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AN ANSWER TO A LETTER

Written from Cambridge to Sir Thomas Lunsford, Knight and Baronet, Priſoner in the Tower of LONDON.

July 7th Printed in the Yeare, 1647.
AN ANSWER TO A LETTER Written from CAMBRIDGE To Sir Thomas Lunsford, &c. SIR,

I Have received your Letter, and give you hearty thanks for it: Theſe parts are full of expectation; the great actions in motion have fixed the eyes of the Kingdome, and falſe rumours (the Harbingers of ſuch deſignes) have taken up tranſitory lodgings in the ſeverall diſpoſitions of men; but thoſe which have beene beaten into judgement of the times, ſtand upon their guards, refuſing admittance to what comes not with good authority. That an Army, and a powerfull one is on foot, is knowne; that (if the King bee pattie in it) it will bee irreſiſtable, is likewiſe out of doubt, that the Declarations of it is unpleaſing, and challenges part of the Freehold of our Parliament, wee ſee in print; and that the Parliament will part with nothing it can either get or hold, wee know by experience; and (that I abſolutely hope the diſſolution of it,) I aſſure you upon my Reputation: Now the Army having thus farre diſplayed, and the Parliament not having power to equall what is on foot, the one ſtanding upon power and the hearts of the people, the other upon Thornes, and the feſtered wounds of the Common-wealth; I give the one aſſured, the other capable of a very ſpeedy determination: I likewiſe judge a Neceſſity of reſtoring the King, and returning the Lawes into their former channell; for ſhould the Army bee ſatisfied with onely their Arreares, and expulſion of the Presbyterian partie, and yet continue the two Houſes, (when it ſhall bee diſbanded) what aſſurance have the Independents in Parliament, that the City (which is Presbyterian, and from wherce the Army at this inſtant affirmes would bee raiſed another (to countenance Presbytery) were it not for the Interpoſition of this on Foot) ſhall not raiſe Forces, and deſtroy the Acts of theſe hereafter, who forcibly may ſettle themſelves now? That the City ſhall not new-mould the Houſes with Presbyterians, as perhaps the Army may now with Independents? and that the Houſes then (by vertue of the Citie) ſhall not runne rigorous wayes of Revenge? For what can oppoſe the Citie, if the Armie be away?

Theſe Conſiderations will not admit me to gleane other Expectations from the Courſes in motion, then Honourable and Popular Concluſions. The King in Parliament, can aſſure the ends of the Armie, can conferre Honours, can gratifie with Eſtates, can make an Act of Oblivion; and then, by the diſſolution of the Parliament, the parties are ſure to enjoy all that is ſo given them: but keepe it ſtill on foot, and disband the Armie, then there is danger of the prevalencie of the other Faction, and conſequently, of the revocation of all Grants to the former. Likewiſe, to keepe an Armie long up, requires a Charge inſupportable, as well as it gives an aſpect formidable to all who have obſerved the mutabilitie of theſe Times. Beſides, without the King nothing can be confirmed, nothing enjoyed longer then an Armie is on foot; nor can Peace be ſo ſetled, but that Seedes will be left for a new Warre to ſpring forth, ſo ſoone as the Seaſon can produce it.

But mee thinkes now there is a Miracle working: An Armie (powerfull to enrich it ſelfe by Offences) is ſo ſpotleſſe, as the world admires it; and this Armie ſummons a Parliament (indeed red as Skarlet) vyes with it in Innocencie, and boldly demands Reparations of the Crimes committed againſt the Common-wealth: The nature of the one is (commonly) charged with Sinne and Bloud, and of the other with Pretie, Vertue, and Bleſſings upon the Realme. But as the one hath degenerated into the others qualitie and nature, ſo is it juſt it ſhould receive the others propertie. As a good Parliament might demand Accompts of a wicked Armie, ſo why may not a righteous Armie demand the like of a wicked Parliament? In mine opinion, Juſtice hath layd this Scaene, to be acted in this Antipodian Tragedie; and (ſo that it may be the laſt) he little cares how ſoone it be concluded, who is,

The Tower, 16, Iune, 1647. SIR, Your friend and ſervant, Thomas Lunsford.

THough I know this will not pleaſe you, yet to let you underſtand, and to poſſeſſe all your Vniverſitie (contrarie, perhaps, to its preſent Opinion) that our Halcyon dayes are not farre off, I write this, and care not if both Houſes ſee it, and deſire you to publiſh it.

 FINIS.