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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77404	A briefe ansvver to a scandalous pamphlet, entituled A speech made at a common hall by Alderman Garroway. With some few observations upon other pamphlets of the like nature, especially that called A letter sent into Milk-street.		1643 (1643)	Wing B4542; Thomason E89_18; ESTC R20116	3,927	8

A Briefe ANSVVER TO A Scandalous Pamphlet ENTITULED A Speech made at a Common Hall by Alderman Garroway With some few observations upon other Pamphlets of the like nature especially that CALLED A Letter sent into Milk-street LONDON Printed for Francis Nicolson Febr. 15. Anno Dom. 1643. 1642 A briefe Answer to a scandalous Pamphlet entituled A Speech made at a Common Hall by Alderman Garroway THere came to my hands some few dayes since a Pamphlet entituled A Speech made by Alderman Garroway at a Common Hall in London and revolving with my self the strangenesse and subtiltie of the speech I could not but admire the craftie wit of the Author and yet wonder more at his impudence that hee durst put so strong an imputation upon so worthy a Gentleman as Alderman Garroway hath ever been accounted so much a lovery of the tranquillitie of the Countrey and the well-fare of the Citie and seeing no man in all this time undertook to answer the speech out of a reverence to the man whom my conscience tels mee that Calumniator hath most egregiously abused and to disabuse the people who by such a noted speech from a man so well beloved of the Citizens I thought it not unfit for me though a person of little note in the world to enter the lists against him that hath so cunningly treated the present state of the Kingdome And as the cunningest and most venomous serpent lurks in the smoothest and greenest grasse so shall wee find that fellow whosoever he was that made the speech strived to shadow and palliate his malice with beginning his oration with the present miseries of the Common-wealth which he seemes extremely to pitie telling his readers for I beleeve he never had audience how apparent were the miseries of the Kingdome how hideous the present distractions such as no age in this Countrey could ever parallel no historie examplifie whereby having prepared them by that proeme to beleeve hi● a true lover of his Countrey he thought it the aptest way to make them and it the rest And so having amplified the distractions attendent in the State at this present hee descends to particularize the occasions and causes and efficient of them which he finds as hee sayes to proceed from jealousies and feares not in his Majestie but rather implyes them in his High Court of Parliament which how far that is adverse to all truth and likelyhood I shall in briefe instance For that the Parliament should be the authors of his Majesties distractions jealousies or feares is both untrue and improbable The Parliament we all know is the supreme Councell of the Kingdome a body congregated out of the wifest and ablest heads thereof for the rectifying the disorders in the Common-wealth and the cure of its distempers and that these men should strive to atchieve those ends and to reduce the state into order by causing his Majesties jealousies and feares cannot stand with any probabilitie to any well-affected judicious man For certaine the Parliament to full of wisdome and so endued with goodnesse temperance and obedience to his Sacred Majestie could never be so injurious to themselves and to the people that had entrusted them with the Kingdomes businesse as to strive either by direct or indirect meanes to separate his Majestie who is the head of that great Councell from the body thereof themselves No it was the verie machinations and devices of such malignants as this man seemes to be that did it it was their cunning to save themselves from punishment being divers of them notorious Delinquents to instill into his Majesties good and gentle mind those vaine suspicion of his Parliaments integritie towards him that they should seek to obtrude new dimunitions upon his royaltie and abridgements upon hsi Royall Prerogative which how far it was and hath been from the generall thought and soule o● the Parliament may easily be proved by the specialty of their actions which may thus briefly be cited in their frequent propositions to his Majestie that if hee would graciously hearken to their advices they would make him f●r more beloved at home and dreaded abroad than any of his Royall Predecessours they would settle him a revenue and doe indeed what his Majestie pleased so entire were the expressions and certainly the same were the intentions of their loyaltie which everie honest man is bound to beleeve before the attestations and vaine surmises of this and a thousand such idle companions for were there ever more wholsome Lawes enacted than by this present Parliament more beneficiall to his Majestie or more excellent for the people As first the putting downe the High Commission Court and that of the Star-Chamber which were so destructive to the persons and estates of the subject the setling the Trienniall Parliament beyond which neither to his Majestie nor to the Common-wealth could have accrued a greater and more perspicious happinesse And had his sacred Majesty gone on the same blessed path of corresponce of this day that He walked in at the beginning with this present Parliament these distractions which this man laments so in his Speech had never oppressed the Commonwealth nor he had occasion to have foysted this Oration on Alderman Garroway the plundrings rapines and bloodshes which he voyces out in such a pinfull manner had never distained the beauty of the land with ruine nor had these distractions in the Church which he maliciously imputes upon severall persons of worth and eminence in the State and City ever been emergent in the Kingdome the Schismes of Brownisme Anabaptisme and the like had never beene so busie nor the preaching in tubs which he so much exclai●●● against either countenanced or tollerated which in truth never was though he seemes absolutely to imply to much when he cryes out there was a tim● good people when the Book of Common Prayer was in such reverence that none durst 〈◊〉 its purity these are the Gentlemans words there was a time also as I may boldly tell them when the Idoll of the Masse was in such request that it was a capitall crime for any man to mutter the least syllable against it but that was a time of ignorance and superstition which by the pure light and glorious Sun-shine of the Gospell being expelled the date of that time was expired and then every one had liberty to speake what they pleased I make not this a parallel with the Common● on Prayer or Liturgie now in use in the Church of England yet let me informe him thus much if he hath ever read or heard the Cannon of Masse read and understood the Latine tongne that the Book of common-Common-Prayer is put a graft orsien of the old stocke the Masse every Prayer in it being translated out of the Masse for that we may justly say though all that is in the mass-Masse-booke be not in the Common Prayer Booke yet all that is in the Common Prayer Booke is in the Masse-book so that if divers men of godly