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A85817	A speech made by Alderman Garroway, at a common-hall, on Tuesday the 17. of January. Vpon occasion of a speech delivered there the Friday before, by M. Pym, at the reading of His Majesties answer to the late petition. Wjth [sic] a letter from a scholler in Oxfordshire, to his vnkle a merchant in Broad-street, upon occassion of a book intituled, A moderate and most proper reply to a declaration, printed and published under His Majesties name, Decemb. 8. intended against an ordinance of Parliament for assessing, &c. Sent to the presse by the merchant, who confesseth himselfe converted by it. Also a true and briefe relation of the great victory obtained by Sir Ralph Hopton, neere Bodmin, in the county of Cornwall, Jan. 19. 1642.	Garraway, Henry, Sir, 1575-1646.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. True and briefe relation of the great victory obtained by Sir Ralph Hopton, neare Bodmin.	1643 (1643)	Wing G281; Thomason E245_29; Thomason E245_30; ESTC R1075	21,314	16

England Scotland France and Jreland in so sad and distracted a condition And I wonder not when they asked him his Crowne in the Nineteene Propositions that they thought they had made him weary enough of it to part with it for asking Still the Militia is every where press't and Sir Iohn Hotham having before pretended to keepe Hull for the King now keepes the King out of Hull though he offered to enter but with twenty servants he is justified in it by the houses and the houses slander themselves that they may justifie him and acknowledge a direction they never gave Upon this he takes to himselfe a much smaller Guard then they had daily kept together many moneths at Westminster This is voted an intention to leavy Warre against his Parliament and the Sheriffes are ordered to suppresse it All this while to prepare the people to suffer any wrong to be offered the King the Presses and the Pulpits the two seed-plots of this Warre had swarmed daily with slanderous Invectives against his Majestie besides Declarations of a strange nature And if any grave pious Minister did write preach speake or almost thinke for the King he was accused by the factious part of his Parish before the Committee for scandalous Ministers and their meere receiving and countenancing of such an Accusation though their leisure would not admit him to cleare himselfe before them was enough to blast him with the people After this all that could be taken of the Kings or any of His Friends Armes Goods Ships any thing is good prize and as if the Maxime were inverted and He now could receive no wrong who was wont He could doe none they proceed really against Him though in pure civility they pas't no such Vote upon Him as an enemy to the State And at last having protected all Delinquents against Him and the known Law and voted all Delinquents who had refused to become so by submitting to their illegall commands Though the King had for His Guard onely one Regiment of the Yorkeshire Trained-bands and one Troope of Horse Voluntiers of the Gentlemen of that Country And though the King never protected any man till Sir John Hotham was denyed to be brought to a legall tryall yet an Army is voted to be raised to defend them from the King and His Cavaliers and to fetch up his Majesty and His fellow Delinquents Yet to this Vote his Majestie opposes onely His owne Declaration and that of the Lords with Him who saw best what was done towards it being upon the place that he had no such intention as was pretended and till contributions were raised to raise men He desired no contribution to be prepared by His friends for him and till they had leavyed men and mustered them in some number He gave not out so much as one Commission to leavie a man But then not thinking it needfull to stay till my Lord of Essex should come and take Him En Cuerpo that hee might satisfie the world how defensive the Warre was on His part He grants out Commissions but then grant not any to any Papists and takes all possible care and gives all possible Orders that they entertaine no Souldiers of that Religion yet these men who well may couple Peace and Truth together for their actions and words have a long time shewed that they love them alike charge him to the people in daily Declarations with raising an Army of Papists against the Parliament which makes it the lesse strange if his Majestie since confented to have the assistance of some Papists for they are not so many as you thinke for since Hee saw that without their assistance He could not avoyd all the scandall which having it could produce especially since He saw many of that Religion were entertained in their Army having taken at Edge-hill severall Wallons English and Irish of that Religion who confesse of many more And since He saw a great part of the rest to consist of another kinde of Recusants which by the Law of this Kingdome not onely ought not to be armed in it but not toremaine in it at all Well his Majestie is come to N●tt●ngham and though He was confident the Commissions Hee had sent forth would time●y enough bring him in a sufficient Army to beate theirs as the event hath since shewed yet preferring Peace even before Victory it selfe Hee sent twice to desire it I had almost said to petition for it from both Houses How it was received all the world knowes After this he meets them Hee fights with them hee beats them of which the suffering their Ordnance to be taken away next morning before their faces the quitting Banbury which they-came to relieve and marching to London themselves in stead of bringing the King up thither was so g●e●t a proofe as farre out-weighs the single assertion of my Lord Wharton or my Lord Brooke to the contrary Hee is still constant to his Principles and though after a Victory gives a quite other kinde of Answer to their Petition at Colebrooke then they had done to his Message from Nottingham VYhilest the Committee was with Him there part of their Army marcheth out of London That Hee might not be inclosed on all sides hee marches to prepossesse Brain●ford but at the instant sends word of His march and the reason of it to the Houses He found them there he beats them out And if His intention had been to have marcht on and sacked London what altered that intention Could He thinke himselfe so much weaker by the losse of ten men or them so much stronger by the losse of two of their best Regiments besides their losse by water as for that reason to change his minde No Assoone as He found Kingstone quitted behind Him before any approach or notice of any Forces of theirs hee gives orders to march away Hee againe and againe repeats his desire of Peace which is so farre from being accepted that the English Petitioners are threatned hurt and imprisoned for desiring it too and a Scots Army is invited to continue the VVarre But I hope our brethren will remember that those against whom they are called have paid and are to pay them more of the brotherly assistance then those that call them and these men will finde themselves as much de received in their hopes of their owne forraigne Forces as they were in their feare of the Kings and that the Scots will stay till the Danes come To summe up this point If to take away by force all the others just Rights be to begin the VVarre his Majestie is not the Aggressor If to have a Guard first be the beginning of the VVarre as the Replyer pretends certainly this Warre began at London and not at Yorke the first being raised by the power of a Committee upon some thing which after came to nothing fetcht as farre off as Edenburgh If the raising men first by Commissions were to begin it it was begun there too If the

may well accuse his Friends I am sure to defend his Friends he is no other way able to doe it then by recrimination upon his Enemies and for that runs up as high as Loans Knighthood and Ship-mony His memory is very good concerning those grievances but very ill to forget by whose iust and gracious concurrence we have been cased both of them and even of the feare of the like for the future and sure if any known Authors or Ministers of those Calamities remayn still about His Majesty to frame His Declarations it hath been by their negligence not by His Majesties opposall of their Remove and Punishment And it is not so strange that His Majesty upon information how grievous those pressures were to His Subjects opposes the introducing of the same illegalities and miseries under no other colour then of new names hath learned Law enough this Parliament to know that the pretence of necessity Propterea quod Regnum nostrum periclitatur is no sufficient cause of levying money either by Writ or Ordinance As that this Author will talke of such past faults when there was nothing then suffered by the Subject which hath not upon the same Pretences but with lesse colour beene since acted and exceeded by those who were called together to ease them from the like sufferings But alas they onely take away mens estates in the defence of their Proprietie and imprison their persons in defence of their liberty and I believe will shortly hang them up to save their lives as they already shoot at the King in his own defence for he says the Parliament and by that throughout he means both Houses hath power not onely of liberty and imprisonment but of life and death Nor are wee like to stay here for he saith that the House of Commons alone is trusted with all the estates of the Commons of England and consequently may shortly save the Lords a labour of joyning with them in disposing of the estates of Commoners And if they shall after pretend as by the same Right they may to a power over the lives of the Commoners too a Member of such a House in a perpetuall Parliament may get more Revenue and Mayntenance by His Place then ever any Penman of his Majesties Declarations will do by His The truth is the King and Lords both are as much trusted with the Estates of all the Commons of England as the House of Commons is neither it without them nor they without it can dispose of them and whatsoever Rights the King hath in Him by the Law as the choice of Counsellours and Officers of Commanders of Forts and Castles and of the Militia of the Kingdom and the like with them He is trusted by the whole Nation and neither one nor both Houses have any more superiority over that Trust then he hath over any Trust committed to them Hee represents the people too in what the Law hath left to Him nor doe they represent them in any thing which the Law hath not trusted to them But unlesse such Ordinances be made the War cannot be mayntained I wonder not that this Argument should appeare a good one in their Army which lives by War bus I wonder it should be suspected likely to prevail upon the City which can as little subsist without Trade as Trade can continue without Peace and which by this War hath been so much already diverted that many yeeres will scarce return it into the former channell I wonder the Citizens do not consider that by this War their charge increases whilest their gettings diminish That their Train-bands are already suspected and perhaps will shortly be disarm'd and plundered too and the City awed by Red-coats That for this War the twentieth part of their estates is voted away and Assessors most of one Faction appointed who may call nineteene parts the twentieth That they are under that terrour imprisoned upon grounds upon which no man should be imprison●d and imprisoned by persons who ought to imprison no body for suppose both Houses had an Arbitrary power over their goods and liberties they never claimed any till now by Ordinance or otherwise to transfer that power to a Committee which yet is daily acted by them without reporting to the Houses and this slavery is onely evaded by saying it is thus farre a voluntary slavery that they may free their persons if they will by voluntary Contribution and that it is done to fright them from a perpetuall slavery And truly the Kings Attourney had no great invention if hee could not have found the same Answer to justifie all the Imprisonments for Ship-money Knighting-money Coat and Conduct-money c. to have been both voluntary and necessary Nor is this reason of mayntaining the War any better as to the leg●ll then as to the prudentiall part The King who hath power of making War and Peace which both Houses how ●●ll and free soever they are have not in never so just and necessary a War hath no legall power to leavy money to mayntain it without consent in Parliament But this War for which this Ordinance is made is not onely as illegall as the Ordinance it self I can make no greater expression but it is as ungrounded as it is illegall They first make a necessity that they may make a War and then root up liberty and property that they may continue it Schisme Pride Faction and Ambition were the onely grounds Feares and Jealousies were the onely pretences and Misery Slavery and Desolation are the onely effects of that which now to petition against is become a crime And if I make this appeare to you I doubt not Sir but you will then confesse that not onely these illegall proceedings of theirs are not justified by the War but that even the illegall pressures to which they have necessitated the King what Taxe soever He can have laid upon Oxfordshire or my Lord of Newcastle upon Yorkeshire or Sir Ralph Hopton upon the West are to be imputed to the beginners of this Warre and that both the plundring of Master Speaker of his Wine and his Battelaxe and the plundering of Braineford which though it were done to a Towne taken by assault yet for want of other instances is twice repeated and the danger of London which hee sayes was as neare to the state of Braineford as Braineford is to London is to be charg'd upon the same score Let us consider the beginning of these distractions When with so much difficulty by so few voyces that unexampled Declaration of the house of Commons had been spread among the people which incited them against the establisht Lawes and against the house of Lords which would not alter what was establisht And when the people giving credit to their information that there was no hope of happinesse for them without their concurrence had to the dishonour of Parliaments and with the breach of the highest priviledges of that most honourable Court come downe in Tumults to make

them concurre and by affronting and injuring some of the Members of both houses so awed the rest that the Army if it had really beene brought up to London could have done no more though a meere discourse concerning that was voted to be Treason When all these Tumults of which I speake the more knowingly because I was then by accident in the court of Requests when the Rabble came up and heard no Bishops no Bishops cryed with that animosity and violence that it rings still in my eares and saw Sir John Strangewayes threatned as their enemy and one I think they called him Master Killigrew laid hands on and so much feare in the faces of some other Members that I beleeve they hardly knew what they voted in a weeke after and the next day saw Westminster Abby assaulted by the same Rabble when these Tumults were not onely not punisht nor the Authors enquired after nor so much as the complaints of the particular Members considered but the Lords were twice refused to be joyn'd with in a Declaration against the like for the future And this Rabble commended and stiled their friends by the most eminent Members in that House When Justice Long was committed by the House of Commons for obeying a writ sent by direction of the Lords House and sending a watch to guard them and the Sheriffe forbid by the same House to proceed legally against a Riot in Southwarke When this countenance to Riots and discountenance of Law had made Tumults ordinary and familiar even at the Gates of White-hall and occasioned that accusation of the Lord Kimbolion and the five Members which hath been since five hundred times repeated as the principall ground of Jealousie though they were accused in so legall a manner as had beene formerly accepted by the House of Peeres in the Earle of Bristols Case and though the King offered them so much satisfaction for it that any private Christian that should refuse to receive it from his equall were in no case to receive the communion Who ever after that saw the great Leavies of armed men in London and the multitudes of people every day flocking to them from severall Countries and the low condition the King then was in removing from place to place without the convenience of ordinary Accommodation some of His servants leaving Him and others refusing to attend him could not beleeve that He could then give them such a Terror as no lesse then all the Castles and Forts of the Kingdome and the sole disposall of the whole Militia could give them security enough against Him who had not with or neare Him money enough to pay a man nor powder enough to kill a bird and could never have arrived at such a condition as to be able to raise an Army if the violence which hath beene since offered Him had not asisted Him Nor were the Lords then so affraid of the King or yet so afraid of the people as to demand so unreasonable security so that the House of Commons having twice in vaine attempted their consent were faine to aske it of His Majestie alone But when after the usuall Satellites came up to them with a Petition seconded and countenanc't by the House of Commons demanding those Lords names who refused to joyne This Eloquence prevailed or rather this Militia made the other passe and in a few dayes the King granting most but not all they askt the Lords who were unwilling to put the people to the trouble of comm●ng again joyned in Declaring and were as good as their words that if the King would not consent they would put the Militia in execution without Him Thus illegally was that Ordinance past both Houses which would have been most illegall however it had past Thus was the Kings highest Right His Negative voyce and in the highest point which alone enabled Him to defend the rest forced from him Thus was England put in Armes without his consent whose Commission onely could legally warrant the least Assembly in that kinde and a few Officers by his command in a peaceable manner attending him at Kingstone for his security was voted leavying of warre against himselfe and this was the first beginning of this necessary warre which now must make all things lawfull in order to that necessity Whilest the King presses still his Message of the 20. of January that he may but know what they would have and is not thought worthy of an Answer But to justifie their actions by their feares Armies are daily threatned from beyond-Sea though they have laine wind-bound ever since because all the world saw he had nothing in England he could fright them with but still the lower he was the higher they grew and the more they contemne him the more they feare him Nothing that he can doe will satisfie them Nothing that he can say shall satisfie the people for they shall not be suffered to see it Care is taken by order to the severall Burgesses That all the Townes of England must hear of his comming to the house of Cōmons and that in a manner in which he did no te●me But his sorrow that he hath by this brok any Priviledge his offers of satisfaction for it and his Resolution both to observe defend them all for the future If this be printed and offered to be publisht his Secretary must be questioned for sending it to the Sheriffs by his Majesties Command and the Sheriffs forbid to publish it according to the Kings own Warrant and sent for as Delinquents if they do Would he have my Lord of Newcastle command his Town he must not Would he not have Sir Iohn Hotham command it he must Dares he not come to London He must Would he be wayted on in the Countrey by his meniall servants he must not Will he not choose such Officers and Counsellors as they will name and displace such evill Counsellors as they cannot name Then the prevalency of the Malignant Party is cryed out upon his not encountring Colonell Burges and Captaine Venne in the head of their Mermidens is called deserting his Parliament The Rebellion of Ireland which he had disarmed himselfe to resist is laid to his charge and his offer to venture his Royall Person against the Rebels there is voted to be an encouragement to that Rebellion If he deny or delay any thing they aske though never so much in his power to grant or deny a new Vote passes upon the Advisers of being enemies to the State and having once found that Word to have great influence upon the people whatsoever he sayes or does he cannot but breake their Priviledges and whatsoever they say or doe they cannot breake his And indeed their observing no Rule at all in their Votes and the peoples readinesse to observe all their Votes as a Rule had so hared him and all his servants that I had rather be not onely Master Pym or Master Hampden but Master Cromwell or Master Pury then King of