REMARKS Upon the Two Years Reign of the Dauphin of France, when King of England, in the time of King John. Submitted to the Commons of England in Parliament.  
OF all the Attempts made since the Norman Conquest for the Subversion of English Liberty, that of the Dauphin of France, in King John's time, was the most dangerous, and was rendered the more pernicious, by reason the Dauphin entered the Kingdom by Consent of the People, and that he was received as a Deliverer, and not as an Enemy; but he soon under the Umbrage of the former, acted the latter, as by the sequel will appear.  
Our English Chronicles tell us, that upon the Discontent betwixt King John and the Barons, the latter invited the Dauphin of France, to rescue them from the Pressure of King John, and the Londoners in conjunction with the Barons, proclaimed the Dauphin King of Englannd; At his first coming, he published 3 Declarations, in each whereof he did set forth the Male Administration of King John, and rendered him as Odious and Obnoxious to the People, as the hopes of Dominion, Malice, and Invention could make him. And withal, that he himself would govern Englishmen by their own Laws and Customs, redress their Grievances, and by such sly Insinuations, the Dauphin weaned the People from their Allegiance, and supplanted King John; but as soon as he got footing, and the English Forts and Castles into his hands; an Army of Foreigners about him, and the Power of France to back and second him, he soon forgot his Declarations, and of all his Promises, never fulfilled one Tittle, but on the contrary despised and rejected the English (excepting some corrupt Persons, upon whom he prevailed for Gratuity's and Bribes, to betray their Country, and to enslave all the rest of our Fellow-Subjects) the best of the English thus Harassed, and removed from all Places of Trust and Profit, and the rest preferred; the new King (not doubting to make himself the absolute Master of all) tacitly called into his Assistance all the Mercenary Foreigners he could prevail withal, whereby he thought not to leave the Name nor the Memory of an Englishman in England.  
But the English in those days were a most Warlike, Victorious People, and very resolute in the defence of their own Rights and Property's, which they thought very improper for a Prince of their own Invitation and Election to Invade; and for a Prince that could pretend to no colour of Right or Title of his own, but what he received from the People; and that had it not been for the Courtesy of the same People, most certain it is, that no such foreign Prince could have any such Power over them; And to lose their Rights by the boundless Ambition of a King of their own making, they unanimously resolved in their own Defence, to lose their Lives first, they being all well convinced, that such a King was made for the Good of the Kingdom, and not the Kingdom made for the Ravage of such a King.  
The English thus justly angered and irritated against the Lawless Designs of their New King, they watched his Motions, and observing him to prefer Tyranny to Mercy, and that in Oppressions, Expenses, Ambition, and Maladministration, he had far surpassed King John; and seeing their All exposed to the Merciless Cruelty of his Foreign Needimites, here the English found their own Mistakes, and concluded their flying from the Pressures of King John, for Refuge and Protection to the Dauphin, was but leaping out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire.  
The English were not asleep, they had their Eyes open, and were very sensible of their dismal Conditions, and of the Misery's and Afflictions, which the Dauphin (in order to make himself absolute over them) thought to Entail upon this Realm; and the Dauphin was as sensible of the People's Hatred: Thence flew the contrary Desires of Revenge and Security in each other, which could not be reconciled but by Mutual Injuries; here the Dauphin soon found himself in as great Distress, as if he had been born under the Star of Hercules, who, when he had Cut off one Hidra's Head, had his Labours continued by the sudden Production of many. The Dauphin, the faster he cut off the English, the faster they grew upon his Hands, and the more Potent Enemies he made himself; until he had at last necessitated the whole Kingdom, to declare against him: Yet he did not cease, but repeated his Crimes, insomuch, that he with his Cabinet Council and Secretaries, filled the Nation with feigned Conspiracies, and Hellish Inventions against himself, whereby to carry on his Wicked Designs, and Murder, and Destroy the best Families in England; in order to which, he caused Spies to be placed in every Family, whereby he broke Public Unions, and dissolved Private Contracts; he Bribed Wives with their own Dishonours for to betray their Husbands; and Encouraged Children with too early hopes of Patrimony, to Rifle their Father's Cabinets; and Servants beyond Manumission, to reveal more than their Master's Secrets: He punished Suspicion for manifest Crimes, and Circumvented the Innocency of some to recover his own Gild: For all those whom he injured, he feared, and all he hated and feared, he Injured; he caused his Emissaries at public Feasts, to gather up the loose Speeches of Men, made free by Excess of Wine and other Liquors, and the Innocent Form of Table-talk, to be turned into Compacts of Treason, until he had made every Man's House his Grave or his Prison.  
But the Dauphin finding all his Measures upon false Bottoms, and that his English Favourites, by their Perverse Counsels contributed to his Ruin, and could render him no more Service; all their Tricks and Sinister Dealings being publicly discovered, which exposed them to the Universal hatred of the better part of the English, or to those whose Integrity to the General Interest of England, obliged them to signify their Abhorrence against all the Foreign and Domestic Attempts, carried on, and hiddenly managed by Foreigners and some English Favourites, for the Subversion of English Liberties; Here the Dauphin thinking to Ingratiate himself with the People after so many Injuries, exposed all his English Favourites to the Hatred of all their Fellow-Subjects, throwing the Odium of their own pernicious Counsels upon their own Heads, and caused them to be used and treated, as the Roman Aediles, used their Beasts and Malefactors in their Theatres, when they would recreate their People in their Spectacula, made them accuse and destroy one another; lest what they had done for him, they may practise against him, for that Instruments of great Crimes do by their very Sight, mightily upbraid him that employed them, which was the Case of the Dauphin, and of his corrupted Favourites.  
But the English finding by Experience, that Ambulatory Governments are Expensive and Destructive, and like Planets, which at their rising and setting bring Storms and Tempests to usher them in and out; and so in Cases of Travelling Governments, they are always attended with War, Taxes and Rapines. So that betwixt the Ruin of the Old and Execution of the New, the Unhappy People under such Governments, have their Treasure consumed, their Strength decayed, and their Estates and Fortunes ruined, by being of contrary Party's one against another; when as their Amity and Union, would heal their Wounds, redress their Grievances, and make them Masters of their own Rights and Liberties, whereof the English in those days were fully convinced, and united in one Common Interest against the common Enemy that pretended to be their Deliverer; Here the English proclaimed that the Dauphin, and all his Foreign Gabells should depart the Kingdom by a Day; adjusted all Accounts with him, and paid him what Expenses and Charges he could justly demand. And thus the Dauphin's Reign, and the Fortune of his Favourites ended in Confusion.  
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