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A26146	The Lord Chief Baron Atkyns's speech to Sir William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor Elect of the city of London at the time of their being sworn in Their Majesties Court of Exchequer, Monday the thirtieth of October, 1693.	Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709.	1694 (1694)	Wing A4143; ESTC R34194	10,530	14

Roman who was called Mecoenas of whom Tacitus tells us He was never Consul in Rome nor Senator but yet had a great authority both with Senate and People as any of those who had triumphed because of his excellent Parts and great Vertue It might have been said of him He loved our Nation and hath built us a Synagogue that is he delighted to do them good and they would all listen to him upon all occasions tho' he never had any of the Badges of Authority conferred upon him It is taken care of by our Law That that Coin which is current among us must not be of the baser Mettals but of one of the two ●●ner species Silver or Gold it must have intrinsick value as well as the Royal Impress This Election of your Lordship and ●ur Swearing you and all this Ceremony gives but the stamp and ●mpression it was your own intrinsick value before that intitled ●ou to the Office My Lord I shall say no more upon this Subject but shall make all the hast I can to conclude with that which is my duty to give some Advice to your Lordship Not but that you know your duty as well as I can teach it but I must not neglect any part of my own My Lord I must advise your Lordship to take care First of Religion and of the Service and Worship of God in the City to keep it up in power and in purity If we would have God to be our God and our Friend in a time of Distress we must carry it towards him Dutifully and Religiously and then we shall have him always our Friend our Father and Protector Therefore my Lord be severe upon all open prosane persons Swearers and others and those who are not afraid to vent their Atheistical loose Opinions in Religion There are a great many profest Atheists amongst us and there are I fear a greater number that pass under a new Name of Deists that are of as pernicious Principles and indeed I fear more dangerous who throw off all revealed Religion whatsoever Pray have a care of these and such as lead dissolute and debauched lives for if they be tolerated they will prove great Snares and Mischiefs to us all and therefore I hope your Lordship will look carefully after them In the next place pray My Lord take care of the Peace and Quiet of the City upon which the Peace of the Nation so much depends We have those among us and a great many who what with false Rumours and Reports and other artifices and cunning Contrivances would disturb the Peace of the Nation and put Frights and Fears into the Multitude It would be a desperate Remedy that of Insurrections and Tumults Your Lorship will do well to have an Eye upon them and prevent the beginnings 〈◊〉 are well joyned together in Holy writ it is Almighty God 〈◊〉 that can still the the Raging of the Sea and the Tumults of the People Whatsoever may be the Pretences upon which they are first got together we know not what they may turn about to when once they have a Head My Lord You will likewise do well to take care that the Proceedings of your Courts of Justice be clear and speedy and not too chargeable to the Suitor And here I cannot but renew the mention of a thing that I have spoken of I wish there were a good Law against selling of Offices in the City and every where else it doth corrupt the Fountain of Justice I speak not so much of your other Offices but of those in your Courts of Justice it may prove the ruine of the City and the destruction of the Government Pray My Lord take care of Charity look after the poor especially in this hard Winter and now there is such Scarcity of Corn and the Dearness of Coals Your Lorship in great Prudence and wisdom and of your great charity will I hope think of it in time and provide Stores for the poor People that they may not be in extream Want as to Food or Fewel I beg of your Lordship to be vigilant over those who meet together and cabal and study how to disturb our Peace My Lord they do now appear open-faced and effect to be known as Enemies to the Government They will not joyn with us in observing our Fasts but take occasion on those days to feast and be jolly with one another they purposely pride themselves in paying double Taxes because thereby they are known to be against our present Settlement These must have a strict Eye kept upon them I had much more to say upon that Point but I have been too long already I come now to the last part of this Work that lies upon me that is to offer your Lordship some Considerations that may encourage you in the chearful Discharge of your Office Among other things you have the good Examples of your two last Predecessors who indeed are so honourable and worthy persons that they may be counted among the Worthies of David and in particular your immediate Predecessor that stands by you who hath during his time well preserved the peace of the City and delivered it fairly into your Lordship's hands Tho we ●●nnot say he hath brought the Ship into Harbour yet he hat●●●●ly performed his part of the Voyage notwithstanding the Ro●ghness and Tempestuousness of the Season My Lord You have the Example of the King himself to encourage you who hath with great Courage and Love to our Nation exposed his Person to the utmost Perils and Hazards for us And it is not only his Vertue that may be an Encouragement but it is evident now to all the world that there hath a Blessed Providence attended him in the greatest Danger to preserve and protect him In the businness of Fights there is not a Bullet that flieth but it is under the Government and Direction of Providence And it is to a Miracle apperent that the Hand of Providence is continualy over the Head of our King When Julius Caesar was in great Distress Pompey his Enemy having possessed himself of all the Power and shut him up under great Difficulties he puts himself into a Disguise with a purpose to make his escape and embarqued himself in a sm●●● Vessel When he was there he could not prevail upon the Pilot to put to Sea it was rough and tempestuous like the Times we are now in all the Arguments he could use would by n● means do with him At length he was forced to throw off his Disguise and sh●w himself and tell him Caesarem Caesaris fortunam v●bis You have Caesar abroad and Caesar'● good Fortune That which he called Fortune I will call Providence A●d that Providence which preserved the King I make no doubt will protect you in your Great Station My Lord You have under your Care and I am glad the Care is in such hands the Worship Service of Almighty God and his Glory is engaged on your side Our great Enemy that I have spoken so much of before most blasphemously and impiously arrogates Glory to himself which is God's Prerogative My Glory saith God I will not give to another But the French King snatches at it he declares openly That the Dutch are an Hinderance and Diminution to his Glory and we may Expect to have the same said of our selves My Lord I say you have this Glory of God on your side and you have the Prayers and Assistance of a great many that love God a Great many in your City I dare pronounce more than in any place under Heaven The Prophet complained That he was left alone to serve God But God answered him that he had seven thousand in Israel which never bowed the Knee to Baal I may multiply that number of Seven as our blessed Saviour doth in the case of Forgiving our Brother There are seventy times seven thousand in this City and about it that never bowed the Knee to Baal never had a hand in all the Miscarriages and illegal Actions of the late Times would never own Popery and Arbitrary Power And I question not there are a great many more in the rest of the Kingdom These may be an encouragement to you You have the Interest of all the Protestants in the world and all that are concerned for their Civil Rights and their Religious ones too on your side My Lord I shall only conclude with one word Your Entrance into this great Office is very hopeful we all of us heartily wish your Exit and Conclusion may be as happy FINIS Dublin Re-printed for M. Gunn at the Sign of the Bible in Essex-street near Essex-Gate 1694.

The Lord Chief Baron Atkyns's Speech to Sir William Ashhurst Lord Mayor Elect of the City of London at the time of his being Sworn in Their Majesties Court of Exchequer Monday the Thirtieth of October 1693. My ●●rd Elect T●● Duty of that place wherein as yet I serve Their Majesties doth oblige me to say something to your Lordship upon this great and solemn occasion I thought I might have been excused by reason of great indispositions of body that are present upon me But since it is my Duty By the Grace of God I will endeavour to discharge it with all faithfulness and freedom And I am the more encouraged to undertake it because of the great Merit of the Excellent Persons that are before me to whom I must more particularly apply my self in what I have to say I s●●ll raise my Discourse from Two Heads and they are very vulgar and they are very short each of them consisting but of two words in Latin Foris Arma Consilium Domi Wars abroad but Counsel at home The first tells us of our danger the latter teaches us our duty Foris Arma It pleaseth Almighty God that after some years gone over our heads since the last Revolution and after so much Blood spilt and so much Treasure spent we yet continue in a State of War and that with a Prince who is very powerful is highly enraged against us and is very prosperous His power at Land appears in this that he has raised three great Armies and maintained them and with his single Force is able to Cope with almost all the United Forces of Europe His Power at Sea appears in this that he can encounter with the united strength of three great Nations the English the Dutch and the Spaniards each of which single not long ago had been too hard for him I shall tell you in a few words what the Design of this Great Enemy of ours is not that I mean to tell you news for I suppose there are none here present but know it but I am afraid we are not so sensible of it as we should be we do not so well consider it as we ought But however I must mention it because it induceth much of what I have to say The Design of this Great Prince the King of France is this First to make himself Universal Monarch of the West and if that were all it were not so bad Fot it doth not so much concern the world who Governs as how they Govern But in the next place it is to establish an Absolute Arbitrary Power every where He would rule us with a Rod of Iron His will and pleasure must be the only Law And in order to this he doth endeavor to make all other Princes Monarchs seek to be Absolute Arbitrary too in their Dominions that he alone may have the power of Ruling them and that they may have their dependance alone upon him And therein he would have the Prerogative that belongs to Almighty God to be King of Kings and Lord of Lords He would be the great Proprietary Owner and Disposer of all Estates and Possessions at his will and pleasure to lay what Taxes and Burthens upon them he pleaseth they shall toil and moil they shall plow and sow and he shall reap and divide all among his Bashaws and Janizaries and Men of War He would destroy the Protestants and root out their Religion and suffer no Religion to be professed any where but the Popish and that not out of Zeal or Love to Religion but he would make it a State-Engine that pretended Religion being most suitable to serve his Ambitious Designs These are his Designs and I shall prove it to you by some most manifest undeniable Instances And I have them already collected to my hand by an Excellent Author and his name is Dr. King late Dean of St. Patricks in Ireland but who since that was made Bishop of London-D●rry in a Thanksgiving-Sermon of his preached at St. Patrick's Church in Dublin upon the reducing of that Kingdom before the Lords Justices of Ireland It is in print and any one may have recourse to it In the first place He does state this to be the Design of the French King as I have stated it and then proceeds to the proof of it And the first thing is a Paper found in the Closet of the late Lord Tyrconnell then Colonel Talbot where the Design is laid open it is dated in July 1671. now two and twenty years ago There is the first Scheme of the Design laid between the French King and our late King King Charles the Second and it is a Scheme of such a Design as I have told you of and then it proposeth the means for effecting of it First To procure Popery to be established in England by a Toleration next To supress the Insolency as that Paper calls it of the Dutch And the last is To have a strict Alliance betwen the French King and the King of England And by this means as that Paper concludes would the King of Great Britain be absolute Monarch over his own Subjects Another Proof he produceth is a Memorial delivered in to the States of Holland in the year 1688. and that was by Monsieur d'Avaux the French Ambassador then at the Hague In this Memorial all this Design is stated bold-faced There he tells the States There was a Treaty between our then King formerly the D. of York and his Master the French King in the year 1671 and that was to this purpose To bring about such a Design as I have spoken of by which means as that Paper hath it the French King would be Universal Monarch and the King of England Absolute over his own Subjects and by this means there would be a Re-establishment of Popery in these three Kingdoms That is his Second Proof The Third is a Letter written by Moloony the Popish Bishop of Killalo● in Ireland and directed to another wherin he states this to be the Design of the French King that I have mentioned and the means the same to effect it In which Paper saith my Reverend Author there is great anger expressed that some Trimmers about the late King do disown any such Treaty with the French King So that here are clear Proofs that this was the Project between the two Crowns of England and France of a very long standing They are Proofs in Writing and under the Hands of those who were eminently instrumental in the carrying on of the Design But had I time and were it so pertinent especially here I could make that Design between England and France elder than 1671. And particularly I need but mention the business of Rochel You may see how that Atchievement of that King this French King's Father by the management of this publick Minister Cardinal Richlieu is celebrated with wonderful Encomiums by him that was then Secretary of State They date their Freedom as they call it and