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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52759	Honesty's best policy, or, Penitence the sum of prudence being a brief discourse, in honour of the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftsbury's humble acknowledgment and submission for his offences ... on the 25th of Febr. 1677 : together with the several proceedings of the said Right Honourable House ...	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing N390; ESTC R20017	20,550	16

may see to the Confusion of all their Slanders against the King and his Ministers and his Counsels about the several particulars aforementioned how fairly and prudently things were carried at Whitehall concerning them Only one Point more is to be cleared that is the Black-heath Army a thing much babbled about as a Grand Bugbear by the same Generation and a black Business to this day My Lord will do this for us too Those few Forces which some will needs call an Army during the Dutch War were if I forget not to have been made about 6000 to have been sent to make a descent upon some part of Holland and were rendezvou'd at Black-heath for that design O but there was more in it the Commander in chief was Monsieur Schomberg a French man What then But he war a Protestant also and judged fit for that Work In answer to this let me mind you what the King himself said in his Speech spoken the same day before the Earl of Shaftsbury began his His Majesties words were There is one Jealousie more that is malitiously spread abroad and yet so weak and fri●●lous that I once thought it not of moment enough to mention but it may have gotten some ground with some well-minded People And that is that the Forces I have raised in this War were designed to control Law and Property I wish I had raised more Forces the last Summer the want of them then convinces me I must raise more But I conclude with this Assurance to you That I will preserve the true Reformed Protestant Religion and the Church as it is now established in this Kingdom and that no mans property or Liberty shall be invaded You see the Jealousies raised about those Forces the King slights as a frivolous piece of Malice hardly worth mention But however gives all Assurance for Religion Liberty and Property And as for my Lord he in page 13th of his Speech calls it a Jealousie foolishly spread abroad of the Frees the King had raised in that War And he saith It was so great an Error in the King not to have raised more Forces at that time that nothing but the true Reason want of Mony could have justified the defect in the number of those Forces And then as to the blame of their not doing the work that they had been raised for his Lordship answers that the preceeding Summer was a miracle of Storms and Tempests such as thereby secured their East India Ships and protected their Sea coasts from the descent designed by those Forces And if you will not believe so Noble a Patriot as his Lordship about these matters then go on to report and scatter your Scandals till your throats grow hoarse and sore with reporting and become as incurable as your Faction Nevertheless with men not madly obstinate these Evidences ought to pass that there were no such great Offences in Whitehall nor in his Lordship neither in the years before 1673. Now for the other part of my Observations in and after 1673 Divers great Offences grew up from time to time to put the World much out of Order And verily these should not be repeated were it not of so high importance for Publick Service to prevent falling into the like again and to restore the minds of such as are fallen Never was more work done to put a Nation out of Order in so little time as two or three years considering the good and happy condition it was in by his Lordships own Confession for from 73. to 1576 was no long space and by that time his Lordship had taken up Lodgings in the Tower It seems as if he bestirred himself to purpose and began betimes to offend because notice was taken presently after a Court of his Lordships behaviour insomuch that it is said he was forbidden coming to Court But to be even with them for this and for other purposes he took heart and hied as fast as he could into the City with Resolution to become a Citizen and trod the Exchange as a Merchant and as constantly as any being then to drive a great Trade in small Wares of Popularity how it came about you may guess but as to a Common place for all People there flockt the Factors of every Faction Soon after this Clubs and Committees of good Fellowship and Sedition were erected and there all and more than all the Infirmities of Court and Errors of State were Arraigned and Condemned The old Sore also want of Trade was rubbed and the only Remedy resolved on viz. The removing of Evil Counsellers and a crying down France Ministers of State and French Pensioners Arbitrariness and Property yea all that was not at Court was to be brought on the Stage and the Bishops too and to be stript of their Lawn-sleeves Oracles likewise were given out to be delivered in Common Council at Guildhall by Mr. Jenks and his fellow Wi●secres and Orders issued out for a general Muster of Grievances against the Session of Parliament besides many a costly Dinner and deep Potations for the putting as many Members as they could out of their Senses There the Contrivances were first set on Foot to Institute Offices of Intelligence to coyn News for the Coffee-houses and an Academy for inventing Seditious and Treasonable Pamphlets with Directions how to Print and Spread them to edifie both City and Kingdom into an Oblivion of their Allegiance and a belief of meere Inventions that so they might be rendred tractable towards any design of their Factious Leaders and for the quickning of a diligent Correspondence of their Countrey-Agents with the supream Council of the Directors at London These were the blessed fruits of the Years 1674. and 76. I am far from charging his Lordship with any of them but I may only observe that all these beginnings of Disorder follow'd his Lordships laying aside at Court and were the unhappy Consequents in time of his Courtship in the City After a while ill humours like ill Weeds grew so fast that now they began to think themselves both powerful and skilful enough to play a Prize in Parliament and therefore seeing the Memorable Session of 13th of April 1675. was at hand they provided their pranks so to play that the Parliament should not be in Condition to do any work but both Houses only embroil one another with hard Speeches and Disputes about Priviledges c. and thereby being in no capacity to make dispatch of Publick Business be rendred altogether impracticable and unuseful to the King and Kingdoms pressing Occasions This device was driven high and with heat for an artifical blowing up of this Parliament because the But-end of it was to induce upon the King a necessity of calling a new One in this Point entred all the Crafts-Masters of every Male-contented Party as the grand Medium wherein they could agree against the present Establishment of the Court and ●overnment both of Church and State because each Party having prepared men

and the Recorder-keeper in this instead of being a Friend to him speaks worse than an Enemy Besides you may remember his Lordship himself in his fore-cited Speech to both Houses gives him the lye having therein told them and all the World on the same 5th of February 1672. That we were to bless God and the King that the Church of England was then the Kings Care and that our Religion was safe by consequence then what needed his Lordships Defence of it by a New Act Or how can it be thought the King would turn him out for Defending what His Majesty Himself had under Care to preserve These things do not hang together And yet the Recorder in his following words in the same page will needs become his Lordships Friend again and says that his Lordships Defence of that Act c. did not only cost him his Place but was the Moving Cause of all those Misadventures and obloquy which His Lordship afterwards lay ABOVE not Under I will not say Dignum patellâ Operculum What a lucky Defender and Advocate is this for his Lordship I mean rather an unlucky That he who in a Treasonous Libellous Pamphlet industriously now spred and dispersed into all hands about the Kingdom to rail down both Houses of Parliament his Royal Highness all the High Officers of State the Kings Privy Council the Principal Secretaries all the Judges all other Officers of the Government and the Court it self and then concludes all with a vile Jeering Caress of His Majesty Himself should in the same Book appear to be a Trumpeter of his Lordships Vindication and Praise It looks ugly but far be it from us to think that there is any understanding betwixt him and the Author 'T is only his Lordships ill luck that in divers other like Pamphlets the Knaves have been so bold as to commend him and who can help it And yet on the other side the Recorder to serve the Faction makes it part of his business to reckon up before 1673. while my Lord was interested in the Counsels at Whitehall as many Faults as he supposes in the Government as afterwards when his Lordship was gone This is indeed a great Fault in Mr. Recorder to let things drop that reflect upon so good a Patriot as well as upon Whitehall For besides Roman Idolatry and English Slavery he rails at Compliance with the French War with the Hollander breach of the Triple League Shutting up the Exchequer in the Counsels whereof before 73. my Lord Shaftsbury was no stranger and as forward as any man and he reaped the benefit as cleverly For they can tell at Sir Robert Viners who in probability it was that knew of that of the Excequer for asmuch as Sir Robert Servants remembred afterwards and smiled to think that his Lordship a few days before the Shutting it up was so wise as to call in 3 or 4000 l. out of their hands for his Lordship is wont to do all things with very good Consideration Besides he hath been so boldly generous as to justifie all the rest of the foregoing Particulars which are railed at by the Recorder For in his forementioned Speech on the 5th of Feb. 1672 to both Houses as Chancellor he told them that as to the point of Poperies having been designed it was a great Calumny His Majesty having so fully vindicated Himself from that Calumny concerning the Papists that no reasonable scruple can be made by any good man And the Church of England and all good Protestants have reason to rejoyce in such a Head and such a Defender He was born and bred up in it It was that his Father Dyed for We all know how great Temptations and Offers he resisted abroad when He was in His lowest condition and He thinks it the honour of His Reign that He hopes to leave it to posterity in greater Lustre and upon surer Grounds than our Ancestors ever saw it Those very words were a part of his Lordships 〈◊〉 ●peech in 72. and may serve for Answer to the Scandal of any design for Roman Idolatry Besides as to the Fear of Englands Slavery you had his Word and Engagement in the last page of the Speech That our Properties and Liberties are safe Then as to the breach of the Triple League the War ensuing with the Hollander and compliance with the French and the Black-heath Army which are the Scandals mightily bandied about by the Recorder and all the Factious ill willers to His Majesty hear also the Report of His Lordship the good Patriot while he was at the Helm and in at all the most intimate Passages of the Cabinet so that not a French Mouse could an wagged there without his knowledge to the hurt of England and he justifies all the Counsels to the height concerning those Matters For in several pages of that Speech of his viz. the 6 7 8 9 10 and 13. you will find things to have been thus He takes off the imputation of that War and of the breach of the Triple Alliance from the Counsels and Counsellers of the King and chargeth it wholly upon the Hollanders themselves that they brake first for that besides their denying His Majesty the Honour of the Flag at Sea they disputed His Title to it in all the Courts of Christendom and made great Offers to the French King if he would stand by them against Us. At this Season our King and his Ministers had a hard time of it and lay every day under new Obloquies Sometimes they were represented as selling all to France for money to make War Portsmouth Plymouth and Hull were to be given into the French hands for Caution The next day news came that France and Holland were agreed Then the Obloquy was turned from Treachery to Folly The Ministers were now Feels that some days before were thought Villains For if that Conjunction had taken effect then England had been in a far worse Case because the War had been turn'd upon Us. But both Kings knowing their own Interests resolved to joyn against them who were the common Enemies of all Monarchies and I may say especially to ours These are his own very words And as he charges that War and by consequence the breach of the Triple League upon the Hollander So he takes off the pretended Scandal of it from the King and his Ministers and lays it upon the Parliament also as well as the Dutch saying in the same Speech openly to both Houses You judged aright that at any Rate Delenda est Carthago that Carthage was to be dectroyed that is to say that the Dutch Government was to be brought down And therefore the King may well say to you 'T is your War He took his measures from you and they were just and right Ones And if after this you suffer them to get up again let this be remembred the States of Holland are Englands eternal Enemy both by Interest and Inclination By these words our Factions Ill-willers