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A34135 The Common interest of king & kingdom in this confus'd conjuncture, truly stated, and to consist in the speedy calling of a free Parliament 1688 (1688) Wing C5569; ESTC R20729 6,362 10

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this so Powerful Prince as certainly it will if he designs the least Alt●●ation of Government or any Injury to the Crown much more to the Person of the King its Resolutions would soon make him find a Force within those Walls to transcend even that he has in the Field and even those he has there as soon to forsake him This is no piec●●●●eculation in Politicks but what the event will as certainly prove to be Matter of Fact if Futurity can have any relation to what is past if we 'll only believe with our Ears what our Eyes have seen● if the Relating Presidents be any probable Proof of a things possibility I can give some instances where Parliaments have helpt to oppose even the Violence of Arms which tho' they use to silence Laws such Laws at any time may here turn to flight an Army of the Aliens It was a Parliaments pure Interest with the People that had Power enough upon the Restoration of the late King to Disband all the Forces then tho' much more formidable than what are now afoot and under such an Engagement that their Oaths as well as their Interest had oblig'd all the Officers of that Army never to forsake one another or suffer themselves to be Disbanded and that when Religion was as much the cause and they had Sworn to fight the Battels of the Lord whereas the Princes Promises here supersede the pains of such a proof declare he 'll never bring it to that Extremitv but send away of his own accord all his Forreign Troops assoon as this Parliament shall be call'd and I am sure 't is his Interest to be as good as his Word For another Instance That Votes of Parliament are sometimes as good as Canon proof and it is that more modern Experience we had of their efficacy in Influencing the People upon Monmouth's Rebellion I am sure His Majesty found no little benefit then from their Sitting their Attaindure and setting so much upon his Head did not a little help to bring it in and kept numbers out that otherwise would have made his Army much more formidable and tho' the King's Forces had then the Good Luck to Defeat them yet I crave leave to observe that the Army Conquer'd by chance but the Parliament by Deliberation To this Parliament and what should endear it the more to all Men to the very same Persons that compos'd it who for the most part will certainly be return'd are all Matters on all sides agreed to be refer'd the Prince Declares for it the Lords Petition for it and the King as passionately desires for it and what then for God sake should hinder the calling for it if it be answer'd that the Evil Counsellors whom the Prince so Criminates only oppose its Sitting I will satisfie them it is not their Interest so to do they being already made so Obnoxious if they have not made themselves so will by opposing this the general desire only incense the People more make them to be believ'd Guilty of all those Crimes for which they stand accus'd some of which perhaps they are Innocent of and will have a fair opportunity when it is assembled to clear themselves from I have observ'd upon several of our Revolutions that nothing has made our Ministers of State more odious than their being thought guilty of putting off Parliaments that occasion'd the Act in Ed. 3. for their Sitting once a year at least that the Triennial in Car. 1. that at last the unhappy and Perpetual one in the same Reign that was made Matter of Impeachment in Rich. 2d's Reign that was one of the Articles that cost Strafford his Head in Car. 1 that was the Clamour of all the Discontented Party in Car. 2. And since its Sitting now is so generally desir'd and the King's Safety and the Peoples Peace seem to depend upon it the Nations resentment will certainly fall more heavy upon their Heads that are thought to have oppos'd it and aggravate those Crimes of which they only may be mistrusted insomuch that I seriously profess were I a Publick Minister that was certainly design'd for a Publick Sacrifice for the King's sake for the Peoples satisfaction and for the only Expedient to divert somewhat of that Odium I lay under I would zealously be concern'd for its Sitting tho' I were sure to suffer when it Sate Neither can I see what His Majesty can reasonably fear at present from such a Loyal Assembly's being legally conven'd they will certainly and of which I am in my Conscience perswaded resolve to retain to themselves all the Liberty of Debate since they 'll be now more than ever disingaged from any Merit they may expect from Compliance and Obedience they 'll be so far from being Influenc'd by the Prince of O. or his Army from being free that the first thing they 'll consider will be the Establishing of the King's Throne which no confidence can deny but that the Persons who will compose it have always been ready to support they 'll confirm that Establish'd Religion which the King has so often promis'd to maintain And to come to the only two tender Points that some People will think can touch the King or the Court or what has occasion'd much perhaps this Attempt of the Prince of O. and his States They 'll be the best Arbitrators in the Birth of our Prince of Wales And the greatest Opposers of the Growth of the King of France In both these Points with all submission I did ever conceive and shall now as humbly shew It is His Majesty's Interest to admit them to be Judges First he cannot have better Judges of a Royal Discent and a right Line than those that so Loyally maintain'd his own against so much Opposition and who must be as much engag'd to maintain it in his Lawful Issue as ever they did in his own Person and Blood the perpetuating of this Line and the Derivation of this Blood depends in all probability upon an Heir Male and a Prince of Wal●s of whose Birth when once they are satisfy'd they 'll certainly be the best of Asserters To this very Parliament the Prince of O. has fairly even in this very Point Appeal'd and so by his own Act concluded himself So that if this Legitimacy which he Questions should by them be affirm'd he must and will acquiesce and His Majesty can desire nothing more than such an affirmation now there are probable reasons to induce us to believe that this Parliament may affirm this Son to be his which the King with a great many Witnesses has aver'd to be His own No Man can Condemn the Prince of O. for doubting it since it concerns himself and especially his Consort so near but it may be observ'd That when his Declaration was penn'd as himself there says tho' many People doubted of the Queen's Bigness and the Birth of the Child there was not any one thing done to satisfie them or to put an end
to their Doubts so that we cannot tell how far the Prince now may be satisfy'd himself or a Parliament think it satisfactory since so much has been done of late in the Council Chamber as may perhaps give the great Council of the Nation much of satisfaction and they that stood up so stoutly for the Succession of the Duke of ●ork may not be so soon brought to disinherit a Prince of Wales Secondly what concerns the Growth of France I always thought must very much affect England and none sure then so proper to Judge of the Nations safety as those who are sent to be her Peoples Representatives 'T is certain or at least very probable that the same Justice by which he detains Lorrain and has seiz'd the Palatinate the same power by which he defies all the Electoral Princes and all the Forces of the Emperor will one time warrant him to claim Holland as one of the Appendancies to his Pays Conqui de Flandre and the Chamber of Metz can alway give even faster than he Conquers and then perhaps it may be too late for England to look about for her self and 't is plain 't is for this reason the Dutch ' tho I believe truly in the first place for their own Preservation would now engage the English into a War with the French and tho' that I think too would have been more honestly done if it could have been compast without force of Arms and to be wisht the P. might have had no need of his 'T is granted on all sides that the King is the sole Arbitrator of War and Peace But yet it has been as constant a Practise in Parliament to move the King to the one and encline him to the other and to offer one thing more it is known that their Growth of France and our Growth of Popery has for above this Ten Years been so beaten into peoples Heads to be the same thing that nothing almost but a Breach with that Crown can make them think well of our Court and I think that has broke with us and made already a War if we are any thing concern'd in a late famous Peace and 't is but with an ill Grace that this French Declaration reminds the Dutch of the Treaty of Nimmeguen which by their Invading the Palatinate they first took care to violate I am not infatuated with those Foolish Fears that affect the Vulgar no more afraid at present of the French Army here than the Spanish Pilgrims but will not promise for futurity should their Growth meet with no opposition and unless it be Religion I could never apprehend what should encline our Ministers so much to that Government since that very thing has created so many Disturbances in our own much less should it influence the King or the Court at this time since the only season to recover some of that Kingdom of which His Majesty's Ancestors were once possess'd in another Field than that of a Coat of Arms. These I think are the chief things that will come before this Parliament of which they 'll bethe most Competent Judges even to the Composing of the Distractions between King and People and this Parliament will be more conveniently now call'd than ever since nothing less than that Convention can Compose them and therefore those rude Reflections in a Late imprudent paper that were so uncharitably made upon the Worthy Lords that so conscientiously Petition'd for it were very unseasonably very unadvisedly set forth especially since it appear'd His Majesty was pleased to receive it so Graciously as to tell them he passionately desir'd it and since all sides after so much Alteration seem now to agree in this one thing necessary may it answer too the expectation of all may their moderation be known to all Men may People be surpris'd to see their prudent Administrations and that this Revolution alone is that which will not run into Extreams Lastly May the King's Enemies be cloathed with shame but upon his Head let his Crown flourish FINIS LONDON Printed by T. M. 1688.