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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86073	A seasonable speech made to the lord maior and Common Councel of London, by Mr. Harvey, being accompanied thither with many citizens of qualitie. Concerning the great distempers of the times.	Harvey, Edmund, 1594-1673.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1052; Thomason E199_38; ESTC R11304	2,096	9

A SEASONABLE SPEECH MADE TO THE LORD MAIOR AND Common Councel of London by Mr. Harvey being accompanied thither with many Citizens of Qualitie Concerning the great Distempers of the times LONDON Printed in the yeare 1642. My Lord WEe are all come with one Errand consisting of two parts First a discharge of our duties Secondly the endevour of our safety The discharge of our dutie lyeth in acquainting your Honour and your Worships with the causes of our feares perplexities and dangers with which we are environed which arise from divers particulars My Lord lest any here should judge our feares to be groundlesse and but fancies give me leave to premise That as his Majestie is the head of this Kingdome and our prayer with all loyall Subjects is and ever shall bee that his Highnesse may long and happily continue so to be So the two eyes in the head are the two Houses of Parliament the house of Lords and house of Commons My Lord Naturallists tell us that although the act and office of both eyes be one and the same yet each hath his particular and peculiar distribution of light and knowledge to the faculties as appeares in that the soule receiveth light and knowledge by one eye when the other is fast shut or wincketh My Lord if one eye winck yet the eye of the house of Commons is wide open it seeth cleerely and by that eye only the Commons of England which are not starke blind may receive knowledge of and discerne their dangers My Lord the Honourable house of Commons unto all their actions lay the line of Iudgement and the plummet of prudence and they have seene and we by them our dangers at a distance and in the approaches with the many good provisions for our safety which that honourable Assembly have resolved upon As 1. First that the Kingdome should bee put into a warlike posture of defence 2. That a Navy of ships should be at Sea to surround our Coasts and to hinder the invasion of a Forraigne enemy 3. That the Castles and Cinqueports and other Maritine ports should be repaired put into the custody of persons of honour trust deputed thereunto by the Authority of the King to them conveyed by an order of both houses of Parliament all which the house of Cōmons would not have done upon fancies they being most studious how to settle and compose not to affright charge or distract the people of this Kingdome 4. That Sir Iohn Biron the now Leivtenant of the Tower is an unfit man to be Cōmander of that Cittadell which hath so great a command of this City And surely my Lord it appeareth by the Merchants Petition that his being Lievtenant much hindereth Trade for those Merchants that formerly did Mynt or put to coyning are now deterred both from importing or coining of Bullion My Lord we sensibly feele the smart of Trades decay Who seeth not the whole Fabrick of the City and Kingdome whose foundation is Trade and Commerce much shaken and if not speedily repaired like to bury it selfe in its owne ruine My Lord Trade is like a clock if one pinne or wheele be out of order the whole stands still or moves disorderly And now my Lord give me the liberty of an Oratour although I bee none to end and close with the highest My Lord the hous of Cōmons have long since resolv'd that considerable forces from England and 10000. men from Scotland should be sent for Ireland to relieve that poore gasping Nation against those bloody popish Rebels who most cruelly and barbarously Butcher-like murder and make desolate that Nation The knowledge of all which resolutions by the house of Commons hath beene communicated to the Honourable house of Lords but there all still dwels while Ireland and we in it bleed on to death My Lord give me leave to soare a littl● higher can any History relate so sad a story as that a Kingdome involved with others under one Crowne all holding one faith and profession in Religion was laid waste by an inconsiderable party as are those bloudy Rebels compared with the strength that England and Scotland might afford them and the desolation not made all at once but gradually in three moneths space of time 30000. persons slaine 100000. Families undone and utterly ruined and an innumerable company that have tasted of lifes sweetnesse meerely upon that consideration turned to the popish partie and none or no considerable forces to controll that bloody enemy dispatcht and yet all this may be truely predicated of England and Scotland in reference to Ireland And this day my Lord newes is come from Ireland telling us that Waterford and the County of Munster is revolted Who is not secure may see cruelty upon the legs of fury comming in a Iehu march towards us If any be as fast asleep as was Peter let him awake it 's now a time for Peters prayer to be made use of there is now no time for neutralitie or indifferency it befits all to be positive and let none think that if that flame which burneth Ireland an already sore scorcheth us be not presently quenched but that it will totally devoure us also And now my Lord we are come to the second part of our Errand namely to endeavour our safety for which we fight with the all-ages-allowed weapons our supplications and in all humble manner pray your Honour and right Worshipfull you the Aldermen and the rest of this Assembly to be pleased to joyne together heartily effectually and speedily to petition the honourable house of Lords that the Kingdome may be put into a warlike posture of defence and chiefly that to Ireland may be sent speedy and sufficient aide and that the fore-named or what other resolution of the house of Commons tending to Englands safety or Irelands succour and lye obstructed in the House of Lords may be thence discharged and have life given unto them by execution and use as may tend to the restauration and peace of the Kingdomes FINIS