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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85814	The loyal citizen revived. A speech made by Alderman Garroway, at a common-hall, On Tuesday the 17. of January, 1642 upon occasion of a speech delivered there the Friday before, by Mr. Pym, at the reading of His Majesties Answer to the late petition.	Garraway, Henry, Sir, 1575-1646.	1679 (1679)	Wing G279; ESTC R224613	7,960	4

we then govern the City by direction of both Houses I am not willing to speak slightly of any persons gotten into Authority only we may say there be some amongst us we did not think two years ago to have met here and yet we were wont to see an Alderman coming a dozen year off I cannot tell what you mean by Arbitrary power but I am sure we are governed by nothing we were used to be governed by I have been Lord Mayor my self in a pleasanter time than this and should have some share still in the Government before God I have no more Authority in the City than a Porter not so much as an Aldermanbury Porter If to be Governed by People whose Authority we know not and by Rules which no body ever heard of or can know be a sign of Arbitrary Power we have as much of it as heart can wish To the Kings charge of our Contributing for the maintenance of the Army which had given Him Battel we were told that diverse practices were made against the Parliament before they made any preparation for their defence By practices I think they mean Fears and Jealousies for all the particulars mentioned by Him we know and are understood by all the Boys in the street but we are sure there were Ten thousand men Raised and Armed out of this Town and the Neighbour Counties before the King had seven hundred To the danger that the Kings Person was in at the thought whereof every honest heart trembles the Gentleman told us they were sorry for it I dare not tell you what I think their sorrow was But Masters if you knew how much your Estates and Being depends upon the life and safety of our good King you would no sooner apprehend Him in danger than you would run to His rescue as you would fly from the Plague and Beggery But that reproach of maintaining the Kings Children here I confess made my heart rise I hope it did so to many here Is our good King fallen so low that His Children must be kept for Him it is worth our enquiry who brought Him to that condition We hear Him complain that all his own Revenue is seized and taken from Him Is not His Exchequer Court of Wards Mint here his Customs too are worth somwhat and are His Children kept upon Alms How shall we and our Children prosper if this be not remedied They will by no means endure that His Majesty be obeyed in the apprehension of the Lord Mayor and the other three Gentlemen for it is the sense of both Houses that this demand is against the Priviledg of Parliament and most dishonourable to the City For the first I dare not speak my mind though I must confess my self not able to answer the Kings reasons in many of His Declarations upon that point but for the second under the favour of both Houses whether it be dishonourable for the City whether it be fit be done or no we are the best indeed we are the only Judges I will take the liberty to speak freely my Conscience in this Case as a friend to Justice as a lover of these men and as a Servant to the City and as all these I protest to God if I were now Lord Mayor and the other three were my Father and my Brothers I would satisfie the King in this point Did His Majesty ask to have them put to death meerly upon His Accusation or have them sent bound hand and foot to Oxford where it might be in his power to proceed against them in an extraordinary way it might seem unreasonable but to apprehend them to keep them in safe custody that His Majesty may proceed against them according to the known Laws under which they were born and bred where if guilty they must be left to the Justice of the Law and His Majesties mercy if innocent will receive an honourable acquittal seems to me so just in the King to ask and so necessary for us to yield to that the denying it implies a doubt in us of the Innocence of those whom we will not submit to Justice Here is a way to find out the Kings Evil Counsellors If these men do their part like men of good Consciences submit to the Tryal of the Law which is the only Judg of Guilt and Innocence and are found clear from that heavy charge His Majesty accuses them of how gloriously will these men live hereafter and the King cannot refuse to deliver those up who have wickedly conspired the destruction of honest men but if we shall only cry out that the King is misinformed and dare not trust our selves upon a Tryal we may preserve our safety but we shall lose our reputation Thus much for Justice for the Gentlemens sakes now This way you see a way to honour and safety too if there be innocence but do you think after a months longer enduring the miseries which are now upon us men will not more importunately and impatiently enquire after the causes of their sufferings if they shall find that the denyal to give up four men who it may be are not of any known merit too to be Tryed by the Law being accused of High Treason and conspiring to take away the Kings life incensed our Gracious King against us and kept him from being amongst us whereby our Trade decays and such violences and outrages are every day committed I say can any four men bear the burthen of this envy and malice Will not some stout bold persons incensed and made desperate by their and the common sufferings tear these men in pieces We have been all young men and Apprentices let us remember the spirit was then amongst us would we have suffered all our hopes to have been blasted and destroyed by any four or fourteen men Let us not flatter our selves there is the same courage still in the City which at some time will break out to the ruine of more than these men but I thank that Worthy that told us that it is against the Rules of Justice that any men should be imprisoned upon a general Charge when no particulars are proved against them How insensibly in other mens cases do we accuse our selves why how many of us within these six months have been committed upon a general Charge How many persons of Honor and Reputation are now imprisoned in this Town when particulars are so far from being proved against them that they are not so much as suggested Was ever any Charge so general as to be a Malignant or Cavalier yet you hear all such imprisonments are against the Rules of Justice my opinion is that for Justice sake for the Cities sake for their own sakes these four men should quietly submit themselves to the Tryal of the Law if they refuse that they be delivered up to the hands of Justice Mr. Pym told us there was no proof that my Lord Mayor and the other persons named were countenancers of Brownists