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A86679 The royall, and the royallist's plea. Shewing, that the Kings Majesty hath the chiefe power in this realme, and other his dominions, (1 Pet. 2.13.) And to him the chiefe government of all estates of this realme, whether they be civill or ecclesiasticall, in all causes doth appertaine. Artic. 27. of Religion concerning magist. Hudson, Michael, 1605-1648. 1647 (1647) Wing H3262; Thomason E390_19; ESTC R201538 20,403 30

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and when he pleaseth And here sticks the Designe at present Where the Designe sticks See the Scots papers the Lord Low●dns three severall speeches of disposing of the Kings person the Scots dissenting and interposing and pressing for his Majesties returne to his Parliament with freedome honour and safety But whatsoever they shall attempt and act against or upon his Majesty hereafter 't will be not as is pretended a due guerdon for his warre against the Parliament for he hath contracted no guilt thereby but as an effect of their conquest and an accomplishment of their Designe agitated before Their after proceedings against the King not his due guerdon but in efect of their Conquest and an accomplishment of their pretended Designe and pursued and consummate by the present warre And whatsoever their after proceedings bee his Majesty will still be Innocent And whatsoever their pretences are They will be Rebells still 7 They Declared against the Kings Negative Oath in Law-making then and now they give Lawes without him 8 Then they tendred to his Majesty Peopositions to take away the chiefe power of Governing from the King and to settle it in the two Houses of parliament And at this day they insist on the same Of the Kings negative Vote with full resolution to overthrowe the Regall and to establish a Parliamentary Government And this is the utmost of their Designe Their propositions for the chiefe power in Governing and the ultimate end of their Warre and it concernes not the King only but the Imperiall Crowne also I know these Propositions are obtruded upon the King and upon the people at present The utmost of their Designe and the ultimate end of the Warre as the only meanes of our preservation and safety against the common enemies of the Kingdome But I have shewed how some of the Propositions are uselesse in this kinde and how the others are at this time needlesse in respect of the kingdome Of these Propositions some are Civill others Military They take from the King the disposall of all Places of Honour and Judicature and Power and consequently all depend ney in these Respects forreigners may come in to rescue the King and Crowne and not to invade the Kingdome having no professed enemy at all though by their disloyall illegall violent courses they have created to themselves many Enemies both at home and abroad who also may bring in forreigne forces against them if wee agree not suddenly amongst our selves and yet not to invade the kingdome in a hostile manner the like of late having beene done by others once and againe Besides they demand these Powers not for a time only but for ever See the several papers of the Scots Commissioners concerning the Propositions of Peace and so not as a remedy against present daunger but as a foundation of another Government Under the pretence of providing for the publique safety endeavoring to overthrow Monarchy and to set up and establish Aristocracy and Democracy And as by the Act of continuation they may sit for ever so they intend doubtlesse by their Propositions to Governe for ever And the upshot of all is Who shall Governe whether the King or the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament 9. Lastly before they tooke up Armes they claymed an absolute power over our persons and estates in Order to their Cause Their absolute power over the people in order to the present warre and to the present warre and to this day they exercise it accordingly disposing our persons and imposing on our Estates at pleasure And this their arbitrary and boundlesse power our boundlesse and unsufferable slavery is like to last for ever as their Cause and the Warre are like to bee everlasting It is like to bee everlasting See Mr. Martins speech of the Royall branches not only against King Charles but also against prince Charles and against his Heires and Successours likewise and against the whole succession from time to time as long as any of the Royall seede shall remaine and so in maintenance of their Designe against Monarchy the people will be engaged in Rebellion and embroyled in Warre from succession to succession and from Generation to Generation unlesse some speedy course be taken for composing the differences Our Rebellion warre misery endlesse and ending the warre amongst us which seeing his Majesty cannot effect by the justnesse of his Propositions nor by the reasonablenesse of his Messages nor by the graciousnesse of his Condiscentions neglected and rejected from time to time An Apostraphe to the people I thinke it may be not improperly undertaken by the people themselves who are also concerned in the differences and in the warre not only in point of duty and conscience in respect of the King but also in point of Liberty and civill Interest in regard of themselves And I would have them in the first place to petition his Majesty for a Generall Act of Oblivion to bee kept inviolably by himselfe and his posterity To petition the King for an act of Oblivion Then I would have them now they understand the falsenesse of their pretended dangers and their falsenesse touching our Religion Lawes and Liberties A Summe of the whole businesse offered to the people the nature of their Propositions and the ground and end of the warre under the pretence of defending our Religion Lawes and Liberties against Popery and Tyranny endeavoring themselves and engaging us with our lives and fortunes Jerem. 17.3 to make good their Propositions against Regalitie and Monarchy I say I would have the people of the kingdome Generally both in the City and in the severall Counties before they part with any more monies eyther by way of Taxe or Loane out of just indignation for the many fraudes and falacies obtruded on them To petition the Parliament and out of a piercing sense of their by-past sufferings and out of a pious sence of their Allegiance to the King and Crowne Isai 32.17 and out of providence to their owne good and quiet and for the good and quiet of posterity unanimously and vigorously to Petition the two houses of Parliament for the disbanding their Armies Pax quo aequi or co●firmior and dimantling their Garrisons and for inviting his Majesty to his Parliament and for a suddaine Accomodation between them with due and equall regard to the Kings legall Rights the just priviledges of Parliament The Kings right taken from him without hearing his Councell and the legall Libertie of the Subject to be determined and setled in Parliament and to bee so stated that hereafter they doe not enterfeire one against another and to be bounded so that they doe not encroach one upon another Of Magna Charta and of the Petition of Right In particular Let the people take care That if it be possible those Muniments of our Liberties Magna Charta and the Petition of Right be not