Geoffrey Keynes

FOOTNOTES: 

[1] Evelyn’s Diary, ed.  Wheatley, vol.  II, p. 108.

[2] Evelyn’s Diary, ed.  Wheatley, vol.  II, p. 130.

AN
A P O L O G Y
FOR THE
ROYAL PARTY: 
Written in a
L E T T E R
To a Person of the Late
COUNCEL of STATE.

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By a Lover of Peace and of his Country.

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WITH
A T O U C H
At the Pretended
PLEA FOR THE ARMY.

[HW:  three tymes printed.]

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[HW:  Delivered to Coll:  Morley, a few daies after his contest w^th Lambert in the Palace Yard:  by J. Evelyn:]

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Anno Dom.  MDCLIX.

AN
A P O L O G I E
FOR THE
R O Y A L P A R T Y: 
Written in a LETTER to a Person of the late
COUNCEL of STATE,
By a Lover of Peace and of his Countrey: 
With a Touch at the pretended Plea for the Army.

SIR,

The many Civilities which you are still pleased to continue to me, and my very great desire to answer them in the worthiest testimonies of my zeal for your service, must make my best Apology for this manner of Addresse; if out of an extream affection for your noblest Interest, I seem transported a little upon your first reflections, and am made to despise the consequence of entertaining you with such Truths, as are of the greatest danger to my self; but of no less import to your happiness, and, which carry with them the most indelible Characters of my Friendship.  For if as the Apostle affirms, For a good man, some would even dare to dy, why should my Charity be prejudged, if hoping to convert you from the errour of your way, I despair not of rendring you the Person for whose preservation there will be nothing too dear for me to expose?

I might with reason beleeve that the first election of the Party wherein you stood engaged, proceeded from inexperience and the mistake of your zeal; not to say from your compliance to the passions of others; because I both knew your education, and how obsequious you have alwayes shewed your self to those who had then the direction of you:  But, when after the example of their conversion, upon discovery of the Impostures which perverted them; and the signal indignation of God, upon the several periods which your eyes have lately beheld, of the bloudiest Tyrannies, and most prodigious oppressors that ever any age of the world produc’d, I see you still persist in your course, and that you have turn’d about with every revolution which has hapned:  when I consider, what contradictions you have swallowed, how deeply you have ingaged, how servilely you have flatter’d, and the base and mean submissions by which you have dishonour’d