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No Mony.

AS to the Matter of [MONY;] How many Addresses were made by a Prevalent Ma∣jority of the House of Commons, for (a) 1.1 [Reward to the Discoverers of Godfrey's Murder?] (b) 1.2 [Five Hundred Pound Reward to Bed∣loe.] (c) 1.3 [Dangerfield to be Par∣don'd, and Rewarded.] And so for (d) 1.4 [Turberville, Bourk, Samp∣son, Macknamarra, Eustace Com∣mins, &c.] Beside the Horrible Charge of Pensions, for the Entertainment of Otes, Bedloe, Dugdale, and Forty more. But af∣ter all these Expences; not a Penny, to be either Supply'd, by Bill, or so much as Borrow'd upon Anticipations; unless upon Terms Worse then Death; as by These following Votes will Appear.

[Resolved, That his Majesty in his Last Message;* 1.5 having Assured

This House of his Readiness to Concurr in all other Means, for the Preservation of the Protestant Re∣ligion; This House doth Declare, that untill a Bill be likewise passed, for Excluding the Duke of York, this House cannot give any Supply to his Majesty, without Danger to his Majesties Person. Extreme Hazzard of the Protestant Religion, and Vnfaithfulness to Those by whom This House is Intrusted.]

[Resolved, That whosoever shall hereafter Lend,* 1.6 or Cause to be Lent, by way of Advance, any MONY, upon the Bran∣ches of the King's Revenue arising by Customs, Excise, or Hearth-Mony, shall be Adjudged to Hinder the Sitting of Parliaments, and shall be Responsible for the same in Parliament.]

[Resolved, That whosoever shall Accept,* 1.7 or Buy any Tally of Anticipa∣tion upon any Part of the Kings Revenue; or who∣soever shall pay such Tally hereafter to be Struck, shall be Adjudged to hinder the Sittings of Parlia∣ments, and shall be Responsible therefore in Par∣liament.]

In the Address of Decem. 21. 1680. The Com∣mons Insist upon the Excluding of the Duke of York, and an Act of Association; Or otherwise see what Follows.

[Without these Things the Allyan∣ces of England will not be Valuable,* 1.8 nor the People Encourag'd to Contri∣bute to your Majesties Service.]

From hence, it does abundantly Appear that his Late Majesty was Driven upon Expence, and Hinder'd of Supplys, by All Arts, and Shifts Ima∣ginable: and the Readiest way of finding to what End All this was done, will be to look into the Grounds, and Reasons, of their so doing. (a) 1.9 The Lords sent down a Vote to the House of Commons, for their Concurrence, Declaring that their Lordships were fully Satisfy'd that there was a Horrid, and a Treasonable Plot Carry'd-on, by the Papists in Ireland: Unto which Vote, the Commons Agreed with an Addition, in Manner Following.

This House does Agree with the Lords in the said Vote;* 1.10 with the Addition of These Words; That the Duke of York, being a Papist, and the Expecta∣tion of his Coming to the Crown, hath given the Greatest Countenance and Encouragement there∣to, (the Irish Plot that is) as well as to the Horrid Popish Plot, in This Kingdom of Eng∣land.

[Resolved, That it is the Opini∣on of This House,* 1.11 that there is no Security or Safety for the Protestant Religion; the King's Life, or the Well-Constituted and Established Government of This Kingdom, without Passing a Bill for Disabling James Duke of York to Inherit the Imperial Crown of England, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging; and to Rely upon any other

Means and Remedies, without such a Bill, is not only Insufficient, but Dangerous.]

Here's the Horrid Popish English Plot made the Ground, for the Excluding of the Duke; and kee∣ping the King short of Mony; according to the In∣tent of the Votes of Ian. 7. 1680. above-menti∣on'd. And That's made the Foundation likewise, for the Refusal, in the Address before-Cited, in the very Syllables of the said Address.

[That your Majesties Sacred Life is in Continual Danger,* 1.12 under the Prospect of a Popish Successor, is Evident, not only from the Princi∣ples of Those Devoted to the Church of Rome, but also from the Testimonies Given in the Prosecuti∣on of the Horrid Popish Plot, against Divers Tray∣tors Attainted for Designing to put Those Accursed Principles into Practice against your Majesty.]

There needs no Subtlety, of Quirking, or Rea∣soning, upon this Case, of [MONY,] the Spite of it lying so Open, that Every Common Eye sees thorough it; and that the Terms the Repub∣lican Cabal Treated upon, in some of those Parliaments, were no other, then a Tryal of Skill, to see if they could bring his Late Majesty to a Composition for his Crown. For the King was to have No Mony,* 1.13 but upon Conditions of Disinheriting his Brother; (and more yet, as I shall shew in Due Place) Contrary to all the Tyes of Conscience, Gratitude, Iustice, and Prudence: And All, for fear of [a Damnable Hellish Popish

Plot.] We shall see now how they Dealt with his Majesty likewise, in the Matter of [Power.]

Notes

• (a) 1.1

  Nov. 19. 1678.
• (b) 1.2

  Mar. 21. 1678.
• (c) 1.3

  Nov. 4. 1680.
• (d) 1.4

  Nov. 12. 1680.
• * 1.5

  Jan. 7. 1680.
• * 1.6

  Ibid.
• * 1.7

  Ibid.
• * 1.8

  Commons Votes Dec. 21. 1680.
• (a) 1.9

  Com. Votes. Jan. 4. 1680.
• * 1.10

  Com. Votes. Jan. 6. 1680.
• * 1.11

  Com. Votes. Jan. 7. 1680.
• * 1.12

  Com. Votes. Add. Dec. 21. 1680.
• * 1.13

  No Mony but in Composition for his Crown.