THE KINDE OF Parliament which the King likes.
SUch as consists of such persons in the House of Peers as he shall thinke good to honour; whereinAnsw. to the 19. Prop. p. 24. the Votes of Popish Lords shall be of force, though they be absent (for their ease and security) some such Lords may have their Votes, as they shall chuse: Who it may be will doe more with them, then if they themselves should give them.
Such as may not interpret or declare Lawes,Pag. 2. without himselfe (which yet the Judges and inferiour Courts may doe) whose Orders and Ordinances binde not to obedience. Who may not command the people to defend themselves and Kingdome.
But hee himselfe may raise extraordinaryPag. 16. forces, though there be neither actuall rebellion, nor invasion.
Such a one, wherein hee hath a negativePag. 3. voice to grant or deny.
They must not meddle with matters of otherAnsw. to the Petit. June 17. Pag. 7. 11. Courts. Not place Preachers, unlesse the Bishops will, nay every Parson.
They must not nominate fit Councellors to Him when they sit not, though they leave Him to choose such a Councell as he pleaseth for his owne private affaires.
They may not retaine the Members of theirPag. 3 Houses, who are his Household servants, or employed, or sent for by him. Though if they doe not, then because the Houses will be but thin, and not numerous▪ they are not to be esteemed as Parliament, but a faction; andAnsw. to the Decla. May 2 [...]. Pag. [...]. those with him are to be listned to, rather then They.
They must punish such as meete together toPag. 11. Petition Them for such a meeting is a Riot, as those are called who met in Southwarke, and would not let the Constable take away their Petition) but must not punish those, who either force the people through feare, or suppresse them by cunning, (as it was in London, Cornewall, &c.) or gather together tumultuously to seeke the abolition of what Lawes are newly made, and to bring this to his owne desire, as in Kent.
Such a one as may not (though a Constable, Sheriffe, &c. may▪ raise any forces to put their Orders or Decrees in execution, and subdueAnsw. to the D [...]c [...] ▪ May 26. Pag. 20. those that resist them, (for in his Proclamation that's Treason.
Or whom he hath Authority to call them together, so to tell them what they are to doe.Answ. to the Declar. May 19. pag. 4. to May 26. Pag 3.
They are but Usurpers of the name of Parliament, in their Votes and resolutions, unlesse the King consent.
The Kings Judgement of those who sit in both Houses of Parliament.
REmovers of the Law as a rub in their way.Answ. to 19. Prop. pag. 2. Underminers of the very Foundations of the Law.
Assumers of a new Power to Themselves.
Tending to a pure Arbitrary Power.
Erecters of an upstart Authority.
They have wrested from Us our Magazine, and Towne of Hull, and bestrid Sir John Hotham in his boldfaced Treason.
VVeakeners of our just Authority, and due esteeme of strange shamelesnesse.Pag. 3.
Such to whom our good Subjects dare not offer to pre [...] [...] [...]ne just grievances, our Sufferings, and then [...]nse of the violation of the Law.
VVho have seized on the money the King had borrowed to buy him bread.
The Actions of both Houses have a strongPag. 5. influence from the subtill Informations, mischievous practises, and evill Councells of Ambitious turbulent spirits, disaffected to Gods true Religion, Our Honour and safety, the publike peace and prosperity of the people.
VVho would have Us divert Our selves ofPag. 6. Our Power, and assume them unto it.
VVho take care to dishonour Us in otherPag. 7. Nations.
They endeavour to transforme this KingdomePag. 8. into a new Utopia of Religion and Government.
Indeavourers to fetch downe to the groundPag. 9. our just, ancient, Regall power.
Who demand in effect at once to depose ourPag. 10. Selfe and our Power.
Disturbers of the course of Law, countenancersPag. 11. of Riots, discountenancers of Law.
They meane Us no more power then one ofPag. 15. Our Councellors.
Who neither take care for Our Right, Honour,Pag. 16. Safety, as a Prince, nor as a private person. That we may not only be in a more despicable way then any of Our Predecessors, but in a meaner and viler condition then the lowest of Our Subjects.
Incouraged and inabled by a Malignant party,Pag. 20. to countenance injustice and indignities offered to Us.
Beginners of a War against Us.Pag. 30.
Desirers of a generall combustion.
The now Major part of both Houses are infectedAnsw. to the Decla. May 19. Pag. 1. by a few Malignant spirits.
Blasters of his Declaration, with a bold and senselesse imputation.Pag. 10.
Their Petitions bold, threatning, reprochfull.Pag. 11. Before whose eyes a strange mist of error is cast by a few impudent, malicious men, to give them no worse tearme.
Their odious Votes, and the greatest violationPag. 12. Answ. to the Decla. May 26. Pag. 3. of our Priviledges, the Law of the Land, [Page 5] Liberty of the Subject, and the Right of Parliament. One of which is such, as there needs no other to destroy King and People, and that Vote is, That when the Lords and Commons declare what the Law of the Land is, it must be assented to, and obeyed.
Who have not dispatched one Act, whichPag. 15. hath given the least evidence of their particular affection and kindnesse to Us, but have discountenanced and hindered other Mens.
Their Declaration, the contrivance of a few factious, seditious persons, a Malignant party, who would sacrifice the Common-wealth to their owne fury and ambition.
They endeavour by all possible meanes toAnsw. to the Decla. May 26. Pag. 1. Pag. 2. render Us odious to our good Subjects, and contemptible to all forreigne Princes. Whose designe is, and alwaies hath been to alter the government of Church and State, and to subject King and People to their own lawlesse arbitrary power and government. Though theyPag. 5. have no minde to be Slaves, they are not unwilling to be Tyrants.
Ungratefull men, without modesty and duty.Pag. 6.
We are in a miserable condition in their security, as all persons will be who depend on them.
Alterers of the government of Church andPag. 11. State.
They make themselves perpetuall Dictators over the King and People.
They have endeavoured to render Us odiousPag. 19. [Page 6] to Our Subjects, and Them disloyall to Us.
The fury and malice of these men will bring misery and burthen upon the people.
From whom we expect the worst Actions,Pag. 29. these men have power to commit against Us. worse words they cannot give. They designe the ruine of Our Person, and of Monarchy.
Their position is, They may depose UsPag. 28. when they will, and are not to be blamed for doing so.
Concerning those.
The King will never, and he hopes the peopleAnsw. to the Decl. May 19. Pag. 15. will never account their contrivance, the wisedome of a Parliament, nor justifie and defend them.
Hee doubts not but that all our goodAnsw. to the Decla. May 26. Pag. 2. Subjects, doe discerne through the Maske and Vizard of their hypocrisie, and will looke no more on the Framers and Contrivers of that Declaration as Houses of Parliament, but as a Faction of Malignant, Schismaticall and Ambitious Spirits.
Hee beleeves good Subjects will finde somePag. 29. way to let them and the world know, how sutable their demands are to the Affection of loving Subjects
Who can but think that he will seeke the subduing and subversion of these.