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A39513 An Account of some transactions in this present Parliament in a letter to a person of quality in the country. 1690 (1690) Wing E965; ESTC R25052 6,327 10

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Abdication and Vacancy and Elect another King But I think we have little reason to fear this in our present Master's days who is so well served by Forreigners Surely they are mistaken who say that the Act of Settlement which entailed the Crown is repealed by the Recognition for it is established by the latter clause otherwise by Recognizing that their Majesties were are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm our Sovereign Liege Lord and Lady King and Queen c. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Danmark who passed resigned or disclaimed her Right by prefering her dear Sisters Husband to the Throne may be excluded with her hopeful Issue from the Succession which otherwise might devolve to the King's Heirs especially if our King were capable of an unjust Act since it might be suspected under any other Prince that where many Foreign Troops have the Guard of a Country they will be better affected to and readilier aid a Foreign Prince than any of the Princes of the Blood who are Natives I dare not go any further in the account I have from the House of Lords nor tell the censures past upon them least I should encourage the Enemies of our Gracious King I forbear also to give you an account of the Heats in the House of Commons their Zeal for the Church of England and the rejecting the Oath of Abjuration which was an odd project and I wonder the King's Friends so much favoured it which seem'd a fatal blow to our Liberties and in the Opinion of a most Reverend Divine was a setting our selves against Providence and I am sure was destructive to our Liberties since the Monarchy is Elective as by the chusiing a Foreign Prince is evident it would be very hard to incapacitate a Native for if a Toy should take the People in the Head again to think of King JAMES which would not be so strange as the Abdication this Oath would have put the Negative upon the People who commonly are troubled with the Disease called Nitimur in vetitum which would mad them that they could not have their Wills But leaving these matters I will touch upon some things done by the House of Commons which seems to concern you and all the Preeholders of England in their Estates for that they have liberally given the King Money but you must not think them too free in their supply nor blame them for taking no more notice of the multitude of Strangers who must be maintained at our charge since so few English-Men are fit for or to be trusted with the defence of the Government or our Country Indeed the concern for Religion and our obligations to the Preserver thereof ought to make us les● tender for the Prorogation of the last Parliament the very day the Money Bill was passed and the unexpected Dissolution before the Act of Indemnity was finished or several Grievances redressed meerly to draw on this Parliament to give more Taxes and own the Authority of the last In King Charles the Second's time we found several things tacked to the Money Bill least they should give to without taking from the Crown But the House is now more generous because we have a Prince we can trust with all that is most valuable and they are abundantly satisfyed with the several ways there are to expend the Treasure raised and granted They know what Summs have passed the Texel the Pampus the Mosell Elb and the Rhine how much is sent to Copenhagen and Berlin besides what Count Conningseck expected and the Dutch yet want the equipping of the F●eet the discharge of the vast Arrears to it and the Army and the growing charge to both till Ireland be reduced and Scotland throughly subjected to his Majesty's Obedience so that we are not to Murmur at their liberal Aids seeing some compute that no less then five Millions in a Year can defray these unavoidable Charges which would exhaust the Revenue of Potosa if it were not in the Hands of extraordinary Managers If we may believe the publick account given us in the Foreign Intelligences we may compute how great a Charge the whole must be from that Negotiation of Mr. Cox at Zurick for the Aid of 4000 Suissers contracted for there which as is expressed is that near upon 200000 l. English must be paid the one half down the other in two equal portions some time after as a cautionary pawn for performance of Covenants which is to be deposited in the Treasury Chamber of their States with many other circumstances too tedious to relate whereby we may learn how much must be drein'd from us by Foreign Troops which we might fear would prolong the War extravagantly if they were not such as our King hath chosen I know this galls the Country which considers the decay of Trade and losses at Sea and that while our Traffick was as free and profitable as ever it had been known yet for near 15 years by past there were neither Subsidies Polls or Taxes But to ballance this we must consider that we have a new and better Government which being hastily though necessarily raised requires extraordinary supports to secure it from the fate other new Buildings have had least by its fall it crash those who promise themselves security under it Upon these Considerations and for the sake of those brave Patriots who were the Contrivers and Architects of this great Structure we must not think Taxes any Charge The success of this Summer may recompense all especially if according to his Promise and declared Resolution our Godly Sovereign will adventure to Ireland no doubt but according to the example of England it will submit or be easily reduced from whence he may pass to the Conquest of France and become the Emperor of the West or the first Prince in the fifth Monarchy and the destroyer of Antichrist which the Great Great Grandchild of the old Brittish Merlin the Reverend Bishop of St. As can make out by his own Dreams Daniel 's Vision or the Revelations But if these Glorious Things should not happen in our Times we have our Religion secured so that none can hurt or destroy it but our selves for indeed we have so drest and made it our own that if some Reverend Fathers were not Sponsors we should think it changed for the old fashioned Church of England-Men say it is not that which was at the first Reformation nor what our Forefathers or Primitive Christians professed But so long as we have our Religion as it is let our Ships our Trade our Estates Lives and Liberties go which way they will we cannot be unhappy having the same evidence and assurance for our Country some good Men haue had for their own Salvation And if Hurricanes wreck our Ships pestilential Diseases destroy our Forces by Sea and Land our Powder-Mills be blown up whereby besides the loss of so great a proportion of that so necessary Commodity and some lives at which our