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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44822	A seasonable address to both Houses of Parliament concerning the succession, the fears of popery, and arbitrary government by a true Protestant, and hearty lover of his country.	Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.	1681 (1681)	Wing H320; ESTC R12054	18,610	20

Ca● though transform'd into the beautiful shapes of Court-Imployments and Honors will still be hankering after the old s●ort of Mousing they will ever be lovers of a Common-wealth and enemies to Monarchy This is plain from former as well as later proceedings since the discovery of the Popish Plo● when ●hey began to shew themselves in their proper colors when they cry'● n●t only the Court but the Church was Popish and all that are for the ●stablish'd Government You cannot now be loyal unless you are factio●s nor a Protestant if no Presbyterian But pray observe none tell you this but the spawn of those seduc'd or concern'd in the late Rebellion men turn'd ou● or that wou'd get into Court-Imployments that account themselves slighted or disoblig'd men of great Ambition or of desperate Fortunes who make all this noise and clutter to be taken off To what purpose else did the late House of Commons make the Vote against the bargain or hopes of Court-preferment but that such a design was a driving between some leading Members and Courtiers Can they after such a discovery pretend zeal for Religion and the good of their Country For shame let not Faction and private Interest make men forgetful of the publick of the peace and quiet of the Nation Let them secure our Constitutions against the encroachments or invasions of any whether Presbyter or Papist and remember that the most forward in the Long Parliament were soon turn'd out by others and because what is Sawce for a Goose is sawce for a Gander this of course will be the fate of those who now glory in being Ringlead●rs of Faction to thwart and oppose their Sovereign Nay it may possibly be worse the Gentlemen the Knights of the Shires may be kick'd out by Mechanicks by Citizens and Burgesses for he that practiseth Disobedience to his Superiors teacheth it to his Inferiours Sir W. I. Sir F. W. Collonel T. c. all know were disoblig'd and if taken into favour the Employments and Honours they covet wou'd stand up for the Court as much as now they do against it Whether the Petitioning Lords be not of the same temper will best appear from the story of every single person One of them has the humour convey'd with 's Bloud His Father was a Gentleman that appear'd zealous in the long Parliament for the good of his Country the first that brought in the complaint of Ship-money But soon after when he was made a Lord and a Courtier he chang'd notes and sung another song no man more for the Monarchy in its defence he lost his l●fe and at his death publickly repented his actings against the Earl of Stafford His Son was made an Earl upon the Kings retu●n sent Emba●sador Abroad and Lord Lieutenant into Ireland to get his command he despis'd not the Courtship and assistance of Coll. T. though a R. C. and a Creature of his R. H. to whom he made no slender Professions not being satisfied with gaining vastly in that Station five years he grows peevish in hopes of being sent the second time nay rather than fail he is content to be Commissioner of the Treasury in hopes that by the Courtship and Interest of some Women no matter what Religion they are of he may come to be Lord Treasurer But not like to gain the White Staffe and perhaps not caring to govern an empty Exchequer he bent his Thoughts again towards Ireland slighting the Treasury he is outed and grows more discontented and at last turn'd out of Council the next day he repeats a Speech of E. of S. his making and unask'd presents a piece of Councel and Advice to His Sovereign pretending as a Peer it was his duty I am sorry his zeal made him forget that Peers have no right of advising the King but when he makes them of his Council or by Writ Summons 'em to Parliament And what 's very odd he advises just the contrary to what he and the other Noble E. had done t●e year before when Courtiers This Noblemans Life wou'd make a Comical History he knows how to put on all shapes and in the late times was not ignorant how to make an Apple-tree supply the place of a Pulpit he knew how to serve himself in all turns and changes and has not fail'd since 1640. to have been often out and in with the several Higher ●owers ●o give him his due he is a man of extraordinary Parts but if one of these Lords said true when he was a Courtier and the other newly remov'd they are al● fitted and turn'd for confounding and amusing but not for extricating out of difficulties He wants not Wit to hold forth in the House or in the open Air upon occasion nor is he meanly skill'd in the methods of Court-Pleasures as well as Business He must have an ill memory that forgets who advis'd the breaking the Triple-League and making an Alliance with France and a War with Holland pronouncing in the Language of the Beast Delenda est Carthago that a Dutch Common-wealth was too near a Neighbor to an English Monarch the Shutting up the Exchequer the granting Injunctions in the case of the Bankers and lastly the sourse of all our present misfortunes the general Indulgence These things being found of ill consequence and the Ministers remov'd as designers of Popery Presbytery Atheism or Irreligion Arbitrary or French Government must any of such Principles assoon as turn'd out of Court be receiv'd into the Country as if these two had different Interests Whoever say there is more than one common wealth in both are Deluders and Incendiaries and Betrayers of the Nation Those that strive to divide the King and his People are to be look'd upon as Pensioners of France and to be most severely punish'd There are that can tell Tales what Great man since the Plot offer'd a Reconciliation with the D. and for a Restoration to his former Power and Greatness wou'd be his Servant to all intents purposes But the D. cou'd not be perswaded one that had as often chang'd Parties as Proteus his Shapes and the Chamel●on his Colors cou'd be true to any Interest b●t his own and therefore rejected his many Messages on this subject Another Peer whose Son in the Lower House is the great Tribune of the People wou'd have had a Dukedom added to the Garter to make both Sing to another Tune A forth wou'd fain be a Privy Councellor in Reversion A fifth not long since at any rate of purchase wou'd have been Master of the Horse to the Duke Strange ● that a Protestant Lord shou'd think of serving a suppos'd Popish Prince and after hope though thus mounted on Horseback to get to Heaven 'T wou'd be tedious to give particular accounts of all only by the way observe that a Young Lord newly come to Age own'd himself to His Majesty Disoblig'd because after a Voyage to Tangier his great Valor there shown and spending his Youth in his Prince's