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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92405	Remarques upon the new project of association: In a letter to a friend.	Paterson, William, 1658-1719.	1681 (1681)	Wing R949B; ESTC R182616	10,538	17

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

Parliaments and part of those Forces with great difficulty caused by them to be Disbanded at the Kingdoms great Expence And it being Evident that notwithstanding all the continual endeavours of the Parliament to deliver his Majesty from the Councils and out of the power of the said D. yet his Interest in the Ministry of State and others have been so prevalent That Parliaments have been unreasonably Prorogued and Dissolved when they have been in the hot pursuit of Popish Conspiracies and ill Ministers of State their Assistants 4. And that the said D. in order to reduce all into his own Power hath procured the Garrisons the Army and Ammunition and all the power of the Seas and Souldiery and Lands belonging to these Three Kingdoms to be put into the hands of his Party and their Adherents even in opposition to the Advice and Order of the last Parliament In the Third and Fourth Clauses the Kings Guards are pronounc'd to be Contrary to Law The Officers chosen by thc Duke Subservient to his Designs and Dangerous to his Majesties Person c. The King himself Charg'd with following Popish Councels Vnreasonable Prorogations and Dissolutions in favour of Popish Conspirators and Ill Ministers of State their Assistants The Garrisons Army and Ammunition in the hands of the Dukes Party and their Adherents It is not my Work to amplifie upon these Falshoods and Slanders in this place so that I shall proceed 5. And as we considering with Heavy Hearts how greatly the Strength Reputation and Treasure of the Kingdom both at Sea and Land is Wasted and Consumed and lost by the intricate expensive management of these Wicked destructive Designs and finding the same Councils after exemplary Justice upon some of the Conspirators to be still pursued with the utmost devilish malice and desire of Revenge Whereby His Majesty is in continual hazard of being Murdered to make way for the said D 's Advancement to the Crown and the whole Kingdom in such case is destitute of all security of their Religion Laws Estates and Liberty sad experience in the Case Queen Mary having proved the wisest Laws to be of little Force to keep out Popery and Tyranny under a Popish Prince The Fifth Clause Deplores the sad Estate of the King and Nation by reason of the same Councel And after this Remonstrance upon the whole matter We the Knights c. come to a point in that which follows That is to say 6ly The King will not agree to Barr and Exclude the Duke in a Parliamentary way and therefore we 'l enter into a League and Invite the Kings Subjects to Joyn with us in a Vow of Mutual Defence and Assistance in an Vn-Parliamentary way to the Intent of a Declaration in the Form Ensuing 6. We have therefore endeavoured in a Parliamentary way by a Bilifor the purpose to Barr and Exclude the said Duke from the Succession to the Crown and to Banish him for ever out of these Kingdoms of England and Ireland But the first Means of the King and Kingdoms Safety being utterly rejected and we left almost in Despair of obtaining any real and effectual security and knowing our selves to be intrusted to Advise and Act for the preservation of his Majesty and the Kingdom and being persuaded in our Consciences that the Dangers aforesaid are so eminent and pressing that there ought to be no delay of the best means that are in our power to secure the Kingdom against them We have thought fit to propose to all true Protestants an Union amongst themselves by solemn and sacred promise of Mutual Defence and Assistance in the preservation of the true Protestant Religion His Majesties Person and Royal State and our Laws Liberties and Properties and we hold it our bounden Duty to joyn ourselves for the same intent in a Declaration of our United Affections and Resolutions in the Form insuing Now put all together and the sum of it in short is this There 's a Plot upon the Kings Life c. The Duke is in 't And preferrs Ministers of State Officers Civil and Military for his purpose Prorogues and Dissolves Parliaments Saves the Popish Lords makes the King a Cypher And therefore since he will not agree to Exclude and Banish his Brother by Act of Parliament We the Knights c. will joyn with all True Protestants in a Sacred promise to destroy him and his Adherents without exception to His Maiesty himself who for Refusing to Exclude his Royal Brother is declared to be one of the Party To what Ends and purposes will be seen in the Association it self THE ASSOCIATION I A. B. Do in the presence of God solemnly Promise Vow and protest to maintain and defend to the utmost of my Power with my Person and estate the true Protestant Religion against Popery and all popish Superstition Idolatry or Innovation and all those who do or shall endeavour to spread or advance it within this Kingdom I will also as far as in me lies maintain and defend His Majesties Royal Person and Estate as also the power and priviledge of Parliaments the lawful Rights and Liberties of the Subject against all Incroachments and Usurpation of Arbitrary power whatsoever and endeavour intirely to Disband all such Mercenary Forces as we have reason to believe were raised to advance it and are still kept up in and about the City of London to the great Amazement and Terror of all the good people of the Land Moreover I. D. of Y. Having publickly professed and owned the popish Religion and notoriously given Life and Birth to the Damnable and Hellish plotes of the papists against His Majesties person the protestant Religion and the Government of this Kingdom I will never consent that the said J. D. of Y. or any other who is or hath been a papist or any ways adher'd to the papists in their wicked Designs be admitted to the Succession of the Crown of England But by all lawful means and by force of Arms if need so require according to my Abilities will oppose him and endeavour to Subdue Expel and Destroy him if he come into England or the Dominions thereof And seek by force to set up his pretended Title and all such as shall Adhere unto him or raise any War Tumult or Sedition for him or by his Command as publique Enemies of our Laws Religion and Countrey To this end we and every one of us whose hands are here under-written do most willingly bind our selves and every one of us unto the other joyntly and severally in the Bond of one firm and loyal Society or Association and do promise and vow before God That with our joynt and particular Forces we will oppose and pursue unto Destruction all such as upon any Title whatsoever shall oppose the Just and Righteous ends of this Association and Maintain Protect Defend all such as shall enter into it in the just performance of the true intent and meaning of it And lest this Just and