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<P>A SPEECH Delivered in PARLIAMENT, By Sir <HI>D. D.</HI> KNIGHT.</P>
<P>Concerning the evill Con&s;equences, that doe attend this State, by committing Places of tru&s;t, into the hands of <HI>Court-Favourites.</HI></P>
<P>Wherby it doth plainly appear, to be the Ori|ginall of all the publick grievances, and combu&s;tions of this Kingdom.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Io&s;eph Doc.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>Sir <HI>DVDLEY DJGS</HI> Speech, as it was taken and reported by the <HI>Lord Pre&s;ident of the Councell.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORDS,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THere are &s;o many things of great importance to be &s;aid in very little time this day, that I conceive it will not be unacceptable to your Lord&s;hips, if &s;etting by all Rhetoricall affectations, I only in plaine country language humbly pray your favour to include many excu&s;es, nece&s;&s;ary for my manifold infirmities, in this one word; I am commanded by the Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es of the Commons Hou&s;e, to pre&s;ent unto your Lord&s;hips their mo&s;t affectionate thanks, for your ready conde&s;cending to this conference; which Act of confidence in your great wi&s;dome, and approved Iu|&s;tice, for the &s;ervice of His Maje&s;tie, and the welfare of this Realme, they de&s;ire upon this ocea&s;ion: The Hou&s;e of Commons by a totall, and univer&s;all concur|rence of complaints, from all the Sea bordering Ports of this Kingdome, did find a great and grievous inter|ruption, and &s;top of trade and traffick, the ba&s;e Pyrats of Salley, ignominiou&s;ly infe&s;ting our coa&s;ts, taking our &s;hips, and goods, and leading away the &s;ubjects of this kingdome into barbarous Captivity, while to our &s;hame and hinderance of Commerce, our enemies did as it were be&s;iege our Ports and block up our be&s;t Rivers months, our Friends over-flight pretences made Im|bargoes of our Merchants goods, and every nation on the lea&s;t occa&s;ion was ready to continue, and
<PB N="3" REF="2">&s;light us; So great was the apparent diminutions of the ancient honour of this Crown, and high reputati|ons of this our Nation, wherewith the Commons were more troubled, calling to remembrance, how formerly in <HI>France,</HI> in <HI>Spaine,</HI> in <HI>Holy</HI>-land, and every where by Sea &amp; Land the vallour of this Kingdom had been bet|ter valued, &amp; even in latter times, within remembrance, when we had no alliance with <HI>Denmarke,</HI> or in <HI>Germany,</HI> nor friends in <HI>Italy, Scotland,</HI> (to &s;ay no more) Unu|nited; <HI>Ireland</HI> not &s;etled in Peace, and much le&s;&s;e &s;e|curity at home, when <HI>Spaine</HI> as ambitious as it is under a King they call their wi&s;e&s;t, the hou&s;e of <HI>Austria</HI> as great and potent, and &s;trengthened with a malicious league in <HI>France,</HI> of per&s;ons ill-affected, when the Low-countries had no being, yet by con&s;tant councells, and old Engli&s;h wayes, even then that Spani&s;h pride was a|bated, the greatne&s;&s;e of the hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> now made &s;o formidable to us, was well re&s;i&s;ted, and to the united Provinces of the Low-countries, &s;uch a beginning, growth and &s;trength was given, as gave us honour over all the Chri&s;tian world.</P>
<P>The Commons therefore wondring at the Evills they &s;uffered, and debating of the cau&s;es of them, found that they were many, drawn like lines to one circumference of the decay of the Trade, honour, and reputation of this Kingdom; which all as in one Center, met in one great man, the cau&s;e of all, whom I am here to name, <HI>The Duke of Buckingham.</HI></P>
<P>Here Sir <HI>D. Digs</HI> pau&s;ed, as wondring to &s;ee the Duke pre&s;ent, yet he took the Roll, &amp; read the Preamble here following to the charges, with the Dukes long Title.</P>
<P>For the &s;peedy redre&s;&s;e of the great Evills and Mi&s;|chiefs, and of the cau&s;es of the&s;e Evills and Mi&s;chiefs,
<PB N="4" REF="3">which this Kingdom of <HI>England</HI> now grievou&s;ly &s;uffer|eth, and of late yeers hath &s;uffered, and to the honour and &s;afety of our Soveraign Lord the King, &amp; of his crown and dignity, to the welfare of his people the Commons of this pre&s;ent Parliament, by authority of our &s;aid So|veraign Lord the King a&s;&s;embled, Do by this their Bill &s;hew and declare, again&s;t <HI>George,</HI> Duke, Marque&s;&s;e and Earl of Buckingham, Earl of Coventry, Vi&s;count <HI>Villers,</HI> Baron of Whaddon, great Admirall of the Kingdoms of England &amp; Ireland, and of the principality of Wales, and of the Dominion and Ilands of the &s;ame, and of the Town of Calice, and of the Marches of the &s;ame, and of Normandy, Ga&s;coin, Guyene, Generall Governour of the Seas and Ships of the &s;aid Kingdom, Lievtenant ge|nerall, Admirall Captain generall and governour of his Maje&s;ties Royall Fleet and Army, lately &s;et forth, Ma|&s;ter of the hor&s;e of our Soveraigne Lord the King, Lord Warden, Chancellor and admirall of the Cinque ports, and of the members thereof, Con&s;table of Dover-Ca|&s;tle of Wind&s;or, Gentleman of his Maje&s;ties Bedcham|ber, one of his Maje&s;ties mo&s;t honourable privy Coun|cell, in his Realms both of <HI>England, Scotland</HI> &amp; <HI>Ireland,</HI> Lord Leivtenant of the counties of Middle&s;ex &amp; Buck|ingham, and Knight of the mo&s;t honourable order of the Garter, the mi&s;demeanors, mi&s;pri&s;ions, offences, crimes, and other matters compri&s;ed in the Articles hereafter following, and him the &s;aid Duke do accu&s;e and impeach of the &s;aid mi&s;demeanors, mi&s;pri&s;ions, offences and crimes.</P>
<P>My Lords; The lofty title of this mighty man me thinks doth rai&s;e my &s;pirits to &s;peake with a <HI>Paulo maio|ra canamus,</HI> and let it not di&s;plea&s;e your Lord&s;hips if for our foundation, I compare the beautifull &s;tructture
<PB N="5" REF="3">and fair compo&s;ition of this monarchy wherein we live, to the great work of God, the world it &s;elf, in which the &s;ollid body of incorporate Earth and Seas (as I con|ceave) in regard of our husbandry, manifactures and commerce by Land and Seas may well re&s;emble us the Commons, and as it is incompa&s;&s;ed with Air and Fire and Sphears cele&s;tiall of Planets, and a firmament of fix|ed &s;tarres, all which receive their heat, and life, &amp; light, from one great glorious &s;un, even like the King, our &s;o|veraigne; &s;o that firmament of fixed &s;tars, I take to be your Lord&s;hips; tho&s;e planets the great officers of the Kingdome, that pure element of fire, the mo&s;t religious, zealous, pious Clergy, and the reverend Judges, Ma|gi&s;trates, and Mini&s;ters of Law and Ju&s;tice; the Air, wherein we breath all, who truly labour for them all, and though they be the foot&s;toole and the lowe&s;t, yet may well be &s;aid, to be the fettled Center of the &s;tate.</P>
<P>Now (my good Lords) if that glorious Sun by his powerfull beames of grace and favour &s;hall draw from the bowels of this earth an exhalation that &s;hal take fire and burne and &s;hine out like a &s;tarre; it need not be mar|velled at, if the poore commons gaze and wonder at the Commet, and when they feele the effects, impute all to the corruptible matter of it; But if &s;uch an im|perfect M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">teor appear like that in the la&s;t age in the Chair of Ca&s;&s;iopeia among&s;t the fixed &s;tarres them|&s;elves, where Ari&s;totle and the old Philo&s;ophers con|ceaved there is no place for &s;uch corruptions; then as the learned Mathematitians were troubled to ob&s;erve, the irregular motions, the prodigious magnitude, the ominous progno&s;ticks of the Meteor, &s;o the commons when they &s;ee a bla&s;ing &s;tarre, in cour&s;e &s;o exorbitant
<PB N="6" REF="4">in the affaires of the Common-wealth, cannot but looke up upon it, and for want of pro&s;pectives, com|mend the neerer examinations thereof to your Lord|&s;hips, who may behold it at a better di&s;tance, &s;uch a prodigious commet the Commons apprehend the Duke of Buckingham to be, again&s;t whom, and his irregular wayes, there are by learned Gentlemen, legall Articles of charge to be delivered to your Lord&s;hips, which I am generally fir&s;t commanded to lay open.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, the Officers of this Kingdome, which are the eyes, the eares, and the hands of this common-wealth, the&s;e have been ingro&s;&s;ed, bought and &s;old, and many of the greate&s;t of them holden in the Dukes own hands, which &s;everally in former times gave &s;ufficient content to the greate&s;t Favourites, and were worke enough for the wi&s;e&s;t councellors; by meanes whereof what &s;trange abu&s;es, what infinite neglects have followed, the Seas have been ungarded, Trade di&s;turbed, Marchants op|pre&s;&s;ed, their Ships, and even one of the Royall Ships by cunning practi&s;e delivered over into forraign hands, and contrary to our good Kings intention, imployed to the prejuduce, almo&s;t to the Ruine of friends of our owne Religion.</P>
<P>Next, Titles and degrees of honour, tho&s;e mo&s;t pre|cious Jewels of the crown, a trea&s;ure ine&s;timable, where|with your noble ance&s;tors (my Lords) were well re|warded for eminent &amp; Publique &s;ervices in the co~mon-wealth at home, and for brave exployts abroad: when covered all with du&s;t and bloud, they &s;weat in &s;ervice for the honour of this Crown, what backwayes, and what by-wayes have been found out by this Duke, is too well known unto your honours; whereas anciently it was the honour of England, as among&s;t the Romans,
<PB N="7" REF="4">the way to the Temple of honour, was through the Temple of vertue; But I am commanded to pre&s;&s;e this no farther, then to let your Lord&s;hips know, one in|&s;tance may perhaps be given of &s;ome one Lord com|pelled to purcha&s;e honour.</P>
<P>Thirdly, as divers of the Dukes poore kindred have been rai&s;ed to great honours, which have been, and are likely to be more chargeable and burthen&s;ome to the Crown, for the Lands and Revenues, and the Trea|&s;ures of his Maje&s;tie, have been intercepted, and ex|hau&s;ted by this Duke, and his friends; and &s;trangely mi&s;-imployed, with the confu&s;ion of the Accompts, and overthrow of the well e&s;tabli&s;hed ancient Orders of his Maje&s;ties Exchequer.</P>
<P>And the la&s;t of charges which are prepared, will be an injurie offered to the per&s;on of the late King of ble&s;&s;ed memory, that is with God; of which as your Lord|&s;hips may have heard heretofore, you &s;hall anon have farther informations.</P>
<P>Now upon this occa&s;ion, I am to take care of the ho|nour of the King our Soveraigne that lives, (long may he live to our comfort, and the good of the Chri&s;tian world) and al&s;o of his ble&s;&s;ed Father, to the grief of the Co~mons &amp; their great di&s;ta&s;t, the Lord Duke, un|worthily (they conceive) did ca&s;t &s;ome ill odour of his own foule wayes, whereas ancient &s;ervants were wont to beare (as indeed they ought) their ma&s;ters faults, and not ca&s;t their own on them: It is well known, the King that is with God, had the &s;ame power, and the &s;ame wi&s;dome before he knew this Duke; yea, and the &s;ame affections too, through which, as a good and gracious ma&s;ter, he advanced &s;ome &s;tars of your Lord&s;hips fir|mament, in who&s;e times the exorbitance of will, this
<PB N="8" REF="5">cendency of power, &s;uch placing and di&s;placing of Offi|cers, &s;uch irregular running into by-cour&s;es of the pla|nets, &s;uch &s;ole and &s;ingular managing of the great af|faires of the Kingdome was never heard of; And there|fore to the Lord Duke and this procurement by infor|mation, the faults complained of by the commons are to be imputed; And for our gracious Soveraigne that lives, who&s;e name hath been u&s;ed, and now perhaps may be for this Dukes ju&s;tification: The commons know well that among&s;t His Maje&s;ties Royall Vertues, His Piety to His Father, hath made him a pious nouri&s;her of His affections, even to this Lord Duke, on whom His Ma|je&s;ty out of that con&s;ideration, hath wrought a kinde of wonder, making favour Hereditary; But the abu&s;e thereof mu&s;t be the Dukes own; and if there have been any command, as were or may be pretended, his mi&s;in|formation hath procured them, whereas the Lawes of England teach us, that Kings cannot command ill, or unlawfull things, when ever they &s;peak through their letters pattents, or their &s;eals; If the thing be evill, the&s;e Letters Pattents are voyd, and what&s;oever ill event &s;ucceeds, the executioners of &s;uch commands mu&s;t ever an&s;wer for them.</P>
<P>Thus my Lords in performance of my duty, my weakne&s;&s;e hath been trouble&s;ome to your Lord&s;hips; It is now high time humbly to entreat your pardons, and to give way to a learned Gentleman to begin a more particular charge.</P>
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