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A41165	The design of enslaving England discovered in the incroachments upon the powers and privileges of Parliament by K. Charles II being a new corrected impression of that excellent piece intituled, A just and modest vindication of the proceedings of the two last Parliaments of King Charles the Second.	Jones, William, Sir, 1631-1682.; Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1689 (1689)	Wing F734; ESTC R5506	42,396	53

to say that the use of Parliaments is already laid aside For tho His Majesty has owned in so many of His Speeches and Declarations the great danger of the Kingdom and the necessity of the Aid and Counsel of Parliaments he hath nevertheless been prevailed upon to Dissolve four in the space of 26 Months without making provision by their advice suitable to our dangers or wants Nor can we hope the Court will ever love any Parliament better than the first of those four wherein they had so dearly purchased such a number of fast Friends Men who having first sold themselves would not stick to fell any thing after And we may well suspect they mean very ill at Court when their designs shock't such a Parliament For that very Favourite Parliament no sooner began in good earnest to examine what had been done and what was doing but they were sent away in haste and in a fright though the Ministers know they lost thereby a constant Revenue of extraordinary Supplies And are the Ministers at present more innocent than at that time The same interest hath the ascendant at Court still and they have heightned the Resentments of the Nation by repeated affronts and can we believe them that they dare suffer a Parliament now to Sit But we have gain'd at least this one Point by the Declaration that it is own'd to us that Parliaments are the best Method for healing the distempers of the Kingdom and the only means to preserve the Monarchy in credit both at home and abroad Own'd by these very men who have so maliciously rendred many former Parliaments ineffectual and by this Declaration have done their utmost to make those which are to come as fruitless and thereby have confessed that they have no concern for healing the distempers of the Kingdom and preserving the credit of the Monarchy which is in effect to acknowledge themselves to be what the Commons called ●hem Enemies to the King and Kingdom Nothing can be more true than that the Kingdom can never recover its strength and reputation abroad or its ancient Peace and Settlement at home His Majesty can never be relieved from his fears and his domestick wants nor secure from the Affronts which he daily suffers from abroad till he resolves not only to call Parliaments but to Hearken to them when they are called For without that it is not a Declaration it is not repeated promises nay it is not the frequent calling of Parliaments which will convince the world that the use of them is not intended to be laid aside However we rejoyce that his Majesty seems resolved to have frequent Parliaments and hope he will be just to Himself and us by continuing constant to this Resolution Yet we cannot but doubt in some degree when we remember the Speech made 26 Jan. 1679. to both Houses wherein he told them that he was Unalterably of an Opinion that long intervals of Parliaments were absolutely necessary for composing and quieting the minds of the People Therefore which ought we rather to believe the Speech or the Declaration or which is likely to last longest a Resolution or an unalterable opinion is a matter too Nice for any but Court-Criticks to Decide The effectual performance of the last part of the promise will give us assurance of the first When we see the real fruits of these utmost endeavours to extirpate Popery out of Parliament when we see the D. of York no longer first Minister or rather protector of these Kingdoms and his Creatures no longer to have the whole direction of Affairs when we see that Love to our Religion and Laws is no longer a crime at Court no longer a certain forerunner of being Disgrac'd and Remov'd from all Offices and Employments in their Power when the word Loyal which is faithful to the Law shall be restored to its old meaning and no longer signifie one who is for subverting the Laws When we see the Commissions fill'd with hearty Protestants and the Laws executed in good earnest against the Papists the Discoverers of the Plot countenanc'd or at least heard and suffered to give their Evidence the Courts of Justice steady and not Avowing a Jurisdiction one day which they disown the next no more Grand Juries discharg'd lest they should hear Witnesses nor Witnesses hurried away lest they should inform Grand Juries when we see no more Instruments from Court labouring to raise Jealousies of Protestants at home and some regard had to Protestants abroad when we observe somewhat else to be meant by Governing according to Law than barely to put in Execution against Dissenters the Laws made against Papists then we shall promise our selves not only frequent Parliaments but all the blessed effects of pursuing Parliamentary Councels the Extripation of Popery the Redress of Grievances the flourishing of Law● and the perfect Restoring the Monarchy to the Credit which it ought to have but which the Authors of the Declaration confess it wants both at Home and Abroad There needs no time to open the Eyes of His Majesties good Subjects and their Hearts are ready prepared to meet him in Parliament in order to perfect all the good Settlement and Peace wanting in Church and State. But whilst there are so many little Emissaries imployed to sow and encrease Divisions in the Nation as if the Ministers had a mind to make His Majesty the Head of a Faction and joyn himself to one Party in the Kingdom who has a just right of Governing all which Thuanus lib. 28. says was the notorious folly and occasioned the Destruction of his great Grand Mother Mary Queen of Scots whilst we see the same Differences promoted industriously by the Court which gave the rise and progress to the late troubles and which were once thought fit to be buried in an Act of Oblivion Whilst we see the Popish Interest so plainly Countenanced which was then done with Caution when every pretence of Prerogative is strained to the utmost Height when Parliaments are used with contempt and indignity and their judicature and all their highest Priviledges brought in question in Inferior Courts we have but too good cause to believe that tho every Loyal and Good Man does yet the Ministers and Favourites do but little consider the Rise and Progress of the late Troubles and have little desire or care to preserve their Country from a Relapse And who as they never yet shewed regard to Religion Liberty or Property so they would be little concern'd to see the Monarchy shaken off if they might escape the Vengeance of publick Justice due to them for so long a Course of pernicious Counsels and for Crowning all the rest of their faults by thus Reflecting upon that High Court before which we do not doubt but we shall see them one day brought to Judgment Thus have we with an English plainness expressed our thoughts of the late Parliaments and their Proceedings as well as of the Court in Relation to them and hope this Freedom will offend no man. The Ministers who may be concern'd through their appealing unto the People cannot in Justice deny unto any one of them the Liberty of weighing the Reasons which they thought fit to publish in Vindication of their Actions But if it should prove otherwise and these few Sheets be thought as weak and full of Errors as those we endeavour to confute or be held injurious unto them we desire only to know in what we transgress and that the Press may be open for our Justification Let the People to whom the Appeal is made judg then between them and us and let Reason and the Law be the Rules according unto which the Controversy may be decided But if by denying this they shall like Beasts recur to force they will thereby acknowledg that they want the Arms which belong to rational Creatures Whereas if the Liberty of Answering be left us we will give up the Cause and confess that both Reason and Law are wanting unto us if we do not in our Reply satisfy all reasonable and impartial men that nothing is said by us but what is just and necessary to preserve the Interests of the King and his People Nor can there be any thing more to the Honour of His Majesty than to give the Nations round about us to understand that the King of England doth neither Reign over a Base Servile People who hearing themselves Arraign'd and Condemned dare not speak in their own Defence and Vindication nor over so silly foolish and weak a People as that ill designed and worse supported Paper might occasion the World to think but that there are some Persons in his Dominions not only of true English Courage but of greater intellectuals as well as better Morals than the Advisers unto and Penners of the Declaration have manifested themselves to be FINIS 4 Edw. 3. c. 14.36 Ed. 3. c. 10. See the Parliament Roll 2 Ric. 2. num 28. See the Antiq. modo tenend Parliament * See the Declaration prepared by Coleman by the Advice of the French King's Confessor for dissolving the Parliament to prepare for Popery Speech 21. Octob. 1680. Speech 30. Apr. 1679. Speech 26. Dec. 1662. Speech 6. March 1679. Lord Chancellor's Speech 23 May 1678. Address presented 21 Dec. 1680. Address presented 29 Nov. 1680. Rot. Parl. 5 H. 4. Nu. 6. Traitte des droits de la Reine On t cette bien beu●euse impuissance de ne pouvoir rie● faire contre les Loys de leur Pais Postelius de Rebus Turcicis 1 R. 3. cap. 2. 12 Car. 2. c. 4.4 confirm'd 31 Car. c. 7. 12 Car. 2. c. 23 an 33 14 Car. c. 10. Tacit. Cap. 1. Sect. 2. pag. 9. 36 Ed. 3.10 Rot. Parl. 4 Ed. 3. Nu 6. Rot. Parl. 19 Ed. 3. M. 18. Rot. Parl. 26 Ed. 3. M. 25. Co. 2. Inst. 29.

taught how little they ought to rely upon the sincerity of such kind of Writings but because that was a Master-piece which could hardly be equall'd and our present Ministers may well be out of Countenance to see their Copy fall so very much short of the Original But should this Declaration be suffered to go abroad any longer under the Royal Name yet it will never be thought to have proceeded from his Majesties Inclination or his Judgment but to be gained from him by the Artifices of the same ill Men who not being content to have prevailed with him to Dissolve two Parliaments only to protect them from publick Justice do now hope to excuse themselves from being thought the Authors of that Counsel by making him openly to avow it But they have discovered themselves to the Kingdom and have told their own Names when they number amongst the great Crimes of the House of Commons their having Declared divers Eminent Persons to be Enemies to the King and Kingdom 'T is our happiness that the Cunning of these Eminent Persons is not equal to their Malice in that they should thus unwarily make themselves known when they had so secretly and with so much Caution given the pernicious Advice None could be offended at the proceedings of the Parliaments but they who were obnoxious none could be concerned to vindicate the Dissolution but they who had advised it But they have performed this last Undertaking after such a sort that they have left themselves not only without Justification but without all pretence hereafter The People were willing to think it the Unfortunate Effect of some suddain and precipitate Resolution but since they have now publickly assured us that it was the Result of Counsel and Deliberation they cannot blame us for hoping one day to see Justice done upon such Counsellors But though to the Dishonour of our Country it does appear that some English-men were concerned in the unhappy Advice of breaking the two last Parliaments and setting up this pretended Defence of it yet the Galliscims which are found in the Paper shew the Writer to have been of another Nation or at least to have had his Thoughts so much taken up for the Interests of France whilst he was labouring this way to heighten and perpetuate the Differences between the King and his People that he could not express himself in any other Idiom than theirs he would not otherwise have introduced the King saying That it was a Matter extreamly sensible to Vs a Form of Speech peculiar to the French and unknown to any other Nation The Reader who understands that Language will observe so many more of this kind as will give him just cause to doubt whether the whole Paper was not a Translation and whether the English one or that which was published in French was the Original Let us then no longer wonder that the time of Dissolving our Parliaments is known at Paris sooner than at London since 't is probable the Reasons now given for it were formed there too The Peers at Oxford were so totally ignorant of the Council that they never once thought of a Dissolution till they heard it pronounced but the Dutchess of Mazarine had better Intelligence and published the News at St. James's many hours before it was done The Declaration was not communicated to the Privy Council till Friday the 8th of April when his Majesty according to the late Method did graciously declare to them his pleasure to set it forth without desiring from them any Advice in the matter but Monsieur Barillon the French Ambassador did not only read it to a Gentleman the fifth of April but advised with him about it and demanded his Opinion of it which his Excellency will the better remember because of the great Liberty which the Person took in ridiculing it to his Face Good God! to what a Condition is this Kingdom reduced when the Ministers and Agents of the only Prince in the World who can have Designs against or of whom we ought to be afraid are not only made acquainted with the most secret Passages of State but are made our Chief Ministers too and have the principal Conduct of our Affairs And let the World judg if the Commons had not reason for their Vote when they declared those Eminent Persons who manage things at this rate To be the Enemies to the King and Kingdom and Promoters of the French Interest Whosoever considers the Actions of our Great Men will not think it strange that they should be hard put to it to find out Reasons which they might give for any of them and they have had very ill luck whenever they went about it That Reason which they had given for Dissolving three several Parliaments successively is now grown ridiculous That the King was resolved to meet his People and to have their Advice in frequent Parliaments since every Man took notice that as soon as the Ministers began to suspect that his Majesty was inclined to hearken to and pursue their Advice those very Parliaments were presently Dissolved This was all the Ground and Cause which was thought of for breaking the last Parliament at Westminster when the Proclamation of the 18 th of January 1680 was published but they have now considerred better and have found out faults enough to swell into a Declaration and yet as much offended as they are with this Parliament they seem more highly angry with that which followed at Oxford Nor is it at all strange that it should fall out so For the Court never did yet Dissolve a Parliament abruptly and in a Heat but they found the next Parliament more averse and to insist upon the same things with greater eagerness than the former English Spirits resent no Affronts so highly as those which are done to their Representatives and the Court will be sure to find the Effects of that Resentment in the next Election A Parliament does ever participate of the present Temper of the People Never were Parliaments of more different Complexions than that of 1640 and that of 1661. Yet they both exactly answered the Humours which were predominant in the Nation when they were respectively chosen And therefore while the People do so universally hate and fear France and Popery and do so well understand who they are who promote the French and Popish Interests the Favourites do but cozen themselves to think that they will ever send up Representatives less zealous to bring them to Justice than those against whom this Declaration is published For surely this Declaration what great things soever may be expected from it will make but very few Converts not only because it represents things as high Crimes which the whole Kingdom has been celebrating as meritorious Actions but because the People have been so often deceived by former Declarations that whatsoever carries that Name will have no Credit with them for the future They have not yet forgetten the Declaration from Breda though others