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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76827	An answer to the late scandalous and libellous pamphlet, entituled, A complaint to the House of Commons; and resolution taken up by the free Protestant subjects of the cities of London and Westminster, and the counties adjacent. Wherein 'tis proved, that the Lord Major of London doth not usurp his office; but is a legall major, and obedience ought to be given him. / By Peter Bland of Grays-Inne, Gent.	Bland, Peter, of Gray's Inne.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3160; Thomason E244_36; ESTC R4975	8,071	16

AN ANSWER TO The late Scandalous and Libellous PAMPHLET ENTITULED A COMPLAINT to the House of Commons And Resolution taken up by the free Protestant Subjects of the Cities OF LONDON and WESTMINSTER and the Counties adjacent Wherein 't is proved that the Lord MAjOR of London doth not usurp his Office but is a Legall Major and obedience ought to be given him By PETER BLAND of Grays-Inne Gent. London Printed for JOHN FIELD 1643. To the Right Honorable and the most worthy to be for ever honoured ISAAC PENNINGTON Lord Major of the honorable City of LONDON and one of the Members of the House of COMMONS in Parliament assembled My LORD POsterity will by experience finde the Religious care of your Country which you have so zealously and wisely discharged and I am confident that your Lordships Memory will never meete a grave in coming Ages And when those that are now enemies to our wished Reformation shall be made sensible of their errors they 'le be ready to free me from flattery I have endeavoured to give an Answer to that Libellous Pamphlet and it being but weakely performed I present it to your Lordship not for its worth but as an expression of that service I owe your Lordship for being so faithfull and dutifull a son to your distressed mother ENGLAND My Lord I beg no boon but your acceptance and lest your Lordship should suspect an insinuating end in this bold attempt I shall crave leave of your Lordship to go as I came that is to remain Your Lordships faithfull but unknown Servant The Answer to the Book entituled A Complaint to the House of COMMONS c. Complaint IN the third Page it is thus penn'd We have seen and perused many Remonstrances Declarations and Votes and Ordinances and our vote upon them all is That it had bin happy for us more advantagious to our Religion and more honourable to our Nation if they had bin strangled in the birth and never walked abroad in the light and that it will never be well with us or the Kingdom untill that they be buried in oblivion Answer The Author did here passe a Vote in the name of the Cities of London and Westminster with no lesse ignorance then impudence and blaming the PARLIAMENT he saith it had been happier for us and our Religion if they had not put out such Remonstrances or Votes and truely if I am not mistaken in the Author whom I guesse to be some Jesuit or Roman Priest or at least a Catholique I must confesse he is in the right for without doubt had not the Parliament bin it had bin better for the Roman Catholique cause which hath bin a long time in hopes of a good successe and which is daily endeavoured to be promoted witnesse the Queens practise with the Prince of Orange and others in Holland and other Countries besides the severall Commissions that the King hath given to severall Papists to authorize them for the raising of an army of their own Religion But for the honour which our Author sayes it had been to our Nation if those Declarations had never bin I believe hee meant if there had bin no just cause for those Declarations which have mentioned nothing but what was justified and proved either by writings signed with the Kings own hand or by oaths from men of credit which have received unlawfull commands from the KINGS owne mouth so that I may justly use those words which the Author uses in that third Page viz. There are Conjurers abroad which do the utmost of their skill to raise evill Spirits and that we shall never be at quiet till those Spirits are laid which can be done by no way now but the sword unlesse we should ground our peace upon the Kings word which like the laying of a spirit in all probability would endure but seven yeers at most Complaint In the third Page likewise these words are pennd viz. Our Estates were taken away under the gentle terms of Benevolences and Loanes where the choice was either to part with our Estates and Land or lye in Prison Answer 'T was a grosse mistake in the Author with whom none do joyne in complaint but such as possesse nought for the Honourable City of London which he abuseth by complaining in its name would never have bin so zealous for Gods cause if they had disliked the Parliaments proceedings but 't is commonly the cheators practise to go in an honest mans name to colour his falsehood besides our estates were never taken away 't was only the twentieth part of our Estates and if the Author had lookt back into former times he should have found this no new device for he should have found that at the Assembly of the States at Lambeth which was at the end of that yeer of the Parliament of Westminster which was in the sixteenth yeer of the then King that the King had the fortieth part of every mans goods given him freely towards his debts Besides Edward the first the son of Henry the third had in his third yeer given him the fifteenth part of all goods which is more then you are taxed at and yet this is for the King and Kingdom too In his eighteenth yeer he had the eleventh part of all moveable goods within the Kingdom in his nineteenth yeer he had the tenth part of all Church-livings in England and in the latter end of his three and twentieth yeer he had the tenth part of all goods of all the Burgesses and of the Commons And now likewise the Parliament do not free themselves from those taxes they put upon the Kingdom In the five and twentieth yeer of his Raign he had an eighteenth part of the goods of the Burgesses and of the people in generall the tenth part so then the Parliaments favoured themselves more then the people and their Countries and yet they were never murmured at as this Parliament is by the Author though in every taxe they bear an equall charge nay in some taxes this Parliament they have laid the greatest burden upon their own shouldiers Ordering that what Tenants paid their Landlords should bate it out of their Rent and if so then they being all Landlords must needs bear a greater part then others In the three and thirtieth yeer of his Raign he confirm'd the Great Charter of his own Royall Disposition and then he had given him for one yeer the fifth part of the revenues of all the land and of the Citizens the sixt part of their goods and divers other Presidents I could give you whereby you might see that other Parliaments in former times have not bin so fearfull of over-burthening the Subjects as this happy Parliament hath been Complaint In the fourth Page the Author goes forward viz. When we found this pressure we ran to the Law for protection but found by wofull experience that innocency was a worse crime then fellony for he that was committed for fellony was admitted to Bayle whilst he