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A54636	Miscellanea parliamentaria containing presidents 1. of freedom from arrests, 2. of censures : 1. upon such as have wrote books to the dishonour of the Lords or Commons, or to alter the constitution of the government, 2. upon members for misdemeanours, 3. upon persons not members, for contempts and misdemeanours, 4. for misdemeanours in elections ... : with an appendix containing several instances wherein the kings of England have consulted and advised with their parliaments 1. in marriages, 2. peace and war, 3. leagues ... / by William Petyt of the Inner-Temple, Esq.	Petyt, William, 1636-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing P1948; ESTC R15174	115,975	326

in divers Places assembled and required to lend certain sums of Money unto your Majesty and many of them upon their refusal so to do have had an Oath administred unto them not warrantable by the Laws or Statutes of this Realm and have been constrained to become bound to make appearance and give attendance before your Privy Councel and in other Places and others of them have been therefore imprisoned confined and sundry other ways molested and disquieted and divers other Charges have been laid and levied upon your People in several Counties by Lord Lievtenants Deputy Lieutenants Commissioners for Musters Justices of Peace and others by Command or Direction from your Majesty or your Privy Councel against the Laws and free Customs of the Realm And where also by the Statute called the Great Charter of the Liberties of England it is declared and Enacted That no Freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his Freehold or Liberties or his free Customs or be Outlawed or Exiled or in any manner destroyed but by the lawful Judgment of his Peers or by the Law of the Land And in the 28th year of the Reign of K. Edward the III. it was Declared and Enacted by Authority of Parliament That no man of what Estate or Condition that he be should be put out of his Land or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disinherited nor put to death without being brought to answer by due process of Law Nevertheless against the tenour of the said Statutes and other the good Laws and Statutes of your Realm to that end provided divers of your Subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause shewed and when for their deliverance they were brought before your Justices by your Majesties Writs of Habeas Corpus there to undergo and receive as the Court shall order and their Keepers commanded to certifie the causes of their detainer no cause was certified but that they were detained by your Majesties special Command signified by the Lords of your Privy Councel and yet were returned back to several Prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the Law And whereas of late great company of Souldiers and Mariners have been dispersed into divers Counties of the Realm and the Inhabitants against their wills have been compelled to receive them into their Houses and there to suffer them to sojourn against the Laws and Customs of this Realm and to the great grievance and vexation of the People And whereas also by Authority of Parliament in the 25th year of the Reign of K. Edward the III. it is Declared and Enacted That no man should be forejudged of Life or Limb against the form of the great Charter and the Law of the Land and by the said great Charter and other the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the Laws established in this your Realm either by the Customs of the same Realm or by Acts of Parliament And whereas no Offendor of what kind soever is exempted from the Proceedings to be used and Punishments to be inflicted by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm nevertheless of late divers Commissions under your Majesties Great Seal have issued forth by which certain persons have been assigned and appointed Commissioners with Power and Authority to proceed within the Land according to the Justice of the Martial Law against such Souldiers and Mariners or other dissolute persons joyning with them as should commit any Murther Robbery Felony Mutiny or other Outrage or Misdemeanour whatsoever and by such summary Course and Order as is agreeable to Martial Law and as is used in Armies in time of War to proceed to the Tryal and Condemnation of such Offendors and them to cause to be executed and put to death according to the Law Martial By pretext whereof some of your Majesties Subjects have been by some of the said Commissioners put to death when and where if by the Laws and Statutes of the Land they had deserved death by the same Laws and Statutes also they might and by no other ought to have been judged and executed And also sundry grievous Offendors by colour thereof claiming an exemption have escaped the Punishments due to them by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm by reason that divers of your Officers and Ministers of Justice have unjustly refused or forborn to proceed against such Offendors according to the same Laws and Statutes upon pretence that the said Offendors were punishable only by Martial Law and by Authority of such Commissions as aforesaid which Commissions and all other of like nature are wholly and directly contrary to the said Laws and Statutes of this your Realm They do therefore humbly pray your most Excellent Majesty that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any Gift Loan Benevolence Tax or such like Charge without common Consent by Act of Parliament and that none be called to make answer or take such Oath or to give attendance or be confined or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof and that no Freeman in any such manner as is before mentioned be Imprisoned or Detained And that your Majestie would be pleased to remove the said Souldiers and Mariners and that your People may not be so burthened in time to come And that the foresaid Commissions for proceeding by Martial Law may be revoaked and adnulled And that hereafter no Commissions of like nature may issue forth to any Person or Persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid least by colour of them any of your Majesties Subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the Laws and Franchises of this Land All which they most Humbly Pray of your most Excellent Majesty as their Rights and Liberties according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm And that your Maiestie would also vouchsafe to declare that the awards doings and proceedings to the prejudice of your People in any of the premisses shall not be drawn hereafter into Consequence or Example and that your Majesty would be also graciously pleased for the further comfort and safety of your People to declare your Royal Will and Pleasure That in the things aforesaid all your Officers and Ministers shall serve you according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as they tender the Honour of your Majesty and the Prosperity of this Kingdom Which Petition being read the 2d of June 1628. the King's Answer was thus delivered unto it THe King willeth that Right be done according to the Laws and Customs of the Realm and that the Statutes be put in due execution that his Subjects may have no cause to complain of any wrong or oppressions contrary to their just Rights and Liberties to the preservation whereof he holds himself in Conscience as well obliged as of his Prerogative But

Highness's most Faithful and Obedient Subjects the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled Considering and certainly perceiving by divers means the earnest Good-will and Purpose that our said Sovereign Lord hath to preserve maintain and continue Us his Natural Subjects in this most Fortunate Peace whereunto after many Storms and Tempests of the Wars His Majesty hath by the Goodness of God restored Us Do also notwithstanding his Majesties great Care and politick Means used for the recovery thereof easily perceive how hard it shall be for His Highness to continue and kéep us therein during the time of this troublesom state of Christendom being as it were lamentably cut and torn in pieces and Factions of War except his Highness be restored to a further Estate and Furniture of Treasure meet for the Defence of these His Realms Dominions And Subjects and like to other Princes having such large Realms Dominions and People the lack and want whereof as we know shall chiefly redound to all our Losses and Detriments which must be defended and preserved by the Puissant Power and Might of our Sovereign Lord and Head not by the multitude of our private Riches and Strength at Home So also have We séen of late years plainly before Our Eyes and felt in a great part of Our sorrowful hearts the very Principal Chief and first Causes of this lack during the time of the woful mis-governance of this Noble Realm and other the King's Dominions by the late Protector Duke of Somerset to whom Almighty God grant his Mercy who first of his insatiate ambition contrary to the advices of all Wise and Good Councellors having gotten into his hands the sole Governance of the most Sacred Person of our Sovereign Lord and consequently the Protectorship of all his Highness's Realms and Dominious immediately to lay a fit Foundation for his unhappy and unskilful Government brought the King's Majesty whom he took by pretence to Govern being left by His Highness's Father of most Famous Memory in tender Years but yet in Peace suddenly into open Hostility and Wars against two puissant Realms at once considering neither the Ability to begin nor means to continue them wherein following always his own singularity by stirring and increasing of new Quarrels and Causes of War by unadvised Invasions by desperate Enterprises and Uoyages by sumptuous endless vain Fortifications both in Foreign Realms and in the Seas by bringing into the Realm of costly and great numbers of Strangers Men of War and such other innumerable vain Devices he did not only Exhaust and utterly Waste the King's Majestie 's Treasures and Revenues of His Crown and of Us His Highness's Subjects but also endangered His Majestie 's Credit beyond the Seas with divers strange Merchants by taking up and borrowing great Sums of Money growing from time to time more and more indurable which Gate of Misery being so wide open We all know and the best part of Us felt what a heap of Calamities fell upon all the Realm immediately Yea and to this day what Prests and Memory thereof remaineth not wholly yet filled up First the King's Majesties Treasure of all sorts wasted the great substance of the Moneys melted and altered in base Coyn for the serving of the Charge of these Wars the Laws and ancient Policies of this noble Realm dissolved and unjoyned and by Examples thereof the whole state of Ireland endangered with Factions and Rebellions wherein no small Sums of Treasure were also wasted in Armies and Fortifications part whereof remains unto this day of necessity In the midst of all these miseries by the suffering of the said late Protector rose up a monstrous and dangerous Rebellion of the lewd numbers and baser multitudes against their Heads the withstanding and happy stay whereof although it came through the mercifulness of God by the labour and fortitude of others worthy eternal Praise subduing the headless raging people in sundry parts of the Realm delivering Us the King's Majesties Natural Subjects out of our unnatural Subjection to him that ruled Us with disorder And finally restoring the Royal Person of the King's Highness to the Fréedom of His Princely Estate and consequently to an Honourable Peace with his Enemies Yet could not hitherto the great Breach and Ruine of the King's Majestie 's Estate touching his Treasure be repaired or re-enforced which consequently followed upon the first Foundations broken although in other points of the decay thanked be God the King's Majesties own marvellous Intelligence with the Industry of good Conncellors hath notably supplied and amended the defaults And as these former Errors brought His Majesty into utter wasts of His own Treasure and Riches into the Expences of Our Subsidies granted for the same Wars though nothing answerable to the Expence of the same Finally into notable and immeasurable Charges beyond the Seas Provisions of Money taken up in time of Wars so yet to the increase of this former sore We remember and perceive also that there were very great Charges left by the late King of famous Memory by reason of his Wars to be discharged as well beyond Sea towards strangers as on this side towards his own Subjects which of their nature beyond the Seas for lack of payment did grow excessively besides the late evident great Charge and Loss sustained by the Kings Majesty for the only Profit of His publick Weal in the reducing of part of His Coyn from a notable baseness unto a fine Standard by the which His Majesty lacketh a great private Gain in his Mints being now worth no Revenue at all but rather chargable and the rest of which Coyn we trust He will shortly reduce to like fineness All which things We His Majesties Faithful and natural Loving Subjects weighing with Our selves and considering divers great weighty matters hereupon depending for the preservation of this Ancient Noble and Imperial Crown Albeit We see manifestly before Our Eyes Our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty disposed of His good Nature rather daily to diminish the Revenue of His Crown lately angmented by His Father of most famous Memory towards the unburthening of His great intollerable Weights and Charges lying and growing in strangers hands beyond the Seas then to call upon us His natural Subjects and People like as we daily hear and know that all other most Christian Princes do in Causes of less Importance and like His Majesties noble Progenitors have always done in such Cases heretofore Yet for the preservation of Our selves and Our Posterity in this Peace and Wealth whereunto We have by the great Charges of Our Sovereign Lord been blessed brought for the maintenance and upholding of the Crown and Dignity Imperial of this Noble Realm in Honour and Might against all Attempts of Foreign and Ancient Enemies for the Restauration of this decayed House of the Commonwealth having suffer'd violation and ruine by exile of Justice in the former time of the aforesaid evil Governance For the comforting and encouraging of

House Voted that he had done a contempt to the House of Commons and that it disturbed the Church and Commonwealth Since that they find that Book was countenanced and defended by Bishops and others At the last Parliament the House again took it into consideration and Voted that Mountague had sowed Sedition and Endeavoured to Reconcile us to Rome Now it was thought good that an addition should be made to the Articles against Richard Mountague Clerk First That he about 21. Jac. Printed a Book called a Gag for the Puritan and about the 22. Jac the Treaty of the Invocation of Saints and 1 Caroli an Appeal to Caesar in every of which he affirmed divers Opinions contrary to the Articles of Religion and by his so doing hath broke the Laws and disturbed the Peace of the Church He said that the Church of Rome had ever remained firm in their Doctrine and that the Sacrifice of Masses c. And also that contrary to his Duty and Allegiance under the name of Puritans he had laid vile Aspersions on divers conformable Persons And also he labours to draw Men to Popery by subtile and secret ways His Appeal hath divers passages that are contumelious to his Majesties Father King James and to divers Worthy and Learned Divines For all which the ommons Pray he may be Punished for thus disturbing the Peace of the Church and State Two cautions are observed first we meddle not with Inferences and Collections but with immediate contradictions to the Articles of Religion and the Book of Homilies also he is not charged with opinions contrary to the Divines of England He recites the Articles as if we may depart away from grace the word away is not in the Articles Also the Articles do not say that Men justified may fall away from that State As for the Homilies for the word away he puts in fall away Also he seems to make difference between the Church in foreign Parts and the Church of England As for his charge of Sedition it is clear by dividing the Kingdom under the name of Puritans labouring to bring his Majesty in jealousie with 〈◊〉 Subjects and to stir up others in hatred against such First he lays the name of Puritans upon the Kings Subjects that are dutiful and honest Subjects In truth at the first this word was given to them that severed themselves from the Church but he says there are Puritans in heart and Puritans in Doctrine as of Predestination and Reprobation Also this division and aspersion is new and under this name he comprehends some of our Bishops Also he labours to bring those persons into dislike with his Majesty as dangerous persons he says they are a potent Faction that Authority is a mote in their eye and they are cunning and active men And he concludes Domine Imperator defende me gladio ego te defendam calamo Also he labours to bring them in scorn in his Appeal they hold the Cross of Christ in as great despite as Julian Also he withdraws the Subjects from their Religion to Popery and he introduceth those mischiefs that the Law seeks to prevent By the Law 1 Eliz. and other Statutes it is Treason to withdraw any from the Religion established but he cunningly infuseth Popery He saith the points of Controversie between Vs and the Papists are Arbitrary and that we and they assent in some Opinions as in the point of Free-will that their Opinions and ours are all one and for the point of real Presence for which so many have suffered death he saith that they jangle without cause Also it was desired that those Absurdities and Consequences we lay upon the Papists for the point of Free-will may be spared and that they are Bugbears c. And for converting men to Popery he speaks favourably of the Pope that he is the first and greatest Bishop and fit to determine Controversies and that the Pope is not Antichrist he spends a whole Chapter in that and that the Romish Church is part of the Catholick Church we mention in our Creed and for Popish Ceremonies he commends and approves Pictures in Churches and so for the Cross he saith Caro signetur ut anima Also he labours to reconcile Papists and Vs whereas if we offer Composition we lose or part with somewhat Also he lays Scandals on us and our Doctrine that there is no certainty in our points of difference and that our Divines themselves differ Also he favours those Practices that have been used by the King's Enemies A Spaniard saith Nothing is better for the ruine of the English than to establish a Faction amongst them which he labours to effect His Tenents Dishonourable to K. James who was diligent to prevent Arminianism now he labours to discredit the Synod at Dort Also K. James in his learned Works proves the Pope to be Antichrist but Mountague said he never had a probable Argument thereof Also he puts Disgraces on Protestant Divines that Calvin Perkins and Beza are Dictators and that Beza doth Puritanize and Dr. Whitacre that he was a man of their side His prophaneness in speaking of Preaching and other Exercises of Religion in preaching in Pulpits they brawl c. and Conferences after Sermons he calls them Prophetical Determinations and to chew the Cud as after Lectures Bible bearers c. It was Ordered That the Articles be presented to the Lords and that Mountague be transmitted to the Lords After which the Parliament was Prorogued to the 4th year of that King's Reign where the Commons were upon him again and questioned a Pardon he had got in the time of Prorogation but shortly after the Parliament was dissolved § 2. Some Presidents wherein the House of Commons have for misdemeanors turned out and discharged their Members I. ANno 27 Eliz Dr. Parry for several misdemeanors and crimes was disabled to be any longer a Member in the House II. An. 18 Jac. Sir Giles Mompesson for being a Monopolist and for other great and insufferable crimes by him committed to the abuse of his Majesty and grievous oppression of the Subjects was 1. Turned out of the House 2. Committed to the Tower And after Impeached before the Lords who gave Judgment upon him 1. To be degraded of the Order of Knighthood 2. To stand perpetually in the degree of a person Outlawed for Misdemeanors and Trespasses 3. His Testimony never to be received in any Court nor to be of any Inquisition or Jury 4. To be excepted out of all general pardons 5. That he should be imprisoned during his life 6. Not to approach within 12. miles of the Courts of the King or Prince nor at the Kings high Court usually held at Westminster 7. That the King should have the profits of his Land for life and all his Goods and Chattels and should be Fined at 10000 l. 8. He was also disabled to hold or receive any Office under the King or for the

this Answer not giving satisfaction the King was again petitioned unto that he would give a full and satisfactory Answer to their Petition in full Parliament Whereupon the King in Person upon the 7th of June made this 2d Answer My Lords and Gentlemen THe Answer I have already given you was made with so good deliberation and approved by the Judgments of so many wise men that I could not have imagined but that it should have given you full satisfaction but to avoid all ambiguous Interpretations and to shew you there is no doubleness in my meaning I am willing to please you in words as well as in substance read your Petition and you shall have an Answer that I am sure will please you And then causing the Petition to be distinctly read by the Clerk of the Crown the Clerk of the Parliament read the King's Answer thereunto in these words Soit droit fait come est desire §. 4. Several Miscellaneous Presidents and Orders both of the House of Lords and Commons I. A standing Order of the Commons House of Parliament touching Bills delivered to the Speaker UPon Tuesday the 15th of this instant May a Bill being offered to the Speaker of the Commons House of Parliament in his way coming towards the said House he received it and brought it in and being set in his Chair after some time did openly intimate the Head or Title of it purporting a Declaration of Treason practised by a Magistrate of this Land concealing the Name of the Man and the Particulars of the Bill adding that for special Causes he hoped they would not meddle with it or expect it should be read nevertheless the House inclined to have the Bill read but upon the said Speaker's Motion and better Consideration resolved to forbear it for that time expecting the return and reading of it when Mr. Speaker should think meet to give the House satisfaction as he promised shortly to do The next day as was afterwards informed it pleased his Majesty to send for the Bill and in respect it contained matter of personal Treason as was likewise pretended properly and only touching himself his Majesty assumed unto himself the Examination of the matter of the Bill and retained it in his own keeping In all this time the House for the more part expected an Accompt of the said Bill which was this day demanded and urged by sundry Members of this House in which Debate these Questions were handled 1. Whether the House were possessed of the Bill 2. What might be called possession of a Bill 3. Whether it might deal with Treason 4. Examine commit and proceed to Judgment upon Traitors and with what kind of Treason and Traitors 5. And lastly Whether a Speaker receiving a Bill and reading the Title may deliver it to any without special allowance and leave of the House Hereupon it was finally Resolved and Ordered that for this time all Questions should cease touching these matter with this caution and care proceeding from a tender regard of the priviledge of this House that it should be precisely Registred as the Judgment of the House that no Speaker from henceforth should deliver a Bill whereof the House standeth possessed to any whomsoever without allowance and leave as aforesaid but that he had Power and might either shew it or deliver a Copy If it seems meet unto him Who by way of excuse Answered that a Message was delivered unto him by a great Lord from his Majestie commanding him to send the Bill unto him and that he was warranted by former Presidents to shew the Bill to the King when he was Commanded As in the Case of Mr. Morrice Mr. Wentworth 25. Eliz. Many Motions ensued in this matter by Mr. Sollicitor Sir Herbert Crofts Sir Francis Bacon Mr. Brooke Mr. Wiseman Sir William Fleetwood Mr. Crewe Mr. Martin Sir Henery Beaumont Sir Maurice Berkley Sir William Strowd Mr. Yelverton Sir Thomas Hobby Much Exceptions against the Presidents Injurious that any Speaker should deliver a Bill to the King without the privity of the House No Bill whereof the House is possessed to be delivered to the King or any other without notice and leave of the House We loose our priviledge if we loose our Bill Mr. Speaker to pray Access to the King himself and in the name of the House to desire the Bill from his Majestie No possession of a Bill except it be delivered to the Clerk to be Read If the Speaker Read Title in his Chair as he did in this Case a possession Jones the Prisoner to be sent for hither and to attend his discharge from the House That the Prisoners Committed by us cannot be taken from us and Committed by any other An Order moved and Agreed that no Bill whereof the House is clearly possessed be delivered to any before the House have notice and give leave Admitted that a Copy may be delivered or it may be shewed to his Majestie II. Mr. Speaker declared to the House a Message from the King The Message was to this effect That his Majestie having entred into a Princely Consideration of the weight of the great Cause in hand as also of the great worth and sufficiency of those Gentlemen that have Spoken and Dealt in it he was to put them in mind that the Writ of Summons that called them thither was to consult de arduis Regi That every Man did serve for a Town or a Shire that his attendance and service of the House was a great duty and that the departure of any Member of this House was a greater contempt than any Nobleman's departure who served only for himself that therefore he wished and advised that no Lawyer or other Member of Note might depart the House until this great Matter were brought to more ripeness and perfection and if the House would enter into course for the stay of them here or for the recalling of those that be absent his Highness would assist them by his Proclamation or otherwise as they should conceive fittest It was hereupon moved that many have Tryals at the Assizes who by their absence might receive prejudice if some course were not taken to prevent it Propounded that Letters might be writ by Mr. Speaker to the Justices of Assize for stay of Proceedings against any man that would require it which was approved and resolved by the House Mr. Speaker moveth that a time might be appointed for the Calling of the House and a punishment agreed on for the absent Others that the House might first be Called and then a punishment thought on That the House being Called the Serjeant might be sent for those which were found absent That a Law might be thought of to provide for this Mischief hereafter These Motions ended in these three Questions which by direction was made by Mr. Speaker viz. 1. Whether the House