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A82298	A collection of speeches of the Right Honourable Henry late Earl of Warrington, viz. I. His speech upon him being sworn mayor of Chester, in November, 1691. II. His speech to the grand-jury at Chester, April 13. 1692. III. His charge to the grand-jury at the quarter-sessions held for the county of Chester, on the 11th. of Octob. 1692 IV. His charge to the grand-jury at the quarter-sessions. Held for the county of Chester, on the 25th. day of April, 1693	Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of, 1652-1694. Selections.	1694 (1694)	Wing D876; ESTC R11819	38,885	113

great Offence To rob any Booth in a Fan or Market This became socommon a Trade that all other Remedies to prevent it proved inessectual 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 Europe 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 Geography 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 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 desicient 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 M●moirs cencerning 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 Gustes Rotulorum for the said County by the late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal The Speech of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Warrington 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 assisted 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

These things Gentlemen I in particular recommend to you not as all you business but yet as things that cry aloud for redress for there does fall within your Enquiry High-Treasons Petty-Treasons Felonies of all sorts whether against the Person Possession or Goods of a man Riots Routs and unlawful Assemblies and every thing that is an Offence against the Publick Peace in which I am not more particular because I fear I have held you too long already and therefore I will trouble you no farther but pray God to direct you in your Business FINIS BOOKS Printed for R. Baldwin MErcurius Britannicus Or the New Observator Containing Reflections upon the most Remarkable Events falling out from time to time in Europe and more particularly in England The Fifth Volume Printed for Ric. Baldwin where are also to be had the First Second Third and Fourth Volumes with the Appendix to them 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 Custos Rotulorum for the said County by the late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal Bibliotheca Politica Or a Discourse by way of Dialogue Whether Absolute Non-Resistance of the Supreme Powers be enjoined by the Doctrine of the Gospel and was the Ancient Practise of the Primitive Church and the constant Doctrine of our Reformed Church of England Collected out of the most approved Authors both Ancient and Modern Dialogue the Fourth Printed for R. Baldwin where also may be had the First Second and Third Dialogues A Project of a Descent upon France By a Person of Quality A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War being a Journal of their Travels from Dinant in Britany to Thoulon in Provence and back again With a Description of the Scituation and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road and their Distance Of their Prisons and Hospitals and the number of men that died under their Cruelty c. Europe's Chains broke or a sure and speedy Project to rescue her from the present Usurpations of the Tyrant of France Reflections upon the late King James's Declaration lately Dispersed by the Jacobites Truth brought to Light or the History of the first 14 years of King James I. In Four Ports I The happy state of England at his Majesty's Entrance the corruption of it afterwards With the Rise of Particular Favourites and the Divisions between this and other States abroad II. The Divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex before the King's Delegates authorized under the King's Broad-Seal As also the Arraignment of Sir Jer. Ellis Lieutenant of the Tower c. about the murther of Sir Tho. Overbury with all Proceedings thereupon and the King 's gracious Pardon and Favour to the Coun●●ss III. A Declaration of his Majesty's Revenue since he came to the Crown of England with the Annual Issues Gifts Pensions and extraordinary Disbursements IV. The Commissions and Warrants for the b●rning of two Hereticks newly revived with two Pardons one for Theop●●●●s Higgons the other for Sir Eustace Hart. A Sermon preached before the General and Officers in the King's Chappel at Portsmouth on Sunday July 24. 1692 Being the day before they Embarqu'd for the Descent upon France By Willam Gallaway A.M. Chaplain to Their Majesties Sea-Train of Artillery THE Lord DELAMERE's CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY OF CHESTER THE CHARGE Of the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of WARRINGTON TO THE GRAND JURY AT THE QUARTER SESSIONS Held for the County of Chester On the 11th of October 1692. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1693. THE CHARGE Of the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of WARRINGTON TO THE GRAND JURY c. GENTLEMEN PEACE in a Nation is like Health in a Natural Body whose value is not sufficiently known but by the want of it and herein God Almighty is wonderfully gracious to this Land not only in continuing to us the Blessing of Peace but in teaching us the worth of it by letting us see the Nations round about us in War and groaning under all the miserable Effects of it whilst it is kept at a distance from Us and we are only at some Expence which is unavoidable all Circumstances considered unless we will submit to that Monster the French King And indeed God hath done so many and great things for us that nothing is wanting to compleat our Happiness but our selves Of all the Mercies this Nation hath lately received I think our Deliverance from King James was none of the least if it be a Mercy to be delivered from Popery and Slavery That we were in great danger thereof I think was very evident from what we had suffered and what King James apparently further designed to have done had he been let alone a little longer for his Administration was become so iexorbitant that Men of all persuasions many of the Papists not excepted did think his Yoke intolerable and that it was highly just to be relieved against his Oppressions for when the Prince of Orange landed scarce any Man appeared for King James nay a great many of his Army deserted him which coldness and neglect could not probably proceed from any thing so much as from the ill opinion they had of his Cause Now if any that were then so indifferent and passive have lately conceived a better Opinion of him it may well be suspected that a particular Picque or some Sinister Byas guided their motion at that time and if so it 's no matter what side they are on for those who are governed in such cases by any thing but a publick Principle are easily turned about by every breath of Air Nor can I imagine what can give any man a better opinion of King James now than he had of him before he went into France the only place as he says he could retire to with safety considering how improbable it is that any Instructions which that Tyrant may give him will make him less inclined to Popery and Arbitrary Power Before I come to the Particulars of your Enquiry give me leave to say something of a great Deliverance which God wrought for us this Year To talk of Plots and Conspiracies against the Government may be rather to tell some people News than that which they do believe because we have already heard of many Discoveries of Plots but none that have been prosecuted and for that reason men may be inclined to think they were rather Fictitious than real Plots against the Government Plots sometimes are not prosecuted either because of the great indulgence of the Government being desirous to gain people rather by mercy than by being too extream to mark what is done amiss or it may be because the Government hath a more than ordinary tenderness for that sort of People or it may be because some of

Execution For they must intend either good or bad to us thereby and which was most likely I leave to every Man to judge I mention these things not that I am of Opinion That any or all of them put together without some other direct proof is evidence sufficient to convict a Man upon a Tryal for God forbid that any Man should be condemned but upon a fair Tryal and clear Evidence But I take notice of these things as they do render Persons justly suspected to be privy to or approving of the late Design against this Nation which as every honest Man ought to abhor so it is his duty to keep a watchful eye over them because I am far from being of an Opinion that they have given this Design over as a lost Game by reason that it was laid so broad and deep and so many are concerned in it that the success of it is of the last consequence to them their only safety being placed in it And besides because of the encouragement they do receive from the unfortunate Divisions that are amongst us And there is yet another thing which I apprehend is no small cause of encouragement to them and that is the little haste made by the Government to call them to account Of all the Ills of the two last Reigns in my opinion nothing was so treacherous and devillish as that of making Parties amongst us that we might become our own dostroyers for as it was the surest method to effect our destruction so if any thing should interpose to prevent our ruin yet nothing is more difficult than to make up such a breach and therefore the best that could be hoped for from it was to entail upon this Nation heart-burnings and all the fatal consequences of it I have the charity to hope that many who helped to carry on that ruinous design did it more out of ignorance than out of any ill intention I believe the Arbitrary Sermons being delivered as the Oracles of God might draw in a great many unwary people others might comply out of hopes of Preferment or fear of being harrassed by some powerful Neighbours But as new light is sprung up so I wish from my heart that men would walk accordingly If any man was misled in the late times it is not his shame but duty as a wise and honest man to repent of his Errour and forsake it for he that shall be convinced of it and yet will persist in it will find very few to whom his obstinacy will recommend him If any do think they were in the Right when they serv'd as Bauds to the Arbitrary Lusts of the two Late Kings I heartily pity them for their case is desperate yet I am perswaded that none of them would of choice have had such a power exercised upon themselves and if so they must grant that what they would not have done to themselves is not lawful for them to do or bring upon others If they adhere to what they did either out of hopes of Preferment or fear of being crushed by those in power they must believe that this King and Queen are resolved to go by the fame Methods that were taken in the two Late Reigns or else that nothing else will make this King and Queen safe and glorious Were the rest of mankind of this Opinion this World would be a miserable place surely mankind was born for some nobler End than so or else 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

King concerning the present Affairs Done out of French On Tharsday next will be publish'd Nevil Pain 's Letters THE Lord DELAMERE's CHARGE TO THE GRAND JURY OF CHESTER April 25 1693. ADVERTISEMENT THE Three following Speeches made by the Right Honourable Henry Late Earl of Warrington Viz. I. His SPEECH upon his being Sworn Mayor of Chester in November 1691. II. His SPEECH to the Grand Jury at Chester April 13 1692. III. His CHARGE to the Grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions held for the County of Chester on the 11th of October 1692. Are Sold by Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane THE CHARGE Of the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of WARRINGTON TO THE GRAND JURY AT THE QUARTER SESSIONS Held for the County of Chester On the 25th Day of April 1693. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1694. THE CHARGE Of the Right Honourable HENRY Earl of WARRINGTON TO THE GRAND JURY c. GENTLEMEN 'T IS a very common Saying that Interest will not lie and yet if you consider it you will find that there is scarce any thing more difficult than to persuade People to their Interest a thing mightily to be wished because if it were universally understood and practised it is the thing of all others that will make this World a happy Place For then there would be no need of Laws and Magistrates to preserve Peace and Good Order by reason that every Man would be restrained by that Law within himself which is the Foundation of all other Laws I mean that Principle of Reason and Justice with which he is born But when Man fell from his primitive Innocency he lost that Guide which should happily have conducted him through this World and instead of following the Dictates of his Reason he suffered himself to be led away by his Passions and without any regard to Justice made his Self-Interest the Standard of his Dealings with others which is the direct way to ruin that which he aimed at for if a Man acts without regard of Justice to others he hath little reason to expect that Justice should be done him For why should he imagine that others should take care to do him Right who hath no other Consideration but for himself So that in point of Interest as well as Justice every Man ought to have a mutual Regard to the Good of each other but because it is so entirely neglected therefore were Laws made to withhold Men from committing those Acts of Injustice and Violence which their own Consciences tell them ought not to be done From this depraved Inclination do proceed all those Disturbances and Disorders that infest any Government and have often been fatal to the whole Constitution there having at all Times and in all Places been found those who have been disposed to sacrifice their Liberties and Civil Rights to serve the Desires and Lusts of Arbitrary Princes 'T is surely a great Sickness of the Mind when a Man gives up his Birth-right in exchange for something else that depends upon another Man's Breath and he must be besides his Wits who little esteems his Liberty which is the thing that chiefly distinguishes him from a Beast for when a Man is a Slave he must submit his Will and Reason to the Humour of him who govern's him and then what Difference is there between him and a Brute only that his Condition is the worse of the two If no Body but themselves were to feel the Effects of their Servile Compliances the Matter would not be much if they perished by their own Folly For why should they expect to thrive better than Esau did who sold his Birth-right to save his Life and therefore instead of a Blessing received a Curse For can they who reject God's Mercies hope to entail a Blessing upon their Posterity These are the sowre Grapes that set the Childrens Teeth on edg for though the Father may be so fortunate as to go to his Grave in his Prince's Favour a Happiness to which few have attained who have purchased it by being false to their Country yet it is a dangerous Experiment for their Posterity to whom there is seldom left any thing more than to inherit the Wind. Now if the Mischief of this Time serving had ended with this sort of Men and their Posterity the Complaints against it might have been buried with them and their Families for his Infamy ought to be had in remembrance so long as the Sun and Moon endure who is the Instrument of his Country's Ruin for by this Treachery have whole Kingdoms been brought to Desolation which were before in a flourishing Condition as namely where Justice was duely executed full Imployments for all Hands a quick Trade no sort of complaining in the Streets but every Man sate with Security and Pleasure under his own Vine This is so deplorable a Change as no Tongue is able to express then let every Man consider it in his own Thoughts and he will discover how valuable a thing his Liberty is even preferable to any thing else this World affords For Liberty is the Foundation of Vertue and Industry What doth any thing else signify without it For when that is gone as our Lives and Fortunes depend upon another Man's Pleasure so we hold our Religion as precariously because a Prince can impose upon Slaves what Religion he pleases France is so pregnant an Instance of this that it puts the thing out of dispute for whilst the Protestants kept their Liberty all was well with them yet no sooner was that wrested out of their hands but it was quickly seen what became of their Religion And therefore I have always thought that they began at the wrong End who reckon themselves out of all other Danger whilst they enjoyed the Exercise of their Religion It will not be denied but that Liberty is a great Security to the free Exercise of Religion but if our Civil Rights are assaulted I do not see by what means Religion can rescue them out of violent Hands because there are many Instances where Religion has been used as a Stalking Horse to introduce Slavery For did ever any Man pretend to have a greater Concern for the Church than Charles the Second and yet no Man more designed the Ruin of the Nation than he did which Example may occasion the People to suspect some Design upon their Liberties when the Prince pretends the greatest care for Religion unless he be a Man of great Morality and that Religion appears in his Life and Practice as well as in his Words and Promises for it is scarce possible to enslave a free People by down-right Force and therefore they must be gulled out of their Liberties by Art and under-hand Practices and there cannot be a better Blind than a pretended Care for Religion to keep the People from observing what is designed against them So that if any thing is worthy of their Care it is their Liberty and in doing