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<P> TWO SPEECHES MADE BY IOHN PYMM E&s;quire; the one after the Articles of the Charge again&s;t the <HI>Earle</HI> of STRAFFORD were read.</P>
<P>THE OTHER, AFTER THE ARTICLES of the <HI>Charge</HI> again&s;t Sir GEORGE RATCLIFFE <HI>were read.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for IOHN BARTLET, and are to be &s;old at the gilt Cup, neere St. <HI>Au&s;tine gate.</HI> 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>Mr. PYMS SPEECH MADE THE 25^t^h^. of <HI>Novemb.</HI> 1640; <HI>After the Articles of the Charge again&s;t the Earle of</HI> STRAFFORD <HI>were read.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE><HI>My</HI> LORDS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THe&s;e Articles have expre&s;t the Character of a great and dan|gerous Trea&s;on; &s;uch a one as is advanced to the highe&s;t de|gree of malice and of mi&s;chiefe: it is enlarged beyond the limits of any de|&s;cription
<PB N="2" REF="3"> or definition: it is &s;o hainous in it &s;elfe, as that it is capable of no aggravation: a Trea&s;on again&s;t God betraying his Truth and wor&s;hip; again&s;t the King, ob&s;curing the glory, and weakning the foundation of his Throne; again&s;t the Common-wealth, by de|&s;hroying the Principles of &s;afetie and pro&s;pe|ritie. Other Trea&s;ons are again&s;t the Rule of the Law; this is again&s;t the being of the Law: It is the Law that unites the King and his Peo|ple; and the Author of this Trea&s;on hath endeavored to di&s;&s;olve that Union; even to breake the mutuall, rever&s;all, indi&s;&s;oluble band of protection and Allegiance, whereby they are, and I hope ever will bee bound to|gether.</P>
<P>If this Trea&s;on had taken effect, our &s;oules had beene inthralled to the &s;pirituall Tyran|ny of Satan; our Con&s;ciences to the Eccle&s;i|a&s;ticall Tyranny of the Pope; our Lives, our Per&s;ons and E&s;tates, to the Civill Tyranny of an arbitrary, unlimited, confu&s;ed Govern|ment.</P>
<P>Trea&s;on in the lea&s;t degree, is an odious and a horrid Crime: other Trea&s;ons are particu|lar; if a Fort be betrayed, or an Army, or any other trea&s;onable fact committed, the King|dome may out-live any of the&s;e: this Trea|&s;on would have di&s;&s;olved the frame and being of the common wealth; it is an Univer&s;all, a Catholike Trea&s;on; the venome and ma|lignity
<PB N="3" REF="3"> of all other Trea&s;ons, are ab&s;tracted, dige&s;ted, &s;ublimated into this.</P>
<P>The Law of this Kingdome makes the King to bee the fountaine of Iu&s;tice, of peace, of protection; therfore we &s;ay, the Kings Courts, the Kings Judges, the Kings Lawes: the Roy|all Power and Maje&s;tie &s;hines upon us in every publique ble&s;&s;ing and benefit we enjoy: but the Author of this Trea&s;on would make him the fountaine of Inju&s;tice, of confu&s;ion, of publique mi&s;ery and Calamitie.</P>
<P>The Gentiles by the light of Nature had &s;ome ob&s;cure apprehen&s;ions of the Deity, of which they made this expre&s;&s;ion that hee was <HI>Deus optimus maximus,</HI> an infinite goodne&s;&s;e, and an infinite greatne&s;&s;e. All &s;overaigne Princes have &s;om Characters of Divinity im|printed on them; they are &s;et up in their do|minions to bee <HI>Optimi, Maximi,</HI> that they &s;hould exerci&s;e a goodne&s;&s;e proportionable to their greatne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>That Law terme, <HI>Lae&s;a Maje&s;tas,</HI> whereby they expre&s;&s;e that which we call Trea&s;on, was never more thorowly fulfilled then now: there cannot bee a greater lae&s;ion or diminution of Maje&s;ty then to bereave a King of the glory of his goodnes. It is goodnes (my <HI>Lords)</HI> that can produce not only to his people, but likewi&s;e to him&s;elf honour and happines. There are Prin|cipalities, Thrones and Dominions among&s;t the Divels; greatne&s;&s;e enough; but being
<PB N="4" REF="4"> uncapable of goodne&s;&s;e, they are made un|capable both of honour and happine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>The Lawes of this Kingdome have inve&s;ted the Royall Crowne with Power &s;ufficient for the manife&s;tation of his goodne&s;&s;e and of his greatne&s;&s;e: if more bee required, it is like to have no other effects but povertie, weakne&s;&s;e, and mi&s;erie, whereof of late we have had very wofull experience. It is farre from the Com|mons to de&s;ire any abridgement of tho&s;e great Prerogatives which belong to the King; they know that their owne Libertie and Peace are pre&s;erved and &s;ecured by his Prerogative, and they will alwaies be ready to &s;upport and &s;up|ply his Maje&s;tie with their lives and fortunes for the maintenance of his ju&s;t and lawfull power.</P>
<P>This (My <HI>Lords)</HI> is in all our thoughts, in our prayers, and I hope will &s;o be manife&s;ted in our endeavours; that if the proceedings of this <HI>Parliament</HI> be not interrupted as others have bin the King may within a few moneths be put into a cleere way, of as much greatnes, plentie and glory as any of his Royall Aun|ce&s;tors have enjoyed.</P>
<P>A King and his people make one Body: the inferiour parts conferre nouri&s;hment and &s;trength, the &s;uperiour &s;ence and motion: If there bee an interruption of this nece&s;&s;ary intercour&s;e of blood and &s;pirits, the whole Bodie mu&s;t needs bee &s;ubject to decay and di&s;|temper:
<PB N="5" REF="4"> Therefore ob&s;tructions are fir&s;t to be removed before Re&s;toratives can be appli|ed: This (My <HI>Lords)</HI> is the end of this Accu|&s;ation, whereby the Commons &s;eeke to re|move this per&s;on whom they conceive to have bin a great Cau&s;e of the ob&s;tructions betwixt his Maje&s;tie and his People: for the effecting whereof they have commanded mee to de&s;ire your Lord&s;hip that their proceedings again&s;t him may bee put into as &s;peedie a way of di&s;|patch, as the Cour&s;es of <HI>Parliaments</HI> will allow.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that he may be called to an&s;were, and they may have Libertie to replie, that there may bee a quick and &s;ecret examination of witne&s;&s;es: and they may from time to time be acquainted with the depo&s;itions: that &s;o when the cau&s;e &s;hall bee ripe for Judgement: they may collect the &s;everall Examinations and repre&s;ent to your Lord&s;hips in one entire Bo|die the &s;tate of the proofes, as now by mee they have pre&s;ented to you the &s;tate of the charge.</P>
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