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A40962	An expedient for the king, or, King Charls his peace-offering, sacrificed at the altar of peace, for a safe and well-grounded peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall, and every subject in particular, of his kingdom of England Behold! all ye that passe by, stand stil, and see the wonderful salvation of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of this kingdom, by his servant King Charls : Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God : Aske of the King, and he shal give you not stones, for bread, nor scorpions, for fish / studied and published for the honour of the King, and his posterity, and the universall happiness of the whole kingdom of England, by Richard Farrar, Esq.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F520; ESTC R8687	30,129	43

nulling of all his Majesties Declarations against both Houses of Parliament or any other person that hath offended or seemed to offend the King as also a calling in and nulling of all such as the two Houses have set forth against the King or his Friends as shall be agreed on in the Treaty 35. That all things passed by the Seal made by the Parliament be set into a right order yet so as the Honor of the King Majesty be not touched upon to posterity This is a weighty matter and requires the gravest and wisest heads in the Kingdom to settle and yet it must of necessity be so in regard of after-questions I leave it to the Treaty 36. That during the Treaty which doubtless if the People come with equal hearts to Peace as the King doth upon these Resolutions his Majesty will take such order that none of his Party shal come within so many miles of the Court or who so doth shall be by his especial license and knowledg given to the Parliament and his Majesty to answer for them for the not disturbing the Peacè of the Treaty If your Majesty shall be pleased to add or diminish as you are free This is far from being by me intended other then to shew the heads of so many necessary things for the good of the People which I conceive your Majesty might confer upon your people according to Reason and Religion After these voluntary Offers of Your Majesty to Your People or what You shall please to add me seems it is very necessary for Your Majesty to make these Demands and what other You shall be pleased 1. TO be setled in all your Revenues 2. To be invested in all your Customs 3. The Tunnage and Poundage formerly given to your Ancestors and your self to be continued in liew whereof your Majesty wil maintain the narrow Seas from Pyrates as the Custome was 4. That the bestowing of all Honors and Offices throughout the Kingdom by Sea and Land all that were formerly your Right and never heretofore questioned in any Parliament since your Raign be in your Majesty and your Majesty to place and displace all persons that are in Office under you either by Sea or Land none excepted 5. That the Court of Wards be again setled and regulated if need be or if in the Treaty it be agreed otherwise then to give 150000l per annum in liew of it 6. The titles of Honor of what kind soever your Majesty hath conferred on any person since the beginning of this Parliament not to be disputed but held good for the Honor of your Majesty 7. The naming of all Officers of Ireland in the War for Ireland if it be a War to rest in your Majesty 8. That all your Majesties friends who have any way adhered to you in these Wars or otherwise to possess all their Estates and no man to lose any part of it though given away or disposed by Ordinance of Parliament 9. That the Officers of your Majesties Army and all the Souldiers Arrears be satisfied 10. That the Publick Faith be satisfied 11. That the disbursements for Ireland made by the City be satisfied to them 12. That if your Majesty find a way or means of your own not contrary to the Laws nor opposing the Subject whereby you can in 7 or 8 years redeem the Bishops Lands and pay the interest that the Lands be returned into Your Majesties hands having first satisfied the Debt and Interest payd for them 13. That for the Queens Majesty care be taken for the setling of her Rights and Joyntures and for the exercise of her Religion as it ought in Honor and Reason 14. That the Militia stand as it formerly did before the beginning of these troubles without disputing and if it be thought fit to strengthen it in the hands of the Sheriffs more for the Peoples safety then advantage of the King Peroratio SIR ALL the world now sees that you are the Center of Peace I therefore the most humble and most unworthy of all your Majesties Servants and Subiects having a long time from my very soul grieved the sad condition of your sacred Person your Royal Consort and most Princely and Numerous Issue the sad and languishing Estate of your Maiesties three Kingdoms the horrid and dayly bloodshed of your poor Subjects perpetrated by their own hands after some earnest prayers to Almighty God from whom alone cometh every good and perfect gift to enable me some way to express to your Majesty and the Kingdom something which might at least point out the way to a happy Peace and a perfect and right understanding between you and your People It hath pleased God of his infinite goodness and mercy after some months study to open unto me this door or entrance at least for your Maiesty if you are so pleased to pass through into the Temple of Peace which Temple is only in your Maiesties power to build and in the power of no mortal man besides your sacred Majesty must take the pains to lay the first and the last stone in this building your self must begin and perfect this great work It is you alone that have found the Art of Oblivion as well as you have the power to give an A●t of the highest Oblivion that was ever read of in the Annals of any Monarch whatsoever Your Majesties many Declarations to both Houses of Parliament and to your three Kingdoms have so deeply seized my soul with belief that I am confident your Maiesty will not refuse to do or ofter any thing to your People in your power that may conduce to a safe and well-grounded Peace so as that you are not in the least prejudiced in what you are so great a Master of Reason and so great a Servant to Religion and for this poor Talent which God hath vouchsafed me and which I here with my self most humbly prostrate at your Maiesties Feet I hope you will not find that in the least I have been so presumptuous or proved my self such a Traytor to your Reason or Religion as to have offered any violence in the least degree to either of them If your Maiesty in the perusal shall find it so I know as an Angel of God so is my Lord the King to discern good and bad Therefore Thy Lord Thy God shall be with thee and so shall he for ever pray who is Your Majesties Most humble and obedient Subject and Servant Richard Farrar THE KINGS COVENANT With His PEOPLE JC. R. Do here in the presence of the blessed Trinity God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost profess to all the world without any Equivocation or mental Reservation that I now do and for ever will forget and forgive all kinds of offences against me either in word or deed committed by any of my Subjects of England and contained in the Act of Oblivion and this of my own free will and desire I do that all my People may see

and behold the Candor of my Heart and I do here bury in the grave of Oblivion all things contained in the Act of Oblivion in my soul not desiring to remember it and vowing never to revenge it So help me God and the Contents of this holy Book and this I confirm by the taking of the Sacrament TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of Richard Farrar Esq Sheweth THat as an addition to his former Expedient for the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom he is very confident by the mercy and goodness of God he can express something more unto His Majesty so convincing in Reason and Religion whereby there may be a sudden and unhoped for happy settlement of the Kingdom and that in a way unanswerably Rational and Religious for the satisfaction of all Interests whatsoever and of all men not wilfully and wickedly opposite to Peace who have any sparke of Reason or Religion left in their hearts Your Petitioner doth therefore most humbly pray that he may have free liberty from both Houses of Parliament upon the score of his own abundant folly to go to the Isle of Wight and there to present His Maiesty in writing with such particulars as your Petitioner hath long since conceived and prepared for the sudden and happy setling of the Peace of this unhappy Kingdom without further shedding of innocent blood which hourly cries up to Heaven for vengeance on all hands your Petitioner being more confident then formerly if possible it may be that he is capable by the mercy of God who he believes hath enabled him for this Expedient to answer any obiection whatsoever that His Majesty shall be pleased to alleadg in opposition to what your Petitioner shall propound to him for a safe and well-grounded Peace And the whole Kingdom with your Petitioner shal as in duty they are bound dayly pray c. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT MY Lords of the House of Peers and you the Members of the Honorable House of Commons the Representative Body of the Kingdom of England since I have taken the boldness as a Subiect and Servant to His Majesty to signifie to him what I conceive his duty to be in the setling or towards the setling of a safe and well grounded Peace Give me leave I humbly pray to say thus much at least that the welfare and happiness of every Member of both Houses as of the whole Kingdom lies at the stake either for good or ill according as God shall move your hearts in the tender and speedy care of the Peace of this Kingdom and this Peace you can neither well begin nor happily end but by following the example of His Majesty Regis ad Exemplum c. in taking out and practising a true Self-Denial of any the least private Interest of your own either of Honor Profit or Revenge making it subordinate to the publike good and welfare of the Kingdom your Nurse and Mother who expects a speedy accompt of you at the present she being wounded all over from head to foot weltring in her blood ready to give up the ghost as God doth likewise look for a strict accompt and will do to all Eternity of your true and faithful performance of your duty for the instant Peace and quiet of the Kingdom To this purpose you were chosen for that end was your Call by God and Man and nothing else but that ought to have been from the beginning to the end your care and study day and night but how you have performed this trust in your Endeavours and eight years sitting and what success hath been let the world not I Judg This I am too sure of the neglect of many in attending their duty at the Houses in the beginning as if they had not been called to any such purpose as to wait there daily the divisions amongst the Members of both Houses from the first sitting to this present time and the absenting of others or worse the breaking out of the pale of Parliament which ought on no terms to have been done hath been no small cause of the Miseries of this unhappy Kingdom who hath been still every way wounded by her own unnatural Children Then after that the great Eruptions the differences of opinions in Church and State the setting on foot of Self-Interests of several persons and those not mean ones neglecting the Peace of the Kingdom as if it might have been had with whistling for or at a beck all these put together were no small addition to our common Calamities Add to this the Reproach cast upon Soveraignty the promulgation of contentions and strifes the prosecution of it to a War and so an engaging of the whole Kingdom on both sides in it the taking of a Covenant not of love I fear to the extirpation of that Church-Government that had been so long setled by so many Acts of former Parliaments and the inducing of a new Government more different in name then in essence and truly if rightly examined scarcely differing much in either at least not worthy the making of such bloody differences as have been about it al this without any good success to the Kingdom or content to many of your own particular Members who have varyed many of them even from the Covenant they once took for what ends or Interests I know not I cannot forget to put you in mind or remember you also the several Design of the Army and the Grandies thereof under the Earl of Essex though they were put to a nonplus in it nor of the backwardness to make Peace when it might have been nor of those whose Counsels modelled the new Army which yet for all their successes successes I confess many great and high had they made right use of them for the settlement of the King and Kingdom as they might as they ought to have done who yet not 18. moneths since when the Army was at Newmarket it was a question whether they should have been an Army or no Army kept a foot or disbanded Nor can I omit their rise again if not upon the head yet at least upon the shoulders both of King Parliament City and Kingdom what Designs on all sides and to what ends or how the poor Kingdom hath been shaken with this long and yet terrible Earthquake through Self-Interests and Divisions I press not but this I must say If Designs were well meant and for the good of the Kingdom as I hope they were there was no blessing went along with them for they have not so well succeeded as was by some hoped and by all wished for And then those yet unhappy Votes of no Addresses to nor from His Maiesty which I fear God Almighty is not well pleased with or rather highly offended at God never denyed Addresses to him from the greatest Sinner had he come with true repentance to Cain himself God says If thou

AN EXPEDIENT FOR THE KING OR King Charls his Peace-Offering Sacrificed at the ALTAR of PEACE For a safe and well-grounded Peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall and every subject in particular of this His Kingdom of ENGLAND Behold all ye that passe by stand stil and see the wonderful Salvation of the LORD which he hath wrought for the people of this Kingdom by his servant KING CHARLS Blessed are the Peace-makers for they shal be called the children of God Aske of the King and he shal give you Not Stones For Bread Nor Scorpions For Fish Studyed and Published for the honour of the King and his Posterity and the Universall happiness of the whole Kingdom of England BY RICHARD FARRAR Esq Printed in the Year MDCXLVIII TO The Kings most excellent Majesty Most Gracious Soveraign IT is the saying of Solomon the pen-man of the Holy Ghost and the wisest King that ever was Prov. 21. 1. The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he pleaseth I a poor despicable man despicable because poor do presume out of my sincere loyal affection and duty to Your Majesty and my earnest desire for the re-uniting of You with Your Parliament and Subjects of this Kingdom to offer or rather to sacrifice my weak Conceptions to Your gracious Acceptance or Refusal Sir We are all in an Egyptian darkness be You but pleased to cause the Sun-shine of your Mercy and Goodness to break out upon Your poor Subjects of this Kingdom and there is great hope we may soon be delivered from this fearful Confusion whereinto we are faln For my own part I beleeve Your Majesties not being conscious of the misery Your poor Subjects are in in regard of the unkingly restraint You are for the present unhappily under is the cause You cannot be so zealous as otherwise you would to redress it and that your want of knowledg of the present conjuncture of Affairs is that which renders Your People so infinitely miserable that they are ready every minute to precipitate themselves into the Gulf of Despair It is said of Almighty God There is mercy with him that he may be feared and his mercy is over or above all his works And I beleeve without least flattery I speak it that there is abundance of Mercy and Bowels of Compassion with You towards Your poor Subjects that You may be both loved and feared and that Your Mercy will shower it self down to the amazement reproach of those that seem not to beleeve it Did I say Your Mercy yea and Your Justice also even against Your self in the voluntary clouding of Your own Princely Royalty and that Prince who shadows his own Glory meerly for the good of his Subjects is a rare Pattern And the first giver of so great an unexampled Example must needs render himself glorious to all Posterity Sir in the first place I presume with boldness enough I confess yet will I not flatter you so much as to say I beg Your Majesties pardon for it to remember you that Self-Denial is the only way to happiness Temporal here Eternal hereafter and had it been but a little practised on all hands by the three Estates of Parliament at the beginning or budding forth of these unhappy differences although Malice it self cannot but say that Your Majesty acted Your part and the very Lepers of Samaria shall one day rise up in Judgment against some and say that that was a day of good tydings and they ungratefully held their Peace In Your abolishing of Monopolies putting down the Star-Chamber disannulling the High Commission Court outing of Bishops from the House of Peers Regulating the Councel Table granting of Triennial Parliaments and continuing of This not to be dissolved without the consent of both Houses Your Majesty and Your People had not felt Gods heavy hand as You and They have done for these seven years past and yet do but for me to presume to tell Your Majesty what Self-Denial is were a most unpardonable offence And yet for Your Majesty to beleeve that this Peace-Offering which You sacrifice to the good and happiness of Your People in this sad condition Your Majesty is in and the most miserable one They are plunged into can be happily begun without Self-Denial on Your part first and then all the Peoples part also is so far as I can apprehend in Reason and Religion altogether unpossible and by the sequel of my discourse I doubt not but to make good the Truth of it at the Full Sir look into Your own heart and see whether informer times You were not more Your own or others who abused you then Your Subjects universally The word Proprium is of a neer relation and I doubt whether it sits not as close to the hearts of Kings as of Subjects which your Majesty well knows is not compatible with Self-Denial Sir You are a great Monarch true yet You are but a Steward nomine re a Steward of the great House of the Common-wealth and one day it shall be said to You as to the Steward in the Gospel Redde Rationem Give an Account of thy Stewardship And the Accounts of Kings are of a vast extent Sir You are a Sheepherd also a Sheepherd of a great Flock our Saviour calls himself a Sheepherd the great Sheepherd of Israel and he tells you a good Sheepherd will dye for his Sheep he did so And S. Paul Phil. 2. 5. speaking of our Saviour Christ and there deducing him from all eternity to time hath these words Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God But made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men And being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross Wherefore God highly exalted him c. And shal I doubt Your Majesty will imitate our blessed Saviour in all you can I doubt it not He prayed for his persecutors and taught us so to do He forgave his enemies that crucified him even upon the Cross Father forgive them they know not what they do nay he dyed for them who dyed saith the Apostle for the sins of the whole world You are not desired Sir to dye out of the world or to part with Your Soul by a Sequestration of it from your body for then we were miserable Let the greatest curse that ever fell on the head of any man fall on that head that hath but such a wish or thought in his heart All you have to do or suffer is but to part with a sillable or two from one single word a few letters cut off from that Monster as the People call it although there hath been held out to them for a long time a more Prodigious one

of poor men only and to lay your severe Charge that the Poor the Widow and the Fatherless have speedy Justice 13. That your Majesty will pass an Act That any Judg that shall be found guilty of Bribery shall die for it and his skin to be hanged over the Court for ever 14. That your Majesty wil appoint a Judg in every Court called the poor mans Judg a man esteemed to be an upright man and your Maiesty to allow him 200. l. per annum 15. That your Maiesty will appoint in each Court two Lawyers for the poor who sue in forma pauperis and your Maiesty to allow them 50. l. per annum each Lawyer 16. An Act That every fifth Cause that shal be heard in any Court shal be the poor mans Cause and called on by the Judg for the poor man that sues in forma Pauperis and the party that is overthrown by the poor man shall have a fine set upon him for vexing the poor man and if that the poor man be found a litigious fellow and malicious he shall be punished as shall be thought fit 17. That your Maiesty enact a severe Law against Adultery and a high fine and punishment for whoredom 18. That your Maiesty cause some order way or means by Act or otherwise for a speedy ending of all suits against those wicked Dilemmaes of the Law which are the ruin of thousands and only the inriching of the Lawyers 19. That the Commons in the Country in every Parish be sold and the poor allowed it for many are so poor they can make no use of the Common 20. That your Maiesty cause all Acts for the benefit of the Poor to be put in execution never more need never more poor And upon complaint made to your Maiesty your Maiesty to redress it 21. The Excise to be setled for the payment and satisfaction of all Interests which it will abundantly do in some years if it be farmed out and ordered as in Holland the particulars too large to express here and no bread smal-beer flesh or fish to have any Excise set on them but to be highly advanced on Tobacco Wines Sugar Spices and all outlandish commodities Gold and Silverlace c. 22. That Your Majesty promote the setting on foot the great and most necessary Trade of Fishing as shall be thought best by Corporation or otherwise by free Trade for all men the imployment of People breeding up of Mariners c. it cannot be imagined how much the Kingdom would be the better for it often thought on never set on foot 23. An Act to be passed for the supply of all Poor young and old amongst whom how many thousands of maimed souldiers and people made miserably poor by these Wars on both sides all to be taken care for in a way or means which shall be expressed for the effecting of which the Kingdom shall be at as little Charge as now they are and ever have been and this shall be plainly manifested when occasion shall be too large to express here which will be to the glory of God the education of young Children the maintenance of old decrepid people and a provision for all and every poor man woman or child in the Kingdom though bedrid blind or lame so as this course well observed the reshall not be a Beggar in the Kingdom of England A pious Work 24. That Your Majesty pass a stricter Act then ever for the putting down of Alehouses through the whole Kingdom one for ten that now is in and about this City were too much so numerous they are that almost every third house in the Suburbs is an Alehouse Victualing-house Cooks house or a Chandler that sells Bear and Ale which ought to be regulated in a strict manner so highly is God dishonored by it the poorer sort undone and so many thousand idle lustly fellows and young wenches and boyes bred up in that way and the most part of the mony gotten by deocit of measure 25. That your Majesty pass an Act that those that are not able to satisfie their Debts their bodies not to be kept in prison giving all they have to their Creditors if less may not serve for if this be not done besides the numberless number of men that now lie and starve in prisons how many thousands yea more who have lived wel and yet meerly by these Wars on both sides are utterly undone not able to pay any thing Shall they lie in a prison and theirs starve or beg If this Law be rightly enacted no man shall deceive or cozen not one of twenty shall break or be Bankrupts or if they do they shall gain nothing by it nor shall any man as many do live in prison and not pay his Debts if he be able but his estate shall be sold This Act rightly ordered is of a great benefit to the State and ought to be done in Reason and Religion 26. That all Fees of Lawyers and Physitians Atturneys Chirurgions and all Fees of all Courts of Justice be brought to a fit rate It is a shame yea and a sin that a Physitian and a Lawyer should have such great Fees 27. That the Estates of all Subjects be liable to their Debts none excepted this is rational and religious 28. An Act that none of Your Majesties Servants be chosen of the House of Commons nor no servant of a Lord who takes wages of him 29. An Act that no Lord or Person of Honor or other shall write his Letters or use any indirect means to procure any man to be a Member of the House of Commons but foly left to the Country and if it shall be proved that any Member hath so tampered by money or friends upon discovery to be turned out of the House 30. That all the Kings Forrests and Chases be so ordered that the Poor suffer not but that the King rather suffer himself for the good of the Poor 31. That your Majesties Ear shall always be open to hear any complaint and to punish it against any Officer that you have placed in Court City Country c. 32. That Your Majesty pass an Act that henceforth Balletting boxes be used in both Houses as in the State of Venice the benefit great the dispatch sudden and little partiality will be then expressed but every man will do as his conscience informs him without Fear or for Favour 33. An Act about Gaming some most severe Act for it is the Ruine of the Nobility Gentry and of the City It is not hard to prescribe a way to abolish it so as that no man shall be prejudiced in his Estate and if any shall break that Law to be highly punished to bear no office in this Kingdom this may seem but of a small consequence but it is upon due examination of a great consequence as the State shall approve so a further discovery may be made with the remedies and limits of Gaming 34. An Act for the calling in and