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A92405
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Remarques upon the new project of association: In a letter to a friend.
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Paterson, William, 1658-1719.
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Wing R949B; ESTC R182616
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pious Work should be any ways obstructed or hindred 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 whilst 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 Countreys Cities and Burroughs until the next meeting 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 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 Witness of all which promsies 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 THis form of Association is only the Covenant Reviv'd with the same Licence Limitations Reserves and Equivocations And to the very same End and purpose And all Schismatiques and Heretiques whatsoever Taken and Invited into the Combination under the Colour of preserving the True protestant Religion the papists only excepted The Guards to be Disbanded as Illegal His R. H. to be Expell'd or Depos'd and all his Adherents even the King himself to be destroy'd by Force of Arms That is to say The King is to be allow'd no other Ministers Officers but what the Associates shal vouchsafe to affoord him and he himself likewise upon his Good Behaviour under the pain of Immediate Insurrection Tumult and Revolt Being engaged by this Vow promise protestation or what else you please to a downright Rebellion unless the King will deliver up his Crown without Striking a Stroke for 't the Oath is carry'd on even to the Manner and Method by which the Nation is to be Govern'd after such Violence Acted upon the person and Authority of the King And this Confederacy is Extended even to the Devolving of the Soveraign Power upon the House of Commons during Sitting the Parliament and upon the Major part of the Members of both Houses Subscribing this Association after the Prorogation or Dissolution thereof And they never to Recede upon any Consideration whatsoever So that here 's a King Depos'd a Monarchy Destroy'd a Common-wealth Erected a Free People Enslav'd And all in a Trice by the help of this Pious Vnion if ever it should come to take Effect And in Conclusion the Supreme Power Vested in the Two Houses to Prepetuity This is the Fairest Construction can be made on 't the paper calls it the present Parliament in a Complement 't is only the House of Commons in Effect Now look back upon the whole and take notice how Frivolous all those Colours and pretensions are that have been produced in Favour or Excuse of this Paper We the Kinights do Declare and Swear that what we connot Compass in a Parliamentary way we will endeavour to bring about by force of Arms. Here 's the very Constitution of Parliaments overthrown at a Dash And pursuant to this Resolution so many Members that were Chosen and Entrusted to serve their Countrys and as much as in them lay to uphold and maintain the Laws of the Land and the Liberties of the people have now propounded to set up themselves by this project without either King or House of Lords as a Standing Committe and to Exercise an Arbitary power over their Fellow-Subjects to the Subversion of the Common Rights and in Defiance of the Fundamental priviledges of King parliaments and people So much for the pretended project of a BILL Now to this Scheme of an Association for Defence against a popish King The paper begins with Exclamations against a popish plot and concludes in an Oath of Conspiracy against a protestant prince It begins with a pretended Tenderness of Religion and ends in a peremptory Sentence and Determination of State For fear of a popish King here 's a Certain provision that we shall have no King at all and under pretext of Opposing an Arbitrary power in the Crown here 's an Expedient offer'd as for the Avoidance of it by Swearing Allegiance to the Unlimited will and pleasure of a Committes of Disbanded Members of our own Fellow Subjects But this is no more they say then was propounded and Debated in the House of Commons There was an Address of the Commons 't is true bearing date May 10. 1679. That His Majesty would be graciously pleased to give Order for raising the Militia and keeping of it up for some certain time and the Lords were afterwards reminded of it To which as I remember His Majesties Answer was That He would not part with it so much as for an horu But here was no Associating to take possession of it by Force in case it should be refused It is True likwise that the Commons December 15. 1680. pass'd a Vote that a Bill should be brought in for an Association of all his Majeistes Protestant Subjects c. And that upon the one and twentieth of the same Month they presented an Address to the King desiring therein that his Majesty would be Graciously pleased to assent to an Act whereby his Majesties Protestant Subjects might be Enabled to Associate themselves for the Defence of His Person c. Which very Word Enabled Imports a Concession and Acknowledgment that without the Kings Passing such a Bill they had no Right to Authorize such a Combination But that which has misled people into a mistake so Derogatory to the Honour of the House of Commons I presume may be this There were several Questions put by the Foreman of the Jury First to Mr. Gwin and afterwards to Mr. Secretary Jenkins that carryed some sort of Countenance as if This Association had been Debated and This very Paper Read in the House of Commons 'T is a short Passage and I 'le recite it as you will find it in the Printed proceedings Pag. 34. Foreman Don't you know Sir there was a Discourse in the Parliament of an Association Mr. Gwin Sir I was not of the last Parliament I know nothing of it Foreman You have not heard then that there was such a Thing in Parliament concerning an Association Mr Gwin I have heard of an Association Talk'd of Foreman Mr. Secretary I would ask you some Questions If you did not know of a Debate in Parliament of an Association Mr. Secretary I was not present at the Debate