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A96999 The remonstrance of the Commons of England, to the House of Commons assembled in Parliament Preferred to them by the hands of the speaker. Walker, Henry, fl. 1643. 1643 (1643) Wing W382E; ESTC R225914 7,953 8

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THE REMONSTRANCE OF THE COMMONS OF ENGLAND TO THE House of Commons assembled in Parliament Preferred to them by the hands of the SPEAKER Mr. SPEAKER PRejudge us not we pray you because the title of this paper is a Remonstrance not a Petition the cause is for that Petitions have had ill successe of late yet the matter will be the same though the form differ We send this whatsoever ye will call it to the Honourable House of Commons who are the representative body of the whole Commons of England and we desire to present it by you who are the Speaker of that House The end of our desire is Peace and we hope we shall not erre in the way when we entreat you to be Mediatour Master Speaker all that we desire of you is to deliver this to the House to procure it to be read and to obtain us as good an answer unto it as you may And now we addresse our selves to the honourable House it self WHen this Parliament was called after severall unhappy breaches of some former we comforted our selves with an hope of a redresse of all our grievances and we made choice of you for our Knights Citizens and Burgesses to serve for us and we did put our confidence in you and beleeved that you according to our trust without any by-respects would have studied onely the peace and good of the Kingdome and we cannot be yet out of hope but that ye will perform it in the end But you must not take it amisse if as persons grieved we tell you where our griefs lie And to prepare our Cure the better we must desire you to call to your remembrances 1 That we are still the true body of the Commons of England you but the representative 2 That we have not so delegated the power to you as to 〈…〉 the governours of us and our estates you are in truth but our p … s to speak for us in that great Councell 3. That in right we ought to have accesse to those whom we have thus chosen and to the whole House as there shall be eause to impart our desires unto you and you ought not to refuse us 4. That by involving our votes in yours we had no purpose to make you perpetuall Dictators 5. That we never intended that you should have that latitude of power as to imbarke us all in a Civill Warre to the destruction of us and our posterities 6. Much lesse had we a thought that by any your votes ye would or could draw us in to any Acts of disloyalty or disobedience against our naturall Leige Lord to whom by the lawes of God and man we do owe and will pay all allegiance and fidelity Wherefore we must claim this freedome which belongs unto us as free-born Subjects and as persons interessed in the good and safety of this Kingdom as well as your selves that ye will speedily take those things into your wise and religious considerations which belong to our peace and which we out of the deep sense of our present miseries and of the apparent ruine of us all if not timely prevented do now offer unto you None of which shall be any new fancies or dreams of distempered brains but shal be such as have their grounds on apparent truth a cleer evidence For first we do professe to all the world that we are resolved with our lives and fortunes to maintain the true Protestant Religion established by the Laws in this Church of England To maintain our well setled Government under a Monarchy according to the known laws of this land To maintain the just liberty of our persons and property of our Estates according to the Rule of those Lawes To maintain the just priviledges of Parliament without which our Laws can hardly be continued And in the asserting of these we beleeve we have the concurrence of both the Houses of Parliament for such have been their daily Protestation And for the Kings Majesties Opinion herein he hath by many Declarations solemn protestations and religious vows before God and man declared himself so fully and freely that it is his unchangeable Resolution to live and die in the maintainance of all these that we hold our selves bounden in reverence to his person and in Christianity to beleeve that he will faithfully perform his word with his people And we have this further assurance thereof in that he hath descended so low from his throne as to acknowledge some errors which have slipt him in his bypast goverment to undertake not to give way to the like hereafter We wish with all our hearts that you would with the same ingenuity acknowledg your errors also amend them so we might soon by Gods blessing have our peace restored by your industries be made a happy Nation Let us then cleerly and freely expresse in what things we find our selves grieved which have been voted ordered and acted by you during this Parliament wherby the cure intended is become worse then the diseases under which we formerly languished we must with as much cleanness and freedom protest against them if they be not speedily reformed and remedied The particulars are these 1. That under the colour of advancing the true Protestant Religion incouragement is given to Anabaptists Brownists and all manner of Sectaries which multiply in every Corner which must be reformed or our true Religion is lost 2. Vnder the pretence of hatred of Popery which we also detest as far as their superstitious and idolatrous tenets are inconsistent with the true reformed Protestant Religion the Booke of Comm-prayer which is established by Law is cried down by many and all decent orders in Gods outward worship and every man left to the dictate of his own private spirit But let the Laws against Papists and Sectaries the two extreams be put in due execution we shall thank you for it 3. Vnder the colour of regulating the Ecclesiasticall Courts and taking away the High-Commission Court all spirituall Iurisdiction for the coērcive part thereof which is the life of the Law is taken away so that now no heinous crimes inquirable by those Courts as Adultery Incest c. can be punished No Heresie or Schisme reformed No Chruch can be inforced to be repaired No Church-officers as Church-wardens c. are compellable to take upon them their offices or perform their duties no not to provide Bread and Wine for the Communion No Parsons or Vicars can be inforced to attend their Cures or to give satisfaction for the pains of them who do No tithes can be recovered by their Law nor other Church-duties We beseech you think what will be the end of these things at the last 4. Vnder the name of reforming the Church-government ye endeavour to take away the function and being of Church-governours as Bishops and their Assistants the Deans and Chapters so to take away at once the preferments of learned men and the incouragements of learning In the name