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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35917	A Dialogue betwixt Sam. the ferriman of Dochet, Will. a waterman of London, and Tom. a bargeman of Oxford upon the Kings calling a parliament to meet at Oxford.		1681 (1681)	Wing D1353; ESTC R29722	21,830	32

matters of Law and then those that employ them may take the monds in their own Hands as I do when I go to the Alehouse for all mischief principally comes from them Tom. A Pox and Plague light on 'em they will never be quelled For they have always either one or other great Lawyer in Power with the King and that keeps them up So let us talk no more of them What did the Parliament next fall upon honest Will thou hast a pure Memory Will. They would have banished a plain bundance of Courtiers and Privy-Counsellors and without any more ado sent to the King to desire him they called it Humbly to turn them out of his Service Sam. But did they tell any good Cause why they would have him turn them away Will. None at all but because they liked them not Sam. That was an humble Trick indeed but sure they had some Reason for what they did Will. For no reason but because they were in Favor with the King and themselves would have their Places Nay there be some of those men they complained of were as ready to complain of those were in place before such as the last Treasurer and the like as these are now against those they would have now turned off for in all this Parliament-Doings and Peaching one another it is not for Faults done against the King or the Government but against the House of Commons Sam. But I hope these Noble Men are not turned out of their Services are they Will. No they have scaped this Bout how they will do at the next at Oxford time will shew Tom. If they scaped at London I 'll warrant them at Oxford no man is Gondemned there but he has as the Scholars call it pro and con for it But vvas that all their Faults that they vvere in Favor vvith His Majesty Will. God help thee do'st not thou knovv that it is a suffiicent Parliament-Crime to be a Favorite I have heard my Father say that he wore the Old Duke of Buckingham's Cloth and was Master of his Barge and that there was one Parliament before I was born would have hanged him but the Devil a Fault could they find but his being in mighty Favor So the King would not let him suffer Sam. But they put away my Lord Strafford I can remember that my self and they say because they could find no Law to condemn him they made a Law Tom. So then he suffered for breaking a Law before it was made Will. So he did Tom. That is as much as to say that if the Parliament have mind to hang a Man or undo him if they have not sufficient Law or Matter to do it they will make some God bless me and mine out of their Clutches Will. But I have heard they were so Civil as when they made this Law against the Earl of Strafford they then made it so that no more should suffer by the same Law Sam. That was very kindly done to him indeed I would rather if I had been in his Cloaths they would have saved me and hanged who they would beside Will. This shews plainly they had a particular Malice and then down a must go right or wrong There are some of those Old Dogs yet alive that hunted him to Death and would as willingly give their Mouth for making away more Noblemen Tom. I have heard many say the King repented himself at Oxford that he consented to the Earl's Death Will. But those Rogues that procured his Death never repented at all nor does not do yet Nay they have tought some young Whelps to be as good Blood-Hounds as themselves A Man has a brave time that should come to be tryed for his Life in any Court and have half a dozen of these to chase him out of the World Sam. 'T is strange the Noble-men does not stand for one another against those Lawyers who if they might have their Wills would hang them all Especially being there is no body of the Jury when the Lords are to be tryed but Lords Will. They had such a Power when my Lord Strafford was Headed that neither the King nor the Lords durst stand against them They made Routs of Prentices to run down to Westminster and call out for Justice and threaten all those Lords that would have saved him and in the end they had his Blood Tom I have heard many say that there were very few of those many that prosecuted the Earl but they were after Ring-leaders in the Rebellion against the King and continued so to his Death as violent against him as they were against the Earl and against our King that now is God bless him till the Souldiers and Seamen joyned with Monk to bring him in again Sam. And yet I 'll warrant thee these were as ready to welcome Home his Majesty and make shew of their Duty and Affection to him as his best Friends Will. Ay and pretended they had as much a Hand in his Restoration as the General that brought him in and talked themselves not only out of the Faults they had committed but by Bribery and means of some Lawyers that had been Abroad with the King they got suddainly into such Favor that a Round-Headed Lawyer had more Power than a Cavalier Colonel that fought for the King all through the War And so they have carried it ever since And now thou may'st see what they have brought it unto at long run For nothing but the Ruine and Death of a great Number of the King's Courtiers and Counsellors will please them Tom. They will not stay there if they have leave to go on The Old Game must be play'd over again but I hope the King's calling them at our Town of Oxford will mend this matter For I have heard hundreds say that if his Father had called the Rump Parliament thither instead of Westminster there had not been so much Mischief done as there was But pray thee Will. was this all they did Will. This no not the hundred part For any one Man's Fault or Suspicion that he was against them they would have ruin'd a whole Countrey There was a Waelsh Noble-man I know not his Name that they had a Spite to that was Steward of a great Wapentake-Court in Wales and out of Malice to him they would have taken that Court away tho' it was a great Benesit to all that Quarter of the Country Nay there was one day a Member so angry at a Waterman for asking an unusual Fare for bringing him from some place in the West-Country that he said he would have a Bill brought into the House for his sake to restrain the Numbers of Watermen and that all the Wherries that go upon the River should be forced to take a Licence and should be Figured on the Back-Board as the Hackney Coaches are Upon which the Waterman civilly reply'd That God bless the King he hoped that being a Freeman of Waterman's Hall they could never make him