The good old cause of England revived and asserted with proposals humbly tendered to the consideration of the Parliament, in order to a setlement, security, and peace in this nation / by G.P. and divers other well affected persons.
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             The good old cause of England revived and asserted with proposals humbly tendered to the consideration of the Parliament, in order to a setlement, security, and peace in this nation / by G.P. and divers other well affected persons.
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           THE
           Good
           Old
           CAUSE
           OF
           ENGLAND
           
             Revived
          
           and
           
             Asserted
             ,
          
           With
           Proposals
           humbly
           tendered
           to
           the
           Consideration
           of
           the
           
             PARLIAMENT
             ;
          
           In
           Order
           to
           a
           
             Setlement
             ,
             Security
          
           and
           
             Peace
          
           in
           This
           NATION
           .
        
         
           By
           
             G.
             P.
          
           And
           divers
           other
           well
           affected
           Persons
           .
        
         
           
             LONDON
             ,
          
           Printed
           by
           
             Thomas
             Leach
          
           at
           the
           Faulcon
           in
           Shoe-Lane
           ,
           1658.
           
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           The
           good
           old
           Cause
           of
           
             England
          
           Revived
           ,
           and
           Asserted
           ;
           with
           Proposals
           humbly
           tendered
           to
           the
           consideration
           of
           the
           
             Parliament
             :
          
           In
           order
           to
           a
           Setlement
           ,
           Security
           ,
           and
           Peace
           ,
           in
           the
           Nation
           ,
           
             &
             c..
             
          
        
         
           THat
           the
           power
           of
           the
           former
           Committees
           for
           removing
           Malignants
           and
           Delinquants
           ,
           from
           Offices
           of
           Power
           and
           Trust
           in
           the
           Common-wealth
           ,
           being
           many
           years
           since
           determined
           ;
        
         
           1.
           
           Many
           honest
           well-affected
           persons
           have
           been
           removed
           ,
           and
           left
           out
           of
           authority
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Divers
           Malignants
           and
           ill-affected
           persons
           have
           crept
           into
           power
           ,
           as
           Judges
           ,
           Justices
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           Commissioners
           of
           the
           monthly
           Assessement
           ,
           &c.
           by
           these
           means
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           Some
           by
           Marriages
           and
           Alliances
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Others
           by
           the
           favour
           and
           countenance
           of
           Eminent
           Persons
           ,
           in
           authority
           for
           private
           ends
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Many
           have
           intruded
           and
           insinuated
           themselves
           into
           the
           society
           and
           fellowship
           ,
           of
           the
           honest
           ,
           godly
           Congregations
           ,
           and
           by
           their
           false
           and
           deceitful
           demeanors
           ,
           have
           undiservedly
           acquired
           the
           good
           opinion
           and
           certificates
           of
           those
           godly
           ,
           harmless
           people
           ,
           who
           did
           not
           search
           into
           the
           bottom
           of
           their
           designs
           ,
           nor
           discovered
           that
           ugly
           shape
           ,
           covered
           with
           that
           outward
           vizard
           and
           meer
           formality
           of
           Religion
           ,
           denying
           the
           power
           thereof
           ,
           the
           better
           to
           conceal
           their
           evil
           purposes
           .
        
         
         
           And
           by
           these
           wyles
           having
           crept
           into
           authority
           ,
           may
           prove
           the
           most
           dangerous
           Instruments
           in
           the
           Common-wealth
           :
           For
           the
           most
           notorious
           Cavaliers
           ,
           and
           enemies
           of
           our
           peace
           ,
           would
           accept
           of
           places
           of
           honour
           ,
           power
           ,
           and
           profit
           from
           their
           enemies
           hands
           ,
           for
           these
           reasons
           &
           ends
           :
        
         
           1.
           
           They
           are
           thereby
           in
           a
           better
           capacity
           to
           discover
           to
           the
           common
           enemy
           the
           honest
           designs
           and
           purposes
           of
           the
           well-affected
           people
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           To
           serve
           ,
           countenance
           ,
           and
           protect
           their
           own
           malignant
           party
           and
           interest
           ;
           and
           to
           oppress
           and
           undermine
           the
           honest
           well-affected
           party
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           They
           being
           conscious
           of
           their
           own
           guilt
           and
           incapacity
           ,
           are
           the
           more
           ready
           to
           act
           arbitrarily
           at
           the
           will
           and
           pleasure
           of
           any
           person
           ,
           that
           shall
           be
           the
           means
           to
           recommend
           them
           to
           power
           and
           authority
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           And
           thereby
           bring
           the
           Government
           into
           contempt
           ,
           in
           the
           judgment
           and
           affections
           of
           the
           good
           people
           ,
           and
           all
           conducing
           to
           the
           introducing
           and
           re-investing
           of
           the
           common
           enemy
           ,
           and
           his
           party
           ,
           into
           power
           and
           authority
           in
           the
           Nations
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           boldness
           of
           these
           subtle
           Cavaliers
           have
           been
           such
           ,
           That
           (
           having
           procured
           themselves
           to
           be
           Elected
           by
           their
           malignant
           parties
           and
           interests
           in
           the
           Countries
           )
           they
           had
           the
           confidence
           to
           sit
           in
           the
           great
           Council
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           whereby
           they
           are
           in
           a
           capacity
           to
           carry
           on
           their
           malignant
           designs
           ,
           and
           to
           challenge
           equal
           voices
           with
           those
           Eminent
           Members
           that
           have
           spent
           their
           blood
           and
           treasure
           to
           serve
           this
           Common-wealth
           ,
           and
           redeem
           it
           ●rom
           its
           former
           Slavery
           and
           Tyranny
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           that
           Glorious
           and
           Blessed
           Reformation
           ,
           so
           often
           promised
           ,
           vowed
           ,
           and
           protested
           to
           be
           wrought
           in
           these
           Nations
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           pleased
           the
           Lord
           in
           a
           providential
           manner
           to
           point
           at
           ,
           and
           discover
           two
           of
           these
           notorious
           Cavaliers
           ,
           lately
           expelled
           the
           House
           .
        
         
           But
           it
           is
           to
           be
           feared
           there
           may
           be
           many
           more
           of
           like
           guilt
           and
           principles
           that
           are
           left
           behind
           ,
           who
           may
           prove
           the
           grand
           obstructors
           of
           the
           blessed
           work
           of
           Reformation
           in
           all
           these
           three
           Nations
           ,
           for
           which
           so
           much
           blood
           and
           
           treasure
           hath
           in
           many
           years
           together
           ,
           been
           spilt
           ,
           which
           some
           persons
           that
           know
           ,
           will
           not
           ,
           and
           others
           dare
           not
           discover
           to
           the
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           
             It
             is
             therefore
             humbly
             Proposed
             .
          
           
             THat
             the
             Parliament
             will
             order
             ,
             that
             no
             Persons
             who
             have
             born
             arms
             for
             ,
             ayded
             or
             assisted
             the
             late
             King
             ,
             and
             his
             party
             ,
             in
             the
             late
             war
             against
             the
             Parliament
             ,
             or
             have
             been
             sequestred
             ,
             or
             voted
             delinquents
             ,
             do
             sit
             in
             Parliament
             within
             eight
             dayes
             after
             publication
             of
             such
             order
             ,
             upon
             paenalty
             of
             sequestration
             of
             their
             estates
             ,
             or
             such
             other
             fine
             and
             punishment
             as
             the
             Parliament
             shall
             think
             fit
             to
             appoint
             .
          
           
             1.
             
             And
             by
             this
             means
             those
             that
             know
             themselves
             to
             be
             guilty
             ,
             will
             immediately
             withdraw
             ,
             without
             the
             trouble
             of
             charges
             ,
             and
             examination
             of
             witnesses
             .
          
           
             2.
             
             That
             a
             standing
             Committee
             be
             appointed
             by
             Parliament
             from
             time
             to
             time
             to
             receive
             all
             complaints
             against
             all
             Malignants
             ,
             Delinquents
             ,
             and
             ill-affected
             persons
             for
             bearing
             Offices
             ,
             contrary
             to
             the
             several
             Acts
             ,
             Orders
             ,
             Ordinances
             and
             Declarations
             of
             Parliaments
             ,
             with
             power
             to
             impose
             Fines
             and
             Imprisonments
             on
             the
             offenders
             ,
             in
             case
             they
             hold
             ,
             or
             exercise
             their
             offices
             after
             publication
             made
             to
             the
             contrary
             .
             And
             that
             the
             same
             Committee
             may
             have
             power
             to
             send
             for
             persons
             ,
             papers
             ,
             and
             witnesses
             ,
             to
             examine
             witnesses
             on
             oath
             ,
             and
             to
             grant
             Commissions
             to
             the
             respective
             Counties
             from
             whence
             such
             complaints
             are
             made
             ▪
             and
             where
             the
             witnesses
             reside
             .
             And
             that
             the
             one
             half
             of
             the
             Fines
             may
             be
             payed
             into
             the
             publick
             Treasury
             and
             the
             other
             to
             go
             to
             the
             Prosecutor
             .
          
           
             And
             lest
             this
             proposition
             may
             seem
             to
             some
             unreasonable
             ,
             It
             is
             thought
             fit
             herein
             to
             insert
             several
             Resolves
             of
             the
             late
             Long
             Parliament
             ,
             tending
             to
             the
             purpose
             aforesaid
             .
          
        
         
         
           
             
               Die
               Veneris
               9.
               
               Julii
               1647.
               
            
          
           
             
               REsolved
               ,
            
             That
             no
             person
             that
             hath
             been
             in
             actual
             Wars
             against
             the
             Parliament
             ,
             or
             hath
             acted
             by
             the
             Commission
             of
             Array
             ,
             or
             voluntarily
             aided
             the
             King
             in
             this
             War
             against
             the
             Parliament
             ,
             or
             that
             since
             the
             twentieth
             of
             May
             in
             the
             year
             ,
             1642.
             hath
             sued
             for
             ,
             or
             voluntarily
             accepted
             a
             pardon
             from
             the
             King
             ,
             or
             hath
             directed
             ,
             advised
             ,
             assisted
             ,
             signed
             ,
             or
             consented
             unto
             the
             Cessation
             of
             Ireland
             ,
             or
             otherwise
             assisted
             the
             Rebellion
             of
             Ireland
             ,
             or
             stands
             sequestred
             by
             authority
             of
             Parliament
             for
             Delinquency
             ,
             shall
             presume
             to
             sit
             in
             this
             House
             .
          
           
             
               Resolved
               ,
            
             That
             the
             persons
             that
             shall
             be
             comprehended
             within
             this
             Order
             ,
             shall
             incurre
             the
             penalty
             of
             being
             put
             into
             the
             second
             branch
             of
             the
             fourth
             Qualification
             in
             the
             Propositions
             concerning
             such
             Members
             as
             deserted
             the
             Parliament
             ,
             and
             sate
             in
             the
             unlawful
             Assembly
             at
             
               Oxon.
               
            
          
           
             
               Resolved
               ,
            
             That
             such
             Members
             as
             are
             in
             Town
             ,
             or
             within
             ten
             miles
             of
             the
             City
             of
             
               London
               ,
            
             as
             shall
             conceive
             themselves
             concerned
             in
             this
             Order
             ,
             shall
             have
             liberty
             to
             present
             their
             Case
             to
             the
             House
             under
             their
             hand
             in
             writing
             before
             Thursday
             next
             .
          
           
             
               Resolved
               ,
            
             That
             this
             be
             added
             to
             the
             last
             Vote
             ,
             That
             if
             any
             of
             the
             Members
             to
             whom
             the
             liberty
             of
             twenty
             dayes
             is
             granted
             ,
             shall
             come
             to
             the
             House
             within
             the
             said
             space
             of
             twenty
             dayes
             ,
             shall
             have
             four
             dayes
             liberty
             only
             ,
             within
             the
             said
             former
             twenty
             dayes
             ,
             to
             present
             their
             Case
             under
             their
             hand
             in
             writing
             to
             the
             House
             .
          
           
             
               
                 John
                 Smith
              
               Clerk
               of
               the
               Parliament
               to
               attend
               the
               Commons
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             
               Die
               Jovis
               15.
               
               Julii
               1647.
               
            
          
           
             
               REsolved
               ,
            
             That
             this
             House
             doth
             declare
             ,
             That
             such
             Members
             of
             this
             House
             as
             have
             delivered
             in
             their
             particular
             Cases
             ,
             and
             as
             shall
             within
             four
             dayes
             present
             
             their
             Cases
             in
             reference
             to
             the
             Votes
             concerning
             such
             Members
             as
             are
             not
             to
             sit
             in
             this
             House
             ,
             shall
             not
             incurre
             any
             further
             danger
             or
             penalty
             ,
             other
             than
             their
             being
             disabled
             to
             sit
             as
             Members
             of
             Parliament
             .
          
           
             
               Resolved
               ;
            
             That
             those
             Members
             to
             whom
             Liberty
             of
             twenty
             dayes
             was
             given
             by
             former
             order
             to
             present
             their
             Cases
             ,
             and
             shall
             according
             to
             the
             said
             Order
             present
             their
             Cases
             ,
             shall
             incurre
             no
             further
             penalty
             upon
             any
             of
             their
             Cases
             ,
             then
             being
             disabled
             to
             sit
             as
             Members
             of
             Parliament
             .
          
           
             The
             state
             of
             the
             several
             Cases
             of
             
               John
               Doyley
            
             and
             
               Bennet
               Hoskìns
               ,
            
             Esqs
             ,
             Sir
             
               Philip
               Percival
               ,
               Thomas
               Cholmeley
               ,
            
             
             and
             
               Thomas
               Dacres
            
             
               Esq
            
             were
             all
             of
             them
             this
             day
             read
             ,
             and
             ordered
             ,
             That
             they
             be
             referred
             to
             the
             Committee
             where
             Mr.
             
               John
               Corbet
            
             hath
             the
             Chair
             ,
             and
             the
             Committee
             hath
             power
             to
             conferre
             with
             ,
             and
             examine
             the
             Gentlemen
             respectively
             upon
             their
             several
             Cases
             ,
             and
             concerning
             any
             other
             thing
             comprehended
             within
             the
             Votes
             ,
             whereupon
             their
             Papers
             were
             brought
             in
             ,
             and
             upon
             all
             circumstances
             ,
             and
             thereupon
             to
             ascertaine
             their
             several
             Cases
             ,
             and
             report
             the
             same
             to
             the
             House
             .
          
           
             
               
                 John
                 Smith
              
               Clerk
               of
               the
               Parliament
               to
               attend
               the
               Commons
               .
            
          
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A54932e-160
           
             Observe
             that
             these
             Gentlemen
             withdrew
             and
             did
             not
             sit
             in
             that
             Parliament
             .