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His Majefties 
 DECLARATION 
 
 DEFENDED: 
 
 In a L ETTE R to a Friend. 
 
 BEING AN 
 
 ANSWER 
 
 TO A 
 
 CALLED 
 
 A LE TTER from a Perjbn of Quality 
 to his Friend: 
 
 CONCERNING 
 
 Kings late Declaration touching the Reafons 
 which moved him to DifTolve 
 
 THE TWO LAST 
 
 PARLIAMENTS 
 
 W E ST M I N^ST E\*xi& X F %<D. 
 
 Printed for T. Vavies, i 6 8 u 
 
THE 
 
 Kings Declaration 
 DEFENDED. 
 
 SI% 
 
 ) E you are pleas'd to require my Opinion of 
 ^ the Kings Declaration, and the Anfwer to it, which 
 jL you write me word was fent you lately, I mail obey 
 W you the more willingly, becaufe I know you are a 
 j^ lover of the Peace and Quietnefs of your Country ; 
 ^* which the Author of this leditious Pamphlet, is en- 
 * deavouring to diflurb. Be pleas'd to underftand then, 
 that before the Declaration was yet publifhed, and 
 
 : was only the 
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 s anlwer d 
 amoneft the 
 
 Matthias, to fucceed in the place of 
 
make the King out of love with them : but 
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{mgk French Woman, at their own Weapon, difiimuhtion > for the other 
 French Dutchefs, fince I perceive our Author is unacquainted with her 
 Character, I will give it him ; (he is one who loves hereale to that degree, 
 that no advantages of Fortune can bribe her into bufinefs. Let her but 
 have wherewithall to make Merry adays, and to play at Cards anights, 
 and I dare anfwer for her, that Ihe will take as little care to difturb their 
 bufmefs,as me takes in the management of her own. But if you will fay that 
 fheonly affefts idlenefs, and is a grand Intriguer in her heart, I will only 
 Anfwer, that I mould mew you juftfuch another as I have defcrib'd her 
 Grace, amongft the heads ot your own Party: indeed I do not lay it is a 
 Woman, but 'tis one who loves a Woman. 
 
 As for the Dutchefs of M. either Ihe is a very fincere lover of down- 
 right idlenefs,or flie has coufen'd all parts of Chriftendom, where fhe has 
 
 wandred lor thefc la 
 
 je our folid Author 
 
 But I retort 
 le Proteftant 
 
 me this digreilion ; but now we have had our dance, let us to our ferious 
 bufinefs. 
 
 While thefe, and their Creatures are at the Helm, achat can we expettfor 
 thefecurity of the Proteftant Religion, or what oppofition to the ambitious 
 defigns of France ? 
 
 I luppofe more reafonably on the other fide, that no fuch perfonsare at 
 the Helm, and that what he has aflum'd is but precarious. But I retort 
 upon him, that if fome of his Party were the Minifters, the Proteftant 
 Religion would receive but very cold afliftance from them, who have none 
 atallthemfelves. And for the growth of the French Monarchy, I have 
 already told you, to whofe Counfels we are beholden for it. 
 
 He goes on ; you will tell me that the fupplyesfo given may be appropriated, 
 to theje particular ends of fupportingour Alliances, and the relief of Tangier. 
 And it may le fo limited by Act of Parliament, that it cannot be diverted to 
 other ufes. But he anfwer s that Objection by a Story of Monfieur de Sully's 
 telling of H. 4th of France : let the States raife the Mcney, and tye it as 
 theypleaje ; ivhen they are dijfohedyou may dijpofe of it aiyoupleafe. 
 
 All this is to confirm his firft unalterable principle, that the King muft 
 be fure to finger nothing ; but be us'd as Filhers do their Cormorant, have 
 his mouth left open, to fwallow the prey for them, but his throat gagg'd 
 that nothing may go down. Let them bring this to pafs, and afterwards 
 they will not need to take away his Prerogative of making War : He muft 
 do that at his own peril, and be fent to fight his Enemies with his hands 
 bound behind him. But what if he thinks not their Party fit to be in- 
 truded, leaft they mould employ it againft his Pcrfon? why then, as he 
 told you they will give him nothing. Now whofe will be the fault in com- 
 mon reafon, if the Allyances be not fupported, and Tangier not relieved? 
 If they will give him nothing, before they bring him to a neceflky of taking 
 it upon their terms, afmuch as in them lyes they diflblve the Govern- 
 ment : and the Intereft of the Nation abroad muft be left in the Suds, 
 till they have deflroy'd the Monarchy at home. But fince God, and the 
 Laws have put the difpofing of the Treafury into his Majefties hands, it 
 may fatisfie any reafonable Englijhman, that the fame Laws have provided 
 forthemifpendingof the Treafury, by calling the publick Officers into 
 queftion for it before the Parliament. For God be thanked we have a 
 Houfe of Commons, who will be fure, never to forgoc the lcaft tittle of 
 their Priviledges, and not be fo meal-mouth'd as the States of France, o£ 
 
envixr rrm 
 it is in the Conjlitittion of our Goverment, and the chi 
 is is in the love and liberality of their People. 
 
 f nd it fo; though m 
 
 «vcn a Million of 
 ; Majefly. Tis 
 the Clerk of the Parlia- 
 
know that every Republican who r< 
 No rr.ore it would not. Then farewel 
 makes it Treafon to Levy Arms aga 
 fences whatsoever. For \i this be 
 never to be Rcfipn'd, there never h? 
 
 >reient King, upon 
 
 fjKrTW>7VlmmfnitJ,W'Vr/iMr't*t;imlJ&9iffjFl 
 
 let they have perjuaded the King to believe 
 
 ithing in Na- 
 Minijlers, in the Ex 
 DolemanV and o then 
 
 Parliaments, during the Ex a 
 Reafonablc People will c 
 have proceeded, notridic" 1 ' 
 them. For in the firft hi 
 White-Hall were more f 
 Places ofpublick Enterta.... 
 Gare in Council, both to dil 
 that (imply considered, the 
 lution of Four Parliaments, 
 the Houfe of Commons to D 
 
 King to believe nothing of this danger ; but to 
 
 ot wholly contrivd by the 
 
 ivic rji» ivnurnrricni to haze an end ot ah ; then 
 
 : and that this was the true reafon, why four 
 
 , t nation of the Flot have been diffilvd; 
 
 nclude, .that his Majefty and his Minifters 
 
 ,f\xr Knr tt/it-li ill i-U ,1- M nfu» „tK;„U I 
 
 : ot the Plot, the Avenues of 
 u : His Majefty abftaining from 
 - die Minifters taking all neccflary 
 :over Confpiracics and to prevent them. So, 
 
 But the Ufe which has been made of it by 
 if-inherit the Duke, to deny the King Supplies, 
 
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 nim upon n 
 and known F 
 
ieems, that an Exclufion fhould pais by Bill, urges, Th 
 ture and Nations will h 
 a Poptjb King. The L 
 am lure he dares not d.^ 
 
 defence 5 even that nei 
 man of any Religion, ai 
 ferve their lives. But I 
 
 - iiiwii) uy mi, uaw or rNature, 
 ther will look but a fquint up 
 id a man of no Religion, are t 
 anfwer pofitively to what he v\ 
 
 Soveraign, of another F 
 
 Dreiudice hfirrafrpr- fnr 
 
 i liupuwers not a subject to rile 
 teligion, uponfuppofitionof w 
 
 Gr,na It- lc \mn~{ftUl~ »U„^ - 
 
 
 may not extend his Powe 
 The probability (whicl 
 
 r to the prejudice of any mans 
 i is the worft that they can put 
 
 ablolve a Subject who 
 Were " 
 
 > JlK-»,^»IlUllHiril 
 
 will 
 ther 
 
 lawfully be lucl 
 'slife: Befidest 
 
 1, no Bill o 
 lis, we ha 
 
 f Exclufion 
 ve the Exa 
 
 liav 
 npj 
 
 esor 
 
 wftagainft him in hi 
 Primitive Chriftians 
 
 during ten I 
 co u raging u 
 
 terfecuti 
 s to rebe 
 
 ons. But 
 againft a 
 
 we ha 
 Chrift 
 
 Lurrenng 
 ve no T 
 ianPrm 
 
 ext, 
 :e,tr 
 
 t never taking up 
 no Primitive Examf 
 10 of a different Perfv 
 
 And 
 was 
 
 
 here were then no 
 , will avail our Ai 
 
 Chnlt 
 Jthor 1 
 
 ian I 
 ittle 
 
 Winces \ 
 ; forth* 
 
 vhen the New Teft 
 : Argument is a Fo 
 
 it it 
 
 be unla 
 
 wful tc 
 
 rebel ag 
 
 linft a 
 
 Hea 
 
 rher 
 
 i Em 
 
 Deror. then mnrh m 
 
 ibe to it, that fince we cannot pry into the fecret Decrees of 
 '" J ge of future Events, we ous ' 
 Hon; without either pi — ' 
 ay never happen ; or i _. 
 kvho in the courfe of nature may fucceed°hin 
 j, could never have the power to fettle Popery in £n^land t or to 
 v Government. 
 
~d no Proteitant ; 
 .., which Plato Rt 
 i the -Duke of M. 
 he is afraid at the bottom to 
 
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 Duke is excluded, his Creatur 
 twice over ; and th ' 
 he fays the Duke : 
 Qualities give his I 
 Even excluded, am 
 King is endued with moftexcelle 
 Having found i 
 
 matures pu 
 
 onfeiied, that the 
 arryed it for men- 
 
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 the other two Eftates , and the Soveraign are not contenting; 
 '7// no matter, lavs this Gentleman : then- are fo 
 
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 I love a man who deals plainly ; he explicitly owns this is not Law, and 
 : it is reafbnable ; and will have its cfteft as if it were. See then, in the 
 
 \ n u™*\^™r\tt Pn T*,.r «hidafide: that fenc° : ° *' — 
 
 ition. Now that 
 
 muft be either Enthufiafm, orthehead-ftron_ 
 
 bin'd : becaufe in depite of any Earthly Power it will have its effect . fo 
 
 that, which way (bever our A"" 
 
 Rebellion : Law grounded on . _ 
 
 the People j and this is Ratio ultin 
 Furthermore ; The King is a pu 
 
 we are told, he can only eat and, drink ; and perform ft 
 
 -.L..L (L.UL..~. 1~r. V..* 1-.. .n: „..*/... /_• / 
 
 re mention'd, are thofe only of ai 
 \ Beaft. And as he is a King he 1 
 lifpofing of the People • and the on 
 inarch, is for an Innkeeper to let upoiu 
 thele Letters of Inftru&ion how he ihould behave ! 
 
 ~t he was fchool'd and tutor *d, when the 
 
 h er Prince of him in Scotland. When the 
 
 ; were fickinbed, no remedy, he muft 
 
 louthful of Bread to ftay his c*—^fc . 
 
 r _city. When he was leareH. t 
 
 trie iun we 
 / on the work of the niaht. when that of the 
 
 n them ; but it 
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