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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54980	The plain man's essay for England's prosperity more particularly referred and submitted to the consideration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, 1698.	Philalethes.	1698 (1698)	Wing P2364; ESTC R10783	22,461	29

handle to pervert blast or invalidate any Parliaments Proceedings The last thing that I shall here mention of this nature is That His Majesty was so very cautious of endangering the Nation though by a temporary or occasional means of its preservation and of even giving umbrage of any such offence that after he had represented in a peculiar instance § 19. the failure or rather neglect of the then Evil Counsellors in not doing more to satisfy the many good Subjects of these Kingdoms or to put an end to their doubts He declares in very express terms § 21. that he brought over with him a force sufficient by the blessing of God to defend him from the violence only of those the then Evil Counsellors And further promiseth § 23. That as soon as the state of the Nation will admit of it he would send back all those Foreign Forces that he had brought along with him Not only so but in his additional Declaration we all may remember how occasion'd he most emphatically disclaims abhors and renounceth all suspicion of a wicked design of Conquering the Nation And as jealous for the People of their abandoning themselves altogether and their Deliverance too at last after such Instances given of their over-great and too easy Passiveness he yet further there minds them of the fatal Consequences of putting the Free People of England under a Force as that which would make void their own lawful Titles to their Honours Estates and Interests This as it shews His Majesty's great Wisdom and Goodness together so it serves to speak and make appear the Considerateness and sound Reasons of the late Parliaments Proceedings in relation to the Army and also strongly implies the Defectiveness of what is yet done therein which may not be unworthy your further Consideration For as it was one of the State-Policies calculated to serve the sinister Ends of the late Reigns to neglect discourage and discountenance The Militia of the Kingdom thereby to render it both contemptible and in a great measure useless in order to the superinducing in process of time and as time should serve A Standing Force so it appears but a reasonable Jealousy or Conjecture That notwithstanding what is already done in this matter if more do not follow and that the Militia of the Kingdom at least be not new-modell'd and better form'd than it can possibly be on the Foot it now stands it may yet prove for want of some ready disciplin'd domestick Power of one kind or another to withstand and oppose any Foreign Attempt but as a Postern-gate to let in at one time or other A Standing Force upon the Nation and then they that would have Honours Estates and Interests according to what goes before must have them there or no where Or if Gentlemen notwithstanding our present sure and happy Peace apprehend it requisite as an immediate Guard and Defence of the Nation to continue on foot for this one Year longer a certain Number of Men call them Regular Troops a Standing Force or Army or whatever else their Appellation be yet taking the real meaning to be That their Being shall determine with the Year it may nevertheless sure with Decency and good reason be expected not only that some special Reason be assigned why These must be continued This Year more than The Ensuing for a Perpetual Reason and a Yearly Expedient correspond not over-well and Perpetuity it self is made up and in some sort consists of One Year after Another But further I humbly presume it may moreover be expected that the same Gentlemen will rather chuse to move First than wait to Second any Motion for suitable Provisions for Futurity suppose one be for instance as before The new forming the Militia of the Kingdom that thus under the Cover of the foremention'd Expedient this at least may be gain'd that it be better settled Trained and become more and every way useful ● upon this supposition still that as yet we want what is sufficient for the Safety Honour and Happiness of the Kingdom The glorious Ends His Sacred Majesty not only came hither for at first but which is all as he to his immortal Honour be it ever spoken continues gratiously to assure us in his late Speech to both Houses of Parliament he hath to ask After which I see not how it can any longer remain a doubt if any hitherto hath been but that an English Parliament will and without prejudice to any their more particular Engagements most carefully hold those general Engagements above-mentioned to the Safety Honour and Happiness of the Kingdom in all and every respect sacred or His Majesty is but too like to fail of the honourable Expectation he so graciously expresseth of the present Parliament And they will appear to come infinitely below the thoughts he entertain'd P. of O's Letter to the Officers of the Army even of the Officers of the late King James ' s Army who he had goodness enough to hope would not suffer themselves to be abused by a false notion of Honour but that they would in the first place consider what they owed to Almighty God to their Religion to their Country to themselves and to their Posterity which they as men of honour and it seems to hold much the same with all men of honour ought to prefer to all private Considerations and Engagements whatsoever but besides the force and extent of these Considerations yet even for the obtaining of the present supposed Point in issue a certain Land-Force for this one Year As such provisions and such concurrence by removing all Reasonable Jealousies and by that means inducing Men of somewhat other thoughts to quit their fears of this or any present Expedient that upon mature deliberation and debate shall be found occasionally necessary do both plainly and naturally tend to facilitate the End so they also help to make it easy for the time if not every way and altogether agreeable to those of such different Sentiments which with humble submission I take it His Majesty's late Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament is of more weight and better account than perhaps the bare carrying This or it may be any Other Point can in its self possibly be It being beyond all contradiction no less than self-evident That the flourishing of Trade the supporting of Credit and the quiet of Peoples minds at home will depend on the opinion they have of their Security I have been the freer to give some before-hinted Jealousies in this place the term of Reasonable because I observe That the raising and keeping a standing Army in time of Peace without consent of Parliament is assign'd in the Agreement of the House of Lords with the concurrence of the House of Commons as one of the Acts whereby the late King James did endeavour to subvert the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom and which together with all other the particulars therein enumerated

sure a Foundation that there P. of O's Addit Declarat may be no danger of the Nations relapsing into the like Miseries at any time hereafter which we are abundantly assured was his Majesty's only design in that Undertaking It would be no hard matter to suggest divers Particulars that have a natural Tendency to compleat so Pious so Glorious an Enterprise and men are apt with a good and laudable Intention to instance in what occurs for that purpose according to their various Sentiments and Turns of Imaginations as among others in a General Naturalization and a Publick Registry c. But I shall content my self here to point at only in short some few of the many Instances particulariz'd in the forementioned Declarations as carrying with them both their own Evidence and Authority referring the rest to the more accurate able and discerning Considerations of those and such the Lords and Commons as upon the Agreement and Concurrence of both Houses having entire Confidence That his Highness the Prince of Orange would perfect the Deliverance so far advanced by him c. did resolve and declare the Prince and Princess of Orange King and Queen of England France and Ireland c. And did pray them to accept the Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions accordingly The Particulars then that I shall here on this Head touch upon are in order as I find them there where the 10th Paragraph runs thus They have also invaded the Privileges and seized on the Charters of most of those Towns that have a Right to be represented by their Burgesses in Parliament and have procured Surrenders to be made of them by which the Magistrates in them have delivered up all their Rights and Privileges to be disposed of at the pleasure of those Evil Counsellors who have thereupon placed new Magistrates in those Towns such as they can most entirely confide in and in many of them they have put Popish Magistrates notwithstanding the Incapacities under which the Law has put them Again in the 18th Paragraph we have these words And contrary to the Charters and Privileges of those Boroughs that have a Right to send Burgesses to Parliament they have ordered such Regulations to be made as they thought fit and necessary for assuring themselves of all the Members that are to be chosen by those Corporations And in the 21st it 's declared That in order to the having a free and lawful Parliament assembled all the late Charters by which the Elections of Burgesses are limited contrary to the ancient customs shall be considered as null and of no force And likewise all Magistrates who have been unjustly turned out shall forthwith resume their former Employments as well as all the Boroughs of England shall return again to their ancient Prescriptions and Charters But whether the bare restoring these to their ancient Proprietors and their Successors especially after such bold presidents of manifest violations committed upon them be a sufficient security against a precarious Tenure in times to come I submit to your better and more deliberate Considerations and may it please your Honours to consider withal what His Majesty Prince-like adds in his concurring second Declaration That the seeming release from their great Oppressions offered to the City of London upon the hearing of his Preparations to assist the People was done only hoping thereby to quiet the People and to divert them from demanding a secure Re-establishment of their Religion and Laws And that such security might not in aftertimes prove fallacious His Highness out of his deep foresight and Princely Wisdom whose care of the People hath been all along transcendent at the same time subjoin'd That the defectiveness of the redress was apparent while they laid down nothing which they may not take up at pleasure and they reserved entire and not so much as mentioned their claims and pretences to an Arbitrary and Despotick Power which has been the Root of all their Oppression and of the total Subversion of the Government Hinc illae Lachrime His Majesty herein hath abundantly done his part the preceding Parliaments have gone a good way and 't is not to be doubted but Your Honours will proceed And that the good people of England will persevere and adhere to His Majesty his most Just and Gracious Declarations as also to the present Government founded thereupon and thereafter The next particular in course that follows and which also depends much on the preceding Article as the foregoing References do plainly intimate is the Being and Business of Parliaments concerning which the 18th Paragraph uncontroulably asserts That according to the Constitution of the English Government and immemorial Custom all Elections of Parliament-men ought to he made with an intire Liberty without any sort of force or the requiring the Electors to chuse such persons as shall be named to them And the persons thus freely Elected ought to give their Opinions freely upon all matters that are brought before them having the good of the Nation ever before their Eyes and following in all things the Dictates of their Conscience This manifestly relates as to the Freedom of Election of Members so also to the entire freedom of such Members acting afterwards Towards the former of these especially there have been some good things Enacted but yet the laying Penalties or Incapacities on Candidates may not probably be sufficient I say not to cure but to prevent the evil without laying the Electors themselves under like Penalties and Incapacities nor is there good reason why the former should be interdicted and not the latter In case it be said That if no body did Tempt no body would be Corrupted I reply if no body was to be or would be corrupted no body would tempt so that by this means there would at least be both less Temptation and less Corruption As to the other branch their Freedom of acting the name of the Pentioner Parliament is not so stale as to be forgotten nor of the nature of sowr Wines which by turning Vinegar come again in vogue God Almighty hath taught man that to be delivered from evil he must pray not to be led into temptation There is a Reverend and Worthy Class among you whose Predecessors lay some time since under the imputation of the dead Weight which yet was not owing so much to men's aversion or their objections to the Order it self however craftily it hath been given out and vulgarly taken as to their D●pendencies and the effects that these have wrought in times past and if ever the like effects appear in the other House as the consequence would not be less fatal so the Parties themselves would not be less obnoxious It would be well therefore if such modest and reasonable provisions were herein timely made as consist with the publick service and that this Rock of Offence be so done away as that our Enemies may not at any time whatever have it or take it for a