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A57844 A worthy speech spoken in the honourable House of Commons by Sir Benjamin Rudyard, this present July, 1642 Rudyerd, Benjamin, Sir, 1572-1658. 1642 (1642) Wing R2207; ESTC R13207 1,489 8

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A WORTHY SPEECH Spoken in the Honourable House OF COMMONS By Sir Benjamin Rudyard This present Iuly 1642. Iuly 18. Printed for R. Thrale 1642. A Speech spoken in the House of Commons by Sir BENIAMIN RUDYARD Iuly 9. 1642. 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 Subjects Obedience from a Subject to a King Protection from a King to His People The present unhappie distance between His Majestie and the Parliament makes the whole Kingdome stand amazed in a fearfull expectation of dismall Calamities to fall upon it It deeply and conscionably concerns this House to compose and settle these threatening ruining distractions M. Speaker I am touch'd I am pier'd 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 fair way for the Kings return hither It will likewise give best satisfaction to the people and will be our best Justification M. Speaker That we may the better consider the condition we are now in let us set our selves three Yeers back If any man then could have credibly told us That within three Yeers the Queen shall be gone out of England into the Low-Countries for any cause whatsoever The King shal 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 finde 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 crediblie told us That within three Yeers ye shall have a Parliament it would have been good News That Ship-monie 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 Monopolie● The high-Commission Court The Starre-Chamber The Bishops Votes shall be taken away The Councell Table regulated and restrained The Forrests bounded and limitted That ye 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 do not enjoy it although His Majestie hath promised and published he will make all this good to us We stand chiefly upon further security whereas the very having of these things is a convenient fair securitie mutually securing one another there is more securitie offered even in this last answer of the Kings By removing the personall Votes of Popish Lords By the Better Education of Papists children By supplying the defects of Laws against Recusants besides what else may be enlarged and improved by a select Committee of both Houses named for that purpose Wherefore Sir let us beware we do not contend for such a hazardous unsafe securitie 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 securitie All humane Caution is Susceptible of corruption and failing Gods providence will not be bound successe must be his He that observes the wind and rain shall neither sow nor reap if he do nothing till he can secure the weather he will have but an ill harvest M. 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 blood once begin to touch blood we shall presentlie fall into a certain miserie and must attend an uncertain successe God knows when and God knows what Every man here is bound in conscience to employ his uttermost endeavours to prevent the effusion of blood blood is a crying sin it pollutes a Land let us save our Liberties and our Estates a 〈…〉 we may save our Souls too Now I have clearly delivered mine own coscience I leave every man freely to his FINIS