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A32231 His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, touching the causes & reasons that moved him to dissolve the two last Parliaments England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685. 1681 (1681) Wing C3000; ESTC R13996 3,813 11

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His Majesties DECLARATION To all His Loving Subjects Touching The CAUSES REASONS That moved Him to Dissolve The Two last PARLIAMENTS Published by His Majesties Command DIEV ET MON DROIT HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE LONDON Printed by the Assigns of John Bill Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1681. His Majesties DECLARATION To all His Loving Subjects Touching The CAUSES REASONS That moved Him to Dissolve The Two last PARLIAMENTS IT was with exceeding great trouble that We were brought to the Dissolving of the Two last Parliaments without more benefit to Our People by the Calling of them But having done Our part in giving so many opportunities of providing for their Good it cannot be justly imputed to Us that the Success hath not answered Our Expectation We cannot at this time but take notice of the particular Causes of Our Dissatisfaction which at the beginning of the last Parliament We did recommend to their care to avoid and expected We should have had no new Cause to remember them We Open'd the last Parliament which was held at Westminster with as Gracious Expressions of Our readiness to satisfie the Desires of Our Good Subjects and to secure them against all their just Fears as the weighty Consideration either of preserving the Establish'd Religion and the Liberty and Property of Our Subjects at home or of Supporting Our Neighbours and Allyes abroad could fill Our heart with or possibly require from Us. And We do solemnly Declare That We did intend as far as would have consisted with the very Being of the Government to have Comply'd with any thing that could have been propos'd to Us to accomplish those Ends. We ask'd of them the Supporting the Alliances We had made for the preservation of the General Peace in Christendom We recommended to them the further Examination of the Plot We desir'd their advice and assistance concerning the preservation of Tanger We offer'd to concur in any Remedies that could be proposed for the Security of the Protestant Religion that might consist with preserving the Succession of the Crown in its due and legal Course of Descent to all which We met with most unsuitable Returns from the House of Commons Addresses in the nature of Remonstrances rather than of Answers Arbitrary Orders for taking Our Subjects into Custody for Matters that had no relation to Priviledges of Parliament Strange illegal Votes declaring divers eminent Persons to be enemies to the King and Kingdom without any Order or Process of Law any hearing of their Defence or any Proof so much as offer'd against them Besides these Proceedings they voted as followeth on the 7th of January last Resolved That whosoever shall Lend or cause to be Lent by way of Advance any Money upon the Branches of the Kings Revenue arising by Customs Excise or Hearth-money shall be adjudged to hinder the Sitting of Parliaments and shall be responsible for the same in Parliament Resolved That whosoever shall buy any Tally of Anticipation upon any part of the King's Revenue or whosoever shall pay any such Tally hereafter to be struck shall be adjudged to hinder the Sitting of Parliaments and shall be responsible for the same in Parliament Which Votes instead of giving Us Assistance to support Our Allyes or enable Us to preserve Tanger tended rather to disable Us from Contributing towards either by Our Own Revenue or Credit not onely exposing Us to all Dangers that might happen either at home or abroad but endeavouring to deprive Us of the Possibility of Supporting the Government it self and to reduce Us to a more helpless Condition then the meanest of Our Subjects And on the 10th of the same Month they past another Vote in these words Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House That the Prosecution of Protestant Dissenters upon the Penal Laws is at this time grievous to the Subject a weakening of the Protestant Interest an Encouragement to Popery and dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom By which Vote without any regard to the Laws establish'd they assumed to themselves a Power of Suspending Acts of Parliament whereas Our Judges and Ministers of Justice neither can nor ought in reverence to the Votes of either or both the Houses break the Oathes they have taken for the due and impartial Execution of Our Laws which by Experience have been found to be the best Support both of the Protestant Interest and of the Peace of the Kingdom These were some of the unwarrantable Proceedings of that House of Commons which were the occasion of Our parting with that Parliament Which We had no sooner Dissolv'd but We caus'd another to be forthwith Assembled at Oxford at the Opening of which We thought it necessary to give Them warning of the Errors of the former in hopes to have prevented the like Miscarriages and We requir'd of Them to make the Laws of the Land their Rule as We did and do resolve they shall be Ours We further added That what We had formerly and so often Declared concerning the Succession We could not depart from But to remove all reasonable Fears that might arise from the Possibility of a Popish Successor's coming to the Crown if Means could be found that in such a Case the Administration of the Government might remain in Protestant Hands We were ready to hearken to any Expedient by which the Religion Establish'd might be Preserv'd and the Monarchy not Destroy'd But contrary to Our Offers and Expectation We saw that no Expedient would be entertain'd but that of a total Exclusion which We had so often declar'd was a Point that in Our Own Royal Judgment so nearly concern'd Us both in Honour Justice and Conscience that We could never consent to it In short We cannot after the sad Experience We have had of the late Civil Wars that Murder'd Our Father of Blessed Memory and ruin'd the Monarchy consent to a Law that shall establish another most Unnatural War or at least make it necessary to maintain a Standing Force for the Preserving the Government and the Peace of the Kingdom And We have reason to believe by what pass'd in the last Parliament at Westminster that if We could have been brought to give Our Consent to a Bill of Exclusion the Intent was not to rest there but to pass further and to attempt some other Great and Important Changes even in Present The Business of Fitz-Harris who was Impeach'd by the House of Commons of High Treason and by the House of Lords referr'd to the ordinary Course of Law was on the sudden carried on to that extremity by the Votes which the Commons pass'd on the 26th of March last that there was no possibility left of a Reconciliation The Votes were these Die Sabbati 26º Martii post Meridiem Resolved That it is the undoubted Right of the Commons in Parliament Assembled to Impeach before the Lords in Parliament any Peer or Commoner for Treason or any other