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A44190	Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.	Memoirs of Denzil Lord Holles, Baron of Ifield in Sussex, from the year 1641 to 1648	1699.0		.xml	application/xml	52820	1408	57	If these or any other , even that malicious and treacherous Lord Savil , can say , that at any time , upon any occasion , I propos'd any thing that look'd towards a self End , the driving of any particular Interest , setting up of any Party , but merely to prevent these fearful Precipices into which the Kingdom is fallen , by the art and practices of these Enemies of Peace , and to attain such a settlement , as all honest moderate Men might have found in it both security and satisfaction : If they can , let them speak ; and if they prove one tittle , I will put my Mouth in the dust , I will bear my punishment , and expect mercy neither from God nor Man ; nay , even in relation to the Army , and those persons who have a long time sought my ruin , if all I desir'd and aim'd at in disbanding that schismatical factious Soldiery , in carrying on the business of the House in opposition to that Party , and even in this last great Treason of levying War against King , Parliament , and Kingdom ( as they stile it ) which was only to do my best endeavour to defend them and my self from a rebellious Army that was marching up for all our destructions , contrary to the Orders of both Houses , against whom it first rebell'd instead of an obedient disbanding ; then cudgel'd them to own it for their Army , forc'd the City into a trouble , and shew of opposition to what it had made the Parliament do ; then took that occasion to march both against it and the Parliament . But how this misery is befallen us , the Kingdom brought so low , and so unworthily , unhappily , inconsiderately deliver'd over into such base and ignoble hands , the Parliament abused , betrayed , and now become in show and in name the Instrument of their Tyranny , but in truth it self made nothing ; and ( if the presence of the right Speaker be so essential to the being and acting of a Parliament , and so necessary , that Sir Edward Cook says in his Institutes the House cannot sit without him ) then is there clearly at this present no Parliament but an Assembly of Men , acted and moved by the Art and Malice of some few sitting among them , by the means of an Army , which those few , those Vipers of the Parliament , that have eaten out the Bowels of their Parent and destroyed her , raised ( that is , abused the Parliament , making them raise it ) under colour of necessity for the preservation of the Parliament and Kingdom ; when in truth it was out of a design to make themselves Masters of both , that neither of them might ever enjoy Peace and Liberty more , to blast our Hopes , nip all the fair Blossoms of Reformation , dash in sunder all our preparations and endeavours for the establishing of a happy Peace ; and so a glorious promising Morning became a Day of darkness , a Day of treading down and perplexity : this , I say , will be worth the enquiry , and perhaps be no difficult thing to discover , and make so plain , that he who runs may read .	cache/A44190.xml	txt/A44190.txt
