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A37380
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A declaration of the Kings most excellent majesties proceeding with his army at Oxford and elsewhere as it was related by a Student from thence.
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W. C.; T. H.
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1642
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Wing D695
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what closenes and subtilty the Papists have a long time indeavoured to withdraw His Majesties heart from his good people and to endeavour the ruine and devastation of the Kingdome When then they found it was impossible for them by open strength to induce their religion into the Kingdome they laboured night and day to make a misunderstanding betwixt His Majesty and his Councell and by that means to withdraw His Majesties person from his Parliament when they had fomented this and mischievously accomplished it they found the Kingdom would immediatly rise up in Arms against them if they should make open shew of what they intended to put in practice they found therefore no better course to cry up their religion then by crying up our owne here upon proceeded so many Protestations from His Majesty whose zeale to the true religion no man will deny for the preservation of the ancient religion setled in the daies of Queen Elizabeth and King Iames of happy memory this they knew would make a great impression in the hearts of the people and cause them to thinke evill of the Parliament and draw the greatest part of the land to side with his Majesty When they found that this designe tooke effect many great men that were known before to be open Papists the better to comply with the times dissembled their religion and the more to endeere themselves to His Majesty would resort unto the church with him It was reported then that the King had not a Papist in his Army The cuntry thronged in abundance to assist His Majesty who they said received much damage and injury fom his Parliament When they found the King had made himself strong with the Armes and numbers of his people and that according to their expectation much bloud was shed and that there was such a heart-burning amongst the Nobility that it is to bee feared this age will not extinguish then they began to pull off their vizards of hypocrisy and to shew themselves in earnest First there was drawne a Declaration by my Lord of Newcastle to countenance the Papists taking up of Armes presently a great resort of Papists Commanders others addressed themselves unto him Many notorious Papists in the Kings Army were not ashamed openly to confesse themselves and it is to be feared that His Majesty who at the first entertained some for their assistance in the end of the warre must be inforced to gratifie some for their necessity who by reason of their service being gratious to the King will continew to infuse ill counsell into his sacred eares or be of power with his Ministers and agents of State to procure a toleration at least for their Religion You see my Lord of Newcastles Army is marching towards Oxford and what true heart that doth not bleed to consider the cruelty of the bloudthirsty Papists You may doe well to turne your thoughts from the fortification of Brill to a consideration in what an imminent danger His Majesty our Religion and the whole Kingdome is if which God forbid the Earle of Newcastles Army should prevaile and from the praying for peace for how can there be peace as long as Idolatry and bloudshed and rapine raigne to petitions with uncessant prayers Almighty God to blesse our Armies that are going forth to returne them safe with honour and victory to pluck his sacred Majestie from the pernitious hands of such desperat men and to reduce him safe to his great Councel neither do we despair of it for we are informed that his Excellence hath sent forth some Regiments to hinder the progresse of the work and that the Country round about do take up Armes to frustrate it I must desire you to excuse the sharpnesse of my pen and to impute it to the love and not the harshnesse of him who is Your ever loving friend T. H. FINIS