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lord_n	earl_n	england_n	sir_n	23,623	5	6.1035	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90134	The speech, of Phillip Herbert, late Earl of Pembroke. At his admittance (as a member) into the honorable House of Commons, in Parliament assembled. Aprill 16th. 1649. After he had been duely elected a burgess for Berkshire instead of Sir Francis Pile, lately deceased. / Taken verbatim by Michael Oldisworth.	Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl of, 1584-1650.; Oldisworth, Michael, 1591-1654?	1649 (1649)	Wing O257; Thomason E551_6; ESTC R205674	4,387	9

THE SPEECH OF Phillip Herbert Late Earl of PEMBROKE At his Admittance as a Member into the Honorable House OF COMMONS In Parliament Assembled Aprill 16. 1649. After he had been duely Elected a Burgess for Berkshire in stead of Sir Francis Pils lately disceased Taken Verbatim by Michael Oldisworth Printed in the Yeer 1649. THE SPEECH OF Phillip Herbert Late Earl of PEMBROKE Many worthy Members comming out of the House received his Honer in with all respect as a Member elected by the County of Berkshire in stead of Sir Francis Pile disceased where being no sooner outred but he spake as followeth Gentlemen FOr so I can but now rightly call you all though I know there be amongst you many worthy Lords Knights and Burgesses yet since all Domination and Lordship is cryed down by the People I think it my Duty to lay down the vanity of my Titles at the feet of this Supreame Authority and Sinke me I hold it the best Pollicy so to doe and the best honesty too LORDS EARLS KINGS DUKES are all but Markes of the Gentiles and cannot be proper to us Christians that should have wit enough to Rule our selves and not exercise Lordship over our brethren he that would be chief among you let him be your servant Damme I have been your Servant and will be your servant till death I am an elect Member of this House and no Ruler neither have I any desire to Rule for a Ruler should have his rule ' Zblood doe ye make a Carpenter or a Coxcombe on me that ye think I le be a ruler Sinck me I grow Old it is enough for me to Rule my Horse and not to assume a Power to Rule others for Ruling LORDS in an over-ruling scence is a thing that stands neither with reason law justice nor Christianity D … I thinke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lawfully Elected and have as good quallities as another and therefore may claime have and make use of any Priviledge of Parliament either in relation to my Person Quallitie or Estate Sink me and Damme if I exercise Lordship over a worme Judge me I am as proud of Phillip Herbert or Burgesse of Berkshire as I am of Earle of Pembroke and my Reason Mr. Speaker is this I was PHILLIP HERBERT before I was Earle of Pembroke and now I am Burgesse for Berkshire and I Barke not and bawle not if I see occasion as well as the best of you all then let the County that choose me their minister and servant complain of me or turn me out and choose another No Sink me the Country ought not to be at the charge of keeping Doggs and bark themselves or feed their Dogges so high and lusty that like Acteons they devour their Masters Pardon me Mr. Speaker I hope you doe not conceive that I call the Parliament Dogs I speak concerning their vigillancy to preserve their Masters Estates and in that point I may in my blunt language liken them to Doggs but every like is not the same Mr. Speaker conceive me aright I would have you not to be Doggs but as dogges that is as I conceive not to be Dumb doggs I shall ever hate a dumb Dogg but SIR I know you are no dumbe Dogge because you are Speaker Gentlemen I am now received in and made a Member of this honorable House of Commons though it be a thing strange and not common in England for an Earl as not long since I held my self to be and a Member of the LORDS House to be made a Commoner or removed from the upper end to the Lower end of the Table I am not so void of Understanding or common Scense as not to think my self highly honored therwith I am no respecter of Persons or Places Sir I know how to humble my self and doe acknowledge it my Duty not onely to lay downe my Titles and Dignities but my life and Honors for the Good of the Common-Wealth Damme 't is not my Wealth that I prize above the Common-Wealth though I love both and would doe my uttermost to preserve both which I take to be the chief Cause of the Peoples chusing me to be their Representative 'T is true I was formerly chosen Chancellor of Oxford not onely by this honorable House but the House of LORDS then being but considering my weak abillities in Divinity being I thank God little troubl'd with the same nor guilty of any more confused or confounding langvages then my owne Mother-tongue and for Arts and Sciences they never shall trouble my head I hold it my best Art and Science to preserve myself and my Estate and get more if I can Damme he that cares not for his Wealth can never care for the Common-Wealth for how can he that will not doe good for himself doe good for Others Charity ought to begin at home Mr. Speaker Truly Gentlemen I know not what errors are lately crept into that University but at my last Visitation I think I plagu'd them to purpose Confound me they had as good to have been Visited with the plague as with me for I spar'd none right or rong Damme I think the University was never better weeded since it was a University I pull'd up all the Popish Poppies the Malignant mayweed the thistles and hemlock that choaked the wheate Damme they had nigh choak'd me with fuming and swearing at them a Pox of their Reasons they were logick to me for I could understand not one of them and if I could I would not I had no such Order in my Instructions I acted as vigorously as God would give me leave I spar'd nere a sonne of Rome amongst them all Damme not my own Godson ' Zblood if my Father had been there a Schollar and Popishly affected as I was told they were he should have turn'd out with the rest M. Speaker I hate a turn-coat and a Black-coat too I love a Buffe-coat or Mistris Mays Petty-coat better then Popish Canonicall coats Damme if ye were all of my minde Gentlemen you would pull down the Universities they are but the Nurses of Learning and Superstition Damme Learning and Superstition hath occasioned all these Warres and Blood Refuse me I had rather be a Sculler then a Schollar these Arts and Sciences as they call them are dangerous Enemies to the State and steale and draw away the hearts and affections of the People from Martiall Affaires and therefore in my simple judgement it would redound much to the strengthening of the State to change the property of them and in stead of making them Nurceries of learning to make them fencing Schools or Nurceries of Warre Damme this Kingdom has more need of Warring then learning for all Christendom threatens Us therefore Mr. Speaker let us not alwayes be fooles ' Zblood I have so much witt in my Block-head That if I see a storme a comming I can provide for shelter the very hooggs teach me that Gentlemen I hate human learning Damme I can learne as good a lesson from a