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A70223	The history of Whiggism, or, The Whiggish-plots, principles, and practices (mining and countermining the Tory-plots and principles) in the reign of King Charles the First, during the conduct of affaires, under the influence of the three great minions and favourites : Buckingham, Laud, and Strafford, and the sad forre-runners and prologues to that fatal-year (to England and Ireland) 41 : wherein (as in a mirrour) is shown the face of the late (we do not say the present) times.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1809; Wing H1825C; ESTC R12704	66,369	53

But how will you mend your selves if I get some of it for secret Service Whigg Thou art capable of any secret Service but Pimping Tant Pimping that becomes not my Coat Whigg True but I could tell you a time when Pimping and Conniving at Whoredom and Adultery has been as ready a road to a Bishoprick as ever Sybthorp Manwaring or Mountague took Tant In what time I pray Whigg In what time Catch-pole in no good time Tant Well say tho' in what time good Whigg Whigg When Popish Councils prevail'd most and Popish Interest Tant Oh! a great while ago Whigg Yes yes Man-Catcher how fain thou wouldst find me tripping Tant But did King Charles 1. take Tunnage and Poundage and Imprison the refusers without Authority of Parliament for the first 15 years of his Reign Tory. Yes indeed Mr. Richard Chambers was Imprisoned for refusing to pay Customs and had also 7060 Pounds of his goods taken from him and was fined 2000 l in the Star-chamber Tant See what it is to be obstinate and Rebellious Whigg What language these Tantivees have Obstinate and Rebellious when it was Voted and Declared by the honourable House of Commons Anno 1627. 1628. That whosoever shall Counsel or Advise the taking or Levying of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage not granted by Parliament or shall be any Actor or Instrument therein shall be reputed an Innovator in the Government and a capital Enemy to the Kingdom and Common-wealth And if any Merchant or Person whatsoever shall voluntarily yield or pay the said Subsidy of Tunnage or Poundage not being granted by Parliament they shall likewise be reputed Betrayers of the Liberties of England and Enemies to the same As may appear by the said Order upon Record Now good Tantivee what shall a Subject do in this Case he must necessarily be ground-crusht between two Mill-stones if he Payes not the Kings party take all from him and if he Payes the Parliament punishes him for Betraying the Liberties of England and as a common and capital Enemy Tant There is but Right and Wrong in the World which of them were in the Right Whigg Neither of them would acknowledge themselves in the Wrong I 'le warrant 'till the longest Sword decided the Quarrel Tant But might not Mr. Chambers have been Pardoned if he would have Recanted these words They meaning the Merchants are in no parts of the World so screw'd and wrung as in England and that in Turkey they have more Incouragement Whigg Recant yes they brought him a Recantation to Subscribe and then he should be Released of his Fine 2000 l But the draught of Submission he Subscribed thus All the abovesaid Contents and Submission I Richard Chambers do utterly abhor and detest as most unjust and false and never 'till Death will acknowledge any part thereof Richard Chambers Also he underwrit these Texts of Scripture instead of Submission namely That make a man an Offender for a word and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate and turn aside the just for a thing of nought Wo to them that devise Iniquity because it is in the Power of their hand and they covet Fields and take them by Violence and Houses and take them away so they Oppress a man and his house a man and his heritage Thus saith the Lord God let it suffice you Oh Princes of Israel Remove Violence and Spoil and execute Judgment and Justice take away your Exactions from my People saith the Lord God If thou seest the Oppression of the Poor and violent perverting of Judgment and Justice in a Province marvel not at the matter for he that is higher than the highest regardeth and there be higher than they Per me Richard Chambers Tant But did He that is higher than the highest regard and shew his Displeasure in this Affair Whigg It is neither safe nor easy to unriddle the meaning of Gods Providence by the Events But as to matter of Fact History tells us that Richard Chambers notwithstanding his vast Losses for which he never had considerable Reparation when time serv'd so thankless an Office it is to be a State Martyr as to the gratitude of men but by Gods goodness to him he liv'd to be Sheriff of London and a worshipful Alderman thereof but his Judges in the Star-Chamber many of them did not come to the Grave in Peace but went out of the World as naked as they came into it stript of all before they were bereav'd of Life yet the Lord Treasurer Weston dyed of his fair death flying beyond Sea and withall he dyed a professed as before he was vilely suspected and taken upon suspition for a Masquerade Papist Tant You Whiggs thought him a Covert-papist or a Protestant in Masquerade when he was so preferr'd at Court from Chancellor of the Exchequer to be the great Lord Treasurer Whigg He was a Creature of Buckingham's making and Bishop Laud's Confirming Tant Do Bishops confirm Lord Treasurers Whigg Sometimes as well as turn Lord Treasurers themselves as they used to be Tant The worst of the Disciples carryed the Bag. Whigg That Rule holds not always true Tant But if the said Treasurer did Dye a profest Papist that looks not well on our side Tory. Nor can it surely be deny'd and the Commons were so sensible of it that they agreed upon this ensuing Petition to his Majesty concerning Recusants long before Weston grew so high in these words To the Kings most Excellent Majesty YOUR Majesties most Obedient and Loyal Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled do with great Comfort remember the many Testimonies which your Majesty hath given of your Sincerity and Zeal for the true Religion Established in this Kingdom and in particular your gracious Answer to both Houses of Parliament at Oxford upon their Petition concerning the Causes and Remedies of the Increase of Popery that your Majesty thought fit and would give Order to Remove from all Places of Authority and Government all such Persons as are either Popish Recusants or according to direction of former Acts of State justly to be suspected which was then Presented as a great and principal Cause of that Mischief but not having received so full redress herein as may conduce to the Peace of this Church and safety of this Regal State they hold it their Duty once more to resort to your Sacred Majesty humbly to Inform you that upon Examination they find the Persons underwritten to be either Recusants Papists or justly suspected according to the former Acts of State who now do or since the Siting of the Parliament did remain in places of Government and Authority and Trust in your several Counties of this your Realm of England and Dominion of Wales The Right Honourable Francis Earl of Rutland Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln Rutland Northampton Nottingham and a Commissioner of the Peace and of Oyer and Terminer in the County of York and Justice of Oyer

obligation of his Coronation Oath and Magna Charta Tant But did the Pope absolve him and let him loose and free from his Oath and the Laws Tory. Yes he did for the Pope was a Native of Burdeaux Born in King Edward's Domnions but yet he would not acquit him of his Oath and Obligation to his Subjects and his own Conscience 'till the King sent his Holiship all manner of Vessels belonging to a Chamber made of pure Gold and then the Pope untied the King from the Covenant made with his Subjects concerning their Charters Confirmed unto them by his last three Acts of Parliament Tant Has the Pope power to do these things Whigg Yes Fools think so and Knaves would perswade others to think so the King and the Pope got by it but the poor English Subjects paid for all Tant But did not the King pay part of the Reckoning Whigg No doubt on 't King Edward 1. made a shift with much Bickering to rub through and come to his Grave in Peace dying on his fair Death but his Son Edw. 2. that followed his Fathers steps when he could or durst had not the Wit or else not the Luck to manage the Feat so well poor Rehoboam for he was Deposed by the Parliament or rather was perswaded to Depose himself lest his Son also should be Excluded from the Crown for so they threatned and to make a King of another Race Thus he lost his Kingdom no Blow struck no Battel Fought done forcibly and yet without force violently and yet with Consent Tant Then surely he had first lost the Hearts of his People Whigg You may be assured of it for at first his Subjects refused to suffer him to be Crowned unless he would remove Gaveston from the Court and Kingdom which dampt King Edward's Spirit especially many of his great Friends being then at Court witnesses of his Disgrace as Charles of Valois the Queens Unkle and Brother to her Father Philip the Fair the French King the Dukes of Brittain and Brabant the Count of Luxemburg who was afterwards Emperour the Duke of Savoy the Dutchesses of Brabant and Artois with many other Princes and great Ladies so that the King solemnly Swore he would do what they desired in the next Parliament so they would be quiet now and thereupon the Coronation went on Tant Could not so many Forreign Princes and so powerful Encourage the King to repel with force his Subjects Insolence Whigg Insolence Oh Brave Tantivee What would have become of thee if thou hadst liv'd in these dayes to have an answer in Parliament for your Tantivee-principles so Discrepant from and Inconsistent with our English-frame Constitution and Fundamental Laws Tant Why were Parliaments so Malapert in those dayes Whigg Malapert Hey day what again in your Tantivee-strain you have got the Language of some late Addressers that take upon them to Judge the highest Court and Council of the Kingdom the Parliament Tant In your Opinion you mean the Highest Council Whigg Dare you say to the contrary whatever you think Tant I durst if I were sure never to live to see another Parliament Whigg Ay thou art a good one but the Parliament as soon as they met drew Articles of their Grievances which though seeming Harsh to the King yet for avoiding further Inconvenience he yielded unto them Tant Inconvenience What Inconvenience they were Subjects and Christians in those dayes and had no weapons but prayers and tears which can bring no great Inconvenience if a man resolve to be hard-hearted Whig No thou I believe art Prayer-proof but King Edward 2. remembred well that in his stout Fathers time the Parliament met at London Octob. 10. Non tamen nudi not naked and unarm'd but immò cum quingentis equis armatis multitudine magnâ peditum Electorum with five hundred Horse and a vast number of choice Foot Induxerunt etiam cives Londoniarum ut pro recuperandis libertatibus secum starent The Citizens of London were brought to stand up with them for the recovery of their Charters and Liberties Comitibus itaque Baronibus pariter conglobatis confederatis necnon majoritate populi eis inclinante several Lords and Barons confederating and leaguing solemnly together with the majority of the common-people Inclining to their side Tant What against the King Whig No for the Ling against evil Councellors that seduc'd the King against his Oath his Conscience Religion and Law And the Historian Hen. Knighton gives the reason of this general Confederacy quia communem profectum utilitatem amplectebatur communes diligebant eos fortiter because the Conlederates or Covenanters stood for the common benefit and common-weal and the Laws therefore the People lov'd them mightily and voluntarily accompanyed their Parliament-men to London with horse and Arms at their own charge Nay 't is a wonder that any man that had an English heart in his Belly could be a fawning Spaniel-like Tantivee some French Bastard sure Tant But what said the King to his armed Parliamentarians Whig Said he did instead of saying any thing his duty and confirmed their Charters and Liberties so often confirmed and so often wickedly and illegally broken and encroach't upon but King Edward 1. was loath to confirm their Charters except with this clause salvo Jure Coronae nostrae saving the Rights of our Crown But the People would not by any means admit that saving and Exception so that the King confirm'd them as formerly as K. Charles 1. after a long Tugg in the House of Lords consented to the Petition of Right without the saving or leaving intire that Sovereign power wherewith c. Whereupon sayes Mr. Noy To adde a saving is not safe And sayes Mr. Alford Let us look into the Records and see what they are what is Sovereign power Bodin saith That is free from any condition by this we shall acknowledge a Regal as well as a Legal Power let us give that to the King that the Law gives him and no more Tory. There spoke a Whigg Whigg True so Mr. Pym added I know how to adde Sovereign to his Person but not to his Power Also We cannot leave to him a sovereign power Also We never were possessed of it Tory. Our King God bless him does not pretend to absolute and arbitrary Power Whig Sovereign power cannot be invested in any thing that is not Omnipotent And the great Oracle of the Law added that the saving or leaving intire the sovereign Power c. will overthrow all our Petition of Right It trenches to all the Parts of it It flyes at Loans and at the Oath and at Imprisonment and Billeting of Souldiers This turns all about again I know that Prerogative is part of the Law but Sovereign Power is no Parliamentary word In my opinion it weakens Magna Charta and all our Statutes for they are absolute without any saving of Sovereign Power take we heed what we yield unto

all Kings are called so especially whilst they Live and to their Heads for a King can do no wrong And all men acknowledged that King Charles I. of his own Natural Temper was inclined to Goodness and Mercy and Justice and Righteousness and the keeping of Faith with men and observing his Word fulfilling his Promises and keeping stedfast to Religion and therefore they think that he knew nothing of the matter when Popish-Books or Books in Favour of Popery as Mountagues Book aforesaid and the Authors of such Books and the Books for Arbitrary Government and the Authors of them Sybthorp aud Manwaring were the men and the Books the Tenents Doctrines and Opinions that were prefer'd advanc'd extoll'd cry'd up and Countenanc'd at Court above all other men and Books were really Orthodox and according to Law nay some think the King knew not that Mountague and Manwaring were not only Pardon'd but made Bishops since the Parliament had judg'd them unmeet for their demerits which no man in England durst publickly own or vindicate to this day and vile wretchedness and false Doctrines to be uncapable of the meanest Benefices yet these must be the chief Shepheards the Flocks were like to be well govern'd and Bishop Land that abetted and Countenanc'd the said Authors and Books Licensed their false Doctrines and impure as well as Illegal Principles and got their Books Licensed was made Archbishop and who but he with the King and Court The King knew nothing of all this nor that Papists great Papists were put into Commission all the Kingdom over nor that Arbitrary Government in Loanes Knighthood-Money Tunnage and Poundage Ship-Money Assessing and Billeting of Souldiers c. The King knew nothing of all this these were Deeds Deeds not Words Deeds that made the Kingdom groan Deeds that Affrighted the Parliament and the Kings best Subjects with too much cause of Jealousies and Fears of Popery and Arbitrary Government when it was really practic'd in so many particulars and the Councellors and Favorites that abetted the same the only men in Favour and nothing was said against them in Parliament but it prov'd the ruine of the men though Parliament-men that might Parler le ment speak their minds freely and lawfully and also prov'd to be the Dissolution of those Parliaments 'till the Kings Necessities and Straits were so great and the Dissolutions so frequent and on the strange occasions aforesaid that the Parliament would do nothing 'till the King not only had Promis'd but had granted it by Statute that they should not be Dissolv'd but by their own Consent Tory. It is the greatest wonder in the world to me that any King should Dissolve a Parliament but by their own Consent or 'till all Grievances be Redress'd for the King is Pater Patriae the Father of the Country and what an odd Humour is it if a Father that has a Child or Children troubled with griefs or Grievances and had a Prerogative that could but would not remedy them nay nor suffer them that would remedy his Children is this Father like or like something else The King is the chief Shepheard of his People his Flock but what an odd humour is it if a Shepheard when he sees Doggs and Wolves tear and rend his Sheep shall neither according to the duty of his place deliver his Sheep out of their Jaws nor yet suffer others to do it but contrarily side with the Doggs and defend the Worried Sheep much more if he see the Currs on worse if he shall go Snips in the Booty and Prey Whigg I am glad to hear this of you Mr. Tory you have been us'd to Language that has less of Sense Reason or Law in it Tant But all this while Mr. Whigg you do not tell us any thing in Answer to this excuse the Favourites made namely Necessity the Kings necessities required that which indeed ought not to be done by Law Whig Necessity Pish this excuse aggravates their Offence for thus they dispute in a Carcle and justify their wickedness by greater by links and chains of evil consequences First the Kings Affairs by their Evil Councel and Managements is brought into Straits and Necessities the effect of them then these evil effects are made the Cause of the continuance of worse effects World without end But thank God for a Parliament The Pretence of this same Whimzey Necessity hath ruin'd the Liberties and Properties of the French-men in Normandy to this day For they were ruled once by as good Laws as we are but being opprest with some Grievances contrary to their Charters Customs and Franchises they made their Complaint to Lewis the Tenth who by his New Charters in the year 1314. acknowledged their Rights and Customs aforesaid and confirmed them Confessing also that they had been unjustly grieved and wrong'd but by the said New Charter did provide that from thence forward they should be free from all Subsidies and and Exactions to be imposed upon them without their own Consents but with this saving or small exception Si necessitis grand ne le requiret namely except great necessity required the contrary Which little business Mr. Necessity has done their business and broke the neck of all their Laws Charters and Franchises and of Subjects they are become Slaves and Vassals little differing from Turky-Gally-Slaves for no man can say any thing is his own if necessitye le Grand that is the King require the same nay they dare not now say That their Souls are their own so great is the Encroachment of Tyranny Covetousness and Oppression if you give it an Inch it will take an Ell and thefore you Toryes are a base generation for you hate your Friends most of all and Spaniard-like at the same time basely Fawn Wagg your Tails and Cringe base Currs to the Hand that beats you most nay you 'l Fight to Blood in pursuit of your Sycophantry poor Slaves And your Tantives will Preach your People all out of Church rather than not Preach up the said false Doctrine of Sybthorp Mountague and Manwaring Oh most unworthy Treacherous and Easy-bought Hirelings That for to be made a Shepheard or chief Bishops of Souls would betray them and Sell them all and your own to boot into the bargain in defyance of the Laws of God and the Realm which the King is Sworn and bound to obey perform observe and keep The Throne cannot have it has been found by woful experience worse Friends nor greater Traytors than such Sycophants and Wretches as you are Tant We are as much obliged to you Mr. Whigg for your good Opinion of us Whig 'T is according to your Merits Is it not enough that this Kingdom and Commonwealth should be once in one Age undone by the same kind of men the same Sell Truths the same Illegal Principles and Tantivee-Practices and Parasitical Flatteries and Slye Insinuations under the Vizard of Divinity Loyalty and the Church the Church and yet not one in a hundred of

them can tell what or who is the Church but usually by the Church they mean themselves the Clergy that is the promoted and Dignifyed Clergy-men and how the Vilest and worst of Clergy-men came to be promoted by their Vileness and Villanies you have heard for no other Clergy-men could be found so to Debauch their Consciences the Laws of England and the Protestant Religion and these are the men Forsooth whose Spitle we must all lick up and be punish'd if we speak never so little against them Ten thousand times more than when by Curses and Oaths we Blaspheme the Holy Name of God Oh brave World and brave Holy Religion and bravely managed Tant You are warm upon us Whig Is this a time to be Meally-mouth'd To sit weeping and wailing and wringing of hand with Prayers and Tears only when Tant When what Speak out Whig I will not Catch-pole you do but ly at lurch to undo a man for speaking Truth if you can but by hook or Crook drill him in and bring him within the reach or swing of some Old Stretch'd Law to colour as well as vindicate safely the private Spleens and Revenge every body sees you and yet you think you walk invisible and now too having got Tory here to be a Fellow-witness with you Oh how you will Strain a word and your own Consciences To bring a man that Thwarts your Evil purpose to be Maul'd by Law especially when you get which is not difficult a Jury and for your Turns Tory. You speak feelingly Whigg Jeet on and mark the end on 't there is an over-ruling Providence and God of Justice the very Heathens apprehend it and the Wheel of Fortune comforted the Captive Prince that drew the Conqueror's Chariot the Wheels whereof turning round and the upmost side forthwith undermost and the undermost again uppermost comforted and cheer'd his Captivity with the certain incertainty inconstancy and vicissitude of things And therefore good Rampant Tory let not him that putteth on his Armour boast himself yet you think you have got the World in a string and since the days of Blessed Mary Popery Coleman says had never so fair and likely a Prospect Tant I am not for Popery Whigg No not for the Name I believe thy Religion is 1500 l per Annum call it by what Name any body pleases Tory. But did not you say Whigg that you would prove by Common-Law Statute-Law Reason and Equity that the Law determines how and when Parliaments shall sit or be Dissolv'd How long they shall sit and when they shall be called all which I understand lay no where but in the Hallow of the Kings-Breast His Will and Pleasure Whig No Acts of Justice as a King lyes so incertainly only as at the will and pleasure of the King so as not to be determined by Law though some Acts of Mercy and Pardon are purely Arbitrary to adorn the Throne For if that did all our other Laws are nothing worth but at the good pleasure of the King and His Ministers Arbitrarily For for all their Transgressions none can call Evil Ministers to Account but a Parliament at least none more properly And if they can stave off a Parliament at pleasure and Dissolve it at pleasure we hold all our other Liberties Charters and Properties at pleasure which they have often oppress'd and invaded as aforesaid and when a Parliament call'd them to a Reckoning and Account for their Roguery and worse than march them off Here the Remedy by this Rule is left to the mercy and good will and pleasure of the Disease when Evil Ministers Disease the Common-wealth and this Disease may not be inquired into by the only Physitians the Parliament For Alas the Judges know who gives them and continues to them their Places and Soft Seats Tory. You see as aforesaid in King Charles I. his Speeches his Declarations c. Still he inculcates and bids them remember that the Calling Adjourning Prorogueing Holding and Dissolving Parliaments are in his Power Whig I believe you mistake for the Houses usually if not always do Adjourn themselves but they are Prorogued and Called and Dissolved by the King so all Criminals or so suspected are Indicted by the King that is in the Kings Name but the Law directs it both how and wherefore Tory. So you would say the Law directs the formal part also of Calling and Dissolving of Parliaments to be by the King in His Name but the wherefore or cause of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments is limited and determined by the Law and the time of Intervals which the King cannot pass or dispute with Whig Yes surely or else the great foundation of our Laws Parliaments the banks that limit and bound the out-ragious swellings and overflowings of Arbitrary and unlimited dominion would be strangely deficient and lame in not providing first and especially for its own Preservation against Arbitrary Will and Pleasure Tant Nay I suppose you are a Learned and Stout Champion for the Laws and for the Laws of Parliament and much Skill'd in them Whig I pretend to no Skill therein nor to the Honour of it all I have to say or have said on this Subject is only as an Historian of Whiggism a bare summary Collection of what others have done and said as to these particulars in the Reign of King Charles I. to rub up your memory with my brief Notes not to tell you any thing you have not heard before but with little Cost and Charge give you the Marrow of greater and more Elaborate works at an easier rate and minute Expence both of Money and Time Tant Well said I like that very well for I have not much of either to spare but first say what the Common Law enjoynes as to the Holding or Dissolving Parliaments Whig Few know what the Common Law is Coke says it is founded in the Immutable Law and Light of Nature agreeable to the Law of God requiring Order Government Subjection and Protection containing Ancient usages warranted by Holy Scripture and because it is generally given to all King and People Poor and Rich Lords and Commons it is therefore called Common Now consider that never any King of England had any Prerogative but what the Common-Law or Statute-Law gives them nor any Liberty or Priviledge but by Law The Prerogative is a Royal Priviledge Privilegio quasi privatae Leges Priviledges are Private Laws which always yields to the Common-Law Common-weal and Common-Benefit The King has no Priviledge or Prerogative contrary to the Publick-weal Order Government and Protection of the People Apply this to the question in hand concerning Holding or Dissolving of Parliaments And therefore in the Mirror of Justice a Book so commended by the Lord Coke that he saith it contains the whole Frame of the Ancient Common-Laws of this Realm from the time of King Arthur till near the Conquest Citesout of it one Law Concerning Parliaments made Reg. R. Alfred Anno Dom. 880.

fallen And for his Peers thanking them for that Free and Legal Tryal they gave him and though they detested the Fault yet they pitied the Delinquent Saying my Lords I am now the Hopeless President of an Ambitious Covetous Evil Councellor before spoken of may I be to you all a Happy Example For Ambition devoureth Gold and Drinketh Blood and climbeth so high by other mens Heads that at length in the fall it breaketh its own neck Whig Yet men will tread the very same Steps of the same evil way till they come to the same evil end Tory. It is impossible it should be otherwise whilst they are Slaves to their Lusts Ambition and Avarice and therefore said that Vnfortunately Fortunate Earl O! how small a proportion of Earth will contain my Body when my High Mind could not be Confined within the Spacious compass of two Kingdoms But my Hour draweth on Whig He had not thus Died before his time for being over wicked but that he in his Career of Prosperity fear'd no Colours nor would hear any good Councel breathing nothing but Daggers to the Naked-Truth Tory. Ay Pride will not be controul'd nor told of its Faults it is deaf to all good warning and open-ear'd as well as open-hearted to Sycophants that will ruine all Whig Let them alone let the Blind lead the Blind till they fall as others into the same Ditch For they 'l never take warning never be good till they can be no longer bad Tory. Indeed Archb Laud that came to the same End with Strafford went on in the same Road And when they could not perswade the Parliament to give Supply ' till-Grievances were address'd he in his Wise Synod when the Parliament was Dissolv'd ordains the Clergy to pay six Subsidies on pain of Excommunication and a worse turn Deprivation men wondred at their Impudence as well as Folly they were grown very high Whig A Synod called together upon pretence of Reconciling and Setling Controversies and Matters in Religion to take upon them the boldness thus out of Parliament to grant Subsidies and to medle with mens Freeholds I dare say the like was never heard of before and they that durst do this will do worse if the current of their raging Tyranny be not stopped in time said Mr. Harbotle Grimstone in the Parliament Anno 1640. Who are they Mr. Speaker that have countenanc'd and cherish'd Popery and Arminianism to that growth and height it is now come to in this Kingdom Who are they Mr. Speaker that have given Encouragement to those that have boldly Preached those damnable Heresies in our Pulpits Who are they Mr. Speaker that have given Authority and License to them that have published those Heresies in Print Who are they Mr. Speaker that of late have been advanced to any Dignity or Preferment in the Church but such as have been notoriously Suspitious in their Disciplines Corrupt in their Doctrines and for the most part Vitious in their Lives Tory. Ay ay The Skum will be uppermost if possible Whig God forbid tho' that only the Clergy or much worse only the Dignified Clergy should be accounted the Church of England Tant Why not For the Church of England confesseth that she may Err and if the Clergy nay the Dignified Clergy in Convocation too have not Erred wretchedly they have had hard Censures and hard Measure Whig They cared not for Censures some of them if they can keep 4000 l per Annum and may Censure Sentence Excommunicate Curse and consequently Goal them that stop their carreer But Sir Harbotle Grimstone went on in his said Speech saying Who are they Mr. Speaker that have overthrown our two great Charters Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta What Imposition hath been laid down or what Monopoly hath heen damned in any Court of Justice since the last Parliament Hath not Ship-Money Coat and Conduct-Money and Money for other Military Charges been Collected and Levied with as great Violence as ever they were in violation of our Liberties confirmed unto us in our Petition of Right notwithstanding all our Supplications and Complaints the last Parliament And who are they Mr. Speaker that have caused all those dangerous Convulsions and all the desperate unnatural Bloody Distempers that are now in our Body Politique Tant I could have told the Master of the Rolls their Names and who they were at least Old Hodge the Fidler tells us their Names in 41.41 viz. The Puritans the Roundheads the Whiggs Whig Then Mr. Grimstone was mistaken for he proceeded saying Mr. Speaker I will tell you a passage I heard from a Judge in the Kings Bench. There was a poor man Committed by the Lords for refusing to submit unto a Project and haing attended a long time at the Kings Bench Barr upon his Habeas Corpus and at the last pressing earnestly to be Bailed The Judge said to the rest of his Brethren Tant Well said Let us hear the Judges Opinion Whig Come Brothers said he let us Bail him for they begin to say in the Town That the Judges have overthrown the Law and the Bishops the Gospel Tory. I do not like that Innuendo and upon the Bench too and in 41 41. too Trusly Roger layes the blame of the Commotions when all things were out of Order and Law and you hear by whom on the Whiggs the Whiggs put all in Combustion Whig Nero Chronicles say set Rome on fire and laid the blame upon the Christians Tant What then How do you apply it let us hear the application Whig I make no Applications except like your self far from the matter in hand Catch-Pole You would ensnare me would you God bless me from a Tantivee-Swearer when his Interest lyes at Stake we know it experimentally men of your Coat can Swear Thorow-stitch Tant We know our Interest which is Spiritual and in a Spiritual way we can do pretty well or by the way of Oathes which are Spiritual and Religious things Whig Ay I herein will take your word as I do that of Stretching Travellers I had rather Trust you than make Tryal God bless me from you you are Home-Thrusters when a Cause is at Pinch or like a Ship in a Storm lyes at Try Tant Some Fear us that do not Love us Whig Ay all of you are terrible men and men of Reverence Sir and some of you worthy to be belov'd a little So Sir Harbotle acknowledged in the said Speech viz. Mr. Speaker I would not be misunderstood in what I have said for there are some of both Functions and Professions that I highly Honour and Reverence in my heart for their Wisdoms and Integrities Tory. Ay or else it is a pity but they should be advanc'd if there be not some wor thy persons and some Integrities among them Whig Yet the good Patriot goes on speaking feelingly viz. But Mr. Speaker I may say it for I am sure we have all felt it that there are some of both Functions and Professions