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A39513 An Account of some transactions in this present Parliament in a letter to a person of quality in the country. 1690 (1690) Wing E965; ESTC R25052 6,327 10

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An Account of some Transactions in this present Parliament in a Letter to a Person of Quality in the Country SIR I Received yours ten days since but could not sooner inform you of the Proceedings of this Parliament some expected they would have examined and undone all the last had done and that several of the Members would have refused the new Oaths and taken the old Ones without naming the King but in a little time they saw their mistake and that this truly reputed Church of England-Parliament is well pleased with their glorious Deliverer from Popery and Slavery and secure that the Church of England as established by Law will flourish and be safe under his Protection A Noble Duke who formerly personated a singularity of Humour to preserve himself for great Services as yet not arrived to be a Minister of State though very active and instrumental in preserving our new Establishment brought in a Bill to Recognize their Majesties the Lawful and Rightful King and Queen of these Realms and to declare the Acts of the late Parliament begun Feb. 23. 1688. were are and of right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm which certainly if any thing his Grace undertakes can be so seem'd altogether needless for the Bill of Rights Recognized them and the Votes of the last Parliament having the Authority of Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled as well as the Royal Assent were received for Laws and the Lives as well as Estates and Liberties of many have been determined accordingly therefore this declaring and enacting of them now in the Opinion of many seemed not only needless but dangerous as striking at the Foundations and rendring the Authority of the late Meetings questionable as well as the Establishment of this Government For if the Convention however called without what some Men stile Legal Authority could make or Vote an Abdication and Vacancy of the Throne dispose of the Crown and abrogate the Oaths essential to such Meetings they might surely without the formality of Writs be created or transformed into a Parliament and be de Facto a good Parliament otherwise their Majesties Title is founded only in Possession or which I dare not say Usurpation In that famous President of Richard II. we find 35 Articles of Mis government charged on him by a Parliament called by Writ in his own Name and he by them declared unfit for Government who like a good natured Prince submitted and resigned his Kingship released his Subjects from their Allegiance and transferred his Right and Title to Henry of Lancaster who thereupon claim'd it was vested therein Recognized and Crowned held nine Parliaments and his Son Henry held as many and his Grandchild lineally succeeded was Crowned and held nineteen Parliaments yet as soon as Edward IV. claimed his Hereditary Right all the confirmations of the 3 preceding Kings amounted to no more than to be owned by the Statute Kings de Facto in Deed but not de Jure of Right This some fancied would have puzled or slackned proceedings but it did not consist with the Wisdom of the House to mispend their more precious time in untying Gordian knots or to lay much stress upon such Cobweb Laws as were spun out of the Brains of such a Temporizing Parliament as that of Edward IV. Our more refined Age is not to take Presidents from our doting Ancestors but make them There are always Maximes suited to Times Circumstances Convenience and Necessity In former times diversity of Religion gave no Byass to Revolutions of State Faction among the Nobility and Secular Interest and Dubious Titles or Ambition only disturbed the Succession of the Crown But the prevailing consideration now among some moderate Men is this that though they did not contribute to the Revolution yet they would preserve it and though the things done cannot be justifyed according to the old Laws of the Land yet because dangers may attend the return of the late King they adhere to the present Government which reasons will justifie other things which neither give Credit nor Authority to this but will oblige us to persevere in the way we are in and bid defiance to Repentance because there may be less ease and quiet in a new course of Life They who have been active in the Change and have Dependencies Offices and Expectances must not give place to any Scruples as others may but must think and say He is Lawful and Rightful King for although according to our Modern Politicks a King de Facto signifies an Usurper yet the P. of Orange's concurrence and agreement with the 3 Estates of the Kingdom can create a Right Besides when we see so many upon this consideration buy or take Offices Employments and Honours under this Government it must be a sufficient demonstration that the Acts of the late Parliament need no Confirmation but stand firm upon an Original Right and that it may clearly be proved beyond doubt that the People's Sovereign Power may fill as well as declare the Throne Vacant so that it is of no mement to insist upon Hereditary Right or the examples of former times or the Authority of Ancient Laws These matters occasioned some days debate in the House of Lords but the Bill had an unexpected dispatch among the Commons who did not scruple the Words are and were as some protesting Lords had done for the Authority of both Houses justifies the good Sense and English of whatever passeth with them and there is no obligation I know of upon the Members to gratifie the Captious with an explication of their meaning since the Nation reaps the benefit of their Wise results There is great reason that they who are intrusted with our Religion our Estates our Liberties and Lives should Recognize Him whom so many invited and so few resisted whom they have enabled to recover one of the four Provinces of Ireland and will soon Conquer the rest and Triumph over France it seif which assists the Rebels there In short the Convention represented the whole Body of the People they declared or created the P. of Orange King and he being once constituted the Head there must result as proper a Leviathan of Government as Mr. Hobs could describe and I think the Authority of such a Writer should satisfie all Men where the Supreme Power resides Yet notwithstanding what I have hitherto Writ there were many who thinking the King no Wiser than themselves judged he would not have passed the Bill since in their Opinion it being built upon a Republican Foundation might be a President hereafter to some popular Lord who being Master of the Art of deceiving alluring and cajoling the People may arive to be the Captain of the Mob and thence be incouraged to send out his Circular Letters for Election of a Representative which having the same fondness for him that the Choosers have the fittest and best Men in suh case● often declining the imployment they who were chosen might Vote an