Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	law_n	prerogative_n	3,673	5	10.4433	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60055	A short answer to a malicious pamphlet called, A reply written by John Gadbury, the King of England's juggler, and astrologer in ordinary to the Pope, to help on the work.	Partridge, John, 1644-1715.	1680 (1680)	Wing S3559; ESTC R39538	24,418	26

They have not only shewed how willing they are to have Popery introduced but also their readiness to assist in that work as may be seen by their Carriage at Oxford where they may shortly hear of a piece of Burglary by them committed at Maudlin College and other kind of Violences without any pretence of Law unless it were that of the Ecclesiastical Commission which at the best can be but an Abortive sprung out of the ruins of Star Chamber Tyranny Which was long since declared to be against Law and an Oppression to the Subject Fourthly In the West in 1685 when the Prisoners were brought before them to be tryed they compelled them to plead guilty right or wrong or else they threatned to hang them up presently such a piece of Barbarity that all the Histories of England can give no parallel of it To hang men immediately unless they would confess themselves guilty of such Crimes that under the pretence of Law they might hang them a day or two afterward and this divers persons were forced to do that were innocent and yet they were hanged for all that So that after this method they destroyed more men in a fortnight or three weeks than Tresilian and all the rest of those kind of Rogues did in two hundred years before without the least remorse or extension of the dispensing power this impertinent Fellow so idlely and so knavishly pleads for By which I apprehend that he would have it allowed for no other end but to protect and maintain such Creatures as he and they are that for Lucre and Malice will undertake any thing they are put upon and then they are sure to be safe in their Villany But observe my Friend John chargeth Tresilian with cruelty for inditing 2000. persons at Coventry which was indeed a great piece of Villany but alas that was nothing to these Judges for he did but pick their pockets of a little Mony but these Villains murdered the men and pickt their pockets too So that Jeffry's need not doubt but History will record him for a famous Fellow and the rather because he hath out-done Tresilian And yet this man Gadbury their Advocate asketh with whom they have conspired what Countries they have injured what single person they have oppressed and wherein they have given the Council of Tresilian and then bids me speak if I can Now Sir I have spoke and so much truth too that all your shams will never be able to gain-say to clear your villanous Clients But the Fellow says That they all most happily draw in a Yoke together for the good of the King and by the Grace of God they may all live to be drawn together and yoked for the good of the Nation And then they 'll think him their best Friend that can separate one or more of their necks from the Yoke and also find the Effects of declaring a power in the King to dispense with all Law and a good pair of heels will be then of more service to them than all the Arguments that can be raised to justifie their Treasons either by themselves the Popish Priests or their great Advocate Jack Gadbury and so I will present them with a New-years Gift DIgnify'd things may I your leave implore To kiss your hands and your great Heads adore Judges you are but you are something more May I draw near and with a rough hewd pen Give a small draught of you the worst of men All of your merit and your mighty skill And how your Charms all Courts of Justice fill Your Law 's far stronger than the Common Votes And finely flows through your dispensing Throats What Rome will ask you must her not deny If Hell commands you too you will comply There 's none but you would in this Cause combine Things made like Men but act like Bruits and Swine Law-books are trash A Student he 's a Drudge Learn to say yes he 's the accomplisht Judge He wins the Scarlet Robe and wears it too Ay and deserves it well for more 's his due All that compleats a Traytor dwells in you Thus you like Villains to the Benches get And in defiance to the Law you sit And all base Actions that will please commit There must you toil for Rome and also try Your Irish Sence and Cobweb Policy Compleat your Crimes and then you 're fit to dye True Loyal Babes Pimps to the Church of Rome Tresillians Heirs Heirs to his Crimes and Doom Was e'er that Hall fill'd up with such a brood All dipt in Treason Villany and Blood Worse than Fanatick Priests for they being prest By a wise Prince preacht to Repeal the Test Then here 's the difference 'twixt your Popish Tools You 're downright Rogues they only Knaves and Fools Deus dabit his quoque funem Page the 10th Since the King could dispense with the Test c. Here my Adversary makes a long Harangue about the dispensing power lodged in the King which was never questioned as ever I heard especially in that part which concerns himself in particular For example In the case of Murder the King can pardon the Injury done to him in the loss of a Subject but he cannot wholly indemnifie the Malefactor from the rigor of the Law. As you may see in the Case of Appeal which hath hanged those that the King hath pardoned So in the case of Treason he can pardon that part of it which is against Him but all Treason is against the Subjects as well as the King and by my Adversaries leave that is out of the King's power to pardon tho e says many have experienced it but I know none except Papists Priests and Jesuits but for Protestants he can name few or none and them that have bought it with their penny as cheap as they could get it of some Miss or other Favorite But suppose this were granted which he pleads for what would he then make of it doth that part of the Prerogative also impower the King to dispense with those Laws made by the three Estates for the security of the Kingdom and Religion Certainly no. For when the Consent of the three Estates is passed into an Act every individual Man as a Subject is bound to keep and obey it and the King to see it executed And there is no Dispensing nor Repealing that Act but by the consent of the three Estates that made it And this the Papists well know which makes them try so many tricks to pack a Parliament to have it done And notwithstanding the Judges have given their Opinions that the King may dispense with the Test and other Laws also in any Case where he thinks fit Yet the Court the Priests and the more knowing sort of Papists are not you see satisfied with that but are still using their utmost endeavours to have it done by a form of Law from whence the Reader may observe two things First that whosoever takes any place of Trust c. contrary