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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45854	The inconveniences of a long continuance of the same Parliament		1680 (1680)	Wing I139; ESTC R324	6,725	4

And the discoverers of Plotters and prosecutors of Papists are to this day incouraged by his Majesty Were not the Lords in the Tower several times brought to Westminster-Hall by the Kings Command in order to their Tryal but the House of Commons were not or would not be ready for it unless they might pluck a plume from the Prerogative or Peerage to feather their own Caps withal And whither they were not more ready to kindle Coals of contention when even in the House not long since some laid hands on their Swords to draw at each other I leave the World to judg Can any man then that loves the peace of his Country be troubled at the Prorogation or Dissolution of such a Parliament It is indeed to be found in our English Chronicles that one Parliament had the name of good and that was in the Reign of Edw. the 3d. but it seems to be so called in derision only for the same Author says they wrought ill effects to be more plain there seldom or never was a long Parliament that did deserve much commendation or that was free from Faction But that it was not otherwise much may be imputed to the fault of the Electors who take not right measures in their choice And because good Parliaments are very useful to His Majesty and People it is to be wisht men would observe the right means to obtain such whenever it should please His Majesty to give another opportunity of a new Choice and forasmuch as many of the Commons of our late Parliaments were so vile as to take pensions for their Votes as some of their own-Fellow-Members give out which if true in all likelyhood were given by some corrupt Minister of State to promote the interest and designs of some Forreign Prince and some others of them were under very gross errors touching Succession whither out of a real mis-apprehension or through a voluntary mis-feasance it is not proper here to determine Only this I say it is somewhat strange that men that are all for Religion will not trust God Almighty himself with that Prerogative though he gives us his word for it That the hearts of Kings are in his Rule and Governance and turneth them which way it pleaseth him and in another place it is said By me Kings Reign and Princes do Decree But of this more perhaps hereafter Some others are mightily inraged at their Dissolution because it hath put them to charges at their new Elections and perhaps by the intermission of a Parliament were forc'd to pay some of their debts These sort of men if they meet again unless they are become Converts will in all likelihood be doing mischief therefore it would be well that not one suspected of such miscariages should be ever chose again There can be no Inconvenience in changing for there is no Country or place but what hath several men fitter to be Parliament men than those and the new men may the better and in more likehood act for the good of the Nation than the old ones for these will meet without any private prejudice or pre-engagement in any Faction It cannot well be expected there should ever be a good Parliament as long as men will be misled to their choice by extravagancy of expence therefore they would do well to consider what will a belly full of Ale signifie in recompence of their peace it will be but like Esau's selling his birth-right for a mess of Pottage neither ought the recommendation of any great man have any influence upon our choice but the good qualifications of the person ought only to be respected Mens care in this concern is of very great Consequence for a great Politician says it That it is more dangerous to the publick when there 's an evil Council and a good King than when there 's an evil King but a good Council and that we may always have a good Council above all other rules Gods own direction for the choice of a Council in Israel ought to be followed Assemble unto me saith he seventy of the most ancient of the people wise men fearing God Deut. cap. 1. It is of dangerous consequence when the people have a slight opinion of the parts and abilities of their Council therefore it is that old and not young men ought to be chose into this great Council for most men are apt to think slightly of those of alike Age with themselves and though some young men may be good and vertuous yet the heat and vigour of their youth and blood is apt to transport them into passion and to too violent a prosecution of what their unripe and unexperienc'd Judgments dictate Solon therefore forbad any young man to be admitted into the Senate seem'd he never so wise To conclude God grant the Great Council the Parliament whether the present or a new one that when they meet next they may remember it is great grace and favour in the King to Advise or Consult with them at any time and therefore may they not insist upon what belongs not to them but render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's and then God will bless both our King and us Amen FINIS

it deserves to be so called had been torn in pieces by faction amongst themselves and this poor Kingdom thereby ere this might have been a second time in our memory blown up by her own inbred Divisions and it is not without precedent that Parliaments are alike infallible as the Pope or his Colledg of Cardinals and have given as ill advice and done as ill things and of late have been more troublesome than ever If it should be so that the advice of either or both Houses of Parliament must of necessity be followed by the King then would it not be properly an advice but a command in effect and where in a Commonwealth the Sovereign power or Command is in more than in one that Commonwealth is no longer a Monarchy but is degenerated at best into an Aristocracy the Sovereignty being thereby divided amongst many and if we judg impartially it must be acknowledged that they that indeavour after that viz. that the Votes and Ordinances of the House of Commons might have the force of Laws are no less Enemies to the State than they that would introduce Popery for in both Cases it is but indeavouring to alter the Government to prevent which fond and dangerous attempt the frequent Dissolving of Parliaments is very necessary Divers other Inconveniences will be prevented by frequent Proroguing and Dissolving of Parliaments for by that means the privilege of Parliaments will not over long protect the Members thereof to delay and defraud their fellow Subjects of their just and due Debts which sort of practice for many years past hath been a killing oppression when not only the Members themselves made ill Use of that privilege but many of them gave their Clerks Liberty to sell blank Protections by the dozens as the Pope doth his Indulgences And moreover if any such or other like vitious man should by flattery and bribery get into the Parliament a Dissolution gives opportunity of discharging such from having hand in so high a Trust and great reason such should be discharged for how can it be expected that men unjust in their private concerns should be otherwise in publick Administration which they will always strive to make subservient to their bie-Interests By the long continuance of one and the same Parliament it hath happened that the Members thereof having long beheld the tempting though forbidden fruit of Supremacy they have not scrupled to grapple with the King for a share of the Sovereignty and most commonly when they are a little setled they strive to spoil the King of his Prerogative to usurp it to themselves and rather than fail of their designs time hath been that they have involv'd the people of this Kingdom in a miserable War and Destruction of each other when the thing they seem'd to insist on was either of no moment at all to the people or something that had a very remote possibility of ever happening whereby instead of preventing the mischief they drew it hastily upon us There are too many examples hereof in History whereof to name a few Let it be Impartially consider'd and then judg if there was a justifiable Cause for the Insolency of that Parliament in Edw. the 2d's time who being set on by some Lords that envied Gavestons favour with that King framed Articles of some trifling grievances to be presented to the King but added thereunto the King must banish Gaveston else they declar'd they would rise in Arms against the King An Action much to the credit of Parliaments indeed that they to gratifie an envious Lord or two would not stick to stir up the Plague of a Civil War in the bowels of their own Country by engaging in a Rebellion against the King And they proceeded so far that they murthered Gaveston instead of bringing him to a fair and Legal Tryal for no reason in particular that appears by Bakers Chronicle other than that the King lov'd him and that he was in more favour than they and not long after they e'ne Depos'd the King and yet no intrenchment upon the peoples Liberty or Property was committed by that King in all his Reign and it is expresly said of him he took no base Courses for raising money And although being forc'd to resign his Crown he was content to live a prive Life and did so very quietly yet his Seditious Lords thought his Liberty too much favour for him and caus'd him to be imprison'd and in carrying to Prison he was most barbarously abused for being taken from his Horse and set upon a Hillock and there taking puddle water to shave him with his Barber told him Cold water must serve for that time whereat the miserable King looking earnestly upon him told him that whither they would or no he would have warm water to wash withal and to make good his words he let fall a showre of tears and being carried to Prison they lodg'd him in a Chamber over Carrion and dead Carkesses thinking thereby to have poyson'd him But when they saw that would not do a Letter was devis'd from a Lord to the Kings Keepers blaming them for giving him too much Liberty and for not doing the service that was expected from them and in the end of the Letter was wrote this Line Edvardum Occidere nolite timere bonum est Which may be Englisht either It is good to kill Edward do not fear it or do not kill Edward it is good to be afraid to do it But they took it in the sense intended and most inhumanly murthered the King And to see the fickleness of them it is Recorded that they that despis'd him when living so honour'd him being dead that they could have found in their hearts to have made him a Saint It cannot yet be forgot nor will the ill effects a while be overcome of that Parliament infamous for long and of sad and direful memory How in the time of the best of Kings when they all rul'd there was no rule at all but that upon pretence of removing evil Counsellors they remov'd from us all happiness and overwhelm'd us with all the evils imaginable and because some people would make the world believe there 's no preservation against Popery but by means of a Parliament be it remembred how poorly and sneakingly the Parliament in Queen Maries days became Apostates to the Protestant Religion drew up a supplication to the King and Queen wherein they shew'd themselves very penitent for their former errors and humbly desired their Majesties to intercede for them to Cardinal Pool the Popes Legate and the Sea Apostolick that they might be pardoned of all they had done amiss and be received into the bosom of the Church being themselves most ready to abrogate all Laws prejudicial to the Sea of Rome That this is no Fable they that list may read it in Bakers Chronicle fol. 320. Is it not apparent that what Execution hath been done upon the late Popish Plotters was by the Kings immediate Command