Assent and Consent to the use of all things contained and prescribed in the Book of common-Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England or have not subscribed the Declaration or Acknowledgment contained in a certain Act of Parliament made in the 14 Year of His Majesties Reign and Intituled An Act for the Vniformity of publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for the establishing the Form of making ordaining and consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England according to the said Act or any other subsequent Act And whereas they or some of them and diverse other person and persons not ordained according to the Form of the Church of England and as have since the Act of Oblivion taked upon them to preach in unlawful Assemblies Conventicles or Meetings under colour or pretence of Exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom have setled themselves in divers Corporations in England sometimes three or more of them in a place thereby taking an opportunity to distil the poisonous Principles of Schism and Rebellion into the hearts of His Majesties Subjects to the great danger of the Church and Kingdom II. Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said Parsons Vicars Curates Lecturers and other persons in Holy Orders or pretended Holy Orders or pretending to Holy Orders and all Stipendiaries or other persons who have been possessed of any Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Promotion and every of them who have not declared their unfeigned Assent and Consent as aforesaid and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid and shall not take and subcribe the Oath following I A. B. do swear That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous position of taking Arms by his Authority against his Person or against those that are commissioned by him in pursuance of such Commissions and that I will not at any time endeavour any Alteration of Government either in Church or State III. And all such person and persons as shall take upon them to preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Meeting under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom 2. shall not at any time from and after the 24th day of March which shall be in this present year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and five unless only in passing upon the Road come or be within five Miles of any City or Town Corporate or Burrough that sends Burgesses to the Parliament within His Majesties Kingdom of England Principality of Wales or of the Town of Berwick upon Tweed 3 or within five Miles of any parish Town or place wherein he or they have since the Act of Oblivion been Parson Vicar Curate Stipendiary or Lecturer or taken upon them to preach in any unlawful Assembly Conventicle or Meeting under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom 4 Before he or they have taken and subscribed the Oath aforesaid before the Justices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions to be holden for County Riding or Division next unto the said Corporation City or Burrough Parish place or Town in open Court which said Oath the said Justices are hereby impowered there to administer 5 Upon forfeiture for every such Offence the sum of Forty pounds of lawful English Money the one third part thereof to His Majesty and His Successors the other third part to the use of the poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be committed and the other third part thereof to such person or persons as shall or will sue for the same by Action of Debt Plaint Bill or Information in any Court of Record at Westminster or before any Justices of Assize Oyer and Terminer or Gaol-delivery or before any Justices of the Counties Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or the Justices of the great Sessions in Wales or before any Justices of Peace in their Quarter Sessions wherein no Essoin Protection or wager of Law shall be allowed IV. Provided always and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons restrained from coming to any City Town Corporate Burrough Parish Town or place as aforesaid or for any other Person or Persons as shall not first take and subscribe the aforesaid Oath and as shall not frequent Divine Service established by the Laws of this Kingdom and carry him or her self reverently decently and orderly there to teach any publick or private School or take any Boarders or Tablers that are taught or instructed by him or her self or any other upon pain for every such Offence to forfeit the sum of Forty pounds to be recovered and distributed as aforesaid V. Provided also and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it shall be lawful for any two Justices of the Peace of the respective County upon Oath to them of any Offence against this Act which Oath they are hereby impowered to administer to commit the Offender for six Months without Bail or Mainprise unless upon or before such Commitment he shall before the said Justices of the Peace swear and subscribe the aforesaid Oath and Declaration VI. Provided always that if any person intended to be restrained by vertue of this Act shall without fraud or Covin be served with any Writ Sub-poena Warranr or other Process whereby his personal appearance is required his Obedience to such Writ Sub-poena or Process shall not be construed an Offence against this Act. Note That as to the Penalty of Forty Pound the party must be tried at the Assises or Sessions before it is forfeited But any two Justices of Peace may commit for six Months unless before them he 'l swear and subscribe the Oath in this Declaration specified the Assent and Consent and the Declaration therein referr'd unto which if he do he puts himself out of their power Now the Assent and Consent he has spoke of is appointed by the Stat. 13 and 14. of Car. 2di chap. 4. as follows I A. B. do here declare my unfeigned Assent Consent to all every thing contained prescribed in by the Book intituled the Book of common Prayer Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form and manner of making ordaining and consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons The Declaration is by the Act last mentioned as
said Courts are to make out process for Levying the Twelve pences which shall be Levied by the Church-Wardens for the use of the poor However there being 52 Sundaies and 29 Holy-daies appointed by our Liturgy to be observed in the year the Constant charge by this statute for not coming to Church would be but 4l 1s p. An. And yet by the way Note That We have more Holy-daies or Feasts to be observed since his Majesties Restauration than ever the Church of England owned before For there were antiently but 27. But upon the Review of the Book of Common prayer my Lords the Bishops were pleased to add 2 New ones viz. The Conversion of St. Paul and St. Barnabas and whereas in our old Common-prayer-Books 't is said The Feast of St. Michael the Arch-Angel in our present Books 't is St. Michael and all Angels Which seems an Affront to S. Michael at once to leave out his Title of Arch-Angel and at the same time bring in all other Angels as well of the lower as Higher Hierarchies to share with him in a Festival the Honour of which he had enjoyed so long solely and Intire to himself but this by the by So that upon the whole matter If any body should be busy to Execute this Act upon the Protestant dissenters from the Established Church of England yet considering the trouble of such a Conviction and the difficulty of proving a Negative viz. that a man was not at Church for note the words are shall repair to his own Parish Church or to some usual place where Common Prayer shall be used So that if he were at Mr. Read's Meeting-House I Conceive he were safe from this Act. All this I say Considered the Labour would be more than the trouble therefore let 's proceed 2. The second Act of this kind is 23 Eliz. Cap. 1. Intituled An Act to Retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience And by this to Reconcile any or for any to be Reconciled to the See of Rome To with-draw or be with-drawn from the Establisht Religion to the Romish Religion Is made High-Treason And that every one saying Mass shall forfeit 200 Marks and every one that hears it 100 Marks And every one above 16. years old not repairing to some Church or Chappel but forbearing the same contrary to the said Stat. 1. Eliz. C. 2. shall being lawfully Convicted forfeit 20 l. for every month And the Justices at the Quarter Sessions are Impowered to Inquire into the Offences against this Act Except Treason And if any Indicted hereupon Except for Treason will submit in open Court and conform before Judgment given he shall be discharged Now that this Statute was expressly and wholly made against the Papists is evident by the whole Scope thereof as punishing saying of Mass drawing the Queens Subjects to Popery c. More especially by its preamble which alwaies opens and declares the Scope of a Law whereas since the Statutes made in the 13. year of the Reign of the Queen our Soveraign Lady Intituled An Act against the bringing in and putting in Execution of Bulls Writings Instruments and other Superstitious things from the See of Rome divers ill affected Persons have practised by other means than by Bulls or Instruments Written or Printed to with-draw Her Majesties Subjects to obey the said usurped Authority of Rome and IN RESPECT OF THE SAME pray mark to perswade great numbers to with-draw their due Obedience from Her Majesties Laws establisht for the due service of Almighty God For Reformation WHEREOF be it Enacted viz. That to with-draw to the Church of Rome shall be Treason and not coming to Church shall forfeit 20 l. p. month Nothing can be more plain than that this Levelled wholly against the Papists and cannot at all affect dissenting Protestants 3. The Statute of 29. Eliz. Cap. 6. Is only a Reinforcement of the last Act and therefore must be only intended of the same Persons viz. Popish Recusants For as yet there were no other whose Penalties this Statute Encreases for not coming to Church For where is by the former Statute of 23d it was to be only 20 l. p. month and bound to the good Behaviour after Conviction This gives to the Queen Her Heirs a Right to 20 l. p. month for every month after such Conviction till they came to Church And if default be made of payment of the 20 l. a month then to seize all their Goods and 2 parts of their Real Estate 〈…〉 But this is still concerning Popish Recusants for it respects the same that were Offenders against the Statute of the 23. And they were only Papists Therefore 't is absurd and unjust to turn the Edge on 't upon Protestants 4. We come now to the Statute of 1. Jac. Ca. 4. which confirms all the former Statutes made against Popish Recusants in the Queens time But provides for their being discharged tho Convicted upon their coming to Church And that it means and intends none but Jesuits and Popish Priests and other Popish Recusants appears manifestly not only in the Title but in the first Section of the Act it self and so throughout The Title is An Act for the due Execution of the Statutes against Jesuites Seminary Priests Recusants the 2 former words including the Romish Clergy the latter the Laiety c. and begins thus For the better and more due Execution of the Statutes heretofore made Against whom as well against Jesuites Seminary Priests and other SUCH-LIKE Priests That is other Popish Priests tho not bred up in the Serminaries as also against all manner of Recusants That is Papists tho not in Orders Be it Enacted c. That all every the Statutes heretofore made against Jesuites seminary Priests and other Priests Deacons and Religions and Ecclesiastical Persons whatsoever made ordained or professed or to be made by any Authority or Jurisdiction derived Challenged or pretended from the See of Rome together with all those made against any manner of Recusants That is Papists still but Lay men not in Orders nor professed of any Order of Monks or Friars as those before mentioned were shall be put in due and Exact Execution Nothing can be more absurd than to rack force this Law so far besides its Scope as to make use of it against Protestants agreeing with the Church of England in all the Doctrines and only differing in a few Indifferent Ceremonies When it most manifestly appears intended only against Jesuits Romish Priests and other Papists 5. And now was discovered the Hellish Powder-Plot of the Papists which occasioned the making of the Statute 3 Jac. Ca. 4. Intituled An Act for discovering and Repressing Popish Recusants So that both the occasion and the very Title shews evidently against whom this Act is designed which also appears further in the preamble the whole purport of this Act all along being only to Reinforce the rest of the Acts against Popish Recusants and for that as
be Indicted for Burglary 7. There is no power given to break Doors for Levying the Penalties therefore let the Constables and Officers be wary what they do in that Case 8. Constables would do well to know and assert the Dignity of their Office they are not to run up and down like Lacquies after the Capricio's of every Justice and spend the Lords day Prophanely in hunting after Meetings if the Justices are upon sufficient Oath Inform'd of a Meeting and will make out a Warrant specifying where it is you 'l goe but to ramble about with them from this place to that you are not obliged no more are you to seize or Imprison persons on the verbal Command of any Justice unless in visible Breach of the Peace but you must have a Warrant specifying the persons Name and Offence before you can lay hold of him or else you may repent it when sued another day for false Imprisonment 9. Since by the Statute of the 29 of Car. 2d. Cap. 7. It is Enacted in these words Provided also that no Person or Persons upon the Lords day shall serve or Execute or cause to be served or Executed any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree except in cases of Treason Felony or Breach of the Peace but that the service of every such Writ Process Warrant c. shall be void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever and the Person or Persons so Serving or Executing the same shall be as liable to the suit of the party grieved and answer Damages to him for doing thereof as if he or they had done the same without any Writ Process Warrant Order Judgment or Decree at all It will concern all Constables and Officers to consider with what safety they can execute any such Warrants at all on the Lords day on peaceable Meetings it being evident that every man they disturb by Colour of such Warrant on that day has by this Statute a good Action against them And so much for Laws against Dissenters In the next place according to our Promise we shall here add an Abstract of the Laws against Popery and Papists and perhaps as 't is said where there are most Laws there are most Offences so here we may say though there be such abundance of Acts of such severe and various Penalties yet there are scarce any sort of Criminals more rarely brought to Conviction or Punishment THE second Refusal of the Oath of Supremacy punisht as High Treason 5 Eliz. 1. To maintain or Extol Authority of the Sea of Rome the second time High Treason 5 Eliz. 1. To obtain or put in Use any Bull from Rome High Treason 13 Eliz. 2. To perswade or Reconcile OR TO BE RECONCILED to the Roman Religion High Treason 23 Eliz. 1. 3 Jac. 4. For Jesuite or Priest made by Authority from the Pope to come into or remain in the Kings Dominions High Treason 27 Eliz. 2. So for remaining in a Seminary six Months after Proclamation and afterward Returning High Treason 27 Eliz. 2. For Concealing of a Bull or other Instrument from Rome or reconciliation offer'd Punisht as Misprision of Treason 13 Eliz. 2. To maintain or conceal those who perswade or are Reconciled to the Roman Religion Misprision of Treason 23 Eliz. 1. To Receive Relieve Comfort Jesuit or Priest knowing him to be such Punisht as Felony 27 Eliz. 2. To go and serve a Foreign Prince having not before taken the Oath of Allegiance and entred Bond not to be Reconciled to the Roman Religion Felony 3 Jac. 4. The first Refusal of the Oath of Supremacy is Punisht as in Case of a Premunire which imports a forfeiture of all Lands and Goods Imprisonment for Life and a Deprivement of the Benefit of Law 5 Eliz. 1. To set forth or defend Power Spiritual in the Sea of Rome Premunire 5 Eliz. 1. To Bring or Receive any Agnus Dei Crosses Pictures or such like from Rome Premunire 13 Eliz. 2. 23 Eliz. 1. To aid any Person who hath put in Use any Bull from the Sea of Rome Premunire 13 Eliz. 2. 23 Eliz. 1. To send or give Relief to any continuing in Colledges or Seminaries beyond Sea Premunire 27 Eliz. 2. Refusal of the Oath of Allegiance upon the second Tender Premunire 3 Jac. 4. 7 Jac. 6. For not Discovering of Priests made beyond the Seas Imprisonment 27 Eliz. 2. Upon Indictment of Recusancy by Proclamation Imprisonment 29 Eliz. 6. Those that are not able or fail to pay their Forfeitures are to be Imprisoned until Payment or Conformity 23 Eliz. 1. Women Covert Imprisoned for Refusal of the Oath of Allegiance 3 Jac. 4. For non-Payment of twelve pence for every Sunday Imprisonment 3 Jac. 4. Women Covert Convicted for Recusancy Imprisoned till her Husband pay ten Pounds a Month or a third part of his Lands 7 Jac. 6. Standing Excommunicated for Recusancy House may be broken up for his Apprehension 7 Jac. 6. Those who shall forbear to come to Church by the space of twelve Months bound to good Behaviour with Surety in the Kings-Bench 23 Eliz. 1. Every Recusant is Confin'd to five Miles Compass for Life 23 Eliz. 2. To ten Miles distant from London 3 Jac. 5. Not to come into the House where the King or his Heir Apparent is 3 Jac. 5. For absence from Church-Service every Sunday twelve pence forfeited 1 Eliz. 2. And for every Holiday twelve pence forfeited 3 Jac. 4. For absence from Common prayer every Month twenty Pounds forfeited 23 Eliz. 1. 3 Jac. 4. For default of payment of twenty Pounds a Month all Goods two parts of Land and Leases forfeited 29 Eliz. 6. 3 Jac. 4. At the Kings Election to take or refuse twenty Pounds a Month or to take two parts of the Recusants Estate 3 Jac. 4. All Copy-hold Lands of Recusants forfeited 25 Eliz. 2. The Forfeitures of the Ancestor charged upon his Heir being a Recusant 1 Jac. 4. A Recusant forfeits for not Receiving the Sacrament according to the Service Book the first year twenty Pounds the second year forty Pounds the third year and every year after sixty Pounds 3 Jac. 4. To the Presenter out of the Recusants Goods forty Shillings forfeited 3 Jac. 4. For every Recusant sojourner and Servant ten Pounds for every Month forfeited 3 Jac. 4. Two parts of Dower or Joynture of a Married Woman forfeited 3 Jac. 5. Coming to Court an hundred Pounds forfeited 3 Jac. 5. For not Baptizing of Children according to the service-Service-Book publickly within a Month after their Birth an hundred Pound forfeited 3 Jac. 5. For Marrying otherwise than by a Minister an hundred Pounds forfeited 3 Jac. 5. For Burying out of the Church or Church-yard an hundred Pounds forfeited 3 Jac. 5. For sending Children beyond Seas without License an hundred Pounds forfeited 1 Jac. 4. For maintaining a School-master not going to Church or allowed to teach for every Month ten Pounds forfeited 23 Eliz. 1. 29 Eliz. 6. And forty Shillings per
what they Swear or if we do not find as the Judge directs we may come into trouble the Judge may Fine us c. I Answer this is a vain fear No Judge dare offer any such thing you are the proper Judges of the matters before you and your Souls are at stake you ought to Act freely and are not bound though the Court demand it to give the Reasons why you bring it in thus or thus for you of the Grand-Jury are sworn to the Contrary viz. To keep secret your fellows Counsel and your own and you of the Petty Jury are no way obliged to declare your motives it may not be convenient T is a notable Case before the Chief Justice Anderson in Q. Eliz. daves A Man was Arraigned for murder the Evidence was so strong that 11. of the Jury were presently for finding him Guilty the 12th man refused and kept them so long that they were ready to starve and at last made them comply with him and bring in the Prisoner not Guilty The Judge who had several times admonisht this Jury-man to join with his Fellows being surprized sent for him discoursed him privately to whom upon promise of Indempnity he at last own'd that he himself was the man that did the Murder and the Prisoner was Innocent and that he was resolv'd not to adde Perjury and a second Murder to the first But to satisfie you that a Jury is no way punishable for going according to their Conscience though against seeming Evidence and the Reasons why they are and ought not to be question'd for the same I shall here Recite an Adjudged Case that of Bushel in the two and twentieth year of His Majesty Reported by the Learned Sir John Vaughan whose Book is Licensed by the present Lord Chancellor the Lord Chief Justice North and all the Judges then in England the said Case begins fol. 135. and continues 150. The whole well worth Reading but I shall only Select Certain Passages The Case was this BUshel and others of a Jury having at a Sessions not found Pen and Mead Two Quakers Guilty of a Trespass Contempt Vnlawful Assembly and Tumult whereof they had been Indicted were fined forty pound a man and Committed till they should pay it Bushel brings his Habeas Corpus and upon the Return it appeared he was Committed For that contrary to Law and against full and Clear Evidence openly given in Court and against the Directions of the Court in matter of Law they had Acquitted the said W. P. and W. M. to the great Obstruction of Justice c. Which upon solemn Argument was by the Judges Resolved to be an Insufficient Cause of fining and committing them and they were discharged and afterwards brought Actions for their Dammage The Reasons of which Judgment are reported by Judge Vaughan and amongst them he Useth these that follow which I shall give you in his own words Fol. 140. One fault in the Return is That the Jurors are not said to have Acquitted the persons Indicted against full and manifest Evidence Corruptly and Knowing the said Evidence to be full and manifest against the Persons Indicted For how manifest soever the Evidence was if it were not manifest to them and that they Believed it such it was not a Finable fault nor Deserving Imprisonment Vpon which Difference the Law of punishing Jurors for false Verdicts principally Depends And Fol. 141. I would know whether any thing be more Common than for two men Students Barristers or Judges to deduce Contrary and opposite Conclusions out of the same Case in Law And is there any Difference that two men should Infer distinct Conclusions from the same Testimony is any thing more known than that the same Author and place in that Author is forceably urg'd to maintain contrary Conclusions and the Decision hard which is in the Right is any thing more frequent in the controversies of Religion than to press the same Texts for Opposite Tenets How then comes it to pass that two persons may not apprehend with Reason and Honesty what a Witness or many say to prove in the Vnderstanding of one plainly one thing but in the Apprehension of the other clearly the contrary thing must therefore one of these Merit Fine and Imprisonment because he doth that which he cannot otherwise do preserving his Oath and Integrity And this is often the Case of the Judge and the Jury And Fol. 142. I conclude therefore That this Return charging the Prisoners to have Acquitted P. and M. against full and manifest Evidence first and next without saying that they did know and Believe that Evidence to be full and Manifest against the Indicted persons is no Cause of Fine and Imprisonment In the Margent of that Fol. 142. it is thus Noted Of this Mind were ten Judges of Eleven the Chief Baron Turner gave no Opinion because not at the Argument And in the same fol. 142. he saith The Verdict of a Jury and Evidence of a Witness are very Different things in the Truth and Falshood of them a Witness swears but to what he hath heard or seen generally or more largely to what hath fallen under his Senses But a Jury-man swears to what he can Inferr and conclude from the Testimony of such Witnesses by the Act and force of his Understanding to be the Fact Inquired after which differs nothing in Reason though much in the Punishment from what a Judge out of Various Cases consider'd by him Infers to be the Law in the question before him If the meaning of these Words finding against the Direction of the Court in matter of Law be That if the Judge having heard the Evidence given in Court for he knows no other shall tell the Jury upon this Evidence the Law is for the Plaintiff or for the Defendant and you are under the pain of Fine and Imprisonment to find accordingly and the Jury ought of duty so to do then every man sees that the Jury is but a troublesome delay great Charge and no use in determining Right and Wrong and therefore the Tryals by them may be better Abolished than continued which were a strange new found Conclusion after a Tryal so Celebrated for many hundred Years It is true if the Jury were to have no other Evidence for the Fact but what is Deposed in Court the Judge might know their Evidence and the Fact from it equally as they and so direct what the Law were in the Case though even then the Judge and Jury might honestly differ in the Result from the Evidence as well as two Judges may which often happens but the Evidence which the Jury have of the Fact is much otherwise than that For 1. Being Returned of the Vicinage where the Cause of Action ariseth the Law supposeth them thence to have sufficient Knowledge to Try the matter in Issue and so they must though no Evidence were given on either side in Court but to this Evidence the Judge is a stranger 2. They may have Evidence from their own Personal Knowledge by which they may be assured and sometimes are that what is deposed in Court is absolutely false but to this the Judge is a stranger and he knows no more of the Fact than he hath Learned in Court and perhaps by false Depositions and consequently knows nothing 3. The Jury may know the Witnesses to be Stigmatized and Infamous which may be unknown to the parties and consequently to the Court. Fol. 148. To what end is the Jury to be Returned out of the Vicinage where the Cause of Action ariseth to what end must Hundredors be of the Jury whom the Law supposeth to have nearer knowledge of the Fact than those of the Vicinage in General to what end are they Challenged so scrupulously to the Array and Poll to what end must they have such a certain Free-hold and be Probi Legales homines and not of Affinity with the party concern'd to what end must they have in many Cases the View for Exacter Information chiefly to what end must they undergo the Punishment of the Villanous Judgment if after all this they Implicitly must give a Verdict by the Dictates and Authority of another Man under Pains of Fines and Imprisonment when Sworn to do it according to the best of their own Knowledge A man cannot see by anothers Eye nor hear by anothers Ear no more can a man conclude or Infer the thing to be Resolved by anothers Vnderstanding or Reasoning and though the Verdict be right the Jury give yet they being not assured that it is so from their own Vnderstanding are Forsworn at least in foro Conscientiae Fol. 149. And it is Absurd to Fine a Jury for finding against their Evidence when the Judge knows but part of it for the better and greater part of the Evidence may be wholly unknown to him and this may happen in most Cases and often doth Thus far Judge Vaughan whose words I have faithfully Recited and with it shall conclude this Subject Recommending those that would be further satisfied in the Law touching the Power and Duty of Juries to those two Excellent Learned Treatises lately published the one Intituled A Guide to English Juries c. to be Sold by Mr. Cockeril at the Three Legs over against the Stocks-Market the other The Security of English-mens Lives or the Trust Power and Duty of the Grand Juries of England Printed for Benj. Alsop in the Poultrey both which are extreamly well worthy of every English mans Perusal that is liable to be call'd to that Office And now I shall take Leave of the Reader who I hope will join with me and all English Protestants in this Prayer THat Almighty God would preserve our Religion put a stop to the Growth of Popery Confound all their Plots Protect our present Gracious King Defend us both from a Forreign Yoak and Domestick Slavery but continue to us the Enjoyment of our good old Laws Liberties and Priviledges and bring all those to exemplary Justice that have or shall dare attempt to Subvert Diminish or Vndermine them Amen FINIS 1 See Book of Oaths p. 1. 3. 2 Bakers Cron. sol 741. 3 Book of Oaths p. 216. ☞