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A37474	The speech of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Warrington, Lord Delamere, to the Grand Jury at Chester, April 13, 1692	Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of, 1652-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing D883; ESTC R24883	10,473	34

those who take offence at the late Act of Indulgence which tends so much to our Peace by quieting the Minds of the People as to their Religion which hath ever been the handle to our intestine Troubles the Incendiaries of the State having ever made use of it as the best pretence to embroyl the Nation And therefore I for my part do think that the Act of Indulgence was a necessary and Pious Work and cannot imagine why any man should think that to be a disservice to the Church that tends to the Peace of the Nation They who do so I must believe are not much concerned in the Cause of the Chureh and their Country and care not what is uppermost provided they can but make fair Weather for themselves Therefore Gentlemen if any speak to the disadvantage of the Act of Indulgence you ought to present them as disaffected to the Government and sowers of the seeds of Division in the State But I desire to be rightly understood I do not say this to disswade any man from coming to the Church For I go constantly thither my self and I wish every body could do it as easily as I do and I wonder 't is otherwise for I never yet heard any good reason for the practising the contrary Yet I think unless a man be satisfied in that way of Worship it is better to keep away than to come for otherwise it is to mock and not to Serve God and on the other hand it is no less a mocking of God when a man from an over-assurance of the Gift of Prayer shall adventure to Pray in Publick without having before-hand well digested his Matter and Words and therefore may happen to let fall crude and nautious Expressions such as would be ridiculous in private Conversation for I am far from believing that Nonsence can be the effect of Fervency but rather of Affectation or something that is very reproveable And here it will not be amiss or improper to take notice of those Persons who go to no Church at all but spend the Lords day commonly called Sunday as the Statute hath it in an Ale-house or otherwise idle it away very unprofitably against such as these was that Law of Twelve-Pence a Sunday intended and were it duly put in Execution a great deal of that dishonour that is done to God by such Profanation would be prevented and the Poor would be relieved with less charge to their respective Parishes I wonder the Petty Constables are not more careful to make true Presentments at every Petty Sessions of those who herein offend the Glory of God and their own Interest being so nearly I may say so immediately concerned The next thing I would recommend to you is As far as in you lies to suppress that horrible Sin of customary Swearing whereby the Tremendous Name of God is every day Blasphemed It is too true that scarce any man when Provoked or in Passion has guard enough over himself to prevent his taking the Holy Name of God into his Mouth and if any of us fall into that sad misfortune we ought solemnly to beg forgiveness of it But yet that whereby God's Honour suffers most is customary Swearing when men do not think they express themselves handsomely without an horrible Oath or more to fringe off their Sentences It is such a daring familiarity with God Almighty as no man would allow to his best Friends I believe there is not any of you Gentlemen but would be very angry to have your own Names used upon every slight and trivial occasion and if so I will not imagine that you will be less concerned for God's Honour than for your own It is a shameful thing to see how very much the High ways are generally neglected and out of Repair the fault of which does mostly lye at the door of the Overseers whose chiefest care in them now a days is how to shuffle off the matter for their time being very little concerned for what comes after them and by this means they bring at last a great burthen upon their Townships which would have been prevented by a small charge if but taken in time and so the Township suffers through their neglect There are very good Laws against Vagabonds but the Execution of them is shamefully neglected and it is strange it should be so considering what Incouragement the Law gives for the apprehending of such idle People For who ever brings any of those Wanderers before a Justice of Peace The Towns through which they last past Unpunished is to Pay Two Shillings a piece to him that apprehended them Though this Reward carry no weight with it yet the great Mischief that those sort of People bring upon the Publick should make every body vigilant It is an incredible Sum that they cost the Nation in a year and considering how many Townships and Parishes are oppressed and almost ruined by the Accidents that are hereby brought upon them it is wonderful that People should rather chuse to Forswear themselves than do their Duty but so it is in this Case Were these Wanderers duly Punished it would reform many of them and discourage others from following so bad an example whereas the great remisness of Constables and other Officers in this point is a great temptation to many who otherwise would think of some more Lawful as well as Profitable ways of living A neglect and slowness to Punish increases the number of Offenders These things Gentlemen I in particular recommend to you not as all your business but yet as things that cry aloud for redress for there does fall within your Enquiry High-Treasons Petty-Treasons Felonies of all sorts whether against the Person Possession or Goods of a man Riots Routs and unlawful Assemblies and every thing that is an Offence against the Publick Peace in which I am not more particular because I fear I have held you too long already and therefore I will trouble you no farther but pray God to direct you in your Business FINIS BOOKS Printed for R. Baldwin ME●ourius Britannious Or the New Observator Containing Reflections upon the most Remarkable Events falling out from time to time in Europe and more particularly in England The Fifth Volume Printed for Rit Baldwin where are also to be had the First Second Third and Fourth Volumes with the Appendix to them The Speech of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Gray of Gr●●●y c. at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of 〈◊〉 at Michaelmas 1691. His Lordship being made Gustes Rot●●rum for the faid County by the late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal Bibliotheca Politica Or a Discourse by way of Dialogue Whether Absolute Non-Resistance of the Supreme Powers be enjoined by the Doctrine of the Gospel and was the Ancient 〈◊〉 of the Primitive Church and the 〈◊〉 Doctrine of our Reformed Church of England Collected out of the most approved Authors both Ancient and Modern Dialogue the Fourth Printed for R. Baldwin where also may be had the First Second and Third Dialogues A Project of a Descent upon France By a Person of Quality A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War being a Journal of their Travels from 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 to Th●●lon in Provence and back again With a Description of the Scituation and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road and their Distance Of their Prisons and Hospletals and the number of men that died under their Cruelty 〈…〉 Europe 's Chains broke or a sure and speedy Project to rescue her from the present Usurpations of the Tyrant of France Reflections upon the late King James's Declaration lately Dispersed by the Jacabites Truth brought to Light or the History of the first 14 years of King James I. In Four Parts I. The happy state of England at his Majesty's Entrance the corruption of it afterwards With the Rise of Particular Favourites and the Divisions between this and other States abroad II. The Divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex before the King's Delegates authorized under the King's Broad-Seal As also the Arraignment of Sir Jer. Ellis Lieutenant of the Tower c. about the murther of Sir Tho. Overbury with all Proceedings thereupon and the King 's gracious Pardon and Favour to the Countess III. A Declaration of his Majesty's Revenue since he came to the Crown of England with the Annual Issues Gifts Pensions and extraordinary Disbursements IV. The Commissions and Warrants for the burning of two Hereticks newly revived with two Pardons one for Theophilus Higgons the other for Sir Eustace Hart. A Sermon preached before the General and Officers in the King's Chappel at Portsmouth on Sunday July 24. 1692. Being the day before they Embarqu'd for the Descent upon France By Willam Gallaway A.M. Chaplain to Their Majesties Sea-Train of Artillery

perswaded that what I have already said is sufficient to convince any one who is unprejudiced That an Absolute Power is so far from being the Right of the King of England that the exercise of such a Power is Unlawful in any King I know very well that in the late Reigns this Doctrine would not have been endured to have said then less than this would have cost a man his Head For whoever would not then comply with Arbitrary Power was called a Factious man and an Opposer of the Government but is it not nonsense or very near a-kin to it to call that Seditious that is for bringing things into Order and for maintaining the Laws and supporting the Government Arbitrary desires never did any King good but have ruined many It shook King Charles the Second's Throne and tumbled down his next Successor and though such Kings are left without excuse when Ruined yet I may say they are not only in the fault for their overthrow is in a great measure occasioned by those who Preach up and advise the King to Arbitrary Power Did not other People cocker up and cherish Arbitrary Notions in Kings minds though such Conceptions might sometimes get into their heads yet they would never fructifie nor come to perfection if they were not cultivated by Parasites who make their Court that way in hopes to raise themselves tho with the hazard of their Master's Crown A●● befel the late King James whose Male Administration rendered him unmeet to sway the Scepter And I am very well satisfied that the Judgment upon him was just for unless a People are decreed to be miserable which God Almighty will never do except thereto very highly provoked by their Sins certainly he will never so tye up their hands that they shall not be allowed to use them when they have no other way to help themselves Several Artifices were made use of in the Two late Reigns for the introducing Arbitrary Power and Popery one of which was to insinuate into the minds of the People that the Succession of the Crown was the Chief Pillar of the Government and that the breaking into it upon any pretence whatsoever was no less than a Dissolution of the whole Constitution and nothing but Disorder and Confusion could ensue This Doctrine was boldly then Preached up and prevailed with many and obtained no less than if the Crown had been setled in that Family by an Ordinance or Decree dropt down from Heaven and that every one of that Line or Race had been distinguished from the rest of Mankind by more than ordinary virtues and endowments of Mind and Body But we know not of any such Divine Revelation and happy had it been for this Nation if that Family had been so signal for its Justice and its Piety we might then have prayed That there might not want one of them to sit upon this Throne to all Ages How much this Nation is obliged to that Family we very well remember for the Wounds they gave us are not yet healed Election was certainly the Original of Succession for as the living more safely and with the freer Enjoyment of their Goods was the Original Cause that people associated themselves into a Nation or Kingdom so for the better attaining that End they did set over themselves the best and wisest of their brethren to be their Rulers and Governours and this Administration was trusted in one or more hands according to the Temper and Disposition of the Person in which Authority they continued either for their lives or for one year or for some other stated Period of time Where the Government was under a King he usually held it for life and then upon his Decease the people proceeded to a New Election till at last it fell into the hands of some very excellent Person who having more than ordinarily deserved of his Countrey the people as well in Gratitude to him as believing they could not expect a better Choice than in the Branches that would grow out of so excellent a Stock entailed that Dignity upon him and his Posterity And this seems to be the most Natural and Lawful Rise of Succession I do not deny but some Successions have arisen from Force but that was never lasting for it could not subsist or seem Lawful any longer than there was a Force to support it Now when Princes come to the Crown by the first way of Succession I mean by the Consent and Approbation of the People does not that plainly imply That they ought to use that Power for the Good and Advantage of their Subjects and not to their hurt and enjoy the Crown only upon that condition No man would ever suffer a Monster to inherit his Estate and Kings are no more exempted from the Accidents of Human Nature than their meanest Subjects and it is every days practice in private Families to exclude those that will waste their Estates and ruin the Family and if the reason will there hold good then it is so much the stronger in the Descent of the Crown by how much the good of the whole Kingdom is to be preferred to that of one Family Nor is Succession so very Ancient in England as some people may apprehend Till the time of William the First commonly though falsly called the Conqueror it was look'd upon as a very precarious Title the next in Succession could make but little reckoning on the Crown further than his good Inclinations and Sufficiencies to sway the Scepter did recommend him to the Affections of the People It being then very common not only to break into the Succession but even to set aside all that Family and Line whenever it was known that the Publick might suffer by their being at the Head of the Government the Publick Good being the only Rule and Consideration that governed that Point William the First declared upon his Death-bed and that is a time when men do seldom prevaricate That he did not possess the Crown by an Hereditary Right William the Second must be allowed by all people to come in by Election because Robert his Elder Brother was alive and survived him Next to him was Henry the First who also came in by Election because his Eldest Brother Robert was yet alive and this Henry in his Charter acknowledged that he owed his Crown to the Mercy of God and the Common Council of the Realm King Stephen Henry the Second Richard the First and King John all came in by Election so that till Henry the Third there is scarce to be found any President of Succession and since his Reign the Succession hath been broken into several times and the Crown shifted from one Family to another by Act of Parliament and being so transferred by that Authority it is the greatest proof that can be that Succession is a very feeble Title without something else to support it and I think I may say Defective For says one of great Authority never did