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A83496	Speeches and passages of this great and happy Parliament: from the third of November, 1640, to this instant June, 1641. Collected into one volume, and according to the most perfect originalls, exactly published.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Mervyn, Audley, Sir, d. 1675.; Pym, John, 1584-1643.; Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing E2309; Thomason E159_1; ESTC R212697	305,420	563

the levying of the Subsidies the houses leave to your Majesties consideration It is found that Goodman the Priest hath been twice formerly committed and discharged That his residence now about London was in absolute contempt of your Majesties Proclamation as the Houses are credibly informed that he hath been sometimes a Minister in the Church of England and consequently is an Apostate both Houses are very sensible that any man should presume to intercede with your Majesty in a case of so high a nature They humbly desire that a speedy course may be taken for the due execution of the laws against the Priests and Jesuits that all mischiefes before mentioned may be timely remedied by your Majesties great wisdome And lastly that Goodman the Priest be left to the justice of the law The Earle of Straffords Letter to his most Excellent Majesty dated from the Tower the 4th of May 1641. May it please your sacred Majesty IT hath been my greatest griefe in all these troubles to be taken as a person which should endeavour to represent and set things amisse between your Majesty and your People and to give counsels tending to the disquiet of the three Kingdomes Most true it is that this mine own private Condition considered it had been a great madnesse since through your grations favour I was so provided as not to expect in any kind to mend my fortune or please my mind more then by resting where your bounteous hands had placed me Nay it is most mightily mistaken for unto your Majesty it is well known my poore and humble advises concluded still in this That your Majesty and your people could never be happy till there were a right understanding betwixt you and them no other means to effect and settle this happinesse but by the Counsell and assent of the Parliament or to prevent the growing Evils upon this state but by intirely putting your self in the last resort upon the loyalty and good affections of your English subjects Yet such is my misfortune this truth findeth little credit the contrary seemeth generally to be believed and my selfe reputed as some thing of Separation between you and your people under a heavier censure then which I am perswaded no Gentleman can suffer Now I understand the minds of men are more incensed against me notwithstanding your Majesty hath declared that in your princely opinion I am not guilty of Treason nor are you satisfied in your conscience to passe the Bill This bringeth me into a very great straight there is before me the ruine of my Children and family hitherto untouched in all the branches of it with any foule Crimes Here is before me the many ills which may befall your Sacred person and the whole Kingdome should your selfe and Parliament part lesse satisfied one with the other then is necessary for the preservation both of King and People Here are before me the things most valued most feared by mortall man Life or Death To say Sir that there hath not been a strife in me were to make me lesse man then God knoweth my infirmities give me And to call a destruction upon my selfe and young Children where the intentions of my heart at least have been innocent of this great offence may be believed will find no easie consent from Flesh and blood But with much sadnesse I am come to a resolution of that which I take to be best becomming me to look upon that which is most principall in it selfe which doubtlesse is the prosperity of Your sacred Person and the Common-Wealth infinitely before any private mans interest And therefore in few words as I put my selfe wholly upon the honour and justice of my Peers so clearly as to beseech your Majesty might please to have spared that declaration of yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships so now to set your Majesties conscience at liberty I doe most humbly beseech your Majesty in prevention of mistakes which may happen by your refusall to passe this Bill And by this means remove praised be God I cannot say this accursed but I confesse this unfortunate thing forth of the way towards that blessed agreement which God I trust shall ever Establish between you and your subjects Sir my consent shall more acquit you herein to God then al ●he world can do besides To a willing man there is no injury done And as by Go●s grace I forgive all the world with a calmnes and meeknes of infinite Contentment to my dislodging soule So Sir to you can I give the life of this world with all the cheerfulnesse imaginable in the just acknowledgement of your exceeding favours And only beg that in your goodnesse you would vouchsafe to cast your gratious regard upon my poor Sonne and his three Sisters lesse or more and no otherwise then as their in present unfortunate Father may hereafter appeare more or lesse guilty of this death God long preserve your Majesty Your Majesties most faithfull and humble Subject and Servant STRAFFORD Tower 4 May 1641. The Petition of the EARLE of STRAFFORD unto the Lords before he Dyed To the Right Honourable the Lords Spirituall and Temporall in this present Parliament assembled THE humble Petition of Thomas late Earle of Strafford Sheweth that seeing it is the good will and pleasure of God that your Petitioner is now shortly to pay that duty which we allow to our fraile nature He shall in all Christian Patience and Charity conform and submit himselfe to your Justice in a comfortable assurance of the great Hope laid up for us in the Mercy and Merits of our Saviour blessed for ever Only he humbly craves to return your Lordships most humble thanks for your Noble Compassion towards those innocent Children whom now with his last blessing he must commit to the protection of Almighty GOD beseeching Your Lord-ships to finish your Pious intentions towards them And desiring that the reward thereof may be fulfill'd in You by him that is able to give above all we are able either to aske or think Wherein I trust the Honourable House of Commons will afford their Christian assistance And so beseeching your Lord-ships charitably to forgive all his omissions and infirmities he doth very heartily and truly recommend Your Lordships to the Mercies of Our Heavenly Father and that for his goodnesse he may perfect you in every good work Amen Tho. Wentworth Lord FAULKLANDS first speech in Parliament I Rejoyce very much to see this day and the want hath not lain in my affections but my lungs If to all that hath bind past I have not been as loud with my voice as any mans in the house yet truly my opinion is we have yet done nothing if we doe no more I shall add what I humbly conceive ought to be added as soone as I have said something with references to him that saies it I will first desire the forgivenesse of the House if ought I say seem to entrench upon anothers

MY Lord Primate of Ireland and my Lords and the rest of these noble Gentlemen It is a great comfort to me to have your Lordships by me this day because I have been known to yours long time and I now desire to be heard a few words I come here my Lords to pay my last debt to sin which is death and through the mercies of God to rise again in eternall glory My Lords if I may use a few words I shall take it as a great curtesie from you I am come here my Lords to submit to the judgement that is passed against me I do it with a very quiet and contented minde I do freely forgive all the world a forgivenesse not from the teeth outwards as they say but from my heart I speak it in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not a displeasing thought that arifeth in me against any man I thank God I say truely my conscience bears me witnesse that in all the honour I had to serve his Majesty I had not any intention in my heart but did aime at the joynt and individuall prosperity of the King and his people although it be my ill hap to be misconstrued I am not the first man that hath suffered in this kinde it is a common portion that befalls men in this life righteous judgement shall be hereafter here we are subject to errors and misiudging one another One thing I desire that I might be heard and do hope that for Christian charities sake I shall be beleeved That I was so farre from being against Parliaments that I alwayes did think Parliaments in England to be the happy constitutions of the Kingdome and Nation and the best means under God to make the King and his people happy As for my death I do hear acquit all the world and beseech God to forgive them In particular I am very glad his Majesty conceives me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as the utmost execution of this sentence I do infinitely rejoyce in it and in the mercy of his and do beseech God to return to him the same that he may finde mercy when he hath most need of it I wish this Kingdom all prosperity and happinesse in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish And I professe heartily and do humbly recommend it to you and wish that every man would lay his hand on his heart and consider seriously whether the beginning of the peoples happinesse should be written in letters of bloud I fear they are in a wrong way I desire Almighty God that no one drop of my bloud rise up in judgement against them I have but one word more and that is for my Religion My Lord of Armagh I do professe my self seriously faithfully and truly to be an obedient sonne of the Church of England in that Church I was borne and bred in that Religion I have lived and now in that I dye prosperity and happinesse be ever to it It hath been said I was inclined to Popery if it be an obiection worth the answering let me say truly from my heart that since the time that I was 21. yeers of age unto this day going on 49. yeers I never had thought or doubt of the truth of this Religion nor had ever any the boldnesse to suggest to me the contrary to my best remembrance and so being reconciled to the mercies of Christ Jesus my Saviour into whose bosome I hope shortly to be gathered to enioy eternall happinesse which shall never have end I desire heartily to be forgiven of every man if any rash or unadvised words or deeds hath passed and desire all your prayers and so my Lord farewell and farewell all things in this world The Lord strengthen my faith and give me confidence and assurance in the merits of Christ Jesus I trust in God we shall all meete to live eternally in Heaven and receive the accomplishment of all happinesse where every fear shall be wiped from our eyes and sad thought from our hearts And so God blesse this Kingdome and Jesus have meroy on my soul Then turning himself about he saluted all the Noblemen and took a solemne leave of all considerable persons on the Scaffold giving them his hand And after that he said Gentlemen I would say my prayers and I intreat you all to pray with me and for me then his Chaplain laid the book of Common-prayer upon the chair before him as he kneeled down on which he praied almost a quarter of an houre then he prayed as long or longer without a book and ended with the Lords prayer then standing up he spies his brother Sir George Wentworth and cals him to him and saith brother we must part remember me to my sister and to my wife and carry my blessing to my eld●st sonne and charge him from me that he fear God and continue an obedient sonne of the Church of England and that he should approve himself a faithfull subject to the King and tell him that he should not have any private grudge or revenge towards any concerning me and bid him beware that he medle not with Church livings for that will prove a moth and canker to him in his estate and wish him to content himself to be a servant to his Country as a Justice of peace in his County and not aiming at higher preferments carry my blessing also to my daughters Anne and Arrabella charge them to fear and serve God and he will blesse them not forgetting my little Infant that yet knowes neither good nor evill and cannot speak for it self God speak for it and blesse it then sayd he now I have nigh done one stroke will make my wife husbandlesse my dear children fatherles and my poore servants master lesse and seperate me from my dear brother and all my friends but let God be to you and them all in all After that going to take off his doublet and to make himselfe unready he sayd I thank God I am no more afraid of death nor daunted with any discouragements rising from any fears but do as cheerfully put off my doublet at this time or ever I did when I went to bed Then he put off his doublet and wound up his hair with his hands and put on a white cap. Then he called where is the man that should do this last office meaning the Executioner call him to me When he came and askt him forgivenesse he told him he forgave him and all the World Then kneeling down by the block he went to prayer again himself the Bishop of Armagh kneeling on the one side and the Minister on other to the which Minister after prayer he turned himself and spoke some few words softly having his hands lifted up this Minister closed his hands with his then bowing himself to the earth to lay his head on the blocke he told the Executioner that he would first lay down his h●ad to

Ratcliffe was not the man alone but others joyned with him in that Assembly and I am sure my Lord of Strafford moved it for the breach of Parliament I shall addresse myselfe to the body of his answere Now give me leave my Lords that I may open the nature of this great offence My Lords it is a charge of Treason which is a Treason not ended or expired by one single Act but a trade enured by this Lord of Strafford ever since the Kings favor hath been bestowed upon him My Lords it hath two parts to deprive us that which was good And secondly to bring in a Tyrannicall government it takes away the Lawes of the Land and it hath an arbitrary government bounded by no law but what my Lord of Strafford pleaseth It is the law my Lords which we reverence and cheerefully render to our gracious Soveraigne The Law as it is the ground of our libertie so it is the distribution of Iustice My Lords in all this my Lord of Strafford hath endeavoured to make them uncapable of any benefit it is true my Lords that Treason against the person of a Prince is high Treason and the highest Treason that can be to man but it falls short of this Treason against the State When blessed King Iames was taken to heaven he commended the lawes to his sonne our gracious Soveraigne But my Lords if such a design as this should take effect that the law of Iustice shouldbe taken from the Throne we are without hope of ever seeing happy dayes power is not so easily laid downe unlesse it be by so good and just a Prince as we have My Lord of Straffords accusation is conveyed into twenty eight Articles and I shall but touch the heads that wee shall insist upon and I thinke the best way to this is to consider what he did before he went into Ireland what then and what since He hath encroached jurisdiction where none was taking upon him a power to repell the lawes and to make new lawes and in domineering over the lives and goods and what ever else was the subjects My Lords this he hath not done onely upon the meaner sort but upon the Peeres and auncient Nobilitie and what may your Lordships expect but the same measure at his hands here as they have found there when he committed any to prison if a Habeas Corpus were granted the Officers must not obey and if any Fine were put upon the Officer for refusing them there was a command that he should bee discharged so that he did not onely take power to himselfe but the Scepter of Iustice out of the Kings hand When he was a member of the house of Commons it was his owne motion all Ministers of state should serve the King according to the lawes which he hath broken himselfe He doth as much as say that Fines shall not be payed by Officers if in this they fulfill his commands but those that release a prisoner upon a Habeas Corpus shall finde his displeasure My Lords if this had been a single Act we should not have accused him of high Treason but this hath beene his common course and this we present to your Lordships consideration The next thing is that in the North the people attending for Iustice you shall see what a dishonour he flung upon the sacred Majestie of the King that did advance him some of the Iustices saith he are all for Law but they shall finde that the Kings little fingers is heavier then the Loynes of the Law My Lords what a sad speech was this and what sad Accidents happened upon it you all know and he said in a solemne speech That Ireland was a conquered Nation and that the King might do with them what he would their Charters were nothing worth they did binde the King no longer then he pleased Surely you may see what hee would do if he had power but we hope never such counsell shall have acceptation in so gracious an Eare as our Soveraignes and he doth not stay in words but proceeds to Actions when a Peere of the Kingdome was expelled the Kingdome for suing at Law for recovering of his Right he saith he would have Ireland know that neither Law nor Lawyers should question any thing that he ordered My Lords he goes higher for when there was an occasion to speake of an Act of State he said it should bee as binding as an Act of Parliament My Lords he cannot goe higher then this hee tells them in Parliament they were a Conquered Nation and they must expect the usage of a Conquered Nation The Lord Mountnorris for a few words that fell from his mouth spoken privately at his Table had a Counsell of warre called against him and was judged to death My Lords it is no marvaile that he saie That the Kings little finger should be so heavie when his little too was so heavie to tread downe a Peere under his foote My Lords he makes Lawes of himselfe and hee makes a difference in matters of Iustice betweene the poore and the rich but when he hath executed his power upon the poore he will fall upon the rich My Lords he hath made that which was worth but five shillings to the value of twenty and my Lords by this he doth in effect take away what ere this commoditie is worth he saith he doth it for the Kings gaine but we shall make it appeare that the Crowne hath lost and he hath gained And for the Commodity of Flax my Lords it is but a Womans Commodity but yet it is the staple Commodity of Ireland Now my Lords this Commondity he hath gotten wholly into his owne hands for he made such a Proclamation that it should be used in such wayes as the Women could not doe it and if it were not used in such ways that it should bee seised upon no he doth not onely put impositions upon the Subject but take away the goods too and thus he hath levyed warre against the Kings Subjects and this is his course that if a Decree were made by him and not obeyed there issued a warrant to Souldiers that they should make Garrison and that they should goe to the houses of those that were pretended to be disobedient My Lords they have killed their sheep and their Oxen and bound their horses and took them Captives till they have rendered obedience which is expressely contrary to Law for it saith If any man set horse or foot upon the Kings Subject in a Military way it is high Treason My Lords it doth not onely oppresse them in their estates but provoke and incite his Majesty to lay downe his mercy and goodnesse and to fall into an offensive war against his Subjects and to say they are Rebels and Traytors He tels his Counsell that the Parliament having forsaken the King and the King having tryed the Parliament hee might use other wayes to procure money to supply his necessities My Lords the same day

publike service as well to prove a sentence not then in rerum natura both Law and charity in a benigne construction of these two ends will allow the more favourable Another objection is whispered that the entrance is not found in the Clerk of the Parliaments Role This is no matter to the validity of his election for his priviledge commenced 40 dayes before the Parliament therefore this and the like are to be judged of as accidentia quae possunt abesse adesse sine subjecti interitu Truely Mr. Speaker my memory and lungs begin to prove Traytors to me Another objection if omitted may be judged by these of what strength and maturity they even as by the coynage of a penny one may iudge of a shilling What hinders then since here is wa●er but that he may be baptized Here are no non obstant's to be admitted in his new Pattent of Denization the common law the Statute law the Canon the Civill law plead for his admittance the writ of election the exemplification of the Sheriffs return all presidents of all ages all reports plead for his admittance our fore-fathers Ghosts the present practice of Parliaments in England plead for his admittance the Kings successive commands command and confirm his admittance Away then Serieant and with the hazarding power of our Mace touch the Marshals gates and as if there were Divinity in it they will open and bring us our Olive branch of peace wrested from our stock that with welcome Art we may ingraft him to be nourished by a common root Thus the King shall receive the benefit of an able subject who is otherwise civiliter mortuus we enjoy the participation of his labour and posterity both ours and this CAPTAINE AVDLEY MERVINS Speech to the Lords in the Upper house in the Parliament March 40. 1640. Concerning the impeachment of Sir Richard Bolton Knight Lord Chancellor of Ireland Iohn Lord Bishop of Derry Sir Gerrard Lowther Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Sir George Ratcliffe Knight with high Treason by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House My LORDS I Am commanded by the Knights Citizens and Bur-Burgesses of the Commons House to present unto you Irelands Tragedie the gray headed Common Lawes funerall and the Active Statutes death and obsequies this dejected spectacle answers but the prefiguring Type of Caesars murther wounded to the death in the Senate And by Brutus his bosome friend our Caesars image by reflexion even the fundamentall Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome the sole means by which our estates are confirmed our liberties preserved our lives secured are wound to death in the Senate I mean in the Courts of Justice and by Brutus too even by those persons that have received their beings and subsistence from them so that here enters those inseparable first Twins Treason and Ingratitude In a plain phrase My Lords I tender unto you Treason High Treason such a Treason that wants nothing but words to expresse it To counterfeit the Kings Seale to counterfeit the Kings money it is Treason but this dyes with the individuall partie To betray a Fort is Treason but it dies with a few men To betray an Army is a Treason but it dyes with a limited number which may be reinforced again by politique industry To blow up both Houses of Parlament is Treason but succeeding ages may replant Branches by a fruitfull posterity but this High Treason which I do move in the name of the Houses of Commons charge and impeach Sir Richard Bolion Knight Lord Chancellour of Ireland and Sir Gerard Lowther Knight Lord Chief Iustice of the Common Pleas Iohn Lord Bishop of Derry Sir George Ratcliffe Knight is in its nature so far transcending any of the former that the rest seem to be but petty Larcenies in respect of this What is it to subvert the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome High Treason What is it with a contumacious malice to trample under feet the rich legacies of our forefathers purchased with sweat and expence I mean the Statute lawes what is it but High Treason What is it through an Innate Antipathie to the publick good to incarcerate the liberty of the Subject under the Iron and weighty chains of an arbitrary Government High Treason What is it since his Majestie the most amiable and delightful portraiture of flourishing and indulgent Justice to his Subjects to present him personated in their extrajudiciall censures and judgements but to possesse it possible the hearts of his loyall Subjects of this Kingdome That he is a bloody and devowring Tyrant and to provoke their never dying alleageance into a fatall and desperate Rebellion What is it to violate the sacred Graunts of many of his Majesties Progenitors Kings and Queenes of England confirmed under the broad Seale being the publique faith of this Kingdome by an extrajudiciall breath grounded upon no record What is it to insent a surreptitious clause forged by some servile brain in the preamble of our last Act of Subsidies by which the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Earl of Stofford are placed in one and the same sphear allowing them but equall influencies to nourish the alleageance of this Kingdome what is this but to extoll other then Regall Authority and to crucifie the Majestie of our most gracious Soveraign betwixt the two Theeves of Government Tyranny and Treason My Lords having such a full and lasting Gale to drive me into the depth of these accusations I cannot hereby steere and confine my course within the compasse of patience since I read in the first volumes of their browes the least of these to be the certain ruine of the Subject and if prov'd a most favorable Prologue to usher in the Tragedie of the Actors Councellers and Abetters herein What was then the first and main question it was the subvertion of the fundamentall Lawes of this Kingdome let then magna Charta that lies prostrated besmeared and groveling in her own gore discount her wounds as so many pregnant and undeniable proofs mark the Epethite Magna 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 confirmed by 30. Parliaments in the succession of eight Kings the violation of which hath severall times ingaged the Kingdome of England in a voluntary sacrifice a Charter which imposeth that pleasant and welbecomming oath upon all Soveraigntie to vindicate and preserve the Immunitie thereof before the Crown incircle their Royall Temples in this oath of so high consequence and generall interest his Majesty doth in a manner levie a fine to his Subjects use for avoiding all fraudulent conveyances in the Administration of Justice And this oath is transplanted unto the Judges as the Feoffees in trust appointed between his Majestie and the Subject and sealed by his Majesties provident care with that imphaticall penalty that their estates and lives shall be in the Kings mercy upon the violation of the same either in whole or in part neither hath the deserved punishment for the breach of this oath

enacted as fulgura ex vitrio or as bugbears to inforce the obedience of Children no my Lords the just execution of it upon their Predecessors though in breaches not so capitall might have warned them to have strangled their ill born resolutions in the Cradle before they now proclaim their infancie and petition for their punishment Witnesse Sir Thomas Weyland his banishment confiscation of his goods and lands only for his mercenarie Justice contrary to his oath who was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the time of Edward the first Witnesse Sir William Thorpe Cheif Iustice of the Kings Bench in the time of Edward the third who was adjudged to be hanged because he had broken the Kings oath made unto the people wherewith he was intrusted in the Roll. Now my Lords though Magna Charta be sacred for antiquity though its confirmation be strengthned by oath though it be the proper Dictionarie that expounds meum tuum and assignes a Subiect his birth right yet it only survives in the Rolls but now miserable rent and torn in the practice These words Salvo cantenemento live in the Rolls but they are dead in the Castle Chamber These words Nullus liber bujus ejicitur è libero sue tenemento in praejudicium parium live in the Rolls but they are dead where property and free-hold are determined by paper Petitions These words Nulli vendemus nulli differemus Justitiam live in the Rolls but they are dead when the Suites Iudgements and excecution of the Subiect are wittingly and illegally suspended retarded and avoyded Shall we desire to search the mortall wounds inflicted upon the Statute Lawes who sees them not lying upon their death bed stab'd with Proclamations their primitive and genuine tenures escheated by Acts of State and strangled by Monoplies Will you surveigh the liberties of the Subiects every prison spues out illegad attachments and commitments every Pillory is dyed with the forced bloud of the Subiects and hath ears though not to hear yet to witnesse this complaint Do you doubt of the defacement of the amiable Offices of his Maiesties most transplendent and renowned Iustice and grace let then that Microcosme of Letters Patents confirmed under his Maiesties and his Predecessors broad Seale of the Kingdome being the publique faith thereof and yet unchristened by frivolous and private opinions rise up in iudgement let the abortive Iudgement of the tenure in Capite where no tenure was exprest nay let the Hereticall and Traiterous opinions where the Tenure was exprest yet to draw in all by Markets and Faires granted in the same Patents rise up in Iudgements What glasse hath this unhappy divided Kingdome from his Maiesties presence and andience to contemplate the fair and ravishing form of his royall intentions in but in the cleer and diaphanous administration of his Iustice and what do these traytrous and illegall practise ayme at but in affront to his Maiesty which we most tenderly resent and discontent to his Subiects to multiply as by a Magick glasse the royall dispensation of his favours into the ugly and deformed visage of their suppression of the liberties devastations of the estates and the deprivation of the lives of his loyall Subiects so that it may be sayd Regali Capiti cervicem consul equinan● Jungere sic vellet variasque inducere plumas My Lords these ought to be considered with as serious an eare as they were practised by mischievous experiments Inquire of the Netherlands why their fields are growne fertile by the inundation of bloud why the pensive Matrons solemnize too too frequent funeralls of their Husbands and issue and they will answer you it was for the preservation of their hereditary Lawes which Tyranny would have innovated This Kingdome personated in the sable habit of a widdow with dishelved hayrs seems to Petition your Lordships that since she is a Mother to most of us yet cer●ainly a Nurse unto us all that you would make some other for redresse of her Tyrannicall oppression These persons impeached resemble the opacious body of the earth interposed to eclipse that light and vigour which the solar aspect of Maiesty would communicate unto his Subiects They imitate the fish Sepia that vomits a darke liquor out of her mouth to cloud the waters for her securer escape They are those to whom the keyes have been committed yet they have barred the door to them that knoc't They are those unnaturall Parents that give their children stones in stead of bread and scorpions for fish Was it for this purpose that the royall authority scituated them in these eminent places that like Beacons upon high Hills they should discover and proclaim each innovation and stratagem against the publique weale whilest they in the mean time imploy therein fire to publique Incendiary or like Ignes fatui seduce the easie and beleeving Traveller into pits and unexpected Myres Were they sworne to seale their damnation and not their confirmation of our libertie estates and lives Shall a man be censured for perjury in that breach of his private Faith and those be justifiable in Treason aggravated by perjury against the dignity of the Crownes and publique faith of the Kingdomes No my Lords the grave judicious and mature examination and deserved punishment of these traiterous proceedings will speak these times as glorious to posterity in their information as they are now lamented in their persecution The bloud-thirsting sword of an hostile enemy by a timely union and a defensive preparation may be prevented The thin rib'd Carcasse of an universall famine may have his consumption restored by a supply from our neighbouring Nations The quick spreading venome of infectious pestilence may be prevented by Antidotes and qualified by phisicall remedies But this Catholick grievance like a snake in the most verdant walks for such are the unblemished lawes truly practised stings us to death when we are most secure and like the Kings evill can only be cured by his Majesties free and gracious permission of our modest and gentle proceedings for his vindication and our preservation therein concluded Spencer and Gamston who have left their names monumentally odious for the evill counsell they fed the Kings ear with yet did possibly advantage their own friends while these dart their envie and Treason for a common Center equally touching the bounds of every superficies for as concerning the valide estates they have illegally overthrown when the Lawes by your Lordships industry receive their native vigour they will re-assume their confirmation but the estates happily in themselves legall that they have in an extrajudiciall forme established will haste as speedily to their dissolution so that Judas-like they betray their best friends with a kisse My Lords I cannot finde any surviving Cronologie of times this season to be parallel'd with all circumstances which makes me view the Records amongst the infernall spirits to finde if match't there I might extenuate their facts where 1. they appear like the false spirit sent