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A62982
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A Tory plot, or, The discovery of a design carried on by our late addressers and abhorrers, to alter the constitution of the government and to betray the Protestant religion by Philanax Misopappas.
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Misopapas.
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1682
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Wing T1946; ESTC R6210
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observe how ever since they have resented their treatment We shall only observe what thanks the Commons conn'd G. Earl of H. who was believed to have a principal hand in dissolving the last and staving off the sitting of the present Parliament In an Address against him to the King they thus express themselves That being deeply sensible of the manifold dangers and mischiefs which have been occasioned to this Kingdom by the dissolution of the last Parliament and by the frequent Prorogation of this present Parliament whereby the Papists have been greatly encouraged to carry on their Hellish and damnable Conspiracies against His Majesties Royal Person and Government and the Protestant Religion now establish'd amongst us and have had many opportunities to contrive false and malicious Plots against the Lives and Honours of several of His Loyal Protestant Subjects and having just reason to believe that the said dissolution was promoted by the evil and pernicious Counsels of G. Earl of Hallifax Do therefore most humbly pray his Majesty That he would be graciously pleased to remove the said G. Earl of H. from his presence and counsels for ever But notwithstanding this Address he still keeps his station Sir Rob. Yeomans upon confessing the accusation against him and begging pardon of the House is dismist But Sir Rob. Cann reviling his Accusers and especially being a Parliament man for him to be guilty of such an expression was so great an aggravation that being expell'd the House he is committed to the Tower Thompson's punishment was prevented by the dissolution of the Parliament And now the Parliament according to the direction of his Majesty vigorously prosecute the Plot try all the waies and methods whereby his Majesties safety might be ensur'd and Religion secur'd As for themselves they present an Address declaring their resolution to preserve and support the King's Person and Government and the Protestant Religion both at home and abroad for which the King thankt them heartily As to the Plot they appoint a Committee to inspect and to take an Abstract of the Journals of both Houses as to matters relating to it upon the Report whereof they resolve Nemine contradicente That the D. of York 's being a Papist and the hopes of his coming such to the Crown hath given the greatest countenance and encouragement to the present designs and Conspiracies against the King and Protestant Religion And That in the defence of the King's Person and Government and of the Protestant Religion this House doth declare That they will stand by his Majesty with their Lives and Fortunes and that if his Majesty shall come by any violent Death which God forbid they will revenge it to the utmost upon the Papists Hereupon they bring in a Bill and pass it for securing the Protestant Religion by disabling James D. of York to inherit the Imperial Crown of England and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging but with a Proviso that it should extend to the person of the Duke of York only But the Lords rejecting this Bill and thereby the most probable Expedient the Commons could think of for the security of his Majesty and the Protestant Religion being frustrated they then in a Committee of the whole House make these two Resolves First That it is the Opinion of this Committee That as long as the Papists have any hopes of the D. of York 's succeeding the King in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging the Kings Person the Protestant Religion and the Lives Liberties and Properties of all his Majesties Protestant Subjects are in apparent danger of being destroyed The Second That it is the Opinion of this Committee That the House be moved nThat a Bill be brought in for an Association of all his Majesties Protestant Subjects for the safety of his Majesties Person the defence of the Protestant Religion and the preservation of his Majesties Protestant Subjects against all Invasions and Oppositions whatsoever and for the preventing the Duke of York or any Papist from succeeding to the Crown To both which Resolves the House agreed As to this Bill of Association we shall have occasion to speak to it afterwards but as to the Bill of Exclusion we must say something of it here the rather because our late Addresses and Abhorrers have taken occasion thence to revile this incomparably Loyal House of Commons with endeavours of subverting the Government And I shall demonstrate both its Legality its Equity and its Expediency 1. As to its Legality I could never hear more than two things oppos'd the one that Kings holding their Crowns by right of Primogeniture it is against the Law of Nature to put by the next Heir the other that it is against the Oath of Allegeance The first is so silly an Allegation that one would think no man that has heard of the several forms of Government in the World or read the History of his own Nation could have the confidence to insist upon it In how many Kingdoms has force and violence and the longest Sword settled an absolute Monarchy How oft has that yoke been shak'd off and the Government turn'd into a Free State How many different models of both Monarchies and States are there at this day in the World and yet none of them that I know of but are and ought to be own'd by the Subjects for lawful Governments and submitted unto for the Lord's sake If Princes held by this right how impossible were it for them to make out their Title ab origine if questioned Or shall we say that all States live contrary to the Law of Nature because they retain not this form of Government What shall we say of God's giving the Kingdom of Israel to Saul of the Tribe of Benjamin the youngest of Jacob's sons or to David the youngest of his Father's sons and of the Tribe of Judah while none of Reuben's Off-spring ever sate upon the throne Or if God may by prerogative dispense with this Law how came David to put Adonijah by the throne and seat Solomon in it Here in England King William 2. was King William 1. his third son and yet was advanced to the Crown and his eldest Brother Rtobert shamm'd off with a Dukedom King S ephen succeeded H. 1. though that King had a daughter Maud the Empress then living and Stephen had also an elder Brother named Theobald King John was admitted to the Crown though his elder Brother's son was living It were endless to give Instances both out of sacred and prophane History of the like nature Away then with this extravagant fancy and let the Soveraign Powers think their right sufficiently proved by the Law of the Land by their present quiet possession and the Allegeance of their Subjects But now this Oath of Allegeance is pretended not only to oblige those that take it to the present Soveraign and to his lawful Successors after his decease but even in his life-time To this