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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44754	Some sober inspections made into carriage and consults of the late Long-Parliament whereby occasion is taken to speak of parliaments in former times, and of Magna Charta, with some reflexes upon government in general.; Som sober inspections made into the cariage and consults of the late Long Parlement	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3117; ESTC R2660	73,993	193

onely certified their proceedings to the Parliament Now Sir you must know that presently upon the taking of Exceter his whole estate was sequestred and continuing so above 7 years he being not allow'd a peny to put bread in his mouth hee visibly lost above 30000 l. which he humbly prayed might satisfie for his Composition which would not have amounted to the sixth part so much according to Article He was not onely denied that but a nigrum Theta a black Bill was voted for selling away his whole Estate A little after an Act being passed and Commissioners appointed for the relief of Prisoners upon Articles in time of War Sir John made his addresses unto them and after above ten moneths debate of the business the whole Court consisting of eight Commissioners delivered their opinions cleerly that Sir John Stawel was within the Articles of Exon that he had not broken any of those Articles ever since but exactly observ'd and perform'd them that consequently Hee was not onely to have his person unmolested and his whole Estate restored him but to have satisfaction for the great losses he had received while his Estate lay under Sequestration c. This clear and positive Judgement being pronounced solemnly by the Court of Articles and the Demurres which the Trustees appointed to sell forfeited Estates and the Pourchasers of Sir John Staw●ls Lands had made being ov●r ruled yet the Parliament resumed the business reversed the sentence of that Court they themselves had Authorized and Voted that the Pourchasers should quietly enjoy and occupy according to their several Contracts what they had bought of Sir John Stawels Estate P●lyander Good Lord what a world of hardships did that noble Knight undergo as to be so tossed from Prison to Prison from Bar to Bar yet to be found guilty no where but to be pronounced R●ctus i●curia nevertheless to have a sentence of Civil death pronounced against him viz the loss of so fair and noble an Estate as any in the west of England by the mischievous practice of a Member of the House who as I heard professed most friendship unto him But was there no more care to observe Articles of War which is held a sacred thing among Pagans and Infidels The T●rk and Tartar in this point will keep faith with the Sword as well as with the Cimiter with the Hat as well as with the Turban or Shash Philanglus Herein a difference may be said to have been 'twixt Generals for the Presbyterian Generals did not much care how their Articles were broke or kept but his Highness who is now Lord Protector was very carefull for the observation of what Articles he made and clash'd about it more then once with the Parliament Polyander Truely Sir you have related many horrid things which might make the Word Parliament merit the same fate that befel Tyrant Sophister and others which were good in their first institution but afterwards came to be odious and reproachful and will continue so to the worlds end But 't is much that the Parliament which should be the great Physitian of the Common wealth should become such a Mountebank that in lieu of making up the ruptures 'twixt King and people and closing the leaks in the great Vessell of the State they should cause more that like Banbury Tinkers in lieu of stopping one hole they should make two There is a saying that Infaeliciter agrotat c●● plus-mali venit à medico quam à morbo That Patient is in a sad case who receives more hurt from the Physitian then from the Disease more mischief from the remedy then from the malady t is better for one to endure a little head-ach then to have his pate broken Philanglus There breaths not a soule Inter quatuor maria betwixt Englands foure Seas who hath a more venerable opinion of Parliaments then I having had the honour to have been a good while a small part thereof They were used to be the bulwark of our liberties the main banks and boundaries which kept us from slavery from the inundation of Arbitrary Rule and unbounded Will-Government This high superintendent Court at its first Constitution was used to be compared to the Macrocosm the Great World it self The Soveraign Magistrate was compared to the Sun the Nobles to the fixed Stars the Judges other Officers who went with Messages 'twixt both Houses to the Planets the Clergy to the Element of Fire the Commons to the solid Mass of Earth And as the Heavenly bodies when three of them meet in Conjunction use to produce some admirable effects in the Great world so when the three States did use to convene and assemble in one solemn Junta some notable and extraordinary things were used to be brought forth tending to the wellfare of the whole Kingdom Now there were three essential properties that belonged to Parliament viz. fairness of Election fulness of Members and freedom of Speech 'T is too well known how little of all three were found in the late long Parliament specially the last to wit liberty of speech For none was permitted to speak unless he spoke still to the sense of the House to the sense of the House which was a pure restraint what a deale of time was spent in bandying of answers in Remonstrances in Replies Rejoynders and descanting upon words so that the first 16. months were spent meerly in chopping Logick with the King and nothing at all done For fulness of Members they were purg'd at last very low so that there was scarce the tenth part of what they should have been in number The King offered to give them a little purge of five or six Drams but it was furiously cast away because there was too much Basilicon in it Then there was a purge of eleven drams given them wherein there was some unguentum Armarium that cures a far off which made some of them to flie t' other side of the Sea where one Member as soon as he put foot on shore fell sick of the Plague and so was buried no better then in the Town ditch because he had first infected the place At last they had a good sound purge as big as a drench administred them which purg'd away above a hundred Members at once yet all this would not do for some Members were grown so corrupt and putrid that nothing could cure the House but an utter Dissolution according to the old saying Immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum Which great Dissolution was made without one tear or drop of bloud as the Portugal Embassadour sent word to Lisbon , for England had been long weary of her Physicians who had they continued longer might have made Her say as Alexander the Great did on his death bed Perii Turba Medicorum I die of too many Physicians Polyander Touching fullnesse of Members I heard it censur'd by some Criticks beyond the Seas for a Solaecism in the English Government that they are so many but specially that