a truth that it is plainly ratified by the unanimous consent of all mankind Nay when a man has demonstrated its certainty from that unavoidable influence that Religion alwayes has upon the peace of Kingdomes and the interests of Government and from those intolerable mischiefs that must follow upon its exemption from the Civil Power from the natural tendency of Enthusiasm and Superstition to publick disturbance from the boldness and insolence of Fanatique Zeal from the nature and original of Government from the practice and prescription of all Ages and from all the topicks of Reason and Experience and when he has stated and confined its exercise within easie and discernable bounds and has prevented all cavils and pretences of dislike unless only such as dash as fiercely upon the very foundations of all Civil as well as Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction After all this pains is it not a sad thing to see all blown up with meer confidence and presumption and if a bold man will but say Tush 't is false without any proof or reason for his dislike away it all flys in fumo I have insisted the longer upon this because as it is the Grand Thesis of my Books so it is the first Essay of your courage that by this first Specimen of your Wit the World may take a true scantling of your parts and abilities But having thus nimbly dispatch'd this general Thesis you proceed to your particular Exceptions where you summ up your Charge in Six Heads which you sometimes entitle Playes sometimes Hypotheses sometimes Aphorisms and why not Plots and Scenes and Walks and under-walks c The first is the Unlimited Magistrate or as you eloquently express it pag. 246. his unhoopable Jurisdiction A Metaphor taken from a Tub I suppose because you find Power in your Book of Apothegms compared to liquor for a certain Reason known to every body though no body has exprest it so happily as your self viz. because if it be infinitely diffused or extended it becomes impotency even as a streight line continued grows a circle I will leave it to the Mathematicians to consider how it is possible for a streight line to become a circle by being infinitely streight But however for this reason it is necessary to hoop up the Authority of Princes lest they too soon weaken themselves by too great a leakage of their Power so that methinks according to your notion there is nothing so patly emblematical of Soveraign Princes as Dufoy in his Tub or a Pig under a washbole and if you would define them suitably to the conceit they are nothing else but so many vessels of Authority some Kinderkins some Hogsheads and some Tuns according to the circuit or hoop of their Government Though as you and your Puritan Coopers or as Mar-prelate words it Tub-trimmers have been pleased to contract their Power all the Empire in the world might easily be contained in a pipkin or a quart pot and he would pay dear for it that should purchase the Kings Supremacy at the price of a jug of Ale For when you have once exempted Conscience out of the circle of humane Laws the greatest and most absolute Monarchs upon earth will be reduced to as scant a measure of Authority as your Mock-kings of Brentford in that there is nothing in humane nature directly liable to their Obligation but only Conscience and therefore if that must be let loose from the commands of Superiours nothing else can bind them So wretchedly are such bunglers as you wont to talk that only suck in and then pour out your phrases by rote and at random and because some of the Ancients have sometimes discoursed of Conscience in Metaphorical and loose expressions as they do of all things else calling it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Domestick God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Guardian Angel c. you must by all means take them in the literal sense and discourse of Conscience as if it were some little Spirit or Puppet Intelligence within you distinct from your selves so that though you are His Majesties most humble and loyal Subjects yet as for your dear and tender Consciences you must have them excused by the Laws of Hospitality that is to say you owe him Obedience in all things excepting only those in which he does or can require it for wherever the man is bound to obey his Conscience and only that is bound to obey it being the only principle in him that is capable of Obligation and therefore if that be absolved from all engagements of Allegiance and all tyes of Duty the case is plain the whole man is at perfect Liberty And all Subjects may huff and rant it to their Princes teeth as well as your proud Almanzor Obey'd as Soveraign by thy Subjects be But know that I alone am King of me You see then there is no remedy but Conscience you must submit to the Jurisdiction of your Prince if you will submit your selves Yes but you would not have it unlimited and unhoopable as I have stated it But Sir give me leave to tell you that though it should be unlimited it does not at all follow that it would be unhoopable because it would be as you inform us like a streight line continued into a circle Now I will maintain it against all the Mathematicians in Europe Asia and Africa and the Terra Incognita of Geneva too you must bear with me for in some cases I cannot avoid this confidence that all circles as well as all other figures how big soever are hoopable things But for all my jesting my own words are upon Record where I have vested every Supreme Magistrate with an universal and unlimited Power and uncontroulable in the Government of Religion that is to say say you over mens Consciences and that is to say say I that some mens Consciences are concern'd in nothing but matters of Religion Well seeing you are content to give Macedo for a finisht and burnisht piece of modesty now then welfare J. O. for a modest thing for he had the Grace to load me with this Calumny before you but then he had the Grace to take his Answer too And it is possible though it is scarce credible that he might stumble into such an horrid mistake through haste and inadvertency for you know he alwayes writes post But what a Coloss of Brass are you that after I have given him such humbling and convictive rebuke for it persist so obstinately in the very same tract of forgery and falsification The Answer I gave him was easie enough for your understanding as meek as it is viz. That in that Paragraph where I asserted the Supreme Government of every Common-wealth to be Universal Absolute and Uncontroulable in all affairs whatsoever that concern the Interests of mankind and the ends of Government it was only in opposition to the pretences of a distinct Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction here on earth For having first asserted the necessity of a Soveraign Power over the affairs of Religion from their concernment in the Peace and Government of the world I thence proceeded to enquire where and in whom it ought to reside and having shewn the inconsistency of erecting two Supreme Secular Powers one over Civil and the other over Ecclesiastical Causes I concluded that the Supreme Government of every Common-wealth must of necessity be Universal Absolute and Uncontroulable in that it must extend its Jurisdiction as
well to affairs of Religion as to affairs of State because they are so strongly influential upon the Interests of Mankind and the Ends of Government And now is this to make the Ecclesiastical Authority of the Civil Magistrate absolutely Paramount without regard to any other Jurisdiction of what nature soever when I only maintain it in defiance to the claims of any other humane Power For this was the only subject of that enquiry And when I asserted the Soveraign Power to be Absolute and Uncontroulable 't is apparent nothing else could be intended than that it is not to be controuled by any distinct Power whether of the Pope or the Presbytery for they are the only Rivals of the Princes of Christendome And when I asserted it to be Universal and Absolute no man unless he would give his mind to misunderstanding could understand it in any other sense than that it was not confined to matters purely Civil but extended its Jurisdiction to matters of an Ecclesiastical Importance upon which account alone I determin'd it to be Absolute Universal and Uncontroulable This is the main and the fundamental Article of the Reformation and that which distinguishes the truly Orthodox and Catholick Protestant both from Popish and Presbyterian Recusants and is the only fence to secure the Thrones of Princes against the dangerous encroachments of those bold and daring Sects and therefore from so plain and avowed a Truth to charge me for ascribing in general terms an Absolute Universal and Uncontroulable power to the Civil Magistrate over the Consciences of men in matters of Religion argues more boldness than wit and discretion and gives us ground to suspect that these men are not less forsaken of shame and modesty than they are of Providence for it must needs be a very bold face and a very hard forehead that could ever venture to obtrude such palpable and disingenuous Abuses upon the world This I think was answer enough for him and is I am sure too much for you But when beside this I have drawn up a brief and plain account of the parts the coherence and the design of my first Treatise to prevent you from abusing the People for the future with such rude mistakes and pervertings for you to repeat the very same Leasing is if any thing is false Heraldry 't is brass upon brass And when I have there so stated the Controversy as to provide with equal care and caution against the Inconveniences of both extremes an unlimited Power on the one hand and an unbounded Licence on the other when the bounds I have proposed are so very easie to be observed and so unnecessary to be transgress'd by all Partys concern'd viz. that Governours only take care not to impose things certainly and apparently evil and that subjects be not allowed to plead Conscience for disobedience in any other case and when I have so carefully avoided all kind of severity more than is absolutely necessary to the preservation of Government and the peace of Mankind with many other things so easie and so obvious that there is scarce any thing to excuse me from Impertinency in taking so much pains to prove them but their Manifest Necessity After all this I beseech you by the tyes of ancient Friendship deal clearly and candidly with me and tell me upon what other principles I could have discoursed more safely or more innocently upon this Argument though it is possible I might have done it more wittily by the help of your friend Bays who supposing two Kings of Brentford one for example a Secular the other an Ecclesiastical King remarks upon it that the People having the same Relations to both the same Affections the same Duty the same Obedience and all that would be divided among themselves in point of devoir and interest how to behave themselves equally between them these Kings differing sometimes in particular though in the main they agree And therefore what if they should agree to divide their Empire and one be King of the Land-men and the other of the Water-men or one to rule by night and the other by day or take their turns of Government by weeks or months but this device would not do for where there are two supreme Powers in the same Common-wealth there can be no avoiding civil jars and bloody-noses So that for this reason had I been a Senator of Brentford I should have humbly proposed that either King Phys or vice versâ King Ush might be vested with the absolute and uncontroulable Power of the Empire i. e. with both kinds of jurisdiction because otherwise as he proceeds shrewdly the People being embarrast by their equal Tyes to both and the Sovereign's concern'd in a reciprocal regard to their own Interest as to the good of the People may make a certain kind of a you understand me upon which there does arise several disputes turmoils heart-burnings and all that Ay this is pregnant and demonstrative and does not sob us off as you always do with empty tittle tattle without any colour or pretence of reason And had it come to hand time enough I might have been as much beholden to it for sence as you have been for wit for so you will have it that I have pilfer'd all my best or in your own Poetick phrase rapping flowers out of Play-books and several choice ones you have in spite of Almanacks and Chronology discover'd in my first Book that were by all means filch'd out of this very Play though as fortune would have it this was not made any way publick till above two years after that But waving the advantage of Bays his Assistance and every body else and relying upon my own single strength and presumption after all my care and pains to way-lay Calumny could I ever suspect any thing in the shape of a man so desperately fallen from all sense of Conscience or Modesty as to upbraid me with ascribing an infinite jurisdiction to Princes without any regard to the Divine Laws Well! I now see what it is for a man to live in his study and be unacquainted with the world for my part I could never have supposed it possible that Mankind could ever by Travel and Conversation emprove it self to such an height of Confidence Especially when there is not any one Writer extant either ancient or modern that I know of that has so vehemently and industriously asserted the hoopableness of all humane Authority as I have done And when in particular I have spent two
or not is now too late to enquire but having written so I began Though I am none of the most zealous Patrons of the Press How say you the Press it is a Villainous Engine Why What is the matter did it ever cheat you at Picquet that the very mention of it should put you into such a Fit of Lycanthropy and set you like the Island of Fayol on fire in threescore and ten places But why Villainous Engine fie fie does this Language become a Gentleman that has clear'd himself of Froth and Groans You learn'd it at Charing-Cross or in Lincolns-Inn-fields But however the Engine may have offended or disobliged you it concerns not my grand Thesis and as little my self having profess'd to be none of its Patrons And it is of Age and parts sufficient to manage its own quarrel for it is as old as the Reformation and yet still as talkative as ever and therefore I shall not interest my self in the leaft in it no more than if John a Nokes were railed at by John a Stiles Otherwise I have already inform'd you that you have more reason than you dreamt of to rail at its Villany It has Traytour as it is after all its pretended Zeal to the cause betrayed all your secrets and produced your own hand-writings against your selves There is scarce a crime to be named or thought of for which it has not an information ready at any time to prefer against you notwithstanding the Act of Oblivion and Indemnity And therefore I would wish the Non-conformists as little as you think I love them to be always upon their Guard lest it first Trepan and then Peach and then hang them I am sure it is much more likely and able to do it than my self I cannot see how it can ever expiate all the mischief it has done your Cause already unless it would print the fifth Epistle to Marcellinus But be it as perfidious as you please it is not half so wicked as that villanous Game of Picquet that has done more harm to the Church of England than all the Brawny Printers and Schismatical Preachers of Germany and Geneva Not excepting the Assigns of John Calvin and Theodore Beza that live in Chancery Lane on the South side of the Lake Lemane as the matter is mended in the second Edition of your Geography And thus having treated the Press with as much rudeness and malice as if you had taken it for a Clergyman The next thing you chop upon is the matter of close and comfortable Importance And here never did Countrey Whitefoot stiffen and leer more eagerly upon three legs at any thing in a tuft of Fern than you do at the meaning of these words But the leering and the Ecstasie somewhat abated they must be reduced to one of these three either Salvation or a Benefice or a Female now for the Jests sake it must be neither of the former and therefore for the same jests sake it must of necessity be the latter But from hence men of observation will be forward to conclude that you move far above the troubles of this World as to Honour and Coin and Estate and all other trifles of humane Life else you would have found something else to be important beside a Benefice or a Female though it were but a Game at Picquet You have I thank you bestowed upon me a Prebend a Sine-cure and a Rectorship now why might I not at the time of writing that Preface be busied in attending the Seals for my Sine-cure and in taking order for the repairs of my Parsonage Barns and in providing Goods and Furniture for my Prebend-house These I take to be close and comfortable things as well as a female Importance And what if beside all this I had newly sold my little inheritance and engaged in a purchase elsewhere that lay better for my own convenience and what if at that very nick of Affairs a stop were put to the payments of the Exchequer and my Money in the Bankers hands do you think it did not closely concern me to disengage it from their keeping and whether it would not have been some comfort to have effected it But it seems there is nothing so far from the thoughts of you Gamesters as purchasing of Lands However you see how short your induction is from taking in all particular matters of close and comfortable Importance Beside either the meaning you have pitch'd upon was mine or it was not if it were I would fain be satisfied where the wit of it lies for you to understand the right meaning of my words if it were not I would then be satisfied where the wit of it lies for you to obtrude a wrong one upon them But I know your advantage though thus publickly to betray the mirth and freedome of private conversation is but Clownishly done and like a Jack-Gentleman you know the meaning of the story better than I do yours of Pork and I hope all ingenuous men will take warning by my example to avoid your company for the time to come that can make such a rude and spiteful use of an innocent piece of mirth And if the Remarque be of any value there is nothing of it beside the malice and incivility that is your own But after all suppose for the Jest sake it be a Female what have you made of it You are such a stubble-Goose-wit that you are not able to raise your dull fancy by the advantage of another mans conceit One would have expected some handsome mirth and raillery upon so pleasant a Theme but you have emproved it so Clownishly and so phlegmatically as shews you equally void of all capacity both of wit and manners For who beside your self would upon such an innocent occasion have vented the most spiteful and immodest reflections upon the whole order of the Clergy It is the highest Pinacle of Ecclesiastical Felicity to asswage their concupiscence and wreck their malice Though you were not restrain'd by any fear of the day of Judgement you had reasons enough to have baulkt such impudence as this that is so far from being a good jest that it is a publique affront to good manners And ill manners pass no where for wit but at Charing-Cross or in Lincolns-Inn-fields Go your way for a smutty Lubber that can make no other improvement of so fair an advantage than to spit your malice and ribaldry these are the top of your wit if they are not the pinacle of your felicity Certainly had the jest been ten times more elevating than it is any civil or witty man especially one that has so many to spare would have baulkt it for modesty though not for Conscience or the day of Judgement And so you may go and consider whether you had not only leisure enough but cause too much to have cool'd your thoughts and corrected your indecencies But turn over the leaf and there you will find that giving the Reader an account
Covenauters Cause were too good to be fought for as little Logick as I understand I understand so much that then the Kings was too bad to be fought for and that is enough for one Conclusion But whatever was the occasion of the War whether the Arch-bishop of Canterbury and the Vicar of Brackley as you will have it or Ignoramus and Mr. Selden as a second concludes or the School-men and the Universities as a third observes whether I say any or all of these accidents might contribute to it I am not concern'd because occasions of mischief are unaccountable for their being so in that men that have a mind to it may make any thing an Occasion and yet still the occasion shall be as innocent as I believe the Children of Edinburgh were But if instead of the Occasion you desire to be satisfied in the cause of the War seeing you have been at so much pains in transcribing an huge Gazet to give me satisfaction I think my self at least a little obliged to give you my opinion and if that be not sufficient to satisfie you I shall only advise you to take heed of being too inquisitive for assure your self your Party will have but little reason to con you any thanks for demanding any farther satisfaction Inprimis then it hapned in this War as it does in all others that there were some general Causes that were set on work by some particular Circumstances As 1. The unusual ignorance of the Common People concerning their Duty and Obligation to the Government every man supposing himself as much Master of his own Estate as if he had lived out of all Society and expecting that the King should be able to maintain the Common Safety without his particular Contribution and this you may easily imagine makes them apt to murmur and tumultuate in all such straits and necessities of the State as require Money and Taxes 2. The seditiousness of Persons of broken and shatter'd fortunes and as there are great numbers of such at all times so are they alwayes with the formost to promote Disturbances in all States because it is very possible they may make their Condition better but impossible they should ever make it worse 3. The great numbers of well-meaning men that are usually carried down with the stream so that though possibly they were never disobliged at Court nor infected with Seditious Principles against the State nor addicted to Fanatique Factions against the Church yet are easily over-born with the noise of a whole Kingdom to joyn with that Party that pretends with most confidence to zeal for the publique good These with many others are the Materials and common Principles of all Rebellion but they never or very rarely come into action unless they are put upon it by some other particular and emergent Causes And these were plainly The Insolence and Seditiousness of the Presbyteran Preachers for it seems the Clergy of all Parties as well as all Ages can be mischievous enough because those that can do most good may for the same reason do most harm and therefore it is as ordinary for some to obstruct the Clemency of Subjects as it is for others to obstruct the Clemency of Kings Now it is certain these men had gain'd a mighty esteem and reverence with the People partly by the confidence of their pretences stiling themselves Gods Ambassadours and chalenging as much submission to their Doctrines as if they had wrought Miracles or produced written Credentials from Heaven partly by the vehemence of their tone and gesture and the particular manner of acting their Sermons but chiefly by the subject matter of their popular discourses in which they were alwayes very sparing of their reproofs against the gainful vices of tradesmen such as fraud cozening and covetousness and on the contrary very prodigal of their declamations and suggestions against such miscarriages as were proper to the Government And by inveighing perpetually against oppression they seem'd to take part with the People against their Superiours But that which gave them more Authority than all this over their minds was a certain way they had got of raising unreasonable and unavoidable troubles of Conscience by which means they continually kept great multitudes of well-meaning persons in perfect slavery and subjection to their own good-pleasure Now by the advantage of all these Artifices it was easie for them to infuse any poyson into the minds of their Proselytes And what Principles they taught them in reference to the establish'd Government they are so vulgarly known and so sufficiently recorded that I suppose it is now very superfluous to inform the world It is enough that there is not one Aphorism of miscief and rebellion that they did not impose upon the People under the obligation of a Christian duty as it is largely and distinctly proved out of their own words in the Book of dangerous Positions and Proceedings that is an exact Collection of all the Treason in the world Do but read it over and then tell me what peaceable and orderly Subjects they are like to prove whose Consciences are acted by such lewd and desperate Principles But though the Puritan Preachers from their very beginning never spared themselves nor their lungs against their Governours yet under the late Kings Reign by reason of the remiss Government of Arch-bishop Abbot they became more bold and boysterous than ever and especially when they perceived his Majesty so sincerely addicted to the Church of England and so resolutely bent to reduce all Factious Dissenters to order and obedience they began to think the cause brought to its last gasp if he proceeded without check to his designs and therefore they bestir themselves and thrash the Pulpits to exasperate the People against the Government of the Church and inveigh in the coarsest and most bitter expressions against that of the State And thus by the zeal and madness of these men were the People at length preach'd out of all sense of their Duty and Allegiance and by the perpetual roarings and bellowings of these Geneva Bulls were perfectly amazed into Rebellion And that indeed was their powerful preaching to raise Armies and beat up the Alarm to a Civil War If any man shall be at leisure to peruse those Humiliation-Sermons that were contrived to sanctisie the Cause he shall meet with such wretched and horrible abuses of Religion as the wickedness of all former Ages is not able to parallel What horrid work did they make with the Word of God How shamelesly did they urge the Prophesies of the Old Testament in defiance to the Precepts of the New And with what intolerable presumption did they load his Majesty with every burthen they could pick up against Moab or Babylon Their impertinence was almost as bold as their impiety And the People were rarely taught any thing beside Treason and Blasphemy And thus were they preach'd into Arms and converted into Rebellion they press'd Horse and Foot out of every
former Times and the present transactions to regulate himself by in every Circumstance Though yet here methinks you shew more kindness to the Prerogative of School-masters than to that of Kings in that you address your advice of Peace and Condescension as well to the Subject as the Sovereign whereas in your former Admonitions you applied your self and your sage discourses of Moderation to the Government alone without the least intimation of advice to Subjects to beware of peevishness and incivility to their Superiours However it is to be hoped that Schoolmasters will hereafter lay aside their Rods and their Ferula's to avoid these implacable Grudges of juvenile Petulancy and learn by the Example of their brother Kings to condescend to their Boys for peace sake and the quiet of Boykind and upon all occasions to give them good words and humour them like Children and from all these fatal consequences of whipping which can only serve as sea marks unto wise Schoolmasters to avoid the causes And never hereafter to brandish their Rods against Truants Loiterers and Rob-orehards remembring the implacable Ballads of Tom Triplet the stabbing of the Roman Emperor the Tai-Ior-Parliament of Poland the danger of Alexander the King of Spain's progress into Biscai the Resignation of the Queen of Sweden the Revolts of Switzerland and the Low-countreys and an hundred more that I could tell you but idle stories and yet Kings and Schoolmasters can tell how to make use of them for where there is so great a resemblance in the Effects there must be some parallel in the Causes You have put Tacitus his nose out of joint for sententious Politicks But above all it concerns them to consider that God has instated them in the Government of their Subjects with that incumbrance of Reason and that incumbrance upon reason of Conscience as if Conscience were an incumbrance upon Reason and Reason upon Government Men therefore are to be dealt with reasonably and consciencious men by conscience And then that the Body is in the power of the Mind so that corporal Punishments do never reach the Offender but the innocent suffers for the guilty And the mind is in the hand of God and cannot correct those perswasions which upon the best of its natural Capacity it has collected and therefore to punish that is to violate the divine Majesty To what purpose is it to scourge the outward Boy your corporal punishments never reach the Offender but the innocent suffers for the guilty it is the mind that is the truant and the dunce and if that will not con its Lesson is it justice that the poor innocent Backside should do penance for anothers sloth and idleness It is only for implacable Divines to be thus cruel and sanguinary And then as for the Mind that is in the hand of God and cannot correct those false Concords and unlucky Tricks which upon the best of its natural Capacity it has collected so that to punish that is to violate the divine Majesty And now lay by your Rods my Masters break your Ferula's burn your Grammars tear in pieces your Dictionaries and your construing Books mure up your School-doors leave your declining of Nouns and Verbs construe no more Greek and Latin break up School and keep an universal Play-day throughout the whole Nation for Truants must not be whipt and if you attempt to take down their Breeches you offer plain violence to the Laws of Nature and of God For he has put their Bodies into the Power of their Minds and their minds he keeps in his own hands and therefore if you scourge them you do not only punish the Innocent for the Guilty which no sort of men are so brutish to do beside the Clergy but the disgrace and the blame of all lights at last upon the divine Majesty in that the Mind is wholly in his hands and all its Actions whatsoever must be entitled to his Providence A blessed Account of Government this but yet such as is absolutely necessary to the exemption of Conscience from the Commands of Authority by ascribing all the Extravagancies of Mankind to the Will of God that has put upon them a fatal Necessity to do whatever they do And then 't is in vain for the Civil Magistrate to think of forcing his Subjects to Obedience by Penalties when they are over-ruled to the contrary by an almighty and irresistible Power This is a fit Cover for so foul a Cause But now if you had come to me I could have told you an hundred more idle stories that you and Kings and School-masters would know how to make use of that would better have filled up your Politick Lectures and done more advantage both to your cause and your self than all that you have rak'd together I will recommend but one to you in which I am sure the King and Parliament the three Kingdoms with the Isles adjacent together with all the Plantations that lie out of hearing are more nearly concerned than in any of your Politick Tales not excepting the Queens own Broad-seal and to make you expect no longer it is the famous story of Massanello And if ever you come to be a Parliament-man because you may be modest at first and fearful of speaking I care not if I lend you a Speech before I conclude And thus you must manage it and your self First you must rise up and take out you Gold-watch if it be not at pawn for the Picquet disaster and though it do not go or be down yet look on 't in the first place however not transiently but stay your Eye upon it till you cannot longer do it handsomly without too apparent Prostitution of your design than combing your Wigg shake it with a Grace make up your Mouth betwixt a smile and a simper look upon the Presence with some Pity but more scorn And then begin Mr. Speaker and there pause again for it becomes you to seem modest at first and so after a frown or two more with your mouth and as many smiles with your Forehead procede in good earnest without any more faces and prefaces to be wail the evil the fatal the sad Consequences the mischiefs many and great that threaten the Kingdom 's ruine and turning it to a Common-wealth again by the Apple-mongers and old Women in the Strand Charing-cross and all along by White-hall as far as Westminster in the Face of the Street and all By-standers selling and exposing to sale from day to day whole baskets full of Pippins Paremains Russettings and old Apple Johns Whereas one sturdy Swiss for I am sure he will run in your head and here you must beg Mr. Speakers pardon and correct your self and say you meant one sturdy Fisher-boy and that you must observe for a certain Rule though you are out never so much yet for all that still to go on I say Mr. Speaker one sturdy Fisher-boy by that fatal occasion of over-turning an Apple-womans basket over-turn'd all