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A94338	Three speeches spoken at a common-hall, Thursday the 3. of Iuly, 1645. / By Mr. Lisle, Mr. Tate, Mr. Brown, Members of the House of Commons: containing many observations upon the Kings letters, found in his own cabinete at Nasiby fight, and sent to the Parliament by Sir Thomas Fairfax, and read at a common-hall. Published according to order.	Lisle, John, ca. 1610-1664.; Tate, Zouch, 1605 or 6-1650.; Browne, John, ca. 1581-1659.	1645 (1645)	Wing T1121; Thomason E292_29; ESTC R200154	8,274	20

THREE SPEECHES Spoken at a Common-Hall Thursday the 3. of Iuly 1645. BY Mr. Lisle Mr. Tate Mr. Brown Members of the House of COMMONS Containing many Observations upon the Kings LETTERS found in His own Cabinet at Nasiby fight And sent to the Parliament by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Read at a Common-Hall Published according to Order LONDON Printed for Peter Cole at the sign of the Printing-Presse in Cornhill neer the Royall Exchange 1645. Mr. Lisle his Speech MY Lord Major and you worthy Gentlemen of the famous City of London I am commanded by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled to observe to you some Passages out of these Letters which you have heard They are Passages of that nature though it be most happy for this Kingdom and Parliament to know them yet my very heart doth bleed to repeat them The first thing that I shall observe to you is concerning the Kings endeavours to bring Forraign Forces a Forraign Prince with an Army into this Kingdom By his Letters to the Queen which you have heard read he endeavours to hasten the Duke of Lorraine with an Army into England It is well known to the Parliament that the Duke of Lorrain is a Prince highly esteemed at Rome the most complying with Jesuits of any Prince in Christendom and yet the King writes to the Queen to hasten the Duke of Lorrain to come with an Army into England The next thing that I shall observe to you are Endeavours to overthrow the Law of the Land by Power to Repeal the Laws and Stat●tes of this Realm by Force and Arms endeavours by Force and Arms to Repeal all the Statutes of this Kingdom against Papists I shall read a Passage to you which you have already heard out of one of the Kings Letters to the Queen The Letter vvas dated the Fifth of March 1644. I give thee power in my Name to promise that I will take away all the Penall Statutes in England against the Roman Catholikes as soon as God shall enable me to do it so as by their means or in their favours I may have so powerfull assistance as may deserve so great a favour When we consider that the Statutes of this Kingdom against Papists must be taken away by Force when we consider that the Laws of this Kingdom are to be Repealed by Power who cannot but when hee calls to minde the Declarations that have been made to put the Laws in execution against Papists of the Protestations that have been made and have been often made to maintain the Laws of this Kingdom who can chuse but grieve to think of it The third thing Gentlemen that I shall observe to you is concerning the use and the Ends that have been made which you may observe out of these Letters of a Treaty with the Parliament I shall read His Majesties words to you in the Letter of the Fifteenth of February 1645. a Letter to the Queen And be confident that in making peace I shall ever shew my constancy in adhering to Bishops and to all Our friends and not forget to put a short period to this perpetuall Parliament And in His Letter to the Queen of the Ninth of February 1644. there is this Passage Be confident that I will never quit Episcopacy nor the Sword We did all hope that the end of a Treaty had been to settle a happy Peace a firm and a well-grounded Peace but now we see by the Kings Letter that His Resolutions are still to keep the Sword in His own hands We did all hope that the end of a Treaty was to settle Church-government according to the Protestation the Solemn Vow and Covenant which we have all taken But you see by the Kings Letter that He avows it to the Queen that He will never quit Episcopacy We did all hope that the end of a Treaty was rather to confirm the Parliament then to dissolve it but the King sayes in His own Letter that He will not forget at this Treaty to put a short period to this perpetuall Parliament The last thing that I shall observe to you for you will have the rest observed to you by a better hand is concerning the Kings disavowing this Parliament to be the Parliament of England we cannot have any greater assurance of any thing from the King then of this present Parliament there is no Law stronger that gives any property to the Subject then the Law is to continue this present Parliament This is so well known to the world that Kingdoms States abroad acknowledge it and now for the King to disavow it after it is confirmed and continued by Act of Parliament after the King hath so lately acknowledged it now so suddenly to disavow it how can we be more confident of any assurance or Act from his Majesty There be many things more observable in these Letters but I shall leave them to those worthy Gentlemen that come after me Mr. Tate his Speech THe Letters are so full that I shall rather be your remembrancer of what you have heard in them then give you any observations upon them I shall present before you a very sad Spectacle the whole Kingdom of Ireland bleeding a Kingdom all in Peace without any thoughts of War without any thoughts of Arms and of a sudden a Popish party rising up laying hold upon all the Forts Seizing all the Lands and all the goods of the Protestants in Ireland and not content with that when they had done killing one hundred thousand of them man woman and childe These Rebels of Ireland that had thus inhumanely murthered so many Protestants here is the sadnesse Now the Favourites of the King and those Subjects that the King did professe to maintain in maintaining Arms against those Rebels we that by Acts of Parliament of the Kings own Grant had the Irish Rebels Lands and Territories granted to us to maintain a War against them Now because we maintain that War we are Rebels and Traytors and the Irish Rebels because that they stand against you they shall be freed from all penall Laws they shall have any thing that they desire nothing is too dear for them any Laws may be altered for their sakes but when the Protestants come to desire an alteration of Law for the advancement of the Protestant Religion and for the settlement of the Protestants nothing can be granted to them by a Protestant King but every thing to the Irish I shall say but a word more and pray consider of it The condition why all this is granted to the Irish and denied to you it is only this That the Irish may come over into England to cut your throats as they cut the throats of all the Irish Protestants in Ireland this is the cause for which they are encouraged to come hither if there be such a reward for Treachery if there be such a fruit of the Protestations of the King what can we expect All I have to say is