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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59485	Two speeches I. The Earl of Shaftsbury's speech in the House of Lords the 20th of October, 1675, II. The D. of Buckinghams speech in the House of Lords the 16th of November, 1675 : together with the protestation and reasons of several lords for the dissolution of this Parliament, entred in the lords journal the day the Parliament was prorogued, Nov. 22d., 1675.; Speech in the House of Lords the 20th of October 1675	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.; Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, 1628-1687. Speech in the House of Lords the 16th of November 1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing S2907; Wing B5332; ESTC R13400	11,639	24

are should not have the same care of doing right and the same conviction what is right upon clear reason offered that other your Lordships have And therefore my Lords I must necessarily think we differ in principles And then 't is very easie to apprehend what is the clearest sense to men of my principle may not at all perswade or affect the Conscience of the best man of a different one I put your Lordships the case plainly as 't is now before us My principle is That the King is King by Law and by the same Law that tbe poor Man enjoys his Cottage and so it becomes the concern of every man in England that has but his liberty to maintain and defend to his utmost the King in all his Rights and Prerogatives My Principle is also That the Lords House and the Iudicature and Rights belonging to it are an Essential part of the Government and Established by the same Law The King governing and administring Justice by His House of Lords and advising with both His Houses of Parliament in all important matters is the Government I own am born under and am obliged to If ever there should happen in future ages which God forbid a King governing by an Army without his Parliament 't is a Government I own not am not obliged to nor was born under According to this Principle every honest man that holds it must endeavour equally to preserve the frame of the Government in all the parts of it and cannot satisfie his Conscience to give up the Lords House for the Service of the Crown or to take away the just rights and priviledges of the House of Commons to please the Lords But there is another Principle got into the World my Lords that hath not been long there for Arch-Bishop Land was the first Author that I remember of it And I cannot find that the Jesuites or indeed the Popish Clergy hath ever own'd it but some of the Episcopal Clergy of our British Isles and 't is withal as 't is new so the most dangerous destructive Doctrine to our Government and Law that ever was 'T is the first of the Cannons published by the Convocation 1640. That Monarchy is of Divine Right This Doctrine was then preached up and maintained by Sibthorp Manwaring and others and of later years by a Book published by Dr. Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln under the name of Arch-Bishop Vsher and how much it is spread amongst our Dignified Clergy is very easily known We all agree That the King and His Government is to be obeyed for Conscience sake and that the Divine Precepts require not onely here but in all parts of the World Obedience to Lawful Governours But that this Family are our Kings and this particular frame of Government is our lawful Constitution and obliges us is owing onely to the particular Laws of our Country This Laudean Doctrine was the root that produced the Bill of Test last Session and some very perplexed Oaths that are of the same nature with that and yet imposed by several Acts of this Parliament In a word if this Doctrine be true our Magna Charta is of no force our Laws are but Rules amongst our selves during the Kings pleasure Monarchy if of Divine Right cannot be bounded or limited by humane Laws nay what 's more cannot bind it self and All our Claims of right by the Law or Constitution of the Government All the Jurisdiction and Priviledge of this House All the Rights and Priviledges of the House of Commons All the Properties and Liberties of the People are to give way not onely to the interest but the will and pleasure of the Crown And the best and worthyest of Men holding this principle must Vote to deliver up all we have not onely when reason of State and the separate Interest of the Crown require it but when the will and pleasure of the King is known would have it so For that must be to a man of that principle the onely rule and measure of Right and Justice Therefore my Lords you see how necessary it is that our Principles be known and how fatal to us all it is that this Principle should he suffered to spread any further My Lords to conclude your Lordships have seen of what consequence this matter is to you and that the appointing a day to consider is no less then declaring your selves doubtful upon second and deliberate thoughts that you put your selves out of your own hands into a more then a moral probability of haviug this Session made a president against you You see your Duty to your selves and the People and that 't is really not the interest of the House of Commons but may be the inclination of the Court that you loose the Power of Appeals but I beg our House may not be Felo de se but that your Lordships would take in this affair the onely course to preserve your selves and appoint a day this day 3 weeks for the hearing Dr. Shirloys Cause which is my humble motion FINIS The Duke of Buckinghams Speech in the House of Lords November 16. 1675. My Lords THere is a thing called Property whatever some men may think that the People of England are fondest of It is that they will never part with and it is that His Majesty in his Speech has promised to take particular care of This my Lords in my opinion can never be done without an Indulgence to all Protestant dissenters It is certainly a very uneasie kind of life to any man that has either Christian Charity Good Nature or Humanity to see his fellow Subjects daily abused divested of their Liberties and Birth-rights and miserably thrown out of their Possessions and Free-holds only because they cannot agree with others in some Opinions and Niceties of Religion which their Consciences will not give them leave to consent to and which even by the consent of those who would impose them are no way necessary to Salvation But my Lords besides this and all that may be said upon it in order to the improvement of our Trade and the increase of the Wealth Strength and Greatness of this Nation which with your leave I shall presume to discourse of at some other time there is methinks in this Nation of persecution a very gross mistake both as to the point of Government and Religion There is so as to the point of Government because it makes every mans safety depend upon the wrong place not upon the Governors or mans living well towards the Civil Government established by Law but upon his being transported with Zeal for every opinion that 's held by those that have power in the Church that 's in fashion And I perceive it 's a mistake in Religion for that it is positively against the express Doctrine and Example of Iesus Christ Nay my Lords as to our Protestant Religion there is something yet worse for we Protestants maintain that none of these Opinions which Christians here