A brief justification of the Prince of Orange's descent into England, and of the kingdoms late recourse to arms with a modest disquisition of what may become the wisdom and justice of the ensuing convention in their disposal of the crown.
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           A
           Brief
           JUSTIFICATION
           OF
           THE
           Prince
           of
           Orange's
           Descent
           into
           ENGLAND
           ,
           And
           of
           the
           KINGDOMS
           Late
           Recourse
           to
           ARMS
           .
           WITH
           A
           Modest
           Disquisition
           of
           what
           may
           Become
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Justice
           OF
           THE
           Ensuing
           Convention
           IN
           THEIR
           Disposal
           of
           the
           CROWN
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           :
           Printed
           for
           
             J.
             S.
          
           and
           Sold
           by
           
             Richard
             Baldwin
          
           near
           the
           
             Black
             Bull
          
           in
           the
           Old-Baily
           .
           MDCLXXXIX
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           A
           Brief
           Justification
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Oranges
           Descent
           into
           England
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           WHatsoever
           may
           occur
           in
           the
           ensuing
           sheets
           ,
           disagreeable
           to
           the
           Politicks
           of
           some
           late
           Writers
           ;
           yet
           I
           have
           not
           only
           declined
           to
           name
           the
           Persons
           whose
           Principles
           I
           contradict
           ,
           but
           have
           forborn
           mentioning
           any
           of
           those
           Execrable
           Doctrines
           ,
           by
           which
           they
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           Betray
           us
           into
           Slavery
           ,
           and
           have
           both
           tempted
           Princes
           to
           an
           exercise
           of
           Tyranny
           ,
           and
           done
           what
           they
           could
           to
           justifie
           them
           in
           it
           .
           'T
           is
           unsutable
           to
           my
           Temper
           ,
           as
           I
           do
           reckon
           it
           mean
           in
           it self
           ,
           to
           administer
           occasion
           ,
           whereby
           the
           Reputation
           of
           any
           that
           can
           be
           supposed
           reclaimable
           ,
           may
           become
           exposed
           ,
           or
           their
           Persons
           rendred
           any
           ways
           abnoxious
           .
           For
           though
           it
           would
           be
           an
           abandoning
           our selves
           ,
           and
           Posterity
           to
           worse
           miseries
           ,
           than
           the
           Nation
           hath
           either
           felt
           ,
           or
           with
           much
           difficulty
           escap'd
           ,
           not
           to
           fasten
           in
           a
           Parliamentary
           way
           ,
           a
           brand
           of
           indelible
           infamy
           upon
           their
           Illegal
           ,
           Treacherous
           ,
           and
           Enslaving
           Tenets
           ;
           yet
           I
           hope
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           desire
           ,
           that
           the
           utmost
           degrees
           of
           Mercy
           ,
           will
           be
           exercised
           towards
           the
           highest
           Prerogative
           Autho'sr
           ,
           which
           shall
           be
           found
           consistent
           ,
           with
           the
           rendring
           our
           Constitution
           and
           Laws
           for
           the
           future
           safe
           and
           inviolable
           .
           And
           as
           I
           never
           hitherto
           acted
           upon
           other
           inducements
           ,
           than
           those
           of
           serving
           the
           Glory
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           of
           asserting
           the
           Rights
           ,
           and
           promoting
           the
           Interest
           of
           my
           Country
           ;
           so
           the
           alone
           Motive
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Prospect
           ,
           upon
           which
           I
           do
           now
           Write
           ,
           is
           the
           vindicating
           of
           the
           Methods
           that
           have
           
           been
           applyed
           unto
           for
           our
           Relief
           and
           Redemption
           ,
           and
           the
           offering
           such
           further
           Measures
           ,
           as
           remain
           to
           be
           pursued
           ,
           for
           the
           Establishing
           our
           Peace
           and
           Happiness
           ,
           upon
           Foundations
           ,
           that
           will
           both
           ensure
           and
           support
           them
           .
           Nor
           does
           he
           deserve
           a
           Name
           amongst
           ,
           much
           less
           a
           share
           in
           the
           Priviledges
           peculiar
           unto
           English-men
           ,
           who
           will
           not
           contribute
           whatsoever
           lieth
           within
           his
           Circle
           ,
           both
           for
           hindring
           our
           relapsing
           either
           into
           Confusion
           ,
           or
           into
           Thraldom
           ,
           and
           for
           advancing
           the
           Tranquility
           ,
           Welfare
           ,
           and
           Prosperity
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           not
           only
           to
           what
           they
           ever
           were
           in
           its
           most
           setled
           and
           fortunate
           state
           ,
           bu●
           beyond
           the
           felicity
           we
           enjoy
           any
           former
           Presidents
           of
           .
           Especially
           seeing
           his
           Highness
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           with
           a
           Compassion
           ,
           Generosity
           ,
           and
           Zeal
           ,
           not
           to
           be
           paralelled
           on
           the
           File
           of
           History
           ,
           hath
           put
           it
           into
           our
           own
           power
           ,
           to
           retrieve
           and
           Re-establish
           the
           Priviledges
           and
           Liberties
           which
           by
           Force
           and
           Fraud
           have
           been
           wrested
           from
           us
           ,
           to
           prevent
           their
           being
           either
           Invaded
           or
           Subverted
           hereafter
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           such
           Additional
           Provisions
           ,
           as
           shall
           be
           reckoned
           necessary
           ,
           as
           well
           for
           our
           own
           enjoyment
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           without
           fear
           or
           danger
           ,
           and
           for
           transmitting
           it
           safe
           and
           uncorrupted
           to
           our
           Posterity
           ,
           as
           for
           rendring
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           Wealth
           ,
           Security
           ,
           and
           Renown
           ,
           the
           envy
           of
           all
           Nations
           about
           us
           .
           And
           as
           the
           Condescention
           ,
           Self-denyal
           ,
           and
           Moderation
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           after
           so
           tempting
           as
           well
           as
           signal
           a
           Success
           ,
           transcends
           all
           Examples
           conveyed
           unto
           us
           in
           the
           Records
           of
           Time
           ;
           so
           we
           should
           not
           only
           be
           very
           ill
           men
           ,
           should
           we
           depart
           from
           his
           Temperance
           of
           Mind
           ,
           either
           in
           the
           things
           we
           have
           left
           us
           to
           be
           prosecuted
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           manner
           of
           promoting
           them
           ,
           but
           we
           should
           be
           that
           ,
           and
           withal
           extreamly
           unwise
           ,
           if
           we
           be
           not
           awakened
           and
           provoked
           to
           mind
           and
           advance
           his
           Honour
           ,
           Greatness
           ,
           and
           Interest
           the
           more
           ,
           by
           how
           much
           we
           find
           him
           through
           Modesty
           to
           neglect
           them
           .
        
         
         
           The
           Consideration
           of
           Government
           in
           general
           ,
           is
           none
           of
           my
           Province
           at
           this
           time
           ;
           farther
           then
           to
           observe
           ,
           that
           as
           it
           derives
           its
           Ordination
           and
           Institution
           from
           God
           ,
           so
           it
           is
           circumscribed
           ,
           and
           limited
           by
           Him
           ,
           to
           be
           exercised
           according
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           Nature
           ,
           (
           and
           of
           plain
           Revelation
           where
           vouchsafed
           )
           in
           subserviency
           to
           the
           glory
           of
           the
           Creator
           ,
           and
           the
           benefit
           of
           Mankind
           .
           All
           Rulers
           are
           thus
           far
           under
           Pact
           and
           Confinement
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           obliged
           by
           the
           Almighty
           and
           Supream
           Soveraign
           ,
           to
           exert
           their
           Governing
           Power
           ,
           for
           the
           promoting
           his
           Service
           and
           Honour
           ,
           and
           to
           exercise
           their
           Authority
           for
           the
           Safety
           ,
           Welfare
           ,
           and
           Prosperity
           of
           those
           over
           whom
           they
           are
           Established
           .
           There
           need
           no
           previous
           Compacts
           ,
           and
           Agreements
           ,
           between
           Princes
           and
           People
           as
           to
           these
           ,
           forasmuch
           as
           they
           are
           setled
           and
           determined
           by
           the
           Law
           and
           appointment
           of
           the
           Divine
           Legislator
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Universal
           Soveraign
           .
           Whosoever
           refuseth
           to
           Govern
           in
           Subordination
           unto
           and
           for
           God
           ,
           and
           in
           order
           to
           the
           protection
           and
           benefit
           of
           the
           Community
           ,
           ceaseth
           to
           answer
           the
           Ends
           unto
           which
           Magistracy
           was
           Instituted
           ,
           and
           for
           which
           Rectoral
           Authority
           is
           established
           over
           and
           among
           Men.
           Nor
           is
           it
           in
           the
           choice
           or
           power
           of
           any
           Society
           ,
           at
           their
           erecting
           the
           Forms
           of
           Government
           ,
           under
           which
           they
           are
           contented
           to
           live
           ,
           and
           at
           their
           Nominating
           the
           Persons
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           commit
           the
           Right
           of
           Administring
           Justice
           towards
           and
           over
           themselves
           ,
           and
           of
           withstanding
           and
           avenging
           injuries
           offered
           them
           by
           others
           ,
           to
           enlarge
           and
           extend
           the
           power
           of
           those
           whom
           they
           constitute
           their
           Rulers
           ,
           beyond
           the
           Limits
           and
           Boundaries
           ,
           unto
           which
           God
           hath
           staked
           and
           confined
           Magistrates
           ,
           in
           the
           Charters
           of
           Nature
           and
           Revelation
           .
           Tho'
           people
           may
           both
           then
           and
           afterwards
           abridge
           themselves
           ,
           as
           they
           think
           meet
           ,
           in
           things
           under
           their
           own
           disposal
           ,
           and
           either
           narrow
           or
           enlarge
           the
           Rulers
           power
           ,
           in
           reference
           
           to
           what
           they
           have
           a
           Right
           to
           retain
           or
           depart
           from
           ,
           for
           the
           real
           or
           imagined
           benefit
           of
           the
           Community
           ;
           yet
           they
           can
           no
           ways
           interpose
           in
           the
           disposal
           of
           the
           Rights
           which
           belong
           unto
           God
           ,
           and
           which
           he
           hath
           incommunicably
           reserved
           unto
           himself
           ;
           nor
           can
           they
           confer
           those
           measures
           and
           degrees
           of
           Authority
           unto
           those
           whom
           they
           Elect
           and
           advance
           to
           Magistracy
           ,
           which
           God
           hath
           antecedently
           precluded
           the
           one
           from
           bestowing
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           from
           receiving
           .
           For
           example
           ,
           no
           Body
           or
           Society
           of
           men
           ,
           can
           transfer
           a
           power
           unto
           those
           whom
           they
           select
           and
           set
           apart
           from
           among
           themselves
           to
           be
           Rulers
           over
           the
           Community
           ,
           in
           the
           virtue
           whereof
           ,
           those
           vested
           with
           Magistratical
           Authority
           ,
           can
           withdraw
           their
           Subjects
           from
           their
           Allegiance
           to
           God
           ,
           act
           arbitrarily
           in
           prescribing
           and
           imposing
           what
           Religion
           they
           please
           ,
           or
           destroy
           the
           meanest
           person
           ,
           save
           upon
           a
           previous
           Crime
           ,
           and
           a
           just
           Demerit
           .
        
         
           Now
           God
           having
           in
           the
           Institution
           of
           Magistracy
           ,
           confined
           such
           as
           shall
           be
           chosen
           Rulers
           ,
           within
           no
           other
           limits
           in
           reference
           unto
           our
           civil
           concerns
           ,
           save
           that
           they
           are
           to
           Govern
           for
           the
           good
           of
           those
           ,
           over
           whom
           they
           come
           to
           be
           Established
           ,
           it
           remains
           free
           and
           entire
           to
           the
           People
           at
           their
           first
           Erection
           of
           ,
           and
           Submission
           to
           Government
           ,
           to
           prescribe
           and
           define
           what
           shall
           be
           the
           measures
           and
           boundaries
           of
           the
           publick
           Good
           ,
           and
           unto
           what
           Rules
           and
           Standard
           the
           Magistrate
           shall
           be
           restrained
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           his
           defending
           ,
           and
           promoting
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           Society
           ,
           of
           which
           he
           is
           created
           the
           Civil
           and
           Political
           Head.
           And
           every
           one
           being
           equally
           Master
           of
           his
           own
           Property
           and
           Liberty
           ,
           antecedently
           to
           their
           Agreement
           with
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           compact
           of
           the
           Universality
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           of
           the
           Majority
           ,
           with
           Him
           or
           Those
           whom
           they
           call
           to
           Rule
           over
           them
           ;
           it
           evidently
           follows
           ,
           that
           those
           who
           come
           to
           be
           cloathed
           with
           Magistracy
           ,
           can
           lay
           
           claim
           to
           no
           more
           Authority
           over
           the
           Liberty
           ,
           or
           pretend
           to
           no
           more
           Right
           in
           and
           over
           the
           Property
           of
           that
           Body
           Politick
           ,
           than
           what
           the
           Community
           conferred
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           doth
           voluntarily
           divest
           themselves
           of
           ,
           upon
           the
           prospect
           of
           the
           advantages
           arising
           unto
           them
           from
           their
           living
           in
           Societies
           ,
           and
           under
           Magistrates
           .
           We
           must
           suppose
           all
           Mankind
           to
           have
           been
           infatuated
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           become
           distracted
           ▪
           if
           they
           should
           have
           submitted
           themselves
           to
           the
           Jurisdiction
           of
           one
           who
           had
           no
           antecedent
           Right
           to
           ●ommand
           them
           ,
           meerly
           in
           order
           to
           their
           being
           in
           a
           worse
           Condition
           than
           they
           previously
           were
           .
           And
           therefore
           seeing
           the
           extent
           and
           latitude
           of
           the
           Magistrates
           Power
           ,
           must
           owe
           its
           Original
           to
           some
           Grant
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           it
           does
           from
           thence
           lye
           incumbent
           upon
           him
           ,
           to
           prove
           and
           justifie
           the
           several
           degrees
           and
           measures
           of
           Authority
           and
           Prerogative
           which
           he
           pretends
           to
           claim
           .
           And
           whatsoever
           he
           cannot
           derive
           from
           some
           Concession
           of
           the
           Society
           ,
           must
           be
           acknowledged
           to
           remain
           still
           vested
           in
           the
           People
           ,
           as
           their
           reserved
           Priviledge
           and
           Right
           .
           And
           whatsoever
           he
           pretends
           unto
           ,
           which
           he
           cannot
           prove
           their
           surrendry
           of
           from
           themselves
           unto
           him
           ,
           argues
           not
           only
           his
           departing
           from
           the
           Compact
           betwixt
           him
           and
           the
           Community
           ,
           by
           vertue
           whereof
           he
           was
           ordained
           and
           created
           their
           Ruler
           ,
           but
           it
           renders
           him
           guilty
           of
           an
           Invasion
           upon
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           whole
           Society
           ,
           and
           upon
           those
           of
           every
           individual
           Member
           of
           it
           .
           Force
           and
           Conquest
           give
           no
           just
           nor
           legal
           Title
           over
           a
           People
           by
           which
           the
           Conquerour
           becomes
           their
           Magistrate
           ,
           until
           they
           by
           some
           consent
           either
           tacit
           or
           explicit
           ,
           declare
           their
           submission
           unto
           and
           acquiescence
           in
           him
           ,
           upon
           the
           best
           Terms
           which
           they
           can
           obtain
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           is
           willing
           to
           grant
           .
           And
           as
           no
           Government
           is
           lawful
           ,
           but
           what
           is
           founded
           upon
           Compact
           and
           agreement
           ,
           between
           those
           chosen
           to
           govern
           ,
           and
           them
           who
           condescend
           to
           be
           governed
           ;
           so
           
           the
           Articles
           upon
           which
           they
           stipulate
           the
           one
           with
           the
           other
           ,
           become
           the
           Fundamentals
           of
           the
           respective
           Constitutions
           of
           Nations
           ,
           and
           together
           with
           superadded
           positive
           Laws
           ,
           are
           both
           the
           limits
           of
           the
           Rulers
           Authority
           ,
           and
           the
           Measures
           of
           the
           Subjects
           Obedience
           .
           To
           extend
           the
           Governour
           's
           Right
           to
           Command
           ,
           and
           Subjects
           Duty
           to
           Obey
           ,
           beyond
           the
           Laws
           of
           ones
           Country
           ,
           is
           Treason
           against
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           Treachery
           to
           the
           Society
           whereof
           we
           are
           Members
           ,
           and
           through
           dissolving
           the
           Ties
           by
           which
           Princes
           stand
           confined
           ,
           and
           overthrowing
           the
           Hedges
           by
           which
           the
           reserved
           Rights
           ,
           Priviledges
           ,
           and
           Properties
           of
           the
           Subjects
           are
           fenced
           about
           ,
           every
           Prince
           is
           made
           a
           Tyrant
           ,
           and
           all
           Subjects
           are
           rendered
           Slaves
           .
           Nor
           are
           all
           previous
           Agreements
           ,
           Stipulations
           ,
           and
           Laws
           ,
           made
           insignificant
           and
           useless
           by
           such
           a
           pernicious
           and
           adulatory
           Doctrine
           as
           that
           of
           Non-resistance
           ,
           when
           our
           Rights
           are
           Arbitrarily
           invaded
           ,
           and
           the
           Constitution
           and
           Government
           avowedly
           subverted
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           meer
           Tricks
           and
           Cheats
           for
           decoying
           those
           that
           were
           antecedently
           free
           ,
           into
           a
           noose
           and
           state
           of
           Thraldom
           and
           Bondage
           ,
           under
           the
           specious
           and
           guilded
           pretence
           of
           rendring
           their
           Liberty
           more
           secure
           ,
           and
           their
           Condition
           more
           safe
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           't
           is
           by
           vertue
           of
           Compacts
           ,
           Stipulations
           ,
           Comprimises
           ,
           and
           Agreements
           ,
           that
           all
           legal
           Governments
           have
           their
           Original
           and
           Establishment
           ,
           that
           various
           and
           distinct
           Forms
           obtain
           in
           different
           Countries
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           Title
           and
           Right
           to
           Ruling
           Authority
           ,
           and
           the
           method
           of
           arriving
           at
           it
           ,
           is
           provided
           for
           and
           procured
           ;
           so
           every
           Subjects
           Allegiance
           is
           first
           owing
           to
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Ruler
           only
           in
           the
           Force
           and
           Vertue
           of
           what
           every
           Member
           of
           the
           Political
           Society
           is
           bound
           unto
           ,
           by
           the
           Terms
           of
           the
           Original
           Pact
           and
           Settlement
           .
           Abstracting
           from
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           the
           Obligations
           
           which
           it
           lays
           us
           under
           ,
           no
           man
           can
           challenge
           a
           Right
           of
           Commanding
           us
           ,
           nor
           do
           we
           owe
           unto
           him
           any
           Duty
           of
           Subjection
           and
           Obedience
           .
           Whosoever
           he
           be
           that
           under
           a
           pretence
           of
           being
           constituted
           Soveraign
           ,
           does
           invade
           and
           subvert
           the
           Fundamental
           Laws
           of
           the
           Society
           ,
           he
           does
           thereby
           
             ipso
             facto
          
           annul
           all
           the
           Legal
           Right
           he
           had
           to
           Govern
           ,
           and
           Absolves
           all
           who
           were
           before
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           from
           the
           Legal
           Engagements
           they
           were
           under
           of
           yielding
           him
           Obedience
           .
           So
           that
           the
           immediate
           and
           natural
           Effect
           of
           a
           Prince's
           claiming
           what
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Constitution
           are
           so
           far
           from
           entitling
           him
           unto
           ,
           that
           they
           preclude
           him
           from
           it
           ,
           is
           the
           depriving
           himself
           of
           all
           Right
           to
           claim
           any
           thing
           ,
           and
           a
           restoring
           of
           the
           People
           to
           their
           State
           and
           Condition
           of
           Primitive
           Freedom
           ,
           of
           which
           as
           they
           only
           divested
           themselves
           by
           ,
           and
           upon
           the
           Terms
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           so
           they
           neither
           departed
           from
           it
           any
           longer
           than
           that
           should
           be
           kept
           sacred
           and
           inviolable
           ,
           nor
           any
           further
           than
           was
           covenanted
           and
           stipulated
           in
           and
           by
           the
           Terms
           and
           Agreements
           therein
           specified
           and
           contained
           .
           And
           seeing
           it
           proceeds
           from
           the
           Efficacy
           of
           the
           forementioned
           Contracts
           ,
           that
           one
           Person
           becomes
           advanced
           from
           the
           common
           level
           to
           the
           Title
           and
           Authority
           of
           a
           Soveraign
           ,
           and
           that
           all
           others
           are
           by
           their
           own
           consent
           reduced
           and
           brought
           down
           to
           the
           condition
           of
           Subjects
           ,
           there
           doth
           arise
           from
           thence
           not
           only
           a
           mutual
           Relation
           betwixt
           him
           that
           Governs
           ,
           and
           them
           that
           are
           Governed
           ,
           but
           the
           first
           and
           highest
           Treason
           is
           that
           which
           is
           committed
           against
           the
           Constitution
           ;
           and
           such
           and
           such
           Crimes
           against
           the
           Person
           and
           Dignity
           of
           the
           Supreme
           Magistrate
           ,
           are
           only
           made
           and
           declared
           to
           be
           so
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           capacity
           he
           is
           put
           into
           by
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           of
           preserving
           and
           defending
           the
           Society
           ,
           and
           because
           it
           is
           needful
           in
           order
           to
           the
           peace
           ,
           welfare
           ,
           and
           safety
           of
           the
           Community
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           be
           covered
           
           from
           all
           Danger
           ,
           and
           rendred
           Sacred
           in
           his
           Person
           ,
           and
           inviolable
           in
           his
           Regal
           Honour
           ,
           while
           he
           answereth
           the
           Trust
           ,
           which
           the
           People
           upon
           their
           Assembling
           and
           Uniting
           into
           a
           Body
           Politick
           ,
           committed
           unto
           him
           ,
           and
           does
           neither
           depart
           from
           the
           Essential
           and
           Fundamental
           Terms
           of
           the
           Original
           Compact
           ,
           nor
           from
           their
           necessary
           Provisions
           afterwards
           added
           ,
           and
           enacted
           for
           preserving
           the
           Government
           in
           its
           primitive
           State
           and
           Frame
           .
           So
           that
           they
           neither
           are
           nor
           can
           be
           Traitors
           ,
           who
           endeavour
           to
           preserve
           and
           maintain
           the
           Constitution
           ;
           but
           they
           are
           the
           Traytors
           who
           design
           and
           pursue
           the
           Subversion
           of
           it
           .
           They
           are
           the
           Rebels
           that
           go
           about
           to
           overthrow
           the
           Government
           of
           their
           Country
           ;
           whereas
           such
           who
           seek
           to
           Support
           and
           Defend
           it
           ,
           are
           the
           truly
           Loyal
           Persons
           ,
           and
           do
           act
           conformable
           to
           the
           Ties
           and
           Obligations
           of
           Fealty
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           meerly
           the
           first
           and
           highest
           Treason
           in
           it self
           ,
           that
           a
           Member
           of
           a
           Political
           Society
           is
           capable
           of
           committing
           ,
           to
           go
           about
           to
           subvert
           the
           Constitution
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           also
           the
           greatest
           Treason
           he
           can
           perpetrate
           against
           the
           Person
           ,
           Crown
           and
           Dignity
           of
           the
           King
           ;
           for
           such
           an
           Endeavour
           both
           annuls
           and
           vacates
           all
           his
           Title
           to
           Superiority
           over
           those
           ,
           above
           whom
           he
           was
           exalted
           from
           the
           common
           level
           ,
           by
           virtue
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           deprives
           him
           of
           all
           rightful
           and
           legal
           Claim
           of
           Rectoral
           Authority
           over
           the
           Society
           ,
           by
           destroying
           the
           alone
           Foundation
           upon
           which
           it
           was
           Erected
           ,
           and
           by
           which
           he
           became
           vested
           with
           it
           .
           Through
           cancelling
           the
           Charter
           ,
           from
           which
           he
           deriveth
           and
           holdeth
           his
           Governing
           Power
           ,
           they
           not
           only
           make
           his
           Title
           to
           Soveraignty
           precarious
           ,
           but
           they
           do
           render
           every
           Claim
           of
           that
           kind
           ,
           and
           every
           Challenge
           of
           Governing
           the
           Community
           ,
           to
           be
           an
           Invasion
           and
           an
           Usurpation
           .
           To
           all
           which
           ,
           I
           will
           only
           further
           add
           under
           this
           Head
           ,
           That
           as
           all
           Legal
           Government
           is
           founded
           upon
           a
           mutual
           Stipulation
           and
           Compact
           ,
           
           so
           the
           first
           and
           most
           absolute
           Obligation
           arising
           from
           this
           Agreement
           ,
           becomes
           incumbent
           and
           lyes
           upon
           the
           Prince
           towards
           the
           People
           ;
           whereas
           the
           Fealty
           ,
           and
           Duty
           which
           by
           the
           said
           Contract
           and
           Covenant
           they
           bind
           and
           engage
           themselves
           unto
           towards
           him
           ,
           is
           in
           order
           but
           Secundary
           Conditional
           .
           Whensoever
           any
           Person
           is
           chosen
           from
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Society
           ,
           and
           raised
           to
           Kingship
           upon
           a
           foregoing
           and
           previous
           Contract
           with
           the
           Community
           ,
           he
           becomes
           upon
           the
           very
           accepting
           of
           it
           ,
           bound
           absolutely
           and
           without
           reserve
           to
           govern
           them
           according
           to
           the
           Terms
           and
           Measures
           ,
           which
           they
           and
           he
           have
           agreed
           and
           stipulated
           ,
           and
           to
           Rule
           them
           by
           the
           Tenor
           of
           the
           Laws
           ,
           unto
           which
           they
           have
           circumscribed
           and
           confined
           him
           .
           Whereas
           all
           the
           Obedience
           and
           Fealty
           which
           they
           who
           by
           that
           Agreement
           have
           rendered
           themselves
           Subjects
           ,
           owe
           unto
           their
           Ordained
           and
           Created
           Severaign
           ,
           do
           derive
           their
           Obligatory
           Force
           towards
           them
           ,
           and
           become
           due
           unto
           him
           ,
           upon
           his
           governing
           them
           according
           to
           the
           concerted
           and
           stipulated
           Conditions
           ,
           and
           his
           preserving
           unto
           them
           their
           reserved
           Priviledges
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Rights
           .
        
         
           Now
           as
           England
           has
           been
           the
           most
           provident
           and
           careful
           of
           all
           Nations
           ,
           in
           reserving
           unto
           its
           self
           ,
           upon
           the
           first
           Institution
           of
           ,
           and
           its
           submission
           unto
           Regal
           Government
           ,
           all
           such
           Rights
           ,
           Priviledges
           ,
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           as
           were
           necessary
           to
           render
           it
           either
           Renowned
           and
           Honorable
           abroad
           ,
           or
           Safe
           ,
           Happy
           ,
           and
           Prosperous
           at
           home
           ;
           so
           it
           hath
           with
           a
           Courage
           and
           Magnanimity
           peculiar
           unto
           it
           ,
           maintained
           its
           Priviledges
           and
           Liberties
           through
           a
           large
           and
           numerous
           Series
           of
           Ages
           ,
           and
           either
           reassured
           and
           secured
           them
           by
           new
           and
           superadded
           Laws
           ,
           when
           there
           were
           endeavours
           to
           undermine
           and
           supplant
           them
           ,
           or
           else
           hath
           vindicated
           them
           with
           a
           generous
           ,
           manly
           ,
           and
           Military
           Courage
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           Deposition
           and
           Abdication
           
           of
           Treacherous
           Usurping
           ,
           and
           Tyrannous
           Princes
           ,
           when
           more
           gentle
           ,
           mild
           ,
           and
           Senatorian
           Methods
           were
           found
           weak
           and
           ineffectual
           to
           cover
           and
           protect
           them
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           to
           convey
           and
           transmit
           them
           to
           such
           as
           were
           to
           come
           after
           .
           The
           people
           of
           England
           hath
           the
           same
           Title
           unto
           ,
           and
           security
           for
           the
           enjoyment
           of
           their
           Liberties
           and
           Properties
           ,
           that
           our
           Kings
           have
           unto
           their
           Crowns
           ,
           or
           for
           defence
           of
           the
           Regal
           Dignity
           .
           For
           as
           they
           can
           plead
           nothing
           for
           what
           they
           enjoy
           ,
           or
           claim
           ,
           but
           fundamental
           and
           positive
           Laws
           ;
           so
           the
           Subjects
           Interest
           in
           his
           Liberty
           and
           Property
           are
           conveyed
           unto
           him
           by
           the
           same
           Terms
           and
           Channels
           ,
           and
           Fenced
           about
           with
           the
           same
           Hedges
           and
           Pales
           .
           Horn
           tells
           us
           in
           his
           Mirrour
           ,
           Chap.
           1.
           
           That
           the
           Saxons
           having
           put
           an
           end
           to
           the
           Heptarchy
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           continual
           Wars
           that
           attended
           the
           Reigning
           of
           so
           many
           Kings
           in
           so
           narrow
           a
           compass
           of
           Land
           ,
           
             How
             they
             chose
             themselves
             one
             King
             ,
             to
             maintain
             and
             defend
             their
             Persons
             and
             Goods
             in
             Peace
             by
             Rules
             of
             Law
             ,
             and
             made
             him
             Swear
             ,
             that
             he
             should
             be
             Obedient
             to
             suffer
             Right
             as
             well
             as
             his
             People
             should
             be
             .
          
           For
           according
           to
           Bracton
           ,
           lib.
           3.
           c.
           9.
           
           
             The
             whole
             Power
             of
             the
             King
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             is
             to
             do
             good
             ,
             and
             not
             to
             do
             hurt
             ,
             nor
             can
             he
             do
             any
             thing
             as
             a
             King
             ,
             but
             what
             he
             can
             legally
             do
             .
          
           And
           as
           we
           know
           no
           King
           ,
           but
           a
           King
           by
           Law
           ;
           so
           we
           are
           assured
           by
           Fortescue
           ,
           lib.
           1.
           c.
           8.
           and
           lib.
           3.
           c.
           9.
           
             that
             he
             Governs
             not
             his
             People
             by
             a
             Regal
             Power
             ,
             but
             by
             a
             Politick
             .
          
           From
           thence
           our
           Princes
           were
           anciently
           bound
           to
           Swear
           at
           their
           Coronation
           ,
           
             That
             they
             would
             Govern
             according
             to
             Law
             ,
             and
             preserve
             unto
             them
             all
             their
             Customs
             and
             Franchises
             :
             (
             Stat.
             of
             Provis
             .
          
           25.
           
           Ecl.
           3.
           )
           Nor
           can
           we
           have
           a
           clearer
           evidence
           of
           the
           Legal
           extent
           of
           the
           King's
           Authority
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           dimension
           of
           the
           Obedience
           which
           the
           Subject
           is
           bound
           unto
           ,
           than
           that
           which
           we
           have
           in
           the
           Oath
           of
           Fealty
           ,
           which
           formerly
           used
           to
           be
           exacted
           of
           the
           Subject
           :
           Namely
           ,
           
             That
             he
             should
             be
             
             obedient
             to
             all
             the
             King's
             Laws
             ,
             and
             to
             every
             Precept
             and
             Process
             proceeding
             from
             the
             same
             .
             (
             Wilkins
             Treat
             Coron
             &c.
             
             Court
             Leet
             ,
             &c.
             p.
          
           140.
           )
           Nor
           is
           that
           unworthy
           our
           observation
           ,
           which
           Hen.
           1.
           writ
           to
           the
           Pope
           ,
           when
           attacqu'd
           by
           him
           about
           the
           matter
           of
           
             Investitures
             ;
             viz.
             That
             he
             could
             not
             diminish
             the
             Rights
             either
             of
             the
             Crown
             or
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             ;
             and
             that
             if
             he
             should
             be
             so
             abject
             and
             mean
             as
             to
             attempt
             it
             ,
             the
             Barons
             and
             people
             of
          
           England
           
             represented
             in
             Parliament
             ,
             would
             not
             allow
             or
             permit
             it
             :
             Optimates
             mei
             ,
             &
             totius
             Angliae
             populus
             ,
             id
             nullo
             modo
             paterentur
             .
          
           'T
           is
           upon
           this
           account
           affirmed
           of
           an
           English
           King
           ,
           That
           he
           can
           do
           no
           wrong
           ,
           because
           he
           can
           do
           nothing
           but
           what
           the
           Law
           impowers
           him
           .
           For
           though
           he
           hath
           all
           things
           Subjected
           to
           his
           Authority
           ,
           while
           he
           acts
           according
           to
           Law
           ,
           yet
           there
           is
           nothing
           left
           to
           his
           Arbitrary
           Will.
           The
           several
           Charters
           ,
           especially
           that
           stiled
           the
           
             Great
             Charter
          
           ,
           in
           and
           by
           which
           our
           Rights
           stand
           secured
           ,
           Sworn
           ,
           and
           Entailed
           unto
           us
           and
           to
           our
           Posterity
           ,
           were
           not
           the
           Grants
           and
           Concessions
           of
           our
           Princes
           ,
           but
           Recognitions
           of
           what
           we
           had
           reserved
           unto
           our selves
           in
           the
           Original
           Institution
           of
           our
           Government
           ,
           and
           of
           what
           had
           always
           appertained
           unto
           us
           by
           Common
           Law
           ,
           and
           Immemorial
           Customs
           .
           And
           though
           these
           Priviledges
           and
           Liberties
           came
           to
           be
           more
           distinctly
           expressed
           and
           signally
           ratified
           in
           the
           
             Great
             Charter
          
           ,
           than
           they
           had
           been
           before
           ;
           yet
           they
           had
           not
           only
           been
           acknowledged
           and
           transmitted
           down
           in
           the
           Laws
           of
           Edward
           the
           Confessor
           ,
           as
           the
           Birth
           right
           of
           every
           English-man
           ,
           which
           also
           William
           the
           first
           Norman
           King
           ratified
           as
           such
           ,
           but
           they
           had
           long
           before
           been
           collected
           into
           a
           Body
           by
           King
           Edgar
           the
           Saxon
           ,
           and
           were
           only
           revized
           ,
           repeated
           ,
           and
           confirmed
           by
           the
           Confessor
           .
           But
           among
           all
           the
           Rights
           and
           Priviledges
           appertaining
           unto
           us
           ,
           that
           of
           having
           a
           share
           in
           the
           Legislation
           ,
           and
           of
           being
           to
           be
           Governed
           by
           such
           Laws
           ,
           as
           we
           our selves
           shall
           chuse
           ,
           is
           the
           most
           Fundamental
           and
           essential
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           
           the
           most
           advantagious
           and
           beneficial
           .
           For
           thereby
           we
           are
           inabled
           to
           make
           such
           successive
           and
           continual
           provisions
           ,
           as
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           Society
           ,
           and
           the
           promoting
           either
           of
           the
           Temporal
           or
           Eternal
           Welfare
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           shall
           be
           found
           to
           render
           needful
           or
           expedient
           .
           And
           as
           through
           being
           possessed
           of
           so
           great
           a
           portion
           of
           the
           Legislative
           Power
           ,
           and
           through
           having
           a
           Right
           by
           several
           positive
           Laws
           to
           Annual
           Parliaments
           ,
           we
           can
           both
           relieve
           our selves
           from
           and
           against
           every
           thing
           that
           either
           threatneth
           ,
           endangereth
           ,
           or
           oppresseth
           us
           ,
           and
           furnish
           and
           accommodate
           the
           whole
           Community
           ,
           with
           all
           legal
           Succours
           ,
           and
           means
           that
           are
           necessary
           for
           Peace
           ,
           Preservation
           ,
           and
           Prosperity
           ;
           so
           herein
           lies
           our
           signal
           advantage
           and
           felicity
           ,
           that
           what
           we
           become
           interested
           in
           ,
           by
           a
           positive
           and
           Statute
           Law
           ,
           it
           doth
           thereby
           and
           from
           thence
           become
           a
           part
           of
           our
           Right
           and
           Property
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           be
           wrested
           again
           from
           us
           but
           by
           our
           own
           consent
           .
           For
           as
           Bracton
           saith
           ,
           lib.
           1.
           c.
           2.
           (
           though
           it
           be
           also
           one
           of
           the
           first
           dictates
           of
           Reason
           and
           common
           Sense
           )
           
             Leges
             non
             possunt
             mutari
             nec
             destrui
             ,
             fine
             communi
             consensu
             &
             confilio
             eorum
             omnium
             ,
             quorum
             confilio
             &
             consensu
             fuerunt
             promulgatae
             ;
             Laws
             can
             neither
             be
             altered
             nor
             vacated
             ,
             save
             by
             the
             consent
             and
             concurrence
             of
             the
             same
             Authority
             ,
             by
             which
             they
             were
             made
             and
             Enacted
             .
          
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           that
           the
           Executive
           part
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           is
           both
           by
           our
           Common
           and
           Statute
           Laws
           ,
           conveyed
           unto
           and
           vested
           in
           the
           King
           ,
           but
           at
           the
           same
           time
           there
           is
           sufficient
           provision
           made
           both
           in
           the
           Terms
           of
           our
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           in
           our
           Parliamentary
           Acts
           ,
           to
           prevent
           this
           from
           being
           hurtful
           unto
           us
           ,
           unless
           our
           Soveraigns
           become
           guilty
           both
           of
           the
           highest
           Treachery
           ,
           and
           withal
           make
           an
           invasion
           upon
           ,
           and
           endeavour
           the
           Subversion
           of
           the
           whole
           Government
           .
           A
           Right
           of
           overseeing
           the
           Execution
           of
           the
           Laws
           ,
           being
           a
           Prerogative
           inseparable
           from
           the
           Office
           of
           the
           Supream
           
           Magistrate
           ,
           because
           the
           very
           Ends
           unto
           which
           he
           is
           cloathed
           with
           Rectoral
           Authority
           ,
           and
           for
           which
           he
           is
           designed
           and
           established
           ,
           are
           the
           conservation
           of
           the
           publick
           peace
           ,
           and
           the
           administration
           of
           Justice
           towards
           and
           among
           the
           Members
           of
           the
           Body
           Politick
           :
           all
           to
           be
           expected
           from
           the
           wisdom
           of
           the
           Society
           ,
           or
           practicable
           by
           them
           ,
           either
           upon
           the
           first
           erection
           of
           ,
           and
           submission
           to
           Civil
           Government
           ,
           or
           upon
           their
           future
           improvements
           and
           farther
           regulations
           of
           it
           ,
           was
           to
           direct
           ,
           limit
           ,
           and
           restrain
           this
           Executive
           power
           committed
           unto
           the
           Soveraign
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           him
           and
           his
           Subordinate
           Ministers
           accountable
           ,
           in
           case
           they
           should
           deny
           ,
           delay
           ,
           or
           pervert
           Justice
           ,
           or
           be
           found
           chargeable
           with
           Mal-administration
           of
           the
           Laws
           .
           Nor
           was
           ever
           a
           people
           more
           provident
           as
           to
           all
           these
           ,
           than
           our
           Predecessors
           and
           Ancestors
           have
           been
           .
           For
           as
           they
           have
           left
           nothing
           to
           the
           Kings
           private
           discretion
           ,
           much
           less
           to
           his
           Arbitrary
           Will
           ,
           but
           have
           assigned
           him
           the
           Laws
           as
           the
           Rules
           and
           Measures
           he
           is
           to
           Govern
           by
           ;
           so
           they
           not
           only
           delegated
           it
           unto
           him
           as
           a
           Trust
           ,
           which
           he
           is
           to
           Swear
           faithfully
           to
           perform
           ,
           but
           they
           always
           reserved
           a
           liberty
           ,
           right
           ,
           and
           power
           unto
           themselves
           ,
           of
           inspecting
           his
           Administration
           ,
           making
           him
           responsable
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           of
           abdicating
           him
           from
           the
           Soveraignty
           ,
           upon
           universal
           and
           egregious
           faileurs
           in
           the
           Trust
           that
           had
           been
           credited
           and
           consigned
           unto
           him
           .
           Of
           this
           we
           have
           indisputable
           Evidence
           ,
           in
           the
           Articles
           advanced
           in
           Parliament
           against
           Richard
           the
           Second
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           Deposed
           from
           the
           Throne
           ,
           and
           had
           the
           Scepter
           taken
           out
           of
           his
           hand
           .
           Yea
           to
           prevent
           all
           dangers
           which
           might
           befal
           the
           Subject
           ,
           through
           the
           Kings
           being
           trusted
           with
           the
           Executive
           power
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           he
           is
           not
           by
           our
           Constitution
           and
           Laws
           allowed
           to
           do
           any
           thing
           in
           his
           own
           Person
           ,
           nay
           not
           so
           much
           as
           to
           draw
           and
           seal
           the
           Commission
           of
           those
           that
           are
           to
           act
           in
           his
           name
           and
           under
           him
           .
           And
           as
           
           nothing
           is
           accounted
           in
           our
           Government
           a
           Commission
           ,
           but
           what
           the
           Law
           Authoriseth
           and
           warrants
           ;
           so
           he
           is
           liable
           to
           be
           proceeded
           against
           as
           the
           highest
           Criminal
           ,
           that
           presumeth
           to
           Act
           in
           the
           virtue
           of
           any
           other
           .
           An
           illegal
           Commission
           ,
           is
           so
           far
           from
           conveying
           a
           power
           unto
           any
           man
           to
           Act
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           a
           greater
           Crime
           to
           do
           any
           thing
           upon
           the
           Authority
           of
           it
           ,
           than
           it
           would
           be
           to
           commit
           the
           same
           fact
           ,
           without
           all
           colour
           and
           pretence
           of
           power
           and
           warrant
           .
           Seeing
           the
           injury
           in
           the
           one
           case
           ,
           doth
           only
           affect
           and
           terminate
           in
           him
           that
           receives
           it
           ;
           whereas
           in
           the
           other
           it
           affects
           both
           the
           King
           ,
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           Body
           of
           the
           People
           .
           And
           as
           if
           it
           were
           not
           enough
           to
           preserve
           us
           harmless
           from
           the
           Executive
           power
           lodged
           in
           the
           King
           ,
           that
           all
           the
           Commissions
           issuable
           from
           him
           are
           to
           be
           Legal
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           to
           be
           accounted
           null
           ;
           even
           they
           who
           stand
           warranted
           and
           empowered
           to
           Act
           by
           Legal
           Commissions
           ,
           are
           not
           only
           to
           be
           Sworn
           to
           execute
           them
           Legally
           ,
           but
           are
           obnoxious
           to
           be
           punished
           for
           every
           thing
           they
           do
           upon
           them
           that
           deviates
           from
           the
           Measures
           of
           the
           Law.
           And
           as
           't
           is
           the
           Duty
           and
           hath
           been
           the
           Practice
           of
           those
           who
           have
           been
           faithful
           to
           the
           Trust
           reposed
           in
           them
           ,
           regardful
           of
           their
           own
           Honor
           and
           Just
           to
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           to
           punish
           their
           Officers
           and
           Ministers
           for
           Malversation
           ,
           and
           for
           departing
           in
           their
           Administration
           from
           the
           Rules
           of
           our
           Common
           and
           Statute
           Laws
           ,
           Witness
           King
           Alfred
           who
           caused
           forty
           four
           Justices
           to
           be
           hanged
           in
           one
           year
           for
           illegal
           ,
           false
           ,
           and
           corrupt
           Judgments
           ;
           so
           it
           belongeth
           unto
           our
           Parliaments
           ,
           as
           being
           one
           of
           the
           great
           Ends
           as
           well
           as
           Reasons
           ,
           for
           which
           they
           ought
           to
           be
           frequently
           called
           and
           Assembled
           ,
           to
           inquire
           into
           ,
           and
           to
           punish
           the
           Crimes
           of
           Judges
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           others
           ,
           employed
           by
           ,
           and
           under
           the
           King
           in
           the
           Executive
           part
           of
           the
           Government
           .
           From
           hence
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           
           as
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           among
           other
           capacities
           in
           which
           they
           sit
           and
           Act
           ,
           are
           by
           the
           Constitution
           to
           be
           the
           great
           Inquest
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           to
           search
           into
           all
           the
           Oppressions
           and
           Injustices
           of
           the
           King's
           Ministers
           ;
           so
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           ,
           among
           their
           several
           other
           Rights
           and
           Priviledges
           stand
           cloathed
           with
           the
           Power
           and
           Authority
           of
           the
           High
           Court
           of
           Judicature
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           who
           are
           to
           punish
           those
           who
           have
           misbehaved
           themselves
           in
           all
           other
           Courts
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           those
           whom
           Inferiour
           Courts
           have
           either
           connived
           at
           ,
           or
           have
           been
           so
           wicked
           as
           unrighteously
           to
           justify
           .
           Of
           this
           all
           Ages
           afford
           us
           Presidents
           ,
           and
           nothing
           but
           the
           supiness
           of
           this
           ,
           in
           not
           making
           so
           frequent
           and
           signal
           Examples
           of
           Parliamentary
           Justice
           among
           the
           Ministerial
           Dispensers
           of
           our
           Laws
           ,
           and
           among
           the
           Officers
           of
           our
           late
           Kings
           ,
           as
           our
           Ancestors
           used
           to
           do
           ,
           hath
           rendered
           our
           withdrawn
           Prince's
           being
           trusted
           with
           the
           Executive
           part
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           so
           mischievous
           unto
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           the
           Abuse
           of
           it
           so
           Fatal
           at
           last
           unto
           himself
           .
        
         
           Having
           with
           all
           imaginable
           brevity
           declared
           the
           Nature
           ,
           and
           stated
           the
           Boundaries
           of
           our
           Government
           ,
           both
           in
           what
           is
           entrusted
           with
           the
           King
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           in
           what
           is
           reserved
           unto
           the
           People
           ,
           that
           which
           in
           the
           next
           place
           I
           am
           to
           Address
           my self
           unto
           ,
           is
           to
           inquire
           whether
           a
           King
           of
           England
           can
           so
           misbehave
           himself
           in
           his
           Office
           ,
           as
           that
           according
           to
           the
           Rules
           of
           our
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           the
           Measures
           of
           Justice
           ,
           he
           may
           be
           either
           Resisted
           in
           his
           Arbitrary
           and
           Illegal
           Exercise
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           Degraded
           and
           Deposed
           from
           his
           Regal
           Dignity
           .
           And
           it
           ought
           to
           have
           no
           small
           Influence
           upon
           our
           Understandings
           ,
           towards
           our
           assenting
           unto
           ,
           and
           embracing
           the
           Affirmative
           ,
           that
           our
           Predecessors
           not
           only
           managed
           open
           War
           with
           a
           
             Nolumus
             Leges
             Angliae
             mutari
          
           upon
           their
           Banners
           ,
           against
           King
           John
           and
           Henry
           the
           Third
           ,
           for
           Usurpation
           upon
           their
           
           Laws
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           but
           that
           within
           the
           same
           compass
           of
           the
           Norman
           Race
           ,
           they
           dethroned
           and
           abdicated
           Edward
           the
           Second
           ,
           and
           Richard
           the
           Second
           ,
           for
           their
           Tyranny
           and
           Male-administration
           .
           Nor
           are
           there
           any
           Authors
           meriting
           the
           least
           regard
           among
           the
           highest
           Assertors
           of
           Monarchy
           and
           Regal
           Prerogative
           ,
           who
           do
           not
           allow
           various
           Cases
           in
           which
           Kings
           may
           both
           abdicate
           themselves
           from
           their
           Power
           and
           Authority
           ,
           and
           be
           renounced
           and
           degraded
           by
           others
           .
           If
           the
           becoming
           Lunatick
           and
           of
           Vnsound
           Memory
           ,
           which
           are
           natural
           Infirmities
           ,
           be
           sufficient
           Reasons
           in
           the
           Judgments
           of
           all
           Men
           ,
           for
           precluding
           Princes
           from
           their
           Office
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           from
           the
           Exercise
           of
           Kingly
           Power
           ?
           There
           are
           certainly
           Moral
           Distempers
           which
           do
           render
           them
           more
           incapable
           of
           Regal
           Trust
           ,
           and
           less
           qualified
           for
           the
           Exercise
           of
           Rectoral
           Authority
           ,
           such
           as
           an
           implacable
           Malice
           to
           the
           welfare
           of
           the
           whole
           Community
           ,
           or
           an
           Attachment
           to
           one
           party
           to
           the
           Extirpation
           of
           all
           others
           .
           'T
           is
           generally
           granted
           ,
           that
           the
           entering
           in
           Religion
           ,
           which
           the
           Law
           accounts
           a
           civil
           Death
           ,
           doth
           disable
           a
           person
           both
           from
           the
           Claim
           and
           Exercise
           of
           Magistracy
           ;
           and
           therefore
           I
           know
           no
           reason
           why
           one
           should
           not
           be
           esteemed
           equally
           unqualified
           for
           Soveraignty
           ,
           by
           having
           Enrolled
           himself
           into
           the
           most
           sanguinary
           Order
           of
           the
           Papal
           Church
           ,
           and
           having
           subjected
           himself
           intirely
           to
           their
           Conduct
           ,
           tho'
           in
           order
           to
           the
           remaining
           the
           more
           able
           to
           Execute
           their
           Malice
           ,
           and
           to
           campass
           their
           Brutal
           Ends
           ,
           he
           hath
           declined
           to
           assume
           and
           take
           on
           the
           Habit.
           But
           I
           shall
           supercede
           whatsoever
           may
           be
           Muster'd
           from
           these
           Topicks
           ,
           for
           the
           Resisting
           and
           Abdicating
           of
           his
           late
           Majesty
           ;
           and
           shall
           justifie
           our
           doing
           so
           from
           Principles
           which
           our
           Constitution
           and
           Laws
           do
           Administer
           ,
           and
           which
           no
           man
           can
           contradict
           without
           belying
           their
           Sight
           and
           Feeling
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           being
           Treacherous
           to
           the
           Dictates
           of
           their
           
           Judgments
           and
           Understandings
           ,
           For
           admitting
           us
           to
           be
           ,
           as
           we
           really
           are
           ,
           a
           Free
           and
           a
           Protestant
           Kingdom
           ,
           who
           have
           not
           only
           many
           Priviledges
           and
           Rights
           reserved
           and
           secured
           unto
           us
           ,
           and
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           made
           a
           part
           of
           our
           Property
           ,
           but
           who
           stand
           vested
           with
           a
           large
           share
           in
           the
           Legislation
           ,
           through
           the
           Power
           that
           our
           Representatives
           ,
           whom
           we
           ought
           and
           have
           a
           Title
           freely
           to
           chuse
           ,
           have
           in
           the
           Enacting
           and
           Repealing
           of
           all
           Laws
           ;
           there
           are
           three
           things
           whereby
           our
           lately
           departed
           King
           hath
           unqualified
           himself
           ,
           both
           for
           the
           Claim
           and
           Exercise
           of
           the
           Regal
           Power
           ,
           and
           which
           made
           it
           lawful
           and
           necessary
           at
           first
           to
           Resist
           ,
           and
           doth
           render
           it
           now
           Just
           and
           Expedient
           to
           Abdicate
           him
           .
           The
           first
           is
           ,
           That
           through
           having
           dispensed
           with
           the
           Oath
           of
           Supremacy
           ,
           which
           precluded
           all
           Forraign
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           and
           through
           having
           received
           the
           Pope's
           Nuncio
           ,
           and
           Provincial
           Romish
           Bishops
           ;
           he
           hath
           thereby
           rob'd
           the
           Crown
           of
           its
           brightest
           Jewel
           ,
           namely
           of
           the
           having
           and
           exercising
           Authority
           and
           Jurisdiction
           over
           all
           Persons
           in
           this
           Dominion
           ,
           and
           hath
           transferred
           and
           aliened
           the
           Regal
           Power
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           to
           a
           Forraigner
           .
           The
           second
           is
           ,
           That
           being
           trusted
           with
           the
           Regal
           Power
           ,
           and
           vested
           with
           the
           Executive
           part
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           Rights
           and
           Liberties
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           he
           hath
           in
           innumerable
           ways
           ,
           methods
           ,
           and
           instances
           ,
           applied
           and
           exerted
           it
           to
           their
           Ruine
           and
           Destruction
           .
           The
           third
           is
           ,
           That
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           dispensing
           with
           Laws
           ,
           seizing
           of
           Charters
           ,
           and
           practicing
           upon
           the
           Freedom
           of
           those
           who
           have
           right
           of
           Electing
           Members
           to
           Parliament
           ,
           he
           hath
           overthrown
           the
           whole
           Legislative
           part
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           subverted
           the
           very
           Fundamental
           Constitutions
           of
           the
           Realm
           .
           His
           whole
           Reign
           hath
           been
           a
           continued
           Invasion
           upon
           our
           Laws
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Properties
           .
           He
           endeavoured
           to
           render
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           
           had
           actually
           made
           Courts
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           Ministers
           of
           his
           Will
           ▪
           Pleasure
           ,
           and
           unruly
           Lusts
           ,
           instead
           of
           their
           being
           Assertors
           and
           Vindicators
           of
           our
           National
           Rights
           ,
           and
           Dispensers
           of
           Law
           ,
           Justice
           ,
           and
           Equity
           .
           There
           is
           nothing
           Essential
           ,
           Sacred
           ,
           or
           Inviolable
           in
           our
           Constitution
           ,
           which
           he
           hath
           not
           subverted
           as
           well
           as
           shaken
           .
           Our
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Fortunes
           have
           been
           subjected
           to
           the
           Will
           ,
           Power
           ,
           and
           Authority
           of
           those
           whom
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           not
           only
           make
           incapable
           ,
           but
           declare
           to
           be
           Traytors
           .
           We
           have
           not
           only
           been
           without
           Parliaments
           beyond
           the
           time
           appointed
           by
           the
           Law
           ,
           but
           there
           have
           been
           means
           used
           to
           prevent
           our
           ever-having
           one
           that
           deserved
           to
           be
           held
           and
           esteemed
           Lawful
           and
           Free.
           The
           Civil
           as
           well
           as
           Military
           Power
           ,
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           in
           no
           hands
           ,
           save
           in
           theirs
           who
           will
           maintain
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           defend
           our
           Persons
           ,
           have
           been
           committed
           and
           entrusted
           to
           such
           ,
           who
           judge
           it
           to
           be
           both
           their
           Duty
           and
           Meritorious
           to
           Rob
           ,
           Destroy
           and
           Extirpate
           us
           .
           The
           Ecclesiastical
           Commissioners
           were
           not
           only
           a
           Body
           of
           Men
           erected
           in
           Opposition
           unto
           ,
           and
           in
           Defiance
           of
           our
           Laws
           ;
           but
           had
           both
           the
           whole
           Clergy
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           our
           Religion
           ,
           prostituted
           to
           their
           Arbitrary
           Will.
           No
           man
           in
           England
           was
           secure
           of
           his
           Freehold
           ,
           after
           what
           
             Wright
             ,
             Jener
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Chester
           had
           done
           against
           the
           President
           and
           Fellows
           of
           Mag.
           Colledge
           .
           We
           could
           no
           longer
           be
           said
           to
           have
           Properties
           or
           Inheritances
           ,
           but
           what
           we
           possessed
           was
           precarious
           ,
           and
           held
           by
           no
           other
           Tenure
           but
           that
           of
           Court
           pleasure
           and
           connivance
           .
           The
           Kings
           claiming
           a
           Right
           to
           dispense
           with
           so
           many
           Laws
           ,
           Enacted
           for
           our
           Defence
           and
           Safety
           ;
           gave
           him
           a
           Title
           to
           Dispense
           with
           all
           our
           Laws
           ,
           whensoever
           he
           should
           find
           it
           seasonable
           and
           convenient
           .
           So
           that
           upon
           the
           whole
           ,
           it
           was
           become
           both
           Lawful
           and
           Necessary
           ,
           to
           recover
           that
           by
           Force
           ,
           which
           had
           been
           wrested
           from
           
           us
           by
           Usurpation
           .
           Nor
           had
           we
           been
           worthy
           of
           the
           Name
           of
           English
           men
           ,
           but
           had
           shewn
           ourselves
           a
           degenerate
           Off-spring
           ,
           and
           proved
           Traitors
           to
           God
           ,
           our
           Countrey
           ,
           and
           our
           Posterity
           ,
           had
           we
           not
           been
           ready
           to
           retrieve
           and
           vindicate
           our
           Rights
           upon
           the
           first
           opportunity
           that
           should
           be
           offered
           unto
           us
           .
           Our
           having
           reserved
           Rights
           and
           Priviledges
           unto
           our selves
           ,
           gave
           us
           a
           Right
           to
           defend
           them
           in
           case
           they
           came
           to
           be
           Invaded
           .
           And
           though
           there
           were
           not
           wanting
           ignorant
           and
           mercinary
           men
           ,
           who
           would
           have
           rivetted
           the
           King
           in
           his
           Tyranny
           ,
           and
           fettered
           the
           Subject
           in
           Slavery
           ,
           by
           their
           Treasonable
           Doctrines
           of
           
             Passive
             Obedience
          
           ,
           and
           Non-Resistance
           ,
           yet
           the
           Rational
           and
           ingenious
           part
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           remained
           so
           far
           preserved
           from
           the
           infection
           of
           those
           slavish
           Notions
           ,
           as
           to
           know
           themselves
           to
           be
           no
           farther
           bound
           to
           suffer
           ,
           than
           the
           Law
           had
           obliged
           them
           ,
           nor
           tied
           up
           to
           to
           any
           other
           measures
           and
           degrees
           of
           Obedience
           ,
           than
           what
           they
           were
           confined
           unto
           ,
           by
           the
           Rules
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           Statutes
           of
           the
           Realm
           .
           Yea
           to
           the
           reproach
           of
           too
           many
           of
           the
           Crape
           ,
           the
           very
           Gentlemen
           of
           the
           Sword
           ,
           who
           stood
           muster'd
           under
           the
           Kings
           Banners
           ,
           and
           by
           whom
           he
           expected
           to
           have
           been
           supported
           in
           his
           Invasions
           upon
           Law
           and
           Religion
           ,
           were
           not
           only
           so
           far
           sensible
           of
           his
           unjust
           usurpations
           upon
           the
           Rights
           and
           Priviledges
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           of
           his
           designing
           the
           extirpation
           of
           Protestancy
           and
           Liberty
           ,
           but
           were
           also
           so
           far
           convinced
           of
           its
           being
           the
           duty
           of
           every
           Protestant
           and
           English-man
           ,
           to
           resist
           and
           not
           to
           abet
           him
           ,
           that
           upon
           this
           inducement
           ,
           and
           upon
           no
           other
           ,
           they
           turn'd
           their
           Arms
           against
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           abandoned
           him
           .
           Nor
           was
           there
           any
           thing
           ,
           whereby
           the
           King
           can
           be
           supposed
           to
           have
           been
           prevailed
           upon
           ,
           to
           forsake
           both
           the
           Government
           and
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           a
           sense
           of
           his
           own
           Guilt
           ,
           and
           an
           apprehension
           of
           his
           demerit
           .
           There
           was
           neither
           
           Force
           ,
           nor
           Menace
           ,
           used
           to
           drive
           him
           from
           the
           one
           or
           the
           other
           ;
           only
           the
           Thoughts
           of
           a
           Free
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           of
           what
           he
           might
           be
           found
           obnoxious
           unto
           ,
           by
           the
           Fundamental
           Rules
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           chased
           him
           from
           the
           Throne
           and
           out
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           as
           we
           have
           various
           Presidents
           in
           all
           Free
           Nations
           ,
           giving
           countenance
           to
           what
           we
           have
           been
           doing
           ;
           so
           no
           Kingdoms
           afford
           more
           examples
           in
           Justification
           of
           it
           ,
           than
           our
           own
           .
        
         
           However
           ,
           after
           all
           the
           Evils
           which
           this
           late
           King
           had
           done
           us
           ,
           we
           are
           willing
           to
           acknowledge
           the
           kindness
           we
           have
           received
           from
           him
           at
           last
           ,
           in
           his
           leaving
           the
           Nation
           and
           retiring
           beyond
           Sea.
           And
           that
           which
           is
           now
           incumbent
           upon
           us
           ,
           as
           we
           would
           be
           just
           both
           to
           him
           and
           our selves
           ,
           is
           to
           bolt
           the
           Door
           after
           him
           ,
           and
           so
           fore-close
           his
           Return
           .
           Though
           we
           were
           once
           so
           foolish
           as
           to
           trust
           him
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           Religion
           ,
           as
           hoping
           the
           King
           would
           have
           been
           two
           strong
           for
           the
           Papist
           ;
           yet
           it
           were
           madness
           to
           do
           it
           a
           second
           time
           ,
           especially
           after
           we
           have
           seen
           the
           Monarch
           all
           along
           too
           weak
           for
           the
           Papal
           Bigot
           .
           The
           fault
           is
           his
           ,
           in
           the
           deceiving
           us
           once
           ;
           but
           it
           would
           be
           ours
           ,
           should
           we
           give
           him
           an
           advantage
           of
           deceiving
           us
           again
           .
           We
           have
           provoked
           him
           too
           far
           ,
           to
           think
           of
           laying
           our selves
           any
           more
           at
           his
           mercy
           .
           Nor
           is
           it
           possible
           to
           receive
           any
           Security
           from
           him
           ,
           but
           what
           he
           hath
           already
           falsified
           .
           The
           whole
           Kingdom
           is
           embarked
           too
           far
           ,
           to
           think
           ever
           of
           Retreating
           ;
           and
           his
           Misgovernment
           during
           the
           whole
           time
           he
           was
           permitted
           to
           Reign
           ,
           disableth
           him
           from
           being
           trusted
           with
           Authority
           any
           more
           .
           A
           few
           little
           and
           desperate
           people
           ,
           may
           (
           if
           they
           think
           fit
           )
           talk
           their
           Necks
           into
           a
           Noose
           ;
           but
           they
           will
           soon
           find
           ,
           that
           the
           Nation
           is
           not
           to
           be
           twatled
           again
           into
           Slavery
           .
           His
           very
           Retreating
           into
           France
           ,
           is
           a
           just
           bar
           against
           the
           admitting
           his
           return
           ;
           seeing
           it
           is
           morally
           impossible
           he
           should
           come
           back
           from
           thence
           ,
           but
           
           under
           Confederacies
           with
           that
           Monarch
           ,
           for
           the
           Extirpating
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           every
           where
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           Ruining
           of
           these
           Nations
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           Europe
           .
           Nor
           will
           those
           Provinces
           and
           States
           that
           lent
           their
           Forces
           to
           inable
           us
           to
           vindicate
           and
           assert
           our
           Rights
           ,
           ever
           suffer
           the
           King
           to
           get
           into
           a
           condition
           ,
           of
           wrecking
           his
           malice
           upon
           them
           for
           their
           kindness
           to
           us
           .
           And
           should
           we
           be
           so
           far
           infatuated
           ,
           as
           to
           reinthral
           our selves
           ;
           it
           will
           be
           our
           fate
           to
           be
           neither
           pittied
           in
           our
           miseries
           ,
           nor
           relieved
           from
           them
           .
           Yea
           God
           himself
           will
           laugh
           at
           our
           Calamities
           ,
           when
           they
           come
           to
           overtake
           us
           ,
           through
           our
           own
           wilfulness
           and
           choice
           .
        
         
           But
           though
           James
           the
           Second
           stand
           unqualified
           ,
           and
           morally
           disabled
           from
           being
           any
           more
           King
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           indispensably
           necessary
           we
           should
           have
           One
           ,
           a
           King
           being
           no
           less
           essential
           in
           the
           Body
           Politick
           of
           England
           ,
           than
           the
           Head
           is
           in
           the
           Body
           Natural
           .
           To
           dream
           of
           reducing
           England
           to
           a
           Democratical
           Republick
           ,
           is
           incident
           only
           to
           persons
           of
           shallow
           Capacities
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           are
           unacquainted
           with
           the
           Nature
           of
           Governments
           ,
           and
           the
           Genius
           of
           Nations
           .
           For
           as
           the
           Mercurial
           and
           Masculine
           Temper
           of
           the
           English
           people
           ,
           is
           not
           to
           be
           moulded
           and
           accommodated
           to
           a
           Democracy
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           impracticable
           to
           establish
           such
           a
           Common-wealth
           ,
           where
           there
           is
           a
           numerous
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           unless
           we
           should
           first
           destroy
           and
           extirpate
           them
           .
           This
           is
           demonstrable
           from
           all
           Histories
           extant
           ,
           whether
           they
           be
           Modern
           or
           Ancient
           .
           And
           either
           to
           hope
           for
           ,
           or
           to
           endeavour
           to
           do
           this
           in
           England
           ,
           were
           the
           highest
           folly
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           most
           prodigious
           wickedness
           imaginable
           .
           To
           think
           of
           precluding
           Kingship
           out
           of
           the
           Constitution
           of
           the
           English
           Government
           ,
           would
           lay
           us
           under
           a
           necessity
           of
           Excluding
           also
           a
           House
           of
           Peers
           ,
           which
           for
           any
           one
           to
           attempt
           ,
           would
           be
           equally
           as
           imprudent
           as
           it
           would
           be
           unjust
           .
           Nor
           is
           the
           
           naturalness
           of
           this
           inference
           meerly
           supported
           by
           the
           practice
           of
           the
           late
           times
           ;
           but
           it
           deriveth
           its
           light
           and
           evidence
           from
           the
           nature
           of
           the
           thing
           itself
           .
           For
           as
           the
           very
           end
           of
           a
           House
           of
           Peers
           ,
           is
           to
           be
           a
           skreen
           between
           the
           Monarch
           and
           the
           Commons
           ,
           to
           prevent
           his
           Invading
           the
           Priviledges
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           their
           usurping
           upon
           the
           Prerogatives
           of
           the
           Crown
           ;
           so
           without
           our
           having
           a
           King
           ,
           they
           would
           become
           not
           only
           useless
           but
           burthensome
           .
           Yea
           ,
           to
           shut
           Kingship
           out
           of
           the
           Constitution
           ,
           would
           draw
           after
           it
           the
           alteration
           of
           the
           whole
           Body
           of
           our
           Laws
           ,
           which
           would
           be
           of
           ill
           consequence
           to
           the
           whole
           State
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           particular
           Men.
           There
           is
           nothing
           more
           obvious
           ,
           than
           that
           the
           Stile
           and
           Authority
           of
           King
           ,
           is
           so
           Incorporated
           with
           ,
           and
           woven
           into
           our
           Laws
           ,
           that
           without
           it
           ,
           they
           are
           neither
           intelligible
           ,
           nor
           can
           they
           be
           applied
           to
           the
           Uses
           and
           Ends
           for
           which
           they
           were
           Enacted
           and
           made
           .
           This
           one
           of
           
             Oliver
             Cromwels
          
           Parliaments
           was
           sensible
           of
           ,
           and
           therefore
           advised
           him
           to
           exchange
           the
           Name
           of
           Protector
           ,
           for
           that
           of
           King.
           Which
           he
           either
           out
           of
           a
           Capricio
           of
           his
           own
           ,
           or
           for
           fear
           of
           disgusting
           his
           Army
           refusing
           to
           comply
           with
           ,
           gave
           first
           an
           opportunity
           and
           advantage
           to
           his
           own
           Creatures
           for
           the
           Deposing
           his
           Son
           ;
           and
           secondly
           paved
           the
           way
           and
           laid
           it
           open
           for
           the
           Restoration
           of
           the
           Royal
           Family
           .
           And
           as
           the
           Government
           of
           England
           is
           imperfect
           without
           a
           King
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           not
           only
           needful
           that
           we
           should
           cure
           this
           defect
           in
           the
           Body
           Politick
           ,
           but
           that
           it
           should
           be
           done
           with
           all
           the
           Expedition
           that
           is
           possible
           .
           For
           until
           then
           ,
           the
           Government
           can
           exert
           it self
           but
           in
           few
           of
           its
           proper
           operations
           ;
           nor
           can
           it
           either
           Repeal
           ill
           Laws
           ,
           nor
           Enact
           such
           good
           ones
           as
           we
           want
           and
           need
           .
           Besides
           ,
           this
           is
           the
           first
           means
           of
           rendring
           us
           safe
           at
           home
           ,
           and
           formidable
           abroad
           .
           Were
           this
           once
           accomplished
           ,
           Forreign
           Enemies
           would
           dread
           us
           ,
           and
           Intestine
           Foes
           shrink
           in
           their
           Heads
           .
           Nor
           
           can
           any
           thing
           less
           ,
           check
           the
           intemperate
           and
           seditious
           Language
           of
           some
           ,
           and
           discourage
           the
           audacious
           Caballings
           and
           dangerous
           Machinations
           of
           others
           .
        
         
           Now
           the
           Case
           that
           we
           are
           to
           Discourse
           ,
           falls
           not
           within
           the
           compass
           ,
           nor
           under
           the
           Regulation
           ,
           of
           what
           a
           King
           and
           the
           Two
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           may
           do
           in
           the
           disposal
           of
           the
           Crown
           .
           The
           many
           Statutes
           by
           which
           it
           hath
           been
           Entailed
           ,
           do
           plainly
           shew
           that
           they
           have
           a
           Right
           to
           Settle
           it
           .
           And
           though
           they
           may
           be
           confined
           from
           going
           out
           of
           the
           Royal
           Line
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           evident
           from
           those
           upon
           whom
           it
           hath
           been
           conferred
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           not
           always
           obliged
           to
           bestow
           it
           in
           the
           order
           and
           way
           that
           common
           Inheritances
           descend
           .
           For
           whereas
           both
           Queen
           Mary
           ,
           and
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           succeeded
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           yet
           it
           could
           be
           in
           the
           vertue
           of
           nothing
           but
           the
           Act
           of
           Settlement
           ,
           of
           the
           35
           Hen.
           8.
           seeing
           if
           the
           one
           of
           them
           was
           Legitimate
           ,
           the
           other
           could
           not
           ,
           nor
           as
           such
           pretend
           to
           any
           Title
           or
           Claim
           .
           Yea
           our
           Law
           does
           expresly
           declare
           ,
           that
           the
           Prince
           Regnant
           whosoever
           he
           be
           ,
           may
           and
           can
           with
           the
           concurrence
           of
           the
           Two
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           Dispose
           ,
           Settle
           ,
           and
           Entail
           the
           Crown
           ,
           as
           shall
           be
           thought
           most
           needful
           and
           convenient
           .
           For
           this
           see
           
           Rastal's
           second
           Vol.
           13
           
             Eliz
             cap.
          
           1.
           where
           the
           words
           of
           the
           Statute
           are
           as
           follows
           .
           
             Be
             it
             Enacted
             ,
             that
             if
             any
             person
             ,
             shall
             in
             any
             wise
             ,
             hold
             and
             affirm
             ,
             or
             maintain
             ,
             that
             our
             Sovereign
             Lady
          
           Elizabeth
           ,
           
             the
             Queens
             Majesty
             that
             now
             is
             ,
             with
             and
             by
             the
             Authority
             of
             the
             Parliament
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             is
             not
             able
             to
             make
             Laws
             and
             Statutes
             of
             sufficient
             Force
             and
             Validity
             ,
             to
             Limit
             and
             Bind
             the
             Crown
             of
             this
             Realm
             ,
             and
             the
             Descent
             ,
             Limitation
             ,
             Inheritance
             and
             Government
             thereof
             ;
             or
             that
             this
             present
             Statute
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             Statute
             to
             be
             made
             by
             the
             Authority
             of
             the
             Parliament
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             with
             the
             Royal
             Assent
             ,
             is
             not
             ,
             or
             shall
             not
             ,
             or
             ought
             not
             to
             be
             for
             ever
             ,
             of
             good
             and
             sufficient
             force
             and
             validity
             to
             Bind
             Limit
             ,
             Restrain
             ▪
             and
             
             Govern
             all
             persons
             ,
             their
             Rights
             and
             Titles
             ,
             that
             in
             any
             wise
             may
             or
             might
             claim
             any
             interest
             or
             possibility
             ,
             in
             or
             to
             the
             Crown
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             in
             Possession
             ,
             Remainder
             ,
             Inheritance
             ,
             Succession
             ,
             or
             otherwise
             howsoever
             ;
             that
             every
             such
             person
             ,
             so
             Holding
             ,
             Affirming
             ,
             or
             Maintaining
             ,
             during
             the
             Life
             of
             the
             Queens
             Majesty
             ,
             shall
             be
             judged
             a
             high
             Traytor
             ,
             and
             suffer
             and
             forfeit
             as
             in
             cases
             of
             High-Treason
             is
             accustomed
             .
             And
             that
             every
             person
             so
             holding
             affirming
             or
             maintaining
             after
             the
             decease
             of
             our
             said
             Soveraign
             Lady
             ,
             shall
             forfeit
             all
             his
             Goods
             and
             Chattels
             .
          
           Nor
           was
           the
           Power
           and
           Authority
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           for
           conveying
           and
           disposing
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           ever
           questioned
           or
           gainsaid
           ,
           till
           a
           few
           Mercinary
           People
           about
           ten
           years
           ago
           ,
           endeavoured
           to
           obtrude
           upon
           us
           a
           pretended
           Divine
           ,
           and
           unalterable
           Right
           to
           the
           Suc●ession
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           more
           irrational
           ,
           strange
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           wondered
           at
           ,
           seeing
           all
           the
           Race
           of
           the
           Stewarts
           after
           Robert
           the
           first
           had
           no
           other
           Title
           to
           the
           Crown
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           but
           what
           they
           derived
           from
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           in
           prejudice
           and
           preclusion
           of
           these
           of
           the
           Ligitimate
           and
           right
           Line
           .
           For
           the
           said
           Robert
           having
           had
           three
           Sons
           and
           one
           Daughter
           by
           a
           Concubine
           named
           
             Elizabeth
             More
          
           ,
           whom
           he
           afterwards
           married
           to
           one
           Gifford
           ,
           himself
           at
           the
           same
           time
           taking
           into
           Marriage
           Eufemia
           the
           Daughter
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Ross
           ,
           by
           whom
           he
           had
           Issue
           Walter
           and
           David
           ,
           Earls
           of
           Athol
           and
           Strathern
           ,
           and
           Eufemia
           that
           was
           afterwards
           married
           to
           
             James
             Douglass
          
           Son
           to
           the
           Earl
           of
           Douglass
           ;
           The
           forementioned
           Robert
           did
           not
           only
           upon
           the
           Death
           of
           his
           Wife
           Eufemia
           ,
           and
           of
           Gifford
           the
           Husband
           of
           
             Elizabeth
             More
          
           ,
           take
           into
           Wedlock
           his
           former
           
             Concubine
             Elizabeth
             More
          
           ,
           but
           obtained
           by
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           that
           the
           Children
           whom
           he
           had
           begotten
           upon
           her
           in
           Concubinate
           should
           be
           Entitled
           unto
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           Lawful
           and
           Legitimate
           Children
           by
           his
           Wife
           Eufemia
           should
           be
           precluded
           and
           debarred
           .
           And
           it
           was
           heretofore
           the
           more
           surprising
           unto
           me
           ,
           to
           find
           the
           Pensionaries
           
           and
           Advocates
           of
           the
           late
           Duke
           of
           York
           ,
           plead
           for
           a
           Divine
           and
           unchangeable
           Right
           of
           Succession
           ,
           seeing
           all
           the
           claim
           that
           the
           Scots
           Race
           had
           to
           the
           Throne
           of
           England
           ,
           through
           their
           being
           descended
           from
           the
           eldest
           Daughter
           of
           Henry
           the
           Seventh
           ,
           was
           from
           and
           by
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           which
           vested
           the
           said
           Henry
           in
           the
           Crown
           of
           this
           Realm
           .
           For
           tho'
           the
           fore-mentioned
           Henry
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           his
           Marriage
           to
           Elizabeth
           ,
           Daughter
           to
           Edward
           the
           Fourth
           of
           the
           House
           of
           York
           ,
           had
           a
           Legal
           Title
           to
           the
           Crown
           of
           England
           by
           the
           Common
           Law
           ,
           yet
           he
           was
           so
           far
           from
           insisting
           upon
           and
           allowing
           it
           ,
           that
           he
           chose
           to
           hold
           and
           possess
           the
           Crown
           in
           the
           force
           and
           vertue
           of
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           .
           For
           as
           his
           Title
           by
           the
           House
           of
           Lancaster
           ,
           was
           both
           originally
           unlawful
           ,
           and
           had
           particular
           flaws
           and
           defects
           in
           it
           ,
           so
           all
           the
           claim
           he
           could
           pretend
           unto
           that
           way
           ,
           was
           in
           the
           Right
           of
           his
           Mother
           ,
           who
           as
           she
           outlived
           his
           advancement
           to
           the
           Throne
           several
           years
           ,
           and
           so
           she
           was
           never
           admitted
           to
           the
           Royal
           Authority
           ,
           nor
           suffered
           to
           sway
           the
           Scepter
           .
        
         
           But
           that
           which
           is
           more
           peculiarly
           my
           Province
           at
           present
           ,
           is
           to
           enquire
           what
           Power
           and
           Right
           the
           Peers
           and
           Commons
           of
           England
           ,
           have
           in
           and
           over
           the
           Crown
           ,
           for
           the
           Conveying
           ,
           Disposing
           ,
           and
           setling
           of
           it
           ,
           in
           case
           of
           a
           Devolution
           ,
           through
           the
           Thrones
           becoming
           ,
           by
           one
           means
           or
           another
           ,
           empty
           and
           vacant
           .
           And
           as
           to
           this
           ,
           we
           stand
           provided
           with
           many
           and
           signal
           Presidents
           ,
           of
           the
           Crowns
           having
           been
           Conferred
           and
           Bestowed
           ,
           as
           the
           General
           Councils
           and
           Parliaments
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           judged
           most
           conduceable
           to
           the
           publick
           Safety
           and
           Benefit
           ,
           but
           still
           keeping
           within
           the
           Sphear
           and
           Circle
           of
           the
           Royal
           Family
           and
           Line
           .
           The
           Saxon
           times
           afford
           several
           Instances
           and
           Examples
           ,
           in
           proof
           and
           confirmation
           hereof
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           either
           needful
           to
           recount
           them
           ,
           or
           if
           the
           brevity
           to
           which
           I
           am
           bound
           up
           and
           obliged
           ,
           would
           allow
           me
           to
           
           represent
           them
           in
           their
           full
           and
           due
           light
           ,
           and
           to
           adorn
           them
           with
           the
           circumstances
           ,
           that
           do
           belong
           unto
           and
           enforce
           them
           .
           But
           all
           the
           Presidents
           I
           shall
           produce
           from
           thence
           ,
           shall
           be
           those
           of
           Alfred
           and
           Edward
           the
           Confessor
           ,
           of
           which
           the
           
             latter
             was
             last
          
           ▪
           and
           the
           other
           the
           first
           Universal
           Saxon
           Monarch
           .
           Horn
           assureth
           us
           in
           his
           Mirrour
           ,
           that
           the
           People
           of
           England
           after
           great
           Wars
           ,
           Tribulations
           ,
           and
           Troubles
           ,
           suffered
           for
           a
           long
           time
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           their
           multiplicity
           of
           Kings
           ,
           did
           at
           last
           
             Elect
             and
             Choose
             one
             King
             to
             Reign
             over
             them
             ,
             whom
             they
             made
             to
             Swear
             that
             he
             should
             not
             only
             Govern
             them
             by
             Law
             ,
             but
             that
             he
             should
             be
             obedient
             to
             suffer
             Right
             ,
             as
             well
             as
             others
             of
             his
             people
             should
             be
             .
          
           Accordingly
           Alfred
           acknowledgeth
           in
           his
           Will
           ▪
           subjoyned
           unto
           his
           Life
           by
           Menevensis
           ,
           that
           he
           owed
           his
           Crown
           to
           the
           Bounty
           of
           his
           Princes
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Elders
           of
           his
           People
           :
           
             Principes
             cum
             Senioribus
             populi
             ,
             misericorditer
             ac
             benignè
             dederunt
             .
          
           And
           for
           Edward
           the
           Confessor
           ,
           he
           could
           have
           no
           Right
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           save
           by
           the
           Grant
           and
           Gift
           of
           the
           People
           ;
           seeing
           the
           Claim
           by
           Descent
           and
           Common
           Law
           ,
           was
           in
           his
           Nephew
           Edward
           the
           Son
           of
           
             Edmond
             Ironside
          
           .
           Accordingly
           all
           our
           Historians
           ,
           lodge
           the
           Confessors
           whole
           Title
           to
           the
           Soveaignty
           ,
           in
           his
           being
           
             Electus
             in
             Regem
             ab
             omni
             populo
             .
          
           The
           power
           which
           the
           people
           of
           England
           had
           in
           the
           Disposal
           of
           the
           Crown
           during
           the
           time
           of
           Saxons
           ,
           is
           confirmed
           unto
           us
           by
           that
           Noble
           Record
           ,
           which
           Sir
           
             Henry
             Spelman
          
           hath
           cited
           ,
           
             Concil
             .
             Vol.
          
           1.
           pag.
           291.
           
           For
           we
           do
           there
           find
           ,
           how
           that
           in
           a
           Parliament
           held
           at
           
             Calcuth
             ,
             An.
          
           787.
           it
           was
           Ordained
           and
           Enacted
           ,
           
             in
             illo
             conventu
             pananglico
             ,
             ad
             quem
             convenerunt
             omnes
             Principes
             tam
             Ecclesiastici
             quam
             seculares
             ,
             unà
             cum
             populo
             Terrae
             ,
             That
             Kings
             should
             be
             Elected
             by
             the
             Parliament
             ,
             ut
             Eligantur
             à
             Sacerdotibus
             .
             &
             Senioribus
             populi
          
           ;
           and
           that
           being
           chosen
           ,
           they
           should
           have
           
             Prudent
             Councellers
             ,
             Fearing
             God
             ,
             Confiliarios
             prudentes
             ,
             Deum
             timentes
             .
          
           
           And
           this
           Right
           over
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           about
           the
           disposal
           of
           it
           ,
           which
           our
           Ancestors
           challenged
           and
           exercised
           all
           the
           time
           of
           the
           Saxons
           ,
           they
           have
           maintained
           and
           exerted
           with
           no
           less
           courage
           and
           vigour
           in
           every
           Age
           since
           the
           coming
           in
           of
           the
           Norman
           Race
           .
           William
           the
           First
           (
           who
           is
           unjustly
           stiled
           the
           Conqueror
           ,
           as
           having
           subdued
           none
           but
           Harold
           and
           those
           that
           abetted
           him
           )
           did
           no
           otherwise
           obtain
           the
           Crown
           ,
           nor
           ascend
           the
           English
           Throne
           ,
           save
           in
           the
           vertue
           of
           an
           unanimous
           and
           free
           Choice
           and
           Submission
           of
           the
           Peers
           and
           Body
           of
           the
           People
           .
           
             Convenientibus
             Francis
             &
             Anglis
             ,
             illisque
             omnibus
             concedentibus
             ,
             Coronam
             Angliae
             &
             Dominationem
             suscepit
             ,
          
           saith
           the
           Anonimous
           Author
           subjoyned
           to
           Sylas
           Tailor's
           History
           of
           
             Gavelkind
             ▪
             A
             Clero
             &
             populo
             susceptus
             ,
             &
             ab
             omnibus
             Rex
             acclamatus
             ,
          
           say
           
             Matth.
             Paris
          
           and
           
             Florilegus
             .
             Ab
             omnibus
             proceribus
             Rex
             est
             Electus
          
           ;
           says
           
             Walsingham
             .
             Vniversi
             ,
             Hilari
             consensu
             ,
             eum
             sibi
             in
             Regem
             &
             Dominum
             coronari
             consonuerunt
             ,
          
           (
           saith
           
             Will
             ,
             Pictav
          
           .
           )
           when
           it
           had
           been
           proposed
           unto
           them
           ,
           whether
           they
           would
           receive
           and
           admit
           him
           or
           not
           .
           Nor
           did
           the
           said
           William
           only
           obtain
           the
           Crown
           by
           the
           Peoples
           Choice
           ,
           but
           he
           was
           made
           to
           Swear
           before
           his
           Coronation
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           
             Govern
             the
             People
             justly
             ,
             keep
             and
             observe
             unto
             them
             all
             their
             old
             Laws
             ,
             and
             consent
             unto
             the
             having
             such
             farther
             Laws
             Enacted
             ,
             as
             should
             be
             found
             needful
             for
             the
             Preservation
             and
             Prosperity
             of
             the
             Realm
             .
             Se
             velle
             cunctum
             populum
             juste
             Regere
             rectam
             legem
             statuere
             &
             tenere
             ,
          
           says
           one
           ,
           
             antiquas
             bonas
             leges
             inviolabiter
             observare
          
           ,
           says
           another
           .
           As
           for
           William
           the
           Third
           ,
           and
           Henry
           the
           First
           ,
           who
           are
           the
           two
           next
           in
           the
           Roll
           and
           List
           of
           our
           Kings
           ;
           it
           is
           undeniable
           ,
           that
           they
           became
           possessed
           of
           the
           Crown
           by
           the
           meer
           Gift
           and
           Choice
           of
           the
           People
           .
           For
           being
           advanced
           to
           the
           Throne
           in
           prejudice
           of
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           preclusion
           of
           Robert
           their
           Elder
           Brother
           ,
           they
           could
           have
           no
           other
           pretence
           ,
           clam
           ,
           or
           
           right
           unto
           it
           ,
           but
           what
           they
           derived
           from
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           were
           indebted
           for
           unto
           Parliamentary
           Power
           and
           Authority
           .
           Our
           Writers
           do
           not
           only
           give
           us
           an
           account
           of
           their
           several
           Elections
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Oaths
           by
           which
           they
           became
           bound
           unto
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           previous
           Conditions
           ,
           Promises
           ,
           and
           Tearms
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           people
           were
           influenced
           and
           prevailed
           upon
           ,
           to
           raise
           them
           unto
           ,
           and
           honour
           them
           with
           the
           Regal
           Dignity
           .
           For
           
             William
             Rusus
          
           having
           promised
           ,
           
             Si
             Rex
             foret
          
           (
           say
           Eadmer
           and
           
             Brompton
             )
             se
             justitiam
             ,
             aequitatem
             ,
             &
             misericordiam
             per
             totum
             Regnum
             ,
             in
             omni
             negatio
             servaturum
             ;
             That
             if
             he
             could
             be
             chosen
             and
             admitted
             King
             by
             the
             English
             ,
             he
             would
             in
             all
             things
             keep
             and
             observe
             Justice
             ,
             Equity
             and
             Mercy
             ,
             throughout
             the
             whole
             Kingdom
          
           ;
           he
           was
           thereupon
           
             in
             Regem
             Electus
             &
             Consecratus
             ,
             first
             Elected
             and
             then
             Consecrated
             King.
          
           And
           as
           
             Matth.
             Paris
          
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             He
             was
             in
             a
             great
             Council
             or
             Assembly
             of
             the
             Nobility
             and
             Wise
             Men
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             ,
             Volentibus
             omnium
             animis
             ,
             with
             the
             cheerful
             consent
             of
             them
             all
             ,
             in
             Regem
             acceptus
             ,
             accepted
             for
             and
             admitted
             to
             be
             King.
          
           And
           for
           Henry
           the
           First
           ,
           the
           same
           Author
           informs
           us
           ,
           how
           that
           having
           called
           a
           general
           Council
           of
           the
           Nobles
           and
           People
           to
           meet
           at
           London
           ,
           he
           promised
           unto
           them
           ,
           provided
           he
           might
           be
           chosen
           King
           ,
           
             Emendationem
             Legum
             ,
             &c.
             
             A
             reformation
             of
             those
             rigorous
             Laws
             which
             his
             Father
             and
             Brother
             had
             obtruded
             on
             the
             Kingdom
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             would
             frame
             just
             Laws
             ,
             grounded
             on
             those
             of
          
           Edward
           
             the
             Confessor
             ,
             and
             that
             he
             would
             likewise
             not
             only
             remit
             the
             Taxes
             ,
             which
             had
             been
             unduely
             exacted
             of
             the
             Subject
             ,
             but
             punish
             such
             persons
             as
             had
             been
             the
             Authors
             of
             them
             :
             and
             that
             thereupon
             the
             whole
             Assembly
             unanimously
             chose
             him
             ,
             and
             appointed
             him
             to
             be
             Consecrated
             King.
          
           And
           as
           he
           intirely
           owed
           his
           Crown
           ,
           to
           the
           Election
           and
           Grant
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           so
           he
           as
           freely
           acknowledged
           it
           in
           his
           Charter
           (
           see
           Hagulst
           )
           where
           he
           says
           ,
           
             Sciatis
             me
             consilio
             Baronum
             
             Regni
             Angliae
             ejusdem
             Regni
             Regem
             Coronatum
             esse
             ,
             Know
             ye
             that
             I
             am
             Crowned
             King
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             by
             the
             Common
             Council
             of
             the
             Barons
             of
             the
             said
             Kingdom
             .
          
           But
           least
           any
           should
           wonder
           ,
           why
           Robert
           was
           all
           this
           while
           Excluded
           ,
           while
           his
           two
           younger
           Brothers
           were
           preferred
           before
           him
           ,
           and
           exalted
           to
           the
           Throne
           ;
           it
           may
           not
           be
           amiss
           to
           take
           notice
           of
           the
           reason
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           assigned
           by
           Knighton
           ,
           namely
           because
           the
           said
           
             Robert
             ▪
             semper
             contrarius
             .
             &
             adeo
             innaturalis
             extiterat
             Baronibus
             Regni
             Angliae
             had
             been
             always
             harsh
             ,
             unnatural
             ,
             and
             averse
             to
             the
             Barons
             of
          
           England
           .
           'T
           were
           an
           easie
           matter
           to
           go
           through
           all
           the
           succeeding
           Kings
           ,
           to
           the
           very
           entrance
           of
           the
           Scots
           Race
           ,
           and
           to
           shew
           how
           the
           People
           of
           England
           have
           in
           all
           Ages
           exercised
           a
           Right
           and
           Power
           in
           the
           Disposal
           of
           the
           Crown
           ;
           but
           this
           is
           enough
           for
           an
           Essay
           ,
           and
           may
           serve
           without
           an
           enumeration
           of
           more
           Examples
           ,
           to
           awaken
           the
           Peers
           and
           the
           Representatives
           of
           the
           Commons
           of
           England
           ,
           to
           claim
           and
           exert
           that
           Power
           at
           this
           conjuncture
           ,
           which
           from
           the
           first
           original
           of
           the
           Government
           has
           belonged
           inseparably
           unto
           them
           .
        
         
           That
           which
           now
           remains
           to
           be
           Treated
           of
           ,
           is
           what
           becomes
           honest
           men
           to
           desire
           ,
           and
           what
           all
           men
           have
           reason
           at
           this
           time
           to
           expect
           ,
           from
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Justice
           of
           the
           approaching
           Convention
           ,
           in
           relation
           to
           the
           bestowing
           ,
           conveying
           ,
           and
           setling
           of
           the
           Imperial
           Crown
           of
           this
           Realm
           .
           And
           that
           the
           Considerations
           which
           are
           to
           be
           here
           offered
           ,
           with
           all
           Humility
           as
           well
           as
           Modesty
           ,
           may
           both
           stand
           in
           the
           clearer
           light
           ,
           and
           have
           the
           greater
           efficacy
           upon
           the
           Minds
           of
           those
           ,
           for
           whom
           they
           are
           designed
           ,
           I
           shall
           briefly
           premise
           these
           things
           .
           (
           1
           ,
           )
           That
           in
           the
           circumstances
           wherein
           we
           are
           ,
           through
           the
           Kings
           having
           withdrawn
           himself
           ,
           and
           forsaken
           the
           Government
           ,
           the
           Crown
           cannot
           be
           said
           to
           go
           by
           Descent
           and
           in
           the
           way
           of
           Inheritance
           ;
           but
           the
           Disposal
           of
           it
           falls
           to
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           
           People
           of
           England
           in
           their
           Representatives
           ,
           by
           way
           of
           Cess
           and
           Devolution
           .
           There
           being
           no
           Death
           ,
           Resignation
           ,
           nor
           Demise
           ,
           of
           the
           fore-going
           Regent
           ,
           there
           can
           be
           no
           Heir
           ,
           nor
           any
           Plea
           for
           the
           Descent
           of
           the
           Crown
           to
           a
           person
           under
           that
           notion
           .
           Though
           there
           may
           be
           all
           the
           Reason
           and
           Justice
           imaginable
           ,
           for
           granting
           and
           conveying
           it
           to
           the
           person
           that
           in
           another
           case
           would
           have
           been
           so
           ,
           yet
           there
           is
           neither
           Common
           nor
           Statute
           Law
           ,
           in
           the
           vertue
           of
           which
           it
           can
           be
           now
           said
           to
           descend
           .
           Proximity
           in
           Blood
           may
           render
           a
           person
           fit
           to
           be
           taken
           notice
           of
           ,
           by
           them
           who
           are
           to
           Dispose
           it
           ,
           and
           Royal
           Qualities
           and
           Vertues
           may
           make
           one
           deserve
           and
           merit
           it
           to
           that
           degree
           ,
           that
           it
           would
           be
           the
           highest
           injury
           to
           the
           Nation
           and
           to
           the
           People
           themselves
           ,
           to
           bestow
           it
           elsewhere
           ,
           but
           yet
           for
           all
           this
           ,
           nothing
           doth
           Legally
           Entitle
           unto
           it
           ,
           but
           the
           Will
           ,
           Donation
           ,
           and
           Gift
           of
           the
           People
           .
           (
           2.
           )
           That
           in
           the
           present
           case
           ,
           nothing
           can
           determine
           ,
           limit
           ,
           or
           restrain
           those
           in
           whom
           the
           disposal
           of
           the
           Crown
           is
           become
           lodged
           ,
           but
           their
           own
           Will
           ,
           guided
           and
           regulated
           by
           the
           Measures
           of
           what
           is
           most
           conducible
           to
           the
           publick
           good
           .
           Many
           things
           may
           serve
           to
           indicate
           and
           direct
           ,
           where
           it
           will
           be
           most
           for
           the
           safety
           and
           honour
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           to
           have
           it
           Setled
           ,
           but
           it
           is
           meerly
           the
           pleasure
           of
           the
           great
           Council
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Representative
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           that
           can
           authoritatively
           fix
           it
           .
           Former
           Acts
           of
           Settlement
           do
           only
           declare
           the
           Channel
           in
           which
           the
           Succession
           was
           to
           run
           by
           the
           ordinary
           way
           of
           Descent
           ;
           but
           they
           have
           no
           Legal
           Force
           here
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           dam
           and
           stop
           that
           is
           in
           the
           Road
           and
           Path
           of
           Conveyance
           .
           Nor
           doth
           the
           Common
           Law
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           want
           of
           Acts
           of
           Entail
           ,
           defines
           the
           order
           of
           Succession
           ,
           signifie
           any
           thing
           here
           ,
           farther
           than
           to
           remind
           us
           of
           persons
           ,
           who
           would
           have
           had
           a
           just
           and
           unquestionable
           Claim
           ,
           but
           for
           the
           survivance
           of
           Him
           ,
           after
           whom
           only
           they
           can
           by
           that
           Law
           pretend
           and
           plead
           .
           
           (
           3.
           )
           That
           seeing
           the
           
             Two
             Houses
          
           cannot
           sit
           in
           the
           nature
           of
           a
           formal
           Parliament
           ,
           till
           after
           the
           Crown
           is
           conveyed
           and
           fixed
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           defect
           of
           one
           of
           the
           Members
           of
           the
           Parliamentary
           Legislative
           Body
           ;
           that
           therefore
           it
           seems
           very
           disputable
           ,
           whether
           the
           one
           of
           the
           said
           Houses
           ,
           can
           until
           then
           have
           a
           Negative
           upon
           the
           other
           .
           And
           by
           consequence
           ,
           as
           it
           will
           become
           them
           in
           prudence
           not
           to
           interfere
           in
           their
           Resolves
           about
           the
           Conveyance
           of
           the
           Crown
           ;
           so
           it
           will
           be
           no
           departure
           in
           the
           Lords
           from
           their
           own
           grandeur
           ,
           to
           consider
           of
           what
           force
           and
           obligation
           to
           the
           whole
           Commons
           of
           England
           ,
           the
           Declaration
           of
           their
           Representatives
           in
           that
           matter
           will
           be
           .
           And
           whether
           it
           be
           not
           more
           than
           probable
           ,
           that
           they
           will
           own
           the
           Regal
           Authority
           to
           be
           in
           that
           person
           ,
           and
           there
           to
           maintain
           and
           defend
           it
           ,
           where
           themselves
           shall
           convey
           and
           settle
           it
           .
           Now
           these
           things
           being
           premised
           ,
           I
           shall
           as
           one
           who
           loveth
           the
           welfare
           of
           my
           Countrey
           ,
           next
           to
           the
           glory
           of
           God
           ,
           to
           his
           interest
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           happiness
           of
           my
           own
           Soul
           ,
           offer
           with
           the
           profoundest
           submission
           ,
           what
           I
           Judge
           to
           be
           in
           this
           great
           Case
           now
           depending
           ,
           most
           subservient
           to
           the
           Securing
           Religion
           here
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           vindicating
           it
           elsewhere
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           rendring
           this
           Nation
           Safe
           ,
           Opulent
           ,
           and
           Happy
           .
        
         
           As
           to
           her
           Royal
           Highness
           the
           Princess
           of
           Orange
           ,
           they
           must
           be
           Enemies
           to
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           who
           would
           have
           any
           thing
           witheld
           from
           ,
           or
           denyed
           unto
           her
           ,
           that
           the
           approaching
           Convention
           ,
           can
           in
           consistency
           with
           their
           own
           Wisdom
           ,
           and
           with
           the
           Safety
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           grant
           and
           bestow
           .
           For
           how
           great
           soever
           she
           is
           by
           her
           Quality
           ,
           she
           is
           far
           greater
           by
           her
           Merit
           .
           Had
           she
           been
           of
           a
           Rank
           never
           to
           have
           stood
           in
           a
           nearness
           to
           a
           Crown
           ;
           yet
           all
           who
           have
           the
           honour
           to
           know
           her
           ,
           would
           have
           confessed
           that
           she
           deserved
           one
           .
           But
           alas
           !
           though
           there
           may
           be
           a
           Partner
           in
           the
           Royal
           Stile
           ,
           there
           can
           be
           none
           in
           the
           Regal
           Power
           .
           And
           as
           she
           her self
           will
           undoubtedly
           acknowledge
           the
           Prince
           
           her
           Husband
           to
           be
           the
           only
           person
           fit
           at
           this
           season
           for
           the
           latter
           ;
           so
           she
           will
           account
           it
           to
           proceed
           from
           no
           want
           of
           deference
           to
           her
           Person
           and
           Virtues
           ,
           if
           no
           more
           be
           conferred
           upon
           her
           but
           the
           Royal
           Title
           .
           For
           seeing
           the
           Soveraignty
           can
           be
           but
           in
           One
           ,
           though
           the
           Stile
           be
           communicable
           to
           more
           ,
           Reason
           of
           State
           obligeth
           to
           lodge
           it
           where
           it
           may
           be
           most
           for
           the
           publick
           good
           .
           The
           disposal
           of
           the
           Crown
           being
           fallen
           to
           the
           People
           by
           a
           Cess
           and
           Devolution
           ;
           the
           Succession
           unto
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           Governed
           by
           proximity
           of
           Blood
           ,
           but
           by
           weighing
           what
           is
           most
           expedient
           for
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           Community
           .
           To
           bestow
           the
           Soveraign
           Power
           unto
           more
           than
           One
           person
           at
           a
           time
           ,
           were
           to
           embarass
           the
           Execution
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           it
           impracticable
           through
           the
           differences
           which
           may
           arise
           if
           Two
           should
           become
           equally
           vested
           in
           it
           .
           From
           thence
           it
           was
           ,
           that
           upon
           the
           Constituting
           and
           Creating
           Phillip
           King
           in
           conjunction
           with
           Mary
           ,
           the
           Daughter
           of
           Henry
           the
           Eighth
           ,
           it
           was
           Ordained
           and
           Enacted
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Queen
             might
             and
             should
             solely
             ▪
             and
             as
             sole
             Queen
             ,
             use
             ,
             have
             ,
             and
             enjoy
             the
             Crown
             and
             Soveraignty
             ,
             of
             and
             over
             all
             these
             Realms
             ,
             Dominions
             ,
             and
             Subjects
             ,
             with
             all
             the
             Preheminencies
             ,
             Prerogatives
             ,
             Dignities
             ,
             Authorities
             ,
             Jurisdictions
             ,
             Honours
             ,
             thereunto
             belonging
             ,
          
           &c.
           
             and
             that
             no
             Right
             or
             Claim
             of
             Soveraignty
             ,
             should
             be
             given
             ,
             come
             ,
             or
             grow
             unto
             the
             said
          
           Phillip
           ,
           
             over
             these
             Realms
             and
             Dominions
          
           .
           But
           though
           the
           Soveraign
           Power
           be
           not
           communicable
           to
           more
           than
           One
           ,
           and
           can
           be
           lodged
           no
           where
           ,
           save
           in
           a
           single
           Person
           ,
           yet
           the
           Royal
           stile
           may
           be
           imparted
           to
           more
           without
           the
           least
           inconvenience
           arising
           thereby
           to
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           therefore
           when
           I
           say
           that
           her
           
             Royal
             Highness
          
           the
           Princess
           of
           Orange
           ought
           to
           have
           the
           Royal
           Stile
           conferred
           upon
           her
           ,
           I
           do
           not
           thereby
           mean
           ,
           that
           she
           should
           enjoy
           meerly
           the
           bare
           and
           naked
           Name
           of
           Queen
           ,
           but
           that
           together
           with
           the
           Person
           to
           whom
           the
           Soveraignty
           shall
           be
           committed
           ,
           she
           shall
           be
           named
           in
           all
           Laws
           ,
           Gifts
           ,
           Grants
           ,
           and
           
           Patents
           ,
           &c.
           and
           that
           all
           these
           shall
           be
           Enacted
           ,
           Instituted
           ,
           set
           forth
           ,
           and
           made
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           her
           Royal
           Highness
           as
           Queen
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           the
           Person
           in
           whom
           the
           Soveraignty
           shall
           be
           fixed
           and
           setled
           .
           Nor
           is
           this
           all
           that
           her
           Highness
           may
           in
           Justice
           expect
           ,
           but
           it
           doth
           become
           the
           People
           in
           deference
           to
           her
           Merit
           ,
           and
           in
           gratitude
           for
           the
           many
           Obligations
           which
           she
           hath
           heaped
           upon
           them
           ,
           to
           settle
           the
           whole
           Soveraignty
           upon
           her
           in
           Reversion
           ,
           in
           case
           she
           out-live
           the
           Person
           to
           whom
           that
           power
           is
           first
           Trusted
           and
           Committed
           .
           And
           as
           this
           will
           testifie
           ,
           that
           the
           Disposal
           of
           it
           otherwise
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           ariseth
           not
           from
           Disrespect
           ,
           but
           from
           Motives
           of
           Necessity
           ;
           so
           we
           may
           be
           assured
           ,
           that
           her
           Royal
           Highnesses
           love
           to
           her
           Country
           ,
           is
           so
           prevalent
           in
           her
           ,
           above
           all
           considerations
           regarding
           her self
           ,
           that
           she
           would
           be
           loath
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           and
           under
           the
           great
           and
           present
           exigencies
           ,
           to
           intercept
           between
           the
           Nation
           and
           the
           Blessings
           and
           Safety
           likely
           to
           arise
           unto
           it
           ,
           by
           the
           coming
           under
           the
           Governing
           care
           ,
           and
           Soveraign
           Protection
           of
           his
           Highness
           the
           Prince
           her
           Husband
           .
           Nay
           she
           would
           account
           it
           an
           injury
           unto
           her
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           favour
           ,
           to
           have
           the
           Regal
           Power
           setled
           in
           her
           during
           the
           Life
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           to
           have
           his
           Highness
           to
           be
           precluded
           from
           it
           .
           And
           as
           through
           being
           vested
           in
           what
           I
           have
           named
           ,
           she
           will
           enjoy
           all
           the
           honour
           and
           glory
           which
           accompany
           a
           Crown
           ;
           so
           she
           will
           be
           only
           eased
           of
           the
           Thorny
           Cares
           ,
           and
           the
           next
           to
           insupportable
           Toils
           ,
           that
           under
           the
           present
           conjuncture
           of
           Affairs
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           are
           likely
           to
           attend
           the
           swaying
           of
           the
           English
           Scepter
           .
           Yea
           her
           Vertues
           will
           give
           her
           an
           Empire
           ,
           that
           no
           Parliament
           can
           bestow
           .
           And
           while
           her
           Husband
           is
           vindicating
           and
           defending
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           by
           an
           exercise
           of
           the
           Soveraign
           Power
           ;
           she
           will
           more
           effectually
           reform
           it
           by
           her
           Manners
           ,
           than
           can
           be
           done
           by
           a
           Thousand
           Laws
           .
           Her
           Meekness
           towards
           all
           ,
           will
           even
           teach
           our
           highest
           Ecclesiasticks
           the
           duties
           of
           gentleness
           
           and
           lenity
           ;
           and
           her
           steadfastness
           in
           the
           Reformed
           Faith
           ,
           together
           with
           an
           exemplary
           adorning
           of
           it
           ,
           will
           prove
           the
           most
           Soveraign
           means
           of
           recovering
           back
           again
           the
           perverted
           from
           Popery
           ,
           and
           the
           depraved
           from
           Prophaneness
           .
           And
           her
           being
           the
           best
           Woman
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           best
           Wife
           ,
           that
           this
           or
           any
           Age
           can
           give
           us
           an
           Example
           of
           ,
           doth
           sufficiently
           assure
           us
           ,
           that
           she
           will
           neither
           Covet
           ,
           nor
           be
           willing
           to
           Accept
           more
           ,
           than
           what
           I
           have
           mentioned
           ,
           seeing
           every
           thing
           beyond
           that
           ,
           would
           both
           be
           a
           detracting
           from
           the
           Glory
           of
           her
           Husband
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           damage
           and
           prejudice
           of
           the
           Community
           .
        
         
           That
           which
           remains
           then
           to
           be
           done
           ,
           is
           to
           declare
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           King
           ,
           and
           to
           settle
           upon
           him
           the
           Soveraignty
           and
           Regal
           Power
           ;
           allowing
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           unto
           the
           Princess
           ,
           the
           priviledge
           of
           being
           named
           with
           him
           in
           all
           Leases
           ,
           Patents
           ,
           and
           Grants
           .
           This
           we
           owe
           him
           in
           point
           of
           Gratitude
           ;
           nor
           is
           his
           delivering
           the
           Nation
           to
           be
           otherwise
           requited
           ,
           than
           by
           calling
           him
           to
           Rule
           and
           Govern
           it
           .
           His
           vindicating
           our
           Liberties
           and
           Laws
           ,
           deserves
           his
           being
           trusted
           with
           the
           Execution
           of
           the
           one
           ,
           and
           with
           the
           Defence
           of
           both
           .
           And
           by
           how
           much
           he
           forbears
           to
           challenge
           it
           ,
           by
           so
           much
           is
           his
           Merit
           unto
           it
           the
           greater
           .
           What
           he
           avoides
           claiming
           out
           of
           Temperance
           ,
           we
           ought
           to
           have
           the
           Generosity
           to
           give
           .
           Nor
           is
           there
           any
           one
           so
           likely
           to
           sway
           the
           Scepter
           with
           Moderation
           ,
           when
           possessed
           of
           it
           ;
           as
           he
           who
           declined
           to
           snatch
           it
           ,
           when
           it
           lay
           ▪
           within
           his
           reach
           .
           His
           unchangeable
           adherence
           to
           what
           he
           promised
           in
           his
           Declaration
           ,
           as
           a
           Prince
           ;
           shews
           with
           what
           Sacredness
           ,
           he
           will
           observe
           his
           Oath
           as
           a
           King.
           Nor
           will
           he
           ever
           invade
           our
           Priviledges
           ,
           who
           hath
           exposed
           himself
           to
           so
           many
           hazards
           for
           restoring
           of
           them
           .
           We
           owe
           it
           unto
           him
           also
           in
           point
           of
           Justice
           .
           At
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           a
           Gift
           and
           Benevolence
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           debt
           due
           unto
           his
           Vertue
           .
           He
           hath
           all
           the
           Wisdom
           ,
           Moderation
           and
           Equity
           requisite
           in
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Courage
           and
           Conduct
           needful
           in
           a
           
           General
           .
           War
           and
           Peace
           are
           equally
           his
           Province
           ;
           and
           he
           stands
           imbu'd
           with
           all
           qualities
           ,
           both
           for
           swaying
           the
           Scepter
           ,
           and
           weilding
           the
           Sword.
           His
           very
           Passions
           plead
           for
           him
           ,
           and
           in
           nothing
           can
           we
           be
           kinder
           to
           our selves
           ,
           than
           in
           putting
           him
           into
           a
           condition
           of
           gratifying
           them
           .
           The
           Ambition
           that
           Acts
           him
           of
           being
           the
           Head
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Interest
           in
           Europe
           ,
           tendeth
           no
           less
           to
           our
           benefit
           and
           safety
           ,
           than
           it
           doth
           to
           his
           honour
           and
           glory
           .
           And
           the
           Recentment
           he
           retains
           of
           Injuries
           done
           him
           by
           the
           French
           King
           ,
           will
           lead
           him
           not
           only
           to
           avenge
           himself
           ,
           but
           this
           Kingdom
           also
           upon
           that
           common
           Enemy
           .
           And
           to
           add
           one
           thing
           more
           ,
           the
           Crown
           ought
           to
           be
           bestowed
           upon
           Him
           on
           the
           score
           of
           Wisdom
           and
           Interest
           .
           Nothing
           save
           the
           doing
           thus
           ,
           will
           cure
           the
           Evils
           we
           have
           felt
           ,
           and
           obviate
           those
           we
           fear
           ,
           or
           state
           us
           in
           the
           possession
           of
           all
           the
           good
           we
           need
           and
           desire
           .
           For
           first
           ,
           we
           shall
           hereby
           restore
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           people
           of
           England
           to
           their
           ancient
           Right
           ,
           and
           reestablish
           the
           Government
           upon
           its
           Primitive
           and
           Original
           Foundation
           .
           The
           pretence
           of
           a
           Divine
           Right
           of
           Succession
           ,
           which
           had
           almost
           destroyed
           us
           of
           late
           ,
           and
           which
           after
           two
           or
           three
           removes
           ,
           may
           again
           hazard
           our
           being
           Ruined
           ,
           will
           by
           this
           means
           stand
           for
           ever
           branded
           and
           condemned
           .
           Nor
           will
           there
           be
           any
           cause
           of
           apprehending
           a
           storm
           hereafter
           towards
           the
           Kingdom
           from
           Spain
           or
           Savoy
           ;
           when
           once
           the
           Nation
           hath
           in
           its
           whole
           Political
           Body
           ,
           exercised
           the
           power
           belonging
           unto
           it
           ,
           of
           altering
           and
           ordering
           the
           Succession
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           found
           convenient
           for
           its
           own
           safety
           .
           2.
           
           We
           shall
           hereby
           shut
           and
           bolt
           the
           dore
           ,
           against
           the
           return
           and
           re-entry
           of
           the
           abdicated
           and
           withdrawn
           King.
           Neither
           himself
           nor
           Parizans
           ,
           will
           either
           hope
           or
           venture
           to
           break
           open
           a
           gate
           ,
           where
           so
           vigilant
           ,
           magnanimous
           ,
           wise
           ,
           and
           Martial
           a
           person
           stands
           Guardian
           ,
           as
           his
           Highness
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           is
           by
           all
           men
           acknowledged
           to
           be
           .
           3.
           
           We
           shall
           hereby
           foreclose
           all
           Claim
           unto
           the
           Crown
           ,
           arising
           by
           the
           plea
           and
           pretence
           of
           an
           immediate
           Successor
           and
           a
           next
           Heir
           ,
           For
           by
           the
           exclusion
           of
           all
           Right
           to
           the
           Soveraignty
           in
           way
           of
           Descent
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           room
           left
           for
           any
           to
           challenge
           a
           Title
           to
           the
           Government
           upon
           that
           bottom
           and
           foundation
           .
           And
           though
           it
           would
           be
           easie
           to
           demonstrate
           the
           suppositiousness
           of
           the
           pretended
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           and
           to
           lay
           open
           the
           unnatural
           and
           horrid
           Imposture
           of
           obtruding
           him
           upon
           the
           Nation
           as
           a
           Legitimate
           Son
           ;
           yet
           we
           shall
           by
           the
           Method
           proposed
           ,
           both
           deliver
           our selves
           from
           the
           necessity
           of
           that
           Inquiry
           ,
           and
           prevent
           the
           infamy
           with
           which
           the
           King
           must
           be
           eternally
           covered
           upon
           that
           detection
           .
           4.
           
           We
           shall
           by
           this
           one
           thing
           of
           bestowing
           the
           Soveraign
           Authority
           upon
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           more
           effectually
           secure
           our
           retrieved
           Liberties
           
           and
           Priviledges
           ,
           than
           by
           all
           the
           Laws
           with
           which
           we
           Fence
           and
           Hedge
           them
           .
           He
           that
           scornfully
           rejected
           the
           offer
           of
           Soveraignty
           over
           Holland
           ,
           when
           made
           unto
           him
           by
           the
           French
           King
           ,
           as
           the
           price
           of
           Betraying
           and
           Enslaving
           his
           Country
           ;
           can
           never
           become
           guilty
           of
           invading
           the
           Rights
           and
           Priviledges
           of
           England
           ,
           when
           trusted
           with
           their
           preservation
           and
           defence
           .
           Nor
           will
           he
           ever
           abuse
           that
           power
           to
           the
           Nations
           prejudice
           ,
           which
           he
           receives
           and
           holds
           by
           its
           kindness
           and
           bounty
           .
           His
           using
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           he
           cannot
           have
           so
           unworthy
           a
           Conception
           of
           God
           ,
           nor
           so
           base
           thoughts
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           as
           to
           believe
           that
           one
           person
           should
           ever
           be
           designed
           by
           the
           Supream
           and
           Almighty
           King
           ,
           to
           trample
           upon
           a
           Society
           and
           rule
           over
           it
           by
           way
           of
           oppression
           ;
           doth
           not
           only
           declare
           his
           knowledge
           of
           the
           Nature
           ,
           End
           ,
           and
           Principles
           of
           Government
           ,
           but
           how
           it
           is
           repugnant
           to
           his
           Nature
           ,
           and
           inconsistent
           with
           his
           avowed
           Judgment
           ,
           to
           wrong
           and
           injure
           a
           Society
           ,
           either
           by
           fraud
           or
           violence
           .
           5.
           
           We
           shall
           by
           this
           means
           become
           united
           among
           our selves
           ,
           and
           great
           and
           prosperous
           at
           home
           .
           For
           as
           he
           can
           have
           no
           Interest
           either
           distinct
           or
           divided
           from
           that
           of
           the
           whole
           people
           ;
           so
           he
           can
           fall
           under
           no
           temptation
           ,
           either
           of
           quarrelling
           with
           the
           Community
           ,
           or
           of
           wheedling
           ,
           using
           and
           improving
           one
           party
           ,
           to
           the
           inconvenience
           and
           prejudice
           of
           another
           .
           And
           though
           those
           of
           the
           National
           Communion
           ,
           may
           be
           fully
           assured
           of
           their
           being
           maintained
           and
           protetected
           in
           every
           thing
           which
           the
           Laws
           shall
           give
           them
           a
           Right
           and
           Title
           unto
           ;
           yet
           no
           man
           needs
           to
           fear
           ,
           that
           he
           whose
           glorious
           aim
           is
           to
           be
           the
           Head
           of
           the
           whole
           Protestant
           Interest
           ,
           will
           ever
           become
           so
           attached
           to
           one
           party
           ,
           as
           to
           become
           an
           Instrument
           and
           Tool
           ,
           of
           harassing
           and
           persecuting
           all
           others
           .
           6.
           
           We
           shall
           hereby
           become
           strong
           both
           in
           power
           and
           Allies
           abroad
           .
           For
           besides
           the
           addition
           of
           the
           Force
           and
           opulency
           that
           will
           accrue
           unto
           the
           Kingdom
           during
           his
           Life
           and
           Reign
           ,
           by
           the
           Hereditary
           Principalities
           ,
           Dominions
           ,
           States
           ,
           and
           Territories
           ,
           that
           appertain
           unto
           him
           ;
           all
           the
           Princes
           and
           States
           of
           Europe
           ,
           with
           whom
           it
           is
           our
           Interest
           to
           be
           Confederated
           ,
           will
           be
           ambitious
           of
           becoming
           Leagued
           and
           Allied
           with
           us
           .
           His
           greatness
           and
           power
           ,
           whensoever
           he
           is
           King
           of
           England
           ,
           will
           make
           them
           covet
           and
           desire
           it
           ;
           and
           his
           inviolate
           Sincerity
           in
           every
           thing
           he
           promiseth
           ,
           will
           make
           them
           trust
           unto
           and
           rely
           upon
           it
           .
           He
           that
           in
           the
           station
           of
           Statholder
           of
           Holland
           ,
           could
           make
           that
           figure
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           as
           he
           hath
           done
           ,
           and
           be
           able
           to
           bring
           so
           many
           Princes
           of
           different
           Religions
           and
           Interests
           ,
           into
           an
           Union
           against
           the
           common
           Enemy
           of
           Europe
           ;
           what
           will
           he
           not
           be
           in
           a
           capacity
           to
           
           effect
           ,
           if
           he
           were
           once
           vested
           with
           the
           Royal
           and
           Soveraign
           Power
           of
           
             Great
             Britain
          
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Dominions
           annexed
           and
           belonging
           thereunto
           :
           And
           as
           he
           will
           be
           an
           infallible
           mean
           ,
           both
           of
           extinguishing
           all
           Enmity
           between
           us
           and
           these
           Provinces
           that
           emulate
           and
           rival
           us
           in
           Trade
           ,
           and
           of
           bringing
           us
           and
           them
           into
           a
           happy
           and
           indissoluble
           Confederacy
           ,
           so
           we
           may
           easily
           foresee
           the
           Advantages
           that
           will
           unavoidably
           attend
           upon
           a
           Conjunction
           of
           their
           and
           our
           Marine
           strength
           .
           7
           ly
           ,
           We
           shall
           hereby
           become
           formidable
           to
           our
           forreign
           Enemies
           :
           France
           will
           no
           longer
           be
           our
           dread
           ,
           but
           our
           scorn
           and
           contempt
           ;
           and
           we
           shall
           there
           erect
           the
           Trophies
           of
           our
           Liberty
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           our
           Victory
           ;
           whence
           the
           Advice
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Pattern
           came
           of
           Enslaving
           us
           .
           With
           this
           Prince
           at
           the
           head
           of
           our
           Government
           and
           Armies
           ,
           in
           the
           quality
           of
           King
           of
           England
           ,
           we
           shall
           not
           only
           break
           the
           Chains
           with
           which
           that
           false
           and
           tyrannous
           Monarch
           would
           fetter
           Europe
           ,
           but
           avenge
           both
           our
           own
           quarrels
           ,
           and
           those
           of
           all
           Christendom
           ,
           upon
           that
           haughty
           and
           usurping
           Prince
           ,
           and
           reduce
           him
           within
           the
           limits
           from
           whence
           our
           late
           Kings
           help'd
           to
           raise
           him
           ,
           contrary
           to
           all
           the
           Rules
           of
           Policy
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           Justice
           .
           8
           ly
           ,
           We
           shall
           by
           this
           means
           revive
           the
           hopes
           ,
           and
           lay
           a
           foundation
           for
           the
           Redemption
           and
           Restauration
           of
           persecuted
           and
           exiled
           Protestants
           :
           As
           't
           was
           in
           order
           to
           the
           Preservation
           of
           the
           
             Reformed
             Religion
          
           in
           Britain
           ,
           that
           he
           undertook
           this
           late
           Expedition
           ,
           wherein
           God
           hath
           honoured
           him
           with
           so
           great
           success
           ,
           so
           there
           are
           no
           dangers
           which
           he
           will
           not
           chearfully
           submit
           unto
           ,
           and
           undergo
           ,
           for
           the
           vindicating
           Religion
           into
           Freedom
           elsewhere
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           setling
           Protestants
           in
           the
           quiet
           possession
           of
           those
           religious
           and
           civil
           Liberties
           of
           which
           they
           have
           been
           perjuriously
           and
           barbarously
           dispossessed
           .
           The
           eyes
           of
           the
           poor
           exiled
           French
           ,
           are
           upon
           this
           approaching
           Convention
           ,
           and
           stand
           prepared
           to
           date
           their
           Deliverance
           and
           Redemption
           from
           the
           moment
           ,
           in
           which
           that
           Assembly
           shall
           tranfer
           and
           devolve
           the
           Soveraign
           and
           Royal
           Power
           of
           England
           upon
           his
           Highness
           the
           
             Prince
             of
             Orange
          
           ;
           who
           as
           he
           ●●th
           been
           already
           their
           chief
           Patron
           ,
           Benefactor
           ,
           Refuge
           and
           Sanctua●y
           ,
           so
           they
           look
           upon
           him
           as
           the
           only
           Person
           under
           God
           ,
           destined
           by
           Heaven
           to
           be
           their
           Saviour
           ,
           and
           from
           whose
           Compassion
           ,
           Courage
           ,
           and
           Zeal
           they
           may
           expect
           the
           Vindication
           of
           their
           Wrongs
           ,
           and
           their
           Restoration
           to
           the
           free
           Exercise
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           without
           let
           or
           molestation
           ,
           under
           their
           own
           Figg-trees
           and
           Vines
           .
        
         
           The
           only
           Objection
           that
           can
           be
           advanced
           against
           what
           hath
           been
           here
           humbly
           proposed
           and
           offered
           ,
           is
           ,
           That
           the
           setling
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           Soveraign
           Power
           upon
           the
           
             Prince
             of
             Orange
          
           ,
           would
           be
           to
           
           the
           prejudice
           of
           the
           
             Princess
             Ann
          
           ,
           in
           case
           her
           
             Royal
             Highness
             the
             Princess
             Mary
          
           should
           die
           before
           her
           Husband
           .
           To
           which
           I
           briefly
           answer
           these
           six
           things
           :
           (
           1.
           )
           That
           where
           there
           is
           no
           Claim
           by
           Descent
           ,
           as
           in
           our
           present
           Case
           ,
           there
           can
           be
           no
           Injury
           done
           to
           any
           :
           For
           there
           can
           be
           no
           Wrong
           in
           with-holding
           ,
           what
           a
           person
           hath
           no
           Right
           to
           challenge
           .
           (
           2.
           )
           'T
           is
           too
           probable
           ,
           and
           that
           to
           our
           great
           Grief
           ,
           that
           his
           Highness
           the
           Prince
           will
           be
           the
           shortest
           lived
           of
           the
           three
           .
           His
           indefatigable
           Cares
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Weakness
           of
           his
           natural
           Constitution
           ,
           give
           us
           too
           just
           and
           doleful
           fears
           of
           it
           .
           Now
           should
           that
           come
           to
           pass
           ,
           which
           I
           pray
           God
           to
           prevent
           ,
           the
           
             Princess
             Ann
          
           will
           receive
           no
           Injury
           ,
           seeing
           all
           her
           pretence
           is
           posterior
           to
           that
           of
           the
           
             Princess
             Mary
          
           .
           (
           3.
           )
           'T
           is
           not
           impossible
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           Prince
           and
           
             Princess
             of
             Orange
          
           may
           have
           Children
           ;
           and
           then
           all
           will
           confess
           ▪
           that
           the
           
             Princess
             Ann
          
           can
           receive
           no
           wrong
           ,
           should
           she
           and
           
             Prince
             of
             Orange
          
           out-live
           the
           
             Princess
             Mary
          
           ;
           seeing
           if
           the
           Crown
           were
           to
           go
           in
           the
           direct
           order
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           way
           of
           lineal
           Descent
           ,
           it
           devolveth
           upon
           the
           Children
           of
           the
           
             Princess
             Mary
          
           ,
           after
           her
           death
           ,
           and
           not
           upon
           the
           
             Princess
             Ann.
          
           (
           4.
           )
           There
           is
           no
           great
           likelihood
           ,
           that
           the
           
             Princess
             Ann
          
           should
           out-live
           her
           Royal
           Highness
           the
           
             Princess
             of
             Orange
          
           ;
           and
           then
           by
           setling
           the
           Crown
           ,
           as
           hath
           been
           humbly
           proposed
           ,
           no
           damage
           will
           actually
           accrue
           unto
           her
           .
           (
           5.
           )
           There
           is
           a
           Benefit
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           Prejudice
           ,
           arising
           to
           the
           
             Princess
             Ann
          
           by
           the
           Method
           that
           hath
           been
           here
           offered
           and
           chalk'd
           out
           :
           for
           hereby
           all
           Claim
           of
           the
           present
           pretended
           
             Prince
             of
             Wales
          
           ,
           is
           debarred
           and
           shut
           out
           ,
           which
           I
           think
           does
           more
           in
           point
           of
           Benefit
           arising
           to
           the
           
             Princess
             Ann
          
           ,
           than
           countervail
           all
           the
           Damage
           she
           is
           capable
           of
           receiving
           ,
           by
           the
           putting
           the
           
             Prince
             of
             Orange
          
           first
           in
           the
           Act
           of
           Setlement
           and
           Entail
           .
           (
           6.
           )
           There
           is
           nothing
           here
           desired
           or
           advised
           ,
           in
           favour
           and
           behalf
           of
           the
           
             Prince
             of
             Orange
          
           ,
           but
           what
           we
           should
           be
           willing
           to
           have
           granted
           to
           
             Prince
             George
          
           in
           his
           turn
           .
           Nor
           do
           I
           doubt
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           
             Princess
             Ann
          
           is
           so
           good
           a
           Woma●
           and
           so
           excellent
           a
           Wife
           ,
           that
           she
           will
           be
           desirous
           to
           purchase
           so
           great
           an
           Honour
           ,
           and
           so
           real
           a
           Benefit
           to
           the
           Prince
           her
           Husband
           ,
           at
           the
           cost
           of
           a
           small
           ,
           and
           little
           more
           than
           imaginary
           Damage
           to
           herself
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .