brimmed hat is to be met with in the fame

place.

P. 434. "Goodman himself was not executed,"

Whofe fault was this? He was remitted to the pleasure of the House, and they would not order his execution. The truth of the matter was this; each party was defirous of throwing the odium of Goodman's execution on the other; fo between both the man escaped. In the mean time, how prejudiced is the representation of our Hif torian!

P. 436." Aright to do by virtue of a claufe." To talk of the Legiflature's having a right to do a thing by virtue of a clause in an Act of Parliament, is nonfenfe. The Legislature which makes the Act, is fupposed never to die. So it is juft the same as to fay the Judge has a right to interpret the Law, by virtue of his own declaration affirming he had that right. So that if an attainder was a thing agreeable to natural justice, the Legislature needed no clause to enable them to pass it; if it was not agreeable

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able to natural juftice, no claufe or declaration of their own could make it fo.

Ch. ix. p. 438. "This [Lord Strafford's] Letter was but a feint."

It is affirmed by Carte (in his Life of the Earl of Ormond, and with some shew of reafon), that this was a forged Letter, to induce the King's confent.

Ch. x. p. 504. "But though the King," &c. These infinuations against the King are certainly very unjust and groundless.

P. 505.

ted," &c.

"That the English Court admit

If he meant by the English Court, the King, he is fcandalously uncharitable.

P. 510. ignorant," &c.

That the King was willingly

This is a villainous accufation, destitute of all proof and likelihood. The poor King had follies and crimes of ftate enough to anfwer for, without loading him with fo injurious and groundlefs a calumuy. As to the favour the King afterwards fhewed the Irish rebels, and his entry into treaty with

them,

them, it was in his diftreffes to recruit his army, to make head against the overbearing power of the Parliament; in which he acted as became one in his ftation, though it was foolish and unmanly in him to deny. it.

P. 512. "At the motion of Lord Digby."

Why are we told this but to mislead us? A year ago, before the King had made full fatisfaction for his mifgovernment, such a Remonftrance was feasonable: now he had made full fatisfaction, it was factious and feditious. And that their very purpose was not to fecure what they had got for the fervice of the old Conftitution, but to pave the way for a new, was plain from their printing and publishing their Remonftrance, before the King could prepare his answer,

P. 512. "When the profpect of an agreement," &c.

i.e. When this unhappy accident afforded the demagogues in Parliament an opportunity of widening the breach between the King and Parliament. Otherwise this was a natural means for their uniting more firmly than ever.

P. 527.

"Not that the House can be charged, &c. for the very next day.”

The notorious falfhood of this affertion cannot better be exposed, ar fhewn in a more contemptible light, than by the reafon given of the affertion; for the very next day, &c. They have been charged by all mankind with encouraging the tumults but nobody ever charged them with avowing publickly, that they did encourage them and this is all that their precious Hiftorian clears them of, by his for the very next day.

P. 532.

"Null without the Peers." Foolish-On the hypothefis (though a falfe one) there are three eftates, Lords Spiritual, and Temporal, and Commons. Two of them fit in one Houfe, and compofe one body: the third fit in one House, and compofe another body. The Lords Spiritual are excluded; they remonstrate, and fay, a force being put upon a part of that body, the acts of the other part are void This is good reasoning on the hypothefis. But the hypothefis is falfe. The

Bishops

Bishops do not make a diftinct estate, but are part of the general Baronage which composes the House of Lords. However, our Hiftorian reafons on the hypothesis, and says, that the Commons might as well pretend that the Lords proceedings were void without them, as that the Bishops fhould pretend fo. What, do the Commons, like the Bishops, make up one body with the Lords, on which the Bishops argument is founded? Do they not fit and act as a diftinct body? Rifum teneatis?

P. 523. Occafion the diffolution of the Parliament.

If the King hoped fo, he was fit for Bedlam too: but every body, but these poor-fpirited Hiftorians, fee, that all the King could poffibly hope from it, was, the getting the Bishops restored to their right.

P. 534. "Because by the fame rule." That is to fay, by the fame rule that I pluck out a rotten tooth, I may pull out the whole fet. This is only faid to expofe the Hiftorian's foolish reafoning. As

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