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kingdom_n	crown_n	duke_n	king_n	2,883	5	3.6884	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66892	The associators cashier'd proving by undeniable arguments, as well as by the testimony of their own mouthes, that the late endeavours of some restless spirits were, 1. to enervate monarchy, 2. to subvert the institution of English-parliaments, and usher in the power of the sword.	Womock, Laurence, 1612-1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing W3337; ESTC R20240	17,046	33

all the continual endeavours of the Parliament to deliver His Majesty from the Councils and out of the power of the said D. yet his Interest in the Ministry of State and others have béen so prevalent that Parliaments have béen unreasonably Prorogued and Dissolved when they have béen in hot pursuit of the Popish Conspiracies and ill Ministers of State their Assistants And that the said D. in order to reduce all into his own power hath procured the Garrisons the Army and Ammunition and all the power of the Seas and Souldiery and Lands belonging to these thrée Kingdoms to be put inco the hands of his party and their Adherents even in opposition to the Advice and Order of the last Parliament And as we considering with heavy Hearts how greatly the Strength Reputation and Treasure of the Kingdom both at Sea and Land is Wasted and Consumed and lost by the intricate expensive management of these wicked destructive Designs and finding the same Councils after exemplary Iustice upon some of the Conspirators to be still pursued with the utmost devilish malice and desire of Revenge whereby his Majesty is in continual hazard of being Murdered to make way for the said D's Advancement to the Crown and the whole Kingdom in such case is destitute of all security of their Religion Laws Estates and Liberty sad experience in the Case Quéen Mary having proved the wisest Laws to be of little force to kéep out Popery and Tyranny under a Popish Prince We have therefore endeavoured in a Parliamentary way by a Bill for the purpose to Bar and Exclude the said Duke from the Succession to the Crown and to Banish him for ever out of these Kingdoms of England and Ireland But the first Means of the King and Kingdoms Safety being utterly rejected and we left almost in Despair of obtaining any real and effectual security and knowing our selves to be intrusted to Advise and Act for the preservation of His Majesty and the Kingdom and being perswaded in our Consciences that the dangers aforesaid are so eminent and pressing that there ought to be no delay of the best means that are in our power to secure the Kingdom against them We have thought fit to propose to all true Protestants an Vnion amongst themselves by solemn and sacred promise of mutual Defence and Assistance in the preservation of the true Protestant Religion His Majesties Person and Royal State and our Laws Liberties and Properties and we hold it our bounden Duty to joyn our selves for the same intent in a Declaration of our Vnited Affections and Resolutions in the Form insuing I A.B. Do in the presence of God Solemnly Promise Vow and Protest to maintain and defend to the utmost of my Power with my Person and Estate the true Protestant Religion against Popery and all Popish superstition Idolatry or Innovasion and all those who do or shall endeavour to spread or advance it within this Kingdom I will also as far as in me lies maintain and defend His Majesties Royal Person and Estate as also the power and priviledge of Parliaments the lawful Rights and Liberties of the Subject against all Incroachments and Vsurpation of Arbitrary power whatsoever and endeavour intirely to Disband all such mercenary Forces as we have reason to believe were raised to Advance it and are still kept up in and about the City of London to the great Amazement and Terrour of all the good people of the Land Moreover J. D. of Y. having publickly professed and owned the Popish Religion and notoriously given Life and Birth to the Damnable and Hellish Plots of the Papists against His Majesties Person the Protestant Religion and the Government of this Kingdom I will never consent that the said J. D. of Y. or any other who is or hath béen a Papist or any ways adher'd to the Papists in their wicked Designs be admitted to the Succession of the Crown of England But by all lawful means and by force of Arms if néed so require according to my Abilities will oppose him and endeavour to Subdue Expel and Destroy him if he come into England or the Dominions thereof and séek by force to set up his pretended Title and all such as shall Adhere unto him or raise any War Tumult or Sedition for him or by his Command as publick Enemies of our Laws Religion and Country To this end we and every one of us whose hands are here under-written do most willingly bind our selves and every one of us unto the other joyntly and severally in the bond of one firm and loyal Society or Association and do promise and vow before God That with our joynt and particular Forces we will oppose and pursue unto Destruction all such as upon any Title whatsoever shall oppose the Iust and Righteous ends of this Association and Maintain Protect and Defend all such as shall enter into it and the just performance of the true intent and meaning of it And lest this just and pious work should be any ways obstructed or hindered for want of Discipline and Conduct or any evil-minded persons under pretence of raising Forces for the service of this Association should attempt or commit Disorders we will follow such Orders as we shall from time to time receive from this present Parliament whilest it shall be sitting or the major part of the Members of both Houses subscribing this Association when it shall be Prorogued or Dissolved and obey such Officers as shall by them be set over us in the several Countries Cities and Burroughs until the next méeting of this or another Parliament and will then shew the same Obedience and Submission unto it and those who shall be of it Neither will we for any respect of Persons or Causes or for Fear or Reward separate our selves from this Association or fail in the Prosecution thereof during our Lives upon pain of being by the rest of us prosecuted and suppressed as perjur'd persons and publick Enemies to God the King and our Native Countrey To which pains and punishments we do voluntarily submit our selves and every one of us without benefit of any Colour or Pretence to excuse us In Witnesses of all which Premisses to be inviolably kept we do to this present Writing put our Hands and Seals and shall be most ready to accept and admit any others hereafter into this Society and Association SIR YOU have turned me to a hard Chapter for so it is to give you my opinion of the Association that lyes under so great debate I must tell you 't is a Riddle not easie to be deciphered The Assertors of it call themselves a Society * The Bond of one Firm and Loyal Society after the Protest And This Society at the end and twice for failing This Sir is the Distinctive Character of the Jesuites and you must imagine an Instrument of such a Make is full of Mental Reserves and Equivocations for seeing they have so auspiciously assumed their Title and Appellative

but his Majesty has given such ample Satisfaction as supersedes all attempts of the like Nature For What can the Man do who cometh after the King Eccles 2.12 He that cannot acquiesce with great Contentment in such a Gracious Declaration let him understand the Sense of all Loyal Subjects in their solemn Addresses of Thankfulness upon that account Do they not own it as an undoubted Copy of that Original and transcendent Goodness which the Finger of God has impress'd upon his Royal Bosom A Declaration so full of Princely Grace and Wisdom and generally so suitable to their Wishes that it did but anticipate what of Duty as well as Interest and Inclination should have been their own Petition and that it left them no room but for the lively Expressions of their Joy and Gratitude And he that has not joyn'd his Suffrage with his Fellow-Subjects in such a dutiful Acknowledgment must certainly be a Member of this Society or a well-Wisher to it Though we have as great a Reverence for Parliaments as we ought yet we cannot but reflect upon 't with Grief that the Composition of those Assemblies have not of late proved so harmonious as the state of Affairs required which puts me in mind of what the Author of that ingenious Essay upon the Reign of Henry the Third has observed Compendium politicum pa. 36. of such a Convention of those Times Thus saith he Parliaments that were ever before the most infallible Medicine to heal up any Distempers or Malignities are now grown worse and almost less desirous than the Maladies themselves since malevolent Humours and factious Spirits did most of all sway in them and the well composed Tempers had the least share and prevalency in all their Consultations The Fruits and Effects of their unlimited Session who were call'd to Parliament in Forty One we cannot but with bleeding Hearts remember And whatever respect they pretend to have for Parliaments 't is as formerly but to serve their own ends for if they may have their own Will according to the Project and Design laid in this Association all Parliaments for the future as they were once already in my own Memory will be reduced without a King or a House of Lords to a select Pack of well-flesh'd Rumpers to do the Drudgery of their Army The Bill of Exclusion and Banishment is so unreasonable and so absolutely unjust that we cannot look upon 't as a means of the King and Kingdoms Safety And if the D. be of such a vindictive Spirit as they suggest nay allow him but the Magnanimity that becomes his Highness or the common Resentments of Humanity and the passing such a Bill had been so great and just a Provocation it must needs have exposed the King's Person to great hazard and the Kingdom to the lamentable Fate of a Civil War if not an inevitable Invasion thereupon And when we reflect upon the Rise and Progress of our late Confusions so black and dismal in the Event and so fresh in Memory all good men cannot but be deeply sensible of his Majesties great Care and Princely Wisdom in keeping us from the more dreadful Rage of such a Rupture as the restless Malice of ill men study to promote whether for the Accomplishment of their own Ambition or the setting up of their Darling Common-wealth Whereas they say They are persuaded in their Consciences that the dangers they suggest are so eminent and pressing that there ought to be no delay of the best means in their power to secure the Kingdom against them We comfort our selves that they are no Prophets though 't is no hard matter to fore-tell what they do project if it be in their Power to effect it and that this is not the first time they have attempted very ill things if not out of Malice Ambition and Design to make the best on 't upon the account of an erroneous Conscience And whereas they say They are intrusted to advise and act for the preservation of his Majesty and the Kingdom We are satisfied that they are no farther intrusted by the Laws and Loyal Commons of England than may consist with their Duty and Allegiance that is no farther than the King shall please to require their Advice and allow them to act by his Direction or Consent Whereupon the so much Renowned Queen Elizabeth commanded the Speaker to tell the then House of Commons thus in her Majesties Name In the 35. of her Reign 1592. Townshend's Historical Collect. p. 63. It is in me and my power to call Parliaments and it is in my power to end and determine the same it is in my power to assent or dissent to any thing done in Parliament Consequently hereunto though they call this Association the best means that are in their power to secure the Kingdom we are well assured that it is not in their Power at all when the King forbids it Sed tantum possumus quod jure possumus and as in Reason and Justice in this Case he may and ought declares it a Design to subvert both his Prerogative and Government For to be plain with you in this detestable Contrivance which is here recommended under the specious Title of an Association every man of Sense may observe with half an Eye what the Hypocrisie and Subtilty of those ill men have projected to set up themselves upon the Ruins of the Royal Family the English Protestant Church and Nation For 1. To secure his Majesty's Sacred Person they 'll disband his Guards and remove his Faithful Ministers 2. To preserve his Royal State and Dignity they 'll cut off the Succession and banish his dear and only Brother out of his Dominions 3. To support his Crown they 'll usurp the Government into their own hands and turn it into a Military State of Sasety 4. For the Honour of their Country they 'll subvert that which to all Loyal Subjects and in the Estimation of all wise and sober persons is the happiest Monarchy under Heaven 5. That out Properties Laws and Liberties may be kept inviolable they 'll set up an Arbitrary Power and some Regiments of Janizaries to rule over us and make us Slaves to our Fellow-Subjects 6. To defend Religion they 'll not consult a Legal and Learned Convocation but they 'll lay aside the decent and distinctive Garment of the Minister they 'll take away the Cross in Baptism that ancient Badge of Catholick and Primitive Christianity they 'll abandon kneeling at the Sacrament with all external Adoration they 'll turn the Reverend Bishops out of the House of Lords and repeal those Acts by which Vniformity in the Worship and Service of God stands established and so destroy the Bulwark of the Reformation the best Protestant Church in Christendom All which Particulars here enumerated are the visible and avowed Designs of this Society and their Association To effect all this they 'll wrest the Sword out of the King's hands and appoint