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A89098	A speech delivered by Sir Audley Mervin Knight, His Majesties prime serjeant at law, and speaker of the House of Commons; to his grace James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in the presence chamber in the castle of Dublin, the seventh of November, 1665	Mervyn, Audley, Sir, d. 1675.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1665 (1665)	Wing M1885; ESTC R233460	10,182	16

will as we are bound to perform the Trust reposed by them in us perform the Promises made by us in this our Declaration in their behalf we are in a sort their Godfathers and we do solemnly vow to fight under the Banner of CHARLES the Second His Heirs and Successors against the World and all the World against the Flesh and all manner of Flesh against the Devil and all his Instruments Sir I cannot omit this last Champion it being an unquestionable truth That never was there a Rebellion in which the Devil did not lead the Van ordered the Battel and drew up the Rear Thus far the House proceeded upon the Inspection of this Skeleton at large we praise God that by your Graces Prudence and Vigilancy we can call it a Skeleton but upon a more particular Anatomy of it what shall I say Sir Grief and Horrour seizeth upon my Tongue and yet Infandum domus ipsa jubet renovare dolorem Were it not too late I would humbly request you the Knights Citizens and Burgesses to order some Boanerges to speak this part or may I not yet obtain the Indulgence allow'd to Archytas commanded to repeat an unpleasing Passage wrote it upon the Wall But methinks I heare the voice To the Orders of the House From your Grace therefore I humbly beg for to your Grace only I am commanded to apply my self that I may express it in Hieroglyphicks Sir the Ostrich laid her Eggs in the Eagles Nest The Frogs crept into one of the Kings Palaces Caesar is wounded in the Senate The Colledg of Disciples and Judas one of them If so that no Societies are priviledged from some Corruptions Parliaments must not be stiled Triumphant whilst the Church is Militant And if in two the least of Numbers and those cemented by Holy Rites of Matrimony the Bride may be unchast her shame though the Bridegrooms misfortune then Sir some Persons who were called by the Kings Writ capacitated with a Trust from a well-believing People to be Members of our House have been found to be ingaged in that Plot so odious and destructive to all good men Sir this justly allarm'd us to find Death in the Pot That the Fountains of Waters were become brackish That part of the Magazine was on Fire and that the Leprosie was amongst the Physitians Sir we had before us at that time many Bills and matters of weighty importance even that comprehensive Bill that is to bring a Sabbath to this Kingdom but the House laid all aside as judging no Law could prosper that was blasted by their Breath unfit Persons were they to advise His Majesty who after deep Wounds scarce scarrified by application of Royal Mercy had conspired against him Is Death therefore in the Pot the House voted to take out the wild Gourds the Kings Writ was to gather Lentils Is there Brackishness in the Waters Cast in Salt be pleased to observe Sugar will not do it Is the Magazine a sire Separate that part Is a Physitian Leprous Dio mi guarda del Medico rangoso Put him out of the Congregation Treason among Crimes is as the Plague among Diseases but an Infant Infected warrantably immures the Family though Noble and Numerous Would our Gracious Soveraign lent a quick Ear we doubt not but some Spirits would have unhappily improv'd this Crime of some so to the disadvantage of us all as that we might have found our Door shut up with a Red Cross and a Miserere upon it But to all such His Majesties Answer would be return'd with a frowning Brow Parcito paucorum crimen diffundere in omnes And therefore after many yet necessary Prorogations His Majesty hath Assembled us again nay and not only so but encreased our Number by Additional Boroughs Created and Impowered by Letters Patents to return Burgesses some of whose eminent Abilities we enjoy at this day and none encreaseth the Number of His Enemies And truly Sir did not Justice to our selves require against whose Reputation and Honour they have so highly offended our Duty and Allegiance to His Sacred Majesty demands us that we should not only purge our House but since His Majesties Courts of Justice have already attach'd the Conusance of their Crimes that we should rend them from our selves and leave them to the Justice of the Laws In order hereunto we have already aired our House with some preparatory Votes and have appointed a short day for sharper Physick It is not my intent to draw this Beast at length my pencil was only design'd for water colours work truly Sir it is so I rather desire we may wear it on our breasts to remember it with indignation then for Ornament to a Room I have only shown the track of the foot that we may know ex ungue Leonem and by Hercules his foot to make the Calculation of his other dimensions I have only pointed at a little cloud but such a one as would have overcast the Horizon of three Kingdoms But God be prais'd the Cloud is overblown and the Dragon kill'd The next question is who kill'd the Dragon Let History give a place to S. GEORGE in the Almanack but let truth give your Grace a place in our hearts who crush'd the Cockatrices egges with humble hearts hands and eyes lifted up to Heaven we know our Anchor was within the vail and to the watchmen of Israel we give the praise Next we acknowledge and admire the wisdom and goodness of our gracious Sovereign that separated you to steer this Kingdom that was beating of it out at Sea whilst his other two Kingdoms rode embayed So Sir though you are not the Author yet you are the Instrument design'd by God and our King and then what shall it be done to the man whom God and the King intend to honour You were preserved in the Ark of Bulrushes to be a Deliverer I remember the time when you found the Bulrushes and God made you an Ark of them even then when to promote your Masters Interests you came into London in the disguise of Bulrushes you then saw Cromwell and he saw not you though he beheld you which proves him an Idol that in seeing he did not see and God of those Bulrushes made you an Ark for he preserved you in safety what a Hecatomb of Loyalty would have been of your person if in that Ark you had not floted above the waters you put your hand to the Nail and your right hand to the workmans hammer with the hammer you smote the Plot you smote off its head when you had pierced and striken through the temples of it at your fect it bowed it fell it lay down at your feet it bowed it fell where it bowed there it fell down dead But Sir did not represented Majesty so well seated on your brow silence me I should acquaint your Grace that I observed the House of Commons much divided in their Passions in the management of their deliverance their deliverance was their

Rebellions in every Field this would have forc'd us to re-act the Tragedy of our miseries upon a new Scene and Theatre of bloud This last word puts me in mind of the Ring-leader of this Plot to bloud of whom as it was said of Nabal Nabal is his name and folly is with him so of him Bloud was his name and bloud was in his heart and the Swadle-band of this design was bloud A sad change to metamorphose Heaven-born Monarchy into Hell-born Anarchy and confusion the restored Peace and Glory of the Church into relapsed Schisms Heresies and Blasphemies the reverence of our Laws into the mock Pageantry of High Courts of Justice the pleasure of our Liberties into the anguish of servitude and our Manna into the Garlick and Onions of Egypt Fear God and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change Mercy and Justice are the Cement of humane Societies these Conspirators have sinned against both Sentence was executed against some whom His Majesty left to the judicature of his Parliament Mercy was enjoy'd by all whom he had reserved to the judgment of his own breast so that these persons will not hearken to the rod and are deaf to the Charmer charm he never so sweetly A desperate presumption whilst this Kingdom were dividing Lands forfeited for Rebellion to perswade the people that the readiest way to secure them was to engage in a new one I have observed Dead vermine hang'd up in warrens will banish Creatures of the same species from the place what thought these men became of the faculties of a Rational Soul in man This was the height of imbitter'd Nature to blow a Trumpet of Sedition while the hand was yet writing on the wall Mene Mene Tekel c. Thus again they hearken not unto the rod And let me ask was not Ireland now feeding upon Benjamins Mess of Royal care and favour nay some of those persons dipping their Sop in that Mess and yet resolved to betry him was not this Kingdoms womb pregnant with the first-born of our Hopes the Act of Setlement deriv'd from no less a Parentage then the breath of the Royal Assent and would these men baptize it Ichabod and cause our Glory and Happiness to end in shame and misery Though the Setlement of Ireland be later the care of it arose equally early in His Majesties thoughts with the interests of his other Kingdoms witness the twin-bearing date of this Parliament with the Parliament of England and His Gracious Continuance of it the delays evidence the Intricacy and engage us to the larger return of our Affections Duties and Obedience for the Expence of His Majesties patience And unnecessarily discontented Spirits might and ought to have copied so fair and so authentique an Original Thus might they have concluded against their Phanatique distempers from the Topicks of Reason or were they void of that yet they might have strangled their ill-begotten Resolves from the Topicks of Sence were they not Eye-witnesses of the cleer and diaphanous dispensation of Justice through the texture of that Government committed by His Sacred Majesty to your Grace were they not Ear-witnesses of that Discourse delivered by your Grace and Printed in the richest Volume the Affections of a people in which every Period was perfum'd with Grace and the Branches of it laden with Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver Could the most dissolute Roman Spirit be restrained by saying Cato looks on It is below my Commission and truly my Nature to flatter but truth blusheth not to aver A greater then Cato is here for what he spoke speculatively at the best your Grace maintain'd it practically in the worst of times viz. Victrix causa Deis placuit sed victa Catoni Was it easie for to transform so great and understanding a people to become Idols That in seeing they should not see and in hearing they should not hear would they have us resign'd our sense that the Government rained Snares when we felt the influence of it as the dew upon the tender grass that the Sky was overcast gloomy and ominous when the Solar rays of Majesty reflected through your Government begot a new verdant and lasting Spring I appeal to the greatest Prophet amongst us durst he foretell that some future lustres of years could have restor'd this Kingdom to that beauty and progressive estate of perfection as now it enjoys when they surveigh'd it in that Chaos your Grace entred upon it I pass by your patient and willing divorce after a long Exile from this your Native Country to attend the publique Setlement of this Kingdom whilst you laid aside the one where did we then lodge our fears In your Graces breast where were our Remedies prepar'd for His Majesties approbation Much much in your Graces wisdom And when the execution of the Act of Setlement could not well proceed further without manifest inconveniency you espoused the further care of it and left all to follow that you made I may say a League offensive and defensive with it if it shifted its station you shifted yours if it travell'd in the pestilence you forsook it not if it were in storms you bore up with it and I hope we shall have cause to say you are return'd with your arms laden full of Sheaves I will shut up this with one question Did your Graces own Estate pray in aid of any Act yes truly but it was only the Acts of your own Loyalty and Sufferings why then I correct my self it did not for they were well known to your Great Master who writes Injuries only upon the Sand but far lesser Merits than yours in Marble I confess Sir I can find your Soul and Spirit throughout the Act your Name in a place or two but there rather to Give than to Receive But had you made your little finger greater than the loyns of your Predecessors though this Kingdom never found you in the rushing Wind but in the gentle Gales must the Outcry be To your Tents O Israel and must we seek Reformation from Powder and Bullet which as a great Cardinal term'd it is Ratio ultima Regum Or if we will pretend only to Petition His Majesty I say what means the Neighing of the Armed Horses Non bene conveniunt Petitions and Armed Troops and certainly the Devil was Master of the Ceremonies when Petitioners were brought with drawn Swords to approach the Throne These Considerations with many more gave the first part of this Declaration its rise That as being the Representative of all the Commons in this Kingdom to declare their abhorrence and detestation as of all Conspiracies Plots Designs Confederacies and Insurrections whatsoever against His Sacred Majesty and His undoubted Rights of Government though palliated with never so specious Pretences or guilded with glorious Titles so to declare them to be Treason and Rebellion in the highest degree And we are assured Sir that all His Majesties faithful and loyal Commons of this Kingdom