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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29572	Two speeches of George, Earl of Bristol, with some observations upon them by which it may appear whether or no the said Earl and others of the same principles, deserve to be involved in the common calamity brought upon Roman Catholicks, by the folly and presumption of some few factious papists.; Speeches. Selections	Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, 1612-1677.	1674 (1674)	Wing B4786; ESTC R11516	12,016	34

the securing of general fears is brought up to you from the house of Commons the great representative of the people and consequently the best Judges of the true temper of the Nation A house of Commons surpassing all that ever hath been in the illustrious marks of their duty loyalty and affection to their Soveraign both in his Person and government Such a house of Commons as His Majestie ought to consider and cherish always with such a kind of love as is due to a VVife never to be parted with unkindly and not as to a Mistriss to be turned off when our turn is served by her My Lords this casual mention of a VVife suggests to my thoughts a pursuance of the comparison apt enough me thinks I have observed in the course of my life that men who have VVives somewhat coquettes that is a little subject to gallantrys live easier lives with them and freer from troublesome contentions then those who have VVives of exact and rigid vertue and the reason of it is clear For the more gamesome Dames being conscious of their failings in that essential part are carefull to disguise and repair them by kind and tender compliances with their Husbands humour in all other things whereas VVives severely punctual and exact in the chief Matrimonial duty expect and even exact far greater compliances from their Husbands and think themselves as it were priviledged by the rigidness of their vertue to be somtimes troublesome in domestick affairs But especially if Jealousie be en campagne as the French phrase is In like manner my Lords it is not to be much wondred at if this incomparable house of Commons transcending all that ever was in the grand essentials of duty loyalty and affection to their King should be at sometimes a little troublesome to him in lesser occurrences especially when once fears and jealousies are on wing My Lords I shall not pretend to determine whether there hath been any just grounds given or no by the rabbi-busies aforementioned or by the unseasonable ambition of any Roman Catholicks for such fears and jealousies It suffices to exact the necessity of a timely remedy that they have indeed most violently seized and distempred the minds of the Major part of His Majesties Protestant subjects which certainly no man conversant in the world can deny Now my Lords in popular fears and apprehensions those usually prove most dangerous that are raised upon grounds not well understood and may he rightly resembled to the fatal effects of panick fears in Armies where I have seldome seen great disorders arrive from intelligences brought in by parties and by scouts or by Advertisements to Generals But from alarums upon groundless and capritious fears of danger taken up we know not either how or why no man of moderate experience in military affairs but hath found at one time or other the dangerous effects in the giving a stop to which mifchiefs the skill of great Commanders is best seen In like manner my Lords this great and juditious assembly of the house of Commons rightly sensible of the dangerous effect which so general a disturbance of Mens minds in the concernments of Religion how groundless soever might produce have applied their cares to obviate them by this Bill a Bill in my opinion as full of moderation towards Catholicks as of prudence and security towards the Religion of the State In this Bill my Lords notwithstanding all the alarums of the encrease of Popery and designs of Papists here is no mention of barring them from private and modest exercise of their Religion no banishing them from such a distance from Court no putting in execution of penal Laws in force against them all their precautions are reduced to this one intent natural to all societies of Men of hindring a lesser opposite party from growing too strong for the greater and more considerable one and in this way of just prevention is not the moderation of the house of Commons to be admired that they have restrained it to this sole point of debarring their adversaries from Offices and Places and from accessions of wealth by favour of the Soveraign They considered well that wealth and power from publique charges and imployments do range the generality of men to opinions and parties more strongly farr then all other arguments according to the saying of Eneas Silvius himself a Pope That the Popes superiority over general Counsels would ever find most Doctors for it because the Pope had so many Bishop-ricks to give the Counsells none I say my Lords that in contemplation hereof the wisdome of the house of Commons has wholly applied its care in this Bill to hinder as appears most reasonable those of an opposite party from a Part in the government of that State under whose protection they live It is true my Lords some Roman Catholicks may seem to be put to extraordinary tests in this Act and such as upon the score of Conscience as a Roman Catholick I shall give my negative to But speaking as a Member of a Protestant Parliament I cannot but think prudent and reasonable in the proposers their end being solidly to secure the fears of those they represent And after all my Lords how few do the sharp trials and tests of this Act regard only a few such Roman Catholicks as would fain hold Offices and Places at the price of hypocrisie and dissimulation of their true sentiments in Religion My Lords I am none of those none of those wherry-men in religion who look one way and row another I have had the honour to exercise a great charge of state under the last King of blessed memory and to continue the same under our most gratious Soveraign that is now till it pleased Almighty God to call me even at the Article of death to that religion wherein I trust he will give me the grace to live and dye what danger soever may be set before me But after that call my first work my Lords was to deliver up the Seals to the King uncomanded as judging it unfit though then in a Catholick Country for any man of a different religion from his Prince to exercise a charge of that importance under him and I am now my Lords much more of that opinion then ever Upon the whole matter my Lords however the sentiments of a Catholick of the Church of Rome I still say not of the Court of Rome nay oblige me upon scruple of Conscience in some perticulars of this Bill to give my negative to it when it comes to the passing yet as a Member of a Protestant Parliament my advice prudentially cannot but go along with the main scope of it The present circumstances of time and affairs considered and the necessity of composing the disturbed minds of the people It may be said my Lords that some things in this Bill seem to trench upon His Majesties Prerogative and his inherent power of pardoning and suspending prosecutions My Lords that Inherent power