of late years and challenge such an interest in the publique Government and making of Laws Philanglus It is a certain truth that in former ages the Kings of England as well Saxons Danes Normans and English Kings did steer the course of their government by the advice of their own Privy Council and in extraordinary cases by the compasse of the great Council consisting onely of spiritual and secular Barons whom they convoked by royal summons when they pleased I told you this word Parliament came in with the Norman yet the Commons were not call'd to Parliament till that raign of Henry the first which was a good while after the Conquest to which purpose Sir Walter Raleigh writes saying it is held that the Kings of England had no formal Parliaments till about the 18. year of Henry the first at which time the Commons were summoned and the great Charter was granted and if we believe Sir Walter Raleigh and others the House of Commons and Magna Charta had first but obscure births being sprung from userpers and fostered afterward by rebellion for King Henry the first did but usurp the Kingdome and therefore to secure himself the better against Robert his eldest brother he courted the the Commons and granted them that great Charter with Charta de Foresta which King John confirmed upon the same grounds for he was also an usurper Arthur Duke of Britain being the undoubted Heir of the Crown so the house of Commons and these great Charters had their original from such that were Kings de facto not de jure Polyander It is observed that usurpers are commonly the best Law makers which they do to ingratiate themselvs the more to the people as besides these Kings you have named Richard the third did who was said to be a good King though a bad man a character clean contrary to that I heard some abroad give of the last King who they said was a good man but an ill King but I pray be pleased to proceed Philanglus Whereas I told you before that it was in the raign of Henry the first that the people were admitted to the Common Council of the Kingdome yet they were not constantly called for though the said King called them to his Coronation and againe in the 15. or 18. year of his reign yet he did not so alwayes neither many of those Kings that succeeded Polyander I remember to have read one remarkable passage in the reign of Henry the first that in his third year for the marriage of his daughter he raised a tax upon every hide of Land but he did this by the advice of his Privy Council alone without consulting publiquely with either Prelate Peer or People Philanglus So did divers of his Antecessors and successors also after the Commons were admitted to partake of the Common Council But to illustrate this point further notwithstanding that the Commons were sought unto in Henry the first's time yet they were not constantly and formally sent unto till Henry the third in whose reign the Writs of Summons for elections were first issued but the succeeding Kings assum'd a power to regulate those Writs at pleasure by the sole advice of their Privy Council as we read in the time of Henry the sixth who was the first framer of that famous Ordinance Whereas Elections of Knights have been made with great outrages and excessive number of people of which most part was people of no value yet pretend a voice equivolent to worthy Knights and Esquires whereby many riots manslaughter and division among Gentlemen shal likely be Our Lord the King hath ordain'd that Knight of Shires be chosen by people dwelling in the Counties every one of them having lands or tenements to the value of 40 s. per annum at least and that he who is chosen be dwelling and resiant within the Counties where they are elected Polyander But did not the Kings of England reserve a power to except against any that came to Parliament Philanglus Mr. Camden speaking of the dignities of Barons saith that it was ordained and decreed in the reign of Henry the third that all those Earls and Barons unto whom the King himself vouchsafed to direct his Writs of Summons should come to his Parliament and no others And this rule Edward the first constantly observed and continued for as Câ—mden hath it that prudent King summoned alwaies those of ancient families and who were most wise to his Parliament and omitted their sons after their death if they were not answerable to their fathers in understanding in another place he saith select men for wisedom and worth among the Gentry were called to Parliament and their posterity omitted if they were defective herein Polyander If the King hath a power to except against a Nobleman from sitting in Parliament sure by an argument à majori ad minus he may do it against a Commoner Philanglus It should be so in reason and Queen Elizabeth who was so great a darling of her people did practise her power that way often But the modesty of the House of Commons was very great in former times for they did arrogate no more power then what the Kings Writ gave them they evaded matters of State as much as they could 13. of Edward the third a Parliament was called to consult of the domestick quiet the defence of the marches of Scotland and security of the Seas from enemies the Commons were desired their advise herein but they humbly desired not to be put to consult of things Queuâ—ils n'ont pas cognisance Things whereof they had no cognâ—sance In 21. of the same King the Commons being mov'd for their advice touching a prosecution of a war with France by an elegant speech of Justice Thorp after four days consultation they answered That their humble desire to the King was that he would be advised thereâ—n by the Lords being of more experience then themselves in such affairs In the 6. year of Richard the second the Parliament was call'd to consult whether the King should go in person to resâ—â— the great City of Gaâ—nt or send an Army the Commons being askâ—d their advice the humbly answered by Sir Thomas â—uckerinâ— their Speaker that the Councils of Waâ— did more aptly belong to the King and 〈◊〉 Lords The next year after the Commoâ— are willed to advise of the Articles 〈◊〉 peace with France but they modestly eâ—cuse themselves as too weak to counsell in â— weighty matâ—ers And being charged agaiâ— as they did tender the repute of the County and right of their King the humbly deâ—ivered their opinions ratheâ— for Peace then Warre such was the moderation and modesty of the house of Commons in former times that they declineâ— the agitation and cognizance of higâ— State affairs specially forraign humblâ— transferring them to their Soveraign anâ— his Vpper Council a Parliament maâ— then I mean a member of the Commons House thought to be the adequâ—â— object of his
preservation of his Person in imitation of the Parliament who had taken a kind of choice Praetoriaâ— band many moneths before for their safeguard though without the Kings consent The Northern men came cheerfully to this service wherewith the Parliament being not well pleas'd they interdicted all trade to Newcastle But I must make a step back when the King was return'd from Scotland he retir'd to Hampton Court yet upon the Lord Mayors and Cities solicitation hee came back to White-Hall to keep his Christmas But when the Bill against Bishops was in agitation which lasted above ten Months and was twice cast out of the House of Peers a crue of hold sturdy mechanicks Marriners and Tar-pawlings came from the City and ruffled again before White-hal and Westminster-hall and would have violated the Abbey of Westminster under the Parliaments Nose so that for many nights a Court of Guard was forc'd to be kept in the body of that Church The King finding such distempers still in the Parliament and knowing the chiefest Authors of them who he had impeach'd before but could get no justice against them in an ordinary way though he desir'd the Parliament to direct him in a course how to go on in the Empeachment in such extremity for desperate diseases requiring desperate cures He took the Palsgrave with him and making use of the next Coach he met withall at the Court gate he went to the House of Commons in person to demand five Members which he would prove to be Traytors in the highest degree and to be the fomenters of all these divisions protesting unto them upon the word of a King that they should have as fair and legal a Trial as ever men had in the interim he desir'd onely that their persons might be secur'd The Walls of both Houses and the very stones of London streets did seem to ring of this high carriage of the King and the sound thereof far and neer into the adjacent Countries whence the Plebeans by incitement of some of the Members came in whole Herds to the City and strutting up and down the streets had nothing in their mouths but Priviledge of Parliament Polyander Yet as I observ'd in your discourses before Queen Elizabeth though she was so popular and such a minion of Parliaments did the like and far higher things But now that you have given a touch of the Palsegrave I remember a Manifesto of that Parliament which they passed and published in favour of his restitution which was laughed and libelled at in Germany Philanglus 'T is true the King went in state one day to the Parliament in his behalfe where he clear'd unto them the whole business and because he doubted that Sir Thomas Roe his Embassadour should have but sorry success in the Diet which was then held in Germany in regard he understood of an Amnestia to come forth whence the Prince Palatine was excluded he desired the two Houses to joyn with him in a publique Manifâ—sto The Parliament did cheerfully approve hereof praying that Scotland would joyn with them The Manifesto consisted of two parts or protestations one against all Acts whatsoever that should passe in the Imperial Diet in the prejudice to the Palatine the other that the King and Parliament of great Britain were resolv'd to espouse his quarrel but this business was little thought of afterwards The King as I told you before having gone to the House of Commons himself to demand those Members it happened none of them were there but retir'd to London for refuge the House having had notice of the design from Marquis Hamilton who was us'd to reveal unto them whatsoever was intended at Court Polyander It may well be said then that the infortunate King had greater Traitors within dores then abroad but it concern'd Hamilton with Holland and others to keep in with the House because they were the chiefest Monopolizers specially the Earl of M. who in regard his son was so great a Zealot in the Upper House was permitted to keep a kind of Office to compound for his corruption and briberies whereof there were above forty prov'd against him yet he scap'd without any punishment at all or least mark of Infamy Philanglus Well Sir the Londoners grew stark wild when they heard of this attempt of the King and the Countries about specially Essex and Buckinghamshire men being incited by Hamden who was kill'd afterwards upon the same turf of earth where he call'd the people together came in great swarms to Town and joyning with the City and Suburbian rabble They brought the five Members the next day to the House in a kind of Triumph being guarded by water as wel as by land by such companions A little after sundry Troops of Countâ—y horse came and instead of Feathers or Ribands they carried a paper-Protestation in their Hats as the Londoners had done a little before upon their Pikes point Polyander I heard much of the said Protestation but I pray oblige me to tel what it was Philanglus It consisted of many parts being penn'd and enjoin'd by the Parliament for every one to take The first part was to maintain the true Protestant Religion against all Popish Innovations but no other The second was to maintain the Person Prerogative and honoâ— of the Kin The third The Priviledge and Power oâ— Parliament And lastly the prâ—priety and liberty of the Subject Polyander Where was the King during all these popular Riots Philanglus Rather then expose himself to such indignities and there being dark whispers of an attempt upon his Person he retir'd to Hampton Court thence to Windsor Castle whence having accompani'd the Queen and his eldest Daughter to the Sea-side for Holland and having commanded the Prince to attend him at Greenwich against his return the Prince had been surpriz'd and brought to London had the King stayed but a quarter of an hour longer Thence he remov'd to York where he sojourn'd all that Summer and among other things he sent for his Great Seal thither which rid Post and was pursued by the Parliament but not overtaken The King being setled at York the Parliament still move him to have the disposing of the Militia and not to be limited to any time which he denied for he was loth to be dis-arm'd and part with his sword Therefore he put forth his Commissions of Array according to the old Law of England as he alled'd which declares it to be the undoubted Right and Royal Signory of the King to arm or disarâ— any Subject The Parliament send out Counter-commands for the executing the said Militia so by this clashing 'twixt the Commission of Array and the Militia the first flash of that cruel and cruentous civil War may be said to have broke out A close Committee was appointed which was mix'd of Lords and Commons and I cannot tell how many Rural and subordinate Committees of mean mechanical men who stood higher a tip-toe in conventing Lords and Knights before them
but how was it possible for the King to subsist so long considering the mighty advantages the Parliament had of him Philanglus There were mighty advantages indeed For they had all the tenable places and Towns of strength both by Land and Sea They had all the Navy Royal They had the Tower of London with all the Ammunition and Arms of the Crown They had the Imposts and Customs Poundage and Tonnage they had the Exchequer at their devotion with the Revenues of King Queen and Prince They had the City of London which may be called the great Magazin of men and money where there is a ready supply of all things that may feed cloath or make them gay and gallant to put them in heart and resolution Polyander Then they had Sea City and Scot on their side But how came the Scot to be so against the King or to levy Armes without his Commission considering the late great Protestations and Oaths they had made not to do it by reviving the Act of Parliament to that effect which they said they did in recognition of those Royal recent favours and unparalleld mighty Concessions and Acts of grace which he had done them by their own Confessions Philanglus They were indeed mighty or rather monstrous Acts of grace that he had passed unto them which did so trench upon the Royal Prerogative and so deâ—ude him of all power that it mought have been said of him ever after that he was King of Scotland no otherwise then he was King of France titular only Polyander How did the Scots expresse their thankfulnesse to their King and Country-man afterwards for such transcedant favours Philanglus They proved the greatest Monsters of Ingratitude of any upon earth specially the Kirk-men whom he had obliged in an extraordinary manner For the King being informed of the mean condition of Church-men in that Kingdom who by their holy function have a care of the noblest part of man and being told what poor pittances or rather benevolences oneâ—y they had and for those also how they depended upon the will and pleasure of the Laic By a special Commission to that purpose he found a way not onely to augment but to ascertain those Salaries of Church Ministers upon good firm rent whereby they might be free from that servile kind of Clientele and Dependency they had upon their secular Patrons Polyander Questionlesse this was a mighty general advantage to the Clergy of Scotland both in point of esteem and subsistence but what returns did these royal favours receive Philanglus Those foolish Kirk men grew afterwards his greatest enemies by virulent seditious Preachments and Pasquils to corrupt and lessen the hearts of the Subjects towards him nay when he made himself a Prisoner to the Scots Army at Newark and Newcastle those Kirk-men did so little resent his hard condition that they did Preach up and down against his comming to Scotland c. Moreover Whereas The common sort of Freeholders who were bound to pay Tithes to the Impropriation or Lords of the Erection as they stil'd themselves were us'd to be much incommoded and oftentimes damnified because they could not take in their Corn till the secular Lord had fetched away his Tithe which he would sometimes delay of purpose to shew his Passion or Power whereby the whole Crop for not taking the advantage of the weather oft-times did suffer The King for relief of the Country Husbandman appointed certain Commissioners to take this grievance into consideration who after much pains taken in the businesse found out a legal and indifferent way to purchase those Tithes and bring the Impropriator to take a pecuniary set valuable Rent which was also an advantage to Him in regard of the certainty of it Polyander It was doubtlesse an advantage to both parties but how did they carry themselves towards the King afterwards Philanglus Just as the Kirk-men did But you shall hear more when the King as I told you before had in a full Parliament confirm'd unto the Scot all the priviledges of Kirk and Kingdom when he had made an oblation to them of all the Bishops Lands conferred many honours and offices and done them many other obliging Acts of Grace and all this gratis the English Parliaments using alwaies to answer their Kings favours in this kind with a supply of Treasure I say in having done all this gratis He before his departure desired them to continue their allegiance and live in peace for they had not now the least grievance to complain of and if any difference should fall out betwixt him and his English Subjects which he hoped God would avert He desir'd them not to intermeddle for whereas he might expect and demand aid of them if the case requir'd yet he would not trouble the repose of that his Native Countrey This they all did not onely promise to do but they did solemnly oblige their Souls thereunto by revival of the Act I told you of before at the publishing whereof one of their Grandees fell on his knees and lifting up both his Arms wish'd they might rot to his body before death if ever he would heave them up hereafter or draw sword against his gid King yet for all this they intruded themselves into the Kings affairs convok'd a Parliament without his summons sent Commissioners to Oxford and thrust themselves to be Vmpires They made besides a strict League with the English Parliament and at last rush'd into England again with an Army in the dead of Winter which Army they had levied not onely without but expresly against the Kings Commission and Countermands that wretch who had publickly vowed never to draw Sword again without his Majesties Commission c. comming General of the said Army But for Martial exploits the little credit that Army got by storming Newcastle was not countervailable to that which they lost before Hereford where the Welchmen bang'd them to some purpose from before the Town and made their General after 9 weeks siege to trusse up his pack and away sending him a fat Sow with a Litter of Piggs after her and a blew Bonnet upon her head for his Breakfast I must inform you farther that the King being reduced to much extremity in Oxford by crosse successes and Councils he got away in a Serving-mans disguise to the Scots Army neer Newark as his last refuge which plot was managed by the subtilety of the French Agent then residing here A man would have thought that Nation would have deemed it an eternal honour to have their own King and Country man to throw himselfe thus into their Armes and repose so singular a confidence in them upon such an exigent But they corresponded not with him as he expacted For though at first when the English Parliament sollicited their Dear Brethren for a delivery of the Kings Person unto them their note was then that if any stranger Prince had put himselfe so upon them they could not with honour deliver him
all the marks of Majesty nay they did arrogate to themselves the Legislative and Supreme power Polyander But doth not the Supreme Power reside â—n the English Parlement which is an Epiâ—ome and Representative of the whole Nation Philanglus I will not resolve you in that till I acquaint you with the Pedigree primitive institution of Parlement which I will endeavour to do as succinctly as I can but in regard that our Parlement was erected at first in imitation of the Assembly of the three Estates in France in which Government you are so well vers'd I pray do me the favour as give me a touch of the mode of France in those publick Assemblies and then I shall apply my self to satisfie you touching English Irish and Scots Parlements having in some measure studied the case Polyander In France the Kings Writ goeth to the Bayliffs Seneschals or Stewards of liberties who issue out warrants to all such ashave fees and lands within their Liberties as also to all Towns requiring all such as have any complaints to meet in the principal City there to choose Delegats in the name of the Province to be present at the generall Assembly Being met at the principal City of the Bayliwick the Kings Writ is read and so the Delegates are elected and sworn Then they consult what is to be complained of and fit to be proposed to the King whereof there is an Index or Catalogue made which is delivered to the Delegats to carry to the General Assembly All the Bayliwicks are divided to twelve Classes but to avoid confusion and to the end there may not be too great a delay in the Assembly by gathering of the voyces or suffrages every Classis compiles a brief or Book of the grievances and demands of all the Bayliwicks within that Classis then these Classes at the Assembly compose one general Book of the grievances and demands of the whole Kingdome This being the order of the proceeding of the Comminalty or third Estate the like order is observed by the Clergy and Nobility so when the three books or Cahiers as they call them for the three Estates are perfected then they present them to the King by their Presidents in the open great Assemby The first who presents the Cahiers is the President of the Clergy who begins his Harang or Oration on his knees but at the Kings command he stands up and â—o proceeds bareheaded The President â—or the Nobility speaks next in the like manner But the President for the Commons begins and ends his Oration on his knees whilst the President of the Clergy speaks the rest of that order rise up stand bare till they are bid by the King to sit down and be covered and so the like for the Nobility but whilst the President for the Comminalty speaks the rest are neither bid to fit or to be covered The grievances and demands being thus all delivered at once and left to the King and his Privy Councel without further debate or expence of time the General Assembly of the three Estates endeth expecting afterwards such a redresse to their grievances as the King and his Councel shall think fit Philanglus These proceedings of France are not much unlike the ancient usage of this Kingdome for many ages when all Laws were nothing else but the Kings answers to the Petitions presented to him and his Councel as is apparent by many old Statutes and the confession of Sir Edwarâ— Coke and now to acquit my self of my former engagement unto you I will impart unto you the manner and power oâ— the Parlements of Great Brittain and Ireland I confesse 't is more properly the businesse of a Lawyer which I am none otherwise then what nature hath madâ— me so every man is a Lawyer and 〈◊〉 Logitian also who was the first Lawyer as he is born the child of reason foâ— Law and Logic are meerly founded upon reason This discoursive faculty of Reason comes with us into the world accompanied with certain general notions and natural principles to distinguish right from wrong and falshood from truth But before I come to the English Parlement a word or two of the Parlementâ— of Scotland and Ireland In Scotland about three weeks before the Parlement begins Proclamation is made throughout the Kingdome to deliver unto the Kings Clerk or Master of the Rols all bils to be exhibited that Sessions then are they brought to the King and perused by him and only such as he allows are put in the Chancelors hand to be proponed in Parliament and no others and if any man in Parlement speak of any other matter then is formerly allowed by the King the Chancelor tels him there is no such bill allowed by the King When they have passed them for laws they are presented to the King who with the Scepter put into his hand by the Chancelor ratifies them but if there be any thing the King mislikes they raze it out before The Parlement in Ireland is after this manner No Parlement is to be held but at such a season as the Kings Deputy there doth certifie the King under the Great Seal of the land of the causes considerations and necessity of a Parlement The causes being approved of by the King a Licence is sent under the broad Seal of England to summon a Parlement in Ireland provided that all such bils that shall be proposed there in Parlement be first transmitted hither under the Great Seal of that Kingdome and having received allowance and approbation here they shall be put under the Great Seal of this Kingdome and so return'd thither to be passed in that Parlement this was called Poinings Act in the time of King Philip and Mary Having thus given a concise account of the usage of Parlement in our neighbour Kingdomes I will now passe to that of England Every Freeholder who hath a voice in the election of Knights Citizens and Burgesses to sit in Parlement ought to know well and consider with what power he trusts those whom he chooseth in regard the power of the House of Commons is derived from that trust Now that which gives authoritie for the Freeholders to make their election is the Kings Writ directed to the Sheriff of the County in which is expressed not only the Sheriffs duty in point of summoning but the Writ contains also the duty and power of such Knights and Burgesses that shall be elected therefore to know the full extent of the power of Parlement you must have an eye and observe well the words of the Writ for the Freeholders cannot transfer a greater power then is compriz'd in the Writ to those that they appoint their servants in Parlement The Writ being us'd to be in Latin few Freeholders God wot understood it or knew what they did I will faithfully render the said Writ to you in English The King to the Vicount or Sheriff Greeting WHereas by the advice and assent of our Council for
to the King to make him the best beloved that ever was I thought that before his going to Scotland he had redress'd all grievances by those Acts of Grace you spoke of before Philanglus So he had and he rested not there but complid further with the house by condescending to an Act for putting down the Star Chamber Court the High Commission Court the Court of Honor nay he was contented that his Privy Councel shouâ—d be regulated and his Forests bounded not according to ancient Prerogative but late custom nay further he passed a Bill for the unvoting and utter exclusion of the spiritual Lords from the Parliament for ever Add hereunto that having placed two worthy Gentlemen Lievâ—enants of the Tower he remov'd them one after another to content the House and put in one of their election Lastly he trusted them with his Navy Royal and call'd home at their motion Sir I. Pennington who had then the guard of the narrow Seas Polyander I never remember to have heard or read of such notable Concessions from any King but how came the Bishops to be so tumbled out Philanglus The City rabble were still conniv'd at to be about Westminster Hall where they offered some out-rages to the Bishops as they went into the House hereupon they presented a Petition to the King and Parliament that they might be secur'd to repair thither to discharge their duties according to the Laws of the Land In which Petition there was a protest or Caveat that no Act should passe or be valid without them This Petition both for matter and form was much excepted against and cried up to be high Treason so twelve of the old Bishops were hurried to the Tower but some of the knowingest Lawyers being considered withall whether this was Treason in the Bishops or no they answered that it might be called Adultery as much as Treason so after many moneths imprisonment the charge of Treason being declin'd against them they were releas'd in the morning but coop'd up again in the afternoon then they were restored to a conditional liberty touching their persons but to be eternalâ—y excluded out of the house which made one of them in a kind of Prophetick way to tell one of the Temporalâ—Peers my Lord you see how we are voted out of the House and the next turn will be yours which proved true Polyander I remember when I was at York a Gentleman shewed me a fair old manuscript of some things passed in Henry the eighths time and one passage among the rest sticks in my memory how Cardinal Wolsey being sick at Leicâ—ster the King sent Sir Joâ—n Kingston to comfort him to whom he answered Oh! Sir John 't is too late to receive any earthly comfort but remember my most humble allegeance to the King and tell him this story from a dying man The Bohemians repining at the Hierarchy of the Church put down Bishops but what followed then the Comunalty insulted over the Nobility and afterwards the King himself was depoâ—â—d so the government grew a while to be meerly popular but then it turned from a Successive to be an Elective Kingdom This said he will be the fate of Eng. unless the King bear up the reverence â—ue to the Church and so I pray God that his Majesty may find more mercy at the tribunal of Heaven then I have upon the Earth But pray Sir be pleas'd to proceed Philanglus The Parliament having the Navy at their disposing which they found to be in a good equipage gramercy Ship money and having chosen the Earl of Warwick Commander in Chief notwithstanding the King excepted against him They demand all the Land Souldiers and Military strength of the Kingdom to be managed by them and to be put in what posture and under what Commanders they pleased But the King answered that he would consider of this and it was the first thing that he ever denied them yet at last he was contented to grant them this also for a limitted time but that would not serve the turn Hereupon growing sensible how they inched every day more and more upon the Royal Preroâ—ative He thought 't was high time for him to look to himself And intending with some of his menial servants onely to go to Hull to see a Magazin of ammunition which he had bought with his own treasure he was in a hostile manner kept out the Gates shut Cannons mounted Pistols cocked and levelled at him and there the Kings party said the war first began Polyander A hard destiny it was for a King to lose the love of his subjects in that manner and to fall a clashing with his great Council but under favour that demand of the Militia was somewhat too high for every natural Prince and supream Governour hath an inherent and inalienable right in the common strength of the Country for though the peoples love be a good Cittadel yet there must be a concurrence of some outward visible force besides which no Earthly power may dispose of without his command and for him to transmit this power to any other specially to any that he mistrusts is the onely way to render him inglorious unsafe and despicable both at home and abroad you know in the Fable when the Lion parted with his paws and the Eagle with her talons how contemptible the one grew among all beasts and the other among birds The Scepter and the Crown are but bables without a sword to support them There 's none so simple as to think ther 's meant hereby an ordinary single sword such as every one carrieth at his side no t is the publique Polemical sword of the whole Kingdom 't is an aggregative compound sword and 't is moulded of Bellmettle for 't is made up of all the Ammunition and Arms small and great of all the Military strength both by Land and Sea of all the Forts Castles and tenable places within and without the whole Country The Kings of England have had this sword by vertue of their Royal Signory as the Law faith from all times the Prerogative hath girded it to their sides they have employed it for repelling of forraign force for revenging of all National wrongs or affronts for quelling all intestine tumults The people were never capable of this sword the sundamental constitutions of this Land deny 〈◊〉 them 'T is all one to put a sword in a mad mans hand as in the peoples Now under favor the Supream Governor cannot transfer this sword to any other for that were to desert the protection of his people which is point blank against his oath and office but I crave your pardon again that I have detained you so long from the pursuit of your former discourse Philanglus The King being so shut out of one Town I mean Kingston upon Hull he might suspect that an attempt might be made to shut him in within some other Therefore be made a motion to the York-shire Gentlemen to have a guard for the