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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08976	The Earl of Pembrokes speech in the House of Peers, when the seven lords were accused of high-treason / copia vera, Mic. Oldsworth.	Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 1584-1650.; Oldisworth, Michael, 1591-1654?	1690 (1690)	Wing E79B; ESTC R218781	4,622	4

THE EARL of PEMBROKES SPEECH IN THE HOUSE of PEERS When the Seven Lords were accused of High-Treason Copia vera MIC OLDSWORTH My Lords YOu know I seldom make Speeches yet my Lords every thing would live and now I must either find a Tongue or lose my Head I am accus'd for sitting here when your Lordships fled to the Army Alas my Lords I am an old man I must sit you may ride or run any whither but I am an old man You voted them Traytors who left the House and went to York they told us then they were forc'd away by Tumults Do not You say so too were they Traytors for going and am I a Traytor for staying 's Death my Lords what would you have me do hereafter I 'le neither go nor stay I have served you 7 years what have you given me unless part of a Thanksgiving Dinner for which you made me fast once a Month I was fed like a Prince at the KING' 's cost twice every day long before some of you were born and this KING continued nay out-did his Father in heaping favours upon me Yet for your sakes I renounc'd my Master when he had most need of me voted against him swore against him hired men to fight against him I confess I my self never struck at him nor shot at him but I prayed for those that did I gave my Tenants their Leases Fine-free if they would rise and resist the KING And yet my Lords after all this must I be a Traytor Have I not sworn for you over and over again You sent me on your Errands to Oxford to Vxbridge to Newcastle to Holdenby you hurried me up and down as if I had been a King You made me carry a world of Propositions I brought them all safe and sound what you bad me say I spake to a syllable and had the KING ask'd me how old I was without your Commission I should not have told him and yet my Lords I am an old man Remember how I stuck to you against Strafford and Canterbury some of you shrunk at Strafford's Tryal that your Names were like to be posted with Malignants and for Canterbury many of you would have had him live my Lord of Northumberland and others would have no hand in his Blood but I gave you the casting voice which sent him packing into another World and yet now would you send me after him Have I not sate with you early and late When the Parliament tumbled and tossed and rolled it self on this side and on that side still I was for the Parliament though I staid here with Presbyterian Lords yet when you return'd I was firm for you All the other Lords left you in the House when Sir Thomas's Chaplain gave thanks for your return but I staid and pray'd with you and am for ought I know as great an Independent as any of you all I rejoyced with you fasted sung Psalms prayed with you and hereafter will run away with ye Nay I had done it now but who knew your minds If ye meant I should follow ye why did ye not wink upon me Think ye I could run away by instinct My Lords you know I love Dogs and though I say it I thank God I have as good Dogs as any man in England now my Lords if a Dog follow me when I do not call him I bid him be gone if I call him and he comes not then I beat him but if I beat him for not coming when I never call'd him you 'l think me mad 's Death my Lords 'T is a poor Dog is not worth the whistling But perhaps my fault is not meer staying here but being active in your absence because in my Robes and Collar of SS I brought up Mr. Pelham the Commons new Speaker why what if I did Is not Mr. Pelham my own Cousin would your Lordships have me uncivil to my kindred why might not I entertain the new Speaker as well as Sir Robert Harley intreat us to admit him Mr. Pelham is none of Sir Robert's Cousin and yet Sir Robert is an old man I hear some say that I was forward to begin a new War that my Hand is to all the Warrants for listing Men and Horse and in order thereunto I voted His Majesty should come to London 'T is true my Lords I did give my Vote for the KING 's coming hither but wherefore was it 't was onely to come to chuse a new Speaker what would ye have us dumb and sit here like Ferrets My Lords I love to hear men speak and all the Lawyers told me No King no Speaker that either the Commons must name their Speaker and the KING approve him or the KING name him and the Commons approve him no King no Speaker And so I was for the King that is for the Speaker Then my Lords observe the manner of his coming the KING was to come according to the Covenant mark ye that I was still for my Oaths let him come when he will if the Covenant fetch him he had as good stay away And yet men cry shame on the Covenant those that took it do cast it up again and those that refuse it have given a world of Arguments that it is unreasonable which reasons our Assembly like a Company of Rascals never yet answer'd I know my Lords many of our Friends never took this Oath but they refus'd it out of meer Conscience shall Malignants Consciences be as tender as ours why what do they think our Consciences are made of But my Lords suppose this Oath be unreasonable can we do nothing but we must give reason for it this is as bad as the House of Commons who when we deny to pass any Ordinance presently send to know our reasons though themselves give no reasons for demanding ours And so Malignants would have reasonable Oaths only here 's the difference the House of Commons do use to demand Reasons and Malignants desire to be suffer'd to give Reasons My Lords I love not this giving of reasons though I hold the Covenant is extreme reasonable for as some Malignants take it to save their estates so we give it to make them lose their estates both love the estate and both hate the Covenant Thus my Lords we have Reason for this Oath and Your Lordships have No Reason to make me a Traytor while I give my Vote according to the Covenant As for signing Warrants to raise a New War I wonder you 'l speak of it have not you all done it a hundred times how many Reams of Paper have we subscrib'd to raise Forces for King and Parliament 'T is known I can scarce write a word besides my Name Cannot a Man write his own Name without losing his Head If I must give account for what I set my hand to Lord have mercy upon me I see now my Grandfather was a wise Man he could neither write nor read and happy for me if I were so too Come