The Lord ANDEVERS TWO SPEECHES.  
THE ONE CONCERNING the Pacification the 6th. of MARCH.  
The other the star-chamber.  
Printed, Anno Dom. 1641.   

THE LORD Andever's SPEECH the 6. of March. 1641.  
MY LORDS,  
I Did lately move your Lordships that the breach of the pacification might be speedily reviewed as the unum necessarium; and truly my opinion at that time is yet nothing altered, although upon better thoughts (me thinks) it would first be known who did actually engage us in these fruitless dissensions, and so derive the mischief from some original. For my Lords, the kingdom cannot now long stand at gaze or undergo new burdens.  
Wherefore what is to be done (if you intend it should prosper) must presently receive life from the whole people, otherwise we shall expire in a dream; and when the success differs from expectation, it is not enough to cry, quod non putaram. My Lords, the wiseman says, there is a proper season for all things under the Sun, and we often find the experiment in natural bodies, which are voluntarily weakened, to recover strength, yet with a restriction to such bounds, and limits, as the physician prescribes himself, and truly, I think it is your lordship's case at this point, either to consider what should further be done then is already, or else how to get out of those labyrinths we now are in, lest the words of the Psalmist come home to ourselves Vendidisti populum sine pretio.  
My Lords, I am confident the house of Commons doth throughly see▪ both into the prejudice, & vast expense that these 2. Armies lay upon the land, and undoubtedly so many. Gentlemen of worth, as sit there, will have tender eyes upon the commonweal. It will therefore become your Lordships to second them in your way, and whilst they apply to public wounds; the care of this house may search the intestines, for if they be not cleansed, it will be but a superficial Cure, and break out again.  
My Lords, it seems the Earl of Strafford, and the Archbishop of Cant. have gone the high ways of iniquity, and every one knows how to trace them, but Mines under ground are most considerable, which (Unless they be likewise found out) may at any time spring and supprant the whole fabric of all our labours. Let us then examine this fantastic war ab initio; lest, as the Duke of Burgundy made a few Sheepskins the cause of his quarrel, so we shall find those few sheets of paper, sent under the name of a Liturgy, and book of Canons, were but the Mopsa's of the story to divert our eyes from the main design.  
Therefore my humble motion shall be for a selected Committee of no great number, who may have power from the House to begin ab origine mali, revise every man's negotiations, who was either an Actor or Counsellor since the first appearance of those troubles in Scotland, and that they may examine the Scottish counsel upon such Articles, as the heavy pressure of this kingdom shall upon common fame administer unto them.  
FINIS.   

THE LORD Andever's SPEECH concerning the star-chamber.  
My Lords,  
SInce your Lordships have already looked so far into the privileges of peers, as to make a strict inquisition upon foreign Honours, let us not destroy that amongst ourselves, which we desire to preserve from strangers.  
And if this grievance I shall move again have slept till now, it is very considerable, lest custom make it every day more apparent than other. Your lordship's very well know there was a Statute framed the 30. H. 7. authorising the chancellor, Treasurer, Privy seal, and the 2. chief justices, calling to them one Bishop, and a temporal Lord of the King's counsel to receive complaints upon Bill or information, and cite such parties to appear as stand accused of any misdemeanours, and this was the infancy of the Starchamber. But afterwards Cardinal Wolsie. 8. Hen. 8. raised it to man's estate, from whence (being now altogether unlimited) 'tis grown a Monster, and will hourly produce worse effects, unless it be reduced by that hand which laid the foundation, for the Statures that are ratified by Parliament admit of no other remedy then an appeal.  
Therefore I humbly offer unto your Lordships these ensning seasons why it should be repealed, First that the very words of the. Stature clearly show it was a needless in●●itution, for it says, they who are to judge can proceed with no delinquent, otherwise the if he were convict of the same crime by due process of Law, and do your Lordships hold this a rational Court that sends us to the Law and calls us back from it again? Secondly, divers judicatories confound one another, & in pessima Republica plurimae leges, this 2. reason is from Circumstance, or rather a consuitudine, and of this there are many examples, both domestic and foreign, but more particularly by the Parliaments of France abbreviated into a standing Committee by Philip the Long, and continued according to his intention until Lewis the 11. came unto the Crownewho being a subtle Prince burned the volume in, the Epitome, for to this day when ever the 3. estates are called, either at the death of the old King, or to crown the new, it is a Common proverb, allons voire gen des estates. My Lords, Arbitrary judgements destroy the Common laws, and in the 2. great Charters of the kingdom, which being once lost, we have nothing else left but the name of liberty. The last reason is (though it was the first cause of my standing up) the great Eclipse that it hath ever been to the whole Nobility, for who are so frequently vexed there as peers and Noblemen, and notwithstanding their appeal to this assembly is ever good, whilst the famous Law of 4. Ed. 3. remains in force for the holding of a Parliament once a year, or more often, if occasion require, yet who durst a year ago mention such a Statute without incurring the danger of Mr. Kilvert's prosecution?  
Therefore shall humbly move your Lordships, that a select commits of a few may be named to consider of the Act of Parliament itself, and if they shall think it of as great prejudice as do, that then the House of Commons in the usual manner may be made acquainted with it either by Bill or conference, who may happily also think it a burden to the subject, and so when the whole body of Parliament shall join in one supplication, I am confident his majesty will desire that nothing should remain in force which his people do not willingly obey.  
FJNIS.