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<P>A DECLARATION OR, REMONSTRANCE OF The Office of a PRINCE, and his COVNSELLORS.</P>
<P>ALSO, The Dutie and Obligement of the People, and Subiects; collected and extracted forth of the mo&s;t <HI>Divine</HI> and Politique AVTHORS, that have treated of the &s;ame SVBIECT.</P>
<P>NEWLY Sent from <HI>Yorke,</HI> by a Gentleman now re&s;iding there, to intimate a Loyalty to his <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> and love to his <HI>Countrey;</HI> with an humble de&s;ire for a true under&s;tanding be|tweene our <HI>King</HI> and his <HI>People.</HI></P>
<P>Whereunto Is annexed the Kings <HI>Maje&s;ties</HI> five la&s;t <HI>Propo&s;itions</HI> to the <HI>Parliament;</HI> with their determinate <HI>An&s;wer</HI> by way of <HI>Re&s;olution</HI> in three di&s;tinct VOTES.</P>
<P><ADD>August 3^d</ADD> LONDON, Printed by <HI>Iohn Hammond,</HI> and <HI>Math: Rhodes.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="declaration of a prince's duties">
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<PB N="1" REF="2">
<HEAD>A Declaration or Remon&s;trance of the office of a Prince and His Councellours.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Councell of a Prince, is a certaine congregating or meeting together of &s;e|lect men, to advi&s;e the <HI>Prince</HI> in the time of <HI>Warre</HI> or <HI>Peace.</HI> Who&s;e Office is to be mindfull of time pa&s;t to looke to the pre&s;ent and to fore&s;ee tho&s;e to come, the &s;ucce&s;&s;e of their Con&s;ultations are happy &s;hunning inconveniences or at la&s;t they finde &s;ome meanes to extenuate them.</P>
<P>A Coun&s;ell (their re&s;pect to the Prince pre&s;erved) do by cour&s;e play the part almo&s;t of all his &s;ences as his under&s;tand|ing, memory, eyes, eares, &s;peech, hands, and feete. But to the People they are a Father, Tutor, and Governor; If a Prince and Councell be Vnanimous they are God Vicegerents on earth, from hence by the con&s;titution of good Coun&s;ell the Prince receives his e&s;&s;ence the Councellors their due honours
<PB N="2" REF="3">the People their Protection vnder good Lawes giving honour both to Prince and Councellours as to the true Mini&s;ters of GOD cald lawfully to governe them, But on the contrary by bad Councell, or by mi&s;under&s;tandings or di&s;&s;entions between the Prince and Councell, the Prince honers not onely hourely blemi&s;ht and his e&s;tate and dignity in dainger of &s;ubvertion but the People al&s;o to be de&s;troyed and Country to be layd wa&s;t by a forraigne Inva&s;ion, or by Civell Di&s;&s;ention to be vtterly ruined.</P>
<P>The&s;e things are of that weight that I do not thinke any thing in this life can be found of greater moment, and there|fore in my Iudgment, it is not the lea&s;t duty of a Prince to be diligent in finding, circum&s;pect in electing, and cautions in con&s;tituting and authorizing &s;o needfull a part of him&s;elf as is a Councell, lea&s;t choo&s;ing &s;uch as are more fraught with honours then wi&s;dome, or tho&s;e that are rich in the goods of Fortune, wanting the richer endowments of the minde, the one &s;hould prove co<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">etous to add wealth to his honours, and the other ambitious to adde honour to his riches, and &s;o whil&s;t either perpetrate their owne De&s;ignes, neglecting the chiefe end for which they were cho&s;en, the whole Common|wealth fall into a mo&s;t dangerous hazzard, till at la&s;t finding their owne errors, and being unwilling to publi&s;h their owne frailties to the worlds publique knowledge, they are enforced to inngulfe them&s;elves in the iu&s;tification of mo&s;t dangerous fal&s;hoods, and &s;till in what they may to lay the whole burthen on the innocent Prince, or at lea&s;t on &s;ome pretended Coun|cellors about him, &s;till urging and pretending new doubts and feares, tho&s;e iealou&s;ies being firmly grounded on a malignant Partie, which indeed is to bee found (and that nor &s;eldome) among&s;t them&s;elves.</P>
<P>Many Councellors when by their own ambitions and malig|nant
<PB N="3" REF="3">practizes they finde the State di&s;turbed and out of order, and things not to &s;ucceed according to their de&s;ires, they u&s;u|ally command their <HI>Bid-dayes</HI> to be kept, and the People to fa&s;t for the Sinnes of the Councell, alleadging to them, that God Almighty for Sin doth puni&s;h the Nation; and in this (indeed) I verily believe they &s;peake the perfect truth; for Envy or Ambition, Mi&s;tru&s;t or di&s;agrements in or betweene a Councell and their Prince and &s;uch Sinnes as bring not only to them&s;elves, but even to the whole Common-wealth ruine and calamity; in con&s;ideration whereof, I would advi&s;e the Councell to aske nothing of their Prince but what is &s;it for him to grant, and the Prince to deny them nothing that is &s;it for them to aske; for it is the duty both of Prince and Coun|cellors &s;o to be have them&s;elves towards the Common-wealth, that the Iu&s;tice of the Law may not onely be equally di&s;tribu|ted, and the poore defended from the oppre&s;&s;ion of the rich; but al&s;o that <HI>peace</HI> may be maintained with forraigne Princes, and publique Commerce increa&s;ed, to the profit of the Sub|iect, and honour of the Kingdome.</P>
<P>It is the duty of the Councell, who are the Members of the Body Politique, in all humility and obedience, to advize and treat with their Prince the head of that Body; for as in a Body naturall it would appeare altogether prepo&s;terous to &s;ee the feet to &s;purne at the Head, or the hands ready to &s;trike at it; &s;o it is a thing altogether as uncomely, and of farre more dan|gerous con&s;quence, to have any Member or Members of the Body Politique to pre&s;ume to rebell again&s;t their Head the Prince.</P>
<P>A Prince ought to looke on his great Councell as on the repre&s;entative Body of the <HI>Kingdome,</HI> being lawfully cal'd together and elected by the People generall Suffrages: But
<PB N="4" REF="4">that Councell ought to looke on their Princes as on the repre|&s;entative &s;oule of the whole <HI>Common-wealth</HI> elected and autho|rized by the power or <HI>God</HI> him&s;elfe, his Government being e&s;tabli&s;hed by his <HI>lineal Succe&s;&s;ion,</HI> and confirmed by the <HI>Lawes</HI> of the Land being inve&s;ted and received with the generall ap|plau&s;e of all his Subiects. Should a Prince after his election and confirmation prove wicked in all tho&s;e horrid degrees, Mens imaginations are able to apprehend yet ought not his People or Councell to pre&s;ume to goe about to enforce him to ought otherwi&s;e then by humble intreaty and advice.</P>
<P><HI>David</HI> though anoynted by the Prophet <HI>Samuel</HI> dur&s;t not pre&s;ume to lift his hand again&s;t the fir&s;t anoynted <HI>Saul: Saint Paul</HI> commands Chri&s;tians to obey tho&s;e Heathen Princes to whom they were naturally borne Subiects, &s;hewing obedi|ence to be due from Subiects to their Princes as from Princes to God.</P>
<P>Kings are Gods earthly Deputies and no man can rebell again&s;t the one but hee is doubtle&s;&s;e a Traytor to both; Kings ought (as God) to bee intreated not compelled; If a Prince be mi&s;lead by bad Councellors or by the advice of malconten|ted <HI>per&s;ons</HI> yet it were much better for the good of the <HI>Common</HI>-wealth, to cover and palliate the Princes errors or neglects then to di&s;couer or declare them to the knowledge of his Subiects for the Maie&s;ty of a Prince can hardly endure tho&s;e opprobrious indignityes as may in any likly hood render him odious to his people.</P>
<P>Councellors being &s;ummoned and elected by the Power and authority of the Prince only may at his plea&s;ure by the &s;ame Prerogative be di&s;charged and di&s;per&s;ed nor is it in the power of the Prince to part with (e&s;pecially for a time unli|mited) any part or title of his Prerogative Royall, As for a
<PB N="5" REF="4">pre&s;ident. The &s;econd <HI>Richard</HI> King of <HI>England</HI> parting with his Prerogative Royall as in farme to <HI>Bu&s;hy Baggot</HI> and <HI>Gree<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> were adiudged to be executed as Traitors.</P>
<P>The <HI>Parliament</HI> then adiuding it not to be in the power of the King to di&s;inve&s;t his Succe&s;&s;ors of any part of his or their due Prerogative, the di&s;&s;ention that was between this King and his <HI>Parliaments,</HI> and mi&s;erable Events and bloody ma&s;&s;acres that &s;ucceded them, and his Depo&s;ing might me thinks deter all Chri&s;tian Princes and Councellors from the like occa&s;ions thereby to e&s;chew the like effects. As for De|po&s;ers of Princes and V&s;urpers, I think there is no man doubts but they may have an equall &s;hare of Damnation be their pre|tences never &s;o faire.</P>
<P>Religion and a care of the publique good, are two ea&s;ie &s;tepps to popularity, and the be&s;t and &s;afe&s;t cloakes to hide black, treacherous and mi&s;chievous intents. I hope the con&s;i|deration of what hath already pa&s;t in <HI>England,</HI> and the pre|&s;ent mi&s;eries of <HI>Germany</HI> with the knowledge of
<Q LANG="lat">Tunc tua res agitur paries cum proximus ardens.</Q> will make every true Engli&s;hman &s;o wi&s;e, as reflecting on the mi&s;eries pa&s;t not to be our ha&s;ty to become engaged in new mischiefes lea&s;t the lo&s;&s;e &s;hould prove in&s;upportable or the wounds incurable. And for my part, for the pro&s;perity and &s;afety of this <HI>Kingdome</HI> I &s;hall every pray to God to continue the People in their due obedience, the Councellours and Nobility in con&s;tant Loyalty and his Sacred Maie&s;ty in love and amity with his Peeres and People.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="lists of royal propositions and Parliamentary resolutions">
<PB N="8" REF="5">
<HEAD>A true Copie of the Kings Maie&s;ties five la&s;t Propo&s;itions to the Parliament: with their determinate An&s;wer, by way of Re&s;olution, in three di&s;ticnt <HI>VOTES.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD>His Maje&s;ties Propo&s;itions were the&s;e following; <HI>viz.</HI></HEAD>
<ITEM>FIr&s;t, That they would recall the Ordinance made by the con&s;ent of both <HI>Hou&s;es</HI> of <HI>Parliament</HI> concerning the <HI>Militia,</HI> whereby his Maje&s;tie hath beene enforced to make the&s;e his Preparations.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Secondly, That they would deliver up his Maje&s;ties Magazine taken from <HI>Hull,</HI> be forthwith put into hands in which His Maje&s;tie may confide.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirdly that His Navy be forthwith &s;urrended by the Earle of <HI>Warwick</HI> to Sir <HI>John Pennington.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Fourthly, That all Armes, Leavies, and Provi&s;ions for VVarre, made by the con&s;ent of both Hou&s;es be immediatly layd downe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fiftly, That the Parliament might be adjourned to &s;ome place where His Maje&s;tie might with &s;ecurity come neere them, and joyne with them in their con&s;ultations.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The <HI>Parliaments</HI> Re&s;olutions in three <HI>Votes;</HI> viz.</HEAD>
<ITEM>FIr&s;t, That an Army &s;hould be forthwith rai&s;ed for the &s;afety of the Kings Per&s;on, defence of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and of tho&s;e that have obeyed their Orders and Cammands, and pre&s;erving of the Religion, the Law Libertie, and Peace of the Kingdom.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Secondly, That the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI> &s;hall be Generall.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Thirdly, That in this Cau&s;e for the &s;afety of the Kings Per&s;ons, de|fence of both Hou&s;es of Parliament, and tho&s;e who have obeyed their Orders and Commands, and pre&s;erving of the true Religion the Lawes, Liberties, and Peace of the Kingdome; They will live and die with the Earle of <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> whom they have nominated Generall in this cau&s;e.</ITEM>
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<P>ORdered by the Lords and Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament that this be Printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. El&s;ynge&punc; Cler. Parl. D. Com.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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