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Excerpt from Neal's History of the Puritans, Vol. 2 of 2: Or the Rise, Principles, and Sufferings of the Protestant Dissenters, to the Glorious Era of the Revolution
His majesty acquainted the houses from Huntington, March 15, with his design to reside for some time at York; and adds that, - He expected they should pay a due regard to his prerogative, and to the laws established; and that none of his subjects should presume under colour of any 01der or ordinance of parliament, to which his majesty is not a party, to do or execute what is not war. Rantable by the laws. - His majesty's intention by this message, was to put a stop to all further proceedings of the parliament, for their own and the nation's security, till they had digested all their grievances into a body.
But instead of tiring the reader with a long paper war, I will make one general remark, which may serve as a key to the whole controversy. If we suppose the kingdom to be in. Its natural state, after the King had withdrawn from his parliament, and would act no longer in concert with them; if the constitution was then entire, and the most considerable grievances redressed if the laws in being were a sufficient security against the return of popery and arbitrary power, and there was good reason to believe those laws would have their free course - then the King's reasons for his conduct are strongand concluf sive for in all ordinary cases, the administration of justice, and the due execution of the laws, is vested in the crown; nor may the lords and commons in parliament make new laws, or suspend and alter old ones, without his majesty'sconsent. But on the other hand, if in the opinion of the lords and commons in parliament assem bled, who are the representatives of the whole nation, the constitution is broken; by the King's deserting his two houses, and resolving to act no longer in concert with them, or by any other overt-acts of his maj esty's council, inconsistent with the constitution. Or if both houses shall declare the religion and liberties of the nation to be in imminent dange1, either from foreign or domestic enemies, and the King will not concur with his parliament to apply such remedies as the wisdom of his two houses shall think.
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