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A95560	A most learned and eloquent speech, spoken or delivered in the Honourable House of Commons at Westminster, by the most learned lawyer Miles Corbet, Esq recorder of Great Yarmouth, and Burgess of the same, on the 31th day of July, 1647. taken in short-hand by Nocky, and Tom. Dunn, his clerks, and revised by John Tayler.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.; Corbet, Miles, d. 1662, attributed name.	1681 (1681)	Wing T483D; ESTC R229565	6,255	7

much we have done for this Kingdom Sixthly Mr. Speaker They do question us what good we have done for the benefit or liberty of the Subject Many of them say that they know too well and too ill what and what not they find by lamentable experience that we have turned their Liberty into Bondage their Freedom into Slavery and their Happiness into an unexampled Infelicity Nay it is reported that we have found two ways to Hell which are either to be Rebels or perjured to fight in Person against the King and to be forsworn by a Covenant to owe him no Obedience or dutiful Allegiance They say we say Tush these are but Trifles which may be answered at an easie rate a small matter will clear this Reckoning it is no more than everlasting Damnation for which Mr. Speaker I am bold to make use of a Speech in the distastful Litany Good Lord deliver us The Malignants do compare this Commonwealth to an old Kettle with here and there a fault or hole a crack or a flaw in it and that we in imitation of our worthy Brethren of Banbury were intrusted to mend the said Kettle but like deceitful and cheating Knaves we have instead of stopping one hole made three or fourscore for the People chose us to ease them of some mild and tolerable Grievances which we have done so artificially that they all cry and complain that the Medicine is forty times worse than the Disease and the Remedy a hundred times worse than the Medicine And so much is reported that we have done for the Subject Seventhly Mr. Speaker The Malignants Query or Question is what we have done for Reformation What by our industrious Care and long Sitting we have Reformed how the Service of God is by us more religiously sincerely zealously fervently and ardently preached or practiced what we have amended either in Church or Kingdom how either the King is more honoured or obeyed than he was before this Parliament what good we have done this four or five years with what faces can we look upon the Freeholders and Corporations in every Shire County City Town and Borough in this Kingdom who cried us up and with their Voices elected us to be Knights and Burgesses which way we can answer the same for our many breaches of that great Trust which they intrusted us withal I tell you Mr. Speaker these are home Questions and they plainly say that all our Reformation is Nonconformation and by sure confirmation true information certain affirmation we have by cunning Transformation turned all to Deformation So that if our Predecessors and Ancestors that are departed this Life to a better or a worse should or could rise out of their Graves and see the change alteration and unmannerly Manners that have overspread this Church and Kingdom they would think they were not in England but either in Turky Barbaria Scythia Tartaria or some Land that is inhabited by Infidels or Pagans for England as it is looks no more like England as it was five years ago than a Camel or Cockle shell are like an Owl or a Red Herring Eighthly and lastly briefly and compendiously the Question is what we have done for our selves We have run the hazard of our Estates to be justly forfeited by Rebellion against a just merciful and truly religious King our Lives are liable to the rigour of such Laws as former Parliaments have enacted against Rebels and Traitors and our selves are in danger of perpetual Perdition if submission contrition and satisfaction be not humbly and speedily performed or endeavoured for we and none but we have altered this Kingdom 's Felicity to Confusion and Misery from a pleasant merry Comedy to a dismal bloody Tragedy sufficient to fill a large History of perpetual Memory of us and our Posterity And thus Mr. Speaker have I with as much brevity as I could run over my Eight parts of Speech whereby may be percieved how the Malignant Adversaries do esteem of us and our Actions I could speak more than I have said and I could say more than I have spoken but having done I hold it discretion to make an END

A most Learned and Eloquent SPEECH spoken or delivered in the Honourable House of Commons at Westminster by the most Learned Lawyer MILES CORBET Esq Recorder of Great Yarmouth and Burgess of the same on the 31th day of July 1647. taken in Short-hand by Nocky and Tom. Dunn his Clerks and revised by John Tayler Mr. Speaker I Know not how to speak I know no Man weaker than my self who do acknowledge I am as unfitting to speak in this Honourable Assembly as Phormio was to prattle an Oration of War's Discipline to the great Soldier Hannibal in the presence of King Antiochus yet out of the debility of my Knowledge the inability of my Learning the imbecility of my Judgment the Nobility of this conscript Senate the mutability of their Censures the instability of Opinions the probability of Offending the volubility of Scandal and the impotency of my Utterance I have maugre all these perillous Impediments adventured to unbosom and disburthen my Mind before these unmatchable Patriots Mr. Speaker I am not ignorant that you are appointed in this Parliament to be the Ear of this Kingdom and Mouth of the Commons and I desire that your Hearing may not take any offence against my Words nor your Tongue to retort me a Reproof instead of an Applause Mr. Speaker In my Introduction to Grammar vulgarly called The Accidence I found eight parts of Speech which is now an Introduction to me to divide my Speech into eight parts that is to say 1. What we have done for Religion 2. What we have done for the Church 3. What for the King 4. What for the Laws 5. What for the Kingdom 6. What for the Subject 7. What for Reformation 8. What for our selves Of all these in order as my infirm Loquacity can demonstrate Mr. Speaker I do not herein declare either or neither the Opinions of this honourable Assembly or any Fancy of my own but I will make plain unto you how the Malignants esteem of us and into what odium we are fallen amongst foreign Nations First for Religion They say we have thrust out one Religion and taken in two That we have thrown down Protestanism and erected Anabaptism and Brownism That by our Doctrines we do abuse the famous Memory of Queen Elizabeth King James and consequently King Charles That in their Religions they were Papistically minded which their Lives and Acts have and do manifest the contrary and they say it is no less than odious and high Treason to traduce either of those deceased or surviving Princes with such false and scandalous Aspersions Mr. Speaker I would not be mistaken I say not my own words but I say what the Malignants say of my Lord Say and of us They say That the Protestant Religion was wont to be and ought an inward Robe or Vestment for the Souls and Consciences of all true Believers and that the Bishops ancient Fathers and all Orthodox Divines had a care to keep her neat clean and handsom in as spotless Integrity as a Militant Church in this imperfect Age could keep it But they say that we have made Religion an outward Garment or a Cloak which none do wear amongst us but Sectaries Fools Knaves and Rebels They say this Cloak being with often turning worn as Threadbare as the public Faith full of wrincles spots and stains neither brushed spunged nor made clean with as many Patches in it as in a Begger 's Coat kept by Coblers Weavers Ostlers Tinkers and Tub-preachers so that all order and decent comeliness is thrust out of the Church all laudable Ornaments trod down and banished under the false and scandalous terms of Popery and in the place thereof most nasty filthy and loathsom beastliness our Doctrines being vented in long tedious Sermons to move and stir up the People to Rebellion and traiterous Contributions to exhort them to Murder Rapine Robbery and Disloyalty and all manner of mischief that may be to the confusion of their Souls and Bodies All these damnable Villanies our Adversaries say are the accursed Fruits which our new moulded Linsey-wolsey Religion hath produced for they say our Doctrine is neither derived from the Old or New Testament That all the Fathers Protestant Doctors and Martyrs never heard of any such that Christ and his Apostles never knew it and for the Book of Common-Prayer they say in Verse Ten thousand such as we can ne're devise A Book so good as that which we despise The Common-Prayer they mean If we should sit Ten thousand Years with all our Brains and Wit We should prove Coxcombs all and in the end Leave it as 't is too good for us to mend And so much they say we have done for Religion which is the first of my eight parts of Speech and as my weakness and your patience will permit I will more briefly and compendiously proceed to the second Secondly we are taxed with profane and barbarous Pollutions of the Church or Houses dedicated to God's Service They say that we never built any but have taken too much accursed pains to deface and pull down many perverting the right use of them into Stables receptacles of Strumpets luxurious Villains and infernal stinking Smoaks of Mundungo at the Communion Table destroying those things which we with great maturity of Judgment Learning and Wisdom set in order enacted by former Parliaments most execrably spoiling all by the usurped Power and Protection of this Parliament Mr. Speaker It is a rigorous Medicine for the Toothach to knock out the Brains of the Patient he is no wise Man that takes violent Physic and kills himself to purge a little Phlegm nor is he a prudent Builder if his House wants some slight repairs will pull it down A Man that loves his Wife will not put her away for a few needless black Patches that her Face is disfigured withall In like manner if any thing were amiss either Ornament Gesture Ceremony Liturgy or whatsoever might have been approved unfitting scandalous or justly offensive it is concieved it might have been removed or reconciled in a more Christian way than by ruinating demolishing tearing and violently defacing all without regard of Humanity Christianity or Order either from God or Man as too many places in this unjointed Kingdom can most truly and wofully testifie And these sweet pieces of Service our Adversaries say we have done for the Church Thirdly concerning our Loyalty and Obedience to the King It is manifest that we have all taken the Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty and that we have also lately taken Oaths and Covenants to make War against him Our Enemies would fain know who had power to dispense or free us from the former Oath and likewise by what Authority the latter Covenants and Oaths were imposed upon the Consciences of Men. For my own part if there were none wiser than my self this ambiguous Aenigma would never be unriddled But it is reported that if we had kept our first Oaths conscientiously and

not taken the second most perniciously and performed them so impioussy then we had never so rebelliously opposed and offended so gracious a Majesty Mr. Speaker Our Adversaries do further alledge That our Obedience to His Majesty is apparently manifest by many strange ways We have disburthened him of his large Revenues we have eased him of the charge of Royal House-keeping we have freed him of paying of his Navy we have cleared him from either repairing of or repairing to his stately Pallaces magnificent Mansions and defensive Castles and Garrisons we have put him out of care for reparations of his Armories Arms Ammunition and Artillery we have been at the cost of keeping his Children and most trusty Servants from or for him we have taken Order and given Ordinances that he shall not be troubled with much Money or Meat and that his Queen and lawful Wife shall not so much as darken his Door And we have endeavoured by open Rebellion to release him of a most troublesom Life and Reign by hunting him like a Partridge over the Mountains and by shooting Bullets of all sizes at his Person for His Majesty's Preservation on purpose to make him a glorious King in another World We have eased him of a great number of his faithful Friends loyal Subjects and Servants by either charitable Famishing brotherly Banishment liberal and free Imprisonment Parliamental Plunder friendly Throat-cutting and unlawful Beheading and Hanging or ruinating as many as we could lay hands of that either loved served or honoured him All these heavy Burthens we have eased him of and overladen our selves with the usurped Ponderosity of them so that our Adversaries say that the weight of them will either break our Backs our Necks or sink us for ever And they say that since the World's Creation never so good a King had so bad Subjects to use him so hardly Fourthly Mr. Speaker It is questioned what we have done for the Laws There are some that are not afraid to say That we have transformed or metamorphosed the Common Laws of this Land into the Land's common Calamities that instead of the common Benefit which the Laws in Community should yield to all Men in general we have perverted those Laws to the private profit of our selves and some other particular persons The Civil Law is turned into an uncivil Civil War Blasphemy Atheism Sacriledge Obscenes Profaneness Incest Adultery Fornication Bigamy Poligamy Bastard-bearing Cuckold-making and all sorts of beastly Bawdry is so far from being punished that it is generally connived and winked at or tolerated by us And those which should be the Punishers of these gross and crying Crimes as Judges Officials Deacons Proctors and other Officers these are derided reviled libelled against cryed down and made a common Scoffing stock of every libidinous incontinent Whore and Whoremonger The Law of God contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments we have rased out of the Church not so much as suffering them to be read And the New Commandment which was the last that Christ commanded That we should love one another we have turned that the foul contrary way to the spoiling and murdering one another The Law of Nature is most unnaturally changed to brutish heathenish devilish barbarous Inhumanity Paricide Fratricide and Homicide hath been and is by us defended maintained and rewarded no Affinity Consanguinity Alliance Friendship or Fellowship hath or can secure any true Protestant or loyal Subject either of his Life or Goods Safety or Freedom These are the best Reports our Adversaries the Malignant Party do give us It is farther said That we have infringed and violated the Law of Arms here and the Law of Nations abroad For whereas Messengers and Ambassadors have always had and ought to have free and safe passage with fair and courteous Accommodation and Entertainment with the Turkes Tartars Jews and Cannibals always observed most obsequiously and punctually But we contrary to them and repugnant to Christianity have suffered Ambassadors to be rifled robb'd and evil entreated And we have caused His Majesty's Messengers to be hang'd whom he hath most graciously sent to us with Conditions of Peace By the Vox populi or common Vote of those People we are pleased to call Malignants Papists Enemies to the State with other Scandals and Epithites which they utterly deny both in their words and practice We are justly taxed to be the main Incendiaries and pestilent Propagators of all the Mischiefs which this afflicted miserable Kingdom groans and bleeds under for they say That the old Statutes of Magna Charta are overthrown by us under pretence and colour of supporting them And that by our Votes Ordinances Precepts Proclamations Edicts Mandates and Commands we have countermanded abrogated annihilated abolished violated and made void all the Laws of God of Nature of Arms and of Arts too and instead of them we have unlawfully erected Marshal Law Club Law Stafford Law and such lawless Laws as make most for Treason Rebellion Murder Sacriledge Ruine and Plunder But as for the King himself we have not allowed him so much Law as a Huntsman allows a Hare These are our Enemies words and so much they say we have done for the Laws Fifthly Mr. Speaker This Question or Query is what we have done for the Kingdom It is said that we have done and undone the Kingdom this ancient famous flourishing Kingdom this Envy of the World for Happiness this Eden of the Universe this Terrestrial Paradice this Abstract of Heaven's Blessings and Earthly Content this Epitome of Nature's Glory this exact Extract of Piety Learning and magnanimous Chivalry this Nursery of Religion Arms Arts and laudable Endeavours this Breed of Men this wonder of Nations formerly renowned feared loved and honoured as far as ever Sun and Moon shined this England which hath been a Kingdom and a Monarchy many hundred years under the Reigns of 168 Kings and Queens this Kingdom which hath conquered Kingdoms that hath India Syria Palestina Cyprus Tributary tremblers that hath made France shake and Spain quake that relieved and defended Scotland from French slavery and saved and protected the Netherlands from Spanish Tyranny Now have we made this Kingdom this England a miserable Slave to it self an Universal Golgotha a purple Gore Acheldama a Field of Blood a Gehenna a Den of Thieves or Infernal Furies and finally an Earthly Hell were it not for this difference That here the best Men are punished and in Hell only the worst are plagued here no good Man escapes Torment nor any bad Man is troubled The King is abused for being good and just and his true and loyal Subjects and Servants are ruined and massacred for their Fidelity The Protestants are called Papists because they will not be Brownists Anabaptists and Rebels And our Adversaries are so bold to say That we have plotted and laboured long to turn this glorious Monarchy into a pedling roly poly Independant Anarchy and make this Kingdom to be no Kingdom and so