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A60592	The charge given by Sr. William Smith, Brt. at the quarter-sessions of the peace held for the county of Middlesex, at Westminster, on Monday the 24th of April, 1682.	England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex); Smith, William, Sir, 1616 or 17-1696.	1682 (1682)	Wing S4255A; ESTC R19647	12,812	13

THE CHARGE GIVEN BY S r William Smith B rt At the Quarter-Sessions of the Peace held for the County of Middlesex at Westminster on Monday the 24 th of April 1682. Gentlemen I Have had the honour to discourse to the Country from this Bench several times and the Advice which I gave them was to seek Peace and study Unity Advice I thought very necessary and that which would contribute most to the welfare and happiness not only of this County but of the whole Kingdom This is a Trading Country and nothing can encourage and advance Trade more than Peace nor can any thing procure Wealth sooner than Trade nor will any thing secure it better than Unity The King by his Wisdom and Care hath hitherto preserved Peace without the help of Unity for certainly no Nation can be more divided than this is it is high time for every honest man especially Magistrates and those in Authority to speak plain English and since this Honourable Bench hath thought fit to command me to this Service I shall endeavour to discharge my Duty and Conscience in that particular It troubles me to say it but it is true that this is a divided Nation divided into two opposite Parties the Church-Party I mean the Church of England as by Law established and the Anti-Church for I know not by what other name or denomination to stile the Dissenters I mean Dissenters of all sorts unless I should use the Scripture-word Legion for they are many and although they are divided amongst themselves toto Caelo yet they agree in this tertiò to torment the Government I will give you a short Character of these two Parties the Church-Party are those who worship and serve God in the place appointed for it the Church they honour and obey the King and submit to the Laws the Dissenters do none of these they do not approach the Church and to some of them it is an abomination they are so far from honouring the King that both his Person and Government are defamed by those Pamphlets which go about the Town neither do they obey him or submit to the Laws for very lately the King out of his great concern for the publick Peace thought fit by the advice of his Majesties Privy Council to command that Conventicles should be suppressed according to Law the Dissenters have been so far from obeying his Majesties Command that they have contended for the Conventicles as if they had been their Inheritance and have abused and reviled those Officers and others who in obedience to this Command have endeavoured to put the Laws in execution Now I would ask any sober-thinking person to which of these two Parties his Prudence would invite him to adhere whether to that Party where he may be safe under the Kings Protection and where his Liberty and Property may be well secured by the Laws Liberty and Property so much talkt of and by some very unduly sought or to that Party which will lead him into a Wilderness of briars and thorns where he shall never know his way or into slippery places where he shall never be able to stand his ground or shall as it were make him walk upon the edge of a Knife and always be in danger Self-preservation is natural to every creature and methinks men who have reason should seek it much more than others The King and the Laws have long fingers and sometime or other they will reach the tallest Malefactor It is true the King is a gracious and merciful Prince and that perhaps may be an incouragement to some mens disobedience but patience may be provoked too long and too far and then Laesa patientia sit furor when the Lion rouseth all the Beasts of the Forest tremble Notwithstanding all these provocations the King by the Divine assistance hath hitherto preserved peace peace at home and peace abroad for we have peace with all the Christian World when at the same time most of the neighbour-Nations are in wars and troubles The King hath taken care of Places related to England A terrible Rebellion broke out lately in Virginia which had almost destroy'd that Country the King at a great charge sent Ships and Souldiers thither reduced that Rebellion and settled the Country in peace Tangier was lately attakt by a numerous and formidable Enemy and most of us here gave it for lost some were so impudent to say it would be sold the King sent a timely Relief thither of Men Money and all other necessary Provisions and did preserve that Place so that it is neither lost or sold and hath now made a lasting Peace with the Emperour of that Country and it is to be hoped that place will prove very advantagious for the Trade of England but this hath cost the King a great sum of money The Trade of Turkey hath been of late years very much disturbed by the Pyrats of Algiers and his Majesty hath received notice that many of his Subjects have been carried captive thither the King to prevent those mischiefs for the future hath at a great charge for several years together maintain'd a considerable number of Ships in the Streights by which the Algerines have received so great losses that they are ready to beg Peace The King hath taken care of the Walls and Bulwarks of this Kingdom the Shipping You know the Parliament appointed thirty capital Ships to be built and gave six hundred thousand pound for the building of them but when Shipwrights and others came to consult about them they found that Sum of Money would not do it to make them so strong and serviceable as they ought to be the King was forced to advance a hundred thousand pound and more out of his own Purse to perfect that Work and I have heard these several Charges and Disbursments do amount to near eight hundred thousand pound These are all accidental Charges and if the established Revenue will not ballance the necessary and common Charge of the Government as I have heard it said in the House of Commons by those who should well understand it that it will not where then shall these accidental Charges be born The King cannot do it the People then must Why then the King hath lent this great Sum of Money to his Subjects and certainly it ought to be repaid with interest and with thanks and doubtless had been long since if the Dissentions and Differences which are amongst us had not prevented it Is it not therefore high time that all possible Endeavours should be used to put an end to these Divisions and Differences that the Kingdom may be no longer exposed to those Dangers which at present it lyes under And this very wise men are of opinion will never be until the Conventicles which continually blow the Coals are suppressed The Learned tell us that the Plague is spread by the Effluviums of the Mouth the Attomes of an infected person are infected and when they are sent out by