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A43552	A short view of the life and reign of King Charles (the second monarch of Great Britain) from his birth to his burial.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1735B; ESTC R213444	52,561	166

thundred out their Anathemaes not onely against such as should dare to levie it but those also who should willingly pay it The news of which riotous proceeding being brought immediately to the King he sent his Band of Pensioners accompanied by his ordinary Guard to force open the doors and going himself to the House of Peers he dissolved the Parliament not having continued in that Session above forty dayes At the end of the former Session he had admitted Sir John Savill of Yorkshire a busie man in the House of Commons but otherwise a politique and prudent person to be one of his Privy Council created him Lord Savill of Ponfract and made him Comptroller of his Houshold in the place of Sir John Suckling deceased And a little before the beginning of the following Session he took into his Council Sir Thomas wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse in the same County whom be created Viscount Wentworth and made Lord President of the North and within two years after Lord Deputy of Ireland also A man he was of prodigious Parts which he made use of at the first in favour of the Popular Faction But being gained unto the King by Sir Ri. Weston then Chancellour of the Exchequer afterwards Lord Treasurer and Earl of Portland he became the most devout friend of the Church the greatest Zelot for advancing Monarchichall Interesse and the ablest Minister of State which our Histories have afforded to us On the judgement of these two his Majesty did much rely in Civil matters as he did on the advice of Doctor Neile then Bishop of Durham and Doctor Laud then Bishop of Bath and Wells in matters which concerned the Church These last he had called unto his Council in the beginning of April 1627. and finding them to be of as great abilities to advise as sincere affections to his person he advanced the first to the See of Winchester and afterwards to the Archbishoprick of York Anno 1631. the second to the See of London and from thence to Canterbury Anno 1633. 1629. But whilest it was such hot weather at home it grew cold abroad the breach betwixt him and France being closed up at the same time by the prudent and seasonable intervention of the State of Venice And not long after he concluded a Peace also with the King of Spain all things being left on both sides in the same condition in which they were before the war but that the Spaniard did ingage that he would make use of all his Interest with the Emperour for restoring the Prince Elector Pa●●●ine to his lost Estate And now the King having thrown away his Crutches which had as often deceived him as he trusted to them he began to stand on his own legs and in short time became more considerable in the eyes of the world then any of his Predecessors The Spaniard sent hither yearly in English Bottoms no lesse then six hundred thousand Crowns in Bullion for the use of his Army in the Netherlands redounding very much to the Kings benefit in the coinage and no lesse to the profit of the Merchants also most of the money being returned into Flanders in Leather Cloth Lead Tinne and other the manufactures and Native Commodities of this Kingdome The Dutch and Easterlings looke upon London as the safest Bank not onely to lodge but increase their Treasure so that in short time the greatest part of the Trade of Christendom was driven up the Thames 1630. To make him yet more estimable in the sight of his People God blest him with a Son the presumptive Heir of his Dominions on the twenty ninth of May Anno 1630. and seconded that blessing with the birth of a Daughter on the fourth of November in the next year after as afterwards with a plentifull issue of both Sexes 1633. Nor did he meet with any check in his Prosperity till the year 1633. at what time the Coles of Faction and Sedition which seemed for some years to have been raked up in the ashes of contentment kindled the next combustible matter and brake forth again to the inflaming of both Kingdoms Scotland burneth first and takes fire on this occasion In the minority of King James the Lands of all Cathedrall Churches and Religious Houses which had been setled on the Crown by Act of Parliament were shared amongst the Lords and great men of that Kingdome by the connivence of the Earl of Murray and some other of the Regents to make them sure unto the side And they being thus possessed of the said Lands with the Regalities and Tithes belonging to those Ecclesiasticall Corporations Lorded it with pride and insolence enough i● their severall Territories holding the Clergy to small stipends and the poor Paisant under a miserable vassalage and subjection to them King Charles ingaged in War at his first coming to the Crown and having little aid from thence for the maintenance of it by the advice of his Council of that Kingdome was put upon a course of resuming those Lands Tithes and Regalities into his own hands to which the present Occupants could pretend no other Title then the unjust usurpation of their Ancestors This he endeavoured first by an Act of Revocation but that course not being like to speed he followed it in the way of a legal processe which drew on the Commission for surrendering of Superiorities and Tithes to be retaken from the King on such conditions as might bring some profit to the Crowne some Augmentation to the Clergy and far more ease and benefit to the common people But these proud Scots chuse rather to expose their Countrey to the danger of a publick Ruine then to part with any of that power it might be called a Tyranny rather which they had exercised on their Vassals as they commonly called them and thereupon conspired together to oppose the King in any thing that should be offered in the following Parliament which had relation to the Church or to Church-affaires But because Religion and the care thereof is commonly the best bait to catch the vulgar they must find out some other means to divert the King from the prosecuting of that Commission then the consideration of their own personall and private interesse and they found means to do it on another occasion which was briefly this King James from his first coming to this Crown had a design to bring the Kirk of Scotland to an uniformity with the Church of England both in government and forms of worship And he proceeded so far as to settle Episcopacy amongst them naming thirteen new Bishops for so many Episcopal Sees as had been anciently in that Church three of which received Consecration from the Bishops of England and conferred it on the rest of their Brethren at their coming home Which Bishops he armed also with the power of an High Commission the better to keep down the insolent and domineering Spirit of the Presbyterians In order to the other he procured an Act to be passed

the French Lords might see with what Royall Magnificence he was attended by the Peers Prelates and other Officers of State besides his own Domestick Servants to the Parliament-House At their first meeting he put them in mind of the War in which they had ingaged his Father and of the promise they had made to stand to him in it with their lives and fortunes that both his Land and Sea-forces were now in readinesse to set forwards and that there wanted nothing but a present supply of money to quicken and expedite the Affair In Answer whereunto the Commons past a Bill of two Subsidies onely so short of the excessive Charge which the maintenance of so great a Fleet and Army required at their hands that being distributed amongst the Officers Souldiers and Mariners it would scarce have served for Advance-money to send them going Which notwithstanding the King very graciously accepted of it taking it as an Ernest of their good Affections in reference to the greater Summes which were to follow But the Plague growing hot in London the Parliament on the eleventh day of July was adjourned to Oxford there to be held on the first of August at what time the King put them in mind again of the necessity of setting forward his Fleet and that the eyes of his Confederates were fixt upon it But the Commons had other fish to fry and began to quarrel at the greatnesse of the Duke of Buckingham whom in the last Parliament of King James they had idolized above all men living But he had served their turn already and now they meant to serve their own This was the first Assault which the Commons made upon this King though not directly on his Person wounding him through the sides of his principal Minister they were so well verst in the Arts of a Parliament-war as to take in the Out-works first that so the Fort it self might lie the more open to continuall Batteries Concerning which and the sad consequents thereof take here the words of a Letter written to the King from an unknown Person These men saith he either cannot or will not remember that never any Noble man in favour with his Soveraign was questioned in Parliament except by the King himself in case of Treason or unlesse it were in the Nonage and tumultuous time of Richard the 2. Henry the 6. or Edward the 6. which hapned to the destruction both of the King and Kingdome And that not to exceed our own and Fathers Memories in King Henry the eight's time Wolsies exorbitant power and pride and Cromwels contempt of the Nobility and the Lawes were not yet permitted to be discussed in Parliament though they were most odious and grievous to all the Kingdome And that Leicesters undeserved favour and faults Hattons insufficiency and Rawleighs insolence far exceeded what yet hath been though most falsly objected against the Duke yet no Lawyer durst abet nor any man else begin any invectives against them in Parliament And then he addes some other passages intervening that it behoves his Majesty to uphold the Duke against them who if he be but decourted it will be the corner-stone on which the demolishing of his Monarchy will be builded For if they prevaile with this they have hatched a thousand other Demands to pull the feathers of the Royalty they will appoint him Counsellours Servants Alliances Limits of his Expenses Accompts of his Revenue chiefly if they can as they mainly desire they will now dazle him in the beginning of his Reign How true a Prophet this man proved the event hath shewn and the King saw it well enough and therefore since he could not divert them from that pursuit he dissolved the Parliament by whose neglect I will not call it a perversenesse the Fleet went out late and returned unprosperously In which conjuncture if he had clapt up a Peace with Spain which the Spaniards had as much reason to accept as he to offer he might have prevented the following Rupture betwixt him and France and freed himself from the necessity of calling Parliaments till he had no necessity for a Parliament to work upon and then he might have found them as pliant to him as he could reasonably require But he resolves to try his fortune in another as soon as he had performed the Solemnities of his Coronation which was celebrated on the second of February commonly called Candlemas Day then next ensuing In the externall Pomp whereof he omitted his triumphant riding thorow the City from the Tower to White-Hall the Charge whereof would have stood him in sixty thousand pounds as some compute it and he had then more necessary occasions to expend his money then Money to answer those occasions In the sacred part of it there was nothing altered but the adding of a clause to one of the Prayers which had been pretermitted since the time of King Henry the sixth and is this that followeth viz. Let him obtain favour for the People like Aaron in the Tabernacle Elisha in the Waters Zacharias in the Temple give him Peters key of Discipline Pauls Doctrine Which clause had been omitted in time of Popery as intimating more Ecclesiasticall jurisdiction to be given to our Kings then the Popes allowed of and for the same reason was now quarrel'd by the Puritan Faction As for the Coronation-oath it was the same which had been taken by his Predecessors as appears by the Records of Exchequer Not made more advantageous to the King and lesse beneficiall to the People by the late Archbishop though both the long Parliament in the year 1642. and the lewd Pamphlets of that time did object the contrary The Coronation being passed over he began his second Parliament on the sixth of the same moneth in which he sped no better then he did in his first The Commons voted some Subsidies to be granted to him but they never past them into Act that bait being onely laid before him to tempt him to give over the Duke to their pride and fury against whom they had framed a large impeachment ushered in by Sir Dudley Diggs prosecuted with six bitter invectives made by the best Speakers and most learned Lawyers of that House and finally concluded by Sir John Eliot who brought up the Rear 1626. But the King easily perceived that his Royal Father and himself were as much concerned in it as the Duke their favours being made his crimes and their authority in bestowing Offices and Honours on whom they pleased not obscurely questioned But the storm went higher then the Duke some part of it falling down-right on the King himself it being openly affirmed in the House of Commons by one Mr. Coke a true chip of the old block that it was as good to die by a forraign Enemy as to be destroyed at home Of this reproach tending so much to the dishonour of his Government he complained in a Speech before both Houses but without any remedy And being further incensed by the