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A54932 The good old cause of England revived and asserted with proposals humbly tendered to the consideration of the Parliament, in order to a setlement, security, and peace in this nation / by G.P. and divers other well affected persons. G. P. 1658 (1658) Wing P23; ESTC R38160 2,673 7

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THE Good Old CAUSE OF ENGLAND Revived and Asserted With Proposals humbly tendered to the Consideration of the PARLIAMENT In Order to a Setlement Security and Peace in This NATION By G. P. And divers other well affected Persons LONDON Printed by Thomas Leach at the Faulcon in Shoe-Lane 1658. The good old Cause of England Revived and Asserted with Proposals humbly tendered to the consideration of the Parliament In order to a Setlement Security and Peace in the Nation c.. THat the power of the former Committees for removing Malignants and Delinquants from Offices of Power and Trust in the Common-wealth being many years since determined 1. Many honest well-affected persons have been removed and left out of authority 2. Divers Malignants and ill-affected persons have crept into power as Judges Justices of the Peace Commissioners of the monthly Assessement c. by these means 1. Some by Marriages and Alliances 2. Others by the favour and countenance of Eminent Persons in authority for private ends 3. Many have intruded and insinuated themselves into the society and fellowship of the honest godly Congregations and by their false and deceitful demeanors have undiservedly acquired the good opinion and certificates of those godly harmless people who did not search into the bottom of their designs nor discovered that ugly shape covered with that outward vizard and meer formality of Religion denying the power thereof the better to conceal their evil purposes And by these wyles having crept into authority may prove the most dangerous Instruments in the Common-wealth For the most notorious Cavaliers and enemies of our peace would accept of places of honour power and profit from their enemies hands for these reasons ends 1. They are thereby in a better capacity to discover to the common enemy the honest designs and purposes of the well-affected people of the Nation 2. To serve countenance and protect their own malignant party and interest and to oppress and undermine the honest well-affected party 3. They being conscious of their own guilt and incapacity are the more ready to act arbitrarily at the will and pleasure of any person that shall be the means to recommend them to power and authority 4. And thereby bring the Government into contempt in the judgment and affections of the good people and all conducing to the introducing and re-investing of the common enemy and his party into power and authority in the Nations And the boldness of these subtle Cavaliers have been such That having procured themselves to be Elected by their malignant parties and interests in the Countries they had the confidence to sit in the great Council of the Nation whereby they are in a capacity to carry on their malignant designs and to challenge equal voices with those Eminent Members that have spent their blood and treasure to serve this Common-wealth and redeem it ●rom its former Slavery and Tyranny in order to that Glorious and Blessed Reformation so often promised vowed and protested to be wrought in these Nations And it pleased the Lord in a providential manner to point at and discover two of these notorious Cavaliers lately expelled the House But it is to be feared there may be many more of like guilt and principles that are left behind who may prove the grand obstructors of the blessed work of Reformation in all these three Nations for which so much blood and treasure hath in many years together been spilt which some persons that know will not and others dare not discover to the Parliament It is therefore humbly Proposed THat the Parliament will order that no Persons who have born arms for ayded or assisted the late King and his party in the late war against the Parliament or have been sequestred or voted delinquents do sit in Parliament within eight dayes after publication of such order upon paenalty of sequestration of their estates or such other fine and punishment as the Parliament shall think fit to appoint 1. And by this means those that know themselves to be guilty will immediately withdraw without the trouble of charges and examination of witnesses 2. That a standing Committee be appointed by Parliament from time to time to receive all complaints against all Malignants Delinquents and ill-affected persons for bearing Offices contrary to the several Acts Orders Ordinances and Declarations of Parliaments with power to impose Fines and Imprisonments on the offenders in case they hold or exercise their offices after publication made to the contrary And that the same Committee may have power to send for persons papers and witnesses to examine witnesses on oath and to grant Commissions to the respective Counties from whence such complaints are made and where the witnesses reside And that the one half of the Fines may be payed into the publick Treasury and the other to go to the Prosecutor And lest this proposition may seem to some unreasonable It is thought fit herein to insert several Resolves of the late Long Parliament tending to the purpose aforesaid Die Veneris 9. Julii 1647. REsolved That no person that hath been in actual Wars against the Parliament or hath acted by the Commission of Array or voluntarily aided the King in this War against the Parliament or that since the twentieth of May in the year 1642. hath sued for or voluntarily accepted a pardon from the King or hath directed advised assisted signed or consented unto the Cessation of Ireland or otherwise assisted the Rebellion of Ireland or stands sequestred by authority of Parliament for Delinquency shall presume to sit in this House Resolved That the persons that shall be comprehended within this Order shall incurre the penalty of being put into the second branch of the fourth Qualification in the Propositions concerning such Members as deserted the Parliament and sate in the unlawful Assembly at Oxon. Resolved That such Members as are in Town or within ten miles of the City of London as shall conceive themselves concerned in this Order shall have liberty to present their Case to the House under their hand in writing before Thursday next Resolved That this be added to the last Vote That if any of the Members to whom the liberty of twenty dayes is granted shall come to the House within the said space of twenty dayes shall have four dayes liberty only within the said former twenty dayes to present their Case under their hand in writing to the House John Smith Clerk of the Parliament to attend the Commons Die Jovis 15. Julii 1647. REsolved That this House doth declare That such Members of this House as have delivered in their particular Cases and as shall within four dayes present their Cases in reference to the Votes concerning such Members as are not to sit in this House shall not incurre any further danger or penalty other than their being disabled to sit as Members of Parliament Resolved That those Members to whom Liberty of twenty dayes was given by former order to present their Cases and shall according to the said Order present their Cases shall incurre no further penalty upon any of their Cases then being disabled to sit as Members of Parliament The state of the several Cases of John Doyley and Bennet Hoskìns Esqs Sir Philip Percival Thomas Cholmeley and Thomas Dacres Esq were all of them this day read and ordered That they be referred to the Committee where Mr. John Corbet hath the Chair and the Committee hath power to conferre with and examine the Gentlemen respectively upon their several Cases and concerning any other thing comprehended within the Votes whereupon their Papers were brought in and upon all circumstances and thereupon to ascertaine their several Cases and report the same to the House John Smith Clerk of the Parliament to attend the Commons Observe that these Gentlemen withdrew and did not sit in that Parliament