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war_n	high_a	king_n	treason_n	3,672	5	9.5249	5	true

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A50406	Mr. Maynards speech before both Houses in Parliament upon Wednesday the xxiiijth of March in reply upon the Earle of Straffords answer to his articles at the barre.; Speech before both Houses in Parliament upon Wednesday the xxiiii th of March, 1641	Maynard, John, Sir, 1602-1690.	1641 (1641)	Wing M1462; ESTC R8510	3,363	12

Mr. Maynards SPEECH BEFORE BOTH Houses in Parliament upon Wednesday the xxiiij th of March in reply upon the Earle of Straffords Answer to his Articles at the Barre Printed in the Yeare 1641. M r. MAINARDS SPEECH BEfore both Houses in Parliament on Wednesday the xxiiij of March in reply upon the Earle of Straffords answer to his Articles at the Barre My Lords I Shall repeat little of that which hath bin said onely this That whereas my Lord of Strafford did answer to many particulars yet he did not answer to that which was particularly objected against him that is you were to heare the complaints of the whole Kingdome now the particular of our ayme is to take off the vizard which my Lord hath put on wherein the truth and honour which is due to his Majesty he would attribute to himselfe My Lords there is one thing which I desire your Lordships to remember it being the maine of our complaints The alteration of the face of government and traduceing of his owne Lawes and this is the burthen upon all the Lords and Commons of Ireland Concerning the breach of Parliament he would put it on Sir George Ratcliffe but i 'me sure he cannot put off himselfe for Sir George Ratcliffe was not the man alone but others joyned with him in that Assembly and I am sure my Lord of Strafford moved it for the breach of Parliament I shall addresse my selfe to the body of his answer Now give me leave my Lords that J may open the nature of this great offence My Lords it is a charge of Treason which is a Treason not ended or expired by one single Act but a trade envied by this Lord of Strafford ever since the Kings favour hath bin bestowed upon him My Lords it hath two parts to deprive us that which was good And secondly to bring in a Tyrannicall government it takes away the lawes of the land and it hath an arbbitrary government bounded by no law but what my Lord of Strafford pleaseth It is the law my Lords which we reverence and cheerfully render to our gracious Soveraigne The Law as it is the ground of our liberty so it is the distribution of Iustice. My Lords in all this my Lord of Strafford hath endeavoured to make them uncapable of any benefit It is true my Lords that Treason against the person of a Prince is high Treason and the highest Treason that can be to man but it falls short of this Treason against the State When blessed King Iames was taken to heaven he commended the lawes to his Sonne our gratious Soveraigne But my Lords if such a designe as this should take effect that the law of Justice should be taken from the Throne we are without hope of ever seeing happy dayes power is not so easily laid downe unlesse it bee by so good and just a Prince as we have My Lord of Straffords accusation is conveyed into twenty eight Articles and J shall but touch the heads that wee shall insist upon and I thinke the best way to this is to consider what he did before he went into Ireland what then and what since He hath encroached jurisdiction where none was taking upon him a power to repell the lawes and to make new lawes and in domineering over the lives and goods and what ever else was the subjects My Lords this hee hath notdone onely upone the meaner sort but upon the Peeres and auntient Nobilitie and what may your Lordships expect but the same measure at his hands here as they have found there when hee committed any to prison if a habeas Corpus were granted the Oficers must not obey and if any Fine were put upon the Officer for refusing them there was a command that he should bee discharged so that he did not onely take power to himselfe but the Scepter of Iustice out of the Kings hand When he was a member of the house of Commons it was his owne motion all Ministers of State should serve the King according to the lawes which hee hath broken himselfe He doth as much as say that Fines shall not bee payed by Officers if in this they fulfill his commands but those that release a prisoner upon a habeas corpus shall finde his displeasure My Lords if this had beene a single Act we should not have accused him of high Treason but this hath been his Common course and this we present to your Lordships consideration The next thing is that in the North the people attending for Justice you shall see what a dishonor he flung vpon the sacred Majestie of the King that did advance him some of the Iustices saith he are all for Law but they shall find that the Kings little finger is heavier then the Loynes of the Law My Lords what a sad Speech was this and what sad Accidents happened upon it you all know and he said in a solemne speech That Ireland was a Conqaered Nation and that the King might doe with them what he would their Charters were nothing worth they did bind the King no longer then he pleased Surely you may see what he would doe if he had power but we hope never such Counsell shall have acceptation in so gracious an Eare as our Soveraignes and be doth not stay in words but proceeds to Actions when a Peere of the Kingdome was expelled the Kingdome for suing at Law for recovering of his Right he saith hee would-have Ireland know that neither Law nor Lawyers should question any thing that hee ordered My Lords hee goes higher for when there was an occasion to speake of an Act of State he said it shoutd be as binding as an Act of Parliament My Lords he cannot goe higher then this he tels them in Parliament they were a Conquered Nation and they must expect the vsage of a Counquered Nation The Lord Mountnorr is for a few words that fell from his mouth spoken privatly at his Table had a Counsell of Warre called against him and was judged to death My Lords it is no marvaile that hee saie That the Kings little finger should be so heavy when his little toe was so heavy to tread downe a Peere vnder his foote My Lords hee makes Lawes of himselfe and hee makes a difference in matters of Justice betweene the poore and the rich but when hee hath executed his power upon the poore he will fall upon the rich My Lords he hath made that which was worth but five shillings to be valued at twenty and my Lords by this he doth in effect take away what ere this commodity is worth he saith he doth it for the Kings gaine but we shall make it appeare that the Crowne hath lost and hee hath gained And for the Commodity of Flax my Lords it is but a Womans Commodity but yet it is the Staple Commodity of Ireland Now my Lords this Commodity he hath gotten wholly into his owne hands for he made such a Proclamation that it should be used in such wayes as the Women could not doe it and if it were not vsed in such wayes that it should be seized vpon no he doth not onely put impositious upon the Subject but take away the goods too and thus he hath levyed warre against the Kings Subjects and this is his course that if a Decree were made by him and not obeyed there issued a warrant to Souldiers that they should make garrison and that they should goe to the houses of those that were pretended to be disobedient My Lords they have killed their Sheep and their Oxen and bound their horses and tooke them Captives till they have rendered obedience which is expressely contrary to Law for it saith If any man set horse or foote upon the Kings Subjects in a Military way it is high Treason My Lords it doth not onely oppresse them in their estates but provoke and incite his Majestie to lay downe his mercy and goodnesse and to fall into an offensive warre against his Subjects and say they are Rebels and Traytors Hee tels his Counsell that the Parliament having forsaken the King and the King having tryed the Parliament hee might vse other wayes to procure money to supply his necessities My Lords the same day that the Parliament was broken he tels the King he had 8000 foote and 1000 horse to reduce this Kingdome to obedience My Lords consider in what a sad time this man tooke to infuse this sad Counsell into the Kings eare My Lords he doth advise the King that he was absolved from all rules of government but if no rule of government what rule of obedience Surely he meant to reduce us to a Chaos and confusion c. would have us without all rule of government or obedience My Lords those that he would have brought to reduce us were Papists Enemies of our Religion This strikes us neere my Lords and is the griefe of our hearts that an Irish Army should be brought into England to reduce vs. My Lords I hope wee were nere so far gone as to need an Army to reduce us to obedience My Lords he had raised this Army and if such Counsell should have taken effect in his Majesties eare he like proud Haman would have thought to have been Generall of the Army And thus my Lords you see this Lord of Strafford fals upon a Counsell which might make an irreconciliable difference to subdue us by his power FINIS