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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83662	The debates in the House of Commons assembled at Oxford March the 21st. 1680.	England and Wales. House of Commons.	1681 (1681)	Wing E2546A; ESTC R212952	32,268	29

consider it but possibly there may be several This Bill is agreed to be an Expedient and I have known that in a business of less weight then this you have gone into a Committee c. If an Expedient must be offered in the House you cannot but allow Gentlemen to make replies in a fair Debate to answer Objections And if you in the House will depart from that from the House or Committee are equal to me But our Debate is broke one Gentleman said he would be content with a Committee if not intended for delay I do not doubt but this day will have its full effect When 't was moved on Thursday last for this day to take into consideration the preservation of Religion without naming Bill or Expedients it gave a great credit to your work I would have no discouragements upon people that have Expedients by not going into a grand Committee R. H. We are perplexed in having several Questions on foot I shall put you in mind that this Bill now proposed is no new nor strange thing Our bunness I suppose is to find out Expedients to preserve the Protestant Religion and the Kings Person here is a way has past two Parliaments already a way no reasonable objection has ever been made against it and a way rejected by the Lords in gross without offering any other But I doubt if other Expedients be tryed if they prove false we shall endanger the Protestant Religion Some have said that Gentlemen apprehend they have Expedients why then may not they 〈◊〉 propounded that the House may judge whether 't will be worth going into a grand Committee to consider them But if Gentlemen will have it their own way or not at all I 'le tell you how this looks as if they were something one way and nothing another but he does not discharge his duty to his Countrey that does ●e therefore if Gentlemen have any Expedients pray let them offer them Sir J.E. If the House be of a mind not to enter into a grand Committee I shall offer my little mite as 't is every mans duty to offer Expedient that has any I doubt not but other men have and better than me but forego not into a grand Committee I shall offer what I have I do apprehend by the Bill proposed that 't is a Bar to the Succession of the Duke and places the Succession in the next Heir I shall propose if you please not the Name of King but the power as a Regency in the next Heir 't is no new thing in Spain and France and God knows we have seen it done in our Kingdom If the Administration be placed safe in the person that may have no power to resign to the Duke and may have full power and authority at the death of the King to call that Parliament which sate last who shall have time to sit to confirm this by Act of Parliament I hope this may be done and may be done safely if you can contrive such a way Sir N. C. As I understand 't is proposed that the Government shall be in Regency during the Dukes Life I would be satisfied if the Duke would not submit to that whether those that fight against it are not Traytors in Law Sir W. P. I think this you are upon a matter of great weight some Expedient has been offered you I believe as yet but a crude one and I cannot imagine will ever be an effectual one He that moved it tells you he hopes when drawn into better form it may do what you desire It Excludes the Duke and in his place the next in the Succession shall have the Regency in him But our last act left it in the Law Consider what is a Regency I never heard of it but of a Prince in possession in Minority or Lunacy and it has generally been very unfortunate But to talk of a Regency in futuro in condition and limitation of time I never heard of This Expedient does not answer the Kings Speech nor your former Bill they make the King but a shadow and they divide Person from Power our Law will not endure it The Person divided from the Power both will be courted and who that next Heir will be we know not The King leads you to consider Expedients but such as will consist with the safety and dignity of Monarchy This must be two Kings at the same time one by Law and another by Right Portugal gives us some instance of Regency where the King was put into prison for Miscarriages in the Government and his next Heir made Regent but there is a vast difference in these two cases The King of Portugal was set aside for personal Miscarriages not for being a Papist and which is another thing that was present this is to come If this Question be to let the Duke in and then make a Question whether Allegiance be due to him but I am afraid that unless we be true to those we represent from whom by Express direction most of us are to pursue the Bill c. we shall not be avowed in what we do The Bill c. has been under consideration of all the people of England and perhaps all the Protestants of Europe all the Wits of Learned men have made their Objections against it yet notwithstanding all people are stilof the same mind And now we run upon the most mis-shapen thing which it may be two or three years before we understand it and we may expect to have an operation of it no body knows when I see very little weight in it unless improved by some other person therefore I am for the Bill Sir T. Litt. We are flying at a great matter To fight against the Duke if he should be King God forbid We have been told three or four times of Directions Gentlemen have had from their Principals to be against all those things of Expedients and to insist upon the Bill of Exclusion c. I would not have that way much cherished 't is an uncertain thing and no footsteps remain of any papers from their Country I take the meaning of that going down is to consult their Neighbours for Direction what to do I hear talk to day of Parliaments of France but this way is as dangerous like the States of Holland to consult with their Principals before they resolve most unusual and of very dangerous consequence A Regency has been proposed to secure the Administration of the Government in Protestant Hand so as not to alter the constitution of the Monarchy and this alters the Constitution of the Monarchy the least imaginable A Regency in Room of a King and the Monarchy goes on We have had Regent Protectors call it what you please Primus Consiliarius in case of a Minor Prince but I propose not this If you alter the Government I am against it but here is offer'd a Regent in place of the King or transferring the Government But it may be said