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A53380	A display of tyranny, or, Remarks upon the illegal and arbitrary proceedings, in the courts of Westminster, and Guild-Hall London from the year, 1678, to the abdication of the late King James, in the year 1688, in which time, the rule was, quod principi placuit, lex esto : the first part.	Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.	1689 (1689)	Wing O35; ESTC R16065	100,209	272

the Church of England and who are now for calling him back These were Men who would have finished the Ruin of the Nation in the Dissolution of its antient and well Established Government and in the Blood of its best Patriots They gloryed in calling themselves Tories their Guide and Patron did in their name thrust out stigmatize all the sober and moderate Men of the Church of England with the Name of Trimmers bestowed upon them this Apothegme That a Trimmer is worse than a Rebel Whoever recurs to the Original of that Name in the Observators will find that it pointed at first at two honourable and never to be forgotten Protestants of your Neighbour County the late Lord Townshend and Sr John Hobart of Norfolk and quickly after Dr Fowler Mr Smithee and many other Reverend Divines of the Church of England fell under that Denomination Now surely 't is not a Crime to call such Men as these by the name which they appropriated to themselves and 't were Foolish to esteem Men of their practices to be of any Religion In some cases a Man ought not to be over-patient and it must move any one to hear a Learned Lawyer at the Bar at the time when Popery had actually ascended the Throne in this manner to caress a Tory-Jury Gentlemen I cannot but with much Sorrow remember to you and I know you all remember it too well that there was a time when the City of London was so far corrupted that it was become a Refuge and Sanctuary for high Treason when there was no Justice to be had for the King there when Men lodged themselves within those Walls as a Protection for their Conspiracies We all remember the time when Indictments were perferred and a plain Evidence given to a Grand-Jury even to the publick satisfaction of all that heard it and yet they have refused to find the Bill and not only so but were so abetted by the Rabble that it was scarce safe for the Judges to sit upon the Bench These are things none of us can forget but must be perpetually remembred to the shame of the Authors and Contrivers of them And must it not provoke a Man to hear the following Doctrine from the Pulpit upon the sad occasion of the good Lord Russell's death of whom one of the best Divines now living did truely say that an Age would not repaire that loss to the Nation viz. Cuting of Throats would have been counted only a Scotch way of Triming and the destruction of Princes to be no more but a perfecting the History of the Reformation They who cannot rise up to all the heights of Conformity can yet strain a point upon occasion and rise up to all the heights of Rebellion and Barbarity and had not God marvelously interposed these squeamish Conscience Traytors would have shewed the truth of this Is it not astonishing at this day when the Parliament hath declared that my Lord Russell Colonel Sidney and Sr Thomas Armstrong were murdered to heare an Irish Arch-Deacon who fled hither upon the score of Religion and is a Principal Manager of our Charity to the Irish Protestants publickly ridicule the death of the first two by telling us in an upbraiding way these are your Martyrs and affirm that the last dyed justly and according to Law Would such men as these satisfie the World of their Ingenuity and Repentance these extravagancies undoubtedly ought to be put into utter Oblivion now that Heaven has wrought for us a most signal and miraculous deliverance but which is to be lamented those very Men who carryed us to the very brinck of destruction are not onely remorseless but many of them do make it their business by drinking Popish Healths wishing success to their Arms and spreading false Newes to infect and debauch the Kingdom especially the City and to traduce maligne and undermine the Government under which the divine Providence has so mercifully placed us and therefore they who have given such high provocations and done so much mischief and do still remain impenitent ought not to esteem themselves unkindly used by some tart expressions Sr That I may be just●…ied with you who I am sure would believe the best of every Man and make the best of all things I have said much more then I did intend upon this occasion and hope you will forgive it You have very signally and heartily lent and laid out your self in your Countries service that service was not onely difficult and hazardous but it had proved fatal had not Heaven interposed for your deliverance and therefore all true Lovers of old England's welfare must wish that no false Insinuations may lessen you in the esteem of Good Men you have been a publick Good and that obliges me to be Sir Your Honourer and Most Obedient Servant February 10. 1689. The CONTENTS REmarks upon Dr Otes his Tryal pag. 1. Vpon the Tryal of Reading p. 38. Vpon the Tryal of Knox and Lane p. 45. Vpon the Tryal of Tasborough and Price p. 53. Vpon the Proceedings against the Earl of Shaftesbury p. 64. Vpon the Tryal of Stephen Colledge p. 92. Vpon the Tryal of Thompson the Printer Payne and Farwell p. 117. Vpon the Tryal of the pretended Guildhall Riot p. 127. Vpon the Tryal of my Lord Russell p. 155. Vpon the Tryal of Colonel Sidney p. 185. Vpon the Tryal of Sr Samuel Barnardiston p. 207. Vpon the Proceedings against Sr Thomas Armstrong p. 215. Vpon Mr Papillon's Tryal with Sr William Pritchard p. 228. Vpon the Tryal of Alderman Cornish p. 245. REMARKS upon the Tryal of Dr Titus Otes upon an Indictment for Perjury at the King's Bench Bar at VVestminster before Sr George Jeffryes Baron of Wem Lord Chief Justice Whom the House of Commons had recommended to the King by this Vote and an Address thereupon November the 13th 1680. Resolved That Sr George Jeffryes Recorder of London by traducing and obstructing Petitioning for the sitting of this Parliament hath betrayed the Rights of the Subject Ordered That an humble Address be made to his Majesty to remove Sr George Jeffryes out of all publick Offices Mr Justice Wythens Who was advanced to a Seat upon that Bench by the following Vote of the House of Commons October 29. 1680. Resolved That Sr Francis Wythens by promoting and presenting to his Majesty an Address expressing an Abhorrence to Petition his Majesty for the calling and sitting of Parliaments hath betrayed the undoubted Rights of the Subjects of England And this Order thereupon Ordered That Sr Francis Wythens be expelled this House for this high Crime and that he receive his Sentence at the Bar of this House upon his Knees from Mr Speaker Which he received accordingly Mr Justice Holloway late Recorder of Oxford whose part in the dispatching Stephen Colledge advanced him to this station And Mr Justice Walcot the best of all the four but as poor as Sr R. Wright and by consequence a fit Tool to serve the

and upon whom the following Vote passed in the House of Commons December the 24th 1680. Resolved Nemine contradicente That Richard Thompson Clerk has publickly defamed his Sacred Majesty preached Sedition Vilified the Reformation promoted Popery by asserting Popish Principles denying the Popish Plot and turning the same upon the Protestants and endeavoured to subvert the Liberty and Property of the Subject and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and that he is a Scandal Reproach to his Function Resolved That the said Richard Thompson be Impeached thereupon Men of this Kidney having made way for its belief We were from this time entertained with a Succession of sham Presbyterian-Plots the first thereof known by the name of the Meal-tub-Plot being happily discovered by Mr Dangerfield both Lords and Commons taking the Alarm did set themselves with double diligence to the Prosecution of the Popish-Plot and to find out ways for the Uniting Protestants and for Easing Dissenters so little had the opinion of a Presbyterian-Plot prevailed within their Walls and the Commons seeing a Dissolution at hand passed these Votes December the 15 th 1680. Resolved Nemine contradicente That a Bill be brought in for an Association of all his Majesties Protestant Subjects for the safety of his Majesties Person the defence of the Protestant Religion and the preservation of his Majesties Protestant Subjects against all Invasions and Oppositions whatsoever and for reventing the Duke of York or any Papist from succeeding to the Crown January the 7 th 1680. Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House that there is no security or safety for the Protestant Religion the King's Life or the well Constituted and Established Government of this Kingdom without passing a Bill for disabling James Duke of York to inherit the Imperial Crown of England and Ireland and to rely upon any other means or remedies without such a Bill is not only insufficient b●… dangerous January the 10 th 1680. Resolved That it is the Opinion of this House that the Prosecution of Protestant Dissenters upon the Penal Laws is at this time grievous to the Subjects a weakning of the Protestant Interest and encouragement to Popery and dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom The next Moment after the passing this Vote the Parliament was prorogued for ten days and quickly after dissolved A new Parliament was forthwith Summoned to meet at Oxford the 21 st of March following but though the place was changed the Conspirators found there most of the Zealous Protestant Members of the Westminister Parliament who came thither animated to prosecute the Popish Plot the Exclusion of the Duke and the Uniting of Protestants by Addresses from those whom they represented whereof take an Instance To the Honourable Sr Samuel Barnardiston and Sr William Spring Baronets Knights of the Shire for the County of Suffolk Gentlemen WE the Freeholders of this County having chosen you our Representatives in the last Parliament in which We had satisfactory demonstration of your Zeal for the Protestant Religion of your Loyalty to his Majesties Person and Government and of your faithful Endeavours for the preservation of the Laws our Rights and Properties We now return you our most hearty Thanks and have Vnanimously chosen you to Represent this County at the Parliament to be holden at Oxford the 21 th of March next and though We have not the least distrust of your Wisdom to understand or of your Integrity and Resolution to maintain and promote our common Interest now in so great hazard yet We think it meet at this time of eminent danger to the King and Kingdom to recommend some things to your Care and particularly We do desire First That as hitherto you have so you will vigorously prosecute the execrable Popish Plot now more fully discovered and proved by the Tryal of William late Viscount Stafford Secondly That you will promote a Bill for Excluding James Duke of York and all Popish Successors from the Imperial Crown of this Realm as that which under God may probably be a present and effectual means for the preservation of his Majesties Life which God preserve the Protestant Religion an the well Established Government of this Kingdom Thirdly That you will endeavour the frequent Meeting of Parliaments and their sitting so long as it shall be requisite for the dispatch of those great Affairs for which they are convened as that which is our only Bulwark against Arbitrary Power Fourthly That you will endeavour an happy and necessary Vnion amongst all his Majesties Protestant Subjects by promoting those several good Bills which were to that end before the last Parliament And that till these things be obtained which We conceive necessary even to the Being of this Nation you will not consent to bring any Charge upon our Estates And We do assure you that We will stand by you with our Lives and Fortunes in prosec●…ion of the good Ends before recited This Parliament beginning where the former left and being found to adhere unalterably to the Resolution of rooting out the Plot and of Excluding the Duke as the only adequate remedy for all the threatning Evils to the Kingdom they were after a very few days Sitting upon the sudden Dissolved and followed into their own Countries with a Declaration bearing date April the 8 th 1681 pretending to set forth the ●…ses and Reas●… that moved the ●…ng to Dissolve that and the preceed●… Parliament b●…cally designed to expose and blacken those worthy Patriots and to that end it was ordered to be read in all Churches and Chappels throughout the Kingdom which was readily obeyed To wheadle the Nation till it might be noosed that Declaration according to the mode of that Reign spoke and promised fare tho the train was then laid to blow up our Religion Laws and Liberties It exhorted us that the restless malice of Ill Men who were labouring to poison the People might not perswade us that the King did intend to lay aside the use of Parliaments and declared that no Irregularities in Parliaments should ever make him out of love with Parliaments And that he resolved by the Blessing of God to have frequent Parliaments and both in and out of Parliament to use his utmost Endeavours to extirpate he means Establish Popery † Note this was after his Fathers Copy who by a Declaration in the year 1626. to justifie his Arbitrary way of Leveing Money by way of Loane said that his Occasions would not give leave for the calling a Parliament but assured his People that he intended not to serve himself by such ways to the abolishing of Parliaments and yet the Nation saw not a Parliament from the 3 d to the 16 th year of that Reign vide Rushworth's Collections first Part page 418. This Royal Grace or rather Slander upon one of the three Estates was not only proclaimed from the Readers Desks but was promulgated from both Pulpit and Press five days after the emiting this Declaration