-__.....-..._._—— ..._.,....... RE MO N_STRA;.NCE TH E s TAT OF The IQIN g:1>0M5. Agrécd on by the Lords andCommons affcmblcd in Parlirgmcnf, and publiflmcd by A ‘ Order of both; Honfcs. H.E{Dng.Cler.‘Parl.@.Com. r-% &——_i L o N \1>—a N, forl-{away Fownzn. Sq“'J30l ‘.6420 ' Printed ‘\’4 I LHZ \(-'-r'~’?- ' g _ '\t. p , u 5‘-"‘"°25"Kd E ll/I0 -7\(_SFfT7{J11 MC 5 o g i . A The State of the Kingdome. gg He infinite wifdome and providence of the. gag ment,_ in great variety ofproteétions and 3*“? blelfings, whereby he hath not onely deli- vered us fromeimany wicked plots and defigns, which ("if they had taken eff: C1 ) would have brought ruine and defiruftiou upon this Kingdome-, but out of thofe at- tempts hath produced divers» evident and remark-.tble advantages, to thefurtfietaoceoftlxofez fcrvices which we have been dcfirous: to perform: to out Sove raigne Lord the King,_and: to tlrisChutchahd‘,St/etc. And although the heads of the maligpax1g}arty, dif- appointed of that prey,the Religion crty ofthis Kingdom,which thgy were ready to‘. i‘e‘iz5:2gpon, and de- voure before the beginning ofitzhais/Parliament, have ' {till perfiltcd by new prafiicesboth of Forces and {ub- tlety,to recover the fame again: for which purpofe they have made Feverallattempts tor the bringing up theAr- my,they afterwa rdeproje Cted theaccufation of the L0: Kcm6olto_n,;md the five. Membcrs.ofthe»H0uIle of ‘Com- mons.’ Tl1'eyh2.ve:idvifed His Majefty to fuffer unjuft fcztndals and imputatiatns ‘upon the Parliament to be publilhed in His name, whereby they might makedit o- , nous 4.. .d’5:+:: T f). Almighty God hath been. abund:mtl.y4rna- . it nifeitrdfince‘ the beginning of this P'arlia- t diott‘is’t'o the people , and iby-their help to deitroy that / which hitherto hath been the onely means oftheir own ' prefervatioh; l For this purpofe they have drawn His Majeity into the Northern parts, far from the Parliament, that falfe rumors might have time to get credit , and the juft de- ~ fences of the Parliament find a more tedious and difad- vantagious aceellez Which the more {peetlily to effect, they have eauied a Prellie to be tranlported to York, froniwhence feverall papers and writings ofthat kind are conveyed to all the parts of the Kingdomc. Aimmgit divers writings ofthis kind, We the Lords and Commons in Parliament have takeninto confide- ration two printed Papeis, thefirft containing A Decld- rmomwshich they received from His Majefty, in anfwer to that which was prefented to His Maje-{ty at New-mar~ leer. . The other, Hz}: ..M4jcflic.v Axjwer to :12: Petition of bat}: Houfegpreiented to His Majefl at Tor/e: both which are filled with harfh eenfures, ancicauleleffe charges upon the Piirliament. We {mow no oceafiongiven by us, that might move His Majefty to tell us,that in ourDeclaration there were fome expreflions different from the u{ua'.ll language to Prince5;Neither did we tell His Majeity,either iu words or effeet , that if he did not jaynt: with us in our Atfts, which His Majeity conceived rxiir-o'ht prove pnjtidiciali H, to himfelfe and the whole K mgdome, we would make 5 a Law without him,and impoie it upon the people 5 that which we defired was, that in regard of the imminent danger of the Kingdome, the Mz'!z‘.«m, fill!’ the fecurity of His Majefiy and people, might be put under the com- . - mand of fuch noble and faithfull perfons as they had ! caufe to confide in,:md {uch was the neceflity of this pre- vention, ' , 5 3 A ll vention-thatwe declared , that if His Majefly lhbuld re- fufe to joyne with us therein, the two l-louies ofP\arlia-s rnent were enabled: by their own authority ,_ to, provide’ for the repulfing of fuch imminent and evident dangers ;, not by any new Law oftheir own rnaking,“ (as hath bin ‘ untruly luggc lied) but by the moi} ancient Law of this Kingdome. \ _ t I - And whereas his Majefty is pleafed to difavow the having any {uch evill Councellors , as are mentioned in Our Declar.:tion,to his knowledge, and we hold itour duties humbly to avow there are luth, or elie vve muff fayqthat all the ill things done of late in His Majefties name,have been done by himlelfe :vvherein we ihould neither follow the direction of the Lavv,nor the afl°e6ti- ens of out own hearts, which is as much as maybe, to cleare His Majefly from all imputation of n.iilgovern- ment, and to lay the fault upon his Miniflers 5 the fa lfe accufation of Ex members of the Pa.rliament,the juflify- ing Mailer Attorney in that falfe accufation,the denyall of the Militia, the fharp meffages to both Houies, con- trary to the cullome of Former Kings, the long and re- mote abfence of His Majefly from the Parliament, the heavy and wrongfull taxes upon both Houfes, the che- rifhing and countenancing a difcontentetl party in the Kingdome againft them : Thefe certainly are the fruits of very ill councel, apt to put th‘e Kin gdome into a corn.- bufiion ; and the authors of thefre vill counsels we con- ceive mufl needsbe known to His Maje1ly,and we hope our labouring \vitl=lHiSM:.ljt fl y to have thcfe difcovered and wrought toga juit ceufure, will not to much wound his honour in the lopinion of his good Subjects , as his ' labouring to preferve and conceale them . ' And whereas divers exeeytions are here taken con.- » cerning ' 5 ) -. -1." » ‘ /. cerni"ng the Militia .- Firfl, That Hie Majefl} never denyezh the thm ,hu: excepted the ,¢-rjam, except for Corforatiom on- x ly,th4t e deztyed the W4]. To which. we arifwer, that the exception taken of Lona'ort,and all other ireat Townes and Cziflles which . i make ,1 great part of t c Kingdom: , and for the way of Ordinance it is ancient, more fpeedy, more eafily alte- gable, and all thefe re! ' eéts more proper for the pre- Ientoccafionthena.Bili): which his M-ajeflie calls the good old wafi of impofing upon the Subjeél. It fcemes that neither is Majefties royall predeceflbrs not our predeceflburs have heretofore beene of that opin-ion,for 37. Ed. 3. we find: that record. ‘T he Chomelour meal: declaration of the ehalenge of P4r~li-- ' amerxt, the King defirex to /wow the griefe of his Sub}-‘#5’ and p to redrjeinormitie: The 16/3 do} ofthe Parliament’ the~Kt'n£ i t . demon edof the whole Efletet.-‘whether they would have free thing: agreed on hf may of ordmunee or fletttte, mho anfwtrtd hy may ofordiname, for that the}: ntight Amend the _/lime If ‘ their pleaftarou .- and (bit was. But his Majefty objeéts further,’ ’Ih4t there zltfi2me- \ what in the Prefizce to which he could not eonfent with juflice to ht}: honour andimzoemctemtd that thereh} he to excluded from my power in the do,-fofag (fit. _» Thefe Objctfhons may feeme fomewhare, but will in- clecdc apeare nothing-, when it {hall bee confidered that nothing in the preamble layes any charge uponhis Mac jcfly now in the body ofthe Ordinance , that exclvdes his M:t')c(heS royall :zuthority,in the difpofin or execu- tion ofir,.hut oncly cis provided that it Ihoul be {igni- ficd by both houlcs of Parliament; and let all the world iudge Whctllcf we have not tealfoa?‘ to infill upon irtthfit the firength of the Kmgdome rather be ordered V accor~ -) o '4 =1?’ 1- .. .. - . ‘-uI':."- .. Z-or ~ according to theidtreajgon and ;Idvicc—ofthe gi‘eai:'I(ing-C t dome equally zintrufted by the King and K.ingdome—; then that the fafety of the King and Kingdom lhould be left at the devotion of,a few unknowne Councellors, many of them not iitrufted jatall by rhelcing in any pub. li ue way not at all confided in by the Kingdome. i ‘if the matter of thefe our Votes be according to Law, we hope His Majeliy will alow the Subjeéts to bee bound by them, bccaufe he hath {aid He wiflmake Law the reel: of 1113' power.’ s ' s And if the Qiellion be,Whether that be Law which the Lords and Commons ‘ have once declared to be fo, who {hallbe Judge? Not His Ma.jefty,for the King jud- geth not of matters of Law, but b his Courts 5 and his Courts, though fitting by his aut ority, expefi not his aifent in matters of Law,nor any other Courts, for they ' cannot judge in that cafe, becaufe they are int: riour, no . appeale lying from Parliament, the judgement whereof isin the eye of the Law , the Kings judgement in his higheft Court,though the King in his perlon be neither‘ ptefent; nor aifenting thereunto. ’ 21:: Vote: at wbicb H it Majefly take: exception are tbefe: 1 . The‘: the King: abferxe , [0 far ‘remote from 5:7: Parlia- mat , it not truly an o5_{frd£fian,l>u: may 6: 4 deflruifion to the afeires 0 Ireland. A ‘ 1. T 4! pie» tie Lord: and Common} flull deelere whit tlve Law ofelre Land it, to leave elm not and] que/honed and cuttrwertel, lat coxtudeé?ed,_anJ 4 Command tlmt it jbaulel notbe 06 ed, :3 A /ngb heal j the riwlcdge If Parliament. 3. T tttlnjeperjoax tbat dvi ed Hi: M41 ejly to elfent C l1e'wfelfi.f'nnt5¢ Parlianent, are enemies. to the peeve oft/1: I‘ Kinglome. . C it _ . T64: m ’" Tim: in cafi gftbit extmzme danger; am?! Hitgfliey re: . fufl:ll:,t/re ordinance of Parli-army! agrarian by fiat/.r.;'Haufi»; fiir» t/ye iMilm'a,datb;é6l:g‘e the eople ,« and ought to be "oéejcd ‘ by :/;e»F:mdmen'uIl Lam aft 1}: Kingdome. L By alji. whichit doth.ap'peare,‘ that there is no colour fer this ‘tax, that we goe about to introdncc a new Law, much 1-cfl‘c£.‘o cxerciie-an arbitrary power,’ but indeed to prevent it -,i for this Law is as old as the Kingdome, that the Kingdomic mufi not be without 3. tneansto preierve it fclfe ', which that it may be donewithout con Fufion, this Natien hath intrufied cert-aine-’hands with 4a ybwer topr-ovidetin a regular way for the goodandefafetyeebf the -whole, i which power by the conftitution of this Jezingdome isin His*Ma-jefiy, end his Parliament tqge-’ ;A’nd’whw‘ereasPthe defireofaegopd underitanding be! tween the King and Parliament, are onboth parts 1') ¢2"t'flC;{HyjdCfi'1’€’d'3S he1‘e~pr0f~‘:fi0f his Majefiy It) {)6 ifijhim ,‘- and wehave fufl1€ienti1«y*‘t'eItifiéd“tobe'e in "due. felvesglt fcemes {trange we fliouldbe fo -‘long :ifimd~er',i’L", czntbe nothing elfe bfit cvi1—1*and ma1icious”cout1~.{*aii,mif- reprefentitztg our carriage to‘ him, and‘ ‘in,d_e'pofing‘his: evemitous. t v V “ ""’*"f 1" “ Alfogwe defirc the-Kingdomeztotake e-notice’ oF=tliis} 1 ‘ lafi mo'fltdc{’per,f1te/%2nd- mifchevous~ pliot«*o'f‘-t_hc*malig ( nia;_nt>par’ty'; ti1_§!tei§".lé3:ed bjtidfipiroiec-pied ‘ifi’ 1 the 'Ie2ngdonie;t1néerttf§_~?ErLv;_ct«:_,,:i; cr'iedim;gifi7gv0'i l’mthingi1‘irt§dti’tHei?'' : ii d'é. *Y)i‘vfe,i’fei mutenotis Petitions have bee9_fr_artféfl‘iu’FQ635tfbi¥jKt‘fitfi. and otherCounties, and fi1ndJy‘ofHisMajefties Subljleéts - V ave (8) W i have been {olicited to declare themfelives For the King againft the Parliament, and many toule afpertions have beene‘._caPt upon our proceedings, as if we hadbeen not onely negligent bu tr; verfe in tnele points, gwqereas wee deiire nothing. niqte then to maintain the purity of re- ligion, and to honour the King in all his Jafi preroga-i tives,,and for encouragement and advancement of piety andyiearning , we have earned} y endeavoured that all pariihes may have learned pious 8: lufiicient Preachers ; andall fuch preachers competent livings, other bills are inpteparation for the Kings profit and honour,the peov pies fafety ‘and prolperity; in the proceedings whereof wearemueh hindered by His Mej:‘{’tie$ abfence from the Parliament, gnd thcie prefent difirattiions but yet we: doubt not but that we {hall overcome all at left , if the- pfilople fuifered not themfelves not to be deceived with e and {pecious ihewesg. and to drawn to betray us to their own undoing, who have ever been willing to ha- zard the undoing of our felves, that they‘ might not be betrayed by our negleét of the trait repofed in us, but if it were pofiible they ihouid prevail herein, yet wee would not faile through Gods grace {till to ptrfift in our duties, and to look beyond our own lives, ellates, and, advantages, as thofe who think nothing worthy the en- joying,without_ the liberty and peace orthe K ingdome ; ’noranything,too oodto be hazardcd in difcharge of our confeiences, orthe obtainin of it: And {hall at» wayes r ofe our trult and’confi ence upon the dune- &ion of lmighty God, which we are con fidcnt ihall never be wantin to us, (whil: we feek his glory; as we have found it hit erto wonderfully, going along with us inallourproccedings. y.., W C RARE DA 1&1 2 1 642 . 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