The field of bloud, or, rebellion blazoned in all its colours in a lively representation (grounded upon fact) of the fatal consequences of inhability in a prince, exorbitant ambition in the nobility, and licentious insolence in the Commons.
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             The field of bloud, or, rebellion blazoned in all its colours in a lively representation (grounded upon fact) of the fatal consequences of inhability in a prince, exorbitant ambition in the nobility, and licentious insolence in the Commons.
             Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.
          
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           The
           Field
           of
           Bloud
           :
           OR
           ,
           REBELLION
           Blazoned
           in
           All
           its
           COLOURS
           .
        
         
           In
           a
           Lively
           REPRESENTATION
           (
           Grounded
           upon
           FACT
           )
           of
           the
           Fatal
           CONSEQUENCES
           OF
           INHABILITY
           In
           a
           PRINCE
           ,
           Exorbitant
           AMBITION
           in
           the
           NOBILITY
           ,
           And
           Licentious
           INSOLENCE
           in
           the
           COMMONS
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           Printed
           for
           
             James
             Vade
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Cock
           and
           Sugar-loaf
           near
           St.
           Dunstans
           Church
           in
           Fleetstreet
           .
           1681.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           I
           BEAR
           too
           great
           a
           Respect
           to
           Modesty
           and
           Patience
           ,
           to
           intrench
           over-much
           upon
           Either
           ,
           by
           a
           tediously
           superfluous
           Preface
           of
           Euloges
           and
           Encomiums
           upon
           the
           Manner
           of
           Writing
           here
           exhibited
           ;
           and
           therefore
           ,
           in
           This
           place
           ,
           shall
           only
           ,
           
             First
             ,
             Recapitulate
          
           what
           may
           be
           found
           more
           at
           Large
           ,
           in
           the
           following
           
             Pamphlet
             ,
             (
             Choice
          
           ,
           perhaps
           ,
           in
           its
           Kind
           )
           and
           Then
           ,
           speak
           to
           the
           Vse
           and
           Intent
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           NOW
           ,
           upon
           the
           Demize
           of
           a
           Licentious
           ,
           an
           
             Easie-Temper'd
             Prince
          
           ascends
           the
           Throne
           ;
           blest
           with
           so
           faithful
           a
           Servant
           ,
           and
           sage
           a
           Councel
           ,
           that
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           he
           suffer'd
           not
           himself
           to
           be
           misled
           by
           Young
           or
           Single
           advice
           ,
           the
           Government
           seldom
           labour'd
           under
           any
           greater
           Distemper
           then
           the
           
             Ordinary
             Emulations
          
           and
           Repinings
           of
           Particulars
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           Preferment
           :
           But
           above
           a
           fourth
           part
           of
           a
           Century
           having
           ,
           by
           Burying
           his
           Partners
           ,
           advanc'd
           the
           Favourite
           to
           the
           chief
           subordinate
           Menagement
           of
           all
           
             Important
             Affairs
          
           ,
           and
           he
           (
           as
           often
           happens
           in
           the
           like
           Cases
           )
           growing
           somewhat
           Wanton
           in
           the
           Royal
           Grace
           and
           Bounty
           ,
           the
           People
           at
           the
           same
           time
           surfeiting
           likewise
           of
           an
           
             overgrown
             Calm
          
           ,
           that
           had
           almost
           worn
           out
           the
           memory
           of
           their
           former
           Miseries
           ;
           there
           was
           cause
           given
           and
           taken
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           for
           a
           fresh
           Fermentation
           of
           
             Evil
             Humours
          
           .
           Nor
           wanted
           there
           some
           of
           the
           Discontented
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           to
           cherish
           them
           ,
           as
           a
           Means
           of
           wresting
           themselves
           into
           such
           Offices
           as
           they
           had
           either
           lost
           ,
           or
           thought
           they
           deserv'd
           better
           then
           the
           Incumbents
           :
           But
           finding
           all
           endeavours
           ,
           That
           way
           ,
           Fruitless
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           the
           Minion
           kept
           his
           ground
           ;
           they
           attempted
           the
           Rivalling
           of
           him
           ,
           by
           the
           
           Exaltation
           of
           a
           great
           Bishop
           ,
           who
           ,
           though
           a
           bad
           man
           ,
           and
           before-hand
           corrupted
           to
           their
           Party
           ,
           held
           yet
           the
           Second
           place
           in
           the
           Kings
           good
           Opinion
           ;
           the
           Issue
           of
           which
           Project
           was
           so
           unhappily
           successful
           ,
           that
           all
           his
           worthy
           Services
           were
           Incompetent
           to
           preserve
           him
           from
           sinking
           under
           the
           weighty
           Charge
           of
           having
           
             fill'd
             his
             Masters
             Coffers
             by
             undue
             Courses
             .
          
           The
           Prelate
           ,
           being
           thus
           mounted
           into
           the
           Saddle
           ,
           behav'd
           himfelf
           with
           such
           intollerable
           Insolence
           and
           Extravagance
           ,
           that
           ,
           had
           not
           the
           sober
           part
           of
           the
           Clergy
           seasonably
           interposed
           and
           prevail'd
           for
           his
           Discarding
           ,
           he
           would
           soon
           have
           put
           the
           Authors
           of
           his
           Advancement
           into
           a
           Capacity
           of
           compassing
           their
           
             Wicked
             Ends
          
           ,
           by
           alienating
           the
           Hearts
           of
           the
           Subjects
           from
           their
           Soveraign
           .
           This
           unexpected
           Disappointment
           oblig'd
           the
           Male-contents
           to
           fall
           again
           to
           Chafing
           the
           old
           
             Popular
             Sores
          
           ,
           that
           were
           Then
           but
           
             new
             Skin'd
             over
          
           ;
           upon
           which
           Expedient
           they
           bestow'd
           so
           much
           Art
           and
           Industry
           ,
           that
           ,
           by
           clamorous
           Cants
           and
           Harangues
           against
           Arbitrary
           Encroachments
           ,
           and
           Tyrannical
           Violations
           of
           those
           
             Noli
             me
          
           tangere's
           ,
           Liberty
           and
           Property
           ,
           they
           reduc'd
           the
           
             Hare-brain'd
             Multitude
          
           to
           a
           state
           of
           Disloyalty
           and
           Desperation
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           to
           a
           Necessity
           ,
           upon
           a
           general
           Defection
           ,
           and
           lack
           of
           
             good
             Faith
          
           at
           Home
           ,
           of
           casting
           himself
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           Strangers
           .
           Thus
           was
           way
           made
           for
           the
           Promotion
           of
           a
           Frenchman
           ,
           who
           drove
           on
           at
           so
           furious
           a
           rate
           ,
           that
           his
           Master
           soon
           became
           only
           a
           Cypher
           to
           add
           to
           the
           Sum
           :
           But
           his
           Presumption
           and
           Overwheeningness
           quickly
           overthrew
           him
           ,
           and
           brought
           about
           another
           Traverse
           ,
           still
           more
           pernicious
           then
           the
           former
           ;
           as
           empowering
           the
           Seditious
           to
           do
           what
           mischief
           they
           pleas'd
           ,
           while
           others
           bore
           the
           blame
           of
           it
           ;
           of
           which
           advantage
           they
           made
           such
           notable
           Emprovement
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           Corruptions
           .
           of
           Their
           Administration
           ,
           and
           a
           Famine
           that
           usher'd
           it
           in
           ,
           the
           Mobile
           were
           depriv'd
           of
           all
           Patience
           ,
           and
           ripen'd
           for
           the
           perpetration
           of
           any
           Villanies
           :
           Nay
           ,
           and
           to
           blow
           the
           Flame
           into
           an
           
             Absolute
             Conflagration
          
           ,
           two
           Ecclesiastiques
           ,
           
           struck
           into
           the
           Quarrel
           ,
           and
           preacht
           up
           the
           Rebellion
           to
           be
           for
           the
           Glory
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           Good
           of
           the
           Church
           .
           Wherefore
           ,
           to
           set
           all
           right
           again
           ,
           a
           Parliament
           was
           call'd
           at
           last
           ;
           but
           it
           was
           so
           moulded
           and
           influenc'd
           by
           the
           Discontented
           ,
           that
           it
           prov'd
           a
           Remedy
           worse
           than
           the
           Disease
           it self
           ;
           as
           being
           only
           intent
           upon
           exposing
           ,
           not
           relieving
           the
           Necessities
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           ripping
           up
           ,
           not
           redressing
           of
           Grievances
           ,
           so
           to
           ruine
           his
           Majesties
           Reputation
           as
           well
           abroad
           as
           at
           home
           .
        
         
           The
           King
           seeing
           this
           Pin
           would
           not
           drive
           neither
           ,
           began
           to
           
             spare
             when
             the
             bottom
             was
             bare
             ,
          
           beside
           that
           his
           
             good
             Nature
          
           would
           not
           let
           him
           
             hold
             on
             :
             Next
          
           ,
           he
           pawn'd
           and
           sold
           all
           that
           ever
           he
           could
           rap
           and
           rend
           ;
           then
           ,
           when
           those
           fail'd
           ,
           and
           his
           Credit
           for
           Borrowing
           too
           ,
           himself
           and
           Family
           were
           fain
           to
           be
           beholden
           to
           the
           Peoples
           Charity
           for
           their
           daily
           Bread
           ;
           and
           upon
           their
           being
           tamper'd
           with
           to
           refuse
           it
           ,
           not
           knowing
           which
           way
           to
           turn
           himself
           ,
           as
           his
           
             last
             Shift
          
           he
           summon'd
           another
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           extorted
           a
           Resignation
           of
           his
           Sovereignty
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           
             four
             and
             twenty
          
           ,
           mostly
           of
           the
           Faction
           .
           These
           were
           no
           sooner
           seated
           in
           the
           Chair
           of
           Vsurpation
           ,
           but
           they
           turn'd
           out
           all
           his
           old
           Servants
           ,
           banish'd
           his
           Friends
           ,
           deny'd
           his
           own
           Brother
           (
           though
           
             King
             of
             the
             Romans
          
           )
           entrance
           into
           Dover-Castle
           ,
           and
           suffer'd
           none
           to
           come
           near
           his
           Person
           ,
           but
           on●y
           
             their
             Creatures
          
           and
           Dependents
           :
           Nor
           did
           they
           stop
           here
           ;
           for
           ,
           conceiting
           that
           ,
           by
           changing
           the
           Monarchy
           into
           the
           
             Rule
             of
             Many
          
           ,
           they
           had
           secur'd
           the
           Game
           beyond
           the
           possibility
           of
           an
           After-clap
           ,
           they
           fell
           upon
           all
           Degrees
           and
           Conditions
           of
           men
           ,
           with
           an
           extremity
           of
           Oppression
           and
           Inhumanity
           .
           And
           these
           insupportable
           Calamities
           ,
           would
           ,
           perhaps
           ,
           have
           been
           much
           longer-liv'd
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           not
           disagreed
           among
           themselves
           about
           the
           division
           of
           the
           Spoyl
           ;
           for
           the
           
             Three
             Ring-leaders
          
           ,
           coveting
           to
           engross
           All
           ,
           got
           a
           
             Third
             Parliament
          
           call'd
           ,
           which
           gave
           them
           what
           they
           sought
           ,
           and
           a
           Triumvirate
           was
           thereupon
           erected
           ;
           in
           order
           to
           the
           
           firmer
           establishment
           whereof
           ,
           they
           bound
           the
           King
           ,
           by
           a
           Deed
           under
           the
           
             Broad
             Seal
          
           ,
           to
           discharge
           his
           Subjects
           from
           their
           Obedience
           to
           him
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           moment
           of
           his
           attempting
           any
           thing
           toward
           a
           Recovery
           of
           his
           Right
           :
           But
           
             this
             solemnity
          
           of
           Act
           notwithstanding
           ,
           he
           soon
           after
           solicited
           the
           
           Pope's
           Aid
           ,
           and
           they
           ,
           as
           successfully
           ,
           the
           French
           King's
           ,
           levy'd
           Troops
           ,
           rejected
           his
           Proposals
           of
           Accommodation
           ,
           gave
           him
           Battel
           ,
           won
           the
           day
           ,
           and
           took
           him
           and
           his
           eldest
           Son
           Prisoners
           .
           But
           here
           again
           All
           was
           lost
           ,
           by
           an
           unseasonable
           Contest
           betwixt
           the
           two
           victorious
           Generals
           ,
           about
           the
           sharing
           of
           the
           Booty
           ;
           which
           not
           only
           brought
           back
           one
           of
           them
           to
           his
           duty
           ,
           but
           also
           gave
           the
           young
           Prince
           opportunity
           and
           the
           
             good
             fortune
          
           to
           make
           his
           Escape
           ,
           gather
           up
           the
           broken
           Forces
           of
           the
           late
           Royal
           Army
           ,
           fall
           upon
           the
           Rebels
           at
           unawares
           ,
           discomfit
           them
           ,
           kill
           all
           their
           Chiefs
           upon
           the
           Place
           ,
           free
           his
           Father
           ,
           and
           re-instate
           him
           in
           the
           
             plenary
             Exercise
          
           of
           his
           Power
           ;
           which
           he
           entred
           upon
           ,
           and
           managed
           with
           such
           eminent
           Prudence
           and
           Moderation
           ,
           that
           ,
           by
           rightly
           tempering
           Rewards
           and
           Punishments
           ,
           by
           correcting
           his
           
             own
             natural
             Infirmities
          
           ,
           reforming
           his
           Court
           ,
           retrenching
           the
           Expences
           of
           it
           ,
           spending
           the
           martial
           Heat
           of
           his
           Souldiers
           in
           
             foreign
             Expeditions
          
           ,
           purging
           and
           filling
           up
           his
           Benches
           and
           Tables
           with
           men
           of
           Birth
           and
           Worth
           ,
           being
           present
           in
           Councel
           daily
           ,
           and
           by
           reducing
           his
           Favourites
           ,
           from
           a
           Principality
           ,
           to
           a
           pitch
           only
           of
           Accessoriness
           in
           the
           Government
           ,
           he
           regain'd
           the
           Love
           of
           his
           People
           ,
           brought
           them
           over
           to
           their
           Allegeance
           ,
           liv'd
           ever
           after
           ,
           and
           
             dy'd
             aged
          
           ,
           and
           in
           peace
           ,
           and
           train'd
           up
           his
           Son
           and
           Successor
           to
           be
           the
           Greatest
           and
           most
           Glorious
           Prince
           of
           his
           Time.
           
        
         
           THUS
           have
           you
           ,
           as
           in
           a
           Glass
           ,
           reflected
           to
           your
           View
           ,
           in
           a
           plain
           Rehearsal
           of
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           the
           dismal
           Effects
           of
           Ambition
           and
           Licentiousness
           in
           the
           
             subordinate
             Machins
          
           ,
           when
           conjoyn'd
           with
           a
           
             vicious
             Softness
          
           in
           the
           
             primum
             Mobile
          
           :
           
           As
           also
           ,
           the
           various
           Arts
           and
           Fallacies
           made
           use
           of
           by
           designing
           men
           ,
           to
           cajole
           a
           credulous
           and
           wanton
           People
           into
           desperate
           Circumstances
           of
           Wickedness
           and
           Misery
           ,
           only
           to
           gratifie
           their
           own
           Pride
           ,
           Avarice
           ,
           or
           Revenge
           .
           So
           that
           this
           Tract
           may
           serve
           as
           a
           Memento
           to
           all
           Princes
           ,
           in
           contemplation
           of
           the
           Instability
           of
           sublunary
           things
           ,
           where
           Crowns
           are
           no
           more
           priviledg'd
           from
           Violence
           than
           the
           meanest
           Copy-holds
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Fatalities
           consequential
           to
           a
           Dissolution
           of
           their
           Minds
           ,
           Perversness
           of
           Humour
           ,
           or
           Irregularity
           of
           Will
           ;
           To
           study
           well
           ,
           in
           the
           first
           place
           ,
           the
           true
           Principles
           and
           Obligations
           of
           Sub
           and
           Supra
           ;
           to
           keep
           the
           Reins
           of
           Government
           strict
           or
           remiss
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           natural
           Bent
           of
           the
           Natives
           ,
           and
           the
           respective
           Crises
           and
           Emergencies
           of
           Affairs
           ;
           to
           censure
           ,
           pardon
           ,
           or
           reward
           ,
           upon
           a
           due
           consideration
           of
           Matters
           in
           their
           Essence
           and
           Intention
           ,
           being
           ever
           more
           careful
           to
           preserve
           the
           Hand
           from
           shaking
           that
           directs
           that
           Scale
           ;
           to
           fill
           their
           Thrones
           with
           their
           proper
           Bulk
           ,
           and
           support
           their
           Grandeur
           upon
           the
           solid
           Basis
           of
           their
           Virtues
           ,
           not
           upon
           the
           feeble
           Shoulders
           of
           a
           Creature
           of
           their
           own
           making
           ;
           to
           prefer
           the
           Good
           of
           the
           Publick
           to
           all
           private
           Respects
           whatsoever
           ;
           so
           dexterously
           to
           manage
           the
           irresistable
           Impulses
           of
           State-Reasons
           for
           embracing
           ,
           upon
           extraordinary
           Exigences
           ,
           the
           profitablest
           Counsel
           ,
           though
           not
           the
           honestest
           ,
           that
           of
           the
           most
           ,
           rather
           than
           of
           the
           best
           ,
           as
           ,
           in
           the
           manner
           of
           such
           Complyances
           ,
           not
           to
           ulcerate
           their
           Consciences
           ,
           wound
           their
           Honour
           ,
           or
           taint
           their
           Integrity
           ;
           and
           to
           obviate
           the
           Dangers
           of
           an
           Epidemical
           Corruption
           of
           Morals
           ,
           and
           the
           contagious
           Influence
           of
           Fashionable
           or
           Complexional
           Vices
           ,
           by
           setting
           ,
           in
           their
           Courts
           and
           Retiring-room
           ,
           a
           decent
           ,
           paternal
           Example
           ,
           before
           the
           Sons
           and
           Daughters
           of
           their
           Subjects
           .
           Here
           may
           Nobles
           and
           Gentlemen
           behold
           the
           Patrons
           and
           Promoters
           of
           Sedition
           expiring
           by
           the
           Sword
           ,
           the
           Ax
           or
           the
           Halter
           ,
           and
           entailing
           Shame
           and
           Beggary
           upon
           their
           innocent
           Off-spring
           ;
           and
           from
           these
           Rewards
           
           of
           Treason
           and
           Perfidy
           ,
           (
           collated
           as
           well
           by
           the
           
           help'd
           as
           harm'd
           )
           conclude
           Loyalty
           to
           be
           not
           only
           their
           Duty
           but
           their
           Interest
           ,
           for
           as
           much
           as
           
             their
             Weal
          
           or
           Woe
           is
           entirely
           bound
           up
           in
           That
           of
           Sovereigns
           ,
           (
           who
           are
           the
           Fountains
           of
           Honour
           ;
           )
           and
           as
           any
           warping
           from
           the
           Rule
           ,
           must
           necessarily
           either
           prostitute
           them
           to
           the
           intolerable
           Insolences
           of
           their
           Inferiors
           ,
           rais'd
           by
           an
           Vsurper
           on
           purpose
           to
           curb
           and
           awe
           them
           ,
           or
           else
           ,
           under
           a
           Common-wealth
           ,
           (
           to
           which
           Equality
           of
           Degree
           is
           essential
           )
           reduce
           the
           Lord
           to
           a
           Level
           with
           the
           Lacquay
           ,
           and
           the
           Marquess
           to
           a
           Parity
           with
           the
           Mechanick
           :
           Whereunto
           may
           be
           added
           ,
           what
           ought
           to
           value
           most
           of
           all
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           greatly
           below
           the
           Generosity
           of
           such
           Bloud
           ,
           as
           derives
           from
           the
           Sourse
           of
           martial
           Prowess
           and
           heroick
           Atchievments
           ,
           (
           the
           Original
           of
           Arms
           and
           Heraldry
           )
           to
           entertain
           so
           much
           as
           a
           thought
           of
           advancing
           it self
           upon
           any
           unworthier
           a
           Bottom
           than
           that
           of
           pure
           Merit
           ;
           and
           infinitely
           so
           ,
           upon
           the
           ignoble
           Motives
           of
           an
           invidious
           Maceration
           at
           the
           
             good
             Fortune
          
           of
           others
           ,
           or
           a
           loss
           of
           its
           proper
           Pretensions
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           cast
           off
           its
           own
           Allegeance
           ,
           but
           also
           to
           act
           the
           part
           of
           a
           Devil
           in
           the
           shape
           of
           an
           
             Angel
             of
             Light
          
           ,
           by
           debauching
           the
           weak
           and
           unwary
           ,
           at
           the
           price
           of
           Soul
           ,
           Body
           ,
           and
           Fortune
           ,
           into
           the
           service
           of
           its
           Lusts
           and
           Animosities
           ,
           shrowded
           under
           the
           plausible
           Banner
           of
           Liberty
           and
           Reformation
           .
           And
           here
           likewise
           may
           All
           of
           
             ordinary
             Rank
          
           be
           convinc'd
           by
           palpable
           and
           undeniable
           Arguments
           ,
           That
           the
           Leaven
           of
           the
           Pharisees
           is
           Hypocrisie
           ;
           that
           Religion
           flourishes
           ,
           when
           grafted
           upon
           the
           Olive-Branch
           ,
           not
           upon
           the
           sturdy
           Oak
           ,
           or
           a
           Bar
           of
           Iron
           ;
           and
           that
           
             true
             Zeal
          
           consists
           not
           in
           a
           
             brutish
             Fervency
          
           against
           all
           things
           
             (
             sensible
          
           and
           insensible
           )
           )
           that
           shall
           chance
           to
           thwart
           a
           vain
           ,
           slovenly
           ,
           or
           fantastical
           Capriche
           ;
           in
           a
           preference
           of
           
             breaking
             Crucifix
          
           in
           a
           Church-window
           ,
           to
           a
           keeping
           of
           the
           
             fifth
             Commandment
          
           ;
           but
           exerts
           it self
           in
           good
           Works
           ,
           in
           an
           universal
           Charity
           ,
           in
           Peaceableness
           ,
           Loyalty
           ,
           Meekness
           ,
           and
           an
           humble
           Submission
           
           to
           ,
           and
           Relyance
           upon
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Justice
           of
           the
           Almighty
           :
           That
           a
           King
           is
           
             Gods
             Vicegerent
             upon
             Earth
          
           ,
           and
           not
           Deposable
           upon
           account
           of
           any
           Error
           or
           
             Human
             Frailty
          
           whatsoever
           ;
           it
           being
           most
           Egregious
           Partiality
           to
           pronounce
           the
           same
           Extravagances
           in
           Him
           ,
           a
           Forfeiture
           of
           his
           Scepter
           ,
           that
           Themselves
           are
           frequently
           guilty
           of
           ,
           without
           being
           Fin'd
           so
           much
           as
           a
           Sol
           :
           That
           Rebellion
           is
           a
           
             Bewitching
             Sin
          
           ,
           that
           still
           breeds
           .
           Them
           woe
           ,
           let
           the
           Fortune
           of
           the
           Day
           fall
           which
           way
           it
           will
           ,
           since
           it
           is
           at
           the
           Expence
           of
           Their
           Bloud
           and
           Treasure
           that
           both
           the
           War
           and
           the
           Triumph
           are
           supported
           ;
           beside
           that
           nothing
           is
           more
           usual
           then
           for
           the
           Victor
           ,
           as
           well
           out
           of
           Pride
           ,
           as
           a
           politick
           Expedient
           to
           take
           down
           their
           Stomacks
           ,
           to
           make
           his
           
             Little
             Finger
          
           more
           Insupportable
           to
           them
           ,
           then
           were
           his
           Predecessors
           Loyns
           :
           That
           ,
           tho'
           they
           may
           Wish
           for
           a
           Good
           Prince
           ,
           it
           is
           their
           Duty
           to
           Obey
           a
           Wicked
           one
           ;
           to
           correct
           their
           Own
           Lives
           ,
           not
           attempt
           to
           take
           away
           His
           ;
           nor
           repine
           at
           Providence
           for
           sending
           Him
           ,
           any
           more
           then
           for
           sending
           Diseases
           ,
           Plagues
           ,
           Catarrhs
           ,
           Caterpillars
           ,
           Blightings
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           ;
           Evil
           Princes
           being
           only
           as
           Blightings
           and
           Blastings
           of
           a
           People
           that
           God
           is
           pleas'd
           to
           Punish
           :
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           That
           ●ear
           and
           Jealousie
           are
           the
           Basest
           of
           all
           the
           Passions
           ,
           and
           make
           one
           wretched
           before-hand
           ,
           out
           of
           a
           Dread
           of
           Miseries
           to
           come
           ;
           and
           have
           This
           in
           Common
           with
           Satan
           Himself
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           only
           able
           to
           do
           Hurt
           ;
           that
           Luxury
           and
           Wantonness
           are
           the
           Root
           of
           all
           Mischief
           ,
           Tools
           ready
           whetted
           for
           Malice
           ,
           Ambition
           ,
           and
           Discontent
           ,
           to
           cut
           out
           their
           Villanous
           Projects
           withall
           ;
           and
           that
           Treachery
           and
           Ingratitude
           are
           justly
           Detested
           ,
           not
           by
           Mankind
           only
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           Divinity
           it self
           ,
           never
           Terminate
           but
           in
           Insamy
           and
           Reproach
           ,
           and
           are
           capable
           of
           turning
           
             well-order'd
             Communities
          
           into
           Nests
           of
           Wolves
           and
           Tigers
           ,
           Thieves
           and
           Robbers
           .
        
         
           NOW
           ,
           must
           it
           needs
           be
           a
           great
           joy
           to
           all
           
             English
             Hearts
          
           to
           find
           that
           ,
           by
           being
           Blest
           with
           a
           Monarch
           equally
           Glorious
           
           for
           Political
           Prudence
           ,
           and
           a
           Gracious
           Tenderness
           of
           the
           Welfare
           of
           his
           People
           ;
           and
           with
           a
           Parliament
           (
           in
           the
           actual
           Exercise
           of
           their
           Authority
           ,
           and
           whereby
           the
           
             whole
             Body
          
           of
           the
           Subject
           is
           Represented
           )
           that
           bear
           as
           much
           Veneration
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           and
           Affection
           to
           their
           Country
           ,
           and
           promise
           as
           great
           things
           for
           the
           Good
           of
           Both
           ,
           as
           have
           yet
           been
           effected
           by
           any
           like
           Illustrious
           Assembly
           ,
           that
           ever
           those
           Walls
           had
           the
           Honour
           to
           Enclose
           ;
           These
           and
           the
           ensuing
           Aphorisms
           and
           Advisoes
           (
           calculated
           for
           
             All
             Ages
          
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           reflect
           upon
           
             Particular
             Persons
          
           or
           Societies
           now
           in
           Being
           )
           are
           made
           of
           less
           use
           and
           significancy
           to
           the
           
             Present
             Times
          
           ,
           then
           they
           might
           (
           perhaps
           )
           have
           been
           to
           some
           of
           the
           Past.
           And
           indeed
           the
           
             Chief
             Intent
          
           of
           making
           them
           thus
           Publique
           is
           ,
           First
           ,
           in
           one
           Instance
           (
           out
           of
           many
           )
           to
           let
           the
           World
           see
           that
           as
           pernicious
           Confusions
           happened
           in
           the
           days
           of
           Idolatry
           and
           Delusion
           ,
           as
           Protestants
           have
           born
           the
           blame
           of
           ,
           (
           tho'
           the
           Papists
           themselves
           occasion'd
           )
           of
           Later
           years
           ;
           Thereby
           to
           wipe
           off
           the
           same
           scandalous
           Aspersion
           ,
           by
           the
           Jesuits
           cast
           upon
           the
           Happy
           Reformation
           ,
           that
           the
           Heathens
           threw
           upon
           the
           Infancy
           of
           Christianity
           it self
           ,
           viz.
           that
           
             it
             works
             Disorder
             where
             e're
             it
             comes
             :
          
           And
           ,
           Then
           ,
           from
           a
           more
           remote
           Distance
           then
           betwixt
           Forty
           and
           Sixty
           ,
           (
           a
           space
           that
           I
           could
           wish
           were
           utterly
           raced
           out
           of
           Memory
           and
           Record
           )
           to
           produce
           a
           Foyl
           ,
           the
           better
           to
           Illustrate
           the
           Felicities
           of
           our
           
             present
             State
          
           ,
           which
           ,
           (
           though
           our
           Forefathers
           labour'd
           
             of
             old
          
           ,
           and
           all
           our
           Neighbours
           at
           
             this
             instant
          
           ,
           groan
           under
           the
           
             Sword
             ,
             Famine
             ,
             Pestilence
          
           ,
           and
           other
           Marks
           of
           the
           
             Divine
             Vengeance
          
           ,
           yet
           )
           still
           furnish
           out
           the
           
             lushious
             Fruits
          
           of
           Peace
           and
           Plenty
           ,
           even
           to
           Satiety
           and
           Wantonness
           ;
           so
           to
           endeavour
           a
           continuance
           of
           these
           Blessings
           ,
           by
           stirring
           up
           in
           us
           Thanks
           and
           Praises
           both
           to
           the
           Mediate
           and
           
             Immediate
             Author
          
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           
             Brotherly
             Love
             and
             Charity
             one
             toward
             another
             .
          
        
         
           P.
           13.
           l.
           30.
           r.
           deemed
           ,
           p.
           27.
           l.
           24.
           r.
           backs
           ,
           p.
           30.
           l.
           24.
           after
           is
           ,
           r.
           it
           l.
           
             ult
             .
             r.
          
           and
           t●
           debates
           of
           moment
           they
           ,
           &c.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           The
           Field
           of
           Bloud
           ,
           OR
           ,
           REBELLION
           Blazon'd
           in
           All
           its
           COLOURS
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           OPpress'd
           with
           the
           insupportable
           Calamities
           of
           
             Civil
             Arms
          
           ,
           and
           affrighted
           at
           the
           sudden
           fall
           of
           a
           
             Licentious
             Sovereign
          
           ,
           who
           was
           reported
           to
           have
           been
           Poyson'd
           by
           a
           Monk
           ;
           all
           men
           stood
           at
           gaze
           ,
           expecting
           Peace
           ,
           (
           the
           Event
           of
           their
           long
           Desires
           )
           and
           Benefit
           ,
           as
           the
           Issue
           of
           their
           new
           Popes
           :
           Experience
           telling
           us
           ,
           that
           ,
           in
           every
           Shift
           of
           Princes
           ,
           there
           are
           very
           few
           either
           so
           Mean
           ,
           or
           so
           Inopinionative
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           please
           themselves
           with
           some
           probable
           Object
           of
           Preferment
           .
           To
           content
           all
           ,
           (
           October
           19.
           1216.
           
           )
           a
           Child
           ascends
           the
           Throne
           ,
           Mild
           and
           Gracious
           ,
           but
           Easie
           of
           Nature
           ,
           whose
           Innocency
           ,
           and
           natural
           Goodness
           ,
           protected
           him
           throughout
           the
           various
           Perils
           of
           his
           
           Father's
           Reign
           .
           Happy
           was
           he
           in
           his
           Uncle
           William
           Earl
           of
           Pembroke
           (
           the
           Guide
           of
           his
           Infancy
           ;
           )
           
           and
           no
           less
           fortunate
           ,
           for
           thirty
           years
           after
           ,
           whilst
           
             Hubert
             de
             Burgh
          
           (
           Earl
           of
           Kent
           )
           that
           Fast
           Servant
           of
           King
           
           John's
           against
           the
           French
           ,
           both
           in
           Normandy
           ,
           and
           England
           ,
           together
           with
           Bygot
           Earl
           of
           Norfolk
           ,
           and
           others
           of
           like
           Gravity
           ,
           and
           Abilities
           ,
           had
           the
           management
           of
           Affairs
           .
           Publick
           Distempers
           were
           then
           very
           few
           ,
           and
           such
           only
           as
           are
           incident
           to
           all
           States
           ,
           the
           Commons
           greedy
           and
           tenacious
           of
           Liberty
           ,
           and
           the
           Nobility
           of
           Rule
           :
           One
           violent
           Storm
           ,
           't
           is
           true
           ,
           was
           rais'd
           ,
           by
           some
           old
           ,
           constant
           Followers
           of
           his
           Father
           ;
           as
           
             Foulk
             de
             Brent
          
           ,
           who
           (
           though
           a
           Forreigner
           ,
           yet
           )
           held
           at
           one
           time
           the
           Earldoms
           of
           
             Nottingham
             ,
             Oxford
             ,
             Bedford
          
           and
           
             Buckingham
             ;
             Brian
             de
             Lisle
          
           ,
           and
           some
           others
           .
           These
           being
           men
           of
           turbulent
           Spirits
           ,
           and
           that
           could
           only
           Thrive
           by
           the
           Wars
           ,
           were
           very
           ill
           at
           ease
           in
           those
           days
           of
           Sloth
           ;
           (
           as
           they
           term'd
           that
           Calm
           of
           King
           
           Henry's
           Government
           .
           )
           Beside
           that
           ,
           the
           Justice
           of
           
             Peaceable
             Times
          
           urg'd
           from
           them
           ,
           to
           the
           lawful
           owners
           ,
           such
           Lands
           and
           Castles
           ,
           as
           the
           fury
           of
           War
           had
           unjustly
           given
           them
           .
           Now
           perceiving
           by
           the
           Vprightness
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           that
           Power
           of
           Protection
           should
           not
           be
           made
           a
           wrong-doer
           ;
           they
           broke
           forth
           into
           such
           a
           Rebellion
           as
           ended
           not
           but
           with
           their
           Lives
           ;
           declaring
           that
           those
           their
           Swords
           which
           had
           set
           the
           Crown
           upon
           their
           Sovereign's
           Head
           when
           neither
           Law
           nor
           Majesty
           could
           ,
           should
           now
           secure
           those
           Acquests
           to
           their
           Masters
           ,
           when
           Majesty
           or
           Law
           would
           not
           .
           Thus
           we
           see
           how
           dangerous
           are
           too
           great
           Benefits
           of
           Subjects
           to
           their
           Princes
           ;
           as
           rendring
           the
           Mind
           incapable
           of
           any
           other
           sense
           than
           that
           of
           Merit
           .
           This
           Blast
           being
           over
           ,
           the
           Government
           felt
           no
           other
           affliction
           than
           the
           Common
           and
           Invidious
           Malevolence
           to
           Authority
           :
           Good
           and
           Great
           Men
           may
           preserve
           themselves
           from
           Guilt
           ,
           but
           not
           from
           Envy
           ;
           being
           still
           shot
           at
           ,
           by
           the
           Aspiring
           of
           those
           that
           look
           upon
           themselves
           as
           less
           in
           Employment
           than
           they
           are
           in
           Desert
           .
           These
           Vapours
           ,
           however
           ,
           did
           ever
           vanish
           ,
           without
           much
           trouble
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           the
           Helm
           was
           steered
           by
           
           
             Temperate
             Spirits
          
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           squar'd
           his
           Actions
           by
           the
           Rule
           of
           
             Good
             Counsel
          
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           Young
           ,
           Passionate
           ,
           or
           single
           Advice
           .
        
         
           Thirty
           years
           being
           now
           past
           and
           gone
           ,
           and
           none
           of
           the
           old
           Guides
           of
           the
           Kings
           Youth
           left
           alive
           ,
           but
           
             de
             Burgh
          
           ;
           (
           a
           man
           in
           whom
           nothing
           of
           Worth
           was
           wanting
           ,
           save
           Moderation
           )
           his
           length
           of
           days
           gave
           him
           the
           advantage
           of
           
             Sole
             Power
          
           ,
           his
           Ambition
           furnishing
           Desire
           and
           Art
           ,
           to
           keep
           out
           others
           .
           This
           drew
           upon
           him
           the
           implacable
           malice
           of
           a
           great
           many
           ,
           which
           was
           yet
           further
           augmented
           by
           the
           fresh
           Honours
           ;
           and
           Offices
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           was
           then
           pleas'd
           to
           confer
           upon
           him
           .
           Time
           had
           now
           wrought
           a
           Revolution
           ,
           as
           in
           it
           self
           ,
           so
           in
           the
           Hearts
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           who
           had
           forgotten
           the
           late
           Sufferings
           of
           their
           Fathers
           ,
           and
           labour'd
           under
           the
           surfeit
           of
           a
           
             long
             Peace
          
           ;
           which
           having
           ,
           probably
           ,
           let
           in
           some
           Abuses
           ,
           the
           Commons
           (
           to
           whom
           the
           Present
           seems
           ever
           worst
           )
           take
           the
           Alarm
           ,
           fall
           to
           commending
           the
           
             past
             Ages
          
           they
           never
           remembred
           ,
           and
           condemning
           the
           Present
           ;
           though
           equally
           ignorant
           of
           the
           Disease
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Remedy
           .
           With
           these
           idle
           and
           usual
           Humours
           ,
           struck
           in
           some
           of
           the
           young
           Nobility
           ,
           that
           were
           warm
           and
           over
           weening
           ,
           though
           altogether
           as
           unskilful
           as
           the
           rest
           :
           these
           fall
           to
           fullying
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Integrity
           of
           the
           Court-Officers
           ,
           by
           magnifying
           each
           casual
           mishap
           into
           a
           Crime
           ,
           and
           exposing
           every
           Blemish
           in
           Government
           ;
           and
           then
           having
           their
           Heads
           fill'd
           with
           certain
           Ideas
           and
           Phantastick
           Forms
           of
           Commonwealths
           ,
           they
           flatter
           themselves
           that
           they
           are
           able
           to
           mold
           any
           State
           according
           to
           these
           
             general
             Rules
          
           ,
           which
           in
           
             particular
             Application
          
           do
           still
           appear
           to
           be
           but
           idle
           and
           gross
           Absurdities
           .
           Being
           thus
           puft
           up
           in
           Opinion
           of
           their
           own
           worth
           ,
           they
           begin
           to
           cast
           about
           how
           to
           get
           into
           Employment
           ,
           a
           thing
           they
           had
           long
           desired
           ,
           and
           now
           do
           sue
           for
           ;
           and
           probable
           it
           is
           that
           the
           farthest
           of
           their
           Aim
           ,
           as
           yet
           ,
           was
           to
           be
           quiet
           Instruments
           in
           serving
           
           the
           Crown
           ,
           had
           they
           then
           been
           look'd
           upon
           as
           fit
           ,
           and
           
             well
             deserving
          
           .
           But
           the
           King
           ,
           having
           been
           tutor'd
           into
           a
           just
           veneration
           for
           the
           Counsels
           of
           the
           
             Aged
             States-Men
          
           ,
           and
           reflecting
           that
           such
           
             Green
             Heads
          
           were
           fitter
           for
           disordering
           than
           setling
           Affairs
           ;
           either
           deny'd
           ,
           or
           delay'd
           their
           Requests
           :
           for
           Princes
           will
           ever
           chuse
           their
           
             Ministers
             ,
             Equal
          
           to
           ,
           not
           above
           their
           Business
           ;
           Creatures
           that
           are
           only
           theirs
           ,
           out
           of
           meer
           Election
           ;
           otherwise
           ,
           without
           Friends
           or
           Power
           .
           Amongst
           this
           unequal
           Medly
           ,
           there
           were
           ,
           of
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           the
           Earls
           of
           
             Pembroke
             ,
             Glocester
          
           and
           Hertford
           ,
           darlings
           of
           the
           Rabble
           ;
           some
           of
           them
           upon
           the
           score
           of
           their
           Fathers
           Merits
           ,
           whose
           memories
           were
           held
           Sacred
           ,
           as
           pretended
           Pillars
           of
           
             Publick
             Liberty
          
           ,
           and
           opposers
           of
           
             encroaching
             Monarchy
          
           .
           Of
           the
           Gentry
           were
           
             Fitz-Geoffrey
             ,
             Bardolph
             ,
             Grisley
          
           and
           Fitz-John
           ;
           Spirits
           of
           as
           much
           Arrogance
           ,
           and
           Acrimony
           ,
           as
           
             Camp
             ,
             Court
             ,
             Country
          
           ,
           (
           the
           places
           from
           whence
           they
           were
           Elected
           )
           could
           afford
           any
           :
           These
           were
           for
           attempting
           by
           
             open
             Force
          
           ,
           what
           the
           other
           sought
           to
           effect
           by
           Artifice
           ;
           but
           yet
           they
           were
           all
           of
           them
           equally
           Impatient
           to
           behold
           their
           Ends
           thus
           frustrated
           ;
           and
           that
           so
           long
           as
           the
           King
           followed
           the
           Advice
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Kent
           ,
           there
           would
           be
           no
           hopes
           of
           obtaining
           their
           desires
           .
           Wherefore
           they
           became
           frequent
           in
           their
           Consults
           and
           Gabals
           ,
           day
           and
           night
           ;
           and
           at
           last
           Sommery
           ,
           and
           Spencer
           ,
           two
           that
           were
           far
           in
           Opinion
           with
           the
           rest
           ,
           as
           being
           Gentlemen
           of
           
             Forreign
             Education
          
           ,
           and
           better
           qualifi'd
           than
           was
           usual
           for
           men
           of
           those
           times
           ;
           gave
           it
           as
           their
           Advice
           ,
           that
           the
           surest
           way
           to
           remove
           
             de
             Burgh
          
           (
           that
           great
           ,
           and
           good
           Obstacle
           )
           out
           of
           the
           way
           of
           their
           Advancement
           ,
           would
           be
           ,
           to
           pry
           narrowly
           into
           his
           Actions
           ,
           and
           side
           with
           his
           
             Opposite
             ,
             Peter
          
           Bishop
           of
           Winchester
           ;
           (
           an
           ill
           man
           ,
           but
           in
           favour
           with
           the
           King
           )
           backing
           the
           Motion
           with
           this
           suggestion
           ,
           that
           the
           worthiest
           being
           driven
           out
           by
           the
           worst
           ,
           they
           should
           be
           able
           either
           to
           mate
           him
           with
           his
           own
           Vice
           ,
           (
           which
           the
           higher
           he
           advanc'd
           
           would
           still
           be
           the
           more
           visible
           )
           and
           so
           remove
           him
           at
           pleasure
           ;
           or
           else
           ,
           by
           suffering
           the
           King
           to
           deliver
           himself
           up
           to
           such
           bad
           Ministers
           ,
           as
           would
           lose
           him
           the
           Hearts
           ,
           and
           Affections
           ,
           of
           his
           People
           ;
           they
           might
           thus
           plain
           the
           way
           to
           their
           own
           Preferment
           :
           Thus
           they
           projected
           the
           compassing
           of
           that
           by
           troubling
           the
           State
           ,
           which
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           it
           was
           at
           quiet
           ,
           they
           despair'd
           of
           obtaining
           ;
           and
           so
           far
           did
           the
           success
           answer
           Expectation
           ,
           that
           Spencer
           dy'd
           in
           actual
           Rebellion
           ,
           
             Justiciarius
             Angliae
          
           ,
           against
           his
           Master
           .
           This
           advice
           now
           being
           approv'd
           ,
           and
           put
           in
           Practice
           ;
           the
           corrupt
           and
           ambitious
           Bishop
           is
           by
           money
           and
           address
           easily
           brought
           over
           to
           the
           Party
           ;
           and
           Articles
           are
           in
           all
           hast
           forged
           ,
           and
           presented
           against
           the
           Earl
           ;
           charging
           him
           with
           wasting
           the
           Royal
           Treasure
           ,
           the
           sale
           of
           Crown-Lands
           ,
           and
           (
           what
           these
           doubtful
           times
           held
           Capital
           )
           his
           allowing
           any
           thing
           that
           might
           create
           a
           Rupture
           between
           King
           and
           People
           ;
           as
           his
           prevailing
           upon
           the
           King
           to
           revoke
           all
           Patents
           granted
           in
           his
           Non-age
           ,
           and
           enforcing
           the
           People
           not
           to
           pay
           according
           to
           their
           Ability
           or
           the
           merit
           of
           the
           Grant
           ,
           but
           whatever
           the
           Minister
           himself
           should
           think
           fit
           to
           extort
           .
        
         
           
             De
             Burgh
          
           clear'd
           himself
           of
           all
           the
           Branches
           of
           this
           Accusation
           ,
           save
           only
           the
           Last
           ;
           under
           which
           he
           worthily
           perish'd
           ;
           for
           such
           Acts
           as
           fill
           the
           Princes
           Coffers
           ,
           are
           still
           the
           destruction
           of
           their
           first
           Inventers
           ;
           Bad
           times
           ,
           we
           see
           ,
           corrupt
           good
           Counsels
           ,
           and
           prevail
           upon
           the
           best
           Ministers
           to
           truckle
           to
           the
           Lusts
           of
           their
           Masters
           :
           Therefore
           this
           King
           is
           not
           wholly
           to
           be
           excused
           ,
           that
           could
           so
           easily
           give
           way
           to
           the
           blasting
           the
           former
           Services
           of
           so
           faithful
           an
           Officer
           ,
           for
           that
           wherein
           himself
           was
           chief
           in
           fault
           .
           But
           Princes
           are
           naturally
           more
           variable
           ,
           and
           sooner
           cloyed
           ,
           than
           other
           men
           ;
           their
           favours
           are
           more
           transitory
           ,
           and
           as
           their
           minds
           are
           Large
           ,
           so
           they
           without
           much
           difficulty
           overlook
           their
           first
           
           Choice
           ,
           limiting
           their
           Affections
           to
           their
           Satisfactions
           .
        
         
           Winchester
           is
           now
           mounted
           into
           the
           Saddle
           ,
           and
           Governs
           all
           ;
           taking
           for
           his
           
             Prime
             Instrument
             Peter
             de
             Rivallis
          
           ;
           (
           such
           another
           as
           himself
           )
           displaces
           the
           Natives
           ,
           and
           advances
           (
           his
           Country-men
           )
           Poictovins
           and
           Britains
           ,
           into
           Offices
           of
           the
           greatest
           Trust
           and
           Benefit
           ;
           and
           draws
           the
           King
           into
           an
           ill
           Opinion
           of
           his
           People
           :
           Nothing
           touching
           the
           English
           so
           much
           to
           the
           Quick
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           domineer'd
           over
           by
           Forreigners
           .
           Here
           it
           was
           that
           Injustice
           became
           the
           Arbiter
           of
           
             Common
             Equity
          
           ,
           the
           Law
           lay
           gasping
           at
           the
           foot
           of
           
             Faction
             ,
             Peace
          
           at
           the
           mercy
           of
           the
           Seditious
           ,
           and
           Oppression
           stept
           into
           the
           Bench
           to
           pronounce
           upon
           points
           of
           Right
           and
           Honesty
           ,
           so
           that
           the
           Plot
           of
           the
           tumultuous
           Barons
           ,
           by
           this
           means
           ,
           advanc'd
           it self
           without
           so
           much
           as
           a
           Rub
           :
           And
           had
           not
           the
           Loyal
           Part
           of
           the
           Bishops
           calm'd
           all
           ,
           by
           humble
           and
           dutiful
           Perswasions
           ,
           and
           by
           representing
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           that
           his
           supporting
           the
           Power
           of
           a
           Person
           whose
           insolent
           Carriage
           had
           but
           lately
           lost
           to
           King
           John
           his
           Father
           ,
           Normandy
           ,
           the
           Love
           of
           his
           People
           ,
           and
           in
           that
           his
           Crown
           ;
           and
           who
           at
           that
           very
           season
           was
           no
           less
           industrious
           in
           tempting
           himself
           to
           reject
           in
           Passion
           ,
           the
           just
           Petitions
           of
           his
           faithful
           Subjects
           ;
           the
           Case
           (
           amongst
           many
           others
           )
           of
           Pembroke
           the
           Earl
           Marshal
           ,
           the
           Common
           Rights
           of
           whose
           Office
           were
           unjustly
           with
           held
           from
           him
           ;
           would
           inevitably
           provoke
           Discontents
           ,
           and
           endanger
           the
           Weal
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           the
           Rebellious
           Lords
           had
           ,
           questionless
           ,
           gain'd
           their
           End
           ,
           by
           exasperating
           ,
           and
           emproving
           this
           Distemper
           into
           a
           
             Civil
             War.
             Denials
          
           of
           Princes
           are
           ever
           to
           be
           suppli'd
           with
           gracious
           Usage
           ,
           thereby
           ,
           if
           not
           to
           cure
           the
           sore
           ,
           yet
           ,
           at
           least
           ,
           to
           mitigate
           the
           Sense
           of
           it
           :
           But
           it
           is
           best
           of
           all
           ,
           that
           all
           Favours
           proceed
           directly
           from
           themselves
           ;
           and
           only
           Refusals
           ,
           and
           things
           of
           Bitterness
           ,
           from
           their
           Ministers
           .
        
         
         
           Thus
           now
           are
           the
           Strangers
           all
           remov'd
           and
           banish'd
           ;
           
           Rivallis's
           Extortions
           examin'd
           ,
           by
           many
           strict
           Commissions
           of
           Enquiry
           ;
           the
           proud
           Bishop
           of
           Winchester
           (
           turn'd
           off
           in
           disgrace
           )
           is
           brought
           to
           experiment
           that
           Power
           founded
           upon
           Injustice
           is
           but
           short-liv'd
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           Favour
           of
           Princes
           there
           is
           no
           Medium
           or
           Subsistence
           betwixt
           the
           Highest
           of
           all
           ,
           and
           Precipitation
           .
           But
           the
           Lords
           finding
           themselves
           still
           (
           by
           this
           Reformation
           )
           frustrated
           of
           their
           evil
           Designs
           ,
           began
           again
           to
           cherish
           the
           late
           grounds
           of
           the
           Peoples
           Disgusts
           ,
           by
           scattering
           querulous
           and
           ambiguous
           Speeches
           against
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           depraving
           and
           questioning
           his
           Discretion
           ,
           and
           Government
           ;
           and
           seeking
           by
           all
           the
           means
           ,
           and
           arts
           imaginable
           ,
           to
           ingratiate
           and
           glorifie
           themselves
           with
           the
           sordid
           Rabble
           :
           Insomuch
           that
           the
           King
           (
           whose
           Nature
           was
           too
           mild
           for
           such
           turbulent
           Spirits
           )
           was
           oblig'd
           afresh
           ,
           to
           cast
           himself
           upon
           the
           Advice
           and
           Love
           of
           Forreigners
           ,
           since
           no
           condescentions
           could
           purchase
           it
           at
           Home
           ,
           where
           many
           demean'd
           themselves
           like
           Tutors
           and
           
             Controllers
             ,
             few
          
           like
           Subjects
           and
           Counsellers
           .
        
         
           God
           ,
           we
           know
           ,
           governs
           the
           Hearts
           of
           Princes
           ,
           and
           sends
           them
           such
           Ministers
           ,
           as
           the
           quality
           of
           the
           Subject
           meriteth
           :
           for
           Montford
           (
           a
           French-man
           )
           became
           the
           next
           Object
           of
           the
           Kings
           Delight
           ;
           being
           a
           Gentleman
           of
           choice
           
             Blood
             ,
             Education
          
           and
           Feature
           :
           And
           to
           so
           fond
           a
           degree
           did
           the
           heady
           affection
           of
           the
           Sovereign
           dote
           upon
           him
           ,
           that
           ,
           in
           his
           very
           Entrance
           into
           Grace
           ,
           he
           made
           him
           Earl
           of
           Leicester
           ,
           to
           the
           general
           dissatisfaction
           of
           the
           Nobility
           ;
           and
           gave
           him
           (
           to
           the
           no
           less
           offence
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           by
           violating
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Church
           )
           his
           Vow'd
           ,
           Vail'd
           Sister
           ,
           to
           Wife
           .
           Some
           have
           denied
           this
           Act
           of
           the
           Kings
           to
           be
           more
           than
           common
           Policy
           ,
           as
           making
           the
           Tie
           of
           his
           Favorites
           Dependency
           the
           strength
           of
           his
           Assurance
           ,
           so
           Both
           at
           his
           will.
           But
           Montford
           growing
           wanton
           ,
           upon
           this
           dallyance
           of
           his
           Master
           ;
           forgets
           
             Moderation
             ;
             Discretion
          
           ,
           in
           
           Youth
           ,
           seldom
           attending
           great
           and
           sodain
           Fortunes
           .
           He
           takes
           the
           manage
           of
           all
           
             Publick
             Affairs
          
           into
           his
           own
           hand
           ,
           and
           engrosseth
           the
           disposal
           of
           all
           Favours
           and
           Preferments
           ;
           so
           that
           all
           suites
           are
           address'd
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           becomes
           (
           in
           effect
           )
           but
           as
           a
           Cipher
           set
           to
           add
           to
           this
           Figure
           the
           more
           of
           Number
           .
           Great
           is
           the
           Errour
           of
           a
           Prince
           when
           the
           Hope
           of
           the
           Subject
           comes
           to
           recognize
           it self
           beholden
           to
           the
           Servant
           ,
           for
           that
           ,
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           acknowledg'd
           as
           the
           immediate
           Bounty
           and
           Goodness
           of
           himself
           :
           And
           though
           they
           are
           not
           to
           be
           deny'd
           the
           privilege
           of
           advancing
           above
           the
           rest
           ,
           some
           trusty
           Friend
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           may
           communicate
           their
           nearest
           Passions
           ,
           yet
           ought
           they
           so
           to
           temper
           the
           Current
           of
           Favour
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           darken
           the
           Lustre
           of
           their
           Regalities
           .
        
         
           The
           Great
           and
           Gravest
           Men
           beholding
           the
           unworthy
           thus
           to
           deal
           alone
           ,
           in
           that
           which
           ought
           of
           Right
           ,
           to
           have
           pass'd
           through
           their
           hands
           ;
           and
           to
           step
           over
           all
           their
           heads
           ,
           to
           the
           greatest
           Honours
           and
           Offices
           ;
           began
           to
           repine
           ;
           but
           upon
           second
           thoughts
           ,
           they
           ran
           along
           with
           the
           rising
           Grace
           of
           the
           Kings
           Half-Brethren
           ,
           though
           Strangers
           ,
           hoping
           ,
           by
           this
           way
           of
           proceeding
           ,
           to
           divide
           that
           Power
           which
           ,
           otherwise
           ,
           they
           saw
           it
           impossible
           to
           Break.
           Yet
           Leicester
           ,
           being
           confident
           of
           his
           Masters
           Love
           ,
           and
           impatient
           of
           bearing
           either
           Rival
           in
           Favour
           ,
           or
           Partner
           in
           Rule
           ,
           opposeth
           them
           all
           :
           But
           he
           found
           ,
           at
           length
           ,
           in
           his
           Ebb
           of
           kindness
           ,
           the
           fortune
           of
           others
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           King
           could
           with
           as
           much
           ease
           transfer
           his
           Phansie
           ,
           as
           he
           had
           settled
           his
           Affections
           .
           And
           in
           truth
           ,
           extraordinary
           must
           needs
           be
           the
           Artifice
           and
           Address
           of
           that
           man
           ,
           that
           is
           able
           to
           keep
           himself
           aflote
           in
           the
           stream
           of
           a
           Monarchs
           good
           Opinion
           ;
           in
           regard
           that
           the
           change
           of
           his
           Will
           ,
           (
           which
           for
           the
           most
           part
           is
           strongly
           influenc'd
           by
           Phansie
           ,
           and
           soon
           cloyed
           )
           is
           hardly
           to
           be
           arrested
           .
           To
           effect
           this
           ,
           the
           Favorite
           must
           solely
           attend
           the
           Honour
           and
           Service
           of
           his
           Master
           ;
           
           and
           (
           abandoning
           all
           other
           Considerations
           )
           insinuate
           himself
           into
           his
           
             inward
             Inclinations
          
           ;
           winding
           into
           a
           necessity
           of
           Employment
           ,
           by
           discharging
           the
           Offices
           of
           most
           Secrecy
           ,
           in
           reference
           either
           to
           
             publick
             Service
          
           ,
           or
           the
           Princes
           peculiar
           Pleasures
           :
           He
           must
           also
           be
           careful
           to
           suppress
           Competitors
           ,
           by
           the
           hands
           of
           others
           ,
           conceal
           in
           Publick
           ,
           his
           own
           Greatness
           ,
           by
           counterfeit
           Affectations
           of
           Humility
           ;
           and
           in
           his
           persute
           of
           Authority
           ,
           he
           is
           to
           cast
           a
           shew
           as
           if
           his
           Promotions
           were
           the
           work
           of
           others
           ,
           or
           of
           Conveniency
           ,
           rather
           than
           of
           any
           great
           Ambition
           of
           his
           own
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           ,
           upon
           this
           Advantage
           ,
           the
           Reines
           of
           Rule
           were
           possess'd
           by
           the
           ambitious
           Lords
           and
           entrusted
           (
           as
           
             Henry
             Knighton
          
           says
           )
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Kings
           
             Half-Brethren
             ,
             Adam
             ,
             Guido
             ,
             Godfrey
             ,
          
           and
           William
           ;
           the
           King
           contenting
           himself
           (
           being
           left
           to
           act
           his
           own
           part
           ,
           as
           before
           )
           with
           the
           Shadow
           only
           ,
           and
           License
           of
           a
           great
           Fortune
           .
           And
           to
           say
           the
           truth
           ,
           he
           was
           ever
           Wyer-drawn
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           so
           happy
           as
           to
           have
           about
           him
           such
           worthy
           Servants
           as
           would
           urge
           and
           suggest
           things
           that
           were
           for
           his
           Honour
           .
           But
           these
           Masters
           ,
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           being
           puff'd
           up
           with
           the
           conceit
           of
           having
           no
           Superiour
           ;
           made
           it
           their
           business
           by
           gentle
           Words
           and
           Flatteries
           ,
           to
           seduce
           the
           unsteady
           mind
           of
           the
           King
           from
           the
           Path
           of
           Reason
           ;
           thereby
           to
           gain
           to
           themselves
           the
           privilege
           of
           doing
           what
           they
           list
           .
           So
           that
           they
           fell
           immediately
           to
           filling
           the
           Courts
           of
           Justice
           ,
           and
           Places
           of
           Trust
           ,
           with
           their
           own
           Country-men
           ;
           exacting
           of
           
             whom
             ,
             how
          
           ,
           and
           what
           they
           would
           ;
           wasting
           the
           
             Publick
             Freasure
          
           ,
           and
           
             Crown
             Lands
          
           ,
           to
           the
           enriching
           of
           themselves
           ,
           and
           dependents
           ;
           setting
           Prices
           upon
           all
           Offences
           ;
           and
           squaring
           the
           Law
           according
           to
           the
           Rule
           of
           their
           own
           Breasts
           :
           And
           upon
           any
           Complaint
           of
           the
           Subject
           the
           usual
           Reply
           of
           their
           Servants
           was
           ,
           
             How'le
             ye
             help
             your self
             ;
             for
             the
             Kings
             Pleasure
             's
             in
             my
             Masters
             Pocket
             ?
          
           Nay
           to
           so
           insupportable
           a
           degree
           of
           Licentiousness
           did
           these
           Strangers
           proceed
           ;
           that
           
           they
           seem'd
           rather
           to
           have
           entr'd
           the
           Land
           by
           Conquest
           ,
           than
           upon
           Invitation
           :
           they
           enforc'd
           upon
           the
           great
           men
           not
           Obedience
           only
           ,
           but
           Servitude
           and
           reduced
           the
           meaner
           sort
           to
           so
           wretched
           a
           degree
           of
           Poverty
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           justly
           say
           they
           
             had
             nothing
          
           .
           Yet
           lest
           the
           Groanes
           of
           his
           People
           ,
           and
           the
           wickedness
           of
           his
           Ministers
           ,
           should
           come
           to
           the
           King's
           Ear
           ,
           by
           the
           means
           of
           good
           and
           able
           Men
           ;
           they
           deny
           all
           such
           the
           least
           Access
           :
           Suspicion
           (
           being
           the
           best
           preserver
           of
           her
           own
           Deserts
           )
           still
           keeps
           a
           strict
           eye
           upon
           those
           that
           have
           a
           due
           sense
           of
           Honour
           and
           Virtue
           ;
           as
           fearing
           them
           most
           .
           Thus
           by
           the
           Inhability
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           the
           Government
           becomes
           a
           Prey
           to
           these
           
             Lawless
             Minions
          
           ;
           which
           occasions
           infinite
           Corruptions
           and
           Disorders
           in
           all
           the
           Members
           of
           the
           State
           ;
           all
           presuming
           upon
           his
           weakness
           ,
           do
           endeavour
           to
           grasp
           at
           an
           
             Arbitrary
             Authority
          
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           make
           Profit
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           easily
           permit
           the
           encreasing
           of
           Ill
           ,
           as
           the
           ready
           way
           to
           make
           their
           own
           Fortunes
           .
        
         
           These
           Confusions
           were
           usher'd
           in
           by
           a
           Famine
           ,
           and
           that
           so
           violent
           an
           one
           ,
           that
           the
           king
           is
           forc'd
           to
           direct
           Writs
           to
           the
           several
           Counties
           ,
           to
           bury
           their
           Dead
           ,
           they
           were
           so
           Numerous
           :
           The
           Dearth
           continues
           ,
           and
           then
           fell
           the
           Sword
           to
           raging
           so
           terribly
           ,
           that
           no
           man
           durst
           walk
           abroad
           without
           Arms
           ;
           all
           the
           Villages
           being
           left
           as
           a
           Prey
           to
           the
           tumultuous
           Rabble
           ;
           who
           raving
           up
           and
           down
           ,
           by
           the
           Connivance
           of
           such
           as
           ought
           to
           have
           suppress'd
           them
           ;
           it
           plainly
           appear'd
           ,
           that
           the
           Factious
           Lords
           ,
           whom
           the
           King
           suspected
           ,
           had
           fomented
           and
           given
           Life
           to
           the
           Commotion
           ;
           Seditious
           Peers
           ever
           bringing
           Fewel
           to
           such
           
             Popular
             Fires
          
           .
        
         
           Neither
           was
           the
           Church
           it self
           without
           a
           busie
           Part
           in
           this
           
             Tragical
             Scene
          
           :
           For
           the
           Bishops
           of
           Worcester
           and
           Lincoln
           (
           being
           well-wishers
           to
           Montford
           and
           his
           Faction
           )
           
           were
           far
           engaged
           .
           In
           such
           Designs
           Church-men
           are
           never
           wanting
           ;
           and
           the
           distast
           of
           the
           
             establish'd
             Government
          
           as
           well
           Ecclesiastical
           as
           Civil
           ,
           will
           ever
           be
           a
           Knot
           of
           Strength
           for
           such
           unquiet
           Spirits
           ,
           who
           are
           as
           greedy
           after
           Innovations
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           State
           ;
           and
           ever
           crying
           up
           some
           new
           Model
           of
           Policy
           or
           other
           ;
           such
           as
           is
           most
           relishing
           to
           the
           
             giddy
             Multitude
          
           ,
           who
           (
           at
           this
           time
           )
           were
           mightily
           offended
           (
           and
           not
           without
           reason
           neither
           )
           at
           the
           
             new
             Courts
          
           of
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           their
           
             Pomp
             ,
             Rapaciousness
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Extortions
           of
           the
           Pope
           .
           This
           was
           a
           fair
           pretext
           for
           the
           factious
           part
           of
           the
           Clergy
           so
           far
           to
           persue
           the
           
             Orders
             ,
             Ceremonies
          
           and
           Constitutions
           of
           the
           Church
           with
           bitter
           Speeches
           and
           Invectives
           ;
           that
           some
           of
           them
           incur'd
           the
           sentence
           of
           Excommunication
           at
           Rome
           ,
           and
           of
           Treason
           at
           Home
           :
           they
           enjoyning
           the
           Earl
           of
           Leicester
           ,
           as
           he
           tendered
           his
           Salvation
           ,
           to
           maintain
           the
           Cause
           (
           meaning
           his
           Rebellion
           )
           to
           the
           very
           Death
           ;
           and
           asserting
           ,
           that
           the
           Peace
           of
           the
           
             English
             Church
          
           was
           never
           to
           be
           establish'd
           but
           by
           the
           
             Material
             Sword.
          
           But
           that
           could
           never
           (
           surely
           )
           be
           the
           soundest
           Doctrine
           (
           what
           ever
           might
           be
           pretended
           )
           which
           was
           only
           to
           be
           propagated
           by
           War
           and
           Licence
           ;
           seeing
           the
           
             first
             Church
          
           (
           contrarywise
           )
           grew
           up
           ,
           by
           Fasting
           and
           Prayer
           .
           True
           Piety
           obliges
           the
           Subject
           to
           desire
           a
           Good
           Sovereign
           ,
           but
           to
           bear
           with
           a
           Bad
           one
           ;
           and
           take
           the
           Burthen
           of
           Princes
           with
           a
           bended
           Knee
           ;
           so
           ,
           in
           time
           ,
           to
           deserve
           Abatement
           ;
           rather
           than
           resist
           
             Authority
             .
             Church-men
          
           ought
           not
           always
           ,
           therefore
           ,
           to
           be
           our
           Oracles
           ,
           as
           to
           matters
           of
           Loyalty
           and
           Allegeance
           ,
           they
           may
           safely
           inform
           us
           of
           our
           Duty
           in
           difficult
           Poynts
           of
           Religion
           ;
           and
           where
           an
           humble
           ignorance
           is
           a
           secure
           knowledge
           ,
           we
           may
           rely
           upon
           them
           ;
           but
           they
           are
           not
           to
           be
           harken'd
           to
           in
           their
           clamorous
           Harangues
           against
           Authority
           .
        
         
           Now
           to
           remedy
           all
           these
           Confusions
           ,
           and
           supply
           the
           Kings
           necessities
           ,
           a
           Parliament
           was
           call'd
           at
           last
           ;
           much
           to
           
           the
           liking
           of
           those
           Lords
           ,
           who
           as
           little
           meant
           to
           Relieve
           the
           King
           ,
           as
           they
           did
           to
           Heal
           the
           State
           ;
           their
           End
           ,
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           being
           only
           to
           lay
           open
           ,
           at
           Home
           ,
           the
           Poverty
           of
           their
           Master
           ;
           lessen
           his
           Reputation
           ,
           Abroad
           ;
           and
           in
           those
           times
           of
           Privilege
           ,
           to
           breath
           out
           their
           Passions
           freely
           .
           Here
           they
           began
           to
           twit
           him
           with
           the
           Wrong
           he
           had
           done
           to
           the
           Publick
           ,
           in
           engrossing
           the
           choyce
           of
           the
           
             Chief
             Justice
             ,
             Chancellor
          
           ,
           and
           Treasurer
           ;
           who
           ought
           not
           (
           they
           said
           )
           to
           have
           been
           Elected
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           
             Common
             Counsel
          
           of
           the
           Realm
           ;
           highly
           applauding
           the
           Resolution
           of
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Chichester
           ,
           in
           refusing
           to
           surrender
           the
           
             Great
             Seal
          
           ,
           but
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           where
           he
           receiv'd
           it
           .
           Then
           they
           charge
           him
           with
           having
           conferr'd
           all
           the
           places
           of
           Trust
           and
           Profit
           ,
           in
           his
           disposal
           ,
           upon
           Forreigners
           ;
           and
           leaving
           his
           
             English
             Subjects
          
           unrewarded
           ;
           with
           having
           ruin'd
           the
           Merchants
           Trade
           by
           the
           introducing
           of
           Maletolts
           ,
           and
           imposing
           of
           
             Heavy
             Customs
          
           ;
           with
           having
           violated
           the
           
             Common
             Liberty
          
           ,
           by
           
             Non
             obstantes
          
           in
           his
           Patents
           ,
           thereby
           to
           secure
           Monopolies
           for
           his
           private
           Favorites
           ;
           with
           having
           taken
           the
           Bread
           out
           of
           the
           Peoples
           mouths
           ,
           and
           forced
           away
           their
           Horses
           from
           the
           very
           Plow
           ;
           with
           sending
           his
           Justices
           into
           the
           Country
           ,
           to
           oppress
           and
           fleece
           the
           People
           ,
           by
           
             fob'd
             Actions
          
           ,
           and
           false
           Accusations
           ;
           telling
           him
           that
           Sr.
           
             Robert
             de
             Pursloe
          
           had
           extorted
           great
           Summs
           of
           money
           from
           the
           Borderers
           of
           his
           Forrests
           ,
           upon
           pretence
           of
           Encroachments
           .
           So
           that
           they
           were
           amazed
           (
           they
           said
           )
           to
           hear
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           now
           demand
           Relief
           of
           them
           ;
           since
           the
           Commonalty
           was
           so
           miserably
           pill'd
           ,
           pol'd
           ,
           and
           empoverish'd
           ,
           by
           the
           multitude
           of
           former
           Contributions
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           incapable
           of
           making
           any
           sort
           of
           supply
           .
           And
           therefore
           they
           suggested
           to
           him
           ,
           that
           ,
           they
           being
           able
           to
           prove
           his
           needless
           Expences
           ,
           since
           the
           Kingdom
           began
           to
           be
           oppress'd
           ,
           to
           have
           amounted
           to
           above
           eight
           hundred
           thousand
           pound
           ;
           it
           was
           but
           fitting
           that
           he
           should
           call
           to
           account
           ,
           and
           pluck
           from
           his
           Favorites
           ;
           who
           had
           gleaned
           the
           Treasure
           of
           the
           
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           shared
           the
           old
           Crown-Lands
           amongst
           themselves
           :
           Several
           of
           them
           having
           ,
           in
           a
           short
           space
           ,
           from
           the
           Inheritance
           of
           an
           Acre
           advanced
           into
           the
           Possession
           of
           an
           Earldom
           ;
           instancing
           in
           the
           Case
           of
           one
           Mansel
           (
           an
           inferiour
           Clerk
           )
           who
           rose
           from
           Nothing
           ,
           to
           spend
           at
           the
           rate
           of
           four
           thousand
           Marks
           (
           beside
           fifty
           Promotions
           that
           he
           had
           engross'd
           ,
           in
           the
           Church
           )
           in
           
             annual
             Revenue
          
           ;
           they
           being
           of
           Opinion
           ,
           that
           more
           moderate
           Fees
           ought
           to
           have
           contented
           a
           Pen-man
           that
           was
           no
           better
           qualified
           than
           with
           the
           ordinary
           fruits
           of
           a
           Writing-School
           .
           Yet
           they
           assured
           his
           Majesty
           after
           all
           ,
           that
           if
           a
           
             Reasonable
             Supply
          
           would
           suit
           with
           his
           Occasions
           ;
           they
           were
           ready
           so
           far
           to
           testifie
           their
           Obedience
           in
           that
           particular
           ,
           as
           his
           Behaviour
           should
           fairly
           merit
           :
           setting
           a
           day
           (
           says
           
             Matt.
             Paris
          
           )
           by
           which
           the
           King
           was
           to
           redress
           the
           Abuses
           and
           Corruptions
           of
           his
           Court
           ,
           and
           work
           into
           the
           good
           Opinion
           of
           the
           Nobles
           .
        
         
           The
           time
           being
           come
           ,
           and
           he
           having
           ratified
           afresh
           the
           
             Great
             Charter
          
           ,
           admitted
           into
           his
           Councel
           some
           persons
           of
           the
           Commons
           Election
           ,
           and
           promised
           for
           the
           future
           to
           apply
           himself
           for
           Counsel
           to
           Natives
           ,
           not
           Forreigners
           ;
           they
           at
           length
           granted
           him
           such
           an
           Allowance
           as
           left
           him
           at
           their
           Devotion
           for
           a
           
             further
             Supply
          
           .
           Thus
           Parliaments
           ,
           that
           (
           Before
           )
           were
           ever
           a
           Medicine
           to
           heal
           up
           any
           Rupture
           in
           the
           Princes
           Fortunes
           ,
           grew
           (
           now
           )
           to
           be
           worse
           than
           the
           Disease
           ;
           malignant
           Humours
           being
           more
           predominant
           in
           them
           than
           well-composed
           Tempers
           .
        
         
           The
           King
           having
           by
           this
           ,
           fully
           discovered
           the
           Drift
           of
           his
           rebellious
           Lords
           ;
           and
           finding
           that
           they
           took
           advantage
           of
           his
           Necessities
           ,
           to
           enslave
           him
           ;
           begins
           now
           to
           act
           the
           good
           Husband
           ,
           closeth
           his
           hand
           of
           Waste
           ,
           and
           resolves
           (
           though
           too
           late
           )
           to
           bear
           himself
           upon
           his
           own
           Legs
           .
           But
           this
           Experience
           is
           still
           pernicious
           to
           the
           Private
           ,
           and
           dangerous
           to
           the
           
             Publick
             Weal
          
           of
           a
           State
           ;
           as
           not
           being
           
           able
           to
           do
           ,
           but
           by
           undoing
           ,
           nor
           to
           discern
           Order
           ,
           till
           Disorder
           shews
           it
           .
           And
           yet
           still
           Alas
           !
           such
           was
           his
           easiness
           and
           flexibility
           ,
           when
           he
           came
           to
           be
           prest
           hard
           by
           his
           
             French
             Minions
          
           ;
           that
           he
           was
           not
           capable
           of
           witholding
           his
           hand
           from
           their
           insatiable
           Desires
           ,
           and
           endless
           squanderings
           :
           Insomuch
           that
           it
           then
           became
           a
           
             By-word
             ,
             Our
             Inheritance
             is
             possess'd
             by
          
           Aliens
           ,
           
             and
             our
             Houses
             by
          
           Strangers
           .
           Dependents
           upon
           a
           King
           that
           is
           excessive
           in
           Largesses
           ,
           become
           exorbitant
           in
           their
           Demands
           ;
           measuring
           them
           not
           by
           Reason
           ,
           but
           example
           :
           
             Past
             favours
          
           are
           never
           reckon'd
           upon
           ,
           nor
           any
           Bounty
           valued
           but
           what
           is
           purely
           Future
           ;
           and
           look
           how
           much
           a
           Prince
           disables
           himself
           by
           Giving
           ,
           so
           much
           the
           poorer
           he
           is
           of
           
             True
             Friends
          
           :
           such
           Prodigality
           ,
           in
           a
           Sovereign
           ,
           ever
           concluding
           in
           the
           Spoyl
           and
           Plunder
           of
           his
           Subjects
           .
        
         
           But
           before
           the
           King
           would
           again
           submit
           himself
           to
           so
           many
           bold
           and
           strict
           Inquiries
           of
           his
           Disloyal
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           he
           had
           endured
           the
           last
           Parliament
           ;
           he
           resolves
           to
           try
           and
           undergo
           all
           shifts
           ,
           and
           extremities
           ,
           that
           necessity
           and
           a
           great
           mind
           ,
           could
           impose
           upon
           him
           .
           First
           therefore
           ,
           he
           exposes
           the
           Crown-Lands
           ,
           then
           his
           Jewels
           ,
           to
           sale
           ;
           pawns
           Gascoyn
           ;
           and
           after
           That
           ,
           his
           
             Imperial
             Crown
          
           :
           And
           when
           his
           Credit
           would
           serve
           him
           no
           longer
           ,
           (
           having
           so
           often
           fail'd
           of
           his
           word
           )
           nor
           any
           thing
           of
           his
           own
           left
           to
           raise
           mony
           upon
           ;
           he
           then
           pawns
           the
           Jewels
           and
           Ornaments
           of
           St.
           
             Edwards
             Shrine
          
           ;
           and
           at
           the
           long
           run
           ,
           (
           being
           destitute
           of
           means
           to
           defray
           the
           Charge
           of
           his
           Court
           )
           was
           forced
           to
           break
           up
           house
           ,
           and
           with
           his
           Queen
           and
           Children
           to
           press
           upon
           the
           Charity
           of
           his
           Subjects
           for
           his
           
             Daily
             Bread.
          
           
        
         
           Having
           thus
           ,
           by
           Improvidence
           ,
           again
           reduced
           himself
           to
           this
           low
           Ebb
           ;
           the
           Rebellious
           Lords
           grew
           more
           and
           more
           intractable
           ,
           in
           Confidence
           that
           the
           
             Sovereign
             Power
          
           would
           ,
           
           now
           at
           last
           ,
           inevitably
           fall
           a
           prey
           to
           their
           ambitious
           Machinations
           ;
           which
           ,
           that
           it
           might
           the
           sooner
           come
           to
           pass
           ,
           they
           coveted
           nothing
           more
           passionately
           ,
           than
           to
           drive
           the
           King
           into
           Want
           ,
           that
           so
           they
           might
           constrain
           him
           to
           call
           a
           Parliament
           ;
           as
           phansying
           to
           themselves
           that
           Subjects
           ,
           at
           such
           times
           ,
           seem
           more
           than
           they
           should
           be
           ,
           
             Princes
             ,
             less
          
           .
           In
           order
           hereunto
           ,
           they
           take
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           pains
           to
           propagate
           false
           and
           seditious
           Rumours
           of
           the
           Kings
           intention
           to
           repair
           his
           broken
           Fortunes
           by
           the
           Ruine
           of
           those
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ;
           and
           that
           having
           nothing
           left
           of
           his
           own
           ,
           he
           might
           and
           intended
           to
           force
           from
           others
           ;
           further
           insinuating
           ,
           that
           Princes
           will
           never
           Want
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           the
           people
           has
           the
           means
           of
           supplying
           them
           .
           This
           scandalous
           Aspersion
           had
           the
           wished
           for
           Effect
           ;
           for
           it
           troubled
           the
           State
           ;
           and
           the
           flame
           would
           questionless
           have
           advanced
           Higher
           ,
           had
           not
           the
           King
           ,
           asswag'd
           it
           ,
           by
           Proclamations
           ;
           wherein
           he
           declared
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           not
           insensible
           of
           the
           evil
           Arts
           that
           had
           been
           made
           use
           of
           to
           seduce
           his
           Liege
           People
           into
           an
           ill
           Opinion
           of
           his
           Person
           and
           Government
           ,
           by
           false
           and
           groundless
           Suggestions
           and
           Surmises
           ,
           of
           his
           designing
           to
           oppress
           them
           in
           their
           just
           Liberties
           and
           Proprieties
           ;
           by
           such
           undue
           practises
           (
           he
           said
           )
           they
           laboured
           to
           withdraw
           them
           from
           their
           Duty
           and
           Allegeance
           :
           He
           caution'd
           them
           to
           give
           no
           heed
           to
           ,
           and
           beware
           of
           such
           malicious
           Disturbers
           of
           the
           
             Publick
             Peace
          
           ;
           and
           assured
           them
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           made
           his
           Letters
           Patent
           purely
           to
           the
           end
           that
           they
           might
           be
           satisfied
           as
           to
           his
           readiness
           and
           resolution
           to
           defend
           them
           from
           the
           oppression
           of
           the
           
             Great
             Lords
          
           ,
           and
           inviolably
           to
           maintain
           to
           them
           their
           lawful
           
             Customs
             ,
             Privileges
          
           and
           Immunities
           ,
           in
           every
           Branch
           of
           them
           .
           But
           for
           all
           this
           yet
           ,
           he
           found
           that
           Majesty
           and
           Right
           were
           not
           to
           be
           kept
           aflote
           ,
           without
           Purse
           and
           Power
           ;
           and
           that
           himself
           wanted
           so
           much
           of
           Both
           ,
           as
           was
           requisite
           for
           stopping
           the
           Breach
           in
           his
           own
           Revenue
           ,
           and
           his
           Subjects
           Loyalty
           :
           Wherefore
           he
           betakes
           himself
           ,
           at
           
           length
           to
           the
           Bosom
           of
           his
           People
           for
           Relief
           and
           Counsel
           .
        
         
           He
           called
           a
           Parliament
           at
           Oxford
           ;
           where
           his
           necessities
           encountered
           so
           many
           undutiful
           Demands
           ,
           that
           he
           was
           forced
           to
           surrender
           to
           their
           rebellious
           Will
           his
           
             Royal
             Power
          
           .
           For
           the
           Commons
           ,
           looking
           upon
           themselves
           as
           the
           Patrons
           of
           the
           peoples
           Liberties
           ,
           press'd
           the
           King
           to
           give
           way
           to
           the
           entrusting
           the
           Manage
           of
           the
           State
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           
             four
             and
             twenty
             ;
             twelve
          
           of
           them
           to
           be
           of
           their
           own
           Election
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           to
           be
           chosen
           by
           himself
           ;
           who
           ,
           in
           all
           things
           else
           ,
           was
           left
           a
           meer
           Cypher
           :
           Nay
           ,
           and
           even
           in
           this
           Case
           ,
           either
           through
           Fear
           or
           Negligence
           he
           fill'd
           up
           his
           number
           with
           
             Montford
             ,
             Glocester
          
           and
           Spencer
           ;
           which
           errour
           ,
           over
           and
           above
           the
           weakening
           of
           his
           own
           Party
           ,
           won
           to
           those
           his
           late
           Opposites
           an
           Opinion
           of
           having
           got
           a
           great
           Interest
           in
           his
           Favour
           .
           This
           Parliament
           it
           should
           seem
           ,
           never
           dreamt
           of
           a
           Perpetuation
           ;
           for
           otherwise
           ,
           they
           might
           ,
           probably
           ,
           have
           had
           it
           for
           the
           asking
           .
           But
           yet
           they
           got
           what
           served
           their
           Turn
           ;
           for
           by
           this
           one
           Act
           he
           parted
           with
           his
           Right
           of
           Electing
           either
           
             publick
             Officer
          
           or
           
             private
             Servant
          
           ;
           and
           brought
           himself
           under
           a
           necessity
           of
           dispoyling
           his
           Half-Brethren
           and
           their
           Followers
           ,
           banishing
           them
           the
           Realm
           by
           an
           Instrument
           under
           his
           own
           hand
           ;
           and
           of
           commanding
           his
           Writ
           
             pro
             Transportatione
             Fratrum
             suorum
          
           to
           be
           directed
           to
           the
           Earles
           of
           Hartford
           and
           Surry
           ,
           to
           prohibit
           their
           carrying
           on
           Board
           with
           them
           either
           
             Mony
             ,
             Arms
          
           ,
           or
           Ornaments
           ,
           other
           than
           in
           the
           manner
           prescribed
           .
           After
           their
           departure
           ,
           he
           ordered
           the
           men
           of
           Bristol
           not
           to
           suffer
           any
           Strangers
           ,
           or
           Kinsmen
           of
           his
           ,
           to
           land
           in
           their
           Port
           ,
           but
           so
           to
           demean
           themselves
           in
           this
           particular
           ,
           as
           they
           would
           answer
           it
           to
           his
           Lords
           and
           him
           .
           Thus
           we
           may
           see
           how
           easily
           mens
           Estates
           do
           change
           in
           an
           Instant
           ;
           and
           how
           difficult
           a
           thing
           it
           is
           to
           enjoy
           quietly
           what
           was
           gotten
           unjustly
           .
           And
           now
           Richard
           Earl
           of
           Cornwal
           ,
           and
           King
           of
           the
           Romans
           ,
           (
           King
           Henrie's
           own
           Brother
           )
           being
           at
           this
           
           time
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           ,
           is
           by
           Letter
           tamper'd
           with
           underhand
           ,
           to
           make
           a
           shew
           of
           Ratifying
           ,
           by
           Oath
           ,
           and
           
             voluntary
             Consent
          
           ,
           those
           former
           Restrictions
           of
           
             Regal
             Power
          
           :
           which
           ,
           though
           he
           submitted
           to
           ,
           yet
           would
           not
           the
           Lords
           suffer
           either
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           him
           to
           enter
           
             Dover
             Castle
          
           ;
           (
           the
           Key
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           )
           they
           having
           furnish'd
           it
           and
           most
           of
           the
           other
           Forts
           of
           Reputation
           and
           Strength
           in
           the
           Nation
           with
           Governours
           of
           their
           own
           Election
           ,
           and
           Sworn
           respectively
           to
           the
           State.
           The
           like
           assurance
           did
           they
           also
           exact
           of
           all
           
             Sheriffs
             ,
             Coroners
             ,
             Bayliffs
          
           ,
           and
           other
           
             Publick
             Ministers
          
           ;
           examining
           the
           Behaviour
           of
           many
           ,
           by
           strict
           Commission
           upon
           Oath
           ;
           hereby
           to
           curry
           Favour
           with
           the
           Vulgar
           ,
           who
           groaned
           under
           their
           late
           Extortions
           .
           But
           their
           Chief
           end
           in
           all
           this
           ,
           was
           no
           other
           ,
           (
           as
           it
           afterwards
           appear'd
           )
           than
           by
           displacing
           the
           faithful
           Servants
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           upon
           pretence
           of
           their
           being
           teinted
           with
           Malignancy
           ,
           to
           open
           a
           way
           for
           the
           introducing
           of
           their
           own
           Dependents
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           changed
           the
           Sole
           Power
           into
           the
           Rule
           of
           many
           ,
           and
           those
           by
           
             popular
             Election
          
           too
           ;
           they
           perswaded
           themselves
           ,
           that
           by
           establishing
           this
           Form
           of
           
             limited
             Monarchy
          
           ,
           they
           had
           wholly
           supprest
           all
           thoughts
           of
           hankering
           afresh
           after
           the
           whimsical
           humours
           of
           
             licentious
             Soveraignty
          
           .
           But
           it
           fell
           out
           quite
           otherwise
           ;
           for
           now
           every
           man
           began
           to
           value
           himself
           upon
           his
           own
           Abilities
           ,
           and
           to
           crack
           his
           Skull
           upon
           any
           Design
           that
           might
           probably
           enlarge
           the
           Boundarys
           of
           his
           Authority
           and
           Command
           .
           The
           Grandees
           also
           fell
           to
           rending
           and
           lopping
           off
           from
           the
           Revenues
           and
           Segniories
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           all
           such
           Lands
           and
           Manours
           as
           bordered
           upon
           any
           of
           their
           own
           Seats
           ;
           pressing
           upon
           the
           Kings
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           Tenants
           ,
           to
           a
           most
           insupportable
           degree
           of
           Servitude
           .
           Insomuch
           that
           by
           raising
           
             petite
             Annuities
          
           into
           great
           Honours
           ,
           and
           tearing
           asunder
           the
           
             Royal
             Prerogative
          
           ;
           they
           made
           themselves
           ,
           (
           of
           
           Subjects
           ,
           whilst
           they
           kept
           within
           the
           bounds
           of
           Duty
           ,
           )
           so
           many
           Tyrants
           ,
           upon
           the
           loss
           of
           their
           Loyalty
           ;
           involving
           the
           people
           in
           an
           extremity
           of
           Slavery
           and
           Oppression
           :
           And
           yet
           they
           bore
           all
           with
           Patience
           ;
           for
           Custom
           being
           the
           only
           ease
           of
           Excess
           of
           Misery
           ,
           men
           were
           contented
           to
           lay
           the
           foundation
           of
           Servitude
           by
           the
           length
           of
           Sufferance
           ;
           which
           found
           neither
           End
           nor
           Abatement
           ,
           until
           the
           
             quiet
             part
          
           of
           the
           Kings
           Reign
           .
        
         
           Now
           
             Montford
             ,
             Glocester
          
           ,
           and
           Spencer
           (
           the
           
             Heads
             of
          
           this
           Conspiracy
           )
           having
           ,
           by
           the
           late
           Provisions
           ,
           drawn
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           
             twenty
             four
             Tribunes
             of
             the
             People
             ,
          
           the
           entire
           management
           of
           all
           Affairs
           ;
           and
           finding
           this
           Power
           to
           be
           yet
           too
           much
           dispers'd
           ,
           to
           answer
           their
           Expectations
           ;
           compelled
           the
           King
           to
           call
           another
           Parliament
           ;
           where
           they
           got
           the
           authority
           of
           the
           
             Twenty
             four
          
           assigned
           over
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           erected
           a
           Triumvirate
           for
           their
           own
           ends
           only
           ,
           and
           not
           for
           reforming
           Abuses
           ,
           and
           settling
           the
           Nation
           ,
           as
           they
           at
           first
           gave
           out
           .
           And
           thus
           by
           the
           Gratification
           of
           these
           Private
           Interests
           ,
           the
           Publick
           was
           staid
           ,
           for
           a
           time
           :
           But
           yet
           all
           this
           Juggle
           and
           Artifice
           ,
           was
           only
           to
           make
           the
           way
           the
           smoother
           for
           one
           of
           them
           to
           become
           
             perpetual
             Dictator
             .
             Ambition
          
           is
           never
           so
           high
           ,
           but
           that
           it
           still
           labours
           to
           advance
           a
           step
           further
           ;
           and
           that
           Station
           which
           lately
           seemed
           Inaccessible
           ,
           is
           now
           lookt
           upon
           but
           as
           a
           Cocks-Stride
           ;
           that
           which
           was
           Great
           ,
           in
           the
           Persute
           ,
           seeming
           Inconsiderable
           ,
           in
           the
           Possession
           .
           These
           Three
           Elect
           
             nine
             Counsellours
             (
             Three
          
           of
           them
           at
           least
           to
           make
           a
           Quorum
           )
           who
           were
           to
           dispose
           of
           and
           fortifie
           Castles
           ,
           and
           transact
           other
           Affairs
           of
           the
           Realm
           .
           But
           the
           
             Chief
             Justice
             ,
             Chancellour
             ,
             Treasurer
             ,
          
           and
           all
           other
           Officers
           ,
           greater
           or
           less
           ,
           they
           reserve
           the
           Choice
           of
           to
           themselves
           :
           binding
           the
           King
           so
           very
           strictly
           to
           this
           hard
           Bargain
           ,
           that
           he
           submits
           to
           pass
           an
           Instrument
           to
           them
           under
           the
           
             Great
             Seal
          
           ,
           and
           Oath
           ,
           whereby
           he
           actually
           discharged
           them
           from
           their
           Allegiance
           
           when
           ever
           he
           should
           attempt
           to
           assume
           to
           himself
           the
           
             Royal
             Dignity
          
           ;
           declaring
           it
           to
           be
           lawful
           (
           in
           such
           Case
           )
           for
           the
           whole
           Nation
           to
           rise
           up
           as
           one
           man
           ,
           and
           ,
           (
           having
           no
           Obligation
           to
           him
           )
           by
           force
           to
           reduce
           him
           into
           Order
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           not
           long
           after
           ;
           this
           Prodigy
           of
           Fortune
           (
           whom
           she
           had
           made
           a
           wretched
           Example
           of
           her
           Inconstancy
           )
           finding
           no
           part
           of
           his
           Soveraignty
           left
           him
           ,
           but
           the
           bare
           Title
           ;
           and
           even
           that
           precarious
           too
           ;
           craves
           Aid
           of
           
             Pope
             Urbane
          
           ,
           the
           fourth
           ,
           against
           his
           disloyal
           Subjects
           ;
           who
           arm'd
           him
           with
           Excommunications
           against
           all
           that
           should
           not
           forthwith
           return
           to
           their
           Duty
           ;
           and
           Cancell'd
           his
           Oath
           ,
           and
           Contract
           ;
           in
           regard
           that
           it
           was
           made
           when
           he
           could
           not
           properly
           say
           that
           he
           was
           at
           
             Liberty
             ;
             Force
          
           having
           no
           power
           to
           create
           a
           
             just
             Interest
          
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           Lords
           ,
           having
           now
           imp'd
           their
           wings
           with
           Eagles
           Feathers
           ,
           and
           liking
           no
           Game
           but
           what
           was
           rak'd
           out
           of
           the
           Ashes
           of
           Monarchy
           ;
           boldly
           make
           head
           against
           their
           Soveraign
           :
           And
           that
           they
           might
           be
           the
           better
           able
           to
           cope
           with
           him
           ,
           call
           in
           the
           French
           to
           their
           Assistance
           .
           Thus
           again
           did
           the
           Commonwealth
           turn
           her
           Sword
           against
           her
           own
           Breast
           ;
           and
           invite
           her
           antient
           Enemy
           to
           the
           Funeral
           of
           her
           Liberty
           ;
           so
           that
           it
           was
           a
           great
           Providence
           that
           she
           fell
           not
           ,
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           under
           a
           
             Forreign
             Yoke
          
           .
           Now
           though
           these
           men
           were
           much
           more
           apprehensive
           of
           their
           own
           Disgrace
           than
           of
           others
           Miseries
           ;
           yet
           could
           they
           find
           no
           better
           Pretext
           for
           private
           Interest
           ,
           than
           that
           of
           the
           Publick
           .
           Wherefore
           at
           the
           entry
           of
           this
           Rebellion
           they
           cryed
           out
           for
           Liberty
           ;
           though
           when
           it
           drew
           near
           an
           end
           ,
           they
           never
           spoke
           word
           of
           it
           .
           Well!
           at
           Lewis
           the
           Armies
           met
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           endeavours
           a
           Reconciliation
           ,
           but
           in
           vain
           ;
           for
           Arguments
           are
           ever
           unprofitable
           ,
           when
           Justice
           is
           inferiour
           to
           Force
           .
           Wherefore
           the
           Sword
           decides
           
           the
           Controversie
           ,
           and
           makes
           the
           two
           Kings
           and
           their
           eldest
           Sons
           ,
           Prisoners
           .
        
         
           The
           Person
           and
           the
           Power
           being
           now
           both
           of
           them
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           Montford
           and
           Glocester
           ;
           found
           no
           other
           means
           of
           Security
           ,
           or
           expectation
           of
           Liberty
           ,
           than
           what
           the
           emulous
           Competition
           of
           Greatness
           (
           which
           began
           to
           break
           forth
           between
           these
           two
           mighty
           Rivals
           )
           gave
           hope
           of
           :
           For
           Leicester
           designing
           ,
           (
           by
           engrossing
           from
           his
           Partner
           the
           Person
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           securing
           to
           his
           Followers
           the
           best
           part
           of
           the
           Spoil
           )
           to
           draw
           more
           fruit
           from
           this
           Advantage
           ,
           than
           ,
           in
           Fellowship
           ,
           it
           could
           yield
           ,
           dissolv'd
           the
           Knot
           of
           all
           their
           Amity
           .
           Thus
           we
           may
           observe
           that
           
             equal
             Authority
          
           ,
           with
           the
           
             same
             Power
          
           ,
           is
           ever
           fatal
           to
           all
           great
           Actions
           ;
           for
           to
           reduce
           minds
           to
           so
           even
           a
           pitch
           that
           they
           should
           not
           have
           some
           strings
           of
           Disagreement
           ,
           is
           absolutely
           impossible
           .
           Montford
           having
           thus
           broken
           all
           faith
           with
           his
           Confederates
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Duty
           to
           his
           Sovereign
           ;
           left
           the
           Path
           of
           Moderation
           and
           Wisdom
           ,
           to
           approach
           the
           King
           by
           that
           of
           Haughtiness
           and
           Distrust
           ;
           plying
           him
           with
           pretences
           that
           his
           Arms
           and
           Ends
           were
           evermore
           directed
           to
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Publick
           ,
           and
           the
           ease
           of
           the
           People
           ;
           that
           in
           all
           this
           he
           entertain'd
           no
           private
           Passion
           ,
           in
           opposition
           to
           the
           sense
           of
           his
           Allegiance
           ;
           but
           was
           capable
           of
           regulating
           his
           Desires
           according
           to
           his
           just
           Power
           ,
           and
           consequently
           to
           his
           Majesties
           Satisfaction
           ,
           in
           case
           he
           would
           be
           rul'd
           ;
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           (
           as
           he
           explain'd
           himself
           )
           command
           the
           Forts
           and
           Castles
           of
           his
           now
           
             Opposite
             ,
             Glocester
          
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           ,
           to
           be
           deliver'd
           up
           into
           his
           hands
           .
           It
           was
           no
           easie
           matter
           ,
           we
           may
           well
           imagine
           ,
           for
           the
           King
           thus
           to
           be
           tutor'd
           by
           his
           inferiour
           ,
           and
           Vassal
           :
           But
           Necessity
           ,
           in
           such
           Cases
           ,
           commonly
           bears
           down
           before
           it
           all
           Formalities
           :
           And
           therefore
           this
           poor
           Prince
           who
           (
           lying
           at
           the
           Victors
           Discretion
           )
           seem'd
           to
           have
           been
           rais'd
           ,
           only
           to
           shew
           the
           Inconstancy
           of
           Fortune
           ,
           and
           the
           Vanity
           of
           man
           ;
           suited
           
           himself
           with
           incomparable
           Wisdom
           according
           to
           the
           Exigences
           of
           the
           Times
           :
           Neither
           could
           Humility
           injure
           Majesty
           ,
           when
           the
           only
           means
           to
           contein
           Spirits
           so
           insolent
           within
           due
           bounds
           ,
           was
           Dissimulation
           .
           Wherefore
           he
           summons
           ,
           in
           Person
           ,
           the
           Forts
           of
           his
           faithfullest
           Friends
           to
           yield
           to
           his
           greatest
           Enemies
           ;
           entering
           them
           ,
           in
           shew
           as
           his
           Lodging
           ,
           but
           ,
           in
           effect
           ,
           as
           his
           Prison
           ;
           and
           sees
           himself
           forc'd
           to
           take
           Law
           from
           him
           ,
           to
           whom
           he
           lately
           thought
           to
           have
           given
           it
           .
           Leicester
           is
           now
           become
           the
           Darling
           of
           the
           Rabble
           ,
           who
           easily
           crouch
           and
           change
           to
           every
           new
           Master
           ;
           but
           yet
           the
           Sober
           and
           considering
           part
           of
           the
           Nation
           durst
           not
           venture
           to
           sayl
           along
           with
           his
           Fortune
           ,
           by
           the
           Light
           of
           his
           Glory
           ;
           as
           knowing
           well
           that
           Crystal
           ,
           though
           it
           fairly
           glitters
           ,
           yet
           is
           soon
           broken
           ;
           and
           that
           as
           the
           Ascent
           of
           Usurpation
           is
           slippery
           ,
           so
           the
           Top
           is
           tottering
           ,
           and
           the
           Fall
           dreadful
           .
           To
           account
           this
           man
           therefore
           at
           the
           very
           height
           of
           his
           false
           Felicity
           to
           be
           truly
           Happy
           ,
           was
           but
           to
           give
           the
           name
           of
           the
           Image
           to
           the
           Mettle
           that
           was
           not
           yet
           molten
           :
           For
           by
           this
           time
           the
           imprison'd
           Prince
           had
           made
           an
           Escape
           ,
           and
           was
           fast
           assur'd
           of
           Glocester
           upon
           the
           ty
           of
           his
           
             great
             Mind
          
           ,
           and
           Discontent
           .
           Wherefore
           they
           both
           of
           them
           united
           with
           the
           shattered
           Remnant
           of
           the
           
             Loyal
             Army
          
           ,
           and
           ,
           by
           a
           speedy
           march
           ,
           arriv'd
           unlookt
           for
           ,
           upon
           the
           banks
           of
           the
           unarmed
           Troop
           of
           the
           secure
           Rebels
           quartering
           about
           Evesham
           ;
           whom
           they
           instantly
           assayl'd
           ;
           as
           knowing
           it
           to
           be
           no
           fit
           season
           to
           give
           time
           ,
           when
           no
           time
           could
           assure
           so
           much
           as
           Expedition
           promis'd
           .
           Spencer
           ,
           and
           other
           Lords
           of
           that
           Faction
           ,
           made
           toward
           the
           King
           for
           Mercy
           ;
           but
           could
           not
           get
           clear
           of
           the
           Press
           ,
           being
           hurry'd
           along
           the
           Stream
           ,
           and
           perished
           in
           the
           Confusion
           .
           We
           are
           to
           consider
           that
           Publick
           Motion
           depends
           in
           a
           great
           measure
           upon
           the
           Conduct
           of
           
             Fortune
             ,
             Private
          
           on
           our
           own
           Carriage
           :
           And
           we
           must
           take
           heed
           how
           we
           run
           down
           steep
           Hills
           with
           heavy
           Bodies
           which
           being
           once
           in
           motion
           ,
           are
           hurry'd
           on
           by
           their
           own
           
           weight
           ,
           and
           Stops
           are
           then
           no
           longer
           Voluntary
           .
           Now
           Leicester
           being
           at
           that
           instant
           with
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           the
           Storm
           ,
           might
           have
           got
           away
           ;
           if
           his
           Hope
           ,
           and
           Courage
           had
           not
           encreas'd
           his
           Resolution
           with
           his
           Misfortune
           :
           He
           could
           neither
           abandon
           his
           Followers
           ,
           nor
           his
           Ambition
           ;
           so
           that
           improving
           Adversity
           into
           an
           exercise
           of
           Virtue
           ,
           he
           came
           ,
           and
           fell
           .
        
         
           The
           King
           being
           by
           this
           succesful
           Turn
           freed
           and
           obey'd
           ;
           began
           to
           enquire
           into
           the
           ground
           of
           his
           former
           Miscarriages
           ;
           and
           why
           that
           Virtue
           and
           Providence
           which
           had
           so
           long
           settled
           and
           supported
           the
           
             English
             ,
             Empire
          
           in
           the
           greatest
           Lustre
           and
           Reputation
           ,
           throughout
           the
           Reign
           of
           his
           Glorious
           Ancestors
           ;
           should
           now
           turn
           tail
           upon
           Him
           ,
           and
           Confederate
           with
           his
           Enemies
           ;
           to
           the
           almost
           absolute
           destruction
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           and
           as
           if
           her
           Genius
           had
           quite
           sorsook
           her
           :
           Upon
           due
           search
           ,
           he
           finds
           his
           
             squandering
             hand
          
           to
           have
           made
           too
           bold
           with
           the
           Substance
           and
           Estates
           of
           his
           People
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           rapacious
           Exorbitances
           of
           his
           
             Civil
             Ministers
          
           ,
           the
           Licentiousness
           of
           his
           
             Martial
             Followers
          
           ,
           his
           own
           harsh
           Demeanour
           and
           Inaccessibleness
           ,
           and
           his
           neglect
           of
           keeping
           his
           Word
           ,
           had
           lost
           him
           his
           Nobility
           at
           home
           :
           And
           that
           his
           Necessities
           ,
           which
           forc'd
           him
           to
           make
           Merchandize
           of
           Peace
           and
           War
           ,
           as
           his
           last
           Refuge
           ;
           and
           to
           put
           himself
           into
           the
           power
           of
           Persons
           doubtful
           or
           injur'd
           ;
           together
           with
           his
           giving
           himself
           up
           to
           a
           
             sensual
             Security
          
           ,
           and
           entrusting
           with
           the
           management
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           base
           ,
           griping
           and
           unworthy
           Officers
           ,
           whose
           Counsels
           were
           ever
           more
           subtle
           than
           Substantial
           ,
           had
           wounded
           his
           Reputation
           abroad
           ,
           and
           thrown
           down
           those
           Pillars
           of
           
             Soveraignty
             ,
             Credit
          
           and
           Veneration
           .
           Wherefore
           he
           enters
           upon
           his
           regain'd
           Authority
           with
           Gentleness
           and
           Clemency
           ;
           wholly
           passing
           over
           the
           faults
           of
           most
           of
           the
           Rebels
           :
           (
           A
           gracious
           kind
           of
           pardoning
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           as
           to
           take
           notice
           of
           the
           Offence
           !
           )
           and
           so
           forgot
           the
           Rest
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           live
           ,
           
           but
           to
           the
           Glory
           of
           his
           Goodness
           ;
           for
           the
           fewer
           kill'd
           ,
           the
           more
           remain
           to
           adorn
           the
           
             Trophy
             .
             Tyrants
          
           indeed
           shed
           Blood
           for
           Pleasure
           ,
           but
           Kings
           ,
           out
           of
           Necessity
           ;
           And
           yet
           lest
           his
           Justice
           and
           Power
           might
           suffer
           too
           much
           ,
           by
           his
           Grace
           and
           Mercy
           ,
           some
           few
           he
           punish'd
           with
           easie
           
             Fines
             ,
             others
          
           ,
           by
           Exile
           ;
           as
           the
           two
           Guiltless
           ,
           yet
           unpity'd
           Sons
           of
           the
           Arch-Traytor
           Leicester
           .
           So
           odious
           (
           we
           see
           )
           is
           Treason
           in
           the
           Head
           ,
           that
           it
           involveth
           the
           innocent
           Children
           in
           an
           everlasting
           Distrust
           ;
           and
           that
           which
           in
           others
           is
           but
           Suspicion
           ,
           in
           them
           is
           Guilt
           .
           Then
           he
           proceeds
           to
           confer
           upon
           the
           constant
           adherers
           to
           his
           broken
           Fortunes
           ,
           the
           Forfeitures
           of
           his
           Enemies
           ;
           but
           with
           much
           more
           Wariness
           than
           before
           :
           as
           having
           found
           (
           by
           Experience
           )
           
             immoderate
             Liberality
          
           to
           be
           but
           a
           weak
           means
           to
           win
           Love
           ;
           because
           it
           lost
           more
           in
           the
           Gathering
           than
           it
           gain'd
           in
           the
           Giving
           .
           A
           Bounty
           plac'd
           without
           Respect
           ,
           is
           taken
           without
           Gratitude
           ;
           discredits
           the
           Receiver
           ,
           and
           detracts
           from
           the
           judgment
           of
           the
           Bestower
           ;
           blunting
           the
           Appetites
           of
           such
           a
           draw
           their
           Hopes
           of
           Preferment
           from
           measures
           of
           Fidelity
           and
           Service
           .
           Thus
           at
           last
           he
           learn'd
           that
           Reward
           and
           Reprehension
           discreetly
           temper'd
           ,
           do
           Ballance
           Government
           ;
           and
           that
           it
           much
           importeth
           a
           Prince
           to
           keep
           that
           Hand
           steady
           and
           equal
           ,
           that
           holds
           the
           Scale
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           next
           place
           he
           appli'd
           himself
           to
           the
           correcting
           of
           his
           own
           
             natural
             Infirmities
          
           :
           Wisely
           judging
           ,
           that
           though
           the
           Princes
           Manners
           are
           only
           a
           
             mute
             Law
          
           ,
           yet
           have
           they
           more
           of
           Life
           and
           Vigour
           in
           them
           ,
           than
           those
           of
           Letters
           .
           So
           that
           though
           he
           might
           now
           and
           then
           touch
           upon
           the
           skirts
           of
           Vice
           ,
           yet
           was
           he
           ever
           after
           cautious
           of
           entering
           the
           Circle
           .
           And
           whereas
           the
           Crimes
           and
           Enormities
           of
           the
           great
           Men
           of
           his
           Court
           were
           ,
           at
           this
           this
           time
           ,
           become
           so
           extravagantly
           numerous
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           drawn
           into
           Example
           and
           Imitation
           :
           He
           purg'd
           this
           likewise
           with
           singular
           ex
           actitude
           of
           Judgment
           and
           Severity
           ;
           knowing
           full
           well
           
           that
           it
           was
           it
           that
           gave
           life
           to
           the
           Moderation
           or
           Intemperance
           of
           the
           Commonwealth
           .
        
         
           He
           reduc'd
           the
           Expences
           of
           his
           House
           to
           the
           just
           Rule
           of
           his
           proper
           Revenue
           ;
           and
           was
           often
           heard
           to
           say
           that
           
             his
             former
             excessive
             squanderings
             had
             torn
             open
             an
             Issue
             of
             his
             Subjects
             Blood.
          
           The
           Fury
           and
           Insolence
           of
           the
           Soldiery
           (
           now
           become
           Licentious
           ,
           by
           means
           of
           the
           
             Civil
             Wars
          
           )
           he
           spent
           and
           corrected
           by
           forreign
           Expeditions
           :
           which
           he
           was
           the
           rather
           induc'd
           to
           do
           ,
           upon
           finding
           that
           the
           peaceable
           (
           only
           )
           bore
           the
           Burthen
           of
           all
           the
           late
           Calamities
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           other
           were
           never
           satisfi'd
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           miseries
           of
           the
           Innocent
           ;
           being
           as
           ready
           as
           ever
           ,
           if
           they
           should
           find
           no
           Enemies
           abroad
           ,
           to
           seek
           out
           some
           at
           Home
           .
           Neither
           did
           he
           forget
           to
           examine
           or
           redress
           ,
           by
           strict
           Commission
           ,
           the
           Rigour
           and
           Corruption
           of
           his
           
             Judicial
             Officers
          
           ;
           as
           apprehending
           ,
           that
           the
           sense
           of
           their
           Severity
           would
           raise
           a
           murmur
           of
           his
           own
           Cruelty
           .
        
         
           He
           fill'd
           up
           the
           seats
           of
           Judgment
           and
           Councel
           with
           men
           of
           Noble
           Extraction
           .
           For
           such
           do
           with
           less
           offence
           attract
           generous
           Spirits
           to
           respect
           and
           Veneration
           .
           He
           no
           longer
           measureth
           their
           Abilities
           by
           Favour
           ,
           or
           
             private
             Recommendation
          
           ,
           as
           before
           ;
           but
           by
           
             publick
             Vogue
          
           :
           For
           though
           every
           man
           in
           particular
           may
           deceive
           and
           be
           deceived
           ,
           yet
           is
           not
           possible
           for
           one
           man
           to
           deceive
           all
           ;
           or
           
             all
             ,
             one
          
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           better
           to
           set
           off
           his
           own
           Capacity
           ,
           and
           to
           discover
           to
           the
           World
           what
           part
           he
           intended
           ,
           hereafter
           ,
           to
           bear
           in
           all
           
             deliberate
             Expeditions
          
           ;
           he
           sits
           himself
           in
           Councel
           daily
           ,
           disposing
           Affairs
           of
           most
           weight
           ,
           in
           his
           own
           Person
           :
           for
           Councellers
           be
           they
           never
           so
           wise
           ,
           or
           worthy
           ,
           are
           only
           Accessaries
           ,
           yet
           ,
           not
           Principals
           ,
           in
           the
           support
           of
           the
           Government
           ;
           their
           business
           is
           Subjection
           ,
           not
           Fellowship
           ,
           in
           debates
           of
           moment
           ;
           and
           they
           must
           be
           allow'd
           a
           Privilege
           
           to
           advise
           ,
           but
           not
           authority
           to
           resolve
           .
           For
           as
           a
           particular
           Soul
           is
           essentially
           requisite
           to
           the
           Life
           of
           a
           Prince
           ;
           so
           is
           a
           supreme
           and
           unaccountable
           Power
           ,
           of
           like
           necessity
           :
           Without
           the
           one
           he
           cannot
           be
           truly
           a
           Man
           ,
           and
           without
           the
           other
           he
           can
           never
           be
           securely
           a
           Prince
           .
           It
           doth
           also
           disturb
           both
           the
           Minister
           ,
           and
           the
           People
           ,
           to
           be
           forc'd
           to
           pay
           obedience
           to
           one
           that
           is
           Incompetent
           of
           his
           own
           Greatness
           ,
           and
           unworthy
           of
           his
           
             Royal
             Fortunes
          
           .
        
         
           This
           wonderful
           Change
           in
           the
           
             General
             State
          
           ,
           which
           so
           far
           dispair'd
           (
           erewhile
           )
           of
           recovering
           her
           former
           Liberty
           ,
           that
           she
           sought
           for
           nothing
           but
           the
           easiest
           kind
           of
           Servitude
           ;
           brought
           over
           the
           People
           again
           (
           with
           admiration
           )
           to
           the
           Kings
           Devotion
           ,
           and
           their
           own
           Duty
           .
           So
           that
           who
           ever
           designes
           to
           lay
           a
           Foundation
           of
           Greatness
           upon
           
             popular
             Love
          
           ,
           must
           be
           careful
           of
           securing
           to
           them
           Ease
           and
           Justice
           ;
           because
           they
           are
           ever
           prone
           to
           measure
           the
           band
           of
           their
           Obedience
           by
           the
           benefit
           that
           they
           daily
           receive
           .
        
         
           Now
           this
           Calm
           attended
           (
           ever
           after
           )
           this
           Kings
           Age
           and
           Hearse
           ;
           and
           he
           liv'd
           to
           train
           up
           his
           Successor
           ,
           and
           make
           him
           a
           Participant
           of
           his
           own
           Experience
           and
           Authority
           :
           His
           hard
           Education
           wean'd
           him
           from
           those
           Intemperances
           which
           makes
           Men
           Inferiour
           to
           Beasts
           ,
           and
           prompted
           him
           to
           affect
           Glory
           and
           Virtue
           ,
           which
           gave
           him
           a
           Superiority
           over
           Men.
           Insomuch
           that
           all
           the
           Actions
           of
           his
           
             Future
             Reign
          
           were
           Exact
           Rules
           of
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           Policy
           ,
           and
           worthy
           Imitation
           of
           his
           best
           of
           Successors
           ;
           who
           ,
           as
           he
           was
           the
           first
           of
           his
           Name
           
             (
             Edward
          
           )
           after
           the
           Conquest
           ;
           so
           was
           he
           also
           the
           first
           that
           thoroughly
           reform'd
           the
           Abuses
           crept
           into
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           settled
           the
           Commonwealth
           ;
           (
           justly
           meriting
           the
           Title
           of
           
             Englands
             Justinian
          
           )
           delivering
           the
           Nation
           out
           of
           the
           Thraldom
           of
           the
           Peers
           ;
           and
           by
           all
           his
           Actions
           (
           afterward
           )
           approving
           himself
           capable
           
           himself
           of
           Governing
           not
           this
           
             Single
             〈◊〉
          
           only
           〈…〉
           
             who
             le
             World.
          
           
        
         
           Thus
           by
           the
           Injustice
           of
           our
           Enemies
           ,
           more
           than
           by
           our
           own
           Discretions
           ,
           do
           we
           many
           times
           become
           both
           Wise
           and
           Fortunate
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .