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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56353	The speech or declaration of John Pymm, Esquire, to the Lords of the upper House, upon the delivery of the Articles of the Commons assembled in Parliament, against VVilliam Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, in maintenance of their accusation, whereby he stands charged of high treason. Together with a true copie of the said Articles	Pym, John, 1584-1643.; Glover, George, b. ca. 1618, engraver.; Bower, Edward, ,artist.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1641 (1641)	Wing P4295A; ESTC R203308	8,796	31

being the intention of the House of Commons which they have commanded me to declare to make them more certaine and particular by preparatory Examinations to be taken with the helpe of your Lordships house as in the Case of my Lord of Strafford I shall now runne through them with a light touch onely marking in every of them some speciall points of venome virulency and malignity 1 The first Article my Lords doth containe his endeavour to introduce into this Kingdome an Arbitrary power of Government without any limitations or Rules of Law This my Lords is against the safety of the Kings person the honour of his Crowne and most destructive to his people Those Causes which are most perfect have not onely a power to produce effects but to conserve and cherish them The Seminary vertue and the Nutritive vertue in vegetables doe produce from the same principles It was the defect of Justice the restrayning of oppression and violence that first brought government into the World and set up Kings the most excellent way of Government And by the maintenance of Justice all kindes of government receive a sure foundation and establishment It is this that hath in it an ability to preserve and secure the royall power of Kings yea to adorn and increase it 2. In the second Article your Lordships may observe absolute and unlimited power defended by Preaching by Sermons and other discourses printed and published upon that subject And truely my Lords it seemes to be a prodigious crime that the Trueth of God and his holy Law should be perverted to defend the lawlessnesse of men That the holy and sacred function of the Ministery which was ordained for instruction of mens soules in the wayes of God should bee so abused that the Ministers are become the trumpets of sedition the promoters and defenders of violence and oppression 3 In the third Article my Lords you have the Judges who under his Majestic are the dispersers and distributers of Justice frequently corrupted by feare and solicitation you have the course of justice in the execution of it shamefully obstructed And if a willfull Act of injustice in a Judge bee so high a crime in the estimate of the Law as to deserve death under what burthen of guilt doth this man lye who hath beene the cause of great numbers of such voluntary and wilfull Acts of unjustice In the fourth Article he will bee found in his owne Person to have sold Justice in Causes depending before him And by his wicked counsell endeavouring to make his Majesty a Merchant of the same commodity onely with this difference that the King by taking money for places of Judicature should sell it in grosse whereas the Archbishop sold it by retalle 5 In the fifth Article there appeares a power ufurped of making Canons of laying obligations on the Subjects in the nature of Lawes and this power abused to the making of such Canons as are in the matter of them very pernicious being directly contrary to the Prerogative of the King and the liberty of the People In the manner of pressing of them may be found fraud and shuffling in the conclusion violence and constraint Men being forced by terrour and threatning to subscribe to all which power thus wickedly gotten they laboured to establish by perjury injoyning such an Oath for the maintenance of it as can neither be taken nor kept with a good conscience 6 In the sixt Article you have the King robbed of his Supremacy you have a Papall power exercised over his Majesties Subjects in their consciences and in their persons You have Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction claimed by an Incident right which the Law declares to proceed from the Crowne And herein your Lordships may observe that those who labour in civill matters to set up the King above the Lawes of the Kingdome do yet in Ecclesiasticall matters endevour to set up themselves above the King This was first procured by the Archbishop to be extrajudicially declared by the Judges and then to be published in a Proclamation In doing whereof he hath made the Kings Throne but a footstoole for his owne and their pride 7 You have my Lords in the seventh Article Religion undermined and subverted you have Popery cherished and defended you have this seconded with power and violence by severe punishment upon those which have opposed this mischievous intention and by the subtile and eager prosecution of these mē hath the power of Ecclesiasticall Commissioners of the Starre Chamber and Councell Table beene often made sub servient to his wicked designe My Lords 8 You may observe in the eight Article great care taken to get into his owne hand the power of nominating to Ecclesiasticall Livings and promotions you have as much mischievous as much wicked care taken in the disposing of these preferments to the hinderance and corruption of Religion And by this meanes my Lords the Kings sacred Majesty instead of Sermons fit for spirituall inftructours hath often had invectives against his people incouragement to injustice or to the overthrow of the Lawes Such Chaplaines have beene brought into his service as have as much as may bee laboured to corrupt his owne Houshold and beene eminent examples of corruption to others which hath so farre prevailed as that it hath exceedingly tainted the Universities and beene generally disperst to all the chiefe Cities the greatest Towner and Auditories of the Kingdome The grievous effects whereof is most manifest to the Commons House there being divers hundred complaints there depending in the House against scandalous Ministers and yet I beleeve the hundred part of them is not yet brought in 9 The ninth Article sets out the like care to have Chaplaines of his owne that might bee promoters of this wicked and trayterous designe Men of corrupt judgements of corrupt practice extreamely addicted to superstition And to such mens cares hath beene committed the Lycensing of Bookes to the Presse by meanes whereof many have beene published that are full of falshood of scandals such as have beene more worthy to be burnt by the hand of the Hangman in Smithfield as I thinke one of them was then to be admitted to come into the hands of the Kings people 10 In the tenth Article it will appeare how he having made these approaches to Popery comes now to close and joyne more neerely with it hee confederates with Priests and Jesuites Hee by his instruments negotiates with the Pope at Rome and hath correspondence with them that be authorized from Rome here He hath permitted a Romane Hierarchie to be set up in this Kingdome And though he hath beene so carefull that a poore man could not goe to the neighbour parish to heare a Sermon when he had none at home cou● not have a Sermon repeated nor prayer used in his owne Family but hee was a fit subject for the High Commission Court yet the other hath beene done in all parts of the Realme and no notice taken of it by any

committed the licencing of books to be printed by which meanes divers false and superstitious Bookes have beene published to the great scandall of Religion and to the seducing of his Majesties subjects X. He hath traiterously and wickedly indeavoured to reconcile the Church of England with the Church of Rome and for the effecting thereof hath consorted and confederated with divers popish Priests and Iesuites and hath keptsecret intelligence with the Pope of Rome and by himselfe his Agents and Instruments treated with such as have from thence received Authorty and instruction he hath permitted and countenanced a popish Hierarchie or Ecclesiasticall government to be established in this Kingdome by all which traiterous and malicious practices this Church and Kingdome hath beene exceedingly indangered and like to fall under the Tyranny of the Roman Sea XI Hee in his owne person and his Suffragans Visitors Surrogates Chancellors and other Officers by his command have caused divers learned pious and Orthodox Ministers of Gods word to be silenced suspended deprived degraded excommunicated and otherwise grieved without any just and lawfull cause and by divers other meanes hee hath hindred the preaching of Gods word caused divers of his Majesties loyall Subjects to forsake the Kingdome and increased and cherished Ignorance and profanesle amongst the people that so hee might the better facilitate the way to the effecting of his owne wicked and traiterous designe of altering and corrupting the true Religion here established XII Hee hath traiterously indeavoured to cause division and discord betwixt the Church of England and other Reformed Churches and to that end hath supprest and abrogated the Priviledges and Immunities which have beene by his Majesty and his royall Ancestors graunted to the Dutch and French Churches in this Kingdome and divers other waies hath expressed his malice and disaffection to these Churches that so by such disunion the Papists might have more advantage for the overthrow and extirpation of both XIII Hee hath maliciously and traiterously plotted and indeavoured to stirre up war and enmity betwixt his Majesties two Kingdomes of England and Scotland and to that purpose hath laboured to introduce into the Kingdome of Scotland divers Innovations both in Religion and government all or the most part of them tending to Popery and superstition to the great grievance and discontent of his Majesties Subjects ofthat Nation And for their refusing to submit to such Innovations he did traiterously advise his Majesty to subdue them by force of Armes and by his owne Authority and Power contrary to Lawe did procure sundry of his Majesties Subjects and inforced the Clergie of this Kingdome to contribute towards the maintenance of that war and when his Majesty with much wisedome and Iustice had made a Pacification betwixt the two Kingdomes the said Archbishop did presumptuously censure that pacification as dishonorable to his Majesty and by his counsells and indeavors so incensed his Majesty against his said Subjects of Scotland that hee did thereupon by advice of the said Archbishop enter into an offensive warre against them to the great hazard of his Majesties person and his Subjects of both Kingdomes XIIII That to preserve himself from being questioned for these and others his traiterous courses he labou●ed to subvert the rights of Parliament and the ancient course of Parliamentary proceeding and by false and malicious slanders to incense his Majesty against Parliaments By which words counsells and actions hee hath traiterously and contrary to his Allegeance laboured to alienate the hearts of the Kings liege people from his Majesty and to set a division betweene them and to ruine and destroy his Majesties Kingdomes for which they doe impeach him of high Treason against our Soveraigne Lord the King his Crowne and dignity The said Commons doe further averre that the sayd William Archbishop of Canterbury during the times that the crimes aforementioned were done and committed hath beene a Bishop or Archbishop of this Realme of Eng land one of the Kings Commissioners for Ecclesiasticall matters and one of his Majesties most honorable Privy Councell and hath taken an Oath for his faithfull discharge of the said Office of Councellor and hath likewise taken an oath of supremacy and Allegeance And the said Commons by protestation saving to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Accusation or Im●peachment against the said Archbishop and also of replying to the Answers that the said Archbishop shall make unto the said Articles or to any of them and of offering further proof also of the Premises or any of them or of any other impeachment or Accusation that shall be exhibited by them as the cause shall according to the course of Parliament require doe pray that the said Archbishop may bee put to answer to all and every the Premises and that such proceedings examination tryall and Iudgement may be upon every of them had and used as is agreeable to Lawe and Iustice The Articles being read hee proceeded as followeth My Lords THERE is an expression in the Scripture which I will not presume either to understand or to interpret yet to a vulgar eye it seemes to have an Asspect something sutable to the Person and Cause before you It is a description of the evill Spirits wherein they are said to be spirituall wickednesses in High Places Crimes acted by the spirituall faculties of the Soule the Will and the Understanding exercised about spirituall matters concerning Gods Worship and the Salvation of Man seconded with power authority learning and many other advantages doe make the party who commits them very sutable to that description Spirituall wickednesses in high places These Crimes my Lords are various in their Nature haynous in their qualitie and universall in their Extent If you examine them Theologically as they stand in opposition to the Trueth of God they will be found to be against the rule of Faith against the power of godlinesse against the meanes of Salvattion If you examine them Morally as they stand in opposition to the light of Nature to right reason and the principles of humane saciety you will then perceive pride without any moderation such a Pride as that is which exalts it selfe above all that is called God Malice without any provocation Malice against vertue against innocency against pietie Injustice without any meanes of restitution even such injustice as doeth robbe the present times of their possessions the future of their possibilities If they be examined my Lords by Legall Rules in a Civill way as they stand in opposition to the Publique good and to the Lawes of the Land He will be found to be a Traytour against his Majesties Crowne an Incendiary against the Peace of the State he will be found to be the highest the boldest the most impudent oppressour that ever was an oppressour both of King and People This Charge my Lords is distributed and conveyed into foureteene severall Articles as you have heard and those Articles are onely generall It