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A52665	The nations agrievance, (by way of address from loyal subjects) presented to His Majesty, the King of Great Brittain, for his favour, countenance and regard, relating to the countries election of their representatives in Parliament, and the due execution of justice, how they may be duly promoted according to the regularity of privileges, of both Prince and people.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1679 (1679)	Wing N236; ESTC R11284	7,043	4

which your Crown and Dignites thereunto belonging may be defended and prese●ved from Injuries of the like kind as these lately attending us 7. Th●● not only as our Phisitian but as a healing Balm to our wounded minds with distractions your Majesty will be pleased to testity your Simpathy therewith and a Ready Compliance with what ever may make for your own and Subjects safety towards our Amendments and Recovery to our desired Health and that in O●●er thereto you will be pleased so to take Care that a means may be provided to purge and take away from your privy Counsel and ou●●f all Offices of Trust in these your Majesties Dominions the disaffected to Goverment under what name or of what Degree and Quality soever that your Majesties integrity as a Father to his Country may appear in such Splendor and Brightness that may dazel the Eyes of the Malignant-spiritted and stop the Mouth of all Gainsayers and make Tyrants or Usurpers upon your power Crown and Dignities to tremble and be ashamed of their Enterprises 8. That in your Discountenance to your own and the Nations Enemies your Majesty will be pleased to Countenance your loyal Subjects in every Act that attends to the making glorious and flourishing your Throne Crown and Dignities thereto belonging and to that end may be pleased to extend your Princely favour towards those that cannot connive and wink at things attending to the Nations Ruine but are therefore Zealous to call to account the Exhausters and Imbezellers of your Majesties and your Countries Treasure and other misdeeds that they the Offenders do rest and reflect upon such your Majesties favour under which as ill affected persons to the present State of Goverment many are unto such the Nations Grievance climbed up high and have crept into Dignities or Offices and places of great Trust who when thus promoted do shew their Venom and Sting against what ever should check or put a stop to their extravigant Fancy 9. That of the wrong abuse and injuries done to your Princely Favours Crown and Dignities by ill Members of such your Countenance and of a Realm or Common-Wealth you in your Princely Wisdom will be pleased to take notice and that these things are occasioned by such who indeavour to palliate and disguise all their Designs under the Habit of Ministers of State and who under the wing and protection of that Goverment unto whom they are utter Enemies do Labour to sow the seditious seed before mentioned because under the same they are thus Liable to be called to account for such the abuse of your Majesties favour and power into their hands put and committed which they have no ways to remedy or evade and hold themselves secure in these Offices and great places of Trust but by plotting and contriving the subversion or Change of such the present Goverment And also we humbly pray and beseech that your Majesty will be pleased to take Notice of the Reasons why your people and most Loyal Subjects do think they ought hereat to be concerned 10. That not only allowing the Antient privileges and Customs in these Cases provided of the peoples Representatives called Parliaments but also their Authority for the questioning of such miscarriages before mentioned wherein are not pursued the very express words directed by your Writs to all Voters in the Election of such their Representatives your Majesty will please to take notice of a way and means to prevent the abuse of such your Princely favour by any that may covertly bandon themselves against the same to the casting back on your Majesty the Reflection of their misdeeds that by putting themselves to a Charge and expence for the purchasing the favour of a Countries Votes in their behalf is not that they may be in a Capasity to serve their King and Country but rather is a means by them contrived that they may be the better able to serve them●elves by thus casting the Reflection of such their misdeeds on your Princely favours and that unto a Nations Ruin● while they are making an absolute Gain and Prey on your good subjects who may not presently have their Eyes open to see the Evil attendancy of such Covert Bribery who by perverting the prime and main end of an Election for your Majesties chief and great Counsel and the Countries Representatives do in the main hereof pursue a way whereby a stop is put to the very Current of Justice so perverted by Bribery namely Guifts and Rewards that end it most unavoidably in a Nations Ruine unless timely prevented 11. That to prevent these miscarriages before mentioned together with all false Returns which may be otherways made or the E●●ctors or Elections upon your Writs for the purpose directed to the Sherifs and other Officers of Counties Cities or Burroughs c. which also is a way to prevent the abuse of your Majesties and your Countries favour and trust relating to their Election of fit persons for their Representatives in Parliament that Kings chief and great Counsel your Majesty will be pleased that such Returns be made unto the Countries your good Subjects satisfaction certified under the hand of the Voters or Electors in whom Resteth the Right or privilege of chusing the makers of such Laws unto whom they are contented to submit and by the same in all Cases to be tried and that thereby such abuses as hath been both to your Princely favour towards Parliaments and of Parliaments themselves the Countries Representatives may be rectified and amended to the praise of your Majesties fraternal Care and Regard over such your own and good Subjects Rites and privileges That the before mentioned vast Charge of maintaining Feastings and Riottings in the several Counties of the Country of the Voters and Electors coming under the consideration of guifts and rewards from these expective voted bestowed upon the Voters to purchase the favour of such their Votes seeing Guifts and Rewards are said to blind the eyes of the wise may it please your Majesty and as are all Guifts and Rewards for the purchase of Justice in the strictest sense of things deemed and accounted Bribery so in like manner Briberies unto the Laws Executioners as they are made by Guifts and Rewards are by those that strive to be Law makers Briberies of the like kind and is such a sort of Bribery that perverts Justice as well as the due Execution thereof in its very Root Bribery being held and deemed the only means to pervert the due ordination and put a stop to the right Execution of Justice in a Realm or Common-wealth FINIS

THE Nations Agrievance By way of Address from Loyal Subjects Presented to his MAJESTY THE King of Great Brittain For his Favour Countenance and Regard relating to the Countries Election of their Representatives in Parliament and the due Execution of Justice how they may be duly promoted according to the Regularity of Privileges of both Prince and People HUMBLY SHEWETH 1. THat for as much as we your Majesties Loyal Subjects have been and are marvelously delivered and preserved from evitable danger of destruction that did attend us and hang● over our Heads by means of the most desperate subtil Designs Plots and Con●●ivances againt your Royal Person Crown and Digni●ies thereunto belonging to the subversion of the p●●ien Gove●nment as now established in these your Majesties Dominions and to the bringing in upon us as a Flood all the Consequenses of mischief and miseries th● most unavoidable have ensued such Designs of ho●●id Je●uitrical and Papistical affected persons we undern●●he consideration hereof do look on our selves obliged for the Kingdoms safety and hanour depending on your Majesty thus to apply our Supplications and Address to your Princely favour for a speedy Remedy and Redress of the Nations Grievance 2. That the Consequences attending the Hel●ish Designs of those Plotters and Contrivers of Evil and mischief un●o a Nations Ruine and destruction are by the deposing of their Loyal Prince and usurping of his Authority to themselves to have brought in Popery Tiranny and a Tirannical power over your Majesties free born Sub●ects in the room and ●ea● of Government they sought to change and ●ervert which as it is contrary to the Constitution of a free People could not be borne or impose on them without Slaughter and great effusion of Blood 3. that notwithstanding by a timely prevention of a●ger in those evil and mischievous Designs the Egg was Crush● before the Bird of Pray was hatch'd upon wh●m ●a●e the Plotters and Designners of this contrived Evil and mischief yet we look not on our selves so safe and secure from the same or dangers of the like kind but that we have just Reason and occasion of Jealousie and fear that hidden sparks of the same Fire may yet break fo●●h into a worse and more furious Flame than ever if any ways should be raked together in its Ashes that which covets Fuel or a combustible matter to feed its Hunger and Thirst after a Nations Blood and misery 4. That we your most loyal Subjects for the future safety of your Royal Person Crown and Dignities and the preserva●ion of all Bites thereunto belonging are resolved as looking on our selves thus obliged to give your Majesty our Assistance that all Plotters and Contrivers of evil and mischief against such your Royal Person and to the subversion of the presen● Goverment in these your Majesties Dominions estab●ished may be brought to a speedy and condign punishment after a fair Trial at Law answerable to the merrit of their horrid Fact and Deserts 5. That we are resolved as loyal Subjects to such your Majesty to endeavour the finding out all those the Plotters and Contrivers of such Evil and mischief against your Person Honour Crown and dignities thereunto belonging and to present them together with other the Na●ions Grievances by our Representatives before your Majesty in Order to the bringing such Offenders to a fair Trial. 6. That we your Majesties Li●●e people conceiving ourselves no ways Vassals of Tyranny of to a Tirannical power but Free Subjects to a Noble Prince and his Pr●ncely Government upon which Tiranny and violent Assaulters have been so apt in all Ages to usurp for these and many other Reasons we say especially considering your Majesties wisdom to be such as to affect and chuse all those ways and means for the firm establishing of the Crown and Dignities of the Goverment so in Peace and perfect Tranquility that may absolutely unite your Subjects hearty affections to serve you in such the Goverment subjecting with Delight to the Yoke thereof we on these Considerations do think and believe we may justly expect from so Just and merciful a Prince the Countenance of Justice upon your own and the Nations Enemies 7. That as Loyal Subjects ready to serve their Prince and Country we are as confident as infallible in our Resolutions to pursue un●o Justice all occasions of Evil and mischief in the Case before mentioned and because a peoples disaffection to the present State of Government established in these your Majesties Dominions are hence made discoverable when Climbers after Dignities are at highest under the Disguise of wrong abuse and injuries which hath been and dayll are done to Justice in these Cases reflecting upon ill occasions taken to heighten ill affected persons to such the present State of Goverment by your Princely favours we are bold of our acceptance and because furthermore whilst to them who nevertheless they have been and are highly promoted and advanced unto Offices and great places of Trust is no self security of holding and enjoying what they have climbed up unto or are crept into without a subversion and change in the Face of such that Government which hath power to call them to Account for misapplying and mispending oppertunities put into thei● hands to have done both their Country and themselves good service 8. Thot we are resolved in all Duty to our Liege Prince to pursue your Majesties Order and Command relating to our Election o● Choice of Members for the chief and great Counsel to be holden by privilege of Parliament v z to chuse as the Kingdoms Representatives Men fearing God and having Covetousness c. And that may be no ways partial in their Counsel and advice to your Majesty to present before you the Common peoples Grievances for the remiding of which and whatever else is or may be amiss we implore their Zeal and fervency under your Majesties Countenance to be mannaged with an Impartial hand towards all Offenders of what Degree or Quality soever 9. That all Court-Officers Militia-Officers Pentioners and other Indigent Officers of what Degree or Quality soever are not in the apprehension of the Common people and your Majesties Loyal Subjects accounted compitent in their Judgments for your Majesties great Counsel and Advisors about such mighty matters and Cases wherein Pa●liaments ought to be imployed and concerned but upon Trial many of them have been found the Imbezelers of your Majesties and the Nations Treasure the exhausters of things against which we are seeking a Remedy and Redress the cause of grievances and dayly complaints the Countenancing of things attending to your Majesties Indignity and the peoples misery so they also are made an inlet to future and further occasions of our fears and Jealousies 10. That our Reasons why the beforementioned persons are not esteemed compitent in their Judgments for Counsel and a vice to your Majesty in State Affairs are because these having particular pentions from or dependance upon your Majesties favour and Charity