A
Plaine
Case
,
or
,
Reasons
sufficient
to
convince
any
(
that
would
be
honest
,
or
thrive
in
the
World
)
which
side
to
to
take
in
this
present
Warre
.
SInce
the
two
Hoses
of
Parliament
will
have
the
Sword
give
the
Law
;
I
make
bold
to
set
downe
some
plaine
Arguments
why
the
people
of
England
,
should
wish
victory
rather
unto
His
Majesty
,
then
unto
the
two
Houses
.
And
although
our
supinenesse
hath
beene
hitherto
such
,
as
to
hazard
the
Government
of
Church
&
State
(
under
both
which
we
and
our
Ancestours
have
been
so
long
happy
)
for
a
new
,
so
farre
from
being
approved
,
as
it
is
not
yet
knowne
what
they
desire
.
Though
this
hath
beene
to
this
day
not
weighed
by
many
(
who
looke
not
beyond
the
present
hower
)
t'
will
concerne
the
people
of
England
to
consider
what
must
necessarily
follow
this
warre
.
1.
If
the
two
Houses
overcome
the
King
,
then
is
the
Kingdome
liable
unto
all
their
debts
upon
the
publicke
faith
,
which
amounts
unto
more
then
Three
Millions
;
This
will
be
the
first
benefit
such
a
victory
can
bring
the
people
,
to
ingage
them
in
a
debt
,
that
no
man
can
hope
to
live
to
see
satisfied
.
But
suppose
one
battle
should
not
overthrow
the
King
,
and
this
warre
should
last
many
yeares
,
the
three
millions
of
debts
before
mentioned
would
grow
to
threescore
;
and
then
how
long
will
the
people
be
paying
such
a
debt
?
for
't
is
not
to
be
imagined
that
the
King
&
his
whole
posterity
can
be
rooted
up
without
a
long
warre
.
2.
Next
I
wish
the
people
would
consider
,
that
they
make
themselves
miserable
for
a
few
mens
ambitions
,
and
avarice
,
who
have
throwne
the
whole
Kingdome
into
this
confusion
,
saving
their
owne
stakes
by
the
masse
of
mony
which
is
well
knowne
the
cheife
factours
have
conveyed
away
.
For
of
the
three
millions
received
by
the
two
Houses
,
not
one
hath
been
disbursed
in
this
warre
,
as
by
themselves
is
confessed
,
and
by
some
of
best
account
amongst
them
complained
of
.
3.
If
the
King
prosper
(
as
t
is
very
probable
he
may
)
having
at
this
day
three
armies
on
foot
,
any
of
them
able
to
encounter
the
Earle
of
Essex
in
the
field
.
I
say
it
is
considerable
that
the
Kings
debts
are
not
a
third
part
so
great
as
the
Parliaments
,
which
cleerely
shewes
their
abuse
in
those
vast
summs
appropriated
to
their
owne
particular
use
;
which
money
the
people
have
not
only
payed
against
all
Law
and
equity
,
but
must
be
forced
againe
to
repay
as
a
debt
of
the
publicke
faith
.
4.
Consider
that
their
armes
,
ammunition
,
ordnance
,
ships
,
and
all
accomodations
for
warre
(
to
the
value
of
a
million
more
)
were
taken
out
of
the
Kings
stores
,
and
cost
them
nothing
.
Thus
I
conceive
the
matter
of
mony
(
by
which
all
men
subsist
)
ought
to
incline
the
people
to
wish
victory
unto
the
King
;
although
they
have
contributed
to
this
Warre
against
him
.
5.
The
people
ought
to
consider
that
the
King
hath
no
generall
quarrell
to
them
as
by
his
daily
clemency
is
seene
,
and
by
his
generall
profer
of
pardon
unto
those
people
,
whom
he
conceives
only
guilty
of
being
misled
.
6.
If
the
King
hath
an
absolute
victory
,
this
warre
is
at
an
end
,
and
the
Kingdome
happy
under
its
ancient
Lawes
and
Religion
,
which
the
King
never
thought
to
alter
,
but
if
the
Rebels
conquer
,
who
knowes
what
Lawes
,
or
what
Religion
they
will
establish
,
that
have
destroyed
all
Lawes
,
and
do
professe
no
Religion
.
7
't
is
to
be
considered
very
many
of
those
,
who
now
assist
the
King
in
this
warre
have
beene
the
most
zealous
for
the
liberty
of
the
people
and
Priviledges
of
Parliament
,
and
are
persons
of
highest
quality
,
and
greatest
fortune
,
and
therefore
cannot
be
thought
so
indiscreete
as
to
be
the
instruments
to
bring
servitude
upon
themselves
and
others
.
8
The
King
doth
now
pretend
to
no
power
,
but
such
as
is
established
by
law
,
&
maintained
by
constant
practise
;
therefore
it
is
not
probable
he
will
endeavour
to
exercise
any
other
;
because
he
must
then
evidently
falsify
many
publicke
protestations
made
to
the
contrary
in
divers
declarations
,
and
thereby
justifie
much
of
that
the
Parliament
hath
said
against
him
.
9
The
Kings
interests
are
of
such
a
nature
as
cannot
be
restored
,
&
the
distractions
of
the
Kingdome
are
likewise
such
,
as
cannot
be
cured
but
by
the
authority
of
a
Parliament
:
so
that
if
the
King
were
conqueror
,
he
must
necessarily
resort
to
that
way
of
Parliament
in
which
he
can
never
prejudice
the
interests
of
the
Subjects
;
nor
advance
his
own
,
beyond
their
due
bounds
.
10
It
cannot
in
common
prudence
be
imagined
that
the
King
against
whom
so
great
advantage
hath
beene
taken
,
for
some
pretended
preceedings
from
the
law
in
his
former
government
,
and
who
hath
parted
with
so
much
of
his
owne
right
,
to
satisfie
all
apprehensions
of
the
like
for
the
time
to
come
,
should
againe
resort
to
any
course
so
destructive
,
and
ruinous
to
himselfe
.
11
If
the
Parliament
had
sought
the
good
of
the
subject
and
the
peace
and
wealth
of
the
Kingdome
,
why
did
they
reject
so
many
gracious
proffers
from
His
Majestie
to
settle
whatever
could
be
desired
to
make
a
nation
happy
?
And
what
King
did
ever
do
more
to
shew
how
really
he
intended
the
just
satisfaction
of
his
people
,
by
the
maintenance
of
their
Religion
and
lawes
,
then
ours
hath
donne
?
and
yet
this
Parliament
hath
had
power
to
mislead
the
people
,
from
an
assured
happy
tranquillity
into
this
desperate
irreligious
warre
,
and
to
requite
all
the
great
immunities
granted
to
them
by
the
King
;
with
a
most
pernitious
rebellion
against
him
,
making
the
ignorant
innocent
people
their
instruments
to
compasse
their
owne
most
horrid
designe
,
for
now
they
dare
avow
their
intention
to
unthrone
the
King
,
subvert
the
monarchy
,
&
to
supplant
the
Church
,
by
crying
up
their
severall
sects
in
all
Countries
near
them
,
displacing
the
grave
,
learned
,
Orthodox
Divines
,
to
make
roome
for
Anabaptists
,
Brownists
,
and
other
irreligious
Sots
,
who
they
imploy
to
seduce
the
people
,
while
themselves
sit
like
absolute
monarchs
of
the
Land
,
disposing
of
the
free
subjects
lives
,
and
estates
at
pleasure
,
a
Tyranny
beyond
the
Turkish
Emperour
;
and
thus
inforce
the
King
to
take
up
armes
for
the
preservation
of
the
lawes
,
and
the
interests
of
the
people
,
who
therefore
is
not
like
to
endeavour
the
destruction
of
what
he
hath
now
protected
with
so
much
hazard
to
himselfe
,
and
so
much
affection
to
his
subjects
:
for
if
we
consider
how
easily
the
King
might
have
satisfied
the
ambitions
of
the
cheife
Rebells
,
and
by
such
meanes
have
bought
his
owne
desires
,
at
a
much
easier
rate
by
then
this
warre
;
we
ought
to
pray
for
his
good
successe
.
12
It
is
evident
that
no
lawlesse
power
,
nor
arbitrary
government
can
be
so
safe
,
or
so
advantagious
to
the
King
,
as
that
power
is
which
the
lawes
of
this
Kingdome
have
conferr'd
vpon
the
King
,
and
trusted
the
Crowne
withall
.
13.
If
the
Rebels
get
the
victory
,
the
people
will
be
perpetually
subject
to
an
arbitrary
government
for
the
liberty
of
their
persons
,
and
property
of
their
estates
;
then
all
their
Ordinances
will
be
as
lawes
,
and
all
these
taxes
become
continued
on
the
people
:
for
the
Parliament
can
have
no
other
way
to
maintaine
what
they
shall
get
by
the
sword
,
but
by
the
sword
.
Let
the
people
also
consider
,
that
this
Parliament
hath
in
these
two
years
,
more
violated
the
lawes
to
the
prejudice
of
the
people
,
then
all
the
Kings
since
the
conquest
have
don
.
How
blind
then
are
the
people
of
this
Kingdome
to
engage
themselves
in
an
endlesse
warre
,
subject
to
such
a
tyranny
,
as
no
story
can
paralell
,
whose
hoped
victory
can
procure
them
at
best
to
be
but
slaves
unto
slaves
,
wilfully
rejecting
the
known
happiest
government
that
ever
nation
lived
under
,
and
this
proferred
to
them
by
the
King
without
more
blood
.
But
if
their
hearts
be
hardened
,
and
they
will
rather
chuse
to
have
a
perpetuall
Parliament
then
their
Prince
,
certainly
the
Plagues
of
a
perpetuall
warre
will
be
their
reward
,
so
that
as
long
as
one
of
the
Royall
blood
remaines
on
the
earth
,
this
warre
can
have
no
end
.
So
that
in
my
opinion
God
cannot
send
them
a
greater
curse
then
their
owne
desires
;
for
one
victory
doth
in
this
case
but
summon
a
new
enemy
to
rise
up
against
them
.
But
suppose
that
by
many
conquests
they
could
confound
all
the
Royall
line
as
they
desire
?
What
receipt
have
these
Rebells
to
perswade
the
free
people
of
England
to
subject
themselves
unto
the
tyranny
of
fellow
subjects
?
or
how
can
they
hope
to
devide
the
government
amongst
themselves
so
as
to
content
all
that
have
equally
contributed
unto
the
treason
?
For
Religion
(
though
it
be
of
least
consideration
amongst
them
)
is
it
yet
agreed
whose
shall
be
established●
Which
of
the
Lords
Religion
shall
be
preferr'd
?
or
whose
in
the
House
of
Commons
shall
prevaile
?
or
must
we
expect
an
Hotch
potch
of
all
mixt
,
all
alowed
,
and
every
man
have
liberty
to
choose
what
his
pallate
dictates
him
,
as
my
Lord
Say
wishes
?
Certainly
these
men
cannot
propose
unto
themselves
peace
that
have
lay'd
a
foundation
onely
capable
to
raise
a
continuall
warre
.
All
these
things
are
more
worthy
,
the
consideration
of
the
people
of
this
land
because
all
this
will
fall
on
their
heads
for
the
wicked
contrivers
sit
spectators
only
of
the
stormes
by
them
raised
,
farre
enough
from
any
danger
.
FINIS
.