Grace may see something of the Miseries three the Most Glorious
Kingdoms of the Universe were reduc'd to; where your Royal Ancestors
victoriously Reign'd for so many hundred years: How they were Governed,
Parcell'd out, and deplorably inslav'd, and to what Low, Prostituted
Lewdness they fell at last: where the Nobility and Gentry were the most
contemn'd and despis'd part of them, and such Meane (and till then
obscure) Villains Rul'd, and Tyrannized, that no _Age_, nor _Time_, or
scarce a Parish Book makes mentions or cou'd show there was any such
Name or Family. Yet these were those that impudently Tug'd for Empire,
and Prophan'd that illustrious Throne and Court, so due then, and
possest now (through the infinite Mercies of God to this bleeding
Nation) by the best of Monarchs; a Monarch, who had the divine goodness
to Pardon even his worst of Enemies what was past; Nay, out of his Vast
and God-like Clemency, did more than Heaven it self can do, put it out
of his Power by _an Act of Oblivion_, to punish the unparalell'd
Injuries done His Sacred Person, and the rest of the Royal Family: How
great his Patience has been since, I leave to all the World to judge:
but Heaven be prais'd, he has not yet forgot the Sufferings and Murders
of the Glorious Martyr of ever Blessed memory, Your Graces Sacred
Grandfather, and by what Arts and Ways that Devilish Plot was layed! and
will like a skilful Pilate, by the wreck of one Rich Vessel, learn how
to shun the danger of this present Threatning and save the rest from
sinking; The Clouds already begin to disappear, and the face of things
to change, thanks to Heaven, his Majesties infinite Wisdom, and the
Over-Zeal of the (falsly called) _True Protestant Party_; Now we may
pray for the King and his Royal Brother, defend his Cause, and assert
his Right, without the fear of a taste of the Old Sequestration call'd a
_Fine_; Guard the Illustrious Pair, good Heaven, from Hellish Plots, and
all the Devilish Machinations of Factious Cruelties: and you, great Sir,
(whose Merits have so Justly deserv'd that glorious Command so lately
trusted to your Care, which Heaven increase, and make your glad Regiment
Armies for our safety. May you become the great Example of Loyalty and
Obedience, and stand a firm and unmoveable Pillar to _Monarchy_, a Noble
Bullwark to _Majesty_; defend the Sacred Cause, imploy all that Youth,
Courage, and Noble Conduct which God and Nature purposely has endued you
with, to