D1346; Thomason E122_7; ESTC R5010 5,807 8

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A DIALOGVE BETVVIXT A COVRTIER AND A SCHOLLER Wherein severall Passages of State are briefly discuste for the further satisfaction of the Common People Octob 13. 1642 Courtier SIR YOu are well overtaken your habit renders you to be a Scholler and for the present a traveller likewise I suppose you have been at London and elsewhere to visit friends as well as I that am an honest Courtier Scholler Sir I am a meane Scholler and as you conjectured have been in London and other parts of the Kingdome to see some old acquaintance which now I did the rather least my purpose should have been prevented by the great concourse of Cavaliers that doe daily increase in all parts which is a meanes of begetting and increasing jealousies and feares in the hearts of travellers Court What say people in those parts where you have been concerning the differences betwixt the King and Parliament Schol. Truely Sir they tell me that they are amazed about those differences in regard both King and Parliament doe solemnly professe in their Declarations c. that they doe chiefely and solely intend the good both of Church and Common-wealth and yet notwithstanding have now at last after the losse of much time and expence of a vast summe of the publique treasure argued themselves into a civill combustion and ingaged the Kingdome in an unn●turall and bloudy warre Court I pray thee Scholler tell me since both pretend to make the common good the end that all their undertakings drive at and yet goe two wayes directly contrary to effect ●t whether of the two is best beleeved by the Vulgar Schol. Sir they tell us in the generall that they never heard of any Parliament being rightly chosen and assembled that did ever prejudice the Common-wealth and therefore they dare not entertaine dishonourable thoughts of this especially since the experience they have had of some and the information they have had of others of these Worthies hath rendered them faithfull to their Countrey insomuch that what ever pretences may be made by the one partie or the other yet they are resolved to follow our Saviours rule in judging of the Tree by its fruit Now Sir I must needs tell you they having lately seene our stately Cedar invironed with the fluttering Ivie of Prelacie Popery and Delinquencie it makes them jealous for they sticke not to demand why a King of England being seduced by evill Counsell may not say he hath done and will doe that which he neither hath done nor intends to doe as well as a King of Israel whom God had appointed to be annointed over the people boasted that he had done that which afterwards he confest he had not done Court Hath not the King of late both fully and frequently declared himselfe that he will maintaine the Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land the Liber●ies of the Subject and the Priviledges of Parliaments I hope he is beleeved and none make question of the reall performance of what he hath promised Schol. Beleeve it Sir the people distinguish betwixt those promises that are made by a King seduced by evill Counsell and those that are made by him when such Counsellours are removed from him your selfe will say I suppose that that man is very unlikely to performe his promise that puts himselfe into such a condition wherein he will be necessitated to breake it His Majestie hath heretofore declared that he will maintaine the Protestant Religion and yet by reason of the negligence wilfull negligence it s to be feared of those Counsellours about his Majestie we have seene that Popery hath been tolerated Masses frequented Popish Priests and Jesuites favoured and if at any time they have been questioned by some and brought upon the stage of Justice authoritie hath fetcht them off againe as not suffering a haire of their heads to perish whilst in the meane time many of the faithfull Ministers of Christ faithfull to their flocks have been suspended imprisoned and unnaturally used and Popish idle drones and such like advanced and promoted Sir the people mutter at these things Court It s strange that the people should have no more confidence in his Majesties personall promises and protestations then to draw up such conclusions as these are and that about Religion too which is of such everlasting concernment to us all Prethee what cause have they to thinke that the Lawes of the Land and the Liberties of the Subjects should miscarry notwithstanding the Kings solemne assurances that he will innovate nothing Schol. The small satisfaction that people receive notwithstanding these reitterated protestations fetches its rice from this ground They say that those Councellours which heretofore have so often flattered his Majestic into errour they remaining still neere unto his person and their whisperings having a chiefe influence into his proceedings may prove fatall both to himselfe and his good people and in a short time wooe his Majesties resolutions out of his sacred breast and divert his good intentions that he had towards his people Sir they have had large experience of the accursed fruits of these counsells the multitude of Monopol●es the exaction of Loane-money Ship-money Goate and Conduct-money doc sufficiently witnesse this Besides their endeavours to advance the Prerogative beyond its due limits and their suppressing of the Subjects Liberties their attempts to paralell the Government of this Kingdome with that of France and this as some conceive hath usher'd in this intestine broyle that so in case his Majestie conquer our old and new Lawes may be destroyed and he reigne over us as a conquer'd people by his will And now of late their drawing of his Majestie from the Parliament which hath been an unspeakable impediment to their proceedings the manifest retarding of supplyes for Ireland if not countenancing of the rebellion there the late executing of the Commission of Array the inlet of beggery and slavery their plundering and firering of the houses of his Majesties Subjects their slaying of their persons and exercising of most barbarous and inhumane cruelties and all because people will not renounce their Religion Lawes and Liberties and all that can be called theirs Sir these notorious acts of injustice are not the Kings ' but his Ministers who then can expect that these unnatural Vines should ever bring forth good grapes or that a Prince looking through the false glasse of their counsels should possibly discerne or be inabled to judge what may be good for his people Court I but Scholler thou knowst the King hath done much in the pursuance of his promise made to maintaine the Protestant Religion by two late Proclamations the one for disarming of Papists and the other for prohibiting any to be of his Army unlesse they should first take the Oaths of Supremacy and Alleageance Schol. But Sir what satisfaction can this give the people since it is notoriously knowne that many Papists are ingaged in this service and some too necre His Majesties person and that in many