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KING andeINGDOMT

To fome Juf’cices of the Peace
Met at the SeHions In one of- tHe Northern Shires, "' :

AGAINST r‘

ADDRESSING to the KING

WITH

A PETITION

For the Sitting of the Parliament
7 A N v A A I 26. ’ ‘

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NOW Publiflied

FOr the JuHification of all thofe LoyaI
Perfons, who oppofed the Petition in any parts of the _

Nation.

 

and Pleafure 5 it is a high Impudence 111 any Subjetfi;
or AHembly of men, to take Upon them to Advife
him (unasked ) how and when to exewte his Power:

for it concludes, that the Advifers or Petitioners do believe 1

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F 11: he the undoubted Prerogauve of the ng to Call, ’
Adjourn ,Prorogue,and DiHolve Parliaments at hisVVilI

 

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«that he is either fo weak, as not to be able to judge when

and howl—it it t fori""hirrk:wto do it 5 or {0 ill :1ng thatwhe'

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will not doit, hen'he knifwsitis for the‘édvantage of him-
{Elf and the Kingdom; and is in plain terms to lay, the King
is either a Fool or a Knave :; which» if not High-Treafon, I
am lure is a violation of Duty,and a breach of good Manners.
But to go on With inch anZAdvifingqufitionz when M ex—
\ prefs Prmlagiiatibh dbés‘firbid anything ofthis nature, is a
moPt fuperlative lnfolence ; Nor can all the formal words [1-
fed in fuch Addrefles,of Humble,Dutz'ful, and Loyal, *palliate
for a this Wheedle, or make other confiruéiion, than that
his loving,humbleg and dutifill Subjefts do with. all Mo—
defiy befeech him to Eermit them to [bare with him in the
mofi: important Tru' ‘,‘ and mofi eminent Mark of Sove..
raignty that God Almighty hath endowed him with.

Should the King , by any manner of Application , I and
with all the termsiof Kinds-refs that words can exprefs,
fend a gratious Mellage to; the; Parliament, wherein he
fhould advife them to part with any (though never fo
(mail a Priviledge ) they would." ritlent it to a flrange de.
gree. And is not, the'Prerogative' as dear to the King, as
Priviledge to the Parliament? ,

Let no Sophifierf fay ., that the Proclamation is not
meant to intend this way of Petitioning , " by alleadging,
that it is the onely lawful Mums and Entercomfl’ ’twixt
the King end his People. ’Tis certain, he meant this
.vfly Way of Petitioning; for till there was a previom

Addrefs from the Lord's, and Ehdeavours to get Hands to '

fuch ' Petitions, there was nothing heard of a Proclamation :
which when it appeared," " did fully denote this very Me.
thod of Petitioniflg, f0 fatal ta 1m F ather, and. this King.
dam 5: and ought by all Loyal Gentlemen to be taken, no-
rice 0f as fish. ' . - y .

I confels it is One of the worlt things [imaginable ,
to remember- Iniuries 5 but it is as Unpardonable a folly,
_ {A * . to

'any things they havc‘d'on'e',
[into afiecond ,Mifdh‘iefZfi ._ ‘ .

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to forget the Rock we have once {hipwracked on, and not
toavoid it,‘ when it‘ is " fully in our pOWer {loltoj do." 'Tis
there-fare highly worth our note, What fort of men "they
are who firl’c .‘fet this Bufinefs on foot; not to refleét on
but onely to avoid being led

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OF ‘ the {mitten " Lords; ‘ by” Whofe'btder and in whore

«name‘iche Addrenéwa‘s'prercntéa? t5 theKing , there is nor

one 2 ho either "in 'ht’mfelf ethic "Father‘s, can la‘ a" claim
to honourable Sore/ice performed (either to at £5 King
or hi5 Father , during the time of the late Rebellion 5 but
on the contrary, I finde feveral of their Names fnbferibeol
to the Covenant; and have heard of molt of the refl:
under the names of General: of Horfe , Colonels, and
C onnnanelerr in the late Rebellion: Armies , or con ant

 

S itterr in the Rump , Committee of S afety , and all j'nnéloer
againfi the King. And if the late Wars were begun with

Petitions , and by thefe very men and their Fathers, it
cannot but be advifable by all Loyal, Gentlemen what
may be the end of their PetitiOns: And Whether they are
let on foot for the Publick Good by private men, or for

, private Ends with the name of the Publick. 1‘

An- Enquiry were worth the while, * who "‘ WWW“ fime
' ' were old Oficerr,

they are that promote their Petitions in other and other: Cow.

Countries, and obferve by whom their Petiti- mime—men and
ons are addreffed from above to ours, or who
are the men that are molt 'aé’tive in the profecution 'a-r
mongfi us; Iamafraid we {hall finde as few Loyal Gen-

S equefiratorr,&c. -

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tlemen in the Country to “better themfelves , as we have“

found Lords at London .- And if 4 any old Royalifls appear , '

we {hall finde them either fuch as are concerned in the late
zmhea'rd-of Vote about the S nceeflion‘, or fuch as are grown
wafpifh that they are not better preferred for ferviees by—
pafi, and hOpe to repair broken Fortunes by a publick.

Ruine.

Since

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