A cordial for the cavaliers Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1661 Approx. 7 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2004-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A45431 Wing H56A ESTC R39505 18424534 ocm 18424534 107586 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A45431) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 107586) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1634:37) A cordial for the cavaliers Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1 broadside. 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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688. 2003-12 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-12 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2004-01 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2004-01 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A CORDIAL FOR THE CAVALIERS . Worthy , and Deserving Gentlemen , IN the Affairs and traverses of this life , it is a tru Rule ( and 't is 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 knowes , and Envie it self doth acknowledge , That in the late Confusions , ( which were of that length that might have shaken the firmest Spirits in their Loyalty ) you have discharg'd a Good Conscience three wayes , towards your Creator , towards your Country , and towards your King ; your Religion bound you to the One , Nature to the Other , and your Alleageance to to the Third ; And although Many of you have not yet receiv'd 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 Eternitie . Adde hereunto that I hold your Condition to be farr from being desperat , but that you may receive Rewards , at least som Consideration from the other Two , viz from your King and Country ; For the present Parliament , which represents your whole Country , being compos'd of so many Wise , and well-weighed 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 Majestie , whom the Law stiles , 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 Recesse , will put his Majestie 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 grasse growes . You know well that the King hath been among us but a little more then the compasse 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 Majestie hath payed 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 Publick Treasure , then all the Kings of this Land , since gold and silver were first coind in it ; You know He is so shortned , 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 Progresse : Consider what vast Expences 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 , &c. Now , whereas some object he hath rewarded Roundheads , Truly I believe if a Catalogue were made of those upon whom he hath conferr'd 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 . 'T is true , albeit he came not in by the Presbyterian , yet he could not have come in without Him so peaceably , Though some alledge 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 us'd 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 som except against his Majesties 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 Storie , that one thing which made Lewis the twelf of France most famous was a Speech which drop'd from Him , when being advis'd by som of his Counsell to punish such and such as were profess'd Enemies unto Him while He was Duke of Orleans , He answer'd , 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 yeers , and will live to revvard all in time . In the confus'd medley of mundane affairs , the Proverb often is verified , Some have the happ , but some stick still in the gapp , Some have the fortune of preferment , some not , and 't will be so to the worlds end . The Author hereof though during the many yeers that he was in prison for his loyaltie , had 3. sworn over his head in an Office of Credit that hee shold have had de jure , yet it nothing discomposeth him , being more then in hope of a compensation some other vvay . And as vve have a Gracious , so have vve a Glorious King , the most Glorious that ever vvore these three Crovvns , For all the eyes of Christendom are fix'd upon Him vvith a kind of astonishment and admiration ▪ and not only of Christendom , but of all the World besides , for 't is vvritten 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 : vvhich that his Divine Majestie may continue to do , are the incessant Prayers of 20 Iulii 1661. I. H. Sold by ●enry Marsh at the Princes Armes in Chancery-lane , 1661.