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A35827	The journals of all the Parliaments during the reign of Queen Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and House of Commons / collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes ... Knight and Baronet ; revised and published by Paul Bowes ..., Esq.	D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.; Bowes, Paul, d. 1702.	1682 (1682)	Wing D1250; ESTC R303	1,345,519	734

their consents as well as the others Well he that hath an Office saith S t Paul let him wait on his Office or give diligent attendance upon his Ofsice It is a great and special part of our duty and office M r Speaker to maintain the freedom of Consultation and Speech for by this good Laws that do set forth Gods Glory and for the preservation of the Prince and State are made S t Paul in the same place saith hate that which is avil cleave unto that which is good then with S t Paul I do advise you all here present yea and heartily and earnestly desire you from the bottom of your hearts to hate all Messengers Tale-Carriers or any other thing whatsoever it be that any manner of way infringes the Liberties of this Honourable Councel yea hate it or them as venemous and poyson unto our Common-Wealth for they are venemous Beasts that do use it therefore I say again and again hate that which is evil and cleave unto that which is good and this being loving and faithful hearted I do wish to be conceived in fear of God and of love to our Prince and Statè for we are incorporated into this place to serve God and all England and not to be Time-Servers as Humour-feeders as Cancers that would pierce the Bone or as Flatterers that would fain beguile all the World and so worthy to be Condemned both of God and Man but let us shew our selves a People endued with Faith I mean with a lively Faith that bringeth forth good Works and not as Dead And these good Works I wish to break forth in this sort not only in hating the Enemies before-spoken against but also in open reproving them as Enemies to God our Prince and State that do use them for they are so Therefore I would have none spared or forborn that shall from henceforth offend herein of what calling soever he be for the higher place he hath the more harm he may do therefore if he will not eschew offences the higher I wish him hanged I speak this in Charity M r Speaker for it is better that one should be hanged than that this Noble State should be subverted well I pray God with all my heart to turn the hearts of all the Enemies of our Prince and State and to forgive them that wherein they have offended yea and to give them grace to offend therein no more even so I do heartily beseech God to forgive us for holding our peaces when we have heard any injury offered to this Honourable Councel for surely it is no small offence M r Speaker for we offend therein against God our Prince and State and abuse the confidence by them reposed in us Wherefore God for his great mercies sake grant that we may from henceforth shew our selves neither Bastards nor Dastards therein but that as rightly begotten Children we may sharply and boldly reprove Gods Enemies our Princes and State and so shall every one of us discharge our Duties in this our High Office wherein he hath placed us and shew our selves haters of Evil and Cleavers to that that is good to the setting forth of Gods Glory and Honour and to the Preservation of our Noble Queen and Common-Wealth for these are the marks that we ought only in this place to shoot at I am thus earnest I take God to witness for Conscience Sake Love Love unto my Prince and Common-Wealth and for the advancement of Justice for Justice saith an Antient Father is the Prince of all Vertues yea the safe and faithful Guard of mans Life for by it Empires Kingdoms People and Cities be governed the which if it be taken away the Society of man cannot long endure And a King saith Solomon that sitteth in the Throne of Judgment and looketh well about him chaseth away all evil in the which State and Throne God for his great mercies sake grant that our Noble Queen may be heartily vigilant and watchful for surely there was a great fault committed both in the last Parliament and since also that was as faithful hearts as any were unto the Prince and State received most displeasure the which is but an hard point in Policy to encourage the Enemy to discourage the faithful-hearted who of fervent love cannot dissemble but follow the Rule of S t Paul who saith let love be without dissimulation Now to another great fault I found the last Parliament committed by some of this House also the which I would desire of them all might be left I have from right good men in other Causes although I did dislike them in that doing sit in an evil matter against which they had most earnestly spoken I mused at it and asked what it meant for I do think it a shameful thing to serve God their Prince or Country with the tongue only and not with the Heart and Body I was answered that it was a common Policy in this House to mark the best sort of the same and either to sit or arise with them that same common Policy I would gladly have banished this House and have grafted in the stead thereof either to rise or sit as the matter giveth Cause For the Eyes of the Lord behold all the Earth to strengthen all the hearts of them that are whole with him These be Gods own words mark them well I heartily beseech you all for God will not receive half part he will have the whole And again he misliketh those two faced Gentlemen and here be many Eyes that will to their great shame behold their double dealing that use it Thus I have holden you long with my rude Speech the which since it tendeth wholly with pure Conscience to seek the advancement of Gods Glory our Honourable Soveraigns Safety and to the sure defence of this noble Isle of England and all by maintaining of the Liberties of this Honourable Councel the Fountain from whence all these do Spring my humble and hearty Suit unto you all is to accept my good will and that this that I have here spoken out of Conscience and great zeal unto my Prince and State may not be buried in the Pit of Oblivion and so no good come thereof Upon this Speech the House out of a reverend regard of her Majesty's Honour stopped his further proceeding before he had fully finished his Speech The Message he meant and intended was that which was set by her Majesty to the House of Commons in the said fourteenth year of her Reign upon Wednesday the 28 th day of May by Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold inhibiting them for a certain time to treat or deal in the matter touching the Scottish Queen Now follows the proceeding of the House upon this Speech out of the Original Journal-Book it self M r Wentworth being Sequestred the House as aforesaid for his said Speech it was agreed and Ordered by the House upon the Question after sundry Motions and Disputations had therein

Darcy de Chiche Dominus North. Dominus Shandois Dominus S t John de Bletso Dominus Buckhurst Dominus Compton These Lords Spiritual and Temporal being sat and her Majesty placed in her Chair of Estate the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons upon notice thereof repaired thither and being as many as conveniently could let in Sir Thomas Egerton by her Majesties Commandment spake as followeth viz. THE Queens most Excellent Majesty my most Gracious and Dread Soveraign hath commanded me to declare unto you my Lords and others here present the Causes which have moved her Highness to summon this High Court of Parliament at this time Which before I can express I must confess truly That the Royal presence of her Majesty the view of your Lordships and this honourable Assembly together with the consideration of the weightiness of the service and my own weakness do much appal me and cause me to fear Wherefore if either through fear I forget or through the many wants and imperfections which I have I fail to perform that duty which is required I do most humbly crave pardon of her Majesty and beseech your Lordships to bear with me The great and Princely Care which her Highness now hath as heretofore she hath ever had to preserve her Kingdoms in Peace and Safety from all Foreign Attempts hath caused her at this present to assemble this honourable and great Council of her Realm to advise of the best and most needful means whereby to continue this her peaceable happy Government and to withstand the malice of her weighty and implacable Enemies which hitherto by the space of many years through her provident and Princely Wisdom hath been performed to the great and inestimable benefit of her Subjects as that the simplest amongst them could not but see and the wisest but admire their happiness therein the whole Realm enjoying Peace in all Security wherein our Neighbour Countries have been torn in pieces and tormented continually with cruel and bloody Wars This her Majesty is pleased to ascribe to the mighty Power and Infinite Mercy of the Almighty And therefore it shall well become us all of all sorts most thankfully upon the Knees of our Hearts to acknowledge no less unto his holy name who of his infinite goodness still preserves her Highness and send her many years over us all in Happiness to Reign In this her blessed Government her Highness chief care and regard above all hath been of the Honour and Service of Almighty God that true Religion might be planted and maintained in the hearts of her people through all the parts of her Realms and as well in that behalf as for the peace and benefits of her Subjects she hath from time to time established many good Laws to meet with the disorders and to punish the offences of wicked and ungodly men that continuing in their bad ways they might not be hardned and go forward in their wickedness For Mora in peccato dat incrementum sceleri And whereas the number of Laws already made is very great some of them being obsolete and worn out of use others idle and vain serving to no purpose some again over-heavy and too severe for the offence others too loose and slack for the faults they are to punish and many so full of difficulty to be understood that they cause many Controversies and much trouble to arise amongst the Subjects You are to enter into a due consideration of the Laws and where you find superfluity to prune and cut off where defect to supply and where ambiguity to explain that they be not burthensome but profitable to the Common-Wealth Which being a Service of importance and very needful to be required yet as nothing is to be regarded if due mean be not had to withstand the malice and the force of those professed Enemies which seek the destruction of the whole State this before and above all is to be thought of and with most endeavour and care to be provided for For in vain are Laws made and to little purpose will they serve be they never so good if such prevail as go about to make a Conquest of the Kingdom Wars heretofore were wont to be made either of Ambition to enlarge Dominions or of revenge to quit injuries But this against us is not so in this the Holy Religion of God is sought to be rooted out the whole Realm to be subdued and the precious life of her Excellent Majesty to be taken away Which hitherto by the powerful hand and great goodness of the Almighty hath been preserved mauger the Devil the Pope and the Spanish Tyrant and all the mischievous designs of all her Enemies Wherefore it is high time that this be looked unto and that no way be left unsought nor means unused which may serve for defence thereof Her Majesty hath not spared to disburse a Mass of Treasure and to sell her Land for maintenance of her Armies by Sea and Land whereby with such small helps as from her Subjects have been yielded she hath defended and kept safe her Dominions from all such forcible attempts as have been made Which being still to be performed by infinite charge her Majesty doth notwithstanding hear of nothing more unwillingly than of Aids and Subsidies to be returned from her people though what she doth receive she doth carefully bestow and infinitely more of her own The Taxations at this day howsoever they seem are nothing so great as heretofore in the Reign of former Kings they have been In the time of Edward the third the two next before him and those three which succeded after him the payments of the Commons did far exceed any that have been since her Majesties Reign which is of Record in Histories to be seen but never cause so great to imploy great sums of Money as now Now therefore you are to consider how to provide needful and convenient Aid in some measure to maintain and support her Majesties exceeding charge which at this present she is at and is to continue for the defence of the Realm He cannot be well advised who in this case will not be forward to contribute and bestow whatsoever he hath For if with the Common-wealth it go not well well it cannot be with any private or particular person that being in danger He that would seek to lay up Treasure and so inrich himself should be like to him that would busy himself to beautify his House when the City where he dwelleth were on fire or to deck up his Cabbin when the Ship wherein he saileth were ready to drown so as perish he must of necessity either with it or for it To spare in that Case is to spare for those which seek to devour all and to give is to give to our selves her Majesties part only being carefully to bestow what is delivered into her hands Wherein men performing their Duties there is no Cause at all to fear for this War is just

the Debts of Edward Fisher Esquire was after the second reading committed to the former Committees who were appointed on Tuesday the 15 th day of this instant December foregoing and Mr. Recorder was added unto them Vide February the 22 th Monday pojlea The second of the said Bills being for Hue and Cry was brought in again by the Committees somewhat amended and the amendments being twice read the Bill with the said amendments was ordered to be ingrossed and the third Bill touching Under-Sheriffs had its first reading Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Recorder were added to the former Committees for Sir Thomas Lucy's Bill Sir George Cary one of the Committees in the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster in the name of himself and the residue of the Committees brought in the Bill with some amendments Mr. Treasurer declared that he and the residue of this House which are of her Majesties Privy-Council did yesterday according to the charge of this House laid upon them recommend unto her Majesty the most humble dutiful and loyal thanks of this House for her Highnesses good nion conceived of this whole House and her loving and thankful acceptation of their Service which as he said her Majesty did take in most loving and good part so did he refer her Highness's further Answer therein to the report of M r Vice-Chamberlain being charged by her Majesty to deliver the same Speeches unto this House from her Highness Whereupon Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain standing up did very eloquently and very earnestly set forth her Majesties most Princely gracious and kind acceptation of the humble and most dutiful thankfulness of this House so presented unto her Highness to her right great and high satisfaction joy and comfort and declared withal that her Highness did for the same give most hearty and loving thanks unto this whole House yea and that in redoubling to them their thanks ten thousand thousand fold and so further very excellently amply and aptly shewed both the ready careful and obedient affections of this whole House to the dutiful service of her Majesty and also on the other side her Highness incomparable Princely accompt and regard of all such loyal loving and faithful Subjects and concluded that her Majesties pleasure was that this House should well know that in the consideration of the free course of the Gospel of Jesus Christ amongst us our long continued Peace and plenty of Gods good Blessings and Benefits bestowed upon us under the Ministry of her Highness her Majesty doth most sincerely ascribe all the same only and wholly to the great goodness and mercy of Almighty God attributing the cause of these good effects next under Gods Providence to the good demerits of so religious godly and obedient Subjects of whom how well and kindly her Majesty doth think and conceive her Highness had much rather have told them in her own most Royal Person than have signified it unto them by any other if it might have conveniently been so done as upon the opportunity of a Prorogation or Dissolution of this Court. And further declared that her Majesty having regard to the great charges and expences of their attendance in the service of this great Council of the Realm wisheth them at their next meeting again to bestow the time as much as may be in publick and general Actions fittest for the Common-Weal of this Realm and that with as little loss of time as may be And withal that those of this House towards the Law would join together to do their best endeavours to devise some good Laws to abridge and cut off the long tedious courses and extream chargeable Circuits and superfluous delays of Suits in Law not doubting but that in so doing God will bless their Wealth and good Estates both in themselves and in their Posterity And so having as he thought dutifully imparted unto them the sum and substance of her Majesties Pleasure and Message committed unto this House by him though not in such effectual and singular kind terms and forms as her Princely Wisdom delivered the same unto him and so referring himself to the residue of this House of her Majesties Council then and now present to be put in remembrance by them if he have omitted any part thereof and they affirming he had not he ended his Speech M r Doctor Ford and M r Doctor Barkeley did bring from the Lords the Bills amended in the indorsement which before were sent from this House unto them for that purpose after they had been first sent unto this House from their Lordships Nota That on Saturday the 19 th day of December last past the House of Commons taking exceptions at this last mentioned matter about indorsing of Bills in the upper parts of them whereas it ought to be done at the nether and lower part the Lords did very respectively both then and now take away their said grievance by the alteration of the indorsements aforesaid according to the usual and ancient form Mr. Treasurer touching the Petitions and grievances of this House drawn into some certainty of convenient particularities to be then afterwards moved by them unto the Lords by way of Petition and request unto their Lordships in the name of this whole House to join with this House in the considerations of the said Petitions and grievances and to exhibite unto her Majesty the humble suit of this House in that behalf shewed that he and the residue of the Committees according to the charge of this House unto them have sundry times met together and set down in writing such particular Contents of the said Petitions and griefs as they resolved to impart unto the Lords And further that having moved their Lordships already in the matter they have received Answer that when their Lordships have further considered and conferred thereof amongst themselves they will then send for the said Committees of this House to receive their Lordships Answer therein Vide concerning this business on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing Word was brought to Mr. Speaker by the Serjeant of this House that one at the Door was come from the higher House to require that the Committees of this House do presently repair unto their Lordships which done and signified unto this House by Mr. Speaker the said Committees went up presently unto their Lordships accordingly Mr. Sollicitor touching the returns of some Knights returned into this present Parliament and for some doubts and questions arising in this House upon the same and afterwards by this House referred unto him and M r Recorder of London for making of search of the returns of the Writs and Indentures thereof shewed that they can only find the cause of this question to arise upon the Election of Mr. Bevill and Mr. Darrington to be Knights for the County of Huntington which they are the rather confident of because none others attended them or came unto them in this matter but