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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05024	Familiar letters. Vol. II. Containing thirty six letters, / by the Right Honourable John, late Earl of Rochester. Printed from his original papers. With letters and speeches, by the late Duke of Buckingham, the Honourable Henry Savile, Esq; Sir George Etherridge, to several persons of honour. And letters by several eminent hands.	Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680.; Savile, Henry, 1642-1687.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687.	1699 (1699)	Wing R1748; ESTC R182833	66,393	222

made in Edward the Third's Reign Parliaments were to be holden very often it should be Enacted That within three Years after the Determination of that present Parliament Parliaments should not be discontinued above three Years at most and should be holden oftner if need required These have been several false kind of Arguments drawn out of these Triennial Bills against the Statutes of Edward the Third which I confess I could never remember nor indeed those that urged them to me ever durst own for they always laid their Faults upon Some-body else Like ugly aufish Children which because of their Deformity and want of Wit the Parents are ashamed of and so turn them out to the Parish But my Lords let the Argument be what it will I will have this short Answer to all that can be wrested out of the Triennial Bills That the first Triennial Bill was repeal'd before the matter now disputed of was in question and the last Triennial Bill will not be of force till the Question be decided that is till the Parliament be Dissolved The whole matter therefore my Lords is reduced to this short Dilemma Either the Kings of England are bound by the Acts mentioned of Edward the Third or else the whole Government of England by Parliament and by Law is absolutely at an end For if the Kings of England have Power by an Order of theirs to invalidate an Act made for the Maintenance of Magna Charta they have also a Power by an Order of theirs to invalidate Magna Charta it self and if they have Power by an Order of theirs to invalidate an Act made for the Maintenance of the Statute De Talligio non concedendo they have also a Power when they please by an Order of theirs to invalidate the Statute it self and they may not only without the Help of Parliament raise what Money they please but also take away any Man's Estate when they please and deprive one of his Liberty and Life if they please This my Lords is a Power I think that no Judge or Lawyer will pretend the Kings of England have and yet this Power must be allowed them or else we that are met here this Day cannot act as a Parliament for we are not met by vertue of the last Prorogation then Prorogation is an Order of the King 's and a point-blank Contrary to the two Acts of Edward the Third For the Acts say That a Parliament shall be holden within a Year And the Prorogation says That Parliaments shall not be held within a Year but some Months after This I conceive is a plain Contradiction and consequently that the Prorogation is void Now if we cannot act as a Parliament by vertue of the last Prorogation I beseech your Lordships by vertue of what else can we act Shall we act by vertue of the King's Proclamation Pray my Lords how so Is a Proclamation of more force than a Prorogation Or if any thing that has been ordered a first time be not valued does the ordering it a second time make it good in Law I have heard indeed That two Negatives make an Affirmative But I never heard before That two Nothings ever made Any-thing Well but how then do we meet Is it by our own Adjournment I hope that No-body has the Confidence to say so Which way then is it we do meet here By an Accident That I think may be granted But an accidental Meeting can no more make a Parliament than an Accidental Clapping of a Crown on a Man's Head can make a King There is a great deal of Ceremony required to give a Matter of that Moment a Legal Sanction The Laws have repos'd so great Trust and Power in the Hands of the Parliament that every Circumstance relating to the manner of their Electing Meeting and Proceeding is lookt after with the most Circumspection imaginable For this Reason the King's Writs about the Summons of Parliament are to be issued out verbatim according to the Form Prescribed by the Laws or else the Parliament is void and nulled For the same Reason that a Parliament is summoned by the King's Writs does not meet at the very same Day it 's summoned to meet at that Parliament is void and nulled and by the same Reason if a Parliament be not legally Adjourned de die in diem these Parliaments must also be void and nulled O but some say there is nothing in the two Acts of Edward the Third to take away the King's Power in Prorogation therefore Prorogation is good My Lords under Favour it is a very gross Mistake For pray examine the Words of the Acts and the Acts say Parliaments shall be holden Once a Year Now to whom can these Words be directed but to them that are to call a Parliament And who are they but the Kings of England It is very true this does not take away the King's Power of Proroguing Parliaments but it most certainly limits it to be within a Year Well then it is said again If the Proroguing be null and void then things are just as they were before And therefore the Parliament is still in being My Lords I confess there would be some weight in this but for one thing which is That not one word is true for if when the King had prorogued we had taken no notice of his prorogation but had gone on like a Parliament and had adjourn'd our selves the die in diem then I confess things had been just as they were before but since upon the Prorogation we went away and took no care our selves for our Meeting again if we cannot meet and act again by virtue of the Prorogations here is an Impossibility of our Meeting and Acting any other way and one may as probably say that a Man who is killed by Assault is still alive because the Assault was unlawful The next Arguments that those are reduced to who would maintain to be yet a Parliament is That the Parliament is prorogued sine die and therefore a King may call them by Proclamation To the first part of the Proposition I shall not only agree with them but also do them the Favour to prove that it is so in the Eye of the Law which I have never heard they have yet done For the Statutes say A Parliament shall be had once within a Year And that Prorogation having put them off till a Day without the Year and consequently excepted against by the Law that Day in the Eye of the Law is no Day at all that is sine die and the Prorogation might as well have put them off till so many Days after Doomsday and then I think No-body would have doubted but that had been a very sufficient Dissolution Besides my Lords I shall desire your Lordships to take notice That in former time the usual way of Dissolving Parliament was to dismiss them sine die for the King when he used to dissolve them said no more but desired them to go Home till

they appear'd at first might be interpreted as meant for your Service since nothing is so agreeable to my Nature as seeking my own Satisfaction and since you are the best Object of that I can find in the World how can you entertain a Jealousie or Fear You have the strongest Security our frail and daily changing Frame can give that I can live to no end so much as that of pleasing and serving you To Mrs. Madam I Have not sinn'd so much as to deserve to live two whole Days without seeing of you From your Justice and Good-nature therefore I will presume you will give me leave to wait on you at Night and for your sake use not that Power which you find you have absolute over me so unmercifully as you did last time to divert and keep me off from convincing you by all the Reasons imaginable how necessary 't is to preserve you faultless and make me happy and also that you believe and use me like the most Faithful of all your Servants c. To Mrs. Madam DEarest of all that ever was dearest to me if I love any thing in the World like you or wish it in my Power to do it may I ever be as unlucky and as hateful as when I saw you last I who have no way to express my Kindness to you but Letters which cannot speak it half whether shall I think my self more unfortunate who cannot tell you how much I love or you who can never know how well you are belov'd I wou'd fain bring it about if it were possible to wait upon you to day for besides that I never am without the passionate Desire of being with you at this time I have something to tell you that is for your Service and will not be unpleasant News but I am in Chains here and must seek out some Device to break 'em for a quarter of an hour To Mrs. Madam IT is impossible for me to neglect what I love as it wou'd be impertinent to profess love where I had none but I take the vanity to assure my self you cannot conclude so severely both of my Truth and Reason as to suspect me for either of those Faults If there has been a Misfortune in the Miscarriage of my Letters I beseech you not to add to it by an uncharitable Censure but do me the right to believe the last thing possible in the World is the least Omission of either Kindness or Service to you I wish the whole World was as intirely yours as I am you wou'd then have no reason to complain of any Body at least it wou'd be your own Fault if they were not what you pleas'd Those Wretches you speak of in your Letter are so little valuable that you will easily forget their Malice and rather look upon the more considerable part of the World who will ever find it their Interest and make it their vanity to serve you And now to let you know how soon I propose to be out of pain two Days hence I leave this Place in order to my Journey towards London and may I then be but as happy as your Kindness can make me I shall have but very little room either for Envy or Ambition Octob. 6th This Morning your Messenger came To Mrs. Madam I Found you in a Chiding Humour to Day and so I left you to Morrow I hope for better Luck till when neither you nor any you can employ shall know whether I am under or above Ground therefore lie still and satisfie your self that your are not nor can be half so kind to Mrs. as I am Good-night To Mrs. Madam MY Faults are such as among reasonable People will ever find Excuse but to you I will make none you are so very full of Mystery I believe you make your Court with good Success at least I wish it and as the kindest thing I can say do assure you you shall never be my Pattern either in Good-nature or Friendship for I will be after my own rate not yours Your humble Servant To Mrs. Madam I Am far from delighting in the Grief I have given you by taking away the Child and you who made it so absolutely necessary for me to do so must take that Excuse from me for all the ill Nature of it On the other side pray be assur'd I love Betty so well that you need not apprehend any Neglect from those I employ and I hope very shortly to restore her to you a finer Girl than ever In the mean time you wou'd do well to think of the Advice I gave you for how little shew soever my Prudence makes in my own Affairs in yours it will prove very successful if you please to follow it and since Discretion is the thing alone you are like to want pray study to get it To Mrs. Madam I Came to Town late last Night tho' time enough to receive News from the King very surprizing you being chiefly concern'd in 't I must beg that I may speak with you this Morning at ten a clock I will not fail to be at your Door The Affair is unhappy and to me on many Scores but on none more than that it has disturb'd the Heaven of Thought I was in to think after so long an Absence I had liv'd to be again blest with seeing my Dearest Dear Mrs. To Mrs. Madam I Am forc'd at last to own That 't is very uneasie to me to live so long without hearing a word of you especially when I reflect how Ill-natur'd the World is to pretty Women and what occasion you may have for their Service Besides I am unsatisfied yet why that Inconsiderable Service you gave me leave to do you and which I left positive Orders for when I came away was left unperform'd and if the Omission reflect upon my Servant or my self that I might punish the one and clear the other I have often wish'd I know not why but I think for your sake more than my own that Mrs. migh forget me quite but I find it wou'd trouble me of all things shou'd she think ill of me or remember me to hate me but when-ever she wou'd make me happy if she can yet wish me so let her command some real Service and my Obedience will prove the best Reward my Hopes can aim at To Mrs. MADAM MY Visit Yesterday was intended to tell you I had not Din'd in Company of Women which tho' for a certain Reason I cou'd not very well express with Words was however sufficiently made appear since you could not be so very Ill-natur'd to make severe Reflections upon me when I was gone Were Men without Frailties how wou'd you bring it about to make 'em love you so blindly as they do I cannot yet imagine what fault you could find in my Love-letter certainly 't was full of Kindness and Duty to you and whilest these two Points are kept inviolable 't is very hard when you take any thing ill