THE
S E C O N D P A R T
O F T H E
^gno^amus '
OR
An Anfwer to the Scandalous
SPEECH
O F
Sir JV. S. ^arronety
Spoken to the Grand-Jury at the Sefflons
of Peace held for the County of Middlefex , at
Hick's-hall, On Monday the 24 of J^ril, idSi.
TOGETHER
VJ^tth feyeral Remarks uj^on the Order of Seffions, for the
Printing and Puhliflnng the fame.
By the famcAuthour.
L0^h(fP0j^ Printed for E, Smith, at the
Elephant and Caftle in Cor Mil, i6Zi,
THE
SECOND PART
O F T H E
3f0no^amttS JuKtces
o R
An A N S W E R to the Scandalous
S P E E C
O F
.S'ir S. ^arronet.
I Will not ong Itroublc the Courtions Reader with a difcription of
the Perfon that made this learned Speech, which is Sir IP. S. And
the very fame Sir Wm., which heretofore (as I am informed) in
the late troubles was called Col. S. .And though I lave not to rake
in'Dunghills, or into the lives and aftions of men, at any time, much
lefs after fo long an intervale ^ yet becaufe he himfclf hath been pleafcd
to make the world fo happy not only in the publication of that Excel-
lent Ipeech, but alfo told us in p. 4. that he feels the fniart of CoUfmitPj
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Halerda^iers Hall to this day, it may not therefore be amis a little
to give him a hint of his Piety, when he was in the Station of a Souldicr,
that as in a looking-glafs he may view himfclf now being a Jufticc(and as
this is done as well to inform the world of the perfon and his zeal, for the
caufe of God in times paft, as now he pretends by his fpeech both for the
caureof Godandhis R. H. for time to come, fo learnedly interwoven
with Scripture Phrafcs, and larded with fuch Sentenfes of Elegant La-
tine.) If this be the fame S. that was called Col. S. in the late troubles
he may remember and blefs God for his great Converfion fince that time ;
and if it be not painted Piety, that he now makes the world believe he
hath, then he above all men, hath the greateft reafon in the world toad-
mire the free grace of God in converting his bloudy heart j for in thofe
dayes, and in cool of bloud too, in the County of Bucks, he like as
wicked did againfl: the y'ewi, gave this Councel to kill and deftroy
all the Gentlemen, Yeomen, Farmers, their wives and Children, with-
out regard either to Sex, Age, or condition, in that Country^ for fear
that there being many in that County, as he believed would be of the
other fide, when they had an opportunity, and fhould take part againft
them. Now if this be the fame man, his nature is mightily altered, for
now his gaul goes no further, bat that the Diffenters Purles fhould pay
that (hot he has fo elegantly raanifefted, and if the ftandcrs by did not
miftake his words, he both fpeak and meant that the Diflenters fhould
be profecuted for their money, to help pay the charge the King had been
out, in the war with &c. and the building the 30 Ships, tofave
the Parliament a labour, which was a mofl; ingenious Contrivance ^ but
more of that in its due place ^ But whether this be the fame Coll. 5.
or not yet I am fully afured this is the very fame Sir IV. S. that the laft
Weflminfttr Parliament, was had before the Committee for ftoping, and.
hindring Petitioning the King, for calling of Parliaments, and therein
abiifing that law, he hath fince owned by his late Abhorrencies, who was
then heard,to fay, that he was falfely accufed, for that he was fofar,
(good man) from offering any fuch violence to the Rights of the people,
and Parliaments, that he proteiled his innocency with much moreaffe-
verations, then now in his grand fpeech, he doth his fincerity of obedi-
cnce, to the King and the Laws, yet at that time, tiue evidence tells us
that the very fame day, he made thatfofolemn proteflation of his Inno-
cency, the very thing he was accufed of before the Committee of Par-
Lament, was raoft evidently proved againft him, and had not the Parlia-
menfbeen Prorogued, he might have met with as feveer a Ccnfure by tho
Parliament, as now he is plealcd in his Oration to wifli and urge,—for
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the Diflentcrs ^ but more of this in its due place. And that very fame
Col. 5., not many years after the war was done, when the tide was turn-
ed, was the chief promoter in the County of Buckj^ and other places,
to procure AddrcITes to Richard C omrv^l, and was then the moil zealous
and forwardefl: man in that Service. A mighty great lign of his Loyalty
to our prcfent King, by which it feems his trade is Addreffcs. And the
very fame Col. S- did, as was moft commonly reported, when he was
Governourof Chefficw fortheKkig, find out a way to furrender
or rather betray the fame to the Parliament, without blows or force of
iron or leaden bullets, French or En^lijh Crowns at that time being his
Conqueror, the fame Col. 5. who was the Son of an Attorney, and be-
ing imployed either as Agent, or Steward, to the noble Lzdy Cleveland
or Wentmrth, being called to an account for high niifdemeaners in tliac
Truft,and being profecutedin the Court of Exchecjuer for the fame,in the
time when the late Lord Chief Juftice Hales was one of the Barrons of the
Excheejuer, the Baron having feen fo much in that Caufe, lb evidently
proved before him of certain fraudsufed by him gave this opinion of him
in open Court t It luagi pltt? t\)Z tOUOUt Of IjOOtl
e^jec be fo blemtfljeb a0 to be beff oioeb on fuel) n i^eefon, *
giuitp of tboft fobJi tbtno:0 which that S. who ever he was belt
knows what the good Barons reafon was for frch cxiJreffions. And 1
prefumc if any perfon would be further laiisficd, whether it be the lame
Sir IV. S. he may be informed from the Records there. And if it fhculd
prove to be their Chairman of the Seflions, then the world may lee what
a kind of Loyal upright perfon we have to juftifie and adhere unto, as
the worthy order of SefFions puts it, Fol. 11.
Thefe things Ibould not have been touched, although a deal more is
due, had it not pleafed the Juftice fo much to vindicate his uprighrncls
and Loyalty. By this the Reader may fee, the old cheat whores, will a!-
waycs cry whore firft, but if thefe be the men that his Majefty mult rely
on, and which makes this buftle and ftir with Loyalty, in profecuting
AddrefTes and Abhorrencies, in what miferable condition is that Prince
that truits them or their Loyalty, for can it be fuppofed that he that has
Addrefied to Richard Crorrmel one day, will not Addrefs to the King the
next, if that fide be uppermoft, and if to the King one day, why not to
his Enemies the next day, if the wind change, for what hath been, may
be, if he cannot be faithful to a truft rcpofed in him, of a private Eftate
and Concernment as a Steward, certainly he is a very unfit man to be en-
trufted with a publick one, if thefe be the confcientious men Sit WilH-m
eftcems then Libera nos Domine.
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But as to the Speech it felf, in the firfl; place his Title is tranfcendent,
and far out does the common way of giving charges to Juries. For in the
beginning he tells us, he hath had the Honour to Difcourfe the Country
from this Bench, ieveral times, well what then, why rauft it be a dif-
courfe inftead of a charge. I never heard of a Grand Jury that was fworn
to take notice of a Difcourte, but the Oath of Grand Jury men is to pre-
fent all fuch things as lhail be given them in charge, as the Law diretfls.
But what Sir IV means by entring into a difcourfe with them about
other r»att6rs,erpecially about haw much will build a Ship, and how much
his Majefty hath laid out in the war with Argkr^ or to preferve Tangier
and againft the Indians in New t,rigland.^ as in fage fecond is a moll ftrange
thing to be difcourfed to a Grand Jury, unlefs he would jperfwade the
Grand Jiuy toprefent the Parliament for not making upthe damgge,
certainly that wa^ his intent, though he will not make the Nation fo hap-
py as to fpeak it out.
Well but then ftill to the entrance into this difcourfe, pray obferve the
method, firft feck peace (goodmanj that is his aim, witnefs his earnell
endeavour to have Conventicles difturbed, though his Majefty and the
Parliament thought it the belt way to preierve peace, was to let them a-
lone, for that it was never proved nor can be proved that ever fince the
Acftof Uniformity, they that go to Conventicles as he calls them fedi-
tious Meetings, did ever difturb the Goverment, and if that be fo, and
that the only Church of England is that which is made by the Aft of Uni-
formity, then fure Sir JT. Undermines and Afts againft his own Expref-
lions, for if they were never unpaflable, why is there all this ado to
make a difturbance, but have patience Sir W. S. by and by will tell
you all.
Well then in the next place he tells us page the firft; that nothing pro-
cures Wealth fooner then Trade, it is vyell obferved, and if the perfons
that are Traders, and the greateft Traders in the Nation, be hindred in
ferving of God according to theirConfciences,and for this ferving ofGed
only as they inrtheir Confcience believe they ought to do without dillurb-
ing the peace of theNation,muft be torn in pieces,theirEftates takenfropi
them, andthey put by their Trade, how (ball the vycalth of the Nation
be preferved, if he could have found out an experiment for this, hisdif-
courfe ought to have been writ in Letters of Gold, as well as repleniftiM
with Latin Sentences ^ well but he goes on, nor will any thing fecure, it
better then Unity. If fo, why then muft the Neighbours of each others
be forced to profecute one another, to bing usinto confufion. M/hy
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Sir W. S. tells you anon, and that is in plain terms, his fenfe though not
in words, the Nadon can be better Governed without Unity, then with
it : For the Juftice tells you plainly that the King by his wifdom and care
hath hitherto preferved peace without the help of Unity, for certainly
(faith he) no Nation can be moredcvided then this : Well now, how
will this agree together with what went before, which was that, Unity
and Trade was the only way to peace , and yet now he tells us that the-
King hath a better way, for he can better govern without Unity, then
with it,even for twenty years together. So then the confequence is,Unity
may be good, but no Unity is better, or atleafthethinks our King is fo
indued from above, that it is all one to Him to Govern wither without
Unity,well then if it be fo,the King hath Governed for thefe twenty years
without difturbance, though we are an United People and a divided Na-
tion, as this Chairman teHs us, what is the meaning then of all this buf^
fel now about conformity inY>oint of profit to the i^'ing, when by his
own (liewingthe Government hath received no prejudice.
Well but fince Sir W. gives "no better reafon, pray let us guefs his rca-
fons for once, and thofe may be two or three,Tbe firfl is there wants mo-
ney to defray the publick charge, and to repay the King his own page z.
but that is but a pretence, the next reafon the Papifts and their Adhe-
rents would feign provoke the Diffenters fo far as to make them quar-
rel and rebel, a troubled water is the bell for their turn, which they al-
ways live by and if they could but once blow up the flame fo high (which
God forbid) then they have gained their full point which they have fo
long been aiming at both, of covering their own hellifh Plot, and the
rooting out the Peftilcnt Herefy, as Sir IV. S's brother was pleafed to
term it, and could they catch the Fanaticks by this bait, not only
them but the whole Proteltant Intereft in England might be rooted up in-
deed, and then the Papifts takes the Poffeffion of theirLives and Eftates
all at once, which is the thing driven at, as appears by all the Proceed-
ings and manifeft Declarations of ieveral of our Parliaments, they
were all of that mind that the chief defign of the Papifts was to let the
Proteftants together by the ears, well fore-feeing that Device.
And therefore both Lords and Commons ordered bills to be brought
in, to Unite the Diffenting Proteftants all in oneagainft the common E-
nemy the Papifts, and made applications to the Kiqg, to ftop all fuch
profccutions as was acfting againft the Djffenters. But a third reafon is
the vexing and perplexing the Proteftants, may be a defign of tiring
them out, and by threats and vexatious Profecution j to fee if they can
be forced to yield up their Reafons, and when made poor, that they may
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be the eafier made flaves and be compelled to, if ever there fhould be an
ot her Eledion of Members to give their Votes for fuch Perfons as inftead
of keeping out of Arbitrary Power and Popery by Law, will bring it in
by a colour of Law, and if men do but obferve the Tranfadions for thefe
twelve months pafl; in divers Corporations. It cannot but be thought
that this is one of the main defignes now on foot. For a great man not
Jong fince openly declared that the Country was not yet fittochoofea
Parliament they had not fmarted enough, and faith he, they are for Law,
but replies to himfelf with an Oath they fhall have Law enough, that is
they (hall have the form of Law, and tricks in Law, to make a fpecious
pretence, bat the dedg-nes is the eafier to undoe them : and this is the
Law the Jnftices intends-, thougtheydo notfpeak it, which I gather from
an other paflage from the fame Sir fV. S. at another Selfions, about nine
or ten moneths ago. Councel coming to Htck^s-HaU to move the Court "
where he fat Chairman then, that the Commiflion of Oyer and Termi-
ner might be read having forncthing to move, which was not proper to
be moved before it was read, it being for the making of a requeft; ror the
Prifoners then in the Tower upon the Statute ©f 3 i of this King. And
the Chairman as well as the Juftices being aware of it, made an cxcufe to
put it off til! the Afternoon which was only a trick or in effed, a modefl:
denial, butwhen that time came, and the lame requeft made, thenano-
thcr excufe was made, by the Juftices, thatthough they had fuch a Com-
inifllon yet they heard there was a new one Sealed, and fo they thought it
not (afe to execute it, but that being inquired into was falfe,(b by this trick —
the Commilfion was never read,and the Law was defeated,and the Juftices
fo to elude the Law, u led this trick, fo thofe Perfons who were then pri-
foners i n theT ower was forced to loofe the benefit of the Ad that Seffions,
^ which was made on purpofc, that Juftices and Judges (hould not dare but
' to deliver upon bayl, or try them as the Law direded.
Well h'Jt faith the Juftice and his Affociates that are refblved to ad-
here to .him (p 11) This is but one Inftance, and in that the Juftices as
to the law might be miftaken, it beinga furprizcupon them; for you hear
the Juftice himfelf in (pa^e 2.) declares he knows not if it be againft the
Law or not, it is a fign Juftice is come to a fine pafs then in England, for
certainly if he undertook that place of a Juftice, he ought neither to pre-
tend he knows not the Law, nor that he was furprized, for at that rate
the v/hole County may be ruined. Wellbutto Ihow Sir Wifdom, * *
juftice, and Confcience further,, and his impartiality in a Seffions that
was iield before him and the reft of his Adherers about laft paft,
after the G.'and-Jury was fvvoin, divers bills of Indidment werepre- '
lented
fentfd to the Grand-Jury for to be found againfl: certain pcrlons of mofl:
wicKcdt'ame, tor Subornation, Perjury,'and liicli other ViUaniesas icarce
ever was heard went unpuniflied, for they were Bills againft a pack of
Conrpiracois that had a defign to have murLhered diversNobleai.d VVor-
thy perfbns in tins Kingdom by Perjury, and Witnefles to prove thofe
Bills was pii. duced to the Court to be fworn in order to give their Te-
ftimcny to the Grand Jury againft thofe Villains, but this juftjupright
Sir IV. and his Afllciatcs ftopped it in open Court, in the face of the
Sun, and denied the Witnefles to be fworn, till they had ea e from the
Attorney General, which certainly was the greateft ftab that ever was
given to the Common Law of England^ and a perfect turning ai daltcr-
iijg the courfe of Juftice, making the Law fubfervient, toprotedl the
Guilty, and condemn the Innocent. This thing is of fo high a Nature
thatnoKiug in £;7^/Wever did or dare attempt the fame, or likeir,
publickly, what ever lecret tricks may be underhand fliewed, for this
was not only to break the Grand Juries Oath, who are fwoi n to prefent
all without favour or affedlion. And the JufticesOa.h whoarefv/orn
not to deny or delay Juftice to any man , but forcing the King if poITi-
ble but at leaft as much as in them lies to violate and break his Coi or.ati-
on Oath, that lacredTye, and the fundamental Laws of the Land. And
that I may not be faid to fpeak without book, I fhall here incert a Copy
of the Judges Oath and givea fhort touch of the fundamental Laws of
theLand'eftabliftied in this Kingdom, concerning the true Exccuticn of
Juftice, and w Inch the Kings of England are bound to obferve by verrue
of their Oath and the truft the people repofe in them, and thisdigrefli-
on I hope will not be amifs before we come further to take notice of the
Speech.
^t)e 27 Cap. of Cliarta, ttJljtcjb S^aryna C^arta is no Magna
otijet tl)cn tW Confirmation of tfie ancient Eigljts, Cufto'ms ckarta
anoCommon lau) of tfielano, B is o?oaineD, viz j;5o jftoe= •
manfiiall tieCaften, 02 Jmp?tfonetJ, 02 be Difeafenof
bom Liberties, o?free Cuftomes, o?be outJLabicbo? Crciteb,
02 anp otbcrbnfe ocftroveb, no? toe tmll not pafs upon bun oj
conbe'mn biw^ fiut bp laujful lubsment of biS Peers 0? bp tbe
Lain of tbe Lann*
VDiii fell to no man, toe toill not benp or befcr to anp man « h. 3.
eltber Juftice 02 Eiftbt* Pray mark this iaft ciauie, and fee how it
fuits the Juftices refuliug and ftoppiiig Juftxe, and with what impu-
dence he dares do that which no King of EngUnd^x^ or can do without
violation of his Oath/and Laws of the Land, and yet now tells y^u of
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; Loyalty and Tullicc, and yon will find in the Statute made in WW
3. time, that by no Commandment whatfoever the courfe of Juftice
Vid. ifcf. " The^TOe^o^ the Aft is this , No Commandment under the Kings
Anno . Seal, Ihall diftuib or delay Juftice. ^attUtC 3 3!ttCet:t
E s-Chfip nrtttifl UQOIt ttlC i3XllU viz. Item It IS uCCOilQCtl Ettl?
^ the Little ical, to tJiftutb o? nelap Common Eight h aiiD
tijougb fticb Commanbmeut no cbnie, tbe iuHices iball not
tljereto^ leabe to Do rtgbt m an? point* in* *1,
See Crook.' There was another Record of 14 £4- 'i- Chaf>. i^. ^titled, there
^• lhaU be but four writs of Search for the King noting fhall hinder the
Execution of Juftice. 3n tljE latt patt of tbe Statute ate tbefe
ttniSB, viz. J302 that the Juftices of tohatfocMt Pla» it he,
(ta i let to DO tpe Common Laiobh CominanDment, intjicb iball
eome to tljem iinDer tbe <^reat^eal o?
Vid. v£,h0 II R.2. Chap. 10. Cb^ fame IS again ^iletteD tbattbe
2. CM?. 10. notbeftoppED d?
Item, 3t IS 0tDameD anD CitafaUlbeD tbat neitber Letters ot
the SiBitet, 1101 of the isings iSjih? ®cal. aialihe fjom hnite
foith fcntin hamage oiptouoice of the Realm, not lit htttuf
' il^ncC of tbe La\P* By this it appears molt plain , that by no Com-
irTand of the King or his Miniftcrs the Law can be ftopped 3 It is true the
King in feme Cafes, may pardon by his Prerogative, buttoftop the
Courfe of I aw, though you have the Command of the King or his Mint-
fters is point blanck againft the Law, and tends to the overthrow of the
GovernWnt, and that very Law which the Kings of £«^/W by their
places are the Executioners off, for this land in all agts never knew a-
nv Government, but by their own Laws, and to which Laws the Kings
who src Crowned in dothCwesr-j 2ndought^ Siicl cnuft msin-
tain o'herwile let him be what he Will, and who he will, he tranfgrefles
that Law that made him fo, and his Minifters Judges and Jufticesof all
forts that either affifts him in it, or Ad by fuch Commands, lhall account
to the people by the Law of the Land, and reckon one day for it to their
coft for though it be a maxim in Law, the King can do no wrong which
is m'eantas to his pc'tkick capacity, yetthe Minifters and Officers that
ad unier the preteii:e of his command , if it be an unlawful Ad they
do though they are commanded by the King to do it, it ffiall be no ex-
cufe for them, for if the Kings Commands, or his Patents be notaccor-
ding to tbe Law, they are Null and Void, and the Perfon that Ads by
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fuch CctTimands, theugh he hath fuch pretended Authority, fliallbepu-
n.ihcd foi die fame, with Life and Member as the crime dcferves. And
the etui e cur wife Anceftors forefeeing the mifchief that corrupt Mini-
Iters, and Judges about the King might bring upon the Nation, always
took care th-1 within feme convenient time a General Councel of the
whole Nation fhould meet for to judg of matters, hear complaints, re-
drefs Grievances, puoifli Evil CounceUors, wicked Judges, Officers,^and
Offenders who had wronged the King and People by fuch their foul pra-
ftices, and pernitious Councels, well forefeeing that in a pollitick Bo-
dy as well as in a Corporal Body, Dcfeafcs and Scurbitick humours will
ever be growing, and therefore muft ftand in need of good Phyfick and
wife and honefl; Phyfiiians to heal them, left: the Difeafe grows incura-
ble : And therefore in all ages we find that our Anceftors took care that
the people (liould meet together at certain times, fometimes twice in a
year and oftner if need required As in Ydng Alfred''s time, and the reafon
by the Records is given to keep the people of God from fin, and to do
Holy Judgments, as you may fee by our Law Books. See Homes hia- Vid.
rouro'f Juftice, and my Lord Cooks fecetsd pun of thelnftiturcsof rhe
Law of En^lard. The words of the Law are thefe, viz.
iiament fliall be calleb at London tujice eberp o? cftner tf scdt.*3 p
iteeb be to beep tlje people of <Soti f|om tpat tije? libe ■ cook,
in peace aub ttue cectain ^Ifanjeg aitb OolP^iutiQ:'
mento* Nowof latei years in the thirds time, aLaw wasmade
that a Parliament fhould be holdcn once a year and more often if need
be. See the Statute of the 4 E. 3- Csip. 4. which ordains, viz Item, 4£. 3.C
3It 10 Eecoibeb tbot a pacliament fljall be boineii ebcrp
ottce anb moie often if neeb be*
There is another A(ft made in the 36 £. 3. in thefe words, viz. Item, ?<5 r. 3.C,
jToi maintenance of tbe faib atticleo, anb^tatuteo, anbUe-
biefoof biber0^ifcbief0 anb (S5?tebance0 lobicb baiipbappen,
a patltamentlbaUbebolbencberp ?eat:, ao anotper time UJa0
O^baineb bp a statute* Now by thele statutes we may plainly fee
what is the Rij^ht of the Subjcdtand the Law of the Land? Why it is
frequent Parliaments to proteift and prelervc the Nation, without which
it is impoflible for either the King or People to be fafe Lom violence,
oppreffions, and incroacbment of proud and infolent men, which al-
ways was and evcrwtll be defiguing to root up the Government, and the
peoples-Rights, and get them into their own Clutches, under the dif-
guife of their ferving the King in his own way. And if this be fo that
both thefe laft recited Laws be yet in force, which I am fure neither the
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vvTe Juftice or any Judq; of England that is a man of Law, can fay they
are not. And fince we have been now without a Parliament, abo\ e one
whole year, fure Sir W. in his Speech ought to have given Tome t' uch to
the Jury, to prefcnt as a Grievance, and a Breach of the Law, the want
of a Parliament, and it would have better befitted him to have dilcourled
about the EfFiuviuras of the Mouth, and Haggs. And fince we are go-
verned by Laws, and our Kings are fworn to maintain them as we
Uiall fliuw you anon, and that we aie fure our Kings receive the Cro viis
they wear from the Law of the Land. And that no King of England
came into the world booted and Spurred readv prepared to ride the peo-
pie to death, nor drop from Heaven in a Ck ud, nor yet ritcth in a njght
like a Mulhrcom, but that he is the Ordinance of man, as St. calls
him, for their good, And that the Kings of can deny their Sub-
jedts nothing in Parliament, that is for rhe publick welfare as appears in
the latter clmife of the Statutes of provifoes made in the 25 year of Ed-
iv.«r<;/thc 3, and fince the Juftice is pleafed to izy page 1. thati.. is high
time to Ipeak plain Englifh, methinks he could not have fpoken better
Englifh then this, that the want of a Parliament is the greatelt mifchief
this Nation now groanes under, efpecially if his own words are true tnac
weare s miferablc devided people, what means can better be found out
to unite and help us then the Parliament, where every mans complaint
may be heard, and where the King is moft powerful to Redrefs, which is
no where fo great as n the High Court of Parliament, butto jjftifie
what I have before propounded, or rather aljerted that Juftice can lOt be
flopped, eithe. by the King , his Minifters, or h.s judges on any other
pretence whatrvf-r I (hall hereadd to what hath been laid, a Ihort branch
of the Statute of Piovifoes, and the Corcnanon Oath, which plainly
ftiews that our K ngs are fo by Law and not otherwife of Divine inftitu-
tion, then any other man in fuch Station as God calls ihcm to, for eve-
ry man in h's levera! calling, may be laid to be by Gods permillion and
allowance, in fi me way or other, as much as Kings in their way of Go-
vern.nent, which appears plainly by the Text the Juftice hath named,
to wit by me Kings Reign, butwith his goodleave, the Law choofe them
or elf they come by force and are Tyranrs and chat will api ear not o. ly
byiur Records rf oar Englifh Government, both in the altering and
tranflating of the Cri wn from one to another in all a^es, by Acft of Par-
liament, but in holy Record too, though we are not under the lame Dif^
penfaiif n the Jews were under, yet the Scripture ."ells us they choofe and
made their King, See the 2d. of Kings C.p. 17. ver. 21. Tne words are,
aindthey ?nade jaoboamSon of Ntbat King.^ and though the prophet did
anoint
C 'O
atirint T)avidto be King» yeta!! the people me!: togetbcr to mr.k" D^vid
King, ai:d 10 in divers other pkces, bin I thin ' ju, ■ D vino h l-, cut
cf lie cafe, that it would (how ni rfe Author as mach Ignorance to
fpend time to make Argi mei ts about fo vam aiid foppifh aii aflettion as
it will be if the Juftice fhould the next Scllicns I'pend his time in his
Difcourfe of catching of Connits in a Wan en he is well acquaiuied
With.
In the Statute of Provifbesthe Parliament t'ere rflc ts tbefe words,
viz. Commons liatie p?apeti our loio tbc l^tng^ tpatfiner,
tfie Croitin of England 5 ano ifte Lam ot t!)r faiB Eea'm is Uicji
tiiat upon tpe mifcljtef ano oam-init'S tnlnclj happen to tpis
Eeaitii, ^r outfit ano is faouno Op i ts 0atp, untp tije accoio of
fits i^eople in fits Patliament:, tDkeOf to make Eemcopuua
Lam in temooing tpe mifclneis ano oatnagcs mktct) tljereof en-
fue, tpat it map pleafe fiiin ifiecetipon to omain cemcOp.
7 he Kmg in the lame Sratnte Anlwcisthe prayer of ihe Commons
and faith fip IjiS SDatfi IjetS bOUnO to it which Statute may be read at
](afire, to this plainly agrees the Kings Oath at his Coronation, viz..
Ji t Parliament i H. 4. Num. 17. Fcrma Juramemi folit & ion fuel i
preftari jter Regcs Anglia in horam Co onatione.
Servahis Fcclefu Dei deroqHt popuL pAcem ex integro & concordium in
Deo fecunc um Dices tuas.
Refpondcbst.y Servabo.
Fa'iasferi in tmr.ibus Judiciu tuis., cquam RiFiam Juflitir.m Dijcretio-
orem m miferico-' dia & vent ate., ficundum Dices tuas.
Refpmaibii faciam.
C oncedis Jufias Lepes ^ Coufuetudines ejfe tencndas cD promitt is per teeas
effep etrgtndas., ^ aa honorem cas Corn-borandas quas valgus eUgent [ecun-
dum Dices tuas.
Rcfpo dibit C.^nfedo cD Promitto.
AajiCia'tque p.Jdutts i, ten ogationihus que jufia fuerint pyenuneiat iisque
erhus ccnfirmet Rex fe omnia f rvatu> Jacramento fuper altare. 1 rejttto coram
Can cits.
By which Oath we may perceive the Kings of England are bound to
keep ail Laws, and to grant, fulfil, and defend all rightful Laws which
the people cf the Realm fhaII choofe, end toftrengthen and maintain
them, the Chancellor and Miniflers about him are fworn to give him
true ard faithful advice, the Judges arc fworn lO advice the King in point
ef Law, and to Adminifter the Law indifferently between the Kin" and
his Subjcds, which Oath begins thus, \iz. OOtftOf tljeJUfUCeS
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bctn® matie tn t!)e ))eat: of Ed w. ti)c 3^ in tlje prar 13 44* fijall
fiaear, tijat tycli aits lawuiilP vc ft)all km ouv 102!) ilje
anottie people mt^e of^ceof If ftice, anotljac laimulip petliall
Coucel tt)e uiug in W i^ufiiterd, ohd tpat pe fliaH not councel
0? Slfcnt to an? tijins tuljic^ map tui*n t)im in oamap 02 mHyzt--
fion bP anp manner toap 02 aUlei, ano tpat pefbail not knoiotpc
oamap 0? Oifljeraon of \)m, inpercof pe lljaU not caufe blm to
be vuartenteo bp pour felf oi bp otljer, ano tbat pe (bail 00 equal
iaio anb rigbt to ail Ijlo Subiecto^ ricb anb poo?, loitbout ijaoe-
ing regarbto anp I^erfon ^ anb tbat pou tabenot bp pour tetf 0?
bp otbero, pribatclp, 01 apcrtlp^ ffuto noi reinarbs ot (J5olb
no? ^ilber, noz of anp otber tbms wbicb map tu:n to pour pio-
fitj unlefgitbemeatorbrittb, anb tbat of (mall baliie , of anp
man tbat fljall baoe anp plea o?u?ocef0 ba«5ingbefo?epoa0
Ions ap tbe fame p?ocef0 fliall fo be bangins, no? after to? tbe
fame Caufeanb tljat pe tabe no fee as Ions ap pe iball be 3m
itice, no? Uoabeo of ahp man, s?eat 0? fmall, bat of tbe
i^ins bimfelf, anb tbat pe sibe no abbtce 0? Councel to no man,
szeato? fmall, In no cafettsbere tbe 3Kmg 10 partp, anb tn cafe
tbat anp., of mbat Cllate 0? Conbition tbepbecbmebefoiepou
in pour ^elfionp, wttb foice anb armep, 0? otberuitle asamft
tlje peace, 0? aaainft tbe fo?in ot tbe statute tbereof, mabeto
billnrb erecutton of tbe Common Laio, 02 to mennace tbe peo=
pie, tbat tljcp map not purfue tbe Haio, tbat pe (ball caufe tbetr
"iBoblcp to be atrefieb, anb put in p2tfon, anb In cafe tbep be
fucb tbat pe cannot arrell, tljen tbat pe certlfie tbe iSUns of tbetr
JOamep, anb of tljetr mifp?tlion baftllp fotbatpe maptbereof
otbam a conbeneable Eemebp: Snbtbat pe bp Pour felf, no?bp
otberd p?tbttp 0? apertlp maintam anp pea 0? Cluarrel banslns
in tbe l^tngo Court 02 elfeuibere in tbe Coptttp x anb tljatpe be-
np no man common Eigbt bP tbe ixtngs lettero, 1102 no otber
tnano no? fb? none otber Caufe: anb tncafe anp Letters come
to pou contrarp to tbe lain, tbat pe bo notbing bp fucb letters:
but certifietbe1i3ttitg thereof, anbp?oceeb to erecute tbelato:
iI5otuJltbttanbtng tbe fame letters,anb tbat pe flball bo aub p?o=
cure tbe p?ofitof tbefiunganb of bis Croion mttb ^l tbings
UJbrtr POU map reafonablp bo tbe fame: anb in cafe pe be from
bcncefo?tbfoimbin befaitlt tn anp of tbe points afoiefalb: pe
(ball be at tbe things loillOSobp, lanbs, anb CoobS: tbereof to
be bone as fball pleafeblm: as 0ob pou befp anb all ^ints*
Now
Cm)
Now having given you the Oaths, as the Law hath fet'cd it. I H-'all
add one Statute more tofhewhow careful and diligent our Anccftors
were to preferve this Nation fr'^m Arbitrary Power, not only in tiie
King, but alfo in Judges and Othcers, that wc might not be ci.fl i, ed an ]
oppreft by the Judges, under a colour and pretence cf Law, And ihat
is the Statute of xoE. 3. The Titleis, viz.. Thejuflicei of both Ben- 20 J?.-?,
ches, Aflices, C^c. fhalJ do right to all men takeno fee butof thcKing, "p 10
nor give Cour.ccl whei e the King is party.
f icft m taue commantsen all our ^ufttcesitljattljrp (ijall frr.n
Ijencefojtft no equal jLaU) attri(!Srccutton of Etffljt to ail ouc ^at)=
jectsirtcljantipoo.n tottljout ijaDtmj vcijaro to anp perroit^ att^
UJitoouroiuittino; to oo rigijt fo^ ani) letters o? Coinunioantt
lopiclicomctotftemfroiuust o^fromanpottier^ ojbpaupo.yer
CauCe? anoif tpatanp letters, 223cttso? Ca:num:toramts
come to ibe 3'Ufttce's, o^ to ocpets oeputeo to oo lato ano E^sy t
acco?omij to ttje map of tlje Eeaim in Oillurbance of tljc laa 02
of Ctecution of tbe lame or of Eigbt of tpe li^arties: dje lu-
fticesanootbeiSaoiefamiljallproceeo ano Ijola tljeir Coats
ano Proccfs, lulKtetlieppieafe anomatttrs be oepenoiugbe'
foretpem: as if no facb letters, oants, or Commandments
toe e come totljem: ano tljcp lljaU certifieus ano our Couiicel of
fucbCommanomemsmbicb becomrarp to lain as aforefaio,
ano to tlje 3 nteuc tljiat our Jullices flmll Oo eben risljt to all peo^
pie In manner afore aiO, initljout more fabour fljeinn to one ttjen
to tbe otber* UiU babe oroameo aito caufeo our Jufltces to be
ftoornt Cbattljenfijallnot from ijencefortlj, as long as ibey
fljall be m ©fficedc Suffice, take jfee nor Eoab of aup man but
of outfelf, anotijattbcplball tabeno gift or reinaro bp tljcnn
(eibes> nor bp others pribtlp orapertlpof an? man tljat battj to
Oobetore tljem bv aim map etcept meat ano Drtttb, ano that of
fmall baine: ano that tbep fljall gibe no Councei to great men
orfman :ano in Ca^ miiere toe be^'pattp, or iobicb 00 or map
toiicb us in anp point uoon i am to be at our C£Jiil,'Boop,ianos»
ano «®ooos to 00 thereof as fljall pleale us m cafe the? bo coutra=
t?»
Here is another Record of Parliament in the 11 //.4. worth taking no- vid. Rot,
ticeof, which is not in Enghjh.viz.. Par. i r,
^tem que mil Chancellor , CrcafurerT <^aroen 0eU3tibP'^4.Nov.
©eal, Councei a le Eop, Serjeant a Councei oelEopnenuii
auter Wlcet, luog:, cj9tmaer leiao?^ per uants fers on gagcg. .
oe.
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tie ISiW pout lout Dit5 SDfficcs ou0etP:ces ptci'gtte en mt! matt^
net en temp0 a Pcnnet afcun niaimet tie Done ou brocage De nul^
Uip pur lour Dit? OfFicep $ €>crPtce0 afair fur peine oe rtCponDec
ouEoDDelatrePiequeeffincpreignone^Defatiofiee? pungs at
PoUmt le Eop $ foit Difcpai" ge0 De fon ©fflce, ^erPice $ Councel
per cout5 jour0 $ quettjefcan que Doierapurfuer en la oit matter
^ lafcule dPlen per le Eop come pur lup mefme f ett la treice pact
Del lomm De que la part? eft Duement conDlct^tc^
Having given a little touch of the Old Law, and what our Rights arc
1 fliall now return to our Speechmaker. In page i. he tells us we are di»
vided in two Churches, the Church of England^ and the Antichurch
which are the , and that of all forts, and to be playing with
the Scriptures, he calls the Dijfenters Devils, nay Legions of Dev ils.
Why truly a man might have expected as fair quarter from aTurk or the
Indians, nay from the Papifts themlelves, for they do but account the
Troteftants of all forts Devils, and why Sir W. fliould fo far oblige them '
who himfel f hates a Fafift is very ftrange. But by this the Diff nters may
fee the Juftices of Chriftianity towards them, whatever the
King and Parliaments opinion of them was a little before.
Well but in the next place, he tells us the reafbn why he efteems them
fo, and that is one of them obey the King and his Laws, and the other do
not, which arc the , the!e Devils and well may he term them
fo, for he tells us that they torment the Governmentin the next place
he tells them they dillionour the King , and defame his Government by
thofe Pamphlets which go about the Town, in which certainly the Ju-
nice read hjs Name, or el fe he would not have condemned a whole Bor
dyof Men, or a Legion of for they are many, for writing of
Pamphlets , when it is not, I dare fay,in his power to prove that any oire
Pamphlet he means was ever writ or publilhed by a Dijfemer from the
Church of EngLmd ^ Efbiblilhcd by Law : Now if the Jufticewill here
undertake to condemn me without proof, and fucli a number of Men :
Why then I mult take leave to lay: It is fomewhat like their late Warrants
fent out to fummon in Conftables to turn Infoimers, and when the Con-
ftables did not approve of that Imployment was for their Difobedience
bound to the Good behaviour, and lined Twenty pounds, which after-
wards was loft when a came.
Bat
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But yet fome further Anfwer ought to be given as to theDifFenters
tormenting the Government ^ he cannot I am confident (hew in what any
of them do torment the Government, unlefs it be in not going to
Church : Pray ye, Mr.fufiice, and if it ftail pleafe you, how can that
be fuch a torment to the Government now, more than it hat^ been all
other times ? hath the Government any lofs in thcRevenue by it, or any
wounds given ? Or is it the tender Confcience of the 26 Bilhops that is
lb tormented for the fouls of the(e poor, miferable Diflenters ? if there
be nothing elfc in the wind, no Rebellion nor Theft^nor Murder, why
then where is the great torment to the Government ? Do any of the
Diflenters break the Laws more than the Churchmen ? Do not the
Churchmen break more ? If fo many, for inftance, and if it (hall like
your Worlhip. Firftit is true, the Diflenters are ftubborn Rafcals, fome
of them at leaft, they will pray for themfelves, and in their own way,
and worfhip God according to the written Word, as near as they can go,
and will not come to Church. Now it is granted, in doing of this they
break the A<5t of Uniformity ^ to baUance that, you Mr. y»J}ice knows
that many of the Church of Ertgland Loyal men, as good as ever pifled,
will be drunk fometimes, and pretty often in a week; now fet one a-
gainfl: the other, if you pleafe : Then the Diflenters break another
Law,they^o to Meetings, contrary to another Adt •, well,but you knew.
Sir,fometimes they pay dear for it,as people lay at But if that
do notlerve turn, there are many of the Church of England goodLoy-
al men, will fwear and damn moft confoundedly fometimes, which is ex-
prefs againfl; the Adl, and the Law of Chriftiaiiity'too: now Sir here
is a Revoland for your Oliver : and methinks the Juftices of Middlefex
might have been lb conlciencious,asto have difcourfed fomcthing of the
breach of thele Laws, as well as altogether upon the poor Diflenters.
There is another Law the Diflenring MiniHers break, which is the Ad
for living within five miles of a Corporation •, to aniWer that, the Con-
forraifts.notwithftandingtheAd of Non-refidence at their PariihChufcb,
yet many of them Loyal Churchmen fcarce ever come at it, except
for their Tythes. Now Sir, I would have you give me leave to tell you
one plain and homely ftory^ and fo end the firfl: Page. There was a
Wench in Ireland^ had been with a Priefl: at Confeflion, and being there,
freely uncafed her felf of all her fins to the Prielt, which proved very
great fins, and fomething aftonifliingto the good man, the foil was, ftie
confefled Ihe had been a great Thief,the Priefl: replyed that was very bad
and a great fin, but faith flie, I gave fo much money to the poor after-
wards j well quoth the Prieft put that to that; the next was, flie had been
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a great V^hore, whereat the rrieft ftarted being amazed thereat: but
laid fhe, oh Sir, but I did fuch a Pennance fuch a time, and failed fo long ;
v/eli then faid the Prielh put that to that: another fin whereof Ihcconfef-
fedherfelf guilty, was the wrongin^ of her Parents, which was a bad
fin too •, but faid fhe, my Father and Mother were Hereticks: well then
laid the Pried put that to that. The next day the Pried coming again
to fee his child, and asking her how (he did, Ihe replyed fmiljngly, well
1 thank you Father, flie dill fmiling at him occafioned by a wart the Pried
had upon his Nofe, and he being urgent to know the caufe of her fmi-
ling, Ihe at lad, alter craving his pardon, with a promtfe not to be an-
gry with her, told him, Sir you have a wart upon your Nofe, i iaith he,
lb I have, and I have another upon ray Ar , put that to that, Sir, as
you did yederday. But now I the hope Courteous Reader wiU pardon this
Hip, though i leave Sir IT. at his pleafure. Inpf^e id Sir IV. tells the Ju-
ry, that theConventiclcrs had abufed and reviled thofe officers and others
who in obedience to their Commands have endeavoured to put the Laws
in Execution : if the DilTenters have done fo, they are highly to blarney
but if neither hjmfelf nor all his fellow Judices can flicw wherein they
have fo abufed or reviled them for doing their duty, fure then the DIP-
fenters have great caufe to fay SirHK.ds not fure an/of them hath fb
done, becaufe he neither names the perfoh that did the fa(n:, nor where^
in the abufc was done ^ feme of the Standers by I am told was of opini-
on Sir IT meaning was the Condables, and the Pamphlets called Order
of Seflidns was, what he meant, or the Anfwer to them: now if his wor-
Ihip would be pleafed but to explaip himfelf, both as to the perfons add
things he fpcaks of, he would highly add to his former merits : other-
wife we are like to be in the dark dill, notwithdanding his date of con-
vallency.
But Sir Will am goes on paje 2. the quedion he askesis, he would
know of any fober thinking man, which of the two parties his prudence
would invite him too, whether thofe under his Majedies, and the Laws
Protedlicn, or to t;hat party which leads through Briars and Thornes,
which I fuppofc hemeanes tobethef3iirenters,if fcK,then 1 mud tell him
that the Laws do equally Protedl both the one and the other, and for him
to dart Inch a qucdion under his favour, is no lefs then to tell the world
that his Majcfty will protedl one and not the other, and fince Sir IT.
is refolyed to pun upon the honed plain Country Jury-men that hath not
been ufcd to be fo accoftcd by fuch Pvh'etorick heretofore, it may not
be am ifs to lift this part of the Speech a little further : In this "page, he
tells the Country men of flippcry places where they lhall never be able
to
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to ftand their groud^ but what ground he meails, is kept fecret, and
tWrefore we c^n't guefs at the nieaning,which is fupposM to be this Gen-
tlcrrians tjr.-.nd-Jury men, and all that hear me this day,I tCil you i am a
thinking man, lihiiiK of the timespaft when I was a Col. and hovv 1 be-
haved my lelf in H^chard^% time paft, when I Addrefled to him, fwim-
ming then with the 1 ide, I was fafe, I Icorned that pittiful thing called
concience, I a'wayes trcd upon Pure ground, and in frofty, hard weather
tho'ihe wind b'ew never io lurd,yet I always flieltcred my. feii under fome
penthoufe, though it was but a thatched Cottage ^ I would nevei deny
my felf in any thing, but whatever Richard, who then Reigned
though not de jure, did, yet I was the fame to him as I pretend now to
the Kingy and I ftocd by that means faft, and by that meanes 1 Itand faft
now, and lb may you grand Jury-men, if you will but think on me, you
never need fear treading upon Knives or Razors •, for what ever Card
turns up Trump i I have a Knave at all times ready, both in heart and
hand : And therefore you thinking Grand Jury men, remember me, and
be Pure to take care of felf-prefervation, and be obedient to me, and
prefent thefe unthinking people that do not know their own fafety But
to proceed in this, Pa^t id. here is fo much of ex'celfent Variety, and
depth of Wifdom , that it feems wonderful, efpecially if we confider
the State matters here in this page let forth, and that is, he not only
tells us of the expence of money his Majefty hath been at, as was before
hinted,and the benefit like to acaew to Trade by the peace with ./ilgier^
and the TurktyTvz^e •, bathe feems to underltand the whole feries of all
the State affairs of the King , as a great and learned Privy CoHnciller;
For he tells you that ibme had the impedcnce to report that Tangier was
or would be fold to the Frtnch King-, how was itpolFible the Juftice
fliould know that, except he were of the Cabinet Councel at home, or
the Freueh Kings Councel abroad ? For he doth not fay he heard it was
reported to be fold, or would be fold, but that fome had the impudence
to fay fo,and this muR be certainly to hiinfelf it was fpoken, or elfe he
dcvifed it, for he cannot produce his Author: but that which may caufe
a further belief of his being a Courtier, and in the moft deepelt State of
affairs, is his tellingus in the fame page, the very exaiR quantity of mo-
ney the thirty Capital Ships will coft mors then the Parliament did
give,which is thusthe King was forced to advance icocoo of his own
jnoneyti now it is a very great wonder that this Juftice in fuch a capacity
not being a Ship-wright, Ihould exadtly know thefe things,if he be not ei-
ther a Privy Councel^ or one of the Tr^ury: and thai which makes it a
wonder how he comes to know the cxadt charge is, that yet all the thirty
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Capital Ships are not built, and lome of them not lb much as begun to
this day. But I fupix)fe Sir IF. did not fpeak from a Command he had,
bat to fhew his zeal to raife the looooo 1. that would be wanting when
the Ships were done, or rather that he might have one fling at the Par-
li$ment for being fo abfurd as not to compute their Matters right, nor
give money enough ; for Sir I'T.always hatha good wilh, or a good
word, for the Parliament ff7ee he woe fummondbefore the Ommitteel Well,
but now in the third page he tells us the whole Charge the King hath dif-
burled, is about Sccooo 1. which ought to be paid him by the people
for whom it was disburftdj and that the Eftablifli'd Revenue wiH not
ballance the neccflary Charges of the Governmientj and where (hall the
accidental charge be born?I am confident theKing never bid him put fuch
a queition to the Grand- Jury,for this reafbn, becaufe he well knows,they
nor their whole fingle County cannot do it if it were lawful for Loans,
or Ship-money, or Privy-Seals to go about the Country again,as was done
bfv the wicked enemies of the King and Kingdom heretofore, to keep off
Parliaments, that they that had aded Roguery and Viliany in the Inter-
yals in the late King's Time, might not be called to account, which in all
probability is the defiga of this Juftice if he dare fpeak out \ and that
he can mean nolefs,feems mofl: plain for what Ihould he elfe tell the
Grand-Jury of fuch things as thefe which they have no conuiance of in
the leaft; and for the Juflices faying be hath heard in the Houfeof Com-
fflons that the Revenue will not defray the charges of the Government,
it is moll like he hath. For the Reader may plealcTo remember, that
Sir was one of that long Pentionary-Parlianaent which was always
free of giving, what fome of them was hired to give, as appears by the
Votes of another Houfe. And may it not weH be conjedured now from
his experience he pretends in the Revenue of theCrown,as hefeems to in-
timateto us, that either he is, orv;ould be Lord Treafurer,''or at leaft
one of the Commons very Ihortly by this Speech, Howfoever, fiifc, he
cannot mifs offomegreat place of Truft in the State, becaufe he like-
wile Is pleafed in this third page to tell us not only that the Subjeds ought
to pa V it with Intereft and with thanks, but they had done it before now,
if the DuTcutrs and D.fferences that arc among us had not prevented" it^
and w)f. men lay it upon the Conventicles being Lfteied^ thus he hath
hit the point certainly, and now we come to know whatisthe reafon
ail of a fudd ? n the Conventiclcrs and Dilfenters are difturbed, wnicli we
Jf ver.'cncw before , and that is, the King hath disburfed a great deal of
money, and the D flcnters will neither pay it themfelves for the benefit
they enjoy of the Conventicles, nor will let others pay it. If this be
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fo,then 'tis no wonder at this eager profccution, and this inciting Speech
to ftir up the Jurors ^ but how comes it to pafs it was not found out be-
fore, thatithe Conventicles hinder'd the King of bis money di.builed ?
Is it not known both to thinking and unthinking people, that when
thegreatefl; Gifts and Sumsof Money that ever was given the King that
now is, there was as many Diflenters and Conventicles as now, and that
at all times they inftead of hiadermg fo a good a Work ever paid their
fhares very chearfuDy, witnefs the great Tax 25000001, at once, and
1200CC0I. at another time in the Penllonary Parliament, and other
Sumsfince. And for the venom and infedion of the Conventicle-Preach-
ersas he ispleafedto call them, it cannot be proved that they'have ever
preashed or taught Sedition, either in thofe Times, or now ^ much iefs
to come within the compafs of the Ad the Juftice feems to hint at, and
the Ad of the 17th of this King if there beanyfuch, was as much vie-
Iated,then as ever it hath been fince ; and it doth not appear, ncr can
byany artuhe Jufticecanufe, that ever the Diflenters or Con enticlers-
did either preach or pray^ againft Gifts and Grants of money to fupply
the King's Affairs, efpecially when the good of the Nation required ir.
And without doubt thofe Diffenters and Conventiclers are, and ever
were as ready with their Purfes to ferve the King and Country as any
of the Abhorrers ever were, or ever will be, notwithftandiug their He-
roick exprelTions. But yet to bring in Popery, or fupport Popifh
Deligns, the Diffenters will not whatever the Abhorrers may yield
to. It is true, in fome of the great promifes and affurances,
have been lately made, to ftand by the King with their Lives and
Fortunes, and their Purfes to be ever at the Kings Command: And
not onely fo, but have by their Abhorrenccs declared their Refolu-
tions to chcofe fuch Members for the next Parliament as his Majefty
Ihall approve of. Now if thefc ftubborn Fanaticks would have been fo
mannerly as to have done that too, then it is more than probable that all
this prcfecution againft the Diffenters in the Juflices opinion might ceafe
too. Ai.d it cannot be any wonder that the Abhorrers fhouldf promife
to affift his Majefly with their Purfes •, for they have nothing to affift the
him with, but what comes from the King either in Places orGitts. Well,
but after all tho' ^ fometiraes the Jufticc is for the Divifions to be made
np,that the King may be repaid with Intereft, and therefore faith, it is
high time to do ityet that mult not be done by iving any grains of al-
lowancc to theDiffenters fide at all,orto bear wirhtheirweaknefsin things
ind'fferent, or to make any ftepof compaffior cowards them in leaving
off one fraall Ceremony or fin out of the Church oi England to win them,
not
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no not for the whole World, and all the Diflentcrs foals to boot» bat
the unity the Jufticc would leem toaimac is, that whatever the Church-
men of £»^/Wfaythe DilTeuters mult do,, that mufl.be done, or clfc
ftop their mouths; the Diflenters infedicus Breath will ui,do us all, and
and give usthePlague, bcfides want of money ^ therefore Inftead tf any
co^difcention to them, ftpp their mouths with "be Ad of the i7t!i of
this King, leaftthey gr< wtoo formidaole. Here is t' e Union the Juftice
but now talked of in his third page j O rafe charitable Jaftict and good
nafurM man!
Well, but what if Sir W. Ihouldbe out in his PoUiticks ^ that the way
to Union, is to force it by devourLig the Diflenters by penal Laws ^
now I am apt to think he is out, if he will but give himfelf leave to recol-
ledhimfelf a little astoHiltory, both lacred and prophanc ^ and let
him but Ihow in any one place that ever the force of the Civil Magiftrate,
or by any one force of Arras in the whole world in mat ers of Reiigion,it
ever prevailed, or elFeded fuch an end as Sir IV. would make the world
believe he aims at^ the Scripture tells us, have a care left you be found
fighting againft God ; and advifcs to let the Secrets as they were called
by the Jews and the Phariftes in the Apoftles Time alone ^ for laid a
wift man among them then to the Councel, have a care what you do ,
if this be of Gcd it will ftand, if not it will Ron cc me to nought: All
that ye do againfl: them wiH come to nought if they be of God; for Re-
ligion is neither to be played withall nor affrighted fi om \ and it common-
ly thrives bell when the Enemies of it do moft induftrioi fly oppofcit.
God's Juflice hath a longer reach Mr. J«/?/w,than thefingers of the King,
or the Temporal Law, more than you arc aware of j therefore it may be
that all your malice can amount to, will be lb far from rooting up the
Diflenters, and flopping the mouths of their T eacliers that it may rather
incrcafe than decreafe ^ and it may be as far cut of your power to hinder
it, as it was once out of your power to keep Richard Cramvfd in the Chaip
after you had taken fo much pains in addreffing him : Ar d for your fear
of the Diflenters being formidable to the Government, as you fay in
this page, if they be fo formidable in fheir help to lupport the Go-
vernment with their Perfons, and Purfes as heretofore they have
been in Rcftoring His prefent Majclly, then fure there will be no great
terrour upon the Government from them, be they never fo formida-
ble. And for what you arc pleafcd to fay they are a Herd of Swine,
that when one Icing chafed all the reft go and condole, pray where
is the evil of that, if it were fo} but 1 have been otherwile in-
formed that they arc not fo kind and natural one to the other.
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Til. However fijice you have fo compared them to fwlne, and fince it is
til's their nature, as jou fay, to condole one with another, when they are all
2n(l chafed, I wifli that part of your Si cech were true, that thefe Diffenters
will make your words good, and ftand by one another in Righteous and
of good things, to oppofe the wicked malice of their enemies, who daily
ice watch, not only for their goods and eftate, but for their blood too, could
they have but an opportunity once put into their hands; which as is faid,
you, and the reft , Sir of your fellow Juftices, were indeavouring
ay - after, when a Petition was by you preferred, that the Sheriffs of MiZ-
Me/ex might not be chofe by the Cityj; could you Sir W. and the reft of
your crew, but have got that either by hook or by crook, you would no
doubt have ftopped all their mouths, having before fettled your Evidence
ready for the purpofe. But Sir W. do but have patience and keep the /-
r»/fc cattle together a little longer, and you do not know how fortunate
you may be after Midfummer day next-, and then have at the Beafts at E-
fhefus^ thefe unreafonable Diffenters that will not believe their Mother
the Church, nor pin their faith upon the Crape-Gonorum : Thus our
Barronet laysabout him in this Page againft thefe hoggs, beafts and un-
reafonable men , now is it not a pitty this Gentleman had not aifted in
Doiftor Sprath place the other day, and Sprat in his; if it had been fo,
1 am confident the Knight would have done more in the work of con-
verlion by his Speech to the Artillery men, than the Doftor did for the
word of the Apoftle, and the very names of unreafonable men and wild
Beafts woujd certainly have founded very fweet to that Auditory, for
the Do<ftor took all to be unreafonable men that refufed to dine with
them that day, and yet dared to eat their dinner together the next day in
another place than where the D. was. And if the Doftor had but fpoke
half fo much as a Divine to the Grand-Jury about Hoggs and Rdigion,the
Jury could hot for (hamebut have believed him,becaule he hath authority
to fpe^Scripture : But what authority the Juftice had to fpeak fo to the
Grand^ury, when he was not in Orders, is not yet;known; and it is
well if the Church do not take him to task, for mediing with that which
did not concern him, and which indeed is another man's trade, and it
was the Juftice-trade, to have preached the neceffity of buying fwords to
fupprefs the Diffenters, and keep their mouths ftopped: well but before
we leave this Page, we fhall fiqd out Sir W^s Religion, I dare lay a groat
onT ; for he tells us in plain now, what I did but fuppofe before,
that he was -~nce on the other fide -, for, faith he, there are not more
unreafonable men, than fome we have in England. 1 have heretofore
bad an indifferent gccd opinion of the Diflentcrs, I thought they had
been
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heeti as thcT pretended, a peaceable fober fort of People, and that they
hrdefed Shing bit liberty of Confcience, and. Indulgence. So
then once by his own Ihewing, he was of another mmd then nw he
is? Well, what changed him in his difcourfe in this P^^ce, it muft ^ be-
caufe of the unreafonable men that are m BMi bat he forgets to tdl
US who they are, and wherein it appears fo^ but if you believe himfelf,
the unreafonabknefs of fome men, is the rnain rcafcn that makes him
now not of the opinion he was before, and that ferves him well enough
for L excufe. But how was he miftaken about their being a fober,
Guietfortof People? what hath altered his mind? have they been un-
ruly or unquiet, more then himfelf, have they done any evil to the
Publick now, more then they did before, when he had his good
opinion of them ? nothing of that can appear. But to be plain, in the
4 th Pace he tells you what hath altered him-, why it is his tcnaciouf-
ncfs that the D.fllnters aim at Dominion, and therefore he cannot have
any longer a good Opinion of them, but ftiU this is but to esfcafe him-
felf by loading of others with fuch untruths, as there is nothing the
leaft colour for it, nor was ever proved againft them, unlefs he means
by Dominion , that the Diflenters will have the Dominion over their
own Eftates, and Families, andnotlufFer others to have it from them,
without better Warrant from the Law then any this Igmramus Juftice
can (hew to the contrary for the Diflenters do think they may with
as much Law and Juftice defend their Liberties aftd Properties, as the
Juftice may find Law to compel them to conformity in point of Church
Difcipline. But now the Juftice muft have one flout or fling at tender
confcicnces in this Page^ or clfe the fat will be in the fire, and no wonder
at all why he cannot let that alone , the reafon may be becaufe he hav-
ing loft h'is, if ever he had one, is fometbing like the Devil, that hates
man, becaufe he is in a better State then himfelf ^ otherwife fure he
would not mock and jeer at tender confcienes and liberty of conftiecnce,
as if their were no Inch thing left, but all was a piece of Pagentry like
my Lord Mayor's Ihow, as he faith, to draw the Eyes of Spcdators up-
on them. The Juftice may know it is dangerous to meddle with Edge
tools.
But
But to jsroceed, the Knight tells us, He met with a Pamphlet the other
day, wherein he read a Ticket to a Feaji at the tw» Hallf. The Pamphlet
he means, I fuppofe, may be the G^izefte, which forbids, under the pre-
tenceof Atfthority, the fcdifious Defign ofdining together at
Hah, &c. in regard his R. H. was not to be there, or becaufe they in-
tended to be merry without a Licence from the Court. Truly it was a
horrible Dtfistn of thofe V\higs, to offer to eat together, and giveGod
rhanksfor Mercies, and not Hrflconfult the Stars, or the Court at
Hall. And that which more affrighted the Loyal Party was, there were
no lefs than thirty odd Affidavits produced, or intended in due timei
which made it appear, that all the Pye-ctuft was Walls, Batteries, and
ftrong Fortreffes, within which were hid all forts of Warlike Provifion,
Blunderbuffes only excepted. And moft certain it is, this was the mofl
defperate Affocia^ion that has been thefe many Years, fit to be abhorr'd
in the next Return, when thofe now upon the Wheel (hall be fpun out i
for as the Juflice tells us. It Ulih^ the old Way of AJfociating, or blowing a
Trumpet before a War. But the Ticket-Fealt at Merchant-Taylors Hall,
was not half fo dangerous, tho the Text was. Sell your Garments, and
buy a Sword. Nor had the Apprentices Feaft, with the four Bucks, and
the Tira of Wine, the laft Summer in any evil Intent at all,
only a good Example for their Matters, to huzza, drink the Pope's
Health, and bid defiance to their Matters, fo long as they were fet on
work by fome of their Matters Matters, not to be named. Well, for
the prefent be it fo, till it can be better i however, fober, thinking Men
may remember thefe Things without offence, I hope^ as well as the
Juftice the two Hall-Feafts by Tickets.
Now in the fourth Page, he further tells us, that this AJfociating by
Tickets is an old Way j it looks Ukg blowing the Trumpet, and making Pro-
clamation, (Who is on my fide? who? ) And by the Words which fol-
low this Sentence, he makes it to be a Cor^j^'s Rebellion, which was.
Murmuring againtt God. Therefore it ought to be confidered, what
ground there is for this fevere Charge, as to its being an old way to af-
focrate by Tickets. Now it is true, every Year, not only the Loyal Ar-
tillery-Company do feaft, and affociate by Tickets i but divers Citizens,
who were born in fuchand fuch Counties, doalfo every Year by Tickets
affociate together to feaft, in remembrance of their County: And no
notice was ever taken of it before, that fuch a thing was Rebellion, or,a
Murmuring againtt God or the Government. But the Juttice (I prefume)
takes it, they may feaft any where but in thofe infedious Halls, or elfe
he would not have condemned in one, what is often allowed to others.
D Well,
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Wclf, but there isforrething more in it yet, and that is. The Ticket ex-
preffcd, to thankGod for delivering the King and Kingdom from Po-
peryi and this was that which fpoil'd the Feali. Befides, thefe Men
that were to be at if, had forgotten to invite the D. of T. and were not
for abhorring a Thing of Rags, otzChym<era in the Air, of their own
fettingup. And for thefe Men to meet, was not to he hotn withal.
But how it looks like Rebellion, is yet uncertain v therefore theReadtr
muft fee for himfelf, for at prefent we arc in the dark. Bur the Juiiice,.
in this Page too, tells us, ItxvM a makjngof Vartks. He ought to have
confidered it well,before he had fpoke fuch unadvifed Words v for certain-
ly, would he, and the reft of his Affociates, but conlider how indultrioufly
they have laboured to make Parties, by getting Addreffesand Abhorrer.-
cies throughout England, not only againlt a Fiifion of their own Brain,
but againft Parliaments themfelves, as moll manifeltly appears by the
wording of their Abhorrencies : For tho they are fo modeif, as not to
exprefs their abhorring Parliaments in Words at length i yet they have
abhorred the Votes, Refolutions, and Adions of the befl, wifelt, and
richeft Parliament, that ever England had: And fome of them not only
grin at them privately, but have traduced them, as if the very Houfe of
Commons were all Rebels themfelves againft his Royal Highnefs. And
tho thofe Abhorrers, the moft of them, have not dared to give the Houfe
of Commons the Lie i yet fome of them have told us plainly, that they
will never chufe fuch again, as (hall ad contrary to the latereft of his
Royal Highnefs. But that which (hews thefe Fellows to be Knaves as
well as Fools, is, They always bark and fpit their Venom behind the
Parliament's Back, which is a good fure way » but never dare fay any
thing when they are fitting, but, Roger like, tun away. Yet let them
have a care, there will come another Parliament, whatever thefe Fools
arc made to believe i tho it is not doubted, but thofe that fet them on
work dare affure thofe abhorring Rafcals, there never (hall be any more
Parliaments to call them to account, and that all is their own. But let
fuch know, it is this Nation's Right to have Parliaments, and a Parlia-
ment muft come within three Years, by a Law made in this Kings Time,
and they muft fit too, if thefe Abhorrers do not get Popery eftabli(hed
before that time, which tho they labour hard for, yet they may be de-
ceived., But if a Parliament (hould come, as certainly it will, then they
that drew and contrived thefe Abhorrencies in Papers for them, will run
away, and leave the Subfcribers in the Lurch, as Roger L'Ejhange ufed
to do ; And then 'tis ten to one, but Mofes's Rod, the Juftice tells us
of In this Page, will fwallow up the Egyptisn Magicians Rods, which
have
have devoured and abhorred Parliaments, and thdr Proceedings i and
the King's Rod, that the wife ]ufticc would lay upon the Diflfenters
Backs, may chance to light upon his own, and his Aflbciates.
Bttt if the King and the Law, the Juftice tells us, cannotreach thnfe fuhtil
Men, Divine Jufiice may. In Anfwer to that, I (hall only fay this by way
of Retort, That if we fhould be fo miferable, as not to have our juft
Rights by Parliaments, the Divine Vengeance fldoubtnot) will reach
thofe Villains, that have fo eagerly laboured, Night and Day, to unhinge
the Government. For he that is againh the Parliament, is not only
againhhisown Right and Privilege, but againfl the Foundation of our
Government i and he that knows not that, I will adventure to pro-
nounce him much more an Ignoramus than the Judice himfelf. But be-
caufe the ]udice in this Page threatens the Difl'enters with the Scepter,
he may know, that all Scepters are, or ought to be Scepters of Righ-
teoufnefs, and to prefcrve, not to dellroy, the Innocent. And thofe-Dif-
renters, whatever Opinion the Juftice may have, think themfelves as
little concerned in that, as the Juftice himfelf, they having as much Rea-
fon on their lide to be fhelter'd under that righteous Scepter, as his
Worfhip.
In the next place, it cannot .be well pafs'd over, the Text of Scrip-
turc in this fourth Page the Juftice quotes, that is, Uoe Children of this
World are wifer in their Generation than the Children of Light: Which the
Juftice alludes to the Phanaticks taking one anothers Parts, and not
buying and felling, or trading with any but their own Party: Nay, they
rviO, faith the Juftice, have no manner of Commerce with the Church-Farty \
and that.is to Jet up a Common-wealth in a Kingdom, a moji dangerous thing !
This is indeed a home Charge, and as much Falfhood and Malice ap-
pears in It, as ever was. But we know whom the Juftice had this Sen-
tence from, no other than thofe Inftruments the Jefuits, whofe Motto
is, Divide & impera. And here the Juftice hath moft exaftly followed
theirCounfel: For in what Terms could he have more fully fhown his
Intentions of dividing, than in afferting. That the Diffenters will com-
merce with no Body but themfelves, and are fetting up a Common-
wealth in a Kingdom, without giving one Example, or Colour to prove
fuch a Defign in them ? And it may be asked the Juftice, Who it is
can do more at one time to divide us, than fuch a Speech ? But why
fnuft the Diffenters Trading together, and taking one anothers Parts,
^be a Defign againtt the Government, more than of thofe that call them-
felves the Church-Party ? Is it not as lawful for one as well as the other
Sort, to trade with whom they will, and to eat and drink with whom
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they pleafe ? If fo> then it is mod plain, the boafling Church-Men do
feaft together often, and affociatc themfelves in Clubs, Cabals, Ta-
verns, and Coffee-Houfes, and divers other Places, both Sundays and
Working-Days, to manage the Caufe which the ]ulHce aims at > and the
Church-men in reality, as they would be accounted, ( fuch as they are )
have in reality duck by their Champion Cradoc)^ fo far, that no left than
two Knights, and four or five Eiquires and Gentlemen, to fave their
htothex Cradeck^y have joined together in afolemn Oath before the judg,
that the Earl of Shaftsbury doth live in 7hanet-Uoufc, and is a great Tra-
der in the City* I am confident, the Judice cannot diew us any I'uch
voluntary Oath of Men of their Quality, that ever did fo far take one
anothers Parts among the DilTenters, as to fwear in Clubs.
So after the Judice had (hewed the Didenters Dealings, of laying their
Heads together in didurbing the Peace,in the next place, pag.^. he tells
us in praifc of the Church Fary, and in oppofition to the Didenters, that
they (the Church Party) aregood honed Men in thefe Words, viz. 7he
Chnrch Forty, the Children of Light, they truji in a good Caufe, put out their
own Eyes, and will neither fee their Danger or Inttrefl, mofi of them endeavour to
build upon their own Ground, and raife to themfelves Pyramids of Honour and
Kiches, and have not minded them of the fame Party, who are forced to Jhift for
themfelves as well as they can. Now I would have the ingenuous Church-
Men confider, what a great deal of Honour this Gentleman hath done
them, he has, to vindicate them, called them blind Fools, nay, fuch Fools,
that no brute Beads can be worfe i what is it I pray you to them, to put
out their own Eyes, and not fee for themfelves, and when that is
done, he tells us, it is the only way to get Riches.. If this be the way
of the Children of Light to put out their own Eyes, and trud to others,
I pray God, with all my Heart, that I may be in Darknefsdill, and that
this Child of Light, tho a Church-Man, may get Honour, and in his
own way, for my part I will neither envy his, nor his Church-Men's^
Happinefs as to their Wifdom, nor as to their Honour and Riches > but
this I may fay, that had the Church of Ewg/W-mew received fuch a Vilir
fying, from a Diflenter, as this, certainly they would have called loudly
for SatisfatSion, cither from the Court Chridian, or our Temporal,
Courts > What, call them fuch Fools! and treat them as fuch as will pull
out their own Eyes and not fee, can the Church-Men forgive this ? I dare
not fay they cannot, becaufe Ibme of them arc Men of great Charity,
but were it not for that, doubilds fuch an Affront as this, would be
enough to raife the whokpojfe Clergy about the Knights Eyes i for in
clffeft he calls them blind Papids,, for none butthofe poor deluded. Souls,
that.
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that ever li ve in the Light of the Sun, would rather truft other Folks Eyes
than their own.
Well, but what muft not a Juftice make a flip, but there mufl be all
this notice taken! yes fure, he may be allowed many when he means
well; tor in this whole Speech, if you obferve it, and if you believe
himfelf. He doth fay, and do, all for the Efiahlijhed Church, and the ?uhlic\
Good. Now then, if to, he ought to have Mercy thewn him. In the
next place, you will find he deftrves it too, becaufe the Diflenters in this
page, are made by the fame Man, Cobltrs, and nothing hut their Lafi is their
Coat, and fo fearful is he of them, If, as he faith, the Cards fhouldbeJhuf-
led again, that thefe Coblers will have'all the Shoes, and himjelf go Bare-foot i
that he advifes here in this Page, That it is not prudent to truft them, tho>
they are contented with their own Vtrtue a moll firange Paradox! what if
they will be contented with their own Vertue, (han't they be let alone^
it is mighty hard, efpecially, when, in the next place, he himfelf cona-
merrds Vertue as a choice Plant, or Tree that bears excellent Fruit j and
faith he, Ihe Gar diners muft nourifh and cherifh this Vlant and Tree, or etfein
time this Tree will bear fower Fruit ■> that is, I fuppofe, he means the Ma-
gillrate, and you Grand Inquefl-mcn, you mull Prefent thefe Diflenters
that we miy get fome of their Money, lop off their loofe Twigs,, and
Wild-Sprigs, that makes them too rich and too proud, and then their
Fruit will be Savoury, fuch as I like i for tho I like not the Men, yet their
Money I like, and fo do all their Enemies i but to quiet the Church,
whom before he abufed, he now makes them full amends again, for
. faith he in this Page, viz. I hope for the Honour of the King, and Safety of
the Government, no Man for the futurefhall be employed, until he be firft (fted
and winnowed, and if any Grain of FaUion be found in him, he fhall be hid a-
fide: But then Sir W. What will you do, and your Addreflers ? Do yoa
nor remember. Sir W. the very day you made this learned Speech? wheiv
you and the reft of the Tribe were withdrawn out of the Court, yott
propounded, or at lead abetted, one of the greateft pieces of Faction that
ever was done in England this 20 Years, except F. H. which was, It
was urged among you Jufticcs, to Addrels His Majefty, that he would be
pleafed to keep the Duke by him at home,to join with him in theGovern-
ment, or at Icaft to aflSft him therein ? Pray Sit had you gone on in,
this Addrefs, had it not been the heighthof Fadfion and Sedition, if not
High-Treafon, in deligning to alter the Government? What, are you in
fuch hafte, that you cannot flay the time, muft Popery and Proteftantifm
be joined together in our days ? Pray Sir, will you, before your next
Speech, confider it well; and tho you abhor the Parliaments, becaufe they
would
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would have no Popifh SuccelTor, yet methinks you fhould not dig a Grave
for our King and Government,while heis alive : and what other con/lru-
dion fober thinking Men,as you call them,can make offuch Defigns,time
may (hew j but for your placing fo much upon that Text, By me Kings
Ktign^ and Princes decree Juflice I know not what you mean, unlcfs
you would by that Scripture infinuate, that becaufc there is fuch a place
of Scripture, therefore the People (Itould have no Law of the Land to
be their Standard, but the Will of the Prince to be abfolute. Lord Para-
mount, above all Laws, and no Bounds to be fet by the Law of the Land :
if fo, our Anceilors were Fools to make the Coronation Oath, and the
good Statutes, with divers others before recited. But Sir ff. all this you
do to be Great, and by this it may be you may be fo fond, as to believe
you make the King great too, tho it be the quite contrary way i nay, fiich
Men as you that take away all Law, do totally lelTen both the Prince, the
Nation, and the Government i for if the King have no better Title than
his Sword, or the Jure Vivino-^'xp you fpeak off, then Lord have Mercy on
him. For you Sir JV. by the fame Rule, tho but an Attorneys Son, ifyou
can but make your felf popular enough, and get a long Sword, cafed
with a Pretence ofa Divine Right, you may be King as well as any, only,
I think, if you Ihould do fo, and not make your Sword Ing enough,
you may chance to find, that the Jure Regnum, would fpoil your Jure
Divino.
Buttopleafe you in fomething, and not to thwart all your dark Say-
ings, fo hard to be underftood > we will for once, as you infinuate, allow
that Government is jf«re and the Ordinance of God, but the
Modes and Forms were ever yet left to Man, which in all Countries
whatfoever, have been chalked out by the People themfelves, for their
Weal and Government. And if our ancient Records may be credited,
no Nation under Heaven ever eflablifhed better Rules for Government
than this Kingdom hath done i for here, neither the Prince can by Law
hurt the People, nor the People the Prince, and the Law is the Standard
between them and the Protedlor of both: which, fure Sir fT, you ought
to have known, or at lead to have (hown us, what Text of Scripture it
is that eflabli(hethour Kings in England, and gives them Authority above
the Law i but when you have faid all, theKingfhipof England is but an
Office, and a Truft repofed in them by the Law of the Land, under your
good Favour: And they are made Kings by Humane Laws, but to whom
the Kings of are accountable, lam not to quefiion, nor do I
think it fit for you. And for your faying the King, ought not to be im-
portuned by the People, to do any thing which he knows is contrary to
his
his Duty and Truft > I fay fo too: but how this will amend the Matter,
or plead for your deligning to join fome Perfon with him, as was told
you before, I know nor, but by the Rule of Contrary, if the People
ought notto irr,portune the King, nor.he to grant what is not juft, as is
clear they ought not, then fure, both the People ought to importune the
King, and he to grant them all that is Jull and Right, and what by the
Lavv, and his Sacred Oath he is bound to do. And then Sir W, I will
take leave to tell you, and make your belt on'f, that the People ought
in this imminent time t i danger, both from your Friends the PapiOs at
home, and the dangers from abroad, to importune the King for a Par-
liament, as their Right by Law. according to the Statutes of the 3^3?.
And if you are fo confcientious a Man, and mean for the Law and right
Government of as you pretend, I do not doubt in the lead, but
you will help forward fuch a Petition i and fince the Jufiice tells us^ that
a Prince muli bejudagainlt the importuning of his Subjedsi I hope
Sir ly. you that fay fo, will not be fo unjult as not to begin fo good a
work, lince you have ever had the knack of Addrcifing.
And now we are in the flxth Page come to Sir fT's Hear-fay, that
is, The King, I have heard, vaas preyed to exclude the T>. of T. Pf'ty,
faith the Juliice, examine the Jufitce of that? can it be jufi, faith he, fopunijh
in prefenti for a Fault to be committed in future ? Divine Sir IViJliam f he
mud dill have a fling at the Parliament, it is as good Leachery to him
to fcratch there, as to be a handing Stallion in another place i well, but
this is a grand Fault of the Parliament no doubt : What, punifh a Man
before he had committed any Fault, as he tells the Grand Jury ! furely they
would not find a Bill againd any Man for a Fault that might be commit-
ted! Now obferve the cunning of this Abufe that he would (ham upon the
unthinking People, of a Wrong the Parliament was about j pray who
was, or who would have been wronged if fuch a Bill had palfed I altho
for my own part, I ever thought there were other Bills more needful.
Is it not drange the whole Nation in a Body in three feveral Parliaments,
could be fo foolilh and wicked, as not to fee the Sin and Evil of this
thing, as well as the Juftice ? and the Judice then faid nothing, nor was
ib kind to give his Advice. But the Judice will midake the Cafe, he
looks upon the Duke as in Polfeflion, and not as a Subjcdf i and he looks
upon the fingle SubjetS, this one Man, to be of more value than all the
Subjeds Good and Welfare of Englandi .and to put a blind upon the
World, topes upon us the D's divine Right to be King here over us, and
as natural for him to be our King as to do the Office of Nature. Now
l always thought the Kinglhip of England, as is before hinted, is by the
Law
Law of the Land, and no otherwife, and that every King in this King-
doiOjis, or ought to be, the Supream Magiftrate for the Peoples Good.
But if a Prince be born a Fool, an Ideot, or become a mad Man, how
can that Man be thought to reign for the Peoples Good ? No\v if luch a
thing Ihould happen, may not the King and People, then in being alto-
gether, as in all Ages they have done, chufe another more lit to govern
in that Office? is there any Injulhcein this ^ is there any more than
common Prudence ? and would they be juft to themfelves if they fhould
dootherwife ? Where is the Wrong to the mad Man ? He is bereaved of
his Senfes» muff therefore the People be fo too ? And in all Ages hath not
the Crown of Eng/a»dbeen fettled by the King and Parliament ^ and have
not Forreigners done the fame ? witnefs the Portugals^ they did not only
put by a SubejetS, not fit to reign by his Folly,but put by,and do (fill to this
day, their King, when in adfual Poffeflion, becaufe of his Infirmities other-
wife they had finned againfithe very Lawof Nature,for that teaches usfclf
Prefervation. But fo much hath been faid already by abler Heads, as to
this moft ridiculous, nonfenfical Notion, that I thought no Man preten-
ding to common Senfe, would have dared to have been fo bold as to have
mentioned fuch a thing, or to arraign the Judgment of the whole Nation.
And now after the juftice hath thus fpent the time in ranting and
beating the Air about this unjurt Defign of the Parliament s he comes in
the next place with his Thunder-bolts to affright and terrify the Parli-
amenf, and all other thinking Men, from adfing according to their own
Reafon. For in the Jth Page he tells the Jury, viz. And it could not
, be eicpeCied that the Duk^ fliould have fat ftill nnder fuch in indignity i and if
be had, the Princes of ChrijUndom, to whom he U allied, ( and to many of the
greatejl) would have takgn up the parrel, and then our Fields of Peace^ould
have been turned into Fields of Blood j fo then the Parliament 0/England, of
which the King is the Head, mufi be afraid to provide for the Safety of the Nj-
tion againft Popery and Kuine, becaufe one of the King's SubjeSs hath great
Friends ab'oad, and will fight hU parrel. Sure fhould a Phanatick have
faid but half fo much, he had been over head and ears in the Crown-
Office, and well he might i what, muff England be afraid to do right,
and upon one of her own Sub)e<Ss,becaufc of the Dukes Friends abroad ?
Certainly England was never fo low and cowardly yet, as to fear to pro-
vide for their own Safety, for fear of the Princes abroad. Pray why
did not Portugal, confider that ? and why did not the French King at firft
fend and advife with the Pope, before he caufed to be confirmed and
regiftred, as lately, a Rule for the time to come in his Dominions, that
the Clergy of France was an independent thing from that oi-Komt, and
that
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that the Pope is not infallible. Dorh the Jurtice think, that the King of
F ranee now did not run as great an ha7ard of the Pope's and other Princes
ill refenting this, as we fliould have done in England, if we in England
had fecured the Nation from a Popifh Succeflbr. And for the JuHicc
telling us, and putting us in mifld of the Blood that was fpilt between
the two Houfes of Tijr/^and Lancajler in their d /ference about the Crown,
it is a moli lirange thing that he hath no more Underdanding in him,
than to compare this of this Parliaments Actings about the Duke,
which was the fenfeof the whole Nation, with that of thofeof Tijri^and
Lancajler, when all Stories tell us that the Nation in thofe times was
divided, and it was doubtful of whofe fide the Right was, and here in
this Cafe the whole Nation, all of one fide, would have put the thing all
out of doubt by Law, to .prevent future Mifchiefs this Parliament did
intend i and fo far are thefe two Cafes different,that the Parliament fore-
feeing fuch Dangers that might arife as before, and fuch bloody times
again, that it made them go about to take all poilible care to prevent
it in time to come j and yet you Mr. Juftice, and the reft of your Abhor-
rers, are angry with them for it, tho you tell us, we roufthavea care of
fuch Times as were in thofe Days.
But now to the proper Work of the Jury i for all this while it is not
certainly known what all his former Oifcouife meant, or whcoi he dif-
courfed to, therefore now he tells you, it is to acquaint the Jury with
the Laws and Statutes of the Kingdom, and tfierein the Statute of the
I of this King i which is well done of the Juftice; And he tells you.
That that Statute provided for the Frefervation of the Kiag't Per/in and Gff-
vernment. So then, it was not made to preferve the Duke, nor to join
him in the Government, that is clear i and if fo, how fuitablc that At-
tempt was of his, for doing any fuch thing as before was hinted,ought
to be confidered. And the Juftice tells us, the Statute provides againfi
fitting up of Votes of one or both Houfes of Parliament, to he as ^eHual Of
Latv. What the Juftice means by this, unlefs, as I faid before, that he
meant the Grand-Jury fhould prefent the Parliament, is not known > for
lince the King came in, no Parliament ever offered at any fuch thing »
nor can he (hew any fuch printed Pamphlets, as he fpeaks of, walking
about our Streets, that do afTert fuch a Dodrine, unlefs by fomc of
the.Juftices contriving. Therefore he muft mean, he hates all Votes of
Parliament, and them too/ And I dare fay, he would not for a World
have any Laws repealed neither, tho never fo deftruftive to the Govern-
meat > for if he did mean otherwife, he would not quarrel with thcle
Votes, whiA lead to the tepcaling of fuch Laws as arc deftrudive to
£ common
eommon Good. In the next place, where he faith, Iky have printed
Votes to give check, to Laws : Pray what Laws doth he mean ? Or did
the Parliament ever file out of their due Bounds ? Or is he angry, be-
caufe they did repeal the Aft de Heretico comhurendo ? Or that the two
Houfes had both voted and paired the"^ill, for the Repeal of the ^<)th
of E/iss. ? Or angry with the Parliament, for voting and bringing in
Bills for the Repeal of the Laws made againft the Diffenters ? Sure
Sir W. who was fo long in the Penfionary Parliament, murtneedsknow,
that Votes as well as Debates rruH be in cither Houfe, to Ihew theii
Senfe of what is good for the Nation, and what mull be had before they
can bring it into an Aft j and will Sir IV. quarrel with them for that
too? It is really fomething hard, Six IV. that a Man of your Honour
Ihould be fo fevere upon thofe Gentlemen, as not only not to give them
a good Word behind their Backs, but to compare them to Nero, and
cntCcd Cham, that uncovered his Father's Nakednefs v which you do in
this Page, unlefsyoucan better difcover your own Sence than the Words
have (hewed. And furcly when you confider again, you will not call
k the ripping open their Mothers Bellies,(that is, the Common-Wealth,
as you call it,) for the Parliament to pafs Votes, to repeal fuch Laws-
as they think prejudicial to the Life and Prefervation of this Common-
Wealth, our Mother, as you term it.
Now for the good Counfel he gives to the Jury, and for the Clearmels
of his Hands, Uprightnefs of his Mind, being freed from ambitious
Thoughts, his not doing any thing to the Hurt and Prejudice of Gocf,
the King, or his Country, and all other his divine Infinuations, as he hi
this Page expreffes, 1 (hall wholly leave himfelf to himfelf, only defire
him to examine himfelf by what hath been afore-hinted i and if he find
Igmanm there, I (hall not be much concerned. But fince the Jufticc
warns us from the Word of God, in this page, againft Perjury and Sub-
ottiation, and pronounces the dreadful Sentence of Ite malediGi fo often
ki his Speech againft fuch, he would (methinks^ have done well the hft
Summer-Sefltons, as is before hinted, not to have hindrcd thofe Bills oV
Indiftment when brought there, being prefented and tendred.- Eut it
may be lince that he hath feen his Enor, and therefore in this Speech is
refolvcd, both for the time to come, to amend it himfelf^ and alfo en-
courage others iableiTed Reformation! if It be really fo; But If by Craft
or Dimmulation, all this be done to colour what he did before, then the
he maltdiGi he pronounces againft others, may chance to light up-
on his own Pate \ but far is the Author from wifhing fudh a f^ere Sen-
fChcc upon theNobk Jufticc, whatereihe ftefcsand clrodclHnely wiftws
againft others. And
And now after the Juftice hath read this Lednre of ChriAianity, he
comes in pag. p. to tell the Court and the jury of the Rarity and Excel-
lency of the Thing palled Grand-Jnrus, and tells them, It it the Honour
of the Government to have them. Well then, fince it is fo, and that it
cannot be denied, it is a great deal of pity, that the Juftice, and others
of his Coat, have not taken more care to preferve their Reputation, but
have fuffered not only the Gazette, but other fcandalous Libels to walk
about the Streets, and defame them, as late Times have moA notorioufly
fhown. But this (1 conceive ) came into his Head by the by, a mccr
Accident in the JuAice's Speech i for by what goes before, and what fbl-
lows, it appears plain, he did not intend them any Honour, bur only
had fome other meaning, as may be eafily diicerned, if we compare the
W hole of his Difcourfe, and what he and the reA of the JuAices did
fometimes fince at H/ciy's Halljendeavouring to curtail the Grand-Juries,
and to Arike out, and put in whom they pleafed, when there was a Job
to do, at the time when the Lord Shafttbury, Lord Howard, Mr, f^hi-
tal^, and others, were in the Tower. O then what a Speech was
made to the Undcr-Shetiff to alter his Pannel! and what Con-
fcience and Religion was prefs'd to have it done, by this very JuAice f
And if the Sheriff had yielded that Point, then the Subornation had ta-
ken effed, and the Work done upon the innocent Prifoneisin the Tower,
contr* omnet Gentet.
But becaufe Sir W. is pleafed to top upon the World with his Loyalty,
and to fhew it, pretends to extol in this Page the Happinefs of the Nati-
on, that the Kings of have by their Prerogative always had the
nominating of Sheriffs, by which the Grand Juries are returned : I (ball
aave leave a little to (peak to that Point, not that I deny it to be in
the King in fome meafure,as the Statutes have fettled it, but the JuAice
miAakes the Cafe, as will appear, if the thing be well and throughly con-
fidered, and what this JuAice aims at, ought alfo to be fully fearched in-
to: but that 1 may not feem to mifconAiue the JuAice,! (hall fet down his
Words in this Page, viz. Grand Juriei have alwayt been ejieemed the Ho'
•nouT of the Government, and the great Security of the Lives and Libertiet of
the SuhjeCit i they are to be probi & legales Homines, and fo it a Golden
chain, at well for Ornament as Security : .if they fhoutd prove otherwife, tbU
Chain of Gold would be turned into Fettert of Iron and Braft, and we fhauld be
greater Slaves here w England they are in Algier. Our Anchors btve
tak^n great Care that Grand Juries fhould be fitch as they ought to be, and as
you may fee the Statutes made in that Cafe provide, but for all that, it is
happy for the People, that the King bath the Nomination of Sherds, by whom
E 2 the
the Juries are to he returned, it is a Prerogative cf great Cnnfeejuence, and net
to be entrulicd into the hands of any Suh'j:U or Subjerrs iphatf.n'cr. Now as
to bis Comtnendation of the Conlfitution of the Government relating to
Juries, as being a facred thing, there is no douUt of that, and we hope it
will never be in his I'ower, or in the Power of any Judg, JuHicc, or
Magifiratc in England to alter that f undamcntal Corilriiii ion whi hour »
wife Aneeftors havciaid.that make us both a free and fate People 5 ter by
that means no anibitious or fexihfh Prince, tho kd awa- by (.oint-
Vlattercrs, and pernicious ounfels cm hurt theSL.b;cdt, (o powcitully
as-otherwife they might do i cv.ry Man's Life and Lffate liere by this ^
means are fafe, and cannot be touched or taken t/oin hhr., bur by he
Approbation and Confent of his f eers, and they rriu.'i be of the \ ieinage,
zwd-probi & legales Homines^ as the julficc obfervcs: but bccaidc the
Jufiice is pleafcd to exprcffe himfelf, or rather to fjaitcr the Kings of
England, that by their Prerogative they have the foie right of chufirg of
Sheriffs; And that it is the Happinefs of the Natbn that the Subjetffdo **
it not. I muff crave leave to put the |ultice in mind ot the ancient
Pradfice in that very Cafe of choice of Sheriffs, and alfo fhow that in all
probability the whole Body of the County have been as fit to fee and chii'e
who is fit to ferve the County in the Office of fheriff^,,as Kings, who do
but fee often times with other Mens Eyes,and hear with other Mens Ears y
and often times led by the Nofe of fome Perfons about them, as either. ^
work their own Ends, or the Ends and Intcrell of their Friends, and not
the Countries Good For who knows not, but that the old faying is-
true in Princes Courts, Kijftng goes by Favour. But to- anfwer the.
Jufiice, I do fay, and aver from ancient Records, the Peo: Je ofihe feve- '
ral Shires in E;^/Whad the foIe right of chuling their Sheriffs without
the King's Appointment, Confent, or Nomination, and that was tl e
Law of the Land » and if it be not now fo, yet it is but fome late Sta-
tutes that have abridged the Counties of their Choice. And to fiiew
that I do notmifiake the Point, I have inferred a .new Copy of the Re-
cord which is by me i and that is, a Statute made inthe Confirmation
of Ancient Right too in the Roll of Parliament, made it IVcjiminiier \n
the 28 E. l.Mp. 8. The Title of the Sutute is this Idee Inhabitants-
of every County /hall mtk,e Choice cf their Sherifs, being not of Fee, the
Rot. %. granted unto his People, that they (hall
*8. E. I. have the Elellhn of their Sherifs in every Shire ndsere the Sher^alty is not
of Fee, if th^ lifl. To this Statute agree our Law-Books: See Cook's In-
fiitutesi and this Statute in the fame Roll, Chapter is againconnr-
the Statute begins thus, viz. And for at.tstttch as
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thi King hath granted the Elt&ion of- Sheriffs to the Commons of the Shire >
the King will thst theyjhall chufi fuch Sheriffs that (hsll not charge t hem,
and that theyfhjll not put any Officers in Authority ffr'Rewards or Bribes, and
fusb as Jhall not lodg fo o ft in one place, nor with poor Pcrfons, or Men of
Religi n. Indeed sitcr this in Edward t'lc fecond's firpc, Power was
given at 'he Coir.pliint of the Con mons in Parliament, That the Chan-
cellor. Trcafurer, Barons of. the Ex h':qucr (boiiid appoint the Sheriffs
ot each Cou ty.s and hnvv far fhiS iait abrogates the former Statutes
1 mult Ica.ve to the judicious Riadcr. But cxccpr the JuliLc can fhcw
me fome other Stature, I cannot fee how he can make good his Affertion
of the Right to be in the Kings of England by their Prerogative to chufe
Sheriffs, no more than he can make good his own infallibility ; And why
he ih.iuld (f ri fuch a Point with fo little ground, 1 cannot imagine, unlefs
he was lefolved to put on a Janus Face, and. intended to row one way
when he bioktd atKifher.
And now for. this Gentleman tp pretend to exalt the Prerogative,, and
to cry out for that, as he doth, and yet at the fatne time lay f) many
falfe Surmifes,,is Ifrange. Bull conceive his Delign is todeffroytha
Law and the Government i or, when he fpeaks of the Prerogative fn
gcneial, he intends fome for himfelfi but if he fhould, that cannot be
altogether drange neither, fince we know.very well b )thnow :and hcrc-«
tofore,. evcn in all Ages, N4en that are fet upon their own Luffs and
Pleasures, have been crying up the King's Pr rogative, and'damning
the Law, only, that, thereby they might, under Monarchy, exercife a-
greater Prerogative over.their Feilow-Subjeds, without any Account to
be given to the Law, than the true King doth over hisSubjedts ; for it
oftentimes happens, that Perfons in great Command and Aufhorityun-
der the King, do more cnflave the People than the Kiog.evet meant oc>
intended, and hide, all from the King with this Cheat, that they.are.
Loyal i and whoever is not contented with his domineering, is repre-:
fented to the King by that Flatterer, as the King's great Enemy. . And
fo Kings oft-times both live and die. blindfold, never fefing or hearing,
any Thing, much lefs any Complaints, but what the 0.f preffor pleafess..
And that undoubtedly muff not be much ", for it muff be .the Courtier's-
Policy, that hath once dipped hirnfelf in Roguery, both to hide it him-.-
felf, and endeavour to prevent all Perfons elfe from difctivcringif,. Andu
this is the true and only Reafon why thefe Loyal Boys hate and cry^
down Parliaments j for if they once come, the Court-Knaves ate uprr
done^ eveiy thingthen being brought to the Light, and it. may be,
King undeceivedj and thde Mifcieants pvini£hed«-
'But to wind up all, now your Hand is in for Abhortrences, go
through-ftitch, fet an Abhorrence on Foot for the abhorring of Pailia-
mentstoo, and doubt not but among your Adherers the Projeift will
take, and then you and they are fafe, without the Devil ftiould cheat
you, and a Parliament come when you leali think on't > but do not let
him cheat you into the belief that there will be no more.: you know the
Law faith, we ought to have it, and the King^ath faid,we ikall havePar-
liaments, and that he will govern according to Law > and remember, if
it fliould be yet feven Years time before it come,yet it may come too foon
for your ftore.
I have but one Word more to the Jufticcs, your AlTopiates, who bring
upthe Rear of your Speech, they being elevated, and wrapp'd up as it
were in the third Heaven, thought it not enough for ihemielves to be
happy, with the hearing of this profound Difcourfe, but (out of their
good Nature>were defirous to communicate it to the World« and tho it
be foitiething ftrange,that Charges to Grand Juries,(hould be publilhcd in
Print,as they feem to allow,when they fay the reafon why 'twas publifh'd.
Was to prevent Mifreprefentation, which they had obferved already from
Jsntway's Paper > yet it was pltty fuch a Di^ourfe ihould be hid in that
Grand jury's Brealf, to whom it was fpoken, and therefore the Jullices
order the Printing thereof. And who is to draw up the Order, but their
wife Clerk of the Peace, who undoubtedly did it,and it may^afily be pro-
•ved to4)ehisown, not only from his putting his Name to it, but from
its rd^bling his former Draught, and Orders about the Confhibles to
(urn Informers againft Conventicles. The Order begins thus, viz.
Ordered by thisCoUrt, That the Charge given in Seffions by SirW. S. he
Trinted^and that the T^hankr of thU Bench be given to Sir W.S. for, his prudent
Cdrt and conjiant Endeavour in the management of Affairs, for the prejervation
of the pnUkk^feace^ and his Mffflies Government. And this Court doth de-^
clare,they tpiO adhere to Sir W. S- and fland by him.
Well, beitfo, that the Thanks be given for his prudent Management,
and hiseonliant Care for the publick Peace, and His Ma jellies Govern-
ment' But now, how if Sir IF. Ihould die, or be put out of Commit
fion, which Way then mUfl His Majelties Government be prcferued ?
truly by this Order it feems as if the very Government would be in dan-
ger, if not utterly loll now. How the prcfervation of His Majefties Go-
vernttient is upheld, ot can be upheld by this lingle Juflice alone, feetns
ntangc, for they feem to put it, as if by his prurient Management of
Affairs, the Government was Upheld i if fo, 1 hope His Majefly will ne-
ver part with this J^night, for fear df the wotfl. Well, -but bow .comes
is
it to pafs, that all the reft of the Juftices that admire him, have not done
the fame ? what do they caft all the whole burden of the Peace and Go-
vernment, upon one poor Knight's Shoulders, and he but a thin Man
neither ? for Shame to themfelves, they ftiould not have attributed all to
him: but this (hews them as infufficient Men, as well as good natur'd to
Sir ff. But by their next Words, viz. And this Court dotb declaretbty mil
adhere to Sir W.S. and Handhybim^Scc. If Livesand Fortunes had been put
too, then there had been ground for the Whigs to abhorr'd too. What
will the Jijllices fet up Sir to any thing like Royal Majefty, or to be
chief of the Government, that thefe Gentlemen, called Juftices, will both
adhere to him, and ftand by him ? What can they mean, but to devote
themfelves to his Service, infteadof the Kings ? and what can they mean
by their ftanding by him, but in a Warlike Pofture to defend him, when
he (hall corr.mind their Service ? nor can any rational Man put any other-
conftrutSion on the Words. And fince that is the conftruAion, what is
this but an A0bciation of the Juftices to fet up Sir inftead of the Go-
vernment, or at leaft to be one of the chief in it ? And when they have
brought their Ends about, that Sit is to be exalted,, then I doubt not
but their Clerk, Mr. Addtrly, (hall be Secretary to that great Hetoe,
where wcleave them to carefs themfelves within their ownShadow%
until another ht opportunity.
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