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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76827	An answer to the late scandalous and libellous pamphlet, entituled, A complaint to the House of Commons; and resolution taken up by the free Protestant subjects of the cities of London and Westminster, and the counties adjacent. Wherein 'tis proved, that the Lord Major of London doth not usurp his office; but is a legall major, and obedience ought to be given him. / By Peter Bland of Grays-Inne, Gent.	Bland, Peter, of Gray's Inne.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3160; Thomason E244_36; ESTC R4975	8,071	16

former abuses as some expect for when great men and Favourites set a plot on foot there must needs be some stir to overthrow it especially when the Princes best assistance is not wanting to bring it to passe and for the 300000. pounds that the Scots had towards their charge they were put to Let me tell you there was a great deale of good English blood bought by that means at an easie rate considering the occasions we may have for their future imployment but those that caused that missing their bloody ends they expected from that civill war have caused this unnaturall war among our selves whereby they hope to compasse that by the Protestant blood of England alone which before they endeavoured by the destruction of two Protestant Kingdoms together Complaint In the eighth Page of that Book 't is thus penn'd viz. At the beginning of the Parliament they removed one highly charged for endeavouring the subversion of the fundament all Laws of the Land and though we are sure he was a great cause of our sufferings yet we could wish his attainder might not have been in such a manner as to need a Declaration that his manner of punishment should not be drawn into example Answer There was no Declaration 't was but a clause in the Bill of Attainder and that clause is no ready way neither to draw a suspition upon the justice of his sentence for this Parliament is not the first that have done so for by the Statute of 25. E 3. which is the Statute of Treasons you shall find that the very clause which this Parliament hath used in the Earle of Straffords Attainder is used there viz. No Judges shall presume to make any thing Treason that is not Treason by that Statute except it be done by the Parliament and though the Earl of Strafford was adjudged a Traytor by the Parliament yet I hope this Parliament hath the same authority to keepe this from being a President that the Parliament in Edward the thirds time had for hindering the Judges to go according to former Presidents And then for that part of the Pamphlet which layes aspersions upon the House for letting the Bishop of Canterbury and Judge Bartlet lye so long in Prison before they be tryed let me answer with that old rule quod defertur non aufertur all the world sees there are businesses that are more urgent then their Trialls about which the House is wholly imployed besides who does not see that the Parliament takes no delight in shedding of blood and therefore if a temporall imprisonment will amend the Malefactors what though the Parliament be willing to spare their lives and wave the accusation of Treason against any prisoner must it therefore follow that they could not make good their accusation No Parliaments are great bodies and though they move but slowly they are the lesse subject to rashnesse Complaint In the ninth Page of that Book it is thus penn'd viz. For the honest Lord Major Gurney if you will believe us which were present at his triall he might with more honour and justice too have been acquitted then sentenced his greatest fault being his obedience to his King Answer 'T were strange if the world should believe you the sooner for being an Auditor and by that meanes undervalue the judgement of a Parliament besides your reason you give shews the weaknesse of your judgement for when the Kings command is pleaded to justifie an unlawfull Act 't will be no barre to the censure for the King himselfe cannot be questioned for the fact but he that the King imployes must endure the brunt for the Kings command cannot be a dispensation for any mans offending me and for the scandalls that are by that Book layed upon the House of COMMONS and LORDS both they are so fearfully guilt with impudence that I dread to read them and therefore for an answer to them I shall only say that I think it no lesse Treason in the Pamphleteer that does his best endeavour to raise a Warre against the Parliament then 't is in them that fight the Battle Complaint In the thirteenth Page of that Book it is thus penn'd viz. What shall become of the multitude of the zealous Sectaries and Rabble of ignorant people sent to both Houses but especially to the House of Peers by Captain Ven and his Wife and Isaac Pennington to cry justice justice and no Bishops no Bishops to terrifie some Lords from the House and to awe others that were there Answer Here we may see with what invective malice the Pamphleteer did write against those that stand for the Parliament and so consequently for Gods cause could not that breeding which your lines tell you have had bridle your unmannerly passion so much as to give the Lord Major his due Title of Honour the King Himselfe who indeed is alwayes modest in his expressions which are free from passion was pleased to give him his Title of Alderman in his last Declaration and could you afford no better an expression then plaine Isaac if you doubt him to be a legall Major yet you cannot except against his being Alderman and then I hope if he had not bin a branch of that Noble and ancient family from whence he is undoubtedly descended yet at least he might have had the addition of a Gentleman by his being Alderman of the City of London and a Parliament man for that City but certainely he is now being legally chosen and sworne as legall a Major as any of his Predecessors were before all that you can urge against his Authority is that he hath not Commission from the King Pray see your errors now by the Charter of London the Office of the Lord Major should not goe by course but by the Cities election and by that Charter the King is according to his promise at his Confirmation of it to give a Commission to him whom the City does elect now they have elected Alderman Pennington and he is Sworn now if he should have no Authority for want of a Commission then you blame the King for not dealing with his City according to their Charter first granted by his Royall Predecessors and since confirmed by himselfe now I thinke if the Pamphleteer had known this rather then have laid such a fault upon the King he would have acknowledged him to be Lord Major of London and have given him his Title Complaint In the 19. page t is thus penned viz. We could never learn of any great experience of Marshall valour in my Lord Say or his Sonne that made them undertake imployments of that nature Answer For that Scandall laid upon my Lord Say his Son t is likely you were the first broacher of it for one of that factious and bold spirit your pamphlet shewes you to bee endued with would scorne to take newes at the second hand especially having so good an invention T is better to imploy some honest men that have but little skill then skilfull knaves that have no honesty yet at the end of Keynton Bataile there was no great signe of unskilfull Commanders Complaint In the 20. page of that Booke it is thus penned viz. We should weary out a patient reader to tell all our dstresses and how the businesses of Ireland have been carryed but 't would have trenched too much upon the honour of those Houses Answer That is mightily feared by you who if ever Treason were committed by writing a Pamphlet you are guilty for never was that impudence head of in any age that you have expressed against the State And if Burton and Pryn and Bastwicke did deserve to lose their eares I am sure thy life is forfeited You will not speake of Ireland least you should lay the Saddle upon the right Horse for t was the Parliament that sent the Coates and other necessaries for Ireland but t was not the Parliament that stopt any what greater offence can there be then to threaten that great Councell the Parliament as you have done was the poore man drawn hanged and quartered that raised a Tumult against the Bishop of Canterbury who was but of the Kings Privy Councell and shall it not be Treason to encourage others to war against a Parliament which is the Kings gveat Councell have other men been punished for their contempts showne to an inferiour Court and shall you goe free for not onely obeying but willfully opposing that court from whence there lyes no appeale have others bin severely punished for uttering words that did onely imply what you have openly published to all the world and can you imagine to scape the sentence of severity for your inviting others to your owne degree of Rebellion which you have done in the 24. page of your book where you desire all others to joyn with you in the opposition of all Ordinances that are made by the Parliament And thus I have done with your Pamphlet but for your selfe I shall leave you to the just sentence of the Honourable Houses of Parliament FINIS