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A36048
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A Direct road to peace and happiness in church and state
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1696
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Wing D1525A; ESTC R26699
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Execution at a time when the People were much Dissatisfied and Discontented with Favorites Monopolizing old and Erecting new Offices of Profit whereupon his Majesty Issued out his Declaration to put a stop to all further Suit to be made to him for new Offices and Judgment was given against some that had Bought and Sold Offices to Lose both Mony and Office And had the Disposition of Offices been so Setled that it had not been in the power of Favourites to have over-ballanced the Administration with Ill Men Wards and their Estates had not been made a Prey to Ill Officers and Guardians which occasioned the Murder of his Son and the Exile of his Grand-children And had not the Favourites of King Charles the Second discontented the People by neglecting such as had Lost all by their Duty and Loyalty and over-ballanced the Administration with such as were glutted with the Spoil and Pillage of the Crown and People England might happily have Flourished in his Reign but the Jesuits you know are very Rich and Cunning and they the French King and the Devil their Master ever took care to disoblige such most as had done their King and Country the best Service because their Complaints lie heavy upon the Shoulders of the Government and Friends disobliged that will be Male-Contents and Disaffected are the worst of Enemies It would fill a Volume to particularize how and which way they divided our Councils in the late Reigns and sowed Strife and Debate among their late Majesties Houshold Servants and Favourites and set up one Party or Faction to pull down another and made one Party jealous of another and both of the King and the King of them and what Aid and Asistance was given to the Party or Faction that Debauched or Discontented the People most and Ripened them for Rebellion and how the Crown was Stript of its Ancient Regalia's and Inheritance and how the same were Sold by the Grantees and dispersed into many private hands that when the Crown stood most in need of Aids and Supplies there might be Squabbling about Acts of Resumption mis-spending the Publick-Treasure and what not Object Doth not this Popular way of Electing and makeing Clergy-men and Officers put the Staff of Government out of the King's hand Answ There is a Law already in Force against Abuses in Election of Schollars and Presentation to Benefices And you may remember His Majesty upon his acceptance of the Administtation desired the Parliament to Name Officers because his Majesty had knowledge of few Persons or their Services and his Majesty looked upon the Representatives of his People to be most knowing and impartial And undoubtedly had they Recommended they would not have neglected any that had done any Generous Service for the Crown and People You have seldom any Benefice or Office of Value becomes void but several be Competitors for it and every one prevails with some to be his Intercessor and it is Morally impossible to gratifie one but the rest will be apt to dis-rellish their disappointment Signall Service and Societies Electing and Recommending Persons and Lots deciding the Preferrence of the Persons Elected and Recomended will disoblige no body but a few private Patrons that would influence their younger Sons to be Parsons to give or procure them Benefices in Liew of their Portions and such as dispence with the Laws against Simony and Buying and Selling Officâ—s are but a handful of Men gratified to the vast numbers of His Majesty's Subjects will be indeared by a right disposition of Benefices and Offices This Method Proposed will certainly ease the King of much Trouble and leave no room for his Majesty's Enemies to blame His Majesty 'T is not Ordaining Naming or Making Officers but their Rewards or Punishments well placed wherein the Staff of Government rests And while His Majesty hath Full and Sole Power to Reward such Liberally as are found True and Trusty and to Remove and Punish such as are found False and Treacherous His Majesty may keep the Hearts of his People Firm and Fixt which Commands their Hands and Purses And such as Mis-behave themselves will then have no Parties or Factions of their own Making in Church or State to â—ly unto You know the People upon His Majesty's Access to the Crown were as Debauched as the Devil the Jesuits and the French King in the late Reigns could make them yet being true to their Common Interest and stedfastly believing His Majesty would be so they planted the Crown upon his Sacred Head and his Majesty hath most intirely followed the Advice and Counsels of his Parliament to the great Joy and Satisfaction of all good Protestants and never People gave greater demonstration of Love and Duty to a Prince than the People of these his Majesty's Realms and Dominions have done to his Majesty and long may their Mutual Love and Affection continue and increase are the hearty Desires of all that truly wish the Peace and Safety of Great Brittain and Ireland and other his Majesty's Dominions Object Are not many private Patrons and such as have or claim the Presentations of Benefices and Disposition of Offices Lords of Mannors and Men of Power and Interest to Influence Boroughs to Elect them And have not Burgesses equal Voices with Knights of Shires then how can these Proposals take effect An. The People know that the Commons of England in Parliament assembled are the Grand Inquest of the Nation and that their Laws express their Aversion to every thing that smells of Partiality or Private Interest and will any Man of Sense omit his Challenge of an Array or Pannel or not take Exception to any returned upon a Jury to give Verdict of a thing in Question concerns him And will Men of Understanding chuse such to represent them in Parliament as be Parties Interested to oppose any thing that is fit to be done for the Common Good and Benefit of the Crown and People You know the Advancement of such as signalize themselves by their Services will be without all doubt well liked by every body and such as are not signalized by Services cannot be Advanced but upon the Report of some body if of particular Persons their Report or Recommendation may be suspected to be Partial so that you may believe private Patrons and Office-Jobbers will not be able by all their Artifices to delude the generality of the People who heartily desire and wish that the Clergy were had in due Reverence and Esteem that none but Persons Worthy and Meet may be Advanced to Dignities Benefices and Offices and that such as have good Estates and Work enough to Husband and Manage the same well were not put into Offices of Profit to keep younger Sons of Parents well descended out of such Imployments as they are fitly Qualified for and have Time and Leisure to be more Serviceable in That all Loyal and Dutiful Services were Liberally Rewarded That all under any Oppression for discharge of Oath and Duty