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A29579	A Speech made by the Right Honorable Iohn, Earl of Bristoll, in the high court of Parliament, May 20. 1642 concerning an accommodation : whereunto is added, the copy of a letter sent from the Right Honourable, the Lord Paget, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Buckingham, to the Right Honourable the Earl of Holland, shewing the great readinesse of that county, to obey the ordinance of the Parliament touching the militia.	Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654.; Paget, William Paget, Baron, 1609-1678.; Holland, Henry Rich, Earl of, 1590-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4796; ESTC R1282	6,551	8

A SPEECH Made by the RIGHT HONORABLE IOHN Earl of BRISTOLL IN THE HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT May 20. 1642. Concerning an ACCOMMODATION Whereunto is added THE COPY OF A LETTER Sent from the Right Honorable the Lord PAGET Lord Lieutenant of the County of Buckingham to the Right Honorable the Earl of Holland shewing the great readinesse of that County to obey the Ordinance of the Parliament touching the MILITIA LONDON Printed for W. G. 1642. A SPEECH made by the Right Honorable IOHN Earl of Bristoll in the high Court of Parliament May 20. 1642. MY LORDS I Have spoken so often upon the subject of Accommodation with so little acceptance and with so ill successe that it was in my intention not to have made any further assay in this kind but my zeale to the peace and happinesse of this Kingdom and my apprehensions of the neere approaching of our unspeakable miseries and calamities suffer me not to be master of mine own resolutions Certainly this Kingdome hath at all times many advantages over the other Monarchies of Europe As of Scituation of plenty of rich commodities of Power both by Sea and Land But more particularly at this time when all our neigbouring States are by their severall interests so involved in warre and with such equalitie of power that there is not much likelyhood of their mastering one another nor of having their differences easily compounded And whereby we being only admitted to all trades and to all places Wealth and Plenty which ever follow where trade flourisheth are in a manner cast upon us I shall not trouble your Lordships by putting you in mind of the great and noble undertakings of your Ancestors Nor shall I passe higher then the times within mine own remembrance Queen Elizabeth was a Princesse disadvantaged by her Sex by her age and chiefly by her want of Issue yet if we shall consider the great effects which were wrought upon most of the States of Christendome by this Nation under her prudent government The growth of the Monarchy of Spain chiefly by her impeached The United Provinces by her protected The French in their greatest miseries relieved Most of the Princes of Germany kept in high respect and reverence towards her and this Kingdome and the peace and tranquilitie wherein this Kingdome flourished and which hath bin continued down unto us by the peaceable government of King Iames of blessed memory and of his now Majestie untill these late unhappy interruptions We cannot but judge this Nation equally capable with any other of Honour Happinesse and plentie Now if in stead of this happy condition in which we have been and might be upon a sober and impartiall inquirie we shall find our selves to have bin for some few yeares last past involved in so many troubles and distractions and at the present to be reduced to the very brink of miseries and calamities It is high time for us to consider by what means we have been brought into them and by what means it is most probable we may be brought out of them This Kingdome never injoyed so universall a peace neither hath it any visible enemy in the world either Infidell or Christian Our Enemies are only of our own house such as our own dissentions jealousies distractions have raised up And certainly where they are found especialy betwixt a King and his people no other cause of the unhappinesse and misery of a State need to be sought after For civill discord is a plentifull Sourse from whence all miseries and mischiefes flow into a Kingdome The Scripture telleth us of the strength of a little City united and of the instabilitie of a Kingdome divided within it selfe So that upon a pruden● inquirie we may assigne our own jelousies and discords for the chief caus● of our past and present troubles and of our future feares It must be confessed that by the counsell and conduct of evil Ministers th● the Subject had cause to thinke their just liberties invaded And from thence have our former distempers growne For it is in the body politique of a Monarchie as in another Naturall body the health whereof is defined to be Partium Corporis aequa temperies an equall temper of the parts So likewise a State is well in health and well disposed when Soveraigne powers and common right are equally ballanced and kept in an even temper by just and equitable rules And truly My Lords by the goodnesse of his Majestie and by the prudent endeavour of the Parliament this State is almost reduced to that equall and even temper and our sicknesse is rather continued out of fancie and conceipt I meane feares and jealousies then out of any reall distemper or defect I well remember That before the begining of this Parliament some Noble Lords presented a Petition unto the King and in that Petition did set down all or most of the grievances and distempers of the Kingdome which occurred to them To these as I concieve the Parliament have procured from his Majestie such redresses as are to their good satisfaction Many other things for the ease security and comfort of the subject have been by their great industrie found and propounded and by his Majesties goodnesse condescended unto And now we are come so neere the happinesse of being the most free and most setled Nation in the Christian world Our dangers and miseries will grow greater and neerer unto us every day th●n other if they be not prevented The King on his part offereth to concurre with us in the setling of all the liberties and immunities either for the proprietie of our goods or libertie of our persons which we have received from our auncestors or which himselfe hath granted unto us And what shall yet remain for the good and comfort of his Subiects He is willing to hearken to our just and reasonable proportions And for the establishing of the true Protestant Religion he wooes us to it And the wisdom and industrie of the Parliament hath now put it in a hopefull way The rule of this government he professeth shall be The Laws of the Kingdom And for the comforting and securing of us he offereth a more large and more generall pardon then hath been granted by any of his Predecessors And truly My Lords This is all that ever was or can be pretended unto by us We on the other side make profession That we intend to make his Majestie a glorious King To indeavour to support his dignitie and to pay unto him that duty and Obedience which by our Allegeance severall Oathes and late Protestation we owe unto him and to maintain all his just Regalities and Prerogatives which I conceive to be as much as his Majestie will expect from us So that My Lords we being both thus reciprocally agreed of that which in the generall would make both the King and people happy shall be most unfortunate if we shall not bring both inclinations and indeavours so to propound and setle particulars as