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war_n	great_a	king_n	scot_n	2,247	5	9.2324	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44754	Some sober inspections made into carriage and consults of the late Long-Parliament whereby occasion is taken to speak of parliaments in former times, and of Magna Charta, with some reflexes upon government in general.; Som sober inspections made into the cariage and consults of the late Long Parlement	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3117; ESTC R2660	73,993	193

they first interdicted trade They countenanced all tumultuous Riots gave way to Club-law and They kept the King by force out of Hull issued Commissions for Horse brought in foren force and had a compleat Army in motion a good while before the Royall Standard was set up Polyander I remember a witty Motto that the last French Cardinal caused to be engraven upon the brich of some new Canons which were cast in the Arsenall at Paris it was KATIO ULTIMA REGUM Viz. That the Canon was the last reason of Kings But whether this Motto may fit Subjects I will not now dispute But sure the King was ill advised so to rush into a War considering what infinite advantages the Houses had of him for as you say'd before they had the Sea the Scot and the City on their side and the King had no Confederate at all at home or abroad I am sure he had no friend abroad that one might say was a true friend unto him unless it was the Prince of Ora●●e in regard he had disobliged all other Princes For you know as soon as he came to the Crown he rushed into a War with the King of Spain and in lieu of making him his Brother in ●aw●e made him his foe which stuck still in his stomach as also th●● he had given so fair a reception to the Ambassadors of Don Juan de Braganza now King of Portug●ll A little after he broke with the Fr●nch King Notwithstanding that he had his Sister every night in his Arms The Holland●rs gave out that he had appeard more for the S●aniard than Them in that great fight with Do● Anton●o d'Oqu●nd● and that he suffer'd his own ships and others to convey the King of Spains mony to Dunkerke He was ingag'd to his Onc●e the K. of De●mark in great old s●m● whereof there was little care taken to give satisfaction the Iri●h cryed out They had bin oppressed The Swed observed that he was more for the House of Austria than for Gustavus Adolphus And at home I have been told that the Irish cryed out he had bin oppressed And the Scot whom he had obliged most of any by such Mountains of favours with divers of his own Creatures and domestic bosome servants whom he had engaged most started aside from him like a broken bow so that all things did co-operat and conspir'd as it were to make him a hard-Fated Prince and to usher in a Revolution Philanglus Yet I heard that all Princes were very sensible of his fall Polyander T' is true they did must resent it at first yet they were affected rather with ●stonishment then sorrow And touching the Roman Catholique Princes they did afterwards rejoyce at it considering what a blemish the manner of his death brought upon the Reformed Religion but Sir I pray be pleased to proceed Philanglus The Sophies or Gran signo'rs of the Common-wealth whereof we spoke before scrued up their authority every day higher and higher They declare that an Ornance of Parliament without the Royal assent is equivalent to an Act They declare that not onely the consultative ministerial and directive power is in them but also the Judicatory Despotical and Legislative highest power is inherent in the Walls of their two Houses That their power is also Arbitrary Vbiquitary and incontrolable That they are not subject to Dissolution or Time being the eternal and irrevocable Trustees of the Commonwealth with such Rodomontado's which made one to think that a Mid-summer Moon had got betwixt them and therefore thought this Anagram a very fit one to be set upon the dore of the House with the distic annexed Parliamentum Lar Amentium Fronte rogas isto P. cur Anagrammate non sit In promptu causa est Principem abesse scias Polyander They who have pryed into the true humour of a Portuguez have observ'd that He useth to act more according to what hee thinks himself to be then what he really is It seems that these Parliamenteers were possess'd and puffed up with the same humour But if the supream power were in an Assembly when that Assembly is risen I wonder what 's become of the power sure it must rest in the air or sticking to the Walls of the Chamber where they breath'd Now Sir touching long Parliaments I am of opinion it is the greatest and generallest grievance that can be possibly to the English people by reason that besides other irregularities it stops the ordinary course of Law in regard of the priviledge they have not to be subject to arrest with others to whom they give protection now not one in four of that long Parliament men but ow'd money and what use Sir Peter T and others made of that priviledge to the detriment of a thousand poor Creditors is too well known And were such men think you fit to keep the Kingdomes Purse in their Pockets so long but having got the Great Seal as well as the Sword into their hands what signal Acts of Justice did they do Philanglus 'T is true they had got the Seal and Sword which the Law of England doth appropriate to the chiefest Magistrate the one should be girt onely to his side and the other hang at his Girdle And it was told them to their faces by the knowingest Members in the House that to cut a broad Seale of England was the highest reason that possibly could be attempted without the assent of the Governor in chief Now Sir touching any signal Act of Justice they ever did I am to seek to this day but for horrid acts and passages of in justice I think there could be produced a thousand clear and yet crying examples which would make a greater volume then the Book of Martyrs I mean Acts that were done before the wars begun and after it was ended which takes away the specious colour of necessity wherewith they varnished all their excesses and actions I will instance onely in two for this was intended for a short discourse not for a story viz. The business of the Lord Craven and Sir John Stawel the first a personage who is a great ornament to this Nation by his gallant comportments beyond the Seas the other one of the considerablest Knights in the whole Country Touching the Lord Craven he went with consent of Parliament to his charge in the Low Countries not onely before the War but before any discontentment happened at all 'twixt King and Parliament and being atten●ing his said military charge at Breda when the King of Scots came thither and the Queen of Bohemia being also there he could not avoid seeing them sometimes nor was there any Order or Act of Parliament to prohibit any body from doing so but for intermedling with any affairs of State or mixing with the Scots Council he never did it At that time there happened to be in Breda many cashiered English Officers and among them one Faulkner who having a Petition drawn and written all with his own

could England but be in apparent danger considering how all her Neighbours about her were in actual hostility which made huge Fleets of men of War both French Dunkerkers Ha●burgers and Hollanders to appear ever and anon in her channel and hard before her Royal Chambers He declared further that not one peny of that publique contribution came to his private Coffers or was given to any favorite but he added much of his own treasure for the maintenance of a Royal Fleet abroad every Summer yet he was ready to passe any Bill for the abolishing of the said Ship-money and redressing of any grievance besides provided his Parliament would enable him to suppress and chastse the Scot Some say the House was inclinable to comply with the King but as the ill spirit would have it that Parliament was suddenly broke up and it had been better for him that they who gave him that counsel had been then in Arabia or beyond the Line in their way to Madagascar yet those men were of high request in the Long Parliament afterwards being The King reduced to such streights and resenting still the insolence of the Scot proposed the business to his Privy Council who suddenly made a considerable sum for his supply whereunto divers of his domestick serv●n●s did contribute Among others who were active herein the Earl of Strafford bestirred himselfe notably who having got a Parliament to be called in Ireland went over and with incredible celerity raised 8000. men and procured money of the Parliament there to maintain them An Army was also levied here which marched to the North and there fed upon the Kings pay a whole Summer The Scot was not idle all this while but having punctual intelligence of every thing that passed at Court as far as what was debated in the Cabinet Council or spoken of in the Bed-chamber where of the six grooms five were Scots which was a great advantage unto him He armed also and preferring to make England the Stage of the War rather then his own Country and to invade rather then to be invaded he got ore the Tweed where he found the passage open and as it were made for him all the way till he come to the River of Tine And though there was a considerable English army of horse and foot at Newcastle yet they never offered to face the Scot all the while At Newburg there was indeed a small skirmish but the English foot would not fight so Newcastle Gates flew open to the Scot without any resistance at all where 't is thought he had more friends then foes for all Presbyterians were his confederates The King being advanc'd as far as York summon'd all his Nobles to appear and advise with in this Exigence Commissioners were appointed on both sides who met at Rippon and how the hearts and courage of some English Barons did boil within their breasts to be brought to so disadvantagious Treaty with the Scot you may well imagine So the Treaty began which the Scot would not conform himself unto unlesse he were first made Rectus in Cur●a and the Proclamation wherein he was call'd Traitor revoked alledging how dishonourable it would be for his Majesty to treat with Rebels This Treaty was then adjourn'd to Londo● where the late long Parliament was summon'd Polyander Truly Sir I must tell you that to my knowledge those unhappy traverses with the Scots made the English suffer much abroad in point of National repute But in this last expedition of the Scot England may be said to have been bought and sold considering what a party he had here in Court and country specially in the City of London Therefore his coming in then may be call'd rather as Invitation then an Invasion Philanglus The Scot having thus got quietly into a Town he never took and nested himself in Newcastle Our late long long Parliament began at Westminster Being conven'd the King told them that he was resolved to cast himself and his affairs wholly upon the affection and d●lity of his people whereof they were the Representatives Therefore he wished them to go roundly on to close up the Ruptures that wer● made by that infortunate War and that the two Armies one English the other forraign which were gnawing the very bowels of the Kingdom might be both dismissed Touching grievances of al natures he was ready to redress them concerning the Shipmony he was willing to passe a law for the utter abolition of it and to canc●l all the enrollments therefore he wish'd them not to spend much time about that For Monopolies he desired to have a List of them and he would damn them all in one Proclamation Touching ill Counsellours either in White-Hall or Westminster-Hall either in Church or State hee was resolved to protect none Therefore he desired that all jealousies and misunderstandings might vanish and so concluded with this caution That they would be carefull how they shook and d●●jointed the frame of an old setled Government too much in regard 't was like a Watch which being put asunder can never be made up again if the least pin be left out Thus at the beginning of the Parliament there were great hopes of Fair weather after that cold Northern storm and that we should be rid of the Scot but that was least intended till some designs were brought about The Earl of Strafford the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury the Judges and divers other are clapp'd up and the Lord Keeper Finch took a timely flight t'other side of the Sea And in lieu of these the Bishop of Lincoln is inlarged Bastw●ck Burton and Pryn who were strong Presbyterians were brought into London with a kind of Hosanna Polyander It is possible that the lenity of the King should be such as to yeeld to all this Philanglus Yes and to comply further with them he took as it were into his bosom I mean he admitted to his Privy Council such Parliament Lords who were held the greatest Zealots among them The Lord Say was made Master of the Court of Wards the Earl of Essex Lord Chamberlain Moreover to give a further evidence how firmly he was rooted in his Religion and how much he desired the strengthning of it abroad the Treaty of marriage went on 'twixt his eldest daughter and the Prince of Orange Hereunto may be added as a special Argument of compliance the passing of the Bill for a Triennial Parliament and lastly he was brought to passe the Act of Continuance which prov'd so fatal unto him Polyander Touching the Triennial Parliament I heard of a Prophetick mistake that came from a Lady of honour who sending news that time to the Country did write that the King had passed a Bill for a Tyrannical Parliament whereas she should have said Triennial And touching the Act of Continuance or perpetual Parliament I heard a tale of Archy the fool who being asked whether the King did well in passing that Bill answered that he knew not whether the King