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cause_n	according_a	justice_n	law_n	1,616	5	4.3920	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78637	His Majesties answer, to a printed book, intituled, A remonstrance, or the declaration of the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament, 26. May 1642 In answer to a declaration under His Majesties name, concerning the business of Hull.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2105; ESTC R229539	17,902	16

the more justifiable Nay let the Framers of this Declaration ask themselves If the Evil Counsellors the Malignant Party the Persons Il-affected the Popish Lords and their Adherents should prove now or hereafter to be a Major part of both Houses for it hath been declared a great part of both Houses have been such and so might have been the greater nay that the greater part of the House of Peers was such and We have not heard of any of their conversions and thereupon it hath been earnestly pressed That the Minor part of the Lords might joyn with the Major part of the House of Commons were Wee bound to consent to all such Alterations as these men should propose to Vs and resolve to bee for the publike good and must the Liberty Property and Security of all Our Subjects depend on what such Votes should declare to bee Law Was the Order of the Militia unfit and unlawfull whiles the Major part of the Lords refused to joyn in it as they did two if not three severall times and it was never heard before this Parliament that they should bee so and so often pressed after a dissent declared and did it grow immediatly necessary for the publike safety and lawfull by the Law of the Land as soon as so many of the dissenting Peeres were driven away after their names had been required at the Bar contrary to the Freedom and Foundation of Parliaments that the other Opinion prevailed Doth the Life and Liberty of the Subject depend upon such Accidents of dayes and houres that it is impossible for him to know his right in either God forbid But now to justifie their Invasion of Our ancient unquestioned undoubted Right setled and established on Us and Our Posterity by God himself confirmed and strengthned by all possible Titles of Compact Laws Oaths perpetuall and uncontradicted Custom by Our people What have they alleaged to Declare to the Kingdom as they say the Obligation that lyeth upon the Kings of this Realm to passe all such Bills as are offered unto them by both Houses of Parliament a thing never heard of till this day An Oath Authority enough for them to break all theirs that is or ought to be taken by the Kings of this Realm which is as well to remedy by Law such inconveniences the Kingdom may suffer as to keep and protect the Laws already in being And the form of this Oath they say appears upon a Record there cited and by a Clause in the Preamble of a Statute made in the five and twentieth yeare of Edward the third We are not enough acquainted with records we to know whether that be fully and and ingeniously cited and when and how and why the severall clauses have been inserted or taken out of the oathes formerly administred to the Kings of this Realme yet we cannot possibly imagine the assertion that Declaration makes can be deduced from the words or the matter of that oath for unlesse they have a power of declaring Lattin as We as Law sure Eligerit signifieth hath chosen as well as Chuse and that it signifieth so here besides the authority of perpetuall practice of all succeeding ages a better interpreter then their Votes is evident by the reference it hath to customes Consuetudines quas vulgus elegerit and could that be a Custome which the people should chuse after this Oath taken and should a King be sworne to defend such Customes Besides can it be imagined that he should bee bound by oath to passe such Laws and such a Law is the Bill they brought to Vs of the Militia as should put the power wherewith he is trussed out of himselfe in the hands of other men and so devest and disable him of all possible power to performe the great businesse of the oath which is To protect them If we give away all Our power or if it be taken from Vs we cannot protect any man And what discharge would it be for us either before God or Man when our good Subjects whom God and the Law hath committed to our charge shall be worried and spoyled to say That we trusted others to protect them that is to doe that duty for Vs which is essentially and inseparably our owne But that all Our good Subjects may see how faithfully these men who assume this trust from them desire to discharge their trust We shall be contented to publish for their satisfaction a matter notorious enough but which we our Selfe never thought to have been but to publish and of which the Framers of that Declaration might as well have made use as of a Latine record they knew many of our good Subjects could not and many of themselves doe not understand the Oath it selfe we tooke at our Coronation warranted and injoyned to it by Custome and directions of our Predecessors and the Ceremony or their and our taking it they may finde it in the Records of the Exchequer This it is The Sermon being done the Archbishop goeth to the King and askes his willingnesse to take the Oath usually taken by his Predecessors The King sheweth himselfe willing ariseth and goeth to the Altar The Archbishop administreth these Questions and the King answers them severally Episcopus Sir Will you grant and keep and by your Oath confirme to the people of England the Laws and Customes to them granted by the Kings of England your Lawfull and Religious Predecessors and namely the Laws Customes and Franchises granted to the Clergie by the glorious King Saint Edward your Predecessor according to the Lawes of God the true Profession of the Gospel established in this Kingdome and agreeable to the Prerogative of the Kings thereof and the ancient Customes of this Realme REX I grant and promise to keep them Episcopus Sir Will you keep Peace and godly Agreement entirely according to your power both to God the holy Church the Clergy and the People REX I will keep it Episcopus Sir Will you to your power cause Law Justice and Discretion in Mercy and Truth to be executed in all your Judgements REX I will Episcopus Will you grant to hold and keep the Lawes and rightfull customes which the Commonalty of this your Kingdome have and will you defend and uphold them to the honour of God so much as in you lieth REX I grant and promise so to doe Then one of the Bishops reads this Admonition to the King before the people with a loud voice Our Lord and King We beseech you to pardon and to grant and to preserve unto us and to the Churches committed to our charge all Canonicall Priviledges and due Law and Justice and that you would Protect and defend us as every good King in his Kingdome ought to bee Protector and Defender of the Bishops and the Churches under their Government The King answereth With a willing and devout Heart I promise and grant my pardon and that I will preserve and maintaine to you and the Churches committed to