Hold and Dissolve Parliaments at pleasure Whig King Charles often told the Parliament so saying as before in pag. 23. Remember that Parliaments are altogether in my Power for their Calling Sitting and Dissolution therefore as I find the fruits of them good or Evil they are to continue or not to be Tory. By his Prerogative the Law of Parliaments is wholly at the Kings Will and in his breast For grievances intoiierable as aforesaid many and great in false Imprisonment false Seizures false Subsidies all illegal were yearly and daily inflicted in the Kings Name and by his Authority upon the Bodies and Estates of the King's Subjects no man was sure of holding either liberty or property longer than the good pleasure these grievances were contrary to Law Equity Justice Equity Reason and the Stipulation Oath and Acts these grievances ought not to have been or if by evil Councellours and evil Ministers and wicked men they happened the King ought to have remedied and redrest them instead of abetting and defending the Oppressors of his Subjects and the violators of those Laws that he was sworn to uphold and obey and ought to have lookt upon these Vsurpations of his Subjects Rights and the Vsurpers as the greatest Enemies of his Throne which Solomon says is only established by Justice not by Pilling and Polling Robbing or Defrauding the harmless People And the King should have look't upon the Parliament that desired to redress the Grievances and to cure these griefes and distempers of the State as his best Friends and should have blest God that he had a Prerogative to Call them and keep them together for so blessed a work and not to threaten to Dissolve them if they will not give him more Money and if they will not forbear to punish those grand Delinquents that had so shamefully abused the King by abusing his Subjects his Justice his Oath his Royal Word and Promises his Conscience and his Laws Tory. Bracton says that although the Common Law doth allow many Prerogatives to the King yet it doth not allow any that he shall wrong or Hurt any by his Prerogative Tant By that Rule a King has no Prerogative it seems to Dissolve a Parliament for medling with Redress of Grievances or the punishment of the Evil Instruments and Ministers that caus'd or councell'd them Whig I will not be so bold to define the Kings Prerogative let it be for ever Sacred otherwise than as we describe Divinity Negatively rather telling what it is not than what it is First The King has no Prerogative to hurt himself or his People nor yet to break his Laws or dispense with a Statute nor to violate his Conscience his Word nor his Oath For Rex merito debet retribuere legi quia lex tribuit ei facit enim lex quod ipse sit Rex says Bracton The King may well give the Law its free course due unto it because the Law gives him his due For the Law makes him what he is a King Rex enim a bene Regendo The King is so called from Ruling well but he is called a Tyrant that Oppresses Secondly The Kings Oath is not only to Rule according to Law but to make new and abrogate old Laws which cannot be without a Parliament therefore Parliament therefore Parliaments are a Fundamental and Vital part and constitution of the Government Thirdly If a King can chuse whether he will Call a Parliament at all except once in three years and then send them Home and Dissolve them as he list and when he list without Redress of Grievances then the fundamental Constitution and Law of the Government must be Lame and Imperfect For at this rate the Prince and his Ministers may do what they list and impune make their Wills a Law But it is impossible that a Government so wisely Constituted as ours is should be so lame imperfect and deficient as not to make Provision for its own Being and Subsistance in the Fundamentals This therefore is provided for in the very Essence of the Government which we may call the Common-Law which is of more value than any Statute and of which Magna Charta and other Statutes are but Declaratory Fourthly Tho' the King is Trusted with the formal part of Summoning and pronouncing the Dissolution of Parliaments yet the Law which obliges both him and us has determined and ascertained how and when he shall do it Tant Ay marry Whigg now you come close let us hear that Whig I 'le prove it clearly and evidently by Common-Law and Statute-Law Reason and Equity and these four do guide or should guide all the Benches in Westminster-Hall Tory. If you can do this it will prove very Beneficial to all for I observ'd that in the late Civil Wars the cause of the great Bloodshed was the difference betwixt the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberties which could not be decided it seems but by the Sword Whig It is better far to decide the difference with a Pen but indeed the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberties never clash but there is a sweet Harmony betwixt them one with another one supporting and upholding another not destroying and ruining one another as some Juncto Councils would make them Tory. We Tories Fought for the Prerogative Royal. Whig Then you Fought for you did not know what Tory. Yes the Loans Privy-Seals Tunnage and Poundage Ship-Money c. and Seizures and Imprisonment thereupon were all against Law Law and against the Peoples Liberties and Properties but the King did act by his Royal Prerogative and so took the Goods and Imprisoned the Gentlemen that refus'd by Prerogative Whig The King has no Prerogative wrongfully to Imprison or take mens Goods to Imprison men is a work for the Kings Ministers of Justice but below the Grandeur of Royal Majesty to do it or to give order for it other than that as all the Execution of the Kings Laws is to be done in his Name though he personally know nothing of the matter And if the King ore tenus or in writing command John a Nokes to Imprison John a Styles without mentioning any cause in Law or breach of some Law that requires Imprisonment an Action of false Imprisonment lyes against John a Nokes and he shall not be suffered in his excuse and justification to plead speciale mandatum Regis that the King Commanded it but must set forth some other special matter for if that might be admitted the King who cannot with a word take away my Pence my Horse nor my Asse yet he might destroy with a Breath that which is much Dearer to me my Liberty Tory. You speak Reason and Law too but may not the King Invade his Subjects Liberties and Properties in Cases of Necessity by his Royal Prerogative Whig Pish The Favourites Buckingham and Laud c. as you have heard before destroyed the Kings Fleet consumed the Kings Men and Money Ships and Ammunition by Senseless and
THE SECOND PART OF THE History of Whiggisme OR THE Whiggish-PLOTS PRINCIPLES and PRACTICES Mining and Countermining THE TORY-PLOTS PRINCIPLES and PRACTICES In REIGN of King CHARLES I. TORY ONce more well met Mr. Tantivee and honest Whigg Tantivee Whigg We come on purpose to hear the Continuation of your History of Whiggisme Tory. I neither am able nor do I pretend to tell you any thing but what is to be found in Chronicles Histories and at large already in Print Tant Ay but I have not Money to buy them nor Leisure to read large Volumes give us onely an Abridgment out of those vaster Collections in relation only to the Whiggisme of them Tory. With all my heart where left I off Tant At Mr. Moor's Release and Discharge by his Gracious Majesty Charles 1. and the Imprisonment and Release of the Earl of Arundel Tory. Oh! 'T is Right Whigg But was not that part of the Kings Answer about the Imprisonment of the Earl of Arundel namely My Lords By this I do not mean to shew the Power of a King by diminishing your Priviledges ill resented by the House of Lords Tory. It plainly Intimated that the King thought He had such a Power or some about him made him believe he had such a Power of a King to Diminish their Priviledges but he did not mean to show it Tant No the more Gracious King He. Tory. However the House of Lords were so Allarum'd at the Expression that lest they should happen to have a King that was less Gracious or of a worse Meaning they would not meddle with any Business 'till they had secured as well as claim'd their Priviledges by another Tenure than what was meerly Arbitrary Ad libitum Regis and therefore Adjourn'd in Disgust resolving unanimously to take nothing into Consideration 'till they had Contrived how their Priviledges might be Secur'd to Posterity which being perceiv'd the Earl of Arundel as you have heard was Releas't to them for which he was thankfull Tant Ay that was right Tory-like and most Loyally done some Whiggs would not so Religiously have Kist the Rod that whips them Whigg 'T is somewhat against the Grain of Humanity to fawn Spaniel-like upon the Hand that beats them Tant Some men are so Loyal as to make a Legg at every Box of the Ear Who may say to a King what dost thou Whigg Misapply'd and Misconstru'd Scriptures make up a Tantivee and makes a man be a Tantivee Tant Why Is not the King's Will a Law Whigg In France they say and in Turkey not in England for so the Barons of England told the two Cardinals whom the Pope sent to Reconcile the Differences betwixt King and People about Magna Charta Liberties and Prerogative That there were many Worthy and Learned men in the Kingdom whose Council they would use and not Strangers who knew not the cause of their Commotion in the Reign of K. Edward 2. Tory. No I must confess that Forreigners unacquainted with the Fundamental Constitution of our Government and Laws are no Competent Judges of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of Contests betwixt King and People Whigg Ay the English were alwayes tender of their Liberties Tant But if English Kings did Invade their Liberties they used no Remedy I hope but Prayers and Tears Whigg And Bows and Arrows and long Swords until the Kings were Contented to Rule them according to their Oath and the Law of the Land Tant Ay Perhaps when they happened to have some easie weak timerous and condescending King Whigg No In such a juncture they were alwayes the calmer but grew rough raging high and boysterous the more vehement strong and tempestuous their Kings were as for Instance in Edw. 1. another Saul for he was higher and taller than ordinary men by the Head and Shoulders and as Tyrannical too as King Saul was He at one time at the Instigation of William Marchian then Lord Treasurer fetch 't all the Riches out of the Churches and Religious Houses and put it into his own Exchequer Loans Benevolences the Writ of Trailbaston great Fines were used by him in the Seventeenth Year of his Reign he Fined all his Judges pretending for Corruption the least of them one thousand Marks an immense Summe in those dayes but some of them two thousand some three thousand some four thousand some six thousand and the Chief Justice Sir Ralph de Hengham seven thousand Marks the Chief Baron Sir Adam Stratton four and thirty thousand Marks but from Thomas Wayland all his Goods and whole Estate Confiscate and himself Banish't and just so he used the Jews which were then in England very rich and very numerous 'T is said of K. Hen. 8. that he never Spared Man in his Anger nor Woman in his Lust but King Edw. 1. was as resolv'd as he as Couragious and Stout leaving the Marks of his personal Valour the Trophies of his Victories in the Holy-land before he was King but he could Disguise his furious Resentments and Adjourn Revenge seven and seven Years 'till he could safely Execute it Tant Safely why who should or durst say to that most Couragious and Victorious King that thrice Conquer'd Scotland France and Wales What dost thou Whigg His own People and Subjects forc't him to reason and to Rule them according to Law his Oath and Magna Charta the Parliament-men came to his Parliament Attended with Armed men very numerous at Stamford 28 Edw. 1. to make him fulfill and Execute the Charter of the Forrest says Walsingham and Knighton two Famous Historians of those times Rex Angliae sub his diebus Parliamentum tenuit Stamford ad quod convenerunt Comites Barones cum equis armis co prout dicebatur proposito ut Executionem Chartae de Foresta hactenùs dilatam extorquerent mind that ad plenum Tant Ay but how did the Stout King Edward Treat these Armed Petitioners Whigg They ask't nothing but what the Laws and his own Oath ought to have Compelled him unto and the King yielded to their Requests Rex autem eorum Instantiam Importunitatem attendens eorum voluntati in omnibus condescendit Knighton sayes De quâ re Rex Integrè plenè eorum voluntatem Implevit ad vota in which matter the King fully and wholly granted their Desires to their Wishes Tant It was very civilly done of him Whigg It was wisely and honestly done and as his Coronation Oath Equity Reason Conscience and the Laws from none of which English Kings pretend to be exempt did adjure him and Constrain him and they are devillish Councellors and the Kings worst Enemies and Traitors that perswade him to act contrary to Law Power is high enough without being wanton and lasts longest when it is not Stretcht to the height or Over-stretcht 't is a wonder that a thing so uneasie should please Tory. Ambition and Covetousness know no bounds and I have read King Edward got the Pope to set him free from the
Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no Soveraign I wonder this Soveraign was not in Magna Charta or the confirmations of it If we grant this by Implication we give a Soveraign power above all these Laws mind that for all Power and Liberties and Prerogatives are bounded and limited by the Laws and though they be great as the Sea yet have their bounds the Law saying Hitherto shalt thou go and no further and here shall thy proud Waves be stay'd no Prerogative is infinite in England nor any power omnipotent except that of God alone the Law limits and bounds us all from the greatest to the least And therefore Sir Eward Cook goes on telling the House That Power in Law is taken for a power with force The Sheriff shall take the power of the County what it means here God only knows It is repugnant to our Petition that is the King shall not Billet Souldiers raise Money by Privy Seals Loans Imprison without cause in Law shewn c. saving by his Soveraign Power our Petition is a Petition of Right grounded on Acts of Parliament Our Predecessors would never endure a Salvo Jure suo no more than the Kings of Old could endure for the Church Salvo Honore Dei Ecclesiae we must not admit of it and to qualifie it is impossible Let us hold our Priviledges according to the Law that Power that is above this it is not sit for the King and People to have it disputed further Tant The Oath of Allegiance binds us all to maintain the Kings Prerogative Whigg No doubt on 't and let it be for ever Sacred let no Prophane Hand or Tongue touch it no nor so much as think upon it Irreverently both it and the Peoples Liberties as aforesaid are vast and great but they are not Infinite they have their known Bounds and ancient Land-marks and Cursed is that evil Councellor that makes such a Stir to Encroach or Remove them extend them or Stretch them such deserve to Stretch for it For 't is certain that there is no Soveraign Power or Prerogative wherewith any King of England hath been intrusted either by God or Man but what is for Edification not for Destruction for the Weal of his People and for their Protection Safety and Happiness Tant Our Gracious Soveraign in his late Declarations pretends to no other Prerogative but what is legal Whigg All the better for him and us his Royal Father of Gracious Memory seem'd to Disgust his Lords as aforesaid when he told them that he meant not to shew the Power of a King by diminishing their Priviledges Tory. He wanted not bad Instillers sometimes as he Confest afterwards Whigg The Summer shall want Flies e're the Crown want Sycophants swarming about it yet like Musketoes too they usually Burn their Wings in the Flame to this sort some ascribed those words in the Kings Speech I owe the account of my Actions to God alone c. But as for Tunnage and Poundage it is a thing I cannot want Tant No why should he Whigg The matter of taking it was not so much the question as the manner of taking it namely taking it before and without the gift thereof to the King by them that had the only power to dispose thereof Tant Then there was hard Measure to some as well as hard Imprisonment if the Parliament had the only power to give Tunnage and Poundage for the Kings Commission to the Customers begins thus C. R. WHereas the Lords of the Council taking into Consideration our Revenue and finding that Tunnage and Poundage is a principal Revenue of our Crown and has been continued for these many Years have therefore Order'd all those Duties of Subsidie Custom and Import as they were in the Twenty first of King James and as they shall be appointed by Us under our Seal to be Levyed Know ye that we by the Advice of our Lords Declare our Will that all those Duties be Levyed and Collected as they were in the time of our Father and in such manner as we shall appoint and if any Person refuse to Pay then our Will is that the Lord Treasurer shall Commit to Prison such so Refusing 'till they Conform themselves And we give full Power to all our Officers from time to time to give Assistance to the Farmers of the same as fully as when they were Collected by Authority of Parliament Whigg This occasion'd Debates that ended in the Dissolution of that Parliament after which the King call'd no more of eleven long Years and Straits and Necessities were urgent and remediless without a Parliament and woful work in Conclusion Tant Why did the Parliament meddle with the Customers Whigg Because they collected Customs in Tunnage and Poundage without Authority of Parliament Tant King James had them before they were given to him in Parliament Whigg King James had them by Authority of Parliament from the day before his first Parliament begun but the Statute gave him Power so to do but not from the first day of his coming to the Crown for he came to the Crown March 24. 1602. His first Parliament began at Westminster March 19. 1603. and took many things into Consideration and Enacted them before they took into consideration Tunnage and Poundage but 1 Jac. cap. 33. the Commons by the Advice and consent of the Lords gave the King the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage at a very low rate namely but three Shillings a Tun for Wine and so proportionably for quantities greater or lesser than a Tun but this expir'd with the Kings Life his only Son and Successor took it without Authority of Parliament as his Father took it by Authority of Parliament to the great Disgust of his Parliament who did at length grant him Tunnage and Poundage upon certain Trusts and Confidences from the 9th of August 1641. for about three months 16 Car. 1.22 Tant What no longer Whigg Not at one loose then by 16 Car. 1.25 they trusted the King with the Customs from November 30. 1641. to February 1. namely for two Months longer Then the other Hitch for five Months namely from February 1. 1641. until July 2. 1642. Then they continued it for some little time by 16 Car. 1. c. 29. cap. 31. cap. 36. Tant But did the Free Free-Parliament in 12 Car. 2.4 give it to our gracious King for no longer time Whigg Yes yes for his Life but upon trust too so sayes the Act namely The Commons Assembled in Parliament reposing Trust and Confidence in your Majesty in and for the Guarding and defending of the Seas against all Persons intending or that shall intend the Disturbance of your said Commons in the Intercourse of Trade and the Invading of this Realm c. Tant Then it was granted for these Uses and Considerations belike and should be made Use of for no other end you would say Whigg Yea I do say so as the said Statute sayes Tant
them can tell what or who is the Church but usually by the Church they mean themselves the Clergy that is the promoted and Dignifyed Clergy-men and how the Vilest and worst of Clergy-men came to be promoted by their Vileness and Villanies you have heard for no other Clergy-men could be found so to Debauch their Consciences the Laws of England and the Protestant Religion and these are the men Forsooth whose Spitle we must all lick up and be punish'd if we speak never so little against them Ten thousand times more than when by Curses and Oaths we Blaspheme the Holy Name of God Oh brave World and brave Holy Religion and bravely managed Tant You are warm upon us Whig Is this a time to be Meally-mouth'd To sit weeping and wailing and wringing of hand with Prayers and Tears only when Tant When what Speak out Whig I will not Catch-pole you do but ly at lurch to undo a man for speaking Truth if you can but by hook or Crook drill him in and bring him within the reach or swing of some Old Stretch'd Law to colour as well as vindicate safely the private Spleens and Revenge every body sees you and yet you think you walk invisible and now too having got Tory here to be a Fellow-witness with you Oh how you will Strain a word and your own Consciences To bring a man that Thwarts your Evil purpose to be Maul'd by Law especially when you get which is not difficult a Jury and for your Turns Tory. You speak feelingly Whigg Jeet on and mark the end on 't there is an over-ruling Providence and God of Justice the very Heathens apprehend it and the Wheel of Fortune comforted the Captive Prince that drew the Conqueror's Chariot the Wheels whereof turning round and the upmost side forthwith undermost and the undermost again uppermost comforted and cheer'd his Captivity with the certain incertainty inconstancy and vicissitude of things And therefore good Rampant Tory let not him that putteth on his Armour boast himself yet you think you have got the World in a string and since the days of Blessed Mary Popery Coleman says had never so fair and likely a Prospect Tant I am not for Popery Whigg No not for the Name I believe thy Religion is 1500 l per Annum call it by what Name any body pleases Tory. But did not you say Whigg that you would prove by Common-Law Statute-Law Reason and Equity that the Law determines how and when Parliaments shall sit or be Dissolv'd How long they shall sit and when they shall be called all which I understand lay no where but in the Hallow of the Kings-Breast His Will and Pleasure Whig No Acts of Justice as a King lyes so incertainly only as at the will and pleasure of the King so as not to be determined by Law though some Acts of Mercy and Pardon are purely Arbitrary to adorn the Throne For if that did all our other Laws are nothing worth but at the good pleasure of the King and His Ministers Arbitrarily For for all their Transgressions none can call Evil Ministers to Account but a Parliament at least none more properly And if they can stave off a Parliament at pleasure and Dissolve it at pleasure we hold all our other Liberties Charters and Properties at pleasure which they have often oppress'd and invaded as aforesaid and when a Parliament call'd them to a Reckoning and Account for their Roguery and worse than march them off Here the Remedy by this Rule is left to the mercy and good will and pleasure of the Disease when Evil Ministers Disease the Common-wealth and this Disease may not be inquired into by the only Physitians the Parliament For Alas the Judges know who gives them and continues to them their Places and Soft Seats Tory. You see as aforesaid in King Charles I. his Speeches his Declarations c. Still he inculcates and bids them remember that the Calling Adjourning Prorogueing Holding and Dissolving Parliaments are in his Power Whig I believe you mistake for the Houses usually if not always do Adjourn themselves but they are Prorogued and Called and Dissolved by the King so all Criminals or so suspected are Indicted by the King that is in the Kings Name but the Law directs it both how and wherefore Tory. So you would say the Law directs the formal part also of Calling and Dissolving of Parliaments to be by the King in His Name but the wherefore or cause of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments is limited and determined by the Law and the time of Intervals which the King cannot pass or dispute with Whig Yes surely or else the great foundation of our Laws Parliaments the banks that limit and bound the out-ragious swellings and overflowings of Arbitrary and unlimited dominion would be strangely deficient and lame in not providing first and especially for its own Preservation against Arbitrary Will and Pleasure Tant Nay I suppose you are a Learned and Stout Champion for the Laws and for the Laws of Parliament and much Skill'd in them Whig I pretend to no Skill therein nor to the Honour of it all I have to say or have said on this Subject is only as an Historian of Whiggism a bare summary Collection of what others have done and said as to these particulars in the Reign of King Charles I. to rub up your memory with my brief Notes not to tell you any thing you have not heard before but with little Cost and Charge give you the Marrow of greater and more Elaborate works at an easier rate and minute Expence both of Money and Time Tant Well said I like that very well for I have not much of either to spare but first say what the Common Law enjoynes as to the Holding or Dissolving Parliaments Whig Few know what the Common Law is Coke says it is founded in the Immutable Law and Light of Nature agreeable to the Law of God requiring Order Government Subjection and Protection containing Ancient usages warranted by Holy Scripture and because it is generally given to all King and People Poor and Rich Lords and Commons it is therefore called Common Now consider that never any King of England had any Prerogative but what the Common-Law or Statute-Law gives them nor any Liberty or Priviledge but by Law The Prerogative is a Royal Priviledge Privilegio quasi privatae Leges Priviledges are Private Laws which always yields to the Common-Law Common-weal and Common-Benefit The King has no Priviledge or Prerogative contrary to the Publick-weal Order Government and Protection of the People Apply this to the question in hand concerning Holding or Dissolving of Parliaments And therefore in the Mirror of Justice a Book so commended by the Lord Coke that he saith it contains the whole Frame of the Ancient Common-Laws of this Realm from the time of King Arthur till near the Conquest Citesout of it one Law Concerning Parliaments made Reg. R. Alfred Anno Dom. 880.
from Trent Northwards and also against his Deputy Justice in Oyer from Trent northwards the right Honourable Viscount Dunbar Deputy Lieutenant in the East riding of York-shire his Wife and Mother and the greatest part of his Family being Popish Recusants also against William Lord Eure a convict Popish Recusant and in Commission for the Sewers Henry Lord Abergavenny John Lord Tenham Henry Lord Morley John Lord Mordant John Lord St. John of Basing Captain of Lidley Castle in Com. Southampton Em. Lord Scroop Lord President of his Majesties Council in the North Lord Lieutenant of the County and City of York and of Kingston upon Hull Anthony Viscount Mountague in Commission of the Sewers Sir William Wray Knight Deputy Lieutenant Collonel to a Regiment his Wife a Recusant Sir Edward Musgrave Sir Thomas Lampley Justices of Peace and quorum Sir Thomas Savage Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace his Wife and Children Recusants Sir Richard Egerton a Non-communicant Thomas Savage Esquire a Deputy Lieutenant a Recusant and his Wife Indicted and Presented William Whitmore Sir Hugh Beeston Sir William Massy Sir William Courtnâ—y Knight Vice-warden of the Stannery and Deputy Lieutenant a Popish Recusant Sir Thomas Ridley Sir Ralph Conyers James Lawson Esquire Sir John Shelley Knight and Baronet a Popish Recusant William Scot Esquire a Recusant John Finch Esquire not convicted but comes not to Church Sir William Mullineux Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace his Wife a Recusant Sir Richard Houghton Knight Deputy Lieutenant Sir William Norris Captain of the General Forces and Justice of Peace a Recusant Sir Gilbert Ireland Justice of Peace a Recusant James Anderton Esquire Justice of Peace and one of his Majesties Receivers Edward Rigby Esquire Clerk of the Crown Justice of Peace himself a good Communicant but his Wife and Daughter Popish Recusants Edward E Robert Warren Clerk a Justice of the Peace justly suspected for five Reasons there mentioned Sir Henry Compton Knight Deputy Lieutenant Justice of the Peace and Commissioner for the Sewers Sir John Shelly Knight and Baronet himself and his Lady Recusants Sir John Gage a Popish Recusant with a vast number more of Justices of Peace and Commissioners of Sewers either Papists or justly suspected Wherefore they humbly beseech your Majesty not to suffer your loving Subjects to continue any longer discouraged by the apparent sence of that Increase both in number and power which by the Favour and Countenance of such like ill affected Governours accreweth to the Popish Party but that according to your own Wisdom Goodness and Piety whereof they rest assured you will be graciously pleased to Command that Answer of your Majesties to be effectually observed and the Parties above named and all such others to be put out of such Commissions and Places of Authority wherein they now are in your Majesties Realm of England Contrary to the Acts and Laws of State in that behalf Tant Those last words were Pungent Tory. Not prevalent surely for the Parliament was soon after Dissolved and the House of Commons having Intimation of their intended Dissolution made what hast they could to perfect a Remonstrance or Declaration against the Duke of Buckingham and concerning Tunnage and Poundage taken by the King since his Fathers death without consent in Parliament and which were never payable they say in their Remonstrance to any of his Majesties Ancestors but only by a special Act of Parliament and ought not to be levyed without such an Act. Tant And did the King go on Collecting and taking Tunnage and Poundage notwithstanding Tory. Yes he said he could not want it and sent them a former Message that if He had not a timely supply He would betake himself to New Councils Tant New Councils what were they Tory. The Commons in their said Remonstrance often with thoughtful Hearts remember the words New-Councils repeating and Repeating them as if they were somewhat against the old Parliamentary Councils and course of this Kingdom and they Order'd every Member of the House to have a Copy of the said Remonstrance for they had not time to Present it to his Gracious Majesty but were Dissolv'd though the Lords also prepared a Petition to stay the Kings purpose in Dissolving the Parliament sending Viscount Mandevil Earl of Manchester Lord President of his Majesties Council the Earls of Pembrook Carlisle and Holland to entreat his Majesty to give Audience to the whole House of Peers But the King returned Answer that his Resolution was to hear no motion for that purpose but He would Dissolve the Parliament and he was then as good as his Word for he immediately Dissolved them by Commission under the great Seal Dated at Westminster June 15.2 R. R. Car. 1. 1626. To that purpose And withall Publishes a Declaration in Print concerning the Grounds and Causes which moved his Majesty to Dissolve this as also the former Parliament Dated June 13. 2 Car. 1. two dayes before the Date of the Commission Tant It was the readyer against the time of using it Coleman was as provident Tory. Right And also a Proclamation was published against the said Remonstrance of the Commons commanding all Persons of what Quality soever who have or shall have hereafter any Copyes or Notes of the said Remonstrance forthwith to Burn the same that the Memory thereof might be utterly abolished upon Pain of his Majesties Indignation and high Displeasure Tant Then the Tide did run very high Tory. The King also Published another Proclamation against Preaching or Disputing the Arminian Controversies Pro or Con but the effects of that Proclamation how equally soever intended became the stopping of the Puritan's Mouths and an uncontroul'd Liberty to the Tongues and Pens of the thriving Divinity-men the rising side Mountagues Party And though the Parliament was Dissolv'd so that the Duke of Buckingham for that nearly-reflecting Article the last against him which the King in Honour and by the Bonds of natural Affection and Piety to the Memory of his Deceased Father thought himself obliged to Call him to a publick account for so Daring an Insolence in applying a Plaister to the Kings breast against his Will and without the Advice and contrary to the Opinion of the Sworn Physitians of King James who attributed the Cause of his trouble unto the said Plaâ—â—â—â—â— and a Drink that Buckingham gave him as was Alledged in the Thirteenth Article of the Dukes Impeachment and the said Drink twice given to the King by Buckingham's own Hands and a third time refused by the King who felt great Impairment of his Life and Health complaining of the Drink that the Duke gave him His Physitians telling him to Please him and Comfort him that His second Impairment was from cold taken or some other ordinary Cause No no said his Majesty It is that which I had from Buckingham as more at large much aggravated and insisted upon by Mr. Wandesford who managed the Thirteenth Article of the Impeachment against Buckingham Tant But what
them to have taken away the only legal bound to their arbitrary power and made as it were a conquest upon the common Law of the Land which is our common Inheritance and after made use of that power to turn their Brethren out of their Free-holds for not doing that which no Law of man required them to do and which in their Opinions the Law of God required of them not to do We shall find them in general to have encouraged all the Clergy to suits and to have brought all suits to the Council-table that having all power in Ecclesiastical matters they laboured for equal power in Temporal and to dispose as well of every Office as of every Benefice which lost the Clergy much Revenue and much reverence whereof the last is never given when it is so asked by encouraging them indiscreetly to exact more of both than was due so that indeed the gain of their greatness extended but to a few of that order though the envy extended upon all We shall find of them to have both kindled and blown the common fire of both Nations to have both sent and maintained that Book of which the Author no doubt hath long since wish'd with Nero Vtinam nescissem litera and of which more than one Kingdom hath cause to wish that when he writ that he had rather burn'd a Library though of the value of Ptolomie's We shall find them to have been the first and principal cause of the breach I will not say of but since the Pacification at Berwick We shall find them to have been the almost sole abettors of my Lord of Strafford whilst he was practising upon another Kingdom that manner of Government which he intended to settle in this where he committed so many so mighty and so manifest Enormities and Oppressions as the like have not been Committed by any Governour in any Government since Verres left Sicily And after they had called him over from being Deputy of Ireland to be in a manner Deputy of England All things here being Govern'd by a Juntillo who dare say thus much at this time of day and that Juntillo Govern'd by him And he Govern'd by I know who to have assisted him in giving of such Councels and the pursuing of such Courses as it is a hard and measuring Cast whether they were more Unwise more Unjust or more Unfortunate and which had Infallibly been our Destruction if by the Grace of God their share had not been as small in the subtilty of Serpents as in the Innocency of Doves Master Speaker I have represented no small quantity and no mean degree of Guilt Tant Enough enough of this I see Whiggish Doctrines Principles and Practices grow upon us Whigg Do not mistake your self Tory it is your Tory-Plots and Principles have swell'd of late years to a monstrous Tumour and Deformity almost to the Consumption of our right and natural Constitution and because we make warm Applications sometimes to draw down the Swelling and let out the Corruption how you Tantivees Kick and Frisk Tant Kings of old us'd not to be Bearded nor Brav'd by their Subjects Whigg No there was no Cause for it but read the History of the Lives of King John Henry 3. Edw. 1. Edw. 2. what Bickering there was to keep those Kings from encroaching on the Subjects Liberties and Properties the subject of the great Quarrel Contest and Battels fought betwixt King and People in all and onely in the unhappy Reigns of unhappy Kings that suffer'd themselves to be Seduc't out of their Faith and Truth and to outstretch their Prerogatives beyond its Maker and Creator the Law and outstretch their Consciences and their Oaths till they broke all to pieces Tant Poor feeble Kings perhaps they were Worms soonest grow in soft Wood. Whigg Were any Kings Fiercer or Stouter than the three first of them who more Valiant than Edward 1. or more Victorious against Forreigners and if he were weak and feeble it was only when the Head like Children that have the Rickets swell'd monstrously and unconscionably to the starving and Consumption of the whole Body and inferiour Members which cannot fare ill but the Head must ake for it and feel the smart at long run Honestly therefore if he could have continued so did he answer the encroaching Prelates to whom he had Promis'd to give whatever they would ask and they ask't him to Repeal the Statute of Mortmain The King answered that this was a Statute made by the whole Body of the Realm and therefore was not in his Power who was but one Member of that Body to undo that which all the Members together had done Tant By this Answer he should seem to inferr that He and his People are made all of a piece of the same Clay Whigg Why what dost thou think Kings are not Mortals Tant They are Divine Whigg So Tantivees also call themselves but as Alexander the great answered his Flatterers that call'd him a god those that emptyed their Close-stools scent no such matter or extraordinary Hogo beyond other Mortals Tant Does not the Text say Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no Harm Whigg What of that Tant Then do not you touch Gods Ministers and Gods Prophets Whigg Where are they you must first show them to me before I can touch them Tant All the Kings Ministers Arch-bishops Bishops Arch-deacons Deans Parsons Vicars and Curates are all Ministers and Prophets of God Whigg And also all Officials Commissaries Publick-notaries Delegates Surrogates Vicars general Apparitors Proctors Jaylors and Hangmen Registers and Summers are also all the Kings Ministers I do not desire to touch them nor am very ambititious that they should touch me from them all good Lord deliver us and all good Men. Tant They meddle not with good men cannot live by good men the Hangmen must starve if all were good men they live by Sinners they eat eat up Gods People as they eat Bread that is the Sins of Gods People is Meat and Drink and Cloath to them Whigg Foh no more of them Tant Thou talk'st like a bold Rebel and wouldst act like a Rebel I fear with other Weapons than Prayers and Tears Whigg I do not know how such Fools and Knaves as thou art may hap to provoke the old man within me 't is at your peril and you come at your own adventure but I will rather dye than be a Rebel Tant When the Kings Subjects in Edw. 2. Reign took up Arms to remove evil Counsellors from the King and the King fled before them and at length in hopes to preserve his Minion and the Instrument of his wickedness Gaveston lodg'd him in an impregnable Hold Scarborough-Castle which the Kings Subjects took and Beheaded poor Pierce Gaveston you Whiggs do not call this Rebellion Whigg Why what Historian does call it so I am sure that great Loyalist and Cavalier Sir Richard Baker that throughout writes leaning on one side as if he was
they think if it were overheard all hopes of further Preferment is almost defunct as if Roman was a needless Epithite and as if none were Catholicks in the World but only that barbarous and bloody Sect because like the Devil in the Possessed their Name is Legion for that they are many and numerous more is the pity yet blessed be God if you go to tell Noses in Europe or all the World over Protestants are the major part as well as the better part though you throw to the Papists side all our Tantivees into the bargain Come come Rome loses ground every day let the Pope the Jesuits and the Devil do what they can in Combination I told you they have got but one Main-pillar and that is crazy and rotten almost as great a blunder as they keep Tant Why do you think we shall not carry all before us Whigg Yes you will some of you at least be advanc't as high as Haman if the learned Mr. Selden Prophecyed true for when Doctor Worral Chaplain to the Bishop of London Licensed Sybthorp's said Sermon he scratch't his Name out and suffered not so much as any Sign of the Letters of his Name to remain on the Paper by advice of Mr. Selden to whose better Judgment and for further advice he sent Sybthorp's Pamphlet call'd a Sermon after he had Licens'd it but Mr. Selden said to him What have you done you have allowed a strange Book yonder which if it be true there is no Meum or Tuum no man in England hath any thing of his own if ever the Tyde turn as it did with a Vengeance to the Toryes and Tantivees you will be Hang'd for Publishing such a Book But what the Chaplain upon second thoughts would not do his Master the Bishop of London did Licensing the same with his own hand the good man being not willing that any thing should stick with him that came recommended from the Court. Tant From the Court or Queen what skills it I commend him the same Bishop also Licensed a Book called The Seven Sacraments with all its Errors made by Doctor Cosens Bishop Laud's Confident and yet neither he nor any of them did ever declare themselves to be Papists openly Whigg No no I know it they were the wiser neither did Mountague whom they all upheld and advanc'd and yet he made the Church of England a Schismatick if the Church of Rome be a true Church and alwayes kept the Faith as Mountague asserts and the said Bishops did abett him and Preferr'd him and so did the D. of Buckingham magnifying him as a well Deserving man and when the King Charles 1. was Marryed to his Queen a Daughter of France Letters were sent to the High Commission-Court and other Courts to suspend and take off all Execution of the Laws against Papists then by Proclamation upon the Parliaments Remonstrance a quite contrary Command was published under the broad Seal of England and after the Parliament was Dissolved then all the Popish-Priests fourteen or fifteen at a time are set at Liberty again such great variation of the Compass was found in the same Climat and Longitude sometimes the Laws being put in Execution at a force-put and then again slackning the Reins and following natural inclination Tant What Opinion had Archbishop Abbot of those times and those Transactions Whigg When the allowance of Sybthorp's Pamphlet was put upon him he said He had some reason out of the grounds of that Sermon that the Duke had a Purpose to turn upside down the Laws and the whole Fundamental Courses and Liberties of the Subject and to leave us not under the Statutes and Customs which our Progenitors enjoyed but to the pleasure of Princes Tant That is brave it is al-a-mode d' France but when the Duke was Stabb'd did the same Arbitrary Courses go on Whigg Yes Loans and Monopolies Privy Seals and such Projects were continued and some say the Earl of Strafford begun to assess Souldiers upon the People that would not pay his Arbitrary demands in Ireland chiefly to make way the better for the like Project other-where yet he was a wise man and a right Englishman once 'till he became infected afterwards with Ambition and Court the fate and occasion of the Ruine of Bishop Laud as well as of him and of one more of more worth than both of them Besides Said the Archbishop Abbot Now it came in my heart that I was present at the Kings Coronation where many things on the Princes part were solemnly Promised which being observed would keep all in order and the King should have a loving and gracious People and the Commons a kind and gracious King But I am loth to plunge my self over head and ears in these difficulties the Loans c. that I can neither live with quietness of Conscience nor depart out of the World with good Fame and Estimation And perhaps my Soveraign if he looked well into this Paradox would of all the World hate me because one of my Profession Age and Calling would deceive him and with base Flattery swerve from the Truth Tant Then you think that the Kings Minions Buckingham Laud and Strafford were the Kings greatest Enemies and that of all the World he had most Cause to hate them Whigg No doubt on 't if their Councels came out of their own Heads or was not rather Instill'd and put into their Heads by I know who Tory. Oh! I apprehend you Whigg But whether it be the Devil or man that possesseth men with evil the Sinners that received the Temptation the Baits of Ambition and Avarice as they are Instruments of wonderful Mischief and Blood ought to pay dear for their Sycophantry Tant Pay dear do you say Strafford and Laud lost their Heads on Tower-hill and Buckingham was Stabb'd at Portsmouth by Felton you said But you did not tell me what mov'd him to this bloody Fact Whigg Felton neither fled for it nor denyed the Deed but said he Killed him for the Cause of God and his Countrey and when it was replyed that the Surgeons said there might be hopes of his Life Felton answered and said It is impossible I had the force of forty men assisted by him that guarded my Hand that he did not kill him for any private Interest whatsoever that the late Remonstrance of Parliament published the Duke so odious that he appeared to him deserving Death which no Justice durst Execute Tant But we say seldom comes a better Whigg Nay there was not much to choose for the same Councils were still carryed on so that the Duke was not look't upon as the Original but rather an Instrument to execute Perplext Counsels and when he was Kill'd there wanted not others that would venture in his room though all History tells us those little by-wayes and illegal wayes prove as fatal now a-dayes as of old in the dayes of Gaveston and the two Spencers Suffolk c. There was a Paper found tack't
years namely from March Anno Domini 1628. until April 13. 1640. which lasted but twenty dayes his Majesty Dissolving them also for they went on in the old Story looking back since the last Parliament at the Grievances which were as numerous as intollerable but the King found it necessary to call another Parliament which met November 3. 1640. and did the strange things you have heard Tant Sure the People were mad stark mad in 40. and 41. Whigg Oppression makes Wise men mad Tant Did not Addresses come from all parts to thank the King for Dissolving the Parliaments so fast Whigg No such matter for the people were so enraged when the Parliament was Dissolved 1628. attributing it to the D. of Buckingham that they would ordinarily utter these words Let Charles and George do what they can The Duke shall dye like Doctor Lamb. Tant How dyed Doctor Lamb Whigg The Boyes ordinary People and the Rabble beat him and bruised him and left him for dead falling on him as he walk't through the Old-Jury calling him the Duke's Conjurer Tant But when the Duke was Stabb'd who did they blame for the Dissolution of the Parliament Whigg Who who but the powerful men at Court especially Bishop Laud some few dayes after two Libels being found in the Dean of Paul's Yard to this effect Laud look to thy self be assured thy Life is sought as thou art the Fountain of Wickedness repent of thy monstrous Sins before thou be taken out of the World and assure thy self neither God nor the World can endure such a vile Councellor or Whisperer to live The other was as bad against the Lord Treasurer Weston Tant What he that you say dyed a profest Papist Whigg The same Tant But Bishop Laud dyed of the Church of England Whigg Yes yes It is better to be the Arch or Chief of the Clergy of England and chief Favourite Also than to be the Second at Rome and he very fairly refused a Cardinal's cap which was proffer'd him and I believe he was no more a Papist in heart than I am what he did in complyance with Popery and Popish Ceremonies was only in complacence to you know who Tory. The more blame-worthy to act against his little Conscience as appear'd by the then Favourites for Strafford Noy Laud c. untill Preferment dazel'd them and height made them Vertiginous and Turn-sick were as steddy Protestants and English-men as any Whigg Ay Ay the Devil knew what he did when he proffer'd our Saviour the Kingdoms of the World shewing the glory of them tempting him as if they had need be assisted by Divinity who are Temptation-proof Tant Right for onely Divines are temptation-proof Whigg True none are Temptation-proof but those that are true Divines in Reality not Divines that are such in Name onely or such that lay heavy burdens on others but will not touch them themselves with one of their fingers or such as preach Prayers and Tears onely to other Christians whilest they themselves tear and rend with the Civil Sword curses instead of prayers and instead of tears rant it with blood and wounds Tory. You think the Laws are the onely as well as the best Boundaries to keep King and People within their just limits and duty Whigg Right The Rules of Justice or the Laws are the Hercules Pillars or the nè plus ultra to King and People to the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberties as they are the Hercules Pillars so they are the Pillar to every Hercules to every Prince which if he pass he goes into the vast Ocean the Lord knowes whither for no body knowes what will be the End and Issue of such dismal wandring Therefore the old Rule of Law is Solum Rex hoc non potest facere quod non potest justè agere The King can do nothing but what he can Legally do Therefore Antiochus King of Asia sent his Letters and Missives to all his Provinces That if they received any Dispatches in his Name not agreeable to Law and Justice Ignoto se literas esse scriptas ideoque iis non parerent he disclaim'd the same as not being his Act and deed though attested under the Broad-Seal Tory. But suppose at a Bone-fire on a Thanksgiving Night such a Whigg as you pass by and will not drink the Kings Health or the Dukes Health and I break your head Whigg Whigg Then you are a Ryotor and the Magistrates ought to punish you accordingly and in my own defence I may lawfully Knock your Pate again Tory to get out of your clutches Tory. That might occasion Knocking-work Whigg Have a care then that you keep the Kings-Peace and do not dye as a Fool dyeth for he that makes the assault the Aggressor must be responsible for all the mischief that ensues from his own wickedness and villanously-bold attempt in stopping the Kings Subjects and setting upon them with violence in the Kings High-way walking peaceably by them Tory. There is none but a Rebell will refuse the King or Dukes Health Whigg There is none but a drunken Coxcomb will say so besides 't is expressely against His Majesties Proclamation publisht Against forcing of Healths down mens Throats whether they will or no. Tory. Wee for the King will Drink and Whore It showes our Loyalty the more Whigg Ay such Loyalty has done wonders wonderful Mischief and the Kings Friends were his greatest Enemies and Traytors and most guilty Laesae Majestatis Tory. How prove you that Whigg Infallibly by the Premises for if the King can do no wrong and can onely do that that Legally and justly he may do then 1. Tunnage and Poundage without Authority of Parliament 2. Money for Knights Fees or lest you should be made a Knight 3. Loans and Privy Seals Benevolences and Monopolies 4. Billeting of Souldiers 5. Ship-money and Ship-writs 6. Imprisonment and seizures for refusing to pay those illegal Taxes were none of them the Kings Act and deed though in his Name and under his Seal Tant That 's strange why man the return of the Cause of their Commitment upon their Habeas Corpus was this Per speciale mandatum domini Regis that the Prisoners were Committed by the special Command of the King himself and so the Council Order'd Whig That 's Braze Good Councellors will take upon themselves harsh things and leave the King the Honour and Thanks of our Acts of Grace and Goodness but this invests all the order of true Politicks Mercy and Goodness only naturally and immediately flow from the Throne Justice from the Ministers Therefore the Sword is carried before him but the Scepter in his Hand Tory. Ay but it was advised that the Calling of a Parliament being pleasing to the People and obliging should be given out to be at the motion of Buckingham Ay Ay But when it was Dissolv'd the King did it in his own Person as well as by his Prerogative But has the King such a Prerogative to Adjourn
all Kings are called so especially whilst they Live and to their Heads for a King can do no wrong And all men acknowledged that King Charles I. of his own Natural Temper was inclined to Goodness and Mercy and Justice and Righteousness and the keeping of Faith with men and observing his Word fulfilling his Promises and keeping stedfast to Religion and therefore they think that he knew nothing of the matter when Popish-Books or Books in Favour of Popery as Mountagues Book aforesaid and the Authors of such Books and the Books for Arbitrary Government and the Authors of them Sybthorp aud Manwaring were the men and the Books the Tenents Doctrines and Opinions that were prefer'd advanc'd extoll'd cry'd up and Countenanc'd at Court above all other men and Books were really Orthodox and according to Law nay some think the King knew not that Mountague and Manwaring were not only Pardon'd but made Bishops since the Parliament had judg'd them unmeet for their demerits which no man in England durst publickly own or vindicate to this day and vile wretchedness and false Doctrines to be uncapable of the meanest Benefices yet these must be the chief Shepheards the Flocks were like to be well govern'd and Bishop Land that abetted and Countenanc'd the said Authors and Books Licensed their false Doctrines and impure as well as Illegal Principles and got their Books Licensed was made Archbishop and who but he with the King and Court The King knew nothing of all this nor that Papists great Papists were put into Commission all the Kingdom over nor that Arbitrary Government in Loanes Knighthood-Money Tunnage and Poundage Ship-Money Assessing and Billeting of Souldiers c. The King knew nothing of all this these were Deeds Deeds not Words Deeds that made the Kingdom groan Deeds that Affrighted the Parliament and the Kings best Subjects with too much cause of Jealousies and Fears of Popery and Arbitrary Government when it was really practic'd in so many particulars and the Councellors and Favorites that abetted the same the only men in Favour and nothing was said against them in Parliament but it prov'd the ruine of the men though Parliament-men that might Parler le ment speak their minds freely and lawfully and also prov'd to be the Dissolution of those Parliaments 'till the Kings Necessities and Straits were so great and the Dissolutions so frequent and on the strange occasions aforesaid that the Parliament would do nothing 'till the King not only had Promis'd but had granted it by Statute that they should not be Dissolv'd but by their own Consent Tory. It is the greatest wonder in the world to me that any King should Dissolve a Parliament but by their own Consent or 'till all Grievances be Redress'd for the King is Pater Patriae the Father of the Country and what an odd Humour is it if a Father that has a Child or Children troubled with griefs or Grievances and had a Prerogative that could but would not remedy them nay nor suffer them that would remedy his Children is this Father like or like something else The King is the chief Shepheard of his People his Flock but what an odd humour is it if a Shepheard when he sees Doggs and Wolves tear and rend his Sheep shall neither according to the duty of his place deliver his Sheep out of their Jaws nor yet suffer others to do it but contrarily side with the Doggs and defend the Worried Sheep much more if he see the Currs on worse if he shall go Snips in the Booty and Prey Whigg I am glad to hear this of you Mr. Tory you have been us'd to Language that has less of Sense Reason or Law in it Tant But all this while Mr. Whigg you do not tell us any thing in Answer to this excuse the Favourites made namely Necessity the Kings necessities required that which indeed ought not to be done by Law Whig Necessity Pish this excuse aggravates their Offence for thus they dispute in a Carcle and justify their wickedness by greater by links and chains of evil consequences First the Kings Affairs by their Evil Councel and Managements is brought into Straits and Necessities the effect of them then these evil effects are made the Cause of the continuance of worse effects World without end But thank God for a Parliament The Pretence of this same Whimzey Necessity hath ruin'd the Liberties and Properties of the French-men in Normandy to this day For they were ruled once by as good Laws as we are but being opprest with some Grievances contrary to their Charters Customs and Franchises they made their Complaint to Lewis the Tenth who by his New Charters in the year 1314. acknowledged their Rights and Customs aforesaid and confirmed them Confessing also that they had been unjustly grieved and wrong'd but by the said New Charter did provide that from thence forward they should be free from all Subsidies and and Exactions to be imposed upon them without their own Consents but with this saving or small exception Si necessitis grand ne le requiret namely except great necessity required the contrary Which little business Mr. Necessity has done their business and broke the neck of all their Laws Charters and Franchises and of Subjects they are become Slaves and Vassals little differing from Turky-Gally-Slaves for no man can say any thing is his own if necessitye le Grand that is the King require the same nay they dare not now say That their Souls are their own so great is the Encroachment of Tyranny Covetousness and Oppression if you give it an Inch it will take an Ell and thefore you Toryes are a base generation for you hate your Friends most of all and Spaniard-like at the same time basely Fawn Wagg your Tails and Cringe base Currs to the Hand that beats you most nay you 'l Fight to Blood in pursuit of your Sycophantry poor Slaves And your Tantives will Preach your People all out of Church rather than not Preach up the said false Doctrine of Sybthorp Mountague and Manwaring Oh most unworthy Treacherous and Easy-bought Hirelings That for to be made a Shepheard or chief Bishops of Souls would betray them and Sell them all and your own to boot into the bargain in defyance of the Laws of God and the Realm which the King is Sworn and bound to obey perform observe and keep The Throne cannot have it has been found by woful experience worse Friends nor greater Traytors than such Sycophants and Wretches as you are Tant We are as much obliged to you Mr. Whigg for your good Opinion of us Whig 'T is according to your Merits Is it not enough that this Kingdom and Commonwealth should be once in one Age undone by the same kind of men the same Sell Truths the same Illegal Principles and Tantivee-Practices and Parasitical Flatteries and Slye Insinuations under the Vizard of Divinity Loyalty and the Church the Church and yet not one in a hundred of