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A55052 An impartial account of the state of New England, or, The late government there, vindicated in answer to the Declaration which the faction set forth when they overturned that government : with a relation of the horrible usage they treated the governour with , and his Council, and all that had His Majesty's commission : in a letter to the clergy there / by John Palmer. Palmer, John, 1650-1700? 1690 (1690) Wing P246; ESTC R37740 24,245 41

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declarare interpretari addere sive diminuere pro Nostrae libito voluntatis pront securitati Nostrae Terrae Nostrae viderimus expediri And therefore We Command you That from henceforward you observe the Premises in all things so only that as often whensoever and wheresoever We please We may Declare Interpret Add to and Diminish from the said Statutes and every part of them according to Our Will and Pleasure so as We shall see it expedient for the safety of Us and Our Land aforesaid In the next place I shall instance Ireland That it is a Conquer'd Kingdom is not doubted Cooke Rep. Fol. 18. but admitted in Calvin's case and by an Act of the 11th 12th and 13th of King James acknowledged in express Words viz. Whereas in former times the Conquest of this Realm by His Majesty's most Royal Progenitors Kings of England c. That by virtue of the Conquest it became of the Dominion of the Crown of England and subject to such Laws as the Conqueror thought fit to impose until afterwards by the Charters and Commands of H. 2. K. John and H. 3. They were Intituled to the Laws and Franchises of England as by the said Charters reference being thereunto had may more fully appear I shall only instance two The First is out of the close Rolls of H. 3. wherein the King after Thanks given to G. de Mariscis Justice of Ireland signifies That himself and all other his Lieges of Ireland should enjoy the Liberties which he had granted to his Lieges of England and that he will grant and confirm the same unto them Claus 1. H. 3. Dorso 14. which afterwards in the 12th Year of His Reign he did as followeth Rex dilecto fidelio suo Richardo de Burgo Justiciar ' suo Hibern Salutem Mandarimus vobis firmiter praecipientes quatenus certo die loco faciatis venire coram vobis Archi-Episcopos Episcopos Abbates Priores Comites Barones Milites Libere Tenentes Balivos singulorum Comitatuum coram eis publici legi faciatis Chartum Domini Johannis Regis Patris Nostri cui sigillum suum appensum est quam fieri fecit jurari a Magnatibus Hiberniae de legibus consuetudinibus Angliae observandis in Hiberniae Et praecipiatis eis ex parte nostra quod leges illas consuetudines in Charta praedicta contentas de caetero firmiter teneant observent The King to his Faithful and Beloved Richard de Burg Justice of Ireland Greeting We have Commanded you firmly enjoyning you That on a certain day and place you make to come before you the Arch-Bishops Bishops Abbats Priors Earls Barons Knights and Free-holders and the Bayliffs of every County and before them you cause to be publickly read the Charter of the Lord King John our Father to which his Seal is affixed and which he caused to be made and Sworn to by the Nobility of Ireland concerning the Laws and Customs of England to be observed in Ireland And commanded them on our behalf That for the future they firmly keep and observe those Laws and Customs contained in the Charter aforesaid By all which it is evident That after the Conquest and before the recited Charters the Inhabitants there although composed of many Free-born English Subjects who settled themselves amongst them were neither govern'd by their own Laws nor the Laws of England but according to the good pleasure of the Conqueror And if you will take the Opinion of Sir Edward Coke in his Annotations on the Great Charter he tells you plainly That at the making thereof it did not extend to Ireland or any of the King 's Foreign Dominions but after the making of Poyning's Law which was in the 11th Year of H. 7 long after the Great Charter it did extend to Ireland I have only one Instance more and that is The usage of Foreign Nations in their Plantations and Settlements abroad The Governments of the Vnited Provinces and Denmark are well known in Europe and yet in all their Plantations their Governments are despotical and absolute all the power is in the hands of a Governour and Council and every thing is ordered and appointed by them as is sufficiently manifest to those that are acquainted with Batavia Surrinam Curasao New York when formerly in their hands and the Island of St. Thomas By which it is evident That those Kingdoms and Principalities which are of the Dominion of the Crown of England are subject to such Laws Ordinances and Methods of Government as the Crown shall think fit to Establish The next thing then to be proved is That New England and all the English Colonies are subject to the Dominion of the Crown of England as Wales and Ireland are and not to the Empire of the King of England as Scotland is 'T is a fundamental point consented unto by all Christian Nations that the first Discovery of a Countrey inhabited by Infidels gives a Right and Dominion of that Countrey to the Prince in whose Service and Imployment the Discoverers was sent Thus the Spaniard claims the West-Indies the Portugals Brasile and thus the English these Northern parts of America For Sebastian Cabot imployed by King Henry 7. was the first Discoverer of these Parts and in his Name took Possession which his Royal Successors have held and continued ever since therefore they are of the Dominion of the Crown of England and as such they are accounted by that excellent Lawyer Sir John Vaughan in his reports Vauh Rep. Craw versus Ramsey which being granted the Conclusion must necessarily be good and it will follow That Englishmen permitted to be Transported into the Plantations for thither without the Kings Licence we cannot come can pretend to no other Liberties Privileges or Immunities there than anciently the Subjects of England who removed themselves into Ireland could have done For it is from the Grace and Favour of the Crown alone that all these Flow and are dispenced at the pleasure of him that sits upon the Throne which is plain in the great Charter it self where after the Liberties therein granted by the King it concluded thus Tenendas habendas de Nobis haeredibus Nostris in perpetuum To have and to hold of Us and Our Heirs for ever which by the Learned Sir Edward Coke is thus explained These words saith he are not inserted to make a Legal Tenure of the King but to intimate that all Liberties were at first derived from the Crown Instit page 2. fol. 4. Barbados Jamaica the Leeward Islands and Virginia have their Assemblies but it is not sui juris 't is from the grace and favour of the Crown signified by Letters Patents under the Broad Seal But the Laws made by these Assemblies with the consent of the Governour are no longer in force than till the King is pleased to signifie his Disapprobation of them which power he hath always reser●●●●o himself and can whenever he thinks fit Repeal
AN IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF THE State of New England OR THE Late GOVERNMENT there Vindicated In Answer to the DECLARATION Which the FACTION set forth when they Overturned That GOVERNMENT With a Relation Of the Horrible Usage they treated the Governour with and his Council and all that had His Majesty's Commission In a LETTER to the CLERGY there By John Palmer LONDON Printed for Edward Poole at the Ship over against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1690. THE PREFACE THERE was so much Industry used in New England by those who had taken upon themselves the Government that nothing should come abroad which might undeceive the People already wrought to such a pitch of Credulity easily to believe the most monstrous Lyes and Follies that the ensuing Letter could not be Printed without excessive Charge and Trouble the Press being forbid to any that were injur'd to justifie themselves though open to all that would caluminate and abuse them so that for several Months it appeared in Manuscript by stealth branded with the hard Name of a Treasonable and Seditious Libel and would have been little better than Death for any one in whose Hands it should have been found but remained unanswered although Care was taken that it came to the Hands of some of the Persons to whom it was directed I was then oblig'd to conceal my Name because I was in their Hands and liable to whatever their Malice could prompt them to impose upon me but being now at Liberty and having revised it I have thought fit for the Justification of Sir Edmond Andros and the rest of my Fellow-Sufferers to make it publick here that the World may see how barbarously we have been used and most unmercifully dealt withal by those Professing People who for the better effecting the Subversion of Kingly Government and establishing their Old Commonwealth contrary to the Laws both of God and Man and their Faith given detain'd us Ten Months in Prison without any Mittimus or just Cause alledged for their so doing and afterwards caused us to be put on Board a deep loaden Ship where we endured all the Miseries of a Troublesome Winter Voyage but by God's Blessing escaped both the danger of the Seas and our Enemies and appeared at the Council-Board where the worst of our Enemies even the very Men that had so unjustly imprisoned and detain'd us had nothing to say or object against us Their Declaration published as the Cause of their Insurrection is herein particalarly answered and matter of Fact truly alledged not in Scandalous Base and Abusive Reflections as some of their Pamphlets are stuff'd withal but with that Sincerity and Moderation which becomes a Christian and altho' there are many things in it so frivolous that to Men of Business it may seem impertinent to answer yet I hope to be excused because the meanest things made so deep an Impression on the Vulgar and Ignorant People that it was absolutely necessary they should be undeceived I hope it will satisfie every unprejudiced Person and sufficiently convince the World that our Imprisonment was not for any Crime commmitted but that we being imployed from the Crown by our Removal the more easie Subversion of Monarchy and Destruction of the Church of England might be effected both which they ever mortally hated and had long before plotted to ruine making use of this juncture of Affairs and Their Majesties Names to cloak their Design whilst their Service was never intended as is evident by their withdrawing the Force from the East-ward by which their Majesties Fort and Garrison of Pemyquid and the whole County of Cornwall the greatest part of the Province of Mam and part of the Province of New Hampshire were lost the Inhabitants being driven from their Houses and above 300 of them taken Captives and Murthered by the Indians embezling their Majesties Stores Arms and Ammunition seizing and dismaniling their Fright destroying their Revenue setting up a Republick Government making Laws erecting Courts of Judicature condemning and executing their Fellow Subjects denying them Appeals to their Majesties and burthening them with intollerable Taxes without any manner of Lawful Authority for so doing to the great Violation of the Laws and destructive of the Liberty of the Subject The State of NEW-ENGLAND Impartially considered c. Reverend Sirs TWO Months have already past away since with Astonishment I have beheld the most deplorable Condition of this Country into what a Chaos of Confusion and Distraction have this People run themselves and in what a labyrinth of Miserys and Perplexitys are they involved 'T is high time now to make some serious Reflections on the State of Affairs In the first place therefore 't will be necessary to consider 1. For what Reasons and to what End did they take up Arms 2. Whether those Reasons be Substantial and such as carry with them weight enough to justifie the Act and whether the proposed End can be obtained by such Methods 3. If not What will be the Event and whether any way be left open for a Peaceable and Friendly Settlement Although 't is not a doubt but a prevailing Party among you to gratifie their Malice Ambition or Revenge have been the Plotters and Contrivers of these unhappy Troubles and the better to carry it on have made use of the deluded Countrymen as the Monkey did the Cats Foot to pluck the Chesnut out of the Fire Yet I shall not meddle in that matter I will only instance such things as Conversation and Report have brought to my Knowledge or as I shall find obvious in the Declaration the sum of which is 1. That above ten Years since there was an horrid Popish Plot in the Kingdom of England in which the Extirpation of the Protestant Religion was design'd and there was great reason to apprehend the Reform'd Churches of New-England were to be over-whelm'd in the same Pit of Ruine and Destruction 2. That the better to effect it their Charter the only Hedge which kept them from the wild Beasts of the Field was both injuriously and illegally Condemned before it was possible for them to appear at Westminster in the Legal Defence of it and without a fair leave to answer for themselves 3. That by an illegal Commission they were put under a President and Council which was soon superceded by another more Arbitrary and Absolute to Sir Edmond Andros giving him Power by the advice of his Council to make Laws and levy Taxes as he pleased to muster and imploy all Persons resident in the Territory as occasion should require and them to Transfer to any English Plantation and that there were courses taken to damp and spoil their Trade while neither the Honour nor the Treasure of the King was advanced 4. That several Redcoats were brought over to support what should be imposed upon them and more threatned 5. That Preferments were principally loaden on Strangers and Haters of the People 6. That they were Squeez'd and Oppress'd by a crew of abject