Treason In one Clause of it the Queen is pleased to tell us She is so sufficiently assured of the Faith and Loyalty of Her â—emporal Lords that this Act nor any thing contained in it shall not Extend to Her Barons nor the Oath be Imposed upon them What Contradictious and Cob-webb-Laws are here A Commoner belike for his Incapacity of taking that Oath is guilty of High Treason but a Baron so Incapacitated is a Faithful and Loyal Gentlemâ—n as if they were not equally Subjects to the Crown and equally Criminal in any Transgression against it 'T is true had the particular Favour and Indulgence of the Government resolved to Exempt the Peer from the Penalty only of this Law it had been something but to discharge him Eo Nomine from the Guilâ— too makes the whole Statute such an Arbitrary Declaration of Treason that both the Compilers of such Laws and the Defenders of them ought to blush at Now as this is the Trâ—atment that the Romish Recusancy meets from our Penal Laws let us 〈◊〉 what better fare the Protestant Dissenters had amongst them To begin therefore with the very first Penal Vengeance that was armed against them let us examine the 35th of Elizabeth Eliz. 35. Chap. 1. For preventing such great Inconveniences and Perils as might happen and grow by the wicked and dangerous practices of Seditious Sectaries and Disloyal Persons it is Enacted That if any Person above sixteen years of Age shall forbear coming to Church for one month or shall either move or perswade any other Person to abstain from hearing of Divine Service or receiving the Communion according to Law or come to any Unlawful Assemblies Conventicles or Meetings every such Person shall be imprisoned without Bail till he Conform and do in some Church make this open submission following The Form of Submission I A. B. Do humbly confess and acknowledge That I have grievously offended God in contemning His Majestys Godly and Lawful Government and Authority by absenting my self from Church and from hearing Divine Service contrary to the Godly Laws and Statutes of this Realm and in using and frequenting Disordered and Unlawful Conventicles and Assemblies under pretence and colour of Religion and I am heartily sorry for the same c. And so on till he promises future Conformity You see what hard meat they are tied to Conform or lie in Goal without Bail or 〈…〉 very remarkable 〈…〉 Poor Criminal either really 〈…〉 â—ighted into 〈…〉 of this Law 〈…〉 obey he 's 〈…〉 a Form of 〈…〉 Declare in open 〈…〉 of God and his own 〈…〉 what he knows to be a Notor◠〈…〉 For how zealously how peaceably or how devoutly soever himself and his other Dissenting Brethren frequented the fore-mentioned Forbidden Assemblies 't will not suffice to say his and their Devotion and Zeal were misled and erronious and that he is willing for the future to be better instructed by the Pastors of the Church of England to whom he returns but he must charge all his former Religious Worship with a Dissimulation-Masque as only a Pretence and Colour of Religion and so brand Himself and his Neighbours with the basest and falsest of Hypocrisie For no less expiatory Penitence will serve his turn Is it not highly to be suspected that the Compilers of these Statutes valued the Reputation of their Laws above the Souls of their Converts For considering they are pleased to charge Disorder and Disloyalty upon the Dissenting Assemblies the Penitent must confess the Impeachments true or the Walls of a Goal like the Old fashioned Eloquence of Racks shall pinch him till he does it But to return to our Statute If the Party do not Conform and make his Submission within three Months after Conviction then being required by any Justice of Peace He or She shall in open Court at the Assizes or Sessions Abjure the Realm of England and all other the King 's Dominions within such Time as the Court shall Assign And by such Abjuration shall lose and forfeit all Goods and Chattels for ever and Lands and Tenements during Life A very Extraordinary sort of Banishment when by losing all a Man has into the Bargain the Law not only provides to send him packing perhaps to none of the most Hospitable Shores but at the same time very industriously takes care to see him starve there too But if such Party either Resuse to forswear the Land or do any Time after such Abjuration return to England or any of His Majesty's Dominions then he shall Die as a Felon without Benefit of Clergy c. You see here 's the very same Impeachment against the Nonconformist too The same Taint runs through the Protestant Dissent as did before through the Romish Recusancy And without any of the forementioned Capital Popish Guilt of owning a Forreign Jurisdiction for there wants no such unnecessary Treason to heap up thâ—ir Sum they are nevertheless both alike Twinn-Brothers in Iniquâ—ty and Sedition and Disloyalty the equal charge agâ—inst them And though 't is true the Dudgeon of these Laws gives not Death at the first Blow however it ends in the Old Noose a Halter only under a new Name of Felony You have here the Insant Vengeance the very Primitive Scorpions of our Church in 〈◊〉 of Konconsormity I shall not so much Instance the 〈…〉 of our Church to keep up this 〈◊〉 Statute in Force Witness the 26th of Car. 2. on that Occasion Nor the particular Applause a late Auther of our Church gave His late Majesty for the Exercise of His Royal Prerogative as he terms it in preserving that Law which was doom'd to an undeserved Fate that is when the Bill for the Repeal of that Statute had past both Houses and lay ready for His Majesty's Signing His Majesty by His Royal Prâ—rogative a very unpresidented one and therefore the worthier that Authors Commendâ—tion Connived at the Clâ—rk in Parliament that so carefully performed His Commission in losing it The Church of Englands great Tenderness for this Statute is not so much her Trophy as the Numerous Ossenders Impeach'd by this Law Witness the laâ—e many Thousands at one time Indicted upon this very Statute a great part whereof lay in Goals and all of them expecting their approaching Abjuration Banishment c. Had not a special Beâ—m from Heaven in His Majesty's most sigâ—â—l Clemency like the Angel of Peter set â—pen their Prison Doors an Act of so much more than Royal Mercy that possibly together with the Numerous Prayers sent up to Heaven for Him in return for such Unparalel'd Grace may not have a little contributed to obtain from the Almighty Thronâ— our late truly Royal Deodat so special a Blessing of his Age and Hope of His Kingdom possiblâ— given him as the Meed and Reward of such Transcendent Compassion and Clemenâ—y Well then Both Convâ—nticles and Mass-Houses must lye under the same Dilemma and share the some 〈◊〉 whilsâ— Treason and Sâ—dition lyes at the bottom of the
peaceably a recovery of so sacred a Right by a Restitution from the same Parliamentary Power that that rob'd him of it What can the Kingdom fear or the Protestant Religion be more threaten'd by conceding the perpetual Repeal of that part of Test Law then it does from the Prerogative which daily at this present dispenses with it The Roman Catholicks are and will be in all Posts of Power and Trust whenever the King's Favour and their own Abilities shall raise them to it without the Dissolving of the Test And when dissolved what more 〈◊〉 they do or how higher can they rise by i◠〈◊〉 â—oo His Majesty in the Universal 〈◊〉 of his People in matter of Religion and under his Resolution of a perpetual 〈◊〉 of Liberty of Conscience with the Repeal of all Penal Laws for that very Reason ought to think himself obliged not to leave the â—est uncancell'd For as there are very severe Penalties and Forfeitures contain'd in the Test which every Person entring into pubâ—ick Employ without a Qualification from receiving the Test incurrs What are these Penalties when duly examin'd any more than for meer matter of Conscience For if a Romanist as we see daily and Universal Examples in all Posts of Trust acts with equal Integrity and steddy Justice with the Protestants themselves without any Male-Administration in discharge of such Power or Authority what is the charge against them from the Test Penalty for Nonqualification any more at the bottom than meer matter of Conscience not for any Ministerial incapacity of executing that Trust but only a Consciencious Incapacity of subsâ—â—bing a Religious Declaration contrary to the Sentiments of their Faith requireâ— by that Test And that the Test Penalties 〈◊〉 particularly strike at Matters of Religion all Male-Administrations in Papists or not Papists with or without Tests are liable to Legal and Just Censure and Condign Punishments from other more ancient strokes of Law than the Hand of the Test And for some little farther Inquest into this Test Law and the Exclusions from Trust enaâ—â—ed by it I shall refer you to a Command I hope as Authentick as that of an Act of Parliament viz Honour thy Father and thy Mother c. In that Precept we are told that â—â—ey the King is included And if so suppose a Roman Catholick Prince Commands a Roman Catholick Subject to serve him as an Officer in his Military Affairs or a Sheriff Justice of the Peace ar what else in his Civil Administration In all which places his Religion can be no Incapacity for a Romanist in one Post may have as much Courage and Loyalty and in the other as much Integrity and Uprightness as another Subject And shall this Romanist in refusing either of the aforesaid Trusts be acquitted from a Breach of God's Commandments in disobeying his King by an excuse of his Tenderness to a Law of Man. And pray has this Novel Test Law a sound Root at the bottom that pretends to superâ—ede and exclude that Fundamental Indispensable Duty of Obeying the Immutable Laws of God. Now to come to the last point the Qualification of Members in Parliament And to begin with the Exclusion of the Popish Pees from Sâ—ssions in Parliament by Virtue of the Test His Majesty desires their Restoration and consequently the Relavation of that part of the Parliamentary Test And the Reasons moving him thereunto are the undoubted unquestion'd Birthright of the â—eers so unnaturally and so notoriously invaded and destroyed by this Parliamentary Exclusion A point so well handled â—ud so often before by several better Pens and so altogether unanswerable that I shall only add that as the Nobility of the Land are all Branches and Emanations from the Imperial Fountain of Honour His Majesty is in equal Justice obliged to recover a Gemm from their Coronets as a Ravisht Jewel from his own Crown And indeed his Majesty in so doing is in the highest degree a Champion for the very Dignity and Foundation of Parliaments themselves for truly when rightly considered how are our present Parliaments the Comprehensive Body of the Nation when so many of the Peers who neither are nor can be there by Representatives are shut out Nay how much is the Sanction and Honour of the very Laws they make and the very Constitution of our laâ—er Parliaments impair'd and lessen'd by such an Exclusion And truly when His Majesty by this intended Religious Charter resolves to establish and confirm all his Subjects Civil Rights Properties Freedom and Franchises on that solid and immoveable Basis above the reach of any Religious Tyranny or the shock of Conscience to move it would be very hard to leave his Barons of all his Subjects the only deserted whilst â—ifled and divested of so Original and Importan a Heritage as their Session in Parliament Thus far and no farther does His Majesty desire the Repeal of the Penal Laws and Test wherein 't is highly remarkable His Majesty's Alleviation of some visible burthen Oppression or Injustice lying upon all or some part of his people under the pressure of the Penal Tests in all the foremention'd Cases is so signally manifested that nothing but a wilful Blindness can plead Ignorance However to convince the very Infidel World and to clear his unblemisht Honour Candour and Integrity from all the â—eeble Clâ—uds that Malice and Ingratitude have rais'd to shade those inviolable Oracles his Protestations of desending the Protestant Religion His last Declaration of continuing the Test in the House of Câ—â—â—mons so totally dispels every least shadow of the popular fear and puts that stamp upon the Word and promise of a King and so eternally silences all those â—rightful Apparitions of the Romish Influence over the Protestant Religion that this very Religious Liberty so setled as purposed with the continuance of the Test in the House of Commons joyn'd in the security cuts off even the very Intaâ—l of all Legislative power from Popish Hands even to the end of the World. For whilst the Test consines in the House of Commons there cannot be to much as one Individual Member by the Test Qualification but must be a Protestant And possibly the very conceding of the other point viz. The establishment of a Religious Charter of Liberty with our Compliance with His Majesty in Repeal of the Penal Laws and â—est in all other Stations may be one of the most effectual means if not the only expedient to continue that Test in the House of Commons unshaken and immoveable aâ—d consâ—quenâ—ly 〈◊〉 Exclusion of the Romans from all Legâ—slative Power to endless Posterity For whilst at present the Penal Laws 〈◊〉 in fâ—rce the Papist has some considerable strength and Allies to joyn hâ—m as havinâ— indeed so vast a Body as the 〈◊〉 Dissenters under disguâ— and disoblâ—gation to friend the Romish Party as fellow sâ—fferers under the weight of Penal Oppressions and which upon any Parliamentary refusal of repealing those Penal Laws may make them but more and stron 〈◊〉 riveted into one joynt interest with the Roman Catholicks if no worse Ferment follows and consequently render their power so united more formidable But after the Sanction of a Religious Liberty the Protestant Dissenters will have so far gain'd the Ultimate of their Desire and Ambition that then in course they will fall in with the Church of England For all Repeals of that kind end in that greatest of Interest SELF and when their own self interest shall be so intirely satisfied from so ample and open a Field of Liberty as that Religious Charter the Bapists that poor diminitive handful of Men for ever after must and will inevitably stand alone and whilst the Parliamentary Test can only by Parliamentary Authority be dissolv'd where shall there be one individual Man of them whether Church of England or dissenting Member that shall so much as listen even to the least Whisper that inclines to any farther Popish Concessions more than their granted Liberty much less to any such threatning station as an Access to Parliament And more and above when this Parliamentary House of Commons Test shall be enacted by the Royal Fiat from a Roman Catholick Prince and that Qualification of the Legislative Authority together with the Church of England Establishment founded even by such a hand it may undoubtedly put no little Check in all Romish Successions so much as to every start that shall but arise to either of their prejudice or violation and when Liberty of Conscience shall even by a Roman Catholick Prince be so solemnly own'd and avow'd a Fundamental and Original Franchise of the people of England and so exemplarily ratiâ—ed as such what dread can we have from Romish daâ—gers when not only our Parliament Walls shall be so eternally barr'd against them but also so asserted and so potent a free born English Right shall stand up to confront all future Popish Pretensions whatever And all that Popish Tyranny over Conscience which almost in all Mouths and in all Pamphlets has been all along the Gorgon that frights half Mankind out of their little Senses as being so industriously represented the only Indelible Romish Principle and indeed their ultimate aim and desiâ— in England must now vanish into air when this Parliamentary Exclusion shall leave them no hands to grasp it should it enter into their Hearts to endeavour it To conclude Wherein are His Majesty's Demands unreasonable in asking the Repeal of the Penal Laws in which so great a part of the Vox populi as their Addresses testifie joyns with him and the principles of Nature Humanity and Conscience plead for him Or in asking the Repeal of the Test in those Branches formentioned for the asserting of his own Honour and recovering the Birth-right of a King by endeavouring to shake off the most shameful Vassalage that Monarch ever truckled under And why must his Endeavours of doing his People so much right in the first and himself so much right in the last be so poorly misinterpreted by the unnatural Surmizes of his ungrateful People But let us blush and mend and by giving up of these Laws do Equity in return of Clemency and Mercy FINIS
will it excuse her to say that they were châ—â—â—y at least the Sanguinous 〈◊〉 of them â—â—r our Gaols themselves sometimes have been scarce able to contain the Thousands that at one time have groaned 〈◊〉 her heâ— knâ—tâ—est Thoâ—gs her Haltâ—â—â— and Axâ—â— only excepted Enacted Interrorem as being but seldom put in Execution as if a deliberate studied Ill aggravated with the Formality of Justice and in the pretended cause of Heaven were therefore more excusable because commited supposed but once in an Age when a foul Act for that very cause should rather appear the more deform'd as t is the rarity that makes the Monster Besides Queen Mary had that plea to make for what were Two hundred and sixty Protestants even by Foxes Muster-Roll Burnt for Religion in her five years Reign to the some Millions of Protestants in those days when haâ—f the Kingdom was of that Perswasion A far shorter Catalogue of Sufferers I am a fraid when fairly computed compared with the infinitely larger Scroll of those almost unaccountable numbers of more lingring Martyrs that have done our Reformation the honour to breath out their last in her Penal Jayls besides some of them that have tasted her kinder stroke of Mercy from the quicker Dispatch of Halters The number of both which upon inquiry made has been found to amount to near six Thousand To return therefore to his Majesties proposal of Abrogating these Laws t is a greater Duty upon the Church of England to abolish them then in the Dissenters themselves for as t is a Yoke imposed upon their weaker Brethren in it self wholly unjust the Sufferer under that Yoke in indeavouring to break it only Acts by the motives of self-defence the common Principle of Nature But the Imposer of that Yoke is tied by the Obligation of Religion it self to repeal and repent his own Act of Injustice Besides If all arguments of Conscience cannot prevail and Policy not Equity though Heaven forbid so uncharitable a thought is our Churches guide yet even then too what does she yeild up in abolishing those Laws why truly nothing for whilst the Government continues in the Hands of a Prince of the Romish Religion those Statutes will utterly lye dead for the Royal Indulgence a Prerogative in the Crown will never put them in Execution What reason therefore has the Church of England for her Nonconcurrence to a proposal so Equitable when she has not so much as the least pretext even of meer Interest it self for her refusal But this I am sure as the Church of England can have no solid Reasons to oppose their Repeal the State has very substantial Ones to inforce it For as Trade is the greatest support and strength of a Kingdom I know no Politicks so conducing to the Commerce and Wealth of a Nation as Liberty of Conscience What greater encouragement to Naturalization and England that is not overloaded with People can have no fairer Inlet to bring in whole Families and Estates and indeed the Wealth of the World besides the opening that current of Commerce even amongst our present Natives which the restraint of Worship at all times so much shut up than Liberty of Religion Nor can I better instance the effects of this policy than in the grouth of the Dutch Greatness and the decay of the Spaniard from their different Extreams of National conduct in that Point I am certain his Majesty resolves to eternize his Glory by being the truest Pater Patriae of all the Crow'd Heads since the Conquest nor has he a fairer prospect of making his Kingdom a true Paradice of Peace and Plenty but by taking this pattern at the least from the first Paradice that is by making the Lyon and Lamb lye down in Peace together our long dissention being no otherwise to be reconciled and our Enmities husht but by this only universal Pacification I shall only add this last Consideration the Execution of our Penal Laws and the Restraint of Conscience has been the greatest Blow that ever was given to the Hereditary Right of the Subjects of England their natural Properties and Immunities given and Sealed to them by Magna Charta it self For who can call his Liberty or Estate his own whilst a Superiour Opinion in Power shall seize our Persons and confiscate our Estates for no other cause but difference of Worship and Faith and neither Person Estate or Liberty redeemable under a less Composition then renouncing of God for Conformity of Worship absolutely against Conscience is little less And all this capital offence so unfixt and so undeterminable a sort of Transgression that a Man has only a meer Lottery to be in the Right or the Wrong For the blackest Criminal in one Reign has been the whitest Saint in the next and so Vice Versa over again witness the Reigns of Edward the sixth Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth where the Protestants were the Devils one while and the Papists another Nay in the Reign of Henry the eight both Papist and Protestant were at one time in the wrong For t' was remarkable in his Reign that in the same day have Papists been Hanged for Traytors for disowning his Church Supremacy and Protestants Burnt for Heriticks for denying of Transubstantiation Thus in their turns have all Religions and Opinions lain under the Scourge of the severest of Laws and all for want of that Obedience to a Law which Humanity it self is utterly unable to pay For though our breach or not breach of all other Laws either Human or Divine lyes in our own free will and choice to conform or not conform to this or that Belief is wholly above the Power of Man Faith only being irresistible And if our wordly well-being and all we enjoy in this Life depends upon such Capricious Decrees of Law certainly the great Charter of our Liberties and Estates that confirmed 'em both under no such condition or Restriction is not a little invaded by the Penalties of such Laws Nor is Restraint of Conscience and the Execution of our Penal Laws in their own nature and tendency only destructive to the rightfull Liberty of English-Men but the very Letter of those Laws themselves has made the most visible Rupture into the very strongest Walls of our Magna Charta that is our Tryal by our Peeres by a Jury of Twelve our Magna Charta more particularly confirmes to us that hereditary right and our Penal Laws most notoriously take it from us For instance 22 Car. 2. Cap. 2. It is there Enacted That one Justice of Peace or other chief Magistrate shall upon the Oath of two Witneses make a Record of a Conventicle which Record shall be a Conviction and the Offender sined as the Statute further Expresses So that to gain the point of Gaolment or Consiscation without any process whatever here 's a Justice of Peace or a Mayor of a Town though but by Occupation a Thatcher shall in Conjunction with no more then a Clark or perhaps none
Judge any more incapacitated for the administration of Justice than another man Moreover in a Kingdom where their Number is so truly inconsiderable as scarce the two hundredth man in the Nation if they have hopes of making any Converts or any endeavours that way it can only be done by holding the Scale of Justice upright and in all Posts of Trust by keeping up the steddiest Standard of Right and Equity as the only means thereby to recommend and endear themselves to the World and wipe off those blemishes that the mistaken Jealousies and popular Misapprehensions have so long so unkindly cast upon them And this and this only they are very sensible is their Chart to steer by and their great Pilot their Royal Master the best read Student in the Arts of Empire that possibly ever graced a Throne equally knows to be his only course and undoubtedly as sacredly resolves to make it so And if the Judges of the Land suppose of the Romish Religion besides their Oaths that bind 'em and His Majesties Honour that shall influence them to it have these Obligations more and above even of Interest to their very Religion it self to move in so regular a Sphere of Justice where lies our Danger And if this higher station will be so inoffensive What can the poorer Justices of the Peace or the inferiour Subministration of the Government signifie in Popish or not Popish hands But in this Case I have heard some people say Alas What stretch of the Laws will not such Judges make Perhaps for instance pick a hole in the Abby-Lands and start some dormient Title or other to revert them to the Church of Rome a Patrimony that will not a little enrich the Romanists and advance their Cause This idle Objection was scarce worth naming as if the stretching of our Laws in that point was not as notorious and arbitrary as a total violation of the Subjects Right and rending the whole Frame of the Laws in sunder But to check this idle surmise if a Romish Parliament it self in the Reign of Queen Mary with the very Restauration of the Romish Religion and Papal Supremacy into the Saddle never so much as attempted to revert those Lands Nay on the contrary their whole Title was confirmed to the present Possessors by a Decretal from Rome it self as was then so solemnly done by Cardinal Poole the then Pope's Legate How groundless must the fear be of any thought or attempt of reverting them now Or Why must the Romish Judges in any kind subvert or undermine the Laws contrary to all their best Politicks in the present state of England to no true advantage either to themselves or their Church and possibly to be answerable for it with their Heads if they live to the next Protestant Prince To come next to the Officers of His Majesties Houshold c. to have those Posts too barricaded with Tests and the Imperial Dignity so shackled as to be debarr'd the choice of its own Menials nay even of its Conversation it self is an Insolence put upon Majesty as had been scarce tolerable from an Ordinance of Forty Eight much less an Act of Parliament But for our less Wonder at it we are to consider 't was hatch'd in the same Republick Nest for no less than the great old Patriot of three Names sate sor the brooding of it I think I need not raise Arguments to prove how little those Gentlemen of Honour the Courtiers I mean of any Religion whatsoever in that innocent Station are or can be concerned in shaking either Church or State. It 's enough to say that greater Indignity under the Sanction of a Law was never imposed upon a Crown'd Head. The meanest Gentleman in England whilst this Test keeps footing has a Prerogative above the KING For the choice of His Steward Bayliff Attorney or Sollititor c. are in His own free Election but these were Priviledges thought too large for a KING and therefore He is stinted and bounded to such Elections as the more Imperial Wisdom of His then great Counsellors in Parliament judged fittest for Him. Monarchical Rule is said to be like that of Heaven where the Primum Mobile acts altogether by inferiour Spheres and Second Causes And so Majesty by its Officers and Ministers as so many Vehicles by which the Influences of the Royal Power are conveyed But truly this Ascendency the Late Law makers judged too Great for the King of England and therefore they found an Expedient to render the Monarchy little more than precarious making the whole Ministers of the State the Creatures of the Test and not of the KING Now I desire to know how in reason we can imagine That a KING in Himself the Fountain of Honour and Original of Power though in His Nature the mildest and best temper'd of Princes though without the least thought of Unhinging the Frame of the Government or disturbing the Settled Church of His Kingdom to blast His Own Glory and lose His Subjects Hearts for that would be all the Crop 't would yield Him I wonder I say how we can imagine that the Best and most Gracious of Princes though without the forementioned Designs could nevertheless brook so Imprincely a Yoke as the Test And truly to justifie His Majesties heartiest endeavours against both Penal Laws and Test in not labouring to Abrogate the first as they stand in force against the Lives and Liberties and how unjustly has been proved before of the Members of his own Communion he would be the most unnatural of men and in not labouring to repeal the last as standing so egregiously in force against the Right and Prerogative of His Crown and indeed originally forged in affront to Himself he should be the most dishonourable of Princes Nor will it serve to object That His late Majesty whatever Diminution to the Prerogative it might be by passing it into a Law has alâ—enated that Power from the CROWN For to answer that Argument we are assured that whatever alienations of that kind the Easiness of the present Pâ—ssâ—ssor of the Crown or any other Reasons may induce him to make are no waies truly binding to the Successor Now the Reasons inclining His Majesty so zealously to endeavour the Repeal of the Test in these foremention'd stations under him are by himself declared viz. That the Service of all his Subjects is inseparably annex'd to and iâ—herâ—nt in the Crown being indeed so fundamental a Right so unalterable to his Prerogative and in its own nature so far above the Cognizance of Parliaments that a Crown'd Head ought less to be wonder'd at for endeavouring to recover so rightful a part of his Royal â—atrimoney than the â—eanesâ— of his Subjects for seeking a Redress against the highest oppression and injury suffer'd in the nearest and tenderest part of their Property Estate or Liberty that they hold by Common Law or Magna Charta it self And besides the Justice and Equity that prompt His Majesty to seek so