the more justifiable Nay let the Framers of this Declaration ask themselves If the Evil Counsellors the Malignant Party the Persons Il-affected the Popish Lords and their Adherents should prove now or hereafter to be a Major part of both Houses for it hath been declared a great part of both Houses have been such and so might have been the greater nay that the greater part of the House of Peers was such and We have not heard of any of their conversions and thereupon it hath been earnestly pressed That the Minor part of the Lords might joyn with the Major part of the House of Commons were Wee bound to consent to all such Alterations as these men should propose to Vs and resolve to bee for the publike good and must the Liberty Property and Security of all Our Subjects depend on what such Votes should declare to bee Law Was the Order of the Militia unfit and unlawfull whiles the Major part of the Lords refused to joyn in it as they did two if not three severall times and it was never heard before this Parliament that they should bee so and so often pressed after a dissent declared and did it grow immediatly necessary for the publike safety and lawfull by the Law of the Land as soon as so many of the dissenting Peeres were driven away after their names had been required at the Bar contrary to the Freedom and Foundation of Parliaments that the other Opinion prevailed Doth the Life and Liberty of the Subject depend upon such Accidents of dayes and houres that it is impossible for him to know his right in either God forbid But now to justifie their Invasion of Our ancient unquestioned undoubted Right setled and established on Us and Our Posterity by God himself confirmed and strengthned by all possible Titles of Compact Laws Oaths perpetuall and uncontradicted Custom by Our people What have they alleaged to Declare to the Kingdom as they say the Obligation that lyeth upon the Kings of this Realm to passe all such Bills as are offered unto them by both Houses of Parliament a thing never heard of till this day An Oath Authority enough for them to break all theirs that is or ought to be taken by the Kings of this Realm which is as well to remedy by Law such inconveniences the Kingdom may suffer as to keep and protect the Laws already in being And the form of this Oath they say appears upon a Record there cited and by a Clause in the Preamble of a Statute made in the five and twentieth yeare of Edward the third We are not enough acquainted with records we to know whether that be fully and and ingeniously cited and when and how and why the severall clauses have been inserted or taken out of the oathes formerly administred to the Kings of this Realme yet we cannot possibly imagine the assertion that Declaration makes can be deduced from the words or the matter of that oath for unlesse they have a power of declaring Lattin as We as Law sure Eligerit signifieth hath chosen as well as Chuse and that it signifieth so here besides the authority of perpetuall practice of all succeeding ages a better interpreter then their Votes is evident by the reference it hath to customes Consuetudines quas vulgus elegerit and could that be a Custome which the people should chuse after this Oath taken and should a King be sworne to defend such Customes Besides can it be imagined that he should bee bound by oath to passe such Laws and such a Law is the Bill they brought to Vs of the Militia as should put the power wherewith he is trussed out of himselfe in the hands of other men and so devest and disable him of all possible power to performe the great businesse of the oath which is To protect them If we give away all Our power or if it be taken from Vs we cannot protect any man And what discharge would it be for us either before God or Man when our good Subjects whom God and the Law hath committed to our charge shall be worried and spoyled to say That we trusted others to protect them that is to doe that duty for Vs which is essentially and inseparably our owne But that all Our good Subjects may see how faithfully these men who assume this trust from them desire to discharge their trust We shall be contented to publish for their satisfaction a matter notorious enough but which we our Selfe never thought to have been but to publish and of which the Framers of that Declaration might as well have made use as of a Latine record they knew many of our good Subjects could not and many of themselves doe not understand the Oath it selfe we tooke at our Coronation warranted and injoyned to it by Custome and directions of our Predecessors and the Ceremony or their and our taking it they may finde it in the Records of the Exchequer This it is The Sermon being done the Archbishop goeth to the King and askes his willingnesse to take the Oath usually taken by his Predecessors The King sheweth himselfe willing ariseth and goeth to the Altar The Archbishop administreth these Questions and the King answers them severally Episcopus Sir Will you grant and keep and by your Oath confirme to the people of England the Laws and Customes to them granted by the Kings of England your Lawfull and Religious Predecessors and namely the Laws Customes and Franchises granted to the Clergie by the glorious King Saint Edward your Predecessor according to the Lawes of God the true Profession of the Gospel established in this Kingdome and agreeable to the Prerogative of the Kings thereof and the ancient Customes of this Realme REX I grant and promise to keep them Episcopus Sir Will you keep Peace and godly Agreement entirely according to your power both to God the holy Church the Clergy and the People REX I will keep it Episcopus Sir Will you to your power cause Law Justice and Discretion in Mercy and Truth to be executed in all your Judgements REX I will Episcopus Will you grant to hold and keep the Lawes and rightfull customes which the Commonalty of this your Kingdome have and will you defend and uphold them to the honour of God so much as in you lieth REX I grant and promise so to doe Then one of the Bishops reads this Admonition to the King before the people with a loud voice Our Lord and King We beseech you to pardon and to grant and to preserve unto us and to the Churches committed to our charge all Canonicall Priviledges and due Law and Justice and that you would Protect and defend us as every good King in his Kingdome ought to bee Protector and Defender of the Bishops and the Churches under their Government The King answereth With a willing and devout Heart I promise and grant my pardon and that I will preserve and maintaine to you and the Churches committed to
HIS MAJESTIES ANSWER To a Printed Book INTITULED A REMONSTRANCE OR THE Declaration of the Lords and Commons now assembled in PARLIAMENT 26. May 1642 In answer to a Declaration under His Majesties Name concerning the businesse of HULL Printed at York And Re-printed at London for William Ley 1642. His Majesties Answer to a printed Book intituled A Remonstrance or the Declaration of the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament the 26. of May 1642. In Answer to a Declaration under His Majesties Name concerning the businesse of Hull THough whosoever looks over the late Remonstrance intituled A Declaration of the Lords and Commons of the 26. of May will not think We have much reason to be pleased with it yet We cannot but commend the plain dealing and ingenuity of the Framers and Contrivers of that Declaration which hath been wrought in a hotter and quicker Forge then any of the rest who would no longer suffer Us to be affronted by being told They would make Vs a great and glorious King whilest they used all possible skill to reduce Us to extreame Want and Indigency and that They would make Vs to be loved at home and feared abroad whilest they endeavoured by all possible wayes to render Us odious to Our good Subjects and contemptible to all forreign Princes but like Round-dealing men tell Us in plain English That they have done Us no wrong because We are not capable of receiving any and That they have taken nothing from Us because Wee had never any thing of Our owne to lose If this Doctrine be true and that indeed We ought to be of no other consideration then they have informed Our people in that Declaration that Gentleman is much more excusable that said publikely unreproved That the happinesse of this Kingdome doth not depend on Vs or upon any of the Royall Branches of that Root And the other who said We were not worthy to be King of England Language very monstrous to be allowed by either House of Parliament and of which by the help of God and the Law We must have some Examination But We doubt not all Our good Subjects do now plainly discern through the Mask and Visard of their hipocrisie what their Designe is and will no more look upon the Framers and Contrivers of that Declaration as upon both Houses of Parliament whose freedom and just Priviledges Wee will alwaies maintain and in whose behalf We are as much slandered as for Our Self but as a Faction of Malignant Schismaticall and Ambitious Persons whose designe is and alwaies hath been to alter the whole frame of Government both of Church and State and to subject both King and People to their own Lawlesse Arbitrary power and Government of whose Persons and of whose Designe We shall within a very short time give Out good Subjects and the world a full and We hope a satisfactory Narration The Contrivers and Penners of that Declaration of whom We would be onely understood to speak when Wee mention any of their undutifull acts against Us tell you That the great Affaires of this Kingdom and the miserable and bleeding condition of the Kingdom of Ireland will afford them little leisure to spend their time in Declarations Answers and Replies Indeed the miserable and deplorable condition of both Kingdoms would require somewhat else at their hands But We would gladly know how they have spent their time since their Recesse now almost eight moneths but in Declarations Remonstrances and Invectives against Vs and Our Government or in preparing matter for them Have We invited them to any such expence of time by beginning Arguments of that nature Their leisure or their Inclination is not as they pretend And what is their Printing and Publishing their Petitions to Vs their Declarations and Remonstrances of Us their odious Votes and Resolutions sometimes of one sometimes of both Houses against Us never in this manner communicated before this Parliament but an Appeale to the People And in Gods Name let them judge of the Persons they have trusted Their first Quarrell is as it is alwayes to let them into their franck Expressions of Vs and Our Actions against the Malignant Party whom they are pleased stil to call and never to prove to be Our evill Counsellors but indeed nothing is more evident by their whole Proceedings then that by the Malignant Party they intend all the Members of both Houses who agree not with them in their Opinion hence have come their distinction of good and bad Lords of Persons ill affected of the House of Commons who have bin proscribed and their Names Listed and read in Tumults and all the Persons of the Kingdome who approve not of their actions So that if in truth they would be ingenuous and name the Persons they intend who would be the Men upon whom that Imputation of Malignity would be cast but they who have stood stoutly and immutably for the Religion the Liberties the Lawes for all publike Interests so long as there was any to be stood for they who have alwayes beene and are as zealous Professors and some of them as able and earnest Defendors of the Protestant Doctrine against the Church of Rome as any are who have often and earnestly besought Vs to consent that no Indifferent and Vnnecessary Ceremony might be pressed upon weake and tender Consciences and that Wee would agree to a Bill for that purpose they to whose Wisdome Courage and Councell the Kingdome oweth as much as it can to subjects and upon whose unblemished Lives Envy it selfe can lay no Imputation nor endeavoured to lay any untill their Vertues brought them to Our Knowledge and Favour Let the Contrivers of this Declaration be faithfull to themselves and consider all those Persons of both Houses whom they in their Consciences know to dissent from them in the Matter and Language of that Declaration and in all those undutifull actions of which we complaine and will they not be found in Honour Fortune Wisdome Reputation and Weight if not in number much Superiour to them So much for the Evill Councellors Now what is the Evill Councell it selfe Our comming from London where We and many whose affections to Vs are very eminent were in danger every day to be torne in peices to Yorke where We and all such who will put themselves under Our Protection may live Wee thanke God and the loyalty and affection of this good people very securely Our not submitting Our Selfe absolutely and renouncing Our owne Vnderstanding to the Votes and Resolutions of the Contrivers of that Declaration when they tell Vs They are above Vs and may by our owne Authority doe with Vs what they please and Our not being contented that all Our good subjects Lives and Fortunes shall be disposed of by their Votes but by the knowne Law of the land This is the evill Councell given and taken And will not all Men beleeve there needs much power and skil of the Malignant Party to infuse this
Councell into Vs And now apply the Argument the Contrivers of that Declaration makes for themselves Is it probable or possible that such men whom We haue mentioned who must have so great a share in the misery should take such pains in the procuring thereof and spend so much time and run so many hazards to make themselves Slaves and to ruine the Freedome of this Nation We say with a clear and upright Conscience to God Almighty Whosoever harbours the least thought in his breast of ruining or violating the publike Liberty or Religion of this Kingdome or the just Freedome and Priviledge of Parliament let him be accursed and hee shall be no Councellour of Ours that will not say Amen For the contrivers of that declaration We have not said any thing which might imply any inclination in them to be Slaves that which Wee have charged them is with invading the publike Liberty and Our Presumption may be very strong and vehement that though they have no mind to bee Slaves they are not unwilling to bee Tyrants What is Tyrannie but to admit no Rule to governe by but their owne wils And We know the misery of Athens was at the highest when it suffered under the thirty Tyrants If that Declaration had told Vs as indeed it might and as in Iustice it ought to have done that the Presidents of any of our Ancestors did fall short and much below what hath beene done by Vs this Parliament in point of Grace and Favour to Our People Wee should no otherwise have wondred at it then at such a truth in such a place But when to justifie their having done more then ever their Predecessors did it tels Our good Subjects as most injuriously most insolently it doth That the highest and most unwarrantable Presidents of any of Our Predecessors doe fall short and much below what hath beene done to them this Parliament by Vs Wee must confesse Our selfe amazed and not able to understand them And We must tel those ungratefull Men who dare tell their King That they may without want of Modesty and Duty depose him That the condition of Our Subjects when by whatsoever Accidents and Conjunctures of time it was at worst under Our power unto which by no default of Ours they shall be ever againe reduced was by many degrees more pleasant and happy then that to which their furious pretence of Reformation hath brought them Neither are we afraid of the highest Presidents of other Parliaments which these men boldly Our good subjects will call it worse tell Vs They might without want of Modesty and Duty make their Patterns If We had no other security against those Presidents but their Modesty and Duty Wee were in a miserable condition as all persons will bee who depend upon them That Declaration will not allow Our Inference That by avowing the Act of Sir Iohn Hotham they doe destroy the Title and Interest of all Our Subjects to their Lands and Goods but confesseth if they were found guilty of that charge it were indeed a very great crime And doe they not in this Declaration admit themselves guilty of this very Crime Doe they not say Who doubts but that a Parliament may dispose of any thing wherein VVee or Our Subjects have a Right in such a way as that the Kingdome may not be in danger thereby Doe they not then call themselves This Parliament and challenge this Power without Our consent Doe they not extend this Power to all Cases where the necessity or the common good of the Kingdome is concerned and doe they not arrogate unto themselves alone the judgement of this Danger this Necessity this Common Good of the Kingdome What is if this be not to unsettle the Security of all mens Estates and to expose them to an arbitrary Power of their owne If a Faction shall at any time by Cunning or Force or absence or accident prevaile over a major part of both Houses and pretend that they are Evill Councellors a Malignant Party about the King by whom the Liberty and Religion of the Kingdome are both in danger This they may doe they have done it Then they may take away be it from the King or People whatsoever they in their judgements shall thinke fit This is lawfull they have declared it so Let the world judge whether We charge them unjustly and whether they are not guilty of the Crime which themselves confesse being proved is a great one and how safely We might commit the Power these people desire into their hands who in all probability would be no sooner possessed of it then they would revive that Tragedie which Master Hooker relates of the Anabaptists in Germany who talking of nothing but Faith and of the true Feare of God and that Riches and Honour were vanity at first upon the great Opinion of their Humility Zeal and Devotion procured much Reverence and Estimation with the people After finding how many persons they had ensnared with their Hypocrisie they began to propose to themselves to reforme both the Ecclesiasticall and Civill Government of the State Then because possibly they might meet with some Opposition they secretly entred into a League of Association and shortly after finding the power they had gotten with the credulous People enriched themselves with all kind of spoyle and pillage and justified it upon our Saviours promise The meeke shall inherite the earth and declared their Title was the same which the righteous Israelites had unto the goods of the wicked Egyptians This Story is worth the reading at large and needs no application But Wee must by no meanes say That We have the same Title to Our Towne of Hull and the Ammunition there as any of Our Subjects have to their Lands or Money That 's A Principle that puls up the Foundation of the Liberty and Property of every Subject Why pray Because the Kings Property in his Townes and in his Goods bought with the publike Money as they conceive Our Magazine at Hull was is inconsistent with the Subjects Property in their Lands Goods and Liberty Doe these men think That as they assume a power of Declaring Law and whatsoever contradicts that Declaration breaks their Priviledges so that they have a power of declaring Sense and Reason and imposing Logick and Syllogismes on the Schooles as well as Law upon the People Doth not all mankind know That severall man may have severall Rights and Interests in the selfe same House and Land and yet neither destroy the other Is not the Interest of the Lord Paramont consistent with that of the Mesme Lord and his with that of he Tenant and yet their Properties and Interests not at all confounded And why may not Wee then have a full Lawfull Interest and Property in Our Town of Hull and yet Our Subjects have a Property in their Houses too But We cannot sell or give away at Our pleasure Our Towns and Forts as a private man may do his Lands or Goods
your charge all Canonicall Privilenges and due Law and Justice and that I will be your Protector and Defender to my power by the assistance of God as every good King in his Kingdome in Right ought to protect and defend the Bishops and Churches under their Government Then the King ariseth and is led to the Communion Table where he makes a solemne Oath in sight of all the people to observe the Premises And laying his hand upon the Booke saith The Oath The things which I have before promised I shall performe and keep So helpe me God and the Contents of this Booke Let all the world judge whether such Doctrine or such Conclusions as these Men teach can follow or have the least pretence from this Oath For the Preamble of the Statute they cite that tels us That the King is bound to remedy by Law the Mischiefes and Dammages which happen to His people He is so But is the King bound by the Preamble of that Statute to renounce his owne judgement His owne understanding in these Mischiefes and of those remedies How farre forth He is obliged to follow the judgement of His Parliament that Declararation still confesseth to be a question without question none can take upon them to remedy even mischiefes but by Law for feare of greater mischiefes then those they goe about to remedy But Wee are bound in Justice to consent to their proposalls because there is a Trust reposed in Vs to preserve the Kingdome by making new Lawes VVe are glad there is so Then we are sure no new Lawes can be made without Our consent and that the gentlenesse of our Answer Le Roys ' avisera if it be no denyall is no consent and then the matter is not great They will allow Vs yet A greater latitude of granting or denying as We shall thinke fit in publike Acts of Grace as Pardons or the like Grants of Favour why doe they so If those Pardons and publike Acts of Grace be for the publike good which they may Vote they are they will then be absolutely in their owne disposall But have they left Vs this power They have sure at least shared it with Vs How else have they got the power to pardon Sergeant-major-Generall Skippon a new Officer of State and a Subject we have no authority to sent to speak with and all other persons imployed by them and such as have imployed themselves for them not onely for what they have done but for what they shall doe If they have power to declare such Actions to be no Treason which we would not pardon and such Actions to be Treason which needs no pardon the Latitude they allow Vs of granting or denying of Pardons is a Jewell they may still be contented to suffer Vs to weare in our Crowne and never thinke themselves the more in danger All this considered The Contriver of that Message since they will afford him no better Title whom they are angry with doth not conceive the people of this Land to be so void of common sense as to beleeve Vs who have denyed no one thing for the ease and benefit of them which in Justice or Prudence could be asked or in honour and conscience could be granted to have cast off all care of our Subjects good and the Framers and Devisers of that Declaration who have endeavoured to render us odious to our Subjects and them disloyall to us by pretending such a trust from them to have onely taken it up Neither we are confident will they be satisfied when they feele the misery and the Burthens which the fury and the malice of those people will bring upon them with being told that Calamity proceeds from evill Councellors whom no body can name from Plots and Conspiracies which no man can discover and from Feares and Jealousies which no man understands And therefore that the consideration of it be left to the Conscience Reason Affection and Loyalty of Our good Subjects who doe understand the Government of this Kingdome we are well content Where will the folly and madnesse of these people end who would have our people beleeve that our absenting our self from London where with our safety we could not stay and the continuing Our Magazine at Hull proceeds from the secret plots of the Papists here and to advance the designes of the Papists in Ireland But it is no wonder that they who can beleeve Sir Iohn Hothams shutting us out of Hull to be an act of affection and loyalty will beleeve that the Papists or the Turks perswaded us to go thither An can any sober man think that Declaration to be the consent of either or both Houses of Parliament unaltered either by Fraud or Force which after so many Thanks and humble Acknowledgement of our gratious favour in our Message of the 20. of January so often and unanimously presented unto us from both Houses of Parliament tells us that the Message at first was and as often as it hath been since mentioned by us hath been a breach of Priviledge of which they have not used to be so negligent as in four moneths not to complain if such a breach had been and that the way and method of proceeding should not be proposed to them as if we had onely authority to call them together none to tell them what they were to do not so much as with reference to our own affairs what their own Method hath been and whither it hath led them and brought the Kingdom all men see what ours would have been if seasonably and timely applied unto let all men judge We will speak no more of it But see now what excellent Instances they have found out to prove an Inclination if not in Vs in some about Vs to civill warre Their gving with Vs to the House of Commons so often urged and so fully answered Their attending on Vs to Hampton Court and appearing in a warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames Our going to Hull Their drawing their Swords at York demanding Who world be for the King the declaring Sir Iohn Hotham Traitor before the Message sent to the Parliament the Propositions to the Gentry in Yorkshire to assist Vs against him before We had received an answer from the Parliament All desperate Instances of an Inclination to a civill warre Examine them againe The manner and intent of Our going to the House of Commons Wee set forth at large in Our Answer to their Declaration of the nineteenth of May let all men judge Next Doe these men themselves beleive to what purpose soever that Rumour hath served their turns that there was an Apparence in warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames Doe they not know that whensoever Wee have been at Hampton Court since Our first comming to the Crowne there was never a lesse Apparence or in a lesse warlike manner then at the time they meane Wee shall say no more But that Our Apparence in a warlike manner at Kingston upon Thames and
theirs at Kingston upon Hull is very different What is meant by the drawing of swords at York and demanding who would be for the King must bee inquired at London for We believe very few in York understand the meaning of it For Our going to Hull which they will by no meanes endure shall be called a Visit whether it were not the way to prevent rather then to make a Civill Warre is very obvious And the declaring him a Traitor in the very Act of his Treason will never be thought unseasonable but by those who believe him to be a loving and loyall Subject no more then the endeavouring to make the Gentlemen of this County sensible of that Treason which they are in an honourable and dutifull degree before We received Our Answer from both Houses of Parliament For if they had been as We expected they should have been sensible of that intollerable injury offered to Vs might not We have had occasion to have used the affection of these Gentleman Were we sure that Sir John Hotham who had kept Vs out without their Order Wee speake of a publike Order would have let Vs in when they had bidden him And if they had not such a sense of Vs as the Case falls out to be had We not more reason to make Proposition to those Gentlemen whose readinesse and affection We or Our Posterity shall never forget But this businesse of Hull sticks still with them and finding Our Questions hard they are pleased to Answer Vs by asking Vs other Questions No matter for the Exceptions against the Earle of Newcastle which have beene so often urged as one of their principall Grounds of their Feares and Iealousies and which drew that Question from us they aske Vs Why since We held it necessary that a Governour should bee placed in Hull Sir Iohn Hotham should be refused by Vs and the Earle of Newcastle sent downe We answer Because we had a better Opinion of the Earle of Newcastle then of Sir Iohn Hotham and desired to have such a Governour over Our Townes if Wee must have any as should keep them for and not against Vs And if his going downe were in a more private way then Sir John Hothams it was because We had that Authority to make a noyse by Leavying and Billetting of Souldiers in a peaceable Time upon Our good Subjects as it seems Sir John Hotham carried downe with him And the Imputation which is cast by the way upon that Earle to make his Reputation 〈…〉 thought was not Ground enough for a Judiciall Proceeding it is wonder it was not was yet Ground enough of Suspition must be the Case of every Subject in England and we wish it went no higher If every vile Aspertion contrived by unknowne hands upon unknown or unimaginable Grounds which is the way practised to bring any vertuous and deserving men into obloquy shall receive the least credit or countenance in the world They tell us their Exception to those Gentlemen who delivered their Petition to to us at York was That they presumed to take the stile upon them of all the Gentry and Inhabitants of that County whereas they say so many more of as good Quality as themselves of that County were of another opinion and have since by their Petition to Vs disavowed that Act Their Information in that point is no better then it useth to be and and they will find that neither the number or the quality of those who have or will disavow that Petition are as they imagine though too many weak persons are missed which they doe and will every day more understand by the Faction Skill and Industry of that true Malignant Party of which wee doe and have reason to complaine They say they Have received no Petition of so strange a nature what nature Contrary to the Votes of both Houses that is they have received no Petition they had no mind to receive But we told them and we tell them againe and all our good Subjects will tell them that they have received Petitions with joy and approbation against the votes of both Houses of their Predecessors confirmed and established into Lawes by the consent of Vs and our Ancestors and allowed those Petitions to carry the Stile and to seem to carry the desires oâ— Cities Townes and Counties when of either Citty Towne or County very few knowne or considerable persons have been privy to such Petitions whereas in truth the Petitions delivered to Vs against which they except carried not the Stile of All but Some of the Gentry and Inhabitants and implyed no other consent then such as went visibly along with it But we are all this while in a mistake The Magazine at Hull is not taken from us Who told you so They who assure you and whom without breaking their priviledges you must believe that Sir Lo Hothams shutting the gates against us and resisting our entrance with armed men though we thought it in defiance of us was indeed in obedience to us and our Authority and for our Service and the Service of the Kingdome He was to let none in but such as came with our Authority signified by both Houses of Parliament himselfe and they had ordered it so and therefore he kept us out onely till We or he might send for their directions We know not whether the Contrivers of that Declaration meant that our good Subjects should so soone understand though it was plain enough to be understood the meaning of the Kings authority signified by both hoâ—ses of Parliament But sure the world will now easily discerne in what miserable case we had by this time been 't is bad enough as it is if we had consented to their Bill or to their Ordinance of the Mili ia and given those men power to have raised all the Armes of the Kingdome against us for the common good by our owne Authority would they not as they have kept us from Hull by this time have beaten us from York and pursued us out of the Kingdome in our owne behalfe Nay may not this Munition which is not taken from us be imployed against us Nor against our Authority signified by both Houses of Parliament but onely to kill those ill Councellors the Malignant Party which is about us and yet for our good for the publike good they will declare it so and so no Treason within the Statute of 25. of Ed. the 〈…〉 hath left us the King of England absolutely 〈…〉 lesse provided for in point of safety then the meanest Subjest of the Kingdome and every Subject of this Land for whose security that Law was made that they may know their duty and their danger in breaking it may bee made a Traytor when these men please to say He is so But doe they think that upon such an Interpretation upon pretence of Authority of Book-Cases and Presidents which without doubt they would have cited if they had been to their purpose out of which nothing