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A86866	An hvmble remonstrnce [sic] to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, in vindication of the honourable Isaak Pennington, Lord Major of the honourable city of London, Alderman Foulkes, Captaine Venne, Captaine Manwaring, whom His Majeste desires to be delivered to custody, to answer an accusation of treason against them. Desiring that His Majesty would make them no let to his returne to his Parliament nor hinder the accommodation of peace.		1643 (1643)	Wing H3626; Thomason E85_2; ESTC R16498	8,443	17

speech printed by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty How much then did it concern these and us all to perform our best and truest duty and allegiance to you and them bringing thither our grievances that by them the Law might be laid to the cause as Lod Vives brings in Salust in his Warres of Cateline speaking of the ancient Romanes he saith thus The Law is a civill equity either established in literall Lawes or instilled into the manner by verball instructions Good is the fountaine moderatour and reformer of all Law all which is done by the prudence of the great Iudges of the Law adapting it self to the nature of the cause and laying the Law to the cause not the cause to the Law August Civit. Dei L. Viv. lib. 2. cap. 17. Who are these great Judges but the Parliament 2. They have been dutifull subjects to you in opposing the enemies of your Crown and dignity which are of many sorts 1 The Papists these your faithfull subjects have and daily seek by all opportunity to find out prevent their damnable sedition when was there ever a Parliament against which they were not ever great disturbers secret underminers as of that of the Gunpowder treason It cannot saith King Iames be enough admired the horrible and fearfull cruelty of their device which was not onely for the destruction of my person nor of my wife and posterity alone but of the whole body of the state in generall wherein neither should have been spared or distinction made of young nor old of great nor of small of man nor of woman the whole Nobility the whole Reverend Clergy most part of the good Preachers and the most part of the Knights and Gentry yea and if that any in this society were favourers of their profession they should all have gone one way the whole Iudges of the Land the most part of the Lawyers and the whole Clerkes and as the wretch himself which is in the Tower doth confesse it was purposely devised by them and concluded to be done in this House that where the cruell Lawes as they said were made against their Religion both place and persons should all be destroyed and blown up at once King Iames speech last Sess Parliament 1605. These be the Incendiaries against whom this Land is provided with so many good and wholsome Lawes How many Emperours Kings and Princes have they deposed murdered and poysoned from time to time yea the Popes themselves how few is there of them that die a naturall death in their beds but against Protestant Princes Churches and Kingdomes they never cease to conspire all they can invent to overthrow and bring them to ruine These indeed they have been carefull to find out and to bring to condigne punishment or at least to disable them of doing mischief witnesse some of their quarters on the gates others in severall prisons though some cannot yet be discovered 2 To punish those that make or cause the continuance of the separation between you and your Parliament divers of the Clergy that labour to make the breach greater by railing against such things as nothing at all concern them also all such who are of evil life and conversation not fit to meddle with matters of State 2 Many Printers who do accustome themselves to fill the Kingdom with scandalous lying Pamphlets 3 Those who cause any tumults in Churches 4 Such as have spoken words and done actions that may give occasion of suspition to judge them for such who are malignants and hinderers of accommodation between your Majesty and the High Court of Parliament 3 All manner of traitours whatsoever 4 All kind of offenders according to Law c. 3 They have been dutifull subjects to you in their sense and fellow feeling of the miserable effects of the same condition of Ireland and their readinesse to help them Dread Soveraigne they are knowne to have been so active herein that they have neglected their own private profit the care of their own houses and families to promote and help forward all the assistance they can possible in each of their severall places 1 They have beene earnest suitours to God in their behalf by prayer which is a thriving way to help a nation as David prayed for the redemption of Israell O that the salvation of Israell were come out of Zion when God bringeth back the Captivity of his people Iacob shall rejoyce and Israell shall be glad Psal 53. 6. this he prayed because that the eyes of the Lord are open upon the righteous and his eares are open to their cry Psal 34.15 So these are and have been earnest suitours to God for the poore distressed Kingdome of Ireland 2. They to expresse that these their prayers have not been dissembling like many who are ready to tell us a fine tale of dissimulation commiserating the bleeding condition of the Protestant Church when indeed and truth they rejoyce to see it labour to make the breach the greater witnesse that scandalous Pamphlet entituled the Cities complaint seconded with another entituled the complaint of the Clergy written by a professed Papist calling us in plain tearmes monstrous heretickes but these dread Sovereigne are not such they have not bin only ready to pray for them but they have also bin alwayes ready to pay to help them they have given largly to relieve them according to each of their estates hearing that poor Kingdom groaning under that burthen of popish cruelty to which they first thought to have subjected us as Troy was by the treacherous seditions of L. Saturninus Tribune C Caesar Servilus Praetor and M. Drusus whence there arose not only civill slaughters but they brake openly out into confederate war which brought all Italy into most miserable and desperate extreamities whence it is strange to record what fields were pitched what blood shed and what murder stuck upon the face of all Italy as far as the Romanes had any power or seigniority Augusti civet Dei lib. 3. chap. 26. And even in such a miserable condition is Ireland now in and such a condition had we bin in ere now had not almighty God kept us these men have bin ready and willing to relieve and help this poor Kingdom of Ireland are they to be blamed for this God forbid 4. They have bin very active and studious to preserve your Kingdom from plots and conspiracies especially your Metropollitan City of London 1. They have found out many insendaries of mischief and have found quantities of shot powder arms c. about their houses 2. They have caused their dangerous intents to be discovered to murder some of the Members of your honorable Houses of Parliament to bring forreign forces from beyond the Seas to spoile the City if not to blow it up to rescue Delinquents from the hands of justice 3. They have caused the City to be strongly guarded and prepared in times of greatest danger At such times notwithstanding

AN HVMBLE REMONSTRNCE TO THE Kings most Excellent Majesty in vindication of The honourable Isaak Pennington Lord Major of the honourable City of London Alderman Foulkes Captaine Venne Captaine Manwaring Whom his Majeste desires to be delivered to custody to answer an accusation of treason against them Desiring that His Majesty would make them no let to his returne to his Parliament nor hinder the accommodation of peace LONDON Printed for T. Wright MDCXLIII An humble Remonstrance to the Kings most Excellent Majesty Most gratious Soveraigne THough warlik glory doth so much fasten the eies of some about your sacred Majesty upon her reputation that as Ambrose saith they think fortune to be preleall and to belong only to the field Amb. offic lib. 1 39. As those did who perswaded King Antiochus to raise forces against Zion to destroy the City who therefore raysed an Army of an hundred thousand footmen and two thousand horsemen and thirty two Elephants insomuch that the Sunne shining upon the Armor and golden Shields the mountaines glistered therewith and gave lights as lamps of fire what was the event when he thought to conquer by his army he contracted a covenant of peace with them 1. Macc. 16. Surely your best subjects had rather see you peaceably in your height of glory sitting in your royall throne with your Parliament in that splender and glory which would protect your sacred person crowne and dignity from those many dangers to which you are now exposed by being seperated from them from your antient Court from your City of safety with so many Papists and Popish officers about you with so many souldiers Commanders under forreine Princes neere you pardon us to speake dread Soveraigne you are neere and deere unto us you are our life and the breath of our nostrils It is dangerous both to you and us to have so many yong raw heads great Malignants and dangerous Cavaliers about you and your selfe at a distance from your Parliament Ennius an antient Romane saith well moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque old manners and old men uphold Rome To whom Augustin doth agree with T●●ly that it was spoken as out of an Oracle for neither the men unlesse the City had had such manners nor the manners unlesse the City had such men could either have founded or preserved a Commonwealth of that magnitude justice and empire And therefore before these our dayes the predecessors conditions did still make the successors excell and the worthy men still kept up the priviledges of honourable antiquity Agust Civi Dei lib. 2. ch 21. In your two Houses of Parliament most gratious Soveraigne is your best safety there is the fountaine of law and manners there are your Antients and Worthies to determine of that law there is your highest Court of justice your great Councell your royall throne in the highest spheare of magnitude there are those statutes which your and our predecessors established by which we excell other nations In a word there are those good and happy lawes that makes you our King and we your subjects Oh do not think most royall King that there can be such safety in your Army as with your Parliament guilt hopes crackt fortunes desperat conditions may abuse your goodnesse there which can have no hope here It was this service that the Signior Embassador from Spaine Gundamor that Arch-plotter of mischiefe boasted before the Councell when he returned that he had done One of the princepall services saith he to the Popes Nuntio in the open Councell in working such a dislike betwixt the King and the lower House by the endeavour of that honourable Earle and admirable Engine a sure servant to us and the Catholike Cause whilst he lived as the King speaking of King Iames your royall father of happy memory will never endure Parliament againe but rather suffer absolute want then receive conditionall relief from his subjects besides the matter was so cunningly carried the last Parliament that as in the Powder plot t●e fact effected should have been imputed to the Puritanes the greatest zelots of the Calvinian sect so the proposition which dammed up the proceedings of this Parliament how soever they were invented by Romane Catholicks and by them intended to disturb that Session yet were propounded infavour of the Puritanes as if they had been hammered in their forge as is expressed in vox populi more at large Consider most gratious King how dangerous it is to hearken to such Incendiaries of mischiefs what was the end of this but intended for the overthrow of all Peace Church and State as the Inquisitor himself said how said he if this act of the Kings wherein he is most earnest and constant should so farre thrive as it should effect a perfect union both in the Church and Common-wealth I tell you in my conceit it would be a great blow to us if by a generall meeting Peace should be concluded at which we see their politick King aymes Whereas it is your Royall will and pleasure to require that the Honourable Isaac Pennington Lord Major of the Honourable City of London Captaine Venne Master Foulks Captaine Manwaring should be apprehended and committed to custody to proceed against them as guilty of high treason before you will return to your Parliament May it please your most excellent Majesty to think on them as innocent and cleare from all suspition of treason or treachery against your Sacred Majesty and more loyal and faithfull subjects in doint their duty to you in obedience to the High Court of Parliament then those that smother their hypocrisie in Martiall attendance on you against your Parliament and Metropolitane City 1 They have been dutifull subjects to you in obeying the Ordinances of your Parliament made for your Honour and for the safety and good of the Kingdomes concerning which King Iames your Royall Father said in the upper House of Parliament in the presence of the Lords and Commons together before him I protest said he that your welfare shall ever be my greatest care and contentment and that I am a servant it is most true that as I am Head and Governour of all the people in my Dominions who are my naturall vassalls and subjects considering them in number and distinct ranks so if we will take the whole people as one body and masse then as the Head is ordained for the body and not the body for the Head so must a righteous King know himself to be ordained for his people and not his people for him for although a Knig and people be Relata yet can he be no King if he want people and subjects But there be many people in the world that lack a Head wherefore I will never be ashamed to confesse it my principall Honour to be the great Servant of the Common wealth and doe think the prosperity thereof to be my greatest felicity c. At the beginning of Parliament 1. Anno 1603 March 19. King Iames