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A26453
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Advice to freeholders, and others, concerning the choice of members to serve in Parliament and the qualifications that render a gentleman worthy or underserving so great a trust: with a list of non-associators.
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1698
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Wing A647A; ESTC R215659
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Elector than to press you to be for a Man that in your Consciences you think not sit or not so sit as his Competitor for so weighty a Trust Men don't use to lend their Wives or give their Children to satisfy personal Kindnesses nor ought you to make a swop of your Birthright and that of your Posterity's too for a Mess of Pottage a Feast or a lusty drinking Bout There can be no proportion here and therefore none must take it ill that you use your Freedom about that which in its Constitution is the great Bulwark of all your Ancient Liberties Lastly As for you Citizens Burgesses and Freemen of Cities and Corporations in parcicular I shall only say That whosoever is not sit to be chosen Knight of the Shire is likewise unfit to be chosen a Burgess Neither let the more specious Pretences of any Man that shall promise to build a Town Hall and relieve your Poor with Money or out of his adjacent Woods or any such Good-Morrow's deceive you for if so wherein are you wiser than your Horses whom you catch every day and clap a Bridle into their Mouths only by shewing them a few Oats which they are never like to eat Even the very Mice are too wise to be taken by an old Bait but will have the Trap new baited before they will meddle And yet I have known a Corporation which has been taken TWICE with one Bait. But suppose these Men do really perform what they promise what Compensation is that if the same Men should lay a good swinging Tax upon your Estates without any real cause or should give up the very Power you have of taxing your selves for sending your Representatives in Parliament for one bad Parliament may ruin us what good would the Money for your Poor do in such a Case more then that when you are reduced to beggary you might perhaps your selves the Gentry of the Country having no reason to relieve you be found to come in for a small share of this your Hypocritical Charity an excellent Reward for Knavish Folly Neither say Oh! this is but one Man and can have but one Vote he will do our Town a great deal of good and can do us but little hurt if he would And 1st as I told you before one or two Voices have sometimes carried a Vote of great Importance 2. You know not what mischief your bad Example may do in other Corporations and if all should do so what a miserable Case would you be in since the Voices of the Boroughs make two thirds of the House no Man can tell the Influence that one running Talkative ill Man may get over the rest of the House especially over those that weigh words more then Sense Reason and the Interest of the Nation I shall only offer one thing more to your Consideration which is that since His Majesty has in His most Gracious Speech wisely put so great a Stress on the signing of the Association which so firmly united us for our mutual Defence against the common Enemies of our Country it may not be amiss to refresh your Memory with a Copy of that Association and a List of those Members of Parliament which refus'd to sign it and you will by that guess what worthy Patriots they are like to prove if you once more make them your Representatives WHereas there has been a Horrid and Detestable Conspiracy formed and carried on by Papists and other Wicked and Traiterous Persons for Assassinating His Majesty's Royal Person in order to incourage an Invasion from France to subvert our Religion Laws and Liberty We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed do Heartily Sincerely and Solemnly Profess Testify and Declare That His Present Majesty King William is Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms And we do mutually promise and engage to stand by and assist each other to the utmost of our Power in the Support and Defence of His Majesty's most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and all his Adherents And in case His Majesty come to any Violent or Vntimely Death which God forbid We do hereby further Freely and Vnanimously oblige our selves to Vnite Associate and Stand by each other in Revenging the same upon his Enemies and their Adherents and in Supporting and Defending the Succession of the Crown according to an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary Intituled An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and setling the Succession of the Crown This Association being agreed upon by the House and ordered to be engrossed to be Signed by the Members near 400 of that August Assembly which consists of 513 have already with great Alacrity subscribed it But some at present hesitate some others refuse it their Names you find underwritten Berks. Sends 9 Members WIlliam Jennyngs Simon Harcourt Bucks 14. Alexander Denton Mountague Drake Sir James Etheridge Cornwall 44. Henry Lord Hyde John Manley Daniel Eliot Henry Fleming Francis Buller John Tredenham Seymour Tredenham Sir William Coryton John Mountstevens Bernard Granvile Charles Lord Cheney Francis Gwyn Cheshire 4. Sir Thomas Grosvenor Derbyshire 4. Sir Gilbert Clarke Devon 26. Francis Courteney Sir Edward Seymour John Granville Dorsetshire 20. Thomas Strangways Thomas Freke Richard Fownes Chor. 30. Robert Byerly Sir Marmaduke Wivill Sir Michael Wentworth Essex 8. Sir Eliab Harvey Glocester 8. Robert Payne William Frye Richard How John How Herefordshire 8. Robert Price Huntington 4. Anthony Hammond Kent 18. Sir John Banks Lancashire 14. Leigh Banks Thomas Brotherton Sir Roger Bradshaw Peter Shakerley Lincolnshire 12. George Lord Castleton Sir John Bolles Norfolk 12. Sir John Wodehouse Northampton 9. Thomas Cartwright Gilbert Dolben Northumberland 8. William Foster Oxford 9. Mountague Lord Norris Sir Robert Jenkinson Heneage Finch Sir Edward Norris Thomas Rowney James Bertie Sir Robert Dashwood Salop. 12. Edward Kynaston John Kynaston Andrew Newport George Weld Somerset 18. Sir John Trevillian Edward Berkley John Sandford Sir Charles Carterett Sir John Smith Southampton 26. Henry Holmes Thomas Done Staffordshire 10. Robert Burdeâ—t Sir John Leveson Gower John Grey Sir Henry Gough Surrey 14. John Parsons Sussex 28. Sir William Morley John Lewknor Sir Thomas Dyke William Stringer Warwickshire 6. William Bromley Andrew Archer George Bohun Lord Digby Francis Grevill Westmoreland 4. Sir William Twisden Sir Christopher Musgrave Wiltshire 34. Robert Bertie William Harvey Henry Pynnill Thomas Bennet William Daniel Worcestershire 9. Samuel Swist Henry Parker Wales 24. Edward Jones Jeffery Jefferies Sir Richard Middleton Edward Brereton Sir John Conway Thomas Mansel Sir William Williams 〈…〉 have talked Negatives and diâ—â—â—â—ed 〈…〉 are not fit to be chosen Now we come pâ—ssitively to sâ—t before you who are fit for such a Trust especially in such a dangerous Juncture as we are fallen into In order to which we must consider for what ends they serve and they are principally two The first is the Preservation of our Religion from Popery
Power and Influence of the Offenders but in this great and awful Senate before whom the haughtiest Criminals tremble and it has been observed that they scarce ever persecuted any tho never so great or highly in Favour at Court but sooner or latter they hit him and it proved his ruin Take a few Examples King Edw. II. dotes upon Piece Gravestone a French Gentleman he wasts the King's Treasures has undeserved Honour conferred on him affronts the ancient Nobility the Parliament in the beginning of the King 's 〈…〉 Reign complain of him he is banished into Ireland the King afterwards calls him home and marries him to the Earl of Gloucester's Sister The Lords complain again so effectually that the King not only consents to his second Banishment but that if ever he returned or were found in the Kingdom he should be held and proceeded against as an Enemy to the State yet back he comes and is receiv'd once more by the King as an Angel who carries him with him into the North and hearing the Lords were in Arms to bring the said Gravestone to Jutice plants him for safety in Scarborrough-Castle which being taken his Head was chopt off In K. Richard the 2d's time most of the Judges of England to gratify certain Corrupt and Pernicious Favourites about the King being sent for to Nottingham were by Perswasions and Menaces prevailed with to give false and illegal Resolutions to certain Questions proposed to them declaring certain Matters to be Treason which in truth were not so for which in the next Parliament they were called to account and attainted and Sir Robert Tresilian Lord Chief Justice of England was drawn from the Tower through London to Tyburn and there hang'd as likewise was Blake one of the King's Council and Vske the Under-sheriff of Middlesex who was to pack a Jury to serve the present turn against certain innocent Lords and others whom they intended to have had taken off and five more of the Judges were banished and their Goods forfeited And the Arch-Bishop of York the Duke of Ireland and the Earl of Suffolk three of the King 's evil Councillors were forced to fly and die miserable Fugatives in Foreign Parts In the beginning of King Henry the 8th's Reign Sir Richard Empsom Kt. Edmond Dudley one of the Barons of the Exchequer having by colour of an Act of Parliament to try People for several Offences without Juries committed great Oppressions were proceeded against in Parliament and lost their Heads In the 19th Year of King James's Reign at a Parliament holden at Westminster there were shewn saith Baker's Chron. Fol. 418. two great Examples of Justice which for future Terrour are not unfit to be here related one upon Sir Giles Mompesson a Gentleman otherwise of good parts but for practising sundry Abuses in erecting and setting up new Inns and Ale-houses and exacting great Sums of Money of People by pretence of Letter Pattents granted to him for that purpose was sentenced to be degraded from his Knight-hood and disabled to bear any Office in the Common-wealth tho he avoided the Execution by flying the Land But upon Sir Francis Mitchel a Justice of Peace in Middlesex and one of the chiefest Agents the Sentence of Degradation was executed and he made to ride with his Face to the Horses Tail thro the City of London The other Example was one Sir Fran. Bacon Viscount St. Albons Lord Chancellour of England who for Bribery was put from his place and committo the Tower In King Charles the First time most of the Judges that had given Opinions contrary to Law in the case of Ship-money were called to account and forced to fly for the same And in the 19th Year of K. Charles the Second the Earl of Clarenden Lord Chancellour of England being questioned in Parliament and retiring thereupon beyond the Seas was by a special Act banished and disabled In a word it was well and wisely said of that Excellent Statesman Sir William Cecil Lord Burleigh and High Treasurer of England that he knew not what an Act of Parliament might not do Which Apothegm was approved by King James and alledged as I remember in one of his published Speeches I shall give a few Instances besides those before mentioned of what the House of Commons hath done in former Ages 1. Anno. 20. Jacobi Dr. Harris Minister of Beechingly in Surry for misbehaving himself by Preaching and otherwise about Election of Members of Parliament upon complaint was called to the Bar of the House of Commons and there as a Delinquent on his Knees had Judgment to confess his Fault there and in the Country in the Pulpit of his Parish-Church on Sunday before Sermon 2. Anno. 21. Jacobi Ingrey Under-Sheriff of Cambridg-shire refusing the Pole upon the promise of Sir Tho. Steward to defend him therein kneeling at the Bar receiv'd his Judgment to stand committed to the Serjeant at Arms and to make Submission at the Bar and acknowledg his Offence there and to make a further Submission openly at the Quarter Sessions and there also to acknowledg his Fault 3. Anno 22. Jacobi the Mayor of Arundel for misbehaving himself in an Election by putting the Town to a great deal of charge not giving a due and general warning but packing a number of Electors was sent for by Warrant and after order'd to pay all the Charges and the House appointed certain Persons to adjust the Charges 4. Anno 3. Car. 1. Sir Williaw Wray and others deputed Lieutenants of Cornwal for assuming to themselves a Power to make whom they pleased Knights and defaming those Gentlemen that then stood to be chosen sending up and down the Country Letters for the Trained-Bands to appear at the Day of Election and Menacing the Country under the Title of his Majesties Pleasure had Judgment given upon 'em to be committed to the Tower 2. To make Recognition of their Offence at the Bar of of the House upon their Knees which was done 3. To make a Recognition and Submission at the Assizes in Cornwal in a Form drawn by a Committee 5. But most remarkable were the Proceedings in the same Parliament Anno. 1628 against Dr. Manwaring who being there charged with Preaching and Publishing offensive Sermons and the same being referred to a Committee they brought in their Reports which was delivered to the House with this Speech as I find in Dr. Fuller's Church-History L. 11. Fol. 129. Mr. Speaker I am to deliver from the Sub-Committee a Charge against Mr. Manwaring a Preacher and Dr. of Divinity but a Man so Criminous that he hath turned his Titles into Accusations for the better they are the worse is he that hath dishonoured 'em here is a great Charge that lies upon him it is great in it its self and great because it hath many great Charges in it Serpens qui serpentem Dovorat fit Draco his Charge having digested many Charges into it is become a Monster of Charges The main and great one