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england_n	act_n	parliament_n	power_n	3,251	5	4.9929	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92601	A proclamation or act by the Parliament of Scotland, for the proclaiming of Charles Prince of Wales, King of great Brittain, Franee [sic], and Ireland, through all the market places in that kingdom. Also the remonstrance of the Navie to rhesupream [sic] power of the kingdom, the Commons assembled in the Parliament of England, and to his Excellency the Lord Generall Fairfax. Febr. 12. 1648. Imprimatur Gilbert Mabbott.	Scotland. Parliament.; Brooke, Richard, Capt.; Hadock, Richard.	1649 (1649)	Wing S1326; Thomason E542_8; ESTC R203725	8,112	16

A PROCLAMATION OR ACT BY THE Parliament of Scotland FOR The Proclaiming of CHARLES Prince of Wales King of great Brittain France and Ireland through all the Market Places in that Kingdom Also the Remonstrance of the Navie to the supream Power of the Kingdom the Commons assembled in the Parliament of England and to his Excellency the Lord Generall Fairfax C R C R HONI SOIT OVI MAL Y PENSE Febr. 12. 1648. Imprimatur GILBERT MABBOTT Printed at Edenburgh by Evan Tyler and Reprinted at London by John Clowes To his Excellencie THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX Lord Generall of the Parliaments Forces of all England and Wales And the Honourable Councell of the ARMY The Humble Petition and tender of Captaine RICHARD BROOK● and Divers Sea Captaines and others VVHereas the Blessing is Vniversall such ought the gratulation to be upon which account We in the place as the principall Agent give God the praise and next as the happy Instrument to your Excellencie and your Army for our present Liberty Redeemed not without much Colingtation and losse of precious bloud from a long insolent Arbitrary and oppressing Tyranny and since one of the sweetest flowres in the Chaplet of Liberty made as by your late Remonstrance it appeareth the onely Garland of your many and wonderfull Victory and is jus suffragii We are incouraged to present as our sence of our hoped approaching happinesse for our best conceptions and endeavours to compleat and then conserve it And since to your Excellencie as Captain General of the forces of all England and the Dominions thereof both Militias are united as well of the Sea as Land then which an ampler expedient for publique safety cannot be It is humbly desired between Army and Navy a happy correspond may be commenc't and maintayn'd by meanes whereof all jealousies and mis-apprehensions in both or either Mauger the most close and subtile fomentations of all malignant Spirits may be prevented or soone annulled And to this end we shall humbly propose that some Agent or Agents may be mutually and reciprocally in the behalfe of each taken and received into each others Debates Transactions and Conclusions that so upon all occasions we may by undoubted Intelligence crave and have mutuall assistance and be impowered unanimously to ingage against the Common Enemy And because they but vainely pretend health who onely fortifie against the Evils without and not expell the peccant humours within With a better providence but confining it to our owne Sphere humbly desire that the dangerous practises and abuses of longtime and yet acted and suffered in and about the Navie to the infinte dishonour and prejudice of the whole Nation may in this happy Juncture of Reformation speedily be ●●ken into Consideration and Redresse To Englands supream Power Judicature The Commons assembled in Parliament The humble Petition and Tender of Captain Richard Brooke and divers Sea Captains and others Right Honourable THe Commonality of a Kingdom though a great body hath a quick sence Tyranny and oppressions presently felt private aymes and self ambitions easily discerned whence true Patriotts whose affections square only with their trusts redeeming generall freedom and improving publique interest cannot loose their deserved Plaudit And we no inconsiderable part of this Kingdoms Commonallty our vocation as to use reflected on in our sence of your late renownfull resolutions overcoming all obstructions and difficulties to settle the Nation in a blessed posture of liberty and safety humbly commensurate with the blessing present this acknowledgement of our great thankfulnesse And whereas rumour not able to belye their desperate and implacable malice loudly speaketh the common enemy busie in soliciting and inciting forreign Princes and States to an Invasion We with much joy resent your vigilance and timely circumspection for their repulsion and our defence and more especially in your present preparation of a numerous and well appointed Fleet whereunto moved by common piety and duty of devotion we became thus bold to obtrude zeale and in this glorious cause of restored freedom against all malignant opposers make this hearty dedication of our lives and services And because they but vainly pretend perfect health who only fortifie against the evills without and not expell the pecan humours within We with a better providence but confining it to our own spheare humbly desire that the dangerous practices and abuses of long time and yet acted and suffered in and about the Navy to the infinite dishonour and prejudice of the whole Nation may in this happy juncture of Reformation speedily be taken into consideration and redresse 1. And first the improper and dangerous mode and Custome in electing all sorts of Officers but more especially of Captains and chief Commanders of Ships and Pinaces in former times by Court favour and parasitisme and under pretence of estate and indeed more frequently pretended then reall whence issued much disservice to the State in generall and no publique pay stated excepting meerely allowance for the table many subsequent cheates too many here but upon further discusse and oportunity to be enumerated in these latter times by corrupt or indirect meanes as bribing and insinuating into the Secretaries Clarkes and the like Ministers of Committees whence disaffected persons that would submit to such dishonest contracts accepted and wel-affected that would not excluded have succeeded many defaults in our Seas and that the last years so foule defection and perrilous Revolt 2 That all or most places and Offices in or belonging to the Navy are by ancient Custom tenanted as it were and to be possest for life whereby much supinenes neglect and disservice hath and cannot but accrew for then a consciousness of being strictly observed and if faulty displast a more notable both reigne to dissolutenesse and spur to duty cannot be 3 The great want of time and consequently detriment to service occasioned by the present Custom in victualling the Navy every Ship defaulking six weeks of the six months she is bound forth and not seldom lying as many more wind-bound 4 The most injurious and no lesse pernitious ingrosing committed by the former Committees and Commissioners of the Navy of all the imployment at Sea and impropriating it to their own shipping for thereby at farre greater rates then otherwise would have been hath the State been long served with Ships lesse serviceable and undoubtedly the will and power of the owners to bear all out reflicted on unexposeable to any hardship of fight and weather 5. And lastly the Exiguity of pay for all sorts of persons engaged in and attending on this kind of service whereby much impoverishment to many particular Families and generall decay of the Service it self hath followed many otherwise able for want of a competent support either wholly declining or deserting it And forasmuch as we conceive it is no lesse eminently our duties then our observations of defaults and grievances to represent our judgements for their redresses we humbly Subjoyne as followeth To the