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A48156 A letter to a friend, about the late proclamation on the 11th of December, 1679, for further proroguing the Parliament till the 11th of November next ensuing 1679 (1679) Wing L1637; ESTC R9259 8,884 16

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Petitions to his sacred Majesty upon all occasions when any particular discontented freagues should possess their heads far be it from me to have the least of such a thought for I would perish rather than maintain it but yet methinks since it is possible that KINGS may be mislead by the false suggestions and informations of evil Consellors to act in some things contrary to their own Royal interest and the peace and prosperity of their truely Loyal Subjects provided they do not sin against any of the Common or Statute Laws of this Realm by joining in Petitions for the Alteration of the Laws c. they need not be denied the making of their Addresses to him in an humble and befitting manner for these two Reasons 1. Because nothing can be more significative of the people's great and undoubted dependence on him for the redressing of all their grievances than such a low and becoming prostration 'T is the highest duty and reverence that can be paid him and that which 2. Does most assimilate him to God himself who as he is the most absolute supream being both of Heaven and Earth in his infinite wisdome hath found out no other way for us by which to perform our utmost submission and allegiance to Him than by this of prayer and fervent supplication we can but fall down upon our Knees when we would pay our highest adorations to the King of Kings and He in that tender mercy which is over all his works hath made that to be our greatest duty and sence of devotion which is our most exalted felicity what then can be more advancing of glory to an earthly KING and what can be more expressive of deep humility in a subjected people than such dutiful incurvations in an observance of those Laws of which he hath gratiously been pleased to oblige himself to be the defendour as well as of the Faith And therefore to conclude if there be any like to Thomas Woolsey whom in 7. H. 8. was made Cardinal and grew into the heigth of his Authority and favour with the King and hates both Parliaments and Common Laws the principal means to keep Greatness in order and due subjection as he did Co. 2. Inst fol. 626. as it is contained in his Indictment which he confessed of record that he intended to use the very words of the Record antiquissimas Angliae leges penitus subvertere enervare universumque hoc Regnum Angliae ejusdem Regni populum legibus Imperialibus vulgò dictis legibus civilibus earundem Legum Canonibus imperpetuum subjugare subducere c. and for the execution of his intended Plot he was the means that but one Parliament was holden in 14. years viz. from the 7. year to the 21. of H. 8. I say if any in this particular be like to the Cardinal I pray God in great mercy to this Nation grant that such wicked and damnable designs may some way or other be disclosed to his Sacred Majesty that they may speedily receive the due deserts of such a treachery For the ends of Parliaments are 1. Regni Melioratio the common good of the Kingdom the Parliament being as my Lord Coke says the Commune Concilium and 2. Exhibitio justitiae plenior Co. Inst 2.280 for nothing is more glorious and necessary than the full execution of Justice and as for the Common-Laws of England the Nobility have ever had them in great estimation and reverence as their best birth right and so have the Kings of England id fol. 97. as their principal Royalty and right belonging to their Crown and Dignity This made H. 1. that noble King Sirnamed Beauclark to write to Pope Pasehal thus Chart. H. 1. Notum habeat Sanctitas vestra quod me vivente auxiliante Deo dignitates usus Regni nostri Angliae non imminuentur si Ego quod absit in tantâ me dejectione ponerem Optimates mei totus Angliae populus id nullo modo pateretur Both which those Miscreants would utterly destroy by causing a perpetual absence of Parliaments and by making the Common Laws of England to truckle to the Canons of the Civil Laws of Rome FINIS