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Show ) ~- A Speech i1t f ttrliameatt concerning h p ift-Ntttus in one Degree ; But when it was moyed, to the · ~ a~li:ment of ~England; B arones un~ voce refponderrmt, Nolumus Le- 81 Angli£ mutare. And tho~gh, It tnufi: be co~feffe_d,. t?at the ~ te-Nati and poft_-Nati, are tn the fame Degree, 11'1 Drgmtres; yet :ere'tbey never fo, in Abilities:. Forn<_> Man doubts, _but t_he Son) of an Earl, or Baron, before hts Creat10n, or CaU) fhallinhente the Dignity as well as the Son born after. . B'ut tbe S~n, of an .Attainted 1'erflm, born be!ore the .f\.ttamder, (hall not inherit, as the After born !ball, notwithftandtng Charter of P ardtm. . · h · The Reafott of Eftttte is~ That a_ny R:ftnchon, ?f t e .Ante: Nat1, is Temporary; And exptreth wtth thts Gener_attoa : But It you you ma~e it in the Poji-Nati alf?, you do, but tn fubfi:ance, pen )a perpetutty ofsep4ratton. · . (Mr. speakf.r,) in this point, .I have been fh_ort, becaufe.I httle expected this Doubt, as to potnt ofConventence : _And there fore will not much labour, where I fuppofe, there IS no greater Oppofition. A Report, tnttde hy Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, in the 1-loufe eJfCommons, of a Speech, llelivered by the Earl of Salisbury ; .And another Speech, deliveredby the Earl ofNorthampton, at a Cttnference, concerning the Petition oft be MerchautJ, upon the Spanifh griwaflciJ, Parlian1cnt ;o. Jacobi. . ANd it pleafeyou, (Mr. spea~r,) _I do not find my felf, ~ny wayes bound, to report that, which paffe~, at the laft ~onference, touching the spanifh ~rievances; H~vtng been neither ein ployed to fpeak, nor appointed to Report I !I that Caufe. But becaufe it is put upon me, by a filent Expfctatlon, grounded ?P· ,on nothing) (t-hat I know,) more then ~hat I was ol_>ferved, ~Ih • · gent!y to take notes; I am content, (If that Provtfi_on, whtch I made for mine own Remembrance, may ferve thts Houfe for a Report,) not to deny y~u tha~ Skeafe,t?a~ I have, in hafi:J_bound up. It is true that one ofhts Mavflze.r, Prrnc1pall Counfollours In Cautes o£Eflate: did ufe a speach, that contained a World of Matter: ~ut how I ihall be able to make a Globe) of that World, therein I fear m' 1. ne own fi:rength. . . Hi.r Lordjhip, took the occ~fion> of tbts, which I fhall now re-port, upon the Anfwer, whtch was by us made, to t~e ~tneild* ments~ propoundeds upon the Bill ofHoflile Lawes 5~1tt1ng that Buflnefs, with thefe few words; ~hat he ~ould dtfcharge, our Expectation ofReply, becaufe thetr Lordjhtpi had, no Warrant to ..... ' •. f .. the Uniori ofLawes. to Difpute. Then, continuing hisspeacb, he fell into thisorher <:aufe, and faid; That being now, to mak~ Anfwer,_ to a propofitton of ours, as we had done to one of theirs, he w1fhed it could be paffed over, with like Brevity. But he did forefee his way that it would prove, not on ely long, but likewife hard to find' and hard to keep; This Caufe, being fo to be carried as abov~ all, n? wrong be done, to t~e Kings Sov~raignty, and Authority; And tn fecond place~no Mifunderfiandwg do enfue between the two Houfe.r. And therefore, that he hoped, his words lbould re~ ceive a benign Interpretation; Knowing well, that purfuit, and Drift·of Speech, and multitude of Matter, might breed words to pafs from him, beyond the Compafs of his Intention :And therfore, he placed more Affurance, and_€aution, in the Innocency of his own meaning, and in Lhe Experience of his Favours, then in any his Warinefs, or Watchfulnefs, over his own Speech. This refpective preface ufed, his Lordjbip defcended to the Matter it felf; which he divided into three Confiderations: For . he faid, he would confi~er of the Petition. ' Firfr, as it proceeded, from the Aderchantl. Secondly, as from them, it was offered, to the Lower Houfe. And thirdly, as from the Lower lioufe, it was recommended to the Higher H01{e. In the Firfi: of thefe Cont1derations, there fell out naturally a Subdivifion, into the Peifonsofthe Petitioners; And the Matt~r and Part.r, of the Petition. In the Perfons of the ltlerchant.r, hi~ Lordjhipmade,(as I have collected them,) in·number eightObfervations: whereof; the three firft, ref petted the Ge~erall Condttion o~ Aierch~ntJ; And the five following, were applyed~ to t~e particular Cucumfiances, of the Merchants, now complai-nm~ . His Lordjhips firfr, generall Obfervation, was; That 11.-Jerchant.r were of two forts: The one fought their For tunes, (as the verfe faith,) per Sax a, per Ignes: And, as it is faid~ in the fame plact>,Extremos cun·it Mercator ad Jndo.r; Sub jetting themfelves,to Wether and Tempefr; ToAbfence, and, as it were, Exile, outofthei; NariveCountrey~; ToArrefis, inEntraacesofWar; ToForrain In juftice, and Rig our, in times ofPeace; And many other Sufferances, and Adventures. But that there were others that took, a more fafe, but a lefs generou!l Courfe,in raifing thei;'Fortunes. He taxed none:~ but did attribute, much more refpe&, to the former. . · · The fecond Generall obfervation, which his Lord[hip made was, That the Complaints of Merchants, were, ufually, fubjefr, to much Errour; In regard, that they fpake,(for the mofi part,)but upon Information ; And that carried through many Hands; And of Matters done in Remote parts : So as, a falfe, or faCtious, Factour, mought, oftentimes:> make great Tragedies, upon no great Ground. Whereof, towards the End · of |
