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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61713	The conclusion of the Earle of Straffords defence, the twelfth of April, 1641	Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.	1641 (1641)	Wing S5784C; ESTC R222430	2,174	8

THE CONCLUSION OF THE EARLE OF STRAFFORDS DEFENCE The twelfth of April 1641. Printed in the Year 1641. The Conclusion of the Earle of Straffords Defence the twelfth of April 1641. MY Lords there yet remaines another Treason that I should bee guilty of the indeavouring to subvert the fundamentall Lawes of the Land that they should now bee Treason together that is not Treason in any one part of Treason accumulative that so when all will not do it is woven up with others it should seeme very strange Under favour my Lords I doe not conceive that there is either Statute-Law nor Common-law that doth declare the endeavouring to subvert the fundamentall Lawes to be high Treason For neither Statute-law nor Common-law written that ever I could hear of declareth it so And yet I have been diligent to enquire as I beleeve you thinke it doth concerne me to do It is hard to be questioned for life and honour upon a Law that cannot be showne There is a rule which I have learned from Sir Edward Cooke De non apparentibus non existentibus eadem ratio Jesu where hath this fyre laine all this while so many hundreds of yeares without any smoke to discover it till it thus burst forth to consume me and my children extream hard in my opinion that punishment should preceed promulgation of a Law punished by a Law subsequent to the Acts done Take it into your considerations for certainly it is now better to be under no law at all but the will of men then to conforme our selves under the protection of a law as we think and then be punished for a crime that doth preceed that law what man can be safe if that be once admitted My Lords it is hard in another respect that there should be no token set upon this offence by which we should know it no admonition by which we should be aware of it If a man passe down the Thames in a Boat and it be split upon an anchor and a Boye being set as a token that there is an anchor there that party that owes the anchor by the Maritime Lawes shall give satisfaction for the dammage done but if it were marked out I must come upon mine owne perill Now where is the marke upon this crime where is the token that this is high Treason If it be under water and not above water no humane providence can availe nor prevent my destruction Lay aside all humane wisedome and let us rest upon wil divine Revelation if you condemne before you forewarne of the danger Oh my Lords may your Lordships bee pleased to give that regard unto the Peerage of England as never to suffer our selves to be put on those nice points upon such constructive interpretations and these are vvhere Lawes are not cleare or knowne if there must be a tryall of wits I doe most humbly beseech you the subject and matter may be in some what else then the lives and Honours of Peers My Lords we finde that in the Primitive times in the progression of the plain Doctrine of the Apostles they brought the books of curious arts and burned them And so likewise as I do conceive it will be wisedome and providence in your Lordshipes for your posterity and the whole Kingdome to cast from you into the fire these bloudy and most mysterious volumes of constructive and Arbitrary Treason and to betake your selves to the plain Letter of the Lavv and Statute that tellethus where the crime is And by telling what is and what is not shevves hovv to avoid it And let us not be ambitious to bee more vvise and learned in the killing Arts then our forefathers were It is now full 200 and 40 yeares since ever any man was touched for this alleaged cryme to this height before my self we have lived happily to our selves at home and we have lived gloriously to the world abroad Let us rest contented with that which our Fathers left us and not awake those sleepy Lyons to our own destructions by taking up a few musty records that have layen so many ages by the walls quite forgotten and neglected May your Lordships be Nobly pleased to adde that to those other misfortunes befallen me for my sinnes not for my Treasons that a precedent should not bee derived from me of that disadvantage as this will be in the consequent to the whole Kingdome I beseech you seriously to consider it and let not my particular case be so looked on as you do though you wound me in my interest in the Common-wealth and therefore those Gentlemen say that they speak for the Common-wealth yet in this particular I indeed speake for it and the inconveniences and mischiefes that will heavily fall upon us for as it is in the 1. of Henry the fourth no man will after know what to do or say for fear Do not put my Lords so great difficulties upon the Ministers of state that men of wisedome honour and vertue may not with chearfulnesse and safety be imployed for the publike if you weigh and measure them by grains and scruples the publike affaires of the Kingdome will be laid waste no man will meddle with them that hath honours issues or any fortunes to lose My Lords I have now troubled you longer then I should have done were it not for the interest of those dear pledges a Saint in heaven hath left me I should be loath my Lords there hee stopped What I forfeit for my selfe it is nothing but that my indiscretion should forfeit for my childe i● even woundeth me deep to the very soul You will pardon my infirmity something I should have said but I am not able and sighed therefore let it passe And now my Lords I have been by the bles●●ngs of Almighty God taught that the afflictions of this life present are not to be compared to the eternall weight of glory that shall be revealed to us hereafter And so my Lords even so with tranquility of minde I do submit my self freely and clearly to your Lordships judgements and whether that righteous judgement shall be to life or death Te Deum laudamus te Dominum confitemur FINIS