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A70223	The history of Whiggism, or, The Whiggish-plots, principles, and practices (mining and countermining the Tory-plots and principles) in the reign of King Charles the First, during the conduct of affaires, under the influence of the three great minions and favourites : Buckingham, Laud, and Strafford, and the sad forre-runners and prologues to that fatal-year (to England and Ireland) 41 : wherein (as in a mirrour) is shown the face of the late (we do not say the present) times.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1809; Wing H1825C; ESTC R12704	66,369	53

all Kings are called so especially whilst they Live and to their Heads for a King can do no wrong And all men acknowledged that King Charles I. of his own Natural Temper was inclined to Goodness and Mercy and Justice and Righteousness and the keeping of Faith with men and observing his Word fulfilling his Promises and keeping stedfast to Religion and therefore they think that he knew nothing of the matter when Popish-Books or Books in Favour of Popery as Mountagues Book aforesaid and the Authors of such Books and the Books for Arbitrary Government and the Authors of them Sybthorp aud Manwaring were the men and the Books the Tenents Doctrines and Opinions that were prefer'd advanc'd extoll'd cry'd up and Countenanc'd at Court above all other men and Books were really Orthodox and according to Law nay some think the King knew not that Mountague and Manwaring were not only Pardon'd but made Bishops since the Parliament had judg'd them unmeet for their demerits which no man in England durst publickly own or vindicate to this day and vile wretchedness and false Doctrines to be uncapable of the meanest Benefices yet these must be the chief Shepheards the Flocks were like to be well govern'd and Bishop Land that abetted and Countenanc'd the said Authors and Books Licensed their false Doctrines and impure as well as Illegal Principles and got their Books Licensed was made Archbishop and who but he with the King and Court The King knew nothing of all this nor that Papists great Papists were put into Commission all the Kingdom over nor that Arbitrary Government in Loanes Knighthood-Money Tunnage and Poundage Ship-Money Assessing and Billeting of Souldiers c. The King knew nothing of all this these were Deeds Deeds not Words Deeds that made the Kingdom groan Deeds that Affrighted the Parliament and the Kings best Subjects with too much cause of Jealousies and Fears of Popery and Arbitrary Government when it was really practic'd in so many particulars and the Councellors and Favorites that abetted the same the only men in Favour and nothing was said against them in Parliament but it prov'd the ruine of the men though Parliament-men that might Parler le ment speak their minds freely and lawfully and also prov'd to be the Dissolution of those Parliaments 'till the Kings Necessities and Straits were so great and the Dissolutions so frequent and on the strange occasions aforesaid that the Parliament would do nothing 'till the King not only had Promis'd but had granted it by Statute that they should not be Dissolv'd but by their own Consent Tory. It is the greatest wonder in the world to me that any King should Dissolve a Parliament but by their own Consent or 'till all Grievances be Redress'd for the King is Pater Patriae the Father of the Country and what an odd Humour is it if a Father that has a Child or Children troubled with griefs or Grievances and had a Prerogative that could but would not remedy them nay nor suffer them that would remedy his Children is this Father like or like something else The King is the chief Shepheard of his People his Flock but what an odd humour is it if a Shepheard when he sees Doggs and Wolves tear and rend his Sheep shall neither according to the duty of his place deliver his Sheep out of their Jaws nor yet suffer others to do it but contrarily side with the Doggs and defend the Worried Sheep much more if he see the Currs on worse if he shall go Snips in the Booty and Prey Whigg I am glad to hear this of you Mr. Tory you have been us'd to Language that has less of Sense Reason or Law in it Tant But all this while Mr. Whigg you do not tell us any thing in Answer to this excuse the Favourites made namely Necessity the Kings necessities required that which indeed ought not to be done by Law Whig Necessity Pish this excuse aggravates their Offence for thus they dispute in a Carcle and justify their wickedness by greater by links and chains of evil consequences First the Kings Affairs by their Evil Councel and Managements is brought into Straits and Necessities the effect of them then these evil effects are made the Cause of the continuance of worse effects World without end But thank God for a Parliament The Pretence of this same Whimzey Necessity hath ruin'd the Liberties and Properties of the French-men in Normandy to this day For they were ruled once by as good Laws as we are but being opprest with some Grievances contrary to their Charters Customs and Franchises they made their Complaint to Lewis the Tenth who by his New Charters in the year 1314. acknowledged their Rights and Customs aforesaid and confirmed them Confessing also that they had been unjustly grieved and wrong'd but by the said New Charter did provide that from thence forward they should be free from all Subsidies and and Exactions to be imposed upon them without their own Consents but with this saving or small exception Si necessitis grand ne le requiret namely except great necessity required the contrary Which little business Mr. Necessity has done their business and broke the neck of all their Laws Charters and Franchises and of Subjects they are become Slaves and Vassals little differing from Turky-Gally-Slaves for no man can say any thing is his own if necessitye le Grand that is the King require the same nay they dare not now say That their Souls are their own so great is the Encroachment of Tyranny Covetousness and Oppression if you give it an Inch it will take an Ell and thefore you Toryes are a base generation for you hate your Friends most of all and Spaniard-like at the same time basely Fawn Wagg your Tails and Cringe base Currs to the Hand that beats you most nay you 'l Fight to Blood in pursuit of your Sycophantry poor Slaves And your Tantives will Preach your People all out of Church rather than not Preach up the said false Doctrine of Sybthorp Mountague and Manwaring Oh most unworthy Treacherous and Easy-bought Hirelings That for to be made a Shepheard or chief Bishops of Souls would betray them and Sell them all and your own to boot into the bargain in defyance of the Laws of God and the Realm which the King is Sworn and bound to obey perform observe and keep The Throne cannot have it has been found by woful experience worse Friends nor greater Traytors than such Sycophants and Wretches as you are Tant We are as much obliged to you Mr. Whigg for your good Opinion of us Whig 'T is according to your Merits Is it not enough that this Kingdom and Commonwealth should be once in one Age undone by the same kind of men the same Sell Truths the same Illegal Principles and Tantivee-Practices and Parasitical Flatteries and Slye Insinuations under the Vizard of Divinity Loyalty and the Church the Church and yet not one in a hundred of

obligation of his Coronation Oath and Magna Charta Tant But did the Pope absolve him and let him loose and free from his Oath and the Laws Tory. Yes he did for the Pope was a Native of Burdeaux Born in King Edward's Domnions but yet he would not acquit him of his Oath and Obligation to his Subjects and his own Conscience 'till the King sent his Holiship all manner of Vessels belonging to a Chamber made of pure Gold and then the Pope untied the King from the Covenant made with his Subjects concerning their Charters Confirmed unto them by his last three Acts of Parliament Tant Has the Pope power to do these things Whigg Yes Fools think so and Knaves would perswade others to think so the King and the Pope got by it but the poor English Subjects paid for all Tant But did not the King pay part of the Reckoning Whigg No doubt on 't King Edward 1. made a shift with much Bickering to rub through and come to his Grave in Peace dying on his fair Death but his Son Edw. 2. that followed his Fathers steps when he could or durst had not the Wit or else not the Luck to manage the Feat so well poor Rehoboam for he was Deposed by the Parliament or rather was perswaded to Depose himself lest his Son also should be Excluded from the Crown for so they threatned and to make a King of another Race Thus he lost his Kingdom no Blow struck no Battel Fought done forcibly and yet without force violently and yet with Consent Tant Then surely he had first lost the Hearts of his People Whigg You may be assured of it for at first his Subjects refused to suffer him to be Crowned unless he would remove Gaveston from the Court and Kingdom which dampt King Edward's Spirit especially many of his great Friends being then at Court witnesses of his Disgrace as Charles of Valois the Queens Unkle and Brother to her Father Philip the Fair the French King the Dukes of Brittain and Brabant the Count of Luxemburg who was afterwards Emperour the Duke of Savoy the Dutchesses of Brabant and Artois with many other Princes and great Ladies so that the King solemnly Swore he would do what they desired in the next Parliament so they would be quiet now and thereupon the Coronation went on Tant Could not so many Forreign Princes and so powerful Encourage the King to repel with force his Subjects Insolence Whigg Insolence Oh Brave Tantivee What would have become of thee if thou hadst liv'd in these dayes to have an answer in Parliament for your Tantivee-principles so Discrepant from and Inconsistent with our English-frame Constitution and Fundamental Laws Tant Why were Parliaments so Malapert in those dayes Whigg Malapert Hey day what again in your Tantivee-strain you have got the Language of some late Addressers that take upon them to Judge the highest Court and Council of the Kingdom the Parliament Tant In your Opinion you mean the Highest Council Whigg Dare you say to the contrary whatever you think Tant I durst if I were sure never to live to see another Parliament Whigg Ay thou art a good one but the Parliament as soon as they met drew Articles of their Grievances which though seeming Harsh to the King yet for avoiding further Inconvenience he yielded unto them Tant Inconvenience What Inconvenience they were Subjects and Christians in those dayes and had no weapons but prayers and tears which can bring no great Inconvenience if a man resolve to be hard-hearted Whig No thou I believe art Prayer-proof but King Edward 2. remembred well that in his stout Fathers time the Parliament met at London Octob. 10. Non tamen nudi not naked and unarm'd but immò cum quingentis equis armatis multitudine magnâ peditum Electorum with five hundred Horse and a vast number of choice Foot Induxerunt etiam cives Londoniarum ut pro recuperandis libertatibus secum starent The Citizens of London were brought to stand up with them for the recovery of their Charters and Liberties Comitibus itaque Baronibus pariter conglobatis confederatis necnon majoritate populi eis inclinante several Lords and Barons confederating and leaguing solemnly together with the majority of the common-people Inclining to their side Tant What against the King Whig No for the Ling against evil Councellors that seduc'd the King against his Oath his Conscience Religion and Law And the Historian Hen. Knighton gives the reason of this general Confederacy quia communem profectum utilitatem amplectebatur communes diligebant eos fortiter because the Conlederates or Covenanters stood for the common benefit and common-weal and the Laws therefore the People lov'd them mightily and voluntarily accompanyed their Parliament-men to London with horse and Arms at their own charge Nay 't is a wonder that any man that had an English heart in his Belly could be a fawning Spaniel-like Tantivee some French Bastard sure Tant But what said the King to his armed Parliamentarians Whig Said he did instead of saying any thing his duty and confirmed their Charters and Liberties so often confirmed and so often wickedly and illegally broken and encroach't upon but King Edward 1. was loath to confirm their Charters except with this clause salvo Jure Coronae nostrae saving the Rights of our Crown But the People would not by any means admit that saving and Exception so that the King confirm'd them as formerly as K. Charles 1. after a long Tugg in the House of Lords consented to the Petition of Right without the saving or leaving intire that Sovereign power wherewith c. Whereupon sayes Mr. Noy To adde a saving is not safe And sayes Mr. Alford Let us look into the Records and see what they are what is Sovereign power Bodin saith That is free from any condition by this we shall acknowledge a Regal as well as a Legal Power let us give that to the King that the Law gives him and no more Tory. There spoke a Whigg Whigg True so Mr. Pym added I know how to adde Sovereign to his Person but not to his Power Also We cannot leave to him a sovereign power Also We never were possessed of it Tory. Our King God bless him does not pretend to absolute and arbitrary Power Whig Sovereign power cannot be invested in any thing that is not Omnipotent And the great Oracle of the Law added that the saving or leaving intire the sovereign Power c. will overthrow all our Petition of Right It trenches to all the Parts of it It flyes at Loans and at the Oath and at Imprisonment and Billeting of Souldiers This turns all about again I know that Prerogative is part of the Law but Sovereign Power is no Parliamentary word In my opinion it weakens Magna Charta and all our Statutes for they are absolute without any saving of Sovereign Power take we heed what we yield unto

byas't the wrong way does not call it Rebellion nor is the word Rebellion once mentioned in the late Act of Oblivion after the happy Return of his Gracious Majesty But instead of calling it Rebellion which old Hodge would have Eccho'd and Mouth'd twice in each line Sir Richard Baker's note is That while the King was altogether rul'd by Gaveston and Gaveston himself was altogether irregular the Common-wealth could have but little of Justice but was sure to Suffer as long as Gaveston was Suffered and this may be sufficient to Justifie mark that the Lords that it be not Interpreted to be Rebellion which was indeed but Providence After that the two Spencers were the new Minions that trod in the very steps of Gaveston and Seduc't the easie King Pimps to his Lust for these onely were his Favourites whereupon the People rise as one man with the Earls of Hereford and Lancaster who confederating by a solemn League and Covenant to live and dye together in maintaining the Right of the Kingdom and to procure the Banishment of the two Spencers the great Seducers of the King and the Oppressors of the State and under this pretence they take Arms and coming armed to St. Albans they send to the King then at London requiring him as he lov'd the quiet of the Realm to rid his Court of those two Traitors the Spencers Condemn'd in many Articles of High Treason by the Common-wealth mark that of the Land and withall to grant his Letters Patents of Pardon and Indemnity both to them and such as took part with them Tory. By that desire of Indemnity they tacitly acknowledg Guilt Whigg Yes against the Letter of the Law in strict construction and a Judge and Jury of your Principles Tory it is not safe trusting you when necessity had forc't them to Courses that otherwise were Illegal which yet the Historian calls Providence not Rebellion Tant But did the King Pardon them Whigg Pardon them No I trow that had been too wise an Action for such a weak Prince as was that ill-advis'd King Tant But prythee what Answer did the King give to the bold Covenanters Whigg He Swore he should never Violate the Oath made at his Coronation by granting Letters of Pardon to such notorious Offenders who Contemn'd his Person Disturb'd the Kingdom and Violated the Royal Majesty Tant Well said and how did this Answer work upon the armed Confederates Whigg It exasperated them and presently they March't to London the Citizens being their sure Friends and lodged in the Suburbs 'till they had leive of the King to march into the City where they again more peremptorily urge their demands Tant And what did the King then why did he not Hang them all at Tyburn Whigg He could not find Hangmen that would undertake so great a work besides to Hang them all would be a tedious long work and long a doing Tant What did all People hate him and forsake him Whigg No they all lov'd him so universally and wisht him so well that they also desired he might be quit of his two Diseases the two Spencers that made the Head ake and the whole Body sick and ill at ease and so at last he yields to their Banishment But this Kings Goodness and Truth went and came like Ague-fits by Paroxismes and intermissions no trust in his Word and Promises for he Consents to their Banishment onely to hush the present Commotion Hugh Spencer the Father was then beyond Sea and kept himself there but young Spencer lurk't here and there hiding himself in England expecting the turn of a better Season which soon came about for Fortunes-wheel to the Comfort of the Afflicted and terrour of the Prosperous never stands still but is alwayes in Motion and upon the Turn as in this Kings Reign was frequently demonstrated for the next year Anno 1322. the King defeated the Lords and Beheaded his Unkle the Earl of Lancaster and four years after the Parliament Deposed King Edward or rather forc't him to Depose himself and Invest his Son which if he refused they threatned to Chuse a King of another Race and he was Killed soon after by his Keepers Gourney and Matrevers Tarleton Bishop of Hereford writing to them to that effect in doubtful sence viz. Edvardum occidere nolite timere bonum est but they guess'd at his meaning for that Bishop Adam Tarleton had a little before at Oxford Preach't before the Queen and Roger Mortimer her bosom friend on this Text Caput meum doleo My Head aketh whence he inferred that the Kingdom being now deadly sick of its Head it was fit to remove that Head and put a sounder in his place this was the Loyalty of your Bishop when Interest c. Tant How did the Queen approve that Doctrine Whigg She did not dislike it to be sure but her Minion Roger like't it well enough as appeared afterwards Tant It was an Impudent Whores-trick of her first to make the King a Cuckold preferring the Love of Mortimer and then to Vnking him by Deprivation and then to Vnman him by Murthering him Whigg She did not own the Murtherers that did the Deed. Tant But she did not punish the wicked Bishop that Preach't up the King-killing Doctrine and who did give the Murderers also Commission to do it Whigg No he was her chief Favourite-Bishop and fit for her turn but such was the general Hatred to King Edward 2. that he dyed Vnlamented though perhaps not unpittyed he had so disoblig'd his People by espousing two or three unfortunate Minions and their dependants before and above his peoples welfare that ought to have been his chiefest Care Tant I protest though 't is hard measure first to be made a Cuckold and then by the same Engineers to be Depriv'd and then Kill'd this is worse than what befell the Earl of Essex General of the Parliaments-Forces in 41. First the Duke of Som made him a Cuckold then He and she disparage her Husbands virility then for that reason gets her Divorc't from him as not man sufficient And Lastly to make the Church Father all the escapes he Legitimates them by making her an honest woman and Marrying her Tory. Not Man sufficient sayst thou Parson why what one man is sufficient for a Whore if the Church admit that for a sufficient Plea for Divorce they 'l have as many Customers for that as they have for Licenses for Marriage Tant The better trading for us we are men that know our Interest and Advantage as well as carnal men Tory. Ay Ay who doubts it but say Mr. Whigg did the Earl of Essex put up this affront Whigg No I told you he was the man that first headed the Parliaments forces that afterwards took more than sufficient Vengeance on the Church and all that sided or bandyed with her Manet aliâ mente repostum Evil Actions carry their furies along with them Vengeance attends them For the said Kings unfaithfulness to his

from Trent Northwards and also against his Deputy Justice in Oyer from Trent northwards the right Honourable Viscount Dunbar Deputy Lieutenant in the East riding of York-shire his Wife and Mother and the greatest part of his Family being Popish Recusants also against William Lord Eure a convict Popish Recusant and in Commission for the Sewers Henry Lord Abergavenny John Lord Tenham Henry Lord Morley John Lord Mordant John Lord St. John of Basing Captain of Lidley Castle in Com. Southampton Em. Lord Scroop Lord President of his Majesties Council in the North Lord Lieutenant of the County and City of York and of Kingston upon Hull Anthony Viscount Mountague in Commission of the Sewers Sir William Wray Knight Deputy Lieutenant Collonel to a Regiment his Wife a Recusant Sir Edward Musgrave Sir Thomas Lampley Justices of Peace and quorum Sir Thomas Savage Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace his Wife and Children Recusants Sir Richard Egerton a Non-communicant Thomas Savage Esquire a Deputy Lieutenant a Recusant and his Wife Indicted and Presented William Whitmore Sir Hugh Beeston Sir William Massy Sir William Courtn●y Knight Vice-warden of the Stannery and Deputy Lieutenant a Popish Recusant Sir Thomas Ridley Sir Ralph Conyers James Lawson Esquire Sir John Shelley Knight and Baronet a Popish Recusant William Scot Esquire a Recusant John Finch Esquire not convicted but comes not to Church Sir William Mullineux Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace his Wife a Recusant Sir Richard Houghton Knight Deputy Lieutenant Sir William Norris Captain of the General Forces and Justice of Peace a Recusant Sir Gilbert Ireland Justice of Peace a Recusant James Anderton Esquire Justice of Peace and one of his Majesties Receivers Edward Rigby Esquire Clerk of the Crown Justice of Peace himself a good Communicant but his Wife and Daughter Popish Recusants Edward E Robert Warren Clerk a Justice of the Peace justly suspected for five Reasons there mentioned Sir Henry Compton Knight Deputy Lieutenant Justice of the Peace and Commissioner for the Sewers Sir John Shelly Knight and Baronet himself and his Lady Recusants Sir John Gage a Popish Recusant with a vast number more of Justices of Peace and Commissioners of Sewers either Papists or justly suspected Wherefore they humbly beseech your Majesty not to suffer your loving Subjects to continue any longer discouraged by the apparent sence of that Increase both in number and power which by the Favour and Countenance of such like ill affected Governours accreweth to the Popish Party but that according to your own Wisdom Goodness and Piety whereof they rest assured you will be graciously pleased to Command that Answer of your Majesties to be effectually observed and the Parties above named and all such others to be put out of such Commissions and Places of Authority wherein they now are in your Majesties Realm of England Contrary to the Acts and Laws of State in that behalf Tant Those last words were Pungent Tory. Not prevalent surely for the Parliament was soon after Dissolved and the House of Commons having Intimation of their intended Dissolution made what hast they could to perfect a Remonstrance or Declaration against the Duke of Buckingham and concerning Tunnage and Poundage taken by the King since his Fathers death without consent in Parliament and which were never payable they say in their Remonstrance to any of his Majesties Ancestors but only by a special Act of Parliament and ought not to be levyed without such an Act. Tant And did the King go on Collecting and taking Tunnage and Poundage notwithstanding Tory. Yes he said he could not want it and sent them a former Message that if He had not a timely supply He would betake himself to New Councils Tant New Councils what were they Tory. The Commons in their said Remonstrance often with thoughtful Hearts remember the words New-Councils repeating and Repeating them as if they were somewhat against the old Parliamentary Councils and course of this Kingdom and they Order'd every Member of the House to have a Copy of the said Remonstrance for they had not time to Present it to his Gracious Majesty but were Dissolv'd though the Lords also prepared a Petition to stay the Kings purpose in Dissolving the Parliament sending Viscount Mandevil Earl of Manchester Lord President of his Majesties Council the Earls of Pembrook Carlisle and Holland to entreat his Majesty to give Audience to the whole House of Peers But the King returned Answer that his Resolution was to hear no motion for that purpose but He would Dissolve the Parliament and he was then as good as his Word for he immediately Dissolved them by Commission under the great Seal Dated at Westminster June 15.2 R. R. Car. 1. 1626. To that purpose And withall Publishes a Declaration in Print concerning the Grounds and Causes which moved his Majesty to Dissolve this as also the former Parliament Dated June 13. 2 Car. 1. two dayes before the Date of the Commission Tant It was the readyer against the time of using it Coleman was as provident Tory. Right And also a Proclamation was published against the said Remonstrance of the Commons commanding all Persons of what Quality soever who have or shall have hereafter any Copyes or Notes of the said Remonstrance forthwith to Burn the same that the Memory thereof might be utterly abolished upon Pain of his Majesties Indignation and high Displeasure Tant Then the Tide did run very high Tory. The King also Published another Proclamation against Preaching or Disputing the Arminian Controversies Pro or Con but the effects of that Proclamation how equally soever intended became the stopping of the Puritan's Mouths and an uncontroul'd Liberty to the Tongues and Pens of the thriving Divinity-men the rising side Mountagues Party And though the Parliament was Dissolv'd so that the Duke of Buckingham for that nearly-reflecting Article the last against him which the King in Honour and by the Bonds of natural Affection and Piety to the Memory of his Deceased Father thought himself obliged to Call him to a publick account for so Daring an Insolence in applying a Plaister to the Kings breast against his Will and without the Advice and contrary to the Opinion of the Sworn Physitians of King James who attributed the Cause of his trouble unto the said Pla●●●●● and a Drink that Buckingham gave him as was Alledged in the Thirteenth Article of the Dukes Impeachment and the said Drink twice given to the King by Buckingham's own Hands and a third time refused by the King who felt great Impairment of his Life and Health complaining of the Drink that the Duke gave him His Physitians telling him to Please him and Comfort him that His second Impairment was from cold taken or some other ordinary Cause No no said his Majesty It is that which I had from Buckingham as more at large much aggravated and insisted upon by Mr. Wandesford who managed the Thirteenth Article of the Impeachment against Buckingham Tant But what

for there he was Stabb'd by Lieutenant Felton Whigg Upon what Provocation Tory. I 'le tell you anon as for the Loans the King Promis'd that this way should not be made a President for the time to come to charge them or their Posterity to the Prejudice of their Just and Ancient Liberties enjoyed under his most Noble Progenitors and Promising them In the Word of a Prince to repay such Summes Tant That is to be understood when he has the Money to repay Whigg Yes but that time never yet came Tant I am not for this kind of Lending whether I will or no and without being able to sue for or recover neither by fair means nor foul neither Principal nor Interest I 'le Swear Whigg Nay Do not Swear I 'le believe the Parson without Searing for Men of thy Coat and Tantivee-principle seldom put out Money to Interest or Use except to the Ale-house or Tavern to wipe out the Chalk and clear old Scores and then run fresh upon Tick again what needs thou to care for the Liberties and Charters of an English-man thou hast no Inheritance to lose nor will thy Heirs fall out or quarrel about the Land thou leavest them thou wilt take a Course for that and make thine own Hands and Guts thy Executors Tory. To the Imposition of Loans was added the Burthen of Billeting of Souldiers return'd from that unsuccesseful and dishonourable Voyage from Cadiz and Moneys to discharge their quarters were for the present to be levyed upon the Countrey to be repay'd out of Summes Collected upon the General Loan Tant Yes when they could catch it Tory. The Companies were scattered here and there all the Kingdom over but that did not much affright men out of their Purses though many Felonies Robberies Rapes and Murders were Committed by the Souldiers and Mariners but they were governed by Martial-law and some were Executed but they Mastered the People disturbed the Peace of Families committed frequent Rapes Burglaries and Robberies Murthers and Barbarous Cruelties which made a general Outcry and Lamentation wherever they came but the Lord Chief Justice Sir Randolph Crew lost his Place for not favouring the Loan and in his room succeeded a right Cavalier Sir Nicholas Hide who yet for his Abilities and Skill in Law might without blushing climb up to the Bench but he could not without great disgust and general Prejudice succeed a man so universally belov'd as was Sir Randolph Crew To advance this Loan one Sibthorp had contriv'd a Tantivee-Sermon Preached by him at Northampton at Lent Assiizes upon Rom. 13.7 called Apostolical Obedience and by all means the Divinity must be in Print or else you 'l say how could it have reacht the Ears of Bishop Laud or made room for Preferment And Archbishop Abbot must License it under his own Hand or take what followes Tant Why sure he would not lose his Archbishoprick for want of Subscribing his Name Tory. He refused to do it though the Court prest him earnestly to do it and his Archbishoprick was Sequestred soon after Whigg Some said it was Bishop Lauds Policy to pick a Quarrel with him if he refused to obey the Kings Commands or expose him to the Indignation of a Parliament if he dared to License such Tantivee-Stuff and illegal and wicked Positions some called them Traiterous Positions he affirmed that the Prince who is the Head and makes his Court and Council it is his Duty to direct and make Laws Eccles 8.3 4. He doth whatsoever pleases him where the word of the the King is there is power and who may say unto him What dost thou And If Princes Command any thing which Subjects may not Perform because 't is against the Laws of God or of Nature or Impossible yet Subjects are bound to undergoe the Punishment without either resisting or railing or reviling and so to yield a Passive Obedience where they cannot exhibit an active one I know no other Case but one of these three wherein a Subject may excuse himself with Passive Obedience but in all other he is bound to Active Obedience sayes Sybthorp Tory. He had forgot the Laws of this Land which all Kings are bound and Sworn to obey for the municipal Laws are not immediately any of those three and Doctor Manwaring he fisht for Preferment with two Sermons to Drill in the Loan though against Law as the King confest in after Statutes as also the Ship-writs Condemn'd by the King 16 Car. 1.14 But those Court-Sermons did Mischief awhile though in Conclusion the Court-Parasites smarted for their sawcy rashness and falshood Manwaring asserting that the King is not bound to observe the Laws of the Realm concerning the Subjects Rights and Liberties Whigg This is just like the Popes Pardon and Absolving King Edward of and from the Obligation of his Coronation-Oath Vows and Promises Tory. Manwaring also asserted that those who refused to pay the Loan Offended against the Law of God Tant Did he find that in the Bible Tory. And that the Authority of Parliament is not necessary for the raising of Aids and Subsidies Whigg 'T is a wonder to me that the Parliament let him escape after this what sets a Kingdom in a flame but these Incendiaries that do not or will not know the Constitution of this Kingdom and Common-wealth An equal Bridle to curb Tyranny and Arbitrary Sway on the one hand and Anarchy and Confusion on the other Tory. Ay our Laws are good enough none better Whigg Then what Traytors and Villains are they that dare debauch the fundamental Constitutions and Laws Tory. It was the way to Preferment Whigg The way to the Gallowes was it not better a hundred thousand such Sycophants were Hang'd than a good King and his Laws Betray'd and the Kingdom Involv'd in blood through their sly Tantivee-leasings and Insinuations Tory. Bishop Laud was the Man and all in all with the King all Preferments in Church and State he annuated or He and Buckingham though they so mischeivously to the King and State countenanc't the Loan so contrary to the grants of the great Charter and the Subjects Liberties and Properties which the King was bound by Oath and Duty to Preserve and Observe and was ready to do it of his own Benignity and Goodness but those Court-Parasites ruin'd all at length and themselves too Popery and Arbitrary Sway are Twins alwayes coupled the Queen had great Influence upon the Favourites either to make or marre them and they knew it as well and the Jesuits had too much Influence over her what by fair means what by foul but the King was angry when he heard they made her for Penance walk bare-foot to Tyburn Whigg The Jesuits Ay they are pretty Creatures for Princes to be Slaves unto and to become their Vassals and Instruments they have got the two Reyns into their own hands that guide the silly World namely Hope and Fear whom the hopes of Heaven cannot allure to their purposes the

them to have taken away the only legal bound to their arbitrary power and made as it were a conquest upon the common Law of the Land which is our common Inheritance and after made use of that power to turn their Brethren out of their Free-holds for not doing that which no Law of man required them to do and which in their Opinions the Law of God required of them not to do We shall find them in general to have encouraged all the Clergy to suits and to have brought all suits to the Council-table that having all power in Ecclesiastical matters they laboured for equal power in Temporal and to dispose as well of every Office as of every Benefice which lost the Clergy much Revenue and much reverence whereof the last is never given when it is so asked by encouraging them indiscreetly to exact more of both than was due so that indeed the gain of their greatness extended but to a few of that order though the envy extended upon all We shall find of them to have both kindled and blown the common fire of both Nations to have both sent and maintained that Book of which the Author no doubt hath long since wish'd with Nero Vtinam nescissem litera and of which more than one Kingdom hath cause to wish that when he writ that he had rather burn'd a Library though of the value of Ptolomie's We shall find them to have been the first and principal cause of the breach I will not say of but since the Pacification at Berwick We shall find them to have been the almost sole abettors of my Lord of Strafford whilst he was practising upon another Kingdom that manner of Government which he intended to settle in this where he committed so many so mighty and so manifest Enormities and Oppressions as the like have not been Committed by any Governour in any Government since Verres left Sicily And after they had called him over from being Deputy of Ireland to be in a manner Deputy of England All things here being Govern'd by a Juntillo who dare say thus much at this time of day and that Juntillo Govern'd by him And he Govern'd by I know who to have assisted him in giving of such Councels and the pursuing of such Courses as it is a hard and measuring Cast whether they were more Unwise more Unjust or more Unfortunate and which had Infallibly been our Destruction if by the Grace of God their share had not been as small in the subtilty of Serpents as in the Innocency of Doves Master Speaker I have represented no small quantity and no mean degree of Guilt Tant Enough enough of this I see Whiggish Doctrines Principles and Practices grow upon us Whigg Do not mistake your self Tory it is your Tory-Plots and Principles have swell'd of late years to a monstrous Tumour and Deformity almost to the Consumption of our right and natural Constitution and because we make warm Applications sometimes to draw down the Swelling and let out the Corruption how you Tantivees Kick and Frisk Tant Kings of old us'd not to be Bearded nor Brav'd by their Subjects Whigg No there was no Cause for it but read the History of the Lives of King John Henry 3. Edw. 1. Edw. 2. what Bickering there was to keep those Kings from encroaching on the Subjects Liberties and Properties the subject of the great Quarrel Contest and Battels fought betwixt King and People in all and onely in the unhappy Reigns of unhappy Kings that suffer'd themselves to be Seduc't out of their Faith and Truth and to outstretch their Prerogatives beyond its Maker and Creator the Law and outstretch their Consciences and their Oaths till they broke all to pieces Tant Poor feeble Kings perhaps they were Worms soonest grow in soft Wood. Whigg Were any Kings Fiercer or Stouter than the three first of them who more Valiant than Edward 1. or more Victorious against Forreigners and if he were weak and feeble it was only when the Head like Children that have the Rickets swell'd monstrously and unconscionably to the starving and Consumption of the whole Body and inferiour Members which cannot fare ill but the Head must ake for it and feel the smart at long run Honestly therefore if he could have continued so did he answer the encroaching Prelates to whom he had Promis'd to give whatever they would ask and they ask't him to Repeal the Statute of Mortmain The King answered that this was a Statute made by the whole Body of the Realm and therefore was not in his Power who was but one Member of that Body to undo that which all the Members together had done Tant By this Answer he should seem to inferr that He and his People are made all of a piece of the same Clay Whigg Why what dost thou think Kings are not Mortals Tant They are Divine Whigg So Tantivees also call themselves but as Alexander the great answered his Flatterers that call'd him a god those that emptyed their Close-stools scent no such matter or extraordinary Hogo beyond other Mortals Tant Does not the Text say Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no Harm Whigg What of that Tant Then do not you touch Gods Ministers and Gods Prophets Whigg Where are they you must first show them to me before I can touch them Tant All the Kings Ministers Arch-bishops Bishops Arch-deacons Deans Parsons Vicars and Curates are all Ministers and Prophets of God Whigg And also all Officials Commissaries Publick-notaries Delegates Surrogates Vicars general Apparitors Proctors Jaylors and Hangmen Registers and Summers are also all the Kings Ministers I do not desire to touch them nor am very ambititious that they should touch me from them all good Lord deliver us and all good Men. Tant They meddle not with good men cannot live by good men the Hangmen must starve if all were good men they live by Sinners they eat eat up Gods People as they eat Bread that is the Sins of Gods People is Meat and Drink and Cloath to them Whigg Foh no more of them Tant Thou talk'st like a bold Rebel and wouldst act like a Rebel I fear with other Weapons than Prayers and Tears Whigg I do not know how such Fools and Knaves as thou art may hap to provoke the old man within me 't is at your peril and you come at your own adventure but I will rather dye than be a Rebel Tant When the Kings Subjects in Edw. 2. Reign took up Arms to remove evil Counsellors from the King and the King fled before them and at length in hopes to preserve his Minion and the Instrument of his wickedness Gaveston lodg'd him in an impregnable Hold Scarborough-Castle which the Kings Subjects took and Beheaded poor Pierce Gaveston you Whiggs do not call this Rebellion Whigg Why what Historian does call it so I am sure that great Loyalist and Cavalier Sir Richard Baker that throughout writes leaning on one side as if he was