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A70223	The history of Whiggism, or, The Whiggish-plots, principles, and practices (mining and countermining the Tory-plots and principles) in the reign of King Charles the First, during the conduct of affaires, under the influence of the three great minions and favourites : Buckingham, Laud, and Strafford, and the sad forre-runners and prologues to that fatal-year (to England and Ireland) 41 : wherein (as in a mirrour) is shown the face of the late (we do not say the present) times.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1809; Wing H1825C; ESTC R12704	66,369	53

said the Duke in his own Justification and Defence in the Star-Chamber Tory. He denyed it and examined divers Witnesses about the matter Tant And what then Tory. Nothing more the Cause never came to Judicial Hearing in that Court Tant Then let us hear no more of it I am sick of it my self I never heard so much before Go on Tory. After the Parliament was Dissolv'd and things well husht the Privy Council Order'd all Customs to be paid and the Refusers Punisht by Fines Imprisonment this was deem'd one New-council and Loans another Tant Loans prythee Tory what were they Tory. The King sent to the Rich a Letter beginning Trusty and Well-beloved c. under the Privy Seal requiring him or them to send him within twelve dayes so much Money as for Example in the West-riding in York-shire to Sir Thomas Wentworth 20 l Sir Francis Fuljam 20 l Sir Edward Osburn 30 l Godfrey Copley Esquire 15 l promising in the Name of the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors to repay the Money so lent Tant Ay when le ts hear that Tory. Within eighteen Months Tant And was the Money Repayed Tory. Pish that 's a silly question then of the City of London the King bid them lend him a hundred thousand pound Tant Well said a few such Summs from Towns or Cities would do the business but did they lend the Money Tory. No the City desir'd to be excused Tant And what then Tory. Then the Privy-Councel required them all excuses set apart to return a Direct and speedy Answer to his Gracious Majesty or in default thereof that his Majesty may frame his Councils as appertaineth to a King in such extream and Important occasions Tant And were they not afraid and apprehensive of the Innuendo Tory. The Commands rested not here for they also commanded the City to Equippe twenty of their best Ships in the River with all manner of Tackle Sea-stores and Ammunition men and Victuals for three Months Tant And did they do it Tory. They grumbled at it saying it was without President as did also the Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of Peace at Dorset having received the Kings Commands for setting forth Ships from Pool Weymouth and Lime but the Council checkt them for daring to dispute Orders instead of obeying them and whereas they mention presidents they might know that the presidents of former times were Obedience not Direction Whigg It would puzzle a good Historian to find presidents of Obedience in England to Arbitrary-sway and Orders of Privy-Council for Impositions without Law to back them Tory. How Did not stout King Edward 1. Command Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk and Lord Marshal of England and several other Lords to go to the Wars in Gascoygne in France which they refusing except the King himself went also in Person But the King threatned then to take away their Lands and their Lives saying to the Lord Marshal and Swearing By God Sir Earl you shall either Go or Hang. Whigg Ay but the Earl answered the King at the same moment I Swear by the same Oath I will neither Go nor Hang and so without leave went out of the Room and departed and shortly after he and Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and other Lords and Noble-men Assembled and other their Friends to the number of thirty Bannerets one thousand five hundred men at Arms well appointed and stood upon their Guard but the King Dissembled his Resentments at that time being about to go to Flanders where he spent much Money and for recruit Summons a Parliament to meet at York promising from thenceforth never to charge his Subjects otherwise than by their Consents in Parliament and also to Pardon all such as had denyed to attend him in this Journey Tant And did they trust the Kings word Tory. Yes but he broke it and all his other Oaths and Confirmations of the Peoples Charters made in Parliament two Years after having obtained and bought a Pardon for so doing as aforesaid of his Holiness nay he begun to play his Arbitrary Pranks long before that for in 8 Edw. 1. he sent out his Writ of Quo Warranto a fine Engine to get Money to examine by what Title men held their Lands which upon flaws found in their Charters and pryed into by the Lawyers brought him in much Money 'till John Earl of Warren stopt the Current and stem'd the Tyde for calling upon him to show his Title He drew out an old rusty Sword and said He held his Land by that and by that would hold it to Death and having many Backers it made the King desist from his Project Tant An old rusty Sword dost say that was more than the old Christian Weapons Prayers and Tears Tory. And stopt the Kings Tyranny and lawless Usurpations more than a thousand Petitions Prayers and Tears Tant Still I say Subjects Christian Subjects should use no Weapons but Prayers and Tears Whigg What not against Robbers Thieves and Murderers Tant Not against Magistrates that Rob by Law Whigg Thou talk'st like an Asse every day more than other Rob by Law a Contradiction in terminis if there be Law for it it is not Robery Theft nor Murder and if it be against Law or without Law all violent taking of mens Goods one Subject from another is Theft and Robbery except the Law enjoyn it and may lawfully be Resisted without all doubt in like manner and with such Weapons as the Onset or Assault is made Tant What in an Officer a Commission-Officer Whigg No man can be Authoriz'd to do an ill thing or an illegal thing by any mans Commission much less by the Kings Commission or the Broad-Seal for the King can do no wrong if it be wrong it stands for nothing it is not the Kings act nor the Kings Commission but Surreptitious and punishable Tant And who shall Judge of its Legality or the legality of the Resistance Whigg The Judges and the Law and the Juries Tant Nay then we are well enough yet Whigg If you be well keep you so whil'st you are well but remember Belknap Tresilian c. many Judges have been Hang'd right right and good Reason for corrupt and false Judgment there are they that shall judge the Judges Tant Ay but when at the day of Judgment Whigg Yes yes no more on 't but this Doctrine of resisting with other Weapons than Prayers and Tears Force with Force Violence with Violence in our own just Defence seems so strange to the new Tantivee-men that herein join with the old Error of the Anabaptists condemned in the 37 Article of the Church of England as also the Family of Love who Condemned all Wars as did the Manichees nay the learned Ludovicus Vives saith Arma Christianum Virum tractare nescio an fas sit I know not whether or no it be lawful for a Christian to Fight at all or go to the Wars and wear Weapons Lactantius also was against all Killing right and

in these words Le Roy Alfred ordcigna pur usage perpetuel que a deur foits per lan on plus sovene pur mistier in temps de Peace le Assembler a Londres put Parliementer surle guidement del People de dieu coment gents soy garderent de Pegers viverent in quiet receiverent droit per certain usages Saints Judgments King Alfred Ordaineth for an usage Perpetual that Twice a Year or oftner if need be in time of Peace they shall Assemble themselves at London to Treat in Parliament of the Government mark that of the People of God how they should keep themselves from Offences should live in quiet and should receive right by certain Laws and Holy Judgments Tory. Right for Standing Privy Councels or long Standing Parliaments may be Pentioners to Foraign States may give Councel for their own ends but a frequent Parliament is uncapable of being Brib'd and most improbable to give any Advice against the Common-weal Common-benefit of King and People Tant In Troth I am at a loss to find out a Reason why any should Address and be Thankful for Dissolving a Parliament Whig And yet your Hand was one of the first to an Address of like nature Heark you you know when and where Tant No more of that I am of another mind now But what says the Lord Coke the Laws Oracle and Apollo concerning the said Statute of King Alfred Whig He saith that the threefold end of this Great and Honourable Assembly of Estates is there declared First That the Subjects might be kept from offending that is that Offences might be prevented both by good and provident Laws and by the due Execution thereof Secondly That men might live safely and in quiet Thirdly That all men might receive Justice by certain Laws and Holy Judgments that is to the end that Justice might be the better Administred that Questions and Defects of Law might by the High-Court of Parliament be planed reduced to certainty and adjudged c. In short Si vetustatem spectes est anquessima si dignitatem est Honoratissima si Jurisdictionem est capacissima If you regard Antiquity the Parliament is the most Ancient Court if Dignity the most Honourable if Jurisdiction the most Soveraign and is a part of the frame of the Common-Law which is called usually Leges Anglicae Tant I thought the Parliament had beginning only since Magna Charta in the Reign of Hen. 3. which is not so very Ancient Whig Some of your Tantivees have said so and writ so but it is your ignorance or worse King Hen. 1. Surnamed Beauclark writ to Pope Pascal saying Notum habeat Sanctitas vestra quod me vivente auxiliante Deo Dignitates usus Regninostri Angliae non imminentur siego quod absit in tanto me dejectione ponerem optimates mei totus Angliae populus id nullo modo pateretur Your Holiness may please to understand that as long as I live by the help of God the Dignities and Customs of our Realm of England shall never be impared or diminished to which if I should which God forbid be so high-base as poorly to condescend my Lords and Commons of England would by no means permit the same Judge then how dangerous it is to change the Ancient Customs and usages of the Common Law much less the greatest and most useful of all the rest frequent and uninterrupted Sessions of Parliament without which the Liberties and Franchises have been and may be taken away remedilesly By the Canon Law Children born before Marriage Solemnized were Legitimate if Matrimony afterwards followed which is contrary to our Common Law This was William the Conqueror's Case who is said to be the Son of a Arlot so notorious that all Whores are since called Harlots for her sake yet William of Malmesbury says that Robert Duke of Normandy his reputed Father did after William was Born Marry his Mother Arlot which did Legitimate William by the Canon Law but it reaches not England For in the like Case when the Bishops would have ruled it according to the Papal Decree Omnes Comites Barones una voce respondement quod nolunt leges Anglicae mutare All the rest of the Lords Earls and Barons with one voice cryed out We will not change the Laws of England accounted the wisest Laws in the World but they must be the weakest and most deficient if it be Arbitrary whether Parliaments a Fundamental Constitution may or may not have a Being or only be born to die namely only to be called together that they may be Dissolv'd Therefore even the late Act for holding Parliaments once in three years or oftner if need be made by that Parliament that from the numerous Pentioners therein is commonly but Improperly called for distinction the Pentioners Parliament amongst the many precious Statutes they made take care and provide that Parliaments shall not only be called but sit and be held or else of what use is this Soveraign Remedy if it be not made use of It would be a Mock-Remedy and Mock-Parliament if it only be call'd together to be Dissolv'd This would defeat the very Letter of the Law as well as the true intent meaning and benefit thereof For if a Gracious and good King as King Charles I. is reported to be had such Horrible Oppressions and Violence committed in his Reign as Loanes Ship-money Illegal Seizures of mens Estates Liberties Free-quarter Coat and Conduct-money and False Imprisonment during his Reign contrary to Law as he acknowledged by after Statutes that condemned them If Papists were prefer'd to Offices of great Trust Military and Civil and if his Favorite the Earl of Strafford raised an Army of Papists 8000. and ruled by them committed such Hainous Enormities and Misdeeds that he was not fit to be a Puny Constable and committed such Tyrannies and Cruelties that no Record can parallel And if no remedy was found to these mischiefs but a Parliament and that not suffered to be for 12 long years together Oh Fruitless Remedy of a Parliament Oh dull and Improvident Ancestors That were wise above all the World to make good Laws for securing our Liberties and Properties of which they were Tenacious to the death And yet that the Law that secures these should not be able to secure it self but to grant a Prerogative to make all null and void at pleasure If such mischiefs happened during the Reign of a Gracious King what may not happen in a Reign less Gracious Penelope's Webb which she weav'd all day and undid all again at night might be a Fable but this the moral of it that our Laws which our wise Ancestors had been long contriving to save us from Arbitrary sway should all be unravell'd again and leave us by a Prerogative of which the Law is the Author to meer good will and pleasure Tory. I must needs say that the Law which should be Wise Holy and Good would be

But how will you mend your selves if I get some of it for secret Service Whigg Thou art capable of any secret Service but Pimping Tant Pimping that becomes not my Coat Whigg True but I could tell you a time when Pimping and Conniving at Whoredom and Adultery has been as ready a road to a Bishoprick as ever Sybthorp Manwaring or Mountague took Tant In what time I pray Whigg In what time Catch-pole in no good time Tant Well say tho' in what time good Whigg Whigg When Popish Councils prevail'd most and Popish Interest Tant Oh! a great while ago Whigg Yes yes Man-Catcher how fain thou wouldst find me tripping Tant But did King Charles 1. take Tunnage and Poundage and Imprison the refusers without Authority of Parliament for the first 15 years of his Reign Tory. Yes indeed Mr. Richard Chambers was Imprisoned for refusing to pay Customs and had also 7060 Pounds of his goods taken from him and was fined 2000 l in the Star-chamber Tant See what it is to be obstinate and Rebellious Whigg What language these Tantivees have Obstinate and Rebellious when it was Voted and Declared by the honourable House of Commons Anno 1627. 1628. That whosoever shall Counsel or Advise the taking or Levying of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage not granted by Parliament or shall be any Actor or Instrument therein shall be reputed an Innovator in the Government and a capital Enemy to the Kingdom and Common-wealth And if any Merchant or Person whatsoever shall voluntarily yield or pay the said Subsidy of Tunnage or Poundage not being granted by Parliament they shall likewise be reputed Betrayers of the Liberties of England and Enemies to the same As may appear by the said Order upon Record Now good Tantivee what shall a Subject do in this Case he must necessarily be ground-crusht between two Mill-stones if he Payes not the Kings party take all from him and if he Payes the Parliament punishes him for Betraying the Liberties of England and as a common and capital Enemy Tant There is but Right and Wrong in the World which of them were in the Right Whigg Neither of them would acknowledge themselves in the Wrong I 'le warrant 'till the longest Sword decided the Quarrel Tant But might not Mr. Chambers have been Pardoned if he would have Recanted these words They meaning the Merchants are in no parts of the World so screw'd and wrung as in England and that in Turkey they have more Incouragement Whigg Recant yes they brought him a Recantation to Subscribe and then he should be Released of his Fine 2000 l But the draught of Submission he Subscribed thus All the abovesaid Contents and Submission I Richard Chambers do utterly abhor and detest as most unjust and false and never 'till Death will acknowledge any part thereof Richard Chambers Also he underwrit these Texts of Scripture instead of Submission namely That make a man an Offender for a word and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate and turn aside the just for a thing of nought Wo to them that devise Iniquity because it is in the Power of their hand and they covet Fields and take them by Violence and Houses and take them away so they Oppress a man and his house a man and his heritage Thus saith the Lord God let it suffice you Oh Princes of Israel Remove Violence and Spoil and execute Judgment and Justice take away your Exactions from my People saith the Lord God If thou seest the Oppression of the Poor and violent perverting of Judgment and Justice in a Province marvel not at the matter for he that is higher than the highest regardeth and there be higher than they Per me Richard Chambers Tant But did He that is higher than the highest regard and shew his Displeasure in this Affair Whigg It is neither safe nor easy to unriddle the meaning of Gods Providence by the Events But as to matter of Fact History tells us that Richard Chambers notwithstanding his vast Losses for which he never had considerable Reparation when time serv'd so thankless an Office it is to be a State Martyr as to the gratitude of men but by Gods goodness to him he liv'd to be Sheriff of London and a worshipful Alderman thereof but his Judges in the Star-Chamber many of them did not come to the Grave in Peace but went out of the World as naked as they came into it stript of all before they were bereav'd of Life yet the Lord Treasurer Weston dyed of his fair death flying beyond Sea and withall he dyed a professed as before he was vilely suspected and taken upon suspition for a Masquerade Papist Tant You Whiggs thought him a Covert-papist or a Protestant in Masquerade when he was so preferr'd at Court from Chancellor of the Exchequer to be the great Lord Treasurer Whigg He was a Creature of Buckingham's making and Bishop Laud's Confirming Tant Do Bishops confirm Lord Treasurers Whigg Sometimes as well as turn Lord Treasurers themselves as they used to be Tant The worst of the Disciples carryed the Bag. Whigg That Rule holds not always true Tant But if the said Treasurer did Dye a profest Papist that looks not well on our side Tory. Nor can it surely be deny'd and the Commons were so sensible of it that they agreed upon this ensuing Petition to his Majesty concerning Recusants long before Weston grew so high in these words To the Kings most Excellent Majesty YOUR Majesties most Obedient and Loyal Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled do with great Comfort remember the many Testimonies which your Majesty hath given of your Sincerity and Zeal for the true Religion Established in this Kingdom and in particular your gracious Answer to both Houses of Parliament at Oxford upon their Petition concerning the Causes and Remedies of the Increase of Popery that your Majesty thought fit and would give Order to Remove from all Places of Authority and Government all such Persons as are either Popish Recusants or according to direction of former Acts of State justly to be suspected which was then Presented as a great and principal Cause of that Mischief but not having received so full redress herein as may conduce to the Peace of this Church and safety of this Regal State they hold it their Duty once more to resort to your Sacred Majesty humbly to Inform you that upon Examination they find the Persons underwritten to be either Recusants Papists or justly suspected according to the former Acts of State who now do or since the Siting of the Parliament did remain in places of Government and Authority and Trust in your several Counties of this your Realm of England and Dominion of Wales The Right Honourable Francis Earl of Rutland Lieutenant of the County of Lincoln Rutland Northampton Nottingham and a Commissioner of the Peace and of Oyer and Terminer in the County of York and Justice of Oyer