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A52125	An account of the growth of popery and arbitrary government in England more particularly, from the long prorogation of November, 1675, ending the 15th of February, 1676, till the last meeting of Parliament, the 16th of July, 1677.	Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing M860; ESTC R22809	99,833	162

Demands to make such Consecration which shall be good and effectual in Law as if the said Bishops were thereunto authorized and empowred by Commission from such Arch-Bishop or any other person or persons having authority to grant Commission for the doing the same And be it further Enacted That the said Bishops and every of them are hereby enjoyned and required to perform the same upon pain of forfeiting upon any neglect or refusal trebble dammages to the party grieved to be recovered with Costs in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster as also the sum of 1000 l. to any person that will sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster by any action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed and being lawfully convicted of any such neglect or refusal his or their Bishopprick that shall be so convicted shall become ipso facto void as if he or they were naturally dead and he or they are hereby made incapable and disabled to have hold or receive the same or any other Bishopprick or any other Ecclesiastical Benefice whatsoever Yet this Notorious Bill had not the same accident with the first but was read a second time and committed wherein their Houses curiousity seemes to have led them rather than any satisfaction they had in the matter or hope of amending it For it died away the Committee disdaining or not daring publickly to enter upon it some indeed having as is said once attempted it in private and provided R S. a fit Lawyer for the Chairman but were discovered And thus let these two Bills perish like unseasonable and monstrous Births but the Legitimate issue of the Conspirators and upon the hopes of whose growth they had built the succession of their Projects Hence-forward another Scene opens The House of Commons thorow the whole remainder of this Session falling in with some unanimity and great Vigor against the French Counsels Of which their Proceedings it were easy to assigne the more intimate Causes but they having therein also acted according to the Publick Interest we will be glad to suppose it to have been their only Motive That business having occasioned many weighty Debates in their House and frequent Addresses to his Majesty deserves a more particular account Nor hath it been difficult to recever it most of them being unwilling to forget any thing they have said to the purpose but rather seeking to divulge what they think was bravely spoken and that they may be thought some-body often arrogating where they cannot be disproved another mans Conception to their own honour March the 6th 1676 the House being resolved into a Committee of the whole House to consider of Grievances Resolved That a Commitee be appointed to prepare an Addrsse to represent unto his Majesty the danger of the Povver of France and to desire that his Majesty by such Alliances as he shall think fit do secure his Kingdomes and quiet the feares of his People and for preservation of the Spanish Netherlands May it please your Majesty WE your Majesties most Loyal Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled find our selves Obliged in duty and faithfulnesse to your Majesty and in discharge of the Trust reposed in us by those vvhomvve represent Most bumbly to Offer to your Majesties consideration that the mindes of your People are much disquieted vvith the Manifest dangers arising to your Majesty by the Grovvth and Povver of the French King Especially by the acquisition already made and the further progresse like to be made by him in the Spanish Nether-lands in the preservation and security vvhereof vve humbly Conceive the Intrest of your Majesty and the safety of your People are highly concerned and therefore vve most humbly beseech your Majesty to take the same into your Royall care and to strengthen your selfe vvith such strictter Alliances as may secure your Majesties Kingdomes and secure and preserve the said Spanish Nether-lands and thereby quiet the Mindes of your Majesties People This Addresse was presented to his Majesty the 16. of March and his Majesties Answer was Reported to the House of Commons by Mr. Speaker the 17 of March which was thus That his Majesty was of the Opinion of his two Houses of Parliament That the Preservation of Flanders was of great consequence And that he would use all meanes in his power for the Safety of his Kingdoms A motion was therefore made for a second Address upon the same subject on Monday March 26th which here followeth May it please your Majesty WE your Majesties most loyal Subjects the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in Parliament Assembled do vvith unspeakable joy and Comfort present our humble thanks to your Majesty for your Majesties gratious acceptance of our late Address and that your Majesty vvas pleased in your Princely Wisdom to express your Concurrance and Opinion vvith your tvvo Houses in reference to the Preservation of the Spanish Netherlands And vve do vvith most carnest and repeated desires implore your Majesty That you vvould be pleased to take timely care to prevent those dangers that may arise to these Kingdoms by the great Povver of the French King and the Progress he daily makes in those Netherlands and other places And therefore that your Majesty vvould not defer the entring into such Allyances as may obtain those ends and in case it shall happen that in pursuance of such Alliances your Majesty should be engaged in a War vvith the French King vve do hold our solves obliged and do vvith all humility and chearfulness assure your Majesty That vve your most loyal Subject shall alvvayes be ready upon your signification thereof in Parliament fully and from time to time to assist your Majesty vvith such Aydes and Supplies as by the Divine assillance may enable your Majesty to prosecute the same vvith Success All vvhich vve do most humbly offer to your Majesty as the unanimous sence and desire of the vvhole Kingdom March 30th 1677. IT was alledged against this Address that to press the King to make further Alliances with the Confederates against the French King was in effect to press him to a War that being the direct and unavoidable Consequence thereof That the Consideration of War was most proper for the King who had the intelligence of Forraine Affaires and knew the Arcana Imperii That it was a dangerous thing hastily to Incite the King to a War That our Merchant-Ships and Effects would be presently seised by the French King within his Dominions and thereby he would acquire the value of it may be near a million to enable him to maintain the War against us That he would fall upon our Plantations and take Plunder and annoy them That he would send out abundance of Capers and take and disturbe all our Trading Ships in these Seas and the Mediterranean That we had not so many Ships of War as he and those thirty which were to

had by that Treaty of Aix la Chapelle agreed to acquiess in their former Conquests in Flanders and that the English Svvede and Hollander were reciprocally bound to be aiding against whomsoever should disturbe that Regulation besides the League Offensive and Defensive which his Majesty had entered into with the States General of the United Provinces all which was by this Conjunction with France to be broken in pieces So that what is here declared if it were reconcileable to Truth yet could not consist with Possibility which two do seldom break company unless by one only Expedient that the English who by this new League with France were to be the Infractors and Aggressors of the Peace of Aix la Chapelle and with Holland should to fulfill their Obligations to both Parties have sheathed the Sword in our own Bowels But such was the Zeal of the Conspirators that it might easily transport them either to say what was untrue or undertake what was impossible for the French Service That King having seen the English thus engaged beyond a Retreat comes now into the War according to agreement But he was more Generous and Monarchal than to assign Cause true or false for his Actions He therefore on the 27th of March 1672 publishes a Declaration of War without any Reasons Only The ill satisfaction vvhich his Majesty hath of the Behaviour of the States General tovvards him being risen to that degree that he can no longer vvithout diminution to his Glory dissemble his Indignation against them c. Therefore he hath resolved to make War against them both by Sea and Land c. And commands all his Subjects Courir sus upon the Hollauders a Metaphor which out of respect to his own Nation might have been spared For such is our pleasure Was ever in any Age or Nation of the World the Sword drawn upon no better Allegation A stile so far from being Most Christian that nothing but some vain French Romance can parallel or justify the Expression How happy were it could we once arrive at the same pitch and how much credit and labour had been saved had the Compilers of our Declaration in stead of the mean English way of giving Reasons contented themselves with that of the Diminution of the English Honour as the French of his Glory But nevertheless by his Embassador to the Pope he gave afterwards a more clear account of his Conjunction with the English and that he had not undertaken this War against the Hollanders but for extirpating of Heresie To the Emperour That the Hollanders were a People who had forsaken God were Hereticks and that all good Christians were in duty bound to associate for their extiapation and ought to pray to God for a blessing upon so pious an enterprise And to other Popish Princes that it was a War of Religion and in order to the Propagation of the Catholick Faith And in the second Article of his Demands afterward from the Hollanders it is in express words contained That from thenceforvvard there shall be not only an intire Liberty but a Publick Exercise of the Catholick Apostolick Romane Religion throughout all the United Provinces So that vvheresoever there shall be more than one-Church another shall be given to the Catholicks That vvhere there is none they shall be permitted to build one and till that be finished to exercise their Divine Service publickly in such Houses as they shall buy or hire for that purpose That the States General or each Province in particular shall appoint a reasonable Salary for a Curate or Priest in each of the said Churches out of such Revenues as have formerly appertained to the Church or othervvise Which was conformable to what he published now abroad that he had entered into the War only for Gods Glory and that he would lay down Armes streightwayes would the Hollanders but restore the True Worship in their Dominions But he made indeed twelve Demands more and notwithstanding all this devotion the Article of Commerce and for revoking their Placaets against Wine Brandy and French manufactures was the first and tooke place of the Catholick Apostolick Romane Religion Whether all these were therefore onely words of course and to be held or let lose according to his occasions will better appeare when we shall have heard that he still insists upon the same at Nimegen and that although deprived of our assistance he will not yet agree with the Dutch but upon the termes of restoring the True Worship But whatever he were it is evident that the English were sincere and in good earnest in the Design of Popery both by that Declaration above mentioned of Indulgence to the Recusants and by the Negotiation of those of the English Plenipotentiaryes whom for their honour I name not that being in that year sent into Holland pressed that Article among the rest upon them as without which they could have no hope of Peace with England And the whole processe of affaires will manifest further that booth here and there it was all of a piece as to the project of Religion and the same threed ran throw the Web of the English and French Counsells no lesse in relation to that then unto Government Although the issuing of the French Kings declaration and the sending of our English Plenipotentiaries into Holland be involved together in this last period yet the difference of time was so small that the anticipation is inconsiderable For having declared the VVarre but on the 27th of March 1672. He struck so home and followed his blow so close that by July following it seemed that Holland could no longer stand him but that the swiftnesse and force of his motion was something supernatural And it was thought necessary to send over those Plenipotentiaries if not for Interest yet at least for Curiosity But it is easier to find the Markes than Reasons of some mens Actions and he that does only know what happened before and what after might perhaps wrong them by searching for further Intelligence So it was that the English and French Navies being joyned were upon the Tvventieighth of May One thousand six hundred seventy tvvo Attaqued in Soule Bay by De Ruyter with too great advantage For while his Royal Highness then Admiral did all that could be expected but Monsieur d' Estree that commanded the French did all that he was sent for Our English Vice-Admiral Mountague was sacrificed and the rest of our Fleet so mangled that there was no occasion to boast of Victory So that being here still on the losing hand 't was fit some body should look to the Betts on the other side of the Water least that Great and Lucky Gamster when he had won all there and stood no longer in need of the Conspirators should pay them with a Quarrel for his Mony and their ill Fortune Yet were they not conscious to themselves of having given him by any Behaviour of theirs any cause of Dissatisfaction but that they had

are Commissioned by him in pursuance of such Commission and yet neither is the Tenour or Rule of any such Commission specified nor the Qualification of those that shall be armed with such Commissions expressed or limited Never was so much sence contained in so few words No Conveyancer could ever in more Compendious or binding terms have drawn a Dissettlement of the whole Birth-right of England For as to the Commission if it be to take away any mans Estate or his Life by force Yet it is the Kings Commission Or if the Person Commissionate be under never so many Dissabilities by Acts of Parliament yet his taking this Oath removes all those Incapacities or his Commission makes it not Disputable But if a man stand upon his Defence a good Judge for the purpose finding that the Position is Traitorous will declare that by this Law he is to be Executed for Treason These things are no Nicetyes or remote Considerations though in making of Laws and which must come afterwards under Construction of Judges Durante Bene-placito all Cases are to be put and imagined but there being an Act in Scotland for Tvventy thousand Men to March into England upon Call and so great a Body of English Souldery in France within Summons besides what Forainers may be obliged by Treaty to furnish and it being so fresh in memory what sort of persons had lately been in Commission among us to which add the many Bookes then Printed by Licence Writ some by Men of the Black one of the Green Cloath wherein the Absoluteness of the English Monarchy is against all Law asserted All these Considerations put together were sufficient to make any honest and well-advised man to conceive indeed that upon the passing of this Oath and Declaration the vvhole sum of Affaires depended It grew therefore to the greatest contest that has perhaps ever been in Parliament wherein those Lords that were against this Oath being assured of their own Loyalty and Merit stood up now for the English Liberties with the same Genius Virtue and Courage that their Noble Ancestors had formerly defended the Great Charter of England but with so much greater Commendation in that they had here a fairer Field and the more Civil way of Decision They fought it out under all the disadvantages imaginable They were overlaid by Numbers the noise of the House like the VVind was against them and if not the Sun the Fire-side was allwayes in their Faces nor being so few could they as their Adversaries withdraw to refresh themselves in a whole days Ingagement Yet never was there a clearer Demonstration how dull a thing is humane Eloquence and Greatness how Little when the bright Truth discovers all things in their proper Colours and Dimensions and shining shoots its Beams thorow all their Fallacies It might be injurious where all of them did so excellently well to attribute more to any one of those Lords than another unless because the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shaftsbury have been the more reproached for this brave Action it be requisite by a double proportion of Praise to set them two on equal terms with the rest of their Companions in Honour The particular Relation of this Debate which lasted many dayes with great eagerness on both sides and the Reasons but on one was in the next Session burnt by Order of the Lords but the Sparkes of it will eterually fly in their Adversaries faces Now before this Test could in so vigorous an opposition passe the House of Peers there arose unexpectedly a great Controversy betwixt the two Houses concerning their Priviledges on this occasion The Lords according to their undoubted Right being the Supream Court of Judicature in the Nation had upon Petition of Doctor Shirley taken cognizance of a Cause between him and Sir John Fagg a Member of the House of Commons and of other Appeales from the Court of Chancery which the Commons whether in good earnest which I can hardly believe or rather some crafty Parliament men among them having an eye upon the Test and to prevent the hazard of its coming among them presently took hold of and blew the Coales to such a degree that there was no quenching them In the House of Peers both Partyes as in a point of their own Privilege easily united and were no lesse inflamed against the Commons and to uphold their own ancient Jurisdiction wherein neverthelesse both the Lords for the Test and those against it had their own particular reasons and might have accused each-other perhaps of some artifice The matter in conclusion was so husbanded on all sides that any longer converse betwixt the two Houses grew impracticable and his Majesty Prorogued them therefore till the 13th of October 1675 following And in this manner that fatall Test which had given so great disturbance to the mindes of our Nation dyed the second Death which in the language of the Divines is as much as to say it was Damned The House of Commons had not in that Session been wanting to Vote 300000 l. towards the building of Ships and to draw a Bill for appropriating the Ancient Tunnage and Poundage amounting to 400000 l. yearly to the use of the Navy as it ought in Law already and had been granted formerly upon that special Trust and Confidence but neither did that 300000 l. although Competent at present and but an earnest for future meeting seem considerable and had it been more yet that Bill of appropriating any thing to its true use was a sufficient cause to make them both miscarry but upon pretense of the quarrel between the Lords and Commons in which the Session thus ended The Conspirators had this interval to reflect upon their own affaires They saw that the King of France as they called him was so busy abroad that he could not be of farther use yet to them here then by his directions while his Armyes were by assistance of the English Forces severall times saved from ruines They considered that the Test was defeated by which the Papists hoped to have had Reprisalls for that of Transubstantiation and the Conspirators to have gained Commission as extensive and arbitrary as the malice of their own hearts could dictate That herewith they had missed of a Legality to have raised mony without Consent of Parliament or to imprison or execute whosoever should oppose them in pursuance of such their Commission They knew it was in vaine to expect that his Majesty in that want or rather opinion of want which they had reduced him to should be diverted from holding this Session of Parliament nor were they themselves for this once wholy averse to it For they presumed either way to find their own account that if mony were granted it should be attributed to their influence and remaine much within their disposal but if not granted that by joyning this with other accidents of Parliament they might so represent things to his Majesty as to incense him against them