Behold, the summe of all the blood, treasures, victories, and losses after these troubles, is to be bestowed on that most royall and precious jewell, called, A personall treaty; ... This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A76350 of text R204929 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E453_13). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A76350 Wing B1779 Thomason E453_13 ESTC R204929 99864377 99864377 116605 2240903947

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A76350) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 116605) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 72:E453[13]) Behold, the summe of all the blood, treasures, victories, and losses after these troubles, is to be bestowed on that most royall and precious jewell, called, A personall treaty; ... 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1648] Title from first lines of text. Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 18th 1648". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Royalists -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A76350 R204929 (Thomason E453_13). civilwar no Behold, the summe of all the blood, treasures, victories, and losses after these troubles, is to be bestowed on that most royall and preciou anon. 1648 1 594 3 0 0 0 0 0 51 D The rate of 51 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2008-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-09 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-10 Sampled and proofread 2008-10 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
BEHOLD ,

THe summe of all the blood , treasures . Victories , and losses after these troubles , is to be bestowed on that most royall and precious Jewell , called , A Personall Treaty ; And it s no marvell ; for the vertue thereof is so rare and singular , that it is as well an excellent salve to cure all sores , as a soveraign remedy for all diseases , whether it be , The Kings Evill , or the Parliaments Evill , or the House of Lords evill , the Cities , or the Armies , or the Clergies , or the Cavaliers : so that only the peoples Evill ▪ resteth to be cured , by the Scots glorious Reformation , according to their forced Covenant , which cometh to passe ( they say ) when neither Papists , nor Separatists , nor Sectaries shall be any more mentioned .

All these mighty States being thus so easily cured , and the people of their freedoms , Estates , and Livelihoods so pittifully cheated , it is like to follow in the next place , that not only the King , ( whom they have conquered and imprisoned ) being again to his Throne advanced , but all his race , will exercise these 3. main points of Government , ( without any more mention of a Parliament ) which may be thus distinguished .

The first is Vindicative ; For by the scope of all his practices , as well before as since this Parliament , ( tending alwayes to tyranny blood , and oppression ) he and all his papists and Cavaliers . Prince Rupert , Maurice , Goring , and the rest , will endeavour to be sully revenged on all whom either he or they know to be his or their enemies , begining at the Scots who first opposed him in his wicked practices , and next on the Parliament of England , and their adherents , for following their example , and last on the Army , by dozens and halfe dozens at Assises and Sessions , if he cannot do it speedily by another Army upon their refusing to disband , and not regarding to be proclaimed ( as they were once declared ) Rebels and Traytors .

The second is Restaurative , because he and his Cavaliers will endeavour by force of Arms in City , and Troops of horses in Countrey , not onely to be restored to their former greatnesse , but other his adherents ( who were never great ) to be advanced on the peoples ruines .

And the third is Preservative , for he will make his little finger heavier then all the Parliaments loynes , by laying such heavy loads of taxations , sequestrations , assesments , excises and other oppressions , that both nations and this wealthy City , shall be made so poore and miserable , that they shall never be able againe to rise in Armes against him or his forces , but rather to be weary of their lives , wive● and families for want of subsistance .

Thus in brief , ye have here a Warning of the bitter fruits of a personall treaty , though there were no wofull examples of France , Naples and other places , by such personall treaties , with their Kings , to terrify you from engaging in such desperate designes , left ye be guilty of all the bloods that may 〈…〉