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A56450 A letter to a friend in the country being a vindication of the Parliaments whole proceedings this last session : with the state of the plot and manner of its discovery. J. P., 17th cent. 1681 (1681) Wing P55; ESTC R30077 6,484 6

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that Nation follow'd for a time as his lawful Lord and Master by Succession until God reproved him for it and induced him to cleave unto David newly elected King who was a stranger by birth and no a kin at all to the King deceas'd Now if any shall reply here That God put by Saul for his sins that is no Answer at all to us for we pretend not that a Prince who is next in blood can be justly put by but for his own defect Again After David was thus invested with the Crown yet do we not find the Law of Succession to be perform'd to any of his elder Sons nor to any of their off spring or descents but only to Solemon who was his younger and tenth Son The next example of this kind among the Israelites was that of Prince Reboboam lawful Son and Heir to King Solemon who after his Father's death refusing the Peoples request to take off some heavy Impositions which were laid upon them by his Father they dem'd to admit him for their King 3. Reg. 11. but rather chose one Jeroboam Rehoboam's Servant that was a meer stranger and but of poor parentage making him their King and God approved thereof as the Scripture in express words doth testifie And when Rehoboam that took himself to be openly injured hereby would by Arms have pursued his Title and had gather'd together and Army of an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen Souldiers as good as any French Janizaries to pubnish these Rebels as he calls them 5. Reg. 12.21 God appear'd unto one Semeith a holy man and bade him go to the Camp of Rehoboam and tell them plainly that he would not have them fights against their Brethren who had chosen another lawful King Now if God permitted and allow'd of this in his own Common-wealth which was to be the example and pattern of all others that should ensue no doubt but he approveth also the same in other Realms viz. that the ordinary of Succession be alter'd when just occasions are offer'd either for his Service the good of the People and Realm or else for the publishment of the Plots sins and wickednesses of some particular Princes Having thus therefore shew'd you the most authentick Presidents and Authorities out of Scripture I shall for brevity sake as unwilling to turn an Epistle into a Volume omit those innumerable other examples which I could here produce out of all other Histories and Kingdoms as well ancient as modern both from Greece Rome Spain France and other Countreys and will only touch upon England and so conclude this Point To begin then first with King Edward who dying in the year 900. left behind him two Sons lawfully begotten of his Wife Edgina Edmond and Ethelred and a third illegitimate Son whose Name was Adelstan born of a Concubine but yet forasmuch as this base Son Adelstan was esteem'd to be of more valour than either of the other two he was preferr'd to the Crown before them although they were legitimate and he not Polyd. hist Ang. lib. 5. In fine He that will consider the passing of the Crown of England from the death of Edmond Ironside elder Son of King Etherled until the possession thereof gotten by William Duke of Normandy may easily see what Authority the Commonwealth hath in such Affairs to alter Titles of Succession according as publick necessity shall require Again After the Conquest we see the Conquerour's eldest Son Robert Duke of Normandy disinherited and his two younger Brethren William Rusus and Henry the First preferr'd before him But to conclude this Point I need trouble you with no other Arguments to prove how justifiable such an exclusion of the next Heir is by our Laws since by the 13th of Eliz. he is guilty of a praemunire who affirms that the King and Parliament together cannot alter the Succession This Sir is all that I can say in the Matter which if it may prove effectual to convince you of your former Error of the Parliaments being too hot you will then with the desire nothing more than that they or their Ghosts rise again with the same brave Spirits they left us and fall upon the same Subject to wit the Trial of the Traitors so will our Enemies get no advantage by this Prorogation so will the French the Pope and the Devil have just occasion of mourning when the cause of that Triumvirate is in so great danger This Sir is all at present from the Person in the World that loves and honours you most Sir Your most humble Servant J. P.