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A48040 A Letter from an absent lord to one of his friends in the convention 1689 (1689) Wing L1442; ESTC R43389 8,759 4

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those who have hurried your Convention into such Extremities as Rebels insensible of Religion or Law and that as excusable as many honest dissenting Men among the Commons may be the rest will not be reckoned among the true Children of the Church of England nor of her Communion I am thinking to write of this matter to a Bishop a Learned and an Honest Man tho I believe I know his mind by my own before hand If the Yeas among you alleadged reasons of weight enough to silence all the scruples which the Case must needs raise you will much oblige me to acquaint me with them For I declare to you that as little as I pretend to Learning I fancy I am Schollar enough to be pretty well assured there was none to be alleadged able to satisfy a Man who has never so little smack of the Duty of Christianity but strangely persuade my self there Votes were grounded upon the detestable maximes of Doleman and Buchanan Knox Goodwin Milton and such Presbyterian Saints whose Books as often as they have been forbidden and condemned by the Parliaments and Church of England I expect should now be Re-printed by order of the Convention not that I believe the leading Gentlemen troubled themselves at this time much with scruples There is no better remedy against the Disease than that Fanatical spirit which was predominant in your Assembly chiefly in the House of Commons made up for the most part of Non-Conformist Presbyterians who by the Laws of Q. Elizabeth and later Statutes ought to have been excluded But let your new King alone for that matter let him once be but steady in his Throne he will quickly bring in more Christian Principles among you Tho my Lords the Bishops I am persuaded will be the first Reformed according to the primitive Apostolick Pattern and being eased of the heavy load of useless Riches and worldly Honours reduced according to my Lord Shaftsbury's wish to a Pension of bare 100 l. per Annum some of them to my grief deserve it but too well and if I should resolve to make one amongst you I will not answer I shall Vote against it But I declare to you I shall concur in nothing else and it shall be no fault of mine if those Lords with whom I have any credit joyn not to undoe all you have done as soon as the Nation which I hope it quickly will shall open its Eyes and become sensible of the infamy which your Convention has thrown upon it The truth is there need no meeting for the matter For that were to suppose some Authority in what you have done whereas it has none and is every way extravagant You must needs have lost your Wits if you imagine we shall ever take the Votes of your Houses for Laws You will know that England acknowledges no other Law but those which are made by Lawful Authority that is by the King in Parliament Search all Parliaments search all Court-Rolls there are no other to be found I appeal to the very Lawyers who after they had been of Councel to all the Seditious Men and Conspirators of late times were chosen to be yours These Famous Lawyers and you your selves know that no Authority but the King 's alone can call the Peers and Commons together and you acknowledg'd it by not daring at first to take the Name of Parliament upon you You are therefore Convened by the bare Authority of the Prince of Orange and that Authority you gave him tho' you had none to give him Put case you had he was incapable either to receive or exercise it For having enter'd the Kingdom in Arms Declared against the King and attempted upon His Sacred Person and Liberty he incurred the Crime of High Treason and forfeited all his Rights Honours and Prerogatives in case he be a Subject If he be not he is a publick Enemy and against whom the Nation is bound to stand by the King and not to obey him under pain of High Treason And yet this is the Authority by which you sit and which by your own confession cannot make an Assembly such as our Laws call a Parliament And yet this notwithstanding your Convention which stretch its Power to the utmost cannot pretend to more than Parliament Power has done what no Lawful Parliament ever durst do Judge their King Declar'd His forc'd Retreat to be an Abdication of the Government and the Throne Vacant and finally dispos'd of it to the use of P. of Orange I beseech you send me word what Presidents your Learned Councel brought for these Resolves Those of the Spencers and other Traytors of those times or those of Cromwel I know none else who maintained that as often as a King Governs not according to Law his Subjects may take Arms and compel him to it But you know all Parliaments have placed this case amongst Crimes of High Treason The truth is you have bethought your selves of a subtile expedient which I expect should be clapt for a colour upon your Proceedings viz. that you did not vacate the Throne but only fill'd it when it was vacant But in good faith this is to top upon a whole Nation with your false distinctions In virtue of what Law I beseech you could you declare the Throne vacant can a parcel of Seditious Men met at the tumultuous call of an Usurper give sentence in such a cause Is the Kingdom of England Elective and is there any uncontested President to be found which Authorizes the People to dispose of the Crown or declare it Vacant can an Heriditary Kingdom become Vacant otherwise than by the Death of the Lawful Occupant This way perhaps your new King might have made it Vacant but tho' it were is there no Heir The Prince of Wales for whose Birth all England and the Prince of Orange himself so solemnly Congratulated with his Father is He no longer in the World And is He not considerable enough to be thought of His age is not capable of breaking the Original Contract which you have fancy'd between King and People and therefore the Throne if it be Vacant must belong to Him. I know the Prince of Orange would make a Counterfeit of Him and this becomes his Conscience But tell me in yours whether all these impotently malicious surmises which are spread by his Emissa●ys be not palpably shameful So shameful that he has not yet ventur'd to press you as great an Influence as he has among you to come to a Declaration in that point It is reserved it seems to your Parliament in which Oates and his Brethren of the Post will swear some mishappen Oath for Burnet to lick over and you upon their credit enact him suppositions in virtue of some new Law which shall reach backwards as That the Queens of England to purpose shall be no where validly Delivered but in the Banquetting-House both Houses of Parliament present I will say nothing of your Grievances as much more cry than