but on extraordinary occasions That al Causes be determin'd at farthest in six months And that such as thro difficulty or other accidents can't be determin'd within that time the Parliament at next Sessions shoud decide them To oblige the Iudges to proceed exactly according to the strict Rules of the Law made by Parliaments For notwithstanding what the Lord Coke says 'T is their duty only Legem Dicere not Legem dare And therfore where ever any thing comes to be disputed of the meaning of the Statutes or that any Cause happens for which there is not exact and sufficient provision made they are to have recourse to the Parliament whose Power is not only Legem dare but dicere For it appears That in antient times when Iustice was more speedy and Statutes fewer or rather none at al the great business of the Parliament was to give Sentence in al difficult Causes and to correct the miscarriages or sinister Practise of al inferior Courts and Officers and therfore was commonly known by the name of Curia Magna Before the Conquerors time there was no such thing as Courts at Westminster-Hal The manner then of distributing Iustice was both speedy and cheap the County being divided into several Portions there was in every Manner a Court where al the Causes arriving within that Precinct were determined by the Thane and his assistants but if too hard they were removed by Appeal to the higher Court of the Hundred where al the chief and Wise Men within that Territory with the Hundreder or Aldermannus gave Iudgment And if any Cause proved too difficult for this Court then they appeal'd to the County Court where al the several Thanes and Hundreders with the chief of the County call'd Comes and somtimes Vicecomes judged it But such Causes as were too intricat for them were remov'd to the great Court or Parliament then known by several other Names Which jurisdiction was exercized some Ages after the Conquest Whence Sir Edward Coke may be wel suspected a greater Lawyer than an Antiquary or els the liberty they took was the occasion of his exalting the Iudges Power in expounding Statutes above that of the Parliament Having now made it plain That the Parliament has this Power and always had it were to be wished they woud make use of it in strictly regulating the Disorders of al inferior Courts as wel Ecclesiastical as Civil Which perhaps can never be better don than after the manner of the famous Venetian Commonwealth by erecting a new Magistracy or Court of Inspection public Censors men of great Candor and Integrity whose Power shoud extend to the Cognizance of al manner of Actions in Courts great and smal Of the demeanor of al Officers of the State of what degree or quality soever who taking care thus of the Execution of the Laws shoud be oblig'd from time to time to give a ful and impartial Information to the Parliament in whose Power alone it shoud be upon Conviction of the Criminal to Suspend Degrade or otherwise Punish according to the Provisions they themselves make in such cases That it may be lawful for all Persons to address themselves immediately to these Censors whose Information shall by them be fully Examined and neither their Informers nor themselves lyable to any Actions or Sutes upon account of their Proceedings to be accountable to the grand and supreme Court of Iudicature That their Number be such as may serve to go Circuits round the Kingdom These as the other Iudges to be altered every 3 Years And because nothing does more conduce to the good of man-kind next to wholsom Laws and the practice of piety than the Knowledge of things past not any thing being truer then that What is has bin and there 's nothing new under the Sun a perfect relation of which begets a great Understanding and deep Iudgment the sence whereof made a Wise King say None were so faithful Counsellors as the Dead That therefore the Parliament woud appoint two of the most learned of those Censors acquainted with al the most secret affairs of state which if not as Counsellors yet as Hearers under the same obligation of secrecy as Secretaries or Clarks of the Counsel they may understand to write especially the matters of fact of al affairs and occurrences The Annals not to be made public til the Writers and al concern'd were gon off the Stage The fear of Offending and the advantage of Flattery being remov'd future ages woud in the truth of History find that great Rule of Iudgment and Prudence the World has hitherto been deprived of There being a man may safely say no tru profane History in the World save that of the Wise Chineses who have observ'd this practice for several Thousands of Years keeping the Records as an Arcanum for their Princes who by these means have gain'd a steddy judgment in their own state-affairs which is the reason given for the long and prosperous continuance of that great Monarchy When the Laws and Execution of them are thus established every Man will be sufficiently secur'd in the Enjoyment of his Liberty and Property which tho commonly taken for two are in reality one and the same thing I understand by the first that Power Man has reserv'd to himself when he enter'd into Society that is a Liberty of doing any thing except what the Law forbids or of living conformably to the Laws not of speaking contemptuously of the Rulers of the People nor of doing what he please tho the Law restrain it By Property I conceive meant the right of Enjoying peaceably privat Possessions as bounded by Law Liberty then respects the Person and Property the Estate These two I perceive you have joyn'd with Religion as the three great Abstracts of Human Concerns For I presume you consider Religion as it is part of that Policy by which the State is govern'd and as such I shal chiefly take notice of it leaving it as it refers to the Soul and a future Life to Divines whose proper Office it is Taking it then for granted That every wise Man will study that which neerest concerns him and That the Interest of the Soul and eternal Life do's far exceed the valu of this our transitory Being That all Human Laws are therefore binding because agreeable to Nature or Reason that is to the Signatures of the Divine Will That true Religion was the Law of God and its end the Happiness of Man in this Life as well as in that which is to Come That it was divided into two Parts Duty to God and to One another which later to the thinking Man resolves into Love of himself who must find that his Happiness consisting in the Enjoyment of himself cannot be without the mutual Offices and Endearments of Love which obliges him in spite of all his Passions when he fully considers things To do to all Men as he would be don unto This then being Human Happiness and the
because the tending of this work wou'd take up a considerable portion of their time they allowed Salaries to these public Officers out of the common stock In those days of Innocence when Art was not interwoven with Religion nor Knavery with Policy it was an easy matter to be pious and just And if the higher Powers were pleas'd to remove these two we shou'd soon again see that golden Age The Duty of both Tables was comprised in few Articles That to their Neighbors consisted as now in doing as you would be don unto That towards God of whose Being they were convinced by the strongest of Demonstations the consideration of the visible things of the World in Thanksgivings and Adorations the effect of Gratitude to the Author of their being and of all good things in believing the Immortality of the Soul and of its being susceptible of Rewards and Punishments in another Life and in the consequence That Sin is to be repented of These were their common sentiments the Dictates of Nature The substance of which was acknowledg'd by al even the most barbarous of Nations And therefore cou'd not be the inventions of Policy the Dreams of melancholy men or the Effects of Education These are the Opinions of the unthinking and therefore wild and loose and were the wishes formerly of the few debauch'd But the great sober and wise Philosophers of all Ages upon the exactest Scrutiny finding them to be the Impresses of Nature as essential to our Being as light to the Sun pronounced the speculative Atheist an impossible thing And because they were sencible that a Lyer as destrustive of the very being of human Society ought to be banished the Commonwealth the first of their Laws and the Cement of the rest was That every man shou'd not only speak Truth to his Neighbor but stand firm to his Promises And knowing that Laws tho never so good wou'd prove insignificant if not duly observed And that som men wou'd never be wise that is wou'd never consider and consequently wou'd not easily be restraind from folly from offending to deter the slavish and inconsiderat they did not only annex certain Penalties to the breach of the Laws but unalterably decreed That no Offender tho never so powerful shou'd escape the punishment These Penalties were Pecuniary Mucts loss of Liberty bodily Labor to the Public or Banishment The power of Life and Death they wou'd not give because they cou'd not transfer that to another which was wanting in them selves the taking away of Life was peculiarly reserv'd by Nature as its own indispensible right as most reasonable because she alone coud give it They consider`d That Terrors are but affrightments to Duty That Corrections are for Amendment not Destruction which course shou'd they have pursu'd they might accidentally have run themselves into a state of War Since Nature had told them it was not only lawful but necessary if they coud not otherwise preserve their own to take away the beings of any that attempted theirs That it wou'd be against the End of Society mutual Happiness This rendering the sufferer uncapable of all to which therefore he neither cou'd nor wou'd have consented This or somthing not unlike it was I perswade my self the form substance of the first Commonwealths which if you narrowly look into you may perhaps find som Lines that drawn out fully might be no il Model for any Common-wealth And to come nearer home It has some resemblance to what for several past Ages this Kingdom did and does now enjoy To omit the Brittish times of which we have but very thin gleanings of the Druids their Oracles of Learning Law and Religion And to skip over that of the Romans who were never able perfectly to introduce their manner of Commonwealth We shal find that in the time of the Saxons a people of Westfrizland so called from the shape of their Sword a kind of Cymeter and in that of the Danes the manner of Goverment was as now in substance the not in form or name by King and Parliament But whether the Commons were called to this great Assemby or no I cannot find from the imperfect Registers of Elder times One may guess they were originally Members of it because the same people in Westfrizland from whence they descended do at this day continu a Form of Government different from all the rest of the Provinces not unlike this There are sufficient proofs that the Peers that is the chief of the Clergy and best estated Gentry were as often as the King pleas'd for it was originally Edicto Principis Summon'd to consult with him of the great affairs of State Which Council was before the Conquerors time call'd by several Names as Concilium absolutely sometimes the Epithets of Magnum Generale or Commune were added It was often known by the name of Curca Magna and others and was compos'd ex Episcopis Abbatibus Ducibus Satrapis Sapientibus Regni among which if any wil say the Commons had place I will not dispute because in those times when Titles of Honor were not the Arguments of good Fortune or the mark 's of the Prince's favor the King cal'd to this great Council such as large Possessions Courage or Wisdom recommended as fit For we find that the Fathers having sat there gave no Right to such Sons as did not with their Estates inherit their Vertues It appears farther that the great Council in the later end of the Saxons Reign and til the beginning of King Iohns had by the grace of Kings accustomed themselves without any summons to meet thrice every year at Christmas Easter and Whitsontide which course was not interrupted by any particular Summons but when in other seasons of the year the public occasions required their meeting The long continuance of the Barons Wars made the before stated meetings of the great Council return to the uncertain pleasure of the Prince What ever the power of the Commons was before the Conquest it plainly appears that for somtim afterward their Advice was seldom desired and as things were then ordered their Consent was not thought necessary being always included in that of the Lords For the Conqueror having subjected the Natives to an intire vassalage seiz'd upon all their Possessions reserved to the Crown larg proportions in every County gave part to the Church in Francalmoine and the residu to his fellow adventurers in the War to be held by Knight servicâ— These subdivided part of theirs to their Followers on such conditions as render'd them perfect Slaves to their Masters rather than their Lords By the possession of so much Power these Barons or Freeholders for theword signifi'd no more did what they pleas'd with their vassals became very terrible to the Conqueror and his Successors To curb whose Extravagance tho all were willing King Iohn was the first that made the attempt but by his over hastiness he gave birth to the lasting broyles of the Barons Wars He
few honest be as much secured as possible When the Parliament have setled the Laws I wish they woud think of som more fitting restraint of Offences than what the penal Statutes direct almost for every crime The Loss of Life If we examin the severity of this practice we shall find it contrary to the Law of nature the positive Law of God Thou shalt not Kil and ineffective of the intent of Laws Amendment Self preservation is the chief design of Nature To better which and not to destroy it was the ground and end of Goverment and Laws which makes it contrary to Reason That any Means shoud be made or declared such which were destructive of the end for which they were made If then the loss of life as it most certainly do's puts an end to al earthly happiness 't is evident that it never was nor ever coud be judg'd an Instrument productive of that end perhaps it may be said that this may be true of every single man as such and yet may be false when consider'd with respect to the whole as a Member of the Society I answer It can't be true in the later if false in the former Because we must believe that at first every man consider'd what was absolutely best for himself without any respect to another on whom he cannot be suppos'd otherwise to look then as he was or might be subservient to his own particular and immediate happiness And since the whole is made up but of several individuals it must be granted that every of them had the same considerations and since it was not in the power of any to transfer that right to another which nature had deny'd to himself we may then safely conclude it is against the Law of nature i. e. against reason to believe that the power of Life or Death ' by consent of al without which there was no law coud at first be vested in any supreme power and that the useing of it does naturally put us into a state of war the Evil because directly destructive of Happiness design'd to be avoided This is a truth imply'd in the Law of England not only by binding the Criminals to restrain their Warring but also by the punishment inflicted on Felo's de se which supposes no man to have power over his own life as certainly he must have had if he coud have given it to another Nor wil the difficulty be remov'd whether we derive goverment either of the other two ways Paternal right or the immediat gift of God for Parents had no such Power by nature in the state whereof we are al equal We are little more oblig'd to them for our being than to the influence of the Sun both as to us are involuntary causes that which binds children to an indispensable duty of gratitude is the parents care in providing for their wel-being when they are unable to shift for themselves and their giving them virtuous education that which is of al the truest obligation than which nothing is among us more neglected which has made som at the gallows not without cause take up the advice of Iobs Wife against God first curse their parents and then dye Children may indeed be ungrateful which is the worst or the Al of crimes but parents cannot revenge this by death without being unjust because there ought to be a proportion between the crime and the Punishment and a warrantable Authority in him that inflicts it which in this case are al wanting for Ingratitude Theft Rapin and what ever else is practis'd by the wicked are in themselves repairable and the sufferer may in an equal measure be compensated for his loss for bona fortunae or the goods of Fortune are exterior to us and consequently accidental and when we are despoil'd of them by any we have ful satisfaction by a restitution in specie or in value this cours is the measure and square of al Civil contracts for if I detain wrongfuly the mony you lent me I am compellable but to repay you Why then shoud it be Capital to take your Horse without consent when either restitution or a punishment more commensurate to the Offence may be had As for the authority of the punisher which must be warrantable it is plain the Father has no such over the Children who in the state of Nature are equal with him for since he gave not the Being he cannot legally take it away and for the Act destroy the Agent punishment being design'd not only for the terror of others but for the amendment of the Offender To destroy then the last that such as are guiltless may continue so is to my apprehension a piece of the highest Injustice Besides no Prince claims a right over the Subjects Life what ever he does to his Crown otherwise than by the positive Laws of the Land which suppose the man himself to have given that power by his consent which is already prov'd impossible Therefore we may conclude the inflicting of Death is against the positive Law of God who has reserv'd this to himself as a peculier Prerogative and altho he has allow'd the Rulers of the Earth to share in his Titles yet least they shoud intrench on his Honor of which he is very jealous by exceeding the bounds of Reason he immediatly subjoyns but ye shal dy like men to put them in mind that they were to act as such It cannot then be suppos'd that human constitution can make that just which the Almighty declares unlawful He that does so sets himself up above al that is called God destroys moral good and evil makes Vertue and Vice but only names which if allow'd we may bid farwel to the People and Princes security for this roots up the very Foundations of Peace on Earth as wel as joy in Heaven Nor will it serve to say This was practised in the Iewish Common-wealth That was God's own peculiar Province and He that was sole Author of Life might dispose on 't at his pleasure and tho every part of that Oeconomy be not accountable yet 't is not without good Grounds suppos'd because the Iews Happiness or Misery seems to have consisted in the enjoyment or want of Temporal Blessings that the taking away Life here was in lieu of that punishment which Sinners under the Gospel are to receive in another Life And unless Human Laws might as immediatly be call'd His and that every Magistrat were a Moses I coud not believe it lawful for them to follow that Example especially considering that they do not write after this Copy in the punishment of al Crimes I will not make Comparison in many yet I can't but take notice that Idolaters and Inciters to it were there punisht with Death while among us Atheism and Irreligion do not only go free but the Professors of those admirable good Qualities pass for Wits and Virtuoso's Drunkenness and Gluttony are esteem'd as Marks of good Breeding computing the Abilities of
Trade as Fishing or Cloathing c. The first as an unexpected Gift wil be very grateful to the People and the other wil not be less benificial because it must encrease their Riches and be a fond without new Taxes for any future Emergencies That perpetuating the Revenu is most easy for the People and most convenient for Public Ends wil farther appear from these following Considerations That an equal Tax tho greater than is needful so the Money be not hoarded up to hinder Trade but issued as fast as it comes in for necessaries within the Country however it may for the present make som Alterations in particular Families do's not impoverish the Whole For Riches as Power consisting in comparison All equally retrenching som part of their Expences remain as Rich as they were before This Retrenchment may at first seem unpleasant and stomacful to those who think what they have little enuff for their privat Expence But such ought to consider if they refuse to part with som they wil infallibly lose all That instead of being a free People they may becom Slaves and wil not then have it in their Power to keep ought of what they cal their own have no Liberty or Property but at the pleasure of their conquering Tryumphant Lord and Master That then they wil be dealt with like Beasts now they have the Liberty of Rational Men i. e. of choosing with the wise Merchant in a Storm to throw som of his Goods over-board to secure his Life and the rest of his Fortune When by prudent Rules of Oeconomy and Temperance they have par'd off those great Extravagancies men are now given to in Cloaths in Meat and Drink c. to the decay of their Healths and shortning of their Lives and have proportion'd their Layings-out to their Comings-in what for the present seems so hard wil becom very easy and be hereafter no more felt than the payment of Tythes now which without doubt wrought the same Effect at first as this may be suppos'd to do But what is yet much better they wil make us Rich for I am Convinced that the great Taxes in the united Netherlands have bin the chiefest Cause of their great Wealth and tho this be no smal Paradox and perhaps a new one I am fully perswaded it contains a great Truth for their great Taxes necessitated great Industry and Frugality and these becoming Habitual coud not but produce Wealth especially considering that the Product of Labor is more valuable to the Kingdom than the Land and all other Personal Estate which I wil shew under the particular of Trade When the Taxes are less than serve or to last but for a time those who do not make their Expences short of their In-comes but think they may without prejudice make both Ends meet or if they exceed so soon as that Proportion which now goes to the Public comes in it wil make things even again do not consider how difficult it is to fal and that in the mean time an Accident may happen that not only requires the continuance of the Temporary but also of imposing new and greater Taxes Then when perhaps it 's too late they cry out They are ruin'd and undon and indeed the Case seems hard yet can't be avoided Therefore to answer our present Needs and prevent for the future such great Evils the Taxes are to be made perpetual So we being under a necessity of adjusting our Privat Affairs accordingly a little time wil make them Habitual to us and insensible to our Posterity For that if they be not perpetual but to determin at certain or uncertain Periods of Time they do not only becom uneasy to the Subject but inconvenient for the Publick Security which may suffer much at Home and Abroad in the interval before new Supplies can be legally rais'd I do not doubt but You and your Fellow-Members have it in yout Thoughts that all the Customs and half the Excise cease upon the death of our Soverain for whose long Life every good Subject is bound by interest no less than duty heartily to Pray but is it not to be remembred that the Period of humane Life is uncertain tho that of our evil which may thereupon insue be not the occasions of our expence continuing tho the means of supporting them fail That before a Parliament can be conven'd those others may be increas'd because in the mean time the Merchants wil fil the Kingdom with goods and sel them at the same rates they now do reckoning that a lucky hit and so anticipate the Markets for two three or more years with all manner of Staple Commodities Linnen Silk Salt c. which they have near at hand and with what perishable Commodityes they can procure for as long a term as they wil last and perhaps covetously and foolishly for a longer Thus the People wil pay and lose and yet the State grow poor as wel for the present as future while the Merchants only the overhasty and immature wil have the profit And tho they talk loudest the consumptioner stil pays the Duty and that with Interest In proportioning of Taxes we must have recourse to the necessities of the Charge which in my sence of things ought to extend to all that relate to us as single persons in matters of right or wrong as Law c. as wel as to what concerns us with reference to the whole in our public occasions as of Peace or War forrein or Domestic For I hold it altogether as reasonable that the Public shoud pay all those Officers who promote and distribute Iustice as wel as those others now paid by the State In proportion to which I hope our Governors wil consider what wil suffice for the management of all Affairs that any way conduce to the joynt good of the whole Body Politic and when that is known and fixt leave the rest to our own particular disposal But in this proportioning of Taxes we must rather look forward than backward Our home occasions are easily judged but those abroad must be taken by other measures the former use of Mony compar'd with its present the ancient demeans of the Crown with what they are now and the strength and power of our Neighbours especially the French concerning whom we are not to forget That that Crown is much more potent than it was heretofore by the accession of large Territories which when Englands gave it great Aid and Assistance in their War That the expence of one years War in this Age is greater than of twenty in former times That then two pence a day woud go further than twenty pence now That six or ten thousand men were as considerable an Army as forty or fifty thousand now Then a smal Castle Moat or ordinary Ditch was a good Fortification But mighty Bastians large Curteines doubly fortified with Faussbrais Counterscarps half Moons Redoubts and great variety of other Out-works according to the Nature and Situation
were kept out of their Rights he must have contracted vast debts for the support of himself his Army and his followers That the great Revenu of the Crown was in a manner gon That other Kings had squees'd vast sums from their Subjects by Loanes Monopolies c. of which no mention was made in the computation That the building of ships and above four years of such War at Sea consum'd more than any one hundred years War at Land since the Conquest That the consideration of the vast Charge Dunkirk put the Crown to at least three times more than it yeilded occasiond the Advise of its Sale That Tangier has stood the King in very great sums That til of late the supporting the Charge of Irelana helped to drein the Exchequer of England That the intrinsic Valu of one Million formerly was equal to that of three Millions now and in real use to thirty millions For the tru intrinsic Valu or worth of Mony is no otherwise to be computed than according to what it wil purchase for our present Consumptions which I have reckond to exceed those of old but by ten tho I have heard others say much more But that which has made these Complaints so loud has not bin only inconsideration or perhaps malice but the inequallity of imposeing the Taxes Those great inconveniencies may be easily obviated for the future by makiâ—g and applying to particular Uses such sufficient and equal Fonds as are necessary to be setled I wil only instance in one That of the Customes which seems originally to have had its Rise for that End therefore ought to be appropriated to the Use of the Navy I wish it were great enuff for such as our safety requires And if this Course be taken in apportioning the Revenu the Public and Privat Expences are to be generously computed the doing so wil remove Iealousies and Distrusts on all sides the King wil be under no necessity of straining his Prerogative by hearkning to the devices of Projectors the People wil be quiet and at ease and then every Man may safely sit under his own Vine and his own Fig-tree and enjoy with pleasure the Fruits of his Labor If you look into the Histories of past Ages you wil find the Disputes of the Prerogative on one hand and of Liberty on the other were alwayes founded on the want of Mony and he that considers the Evils that have ensued wil soon believe it very necessary to prevent the like for the future by applying to every use of the Crown or State I do not say to the Person of the King whose greatest Share is the Trouble while the Subjects is Security and Ease a sufficient and perpetual Revenu This Act wil beget an intire Confidence and Love and so unite us to one another as wil make it impossible for any Storms without or Commotions within to shake this Kingdom so founded on a Rock against which all who make any attempts must needs split themselves and Fortunes I have according to my wonted Freedom given you my Thoughts why I think it more convenient both for Public and Privat That the Revenu were sufficient and perpetual against which I never met but with one Objection to wit That if that were don the King woud not so frequently if at all call his Parliament As if there were no use for this great Council but raising of Mony The altering or repealing the old and making new Laws the reforming of Errors and Abuses in Inferior Courts of Iustice the deciding the Controversies those Courts coud not and many other things woud make their Meeting necessary The King woud see 't were his Advantage to cal them often since besides that there is safety in the multitude of Counsellors all that happens to be severe and harsh woud light on them and yet none coud be offended because the Act of the whole Nor coud His Majesty but be sensible that all Innovations are dangerous in a State for it is like a Watch out of which any one peece lost woud disorder the whole That the Parliament is the great Spring or Heart without which the Body of the Common-wealth coud enjoy neither Health nor Vigor Life nor Motion That while they mind their Duty in proposeing and advising what is best for King and People without privat Respect leaving him the undoubted Prerogative of Kings of Nature and Reason of Assenting or Dissenting as he is convinc'd in his Conscience is best for the Common Good which is to be his measure in all Actions as the Laws are to be the Subjects Rule I see not why it shoud not be his interest to cal them frequently That none can be suppos'd to advise the contrary unless som few great Men to avoid not so much perhaps the Iustice as the Passion Envy and Prejudice of som in that Iudicature to whom they may think themselves obnoxious But granting this 't is unreasonable to think so wise and so good a Prince wil prefer the Privat Interest of any single Man tho never so Great before the general Good and Satisfaction of his People I shoud rather think He wil in the Words of his Royal Father in a Speech to his Parliament give in this a ful Assurance I must conclude that I seek my Peoples Happiness for their slourishing is my greatest Glory and their Affection my greatest Strength His Majesty wel knows with what tenderness and Love his Subjects are to be treated that 't is more safe more pleasing and more easy to erect his Throne over their Hearts than their Heads to be obey'd for Love rather than Fear the Dominion founded on the later often meets the same Fate with a House built upon the Sands while that establish'd on the former continues firm and immovable as a Rock He is not ignorant That as the multitude of the wise is the welfare of the world so does the Being and Wel-Being of the English Nation consist in the frequent Counsels Deliberations and Acts of King and Parliament in which Providence has so blended the King and People's Interests that like Husband and wife they can never be sunder'd without mutual inconvenience and unhappiness The sense and observation of this makes our King's Reign prosperous and gives Him a more Glorious Title than that of King viz. The Father of the Country and the great God-like Preserver of his Children's Rights and Liberties who out of a deep sense of Duty and Gratitude must own and remember who tels them That a wise King is the upholding of his People and therefore cannot but pay him even for their own Interest all imaginable Loyalty Deference and Respect giving up their Lives and Fortunes for His or which is all one their own Safety who studies nothing so much as their Good and wel-fare Besides the King has already past an Act that a Parliament shal sit at least once in three Years and in several Speeches he has declar'd himself ready to do