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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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