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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62416	The Earl of Anglesey's state of the government & kingdom prepared and intended for His Majesty, King Charles II in the year 1682, but the storm inpending growing so high prevented it then : with a short vindication of His Lordship from several aspersions cast upon him, in a pretended letter that carries the title of his memoirs / by Sir John Thompson, Baronet.; State of the government & kingdom	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Haversham, John Thompson, Baron, 1647-1710.	1694 (1694)	Wing T1000; ESTC R1565	19,674	41

what the present Licentious paper War may produce It s come to open quarrelling already and quarrels bring Blood-shed The scence is only changed from Skirmishes and Battels in the Fields and Sieges of Cities and Towns it s come now to contention in every House to altercations and Fightings between Sheriffs and other Officers Grand Juries and Petty Juries and they and the Courts of Justice who by Law are the Conservators of our Peace are ingaged in the quarrels and Verdicts are found and Judgments given as the litigant parties exceed one the other in power and practice more then by the Merits of the Cause which ingageth almost the whole People of one side or other in every Case So that now Justice hath lost its old deep still Channel and all Causes are carried by a Fierce Impetuous Torrent which in time if not diverted may break all our Banks and prove a general Inundation for it s come to this already that all Reverence to Ministerial Officers Juries Judges is lost and there is now no case of moment almost wherein there is not mustering of Parties and instead of Parliaments Appeals are made to the People who can neither meet nor judge in a Body and therefore end all Controversies by quarrelling Parties whose Judgment if it were legal can neither be known nor executed but in Parliament where the Collective Body of your People meet by representation and where these ill symptomes of a divided and distempered Kingdom can only hope for and receive a Cure which God and your Majesty Grant The Oracle of Truth hath said That a Kingdom divided against it self cannot stand Things Frame as if it were the design on all Hands to encrease and foment Divisions instead of pacifying them whence else is the intolerable Licence of giving Nick Names and Marks of Distinction and Reproach to one another to challenge and publish Chartels of Defiance to Scuffle and Fight in the very Streets and Coffee Houses and the Dissenters in Religion blamed and suffer for all this as of old the cry was Christianos ad Leones when there is such a general ferment of Ranchor and Malice throughout the Kingdom as is never like to be removed but by such Remedies as shall be offered before I Conclude To the discomposed Estate of your Majesties own Kingdoms the disjoynted and dangerous condition of Christendom by the over-grown Greatness and Usurped Dominion of the French King over other Princes and States doth not a little contribute and when he shall have leisure and power to finish his secret Councils and Intreigues to Corrupt and Engage in his Designs your Majesties Disaffected or Ambitious Subjects or prevail with your Majesty to believe that his Purse or Power and strict Friendship with your Majesty are necessary or but probable means to support your Crown and Dignity and bridle the Subjects which his Artifices and Insinuations have raised a Jealousy of it will occasion such a Paroxisme and such Couvulsions in the State as may dangerously Shake and Hazard the Peace of your Kingdoms if not render your Great and Renowned Government a Prey to Forreigners But the Fatal Cause of all our Mischiefs present or apprehended and which if not by Wisdom Antidoted may raise a Fire which will Burn and Consume to the very Foundation is the unhappy Perversion of the Duke of York the next Heir to the Crown in point of Religion which naturally raises Jealousy of the Power Designs and Practices of the old Enemies of our Religion and Liberties and Undermines and Emasculates the Courage and Constancy even of those and their Posterity who have been as Faithful to and Suffered as much for the Crown as any the most pleased or contented in our impending Miseries can pretend to have done In short though the Supreme Wheel of Providence must be owned in all that is or may come upon us yet every one seems to be at Work to dig the Kingdoms Grave and if God hath determined our Confusion the least accidental disorder will too naturally bring things to a general Complaint and Quarrel about Religion Laws Liberties and Properties unless before the Gangreen spread further it be by competent and wise Council and steady Government made appear that all these are secuted past the Fear or Apprehension of all Good and Prudent Men and thereby that handle of Contention wrested from the Enemies Forreign and Domestick of our Religion and Peace Towards the attaining that wished for end and the delivering us from our Divisions and Fears and rendring your Majesty and Kingdom Safe Glorious and Happy I shall now set before your Majesty the most proper Means and Remedies that occur to me upon the most serious Consideration 1. To begin with Parliaments where your Majesty is in your greatest Glory and your Kingdom in its greatest Strength Activity and Usefulness your Majesty by your many Declarations of your Love to and delight in them and Resolution of frequent Assembling them hath set such an edge upon the Spirits of your People ever fond of Parliaments that hope deferred will make their Hearts Faints and raise Jealousies which may breed Ill Blood before their Meeting But preparatory to a better understanding it were to be wished that the licentious Liberty now taken to asperse the Memory and weaken the very Constitution and Power of Parliaments were seasonably Discountenanced and Corrected The blaming and reprehending of Parliaments or either House thereof is a peculiar and prerogative fit for your Majesty alone who are the Head of them and whose great Councels they are and which is to be exercised according to the example of your Majesties most Wise and Prosperous Predecessors only in Parliament time when they may be heard and acquit themselves or any Slips Errours or Faults that shall appear may be reformed amended or redressed or in cases disputable new Remedies applied to prevent future Contests And as the Peopls in general out of Parliament have no Authority herein much less a part of them so I count it of very pernicious Example and Consequence and no ways serviceable to your Majesty by whomsoever incouraged that any Numbers or Degrees of Men have presumed under what Colour soever to trample upon the Honour of Dissolved Parliaments and Arraign their Proceedings which are only to be Examined and Judged by Parliament who can alone rectify the same if found Erroneous and Unwarrantable And I heartily wish this Innovation may not prove one of the greatest Obstacles to a good Intelligence the next Parliament and that it may never be questioned with two much heart and resentment which whosoever shall be chosen to serve therein may think it their concern to do effectually for the safety and preserving the chief Priviledges and Rights of Parliament which are Freedom and Protection so that none may entertain and vent dishonourable Thoughts of them to the violation of their good Names or Persons and an Examption from being questioned or impeached in any other Court or