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A70806	The true copie of a speech delivered by the Honorable VVilliam Perpoynt, second son to the right Honorable the Earle of Kingstone, against Sr. Robert Berkley, Knight, one of the justices of the Kings Bench, in maintenance of their accusation of high treason, and other great misdemeanors, at a conference of both Houses in the Painted Chamber, July 6, 1641.	Pierrepont, William, 1607?-1678.	1641 (1641)	Wing P2212; ESTC R15030	5,430	14

have our minds our souls slaves A grand Jury-man gave his fellows true information they present an innovation in the Church are threatned reviled for it he that told this truth is charged I shall use this Judges own words to sin in that that he made others forswear themselvs this Judge sent him to the common goal where he is laid in irons and all this because he and they durst meddle with Church-matters He is forced to tear the Presentment in pieces in open Court our Laws provide for the peace of our consciences many Acts of Parliament are for it and the trust by those Acts set to Juries this Judge well knew all this your Lordships have heard what he did to the Jury at Hartford He would have us know no more Divinity then to obey what the Great of the Clergy directed no more Law then what he said was so Judges in former times but onely such as were examples of punishment as of injustice in cases of great and publike concernment forbare proceedings till the next Parliament This necessitated the calling of Parliaments this Judge had as many such causes before him as ever any had yet he never desired the resolution of Parliament in any one for the wayes he went the necessitie was never to have a Parliament he would pull up that root of our safeties and liberties which whilst we enioy the malice or injustice of all other Courts and persons can never ruine and when neere to ruin as most neere of late this onely sure remedy will helpe us nothing can ruine a Parliament but it selfe The evills which we have suffred under they were committed by the Iudges or by them ought to have been and might have bene prevented This Judge assisted in causing the miseries we suffred in the Starchamber and at the councell table he denied the known rights which he ought to have granted us to stop our grievances in the Ecclesiasticall Courts he was the causer of our sufferings in other Courts The best lovers of their Laws and liberties the most honest suffer most by an unjust Judge they most oppose his vices dishonest persons find such a Judge to fit their purposes the Judge finds them for his the bond of iniquity confederates them He that will do no wrong will suffer none which he can help the man that knows himself born free will do his utmost to live so and to leave freedome to his posterity were he in slavery when by outward gesture thought to be most delighted were his mind then known there would be found vexation and his busie thoughts imployed to redeem himself and his posterity from thraldome But to say could this Judge intend to make himself and his own posterity Slaves What he did was through errour of judgement onely No my Lords what his aimes and endeavours were is apparent To consider man in the generall we shall find in every age he will be a slave to some few that many may be slaves to him he looks to himself onely this he would doe or forbear doing to be great to be rich had he children or kindred or had none This highly unjust Judge by continuing sinnes mainteined his actions to preserve himself he knows to be found guilty in one of his offences the penaltie of the Law for it therefore covers the offences committed with inventing and acting other For a Judge to be unjust more hurts the publique then any other he is not suspected What a Judge doth is looked on as a thing that ought to be done The most pernitions great man that by cunning hath got to himself the heart and tongue of his Prince his ill acts have dyed with him if not taken up by others and then they walke in darkenesse No man will justifie what he doth by saying such a favorite did it but the unjust Judgments of this Judge were given in the noone day were done in the face of the whole Kingdome in the hearing of such as might carry the newes to all parts of the Realme and was therefore done His unjust Judgements were our records We have seen wicked great men most craftily politique they hated our Laws yet not meeting with active Judges moulded to their purposes they and their acts have dyed the Realm flourished but of late others lesse politique meeting with most unjust Judges every way as ill as they could wish them to be then did the Kingdome faint under the load of its misery did long struggle now its rising I assure my self your Lordships will assist to take of the burden If the designes of some would not have such a man to be at liberty a warrant from some Lords of the Councell would soon have laid him in prison and given no cause had he moved this Judge to be discharged or bailed he could have obtained neither if their wayes would not have endured that man to live a Judge reviling the prisoner and his Councell that moved for his discharge or baile joyned with the hate of some great man might soon have moved a Gaoler for unwholsome rooms and lodging and ill diet for his prisoner and they may soon take life away Offenders in prisons are looked after to be safe onely such are brought in by power against Law are abused Had a great man desired the estates of others the breach of a Proclamation might readily have been charged against them in the Starchamber but they it may be could have answered and cleared themselves and proved their answers by testimonies had they been eferred to this Judge he would have expunged the one suppressed the other Then followed Fines to the value of their estates or more then imprisonments of course till they paid such Fines your Lordships have heard what this Judge did to the Sope-boylers The Country-man followed the plough and his thinking he was assured of his right of Propertie and libertie gave him abilitie to doe it He beleeved his neighbour his landlord his King could not take his goods from him without his consent He knew the usuall paiments by law and in extraordinary causes thought to have that care to choose such for his Knights of his shire or for his Burgesses as might be mindfull of the cause of paiment and of his estate This man hath heard the opinions and judgement of this Judge hath seen his goods taken from him without his or his knights of the Shire or Burgesses consent or advise These have made him his wife and children to joyne in teares to wish they had never been borne they have made them think on many wayes to keepe sase that estate which was yet left them have made them desire to sell all their goods and hide the money but then he remembers this Judge how that he shall be carryed to prison and remain there if he pay not what please others to assesse him Then they thinke idle persons the droanes and moths of the Common wealth to be a wise people who to be unworthy to live they formerly conceited They expect and can think of nothing but to be Beggars Where publike and enormous offences have been committed eminent and notorious punishments must be such will make your Lordships proceedings highly esteemed else there will be so many offenders as none without danger can be punished This Judge subverting our Lawes tooke away the hearts of many he subscribed for the Kings power but so as he put him on taking his Subjects goods and of all other such wayes be most dangerous For we know his Majestie is not the last that suffers and is not the King worth many thousands The place of this Judge was to have given and preserved to the King the hearts of his Subjects the due execution of the lawes had done this and when such notice is taken of a Prince none will conspire against him who cannot faine to themselves safety before or after any fact committed Forraigne enemies will not invade his Kingdomes Thus hath his Majestie now got our hearts and will for ever have them This Judge is to answer for what his Majestie and for what we have suffred I am by command of the House of Commons to desire of your Lordships that the proceedings against Sir Robert Berkley Knight one of the Justices of his Majesties Court of Kings Bench may be put in as speedy a way of Triall as the course of Parliament will allow FINIS

The true Copie OF A SPEECH Delivered by the Honorable VVilliam Perpoynt second Son to the right Honorable the Earle of Kingstone against Sr ROBERT BERKLEY Knight one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in maintenance of their accusation of high Treason and other great misdemeanors At a Conference of both Houses in the Painted Chamber July 6. 1641. LONDON Printed for Henrie Hood 1641. MY LORDS I Am commanded to present to your Lordships these Articles with which the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons house of Parliament in their own name and in the name of all the Commons of England impeach Sir Robert Barkley Knight one of the Justices of his Majesties Court of Kings bench in maintenance of their accusation of high Treason and other great misdemeanours The Articles they desire may be read The Articles were read by Mr. Newport The high Treason is in the first Article in his endeavours to subvert the fundamentall Laws of this Realm and to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall government which have been lately adjudged Treason in the cause of the Earle of Strafford The other Articles prove the first By his opinions Certificates Judgements by his denials of the benefits of our Laws which have been read to your Lordships No fundamentall Law to the Subject is left our goods our lands our bodies the peace of a good conscience are by him given up to Arbitrary Tyrannicall Government Nothing hath been omitted to make a Judge know the Laws to make him just or fear him from being evil We have Innes of Court for that peculiar study Judges from thence onely chosen feldome any but what have been twenty years there Honours and revenues are given to Judges encouragements to do well this Judge had these Judges are sworn according to Law to serve the King and his people according to Law to counsell the King and for not so doing to be at his will for body lands and goods this Judge took that oath the Laws the Judges study impose the greatest punishments on unjust Judges shew that these punishments have been inflicted more could not be done to perswade or fear a Judge His offences shew in him great ambition yet he was most timorous of displeasing the great in power he did not onely forbear doing what he was sworn to do but was most active against our Lawes in opposing and punishing any that did maintein them To have only received Bribes though they blind the eyes and though the desire to get money encreaseth with age that hainous crime in a Judge had been in comparison with his offences a tolerable vice for from such a Judge justice is also to be had for money Ambition is violent and ruines whilst Covetousnesse is making a bargain The words of his opinions and judgement are for the Kings power It is pleasing to the nature of man that others should obey his will and well framed dispositions of Princes may easily be perswaded their power is unlimited when they are also put in mind that therefore they have more cause to do well and for doing well are more renowned For the most oppressive designes which we have suffered under the pretences to his Majestie have ever been the good of his Subjects His is the sin that is to judge by the Lawes and knows the Lawes are to the contrary yet puts and confirms such thoughts in his Prince He that incites another to Arbitrary Government when his self-ends are thereby compassed hates him for taking that power he perswaded him unto The writs those monsters of necessitie to provide Ships to prevent imminent danger that could not stay forty daies for the calling of a Parliament were therefore to goe out in September to have Ships ready in March This hath been adjudged by your Lordships to bee destructive to the fundamentall lawes of this Realm and to the subiect right of property and liberty c. that I shall say but this concerning them that this Judge published them to bee inseparable flowers of the Crown And that wee have lived to see for five yeares together imminent danger and thus to bee prevented This Judge did advise to such a government as future Kings here might exercise the highest Tyrannies and the Subjects want the benefit of restraints known to the most slavish Easterne nations where if their Prince doth unjustly he hath hatred for it and the dangers that follow that This Judge will have that hatred to goe to our good lawes No such bondage as when lawes of freedom are misinterpreted by Judges to make men slaves What can be considered of in a Judge of Law to give his opinion and advise to his Prince how the lawes the mutuall covenants of Kings and Subjects are to be broken but that his intentions are to have his Prince doe ill by making his evill servants to study and to be pleased with their wicked designes because they see means to put them in execution by making them to perswade their Prince because in imminent danger his Subjects goods are at his will that there is such danger when there is not and they onely have some by-end of their own A Judge to deliver his opinion that if the King should intend to give up his people to be destroyed by forreign forces for the safety of the people in that imminent danger once by the Law might take away the King there could be no greater offence This Judge will have our Law to be what to him seems reason the reason limited to him to judge of is what the common Law saith is so what a Statute hath so enacted For him to judge this or that is Law else a mischief shall follow is at best for him but this because the Law in such a thing is imperfect therefore he will make a Law to supply it or because that the Law written in such particulars is against his reason therefore his reasons to be Laws then must follow as often as a Judges reason changes or Judges change our Laws change also Our liberties are in our Laws where a Subject may reade or hear read this is his this he may do and be safe and that thus the Judge ought to give judgement he is free The excessive growth of Courts of reason conscience came from great and cunning persons and though not the most sodain yet the most dangerous and sure wayes to eat out our Laws our liberties Unlimited power must be in some to make and repeal Laws to fit the dispositions of times and persons Nature placeth this in common consent only and where all cannot conveniently meet instructeth them to give their consents to some they know or believe so well of as to be bound to what they agree on His Majestie your Lordships and the Commons are thus met in Parliament and so long as we are often reduced to this main foundation our King and we shall prosper This Judge will not allow us our knowledge or any reason he will