Decemviri there is some Claudius Appius that seek their own revenges we complain of Loans and Impositions but when Deputy Lieutenants may send warrants to imprison our persons at pleasure if we pay not what they sent for it concern us to preserve the Country in Freedom and to consider of this kind of people There is now necessity brought in for an argument all know that necessity is an armed man and that necessity is an evil Councellor I would we had never known that Council we are almost grown like the Turks who send their Janizaries who place the Halberd at the door and there he is master of the house We have Soldiers billetted and warrants to collect money which if they do not the Soldiers must come and rifle The Romans sending one into Spain found no greater complaint then the discontent that did arise from Soldiers placed amongst them I would you would look into Fortescue where he puts the Prince in minde what misery he saw where Soldiers were put upon the people But saith he No man is forced to take Soldiers but Inns and they to be paid by them I desire we resort to his Majesty for redress and to reduce all into bounds The other way of Grievance is a Judgement in a legal course of proceeding we have had three Judgements of late times all exceeding one another in prejudice of the Subject The first was That that was judged in all formality the Postnati Case which people I honor for we finde many of them love us more then we do our selves I do not complain of it but onely mention it The other Judgement was for Impositions which was given in the Exchequer and this House two times after damned that Judgement how remiss our eyes are upon that I grieve to see There is a Judgement if I may so call it a fatal Judgement against the Liberty of the Subject Mich. 3. Car. in Sir Iohn Heveninghams case argued at the Bar and pronounced but by one alone I can live although another without title be put to live with me nay I can live although I pay Excises and Impositions for more then I do but to have my liberty which is the soul of my life taken from me by power and to be pent up in a Goal without remedy by Law and this to be so adjudged to perish in Goal O Improvident Ancestors Oh unwise forefathers to be so curious in providing for the quiet possession of our Lands and Liberties of Parliament and to neglect our persons and bodies and to let them die in prison and that durante beneplacito remediless If this be Law what do we talk of our Liberties why do we trouble our selves with the dispute of Law Franchises Propriety of goods It is the Summa totalis of all miseries I will not say it was erroneous but I hope we shall speak our minds when that Judgment comes here to be debated What may a man call his if not Liberty Having passed in some confusion in the fashion of my deâ—â—very I conclude We will consider two particulars his Majesty and his People his Majesty cals to us and craves our assistance to revive again his Honor and the Honor of the Nation The people send us as we hope with that direction that we shall return to them with that Olive-branch that assurance of being free from those calamities under which they can hardly breathe Our sins have brought on us those miseries let us all bring our Portion to make up the wall we come with Loyal hearts his Majesty shall find that it is we that are his faithfull Councellors let all Sycophants be far removed from his Majesty since we cannot help this Majesty without opening our Grievances let us discharge our duties therein yet while we seek Liberty we will not forget Subjection all things a State can be capable of either blessings or punishments depend on this meeting if any think the King may be supplied and the Commonwealth preserved without redress of Grievances he is deceived The Kings of England were never more glorious then when they trusted their Subjects let us make all haste to do the Errand for which we came let the House consider to prepare our Grievances fit for his Majesties view not to make a Law to give us new Liberties but Declaratory with respective Penalties so that those which violate them if they would be vile they should fear infamy with men and then we shall think of such a Supply as never a Prince received and with our monies we shall give him our hearts and give him a new people raised from the dead Then I hope this Parliament will be entituled The Parliament of wonders and Gods judgements diverted and these beams of goodness shall give us life and we shall go home to our Countries and leave our Posterity as free as our Ancestors left us But this day as also the two next dayes Debate produced no Resolutions the time being spent in a general opening of Grievances from all parts of the Kingdom Monday 24 March Secretary Cook renewed the motion of Supplies for his Majesty yet so that Grievances be likewise taken into Consideration We all think fit said he that both these go hand in hand together but let me put you in mind of that which concerns the King let him have the precedency of honor if not of time let the heads of the Kings Supply first be propounded this will be an honor to the King and will do service to the House the end of this Parliament is the subsistence of the King as he himself hath declared and such a Command is not to be slighted the King himself propounded it and then he will agree with us in other requests that are fit for a King to give we that have the happiness to attend his Majesty can tell you that no King is more ready to hear the complaints of his Subjects and withal you know no King is more sensible of all reproaches which touch his Honor. Will it not be fit to grant him this Honor to have the Precedency It was the Speech of an ancient Parliament man Let us deal gently with our King by these Laws that we make we do bind our selves and it is an addition of his power None that dies but leaves his heir to the favor of the King none that lives but needs the favor of the King we having made our first union with God it is next intended that we be at one with our King is it not fit we be at peace with our Head his Majesty desires it and expects it After this unity with our head there is consideration to be had of unity with our selves after this we shall be all knit in one body we shall all pronounce clearly Shiboleth and we shall consider of the Grievances and irregularities of the times which none desires to be reformed more then his Majesty and those whom you think most averse Let us take
7 years ago yet remained there in the Prison still attended with two women servants and one man servant who as it was suspected had continued with him ever since the Gunpowder Treason 1605. The keeping there by himself apart from the Keeper of the Prison and had for his Lodging three or four several Chambers part of the Bishop of Winchesters House into which there was a passage made through the Prison yard no other entrance in or out of the same being discovered and he affirmed That he had a Warrant or Licence from the Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury for his residence there with liberty freely for himself and all Company that would resort to him thither There was found in his Chamber five or six Cart-loads of Books set up with Shelves as in a Library or Book-sellers shop supposed to be worth Two thousand pounds at least besides which it was affirmed by the Keeper of the Prison that he had a far greater Library abroad for which the Keepers Examination was taken before Sir Edm. Bower and Sir George Paul Knights Justices of Surrey wherein it was said that Preston is either licenced warranted or protected by the Bishop of Canterbury Durham or Winchester to that effect There were also found two Altars ready furnished for Masse one more publick in an upper Chamber the other more private in a Study many rich Copes Surplices Wax-candles Crosses Crucifixes very rich Beads Jewels Chains Chalices of Silver and of Gold five or six Bags of money which were not opened and loose money to the quantity of 100 l. lay thrown up and down in his Desk abundance of Manuscripts and a Packet of Letters bound up together with a thread In Cannon's Chamber was found an Altar ready furnished with many Plates Jewels Church-stuff and many rich Pictures divers Letters and Manuscripts Wax-candles and other such Popish materials a great deal of his Chamber being shelved about and full of Books in one of his Studies also there wee Books set in order upon shelves as in Preston's Chamber to a great value and a private altar furnished for Mass his Hallowed bread ready fitted and his Holy water which Cannon himself cast out into the chimney In another Study of Cannon's were found great store of curious Tools and Engines to work withal three Swords or Rapiers one Pistol and a Fowling-peece Amongst other things were found Pictures of Queen Elizabeth King Iames Queen Anne and King Charls the taking whereof being set apart with other stuff to be removed did exceedingly move the Priest to impatience Of whom also it is to be noted that he had in his custody all the Keepers Warrants for Commitment of his Prisoners which were found in his Chamber together with some store of Plate which he said was by him kept for the Keepers wife In Warrington's Chamber were found Books Beads Boxes of Oil for Extreme Unction and such like trash but the wall thereof was broken down into another house adjoining to the Prison through which it is conceived that all the rest of Warrington's Provision was conveyed away in the interim of the search made in the two former Chambers The fourth Priest named Prator was first committed to Gloucester-Goal being suspected to be the Archbishop of those parts and lay there till Lent-Assizes last drew on but for fear of the severity of the Laws as Davison and the Keeper did affirm a Warrant was procured by the Papists for his remove from Gloucester to the Clink where he was found a Prisoner It was informed by the Keeper that this Prator brought up from Gloucester a Gentlewoman who lies in a Chamber next adjoining to his Lodging and that he paid Two shillings six pence a week for her Chamber and maintained a Maid-servant to attend her It is supposed that this Prison is her protection from the lawful proceedings that might be had against her in the Country for Recusancie In the Porters Chamber were found seven or eight Popish Books In the Keepers Lodging was found a Closet or Study wherein store of Writings Letters and long Catalogues of Books were found with their several prices one rich Picture or Crucifix a Picture of Mary Magdalen of which two the Keeper affirmed that one of them cost thirty pounds and also many other rich Pictures amongst which one was a Picture of an old Priest named Collington of whom Cannon affirmed in scoffing manner that that mans beard had done King Iames more hurt then an Army of ten thousand men could have done Prestons servants being one man two maids the Gentlewoman that came from Gloucester and her servant and the Keeper himself and Robert Davison his man were all examined before the said Justices During the Marshals tarrying in the Clink it was observed that both Preston and Cannon used all the means they could to have notice of the matter then in hand given to the Lord of Canterbury and were very pensive until they perceived he had notice of it Whereupon they expressed much joy being assured as they said that then there should be nothing removed out of the house And it came to pass accordingly For whilest the Marshal and his servants were in the search of the third Chamber and had locked up divers other Chambers wherein as it was informed there was store of Wealth Church-stuffe Books and other matters which would have been found if the search had been prosecuted A countermand was brought from the Archbishop and Master Attorney whereby the proceeding of that business was staid and the Marshal was forbidden to remove or take away any thing so much as a paper The Keeper and his wife and the Priests did grievously threaten the Marshal and all his Assistants with very high tearms especially with Arrests and Imprisonments for their attempt in this service one of them saying that they should be imprisoned as once one Harrison a Messenger who for performing the like service in the Clink was committed to the Marshalsey and kept there three years until in the end he was discharged by an Order in the Parliament as is credibly reported Furthermore it is also humbly informed by the said Marshal That upon the twenty second of March last by a like Warrant from the Lord Conway he did search the Bishops Prison called the New Prison in maiden-Maiden-lane in London where he found six several Priests Prisoners in several Chambers an Altar with all Furniture thereto belonging with Church-Books and stuff which were as much as three Porters could carry away and it is now in the hands of the Lord Conway of which service if this Honourable House will call for a more particular Accompt the Marshal is ready to give further satisfaction He humbly prayeth the Honourable favour of this House for his encouragement and further abilities to the like services Archbishop of Canterbury's Letter in behalf of the Priests in the Clink directed to Master Attorney-General Good Mr. Attorney I Thank you for acquainting me what was done yesterday at
absurd and unreasonable thing to send a Prisoner to a Roman Emperor and not to write along with him the Cause alledged against him send therefore no man a Prisoner without his causes along with him Hoc fac vives and that was the first reason a tuto that it was not safe for the King in regard of Loss to commit men without a Cause The second Reason is That such commitments will destroy the endeavors of all men Who will endeavor to imploy himself in any profession either of War Merchandise or of any liberal knowledge if he be but Tenant at will of his Liberty for no Tenant at will will support or improve any thing because he hath no certain estate Ergo to make men Tenants at will of their Liberties destroys all industry and endeavors whatsoever And so much for these six principal Reasons A re ipsa A minore ad majus A remediis From the extent and universality From the infiniteness of the time A fine Loss of Honor. Loss of Profit Loss of Security Loss of Industry These were his Reasons Here he made another Protestation That if remedy had been given in this Case they would not have medled therewith by no means but now that remedy being not obtained in the Kings Bench without looking back upon any thing that hath been done or omitted they desire some provision for the future onely And here he took occasion to adde four Book Cases and Authorities all in the Point saying That if the learned Councel on the other side could produce but one against the Liberties so pat and pertinent oh how they would hug and cull it 16. H. 6. tit monstrance de faits 82. by the whole Court the King in his Presence cannot command a man to be arrested but an action of false imprisonment lieth against him that arresteth if not the King in his royal Presence then none others can do it Non sic itur ad astra 1. Hen. 7.4 Hussey reports the opinion of Markham chief Justice to Edw. 4. that he could not imprison by word of mouth and the reason because the party hath no remedy for the Law leaves every man a remedy of causless imprisonment he added that Markham was a worthy Judge though he fell into adversities at last by the Lord Rivers his means Fortescue Chap. 8. Proprio ore nullus Regum usus est to imprison any man c. 4. Eliz. Times blessed and renowned for Justice and Religion in Pl. 235. the common Law hath so admeasured the Kings Prerogative as he cannot prejudice any man in his inheritance and the greatest inheritance a man hath is the liberty of his Person for all others are accessary to it for thus he quoted the Orator Major haereditas venit unicuique nostrum a Jure legibus quam a parentibus And these are the four Authorities he cited in this point Now he propounded and answered two Objections First in point of State Secondly in the Course held by the House of Commons May not the Privy Councel commit without cause shewed in no matter of State where secrecie is required would not this be an hinderance to his Majesties service It can be no prejudice to the King by reason of matter of State for the cause must be of a higher or lower nature if it be for suspicion of Treason misprision of Treason or Felony it may be by general words couched if it be for any other thing of smaller nature as contempt and the like the particular cause must be shewed and no individuum vagum or uncertain cause to be admitted Again if the Law be so clear as you make it why needs the Declaration and Remonstrance in Parliament The Subject hath in this Case sued for remedy in the Kings Bench by Habeas Corpus and found none therefore it is necessary to be cleared in Parliament And here ends his Discourse And then he made a recapitulation of all that had been offered unto their Lordships That generally their Lordships had been advised by the most faithful Counsellors that can be dead men these cannot be daunted by fear nor muzled by affection reward or hope of preferment and therefore their Lordships might safely believe them particularly their Lordships had three several kinds of Proofs 1. Acts of Parliament judicial Precedents good Reasons First you have had many ancient Acts of Parliament in the Point besides Magna Charta that is seven Acts of Parliament which indeed are thirty seven Magna Charta being confirmed thirty times for so often have the Kings of England given their royal Assents thereunto 2. Judicial Precedents of grave and reverend Judges in terminis terminantibus that long since departed the world and they were many in number Precedents being twelve and the Judges four of a Bench made four times twelve and that is forty eight Judges 3. You have as he tearmed them vividas rationes manifest and apparent Reasons Towards the conclusion he declared to their Lordships That they of the House of Commons have upon great study and serious Consideration made a great manifestation unanimously Nullo contradicente concerning this great liberty of the Subject and have vindicated and recovered the Body of this fundamental Liberty both of their Lordships and themselves from shadows which sometimes of the day are long sometimes short and sometimes long again and therefore we must not be guided by shadows and they have transmitted to their Lordships not capita rerum Heads or Briefs for these compendia are dispendia but the Records at large in terminis terminantibus and so he concluded that their Lordships are involved in the same danger and therefore ex congruo condigno they desired a Conference to the end their Lordships might make the like Declaration as they had done Commune periculum commune requirit auxilium and thereupon take such further course as may secure their Lordships and them and all their Posterity in enjoying of their ancient undoubted and fundamental Liberties The two next days were spent in the Debate about Billeting of Soldiers upon the Subject against Law THursday the 10. of April Mr. Secretary Cook delivered this Message from the King That his Majesty desireth this House not to make any recess these Easter Holidays that the world may take notice how earnest his Majesty and we are for the publique affairs in Christendom the which by such a recess would receive interruption THis Message for non-recess was not well pleasing to the House SIr Robert Phillips first resented it and took notice That in 12. and 18. Iac. upon the like intimation the House resolved it was in their power to adjourn or sit hereafter said he this may be put upon us by Princes of less Piety let a Committee consider hereof and of our right herein and to make a Declaration And accordingly this matter touching his Majesties pleasure about the recess was referred to a Committee and to consider
Exposition I apprehend must be made of the proposed words being added to our Petition And therefore I conclude that in my opinion we may not consent to this Addition which I submit to better Judgements The Commons afterwards appointed Mr. Glanvile and Sir Henry Martin to manage another Conference to be had with the Lords concerning the said matter and to clear the Sense of the Commons in that point the one argued the Legal the other the Rational part and though the matter delivered by the length of it may seem tedious to the Reader and some matters spoken of before repeated again yet if the Reader observe the Language and Stile as well as the subject Matter perhaps it will be no penance unto him Mr. Glanviles Speech in a full Committee of both Houses of Parliament 23. May 1628. in the Painted Chamber at Westminster MY Lords I have in charge from the Commons House of Parliament whereof I am a Member to express this day before your Lordships some part of their clear sense touching one point that hath occurred in the great Debate which hath so long depended in both Houses I shall not need many words to induce or state the question which I am to handle in this free Conference The subject matter of our meeting is well known to your Lordships I will therefore onely look so far back upon it and so far recollect summarily the proceedings it hath had as may be requisite to present clearly to your Lordships considerations the nature and consequence of that particular wherein I must insist Your Lords may be pleased to remember how that the Commons in this Parliament have framed a Petition to be presented to his Majesty a Petition of Right rightly composed relating nothing but truth desiring nothing but Justice a Petition justly occasioned a Petition necessary and fit for these times a Petition founded upon solid and substantial grounds the Laws and Statutes of this Realm sure Rocks to build upon a Petition bounded within due limits and directed upon right ends to vindicate some lawful and just Liberties of the free Subjects of this Kingdom from the prejudice of violations past and to secure them from future innovations And because my following discourse must reflect chiefly if not wholly upon the matter of this Petition I shall here crave leave shortly to open to your Lordships the distinct parts whereof it doth consist and those are four The first concerns Levies of Moneys by way of Loans or otherwise for his Majesties supply Declaring that no man ought and praying that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any Gift Loan Benevolence Tax or such like Charge without common consent by Act of Parliament 3. The second is concerning that Liberty of Person which rightfully belongs to the Free Subjects of this Realm expressing it to be against the 〈◊〉 of the Laws and Statutes of the Land that any Freeman should be imprisoned without cause shewed and then reciting how this Liberty amongst others hath lately been infringed it concludeth with a just and necessary desire for the better clearing and allowance of this priviledge for the future 3. The third declareth the unlawfulness of billeting or placing Soldiers or Mariners to sojourn in Free Subjects houses against their wills and prayeth remedy against that grievance 4. The fourth and last aimeth at redress touching Commissions to proceed to the Tryal and Condemnation of Offenders and causing them to be executed and put to death by the Law Marshal in times and places when and where if by the Laws and Statutes of the Land they had deserved death by the same Laws and Statutes also they might and by none other ought to be adjudged and executed This Petition the careful House of Commons not willing to omit any thing pertaining to their duties or that might advance their moderate and just ends did heretofore offer up unto your Lordships consideration accompanied with an humble desire That in your Nobleness and Justice you would be pleased to joyn with them in presenting it to his Majesty that so coming from the whole Body of the Realm the Peers and People to him that is the Head of both our Gracious Soveraign who must crown the Work or else all our labour is in vain it might by your Lordships concurrence and assistance finde the more easie passage and obtain the better answer Your Lordships as your maner is in cases of so great importance were pleased to debate and weigh it well and thereupon you propounded to us some few amendments as you termed them by way of alteration alledging that they were onely in matters of form and not of substance and that they were intended to none other end but to sweeten the Petition and make it the more passable with his Majesty In this the House of Commons cannot but observe that fair and good respect which your Lordships have used in your proceedings with them by your concluding or Voting nothing in your House until you had imparted it unto them whereby our meetings about this business have been justly stiled Free Conferences either party repairing hither disingaged to hear and weigh the others Reasons and both Houses coming with a full intention upon due consideration of all that can be said on either side to joyn at last in resolving and acting that which shall be found most just and necessary for the honor and safety of his Majesty and the whole Kingdom And touching those propounded alterations which were not many your Lordships cannot but remember that the House of Commons have yielded to an accommodation or change of their Petition in two particulars whereby they hope your Lordships have observed as well as ye may they have not been affected unto words or phrases nor over-much abounding in their own sense but rather willing to comply with your Lordships in all indifferent things For the rest of your proposed amendments if we do not misconceive your Lordships as we are confident we do not your Lordships of your selves have been pleased to relinquish them with a new overture for one onely Clause to be added in the end or foot of the Petition whereby the work of this day is reduced to one simple head whether that Clause shall be received or not This yielding of the Commons in part unto your Lordships of other points by you somewhat insisted upon giveth us great assurance that our ends are one and putteth us in hope that in conclusion we shall concur and proceed unanimously to seek the same ends by the same means The clause propounded by your Lordships to be added to the Petition is this WE humbly present this Petition to your Majesty not onely with a care for preservation of our Liberties but with a due regard to leave intire that Soveraign Power wherewith your Majesty is trusted for the Protection Safety and Happiness of your People A clause specious in shew and smooth in words but in effect and consequence most
things better yet certainly the state and condition of the several parts for which we serve their dispositions and inclinations their apprehensions their fears and jealousies are best known unto us and here I pray your Lordships to give me leave to use the Figure called Reticentia that is to insinuate and intimate more then I mean to speak Our chief and principal end in this Parliament is to make up all Rents and Breaches between the King and his Subjects to draw them and knit them together from that distance whereof the world abroad takes too much notice to work a perfect union and reconciliation how unproperly and unapt at this time this Addition will be in respect of this end we cannot but foresee and therefore shun it and do resolve that it is neither agreeable to the Persons of such Counsellors of whom we are nor answerable to that Love and Duty which we owe to his Majesty to hazard an end of such unspeakable consequence upon the admittance of this Addition into our Petition whereof as we have shewed the omission at this time can by no means harm the Kings Prerogative the expression may produce manifold inconveniences and therefore since this admittance of your Lordships Addition into our Petition is incoherent and incompatible with the body of the same since there is no necessary use of it for the saving of the Kings Prerogative since the moderation of our Petition deserveth your Lordships cheerful conjunction with us since this Addition is unseasonable for the time and inconvenient in respect of the place where your Lordships would have it inserted and lastly may prove a disservice to his Majesty I conclude with a most affectionate Prayer to your Lordships to conclude with the House of Commons in presenting this Petition to his Sacred Majesty as it is without this Addition Monday 26. of May The Lord Keeper made this Speech at a Conference Gentlemen YE that are Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons I have many times this Parliament by Command from my Lords declared the great zeal and affection which my Lords have to maintain and nourish the good Concurrence and Correspondency which hath hitherto continued between both Houses that there might be a happy issue in this great business for the common good of the King and Kingdom Now that which I have to say this day from my Lords is to let you know this fair proceeding is not a profession of words onely but really and indeed concerning the Petition which hath been long in agitation as the weight of the cause required since the last Conference my Lords have taken it into their serious and instant consideration and at length are faln upon a Resolution which I am to acquaint you with The Lords have unanimously agreed with you in omnibus and have voted that they will joyn with you in your Petition with the onely alterations of the word means to be put in stead of the word pretext and for the word unlawful to be put out and in place thereof to adde not warrantable by the Laws and Statutes of the Realm which two alterations your selves consented unto So that concerning this business there remains nothing now but that ye having the Petition in your hands will if ye have not already vote it as they have done and so prepare it for his Majesty and my Lords will take order that the King be moved for a speedy access to present the same to his Majesty And after some pause he said There rests one thing which my Lords have commanded me to adde that in regard this Petition toucheth upon certain Charges raised by the Lords Lieutenants and other Persons many times for good use for the service and safety of the Kingdom That ye take it into your Care and Consideration and to provide a Law for assessing of such Charges as the occasion of the time shall require The Lords and Commons being thus happily accorded the Petition with the aforesaid amendments was read in the House two several times together Then it was Voted upon question and that it should be ingrossed and read the third time and the House to sit in the afternoon till it was ingrossed and read and ordered to be presented to the King to which there was not a negative Vote And the Bill of Subsidie was also read the second time and committed Wednesday 28 May the Lords and Commons had a Conference about the maner of delivery of the Petition and Sir Edward Cook reported That their Lordships were agreed that no Addition or Preface be used to the King but that the Petition be preferred to his Majesty by command of the Lords and Commons and his Majesty be desired that to the content of his People he would be pleased to give his gracious Answer in full Parliament About this time Mr. Rouse brought in a Charge against Doctor Ed. Manwaring which some days after was seconded with a Declaration Mr. Speaker I Am to deliver from the Committee a Charge against Mr. Manwaring a Preacher in Divinity but a man so Criminous that he hath turned his Titles into Accusations for the better they are the worse is he that dishonors them Here is a great Charge that lies upon him it is great in it self and great because it hath many great Charges in it Serpens qui serpentem devorat fit draco his Charge having digested many Charges into it becomes a Monster of Charges The main and great one is this Plot and Practise to alter and subvert the Frame and Fabrick of this Estate and Commonwealth This is the great one and it hath others in it that gives it more light To this end 1. He labors to infuse into the Conscience of his Majesty the perswasion of a power not bounding it self with Laws which King James of famous Memory calls in his Speech to the Parliament Tyranny yea Tyranny accompanied with Perjury 2. He endeavors to perswade the Conscience of the Subjects that they are bound to obey Commands illegal yea he damns them for not obeying them 3. He robs the Subjects of the propriety of their Goods 4. He brands them that will not lose this propriety with most scandalous Speeches and odious Titles to make them both hateful to Prince and People so to set a division between the Head and the Members and between the Members themselves 5. To the same end not much unlike to Faux and his fellows he seeks to blow up Parliaments and Parliamentary Powers The fifth being duly viewed will appear to be so many Charges and they make up all the great and main Charge a mischievous Plot to alter and subvert the frame and government of this State and Common-wealth And now though you may be sure that Mr. Manwaring leaves us no propriety in our Goods yet he hath an absolute propriety in this Charge here himself making up his own Charge Here he read several Passages out of his Book and then