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A43914	The history of the Association, containing all the debates, in the last House of Commons, at Westminster concerning an association, for the preservation of the king's person, and the security of the Protestant religion : the proceedings about an association in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and a true copy of the Association, produced at the Earl of Shaftsbury's tryal, and said to be found in his lordships study, with some observations on the whole : to which is added by way of postscript reflections on the parallel between the late Association, and the Solemn League and Covenant.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1682 (1682)	Wing H2144; ESTC R13449	34,008	34

apprehension that our Church-men of late have been out of the right way to preserve either our Religion or our Church Because the courses which they take must though I am far from suspecting they design it give a great assistance to Popery I remember that after the Plot broke out there was for a little while a kind of a reconciliation amongst Protestants and an united opposition made to the common Enemy and how then the Popish Interest gave way we may all remember but this was too much in favour of the Protestant Religion to hold long Within a few Moneths the fire broke out again and the Pulpits and the Press instead of being employed against the Common Enemy were reduced to their old way of carrying on the divisions amongst Protestants And how the Popish Interest have since gone on triumphant again all here I suppose may know Sir the Church hath two strong Enemies the Papists and Fanaticks We are already engaged in a sharp contest with the Papists and find they are strong enough for us Why must we now also enter into a fresh engagement with the Fanaticks especially when we may be sure thereby to strengthen our Enemies and weaken our selves Such advice cannot proceed from such as are friends to the Protestant Church If we should make new Laws against Dissenters as hath been moved and enforce the execution of the old ones as long as we have a Popish successor can any man imagine that the execution of them will be longer kept afoot than will consist with the Popish Interest Sir our Church and Religion will be lost if Union be not improved amongst Protestants and I think no Bill can promote it like this And therefore I am for the passing of this Bill Vpon these Debates it was Resolved That the said Bill be committed upon the Debate of the House Upon the 4th of January 1680 81. His Majesty was pleased to send a most Gracious Message to the Commons in these words CHARLES R. HIS Majesty received the Address of this House with all the disposition They could wish to comply with Their reasonable Desires but upon perusing it He is sorry to see Their Thoughts so wholly fixt upon the Bill of Exclusion as to determine that all other Remedies for the suppressing of Popery will be ineffectual His Majesty is confirmed in his opinion against that Bill by the Judgment of the House of Lords who rejected it He therefore thinks there remains nothing more for Him to say in answer to the Address of this House but to recommend to Them the Consideration of all other Means for the preservation of the Protestant Religion in which They have no reason to doubt of His concurrence whenever they shall be presented to Him in a parlimentary way And that They would Consider the present State of the Kingdom as well as the Condition of Christendom in such a manner as may enable Him to preserve Tangier and serve His Alliances abroad and the peace and Settlement at home All this while here was nothing but a means debated conformable to the incouragement which his Majesty himself had most graciously given them which next to the Bill of Exclusion might be most probable since the first was to be laid aside to secure his Majesties Person and his Government and consequently the whole Kingdom and the Protestant Religion And thus at length an Association was thought upon and found to be one of the best Expedients for those most noble an pious ends aforesaid as having been formerly practicable for preservation of our Prince and Country in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth At what time to prevent the wicked designes and seditious practises of the Pope the Spaniard and the Guises in France and to provide for the Queens safety upon which the welfare both of the Realm and Religion depended as now it does on the life of our sacred Sovereign many men of all degrees and conditions throughout England by Leicesters means and out of their own publick care and love while they stood not in fear of the Queen but were full of fear for her bound themselves in an Association by mutual Vows Subscriptions and Seals to prosecute to the death as far as lay in their power all those that should attempt any thing against the Queen This Association was afterwards confirmed in Parliament in the year 1658. with the approbation and consent of all at what time it was Enacted that twenty four or more of the Privy Council or Lords of Parliament to be de puted by the Queens Commission should make inquisition after all such as should invade the Kingdom raise Rebellion or attempt to hurt or destroy the Queens person for or by whomsoever employed that might lay claim to the Crown of England And that he for whom or by whom they should attempt the same should be utterly uncapable of the Crown of England deprived wholly of all Right and Title to it and prosecuted to death by all Faithful Subjects if he should be judged by those 24 men to be guilty of such Invasion Rebellion or Treasonable attempt and by publick Proclamation so declared The noise of such an Assotiation as this for it cannot be imagined that the Parliament of England ever intended any other rang such an astonishing peal in the ears of the Kings and Kingdoms Enemies that to render the very name of Association odious to the world they framed an Infamous piece of Treason which they called the Association intended and would needs to make the thing pass the more Current and Probable have it found in the Study of the Right Honourable Earl of Shaftsbury's which follows in these words as it was Exhibited to the Grand-Jury at the Old Baily Then this Paper was Read as followeth WE the Knights c. finding to the grief of our Hearts the Popish Priests and Jesuits with the Papists and their Adherents and Abettors have for several years last past persued a most pernicious and hellish Plot to root out the True Protestant Religion as a pestilent Heresie to take away the Life of our Gracious King to subvert our Laws and Liberties and to set up Arbitrary Power and Popery And it being notorious that they have been highly encouraged by the Countenance and Protection given and procured for them by J. D. of Y. and by their Expectations of his succeeding to the Crown and that through crafty Popish Councils his design hath so far prevailed that he hath created many and great Dependents vpon him by his bestowing Offices and Preferments both in Church and State It appearing also to us That by his Influence Mercenary Forces have been levied and kept on foot for his secret designes contrary to our Laws the Officers thereof having been named and appointed by him to the apparent hazard of his Majesties Person our Religion and Government if the danger had not been timely foreseen by several Parliaments and part of those Forces with great difficulty caused by them to

be disbanded at the Kingdoms great Expence And it being evident that notwithstanding all the continual endeavours of the Parliament to deliver his Majecty from the Councils and out of the Power of the said D. yet His Interest in the Ministry of State and others have been so prevalent that Parliaments have been unreasonably Prorogued and Dissolved when they have been in hot pursuit of the Popish Conspiracies and ill Ministers of State their Assistants And that the said D. in order to reduce all into his own power hath procured the Garrisons the Army and Ammunition all the power of the Seas and Soldiery and Lands belonging to these three Kingdoms to be put into the hands of his Party and their Adherents even in opposition to the Advice and Order of the last Parliament And as we considering with heavy Hearts how greatly the Strength Reputation and Treasure of the Kingdom both at Sea and Land is Wasted and Consumed and lost by the intricate expensive management of these wicked destructive Designes and finding the same Councils after exemplary Justice upon some of the Conspirators to be still pursued with the utmest devilish Malice and desire of Revenge whereby his Majesty is in continual hazard of being Murdered to make way for the said D.'s Advancement to the Crown and the whole Kingdom in such case is destitute of all Security of their Religion Laws Estates and Liberty ad experience in the Case Queen Mary having proved the wisest Laws to be of little force to keep out Popery and Tyranny under a Popish Prince We have therefore endeavoured in a Parliamentary way by a Bill for the purpose to Bar and Exclude the said Duke from the Succession to the Crown and to Banish him for ever out of these Kingdoms of England and Ireland But the first means of the King and Kingdoms Safety being utterly rejected and we left almost in Despair of obtaining any real and effectual security and knowing our selves to be intrusted to Advise an Act for the preservation of His Majesty and the Kingdom and being perswaded in our Consciences that the dangers aforesaid are so eminent and pressing that there ought to be no delay of the best means that are in power to secure the Kingdom against them We have thought fit to propose to all true Protestants an Vnion amongst themselves by solemn and sacred promise of mutual Defence and Assistance in the preservation of the true protestant Religion His Majesties Person and Royal State and our Lawes Liberties and Properties and we hold it our bounden Duty to joyn our selves for the same intent in a Declaration of our Vnited Affections and Resolutions in the Form insuing I A. B. Do in the presence of God solemnly Promise Vow and Protest to maintain and defend to the utmost of my Power with my Person and Estate the true Protestant Religion again Popery and all Popish Superstition Idolatry or Innovation and all those who do or shall endeavour to spread or advance it within this Kingdom I will also as far as in me lies Maintain and defend his Majesties Royal Person and Estate as also the Power and Priviledg of Parliaments the lawful Rights and Liberties of the Subject against all incroachments and Vsurpation of Arbitrary power whatsoever and endeavour entirely to Disband all such Mercenary Forces as we have reason to believe were Raised to Advance it and are still kept up in and about the City of London to the great Amazement and Terror of all the good People of the Land Moreover J. D of Y. Having publickly professed and owned the Popish Religion and notoriously given Life and Birth to the Damnable and Hellish Plots of the Papists against his Majesties Person the Protestant Religion and the Government of this Kingdom I will never consent that the said J. D. of Y. or any other who is or hath been a Papist or any ways adher'd to the Papists in their wicked Designs be admitted to the Succession of the Crown of England But by all lawful means and by force of Arms if need so require according to my Abilities oppose him and endeavour to subdue Expel and Destroy him if he come into England or the Dominions thereof and seek by force to set up his pretended Title and all such as shall Adhere unto him or raise any war Tinnult or Sedition for him or by his Command as publick Enemies of our Laws Religion and Country To this end we and every one of us whose hands are here under written do most willingly bind our selves and every one of us unto the other joyntly and severally in the bond of one firm and Loyal Society or Association and do promise and vow before God That with our joynt and particular Forces we will oppose and pursue unto Destruction all such as upon any Title whatsoever shall oppose the Just and Righteous Ends of this Association and Maintain Protect and Defend all such as shall enter into it in the just performance of the true intent and meaning of it And lest this Just and Pious work should be any ways obstructed or hindred for want of Discipline and Conduct or any evil minded persons under pretence of raising Forces for the service of this Association should attempt or commit Disorders we will follow such Orders as we shall from time to time receive from this present Parliament whilst it shall be sitting or the Major part of the Members of both Houses subscribing this Association when it shall be Prorogued or Dissolved And obey such Officers as shall by them be set over us in the several Countries Cities and Burroughs until the next meeting of this or another Parliament and will then shew the same Obedience and Submission unto it and those who shall be of it Neither will we for any respect of Persons or Causes or for Fear or Reward separate our selves from this Association or fail in the Prosecution thereof during our Lives upon pain of being by the rest of us prosecuted and suppressed as Perjured Persons and Publick Enemies to God the King and our Native Country To which Pains and Punishment we do voluntarily submit our selves and every one of us without benefit of any Colour or Pretence to excuse us In Witness of all which Premises to be inviolably kept we do this present Writing put our Hands and Seals and shall be most ready to accept and admit any others hereafter into this Society and Association This contrived peice of scandalous Treason is that which was said or rather sworn to have been found in the Earl of Shaftsbury's Study Now whether the Paper were really in the Hair Trunk or put into the Velvet Bagg among other loose Papers is a dispute of another Nature However the Paper being found or pretendedly found in the Earls Study the business was prosecuted by the Attorny General before special Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer the 24th of November 1681 upon a Bill of Endictment for High Treason against Anthony

the same that Your Majesty will likewise be graciously pleased to Assent to an Act whereby Your Majesties Protestant Subjects may be enabled to Associate themselves for the defence of Your Majesties Person the Protestant Religion and the Security of your Kingdoms These Requests we are constrained humbly to make to Your Majesty as of absolute Necessary for the safe and peaceable Enjoyment of our Religion Without these things the Alliances of England will not be valuable nor the People Encouraged to contribute to your Majesties Service As some farther means for the Preservation both of our Religion and Propriety We are humble Suiters to your Majesty that from henc●forth such persons only may be Judges within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales as are men of Ability Integrity and known affection to the Protestant Religion And that they may hold both their Offices and Salleries Quam diu se bene gesterint That several Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace fitly qualified for those Imployments having been of late displaced and others put in their room who are men of Arbitrary principles and Countenancers of Papists and Popery such only may bear the Office of a Lord-Lieutenant as are persons of Integrity and known Affection to the Protestant Religion That Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace may be also so qualified and may be moreover men of ability of Estates and Interest in their Country That none may be employed as Military Officers in Your Majesties Fleet but men of known Experience Courage and Affection to the Protestant Religion These our humble Requests being Obtained We shall on our part be ready to Assist Your Majesty for the Preservation of Tangier and for putting Your Majesties Fleet into such a condition as it may preserve Your Majesties Soveraignty of the Seas and be for the Defence of the Nation If your Majesty hath or shall make any necessary Alliances for the Defence of Protestant Religion and Interest and Security of this Kingdom this house will be ready to Assist and Stand by Your Majesty in the support of the same After this our Humble Answer to Your Majesties Gracious Speech we hope no evil Instruments whatsoever shall be able to lessen Your Majesties Esteem of that Fidelity and Affection we bear to Your Majesties Service but that Your Majesty will alwayes retain in Your Royal Breast that favourable Opinion of us Your Loyal Commons that those other good Bills which we have now under Consideration c nducing to the Great Ends we have before mentioned as also all Laws for the benefit and comfort of your People which shall from time to time be tendred for your Majesties Royal Assent shall find acceptance with your Majesty E. V. Mr. Speaker Sir I have hearkened with all the attention I could to this Address and do agree with the first part of it The Dangers and Inconveniences arising from a Popish Successor are very obvious and that there will be no Peace nor Tranquility in this Nation for the present as long as there is a Popish Successor and that our Religion will be lost if there should be a Popish King I am afraid is too true But yet I must crave leave to dissent from the opinion of those worthy Members that have drawn it as to the other parts thereof I think it is not convenient at this time to press so hard for the Exclusion Bill because we know we cannot have it without a Prorogative which for my part I fear at this time as much as I do a Popish Successour For I do believe if it should happen that you will sooner see the Duke at White-hall than this Assembly meet together again between these Walls And therefore am not willing to give the Popish party such an advantage to procure our Dissolution lest they should lay hold of it as I believe they would by which the Protestant Interest both abroad and at home will be ruin'd And As I cannot agree in this so neither in pressing the Association Bill For being it hath not yet been brought into the House we do not well known what will be the purport of it And it is not proper that we should ask of the King we know not what nor expect that he should grant us what he can know nothing of And truly Sir I think that these things about the Judges Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace are minute things to be insisted on at this time compared with others which might be demanded Queen Elizabeths Councellors never thought her safe until the Popish Successor was inclosed in a Tower and I am afraid that you will never be safe until you take some such course that may bring things to an issue When you have done that and banished all the considerable Papists out of England I think we shall not be in so apparent danger as we now are And seeing this may probably be granted and the other Bills not I humbly move you to recommit the Address that it may be better considered I know not how this may agree with the sense of the House but I shall always crave leave to speak in this place according to my Conscience that so I may have peace within me but readily submit to better Judgments Sir W. J. Mr. Speaker Sir I am very glad that worthy member agrees in the apprehensions of the dangers arising from a Popish Successour and in the necessity of the Bill of Exclusion and am very sorry I cannot agree with him in the rest of his Discourse I cannot imagine without a high reflection upon his Majesty that if he should be perswaded to prorogue the House for two or three days in order to pass the Exclusion Bill that he should instead of permitting us to meet again dissolve the Parliament which is quite contrary to it I fear a Prorogation without being intended for this but if once we could prevail with his Majesty to do it for this end I shall not doubt the desired effect And in pressing the Association Bill we shall not press the King to grant us we know not what The word Association may very well be understood and the ends of it are declared to be for the security of his Majesties Person and the Protestant Religion And if when drawn it should be directed to other ends I suppose this House will take care to mend it if not the Kings promise can bind no farther than to pass a Bill for those ends But I do much admire to hear that the having of good Judges Justices and Commanders at Sea and Land is a trivial thing For I think that all other things you desire without it would signifie nothing As long as the Laws and Militia of the Nation is in the hands of persons not well-affected to the Protestant Interest I am afraid we shall have no security against Popery As to the new way that hath been proposed of bringing matters relating to the Popish Successour to such an issue as that