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A28568	Three charges delivered at the General Quarter Sessions holden at Ipswich, for the county of Suffolk, in the years 1691, 1692 to which is added the author's vindication for the calumnies and mistakes cast on him on account of his geographical dictionary / by Edmund Bohun ...	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3462; ESTC R6022	15,248	34

should I expose my Head and Family to all this Why let such an one do it Ay doubtless even the Man that has no Being Mr. No-Body for he only is above the Revenges and Molestations of all his Neighbours This is the Reason why Moses so often and so earnestly Exhorts all that were concerned in the Execution of Justice to be Stout and Courageous and not fear the Face or Power of any Man because the Judgment was the Lords and he would assert and defend his own Minister and Ordinance against all that should design their Disquiet or Wrong Now Gentlemen if I could but Cure your Partiality your Lasiness and your Cowardize I would then promise my self a good effect But I must beg your pardon here for but supposing you can be guilty of any of these things Men of your Character and Estates can never be suspected never Justly Why Gentlemen I would not Defame you nay nor so much as Suspect you if Time and many Years Experience had not taught me to despair of having what I can say regarded I would not suspect even where I cannot but be certain but I must suspect whether I will or no and you may forgive it me because it is in your powers to satisfie me and the World you do not deserve to be suspected and if upon the Return of your Verdict I find cause for it I will publickly Recant what I now say and at the same time return you my Thanks for Confuting my Jealousie The gaining this Point is all I aim at to Excite and Awaken your Drowsie Sleeping Attentions and even Anger you into your Duty if nothing else will do But when all is done I would not willingly offend you and if I have gained my Point I am sure I have not The Statute of the 32 H. 8. c. 9. saith very truly The Articles There is nothing within this Realm that Conserves the Subjects in more Quietness Rest Peace and good Concord than due Administration of Laws For where this is not Impunity will soon produce sufficient matter to disquiet any Nation But the Work of Righteousness shall ever be Peace You shall diligently enquire of and truly Present Treasons all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies against our most Gracious Sovereigns King William and Queen Mary By whom when and where the same were perpetrated or attempted entred into or disclosed It is true this Court cannot Try any Treason because not in our Commission but yet we can and ought to enquire of it and you to Present it that the Records may be after removed into those Courts who can Try the same The compassing the Death of the King or Queen or Prince and declaring the same by any open Deed. Such as are a design to Depose or Imprison them For Death hath ever followed upon these Actions and of necessity ever must There is said Charles the First but a small distance between the Prisons and the Graves of Princes and his Death soon after verified the Observation Such are the Misfortunes of our Times that Loyalty it self is now suborned and made accessary to the disquieting and endangering Two of the best Princes that ever set upon the English Throne and Men think and say they do not owe them the same Allegiance they did their Predecessors because they are so De Facto and not De Jure A bold and a false Assertion but which will not Justifie the Conclusion if it were true The Allegiance is the same be the Foundation of it what it will for our Laws know but one Allegiance and have the same punishment for all Traytors The other Overt Acts are the providing Weapons to effect it sending Letters to second it assembling People to take the King or Queen into their Power writing Letters to a Foreign Prince to Incite him to an Invasion for speaking is not an Overt Act within the Statute but if it be set down in Writing any way it is then an Overt Act. The Joining with the King's Enemies within the Realm or without and the Levying War against them is another Branch of Treason within the Act of the 25 E. 3. c. The rest of the Treasons there mentioned can scarce be supposed to fall within your Cognizance and therefore may be omitted for Brevity The Second Charge delivered at the General-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace opened on Friday the 8th of April 1692 at Ipswich and held by Adjournment to the 9th of the same it being a General Fast that Day Delivered again on Friday the 22d of July in the same Year at Ipswich with some few Alterations GENTLEMEN IT has ever been my Custom in Obedience to the Usage introduced by our Wise and Industrious Ancestors to open the Charge I was to give you with something of a Preface or short Introduction necessary as to the times fit for me to speak and for you to hear tho' the bare repeating the Articles were much more easie to me But I value nothing in this World so much as the Service of God and the Safety and Welfare of my Country which are the main things I have ever aimed at and for the Promoting of which I shall never think any Labour or Hazard too great Deplorable is the State of Mankind whilst we live in this Mortal Life and Miserable World neither God nor Man Prosperity nor Adversity Peace nor War Plenty nor Want can universally please all And which is most of all to be admired at Men in all Ages have been most Insolent most Discontented when Heaven has most smiled upon them when Deliverance Prosperity Peace and Plenty have been given them and their Wishes prevented No sort of Men have met with harder Usage no Times with more Murmurers than those that have been Imployed by God to Deliver his People from the most Pitiful State and Condition of which in the Old Testament Moses and Jeptha and Gideon and Samuel and David are clear and undeniable Instances if I had time to open their Story This Carriage of the Jewish Nation from first to last both towards God and towards their Deliverers was so constantly the same that the Psalmist in his short Epitome of their Story sets it down as a never failing Rule When he Slew them they sought him and turn'd them early and enquired after God But then Psal 78. no sooner were they delivered but it immediately appeared they did but Flatter him with their Mouth and Dissembled with him in their Tongues And as they thus Foolishly Treated God so they did his Instrument too For which of the Prophets saith St. Stephen have not your Fathers Persecuted Acts 7. 52. Or which of the Princes Judges Generals met with better Treatment But of this I shall say the less because the History of the Bible is in all your hands upon the least hint your Thoughts will suggest all that I can say upon this subject To lead you then to another Scene which shall verifie the same Rule I will

of us if we were such Fools as to do it I am sorry that our Deliverers should meet with so ill a Return from any of us But as the Number in relation to the whole is not great so there has nothing hapned that is new others have suffered the same ill Treatment and Ingratitude before them The Splendor of illustrious and great Actions dazels the Eyes of Envious Men and raiseth an Hatred against those whose Virtues or Successes are above the common Standard and the Enemy of Mankind who pleased himself with the Scenes of Misery he had prepared for the World is enraged to see his Projects defeated and he Exasperates all he finds disposed to it The many Parties that get or lose in such Revolutions grow Insolent too or Discontented and Exasperate each other by their Jars and they that have the least hand in them fall under the Hatred and Obloquie of both These are the true Causes of this thing The Third Charge delivered at the General-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace holden at Ipswich for the County of Suffolk the 7th Day of October 1692 when I was leaving that County to settle at London as Licenser to the Press GENTLEMEN WE are here Assembled by Virtue of Their Majesties Commission of the Peace to hold a General Quarter-Sessions for this part of the County in which we live and it is become once more my Duty to give in Charge to you the things you are to Enquire of and to Present to A Duty both on my and your Part of great Consequence in relation to our Country and our Selves and therefore to be spoken and heard with great Attention and Care I am now by the Order of my Superiors to leave you and to Act in another Sphere in the Service of the best King and Queen that has for many Years perhaps ever Reigned in these Kingdoms A Happiness we had as little Reason to expect as Merit to deserve so great a Blessing Charles the First and Charles the Second were Excellent Princes but had Queens of another Religion so that the Court and Kingdom stood divided between the Husband and Wife Hopes and Fears but these are both of our own that is of the best Religion in the World and so heartily addicted to our Interest and desirous of our Welfare that they have counted nothing too dear to promote our Welfare and Repose Hence it is that His Majesty has so often passed the Seas and Exposed His Sacred Person to the greatest Danger that we might Live at Home in Peace And the Queen has with equal Generosity assumed and laid by the Reigns of Government when ever it was for our Good to do so neither Ambition nor the love of Ease have had any the least influence upon Her Noble Soul but She has Reigned when the King was absent and remitted the Government into His Hands when He was present and both for our good with a perfect unconcern'dness of which there is hardly another instance to be found on the Records of Time in any Nation under Heaven Well then They deserve our utmost Love Loyalty and Devotion the utmost we can do for Them or They receive from us The Reward of these Royal and Princely Virtues are above the Power of Subjects God only can Reward this Excellent Pair equal to Their Merits and the best that we can do is to Recommend them to His Care and Goodness in whose Prosperity our own is most apparently involved As to my self since I am to leave you so shortly I think I am bound with Samuel the Prophet to assure you my Dear Country Men that I have not willingly wronged any of you Great or Small in Much or Little If I have through Humane Frailty offended any Man I beg his Pardon and assure him and all the World it was against my will and the strongest Resolution I could take not to have done it but as long as we are Men we shall be subject to Humane Infirmities which we may the more easily remit because we and they are equally Infirm The Saviour of the World when he was leaving his beloved Friends Exhorted them to Love Peace and Union as the greatest good they were capable of in this World yea in Heaven for take away these and divide the Inhabitants if it were possible of the the Celestial Regions into Factions and Parties and let these mutually Hate and Oppress one the other Bely and Slander one the other as we do here below and I fear the Joys of Heaven would abate My Dear Country Men what Evil Angel has sown these Tares in our Field and thus animated us against each other to that degree that nothing can again Unite us Common Dangers in the Reign that is past seemed to have buried all our former Heats and we then walked in the House of God as Friends but with our Danger our Union fled which shews it was forced Within my Memory I have heard it affirmed that all our Divisions proceeded from our Penal Laws in matters of Religion and that Liberty of Conscience would most certainly put an end to them Why we have that in the utmost degree and yet we are more unquiet than we were before One Party must first Revenge the things they have suffered on those that have inflicted them tho' according to Law Another must needs secure the Blessing by outing them of the power to take it away who heretofore did not love it A Third thinks Dominion is founded in Grace and that the Godly ought to Rule as well as Inherit the Earth and till these and a Thousand other Whimsies are obtained we must have no Peace In the mean time all forget the Enemy is at the Door with Victorious Forces ready to Conquer all if we remain thus Stupidly Brutishly divided nay his Emissaries are within our Walls and blow the Coals of our Dissentions in hopes to Ruin us by our Follies since they cannot by their Arms. Let us hearken then to the Council of God Almighty Fiat Justitia Erit Pax Let us do Justice and we shall have Peace Give every Man his due and Peace will follow but if we Oppress one the other the Apostle tells us We shall Perish Is Liberty of Conscience so Valuable a Good as was once pretended Then let our Superiors see it by our Peaceable and Modest Demeanour under it for fear they Repent Is the being under Princes of our own Religion a Blessing Then let us Express our Gratitude for it to God in an Humble Peaceable Devotion and to Them by striving to make Their Reigns over us happy and easie But if we thus foolishly go on whom can we thank or blame but our selves if we return to our former State of Danger and Distress My Kingdom is not of this World said he whom we own as our Master And the Kingdom he has promised to his is 〈◊〉 that is not here neither 〈…〉 and Revenge are but lately Adopted into the Number of Christian Virtues and will hardly recommend their Votaries to the Father of Spirits Mark them that cause divisions and shun them for they are the Enemies of the Church the Enemies of the World and the Enemies of God But how shall I know which side is in the Wrong Why that which 〈◊〉 that it would not willingly suffer without and against Law is certainly in the wrong let it be what Party it will or can be and pretend what Reason it will for it Try all by this Rule and you may safely choose which to cleave to and which to shun This is that Distributive Justice which is the Mother of Peace and without which there is no Peace nor ever was nor ever will be Do Men Wrong and then Exhort them to be quiet under it and you will surely lose your Labour and appear Ridiculous and Foolish Trust not in Oppression and Wrong for Force and Number are things that foldeth last long We have seen them baffled Twice within half an Hundred Years yea within my Memory My Dear Country Men Let us make up our Differences and let every Man study to be quiet and to do his own business in Love preferring the Common Good before his own or that of his Party that we may with United Hearts and Hands Repel the Common Enemy and promote the Peace of England and the Service and Glory of King William and Queen Mary out most Gracious Sovereigns Amen FINIS