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A29579	A Speech made by the Right Honorable Iohn, Earl of Bristoll, in the high court of Parliament, May 20. 1642 concerning an accommodation : whereunto is added, the copy of a letter sent from the Right Honourable, the Lord Paget, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Buckingham, to the Right Honourable the Earl of Holland, shewing the great readinesse of that county, to obey the ordinance of the Parliament touching the militia.	Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654.; Paget, William Paget, Baron, 1609-1678.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4796; ESTC R1282	6,551	8

are most dangerous and destructive to the peace of a State Besides these publick calamities let every particular man consider the distracted and discomfortable estate of his own condition for mine own part I most ingeniously professe unto your Lordships That I cannot finde out under the different Commands of the King and the Parliament any such course of caution and warinesse by which I can promise to my self security or safety I could give your Lordships many instances of the inconsistancie and impossibility of obeying these commands But I shall trouble you with onely one or two The Ordinance of Parliament now in so great agitation commandeth all persons in Authority to put in execution and all others to obey it according to the Fundamentall Laws of the Land The king declareth it to be contrary to the Fundamentall Laws against the Subject and Rights of Parliament And commandeth all his Subiects of what degree soever upon their allegiance not to obey the said Ordinance as they will answer the contrary at their perils So likewise in point of the King commanding the attendance of divers of us upon His person whereunto We are oblieged by severall relations of our service and oathes In case We comply not with his Commands We ate liable to his displeasure and the losse of those places of Honour and Trust which We hold under Him If we obey his Commands without the leave of the Parliament which hath not been alwayes granted We are liable to the censure of Parliament and of ●oth these We want not fresh examples So that certainly this cannot but be acknowledged to be an uncomfortable condition I am sure I bring with me a ready and obedient heart to pay unto the king all those duties of loyalty allegiance and obedience which I owe unto him And I shall never be wanting towards the Parliament to pay unto it all those due Rights and that obedience which we all owe unto it But in contrary Commands a conformity of obedience to both is hardly to be lighted on The Reconciliation must be in the commanders and the Commands and not in the obedience or the person that is to obey And therefore untill it shall please God to blesse us with a right understanding betwixt the King and Parliament and a conformity in their Commands neither the Kingdom in publike nor particular men in private can be reduced to a safe or comfortable Condition I have said thus much to give occasion to others to offer likewise their opinions For we shall sit st●ll and nothing tending to the stay of the unhappy mis-understanding betwixt the King and his People be propounded It is to be feared That our miseries will hasten so fast and opportunity of applying remedies may be past I have herein discharged my conscience sutable to that duty which I owe to the King my Soveraigne and Master and sutable to that zeal and affection which I shall ever pay to the happinesse and prosperity of the Kingdome towards which I shall ever fully contribute my humble prayers and honest indeavours And I shall no way doubt whatsoever successe this my proposition may have it will be accompanied with the good wishes of your Lordships and of all peaceable and well minded men The Copy of a Letter sent from the Right Honorable the Lord Paget Lord Lieutenant of the County of Buckingham To the Right Honorable the Earl of Holland shewing the great readinesse of that County to obey the Ordinance of the Parliament touching the Militia I Have received so great expressions of my Country-men of Buckinghamshire of their good affections to the Publique and ready Obedience to the commands of Parliament in the present Master this day begun for a fourth part of this County that I held it my duty to make your Lordship acquainted therewith to the end an account may be given of it to the Parliament if your Lordship shall think fit Ten of my Deputie Lieutenants met me this morning at Beckonsfield where we called over the Traine Band consisting but of one hundred and fifty men who made a very good appearance with their Armes and supplies and as full as they have been formerly upon any other summons Besides these eightscore Voluntiers and upwards within this Division presented themselves to us very well armed and exercised in two Companies more in number then the Trained Band summoned to this place I am also informed of another Company of an hundred and fifty Volunteries more within this Division that intend to shew themselves in our way to the next place of meeting and of another Company of an hundred more who there intend to meet us besides the Trained Band. This publique testimony of my Countrymens good affections for the safety of the King and Kingdome I thought not unfit to make known And rest Your Lordships most dutifull son and humble servant WILL PAGET Beckonsfield 23. May. 1642. FINIS