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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26146	The Lord Chief Baron Atkyns's speech to Sir William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor Elect of the city of London at the time of their being sworn in Their Majesties Court of Exchequer, Monday the thirtieth of October, 1693.	Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709.	1694 (1694)	Wing A4143; ESTC R34194	10,530	14

The Lord Chief Baron Atkyns's Speech to Sir William Ashhurst Lord Mayor Elect of the City of London at the time of his being Sworn in Their Majesties Court of Exchequer Monday the Thirtieth of October 1693. My ●●rd Elect T●● Duty of that place wherein as yet I serve Their Majesties doth oblige me to say something to your Lordship upon this great and solemn occasion I thought I might have been excused by reason of great indispositions of body that are present upon me But since it is my Duty By the Grace of God I will endeavour to discharge it with all faithfulness and freedom And I am the more encouraged to undertake it because of the great Merit of the Excellent Persons that are before me to whom I must more particularly apply my self in what I have to say I s●●ll raise my Discourse from Two Heads and they are very vulgar and they are very short each of them consisting but of two words in Latin Foris Arma Consilium Domi Wars abroad but Counsel at home The first tells us of our danger the latter teaches us our duty Foris Arma It pleaseth Almighty God that after some years gone over our heads since the last Revolution and after so much Blood spilt and so much Treasure spent we yet continue in a State of War and that with a Prince who is very powerful is highly enraged against us and is very prosperous His power at Land appears in this that he has raised three great Armies and maintained them and with his single Force is able to Cope with almost all the United Forces of Europe His Power at Sea appears in this that he can encounter with the united strength of three great Nations the English the Dutch and the Spaniards each of which single not long ago had been too hard for him I shall tell you in a few words what the Design of this Great Enemy of ours is not that I mean to tell you news for I suppose there are none here present but know it but I am afraid we are not so sensible of it as we should be we do not so well consider it as we ought But however I must mention it because it induceth much of what I have to say The Design of this Great Prince the King of France is this First to make himself Universal Monarch of the West and if that were all it were not so bad Fot it doth not so much concern the world who Governs as how they Govern But in the next place it is to establish an Absolute Arbitrary Power every where He would rule us with a Rod of Iron His will and pleasure must be the only Law And in order to this he doth endeavor to make all other Princes Monarchs seek to be Absolute Arbitrary too in their Dominions that he alone may have the power of Ruling them and that they may have their dependance alone upon him And therein he would have the Prerogative that belongs to Almighty God to be King of Kings and Lord of Lords He would be the great Proprietary Owner and Disposer of all Estates and Possessions at his will and pleasure to lay what Taxes and Burthens upon them he pleaseth they shall toil and moil they shall plow and sow and he shall reap and divide all among his Bashaws and Janizaries and Men of War He would destroy the Protestants and root out their Religion and suffer no Religion to be professed any where but the Popish and that not out of Zeal or Love to Religion but he would make it a State-Engine that pretended Religion being most suitable to serve his Ambitious Designs These are his Designs and I shall prove it to you by some most manifest undeniable Instances And I have them already collected to my hand by an Excellent Author and his name is Dr. King late Dean of St. Patricks in Ireland but who since that was made Bishop of London-D●rry in a Thanksgiving-Sermon of his preached at St. Patrick's Church in Dublin upon the reducing of that Kingdom before the Lords Justices of Ireland It is in print and any one may have recourse to it In the first place He does state this to be the Design of the French King as I have stated it and then proceeds to the proof of it And the first thing is a Paper found in the Closet of the late Lord Tyrconnell then Colonel Talbot where the Design is laid open it is dated in July 1671. now two and twenty years ago There is the first Scheme of the Design laid between the French King and our late King King Charles the Second and it is a Scheme of such a Design as I have told you of and then it proposeth the means for effecting of it First To procure Popery to be established in England by a Toleration next To supress the Insolency as that Paper calls it of the Dutch And the last is To have a strict Alliance betwen the French King and the King of England And by this means as that Paper concludes would the King of Great Britain be absolute Monarch over his own Subjects Another Proof he produceth is a Memorial delivered in to the States of Holland in the year 1688. and that was by Monsieur d'Avaux the French Ambassador then at the Hague In this Memorial all this Design is stated bold-faced There he tells the States There was a Treaty between our then King formerly the D. of York and his Master the French King in the year 1671 and that was to this purpose To bring about such a Design as I have spoken of by which means as that Paper hath it the French King would be Universal Monarch and the King of England Absolute over his own Subjects and by this means there would be a Re-establishment of Popery in these three Kingdoms That is his Second Proof The Third is a Letter written by Moloony the Popish Bishop of Killalo● in Ireland and directed to another wherin he states this to be the Design of the French King that I have mentioned and the means the same to effect it In which Paper saith my Reverend Author there is great anger expressed that some Trimmers about the late King do disown any such Treaty with the French King So that here are clear Proofs that this was the Project between the two Crowns of England and France of a very long standing They are Proofs in Writing and under the Hands of those who were eminently instrumental in the carrying on of the Design But had I time and were it so pertinent especially here I could make that Design between England and France elder than 1671. And particularly I need but mention the business of Rochel You may see how that Atchievement of that King this French King's Father by the management of this publick Minister Cardinal Richlieu is celebrated with wonderful Encomiums by him that was then Secretary of State They date their Freedom as they call it and