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A59785	Master St. John his speech in Parliament on Munday the 17th of January concerning the charge of treason then exhibited to the bishops, formerly accused by the House of Commons, Anno Domini, 1641.; Speech in Parliament on Munday January the 17th An. Dom. 1641	St. John, Oliver, 1598?-1673.	1641 (1641)	Wing S326; ESTC R16581	2,142	7

MASTER St. JOHN HIS SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT On Munday the 17th of January CONCERNING The Charge of Treason then exhibited to the BISHOPS Formerly accused by the House of Commons Anno Domini 1641. LONDON Printed for R. B. in the Yeare 1641. Mr. St. IOHN HIS SPEECH IN PARLIAMENT Mr. SPEAKER THis Charge of Treason which hath beene now read unto these Persons accused is as I conceive a sufficient Confirmation of our former Accusation not onely their indeavours to procure their own desires in an unlawfull and irregular manner but the very Action of their Attempt proves them guilty of treason this treason wherwith they stand charged is matter of Fact not to bee answered by witnesses or circumstances but by answering guilty or not and being proved against them to receive their sentence This manner of proceeding is congruent to the Common Lawes of this Land from which Parliamentary proceedings in such cases never derogates These Persons some of them have wisely recanted their Fact and submitted themselves to this House representing the whole Body Politicke of this Kingdome and the rest doth yet stand in thei errour presuming to undertake to justifie their Actions and the chiefest inducer of these to continue their Resolutions is generally conceived to●● the now Bishop of Yorke late Bishop of Lincolne This man Master Speaker hath beene well reputed and thought of by most of this Kingdome and by this Honourable House inlarged from his long imprisonment formerly indured in the Tower restored to his former Dignity and Honour admitted to his place in the Lords House what good then might this Prelate have done to his Countrey so well respected favoured by most of the Lords and his vote with them well esteemed by his endeavours to avert the intentions of the rest of the Bishops for putting in execution their future wicked Actions by endeavouring to setlle true Reliction and punish delinquents in the same he always seeming to be the best affected of any in these times of that function in places of authority and jurisdiction in the Church And by endeavouring rightly to informe His Majesty and his Lords that did but a little disfavor the same concerning the Antiquity and purity of the true Protestant Religion the danger and sinne in innovating the same and not the Antiquity of Bishops and their power in Ecclesiasticall causes nay in civill as well as Ecclesiasticall that in the first their jurisdictiō was the chiefest highest yea above the Kings that in the second they were in Courts of civil judicature if by the King called thereunto of equall power with the Privy Counsell and Judges of the Land nay their Votes must be above against them all to passe for sentences and right judgements no opposition or contradiction must be against them by any of what degree soever nay so high and proud were these Prelates grown that they dare advēture to abridge abrogate the Kings royall prerogative in issuing forth warrants proces in their severall Courts which ever was used to be read Carolus Dei Gratia c. Now must be read Gulielmus Divina providentia Dei Archiepistopus c. In their names must writs amd proces issue and not in the Kings I say these things should not have beene by this Prelate defended and maintained but rejected detected Voted against as well by himselfe as the rest of the Lords of that House and the offenders herein as well by his endeavours as other the faithful Counsellors of the State brought to deserved punishment but contrarywise this Bishop hath not only refused to consent to the rectifying things amisse in the Clergie but opposed the same hath not onely beene retrograde in voting for their punishment that have abused both themselves professions and power but obstinatly Voted against their punishment hath not only refused to assent to regulate the office of Episcopacy but likewise opposed the same and in persuance of these his Actions hath as it is strongly to be presumed drawn many of the other Bishops to be of his resolution and evill opinion that the Parliament cannot consist of the House of Lords temporall and Commons although they cannot produce any Presidents or Act of Parliament that there was ever foure degrees congruent to the holding of a Parliament as of necessity since wee professed the Protestant Religion and admitted of a Reformation in this Kingdome but onely in the time of Superstition in which time the Clergie increased to that height and Dignitie they are now attained unto and procured to themselves the denomination of Lords spirituall but neither of late nor ab initio it was so onely three degrees of Councellors have beene sufficient in Parliament to regulate the Affaires of this Kingdome and make Lawes for the good government thereof Indeed I confesse that it may be as necessary for Bishops to sit in Parliament to give their advice in Points of Divinity concerning Religion as Judges sit there to give their opinions in Points of Law concerning judicature but otherwise it is no way expedient but altogether unnecessary as I under favour conceive either to have their Votes concerning Religion or any wayes to intermeddle or give advice touching temporall Affaires And thus having shewed you the first step to this Treason their opinion of the inconsistencie of Parliament without their assistance I come to the second Step That a Parliament is forced and illegally assembled if the same doth continue to agitate or determine of any thing whatsoever in the absence of the Bishops And lastly which completes and makes up the whole Treason their protestation against the proceedings of the Parliament in their absence These things have beene sufficiently already debated on and concluded by general vote to be high Treason Therfore I cōclude having onely shewed you in what manner I conceive is best to proceed to their tryall by the rules of the Common Law joyned with the power and wisdome of the Parliament for this their Fact of Treason and also shewed you divers of their enormous and wicked Actions making much for proofe of their Ambitious and treacherous intentions from the beginning humbly leaving the same to the further consideration of this Honourable House and desire we may prefix a certaine day within some short time for the finall determination of their triall FINIS