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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81469	The royall apologie: or, An ansvver to the declaration of the House of Commons, the 11. of February, 1647. In which they expresse the reasons for their resolutions for making no more addresses, nor receiving any from His Majesty.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.; Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1609-1674, attributed name.	1648 (1648)	Wing D1447; Thomason E522_21; ESTC R206215	46,522	48

was indicted arraigned attainted and executed at Tyburn And let their present lording over mens souls be considered their sending so many learned and pious men a begging by depriving them of their livings imprisoning their persons their lording over their consciences by new illegall and trayterous Oaths by forcing of the Covenant to the ruine of many hundreds who otherwise were without exception both Ministers and Lay-men being consciencious men men of parts and great learning as is set downe in the preceding words of the Answer to the Scotch Declaration of the 4. of Jan. 1648. But nothing can by them be done amisse that Axiome of the Law le Roy ne fait tort is now with the Crown and Soveraignty which they have usurped applicable onely to them But all the Kings actions though never so legall just and gratious must by them have the appellations of tyranny cruelty and oppression They then say that they were worse then slaves for they were prohibited by Proclamation to speake or hope for another Parliament They should have done well to have specified the year and date of the said Proclamation and to have set down the very words contained therin for it is so unlikely a thing that the people should be forbidden by Proclamation to hops that no rationall man can choose but suspect it to be that which civility is loath to tearme it how foule soever their pen be against their King As for the searching of cabinents closets c. It is set down to be after the dissolution of the Parliament so that that sin against the Holy Ghost never to be forgiven of breaking the Priviledges of Parliament is not charged and any other sinne will not be found for it is lawfull and usuall for the Justice or Councell of the King to search the closets and cabinets of such as they have good cause to suspect of practises and correspondency to the prejudice of the King or Kingdome neither have the Kings or Queens letters or cabinets nor the dispatches of Ambassadours and forraign States been free from their inquisition and search nay some such searches have been made by them for Letters and Jewels upon women not of the meanest ranke as is indecent to put them in mind of They then reckon up a long list of Monopolies and Patents of Soap Pins Leather Sugar c. Whether the said Patents were legall or illegall there can from thence no just fault be laid upon the King He is in point of Law to be advised by His Atturney and His learned Councell And there cannot in all the particulars specified any one be instanced in which He did of Himselfe without the Certificate of the Referrees of the legallity of such Grants wherein never Prince was so punctuall as He hath been and it is conceived that it may be with truth averred that in His whole Reign He hath not passed by Patent any one Monopoly without reference and certificate in writing that it might be granted by Law But besides upon complaint this Parliament all grievances have been redressed all doubtfull Patents cancell'd care had for the preventing of the like for the future all referrees and patentees left to justice and all punished but such as the injustice of the Houses have protected Then they come to that which they call the compendium of all oppression and cruelty viz. The Ship-money When Princes are involved in great wants and necessities they are forced to those things which at other times they willingly forbear to presse So it was here The King by His Wars with Spain and France was brought into great necessitys and consulting how He might by lawfull wayes releive Himselfe He was advised to this course of Ship-money by His Atturney Generall Noy as is said who was by all men esteemed a great Lawyer and had been a great propugner of the Subjects liberty The King herein asked the opinion of His Judges and learned Councell And both the Judges the major part of them His Councell did set it under their hands to be lawfull these are the Kings proper councel with whom he is to consult in point of Law are sworn to advise Him faithfully But some and particularly Mr. John Hamden not satisfied with the extrajudiciall opinion of the Judges came to a legall tryall upon the Case in the Exchequer Chamber after a fair hearing and learned arguments on both sides Judgement passed for the King If the said Judges and learned Councel who are sworn to do equall justice betwixt the King and the Subjects to Councell the King faithfully have erred and done amisse in both the greater hath been their fault and offence But herein where lieth the Kings transgression For did he not leave the Judges upon complaint of the Houses to their Justice and were not the said Judges many of them impeached of high Treason Judge Berkley arraigned thereupon for high Treason and made so learned and able a defence that they were forced to withdraw any further prosecution of their impeachment against him It seems they forget that which they declared for Law at the beginning of this Parliament viz. that the King can do no wrong Le Roy ne fait tort upon the very ground of this Case And that the reason why the Law supposed that the King could doe no wrong was for that the Judges and Ministers that did the wrong were responsable for the wrong doing and the persons wronged were from them to be repaired in point of their dammages But it seemeth they are of old Ployden's minde that when the businesse concerneth themselves the Case is altered They then say The King summoned this present Parliament in hope to have Assistance against the Scots He had little reason to hope for any assistance against the Scots knowing as he did who had called them in and that from some Scots themselves from Newcastle whilst he was at Yorke He had gotten notice of the particulars wherewith divers Lords of the English with the King being startled they sent to the Scotish Lords at Newcastle to have right done them upon a Secretary of theirs who had said to some English prisoners whom the Scots had taken at Newborn That their comming in had not beene but by the invitation of the English and had spoken a little too boldly of some truths that should have beene concealed and this divers at Westminster cannot but remember They then say that it was impossible to quash those pernitious Councels without questioning the Authors Whereupon the King shewed Himselfe so passionately affected to such malignant Councellers their Councel that he would sooner desert or forcc his Parliament and Kingdom then alter His course or deliver up his wicked Councellors to Law and Justice Our passions especially that of revenge and malice do not only deprive us of our senses and reason but often bereave us of shame and honesty For besides that they know that the King hath more then thrice in