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Two worthy speeches spoken in the honourable House of Commons by Sir Benjamin Rvdyard, at severall times.
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Rudyerd, Benjamin, Sir, 1572-1658.
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TWO WORTHY SPEECHES Spoken in the Honourable House OF COMMONS By Sir Benjamin Rvdyard At severall times London Printed for Antony Vincent and are to be sold in the old Baily 1643. Two Speeches spoken by Sir Benjamin Rudyard in the High Court of Parliament Mr. SPEAKER I Do verily believe that the Vote we have already passed for the Disbanding the Armies the first and tenth of March will finde us no further on our way then where we now are besides the ill Accidents that may happen and so much precious time spent as till then Sir The Main Businesse is whether we shall have a present Treatie or no and this concernes us in all that we Have and Are since we Refused a Treatie at Nottingham I doe not find that we have gotten much ground although our Armie then was fresh full and full payed the people erect bountifull and forward to the warre Now the Disposition of the Kingdome for the greatest part stands bent toward a Peace so that wheresoever the Refusall or Delay of the way to it shall be fixt the Disadvantage will fall on that side How cleare soever the intentions of the House are yet abroad it will be taken but as a shew without Reality and so it will be returned upon us For the Propositions I have not known nor heard that all the Propositions in any Treatie of Importance were ever swallowed whole If some be harsh and rough they may be wrought and suppled by wise Treaters made fit for an acceptable agreement If other be unpassable they may be totally rejected Those that are our unquestionable Rights may be so claimed and held Mr. Speaker We have already tasted the bitter bloudy fruits of warre we are growne exceedingly behind-hand with our selves since we began it if we persist there will such a confluence of Mischiefes break in upon us as I am afraid will ruine the King the Kingdome the Nation unlesse God be mercifull to us and do step in with a great Miracle for a little one will not serve our turne I have long and thoughtfully expected that the cup of trembling which hath gone round about us to other Nations would at length come in amongst us It is now come at last and we may drinke the Dregs of it the worst Which God divert There is yet some comfort left that our Miseries are not likely to last long For we cannot fight here as they doe in Germanie in that great large vast continent where although there be warre in some parts of it yet there are many other remote quiet places for trade and tillage to support it We must fight as in a Cock-pit we are surrounded with the Sea We have no stronger Holds then our own Sculls and our own Ribs to keep out our enemies so that the whole Kingdome will suddenly be but one flame It hath been said in this House that we are bound in conscience to punish the shedding of innocent bloud but Sir who shall be answerable for all the innocent bloud which shall be spilt hereafter if we doe not endeavour a Peace by a speedy Treatie Certainly God is as much to be trusted in a Treatie as in a warre it is He that gives wisedome to treat as well as courage to fight and successe to both as it pleaseth Him Bloud is a crying sinne it pollutes a Land why should we defile this Land any longer Wherefore Mr. Speaker Let us stint Bloud assoone as we can Let us agree with our Adversaries in the way by a present short wary Treaty God direct us A Speech spoken in the Honourable House of Commons by Sir Benjamin Rudyard Mr. Speaker IN the way we are we have gone as farre as words can carry us We have voted our own Rights and the Kings Duty No doubt there is a Relative Duty between a King and Sbujects Obedience from a Subject to a King protection from a King to His. The present unhappy distance between people His Majesty and the Parliament makes the whole Kingdome stand amazed in a fearfull expectation of dismall Calamities to fall upon it It deeply and conscionably concernes this house to compose and setle these threatning ruining distractions Mr. Speaker I am touched I am pierced with an apprehension of the Honour of the House and successe of this Parliament The best way to give a stop to these desperate imminent mischiefs is to make a faire way for the Kings return hither It will likewise give best satisfaction to the People and will be our best Justification Mr. Speaker that we may the better consider the condition we are now in let us set our selves three years back If any man then could have credibly told us that within three Years the Queene shall be gone out of England into the Low-Countries for any cause whatsoever The King shall remove from his Parliament from London to York declaring himself not to be safe here That there shall be a totall Rebellion in Ireland Such discords and distempers both in Church and State here as now we find certainly we should have trembled at the thought of it Wherefore it is fit we should be sensible now we are in it On the other side If any man then could have credibly told us That within three yeares yee shall have a Parliament it would have been good newes That ship-money shall be taken away by an act of Parliament the Reasons and grounds of it so rooted out as that neither it nor any thing like it can ever grow up again That Monopolies that the high-Commission Court the Starre Chamber the Bishops Votes shall be taken away the Councell-Table regulated and restrained The Forrests bounded and limited that yee shall have a trienniall Parliament and more then that A Perpetuall Parliament which none shall have power to dissolve without your selves we should have thought this a dream of happinesse yet now we are in the reall possession of it we doe not enjoy it although his Majestie hath promised and published he will make all this good to us we stand chiefly upon further security wheras the very having of these things is a convenient faire security mutually securing one another there is more security offered even in this last answer of the Kings by removing the personall Votes of popish Lords the better education of Papists children by supplying the defects of Law against Recusants besides what else may be enlarged and improved by a select Committee of both Houses named for that purpose Therfore Sir let us beware we do not contend for such a hazardous unsafe security as may endanger the losse of what we have already let us not think we have nothing because we have not all we desire and though we had yet we cannot make a Mathematicall security All humane Caution is Susceptible of corruption and failing Gods providence will not be bound successe must bee his he that observes the wind and rain shall neither sow nor reap if he doe nothing till he can secure the weather he will have but an ill harvest Mr. Speaker it now behoves us to call up all the wisedome we have about us for we are at the very brink of combustion and confusion If bloud once begin to touch bloud we shall presently fall into a certain miserie and must attend an uncertaine successe God knowes when and God knowes what Every man here is bound in conscience to employ his uttermost endeavours to prevent the effusion of bloud bloud is a crying sinne it pollutes a Land let us save our Liberties and our Estates as we may save our souls too Now I have clearely delivered mine own conscience I leave every man freely to his FINIS