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A Brief enquiry into the ancient constitution and government of England as well in respect of the administration, as succession thereof ... / by a true lover of his country.
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Tyrrell, James, 1642-1718.
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pleased because you may have been forced when the way has proved unpassable either through Water or Dirt to leap a Ditch perhaps for safeguard of your life into a Neighbour's Enclosure F. Sir I am so well satisfied with what your Worship hath now said in these grand Points that with your good leave I shall not fail not only to vindicate your Person from those aspersions but also to maintain the lawfulness of our present Settlement upon the same Principle you have now laid down since I know of none that seem to me more agreeable to Right Reason and the Laws and Constitution of this Kingdom and therefore I hope you will always believe me to be your honest Neighbour and humble Servant and so I take my leave of your Worship I. Neighbour I am yours and bid you heartily farewel FINIS Books Sold by Richard Baldwin THE Works of F. Rabelais M D. In Five Books or the Lives Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the Good Gargantua and Pantagruel and his Voyage to the Oracle of the Bottle As also his Historical Letters To which is added the Author's Life and Explanatory Remarks By Mr. Motteux Never before Printed in English Bibliotheca Politica Or an Enquiry into the Ancient Constitution of the English Government with Respect both to the just Extent of Regal Power and to the Rights and Liberties of the Subject Wherein all the chief Arguments as well against as for the Late Revolution are Impartially represented and considered In XIII Dialogues Collected out of the best Authors both Ancient and Modern To which is added An Alphabetical Index to the whole Work The remarkable Sayings Apothegms and Maxims of the Eastern Nations Abstracted and Translated out of their Books written in the Arabian Persian and Turkish Language with Remarks by Monsieur Galland who lived many Years in those Countries Translated from the Paris Edition into English Twelves Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane The World bewitch'd is now publish'd containing an Examination of the common Opinions concerning Spirits their Nature Power Administration and Operations as also the Effects men are able to produce by their Communication Divided into Four parts By Belthazer Bekker D. D. and Pastor at Amsterdam Vol. I. Translated from a French Copy Approved of and Subscribed-by the Author 's own hand A New and Easie Method to understand the Roman History With an exact Chronology of the Reign of the Emperors An Account of the most Eminent Authors when they flourish'd And an Abridgment of the Roman Antiquities and Customs By way of Dialogue for the use of the Duke of Burgundy Done out of French with very large Additions and Amendments by Mr. Tho. Brown A Collection of Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry late Earl of Warrington viz. I His Speech upon his being sworn Mayor of Chester in November 1691. II. His Speech to the Grand Jury at Chester April 13. 1692. III. His Charge to the Grand Jury at the Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Chester on the 11th of October 1692. IV. His Charge to the Grand Jury at the Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Chester on the 25th of April 1693. Letters of State Written by Mr. Iohn Milton To most of the Sovereign Princes and Republicks of Europe From the Year 1649. till the Year 1659. To which is added An Account of his Life Together with several of his Poems And a Catalogue of his Works never before Printed Mathematical Magick Or the Wonders that may be performed by Mechanical Geometry In Two Books Concerning Mechanical Powers Motions Being one of the most easie pleasant useful and yet most neglected part of Mathematicks not before treated of in this Language Mercury or the Secret and Swift Messenger Shewing how a man may with privacy and speed communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at any distance The Second Edition By the Right Reverend Father in God Iohn Wilkins late Lord Bishop of Chester Printed for Rich. Baldwin where are to be had The World in the Moon England's Interest Or a Discipline for Seamen Wherein is proposed a Sure Method for Raising Qualified Seamen for the well Manning Their Majesties Fleet on all Occasions Also a Method whereby Seamen will be obliged mutually to Relieve each other on board the Men of War yearly or thereabout except where any Seaman by his own voluntary Consent shall be willing to stay longer Likewise is shewed the Advantages which by these Methods will accrue to the Nation in general and in particular to the Merchants and Seamen For hereby the Wages now given in Merchant-Ships will be brought lower and every Seaman will have the liberty of chusing his own Commander after the first year and continuing with him if he so likes By Captain George St. Lo. An Answer to a Paper written by Count d'Avaux the French King's Ambassador in Sueden concerning the Proposals of Peace made by France to the Confederates An Essay concerning Obedience to the Supream Powers and the Duty of Subjects in all Revolutions With some Considerations touching the present Juncture of Affairs An Essay concerning the Laws of Nations and the Rights of Sovereigns With an Account of what was said at the Council-board by the Civilians upon the Question Whether Their Majesties Subjects taken at Sea acting by the Late King's Commission might not be looked on as Pirates With Reflections upon the Arguments of Sir T. P. and Dr. Ol. Both by Matth. Tyndal Doctor of Laws The Second Edition The Antiquity and Justice of an Oath of Abjuration In answer to a Treatise Entituled The Case of an Oath of Abjuration considered A Sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor and the Court of Aldermen of the City of London at St. Mary-le-Bow on the 29th of May 1694. By Iohn Trenchard M. A Recto of Wrexhall in the County of Somerset and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Manchester A Poem on the Late Promotions of several Eminent Persons in Church and State By N. Nate Servant to Their Majesties The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity placed in its due light by an Answer to a late Book Entituled Animadversions upon Dr. Sherlock's Book c. Also the Doctrine of the Incarnation of our Lord asserted and explained Liturgia Tigurina Or the Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Ecclesiastical Rites and Ceremonies usually practised and solemnly performed in all the Churches and Chappels of the City and Canton of Zurick in Switzerland c. The Tragedies of the Last Age consider'd and examin'd by the Practice of the Ancients and by the common sense of all Ages in a Letter to Fleetwood Shepherd Esq Part I. The Second Edition A short View of Tragedy its Original Excellency and Corruption with some Reflections on Shakespear and other Practitioners for the Stage Both by Mr. Rimer Servant to Their Majesties A New Plain Short and Compleat French and English Grammar whereby the Learner may attain in few months to
A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE Ancient CONSTITUTION AND Government of England As well in respect of the Administration as Succession thereof Set forth by way of Dialogue and fitted for Men of Ordinary Learning and Capacities By a True Lover of his Country LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1695. THE Publisher's PREFACE TO THE READER THERE being many Treatises already Publish'd upon the Subjects handled in this ensuing Discourse you may think it needless to trouble the World with more of this kind but those who think so may be of another Opinion when they have considered not only the Design of this Treatise which is to Abridge into a small Manual what others have writ in many Volumes but also the manner of handling the Matters herein treated of which you will find to differ very much from most of the Books written before upon this Subject some Writers having screwed up the King's Prerogative to so extravagant a height as to place the whole Essential Frame of the Government in the King 's Sole Will and Pleasure not considering the Fundamental Rights and Liberties of a Free-born Nation more than as the forced Concessions of some Weak Princes not otherwise able to appease an Angry People and which they may therefore contract or wholy abrogate as their Power or Opportunities may either dictate or permit Whilst on the other side there are some who have too much debased the Royal Prenogative by placing all Power immediately in the People and supposing the King accountable to their Representatives for every small Miscarriage in Government There is without doubt an Error in both these Extremes since as the King can have no Prerogative which is inconsistent with the Ancient Rights and Liberties of the Subject set down in Magna Charta and other Ancient Statutes which were only declarative of the Common Law of England So likewise if the King be the Supreme Magistrate of the Nation he cannot without a Soloecism in Government be rendred accountable to any Power superior to his own these things considered hath induced the Author to chuse a middle and more moderate Course by preserving to the King all such Prerogatives as are inseparable from the Supreme Executive Power and which are necessary for the Common Safety yet without leaving the King absolutely irresistible in all Cases whatsoever and without a supposed impossibility of his falling from his Royal Dignity in case of the highest Breaches of his Coronation Oath and the utmost Violations of that Usual and Ancient Contract which his Predecessors have so often renewed with the People of this Nation upon their Succession to the Throne For the proving of which the Author hath made use of the best Authorities he could collect either from our ancient Histories Records or law-Law-Books beginning with the Grounds and Institution of Civil Government in general and ending with that of England in particular And though he hath so far adapted this Discourse for men of ordinary Learning and Capacities as not to stuff the Margin with many Quotations yet he hath not fail'd to put them down where-ever the Niceness or Uncommonness of the Subject might otherwise chance to shock the Understandings of Readers not thoroughly vers'd in things of this Nature Not but that the Author is very well satisfied that even where no Authorities are expresly cited he is able to maintain what he there lays down by Arguments drawn from Law as well as Reason if any man shall think it worth while to call it in question but if he requires larger and fuller Proofs on this Subject he may if he pleases first consult the last Eight Dialogues of a late Treatise called Bibliotheca Politica as also Mr. Atwood ' s Learned Treatise concerning the Antiquity and Justice of an Oath of Abjuration And I hope he may thence receive sufficient satisfaction that the Principles here laid down are founded not only upon right Reason but the ancient Constitution of the English Government This may suffice for the manner of handling this Argument But now to say somewhat more of the ends of publishing this Discourse and they are these First to make every man though of never so common a Capacity understand as well as the Author is able to perform it what is the true ancient and legal Government of this Kingdom 2dly What are the main and most considerable Prerogatives of the Crown And lastly What are the fundamental Rights and Liberties of the People And that these are so far from being contradictory or inconsistent that they rather serve to defend and strengthen each other so that it hath been for the defence and preservation of all these that this wonderful and happy Revolution hath been brought about and Their Present Majesties placed upon the Throne as also to convince those who traduce by the Nick-names of Whigs and Commonwealths-men those that have been in the worst of times the only true Assertors of this ancient limited Monarchy so that if they plead for Resistance in some Cases it is only in those of utmost and absolute necessity and in order to preserve the Original Constitution and to prevent the Head of the Legislative Power from devouring the Body nor can they have any other Notions of Loyalty but their Obedience to the Government establisht and exercised according to Law as the ancient Sense as well as Etymology of that word imports To conclude Whosoever shall think fit to bestow a little money to buy and time to peruse this small Treatise the Publisher hopes he will find the design to be truly English that is sincere and honest that all good Subjects may know how to render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods without blindly sacrificing under the will-worship of a pretended Loyalty the Religion Civil Liberties and Properties of their Country to Caesar's Will as some of late Years have done who made these the darling because most gainful Doctrines as well of the Pulpit as the Bar and the Press A BRIEF ENQUIRY INTO THE Ancient Constitution and Government of England ctc. In a Dialogue between a Justice of Peace and an Understanding Freeholder I. GOOD Morrow Neighbour What brings you hither so early If you want a Warrant I 'll call my Clerk and then hear your Business F. No I assure your Worship the Business I come about is of greater concern and that no less than the Rights and Liberties of the Subject as well as the Power and Prerogative of our Kings which though I heard you Treat of in your late Charge to the Grand Jury last Quarter-Sessions yet since I could not come near enough to hear it distinctly not being of that Jury my self pray give me the substance of that Discourse and I the rather desire it because I have since heard it much censured by some of our Neighbours as savouring of Commonwealth Principles But to save you the labour of a needless repetition I will