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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52759	Honesty's best policy, or, Penitence the sum of prudence being a brief discourse, in honour of the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftsbury's humble acknowledgment and submission for his offences ... on the 25th of Febr. 1677 : together with the several proceedings of the said Right Honourable House ...	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing N390; ESTC R20017	20,550	16

to serve it self by new Elections doubted not but so plausible a Plea as a New Parliament would easily take place and afford every one the advantages they hoped for by a Change His Majesty and His Conncil and the Parliament soon smelt out the desperate meaning of this Privy Conspiracy under cover of so publick a Plea and the Faction was soon made to understand that their Plot was understood and that Crafty Tricks with Loud Popular Clamors and Long Speeches of their Correspondents in Parliament with other Machinations under the Sacred shelter and Claim of Free speaking and Priviledge was no honest English way to bring on New Parliaments the Law having left it wholly to the Judgment and Power of the King who hath at all times had a willingness to call one as soon as the Publick work lying before this Parliament can be finished and the Heats high Cants and Traiterous designs of Factions to make an uproar can be evaporated The working of all these Evils was plainly seen so soon as in this April-Session of 75. to be the wretched effect of those Principles and Doctrines of State which by the care of the Conspirators had been most industriously spread in Prints and otherwise for Poysoning the Opinion of City and Countrey about the King and His Parliament and the Government all exposed for a subversion Some Noble Lords at that Season reflecting on their own Allegiance and Obligation to prevent this brought into the House of Peers a Bill in which was that Oath so much clamour'd at called the Oath of Test or Tryal conceiving it would be a good security to Church and State if men thereby renewed their Allegiance It seems the Plot after the Rate of 1641. was so forward that the Masters of it were touched to the quick and feared this Oath would touch too home also upon their Proselytes who by it were to swear down the Principles and Doctrines of 41. which were now again to be made use of such as allowed of taking Arms against the King upon Parliamentary pretences and by His Authority against His Person and of making Alterations without Him in Church and State If the Book called A Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend in the Countrey published this year 75. be of any Credit it hath these words in page 9. That the Earl of Shaftsbury was the man in the House that opened at large the Mischievous and ill Designs as he calls it and Consequences of the Bill and convinced many other Lords into a humour of Protesting against the Bill Now the design was bare-faced And because the Church was to have been alter'd as well as State therefore he who will believe that Book may if he please when as in 20. and 21. and 22 pages it saith That his Lordship spake things in disgrace of those old repositories of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England the 39 Articles the Liturgy the Catechism the Homilies and the Canons And I am sure the same Book which condemned these and vilified the Bishops too bestows very high commendations of his Lordships Parts Pains and Labour about these matters which to the praise of his and some other mens Lungs took up the House of Lords with a debate of Sixteen or Seventeen whole days together the House sitting many times till Eight or Nine a clock at night and sometimes till midnight However they could not save the Book which makes report of this Noble Prize from being by Order of the Peers burnt by the hand of the Hangman And indeed it well deserved so because it charged the main stress of the Debate upon the shoulders of his Lordship though the Author wrote as if he had been his Friend by reason of the immoderate Praises that he loads him with in divers places 'T is an unhappy thing and looks ill that his Lordship should have such dangerous Friends as deserve Execution by the Hangman for what praise soever the fore-going Author may have fallen short in another Author endeavours to make up who seems a Friend too of his Lordship by an excess of praising him for the opposing of that Oath as may be seen in pages 17 58 59 69. and 61 62 of that Author whom a little before we named the Record-Keeper or Recorder of the Faction that is more plainly the Author of that most Villainous Book Entitulep An Account c. in the 61 page whereof are these very words It might be injurious where all of them did so excillently well to attribute more to any one of those Lords than to another unless because the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shaftsbury have been the more reproached for this brave Action it being requisite by a double proportion of praise to set them two on equal terms with the best of their Companions in Honour And in page 62. He glorieth in these words concern●ng the Issue of these doings That by this means the Test Dyed and the Matter in conclusion was so Husbanded betwixt this business and the business of Dr. Shirly and Sir John Fagg that any longer converse between the two Houses grew impracticable so that His Majesty was necessitated to Prorogue them till the 13th of October 1675. following Let the World judge then to what height of Crime such mens behaviour doth tend when it must puzzle the most exquisite Politician to distinguish in point of Treason betwixt a Frustrator and a Subverter of the Meetings of Parliament And so you have seen what Friends his Lordship hath and if their Prints are to be believed you see what he did and how he did and how he bestirred himself during that April-Session of the year 1675 Now we pass on to October-Session of the same year and in this it will appear how the work of publick Disturbance and of Frustrating this Meeting of Parliament likewise proceeded for it also came to nothing but by whose means let the Reader judge by what followeth in short The Parliament being met the first Artifice of some was to set on Foot again the late Quarrel betwixt both Houses about their Priviledges In which Master-piece if we may credit a Speech Printed in the name of the Earl of Shaftsbury his Lordship acted a principal part and it was improved from being a private Cause between Shirly and Fagg to become a cause of too much concern to the King the whole Parliament and Kingdom Therefore divers Lords argued in their House to lay aside for a while that Cause as a matter that would revive their Contest with the Commons and thereby hinder the Kingdoms business of preparing a Navy and other pressing Affairs and Occasions and so most of the Lords spake for adjourning that Cause for six weeks But saith the printed Speech in my Lord Shaftsbury's name Take heed what you do and argued these Particulars following That then the Money-Bill for the King to build Ships would be passed Oh take heed of that for though in a