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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92926	A letter from an ejected Member of the House of Commons, to Sir Jo: Evelyn: shewing, the constitution of that councell, and the influence it hath had on the present times, with a judgement of future events.	Skutt, George.; Evelyn, John, Sir, 1591-1664.	1648 (1648)	Wing S26; Thomason E463_18; ESTC R203469	15,283	28

Tragedies on each other when like wise patriots they should be quenching the flames of publique discord they are spending their time like young novices in Religion and getting by heart a Catechisme which they have newly received from their reversed Tutor the Synod But popularity that bewitches all natures not mightily supported with virtue and wisdome soon taught wise men that there was no stop to be given to this careere of Speech-making unlesse the King should dissolve the Parliament which as the King had not done formerly without great temptation so now to prevent it the temptation being greater then ever you know the arts were used with all the desired successe that could be And notwithstanding His Majesties great alscrity in so important a matter to consent to the perpetuity of this Parliament yet this security was so far from working off the clamour of the Members that it raised the key higher and from generall discourses they descended every day more and more to particulars Happy was he that found out a Subject would tickle the attention of the Houses and could set it forth pathetically Doe you not remember how Cromwell speaking for Layton out of the Gallery dropt teares downe with his words and did not Lilburne Burton Prin and Bastwick find the like passionate Orators and yet what effect did their glorious enlargements produce but to let the world see the turbulent spirit of these men was habituall and not imputed and justifie the proceedings of the late governours against them And that 't was no wonder they fell out with the King His Privy Councell and the Bishops when now being all at liberty they could not agree among themselves For Prin was become a State-Presbyter and Bastwick an Ecclesiasticall Burton an Independent and Lylburne a Leveller and all of them acording to the interest of their severall causes did not only write and raile at one another and at severall Members of the Houses and the Army but at the whole Army and Parliament it self It was strange to see the cheapnesse of your Jurisdiction and what a facile ear was given to all Accusations and Calumnies as if the Parliament had been called only to hear Informations or receive Intelligences I passe by the Triumph was made over many great Personages in their loud Impeachments of High Treason the great labour was had to prove them Some of which were sold afterwards for money and others to this day lie by the walls unregarded and forgotten And those that did perish by their Accusations suffered more I doubt to satisfie the pride and greatnesse of the Accusers then the merit of their Accusations And when the wits and understandings of men failed their revenge malice bore up the undertaking for when the whole House was gravell'd knew not how to proceed in the Tryall of the Earl of Strafford M. Pym you know was fain to call up that stupendious Oracle of all Learning SELDEN the Great to help the infirmities of the Members and declare to the forme of proceeding what had been the practice of former Ages in the like Impeachments The matter rested in the hearts of the Accusers and needed no assistances As appeared sufficiently upon the closing up the evidence at the Bar by M. Glyn who ranging all his matter to the best order and advantage he could to charge the Prisoner seconded with a reserve of his own aggravations made such a tedious unsatisfactory impertinent clamour that of those Lords who should have heard him some fell asleep others lay along tired all found out some diversion for their tormented thoughts representing to them the fatality of that great Peer's life before them which they could not save because they saw the Commons would not You must needs remember upon all occasions how nice tender they were ever of their Orders and Priviledges holding them superiour to all Laws and Rules whatsoever It was a State sacriledge to invade either of them Whence it came to passe that their own and their servants persons were free from all Legall processe in all causes and Courts And one Benson a Yorkshire man thought the vertue of Member-ship so great that he extended it to protect fourscore persons none of his servants at one time for which also he received 20s a piece and I beleeve the first example that ever was of protecting a Rape by Priviledge of Parliament was in the person of that godly and faithfull Member to the Cause whom they called Prince Griffith I know there hath been something done of late to remit protections and humble the power of Parliaments which signifies no more but this that in a time when peoples mindes were in a tumultuary discrasie ready to break the reines of Government and some temper was fit to be administred nothing was thought more popular nor apt to court the People into their Obedience then to offer them to lay down this Spell of Priviledge which while they were about them no creditor could do them hurt What opinion the House of Commons had of the Lords was seen every day for it appeared all along they were made servile to the designes of the Commons And in truth it were too much trouble to put you in minde how often and how tamely they have suffered themselves to be baffled out of as much right and reason as would have served for noble advantages to have raised their lost honours to their Ancient greatnesse and splendour And in case as of late it hath happened that Petitions and Addresses were made to the Houses which exactly suited not with the sence and successe of their present designes Doe but observe what the different receptions of them were with how much more secret State and Dignity the answers were delivered from the Lower House who when they dare will be sure to reprehend and when they dare not their answers shall be made up of such supercilious sentences as shall signifie nothing or some cold opinion of the action and leave the Petitioners rather to study out their own duty then expect redresse 'T is an athletick labour to put you in minde of every thing But you may suppose that when so many were got together that could think themselves any thing that there was no Power nor Jurisdiction nor Rule but they were that it was no hard matter for them to make a transition from the power to the execution and fall to acting any thing Hence it came to passe that Treason against the King and Sacriledge against the Church were become popular Topicks The first was upheld under the pretences of restoring the Crown to a stability of Greatnesse and Soveraignty and the other covered with the title of Reformation But these appearing at last with their disguises off discovered only the power of some active subtle Members working out different designes through the borrowed resemblances of Justice and vertue You need not be remembred with what notorious partiality and favour those Causes were received which