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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91231	The generall junto or The councell of union, chosen equally out of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the better compacting of three nations into one monarchy, &c.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing P402; Thomason 669.f.18[1]; ESTC R211946	15,931	40

be committed And yet in my opinion this Chasma in Government is more irregular and of more dangerous Consequence being it concerns Great Generall matters and high Points then a lower defect would be in businesse of a more narrow and private Nature for if the King be served and attended by such Councellors so chosen and qualified as He is Lord of our Kingdome is it not more expedient that he have the same Service and Assistance as He is Lord of three Kingdoms Some few yeers since some of the Kings Subjects under an English Commission and others under a Scottish met it Greenland to fish and upon a Question of their severall Grants blood was drawn and force carryed it for the English out of this fire a Nationall flame might have been kindled and till this day the blood remains unexpiated and the Controversie undertermined Not long since also the King was deeply incensed against the whole Scottish Nation and the Scots complayned of Violations to them offered In this unhappy Dispute the King so engaged was the sole Judge and yet the English being neither Parties nor Judges nor having any Cognizance or witnesses or otherwise were to incurre generall danger of Ruine to decide this with their swords Although in all private Suits and Questions of Right betwixt the King and any Vassall of any one of His Kingdoms the King ever referreth Himself according to his Oath to qualified and indifferent sworn Judges yet here the lives of Millions being endangered and the Honours of Nations engaged the King only by the Sword must give judgement That which then happened to Scotland upon as small a ground may perhaps hereafter become the case of England and for ought I know is now happened to Ireland But to what reason or equity can this seem commensurate that whole Nations should be worse provided for in points of judgement then the poorest Members of each Nation And as it is in Common-Pleas and Pleas of the Crown so it is also in matters of Honour and Acts of State 't is injurious and repugnant to Vnion that any one Nation should be debarred from an Equality of Priviledge or Advantage or interest in the King and His most generall Actions and Councells My Result then is That to make Vnion perfect betwixt the three Nations some Common Court of Justice and Councell of State must be erected to which each Nation or any Member of each Nation in a Nationall difference may have recourse with equall Confidence for the redressing of all Injuries for the deciding of all Controversies for the preventing of all Dangers for the removing of all Jealousies and for communicating of all State or Court-Benefits and for the transacting of all matters of Generall concernment Charles the eighth then made Brettaign One with France when he levelled and equalized both in Parliament possessing both Nations One of Another par my par tout for by this means the same Crown overshadowed and spread its wings over Both investing both with the same Propriety in it self In the same manner also Wales and England did Inter marry and of two became One for there is no Burden of the Crown whereunto the English-man is not now as lyable as the Welsh-man mediately or immediately nor no Priviledge of the Crown whereunto the Welsh man is not equally intitled with the English-man The same must also be brought to passe betwixt England Scotland and Ireland or else the same perfection of Amity and Unity can never be established and that can never be but by the same or very like means Where there is the same Law to limit the Judge and the same Judge to pronounce and execute according to the true intent of that Law and where both contesting Parties are equally interessed both in the Judge and Law the judgement is ever finall and satisfactory to Both and thus it is with England and Wales but thus it is not as yet with England and Scotland and therefore between England and Wales there is no fear of Division but betwixt England and Scotland there is and the King alone ought not in all Cases to be both the Iudge and the Law or can fully satisfie all for the King may have more neer Naturall relation to one Kingdom then another and by other respects more by as 't to favour the one Kingdom then another without assistance he is not competent for all things And therefore the Qualification of that Assistance that it be equall and impartiall and trusted by all is of great and weighty moment And this is true in matters of State where no Law is written but in matters of Right where Laws are as requisite almost as Iudges it is necessary that both Partyes be as fully assured in the Laws which are to regulate the Iudges as the Iudges which are to enlive the Laws And this cannot be unlesse all our three Nations have equall Consent and concurrence in Parliament to sit as Iudges and to passe Laws or to convene representatively and vertually in some lesse Court and Councell branching as it were out of the Parliament severall and approaching also in power as neer thereunto as may be Nationall Parliaments shall still move in their proper Orbs taking Cognizance of all particular Nationall Affairs and this new erected Seat or Table though it may have much of Parliamentary vigour in it especially in the vacancy of Parliaments as to Cases of Generall Consequence yet it shall have no Iurisdiction at all in meer Nationall Expedients By this means as I conceive the Three Kingdomes shall be contempered into One indivisible Monarchy and be made One solid Naturall Body and such Vnion entertayned as shall be to the Advantage of all three Nations and to the disadvantage of no One such as shall distribute all Priviledges equally to be enjoyed and all services equally to be born and leave behinde no shew of inequality to be a ground of envie or disunion 'T is true the King cannot be corporally present in all the Nations at once but whatsoever the benefit of a Royall Court may be the disposing of that is left Arbitrary to the King and this may seem perhaps great Inequality to those Nations which have lesse attraction in them The meer Residence of a Prince if it be a Commodity it goes many times accompanied with divers great Discommodities and as the Sun though it be the most auspicious of all Celestiall Bodies yet it doth not alwayes inrich those Tracts of Earth most which it most violently heats with its torrid perpendicular beams so neither doth the Majesticall Court of a King alwayes make those Territories most happy which enjoy it at least Distance But be this Benefit what it will in this England intrusts as much to the Kings meer Discretion as either Scotland or Ireland knowing that without unnaturall force he cannot be restrained in it nor without cutting Monarchy into Mammocks that all Countries or Corporations can be thus satisfied and presuming that

there Vnion is in it 's most excellent strength and perfection then it is more properly stiled Vnity it self This is that Vnion which I shall pray to see established betwixt England Scotland and Ireland then which there can be none more intimate in kinde more equall in Order more perfect in Degree 2. In the next Place therefore having this for our Aime we must consider what advantages these three Nations have already conducing to such Vnion and what the Hinderances are which seem most to indispose us and make us averse from the same Those things which are of favourable Aspect and more propitious to the uniting of England and Scotland are First That both Nations are ruled by one Head and owe Allegiance to the same Master and even this hath a strong Unitive power in it and such as works internally as well as externally for we see the English and Netherlanders are many wayes engaged in the same Interests and have had many interchangeable Obligations and endearments as things are now ballanced in Europe and yet by reason of their dependance upon severall Potentates there cannot be setled betwixt them that certain Correspondence and Confidence as might be if one Scepter commanded both And we see the Vnion of England and Scotland under one Prince hath planted new Affections in both Nations as hath been attestated by many Noble Offices of Friendship needlesse now to be repeated Secondly There is the same Profession of Religion in both Kingdoms and this of all Bonds ought to be the most indissoluble for it is something more then meerly Physicall or Ethicall Thirdly The same name of Britain is common to both the same Language spoken by both and this together with their great similitude in Complexions and dispositions testifieth the same Antient extraction and kindred Fourthly The same Sea surrounds both immuring them from all the world besides and by Consequence the same ends ought to steer both since no other Nations can be more helpfull by Vnion or pernicious by Dis-union and since both joyned together make up but one and that no very considerable large Monarchy Fifthly The same Laws of God and Nature are reverenced and known by Both and if their Laws of Monarchy Municipall Customes and Statutes be not the very same they are very little disagreeing that variety which is in them is very consistent with Harmony Sixthly The same Impressions have been made upon both by late Offices of Love and such Brotherly Assistance hath been yeelded that not onely all old Enmities are drowned therein but also both Nations for the future are more enflamed to merit of each other All these things tending to the great Advancement of Vnion those things which seem repugnant to the same by able Politicians might be much corrected or wholly removed As for the Independence of each Kingdom that is no barre at all to Vnion for whilst the line of King James remains unspent the Crowns are utterly inseparable and as really marryed together as to all purposes of mutuall defence and complyance as Castile and Arragon or any Kingdom whatsoever And if any doubt were of Separation by the extinguishment of that Royall Race which God avert I do not see but that by consent of both Kingdoms that doubt may be prevented without injury to either And as for the Distance and Extension of both Kingdomes that can be no barre to Vnion for France in its Circuit and dimensions is equall to England Scotland and Ireland and yet is but one entire Monarchy and hath been assembled in one Generall Parliament and therein consists the soul of Vnion And the meer holding of severall Parliaments in severall Counties possibly at the same time the same Head regulating all by faithfull Dispatches and Missives is no hinderance but that the same understanding may be in all and work the same effects as One and the same could If there be any thing worthy to be insisted upon seeming opposite to Vnion t is the different Revenues of both Kingdoms and some disadvantages caused thereby to each for it will be said That England as the richer draws away some Priviledge therby from Scotland and Scotland being the lesse plentifull in Treasure draws away much of the English Patrimony But I shall answer this hereafter and so for the present I set my Sayls for Ireland Those things which are apt to promote Vnion betwixt England and Ireland are First That both Kingdoms have not onely one Head but are one Body also inseparably knit to that Head no independance or possible severance remaining but such as shall be violent and injurious England hath formerly been subject to severall Princes but all those independant Principalities are now incorporated and connaturalized by Act of Paliament and reduced to a perfect Unity of Dominion and yet all England is not more it self and one with England then Ireland is in all that is Essentiall to Dominion By the Laws of England and Ireland both the Kingdoms are so connexed and coinvested that Wales and Cornwall are not more individed from England then Ireland now is Wales is still a Principality and Cornwall a Dutchy but neither are independent So that nothing in truth remains but the meer names or titles and the independance of Ireland being in the same manner taken away the Kingdom of Ireland is indeed but an Integrall member of the Kingdom of England Neither is Ireland dependent because it is independent we tearm it rather annexed and by that we mean wholly consubstantiated The addition of Ireland to England is like the Naturall growth of a man at full yeers which makes him not another Creature then what he was in the narrow confinement of the Cradle but still leaves him One and the same England and Scotland are united by two Royall Lines centring in our King but one and the same Line conveighs England and Ireland and that Line is indivisible so that though the King be Owner of England and Scotland yet he is not Owner of England quatenùs Owner of Scotland or Owner of Scotland quatenùs Owner of England but he is Owner of Ireland quatenùs of England But because some of the Rebells now pretend to an independence and some upbraid the Rebells with a meer servile dependence I will a little step out of the way to encounter with both these Incendiaries and perturbers of our Peace Against the Irish Rebells I shall maintain That the Kings Title to Ireland is of a mixt Nature partly by the Victories of his Ancestors and partly by Consent of the Natives and in both points strongly fortified by a long unquestioned uninterrupted possession And what more can be added No Prince of Christendome can hold one foot of Land by any title more cleer and undefeseable then where all these clayms are wreathed together And in this respect Ireland is further united to England then Scotland is for England and Scotland are two Bodies joyned under one Head but England and Ireland are but one Body

force which borders upon Cruelty is not to be used I would not that it should be done to Babel by way of Retaliation as Babel hath done to us But certainly Magistrates are responsible for all those souls whom they may reclaim by Politique severity and do not and we see what effects Politique severity hath produced in Denmarke Sweden Scotland c. without effusion of blood and he that will deny the same that it might have been as effectuall in England and Ireland must alleadge some strange or unexpected Reason 'T is not so difficult to draw from falsity as from truth to make a Turk a Christian as a Christian a Turk And as for the Populacy of any Nation we know they are to be driven by Shoals almost into any Religion where the Magistrate and Spirituall Minister co-operate together The frequent and suddain Conversions and Perversions of sundry Nations in all Ages testifie this to be a matter of no great difficulty And as for some few of the more knowing and Conscientious sort the meer want of a Toleration their own Paucity if some other Encouragement be not supplyed by Connivence c. in some reasonable time would wear them out And if the breeding of their children within these last 60 yeers had not been omitted nay if countenance under hand had not been afforded to Papists these Wars had never happened But now things so standing 't is just in God that Papists be so cruell to Us in Temporalls as we have been to Them in Spiritualls 'T were Advantagious for Vnion that we were All of One but more especially of the true pious charitable Protestant Religion And though this Advantage hath been hitherto neglected yet still we have Power enough by the Grace of God to provide better for the future The third help to Vnion is That Nature hath placed both our Islands like twins in a remote Angle of the World and as if she intended more to estrange Ireland then England she hath further seated her from the Commerce of forraigne Nations and it may be supposed that they are both divorced from Others that they may be wedded to Themselves And surely as Ireland's love and vicinity is very usefull unto England so Englands cherishing fidelity must needs be totally necessary unto Ireland Did the Irish depend upon the Protection of Spain or some other distant Countrey to guard them from the Forces and Armado's of England that Protection could not but cost them very dear for besides the Calamities of endlesse War in a Nation so intermingled the very Burdens of Protectors would perhaps prove as grievous as the encounters of their Assaylants Flanders now by its subjection to Spain is made the Theatre of affliction almost beyond hope of Redresse and though she draw from Spain many Millions for her defence yet without doubt she is more wretched by serving Philip then Philip is weakned by supporting her It is fourthly probable that both Nations were antiently descended from the same originall Plantations and Colonies and if the name of Hiberno-Britaines may not be applyed to the Irish as Cambro-Britaines is to the Welsh yet now Scottish English Welsh and the mixt Irish being so indifferently blended in Ireland and congregated as it were at a generall determinate Randevouz and the same Language being so generally current and the temperature of the Clime and the Congruity of the Antient Natives in disposition so inclining to Vnion it must be wilfull neglect in Us if we do not close yet more amiably together Fifthly In Laws Customes and Constitutions for Peace and War there are lively Resemblances Facies non una duabus Nec diversa tamen qualem decet esse sororum Nay if there be not altogether the same Lineaments in both yet there is more then a Sisterly correspondence Sixthly Though some execrable Offices have of late been done in Ireland against our Nation yet we must account that Quarrell to be Religious not Nationall for we see they have not spared the Scots they have not spared the English Irish they have been cruell to all Protestants of what Countrey soever The same Whorish Inchantresse also which is now bloody in Ireland hath ever been so in all Countryes the Scripture characters her by making her self drunk with the blood of the Saints and dipping her Garments in the same Dye The same false Religion hath formerly made England flame with mercilesse Executions and Spain grone under Diabolicall Tortures and France swim in inhumane Massacres Quae Regio in Terris Nostri non plena cruoris Let Cruelty be the certain Test of false religion and let England and Ireland and all Nations abide the tryall of the same For Protestants are so farre from destroying their known Enemies that they are cruell to themselves in sparing where they hope lesse of being spared Protestants are not bound alwayes from doing as they have been done to by their enemies or from disabling and repressing future Malice in their enemies yet Ireland is a witnesse this day that they are more prone to favour unappeasable foes then to prevent the most horrid treasons But I leave this as remediable hereafter As for the separation and divulsion of that Sea which runs betwixt England and Ireland I conceive it to be no considerable hinderance of Vnion for we see Venice and Cyprus and divers other Countries by the Art and happinesse of just Government love and embrace at a further distance though other People are also interjacent as are not here And if any other heart-burning or distaste have happened of late betwixt the Nations by Injustice or Mis-government as perhaps hath befallen as eminently amongst our selves the Redresse and Cure thereof will not be hopelesse 3. I come now to my Overture it self whereby further Vnion may be promoted and confirmed amongst us That Ordinance of State which shall most equally diffuse and breath abroad into all Nations governed under the same Scepter the self-same Measure of right and benefit shall be most effectuall and vertuous to unite those Nations Now it seems to me that such an Ordinance is now wanting in England Scotland and Ireland and yet that neverthelesse it is not difficult to be framed and reduced into Act. In England there are divers Courts of Iustice and Councells of State whereby Government riseth from the Basis to the Pyramis by a farre Symmetricall Conus and there is not any matter of concernment to the Crown of England for which there is not a proper Place appointed and proper Persons assigned to attend and transact the same for and under or together with the King The same Policy also is in Scotland and Ireland for matters peculiar to Scotland and Ireland but in England Scotland and Ireland for matters concerning all three Kingdomes or that remain in debate betwixt any two of them besides the Kings sole Brest thereby too much over-burthened there is not any other Judicature assistant and common to all the Nations to which the same may

no King will ever withdraw Himself where he may be most usefull or so confine His Person to one Place as that His influence shall be wanting in any part of His Dominions no Umbrage can be taken of Emulation in this And as for all other things Equality that unmoveable Centre of the Universe and Impartiality that blessed Ballance of Government shall be most exactly and Mathematically pursued in this new erected Synedrion the Heptarchy of England shall not be more abolished then the Tritarchy of England Scotland and Ireland I need not therefore say any more of this Generall Junio or Court it self or of the end for which it is so convocated 't is sufficient that I have fancyed it to be equally chosen out of all the Three Nations for the making them into One by an equall dispensation of all Rights and Priviledges and an exact Distribution of Burdens and Chastisements I shall onely now adde somthing of some Requisites and Qualifications due to it That this Counsell may be effectuall for those ends for which it is ordained all Parties should equally confide in it for which Purpose it must be dependent upon the King as Parliaments now are and also be chosen equally out of all Three Nations by Parliament and in each Nation of the Lords and Commons or severall Ranks in number proportioned for their mutuall Assurance For Example I will suppose a Trienniall Parliament in each Nation setled and the same Parliament to nominate a convenient number in each Nation for their own Order to be indued with power as their standing Committees to continue from one Parliament to another and no longer unlesse for an Honour and Testimony of Publique Confidence they be then longer continued I will wish also that in all Cases nothing be determined by fewer then one of the Nobility and two or three of the Commonalty of each Nation and that Plurality of Votes in grosse may not carry any thing but Plurality of Kingdoms And if any high difficulty arise betwixt Kingdome and Kingdom let it be reserved for further Resolution in all three Parliaments And if it happen that there be not one of the Nobility or two or three of the Commonalty surviving from Parliament to Parliament then the King to chuse and supply that Temporary fail Considering it also as a Councell of State Let it assist the King in all Embassages and Publique Treaties and under Him superintend all forraigne Plantations and Mysteries of Trade Let it have a confined Power to mingle the Nations in Blood by Inter-marriages to conform them in Language Manners and Religion and to reward all Nationall offices of friendship and to punish all Publike Enmities and let it's authority be greater then that of the Privy Councell And considering it as a Court of Justice Let it hold Cognizance of all Publique Quarrells and Divisions Let it suppresse all Incendiaries declaring themselves either by words or Actions Let it uphold all Orders of Equality and cut off all opposers of the same And for this purpose let it obtain a Iurisdiction in such Publique Nationall Causes equall at least to that of the Kings Bench And that they may the better establish Generall Vnion by preventing and removing all Occasions of Division and Emulation and by supplying and corroborating the surest Nerves of mutuall Affection and Correspondence Let the Persons of these grand Councellors be sacred their Maintenance Honourable at the Charge of their respective States and let severall Parliaments derive or consigne Power to them and demand Account from them as Occasion shall require Let the place of their Residence and the times of their convening be designed by the King as reason of State shall bear and let them attend His Pleasure as the Lords of the Councell and as the Judges of the Kings Bench now do Let all Warres especially with forraign States be undertaken by their Advice And let the Levies of Men Money and Ammunition be proportioned in all the three Kingdoms by their Discretion and let all Truces and Leagues be made and preserved as they shall counsel To conclude My hope is that by some such wholesome Constitution Ireland may be better reduced and the like Rebellions for the future prevented and perhaps other States by the Harmony of our Vnion invited into an Incorporation with us till we all grow up into a Body equall and able to poyse with any State now in Europe But I leave the further Maturation of this Overture to men of profounder knowledge and stronger judgements Let the Motto of King James be never forgotten Faciam Eos in Gentem Vnam