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A Letter to a friend upon the dissolution of the late Parliament, and the calling of a new one together with a list of those that were against making the Prince and Princess of Orange, King and Queen.
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Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.
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1690
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Wing L1656; ESTC R36358
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A LETTER to a Friend upon the Dissolution of the Late Parliament and the Calling of a New One. Together with a LIST of those that were against making the Prince and Princess of Orange King and Queen SIR AS I do fully acquiesce in the Wisdom and Authorny of the King in his dissolving of the late Parliament So I 'm perfectly perswaded that he did it upon motives relating to his own Honour and to the safety and happiness of his People and not in subserviency to any Prerogative Design nor to please himself with an Exercise of Regal Power And I will venture to say that nothing could have induced him so abruptly as well as unexpectedly to have dismissed a Parliament that first advanced him unto and then by so many free and vast Contributions endeavour'd to support him in the Throne but the finding them unserviceable to the Uniting of Protestants the vindicating of our Laws and Liberties and the punishing of those who had subverted our Constitution which as they are the only Justifiable Grounds both of his coming hither and of his accepting the Royal Authority so nothing less than the pursuing hose Ends can vindicate his descent into England from being an Unrighteous Invasion and his ascending the British Ihrones from the Reproach of an Ambitious Usurpation How could a Prince of his Integrity and Wisdom think that the obtaining and wearing of a Crown was honourable and just while the Reasons upon which he received and possesseth it were not only controuled and reproached but exposed and ridiculed Nor is it possible for His Majesty to believe that the Late King was so hainously guilty as to forfeit all Right to Sovereignty while those who advised him unto and were the Ministers of all his misgovernment whom the Law makes chiefly if not only accountable were esteemed Guiltless and Innocent He could not but foresee that the Abdication of King James is easily Reversible and that he himself holds his Crown very precariously if there were nothing to justify the Enthroning the one and the Dethroning t'other but the hasty and Arbitratious Vote of the Majority of the Two Houses And he must needs look upon all that was alledged concerning the Late King 's violating the Original Contract and his subverting the Laws of the Constitution as Fiction and Dream while there were none to be found that counselled him unto or assisted him in it And as this justifieth the Wisdom of His Majesty in the dissolving of the late Parliament so we may from hence easily conclude both upon what prospect and hope he hath been pleased to call a New One and by what measures those to whom the right of Electing Members doth belong are to guide themselves in the Ensuing Choice Nor do we only want a Parliament that may confirm establish and support His Majesty in the Throne but which may proceed on those Principles as does render his Accession to it necessary as well as honourable and just And as the Nation is once more furnished with an opportunity of chusing such a Representative Body as may vindicate and assert its Ancient Laws Rights and Liberties so there is a fresh advantage offered us of testifying our Loyalty to his present Majesty and of promoting his Greatness as well as of providing for our own future safety I need not tell you that the Ends to be proposed in the Service of those who are to be Elected are that Your Throne may be setled upon firm and righteous Foundations and that all His Majesty's Subjects may live at ease and unity under His Government 'T is therefore first incumbent upon all wise and honest Men that they elect such to represent them as may both allow and confirm unto the King all the Ancient and Legal Rights of the Crown and yet at the same time recover and secure all those Privileges unto the People which the invading and wresting from them gave occasion unto and can alone justify the late Revolution Whosoever seeks to enrich the King with the Spoils of his Subjects and so adorn them with what our Late Monarch ravished from them can design no less than that the same Fate should befall him which overtook his Predecessor which is the robbing him first of his Peoples Affections and then of his own Authority 2dly 'T is no less the Duty than it is the Interest of all that would have the Nation formidable to its Enemies and the King successful in his Undertakings that they depute and authorise those to act for them in Parliament who without subverting or undermining the Church may not only preserve unto Dissenters that Liberty vouchsafed unto them for worshipping God but who may restore them unto and vest them in all the Common Rights and Privileges of Englishmen Nor will it be easie to persuade so great a Company of People that they find their account in the late Revolution unless they be admitted by Law to injoy the same Advantages under the present King which by dispencing with and an usurpation over the Law they were possessed of under the last 3dly We are to esteem them the fittest of all others to be returned to serve in the Ensuing Parliament who are likeliest to maintain in our Allies a confidence of us and to encourage them both to continue the Confederacy and to pursue the Ends of it And therefore as we would not give jealousy unto them and weaken the Union amongst themselves and with us we ought to avoid the chusing of those that have heretofore promoted the Grandeur of France or that have either sought the Destruction of the Dutch or expressed a malice and rancour towards them 4thly As we would not betray both the King and our selves we are to chuse none but such who are intirely in his Majesty's and in the Kingdom 's interest Which as it is impossible to believe of them who acknowledge him only a King in Fact but not by Right so it is not easie to conceive how they should be forward and zealous to support him in the Throne who opposed his coming to it The Enemies to King James's Abdication are not like to be true and lasting Friends to King William's Sovereignty In short it is the duty of all that love the present Establishment to be against those whom you find them to be for that refuse to swear Allegiance to their present Majesties Nor are they worthy of the Vote of an honest Man who are not satisfied with the Protection of the Royal Power unless they have both the mastery of it and the exerting and applying of it to the oppression of their Fellow-Subjects 'T is not a King but a Tool under that name which they desire And instead of allowing him to be the Universal and Equal Ruler of all His People they seek to reduct and degrade him to be the Head of a little and Peevish Faction Which that His Majesty may be preserved from all Temptations unto through the wise Choice of those that are to sit in the following Parliament is the unfeigned desire of Sir Your humble Servant Berks Lord Norris Buckingh Sir Ralph Vâ—rny Camb. Sir Levinus Bennet Sir Robert Cotton Sir Robert Sawyer Cornwall Sir Bâ—urcher Wrey Fran. Roberts Sir John St. Aubin Charles Godolphin Nich. Glynn John Tannâ—r Alexander Pendarvis James Praed John Rashleigh Fran. Vivian John Specot Sir Jos Tredenham Hen. Seymor Sir John Coriton John Prideaux Cumberland Sir Christ Musgrave Lerby John Coke Devonshire Sir Edw. Seymor Christo Bale Sir John Fowell Rawlin Mallack William Cary Henry Nortleigh Sir Arthur Chichester Edm. Walrond Will Hayn Will. Coleman Dorseâ—shire Tho. Strangways John Pole Sir Robert Nappier Edw. Nicholas Rich. Fowns Will. Okeden Durham Will. Lampton Robert Byerly George Morland Gloucestershire Will. Cook Thâ— Master Sir Fra. Russell Herefordshire Hen. Cornwall Huntingtonshire John Bigg Kent Sir John Banks Sir John Twisden Caleb Banks Lancâ—shire Fran. Cholmondley Sir Edw. Chisnall Leicestershire Sir Tho. Halford Tho. Babington Lincolnshire Charles Berâ—e Sir John Brownlow Middlesex Sir Charles Gerard Ralph Hawtrey Monmouth Marq. of Worcester Norfolk Sir Will. Cook Sir Nevill Catlyn Sir John Turner Sir Fran. Guybon Northamptonshire Edw. Montague Gilbert Dolben Sir Justinian Isham Lord Wenman Northumberland Will. Forster Philip Brickerstaff Sir Ralph Car Roger Fenwick Nottingham Lord Eland Oxon Sir Robert Jenkinson Sir Tho Clarges Hen. Berty Sir Jon Doyley Rutland Sir Tho. Mackworth Salop Edw. Kynaston Andrew Newport Sir Fran. Edwards Sir Edw. Acton George Weld Somerset Sir Rich. Hart Sir John Knight Edw. Berkley Sir Will. Basset Sir Will. Portman John Sandford Sir Francis Warr Francis Lutterel Nathan Palmer Sir Edw. Windham Will. Helyar John Hunt Tho. Sanders Southampton Franc. Morley Sir Benj. Newland Sir Robert Holms Earl of Ranelagh Thomas Done Franc. Guin William Etrick John Pollen Staffordshire John Gray Robert Burdet John Chetwind Sir Henry Gough Suffolk Sir John Cordell Sir John Rous Sir John Barker Tho. Glemham Sir Hen. Johnson William Johnson Sir John Poley Thomas Knyvet Hen. Pooley Sir Robert Davers Sir Thomas Harvey Surry John Weston White Tichburn Sussex Sir William Morley John Alford Charles Goring Jun. Will. Morley Warwickshire Sir Richard Verney Sir Roger Cavâ— Lord Digby William Colemore Westmorland Richard Lowther William Cheyne Wiltshire Lord Cornbury Robert Hyde Richard Lewis Peregrine Berty Henry Chivers Walter Grubb Charles Fox Sir Edm. Warnford John Dean Sir John Eâ—nle Sir George Willoughby Worcestshire Henry Parker Sir John Matthews Yorkshire Earl of Danby Sir John Jennings Christopher Tancred Brecon E. Jones of Buckland Denby Sir Rich. Middleton Edward Brehâ—n Glamorgan Thomas Mansell Pembroke Sir William Wâ—gan LONDON Printed in the Year 1690.