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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41174	A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last parliaments	Jones, William, Sir, 1631-1682.; Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1682 (1682)	Wing F741; ESTC R14950	42,088	51

time So that if the present King of Spain should imitate his great Grand-father Philip the second oppress any of his Subjects as cruelly as he did those of the Low Countries and so force them to a necessary self defence we have renounced the policy of our Ancestors who thought it their interest as well as their Duty to succor the distressed and must not only aid him with 8000 Men for three Months to make those People slaves but if the matter cannot be composed in that time make War upon them with our whole force both by Land and Sea But that which concerns us yet nearer in this League is that this obligation of assistance was mutual so that if a disturbance should happen hereafter in England upon any attempt to change our Religion or our Government though it was in the time of his Majesty Successors the most Catholick King is obliged by this League which we are still to believe was entred into for the security of the Protestant Religion and the good of the Nation to give aid to so Pious a Design and to make War upon the people with all his Forces both by Land and Sea And therefore it was no wonder that the Ministers were not forward in shewing this League to the Parliament who would have soon observed all these inconveniencies and have seen how little such a League could contribute to the preserving the general Peace or to the securing of Flanders since the French King may within one months time possess himself of it and we by the League are not obliged to send our Succors till 3 Months after the Invasion So that they would upon the whole matter have been inclined to suspect that the main end of this League was only to serve for a handsom pretence to raise an Army in England and if the people here should grow discontented at it and any little disorders should ensue the Spaniard is thereby obliged to send over Forces to suppress them The next thing recommended to them was the farther examination of the Plot and every one who has observed what has passed for more than two years together cannot doubt that this was sincerely desired by such as are most in credit with his Majesty and then surely the Parliament deserv'd not to be censured upon this account since the examination of so many new Witnesses the Trial of the Lord Stafford the great preparations for the Trial of the rest of the Lords and their diligent inquiry into the Horrid Irish Treasons shew that the Parliament wanted no diligence to pursue his Majesties good intentions in that affair And when His Majesty desired from the Parliament their Advice and Assistance concerning the preservation of Tangier the Commons did not neglect to give its due consideration They truly represented to him how that important place came to be brought into such exigencies after so vast a Treasure expended to make it useful and that nothing better could be expected of a Town for the most part put under Popish Governours and always fill'd with a Popish Garrison These were evils in His Majesties own power to redress and they advised him to it nor did they rest there but promise to assist him in defence of it as soon as ever they could be reasonably secured that any Supply which they gave for that purpose should not be used to Augment the strength of our Popish Adversaries and to encrease our Dangers at home They had more than once seen Money imployed directly contrary to the end for which it was given by Parliament they had too good cause of fear it might be so again and they knew that such a misimployment would have been fatal at that time But above all they considered the eminent dangers which threatned them with certain Ruine at home and therefore justly thought that to leave the consideration of England to provide for Tangier would be to Act like a Man that should send his Servants to mend a gap in his hedge when he saw his House on Fire and his Family like to be consumed in it We are next told that His Majesty Offered to concur in any Remedies that could be proposed for the security of the Protestant Religion and we must own that he did indeed make such an Offer but he was pleased to go no further for those Remedies which the Commons tendred were rejected and those which they were preparing were prevented by a Dissolution We have seen the great things which the King did on his part let us now reflect on those instances which are singled out as so many unsuitable returns of the Commons They are complained of for presenting Addresses in the nature of Remonstrances rather then Answers Under what unhappy circumstances do we find our selves when our Representatives can never behave themselves with that caution but they will be misinterpreted at Court If the Commons had return'd Answer to His Majesties Messages without shewing upon what grounds they proceedded they had then been accused as men acting peremptorily without reason if they modestly express the reasons of their Resolutions they are then said to Remonstrate But what the Ministers would have this word Remonstrance signifie what Crime it is they mean thereby to charge the Commons with is unknown to an English Reader Perhaps they who are better Critics and more French-men know some pernicious thing which it imports If they mean by a Remonstrance a declaring the Causes and Reasons of what they do it will not surely be imputed as a fault in them since 't is a way of proceeding which His Majesties Ministers have justified by their own Example having in His Majesties name vouchsafed to declare the Causes and Reasons of his Actions to his People But the Commons made Arbitrary Orders for taking Persons into Custody for matters that had no Relation to Priviledges of Parliament The Contrivers of this Declaration who are so particular in other things would have done well to have given some instances of these Orders If they intend by these general words to reflect on the Orders made to take those degenerate wretches into Custody who published under their hands their Abhorrence of Parliaments and of those who in an humble and Lawful manner Petitioned for their Setting in a time of such extream necessity Surely they are not in good earnest they cannot believe themselves when they say that these matters had no Relation to Priviledges of Parliament if the Priviledg of Parliament be concern'd when an injury is done to any particular Member how much more is it touched when men strike at Parliaments themselves endeavour to wound the very Constitution if this be said with Relation to Sheridon who has since troubled the World with so many idle impudent Pamphlets upon that account 't is plain that his Commitment was only in order to examine him about the Popish Plot and his indeavors to stifle it though his contemptuous behaviour to the House deservd a much