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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56353	The speech or declaration of John Pymm, Esquire, to the Lords of the upper House, upon the delivery of the Articles of the Commons assembled in Parliament, against VVilliam Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, in maintenance of their accusation, whereby he stands charged of high treason. Together with a true copie of the said Articles	Pym, John, 1584-1643.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.; Bower, Edward, ,artist.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1641 (1641)	Wing P4295A; ESTC R203308	8,796	31

Reade in this Image him whose dearest blood Is thought noe price to buy his Countryes good Whose name shall flourish till the blast of Fame Shall want a Trumpet or true Worth a name Edw. Bower pinxit G. Glouer fecit THE SPEECH OR DECLARATION OF JOHN PYMM Esquire To the LORDS of the upper House upon the delivery of the Articles of the Commons assembled in Parliament AGAINST WILLIAM LAVD Archbishop of Canterbury in maintenance of their Accusation whereby he stands charged of High Treason TOGETHER With a true Copy of the said ARTICLES London printed for Ralph Mabb 1641. A TRVE COPY OF THE Articles of the Commons assembled in Parliament against WILLIAM LAVD Archbishop of CANTERBVRY in maintenance of their Accusation whereby he stands charged with HIGH TREASON TOGETHER With a true Copy of the Speech or Declaration of IOHN PYMM Esquire upon the same My Lords I Am commanded by the Knights Citizens and Burgesses now assembled for the Commons in Parliament to deliver to your Lordships these Articles in maintainance of their Charge against the Archbishop of Canterbury Their desire is that first your Lordships would bee pleased to heare the Articles read and then I shall endeavour to present to you the sense of the Commons concerning the nature of the Charge and the order of their proceedings Articles of the Commons assembled in Parliament in maintenance of their Accusation against WILLIAM LAVD Archbishop of Canterbury Whereby he stands charged with high treason I. THat he hath trayterously endeavoured to subvert the fundamentall Lawes and Government of this Kingdome of England and instead thereof to introduce an Arbitrary and tyrannicall Government against Law and to that end hath wickedly and traiterously advised his Majesty that hee might at his owne will and pleasure leavie and take mony of his Subjects without their consent in Parliament and this hee affirmed was warrantable by the Law of God II. Hee hath for the better accomplishment of that his traiterous designe advised and procured sermons and other discourses to be preached printed and published in which the authority of Parliaments and the force of the Lawes of this Kingdome have bin denied and absolute and unlimited Power over the persons and estares of his Majesties subjects maintained and defended not onely in the King but himselfe and other Bishops against the Law And hee hath beene a great protector favourer and promoter of the publishers of such false and pernicious opinions III. He hath by Letters Messages Threats and Promises and by divers other wayes to Iudges and other Ministors of Iustice interrupted and perverted and at other times by meanes aforesaid hath indeavoured to interrupt pervert the course of Iustice in his Majesties Courts at Westminster and other Courts to the subversion of the Lawes of this Kingdome whereby sundry of his Majesties subjects have beene stopt in their just suits deprived of their lawfull rights and subjected to his tyrannicall will to their ruine and destruction VI That the said Archbishop hath traiterously and corruptly sold Iustice to those who have had causes depending before him by colour of his Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction as Archbishop High Commissioner Referee or otherwise and hath taken unlawfull gifts and bribes of his Majesties subjects and hath as much as in him lyes endeavoured to corrupt the other Courts of Iustice by advising and procuring his Majesty to sell places of Iudicature and other offices contrary to the Lawes and Statutes in that behalfe V. He hath traiterously caused a Booke of Canons to bee composed and published without any lawfull warrant and authority in that behalfe in which pretended Canons many matters are contained contrary to the Kings Prerogative to the fundamentall Lawes and Statutes of this Realme to the right of Parliament to the propriety and liberty of the subject and matters tending to sedition and of dangerous consequence and to the establishment of a vast unlawfull and presumptuous power in himselfe and his successors many of which Canons by the practice of the said Archbishop were surreptitiously passed in the late Convocation without due consideration and debate others by feare and compulsion were subscribed by the Prelates and Clerkes there assembled which had never beene voted and passed in the Convocation as they ought to have beene And the said Archbishop hath contrived and endeavored to assure confirme the unlawfull and exorbitant power which he hath usurped exercised over his Majesties Subjects by a wicked and ungodly oath in one of the said pretended Canons injoyned to be taken by all the Clergy and many of the Laity of this Kingdome VI He hath traiterously assumed to himself a Papall tyrannicall power both in Ecclesiastical temporal matters over his Majesties subjects in this Realme of England in other places to the disherison of the Crowns dishonour of his Majesty derogation of his supremeauthority in ecclesiastical matters the said Archbishop claimes the Kings Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction as incident to his Episcopal and Archiepiscopal office in this kingdome and doth deny the same to be derived from the Crowne of England which he hath accordingly exercised to the high contempt of his royall Majesty and to the destruction of divers of the Kings liege people in their persons and estates VII That he hath trayterously endeavoured to alter and subvert Gods true Religion by Law established in this Realm and in stead there of to set up popish superstition and Idolatry And to that end hath declared and maintained in Speeches and printed Bookes divers popish doctrines and opinions contrary to the Articles of Religion established by Law He hath urged and injoyned divers popish and superstitious ceremonies without any warrant of Law and hath cruelly persecuted those who have opposed the same by corporal punishments Imprisonments and most unjustly vexed others who refused to conforme thereunto by Ecclesiasticall censures of Excommunication Suspension Deprivation and Degradation contrary to the Laws of this Kingdome VIII That for the better advancing of his traiterous purpose and designe he did abuse the great power and trust his Majestie reposed in him and did intrude upon the places of divers great officers and upon the right of other his Majesties Subjects wherby he did procure to himselfe the nomination of sundry persons to Ecclesiasticall Dignities Promotions and Benefices belonging to his Majestie and divers of the Nobility Clergie and others and hath taken upon him the commendation of Chaplaines to the King by which meanes hee hath preferred to his Majesties service and to other great promotions in the Church such as have been Popishly affected or otherwise unsound and corrupt both in doctrine and manners IX He hath for the same traiterous and wicked intent chosen and employed such men to bee his owne domesticall Chaplaines whom he knew to be notoriously disaffected to the reformed Religion grosly addicted to Popish superstition and erroneous and unsound both in judgement and practice and to them or some of them hath he