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A62416	The Earl of Anglesey's state of the government & kingdom prepared and intended for His Majesty, King Charles II in the year 1682, but the storm inpending growing so high prevented it then : with a short vindication of His Lordship from several aspersions cast upon him, in a pretended letter that carries the title of his memoirs / by Sir John Thompson, Baronet.; State of the government & kingdom	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Haversham, John Thompson, Baron, 1647-1710.	1694 (1694)	Wing T1000; ESTC R1565	19,674	41

Place but in that the only Supreme Court of the Kingdom 2. It will be your Honour and Safety to incourage and imploy your Ancient and deserving Nobility and Gentry whose interest in their Countries will be of more use and avail to your Majesty then all the bold and confident undertakings of those who seek themselves chiefly in all their pretences of Love and Duty to your Majesty and really weaken and diminish the Admiration Affection and Esteem which otherwise from your Gracious and Wise Government your Majesty may have will all your People who are the most Dutiful and fond of their Prince in the World if well and kindly used as the most Turbulent and Fierce under the Sun if by ill or unsteady management of Affairs and too much subjecting of them to the Will and Humour of their fellow Subjects and the oppressions which their too much presuming on his Favour brings upon them which they easily discover being a discerning People they find themselves transferred from the Clemency Bounty nad Kindness of their Soveraign and abandoned to the Pride Malice and Imperious Arbitrariness and Will of those who are but Subjects as well as they and who want that natural Affection and Tenderness which their Soveraign Liege Lord cannot but retain towards them and whose Wisdom which God who advanceth them to the Throne usually indues them with must needs perswade him that he is weakned and made a less Monarch by loss of the Love and Duty of his meanest Subject 3. The Two Great Instruments of Government with which your Majesty in Right of your Imperial Crown is solely intrusted by the Law are Reward and Punishment Let the first be always dispensed freely freely as your Personal Knowledge or the best information that may be had shall Guide you by your own immediate Hand that others may not receive the Thanks and Dependance due to you alone Sir Henry Sidney Great Sir Philips Father who was Lord Deputy of Ireland many times and my Great Grandfather Sir John Parrot who succeeded him in the same Great Charge and Trust and divers others though they refused not to serve your Predecessors yet grew weary of the place when in those troubled and dangerous Times they were forced to spend of their own to support the Dignity and Honour of the Crown Such as serve your Majesty so in expectation of future regard to be had to their deserts ought not to be forgotten when higher Preferments or more profitable permanent and easy happen then those they served in with Submistion and patient expectation Nothing is more discouraging and offensive to the generality of Subject then to see Men rise over hastily and before their Merits are known or taken notice of perhaps whilst their Demerit hath brought them into disesteem wherewas those that are advanced by just degrees are seen Shining in Merit before they are cloathed with Honour or Preferment rejoyce the Kingdom and are no more Maligned then those who have served their Apprentiships and come to be Lord Mayor Thus in the best time Men have risen in the Kings Houshould and in other Establishments from low Degree and after long approved Service and Faithfulness to high Preferment and Trust And this incourageth Industry and Dutiful Service and is a Bond of Safety whereas bought preferment or attained by Ill Arts is Odious and Dangerous to the Master and when Mony is the only qualification People mind solely how to come by that let the means to compass it be what they will As for the other which is Punishment let your Majesties Love and Clemency to your People make it appear to proceed from you unwillingly and of necessity for the support and strenthning of Government and be so executed that it may not seem or so much as be suspected to come from any Principle of Cruelty or Delight in the Pressures of Fall of any Persons The known Clemency of a Prince and Inclination to Mercy doth more to oblige Subjects then the strongest Impressions of Dread or Fear it being natural to the veriest Worm to turn again if he be unmercifully trod upon and despair to Please or causelesly conceived Jealousy many times occasions the loss of most Useful and Honest Servants 4. I know your Majesty to be a great Patron of the Church and Church-men and therefore for their sakes who are seldom wise for themselves I presume to implore that you will never Countenance and of them that shall busy them selves with matters of State and Government out of their Sphere In all my Reading and Experience I find that in the most dangerous Disorders and Revolutions of the World they have ever had a principal Hand when their chief work should be to pray for and promote the Peace of Church and State in the Calling God hath set them And it never yet came under my Observation or Knowledge that any Kingdom was Happy or Prosperous where they had too great and influence since the Primitive Time and Zeal nor that ever it succeeded well to themselves or gained upon those under their Charge when they shewed themselves Active in Temporal Affairs having a Calling competent to imploy the whole Man and are to give themselves to all diligence and piety wherein they are promised a Blesling as their great Master hath warned them that his Kingdom is not of this World and that they should not Fight nor Strive nor Intangle themselves with the Affairs of this Life It s observable what the pretended power of one to do so In ordine ad Spiritualia hath brought the World to and how difficultly Incroachments of that Tribe are removed your Majesty is not to scruple the distinct and incommunicale exercise of that Authority which the Law gives your and all your People have bound themselves to acknowledge your peculiar It s a hard Imposition on your Majesty that you should who are the Father of your People be called upon to Imprison Consiscate Banish or otherwise Afllict and Distress any of your Peaceable and Industrious Subjects because other taken upon them by what right let them consider to denounce them Excommunicate that were to punish their Bodies because their Souls are punished for the Clergy cannot so much as pretend a Power to go further And the Magistrate hath little reason to hearken to those Clergy-men who are so diffident of their pretended Authority that though they cry up the power of the Keys as their Office yet when they have done yield it to be so uneffectual a shadow of Power as can do nothing without the Civil Magistrates force below whom it is to be debased to be the Clergies Executioner in punishing before he have tried the Cause The Magistrate that seeth a Man Excommunicated for this fault should rather delay his Civil Force against that Man to see what effect his Excommunication will have for the Conjunction of the Sword with the Excommunication makes the fruit of it undiscernable so that none can see whether it did

Peoples Affections were did the more carefully maintain themselves in the good Opinion and Love of the People by granting them all the reasonable Securities they desired Redressing their Grievances and Removing those tho' Innocent that were the least distasteful to the Commons of which we will mention a few Presidents In 15 Edw. 3. Declaration was made That such as found themselves Agrieved with the King or his Officers should upon Complaint find Remedy and in the same Parliament at the Request of the Commons that the Chancellor and all other Officers there named may be Chosen in open Parliament and be openly Sworn to observe the Laws It was Enacted That if any such Officer died or otherwise his Place fall void the King will have the Assent of his Nobles and such Officers shall be sworn the next Parliament according to their Petition and that at every Parliament the King will Assume into his Hands all such Offices so as the said Officers shall answer to the said Objections In 17 Edw. 3. The Commons Complain of the Transporting the Treasure the Discovery of the Secrets of the Realm and that they neither Could nor Would they are the Words of the Record any longer bear so strange Oppressions hereupon the Act of Provision was made 21 Edw. 3. N. 58. The Commons Complain That whereas divers Merchants were Slain and Robbed on the Sea by the King's Enemies of France they which undertook the Coundct may be made come into this present Parliament to make Gree to the Merchants who by their default have lost their Goods To which the King answers Let Persons and Places be assigned for hearing the Plaints of all that will Complain to the end Right and Reason may be fully done to the Plaintiff 22 Edw. 3. N. 7. The Commons Petition That all Wooll and other Merchandize may freely pass To which the King answers That the passage shall be free paying to the King his due So in the 36th of Edward the 3d. the King consents to a Statute for the yearly holding a Parliament Note According to the practice and usage of that time a Parliament signifies a new Parliament the sence and meaning of the Law was That there should be a new Parliament chose in the time prescribed which appears by this that from the first of Edward the Third to the 14th of Henry the Fourth which was but 87 years there are yet remaining besides what are lost by the injury of Time and carelesness of Keepers about 72 Original Writs So the 45 of Edward 3d Numb 31. when Commons affirm the decay of the Navy to arise by three Causes viz. 1 st For that sundry Mens Ships are staid for the King long before they serve whereby the Owners are driven at their Charges to find their Mariners to their undoing 2dly For that Merchants the Nourishers of the Navy are often restrained their Shipping whereby Mariners are driven to seek other Trades and Livings 3dly For that the Masters of the King's Ships do take up Masters of other Ships as good as themselves are whereby the most of these Ships do lye still and the Mariners are enforced to seek new Livings whereof they pray Remedy The King promises to provide Remedy Thus also in 1 of Hen. 4. Thomas Arundel Archbishop of Canterbury by the King's Command tells them in Parliament That it is the King's Will to Govern by the Honourable Discreet and Sage of the Realm and by their Common Consent and not by his own Will nor after his own Fashion to Rule the same and further enforced That this Realm of any under the Sun might best Live of it self And in the 5th of Hen. 4. At the Request of the Commons the Lords According that Four special Persons should be removed out of the King's House viz. The King's Confessor the Abbot of Dore Mr. Richard Durham and Crosby of the Chamber whereupon Saturday the 9th of February the said Confessor Durham and Crosby came in to the Parliament before the King and Lords where the King excused them saying That he then knew no Cause wherefore they should be removed but only for that they were hated of the People and therefore charged them to depart from his House according to the Agreement and the like he would have also procured against the Abbot if he had been present I am the more particular in these things in Answer to that Assertion of the Industrious Mr. Prynn See Prynn's Preface to Sir R. Cotton's Records Sect. 14. That the King 's Created and set up meerly by Parliaments and their own Power in them without any True and Hereditary Title have seldom answered the Lords and Commons Expectations in the Preservation of their Just Laws and Answers to their Petitions It would exceed the bounds of a Preface to go through the rest of these Memoirs The drift of the whole however it be disguised is to tell the World in my Lord Anglesey's Name that the Business of Sir Edm. Godfrey the Firing of London the Popish Plot were only Fears Jealousies and Surmises Mem P. 112. That Evidence did not rise high and clear enough to charge any Papist withit however the Parliament and a great Minister threw the Guilt on them But how probable it is that my Lord Anglesey should be of this Opinion That he should believe nothing of the Popish Plot that without Malice Motive or Evidence he should give his Voice for the Condemnation of my Lord Stafford a Person he himself thought Innocent that he should be first so much a Monster and then so meer a Natural as under his own Hand to testifie as much Whether all this looks not more like the Fiction and Forgery of the Publisher than the Genuine Sense of that Great Lord let every unprejudiced Reader judge The Account of Arthur Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy Seal to your most Excellent Majesty of the true State of your Majesties Government and Kingdoms April 27th 1682. HAving by the Obligations of your Royal Predecessors to my Ancestors and me for several Generations lain under the strictest Bonds of Duty and Allegiance to imploy my Studies long Observation and Experience for the furtherance of the Service of the Crown and Weal Publick I could not contrive how to do it better and more effectually than by offering the same to your Majesties View and Royal Consideration by this Scheme thereof which is without Intreigue for any Parties Animosity or Envy against and Persons or Design of Advantage or Advancement to my Self or any Relation or Friends of mine And the Nature of true Gratitude being to acknowledge and render Service for Favours received without Ambitious practice or expectation of further Reward or Recompence then what shall freely flow from your Majesties Spontanious Goodness and Consideration how to dispose of your Subjects so as may most advance your Glory and render you a redoubted King to your own People and highly esteemed and courted by all your Allies and