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Vox Regni, or, The voice of the kingdom being a dialogue between the city and countrey.
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1680
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Wing V738; ESTC R1058
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in the Royal Family not suffering it to descend upon any other Persons but such as are of the Regal Race and some do think it is a forbidding of the Parliament to remove any Person whatsoever from the Crown who by due course ought to have it being in the Royal Line Countrey It it be so then we must have the next Person in the Succession whatever he be as touching Religion though a Jew a Turk or a Papist Indeed indeed this will make our Countrey cry out Lord have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us But our hope is our good Parliament will look well to this great matter And now we pray you good City tell us something of the Proceedings of Parliament City If you will but lay out a little money you may have the Proceedings of Parliament in Print and I would advise you in your several Neighbourhoods to joyâ— together and then you may have them for a very small matter besides the great benefit you will find in conferring with each other at the reading of them Countrey Truly this will be very profitable for us and it will be a good way to keep up and maintain Love and good Friendship But pray let us have some brief account for the present for we know you can do it very well the City being so near the Parliament and you are well informed of matters City After the King had ended His Speech the Commons of England went together and chose for their Speaker William Williams Esq Recorder of Chester and the next day they presented him to His Majesty who approved very well of him for indeed he is a good Protestant and a right English-man Then the House went on with swearing their Members and appointed their several Committees And one of the first things that came before them was a Dreadful Information of one Mr. Dangerfield wherein he declared How he was concerned with the Lady Powis and the Lord Peterborough in contriving and framing a Plot that should be cast upon the Presbyterians and how he was with the Duke of York in his Closet at Whitehall who gave him great incouragement to proceed in that matter assuring him that the major part of the Gentry in the Northern Parts were his Friends and were no strangers to this design And that the Duke made divers Vows to stand by them that were engaged in this thing that they should not want money That whoever happened to be in prison according to their stedfastness in the Cause all possible care should be taken to support and preserve them That the Lord Peterborough told him he had an opportunity to make his Fortune what he would himself if he would follow the Advice of the Duke of York who would certainly be King in a short time To which Dangerfield answered That he valued not his Life to serve the Dukes Interest and then the Earl of Peterborough gave him the Title of Captain Willoughby About four days after this he was with the Duke again who told him that in a short time he should see the Catholick Religion flourish in this Kingdom and Heresie torn up by the Roots and that he had heard of the Proposal made to him by the Lords Powis and Arundel about the taking off the King and also of Dangerfields Refusal and therefore said to Dangerfield If you value the Religion you profess my Interest and your own Happiness depend upon my Honour for your Advancement To which Dangerfield replied That he would stand and fall in defence of the Roman Catholick Religion and his Highness Service and that then he was well satisfied by his ghostly Father that the King was a condemned Heretick and therefore he was not a little concern'd that he had refus'd to kill the King And then said That if his Highness would command him to the Attempt he would not fail either to lose his Life or accomplish it And Mr. Dangerfield further saith That the Duke then gave him twenty Guinneys and said That if he would be vigorous in what he had undertaken already he would so order it that his Life should not be in the least danger adding these words We are not to have men taken in such daring Actions but to make a quick dispatch and be gone If you will buy Dangerfields Narrative as it was given in at the Bar of the House of Commons you may see this and much more Countrey Good City hold you a little and let us put in one word viz. This makes us think of the old Saying in our Countrey that is Murder will out And truly this is no new wickedness for one Brother to murder another for the first murder that ever was in the World was the murder of a Brother for Cain murdered his Brother Abel But pray good City go on City The House of Lords and the House of Commons have had other Informations wherein there is great discoveries of this horrid Plot in England and besides there is the beginning of a great discovery of a damnable Plot in Ireland which we hear will be printed and then you will see all even Beelzebub himself in the Plot against our Protestant King and Protestant Kingdoms Câ—untrey Truly it is well done of the Parliament to cause these matters to be printed for now we see clearly they are not willing the People shall perish for want of knowledge But pray let us hear further City The Commons of England have declared That such as did abhor Ptitioning the King for the Calling and Sitting of the Parliament are Betrayers of the Rights and Priviledges of English Subjects Countrey That pleaseth us to the heart for we thought it was a grievous thing to be counted Criminals for beseeching and intreating His Majesty to do that which we knew would be for His Good as well as ours And we thought this was the way to make it a crime for Servants to beseech their Masters and Children to desire their Parents to do those things that are necessary for the well-being of the Family City The Commons of England have declared That the Acts of Parliament in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and King James made against the Papists ought not to extend to the Protestant Dissenters And are preparing a Bill to Unite all His Majesties Protestant Subjects Countrey Gods blessing on their hearts for that for it is a sad thing to see Protestants persecute Protestants Many good People in the Countrey have been often in Prison and received great trouble from the Bishops Courts and they have born all with great patience and are still very good Neighbours and in our Consciences we believe they are very good Subjects to His Majesty They follow their Employments they pay Scot and Lot and other Taxes to the King and they serve God according to their Consciences without wronging their fellow Subjects And to persecute such is to please the Papists and do their work for them till they have an opportunity to do it themselves against all Protestants of which these are a considerable part But pray good City go on with your account City The Commons of England have prepared a Bill to Exclude James Duke of York from Inheriting the Imperial Crowns of England and Ireland c. Countrey Now you tell us a great thing indeed This is laying the Protestant Ax to the Root of the Popish Tree in England This indeed is the onely way to preserve us from our present Fears and future Dangers This makes us think of that Old Saying in our Countrey It is good to be sure And verily this is the right way to make all things sure First It maketh sure of the Safety of the King for the Papists will not in all likelihood be then so hasty to murder him because if York were excluded by Law they have no other way to set him in the Throne but by the Sword which after so execrable and horrid an Act as that of murdering the King would be a thousand times more difficult for them to accomplish But as things are now they would plead his Title by Law though violence should befal the King which God of his infinite mercy prevent Secondly This is the way to make sure of the Safety of the Protestants for by this Law their Hearts will be encouraged and their Hands strengthened to prevent all designed Mischiefs upon their Persons Estates or Religion But pray let us hear a little more concerning this Bill City The Commons sent it up to the House of Lords where after a long Debate about it in which many good Protestant Lords did press the passing of it and that they might agree with the Commons it was Rejected by the major part of the House Countrey Alas alas This is very unpleasing Intelligence This will grieve the hearts of the poor Countrey Protestants because their Lives and Lands and which is more then all the Protestant Religion is still in danger But what shall we say or what shall we think of this Proceeding of our Peers and Prelates who are professed Protestants Can they shew us any Law of God either in Nature or in the holy Scripture That Peers Prelates or Peasants are bound to have such a Governour as is engag'd by his Principles to destroy all his Subjects if they will not be of his Religion And that this will be the practice of a Popish Successor England has had too sad an instance in the Bloody Reign of Queen Mary But good City tell us some better news before we part City The Parliament has resolved to bring the Lords in the Tower to their Tryals and have already begun with the Lord Stafford who being upon a full hearing found Guilty of High Treason by his Peers has receiv'd Sentence of Death accordingly Countrey This is what we have long waited for and this answers to the Kings Speech at the opening of the Parliament wherein he desir'd the Lords in the Tower might be brought to their Tryal that Justice might be done But 't is now time to part let us therefore pray That our Protestant King may live long and our Protestant Parliament may sit long And from a Popish Successor who will bring in Popish Idolatry and Popish Cruelty Good Lord deliver us Amen FINIS