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A70223	The history of Whiggism, or, The Whiggish-plots, principles, and practices (mining and countermining the Tory-plots and principles) in the reign of King Charles the First, during the conduct of affaires, under the influence of the three great minions and favourites : Buckingham, Laud, and Strafford, and the sad forre-runners and prologues to that fatal-year (to England and Ireland) 41 : wherein (as in a mirrour) is shown the face of the late (we do not say the present) times.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1809; Wing H1825C; ESTC R12704	66,369	53

from Trent Northwards and also against his Deputy Justice in Oyer from Trent northwards the right Honourable Viscount Dunbar Deputy Lieutenant in the East riding of York-shire his Wife and Mother and the greatest part of his Family being Popish Recusants also against William Lord Eure a convict Popish Recusant and in Commission for the Sewers Henry Lord Abergavenny John Lord Tenham Henry Lord Morley John Lord Mordant John Lord St. John of Basing Captain of Lidley Castle in Com. Southampton Em. Lord Scroop Lord President of his Majesties Council in the North Lord Lieutenant of the County and City of York and of Kingston upon Hull Anthony Viscount Mountague in Commission of the Sewers Sir William Wray Knight Deputy Lieutenant Collonel to a Regiment his Wife a Recusant Sir Edward Musgrave Sir Thomas Lampley Justices of Peace and quorum Sir Thomas Savage Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace his Wife and Children Recusants Sir Richard Egerton a Non-communicant Thomas Savage Esquire a Deputy Lieutenant a Recusant and his Wife Indicted and Presented William Whitmore Sir Hugh Beeston Sir William Massy Sir William Courtn●y Knight Vice-warden of the Stannery and Deputy Lieutenant a Popish Recusant Sir Thomas Ridley Sir Ralph Conyers James Lawson Esquire Sir John Shelley Knight and Baronet a Popish Recusant William Scot Esquire a Recusant John Finch Esquire not convicted but comes not to Church Sir William Mullineux Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace his Wife a Recusant Sir Richard Houghton Knight Deputy Lieutenant Sir William Norris Captain of the General Forces and Justice of Peace a Recusant Sir Gilbert Ireland Justice of Peace a Recusant James Anderton Esquire Justice of Peace and one of his Majesties Receivers Edward Rigby Esquire Clerk of the Crown Justice of Peace himself a good Communicant but his Wife and Daughter Popish Recusants Edward E Robert Warren Clerk a Justice of the Peace justly suspected for five Reasons there mentioned Sir Henry Compton Knight Deputy Lieutenant Justice of the Peace and Commissioner for the Sewers Sir John Shelly Knight and Baronet himself and his Lady Recusants Sir John Gage a Popish Recusant with a vast number more of Justices of Peace and Commissioners of Sewers either Papists or justly suspected Wherefore they humbly beseech your Majesty not to suffer your loving Subjects to continue any longer discouraged by the apparent sence of that Increase both in number and power which by the Favour and Countenance of such like ill affected Governours accreweth to the Popish Party but that according to your own Wisdom Goodness and Piety whereof they rest assured you will be graciously pleased to Command that Answer of your Majesties to be effectually observed and the Parties above named and all such others to be put out of such Commissions and Places of Authority wherein they now are in your Majesties Realm of England Contrary to the Acts and Laws of State in that behalf Tant Those last words were Pungent Tory. Not prevalent surely for the Parliament was soon after Dissolved and the House of Commons having Intimation of their intended Dissolution made what hast they could to perfect a Remonstrance or Declaration against the Duke of Buckingham and concerning Tunnage and Poundage taken by the King since his Fathers death without consent in Parliament and which were never payable they say in their Remonstrance to any of his Majesties Ancestors but only by a special Act of Parliament and ought not to be levyed without such an Act. Tant And did the King go on Collecting and taking Tunnage and Poundage notwithstanding Tory. Yes he said he could not want it and sent them a former Message that if He had not a timely supply He would betake himself to New Councils Tant New Councils what were they Tory. The Commons in their said Remonstrance often with thoughtful Hearts remember the words New-Councils repeating and Repeating them as if they were somewhat against the old Parliamentary Councils and course of this Kingdom and they Order'd every Member of the House to have a Copy of the said Remonstrance for they had not time to Present it to his Gracious Majesty but were Dissolv'd though the Lords also prepared a Petition to stay the Kings purpose in Dissolving the Parliament sending Viscount Mandevil Earl of Manchester Lord President of his Majesties Council the Earls of Pembrook Carlisle and Holland to entreat his Majesty to give Audience to the whole House of Peers But the King returned Answer that his Resolution was to hear no motion for that purpose but He would Dissolve the Parliament and he was then as good as his Word for he immediately Dissolved them by Commission under the great Seal Dated at Westminster June 15.2 R. R. Car. 1. 1626. To that purpose And withall Publishes a Declaration in Print concerning the Grounds and Causes which moved his Majesty to Dissolve this as also the former Parliament Dated June 13. 2 Car. 1. two dayes before the Date of the Commission Tant It was the readyer against the time of using it Coleman was as provident Tory. Right And also a Proclamation was published against the said Remonstrance of the Commons commanding all Persons of what Quality soever who have or shall have hereafter any Copyes or Notes of the said Remonstrance forthwith to Burn the same that the Memory thereof might be utterly abolished upon Pain of his Majesties Indignation and high Displeasure Tant Then the Tide did run very high Tory. The King also Published another Proclamation against Preaching or Disputing the Arminian Controversies Pro or Con but the effects of that Proclamation how equally soever intended became the stopping of the Puritan's Mouths and an uncontroul'd Liberty to the Tongues and Pens of the thriving Divinity-men the rising side Mountagues Party And though the Parliament was Dissolv'd so that the Duke of Buckingham for that nearly-reflecting Article the last against him which the King in Honour and by the Bonds of natural Affection and Piety to the Memory of his Deceased Father thought himself obliged to Call him to a publick account for so Daring an Insolence in applying a Plaister to the Kings breast against his Will and without the Advice and contrary to the Opinion of the Sworn Physitians of King James who attributed the Cause of his trouble unto the said Pla●●●●● and a Drink that Buckingham gave him as was Alledged in the Thirteenth Article of the Dukes Impeachment and the said Drink twice given to the King by Buckingham's own Hands and a third time refused by the King who felt great Impairment of his Life and Health complaining of the Drink that the Duke gave him His Physitians telling him to Please him and Comfort him that His second Impairment was from cold taken or some other ordinary Cause No no said his Majesty It is that which I had from Buckingham as more at large much aggravated and insisted upon by Mr. Wandesford who managed the Thirteenth Article of the Impeachment against Buckingham Tant But what

said the Duke in his own Justification and Defence in the Star-Chamber Tory. He denyed it and examined divers Witnesses about the matter Tant And what then Tory. Nothing more the Cause never came to Judicial Hearing in that Court Tant Then let us hear no more of it I am sick of it my self I never heard so much before Go on Tory. After the Parliament was Dissolv'd and things well husht the Privy Council Order'd all Customs to be paid and the Refusers Punisht by Fines Imprisonment this was deem'd one New-council and Loans another Tant Loans prythee Tory what were they Tory. The King sent to the Rich a Letter beginning Trusty and Well-beloved c. under the Privy Seal requiring him or them to send him within twelve dayes so much Money as for Example in the West-riding in York-shire to Sir Thomas Wentworth 20 l Sir Francis Fuljam 20 l Sir Edward Osburn 30 l Godfrey Copley Esquire 15 l promising in the Name of the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors to repay the Money so lent Tant Ay when le ts hear that Tory. Within eighteen Months Tant And was the Money Repayed Tory. Pish that 's a silly question then of the City of London the King bid them lend him a hundred thousand pound Tant Well said a few such Summs from Towns or Cities would do the business but did they lend the Money Tory. No the City desir'd to be excused Tant And what then Tory. Then the Privy-Councel required them all excuses set apart to return a Direct and speedy Answer to his Gracious Majesty or in default thereof that his Majesty may frame his Councils as appertaineth to a King in such extream and Important occasions Tant And were they not afraid and apprehensive of the Innuendo Tory. The Commands rested not here for they also commanded the City to Equippe twenty of their best Ships in the River with all manner of Tackle Sea-stores and Ammunition men and Victuals for three Months Tant And did they do it Tory. They grumbled at it saying it was without President as did also the Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of Peace at Dorset having received the Kings Commands for setting forth Ships from Pool Weymouth and Lime but the Council checkt them for daring to dispute Orders instead of obeying them and whereas they mention presidents they might know that the presidents of former times were Obedience not Direction Whigg It would puzzle a good Historian to find presidents of Obedience in England to Arbitrary-sway and Orders of Privy-Council for Impositions without Law to back them Tory. How Did not stout King Edward 1. Command Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk and Lord Marshal of England and several other Lords to go to the Wars in Gascoygne in France which they refusing except the King himself went also in Person But the King threatned then to take away their Lands and their Lives saying to the Lord Marshal and Swearing By God Sir Earl you shall either Go or Hang. Whigg Ay but the Earl answered the King at the same moment I Swear by the same Oath I will neither Go nor Hang and so without leave went out of the Room and departed and shortly after he and Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and other Lords and Noble-men Assembled and other their Friends to the number of thirty Bannerets one thousand five hundred men at Arms well appointed and stood upon their Guard but the King Dissembled his Resentments at that time being about to go to Flanders where he spent much Money and for recruit Summons a Parliament to meet at York promising from thenceforth never to charge his Subjects otherwise than by their Consents in Parliament and also to Pardon all such as had denyed to attend him in this Journey Tant And did they trust the Kings word Tory. Yes but he broke it and all his other Oaths and Confirmations of the Peoples Charters made in Parliament two Years after having obtained and bought a Pardon for so doing as aforesaid of his Holiness nay he begun to play his Arbitrary Pranks long before that for in 8 Edw. 1. he sent out his Writ of Quo Warranto a fine Engine to get Money to examine by what Title men held their Lands which upon flaws found in their Charters and pryed into by the Lawyers brought him in much Money 'till John Earl of Warren stopt the Current and stem'd the Tyde for calling upon him to show his Title He drew out an old rusty Sword and said He held his Land by that and by that would hold it to Death and having many Backers it made the King desist from his Project Tant An old rusty Sword dost say that was more than the old Christian Weapons Prayers and Tears Tory. And stopt the Kings Tyranny and lawless Usurpations more than a thousand Petitions Prayers and Tears Tant Still I say Subjects Christian Subjects should use no Weapons but Prayers and Tears Whigg What not against Robbers Thieves and Murderers Tant Not against Magistrates that Rob by Law Whigg Thou talk'st like an Asse every day more than other Rob by Law a Contradiction in terminis if there be Law for it it is not Robery Theft nor Murder and if it be against Law or without Law all violent taking of mens Goods one Subject from another is Theft and Robbery except the Law enjoyn it and may lawfully be Resisted without all doubt in like manner and with such Weapons as the Onset or Assault is made Tant What in an Officer a Commission-Officer Whigg No man can be Authoriz'd to do an ill thing or an illegal thing by any mans Commission much less by the Kings Commission or the Broad-Seal for the King can do no wrong if it be wrong it stands for nothing it is not the Kings act nor the Kings Commission but Surreptitious and punishable Tant And who shall Judge of its Legality or the legality of the Resistance Whigg The Judges and the Law and the Juries Tant Nay then we are well enough yet Whigg If you be well keep you so whil'st you are well but remember Belknap Tresilian c. many Judges have been Hang'd right right and good Reason for corrupt and false Judgment there are they that shall judge the Judges Tant Ay but when at the day of Judgment Whigg Yes yes no more on 't but this Doctrine of resisting with other Weapons than Prayers and Tears Force with Force Violence with Violence in our own just Defence seems so strange to the new Tantivee-men that herein join with the old Error of the Anabaptists condemned in the 37 Article of the Church of England as also the Family of Love who Condemned all Wars as did the Manichees nay the learned Ludovicus Vives saith Arma Christianum Virum tractare nescio an fas sit I know not whether or no it be lawful for a Christian to Fight at all or go to the Wars and wear Weapons Lactantius also was against all Killing right and

in the Crown of Mr. Felton's Hat which was to show that his Conscience was satisfyed in the Fact and that he was therewith well pleased lest he had been presently hewed in Pieces without Opportunity to tell the World so much but by the Pious endeavours of some men he was brought to some Remorse and to acknowledge the Fact damnable without Gods great Mercy but denyed that the Puritans or any other set him on or knew of his Purpose but Bishop Laud told him if he would not Confess who set him on that he must go to the Rack he replyed he knew not whom he might Accuse perhaps Bishop Laud or any other in that Torture and the Judges agreed that by Law he could not be Rack't nor Tortured but Felton proffer'd his Hand to be cut off which the King desired might be done but the Judges said it could not be by Law but after he was dead he was Hang'd in Chains Tant But who got the Duke's Place Whigg Places you should say for many were enrich't by this single Wrack yet after the Duke's Death the King seem'd to take none into favour so much as Doctor Land then Bishop of London and Sequestrator of the Profits of the Archbishoprick of Canterbury for Dr. Abbot was civilly dead and four years after he really dyes to the desir'd Advancement of Dr. Laud to that Archbishoprick having long waited for the happy hour before it came Tant But was Tunnage and Poundage continued without Authority of Parliament Whigg Yes and Mr. Chambers his Goods to the value of 5000 l was seized for a pretended Duty of 200 l Custom the like Seizure on the Goods of Mr. Vassall Mr. Rolls and many others and the Attorney General exhibited an Information against Mr. Samuel Vassal seting forth that King James did by his Letters Pattents command the taking the said Customs and that his Majesty Charles 1. by the advice of the Privy Councel did declare his will and pleasure for the said Subsidies Customs c. until it might receive a settling by Parliament Tant What did Mr. Vassal Plead to this Whigg He Pleaded Magna Charta and the Statute De Tallageo non Concedendo c. to which Plea the Attorney General Demurred in Law and the Barous of the Exchequer did absolutely deny to hear Mr. Vassals Council to argue for him Tant That was brave upon our side Whigg And yet the King in his Speech to both Houses in the Banqueting-house confess 't he did not challenge Tunnage and Poundage as of right Tant If not of right how then Whigg De bene esse and of necessity because he could not want it nor stay till the Par 〈…〉 ent was minded to give it him Tant That is a mighty pretty reason in justification when 12 years together he call'd no Parliament Whigg And soon after the King sent a Message to the House of Commons speedily to take Tunnage and Poundage into consideration Tant And how did the Commons like that Message Whigg They were disgusted that the Bill should be Imposed upon them which ought naturally to arise from themselves impowering a Committee to examine the violation of Liberty and Property since the last Session of Parliament and then resolv'd in the next place to proceed in matters of Religion and particularly against the Sect of Arminians And sayes Mr. Pym two Diseases there be Mr. Speaker the one Old the other New the old Popery the new Arminianism Concerning Popery three things to be enquired 1. The Cessation of the Execution of the Laws against Papists 2. How the Papists have been employed and countenanced in great places of trust 3. The Law violated mark that Parson in bringing of Superstitious Ceremonies amongst us as at Durham by Mr. Cozens Angels Crucifixes Saints Altars Candles on Candlemas-day burnt in the Church after the Popish manner Tant That was only because since the Papists would not meet us we would try how far we can go towards Rome and yet be Church of England men Whigg Ay you Tantivees are subtle fellows in Ecclesiastical Policy nay and likewise in State-Policy your hand is in in every dish there is nothing comes amiss to you you are so equally accomplisht for Heaven and Earth you are clearly of Opinion to have your Church Triumphant here as well as hereafter you have the luck of it in comparison of Christ and his Apostles Tant We are Prudent as Serpents and are commanded so to be Whigg And also like Serpents to lick the Dust and other mens Spittle in Prospect of Advancement And the manners of the Bishops was so notorious to that young Prince of famous Memory King Edw. 6. that in his Diary with his own hand-writing was found this Observation concerning the Bishops of his time namely That some for Sloath some for Age some for Ignorance some for Luxury and some for Popery were unfit for Discipline and Government Tant Come no more of them what became of the Tunnage and Poundage Tory. The Committee in debate inclined that the Merchants have first their Goods restored which were taken from them against Law and against Right and the Proceedings against the Refusers null'd in the Exchequer and Star-Chamber before they would enter upon the Bill for Tunnage For quoth Mr. Noy we cannot safely give unless we be in Possession for it will not be a Gift but a Confirmation neither will I give 'till a removal of these Interruptions Whigg Ay Noy and Sir Thomas Wentworth were right Englishmen but ambitious and the King was advis'd to take them off by Preferment and he did so Noy being made Attorney General and the first Projector of Ship-money but he dyed soon after but his Project did but a little while out-live him and then it was Damn'd by the same King that promoted it in 16 Car. 1.14 and All the Writs called Ship-writs and the Proceedings of the Judges thereupon as utterly against the Law of the Land the Right of Property the Liberty of the Subjects former Resolutions in Parliament and the Petition of Right made but in the third year of that King Tant How should we know the Law if the Judges erre Whigg There is none so blind as they that will not see do not we see how great places make men warp and stand awry like high Steeples that are too lofty to be upright Tant All are not so warpt Whigg No God forbid they should Judge Hatton and Judge Crook escap't the general Contagion and Infection Tant But what became of this same Tunnage and Poundage Whigg The King Dissolv'd the Parliament when they would not give it him but as they list and after that in the Interval of Parliament took it and Imprisoned by Warrants from the Council were Denzil Hollis Esquire Sir Miles Hobert Sir John Eliot Sir Peter Hayman John Selden Esquire William Coriton Walter Long William Stroud and Benjamin Valentine Parliament men Tant And how long lasted that Interval of Parliaments Whigg Above twelve

years namely from March Anno Domini 1628. until April 13. 1640. which lasted but twenty dayes his Majesty Dissolving them also for they went on in the old Story looking back since the last Parliament at the Grievances which were as numerous as intollerable but the King found it necessary to call another Parliament which met November 3. 1640. and did the strange things you have heard Tant Sure the People were mad stark mad in 40. and 41. Whigg Oppression makes Wise men mad Tant Did not Addresses come from all parts to thank the King for Dissolving the Parliaments so fast Whigg No such matter for the people were so enraged when the Parliament was Dissolved 1628. attributing it to the D. of Buckingham that they would ordinarily utter these words Let Charles and George do what they can The Duke shall dye like Doctor Lamb. Tant How dyed Doctor Lamb Whigg The Boyes ordinary People and the Rabble beat him and bruised him and left him for dead falling on him as he walk't through the Old-Jury calling him the Duke's Conjurer Tant But when the Duke was Stabb'd who did they blame for the Dissolution of the Parliament Whigg Who who but the powerful men at Court especially Bishop Laud some few dayes after two Libels being found in the Dean of Paul's Yard to this effect Laud look to thy self be assured thy Life is sought as thou art the Fountain of Wickedness repent of thy monstrous Sins before thou be taken out of the World and assure thy self neither God nor the World can endure such a vile Councellor or Whisperer to live The other was as bad against the Lord Treasurer Weston Tant What he that you say dyed a profest Papist Whigg The same Tant But Bishop Laud dyed of the Church of England Whigg Yes yes It is better to be the Arch or Chief of the Clergy of England and chief Favourite Also than to be the Second at Rome and he very fairly refused a Cardinal's cap which was proffer'd him and I believe he was no more a Papist in heart than I am what he did in complyance with Popery and Popish Ceremonies was only in complacence to you know who Tory. The more blame-worthy to act against his little Conscience as appear'd by the then Favourites for Strafford Noy Laud c. untill Preferment dazel'd them and height made them Vertiginous and Turn-sick were as steddy Protestants and English-men as any Whigg Ay Ay the Devil knew what he did when he proffer'd our Saviour the Kingdoms of the World shewing the glory of them tempting him as if they had need be assisted by Divinity who are Temptation-proof Tant Right for onely Divines are temptation-proof Whigg True none are Temptation-proof but those that are true Divines in Reality not Divines that are such in Name onely or such that lay heavy burdens on others but will not touch them themselves with one of their fingers or such as preach Prayers and Tears onely to other Christians whilest they themselves tear and rend with the Civil Sword curses instead of prayers and instead of tears rant it with blood and wounds Tory. You think the Laws are the onely as well as the best Boundaries to keep King and People within their just limits and duty Whigg Right The Rules of Justice or the Laws are the Hercules Pillars or the nè plus ultra to King and People to the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberties as they are the Hercules Pillars so they are the Pillar to every Hercules to every Prince which if he pass he goes into the vast Ocean the Lord knowes whither for no body knowes what will be the End and Issue of such dismal wandring Therefore the old Rule of Law is Solum Rex hoc non potest facere quod non potest justè agere The King can do nothing but what he can Legally do Therefore Antiochus King of Asia sent his Letters and Missives to all his Provinces That if they received any Dispatches in his Name not agreeable to Law and Justice Ignoto se literas esse scriptas ideoque iis non parerent he disclaim'd the same as not being his Act and deed though attested under the Broad-Seal Tory. But suppose at a Bone-fire on a Thanksgiving Night such a Whigg as you pass by and will not drink the Kings Health or the Dukes Health and I break your head Whigg Whigg Then you are a Ryotor and the Magistrates ought to punish you accordingly and in my own defence I may lawfully Knock your Pate again Tory to get out of your clutches Tory. That might occasion Knocking-work Whigg Have a care then that you keep the Kings-Peace and do not dye as a Fool dyeth for he that makes the assault the Aggressor must be responsible for all the mischief that ensues from his own wickedness and villanously-bold attempt in stopping the Kings Subjects and setting upon them with violence in the Kings High-way walking peaceably by them Tory. There is none but a Rebell will refuse the King or Dukes Health Whigg There is none but a drunken Coxcomb will say so besides 't is expressely against His Majesties Proclamation publisht Against forcing of Healths down mens Throats whether they will or no. Tory. Wee for the King will Drink and Whore It showes our Loyalty the more Whigg Ay such Loyalty has done wonders wonderful Mischief and the Kings Friends were his greatest Enemies and Traytors and most guilty Laesae Majestatis Tory. How prove you that Whigg Infallibly by the Premises for if the King can do no wrong and can onely do that that Legally and justly he may do then 1. Tunnage and Poundage without Authority of Parliament 2. Money for Knights Fees or lest you should be made a Knight 3. Loans and Privy Seals Benevolences and Monopolies 4. Billeting of Souldiers 5. Ship-money and Ship-writs 6. Imprisonment and seizures for refusing to pay those illegal Taxes were none of them the Kings Act and deed though in his Name and under his Seal Tant That 's strange why man the return of the Cause of their Commitment upon their Habeas Corpus was this Per speciale mandatum domini Regis that the Prisoners were Committed by the special Command of the King himself and so the Council Order'd Whig That 's Braze Good Councellors will take upon themselves harsh things and leave the King the Honour and Thanks of our Acts of Grace and Goodness but this invests all the order of true Politicks Mercy and Goodness only naturally and immediately flow from the Throne Justice from the Ministers Therefore the Sword is carried before him but the Scepter in his Hand Tory. Ay but it was advised that the Calling of a Parliament being pleasing to the People and obliging should be given out to be at the motion of Buckingham Ay Ay But when it was Dissolv'd the King did it in his own Person as well as by his Prerogative But has the King such a Prerogative to Adjourn