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A45577	A charge given at the general quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Surrey holden at Dorking on Tuesday the 5th day of April 1692, and in the fourth year of Their Majesties reign / by Hugh Hare.	Hare, Hugh, 1668-1707.; England and Wales. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Surrey)	1692 (1692)	Wing H760; ESTC R25410	29,639	42

Pope interposes his Authority in Excommunicating or deposing any Protestant Prince whom out of their Catholick Charity they are pleased to call Hereticks they fail not when an Opportunity offers to rise in Rebellion against them and as they did in Queen Elizabeth's Time to joyn with any Foreigner whom the Pope Commissions to invade their Native Countrey and reduce it to an Italian a Spanish or which is worst of all a French Slavery How much their Loyalty is to be relyed on their Principles and their Practices especially in the Reigns of that Glorious Queen and her peaceful Successor do abundantly testifie and I hope while the Spanish Invasion and the Gun-power-Treason continue recorded in our History as undeniable matters of Fact while Papists deservedly lie under an Exclusion from all Offices of Trust and Profit and even from the Privilege of Voting in Parliament as Peers which some Mercenary Time servers in the late Reign were pleased to call their Natural Birth-Right and inseparable from their Persons while I say these things remain as they are and while we remember as I hope we allways shall the great dangers the Church and Nation were lately in by the bigotted zeal of a Popish Prince and the inveterate Malice of the Roman Catholicks then armed with Power I hope we shall not fail on all Occasions but especially at this time to have a watchfull Eye over their Conduct All the Mercies our present King hath extended to them both here and in Ireland Mercies to be paralleled by none but those of the Almighty cannot yet unhinge them from their dependance upon France and their Subjection to Rome nor put an end to their vain Expectations of seeing our present happy settlement wholly unravelled and their own Religion again establish'd and ours utterly extirpated by the the victorious return which they with for and we all deprecate of the late King and his pretended Son Therefore since nothing will make them Friends to this Government Prudence directs us to use the best Caution we can against their Hellish Designs and since there are many good Laws in Force against them there is great Reason that they suffer those Penalties especially such of them as stand out in defyance to the Government that are provided for them And Gentlemen it is your Business to enquire and present all Popish Recusants and I doubt not but you will express your Affection to the Government by doing your Duty in this Particular By Protestant Recusants I mean those Protestant Subjects of England who refuse to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to the present King and Queen It may I confess seem a Paradox that notwithstanding the many Calamities we felt in the Late Reign and those more grievous ones we daily expected when the making and repealing of Laws should have been in the Power of a Pack'd Parliament and when the protection of our Religion the defence of our Rights the disposal of our Lives Liberties and Estates and in a Word the Administration of Justice should have been entirely commmited to a French and Irish Army and to a Cabinet Council of Jesuits notwithstanding this gloomy Prospect which reduced us even to the Brink of Despair notwithstanding the Miraculous deliverance out of these Extremities that the Divine Providence afforded us at the critical Instant notwithstanding those returns of Gratitude which we owe to God the Author and to our present King the successful Instrument of so great a Mercy notwithstanding the late King's refusal to do his Subjects that Justice which his Coronation Oath obliged him to and which the Prince out of great kindness to this Nation at a vast Expence and an inexpressible hazard to his own Person came over to demand notwithstanding the Late King 's Voluntary Desertion his throwing up the Reins of Government and leaving us in a state of Anarchy and Confusion notwithstanding the calm deliberate and free Proceedings in Calling Chusing and Convening our Representatives notwithstanding the Regular and considerate Methods that wise Assembly follow'd in determining the great Point of the Abdication and placing their present Sacred Majesty's in the vacant Throne notwithstanding the manifest Reason all private Men have in such Cases to submit their own Opinions to the Publick Decision of so August a Body notwithstanding the many Dangers and Difficulties Fatigues and Hazards the indefatigable Labour and incessant Diligence and anxious Cares which have ever since that time denyed his Majesty that Ease Repose and Comfort which the meanest Man here enjoys notwithstanding all this was undertaken meerly for our Benifit and Safety Peace and Preservation for excepting our Saviour and the Bl. Martyr K. Charles the 1st never did any Prince wear a Crown so full of Thorns notwithstanding I say the King 's Personal Merits which without Flattery I speak it deserve an Universal Empire upon Earth and doubtless will be rewarded hereafter with one of the brightest Crowns in Heaven notwithstanding all this and much more which I could add would the time permit me it may I say seem Paradox but yet 't is too notorious that there are some Protestant Recusants who will not be perswaded they owe any Allegiance or Duty to this Prince His Royal Endowments and Accomplishments shine so bright that as much his Enemies as they are they are forc'd to acknowledge that he possesses them in the highest Degree and though they cannot love they must admire him for them But all this while they think him an Intruder on the Rights of another and some of them are so bold as to call his Glorious Reign a Prosperous Usurpation and not a whit more to be justified then that execrable one of Cromwell I have not time nor is it my Business at present nor indeed is there any need of it after so many excellent Treatises have been written upon the Subject to argue in defence of the Revolution and the present Settlement of the Nation Those that are its Friends require no farther Satisfaction and those that are its Enemies are resolved to continue so though its Advocates had the Energy and Eloquence of Angels Some of them indeed but how few are they I am so charitable as to believe cannot comply with this Government out of an Error of their understandings rather than a perverse Obstinacy of their Will and those who are so unhappy as to be under this mistake form no Cabals against the Government encourage no seditious Conventicles send no traiterous Embassies to France offer no incense of Flattery to that proud Tyrant make no publick Assignations for Rioting and Debauchery on such Days as their Majesties appoint for a National Humiliation nor in a Word make it more their Business to incense the People against the Present Government and to involve us in the Calamities of a Civil-War that we may be the easier Prey to the great Leviathan of Europe than to keep a Conscience void of Offence towards God and towards Men. This Gentlemen is

Sabbath for though the Law of Moses prohibited all manner of work to be done on that day under the penalty of Death to the Children of Israel which was Executed on the Man who gather'd Sticks on the Sabbath Day for the supply of his Necessities yet our Blessed Saviour who was the Lord of the Sabbath wholly abolished the Ceremonial part of this Law that being peculiarly appropriated to the Jewish Nation and continued the Moral part of it in its full Force Allowing both by his Example and by verbal Permission any work of Necessity or Charity to be done on that day Thus Scripture and Reason teach us and this likewise do the Laws of England permit though at the same time they are very strict against all those Profanations of the Lord's Day which proceed either from Mens Covetousness or their Licentiousness Thus all Carriers Waggoners Carters Wain-men and Drovers are prohibited to Travel with any Horse Waggons Carts or Cattell on the Lord's Day under the Penalty of forfeiting Twenty Shillings to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be Committed All Butchers that Kill or Sell or cause to be Killed or Sold any Meat on the Lord's Day or are Privy or Consenting to such Slaughter or Sale forfeit in like manner Six Shillings and Eight Pence for every Offence The Offence must be proved before any one Justice of the Peace by the Oaths of two Witnesses or by the Confession of the Party unless the Fact were done in the View of a Justice of the Peace and then the Law requires no farther Proof The Offenders must be Prosecuted within six Months after the Offence is committed and the forfeitures are recoverable either by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods or by Bill Plaint or Information Prosecuted at the Quarter Sessions for the County And where any Parish shall rather chuse this last Method for recovering their Money you must be ready Gentlemen on your Parts as we shall be on Ours to give all possible incouragement to these Prosecutions unless they shall plainly appear to be Malicious Nor Gentlemen are these the only Profanations of the Lord's Day that our Laws take Cognizance of but by a Statute of a later Date All Persons that shall on the Lord's Day or any part thereof Sell or expose any thing to Sale shall forfeit the Goods so sold or exposed to Sale to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence is Committed Thus also whosoever being of the Age of Fourteen Years or upwards shall on the Lord's Day or any part thereof exercise any worldy Labour Business or Work of his ordinary Calling shall in like manner forfeit for every Offence the summ of Five Shillings Thus all Drovers Horse-Coursers Waggoners Butchers Higlers or any of their Servants who shall Travel or come into their Inn on the Lord's Day or any part thereof shall in like manner forfeit for every Offence the summ of Twenty Shillings The Offences against this Act must be prosecuted within ten days after and the View of a Justice of the Peace the Oath of one Witness or the Confession of the Party Offending made before any one Justice of the Peace is a sufficient Proof And in Cafe as it may sometimes happen the Offender hath no Goods to be Distrained and Sold and is not able to pay these Forfeitures he is then to be set publickly in the Stocks by the space of two Hours And besides these Penalties this Statue exempts the Hundreds from answering the losses which may happen by Robbery to those who Travel on the Lord's day since such Journeys are not supposed to be undertaken out of necessity but choice Thus far our Laws restrain and punish those Profanations of the Lord's Day which a covetous desire of gain is apt to induce Men to Nor is the penal Prohibition of those Disorders which proceed from an Irreligious Licentiousness less severe For to the end that these Profanations of the Lord's Day and the ill Consequences attending them may be prevented our Laws strictly prohibit all Meetings and Assemblies of People out of their own Parishes and all concourse of them within their own Parishes for all unlawfull Sports and Pastimes under the Penalty of three Shillings and four Pence for every Offence to be forfeited to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence is committed the Penalty is leviable by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods and in default of sufficient Distress the Offender is to be set publickly in the Stocks by the space of three Hours The Prosecution must be within a Month after the Offence and the Oath of one Witness or the Confession of the Party before any Justice of the Peace or the View of any one Justice of the Peace is a sufficient proof to convict the Offender This was a good Law but yet too liable to many Evasions and Abuses therefore a farther provision hath since been made by a later Act That all Persons shall on every Lord's Day exercise the Duties of Piety and true Religion under the penalty of Five Shillings in like manner forfeited to the Poor of the Parish for every Offence which is to be Prosecuted within ten Days after and proveable as aforesaid by one Witness upon Oath and if the Offender be not able to satisfie the Penalty then he must be set Publickiy in the Stocks by the space of two Hours And nothing can exempt any Man from falling under the Censures of this Act but works of Necessity and Charity which as I observed before both Reason and Scripture allow of For Sports and Pastimes Revellings and Disorders are certainly inconsistent with the duty of the Day as Buying and Selling or exercising any Trade or Calling The fourth Immorality which our Laws endeavour to suppress is Drunkenness A Vice on which one of our Statutes fixes this infamous Character That it is Odious and Loathsom that it is the Root and Foundation of Blood-shed Stabbing Murther Swearing Fornication Adultery and such like enormous Sins to the dishonour of God and of our Nation the overthrow of many good Arts and Manual Trades the disabling of divers Workmen and the general Impoverishment of many good Subjects abusively wasting the good Creatures of God This charge though it may seem severe yet is it as our Experience informs us a very true and lively Description of the sad Consequences and Fatal Effects of this brutish Immorality Therefore for the repressing this Vice our Laws have provided a Punishment not only for the Drunkards but also for the Inn-keepers and Victuallers that Harbour Entertain and Encourage them For as the Preamble to one of the Statutes relating to this matter informs us The Ancient True and Principal use of Inns Ale-Houses and Victualling-Houses is for the Receit Relief and Lodging of Travellers and for supply of the wants of those who are not able to Buy in their Provisions of Meat and Drink by greater Quantities but