A CORDIAL FOR THE CAVALIERS.  
Worthy, and Deserving Gentlemen,  
IN the Affairs and traverses of this life, it is a true Rule (and 'tis a comfortable one) That He who dischargeth a good Conscience, hath enough of his Own wherewith to reward Himself, though he receive no compensation from any where else: The World knows, and Envy itself doth acknowledge, That in the late Confusions, (which were of that length that might have shaken the firmest Spirits in their Loyalty) you have discharged a Good Conscience three ways, towards your Creator, towards your Country, and towards your King; your Religion bound you to the One, Nature to the Other, and your Allegiance to to the Third; And although Many of you have not yet received what you expected for the two last, yet touching the first (whereunto the other also conduce) you are sure to have such a Reward one day, that will not only be above all Merit, but beyond all Imagination in the Kingdom of Eternity.  
Add hereunto that I hold your Condition to be far from being desperate, but that you may receive Rewards, at least some Consideration from the other Two, viz from your King and Country; For the present Parliament, which represents your whole Country, being composed of so many Wise, and wellweighed Gentlemen (whereof divers have been Co-sufferers with you) will, as it is well hoped, out of a sense thereof, have such reflections upon your Sufferings and Services, both Active and Passive, that they will enable his Majesty, whom the Law styles, The Fountain of Honour and Bounty, and whereof indeed no other Power should partake with Him, I say it may well be hoped, that this Parliament, before their Recess, will put his Majesty in a Capacity, and humbly Advise Him, if not to Reward you, yet to Relieve your present wants in such a measure, that the Steed may not starve while the grass grows.  
You know well that the King hath been among us but a little more than the compass of one year, And his Grandfather Henry the Great of France, was above seven years (which is an Age in our Law) before He could requite those who stuck to Him not much above twenty months, in making Him Master of the Flowerdeluces; You know the vast debts his Majesty hath paid both by Sea and Land, which yet were not his own, nor his Kingdoms, but of that accursed usurping Commonwealth, which exhausted more of the Public Treasure, than all the Kings of this Land, since gold and silver were first coined in it; You know He is so shortened, that He hath not yet provided bread for All of his own House; He is in such a condition, that He cannot give his Royal Aunt that treatment which might be expected; He hath not wherewith to go his Progress: Consider what vast Expenses his Fleets at Sea, his Lifeguard, with other Garrisons do stand Him in; As also what debts He drew upon Himself so many years beyond the Seas, for his necessary subsistence, etc.  
Now, whereas some object he hath rewarded Roundheads, Truly I believe if a Catalogue were made of those upon whom he hath conferred Honour or Office since his Return, there will be found above twenty Cavaliers for one of any other upon whom he hath set any marks of Favour. 'Tis true, albeit he came not in by the Presbyterian, yet he could not have come in without Him so peaceably, Though some allege that what the Presbyterian did, was not as much out of a Love to the King, as out of a Hatred he bore to the Independent, who may be said to have used the Presbyterian as the Fox useth to deal with the Badger, who having found out his Chamber in the Earth, he so berayeth it, that the Badger comes thither no more, and so the Fox makes himself master of the hole.  
Whereas some except against his Majesty's lenity, and Indulgence, let Them know that Mercy is the inseparable Inmate of a magnanimous breast, and that the noblest way of Revenge is to forget, and scorn injuries; I have read in Story, that one thing which made Lewis the eight of France most famous was a Speech which dropped from Him, when being advised by some of his Counsel to punish such and such as were professed Enemies unto Him while He was Duke of Orleans, He answered, That the King of France doth not use to revenge the injuries of the Duke of Orleans; No more (with most humble submission be it spoken) doth King Charles resent much the wrongs that were done to Charles Stuart.  
Therefore, Noble Cavaliers, possess your Souls with patience, We have a most Gracious King who is in the Meridian of his years, and will live to reward all in time. In the confused medley of mundane affairs, the Proverb often is verified, Some have the hap, but some stick still in the gap, Some have the fortune of preferment, some not, and 'twill be so to the world's end. The Author hereof though during the many years that he was in prison for his loyalty, had 3. sworn over his head in an Office of Credit that he should have had de jure, yet it nothing discomposeth him, being more than in hope of a compensation some other way.  
And as we have a Gracious, so have we a Glorious King, the most Glorious that ever wore these three Crowns, For all the eyes of Christendom are fixed upon Him with a kind of astonishment and admiration▪ and not only of Christendom, but of all the World besides, for 'tis written that the Great Turk should say, If he were to change his Religion, he would fall to Worship the God of King Charles of England, who hath done such miracles for him, such miracles that no story can parallel: And certainly, God Almighty must needs love Him for whom he doth miracles: which that his Divine Majesty may continue to do, are the incessant Prayers of  
20 julii 1661. I. H.   

Sold by henry Marsh at the Prince's Arms in Chancery-lane, 1661.