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A84499	The Earl of Pembrookes speech to Nol-Cromvvell, Lord Deputy of Ireland. With his royall entertainment of him at his mannor of Ramsbury in Wiltshire, on his journey to Ireland; on Thursday, July 12. 1649. Taken verbatim by Michael Oldisworth, and by him recommended to one of his Lordships tenants, to see it carefully printed and published.		1649 (1649)	Wing E80; Thomason E566_9; ESTC R204639	4,714	8

The Earl of PEMBROOKES SPEECH TO NOL-CROMWELL Lord Deputy of IRELAND With his Royall Entertainment of him at his Mannor of Ramsbury in Wiltshire on his Journey to Ireland On Thursday July 12. 1649. Taken Verbatim by Michael Oldisworth and by him Recommended to one of his Lordships Tenants to see it carefully Printed and Published July 30th NOD-NOL Printed by the Printer of the House of Lords 1649. The Earl of PEMBROOKES SPEECH TO NOL-CROMWELL Lord Deputy of IRELAND My Lord DAmme I may say King well enough for be-God I know no man fitter to be King then your self Hath not your Honor Conquered all that the Kings in England have Conquered for many Generations My Chaplain read me a Chapter and said That all Generations should call her blessed but Sink me I am sure all the Generations in England are damn'd if they call not your Honor blessed and I am bound to blesse you too for coming hither and you have done a blessed work too in removing that Tyrant King that man of Sin and you are a going on with another blessed work and that is Reducing of Ireland your Honor hath happily subdued the Levellers strengthned and enriched your friends and impoverished your Enemies you have taken away the House of Lords Damme I never affected the Lords House nor Gods House neither and for the Lords Prayer I have done what I can to abolish it because I would not have the people so much as put in mind of Lords Sink me if I know any more Lords then my Lord Fairfax and your Self and if the people will say the Lords Prayer then let them pray for your Lordships as it becomes good Christians the Land is yours you have wone it by the Sword and then you are not only Lords but Landlords and all the people in England your Tenants and ought to pray for you and pay you Rent too Damme I am your Tenant and though I am old and cannot fight for you yet I am not so old but I can pay you Rent 'T is true I am a member of Parliament and so as yet free from Taxes yet I were an ill member if I would not force my Tenants to pay you Rent Damme I had forgot my self for they be your Tenants and pay you as much or more Rent then they do me ' Zbloud would they had more heavier Taxes on them for me because they grumble I am informed by my man Michael that they curse the Parliament which I hold to be Treason if not high treason for if to say our Government is tyrannical be high treason Cursing must needs be high treason nay blasphemy too and if your Lordship shall give me power but to Hang and Draw Refuse me if a Traytor shall live Damme the Rogues won't stick to say That we are Traytors our selves although we are the Keepers of their Liberties and if we keep their Liberties we ought to keep their Money too their Law and Religion nay their very Wives if it please us and if we suffer some to be kill'd to preserve the rest be God I think 't is State policy if we spend three parts of their means to preserve the fourth I see no reason but the fourth should be at our disposing so long as we are the Keepers My Lord I will speak unto you in a Parable I am I thank your Honors made chief Keeper of C●●ringdon Park that was the late Kings there have I Heards of Deer My Lord are not these Heards of Deer at my disposing If I kill one heard that the rest may have the more pasture who ought to contradict it and if I or my Keeper make their Skins pay for Paling or Fencing in my Park Damme 't is the part of a good Keeper and such good Keepers I hope are the Parliament and every Member thereof and if they be good Keepers will they not keep their own and if they can keep their own nature teaches that they may as well keep others I keep a Pack of Doggs and Damme I think they have as deep mouths as any but imagine another has a Dogge has a deeper mouth then my whole kennell ought I not if my Neighbor or Tenant deny me this Dogge to force him from him to make compleat my Cry My Lord You have so much Money and Men to go to Ireland it may be a Million and about ten thousand men if you want a Million more and twenty thousand men more to make the Irish Cry Damme if they will not raise the Men and find the Money they may be made Cry themselves you may and ought to take it where you can find it Necessity must not observe a Law in these dayes My Lord if you are necessitated you may command me to fight as old as I am Damme I were a Rogue if I should deny yee yet I think I hate fighting my self as much as any man in England yet though I hate it in my self my Lord I would not have you think that I hate it in your Honor no my Lord I hope I have more wit then so I honor Valour in whomsoever I find it Had not your Honors V●lour been tryed at Marston-Moor we had been all Myr'd and Moor'd too before this time or had you not Rowted the Scots we had not scap'd so Scot free as we do nor enjoy'd the good things of the Land Damme 't is an unthankful Land and a blind Land for they understand not they see not the blessings that you have won them but I hope there is no Member of Parliament but understands and is sensible enough of them Damme I am sensible and if your Honor loves Hunting you shall be sensible that in my old dayes I deserve a Park as well as the City of London I love a Cry of Doggs better then a pair of Organs Mistris May loves them too and I love her as well Sir I am a Member for Bark-shire and then if I should not love barking and bawling too I should n●t love my Country my Lord when old Doggs bark they give Counsel but if they bite they bite sor● Damme we must bark and bite too and all little enough for ought I can understand we must learn to hunt men as well as we do Hares or Foxes either My Lord You are now a going a hunting of Rebels into Ireland and therefore I have said the more concerning hunting I wish you good sport that you may catch your Game I mean the Game-Royal a good hound upon the Chase will not leave the hot scent to follow a Rascal Deer My Lord you have been well flesht pursue the ROYAL-GAME the rest any Curre will pull down My Lord I am an Old man and can ill ride a Horse Damme I had rather ride an Asse that will not throw me then ride a Horse to lay me in the Dirt If I were a horseman and as yong as ever I was it should not be Ireland nor Scotland neither that should keep me back

Refuse-me if I was ever backward for the good of the State I was I confesse Lord Chamberlain to the late King I swore Allegiance to Him and His Heirs Sink-me I have been too much addicted to Swearing but what of that if I forswear again what I have sworn I am the more excuseable an Oath is binding but for the time and you know there is a time for all this a time to break Oathes as well as keep them if the State requires it We must be Obedient Obedience is better then Sacrifice and if I be not as Obedient as another then I am a Rebel and a Traytor and deserve as much to suffer as the late King the Lord Capel or any else My Lord You are welcome and all these Gentlumen as welcome as your self you have honored me in giving me a vsiite and I hope I shall be able to visite the House of Commons before Michaelmas where I make no doubt but I shall give consent to the making such Laws as shall make this Nation glorious for if we do not afflict them then they cannot be glorious 't is afflictions must wean them from the World and if they be weaned from the World then they may the better seek after heaven where is all real Glory thus we made the late King a glorious King Damme I think he had the better of it if he had a Crown of Glory for his Earthly Crown though we have his Lands and Goods to boot we cannot live alwayes to enjoy them 't is true we have the profit of them for a time but what can we profit by them in the end when we come to render an account We are but the Peoples Stewards as well as He and as we are Stewards we are to be intrusted with their Goods and Lives and if we make not use of them as we should pray who can call us to an account here I know there is no Earthly pow●r above us but Confound-me I am half of the judgement that there is a Heavenly power above us and that is our King our Prince that ought to Rule us and his Rule is in this World and the Aire mistake me not my Lord I do not mean the Prince of the Aire that rules in the Children of diso●edience that the wicked Cavaliers serve I mean the Spirit we are led by the Spirit have our rules from the Spirit and not from Scriptures that 's Superstition and dare not but do what the Spirit moves us too and if we do amisse it is the Spirit that works it in us and not we and if the Spirit bid me kill my King must I not do it Damme if it were my Father or my Mother or my dull Wise either I should spare them no more then the fire did my house when it burnt it to the ground My Lord I perceive a Spirit that now hath a working in Nature which Spirit doth personate me and hath made many Speeches in my Name which I utterly Renounce Nay my Lord your Honors are not free from this vile Calumnious Spirit even under your very Noses My Lord I have been jeared into sickness and had dy'd if I had not been jear'd out of it again they brought me so neer my Grave that they made my Will and I think I had dy'd but that I was loth the wicked should have their Will of me Damme I hope to live yet to make my Will my self and in it remember your Honor if your Honor will do me the favour as to send to the Parliament to tell them what they put forth in my Name ' Zbloud I had better have no name then no fame and Iudge-me I have as little as can be among the Common sort My Lord I beseech you let this Spirit be conjur'd down or else we must down our selves and if any thing other then good should happen to us by reason of the ungodly abroad I fear a great many at home will take their parts it is good to prevent in time my Lord to quench the flame before it get too high or else it may happen to burn our fingers My Lord I hear Ormond is 30000 strong besides what Inchiquin Ards and Monro is besides your old Enemies are come to assist them at Kildare Eyron Dives Langdale Ashton Hopton and the Devil and all And if they get Ireland my Lord we may ere long hang up our pipes and our selves too My Lord the way I would wish you is to treat with the Earl of Darby about the rendring the Isle of Man you 'l get a Crown too boot if we must have a King as the people will never be quiet else as good you as another Damme we must have a King for so many men so many minds Lilburn will have one thing another party another a third another and then we fall together by the eares then comes the Prince and parts us What will become of us then No my Lord win a Crown and wear it 't is but taking down the Excize or making at the beginning of your reign some seeming good Law as Richard the 3d did and that will win the peoples affections to you My Lord I am an ill Orator and something given to swearing which I hope will not be much distasteful unto you considering I am an old man and Damme old men are subject to old infirmities if your Honor lives you will be old your self as I am Swounds I wish you long life and could with a good Conscience say Vive le Roy a Pox Confound-me if I could not ' zblood I am something short winded since my sickness but Dam-me Ram-me Sink-me if I mean not what I say and so for this time I make an end desiring your Honor to sit and taste of that Welcome your Humble Subject and Servant can make you Your Honors humble Servant PHILIP Earl of Pembrook and Montgomery Vera Copia Ramsbury July 12. 1649. FINIS