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         Speech at the delivery of the protestation to the Lords of the upper House of Parliament, 4 May 1641
         Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.
      
       
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             Densell Hollis esq. his speech at the delivery of the protestation to the Lords of the upper House of Parliament 4 May, 1641 wherein is set forth the reasons that moved the House of Commons to make the said protestation : together with a short narration of the severall grievances of the kingdome.
             Speech at the delivery of the protestation to the Lords of the upper House of Parliament, 4 May 1641
             Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron, 1599-1680.
          
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             [London?] :
             1641.
          
           
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       A44193  R8605  (Wing H2468).  civilwar no Densell Hollis Esq; his speech at the delivery of the protestation to the Lords of the upper House of Parliament. 4. May, 1641. Wherein is s Holles, Denzil Holles, Baron 1641    1202 7 0 0 0 0 0 58 D  The  rate of 58 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 
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             DENSELL
             HOLLIS
          
           
             Esq
          
           HIS
           SPEECH
           At
           the
           delivery
           of
           the
           PROTESTATION
           to
           the
           Lords
           of
           the
           upper
           House
           of
           
             Parliament
             .
          
           4.
           
           
             May
             ,
          
           1641.
           
           Wherein
           is
           set
           forth
           the
           reasons
           that
           moved
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           to
           make
           the
           said
           
             Protestation
             .
          
           Together
           with
           a
           short
           narration
           of
           the
           severall
           grievances
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           .
        
         
           Printed
           ,
           for
           
             I.
             A.
          
           1641.
           
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           Densell
           Hollis
           
             Esq
          
           his
           Speech
           at
           the
           devery
           of
           the
           Protestation
           to
           the
           Lords
           ,
           May
           the
           fourth
           .
           1641.
           
        
         
           
             My
             Lords
             ,
          
        
         
           THe
           Knights
           ,
           Citizens
           and
           Burgesses
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           having
           taken
           into
           their
           consideration
           the
           present
           estate
           and
           condition
           of
           this
           Kingdome
           ,
           they
           find
           it
           surrounded
           with
           varietie
           of
           pernitious
           dangers
           ,
           and
           destructive
           designs
           ,
           practises
           and
           plots
           ,
           against
           the
           well
           being
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           those
           designs
           ,
           hatched
           within
           our
           own
           bowels
           ,
           and
           Viper-like
           working
           our
           owne
           destruction
           .
        
         
         
           They
           finde
           Iesuits
           and
           Prests
           conspiring
           with
           ill
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ,
           to
           destroy
           our
           Religion
           ,
           they
           finde
           ill
           Ministers
           conioyn'd
           together
           to
           sobvert
           our
           Lawes
           and
           liberties
           .
           They
           finde
           obstructions
           of
           Iustice
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           life-blood
           of
           every
           State
           ,
           and
           having
           a
           free
           passage
           from
           the
           Soveraigne
           power
           where
           it
           is
           primarily
           seated
           as
           the
           life-blood
           in
           the
           heart
           ,
           and
           there
           derived
           from
           the
           several
           Iudicatories
           ,
           or
           through
           so
           many
           veines
           ,
           into
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           this
           great
           collective
           Body
           ,
           doth
           give
           warmth
           and
           motion
           ,
           to
           every
           part
           &
           member
           ,
           which
           is
           nourished
           and
           inlivened
           by
           it
           .
           But
           being
           once
           precluded
           stoppd
           ,
           and
           reared
           as
           the
           particular
           must
           of
           necessity
           faint
           and
           languish
           ,
           so
           must
           the
           whole
           frame
           of
           Government
           be
           dissolved
           .
        
         
           And
           consequently
           Soveraignty
           it selfe
           (
           which
           as
           the
           heart
           in
           the
           bo●●
           ,
           is
           
             pri●um
             movens
             ,
             &
             ultimum
             moriens
             ,
          
           must
           dye
           and
           perish
           in
           the
           generall
           dissolution
           ,
           and
           all
           things
           as
           in
           the
           beginning
           
             in
             antiquum
             Ch●os
             .
             )
          
        
         
           My
           Lords
           ,
        
         
           They
           find
           the
           property
           of
           the
           Subiect
           invaded
           and
           violated
           ,
           his
           estate
           rent
           from
           him
           by
           illegall
           taxations
           ,
           Monopolies
           and
           proiects
           almost
           upon
           every
           thing
           that
           is
           for
           the
           use
           of
           man
           ,
           not
           onely
           upon
           superfluities
           but
           necessaries
           :
           and
           that
           to
           enrich
           the
           Vermine
           and
           Caterpillers
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           and
           impoverish
           good
           
           Subiects
           ,
           to
           take
           the
           meat
           from
           the
           Children
           ,
           and
           give
           it
           to
           Dogges
           .
        
         
           My
           Lords
           ,
           If
           the
           Commons
           finde
           these
           things
           ,
           they
           conceive
           they
           must
           needes
           bee
           ill
           Counsels
           that
           have
           brought
           us
           into
           this
           condition
           .
        
         
           These
           Counsels
           have
           put
           all
           into
           a
           Combustion
           ,
           have
           discouraged
           the
           hearts
           of
           all
           true
           English
           men
           ;
           and
           brought
           two
           Armies
           into
           our
           bowels
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Vulture
           upon
           
             Prometheus
             ,
          
           eates
           through
           ,
           and
           sucks
           and
           gnawes
           our
           very
           hearts
           out
           .
           
             
               Hic
               Dolor
               ,
               sed
               ubi
               Mediei●a
               ?
            
          
        
         
           Heretofore
           Parliaments
           were
           the
           
             Catholicall
             ,
          
           the
           balme
           of
           
             Gilead
             ,
          
           which
           healed
           our
           wounds
           ,
           restored
           our
           spirits
           ,
           and
           made
           up
           the
           breaches
           of
           the
           Land
           .
        
         
           But
           of
           late
           yeares
           they
           have
           〈◊〉
           like
           the
           fig-tree
           in
           the
           Gospell
           ,
           without
           efficacy
           ,
           without
           fruit
           ,
           onely
           destructive
           to
           their
           perticular
           members
           ,
           who
           discharged
           〈◊〉
           〈◊〉
           and
           consciences
           no
           way
           beneficiall
           to
           the
           Common-wealth
           .
           
             Nobis
             exi●iale
             ,
             nec
             Reipublico
             〈◊〉
             .
          
           As
           hee
           said
           in
           
             Tacitus
             ,
          
           being
           taken
           away
           still
           as
           
             Elias
          
           was
           with
           a
           whirle-wind
           ,
           ne●●r
           comming
           to
           any
           maturity
           ,
           or
           to
           their
           naturall
           end
           whereas
           they
           should
           be
           like
           the
           bl●ssed
           old
           man
           ,
           who
           dieth
           ,
           
             plenus
             dierum
             ,
          
           in
           a
           full
           age
           after
           hee
           had
           fought
           a
           good
           fight
           ,
           and
           ourcome
           all
           his
           enemies
           ,
           
           Or
           as
           the
           shocke
           of
           wheat
           ,
           which
           commeth
           in
           due
           season
           to
           fill
           our
           Granaries
           with
           corne
           ,
           uphold
           our
           lives
           with
           the
           staffe
           of
           bread
           ,
           for
           Parliaments
           are
           our
           
             prius
             quotidianus
             ,
          
           our
           true
           bread
           ,
           all
           other
           waies
           are
           but
           
             Quelkachoes
          
           which
           yeeld
           no
           true
           nourishment
           ,
           bread
           ,
           nor
           good
           blood
           .
        
         
           The
           very
           Parliament
           which
           hath
           sate
           so
           long
           ,
           hath
           but
           beat
           the
           ayre
           ,
           and
           strive
           against
           the
           streame
           ,
           I
           may
           truly
           say
           the
           wind
           and
           tide
           ,
           hath
           still
           beene
           against
           us
           .
           The
           same
           ill
           Counsell
           which
           first
           raised
           the
           storme
           ,
           and
           almost
           shipwrackt
           the
           Cummon-wealth
           ,
           they
           still
           continue
           ,
           they
           blow
           strong
           like
           the
           East
           wind
           ,
           that
           brought
           the
           Locusts
           over
           their
           Counsels
           ,
           crosse
           our
           designes
           ,
           cast
           difficulties
           in
           our
           way
           ,
           hinder
           our
           proceedings
           ,
           and
           make
           all
           that
           we
           do
           to
           be
           fruitlesse
           and
           ineffectuall
           :
           They
           make
           us
           not
           masters
           of
           our
           businesse
           ,
           and
           so
           not
           masters
           of
           many
           ,
           which
           have
           beene
           the
           great
           businesse
           of
           this
           Parliament
           ,
           that
           we
           might
           pay
           the
           Armies
           ,
           according
           to
           our
           promises
           and
           engagements
           .
        
         
           For
           my
           Lords
           ,
           our
           not
           effecting
           of
           the
           good
           things
           which
           we
           had
           undertaken
           ,
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Church
           and
           of
           the
           Common-wealth
           ;
           hath
           wounded
           our
           reputation
           ,
           and
           taken
           off
           from
           our
           credit
           .
        
         
           Is
           it
           not
           time
           then
           ,
           my
           Lords
           ,
           that
           we
           should
           unite
           and
           concentrate
           our selves
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           
           this
           
             Anteperistasis
             ,
          
           of
           hurtfull
           and
           malicious
           intentions
           and
           practices
           against
           us
           .
        
         
           My
           Lords
           ,
           it
           is
           most
           agreeable
           to
           nature
           ,
           and
           I
           am
           sure
           most
           agreeable
           to
           reason
           ,
           in
           respect
           of
           the
           present
           coniuncture
           of
           our
           affairs
           ,
           for
           one
           maine
           Engine
           by
           which
           our
           enemies
           worke
           our
           mischiefe
           ,
           is
           by
           infusing
           an
           opinion
           &
           beleef
           into
           the
           world
           ,
           that
           we
           are
           not
           united
           among
           our selves
           .
           But
           like
           
             Sampsons
          
           Foxes
           ,
           we
           draw
           severall
           waies
           ,
           and
           tend
           to
           severall
           ends
           .
        
         
           To
           defeat
           the
           Counsels
           of
           these
           
             Achitophels
             ,
          
           which
           would
           involve
           us
           .
           Our
           Religion
           ,
           our
           being
           ,
           our
           Lawes
           ,
           our
           liberties
           ,
           all
           that
           can
           be
           neere
           and
           deere
           unto
           an
           honest
           soule
           ,
           in
           one
           universall
           and
           generall
           desolation
           ,
           to
           defeat
           I
           say
           ,
           the
           Counsels
           of
           evill
           
             Achitophels
             ,
          
           the
           Knights
           ,
           Citizens
           and
           Burgesses
           ,
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           (
           knowing
           themselves
           to
           be
           specially
           entrusted
           with
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           whole
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           Conscience
           are
           perswaded
           that
           the
           dangers
           are
           so
           eminent
           ,
           as
           they
           wil
           admit
           of
           no
           delay
           )
           have
           thought
           fit
           to
           declare
           their
           united
           affections
           by
           entring
           into
           an
           assosciation
           amongst
           themselves
           and
           by
           making
           a
           solemne
           protestation
           and
           vow
           unto
           their
           God
           ,
           that
           they
           wil
           unanimously
           endevour
           to
           oppose
           and
           prevent
           the
           Counsells
           and
           Counsellours
           which
           have
           brough
           upon
           us
           all
           these
           miseries
           and
           the
           feares
           of
           greater
           ,
           to
           prevent
           the
           ends
           and
           bring
           the
           Authors
           of
           them
           to
           condigne
           
           punishment
           and
           thereby
           discharge
           themselves
           ,
           better
           before
           God
           and
           man
           .
        
         
           The
           Protestation
           your
           Lordships
           shall
           have
           read
           unto
           you
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           ground
           and
           reasone
           which
           have
           induced
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           to
           make
           it
           ,
           which
           are
           prefixed
           before
           it
           by
           way
           of
           Preamble
           .
           Then
           the
           Protestation
           was
           read
           by
           Mr.
           
             Maynard
             .
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
         
      
    
    

