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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52764	A Letter from Oxford concerning Mr. Samuel Johnson's late book	N. N.	1693 (1693)	Wing N40; ESTC R4251	12,066	31

to practise what he tells us the best Teachers of Christianity did viz. They never meddled with Crowns and Scepters but left Mankind under those Forms and Rules of Civil Government in which they found them What greater and better Argument can be given against Church-mens introducing Religion or Christianity into the Forms and Rules of Civil Government than what this Gentleman acknowledges viz. that our Saviour and his Apostles meddled not with it They left the several Civil Governments to depend upon their own Laws Policies and Constitutions and there and no where else are we to seek for a Rule and Guide to our Consciences in Matters relating to Allegiance and Protection the Power of the Prince and the Duty of Subjects I am not here professedly taking upon me to maintain either of Mr. Iohnson's Positions which no Man is better able to make good than himself though there is no great need of his undertaking it neither unless some or other should have the Impudence to contradict him But I must beg leave to observe that heretofore under the Reigns of Princes whose Accession to the Throne was occasion'd by the Removal of their Predecessors the Doctrine contain'd in Mr. Iohnson's second Position was never look'd upon as dangerous to Princes but countenanced and openly a vowed In the first Year of King Edward the Third there are these observable Words in a Stature of that King viz. Whereas it was necessary for our Soveraign Lord the King that now is and the Queen his Mother seeing the Destructions Damage Oppressions and Disherisons which were notoriously done in the Realm of England upon Holy Church Prelates Earls Barons and other Great Men and the Comminalty by the said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmund Arundel by the incroaching of such Royal Power to them to take as good Counsel therein as they might And seeing they might not remedy the same unless they came into England with an Army of Men of War and by the Grace of God and with such Puissance and with the Help of Great Men and Commons of the Realm they have vanquished and destroyed the said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmund Wherefore our Soveraign Lord the King that now is at his Parliament holden at Westminster c. hath provided ordained and established That no Great Man nor other of what Estate Dignity or Condition he be that came with the said King that now is with the Queen his Mother into the Realm of England nor none other then dwelling in England that came with the said King that now is and the Queen in Aid of them to pursue their said Enemies IN WHICH PURSUIT THE KING HIS FATHER WAS TAKEN AND PUT IN WARD AND YET REMAINETH IN WARD shall not be impeached molested nor grieved in Person nor in Goods in the King's Court nor other Court FOR THE PURSUIT OF THE SAID KING TAKING AND WITHHOLDING OF HIS BODY nor Pursuit of any other nor taking of their Persons Goods c. This same Parliament reversed the Attainders of several Persons who had assisted Thomas Duke of Lancaster towards the Removal of the Spencers Father and Son from the Presence and Councils of King Edward the Second and particularly the Attainder of Thomas Duke of Lancaster himself who as Lord High Steward of England had betaken himself to Arms to drive the Spencers out of the Realmor to bring them to Justice and had given the King Battel And they not only reverse his Attainder but in a Letter to the Pope give an Account of his Worth of the Justice of his Cause that he died a Martyr that Almighty God had been pleased to give a Testimony of his Innocence c. by permitting several Miracles to be wrought at his Tomb which they desire the Pope to issue a Commission to enquire whether they were real or not and to canonize him for a Saint The Reversal of his Attainder and this Letter are yet extant upon Record Nor could I ever meet in any of our Histories or Monuments that give any Account of that Revolution that King Edward the Third claimed the Crown either by Conquest though he came from beyond Sea with a Force too and routed and dispersed those evil Counsellors who had got the King into their Interest or by Right of Inheritance though he was indeed the next Heir but could have no Title by Descent as long as his Father was alive or that any other Hypothesis was invented to colour his Accession to the Crown than what was really true in Fact which was no other than his being set up by the States of the Realm who had deposed his Father for his Misgovernment upon formal Articles of Impeachment which are yet to be seen in Adam Orleton's Apology at the end of Henry Knighton's Chronicle Much less would that King have endured such as should charge him to his Face with Usurpation and that he was a King de facto only but not de jure We know how his Successor King Henry the 4th treated a couple of Prelates that opposed his Title which was the same with that of his Grandfather the Victorious King Edward the Third The Bishop of Carlisle was proceeded against in Parliament and sentenced to Death though the King was pleased to remit that But for the Archbishop of York the more virulent and bitter Adversary of the two he made no more ado but chopp'd his Head off Queen Elizabeth's Title to the Crown was by virtue of a Remainder settled upon her by Act of Parliament other she had none nor ever pretended to any for she stood Illegitimated by an Ecclesiastical Sentence confirmed by Act of Parliament And so sure a Title she took this to be and was so little ashamed to own it that it was made Higk-Treason during her Reign to deny that the Succession of the Crown might be altered by Act of Parliament and a Praemunire for ever I mention these things because we hear to our Astonishment that Mr. Iohnson's Book is not well receiv'd at Court where of all other places in our poor Opinions it ought to meet with the kindest Entertainment because it justifies his Majesty's Proceedings which were previous to the Revolution and represents him as the Truth is to be a King who has a Just and a Legal Right to the Crown by the Laws of this Realm By what Logick it can be made ill Doctrine to assert the Lawfulness of removing bad Princes under the Government of good Ones and those such as upon a supposition of the Unlawfulness of removing bad Ones can have no good Title to the Crown themselves is what we cannot easily comprehend But I have ever thought that Courtiers see farther into a Mill-stone than other Men and that their way of Reasoning differs from that of the rest of Mankind since I saw King Charles the Second heal I took notice that when the King put the Gold about their Necks that came to be Touch'd the Bishop repeated over and over these