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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49746	Law unknown, or, Judgement unjust wherein is shewed, that some persons were indicted, judged, and condemned at the sessions in the Old Bailey, London, by an unknown Law, neither printed nor published, nor any ways knowable by the common people, whereby the inhabitants of this nation may perceive what unavoidable bondage and slavery they are going into : with a brief relation of the killing of John Townesend, by Major Crosby at St. Albones, and the proceedings of court thereupon, in quitting the said Crosby, and punishing the peaceable standers by, and some remarkable passages of Sir Harbottle Grimston in the said tryal : together also with certain queries, grounded upon the Act of Indempnity, especially recommended to the serious consideration of the said Sir Harbottle, and all the members of that Parliament whereof he was speaker.		1662 (1662)	Wing L636; ESTC R36860	6,930	11

he only that hath advanced all Popish Bishops I shall name some of them Bishop Manwaring the Bishop of Bath and Wells the Bishop of Oxford and Bishop Wren the least of all but the most unclean one These are men that should feed Christ's Flock but they are the Wolves that devoured them The Sheep should have fed upon the Mountains but the Mountains have eat up the Sheep It was the happiness of our Church when the zeal of God's House did eat up the Bishops Glorious and brave Martyrs that went to the Stake in defence of the Protestant Religion But the zeal of these Bishops hath been to eat up and persecute the Church Who is it Mr. Speaker but the great Arch Bishop of Canterbury that hath sat the Helme to guide and steer them all to the managing of their Projects that have been set on foot in this Kingdom these ten years last past And rather than he would stand out he hath most unworthily truck'd and chaffer'd in the meanest of them as for instance that of Tobacco wherein thousands of poor people have been stript and turned out of their Trades for which they have served as Aprentices We all know he was the Compounder and Contractor with them for the Licences putting them to pay Fines and Fee and Farm Rents to use their Trades Certainly Mr. Speaker he might have spent his time better and more for his grace in the Pulpit than thus sharking and raking in the Tobacco shop Mr. Speaker We all know what he hath been charged withal here in this House Crimes of a dangerous consequence and of transcendent nature No less than the subversion of the Government of this Kingdom and the alteration of the Protestant Religion and this not upon bare information onely but much of it comes before us already upon clear and manifest proofs And there is scarce any business grievances or complaints come before us in this place wherein we do not find him intermingled and as it were twisted into it like a busie and angry Wasp his sting in the tail of 〈…〉 thing We have this day heard the report of the conference yesterday and in it the accusations which the Scotch Nation have charged him withal and we do all know he is guilty of the same if not more in this Kingdom Mr. Speaker He hath been and is the common enemy of all goodness and good men and it is not safe that such a Viper should be near his Majesties person to distil his poyson into his sacred Ears nor is it safe for the Common-wealth that he should sit in so eminent a place of Government being thus accused We know what we did in the Earl of Strafford's Case This man is the corrupt Fountain that hath infected all the Streams and till the Fountain be purged we cannot expect to have any clear Channels I shall be bold therefore to offer my opinion and if I erre it is the error of my Judgement and not my want of zeal and affection to the publick good I conceive it most necessary and fit that we should now take up a resolution to do somewhat to strike whilst the Iron is hot and go up to the Lords in the Name of the Commons of this House and in the Name of the Commons of England and to accuse him of High Treason and to desire their Lordships his person may be sequestred and that in convenient time they may bring up the charge Six Queries seriously propounded to all but especially recommended to Sir Harbottle Grimston with the rest of the Members of that Parliament whereof he was SPEAKER grounded upon the Act of Indemnity whereby are pardoned all Treasons c. as therein is mentioned until the 24th of June 1660 and no longer Hereupon I Querie Querie 1. 1. VVHether such men who after the said 24th of June 1660. sat and made Lawes as a Parliament being not called by the Kings Writ according to Law did not usurp the Legislative power of the Nation contrary to the Laws thereof And whether this be not implied at least in the Preamble to an Act Entituled An Act for confirmation of publick Acts Made by the Parliament begun and held at Westminster the 8th day of May 1661 Querie 2. 2. Whether such as shall usurpe the Legislative Power as aforesaid be not guilty of High Treason Querie 3. 3. Whether unless an Act of Pardon shall be made for them the King may not at any time when he findes cause give forth Orders to apprehend imprison and try any of them accordingly Querie 4. 4. Whether the King hath any reason to be gracious to or confide in such men Or Whether by the same Principles they may not act as much against the King if occasion serve as they then seemed to do for him For he whose Principle will serve to break the Law one way why may it not serve him to break it the contrary way another time Querie 5. 5. Whether if the King should alwayes connive thereat it would not seem at least to a great degree to justifie the usual plea of his Adversaries to make good their former proceedings against himself who were wont frequently to plead Necessity and not Law for the ground and justification of their actions Querie 6. 6. Whether it be safe for the King and Kingdom to let them all escape without some examples of Justice inasmuch as their proceedings in this kind seems so much to justifie the Plea of Necessity practised by others heretofore and likewise tends very much to encourage other men in future time to dangerous practises upon the same principle FINIS Your Speech to the King Aug. 29 1660. Eccles 10.16 Psal 82.2 3 Gen. 3.4 5. Speech to the King Aug. 29 1660. 2 King 4.40 2 Tim. 3.9 Matth. 26.13