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A67877	The history of the troubles and tryal of the Most Reverend Father in God and blessed martyr, William Laud, Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. [vol. 2 of the Remains.] wrote by himself during his imprisonment in the Tower ; to which is prefixed the diary of his own life, faithfully and entirely published from the original copy ; and subjoined, a supplement to the preceding history, the Arch-Bishop's last will, his large answer to the Lord Say's speech concerning liturgies, his annual accounts of his province delivered to the king, and some other things relating to the history.	Laud, William, 1573-1645.; Wharton, Henry, 1664-1695.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rome's masterpiece.	1700 (1700)	Wing L596; ESTC R354	287,973	291

it be denied And therefore our humble Suit to Your Lordship is That by Your good furtherance we may receive the Opinion of the Honourable Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council what shall be done in the Premisses And whether Mr. Mayor shall be freed of all Danger for not setting a Watch in these troublesom Times or not And so craving Pardon for our so often troubling You we remember our Humble Service to Your Lordship and render many Thanks always remaining Oxon June 24. 1640. Your Lordship 's to be commanded John Smith Mayor William Potter John Nixon Thomas Smith Leo. Bowman John Sare William Charles Humphrey Whistler Henry Southam Martin Wright Roger Griffin Walter Cave Bailiffs William Poole Bailiffs SIR THE Mayor of Oxford hath lately sent these two Letters above written one to the Lords of the Council and the other to the Earl of Berks to shew to the Lords And I here send you the Copies of them both The Letter to the Lords is most concerning Greene and his Inn in which I do desire you to make a clear and distinct Answer to these Particulars following As First Whether this Inn be the Inheritance of Lincoln-College and whether Greene is possessed of it by the Marriage of the Widow in the Right of his Son-in-Law And this the rather because your first Information said That the Town authorized him to keep this Inn. Secondly You may see by this how angry they are about their Victuallers where they directly charge you That amongst others you took a Recognizance of the said Greene but never certified the said Recognizance nor any other to the Sessions according to the Law To which also it will be fit you give Answer Thirdly They say they have only the Name of Mayor and Magistrates and speak in all the rest of their Letter as if all the Town Privileges were invaded by the University And here I would have you answer two things The one That they offer to invade the University Privileges which I conceive is true And the other Whether so many as they mention did refuse the Offices of Mayor and Bailiffs this last Year Their second Letter is only concerning their Night-Watch in which I think there is a manifest invading of the Vniversity Privilege And Proctor Allibond is challenged by Name But they have taken a very cunning rise for their Business for they put it all upon their Care for a Watch by reason of the Seditious Tumult at Farrington There is great reason that Mr. Mayor should be freed from all Danger about setting of a Watch save only such as is his Duty to set but the Lords will not give me their Opinion till they have an Answer from the University how the Mayor's Watch and the University Privileges stand together I pray therefore send a full Answer to this Particular especially But I pray send your whole Answer in such fair Terms as that I may shew it whole and entire to the Lords but let the matter be as full home as you can Lambeth July 3. 1640. W. Cant. Most Reverend IN the Name of the whole University as well as in my own I return Your Grace humble Thanks for the Notice which by Your last Letter You have been pleased to give me of a late Information preferred by this Town unto the Lords of the Council against us To the several Branches whereof I will make bold to return a brief Answer that it may the more fully appear unto Your Grace how false in some and groundless in all Particulars the Complaint is 'T is true That Green's House belongs to Lincoln-College and that he now enjoys it by the Right of his Wife But this makes it not to be an Inn that must be done by License which he must either have from the Town as all other Inns as yet have or else he hath none For confident I am that he hath not any from the Vniversity By Virtue of His Majesty's late gracious Grant unto us we License Ale-House-Keepers and Victuallers Above which Rank until better informed now by the Town we conceived Inn-holders to be and therefore meddled not with them If Greene came in the throng at the beginning of Lent to be bound by me from dressing of Flesh the which I remember not he came not called For by my Warrant I then Summoned none but Privileged Persons and such only of the Town as by the Power given the University by His Majesty had been allowed by us The Recognizance of those 〈◊〉 Licensed I confess I returned not to the Quarter-Sessions and that for this Reason His Majesty by the fore-mention'd Letter was pleased to grant us the same Authority over Ale-Houses and Victuallers which the University of Cambridge hath No Recognizances are returned there whereof I am certain for I sent thither purposely in November last to enquire And therefore none by us The University there keeps them in its own Power and so do we The Town-Clerk who Pen'd the Letter does I grant by this means lose some petty Fees which the Poor Men now save in their Purses he formerly had whilest the power of Licensing was in them But this is a very weak Plea in a Business of such Consequence Nor indeed are those Fees now considerable we having already reduced those Ale-Houses to Five Score which before were Three Hundred A great number And yet not to be marvelled at when one Man this Mayor's Father-in-Law Bosworth a Brewer and Justice of the Town was as I have credibly been informed in a very short time the means of Licensing an Hundred for his part upon Conditions which tied them faster than their Recognizance to the King that they should take all their Beer of him nor did he stand single Others they have who trod after him in the very same steps which makes me wonder with what Face they can complain of the Loss of a Power which they so grosly abused And yet more I marvel at their Complaint against us for invading their Liberties when themselves are so notoriously guilty of daily Attempts upon ours without any colour at all of Right for their so doing Witness their Intrusion into the Office of Clerk of the Market Their Enquiries at their Leets touching the Cleansing and Paving of the Streets Their refusing to be regulated by the Vice-Chancellor as heretofore touching the Price of their Candles Arresting and Suing of Privileged Persons in their City Court Taking of Felons Goods and interrupting our Proctors in their Night Walk Nor can I amongst these Grievances omit their present multiplying of Cottages and Inmates in all Parts of the Town in despight of the Inhibition to the contrary sent unto them by Letters from the Lords of the Council whereof they have in a friendly manner been put in mind by the University both at their Publick Sessions and at other times If the Mayors of Oxford have now as is pretended only the Title not the Authority of the Place they are

Illa Bibliothecam haec Academiam constitutit Hactenus Cura Consilium cui addidisti egregium humanitatis Specimen praesentes Canones tantum anno tenùs Authenticos voluisti ut si quid laxiùs deprehendatur constringatur si quid arctiùs remittatur Singularis quidem Clementia antehac in mandita Leges praescripta ad tempus posuisti ut nostro demum 〈◊〉 arbitrio confirmentur siqua occurrerent errata non statuentis authoritate sed patientis experientiâ corrigantur Quod superest providentiam amorem quâ solâ possumus fide observantia pensabimus obsequium quod juxta mandati candorem Statutis ad annum tantùm vestrae benignitati perpetuum spondemus Dat. in Domo Congregationis Cal. Aug. 9. 1634. Vestrae Amplitudinis Observantissima Acad. Oxon. S. in Christo. AFter my very hearty Commendations c. I have a good while since delivered the Book of your Statutes together with your Letters to his Sacred Majesty who was marvellously well pleased with both and commanded me at some convenient Leisure to let you know how well he takes both the one and the other And because the Letter you sent was very well written after his Majesty had read it I caused it to be fairly written in the spare Vellum at the beginning of the Book Thus much I had signified to your self and the whole Body of the Convocation about a Month since had I not been hindred by two things the one as troublesome to my self as the other will appear beneficial to you That which was troublesome to my self was the great Business of the Term which lay very heavy upon me especially towards the end of it and at the same time the Care which I took to derive the benefit upon you That which I know will be very beneficial to you is a parcel of Manuscripts which I have obtained for your Library from a very Learned and Noble Gentleman Sir Kenelm Digby These Manuscripts many of them being very good he hath been at the Charge to Bind up and put his Arms fair upon them and I think there are very few but so bound With these he hath sent a Catalogue but that as himself tells me is somewhat imperfect his Man being indisposed for health at the time when he made it And whether the method of it will like you or fit the University I know not But after the Books are compared with this it will be very easy to make a perfect one by it For my self I did not think it fit any way to meddle with them but have left them in their several Trunks as they were packed up by himself and so sent them to you Their number is 235. or thereabouts Concerning the Manuscripts I am to give two Advertisements of the Donors Will and Pleasure which I must and do pray you to settle in this present Convocation The one is that he will not subject these Manuscripts to the strictness of Sir Thomas Bodley's Statute but will have Liberty given for any man of worth that will be at the Pains and Charge to Print any of these Books to have them out of the Library upon good Caution given and to that purpose and no other The Second is that he will reserve Liberty to himself during his natural Life to borrow any of these Books out of the Library for his own private use whensoever he shall ask them And both of us desire the Books may be put into the Library with these two Cautions expresly mentioned as the Act of Convocation was for the Books which my Lord Steward gave This is all which I have for the present to trouble you with for I presume I shall not need to put you in mind of writing a Letter of Thanks to Sir Kenelm Digby whose love thus and divers other ways express'd deserves it abundantly so with my Prayers to Almighty God to bless you to the honour of his Sacred Name and the good of his Church I leave you to his gracious Protection To my very loving Friends the Vice-chancellor the Doctors the Proctours and the rest of the Convocation of the University of Oxford Decemb. 19. 1634. Your very loving Friend and Chancellor W. CANT Reverendissime Cancellarie Iteranda narras imo iteranda Codex Statutorum ais unà cum Literis opus absolutum sacrantibus 〈◊〉 simul Regiae Majestatis frontem serenâ Compldcentiâ explicuit Curae gaudioque vobis Diis deputatis populi salus non ultio abunde est exultamus hinc omnes non ut legibus adstricti sed soluti vinculis Hoc ut reliqua soli tribuendum est vestri favoris 〈◊〉 affectui plusquam paterno Cui parum est nos bene moratos vivere nisi etiam faelices gratiâ supremâ irradiatos At leges compositas compositè observare Praelisque viventibus denuo exprimere erit hoc tandem Obedientiae nostrae nec solum obedientiae erit gratitudinis plus enim obligati sumus beneficiis tuis quam legibus Pro uno quem misimus impresso Codice accepimus Manuscripta decies repititis numerosiora characteribus eaque ut decet munus tam exquisitum bis data Quod prius rogando impetratum est non semel 〈◊〉 sed manu alienâ Tuâ Care quidem erit vir Princeps cum rogat At quantae liberalitatis est rogare ut donet seipsum oppignerare ut donet aliena Tu vero eò conniteris eò pergis Mun isic entiae ut tuis aliena conjungas una cum benesiciis ipsos etiam Benefactorcs cumulatissimè largiaris conciliato hinc nobis Rege lucraris illinc subditos haec opera haec tua vis O! orbium nobis influentium utrinque circumagens Motor Nimio nos 〈◊〉 studio inopem te facis procum humilem ac similem Nobis ut reddas Nos quodammodo Amplitudini Tuae similes Sic proprii splendoris periculo vapores aliunde exhalat sol ut eisdem instillet arvis Sic fonte longinquo aquam deducit hortulanus ut riget seminarium Sic marmor fodinis eruit Tuus 〈◊〉 ut augustioribus columnis basilicam suffulciat Dum tu succos gemmaque Musarum undequaque Nobis attrahis Tu sol es Tu Cultor extructor Academiae Siste liberalitalem hanc tuam siste acquiescamus Te uno contenti Quid novos tantopere accersis patronos Pluris est nimio acclinare Te otio quam nos erlgi quam maximis Literarum auxiliis Siste ne simus nimiae faelicitate miseri infra gratitudini positi nos enim nil ultra possumus quam quod volumus dona Nobilissimi Digbeii Tua mirari colere Thesaurare loculis in Registro nominatim conscribere Conditiones impositas quas etiam Convocationis Decretum sancivit Catalogo praefigere grates illi pro Libris pro illo Tibi conceptissimas referre Mandatis tuis religiosè obsequi ex Nutu praecurrere animitus perstare E domo nostrae Congregationis

respect in better state than it is at this present For me to write how dangerous the Relapse into so loathsom and general a Disease may prove were to forget my self and my principal Intention which was only to make known unto You this Defect and thereby to do Service to this Place and in part to express my Thankfulness to Your self for the much Favour vouchsafed unto me From Oxford Feb. 24. 〈◊〉 This Information I had from a Master of Art in Oxford whom I dare trust but will not name Whereupon I writ to the Vice-Chancellor as follows I Received a Letter this Week from Oxford from an ordinary plain Man but a good Scholar and very honest And it troubles me more than any Letter I have received many a day 'T is true I have heard of late from some Men of Quality here above that the University was Relapsing into a Drinking Humour to its great Dishonour But I confess I believed it not because I had no Intimation of it from you But this Letter comes from a Man that can have no Ends but Honesty and the good of that Place And because you shall see what he writes I send you here a Copy of his Letter and do earnestly beg of you That you will forthwith set your self to punish all haunting of Taverns and Ale-Houses with all the strictness that may be that the University now advancing in Learning may not sink in Manners which will shame and destroy all I am informed too from a very good but another Hand That there is extream Liberty given and taken by Young Noblemen and Gentlemen of the better Sort in the University That Tutors in most Colleges do only bestow a little Pains in Reading to them if they will come at them but use no Power of Government over them or any restraint as if they had nothing to do but only to Read to them Besides almost all of them are suffered to keep Horses And by that means when they are restrain'd from Taverns and ill Company within the University they ride forth to the Neighbouring Places both to Drink and perhaps to do worse I know you cannot be blamed for the Neglect of Tutors in private Colleges But I pray at your next meeting with the Heads let them know what I have here written and desire their Care for Amendment if this Report be true But true or false I took it my Duty to let you know what is come to my Ears from some who are perhaps too nearly interressed in it Lambeth 28th of Feb. 〈◊〉 W. Cant. IN the Business of the Examinations you write thus The Vice-Chancellor's Successors cannot be so wanting to themselves and the common Good as not to pursue so fair an Example 'T is true it is a very fair Example But can it not therefore chuse but be pursued by the Successors I pray tell me Was not Dr. Pinck's Care for suppressing the Scholars haunting of Taverns and Ale-Houses a very fair Example Were not you and Dr. Frewen his Successors And have you two pursued his fair Example I have this Reason to believe you have not I have at this present received a Letter from Oxford from a very private but a very honest Hand and with an Expression full of Grief that the University is fallen again into that Drunken Relapse in which it swam before Dr. Pinck's Vice-Chancellorship And I assure you it troubles me very much because this very Week I have heard also That some Persons of Honour and Credit have lately spoken very much concerning this Relapse Which yet I confess I did not believe till I received this Letter which I cannot distrust knowing the Man which writ to be without Spleen or Ends. And I pray God send you Governours there to take better Care or else all my Care will be lost Lambeth Feb. 28. 〈◊〉 W. Cant. THE Information given up to Your Grace against me hath been long expected yet never less than at this time For strange it is to me That an encrease of Drunkards should follow upon a decrease of Ale-Houses Had the Informer who e'er he be been with me in my dirty Night Walks this Winter and sped as ill as I have done his Eyes would not serve him so well to espy Faults where none are boldly I dare say it there seldom passes one Night in a whole Week in which one of the Proctors or my self do not walk the Round And divers times I have gone as my Servants can witness from one end of the Town to the other after Christ-Church Bell hath tolled and not found one Scholar either in the Streets or in any of the Four Taverns Few Hours before the Receipt of Your Grace's Letters I committed one of Trinity College to Prison for Disorder in the Night but beside him I have not I protest of late met with any Yet not to justifie our selves too far there is I confess too much good Fellowship amongst us but the Informer mislays it 'T is driven out of Town as others besides my self observe into our Private Colleges and Halls There they can and do debauch themselves more securely being out of the reach of the Publick Magistrate Yea and of their own Governours too in some Houses the more the pity There have indeed for which I am heartily sorry one or two Disasters lately happened here for seldom they come single but that the Actors were in their Drink I cannot say much less that they fetch'd it out of the Town for as yet I cannot trace them in any Ale-House Hull is in the Castle for as I told the Dean I know him to be a very Disorderly Man Others suspected to have had a hand in that Barbarous Assault are upon Bail and so shall continue a while though a Messenger from my Lord of Oxon yesterday brought me word that the Party hurt is in the Judgment of his Chirurgions now past danger Oxford March 2. 〈◊〉 A. Frewen SIR HAVING received such a Letter as I did the former Week I could not but send you a Copy of it and I am heartily glad it hath produced such an Answer from you For now I see clearly that you are not in the fault and yet that he had cause to write the Letter For though Drunkenness and open good Fellowship be not in Taverns and Ale-Houses yet it seems since your Vigilancy hath driven them thence they are crept into Colleges and Halls where by your own Acknowledgment they do more privately and more securely debauch one another So the Place is changed but not the Disorder And the University will be undone in Reputation if private Colleges be made the Sinks of Disorder In this case I know not whether to turn my self And therefore I pray let the Heads know at your next Meeting That if they do not look to this very strictly I must betake my self to them for these home Disorders And if there be not present

me for Assistance according to the Proclamation and are now busie in calling their scatter'd Forces together again Oxford Wednesday the 15th of July 1640. A. Frewen At Whitehall the 22th of July 1640. PRESENT The KING's MAJESTY Lord Arch-Bishop of Cant. Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer Lord Privy Seal Lord Duke of Lenox Lord Marquis Hamilton Lord Admiral Earl of Berks Earl of Holland Earl of Traquare Lord Goring Lord Cottington Mr. Treasurer Mr. Secretary Windebanke Sir Tho. Rowe WHereas His Majesty being present at the Board did this day hear the Complaints of the Mayor Recorder and others of the City of Oxford expressed in two Letters the one of the 15th of June to the Board the other of the 4th of June to the Earl of Berks a Member of the Board concerning their Liberties in the Presence of the Vice-Chancellor and other Doctors of the University and Mr. Allibond one of the Proctors whom the said Complaint did concern After mature Debate it was ordered That the University of Oxford according to his Majesty's Gracious Letter shall have the sole Licensing of Victualling-Houses in that City and Suburbs in like manner as the University of Cambridge hath in the Town of Cambridge And for that purpose it is ordered by His Majesty with advice of the Board That the Commission for the Peace in Oxford shall be renewed and the Vice-Chancellor only made of the Quorum Secondly for the Complaint of the Building of Cottages it is ordered That the Vice-Chancellor and the Mayor shall make several Certificates of all the new Cottages built within Twenty Years and shall distinguish which of them have been built by Privileged Persons upon College Lands and which by Townsmen and which by Privileged Persons upon the Town Wast by their leave Upon return of which Cerficates their Lordships will give such farther Order therein as shall be fit Thirdly it was order'd That his Majesty's Attorney and Sollicitor-General shall examine how the Orders set down by Mr. Justice Jones for preventing of Disputes and Controversies between the University and City of Oxford have been observed and by whom there hath been any defailer therein admitted Upon Certificate whereof their Lordships will take such Order as shall be fit for the due Observance of the same Fourthly it was ordered That according to the Statute of Winchester those to whom it belongeth ought to set Watches at the Gates of the City according to the said Statute and that the said Watch continue there without walking of the Streets or moving from their Station except it be for the suppressing of any sudden Tumult or other Malefactors whereof there is not time to give notice to the Vice-Chancellor and the Proctors of the said University Lastly it is ordered That the Constable committed to Prison shall be delivered but not without paying of Fees After my hearty Commendations DR Frewen hath now born the troublesom Office of the Vice-Chancellorship of that University for the space of two whole Years which is the time now usually given to execute that Office And is certainly weight enough for any Man to bear so long In the discharge of this Office he hath through the whole course of his time carried himself with great Care Moderation and Prudence and that as well in all Businesses which relate to the Town as in those which look more immediately upon the University And among other great Services perform'd by him I cannot forbear to single out one and here publickly to give him Thanks for it even above the rest And that is the great Pains he hath taken and the singular Dexterity which he hath used in bringing the Statutes concerning the Examinations into Use and Settlement Which Statute I dare be bold to say being continued and kept up in the same Vigour to which it is now raised by his Care and Providence will be of such singular use as that for my part I cannot easily tell whether it will be greater Honour or Benefit to that University but sure I am it will be the one by the other if it be kept up to the Life as I hope it shall be Dr. Frewen's time being thus happily spent both for his own Honour and the University's Good the Care now lies upon me to name another to take up that Burthen which he lays down and to go in those steps which he hath trod out before him And I thank God for it there is such Choice of able Men in that Place for this Service that I cannot be to seek whom to name unto it But I have for the present thought upon Dr. Potter Dean of Worcester and Provost of Queen's-College as a Man whom I know to be of great Integrity and Sufficiency for that Place and of whose Care and Industry therein I am very confident To him together with the Office I do more especially recommend the Care of the Examinations in point of Learning and a most strict Watchfulness and Observance against all haunting of Taverns or any other Meetings private or publick which may any way help to suppress the base Sin of Drunkenness the Mother or the Nurse of almost all other Distempers which may bring Obloquy upon that Place These are therefore to let you know that I do hereby nominate and chuse Dr. Potter to be my Vice-Chancellor for this Year ensuing And do hereby pray and require you to allow of this my Choice and to give him all due Respect and Assistance in all things necessary for that Government and more especially in the two Particulars above-named that so Sobriety and good Manners as well as Learning may flourish in that Place And thus not doubting of your readiness and willing Obedience herein I leave both him and you to the Grace of God and rest Lambeth July 24. 1640. Your Loving Friend and Chancellor W. Cant. AND for the future I pray let not the Town so much as begin to lay the Foundation of any Cottage or any other House whatsoever in any Place but send me word of it presently that I may acquaint the Lords with it and command a stay August 3. 1640. W. Cant. UPON a late Warrant from the Deputy-Lieutenants the Mayor hath freshly pressed and set out ten new Soldiers Coat and Conduct-Money for these in their several Parishes was taxed upon all Privileged Persons not only Stationers Apothecaries that trade and use Merchandize who are more liable but upon Doctors Clayton Sanders Bambridge and all Physicians upon Mr. Crosse our Beadle on our Butlers Manciples Cooks who are our immediate Servants and deal not with any Trade All profess themselves very willing to advance His Majesty's Service especially in these base and broken Times Yet they hope by your Grace's Favour to enjoy the benefit of that Privilege which being anciently granted to our University was of late confirmed by His Majesty's Charter and is enjoy'd by the other University At my intreaty all of them in a manner have paid but their

relation again to that Parliament under Edward the First from which his Lordship says Bishops were excluded and we know that Parliament is called Indoctum Parliamentum the unlearned Parliament For all the Lawyers were excluded from that Parliament as well as the Clergy-Men And therefore were this Lord indifferent he might argue that Lawyers Votes are not Fundamental in the Commons House which is true tho' no way convenient rather than that Bishops Votes are not Fundamental in the Lords House which is utterly against all Truth and Convenience But his Lordship's Tooth is so sharp and so black against that Order that he snaps at them upon all and upon no Occasion and would invenom them had he Power To make this seem the better his Lordship ends this Speech with a piece of Philosophy which I cannot approve neither For he says That which hath been done for a time at the King's Pleasure may be done with as little danger for a longer time For First this Proposition is unsound in it self For many Cases may happen in which divers things may be done for a Prince's Pleasure once or for a time and with no great danger which continued or often repeated will be full of danger and perhaps not endured by the Subject Secondly I am confident let the Tables be but turned from a Bishop to a Lay-Man and this Lord shall eat his own Proposition For instance in another Parliament and in a time generally received to be as good as that of Edward the First in Queen Elizabeth's time and within my own Memory Mr. Peter Wentworth moved in the House of Commons to have an Heir apparent declared for the better and securer Peace of the Kingdom in After-times The Queen for her meer Will and Pleasure for that which he did was no Offence against Law took him either out of the House or so soon as he came out of the House clap'd him up in the Tower where he lay till his Death What will this Lord say to this Will he say this was done once at the Prince's Pleasure Why then I return his Proposition upon him and tell him that that which was done once at one Prince's Pleasure may be done oftner at other Prince's Pleasure with as little danger Or will this Lord say this was not done at the Queen's Pleasure but but she might justly and legally do so Then other Princes of this Realm having the same Power residing in them may do by other Parliament Men as she did with this Gentleman And which soever of the two he shall say King Charles had as good Right and with as little Breach of Parliament-Privilege to demand the Six Men which by his Attorney he had accused of Treason as that great Queen had to lay hold on Mr. Wentworth Since I had written this the Observer steps in and tells us That a meer Example though of Queen Elizabeth is no Law for some of her Actions were retracted and that yet without question Queen Elizabeth might do that which a Prince less beloved could never have done 'T is true that a meer Example is not a Law and yet the Parliaments of England even in that happy Queen's Time were not apt to bear Examples against Law and if that she did were not against Law that 's as much as I ask For then neither is that against Law which King Charles did upon a far higher Accusation than could be charged against Mr. Wentworth 'T is true again that Queen Elizabeth might do that which a Prince less beloved could not have done that is she might do that with safety which a Prince less beloved could not do that is not do with safety But whatsoever is lawful for one Prince to do is as lawful for another though perhaps not so expedient in regard of what will be well or ill taken by the People But otherwise the Peoples Affection to the Prince can be no Rule nor Measure of the Princes Justice to the People I will be bold to give him another Instance King Charles demanded Ship-Money all over the Kingdom Either he did this justly and legally for the Defence of himself and the Publick or he did it at his Will and Pleasure thinking that an honourable and fit way of Defence I am sure this Lord will not say he did it legally for his Vote concurred to the condemning of it in Parliament And if he say he did it at his own Will and Pleasure then I would fain know of his Lordship whether this which was done for a time at the King's Pleasure may be done with as little danger to the Liberty of the Subject and the Property of his Goods for a longer time and so be continued on the Subject And if he says it may why did he Vote against it as a thing dangerous And if he says it may not then he must Condemn his own Proposition For he cannot but see that that which is once done or done for a short time at a Prince's Will and Pleasure cannot be often repeated or continued but with far greater danger than it was once done Though for the thing it self if it were not legal I am sorry it is not made so For it would be under God the greatest Honour and Security that this Nation ever had Whereas now the Tugging which falls out between the King's Power and the Peoples Liberty will in time unless God's infinite Mercy prevents it do that in this Kingdom which I abhor to think on This Lord goes on yet and tells us That that which hath been so done for a time when it appears to be fit and for publick Good not only may but ought to be done altogether by the Supream Power So then here this is his Lordship's Doctrine that that which was once done at a Prince's Will and Pleasure when it shall appear to be fit and for the publick Good as he supposeth here the taking away of Bishops Votes to be it not only may but ought to be done altogether by the Supream Power as now that is done by Act of Parliament Not only may but ought Soft a little His Lordship had the same Phrase immediately before Why but First every thing that is fit ought not by and by to be made up into a Law For fitness may vary very often which Laws should not Secondly Every thing that is for the publick Good is not by and by to be made up into a Law For many things in Times of Difficulty and Exigency may be for publick Good which in some other Times may be hurtful and therefore not to be generally bound within a Law And if his Lordship shall say as here he doth that they ought to be done altogether and be made up into a Law by the Supream Power but fitted only to such Times under his Lordship's Favour that ought not to be neither For let such a Law be made and he that is once Master of the Times will have the Law ready to