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A42426	A speech made by Alderman Garroway, at a common-hall on Tuesday the 17. of January upon occasion of a speech delivered there the Friday before, by Mr. Pym, at the reading of His Majesties answer to the late petition.	Garraway, Henry, Sir, 1575-1646.	1642 (1642)	Wing G280; ESTC R233456	9,429	15

A SPEECH MADE BY ALDERMAN GARROWAY AT A COMMON-HALL on Tuesday the 17. of JANUARY Upon occasion of a SPEECH delivered there the Friday before by Mr. Pym at the reading of His Majesties Answer to the late Petition Printed in the Yeare 1642. A Speech made by Alderman GARROWAY at a Common-Hall on Tuesday the 17. of January upon occasion of a Speech delivered there the Friday before by Mr. Pym at the reading of His MAJESTIES Answer to the late Petition Gentlemen BEfore We enter upon the businesse of the day I must in discarge of my duty speak freely to you of the last dayes work which lyes so heavy upon us that if we finde not some way to free our selves of the scandall and dishonour of that day farewell the reputation of this Councell and of this City We sent a Petition lately to His Majestie by six worthy Members of this Court if you will beleeve them they received a very gracious entertainment from His Majestie and if you will beleeve most wise men they brought a very gracious Answer back from His Majestie with directions by a Servant of His own that the same should be communicated to the whole Citie from whom the Petition was presumed to be sent a Circumstance as gracious as the matter it selfe See now how we have required him His Messenger staies tenne dayes at the least before we can vouchsafe to speak with him whereas ours stayed not an houre for admission to His Majestie and but a day for an answer upon the r●ceipt of our Petition His Majestie spake very graciously of the Citie very affectionately of the most considerable part of it when his Answer is read an Answer I must tell you worth another manner of debate Strangers are admitted to make bitter invective Speeches against it and the King that sent it Whilest no honest Citizen who have onely right to speake here durst speake his Conscience for fear of having his Throat cut as he went home Think Gentlemen what an encouragement we have given His Majestie to treat correspond with us whilest he is thus used I am farre from undervaluing both or either House of Parliament I have been often a Member of the House of Commons and know well my duty to it but though their Priviledges are infinitely grown and enlarged since that time I hope they have not swallowed up all other mens though they are the great Councell and Court of the Kingdom yet there are other Councells and Courts too what do we else here And though they have a great Liberty of Language within their own walls I never heard that they might speak what they list in other places In my time when there was any occasion to use the Citie as often there was the Lord Major or Aldermen or some trusted by them were sent for to attend either House but for Members of either or both Houses to come hither and be present at Our Councells and govern here by Priviledge of Parliament was never heard of till of late you will say 't is a great Honour to us that those worthies take the pains to come to us when they might send for us it may be an honour too great for us to beare and truly I beleeve it hath been so chargeable to us that we ought not to be ambitious of such honour Mr. Pym who hath been a very costly Orator to us told us and his speech is since printed for our honour too to shew how tame a People we are that there were many things in that Answer of great aspersion upon the proceedings of Parliament and so forth Truly I know no such thing if we petitioned for Peace we were to expect His Majestie would tell us by what means that Peace came to be disturbed and then prescribe us a means for our reparation If any mans guilt hath made him thinke himself concerned in it though he be not named he is his own Accuser He told us that there was no occasion given by any Tumults which might justly cause His Majesties departure and this he said was the opinion of both Houses and his proof was because His Majestie came into the Citie without a Guard and dined at the Sheriffes next day after his comming to the House of Commons and returned back again to White-hall where he stayed some dayes I am willing to beleeve both Houses as farre as I am able and if they had declared that it had been Lawfull to beat the King out of Town I must have sate still with wonder but when they declare to us matter of fact which is equally within our own knowledge and wherein we cannot be deceived they must pardon me if I differ from them If they should declare that they have paid us all the Money they owe us or that there is no Crosse standing in Cheapside could we beleeve them Why Gentlemen neither of these is better known to us then that there were such Tumults at Westminster as might very well make the King think Himself in danger We all well remember what excellent company flocked by White-hall every day for a week before the King went to the House of Commons and for His comming to the Guild-hall the next day when he did us so much honour to vouchsafe us so particular satisfaction and came without a Guard to shew how much He trusted in our Duty and Affection I pray God the deceiving that trust may never rise in Judgement against this Citie we too well remember the rude carriage of many people to Him as He went to the Sheriffs to Dinner which was not so much as reprehended by any Officer and we all know what passed the night following when an Alarum was given that there was an attempt from White hall upon the Citie and so all men put into suddain Arms and if by the great industry and dexterity of Our good Lord Major that Hubbub had not been appeased God knows what might have followed if you will beleeve some men they will tell you the Design of those who gave that Alarum was no lesse then to pull down White-hall There is no question but there was cause enough for His Majestie to remove from White-hall and how quietly he stayed after at Hampton-Court and at Windsor cannot be forgotten not to speak of that Army by Land and Water which accompanied the Persons Accused to Westminster the next day after His Majesties return the danger of which was so great that no honest man could have wished the King had runne the hazard of it by staying His Majestie seems to be sensible that the Government of this Citie is now submitted to the Arbitrary Power of a few desperate Persons to which the Gentleman gave us this testimony from both Houses that we had in most of the great occasions concerning the Government of the Citie followed their direction Troth Gentlemen would they had furnished us with a better Answer Have we our Charter by the Grace and Favour of the

delivered up to the hands of Justice Mr. Pym told us there was no proof that my Lord Major and the other Persons named were countenancers of Brownists Anabaptists and other Sectaries where should this proof be made Do we not all know this to be true are they not all so much countenanced as there is no countenance left for any body else Did not my Lord Major first enter upon his Office with a speech against the Booke of Common-Prayer hath the Common-Prayer ever been read before him hath not Captain Venn said that his Wife could make Prayers worth three of any in that Book Oh Masters there have been times that he that should speake against the Book of Common Prayer in this Citie should not have been put to the patience of a Legall Triall we were wont to look upon it as the greatest Treasure and Jewell of our Religion and he that should have told us he wished well to our Religion and yet would take away the Booke of Common-Prayer would never have gotten credit I have been in all the parts of Christendom and have conversed with Christians in Turky why in all the Reformed Churches there is not any thing of more Reverence then the English Liturgy not our Royall Exchange or the name of Queen Elizabeth so famous In Geneva it self I have heard it extolled to the Skies I have been 3. Moneths together by Sea not a day without hearing it read twice The honest Mariners then despised all the world but the King and the Common-Prayer Book he that should have been suspected to wish ill to either of them would have made an ill Voyage And let me tell you they are shrewd Youths those Seamen if they once discern that the Person of the King is in danger or the true Protestant professed Religion they will shew themselves mad bodies before you are a ware of it I would not be a Brownist or an Anabaptist in their way for But we are told of an Army of Papists who will root out our Religion for my part I am sure I am not suspected for any affection to Papists yet I confesse at this time I have not the least feare of danger from them and the truth is this Bugbeare is grown lesse terrible to every body We know from the beginning of this Parliament the continuall discovery of Plotts by the Papists and what those discoveries have cost us and yet to this day not the least probable charge objected against them When the King was at York no discourse here but of the Papists being there in multitudes when 't is well known His Majestie took all possible care to prevent the resort of any Papists to the Court and I have been assured by very honest men that in a Moneth there was scarce the face of one Papist there When he first raised His Army did he not by Proclamation forbid any to come to Him But hark you Gentlemen where would you have these Papists be can they live in the Ayre or in the Water beyond-Sea you will not suffer them to passe if they stay at their Houses they are Plundred 't is a good Justification for Plundring that they are Papists Are they not the Kings Subjects and should they not flye to Him for Protection Is there any Law that sayes the Papists must not assist the King with Men Arms or Money when He is in distresse and when He conceives Himself to be in danger of His Life Let us look about us if this world hold not onely all the Papists but all the Gentlemen of England will finde it necessary to carry all they have to the King and venture it in that bottome But both Houses have declared that there have been no plundring by the direction of Parliament Here I thinke they would be willing to admit the King to be a part of the Parliament to save their honour otherwise if plundring signifies the comming with violence into ones house and taking away his goods against his consent sure there hath been much plundring even by the direction of the Houses but have they ever punished plundring of the worst sort if they have not directed it will a Declaration of both Houses repaire the fine Wane-scott and the goodly Leads of honest George Binyons house Let me tell you the time hath been the losse of such a Citizen would have been talked of in another way I wonder what kinde of Government is preparing for Us when they will not allow that the Imprisonment of our Person is the taking away our Liberty or the taking away the twentieth part of our Estates is the destruction of our property and did you marke what a notable reason was given us for this the same Law that doth enable them to raise Forces doth likewise enable them to require Contributions it doth indeed yet one might be without the other but I would these Gentlemen had chose another Auditory to have convinced with this Argument the Countrey people will be no more couzened by the Citie when they heare what kinde of Oratory prevailes over us we shall be shortly told when they have a minde to our houses that the same Law which gave them Authority to take away our Money gave them likewise Power to do the other too The King tells us if we shall hereafter contribute any thing for the maintenance of the Army which He sayes is in Rebellion against him He pardon's what 's past marke that He will deny us the benefit of His Protection with Forraign Princes which He will signify to His forraign Ministers what remedy have the Lords and Commons found for this now sufficient to do the businesse They declare That this is an excesse of rigour and injustice beyond example and therefore they hope His Majestie will be induced by better Counsell to forbear the execution A very soveraign Declaration but 't is ten to one if we do not obey His Majestie in the Injunction he hath laid upon us He will use this excesse of rigour I know not how little you that trade onely within the Kingdom may think your selves concerned in this but I say whoever understands the Trade abroad and the benefit of being a Subject to the King of England will not runne this hazard for let him be assured in the instant the King disclaimes him he is ruined and therefore you who have Estates abroad looke to it Gentlemen I have troubled you very long but in good faith the manner and the matter of the last dayes work hath layen so heavie upon my heart that I should have thought I had forfeited this Gown and this Chain if I had been silent and that I had betrayed the Liberty of that famous Citie which I am sworn to defend One word I had forgotten to mention the caution which was given us of such Messengers as His Majestie should send that we should observe them that they might be dealt with as Messengers of Sedition God forbid we should live to see any Messengers