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A51468 A most learned and eloquent speech spoken and delivered in the House of Commons, at Westminster, by a most learned lawyer, the 23 of June, 1647. Most learned lawyer. 1681 (1681) Wing M2904; ESTC R180739 6,320 4

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Oaths religiously and not taken the second most perjuriously and performed them so impiously then we had never so rebelliously offended so Gracious a Majesty Mr. Speaker Our Adversaries do further alledge that our Obedience to His Majesty is apparently manifest many strange ways we have disburdened Him of His large Revenues we have eased Him of the charge of Royal House-keeping we have cleared Him from repairing of it or repairing to His Stately Pallaces Magnificent Mansions and Defensive Castles and Garrisons and we have put Him out of care of repairing His Armories Arms Ammunition and Artillery we have been at the charge of the keeping of His Children and most trusty Servants from or for Him We have taken Order and given Ordinances that He shall not be troubled either with much Money or Meat and that His Queen and lawful Wife shall not so much as darken His doors and We have stroven by open Rebellion to release Him of troublesom Life and Reign by hunting Him like a Partridge over the Mountains and by shooting Bullets at His Person for His Majesties Preservation on purpose to make Him Glorious in another World we have also eased Him of a great number of His Friends Subjects and Servants by either charitable famishing Brotherly banishing liberal and free Imprisoning Parliamental Plundring Friendly Throat-cutting and unlawful beheading and hanging or utterly ruinating as many as we could lay hold of by destroying of them that either love served or honoured Him All these heavy Burdens we have eased Him of and over-loaded our selves with the usurped ponderosity of them so our Adversaries say that the weight of them will shortly either break our backs or sink us for ever And they further say that since the World's Creation never so good a King was so hardly used or so Trayterously abused and dealt withal Fourthly Mr. Speaker It is questioned what we have done for the Law there are some Malignants that are not afraid to say that we have transformed and metamorphosed the Common Law of the Land into the Lands common Calamity that instead of the Common Benefit which the Laws in community should yield to all we have now perverted the same to the private profit of our selves and some particular Persons The Civil War is turned to an uncivil War Blasphemies Atheism Sacriledge Obscenity Prophaneness Incest Adultery Fornication Leignany Poligamy Bastard-bearing Cuckold-making and all sorts of beastly bawdry is so far from being punished that it is greatly connived at or totally tollerated and that those who should be punishers of these gross and crying Crimes as Judges Officials Doctors Proctors and Apparitors these are scorned reviled libelled against cryed down and made to be the shooting-stake and laughing-stock of every libidinous incontinent Whore and Whore-monger The Law of God contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandements they say we have cast out of the Church not so much as suffering it to be read and the New Testament which was the last that Christ commanded That we should love one another we have turn'd the clean contrary way to the spoiling and murdering of one another And for the Law of Nature it is most unnaturally changed to a Brutish Heathenish Inhumanity Parricide Intricide Fratricide and Homicide and hath been and is by us defended maintained and rewarded no Affinity Consanguinity Alliance Friendship or Fellowship hath or can have any true Protestant or Loyal Subject either of Life Goods Safety or Freedom These are the best Reports our Adversaries the Malignants do give us to have done for the Laws Nay they say further we have infringed and violated the Law of Arms here and the Law of Nations abroad for whereas Messengers and Ambassadors have always had and ought to have free and safe passage with fair and courteous accomodations and entertainment but we contrary to them and repugnant to Christianity and Christians have suffered Ambassadors to be Rifled Robbed and ill-intreated and we have caused His Majesties Messengers to be hanged whom he most graciously hath sent to us with conditions of Peace by Vox Populi or common Vote of the People without we are pleased to call Malignants Popish Enemies to the State with other scandalous names reproachful words and Epithetes which they utterly deny and we know both in their words and practice we are justly taxed to be the mean independent and pestilent propagation of all mischiefs that this afflicted miserable Kingdom groans and bleeds under for they say that the old Statute of Magna Carta are overthrown by us under the colour of supporting them by our Votes and Ordinances Precepts and Proclamations Edicts Mandates and Commands we have countermanded abrogated annihilated abolished violated and made void of all the Laws of God and Nature of Arms and Arts too and instead of them we have unlawfully erected Marshal Law Club Law Strafford's Law and such Laws as make most for Treason Rebellion Murder Sacriledge Envy and Plunder But as for the King we have not allowed Him so much Law as a Huntsman allows a Hare These are our Enemies words and thus much say they we have done for the Laws Fifthly The first Question or Quere is what we have done for the King It is spoken we have done and undone the Kingdom this Ancient Famous Kingdom the Envy of the World for happiness this Eden of the Vniverse this Terrestrial Paradice this abstract of Heaven's blessing and Earth's content the Epi●om of natures glory this exact extraction of Piety Learning and magnanimous Chivalry this nursery of Religion Arms Arts Laudable Endeavours this brood of men this wonder of Nations formerly renowned feared loved and honoured as far as ever our Sun and Moon did shine this England which hath been a Kingdom a Monarchy many hundred years under the Reigns of 168 Kings and Queens this Kingdom that hath conquered Kindoms that hath made India Palestina Cypria tributary tremblers hath made France shake Spain quake relieved and defended Scotland from French Slavery that saved and protected the Netherlands from Spanish Tyranny now we have made this Kingdom of England a most miserable Slave to it self an universal Golgotha a purple gore Akeldama a Bloudy Field a Gehenna a Den of Devils or Infernal Furies and finally an Earthly Hell were it not for these differences that here the best men are punished and in Hell the worst only are plagued here no good man escapes torments nor any bad man is troubled the Gracious King is abused for being good and just and his true and Loyal Subjects and Servants Massacred and maligned for their fidelity the Protestants are called Papists because they will not be Brownists Anabaptists and Rebels and Adversaries are so bold to say that we have plotted and laboured long to turn this glorious Monarchy into a pelting holy polly Independent Anarchy and to make the Kingdom to be no Kingdom so much they say we have done for the Kingdom Sixthly Mr. Speaker we are questioned what good we have done for the