What kind of PARLIAMENT Will please THE KING; AND HOW WELL HE Is affected to this present PARLIAMENT. Gathered out of his own Papers, By A. J. B. London Printed, 1642. THE KIND OF Parliament which the King likes. SUch as consists of such persons in the House of Peers as he shall think good to honour; wherein Answ. to the 19 Prop. p. 24. the Votes of Popish Lords shall be of force, though they be absent (for their ease and security) some such Lords may have their Votes, as they shall choose: Who it may be will do more with them, then if they themselves should give them. Such as may not interpret or declare Laws, Pag. 2. without himself (which yet the Judges and inferior Courts may do) whose Orders and Ordinances bind not to obedience. Who may not command the people to defend themselves and Kingdom. But he himself may raise extraordinary Pag. 16. forces, though there be neither actual rebellion, nor invasion. Such a one, wherein he hath a negative Pag. 3. voice to grant or deny. They must not meddle with matters of other Answ. to the Petit. June 17. Pag. 7. 11. Courts. Not place Preachers, unless the Bishops will, nay every Parson. They must not nominate fit Councillors to Him when they sit not, though they leave Him to choose such a Council as he pleaseth for his own private affairs. They may not retain the Members of their Pag. 3 Houses, who are his Household servants, or employed, or sent for by him. Though if they do not, then because the Houses will be but thin, and not numerous▪ they are not to be esteemed as Parliament, but a faction; and Answ. to the Decla. May 2●. Pag. ●. those with him are to be listened to, rather than They. They must punish such as meet together to Pag. 11. Petition Them for such a meeting is a Riot, as those are called who met in Southwark, and would not let the Constable take away their Petition) but must not punish those, who either force the people through fear, or suppress them by cunning, (as it was in London, Cornwall, etc.) or gather together tumultuously to seek the abolition of what Laws are newly made, and to bring this to his own desire, as in Kent. Such a one as may not (though a Constable, Sheriff, etc. may▪ raise any forces to put their Orders or Decrees in execution, and subdue Answ. to the D●c●▪ May 26. Pag. 20. those that resist them, (for in his Proclamation that's Treason. Or whom he hath Authority to call them together, so to tell them what they are to do. Answ. to the Declar. May 19 pag. 4. to May 26. Pag 3. They are but Usurpers of the name of Parliament, in their Votes and resolutions, unless the King consent. Who can imagine the King will raise Arms against such a Parliament. The King's Judgement of those who sit in both Houses of Parliament. REmovers of the Law as a rub in their way. Answ. to 19 Prop. pag. 2. Underminers of the very Foundations of the Law. Assumers of a new Power to Themselves. Tending to a pure Arbitrary Power. Erecters of an upstart Authority. They have wrested from Us our Magazine, and Town of Hull, and bestrid Sir John Hotham in his boldfaced Treason. Weakeners of our just Authority, and due esteem of strange shamelessness. Pag. 3. Such to whom our good Subjects dare not offer to pre 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ne just grievances, our Sufferings, and then ●●nse of the violation of the Law. Who have seized on the money the King had borrowed to buy him bread. The Actions of both Houses have a strong Pag. 5. influence from the subtle Informations, mischievous practices, and evil Counsels of Ambitious turbulent spirits, disaffected to God's true Religion, Our Honour and safety, the public peace and prosperity of the people. Who would have Us divert Ourselves of Pag. 6. Our Power, and assume them unto it. Who take care to dishonour Us in other Pag. 7. Nations. They endeavour to transform this Kingdom Pag. 8. into a new Utopia of Religion and Government. Indeavourers to fetch down to the ground Pag. 9 our just, ancient, Regal power. Who demand in effect at once to depose our Pag. 10. Self and our Power. Disturbers of the course of Law, countenancers Pag. 11. of Riots, discountenancers of Law. They mean Us no more power than one of Pag. 15. Our Councillors. Who neither take care for Our Right, Honour, Pag. 16. Safety, as a Prince, nor as a private person. That we may not only be in a more despicable way then any of Our Predecessors, but in a meaner and viler condition than the lowest of Our Subjects. Encouraged and enabled by a Malignant party, Pag. 20. to countenance injustice and indignities offered to Us. Beginners of a War against Us. Pag. 30. Desirers of a general combustion. The now Major part of both Houses are infected Answ. to the Decla. May 19 Pag. 1. by a few Malignant spirits. Blasters of his Declaration, with a bold and senseless imputation. Pag. 10. Their Petitions bold, threatening, reproachful. Pag. 11. Before whose eyes a strange mist of error is cast by a few impudent, malicious men, to give them no worse term. Their odious Votes, and the greatest violation Pag. 12. Answ. to the Decla. May 26. Pag. 3. of our Privileges, the Law of the Land, Liberty of the Subject, and the Right of Parliament. One of which is such, as there needs no other to destroy King and People, and that Vote is, That when the Lords and Commons declare what the Law of the Land is, it must be assented to, and obeyed. Who have not dispatched one Act, which Pag. 15. hath given the least evidence of their particular affection and kindness to Us, but have discountenanced and hindered other men's. Their Declaration, the contrivance of a few factious, seditious persons, a Malignant party, who would sacrifice the Commonwealth to their own fury and ambition. They endeavour by all possible means to Answ. to the Decla. May 26. Pag. 1. Pag. 2. render Us odious to our good Subjects, and contemptible to all foreign Princes. Whose design is, and always hath been to alter the government of Church and State, and to subject King and People to their own lawless arbitrary power and government. Though they Pag. 5. have no mind to be Slaves, they are not unwilling to be Tyrants. Ungrateful men, without modesty and duty. Pag. 6. We are in a miserable condition in their security, as all persons will be who depend on them. Alterers of the government of Church and Pag. 11. State. They make themselves perpetual Dictator's over the King and People. They have endeavoured to render Us odious Pag. 19 to Our Subjects, and Them disloyal to Us. The fury and malice of these men will bring misery and burden upon the people. From whom we expect the worst Actions, Pag. 29. these men have power to commit against Us. worse words they cannot give. They design the ruin of Our Person, and of Monarchy. Their position is, They may depose Us Pag. 28. when they will, and are not to be blamed for doing so. Concerning those. The King will never, and he hopes the people Answ. to the Decl. May 19 Pag. 15. will never account their contrivance, the wisdom of a Parliament, nor justify and defend them. He doubts not but that all our good Answ. to the Decla. May 26. Pag. 2. Subjects, do discern through the Mask and Vizard of their hypocrisy, and will look no more on the Framers and Contrivers of that Declaration as Houses of Parliament, but as a Faction of Malignant, Schismatical and Ambitious Spirits. He believes good Subjects will find some Pag. 29. way to let them and the world know, how suitable their demands are to the Affection of loving Subjects Who can but think that he will seek the subduing and subversion of these.