the City and Canton of Zurick in Switzerland c. A New Plain Short and Compleat French and English Grammer whereby the Learner may attain in few Months to speak and write French correctly as they do now in the Court of France And wherein all that is dark superfluous and deficient in other Grammars is plain short and methodically supplied Also very useful to Strangers that are desirous to learn the English Tongue For whose sake is added a Short but very Exact English Grammar The Third Edition with Additions By Peter Berault Memoirs concerning the Campagne of Three Kings William Lewis and James in the Year 1692. With Reflections upon the Great Endeavours of Lewis the 14th to effect his Designs of James the 2d to Remount the Throne And the proper Methods for the Allies to take to hinder both The Speech of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Gray of Grooby c. at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Leicester at Michaelmas 1691. His Lordship being made Custer Rotulorum for the said County by the late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal The Speech of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Warringron Lord Delamere to the Grand Jury at Chester April 13. 1692. An Answer to the Late King James's Declaration dated at St. Germains April the 17th S.N. 1693. An Account of the late Terrible Earthquake in Sicily with most of its Particulars Done from the Italian Copy printed at Rome Reflections upon the Late Horrid Conspiracy contrived by the French Court to Murther His Majesty in Flanders And for which Monsieur Granvall one of the Assassinates was Executed A True and Exact Account of the Retaking a Ship called The Friend's Adventure of Topsham from the French after she had been Taken six Days and they were upon the Coasts-of France with it four Days where one Englishman and a Boy set upon Seven Frenchmen killed Two of them took the other Five Prisoners and brought the Ship and them safe to England Their Majesties Customs of the said Ship amounted to 1000 l. and upwards Performed and written by Robert Lyde Mate of the same Ship Reflections upon Two Pamphlets lately published one called A Letter from Monsieur de Cros concerning the Memoirs of Christendom And the other An Answer to that Letter Pretended to have been written by the Author of the said Memoirs By a Lover of Truth Europe's Chains Broke or a sure and speedy Project to rescue Her from the Present Usurpations of the Tyrant of France The Gentleman's Journal Or The Monthly Miscellany In a Letter to a Gentleman in the Country Consisting of News History Philosophy Poetry Musick Translations c. Vol. II. June 1693. Where are to be had Compleat Sets for the Year 1692. or Single ones for last Year Bibliotheca Politica Or A Discourse by way of Dialogue upon these Questions Whether by the Ancient Laws and Constitutions of this Kingdom as well as by the Statutes of the 13th and 14th of King Charles the II. all Resistance of the King or of those commissioned by him are expresly forbid upon any Pretence whatsoever And also Whether all those who affisted his Present Majesty King William either before or after the coming over are guilty of the breach of this Law Collected out of the most Approved Authors both Ancient and Modern Dialogue the Ninth Where are also to be had the First Second Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh and Eighth Dialogues Saul at Endor or the Ghost of the Marquiss de Louvois consulted by the French King concerning the present Affairs Done out of French On Thursday next will be publish'd Nevil Pain 's Letters
one would suppose that God had made man not after his own Image but rather that of an Ass or something else that is beneath a Rational Creature For is it not ridiculous that any thing should be more excellent and knowing than that which is to govern it Is an insatiable desire of Power preferable to that Reason with which man was indued at his Creation Must a man give up that to which he has a clear right both by the Laws of God and his Countrey because another who is at that time guided by his passion desires to lay hold of it What Justice can any man promise to himself when Passion is above the Law What signifies Law if the King's Will must be the measure of our Obedience To what purpose are Parliaments and all those other Provisions which our Forefathers made to preserve our Liberties if Prerogative were in truth that Omnipotent thing which it boasted it self to be in the late Reigns That man is surely out of his way that is beside his Reason Had men been guided by it and nothing else there had been no misunderstandings about Government Reason will not mislead us but other things will be resolved to follow that and you will be sure to approve your selves in the sight of God and man Having said this I will now proceed to the Particulars of your Enquiry The first of which is High Treasons of which there are several sorts and Species both at Common-Law and by Statute-Law but those only that are made such by some Statutes are those that fall within your Enquiry To compass or imagine the Death of the King or Queen and that declared by some Overt and plain Act is High-Treason by the 25 Edw. III. but such Acts must be direct and clear void of all Implication or other Construction or else it will not make it Treason within this Statute for this Statute was made to take away constructive Treasons and thereby relieved the Subjects against an unspeakable evil under which they had laboured for many years for till then the Judges took an extravagant Liberty in stamping Treason upon almost any Offence that came before them which cost many an innocent man his Life contrary to all Reason and Justice so that this Statute was a very beneficial Law for the Subject To levy War against the King or Queen in their Realm or to adhere to their Enemies in the Realm or to give them comfort here or elsewhere is High-Treason by the same Statute But a Conspiracy to levy War is not Treason unless the War be actually levied though the contrary Opinion prevailed in the late Times whereby several worthy men were murthered It was a very far-fetched Opinion and could never have obtained but in that or some other corrupt Age when all Law and Justice was given up to the Will and Pleasure of the King For my Lord Coke is express in it That unless the War is actually levied it is not Treason and I remember in the Debate in the House of Lords upon the Bill for reversing my Lord Russel's Attainder the Lords were unanimously of opinion that it was not Treason and upon that ground chiefly they passed the Bill To counterfeit the Great Seal is High-Treason by 25 Edw. 3. and very good reason it should be so because of the great Authority it carries along with it it would be often attempted to be done and thereby innumerable mischiefs would follow and breed a great deal of confusion To counterfeit the King's Money or to bring in false and counterfeit Money knowing it to be such to make payment with it is High-Treason by 25 Edw. III. and so it is to clip file or wash Money by 3 Hen. V. and very good reason it should be so for these and every of them is a great Offence against the Publick for Mony being as it were the Sinews of the Nation to impair or counterfeit it is a great loss and damage to the Publick so that the Offence in so doing is not because it is marked with the King's Image for the French Money and the Spanish Coin and others are current in England which have not the King's Image upon them but the true reason is because of the great interest the Publick has in it and it would be the same thing if the Money had any other Stamp or Size put upon it by Publick Authority To kill the Chancellor Treasurer or the King's Justices being in their Places doing their Offices is High Treason by 25 Edw. III. It is very great reason that they who serve the Publick in such eminent Stations should have the publick protection for when they faithfully and honestly discharge their several Trusts the Publick receive great advantages by it and therefore this Offence was made High-Treason To counterfeit the Sign-Manual Privy-Signet or Seal is High-Treason by 1 M. 6. and I think it is so by 25 Edw. III. to counterfeit the Privy-Seal And the reason why the Offences in these Cases are made so capital is because of the great detriment they bring upon the Publick To extol a Foreign Power is High-Treason by 1 Eliz. and very fit it should be so for every man will allow it is a great Offence to set up any other Power in opposition to the Publick Authority For a Priest or a Jesuit to come and abide within this Realm is High-Treason by 27 Eliz. I believe a great many people have been under a very great mistake in this matter supposing it was upon the Score of Religion that the Priests and Jesuits were put to death whereas it was quite otherwise for it was upon a Politick account that they suffered it was for an Offence against the Government that they were executed For it having been found by experience that this sort of Vermin by their Doctrine and Practice sowed the Seeds of Division and thereby wrought great Disturbances in the Nation it was therefore thought fit by the Parliament to take this way as the most effectual to keep them out for as what they did amounted to nothing less than Treason so it was highly reasonable that the punishment should be commensurate to the Offence And since it is become a Law of the Realm if this sort of people will be so presumptuous as to break it they have no body to blame but themselves if they suffer by it for it is a very just and reasonable Law To absolve any from their Allegiance or to be absolved is High Treason by 3 Jac. 1. the Law does heighten or abate the Punishment according as the Offence does more or less affect the Publick Peace so that the more it tends to the Publick Prejudice the greater is the Offence and what can strike more directly at the ruin and overthrow of the Nation than to withdraw the People from their Allegiance and to become the Destroyers of their Native Country And since those that absolve and those that are absolved have thereby declared themselves
Enemies to the Nation it is very fit the Government should treat them as such The next Offence is Petty-Treason as for a Wife to kill her Husband a Priest his Ordinary a Servant his Master these are made so Capital because of the Obedience and Subjection which they ought to pay by reason of the Power and Authority which the Law gives the other over them The next Offence is Felony and it is either against the Person or the Goods or Possession Against the Person of another To kill another with Malice prepensed either expressed or implyed is Murther Designedly to cut out the Tongue maim or disfigure another is Felony without benefit of Clergy To Stab or Pistol another without a Weapon be drawn or a Blow given by the Party that is slain is also Felony without benefit of Clergy And so is Buggery with Man or Beast a Sin that could never have entered into the thoughts of Man till they were fallen to the lowest degree of Depravity So it is to Ravish a Woman that is to have the Carnal Knowledge of her Body against her Consent and so it is to lye with a Child under Ten years old tho with her Consent So is Witchcraft but it is an Offence very hard to prove So is Poysoning the most Secret and Treacherous way of Murthering of all others an Offence so abhorred by the Law that by Statute 22 Hen. 8. c. 9. it was made Treason and the Judgment was to be boiled to Death but it is since altered and made Felony by 1º Edward 6th c. 12. It is surely an Offence that deserves a severe Punishment because there is no Fence against it In all other Cases a Man has some means of defending himself but in this none All these Felonies are Death without benefit of Clergy Manslaughter is when two fall out and Fight immediately or so soon after as it may be supposed that that heat continued and one of them is Slain Here there is benefit of the Clergy because there does not appear to be any premeditated Malice To kill another by Accident doing a lawful Act is Chance-medly and if a Man is assaulted by another and in his own Defence he happens to kill him these the Law pardons of course Felonies against the Goods or Possession of another are such as these viz. To Rob on the High-way for the Law will protect the Goods and Persons of those who are upon their lawful Occasions and it is very reasonable that those who Travel on the Road should have some such Guard or else the Trade and Business of the Nation would be very much obstructed and suffer great damage To take away any thing privately from the Person of another if the Punishment of this were not great it would become a great Trade for it is so easily done and so hard to be prevented that a Mans Money would be safer any where than in his Pocket To steal a Horse Designedly to burn a Stack of Hay or Corn if it be done by Accident it is but a Trespass but being done by Design it carries so much Malice and Wickedness along with it that it justly deserves to be punished with Death To Rob a Church To break into a House and take any thing thence by Night or by Day for this carries a double Offence along with it for the Goods of another are not only Feloniously taken from him but he is also put in fear of his Life where he ought to be most secure and undisturb'd which the Law accounts a great Offence To rob any Booth in a Fair or Market This became so common a Trade that all other Remedies to prevent it proved ineffectual and therefore it was made Felony without benefit of Clergy as are the rest that I have mentioned The Accessories to all these and other Felonies do fall within your Enquiry for generally where benefit of Clergy is taken away from the Principal the Accessories before the Fact are likewise to suffer Death and good reason is it that he who is partaker in the Crime and without whose concurrence and assistance it could not have been effected should fall into the like Condemnation Petty-Larceny is the stealing of a thing that is under the value of 12 d. though it is a small Offence yet the frequency wherewith it is committed requires your care to suppress it for the truth is there is a parcel of idle wandring People whose whole business is to go from place to place to strip Hedges and commit such like Offences There are several other Offences that are inquirable of by you but I omit to mention them because I believe your own Observation will help you therein Only thus much I will observe in general that whatever is an Offence against the Publick Peace or Plenty falls within your Enquiry And having said this I will keep you no longer from your Business FINIS Books Printed for Richard Baldwin STate-Tracts In Two Parts The First Part being a Collection of several Treatises relating to the Government Privately printed in the Reign of King Charles II. The Second Part consisting of a farther Collection of several Choice Treatises relating to the Government from the Year 1660. to 1689. Now published in a Body to shew the Necessity and clear the Legality of the late Revolution and our Happy Settlement under the Auspicious Reign of Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary A Brief Disquisition of the Law of Nature according to the Principles and Method laid down in the Reverend Dr. Cumberland's now Lord Bishop of Peterborough's Latin Treatise on that Subject As also his Confutation of Mr. Hobb's Principles put into another Method With the Right Reverend Author's Approbation The Life of Lewis of Bourbon late Prince of Conde Digested into Annals with many curious Remarks on the Transactions of Europe for these last 60 Years Done out of French The Tragedies of the Last Age consider'd and examin'd by the Practice of the Ancients and by the common Sense of all Ages in a Letter to Fleetwood Shephard Esq The Second Edition A short View of Tragedy its Original Excellency and Corruption With some Reflections on Shakespear and other Practitioners for the Stage Both by Mr. Rymer Servant to Their Majesties Travels into divers parts of Ew ope and Asia undertaken by the French King's Order to discover a new Way by Land into China containing many curious Remarks in Natural Philosophy Geograghy Hydrography and HIstory Together with a Description of Great Tartary and of the different People who inhabit there Done out of French To which is added A Supplement extracted from Hakluyt and Purchas giving an Account of several Journeys over Land from Russia Persia and the Moguls Country to China together with the Roads and distances of the Places Liturgia Tigurina Or The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Ecclesiastical Rites and Ceremonies usually practised and solemnly performed in all the Churches and Chappels of