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A91395 A speech delivered in Parliament, by a worthy member thereof, and a most faithfull vvell-wisher to the Church and Common-weale; concerning the grievances of the kingdome. By I.P. Esquire. Pym, John, 1584-1643. 1641 (1641) Wing P4284; Thomason E198_35; ESTC R14550 22,358 43

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bee not prevented the Starre-chamber will become a Court of Revenue and it shall bee made crime not to collect or pay such taxes as the State shall require The eleventh Hee said hee was gone very The Kings edicts and Proclamations high yet hee must goe a little higher that great and most eminent power of the King of making Edicts and Proclamations which are said to bee Leges Temporis with which our Princes have used to encounter with sudden and unexpected danger as would not indure so much delay as assembling the great Councell of the Kingdome This which is one of the most glorious beames of Majestie most rigorous in commanding reverence and subjection For the erecting of Monopolies to our unspeakable griefe hath been often exercised for the enjoyning and maintaining sundry Monopolies and other grants exceeding burdensome and prejudiciall to the people The twelfth Although he was come as high The word and truth of God as he could upon earth yet the presumption of evill men did leade him one step higher even as high as Heaven as high as the Throne of God It was now he said growne common for ambitious and corrupt men of the Clergie to abuse the truth of God and the bond of conscience preaching downe the lawes and liberties Pretended for the absolute power of Kings of the Kingdome pretending Divine authoritie for an absolute power in the King to doe what hee would with our persons and goods this hath beene often published in Sermons and Printed bookes and is now the high way to preferment The last Parliament wee had a sentence for an offence of this kind against one Mannering The offence of D. Mannaring then a Doctor now a Bishop concerning whom hee said hee would say no more but this that when hee saw him at his Barre in the most humble dejected posture that ever hee observed hee thought hee would not so soone have leapt into a Bishops chaire but his successe hath emboldened others therefore he said this may well bee noted as a double grievance that such doctrine should bee allowed Now practised by others that such men should bee preferred yea as a roote of grievances whereby they indeavour to corrupt the Kings conscience and as much To the great hurt and grievance of the people as in them lyes to deprive the people of that Royall protection to which his Majestie is bound by the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome and his owne personall oath The thirteenth The long intermission of The Intermission of Parliaments Parliaments contrary to the two statutes yet in force whereby it is appointed there should bee Parliaments once a yeare at the least and most contrary to the publike good of the Kingdome for this being well remedied would produce remedies for all the rest Having put through the severall heads of The subjects grievances hurtfull to the King grievances hee came to the second maine branch propounded in the beginning That the disorders from whence these grievances issued were as hurtfull to the King as to the people of which hee gave divers reasons 1 The interruption of the sweet communion Bb interrupt their communion which ought to bee betwixt the King and his people in matters of grace and supply They have need of him by his generall pardon to be secured from projectors and informers to bee freed from obsolete lawes from the subtle devices of such as seeke to restraine the Prerogative to their owne private advantage and the publike hurt and he hath need of them for councell and suport in great and extraordinary occasions This mutuall intercourse would so weane the affections and interests of his subjects into his actions and designes that their wealth and their persons would bee his his owne estate would bee managed to most advantage and publike undertakings would bee prosecuted at the charge and adventure of the subject The victorious attempts in Queene Elizabeths time upon Portugall Spaine and the Indies were for the greatest part made upon the subjects purses and not upon the Queenes though the honour and profit of the successe did most accrew to her 2 Those often breaches and discontentments By domesticall breaches and discontents betwixt the King and the people are very apt to diminish his reputation abroad and disadvantage his treaties and alliances 3 The apprehension of the favour and incouragement By weakning his partie abroad given to Poperie hath much weakned his Majesties partie beyond the Sea and impared that advantage which Queene Elizabeth and his Royall Father have heretofore made of being heads of the Protestant union 4 The innovations in Religion and rigour of By forcing his subjects to leave the Kingdome Ecclesiasticall Courts have forced a great many of his Majesties subjects to forsake the land whereby not onely their persons and their posteritie but their wealth and their industrey are lost to this Kingdome much to the demolishing of his Majesties Customes and Subsidies Amongst other Inconveniences this was especially to be observed that divers Clothiers driven out of the Countrey had set up the manufacture of Cloth beyond the Seas whereby this State is like to suffer much by abatement of the price of Woolls and by want of imployment for the poore both which likewise tend to his Majesties particular losse 5 It puts the King upon unproper wayes By unproper wayes of supply of supply which being not warranted by law are much more burdensome to the subject than advantagious to his Majestie In France not long since upon a survey of the Kings Revenue it was found that two parts in three never came to the Kings purse but were diverted to the profit of the officers or ministers of the Crowne and it was thought a very good service and reformation to reduce two parts to the King leaving still a third part to the Instruments as were imployed about getting it in It may well bee doubted that the King may have the like or worse successe in England which appeares already in some particulars The King hath reserved upon this Monopoly of Wines Thirty thousand Pound Rent a yeere the Vintner payes Fourty Shillings a Tun which comes to Ninty thousand pounds the price upon the Subject by retaile is increased Two pence a Quart which comes to Eight pound a Tun and for Fourty five thousand Tun brought in yeerly amounts to Three hundred sixty thousand pounds which is Three hundred and Thirty thousand pounds losse to the Kingdome above the Kings Rent other Monopolies as that of Soape have beene very chargable to the Kingdome and brought very little Treasure into his Majesties Coffers The law provides for that revenue of the Crowne which is Naturall and proper that it may be safely collected and brought to Account but this illegall Revenue being without any such provision is left to hazard and much uncertainty either not to be reteined or not duly accounted of 6 It is apt to weaken the
A SPEECH DELIVERED IN PARLIAMENT BY A worthy MEMBER thereof AND A most faithfull VVell-wisher to the CHURCH and COMMON-WEALE Concerning the grievances of the Kingdome By I. P. Esquire LONDON Printed for 〈…〉 A SPEECH DELIVERED In PARLIAMENT BY A worthy Member therof and a most faithfull well-wisher to the CHURCH and COMMON-WEALE NEver Parliament had greater businesses to dispatch nor more difficulties to The precedent consideration of grievances will further the supply encounter therefore wee have reason to take all advantages of order and addresse and hereby we shall not only doe our owne worke but dispose and inable our selves for the better satisfaction of his Majesties desire of supply The grievances being removed our affections will carry us with speede and cheerefulnesse to give his Majestie that which may bee sufficient both for his honour and support Those that in first place shall endeavour to redresse the grievances will be found not to hinder but to bee the best furtherers of his Majesties service hee that takes away weights doth as much advantage motion as he that addeth wings Divers pieces of this maine worke have beene already Great workes are first to bee considered in the modell propounded his endeavour should be to present to the House a modell of the whole In the Creation God made the world according to that Idea or forme which was eternally preexistent in the divine minde Moses was commanded to frame the Tabernacle after the patterne shewed him in the Mount Those actions are seldome well perfected in the execution which are not first well moulded in the designe and proposition He said he would labour to contract those manifold A double method compounded of grievances and cures affaires both of the Church and State which did so earnestly require the wisedome and faithfulnesse of this House into a double method of grievances and cures and because there wanted not some who pretended that these things wherwith the Common wealth is now grieved are much for the advantage of the King and that the redresse of them will be to his Majesties great disadvantage and losse hee Publike grievances disadvantagious to the King said he doubted not but to make it appeare that is discovering the present great distempers and disorders and procuring remedie for them we should bee no lesse serviceable to his Majestie who hath summoned us to this great Councell than usefull to those whom we doe here represent for the better effecting whereof he propounded three maine branches of his The first generall division discourse In the first he said he would offer them the severall heads of some principall grievances under which the Kingdome groaned In the second he undertook to prove that the disorders from whence those grievances issued were as hurtfull to the King as to the people In the third he would advise such a way of healing and removing those grievances as might bee equally effectuall to maintaine the honour and greatnesse of the King and to procure the prosperitie and contentment of the people In the handling whereof he promised to use such Sharpe matters to be mitigated in the expression expressions as might mitigate the sharpnesse and bitternesse of those things whereof hee was to speake so farre as his dutie and faithfulnesse would allow It is a great Prerogative to the King and a great honour The King can do no wrong attributed to him in a Maxime of our Law that he can doe no wrong he is the fountaine of Iustice and if there be any injustice in the execution of his Commands the Law casts it upon the Ministers and frees the King Activitie life and vigour are conveyed into the sublunary creatures by the influence of Heaven but the malignitie and distemper the cause of so many Fpidemicall diseases doe proceed from the noysome vapours of the earth or some ill affected qualities of the aire without any infection or alteration of those pure celestiall and incorruptible bodies In the like manner he said the authoritie the power and countenance of Princes may concur in the actions of evill men without partaking in the injustice and obliquitie of them These matters whereof we complaine have beene presented to his Majestie either under the pretence of Royall prerogatives Hurtfull projects presented to the King under plausible notions which he is bound to maintaine or of publike good which is the most honourable object of Regall wisedome But the covetous and ambitious designes of others have interposed betwixt his Royall intentions and the happinesse of his people making those things pernicious and hurtfull which his Majestie apprehended as just and profitable He said the things which he was to propound A promise of moderation were of a various nature many of them such as required a very tender and exquisite consideration In handling of which as he would be bold to use the liberty of the place and relation wherein he stood so he would be carefull to expresse that Modestie and humilitie which might be expected by those of whose actions he was to speake And if his judgement Submission to reformation or his tongue should slip into any particular mistake he would not thinke it so great a shame to faile by his owne weakenesse as hee should esteeme it an honour and advantage to be corrected by the wisdome of that House to which he submitted himself with this protestation that he desired no reformation so much as to reforme himselfe The greatest libertie of the Kingdome is Religion Religion thereby we are freed from spirituall evils and no impositions are so grievous as those that are laid upon the soule The next great libertie is Iustice Iustice whereby we are preserved from injuries in our persons and estates from this is derived into the Commonwealth peace and order and safetie and when this is interrupted confusion and danger are ready to overwhelme all The third great libertie consists Priviledge of Parliament in the power and priviledge of Parliaments this is the fountaine of law the great Councell of the Kingdome the highest Court this is inabled by the Legislative and Consiliarie power to prevent evils to come by the Judiciarie power to suppresse and remove evils present If you consider these three great liberties in the order of dignitie this last is inferiour to the other two as Meanes are inferiour to The order propounded in handling these 3 great liberties the end but if you consider them in the order of necessitie and use this may justly claime the first place in our care because the end cannot be obtained without the meanes if we doe not preserve this we cannot long hope to enjoy either of the other Therefore hee said being to speake of those grievances which lie upon the Kingdome hee would observe this order 1. First to mention those which were against the priviledge of Parliaments 2. Those which were prejudiciall to the Religion established in the Kingdome 3.