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A26145	The Lord Chief Baron Atkyns's speech to Sir William Ashhvrst, 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	Atkyns, Robert, Sir, 1621-1709.; Ashurst, William, Sir, 1647-1720.	1693 (1693)	Wing A4142; ESTC R19267	10,547	18

THE LORD Chief Baron Atkyns's SPEECH TO Sir WILLIAM ASHHVRST lord-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. LONDON Printed for R. Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1693. THE Lord Chief Baron ATKYNS's SPEECH TO Sir VVILLIAM ASHURST lord-LORD-MAYOR Elect OF THE CITY of LONDON c. My Lord Elect THE 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 at 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 shall 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 teacheth 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 whith 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 For 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 endeavour to make all other Princes and Monarchs seek to be Absolute and Arbitrary too in their Dominions that he alone may have the Power of ruling them and that they may have their Dependence 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-Derry 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 Iuly 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 suppress the Insolency as that Paper calls it of the Dutch And the last is To have a strict Alliance between 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 Duke 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 Killaloo in Ireland and directed to another wherein 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

know it heretofore hath been It is abroad we know not how soon it may come home to our own Doors But it pleaseth God of his great Mercy that our Nation wherein his Providence hath placed us is an Island which lies not so open to the Incursions and Invasions of a Ravenous Enemy as the Continent doth What a desperate Condition had ours been if it had not been for this our Scituation long er'e this Consider what a sad Condition those poor Creatures are in who live in the Seat of War themselves their Wives and Children all Slaves to the Conqueror's Sword daily under Oppressions Rapines and Cruelties one day under one Power another day under the opposite Power This is their Condition blessed be God it is not yet ours I shall say no more upon this Head but resort to the other Head that I mentioned at first Consilium Domi. And it is a mercy from God that we have an Opportunity yet left us for Counsel a Winter before us to consult in and wherein tho we do not doubt but our great Enemy will be very active yet he cannot make such a vigorous Progress in his Designs as he may at another time of the Year We have yet time to consider and confer together And it is the Happiness and Blessing of Almighty God that we have the so near prospect of the Great Assembly of Parliament that will be Consilium Domi indeed If there be any Miscarriages any ill Intelligencers any inbred Traytors and Enemies within our selves they will we hope take care about them The House of Commons we know is the Grand Inquest of the Nation It is one of their great Offices and Duties to make enquiry after and prosecute such Offences and we doubt not they will do it It is not lightly and groundlessly to be suspected that those who lye in the Bosoms of Princes should betray them But yet I will tell you that no Prince hath reason to be secure in that point I cannot read that Passage of the Royal Psalmist without a great deal of Compassion of the Condition of Princes in this respect David was an Holy Man beloved of God of great Courage Parts and Piety yet consider what he makes his own Case to be My Familiar Friend he that eat of my bread hath dealt treacherously with me But he describes him further than that We took sweet Counsel together So that it should seem he was a Privy Counsellor as well as a Familiar Friend Nay yet further We went to the House of God together So that he was of David's Religion he was one that joyned in the same Worship with him he was no Dissenter Nay he was one that professed great Love to the House of God possibly he might be a great Champion for the Church and the Head of the Party Yet such an one David describes him to be who had betray'd him We have besides this which brings the matter home to what we have now before us great need to take care to chuse Excellent Persons into Offices of Magistracy especially for this great City upon whose good depend many things that I shall tell you of by and by and on which depends so much the good of the Nation And my Lord here we have cause to rejoyce that that Great and Wise Body have made such a Choice for their prime Magistrate as your Lordship one every way so fitted and qualified for that great Office My Lord I will tell you what comfort I hope for from it and I make no doubt many others that are here do the same That hereby we have a Token for good in the Inclinations of the Citizens we feel their Pulse we know what their Temper is and we rejoyce in it it is spoken in their Choice of you They appear to be Lovers of their Country lovers of their Religion lovers of the true English Interest and well inclined to set the World at liberty as to their Civil and Religious Rights My Lord I have a further Comfort in this matter the Election of Officers is a deliberate Act it is the Fruit of Counsel which is the Head we are now discoursing of and the Result of Wisdom But my Lord we may look higher even in this Action of the Citizens there is as in all great Human Actions the Primus Motor to be considered the Mighty God that governs in the Hearts of the People He hath put it into their Hearts to fix upon you What do we gather hence Vox Populi est vox Dei Almighty God hath chosen you It is a mighty Curse as we read in the Book of God to have a wicked Ruler set over a People On the other hand it is a great comfort and happiness to see a good Man chosen to bear Rule among us Almighty God hath given us in this an Earnest and a Pledge that he will not yet leave and forsake us and I raise to my self a good ground of great Comfort from it My Lord in the third Century after the time of our Saviour there was one Antenor the eighteenth or nineteenth Bishop of Rome died and the See became vacant and the Christians in a great Body met together to chuse a Successor and being in the Field together a great many Names were tossed to and fro of Persons that might be fit to be chosen But there was in the Crowd one that was known to a very few of that Multitude he was among the Ignota Capita one Fabianus who was a plain Country Parson very obscure but a pious meek Man who little thought of or sought the Bishoprick As they were tossing about several Names at last in the open view of the Assembly there was a Dove lighted upon the Head of Fabianus which when the People saw they presently with one Voice chose him to be Bishop You have the Relation in Eusebius an Ecclesiastical Writer of great Note and Credit A Dove lighted on his Head an excellent Emblem for a Bishop who ought to be of a meek and Dove-like temper and dispositon Amari non timeri debent Episcopi It was the blessed Spirit of God in that similitude which lighted upon the Head of our Saviour to give Testimony to him as the Son of God at his Baptism And it was a Dove that brought the Olive-branch into the Ark. It is an excellent Emblem of a Magistrate who ought to be like a Dove without Gall. My Lord indeed there was no Dove lighted upon your Head at your Election nor was there need of a-any for Miracles were never done in vain it had been a Miracle if you had not been chosen Your every way being so fit and qualified for this Trust and Command did bespeak your Election It is a dispute among the Learned whether Government be of Natural Right of Human Institution I remember the Learned Hooker in his Ecclesiastical Polity says some Persons have a natural Right to be Governours that is Men of great Vertue Parts

and active Spirits that are Mercurial Others again are fitted for Subjection being of duller Tempers and more sluggish heavy Spirits some are fit for Hands others for Heads There was a Noble Roman who was called Mecoenas of whom Tacitus tells us He was never Consul in Rome nor Senator but yet had as great Authority both with Senate and People as any of those who had triumphed because of his excellent Parts and great Vertue It might have been said of him He loved our Nation and hath built as a Synagogue that is he delighted to do them good and they would all listen to him upon all occasions tho' he never had any of the Badges of Authority conferred upon him It is taken care of by our Law That that Coin which is current among us must not be of the baser Mettals but of one of the two finer Species Silver or Gold it must have intrinsick Value as well as the Royal Impress This Election of your Lordship and our Swearing you and all this Ceremony gives but the Stamp and Impression it was your own intrinsick Value before that intitled you to the Office My Lord I shall say no more upon this Subject but shall make all the hast I can to conclude with that which is my Duty to give some Advice to your Lordship Not but that you know your Duty as well as I can teach it but I must not neglect any part of my own My Lord I must advice your Lordship to take care First of Religion and of the Service and Worship of God in the City to keep it up in Power and in Purity If we would have God to be our God and our Friend in a time of Distress we must carry it towards him Dutifully and Religiously and then we shall have him always our Friend our Father and Protector Therefore my Lord be severe upon all open Profane Persons Swearers and others and those who are not afraid to vent their Artheistical loose Opinions in Religion There are a great many profess'd Atheists amongst us and there are I fear a greater number that pass under a new Name of Deists that are of as pernicious Principles and indeed I fear more dangerous who throw off all revealed Religion whatsoever Pray have a care of these and such as lead dissolute and debauched Lives for if they be tolerated they will prove great Snares and Mischiefs to us all and therefore I hope your Lordship will look carefully after them In the next place pray my Lord take care of the Peace and Quiet of the City upon which the Peace of the Nation so much depends We have those among us and a great many who what with false Rumours and Reports and other Artifices and cunning Contrivances would disturb the Peace of the Nation and put Frights and Fears into the Multitude It would be a desperate Remedy that of Insurrections and Tumults Your Lordship will do well to have an Eye upon them and prevent the beginnings They are well joyned together in Holy Writ it is Almighty God alone that can still the Raging of the Sea and the Tumults of the People Whatsoever may be the Pretences upon which they are first got together we know not what they may turn about to when once they have a Head My Lord You will likewise do well to take care that the Proceedings of your Courts of Justice be clear and speedy and not too chargeable to the Suitor And here I cannot but renew the mention of a thing that I have often spoken of I wish there were a good Law against selling of Offices in the City and every where else it doth corrupt the Fountain of Justice I speak not so much of your other Offices but of those in your Courts of Justice it may prove the Ruine of the City and the Destruction of the Government Pray my Lord take care of Charity look after the Poor especially in this hard Winter and now there is such a Scarcity of Corn and the Dearness of Coals Your Lordship in great Prudence and Wisdom and of your great Charity will I hope think of it in time and provide Stores for the poor People that they may not be in extream Want as to Food or Fewel I beg of your Lordship to be vigilant over those who meet together and cabal and study how to disturb our Peace My Lord they do now appear open-faced and affect to be known as Enemies to the Government They will not joyn with us in observing our Fasts but take occasion on those days to feast and be jolly with one another they purposely pride themselves in paying double Taxes because thereby they are known to be against our present Settlement These must have a strict Eye kept upon them I had much more to say upon that Point but I have been too long already I come now to the last part of this Work that lies upon me that is to offer your Lorship some Considerations that may encourage you in the chearful Discharge of your Office Among other things you have the good Examples of your two last Predecessors who indeed are so honourable and worthy Persons that they may be counted among the Worthies of David and in particular your immediate Predecessor that stands by you who hath during his time well preserved the Peace of the City and delivered it fairly into your Lordships hands Tho' we cannot say he hath brought the Ship into Harbour yet he hath fairly performed his part of the Voyage notwithstanding the Roughness and Tempestuousness of the Season My Lord You have the Example of the King himself to encourage you who hath with great Courage and Love to our Nation exposed his Person to the utmost Perils and Hazards for us And it is not only his Vertue that may be an Encouragement but it is evident now to all the World that there hath a blessed Providence attended him in the greatest Dangers to preserve and protect him In the business of Fights there is not a Bullet that flieth but it is under the Government and Direction of Providence And it is to a Miracle apparent that the Hand of Providence is continually over the Head of our King When Iulius Caesar was in great Distress Pompey his Enemy having possessed himself of all the Power and shut him up under great Difficulties he puts himself into a Disguise with a purpose to make his Escape and embarqued himself in a small Vessel When he was there he could not prevail upon the Pilot to put to Sea it was rough and tempestuous like the Times we are now in all the Arguments he could use would by no means do with him At length he was forced to throw off his Disguise and shew himself and tell him Caesarem Caesaris fortunam vebis You have Caesar aboard and Caesar's good Fortune That which he called Fortune I will call Providence And that Providence which preserved the King I make no doubt will protect you in your Great Station My Lord You have under your Care and I am glad the Care is in such hands the Worship and Service of Almighty God and his Glory is engaged on your side Our Great Enemy that I have spoken so much of before most blasphemously and impiously arrogates Glory to himself which is God's Prerogative My Glory saith God I will not give to another But the French King snatches at it he declares openly That the Dutch are an Hindrance and Diminution to his Glory and we may expect to have the same said of our selves My Lord I say you have this Glory of God on your side and you have the Prayers and Assistance of a great many that love God a great many in your City I dare pronounce more than in any place under Heaven The Prophet complained That he was left alone to serve God But God answered him that he had seven thousand in Israel who never bowed the Knee to Baal I may multiply that number of Seven as our blessed Saviour doth in the case of Forgiving our Brother There are seventy times seven thousand in this City and about it that never bowed the Knee to Baal never had a hand in all the Miscarriages and illegal Actions of the late Times would never own Popery and Arbitrary Power And I question not there are a great many more in the rest of the Kingdom These may be an Encouragement to you You have the Interest of all the Protestants in the World and all that are concerned for their Civil Rights and their Religious ones too on your side My Lord I shall only conclude with one Word Your Entrance into this great Office is very hopeful we all of us heartily wish your Exit and Conclusion may be as happy FINIS