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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90657	Veritas inconcussa or, a most certain truth asserted, that King Charles the First, was no man of blood, but a martyr for his people. Together with a sad, and impartial enquiry, whether the King or Parliament began the war, which hath so much ruined, and undone the kingdom of England? and who was in the defensive part of it? By Fabian Philipps Esq;; King Charles the First, no man of blood: but a martyr for his people.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1660 (1660)	Wing P2020; Thomason E1925_2; ESTC R203146	66,988	269

interest to that every thing or nothing or to that non-sense according as the Lawless Unlimited Unjust and Ignorant will of fellow subjects shall please to mis-use them in the Voting-house or place of bandying aies or noes For a Parliament which in its legal and primitive institution consisting of King Lords and Commons and the right use of it is so venerable as no man as our Laws say ought so much as to speak or think dishonorably of it we cannot without violence to the Laws and our own reason and understanding call it where Publique orders are made without hearing of all or any parties interessed a piece of a cause heard by some and none at all of it by others votes and parties made and packed and lent to one another before-hand and the best of the Faction and juglers carry all the business as they have a mind to it A way of Justice worse then that if there were any in it of a lawless Court said to be kept yearly on a Hill betwixt Raleigh and Rochford in Essex the Wednesday after every Michaelmas-day where the Steward or Judge sitteth a in the night after the first Cockcrowing without any light or Candle and calleth all that are bound to attend the Court with as low a voice as possibly he may writes orders with a coal and they that answer not are deeply amerced For that being a particular punishment long ago inflicted upon the tenants of certain Mannors in Raleigh hundred for a conspiracy against a King is but once a year and some shift change or mercy of the Steward or an appeal may take away the inconveniency of it A vvay of government vvorse then to be subject to the rule of so many fools for they might perchance do that vvould be just or so many Knaves vvho but in playing the Knaves one vvith another or for reward might sometimes do that vvhich vvas right or Mad-men vvhich at intervals might do something vvhich vvas reasonable vvorse then for every subject of England to be put to play at dice for his Life or Estate or any thing else which he should crave a Justice to get or keep for then he might by skill or chance obtain some thing In fine vvorse then any example or vvay of Government the World hath as yet produced and can have nothing vvorse but Hell it self The Parliament and priviledges of it are destroyed and every mans Life and Estate in no better a condition then at the pleasure of the next pretenders to it All the Charters and Liberties of Cities and corporate Tovvns Corporations of Trade and Companies of Merchants made void all Merchandise Trade and manufacture of the Kingdom laid open and in common to every one that will intrude upon it all that is in the Law concerning our Lives Estates Liberties and Religion made voide and dependent upon their Arbitrary Independent power all that is in the Law concerning Navigation the Kings protection of His people certainty of Customes Trade and entercourse leagues and correspondencies with Forraigne Princes expired or anihilated and all that our forefathers have obtained by way of Laws and Settlement and certainty of Estate are now at the dispose of our Votemongers who instead of a most Pious and Gracious King governing by known Laws have set us up 43. or 50. Kings and ten times as many more Knaves and Fooles who will govern by no Law but such as they shall call Laws and make themselves can be accusers witnesses and Judges at one and the same time and if need be condemn and take away mens Estates first and try them after two or three years Petitioning for it a bondage and slavery in the general more then ever any of our ancestors tasted of For the Romans whose Justice and morality at home and vertue and temperance abroad made them free enough from Tyranny did but make them as Tributaries The Picts made but temporary incursions and a wall could be made against them The Saxons and Danes brought us good Laws and William the Conqueror was contented to restore them And all that succeeded him since understood a government by Laws to be their own as well as the peoples security but this which they have now brought upon us and would keep us under is a misery beyond that was suffered under the 30. Tyrants of Athens Spartan Ephori or Romes Decemvirat for there were something of Laws and Rules to govern by The Children of Israel in the Egyptian slavery had a property in their goods and cattel and were at liberty to serve a better God then that of their masters and though they had their burdens doubled upon them were not killed imprisoned or sequestred for petitioning against the sense of Pharaoh The Jews in captivity had so much liberty of conscience allowed to them as to play upon their Harps and sing the Songs of Sion in a strange Land The frozen Russians though so dull and ignorant as when they are asked any matter of State or difficulty make answer God and the great Duke knoweth breath not under so arbitrary and lawless a government The Grecians had not their Laws Religion and Liberties as we have all at once taken from them nor can the sufferings of them or any other vassals of the Ottoman part or those that live under the Crim Tartar equal the one half of our English Slavery Into which we had never fallen or come at all or so long groned under had we but served God and the King as we ought to have done and not wrested the sense as well as the plain words of the Scripture and the Laws of the Land to enable the sons of Zerviah to be too hard for us and bring all maner of mischief confusion and wickedness upon us more then Romes or Constantinoples Antichrist ever brought upon a people and from which the King had delivered us if we had not Cursed Reviled Prayed Contributed and fought against Him for endeavouring to Protect us How gracious then was he who endured the heat of the day and cold of the night to preserve a great deal more for us then Nabals Sheep could amount unto yet being worse used then ever David was for it could not tell how so much as to threaten to do that which David had so great a mind to do but fought as long as he could to protect them would not so much as defend themselves but did all they could to ruine those that defended him And how much was he beyond Codrus the Athenian King the Roman Curtius or Decii if all that the Ancients wrote of them were true who sacrificed themselves but not their Estates and Posterity to preserve the publique and how good beyond example or the Credit of any history who made himself a Martyr for His peoples lives and liberties and endured so many deaths and suffered more indignities then all the Kings of England put together have ever endured to preserve a people who have for a

them to rescue his Brother Lot and his goods and was blessed by Melchisedec the Priest of the most high God for doing of it Or if the k War which the Tribes of Israel made against the Tribe of Benjamin and the men of Gibeah for committing lewdness and folly in Israel that of l David to rescue his wives that were carried away captive by the Amalekites or m to fetch home the Ark of God from the Philistines that which n Ahab made with Benhadad the king of Syria who was not half so Tyrannical in his Propositions as the Parliament were approved of in sacred Story or that which was made by Judas Maccabeus and his Brethren to rescue the decayed Estate of the people of the Jews or that which was used to be made by the heathen pro aris focis were never yet so much as suspected to be unlawful How shall this of the kings be condemned that had as much as Abraham David Ahab against Benhadad o Judas Maccabeus and the tribes of Israel or those heathens that made it pro aris focis put them all together to warrant it Or by what reason or Law is any man by the Laws of England excused for killing a man in his own defence when he is necessitated to it or for killing theeves that come to assault or rob him in his House or Castle If the King shall be hunted from his House through all the parts and corners of his Kingdom for his Life and not only for his Life but his Honour and not only for his Life and Honour but his Conscience and yet must never draw his sword or seek to defend himself or have any body else to do it for him Or how have all the Kings Princes and Magistrates of the world hitherto governed and defended themselves and their people or shall ever be able to give an account of the people committed to their charge if they may not be at liberty to make a Legal use of the sword power and reason which God hath given them Or how can those State riddles like those of Sphinx only made to destroy men withal that they fought for the King and Parliament as is alledged in many of their Orders and Declarations and that the war on the Kings part was a Rebellion raised against the King and Parliament as is expressed in the p Ordinance of Parliament for association of the Counties of Pembroke Cardigan and Caermarthen be ever understood by any rules of sense or reason if he had been as he was not on the offensive part of the war and had begun it against them Or how the Earl of Essex and Sir Thomas Fairfax could as there was Law and reason enough to perswade them to it believe that the war made by the King against the Scots wherein they served and took command under him was lawful and that a War in his own defence against the forces of the Parliament wherein they were shortly after successively one after the other Generals and Commanders against him should be unlawful or that they which seised the Town and Magazine of Hull and first began the war against the King who only defended himself and the people committed to his charge can possibly be understood to have done it in their own defence or that what they did could in the means and way which they used or took unto it and the sad and dire effects and consequences of it receive any other interpretation then that they began made a war against the King upon a colour only and pretence that they made it for him But if any shall be so in love with the sense of the House of Commons as to be out of their own senses and think that though there be no maner of evidence or proof to be had for love or money that the Parliament were constrained to defend themselves by a war yet the Kings admitting of the Preamble of the Parliaments Propositions presented to him at the Isle of Wight that the Parliament was necessitated to take up Arms in their just and lawful defence makes him who must needs be best acquainted with his own actions to be so clearly guilty of all the blood that hath been shed in these wars as it puts to silence all that can be now alledged or said in his behalf They that made the preamble and placed it in limine and the threshold of the Treaty on purpose to catch and insnare him for either he must have denied it at the very beginning and entrance into the Treaty and leave his Kingdoms and people to wallow in the blood and misery which their Parliament Idols had brought them to have all the blame laid upon him for hindring a Peace which he had so much longed and laboured for or put himself and all his Loyal Subjects that helped to defend him under the burden of those Sins and Shames which the Parliament themselves had all the right to can tell their undone and deluded Proselytes how much the King stuck at it how unwilling he was to break off the Treaty and was unwilling to wrong his own Innocency and that when the Parliament Commissioners had not any thing either in Law Truth Reason or Argument to perswade him to yield unto it but laid it only as a case of necessity before him though there was no such preamble at the Treaties of Oxford and Uxbridg nor any such necessity at those times insisted upon that unless he would take the guilt upon himself his two Houses of Parliament and the People had engaged with them must necessarily be guilty of Treason and could not have any security from the guilt and punishment of it The King bemoaning himself and people that must be thus shut out from any hopes of peace intreated some expedient or medium might be found out to reconcile the differences But Cains sins being greater then could be forgiven him unless Abel can be brought to say he killed Cain they that could afterward finde an expedient for 21. of their great Councel of State that refused to subscribe to the lawfulness of murdering the King after it was done could finde none at all for the King to purchase a Peace for the people though many kinds of ways and expedients as allowing Him to make a preamble to his own propositions that the war made by Him was made in his own defence or the like might have been easily contrived and thought upon For the truth was the Independent party desired no Peace at all the Presbyterian desired it only to get into their hands the Kings Power Authority lay the guilt of all the blood they had shed for it upon Him both of them were so well content to have Him allow of the preamble as the latter thought himself safe and out of controversie if the King took the blood upon Him and the former that it would prove no small advantage or colour to