An Extract out of Several LIBELLS.
Remarques upon Sir W. Smiths Speech at Hicks-Hall.
1. ALL Considering People will now see that Conventiclers are notBaldwin. Punish'd and Ruin'd for Holding Conventicles, but for being zealous for the Protestant Religion, and Government by Advice of Parliament against Popery, and Clandestine Arbitrary Councells. Postscript.
The Third Part of the No Protestant Plot.
2. The Best and Wisest of the Kings Subjects are fill'd with Jelousies Baldwin▪ that it is through a Concert with the French Monarchy, that Parliaments are either Call'd, Prorogu'd, or Dissolv'd, &c. Pag. 21. Line. 1.
3. Such is is the Papists Influence upon Publique Ministers, and so greatBaldwin. is their Power in all our Councells, that we can neither obtain the having the Principall Conspirators brought to Legall Tryall, nor procure any Effectuall Provision towards the Saving our selves, and securing our Religion, from their Cruelty and Rage, & Deinceps. Page 25. Line 18.
4. Macnamarra told Smith that He had been with Sir L. J. who had given Baldwin. him a Long Lesson, which nevertheless he had learn'd, though it was very long. To that height of Impudence & Villany was this Varlet arrived, through the Encouragement, and Protection, which he receiv'd from Some Great Persons, whom it would have better become to have Employ'd their Authority and Power according to the Rule of Justice, and Honour. P. 96. 97.
5. That call'd Treason in the Earl of Argyle, which the Common Reason Baldwin. of Mankinde, and all the Law of the World Justifies. P. 15. Line 12.
Rights of the Kingdom.
6. Let us Discuss it by Law and Reason, what is our Legal Fealty? howJo. Kidgell & Ri. Baldwin. made? how Limited? how Kept, or how DISSOLV'D, P. 11.
7. Allegeance was ad Legem; to the Laws, the Kingdom, and the Kingdoms Kidgell & Baldwin. Good or Profit, together with the King, P. 18.
8. [If an English King was Elective by the Common Law, the Kingdom Kidgell & Baldwin. might Prescribe against Late Statutes. P. 25.] And then he says that the King was Elective by the Common Law, referring to Huberts Speech at the Coronation of King John.
9. Which seemeth most Rightly to State the Nature of Succession, as itKidgell & Baldwin. was in This Kingdom. So that All did Amount but to this, that if a King had such Children, so Qualify'd, and so Educated that they were above others in Virtue, Wisdom and True Worth; (or at least Caeteris Pares) they were the most likely Candidates for the Crown. P. 75.
The Ignoramus-Justices. Being an Answer to the Order of Sessions at Hicks-Hall.
10- Some Directions to the Officers that may be Threaten'd or PerswadedJaneway. to Act by such Unwarrantable Orders, from such IGNORAMUS-JUSTICES. Title-Page.
Reflexions.
Tyrranny, and Popery, Num. [1] Confederacy with France, [2] Popish Ministers and Councells, [3] Subornation in the Kings Ministers, [4] Argyle Justify'd, [5] Our Allegeance may be Dissolv'd. [6] Allegeance to the Kingdom, [7] If the Kingdom was Elective by the Common Law it continues so, [8] He Pronounces that so it was, and Concludes that so it is. [9] The Middlesex Bench call'd IGNORAMUS-JUSTICES. [10]