THE Royalists Address LATELY Presented to the honourable Committee OF PARLIAMENT Chosen to Consider Their Condition.  
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The ADDRESS of the English Gentry that served the Crown in the late Wars to the Honourable COMMITTEE chosen by the Parliament to consider their CONDITION.  
WE do must humbly acknowledge his Majesties singular goodness, in taking notice to this Parliament of our past endeavours to serve him.  
We do return our most humble thanks to the Honourable House of Commons, for their quick and speedy care of us in selecting( upon the first intimation of his Majesty) a Committee of so many Worthy persons to consider our present Condition.  
To you( worthy Gentlemen of that honourable Committee, whose constant and cheerful endeavours, since, on our behalf, we do with all gratitude acknowledge) we humbly present this Paper.  
It is not unknown, That we took up Arms to defend our Prince and Country, and that we brought our Fortunes and Treasure, as well as our Persons into the War. Many of our Honourable Companions are fallen in the Dispute, and are now at Rest: We that survive, have the happiness, after a long succession of various Ills, to see ourselves safe again under the Wing and Protection of our Native King.  
In this great jubilee, we hope, we may without interrupting or lessening the public Joy, offer our just desires; for though this happy day consumes our grief, it destroys not our Right, nor our due Claims: Justice is best dispensed in Heaven, where no Sorrow is; and next on Earth, where deepest Peace is; with no less satisfaction of mind to the upright Judge, then to the distressed Suitor.  
When it pleased God by our stability and perseverance to restore the King, not by the Covenant, which because it killed, some would vainly make us believe that like the Scorpion there is a balsam in it that cures the wound it gives: It was then thought fit, both for the re-establishment of the Royal Throne, and the kingdoms peace, to bury by an Act of Oblivion all bypassed injuries; to this we were no less inclined then those whose lives and new gained possessions could not otherwise be secured: This present calm proceeds principally from the remission of injuries done to us, and we most willingly waved those remedies of our repair which the Law gives to injured men.  
To that wisdom and Justice that steered those Councils then, we now appeal, not doubting, since our Addresses to Courts of Justice are intercepted, but that the same Justice and prudence will find some other ways to right us.  
It cannot sure be deemed equal or reasonable that the ransom of the kingdom should be paid by us alone that only contended to blood to preserve it, and in that endeavour, have consumed our treasure and our youth.  
If to continue the quiet and repose of the Nation, we could imagine that the continuance of our Sufferings would contribute but a Scruple, we would content ourselves with that state that a War and a long Tyranny hath left us in: But since we see all men returned to a better condition then ourselves, and even those that lately were our Enemies sit now safely under our Vines, surely we may expect, not an alms, but such a measured Reparation of our harms as may suite with our Quality, and not to be left in a worse state then all men else; If otherwise it should fall out,( which God forbid, and which we do not fear,) the Justice of the Nation will grow Cheap and neglected as well as we, and men hereafter in distress,( though nothing can or shall shake our faith) may want friends either to help or pity them.  
To give countenance to our tried and approved Faith will secure it in those where it is either doubtful or but budding, and where Naturally it will not grow, it will force it.  
To the early Labourer it appeared hard, That he that came late into the Vineyard should receive wages equal to his; but we never red that any repined at the Wages of him that wrought all day. We desire but the kindness shown to the latest Proselytes.  
That so much will not be denied us, is our hope and our assurance, though we have been delayed and past by so long; for we red that even in Heaven there was once a great silence, yet it lasted but half an hour.  
We will not press our desires further, lest we seem to rely more upon our Importunity then our Just Reasons, and by over solicitation, lessen the Honour of the English Gentry, and that Magnanimity that disdained to see a Crown and kingdom Usurped and trampled on.  
FINIS.