A COPY OF Two Remonstrances, Brought Over THE RIVER STYX IN Charon's Ferry-Boate; By the Ghost of Sir JOHN SUCKLING. The one, to the Earl of Newcastle, and the Popish Army. The other, to the Protestants of England. Wherein is many things mentioned worthy the due Observation of all those that love God and King CHARLES; and desire Peace. London Printed for a faithful Royalisti, Anno Dom. MDCXLIII. To the Earl of NEWCASTLE, and his Popish Army. MY Lords and Gentlemen and the rest of this Popish Army, I beseech you be not acashed to behold the raised again from the dead in the world, sigh the sights and tears of poor England, have broken up my Tomb, and the cruel intentions of the motrous of my heart when I was living, have violently drawn my poor Soul to cry aloud to you, but alas I fear that my admonitions will prove as unprofitable as charitable. Do but call to mind our former Treasons, when I was as active as any Papist. 1 To seize on the Tower, the Lieutenant to have twenty thousand pounds, his Son to marry with Sraffords daughter, with means to live on; Strafford to be sent into IRELAND, an to send an Army hither and to go into France to prepare an Army from thence: this you know god prevented, and straford was beheaded, and yet Ireland Rebelled. 2. to posesse the northern Armies of an ill opinion of the house, and to make them advance to London, this you know was prevented also. 3. To deliver Portsmouth into jarmins' hands to be a Randevoves for the french Papists but he was feign to fly as well as I. 4. The Bishops to Raise two thousand horse. 5. The Lord of Newcastle to be made General of the Northern Army, and to have met them with the Army at Nottingham. It may be, you will boast of these two last projects, but I would you would consider what I neglected, and not draw upon yourselves murders, plagues, famines, and other miseries; do you not here the voice of innocent blood, which cries out & says that your cruelty are great crimes before God, and your gniltinesse of cruel murder; you may one day feel that trouble of soul whereof I am now to sensible, for the great disorder of those intentions which we carry with fire at our backs, whilst we played a thousand crowns at Dice upon a table after dinner etc. But whilst you are thus the murderers of others, you shall also most assuredly bring destruction upon your own souls; And you that are Protestants among them, this shallbe the greatest favour that some of you shall obtain, that you shallbe the last that shallbe devoured. Were it not better then, that you should join your affections, your courage, and that force which as yet you have resting, altogether to save and defend your KING, Parliament, Religion, Law, and Liberty, from this sheeppracke; and rather drown your Enemies therein. It may be that 〈…〉 Lords and Gentlemen will say, that this con●●●nction is impossible, and in vain; & as 〈◊〉 as you should not be seconded by the Nobility. In may be that your fidility formerly passed and committed hath much divided your affections, but now you perceive and know the damage, and hurt that this infi●ility hath done unto you; and the great good from which it doth with draw you, set upon the Papists the 〈◊〉 thereof. It is a sad thing that men should never cease to sin; and that your confidences should never stir nor move you to Repentance; specially at this day: when doth one of your lives and good are interest therein, have we not been affections now separated to be rejoined and united again, thereby to withstand and oppose a common enemy: Dogs do the same against Wolves, to save their flocks; and children against strangers to preserve their own houses: Do it then to defend your King's honour, your Native Country, Laws and Liberty, Religion, Estates: In a word to save that, for the which you swore, and are divided among yourselves; if not, then hereafter do not pretend that there is any life, dwelling state, quality, honour, or good whatsoever resting to be sever for our England, I and no other way of safety for you: it is not fight, nor desperate resolutions that can save you; I cannot see any hope otherwise of any honest and honourable death, is the only grief that a man can do nothing in this respect: do not cause the most courageous and best beloved of God, to die for sorrow, that is they may nor be kept as a pray to the Papists Tyranny, and the object of their cruelty. To the Protestants of ENGLAND. YOu famous Nobility, the true Protestants of England, that have obtained your great Privileges; for having so often been the Fundamental stones of this state cemented with your blood: Infinite times the protections of our Kings, bridles against usurpations of strangers, can you degenerate, or become faint-hearted, and bandon the ensigns of your virtues, so dear won and obtained for prey to your enemies. Suppose that an upstart Popish Army hath those that discover their treason and tyranny and are able to approve them for the same, it is much if the children that are borne under it, may be sure of their lives the papists fearing will no doubt be cruel against you then with a good will and courageous heart, follow the good motious of your King and Parliament: I know that many there are in the Kingdom, that have laboured to cool the heart of your zeal, but let not them hinder nor with draw you, in this worthy occasion, to join with those who seek the preservation of your Country and yourselves. And you my Masters of the Commonnulty, effect this last work, for the healing of your disease, for which purpose you have sent your representative body to stand for you in their places in the high Court of Parliament, they are faithful to them, but you procure your own sickness by being lulled a sleep with false pretences of the Papists, thereby to pull the sky of from their backs: you are fed with false pretences, to maintain and support your patience and to lay sugar upon the long pills of poison which they make you swallow down, many of you are so sick that you feel not your pain, and many that feel it can find no ease but fighs, or at least some silent groans; it is not enough, you must cry out, and that so loud that you may be understood, speak boldly and flatter not yourselves, fear not your enemies, you cannot be worse than you are, but you may hope for change, tell them that you have seen your last liberty (if Papists should triumph) and that you now feel the extremity of their treachiry, unslpeeses be remedets, it is now time or never, to free the spirit of our Royal King, and his state, and to pull away the foot that is ready to tread upon his belly, drowned his enemies in your blood, I intent not hereby to make or entice you to a greater comotion, or to stir up new disorders amongst yourselves, my endeavouring is clean contrary, you aught to loin and remit all your affection and interest together for the peace of distressed England, Then altogether with one voice require that the Popish Army may be called in questian to yeled account of their Resuing and commission; they for their ill doing are subject to the Law, and to justice, as well as now they openly domineer in their Rendezvous, as when they seduced in corners. Is it not great reason that every one should yield account of their actions, doth not our Royal King himself gratify his Subjects with declarations, why then should they that are subjects refuse to appear before the high Court of Parliament before that honourable Senate at Westminster, where Papish hath no place, their they should obtain but too great honour to be tried and judged by their peers, if conscience make them shun and abhor their state, and their courage persuade them (before they be accused) that they shall be overthrown, they condemn themselves and so their can remain no more but their execution behind, you have reason and power enough beside God on your side if you assist this cause to do it by arms, they shall not so escape justice but that she will triumph over you God will hinder them from withdrawing themselves from the law and from the example from which he hath refered them, assure yourselves that the very consiences of their chief agents in their Rebellion agatnst the King and Parliament which have failed them in their preteous designs will also fail them in bringing them to punishment you must extend it unto all the principal executioners of their design against the King and Parliament, where the entire execution to the Parliament let them reedify the parmadies that is fallen down, and suffer them to drive away those plagues and evil cankers of the state, those tyrant of men's spirits and consciences which doth daily induce athousand tyrants in England, would enable our King our Parliament and liberties slaves and and Subjects to strangers I have heard that the King of France this King's Father when the Marshal' Ancie died, said that then he began to Reign, if England deliver his Majesty from these tyrants that have made us a thousand times morn like france for the Marshaled Ancre, England will then give his Majesty great reason to say that he gins to live in the resurrection of his state, make speed then to patten this generous design, let every one of you both general and particular that are true Britain's be ashamed to be prevented, is it possible that of so great a good which cannot be sound enough conceived, the execution should be deferred until the morrow, for my part although I am but a Ghost, I have been as violent an enemy against England as any of them, yet I am very sorry for it, and with too late repentance cure it, and I will now withal speed go to assail and torment their courages, and consienses, and tear them in peses with continual fears and terrors, to all my good friends. FINIS.