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A Declaration shewing the necessity of the Earle of Straffords suffering.
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1641
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Wing D795; Thomason E158_2; ESTC R212698
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A DECLARATION Shewing THE NECESSITY Of the EARLE OF STRAFFORDS Suffering Printed in the yeare 1641. THE NECESSITY OF THE EARLE OF STRAFFORDS SUFFERING SIR TO give you my advice why it is likely and most probable I will give you my reason as causes produce effects elevation and neare approach of the Sunne argueth Spring greennesse and flowers declare Summer throwes antecedents of nativity clouds portend raine and laying the cloath a preparation for dinner He the Earle of Straffords escape of punishment must of necessity raise a lamentable storme in our calme as invading our liberties shipwracking property of goods causing punishment upon his impeachers so that the trienniall Parliament will bee of no such force as is expected for besides it will incourage others to doe the like insolencies oppressions extortions outrages and tyrannies it will undoe our State consider we therefore his Physiognomy posture of person proud carriage and insolent behaviour it may easily foretell the future as falling leaves winter for his palled colour sheweth revenge his sower face cruelty his stooping and looking to the earth avarice his gate pride and his demeanour insolency for revenge is odious in greatnesse cruelty abhominable in governours avarice hatefull to God and man as appeares by his sole ingrosing commodities in Ireland and therefore he will bee homo hominibus lupus proud in Magistracy insolent in supreame place which will breed contempt contempt impatience impatience fury fury rebellion and rebellion ruine of King and people for he hath beene so invested by the divell in all deeds as he can be changed no more then the Leopard from spots or the Negro from blacknes and who shall undertake to alter him laboureth in vaine The Duke of Ireland Michael de la Pool his confederates caused the breaking of the Parliament when the Parliament had made the Duke of Gloucester and others Commissioners to reforme abuses which were a mighty pressure then but those Monsters made all those faithfull Ministers of State conspirators against King Richard the second and his prerogative though these caterpillers were delinquents and laboured the demolition and overthrow of the whole Estate wherefore it hath beene a rule that an ill instrument hath alwaies beene made incapable of government and can bee of no use for the postea such alwaies have brought an ad quod damnum to the Prince and mischiefe to the Common wealth for hee is as subtile as Lewis the eleventh libidinous as Tiberius cruell as Nero covetous as rich Cressus as terrible as Phalaris and mischievous as Sejanus and at the same end may he arrive I will never beleeve but he aimes at Monarchy whose actions spinne threads of Empire not easie to be numbred and therefore is worthy of no compassion of King or Parliament for this cause there is no more worthy subject of ruine then the acquests of his manifold deeds now the Deere which escapes the toile is more mannish the madde Bull wounded and let loose doth more mischiefe so if the Earle shall get out of the net he will be more savage then before like the Duke of Ireland persecuted the Patriots of the Common wealth for revenge in cold bloud is more dangerous then in passion like the Mastive worried returns with others to kill Consider therefore his wicked facts in the frontispiece of which his setting enmity betweene the two Nations England and Scotland brothers and subjects to one Soveraigne his exercising regall authority in Ireland in impoverishing that Kingdome fining imprisoning causing divers to die putting out hundreds from their estates by force and armes starving others for want of flax and materialls imposing new oathes against Law and finally breaking up the last Parliament All which are high treason and are so adjudged in the case of the Duke of Ireland and his confederates in the sixt of Richard the second Certainly by these barbarous actions hee hath caused the Subjects of England Scotland and Ireland to murmure against the Diadem for the highest treason of all is to cause the Throne to be despised the Power neglected and his subjects to rebell which in all ages hath beene held by Civill and Common Law a most abhominable Damnum Majestatis worse then hurt of Majesty for if Otho Grandorser for making division betweene the Palatine of Rhene and his mother lost his tongue and eyes much more causing Subjects rebell members of the same heads ought to bee losse of life The Kings regall power hath beene obstructed and intercepted eclipsing the shining Throne it could not command their affections persons purses nor cause them fight against the Scots whom they thought honest and good Subjects and not to insist upon one fact hath not hee caused men to be shot to death and executed So Alvarode Luna for such pride in causing a Gentleman of Spaine to have his necke broake out of a window because he spake ill of him was executed though a great favourite and upon this reason that it procured the hatred of the people against the King It is no answer to alledge that he did it by a councell of warre for it hath no power in peaceable times where the quarrell is for the Subjects right and religion which the Prince cannot nor ought divorce them from yea some of them have beene sacrificed to appease the people though happily not guilty of death as Commodus the Emperour caused Cleandor to die to appease the multitude which Emperour was much commended by the Historians of that time for that wicked instruments of State have no bridle but feare of punishment for which cause the inventors of Gabells impositions and such like have beene rewarded with death hath not he impoverished the Subjects of Ireland and the County of Yorke it is most certain he hath his ambitious minde hath caused him oppresse Ireland as Sejanus the Roman Monarchie who received his demerits a shamefull death his averice in a Subject hath undone the Merchants of Ireland and oppression of Subjects by Subjects deserveth death and to say the truth this man is greater then his Ancestors lesse then his thoughts which like a whirlewinde hath carried him to so abhominable courses as hath beene brought to passe man cannot receive nor fortune give more if shee had not made him a King it was because shee esteemed it a lesse thing to make him a head of an Empire then give the head of Monarchie to the prey of one health wit riches greatnesse and honour are gifts impoverish the foundresse if after the gift her avarice did not retake them There was only the Duke of Ireland had so absolute a power in Ireland as he The first laboured to bee absolute Duke of Ireland and so will this if he be not cut off in his careire for as others then so the Papists now who are the greater part of Ireland would if it were in their power make him a King wherefore it appeares necessary that he should have condigne punishment for wickednesse unpunished diminisheth not but increaseth force the physicke which this Parliament should administer to the sicke state of the Common-wealth is seasonable for nothing is more dangerous in the beginning of feavers then not to let bloud and it is mortall in gangrenes not to cut off a member the house of Commons hath voated him a traytor the grand jury of the Kingdome as hath beene said in other Parliaments and shall he goe unpunished God forbid likewise hee hath had a most honourable triall before the three Estates with divers testimonies upon the severall Articles convinced with prooffes therefore the Lords by the Earle Marshall ought as in other Parliaments to give sentence for it appears by the 25. of Ed. the third Cap. 2. That the Parliament onely hath power to expresse and declare what is treason and to sentence it in cases not specified by the aforesaid Statute the words are these That if any other case supposed treason not above specified shall happen before the Judges they shall tarry till the Parliament come before they give sentence that the cause bee declared before the King and the Parliament whether it ought to bee adjudged treason or fellony and this Statute is perpetuall no probationer though in the Statute of three and thirtieth of Henry 8. Cap. 10. the Judges have power to attaint by a Jury in cases expressed aforesaid by which the attainted forfeits all his lands to the King who shall bee in actuall and reall possession of the same lands tenements hereditaments uses goods chattells as if the attainder had beene by authority of Parliament and so it is reported by Cooke and Dier and in a Parliament in Henry the sixt time all the Judges of England were of the same opinion when Thorpe Speaker of the house of Commons in an adjournment of six weekes was imprisoned and at the recesse of the said Parliament upon complaint of the Commons the fact being censured in the house of Commons and transmitted up to the Lords the Lords asked the opinion of the Judges the Judges answered they had no power to judge of any Act of the house of Commons but were subject to them and what the house of Commons should set downe was Law by which it appeares plainly they have power to declare the facts of the Lord Strafford treason which I humbly submit to the high Court of Parliament And whereas it is observed that all Papists speake well of him and his actions it is very likely in recompence thereof he would bring in Popery vi armis having power under his Majesty to raise armes and all for a Bulwarke to support his greatnesse like to that of France Now the cause of God is in our hands which if you omit you shall never have the like opportunity to doe God and the King good service Wherefore my prayer to God shall bee to open his Majesties eies to see the danger he and all we are in Gloria Deo Filio Spiritu sancto FINIS