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A65682	The second part of The ignoramus justices, or, An answer to the scandalous speech of Sir W.S. Barronet spoken to the grand-jury at the Sessions of Peace held for the county of Middlesex, at Hick's-hall, on Monday the 24 of April, 1682 : together with several remarks upon the order of Sessions, for the printing and publishing the same / by the same authour.; Ignoramus justices. Part 2	Whitaker, Edward.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Middlesex)	1682 (1682)	Wing W1705; ESTC R2042	37,153	39

THE SECOND PART OF THE Ignoramus Iustices OR An Answer to the Scandalous SPEECH OF Sir W. S. Barronet Spoken to the Grand-Jury at the Sessions of Peace held for the County of Middlesex at Hick's-hall On Monday the 24 of April 1682. TOGETHER With several Remarks upon the Order of Sessions for the Printing and Publishing the same By the same Authour LONDON Printed for E. Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhill 1682. THE SECOND PART OF THE Ignoramus Iustices OR An ANSWER to the Scandalous SPEECH OF Sir W. S. Barronet I Will not ong ltrouble the Courtious Reader with a difcription of the Person that made this learned Speech which is Sir W. S. And the very same Sir Wm. which heretofore as I am informed in the late troubles was called Col. S. And though I love not to rake in Dunghills or into the lives and actions of men at any time much less after so long an intervale yet because he himself hath been pleased to make the world so happy not only in the publication of that Excellent speech but also told us in p. 4. that he feels the smart of Goldsmith's and Haberdashers 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 Souldier that as in a looking-glass he may view himself now being a Justice and as this is done as well to inform the world of the person and his zeal for the cause of God in times past as now he pretends by his speech both for the cause of God and his R. H. for time to come so learnedly interwoven with Scripture Phrases and larded with such Sentenses of Elegant Latine If this be the same S. that was called Col. S. in the late troubles he may remember and bless God for his great Conversion since 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 greatest reason in the world to admire the free grace of God in converting his bloudy heart for in those dayes and in cool of bloud too in the County of Bucks he like as wicked Haman did against the Jews gave this Councel to kill and destroy all the Gentlemen Yeomen Farmers their wives and Children without 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 side when they had an opportunity and should take part against them Now if this be the same man his nature is mightily altered for now his gaul goes no further but that the Dissenters Purses should pay that shot he has so elegantly manifested and if the standers by did not mistake his words he both speak and meant that the Dissenters should be prosecuted for their money to help pay the charge the King had been out in the war with Argier c. and the building the 30 Ships to save the Parliament a labour which was a most ingenious Contrivance but more of that in its due place But whether this be the same Coll. S. or not yet I am fully asured this is the very same Sir W. S. that the last Westminster Parliament was had before the Committee for stoping and hindring Petitioning the King for calling of Parliaments and therein abusing that law he hath since owned by his late Abhorrencies who was then heard to say that he was falsely accused for that he was so far good man from offering any such violence to the Rights of the people and Parliaments that he protested his innocency with much more asseverations then now in his grand speech he doth his sincerity of obedience to the King and the Laws yet at that time true evidence tells us that the very same day he made that so solemn protestation of his Innocency the very thing he was accused of before the Committee of Parliament was most evidently proved against him and had not the Parliament been Prorogued he might have met with as seveer a Censure by the Parliament as now he is pleased in his Oration to wish and urge for the Dissenters but more of this in its due place And that very same Col. S. not many years after the war was done when the tide was turned was the chief promoter in the County of Bucks and other places to procure Addresses to Richard Cromwel and was then the most zealous and forwardest man in that Service A mighty great sign of his Loyalty to our present King by which it seems his trade is Addresses And the very same Col. S. did as was most commonly reported when he was Governour of Chepstow Castle for the King find out a way to surrender or rather betray the same to the Parliament without blows or force of iron or leaden bullets French or English Crowns at that time being his Conqueror the same Col. S. who was the Son of an Attorney and being imployed either as Agent or Steward to the noble Lady Cleveland or Wentworth being called to an account for high misdemeaners in that Trust and being prosecuted in the Court of Exchequer for the same in the time when the late Lord Chief Justice Hales was one of the Barrons of the Exchequer the Baron having seen so much in that Cause so evidently proved before him of certain frauds used by him gave this opinion of him in open Court That it was pitty the honour of Knight-hood should ever be so blemished as to be bestowed on such a Person guilty of those fowl things which that S. who ever he was best knows what the good Barons reason was for such expressions And I presume if any person would be further satisfied whether it be the same Sir W. S. he may be informed from the Records there And if it should prove to be their Chairman of the Sessions then the world may see what a kind of Loyal upright person we have to justisie and adhere unto as the worthy order of Sessions puts it Fol. 11. These things should not have been touched although a deal more is due had it not pleased the Justice so much to vindicate his uprightness and Loyalty By this the Reader may see the old cheat whores will alwayes cry whore first but if these be the men that his Majesty must rely on and which makes this bustle and stir with Loyalty in prosecuting Addresses and Abhorrencies in what miserable condition is that Prince that trusts them or their Loyalty for can it be supposed that he that has Addressed to Richard Cromwel one day will not Address to the King the next if that side be uppermost 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 trust reposed in him of a private Estate and Concernment as a Steward certainly he is a very unsit man to be entrusted with a

and foppish an assertion as it will be if the Justice should the next Sessions spend his time in his Discourse of catching of Connies in a Warren he is well acquainted with In the Statute of Provisoes the Parliament there asserts these words viz. The Commons have prayed our Lord the King that since the Crown of England and the Law of the said Realm is such that upon the mischief and damages which happen to this Realm he ought and is bound by his Oath with the accord of his People in his Parliament thereof to make Remedy and Law in removing the mischiefs and damages which thereof ensue that it may please him thereupon to ordain remedy The King in the same Statute Answers the Prayer of the Commons and saith by his Oath he is bound to it which Statute may be read at leasure to this plainly agrees the Kings Oath at his Coronation viz. R●t Parliament 1 H. 4. Num. 17. Forma Juramenti solit consueti prestart per Reges Angliae in horam Coronatione Servabis Ecclesiae Dei cleroque populo pacem ex integro concordium in Deo secundum Vices tuas Respondebit Servabo Facias fieri in omnibus Judiciis tuis equam Rectam Justitiam Discretioonem in misericordia veritate secundum Vices tuas Respondebit faciam Concedis Justas Leges Consuetudines esse tenendas promittis per te eas esse protegendas ad honorem cas Corroborandas quas vulgus elegerit secundum Vices tuas Respondebit Censedo Promitto Aujiciantque puldutis interrogationibus que justa fuerint pronunciat iisque orbus confirmet Rex se omnia servatur sacramento super altare Prestito cora●● Cunctis By which Oath we may perceive the Kings of England are bound to keep all Laws and to grant fulfil and defend all rightful Laws which the people of the Realm shall choose and to strengthen and maintain them the Chancellor and Ministers about him are sworn to give him true and faithful advice the Judges are sworn to advice the King in point of Law and to Administer the Law indifferently between the King and his Subjects which Oath begins thus viz. An oath of the Iustices being made in the year of Edw. the 3d. in the year 1344. Ye shall swear that well and lawfully ye shall serve our Lord the King and the people in the office of Iustice and that lawfully ye shall Coucel the King in his business and that ye shall not Councel or Assent to any thing which may turn him in damage or dishersion by any manner way or culler and that ye shall not know the damage or dishersion of him whereof ye shall not cause him to be warrented by your self or by other and that ye shall do equal law and right to all his Subjects rich and poor without haveing regard to any Person and that you take not by your self or by others privately or apertly gifts nor rewards of Gold nor Silver nor of any other thing which may turn to your profit unless it be meat or drink and that of small value of any man that shall have any plea or process hanging before you as long as the same process shall so be hanging nor after for the same Cause and that ye take no fee as long as ye shall be Iustice nor Roabes of any man great or small but of the King himself and that ye give no Advice or Councel to no man great or small in no case where the King is party and in case that any of what Estate or Condition they be come before you in your Sessions with force and armes or otherwise against the peace or against the form of the Statute thereof made to disturb execution of the Common Law or to mennace the people that they may not pursue the Law that ye shall cause their Bodies to be Arrested and put in prison and in case they be such that ye cannot arrest then that ye certifie the King of their Names and of their misprision hastily so that ye may thereof ordain a conveneable Remedy And that ye by your self nor by others privity or apertly maintain any Plea or Quarrel hanging in the Kings Court or elsewhere in the County And that ye deny no man common Right by the Kings Letters nor no other mans nor for none other Cause And in case any Letters come to you contrary to the Law that ye do nothing by such Letters but certifie the King thereof and proceed to execute the Law Notwithstanding the same Letters and that ye shall do and procure the profit of the King and of his Crown with all things where you may reasonably do the same And in case ye be from hence forth found in default in any of the points aforesaid ye shall be at the Kings will Body Lands and Goods thereof to be done as shall please him As God you help and all Saints Now having given you the Oaths as the Law hath setled it I shall add one Statute more to shew how careful and diligent our Ancestors were to preserve this Nation from Arbitrary Power not only in the King but also in Judges and Officers that we might not be enslaved and opprest by the Judges under a colour and pretence of Law And that is the Statute of 20 E. 3. The Title is viz. The Justices of both Benches 20 E. 3. cap 10 Assices c. shall do right to all men take no fee but of the King nor give Councel where the King is party First we have commanded all our Iustices that they shall from henceforth do equal Law and Execution of Right to all our Subjects rich and poor without having regard to any person and without omitting to do right for any Letters or Commandment which come to them from us or from any other or by any other Cause And if that any Letters Writs or Commandments come to the Iustices or to others deputed to do Law and Right according to the usage of the Realm in disturbance of the Law or of Execution of the same or of Right of the Parties The Iustices and others aforesaid shall proceed and hold their Courts and Process where they please and matters be depending before them As if no such Letters Writs or Commandments were come to them And they shall certifie us and our Councel of such Commandment is which be contrary to Law as aforesaid and to the Iuter● that our Iustices shall do even right to all people in manner aforesaid without more favour shewn to one then to the other We have ordained and caused out Iustices to be sworn That they shall not from henceforth as long as they shall be in Office of Iustice take Fee nor Roab of any man but of our self and that they shall take no gift or reward by themselves nor by others privily or apertly of any man that hath to do before them by any way except meat and Drink and that of small value

a Speech But why must the Dissenters Trading together and taking one anothers Parts be a Design against the Government more than of those that call themselves 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 they please If so then it is most plain the boasting Church-Men do feast together often and associate themselves in Clubs Cabals Taverns and Coffee-Houses and divers other Places both Sundays and Working-Days to manage the Cause which the Justice aims at and the Church-men in reality as they would be accounted such as they are have in reality stuck by their Champion Cradock so far that no less than two Knights and four or five Esquires and Gentlemen to save their Brother Cradock have joined together in a solemn Oath before the Judg that the Earl of Shaftsbury doth live in Thanet-House and is a great Trader in the City I am confident the Justice cannot shew us any such voluntary Oath of Men of their Quality that ever did so far take one anothers Parts among the Dissenters as to swear in Clubs So after the Justice had shewed the Dissenters Dealings of laying their Heads together in disturbing the Peace in the next place pag. 5. he tells us in praise of the Church Pary and in opposition to the Dissenters that they the Chuch Party are good honest Men in these Words viz. The Church Party the Children of Light they trust in a good Cause put out their own Eyes and will neither see their Danger or Interest most of them endeavour to build upon their own Ground and raise to themselves Pyramids of Honour and Riches and have not minded them of the same Party who are forced to shift for themselves as well as they can Now I would have the ingenuous Church-Men consider what a great deal of Honour this Gentleman hath done them he has to vindicate them called them blind Fools nay such Fools that no brute Beasts can be worse what is it I pray you to them to put out their own Eyes and not see for themselves 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 trust to others I pray God with all my Heart that I may be in Darkness still 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 Happiness as to their Wisdom nor as to their Honour and Riches but this I may say that had the Church of England-men received such a Vilifying from a Dissenter as this certainly they would have called loudly for Satisfaction either from the Court Christian or our Temporal Courts What call them such Fools and treat them as such as will pull out their own Eyes and not see can the Church-Men forgive this I dare not say they cannot because some of them are Men of great Charity but were it not for that doubtless such an Affront as this would be enough to raise the whole posse Clergy about the Knights Eyes for in effect he calls them blind Papists for none but those poor deluded Souls that ever live in the Light of the Sun would rather trust other Folks Eyes than their own Well but what must not a Justice make a slip but there must be all this notice taken yes sure he may be allowed many when he means well for in this whole Speech if you observe it and if you believe himself He doth say and do all for the Established Church and the Publick Good Now then if so he ought to have Mercy shewn him In the next place you will find he deserves it too because the Dissenters in this page are made by the same Man Coblers and nothing but their last is their Coat and so fearful is he of them If as he saith the Cards should be shufled again that these Coblers will have all the Shoes and himself go Bare-foot that he advises here in this Page That it is not prudent to trust them tho they are contented with their own Vertue a most strange Paradox what if they will be contented with their own Vertue shan't they be let alone it is mighty hard especially when in the next place he himself commends Vertue as a choice Plant or Tree that bears excellent Fruit and saith he The Gardiners must nourish and cherish this Plant and Tree or else in time this Tree will bear sower Fruit that is I suppose he means the Magistrate and you Grand Inquest-men you must Present these Dissenters that we may get some of their Money lop off their loose Twigs and Wild-Sprigs that makes them too rich and too proud and then thier Fruit will be Savoury such as I like for tho I like not the Men yet their Money I like and so do all their Enemies but to quiet the Church whom before he abused he now makes them full amends again for saith he in this Page viz. I hope for the Honour of the King and Safety of the Government no Man for the future shall be employed until he be first sifted and winnowed and if any Grain of Faction be found in him he shall be laid aside But then Sir W. What will you do and your Addressers Do you not remember Sir W. the very day you made this learned Speech when you and the rest of the Tribe were withdrawn out of the Court you propounded or at least abetted one of the greatest pieces of Faction that ever was done in England this 20 Years except F. H. which was it was urged among you Justices to Address His Majesty that he would be pleased to keep the Duke by him at home to join with him in the Government or at least to assist him therein Pray Sir W. had you gone on in this Address had it not been the heighth of Faction and Sedition if not High-Treason in designing to alter the Government What are you in such haste that you cannot stay the time must Popery and Protestantism be joined together in our days Pray Sir will you before your next Speech consider it well and tho you abhor the Parliaments because they would have no Popish Successor yet methinks you should not dig a Grave for our King and Government while he is alive and what other construction sober thinking Men as you call them can make of such Designs time may shew but for your placing so much upon that Text By me Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice I know not what you mean unless you would by that Scripture insinuate that because there is such a place of Scripture therefore the People should have no Law of the Land to be their Standard but the Will of the Prince to be absolute Lord Paramount above all Laws and no Bounds to be set by the Law of the Land