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A45191 A defence of the charter, and municipal rights of the city of London, and the rights of the other municipal cities and towns of England directed to the citizens of London. / By Thomas Hunt. Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688. 1683 (1683) Wing H3750; ESTC R16568 22,067 49

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for her sake meerly and as her Enemies But the truth is these men have truly an utter abhorrence against Popery and the Plot and joyn forwardly and zealously against it This their commendable zeal against Popery the Conspirators give out and make it believed is their zeal for their own peculiarities for their dividing way and for those things wherein they differ from us They have affrighted the Church of England with designs of those men against her even in these their actings and appearings against Popery and the Plot. What these men endeavour against Popery some that are of the Church of England do oppose for no other reason but for that they desire it And they are contrary to those of the Church of England with whom these Dissenters do concurr in any thing though never so conducible to the preservation of the Nation and our Religion and the Conspirators have now made and reckon'd even such also of the adverse party Whigs and Fanaticks and every thing they say or do is opposed thwarted contradicted and censured as disloyal and fanatical It is now come to pass that no mans reason is regarded the true state of things and our present condition the arts of our Enemies and their designs are not considered But whatever we say or do is fanaticisme savors of forty one By this Artifice they tye together a sort of men amongst you that consider little and make of them an obstinate party which they Act and manage and engage in courses which tend to their own and the publick ruin with an utter neglect of Rights Laws and antient constitutions nay they endeavour to subvert them all that they may more certainly and speedily arrive at the mischiefs designed by our Enemies The greatest fear of the loss of your Charter and City is from your selves Your Charter Government and Priviledges have no Enemies that can hurt them but your selves against you it is only that your Charter comes to be defended So transported are some of you grown with the humor of opposition and contradiction since the discovery of the Popish Plot against some that are called Dissenters Which is brought about by the ammusing arts and impostures of the Conspirators That you are become eager for the destroying of your Charter because these Dissenters have concurred with the majority in defending it Your Charter had never been attach'd if some of you had not been perswaded to be willing to forego it and at the same time seem to be weary of the ancient Government and careless of your Religion and willing to part with them too by the Embraceries of such Persons that fear a Parliament more than Doomsday By the influences of these Men who are for making a New Government because they cannot Live under the Old you are made content to forego your Charter and the Antient Government the safeguard of our Religion and the English Liberty for such new Establishments as these confiding Men will form and contrive for you who will use you most certainly as your easiness doth deserve No Quo Warranto had ever been brought against your City to destroy your Corporation and Government for petitioning His Majesty for a parliament in a time of a Popish Plot at home detected but not duly punished nor prevented when we are under the Fears of a Popish Successor against which Parliaments have heretofore consulted how to secure our Religion and of the growing power of France which every Man living apprehends had not some for no other reason but that they will be against Dissenters disliked petitioning Your dislike of petitioning is the only reason in the World for the unlawfulness of it Without that it had been impossible to have had a Lawyers opinion that a Petition to the King was unlawful made in form as the Law directs or allows for a thing lawful and necessary viz. that we might have our Government in use when we had the greatest need of it and that a Parliament might sit when we were under Evills scarce sufferable that no Power or Authority but that of a Parliament could redress Lawyers have opinions to sell at any time if they have the opinion of a forward and probable Dr tho' never so corrupt or corrupted to mistake or of the many to countenance them tho' they have not the least colour of reason to support them And according to their Fee and Expectation they seem confident must look assured and tell you they have a very good Cause this they can with some Face do in case any Error or Mistake hath prevailed to deceive many You your selves being first deceived they take money and are not bound to disabuse you especially when you are resolved not to change your opinion and act agreeably But if that Petition had been assisted and promoted by your selves too it might have prevailed for the best of Kings do not refuse the universal Desires of the People and the Nation had long since been discharged of all the Evils that now disquiet us But by your dissent from it it hath got the appearance of a Crime And the Plotters have got this advantage upon us thereby that His Majesty is not like to have any Petitions against them since they are declar'd ungrateful to His Majesty and he is become more inaccessible They have brought it about that it is now accounted a fault to desire a Parliament that only can and will redress our Grievances I will shortly shew you how contrary you are herein to the provision of our Law and that you have herein deprived as much as in you lyes your fellow Subjects of their rights in the Government By the Stat. of 4 Ed. 3. C. 14. 36 E. 3. C. 10. It is provided that Parliaments be holden once every Year which are confirmed by an Act of this King call'd the Triennial Act. In 25 E. 3. Statute of Provisors are contained these Words That the right of the Crown of England and that the Law of the said Realm is such that upon the mischiefs and damages which happen to the Realm the King ought and is bound by Oath with the accord of his People in his Parliament to make remedy and Law in removing the mischiefs and damages which thereof ensu'd King Ed. 1. did appoint certain select Persons of the Clergy and Laity to examine the wrongs done to his People by his Ministers in order to the redress thereof in the approaching Parliament 17 Ed. 3. Dors Memb. 2. In the 15th of Ed. 3. a Declaration was openly made in the Parliament que chescum saith the Rolls que se sente grevez per le Rey ou ses Ministers ou autres que ils metroient lour petitions avants ils averont bone conenable remedy i. e. That all People which found themselves aggrieved in any matter even by the King himself his Officers or others should bring forth their Petitions and thereupon should have good and convenient remedy to them ordein'd Rot. Parl. 15 E.