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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67344	Poems &c. written by Mr. Ed. Waller ... ; and printed by a copy of his own hand-writing ; all the lyrick poems in this booke were set by Mr. Henry Lawes ...; Poems. Selections	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.; Lawes, Henry, 1596-1662.	1645 (1645)	Wing W513; ESTC R13495	51,950	213

eyes of the world are upon you governe in chiefe and if you should expose your owne members to the punishment of others it will be thought that you either want Power or leisure to chastise them your selves nor let any man despise the ill consequence of such a president as this would be because hee seeth not presently the inconveniences which may ensue you have many Armies on Foote and it is uncerteine how long you may have occasion to use them Souldiers and Commanders though I know well they of the Parliaments Army excell no lesse in modesly then they doe in Courage are generally of a Nature ready to pretend to the utmost power of this kind which they conceive to be due to them and may be too apt upon any occasion of discontent to make use of such a President as this In this very Parliament you have not bin without some tast of the experience hereof it is now somewhat more than two yeares since you had an Army in the North paid and directed by your selves and yet you may be pleased to remember there was a considerable number of Officers in that Army which joyned in a Petition or Remonstrance to this House taking notice of what some of Members had said here as they supposed to their disadvantage and did little lest then require them of you 't is true there had bin some tampering with them but what has happened at one time may wisely be thought possible to fall out againe at another Sir I presume but to point you out the danger if it be not just I know you will not do me the wrong to expose me to this triall if it be just your Army may another time require the same justice of you in their owne behalfe against some other Member whom perhaps you would be lesse willing to part with Necessity has of late forced you into untrodden paths and in such a case as this where you have no president of your own you may not do amisse to looke abroad upon other States and Senates which exercise the Supreame Power as you now doe here I dare confidently say you shall finde none either Antient or Moderne which ever exposed any of their owne order to be tryed for his life by the Officers of their Armies abroad for what he did while he resided among them in the Senate Among the Romans the practice was so contrary that some inferiour Officers in their Army farre from the City having been sentenced by their Generall or Commander in chief as deserving death by their Discipline of Warre have neverthelesse because they were Senators appealed thither and the cause has received a new hearing in the Senate Not to use more words to perswade you to take heed that you wound not your selves thorough my sides in violating the Priviledges belonging to your own persons I shall humbly desire you to consider likewise the nature of my offence not but that I should be much ashamed to say any thing in diminution therof God knowes 't is horrid enough for the evill it might have occasioned but if you looke neare it it may perhaps apeare to be rather a Civill then a Martiall crime and so to have Title to a Triall at the common law of the land ther● may justly be some difference put between mee and others in this businesse I have had nothing to do with the other Army or any intention to begin the offer of violence to any body It was only a civill pretence to that which I then foolishly conceived to be the right of the subject I humbly refer it to your considerations and to your consciences I know you will take care not to to shed the blood of War in Peace that blood by the law of War which hath a right to betryed by the Law of Peace For so much as concerns my selfe and my part in this businesse if I were worthy to have any thing spoken or patiently heard in my behalfe this might truly be said that I made not this business but found it 't was in other mens hands long before it was brought to me and when it came I extended it not but restrained it For the Propositions of letting in part of the Kings Army or offering violence to the Members of this House I ever disallowed and utterly rejected them What it was that moved me to entertain discourse of this businesse so far as I did I will tell you ingeniously and that rather as a warning for others than that it make any thing for my selfe it was only an impatience of the inconveniences of the present War looking on things with a carnall eye and not minding that which chiefly if not onely ought to have been considered the inestimable value of the Cause you have in hand the Cause of God and of Religion and the necessities you are forced upon for the maintenance of the same as a just punishment for this neglect it pleased God to desert and suffer me with a fatall blindnesse to be led on and ingaged in such Counsels as were wholly disproportioned to the rest of my life This Sir my own Conscience tells me was the cause of my failing and not malice or any ill habit of minde or disposition toward the Common-wealth or to the Parliament for from whence should I have it If you look on my Birth you will not find it in my blood I am of a stock which hath born you better fruit if you look on my education it hath been almost from my child-hood in this House and among the best sort of men and for the whole practice of my life till this time if another were to speake for me he might reasonably say that neither my actions out of Parliament nor my expressions in it have savoured of disaffection or malice to the Liberties of the People or Priviledges of Parliament Thus Sir I have set before your eyes both my person and my case wherein I shall make no such defence by denying or extenuating any thing I have done as ordinarily Delinquents doe my addresse to you and all my Plea shall onely be such as Children use to their Parents I have offended I confesse it I never did any thing like it before it is a passage unsuitable to the whole course of my life beside and for the time to come as God that can bring light out of darknesse hath made this businesse in the event usefull to you so also hath he to me you have by it made an happy discovery of your Enemies and I of my selfe and the evil principles I walkt by so that if you look either on what I have been heretofore or what I now am and by Gods grace assisting me shall alwayes continue to be you may perhaps thinke me fit to be an example of your compassion and clemency Sir I shal no sooner leave you but my life wil depend on your breath not that alone but the subsistence of some that are more innocent I might therefore shew you my Children whom the rigour of your Justice would make compleat Orphanes being already Motherless I might shew you a Family wherein there are some unworthy to have their share in that mark of Infamy which now threatens us But something there is which if I could shew you would move you more then all this it is my Heart which abhors what I have done more is more severe to it selfe then the severest Judge can be A heart Mr. Speaker so a wakened by this affliction and so intirely devoted to the Cause you maintain that I earnestly desire of God to incline you so to dispose of me whether for life or death as may most conduce to the advancement therof Sir not to trouble you any longer if I dye I shall dye praying for you if I live I shall live serving you and render you back the use and imployment of all those dayes you shall adde to my life After this having withdrawn himselfe he was called in again and being by the Speaker required thereto gave them an exact account now he came first to the knowledge of this business as also what Lords were acquainted therwith or had engaged themselves therein FINIS