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A96998 The remonstrance of the Commons of England, to the House of Commons assembled in Parliament. Preferred to them by the hands of the speaker. England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. 1643 (1643) Wing W382C; Thomason E92_5; ESTC R5886 8,040 16

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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 Printed Anno Dom. 1643. THE REMONSTRANCE Of the Commons of England to the House of Commons assembled in Parliament preferred to them by the hands of their SPEAKER Master 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 forme 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 intreat you to be our 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 as good an answer unto us as you may And now we addresse our selves to the honourable House it selfe VVHen this Parliament was called after several unhappy breaches of some former we comforted our selves with a hope of a redresse of all our grievances and we made choice of you for our Knights Citizens Burgesses to serve for us there 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 Kingdom and we cannot be yet out of hope but that ye will performe in the end But you must not take it amisse if as persons grieved we tell you where our griefes 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 wee have not so delegated the power to you as to make you the governors of us and of our estates you are in truth but our Procurators to speake for us in the 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 cause 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 imbark us all in a Civil War 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 into any Acts of disloyalty or disobedience against our naturall Leige Lord to whom by the lawes of God and man we doe owe and will pay all allegiance and fidelity Wherefore we must claim this freedome which belongs unto us as free-borne Subjects and as persons interessed in the good and safety of this Kingdome 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 sence 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 dreames of distempered braines but shall be such as have their grounds upon apparent truth and a cleere evidence For first we doe professe to all the world that wee are resolved with our lives and fortunes to maintaine the true Protestant Religion established by the Laws in this Church of England To maintain our well setled Government under a Monarchie according to the knowne Laws of this Land To maintaine the just libertie of our persons and Property of our Estates acording to the Rule of those Laws To maintaine 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 Protestations from time to time And for the Kings Majesties Opinion herein he hath by many declarations solemne protestations and religious vows before God and Man declared himselfe so fully and so 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 performe 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 errours which have slipt him in his by-past government and to undertake not to give way to the like hereafter We wish with all our hearts that you would with the same ingenuity acknowledge your errors also and amend them so might we soone by Gods blessing have our peace restored again and by your industries made a happy Nation Let us then cleerely and freely expresse in what things wee finde our selves grieved which have beene voted ordered and acted by you during this Parliament whereby the cure intended is become worse then the disease under which we formerly languished and we must with as much clearnesse and freedome 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 encouragement 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. Under the pretence of hatred of Popery which we also detest as far as their superstitions idolatrous tenets are inconsistent with the true reformed Protestant Religion the book of Common-Prayer which is established by Law is cryed down by many and all decent orders in Gods outward worship and every man left to the dictate of his 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 Under the colour of regulating the Ecclesiastical Courts and taking away the High Commission Court all spirituall Jurisdiction for the coërcive 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 Church can be inforced to be repaired No Church-office●… as Church-Wardens c. are compellable to take upon them their offices or performe 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 paines of them who doe 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. Under the name of reforming the Church Government ye endevour