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A42426	A speech made by Alderman Garroway, at a common-hall on Tuesday the 17. of January upon occasion of a speech delivered there the Friday before, by Mr. Pym, at the reading of His Majesties answer to the late petition.	Garraway, Henry, Sir, 1575-1646.	1642 (1642)	Wing G280; ESTC R233456	9,429	15

A SPEECH MADE BY ALDERMAN GARROWAY AT A COMMON-HALL on Tuesday the 17. of JANUARY Upon occasion of a SPEECH delivered there the Friday before by Mr. Pym at the reading of His Majesties Answer to the late Petition Printed in the Yeare 1642. A Speech made by Alderman GARROWAY at a Common-Hall on Tuesday the 17. of January upon occasion of a Speech delivered there the Friday before by Mr. Pym at the reading of His MAJESTIES Answer to the late Petition Gentlemen BEfore We enter upon the businesse of the day I must in discarge of my duty speak freely to you of the last dayes work which lyes so heavy upon us that if we finde not some way to free our selves of the scandall and dishonour of that day farewell the reputation of this Councell and of this City We sent a Petition lately to His Majestie by six worthy Members of this Court if you will beleeve them they received a very gracious entertainment from His Majestie and if you will beleeve most wise men they brought a very gracious Answer back from His Majestie with directions by a Servant of His own that the same should be communicated to the whole Citie from whom the Petition was presumed to be sent a Circumstance as gracious as the matter it selfe See now how we have required him His Messenger staies tenne dayes at the least before we can vouchsafe to speak with him whereas ours stayed not an houre for admission to His Majestie and but a day for an answer upon the r●ceipt of our Petition His Majestie spake very graciously of the Citie very affectionately of the most considerable part of it when his Answer is read an Answer I must tell you worth another manner of debate Strangers are admitted to make bitter invective Speeches against it and the King that sent it Whilest no honest Citizen who have onely right to speake here durst speake his Conscience for fear of having his Throat cut as he went home Think Gentlemen what an encouragement we have given His Majestie to treat correspond with us whilest he is thus used I am farre from undervaluing both or either House of Parliament I have been often a Member of the House of Commons and know well my duty to it but though their Priviledges are infinitely grown and enlarged since that time I hope they have not swallowed up all other mens though they are the great Councell and Court of the Kingdom yet there are other Councells and Courts too what do we else here And though they have a great Liberty of Language within their own walls I never heard that they might speak what they list in other places In my time when there was any occasion to use the Citie as often there was the Lord Major or Aldermen or some trusted by them were sent for to attend either House but for Members of either or both Houses to come hither and be present at Our Councells and govern here by Priviledge of Parliament was never heard of till of late you will say 't is a great Honour to us that those worthies take the pains to come to us when they might send for us it may be an honour too great for us to beare and truly I beleeve it hath been so chargeable to us that we ought not to be ambitious of such honour Mr. Pym who hath been a very costly Orator to us told us and his speech is since printed for our honour too to shew how tame a People we are that there were many things in that Answer of great aspersion upon the proceedings of Parliament and so forth Truly I know no such thing if we petitioned for Peace we were to expect His Majestie would tell us by what means that Peace came to be disturbed and then prescribe us a means for our reparation If any mans guilt hath made him thinke himself concerned in it though he be not named he is his own Accuser He told us that there was no occasion given by any Tumults which might justly cause His Majesties departure and this he said was the opinion of both Houses and his proof was because His Majestie came into the Citie without a Guard and dined at the Sheriffes next day after his comming to the House of Commons and returned back again to White-hall where he stayed some dayes I am willing to beleeve both Houses as farre as I am able and if they had declared that it had been Lawfull to beat the King out of Town I must have sate still with wonder but when they declare to us matter of fact which is equally within our own knowledge and wherein we cannot be deceived they must pardon me if I differ from them If they should declare that they have paid us all the Money they owe us or that there is no Crosse standing in Cheapside could we beleeve them Why Gentlemen neither of these is better known to us then that there were such Tumults at Westminster as might very well make the King think Himself in danger We all well remember what excellent company flocked by White-hall every day for a week before the King went to the House of Commons and for His comming to the Guild-hall the next day when he did us so much honour to vouchsafe us so particular satisfaction and came without a Guard to shew how much He trusted in our Duty and Affection I pray God the deceiving that trust may never rise in Judgement against this Citie we too well remember the rude carriage of many people to Him as He went to the Sheriffs to Dinner which was not so much as reprehended by any Officer and we all know what passed the night following when an Alarum was given that there was an attempt from White hall upon the Citie and so all men put into suddain Arms and if by the great industry and dexterity of Our good Lord Major that Hubbub had not been appeased God knows what might have followed if you will beleeve some men they will tell you the Design of those who gave that Alarum was no lesse then to pull down White-hall There is no question but there was cause enough for His Majestie to remove from White-hall and how quietly he stayed after at Hampton-Court and at Windsor cannot be forgotten not to speak of that Army by Land and Water which accompanied the Persons Accused to Westminster the next day after His Majesties return the danger of which was so great that no honest man could have wished the King had runne the hazard of it by staying His Majestie seems to be sensible that the Government of this Citie is now submitted to the Arbitrary Power of a few desperate Persons to which the Gentleman gave us this testimony from both Houses that we had in most of the great occasions concerning the Government of the Citie followed their direction Troth Gentlemen would they had furnished us with a better Answer Have we our Charter by the Grace and Favour of the