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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70250	Densell Hollis esq., his speech at the delivery of the protestation to the Lords of the Upper House of Parliament, 4 May, 1641 wherein is set forth the reasons that moved the House of Commons to make the said protestation, together with a short narration of the severall grievances of the kingdome.	Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2468A; ESTC R43011	2,068	6

DENSELL HOLLIS Esq HIS SPEECH At the delivery of the PROTESTATION TO the Lords of the upper House of Parliament 4. May 1641. Wherein is set forth the reasons that moved the house of Commons to make the said PROTESTATION Together with A Short Narration of the severall grievances of the KINGDOME London Printed 1641. The Speech of Master Hollis Esquire My Lords THe Knights and Burgesses of the house of Commons having taken into consideration the present estate and condition of this Kingdome they finde ●●surrounded with va●●ety of pernitions and dostructory designes practises and plots against the wel-being of it nay the very being of it and some of those designes hatched within our owne bowels and Viper-like working our owne destruction They finde Jesuits and Priests conspiring with ill Ministers of State to destroy our religion they finde ill Ministers conjoyned together to subvertiour Lawes and liberties they finde obstructions of justice which is the life and blood of every estate and having free passage from the Sovereigne power where it is primarily seated as the life and blood in the heart and thence derived through the judicatories on through so many veines into all the parts of this great Collective Body doth give warmth and motion to every part and member which is nourished and enlivened by it but being once precluded stopped and reared up as the particular must needs faint and languish so must the whole frame of Government be dislolved And consequently Soveraignty it selfe which as the heart in the body is primum vivens altimum moriens must die and perish in the generall dissolution and all things as in the beginning in antiquum Chaos My Lords They finde the property of the subject invaded and violated his estate rent from him by illegall taxations Monopolies and projects almost upon every thing that is for the use of man not only upon superfluities but necessaries ● and that to enrich the Vermine and Caterpillers of th●● 〈…〉 impoverish good subjects to take the Messe from the Children and give it to Dogs My Lords If the Commons finde these things they conceive they must needs bee ill Counsels that have brought us into this condition These Counsels have put all into a combustion have discouraged the hearts of all true English men and brought two Armies into our bowels which is the Vulture upon Prometheus cates through and sucks and gnawes our very hearts out Hic Dolor sed ub● Medicina Heretofore Parliaments were the Catholicall the balme of Gilead which healed our wounds restored our spirits and made up the breaches of the Land But of late yeares they have been like the fig-tree in the Gospell without efficacy without fruit only destructive to their particular members who discharged their duties and consciences no way benesiciall to the Common-wealth Nobis exitiale nec Reipublicae profuturum As he said in Tacitus being taken away still as Elias was with a whirle-winde never comming to any maturity or to their naturall end whereas they should be like the blessed old man who dyeth plenus dierum in a full age after he had fought a good sight and overcome all his enemies or as the shock of wheat which commeth in due season to fill our Granaries with Corne uphold our lives with the staffe of bread for Parliaments are our panis quotidianus our true bread all other waies are but Quelkachoes which yeeld no true nourishment bread nor good blood The very Parliament which hath sate so long hath but beat the aire and strive against the streame I may truly say the winde and tide hath been still against us The same ill Counsell which first raised the storme and almost shipwrackt the Common-wealth they still continue they blow strong like the East winde that brought the Locusts over our Counsels crosse our designes cast difficulties in our way hinder our proceedings and make all that we doe to be fruitlesse and ineffectuall They make us not masters of our businesse and so not masters of mony which have been the great businesse of this Parliament that we might pay the Armies according to our promises and engagements For my Lords our not effecting of the good things which we had undertaken for the good of the Church and of the Common-wealth hath wounded our reputation and taken off from our credit Is it not time then my Lords that we should unite and concentrate our selves in regard of this Antiperistasis of hurtfull and malicious intentions and practices against us My Lords it is most agreeable to nature and I am sure most agreeable to reason in respect of the present conjuncture of our affaires for one maine engine by which our enemies worke our mischiefe is by infusing an opinion and beliefe into the world that we are not united among our selves But like Sampsons Foxes wee draw severall waies and tend to severall ends To defeat the Counsels of these Achitophels which would involve us Our Religion our being our Lawes our liberties and that can be neare and deare unto an honest soule in one universall and generall desolation to defeat I say the Counsels of evill Achitophels the Knights Citizens Burgesses of the house of commons knowing themselves to be specially entrusted with the preservation of the whole and in their Conscience are perswaded that the dangers are so eminent as they will admit of no delay have thought fit to declare their united affections by entring into an association amongst themselves and by making a solemne protestation and vow unto their God that they will unanimously endeavour to oppose and prevent the Counsels and Counsellors which have brought upon us all these misceries and the feares of greater to prevent the ends and bring the Authors of them to condigne punishment and thereby discharge themselves better before God and man The Protestation your Lordships shall have read unto you together with the ground and reasons which have induced the house of Commons to make it which are prefixed before it by way of Preamble Then the Protestation was read by M. Maynard FINIS