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A95560	A most learned and eloquent speech, spoken or delivered in the Honourable House of Commons at Westminster, by the most learned lawyer Miles Corbet, Esq recorder of Great Yarmouth, and Burgess of the same, on the 31th day of July, 1647. taken in short-hand by Nocky, and Tom. Dunn, his clerks, and revised by John Tayler.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Corbet, Miles, d. 1662, attributed name.	1681 (1681)	Wing T483D; ESTC R229565	6,255	7

not taken the second most perniciously and performed them so impioussy then we had never so rebelliously opposed and offended so gracious a Majesty Mr. Speaker Our Adversaries do further alledge That our Obedience to His Majesty is apparently manifest by many strange ways We have disburthened him of his large Revenues we have eased him of the charge of Royal House-keeping we have freed him of paying of his Navy we have cleared him from either repairing of or repairing to his stately Pallaces magnificent Mansions and defensive Castles and Garrisons we have put him out of care for reparations of his Armories Arms Ammunition and Artillery we have been at the cost of keeping his Children and most trusty Servants from or for him we have taken Order and given Ordinances that he shall not be troubled with much Money or Meat and that his Queen and lawful Wife shall not so much as darken his Door And we have endeavoured by open Rebellion to release him of a most troublesom Life and Reign by hunting him like a Partridge over the Mountains and by shooting Bullets of all sizes at his Person for His Majesty's Preservation on purpose to make him a glorious King in another World We have eased him of a great number of his faithful Friends loyal Subjects and Servants by either charitable Famishing brotherly Banishment liberal and free Imprisonment Parliamental Plunder friendly Throat-cutting and unlawful Beheading and Hanging or ruinating as many as we could lay hands of that either loved served or honoured him All these heavy Burthens we have eased him of and overladen our selves with the usurped Ponderosity of them so that our Adversaries say that the weight of them will either break our Backs our Necks or sink us for ever And they say that since the World's Creation never so good a King had so bad Subjects to use him so hardly Fourthly Mr. Speaker It is questioned what we have done for the Laws There are some that are not afraid to say That we have transformed or metamorphosed the Common Laws of this Land into the Land's common Calamities that instead of the common Benefit which the Laws in Community should yield to all Men in general we have perverted those Laws to the private profit of our selves and some other particular persons The Civil Law is turned into an uncivil Civil War Blasphemy Atheism Sacriledge Obscenes Profaneness Incest Adultery Fornication Bigamy Poligamy Bastard-bearing Cuckold-making and all sorts of beastly Bawdry is so far from being punished that it is generally connived and winked at or tolerated by us And those which should be the Punishers of these gross and crying Crimes as Judges Officials Deacons Proctors and other Officers these are derided reviled libelled against cryed down and made a common Scoffing stock of every libidinous incontinent Whore and Whoremonger The Law of God contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments we have rased out of the Church not so much as suffering them to be read And the New Commandment which was the last that Christ commanded That we should love one another we have turned that the foul contrary way to the spoiling and murdering one another The Law of Nature is most unnaturally changed to brutish heathenish devilish barbarous Inhumanity Paricide Fratricide and Homicide hath been and is by us defended maintained and rewarded no Affinity Consanguinity Alliance Friendship or Fellowship hath or can secure any true Protestant or loyal Subject either of his Life or Goods Safety or Freedom These are the best Reports our Adversaries the Malignant Party do give us It is farther said That we have infringed and violated the Law of Arms here and the Law of Nations abroad For whereas Messengers and Ambassadors have always had and ought to have free and safe passage with fair and courteous Accommodation and Entertainment with the Turkes Tartars Jews and Cannibals always observed most obsequiously and punctually But we contrary to them and repugnant to Christianity have suffered Ambassadors to be rifled robb'd and evil entreated And we have caused His Majesty's Messengers to be hang'd whom he hath most graciously sent to us with Conditions of Peace By the Vox populi or common Vote of those People we are pleased to call Malignants Papists Enemies to the State with other Scandals and Epithites which they utterly deny both in their words and practice We are justly taxed to be the main Incendiaries and pestilent Propagators of all the Mischiefs which this afflicted miserable Kingdom groans and bleeds under for they say That the old Statutes of Magna Charta are overthrown by us under pretence and colour of supporting them And that by our Votes Ordinances Precepts Proclamations Edicts Mandates and Commands we have countermanded abrogated annihilated abolished violated and made void all the Laws of God of Nature of Arms and of Arts too and instead of them we have unlawfully erected Marshal Law Club Law Stafford Law and such lawless Laws as make most for Treason Rebellion Murder Sacriledge Ruine and Plunder But as for the King himself we have not allowed him so much Law as a Huntsman allows a Hare These are our Enemies words and so much they say we have done for the Laws Fifthly Mr. Speaker This Question or Query is what we have done for the Kingdom It is said that we have done and undone the Kingdom this ancient famous flourishing Kingdom this Envy of the World for Happiness this Eden of the Universe this Terrestrial Paradice this Abstract of Heaven's Blessings and Earthly Content this Epitome of Nature's Glory this exact Extract of Piety Learning and magnanimous Chivalry this Nursery of Religion Arms Arts and laudable Endeavours this Breed of Men this wonder of Nations formerly renowned feared loved and honoured as far as ever Sun and Moon shined this England which hath been a Kingdom and a Monarchy many hundred years under the Reigns of 168 Kings and Queens this Kingdom which hath conquered Kingdoms that hath India Syria Palestina Cyprus Tributary tremblers that hath made France shake and Spain quake that relieved and defended Scotland from French slavery and saved and protected the Netherlands from Spanish Tyranny Now have we made this Kingdom this England a miserable Slave to it self an Universal Golgotha a purple Gore Acheldama a Field of Blood a Gehenna a Den of Thieves or Infernal Furies and finally an Earthly Hell were it not for this difference That here the best Men are punished and in Hell only the worst are plagued here no good Man escapes Torment nor any bad Man is troubled The King is abused for being good and just and his true and loyal Subjects and Servants are ruined and massacred for their Fidelity The Protestants are called Papists because they will not be Brownists Anabaptists and Rebels And our Adversaries are so bold to say That we have plotted and laboured long to turn this glorious Monarchy into a pedling roly poly Independant Anarchy and make this Kingdom to be no Kingdom and so