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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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ENGLANDS proper and onely way to an E&s;tabli&s;hment in Honour, Freedome, Peace and Happine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>OR, The NORMANE Yoke <HI>Once more unca&s;ed,</HI> And the Nece&s;&s;ity, Ju&s;tice, and pre&s;ent &s;ea&s;onablene&s;&s;e of breaking it in pieces demon&s;trated, In Eight mo&s;t plain and true PROPOSITIONS with their PROOFS.</P>
<P><HI>By the Authour of</HI> Anti-Normani&s;me, <HI>and of the</HI> Plain Engli&s;h <HI>to the neglectors of it.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Deo, Patriae, Tibi.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, <HI>Printed for</HI> R. L. <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1648.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="preface">
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<HEAD>To THE READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>READER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THou ha&s;t here once more my en|devour for to draw this our Nati|on from under the Right, Title, Effects, and Badges of the <HI>Nor|mane</HI> (pretended) Conque&s;t over us, to which by the iniquity of precedent times, and the ignorant negligence of the pre&s;ent, wee remayn &s;till &s;ubject; Conque&s;t (&s;ayth Doctor <HI>Hud&s;on)</HI> in its be&s;t attire is the mo&s;t eminent of Cur&s;es, but &s;ure it is a Cur&s;e far more eminent to be &s;o difficult to be per&s;waded to come out of that quality, e&s;pecially while undeniable Ju&s;tice, power, and opportunity adde their invi|tations: If what is here made manife&s;t &s;hall meet with due and timely regard, and produce effects according, wee may happily recover that incom|parable Freedom, Honour, Peace and Happine&s;&s;e which we enjoyed under the glorious and our la&s;t right Engli&s;h King Saint <HI>EDWARD;</HI> but if
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&s;uch cold con&s;ideration &s;hall attend it as &s;eems to have befallen what hath been before &s;ent abroad upon the &s;ame errand, I &s;hall e&s;teem it great pity, and am much deceived, if either by our old or &s;ome new Conquerours wee be not taught with more then words, what belongs to &s;uch as have not capacity to be either ingenuous Subjects or dutifull Slaves. <HI>Vale.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>JO: HARE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="tract">
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<HEAD>ENGLANDs proper and only way to an e&s;tabli&s;hment in Honour, Freedome, Peace, and Happine&s;&s;e.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>Propo&s;ition 1.</HEAD>
<P>That the Right and Title of a (pretended) Conque&s;t over the Engli&s;h Nation, by Forreigners called Normanes, hath been heretofore &s;et up and is &s;till upheld in this Kingdom, and that all Engli&s;h|men by the mouthes of their Parliaments and Law|yers have &s;ubmitted and doe &s;till &s;ubmit unto the &s;ame, and are governed in great part by Normane Innovations, being forreign Laws and Cu&s;tomes introduced by the &s;aid Normanes in de&s;pight of the Engli&s;h people, for Markes and Monuments of the &s;aid Conque&s;t.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="proof">
<HEAD>Proofe.</HEAD>
<P>THat the Right and Title of &s;uch a Conque&s;t is &s;till on foot, and &s;tands for the Ba&s;is of this Kingdom, I &s;uppo&s;e needs no proofe: That it is accordingly &s;till &s;ubmitted to, I have proved in my <HI>Plain Eng|li&s;h, pag.</HI> 3, 4. a &s;ufficient part of which probation is this, <HI>(viz.)</HI>That by the mouthes above &s;aid, we doe acknow|ledge
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(how truly I &s;hall &s;hew in my fifth Propo&s;ition) that the Duke of <HI>Normandy</HI> ab&s;olutely purcha&s;ed with his Sword the Crown of <HI>England</HI> and our Allegiance (for otherwi&s;e he could not be as we name him our Conquerour.) Secondly, That accordingly we doe &s;ubmit to his Heires, placing him the &s;aid Duke (&s;pecificated with his &s;aid Title of Conquerour&punc;) for the Root and <HI>Alpha</HI> of our right|full Kings; &s;o that it is plain that the &s;aid Conque&s;t doth enjoy both our acknowledgement and profe&s;t allegiance; That the Normane Innovations are retained (to the almo&s;t exiling of our own proper Laws) is every where both <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See <HI>Daniels</HI> Hi&s;t. p. 43.</NOTE> legi|ble and vi&s;ible: That they were introduced in manner and for the purpo&s;e above &s;aid, and accordingly re&s;euted and re|luctated again&s;t by the Engli&s;h people (while they under|&s;tood them&s;elves and their proprieties) may appeare by their many exclamations made again&s;t them unto the (pre|tended) Conquerour, by the Acts of the Kenti&s;hmen, and by the Londoners Petition in King <HI>Stephens</HI> time, which al&s;o occa&s;ioned tho&s;e many Regall Oaths to be then and &s;till taken (though not yet performed) for retracting the&s;e in|novations and re&s;toring the Laws of King <HI>Edward,</HI> So far are the &s;aid Innovations from being any part of our Legiti|mate Laws (though our wilde Lawyers &s;o repute them) the proper birth or &s;tamp whereof is to be of the peoples choo&s;ing, as the Coronation Oath te&s;tifies: And thus much for to &s;hew that while we di&s;pute the duty of Subjects we profe&s;&s;e the allegiance of Captives, while wee &s;purne at Engli&s;h Proclamations we &s;ubmit to Normane Laws, and that notwith&s;tanding all our great Victories and Triumphs, we doe &s;till remain as much as ever, under the Title and in the quality of a conquered Nation; unto which what rea|&s;ons we have to induce us, I &s;hall &s;hew in my en&s;uing Pro|po&s;itions.</P>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="proposition">
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<HEAD>Propo&s;ition 2.</HEAD>
<P>That the &s;aid Title of Conque&s;t and Normane Inno|vations (while they continue in force in this King|dom) are de&s;tructive to the Honour, Freedome, and all other unque&s;tioned Rights of this Nation, and much more to the pre&s;ent Legality and future validity of this Parliaments proceedings.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proof">
<HEAD>Proofe.</HEAD>
<P>A Great part of the Injuriou&s;ne&s;&s;e of this Title and Inno|vations, toward our Nation, I cannot better &s;et forth then in the words of learned <HI>Forte&s;cue</HI> (cited by M^r. <HI>Prin</HI> in his <HI>Sovereigne Power,</HI> part. 1. p. 37, 38.) though him|&s;elfe a Normane and arguing onely again&s;t unlimited Pre|rogative in the Crowne which is but part of what is in&s;epara|bly wrapt up in Title of Conque&s;t, who having declared it to be the undoubted Right of Engli&s;hmen to have this two|fold Priviledge <HI>(viz.)</HI> to be under Laws of their owne choo&s;ing and Princes which them&s;elves admit, (in which two con&s;i&s;ts a great part of their Honour and the &s;umme of their Freedome as I have &s;hewed in my <HI>Plain Engli&s;h</HI> p. 1.) addes, that of the Benefit of this their Right they &s;hould be utterly defrauded if they &s;hould be under a King that might &s;poil them of their Goods, (as our fir&s;t pretended Conquerour did, and as the heyres of his Title by the law of all Conque&s;ts &s;till may,) And yet &s;hould they be much more injured if they &s;hould afterwards be governed by forreign and &s;trange Laws and &s;uch peradventure as they deadly hated and abhorred (of
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which &s;ort I have before &s;hewed the&s;e Innovations, to be,) And mo&s;t of all, if by tho&s;e Lawes their &s;ub&s;tance &s;hould be dimini&s;hed (as it is by many of the&s;e Innovations particularly that of drawing the generality of Law &s;uits to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter)</HI> for the &s;afegard whereof as al&s;o of their honour and of their owne Bodies they &s;ubmitted them&s;elves to his Governe|ment; Thus and more he; To which I may add, that this Injuriou&s;ne&s;&s;e were yet much more aggravated, if our Kings which were in&s;tall'd by our Admi&s;&s;ion and &s;hould thus pa|tronize our Honour, &amp;c. Should profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves to be of forreigne Bloud, declare that they owe their Right to the Crowne unto none but their Sword, and write on our fore|heads that we are their Conquered and Captive va&s;&s;alls (as our Princes while they retaine the &s;aid Title, doe;) In &s;umme, the Title and Effects of this (pretended) Conque&s;t are a yoke of Captivity, unto which while we continue our fond and needle&s;&s;e Submi&s;&s;ion, we renounce Honour, Freedom and all ab&s;olute Right to any thing but ju&s;t &s;hame and oppre&s;&s;ion, being thereby in the quality of profe&s;t Captive Bond&s;laves unto the heyres of the Duke of <HI>Normandy</HI> and wearing the open livery of that Pofe&s;&s;ion; And although we enjoy a mi|tigation of our Slavery by Charters, yet are tho&s;e Charters revokable at the Kings plea&s;ure (as <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See M. <HI>Pryns S.</HI> P. <HI>&s;ol.</HI> 59. <HI>b.</HI></NOTE> K. <HI>Richard</HI> the Se|cond well ob&s;erved) while the Kingdom continues grounded on the Conque&s;t, Which I have &s;ufficiently proved (in the Preface to <HI>Plaine Engli&s;h)</HI> from the tenour of <HI>Magna Charta</HI> it &s;elfe (which declares the &s;aid Charter to be an Act of meere grace and favour and grounded upon re&s;pect not &s;omuch of Duty as of meritorious &s;upererogating toward God, much le&s;&s;e of duty (though benefit) to the Nation, and from a <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See M. <HI>Pryns</HI> citation la&s;t mentioned.</NOTE> confe&s;&s;ion of Parliament, and is al&s;o otherwi&s;e no le&s;&s;e cleerly evincible, for that it is a Maxime, that all Subjects of a Conque&s;t, e&s;pecially while they profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves &s;uch (as we &s;imply &s;till doe) are in the quality of Tenants in villenage, &s;ubject and &s;ub&s;ervient in their per&s;ons and e&s;tates to the Will&punc; Honour, and Benefit of their Conquerour and
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his heires, according to that Axiome in <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>In lib.</HI> 1. <HI>de Bello Gallico.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> (mentio|ned in my <HI>Plain Engli&s;h, pag.</HI> 7.) <HI>Jus e&s;t Belli ut hi qui vici&s;|&s;ent his quo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> vici&s;&s;ent quemadniodum vellent Imperarent,</HI> That the conquered are by the Laws of War under the arbi|trary Rule and Government of their Conquerours, and ac|cording to the practice in the Turki&s;h Dominions, which are not more grounded on conque&s;t then we yeild ours to be; w^c^h Captive and &s;lavi&s;h quality, how un&s;eemly it is for Engli&s;h|men to continue in, e&s;pecially toward a Normane Colony, and that while they may with ju&s;tice and facility come out of it, I have &s;hewn in my <HI>Anti-Normani&s;me:</HI> And as touching the con&s;equent <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The example of the extort|ing of <HI>Magna Charta</HI> makes nothing to the contrary, for that was done (as <HI>Da|niels</HI> Hi&s;tory te&s;tifies) by the Nobility of tho&s;e times, under the no|tion and quali|ty of <HI>Normans</HI> and coheires of the con|que&s;t, which quality (I &s;up|po&s;e) our Par|liament will not (if they could) a&s;&s;ume.</NOTE> Illegality of this Parliaments proceedings (untill they either repeale this Title, or el&s;e re|nounce the quality of Engli&s;hmen) if it &s;eeme not evident enough from the premi&s;es, it may be &s;een in my <HI>Plain Engl.</HI> evinced and proved again&s;t all objections what&s;oever; of which illegality, future invalidity is both the &s;i&s;ter and daughter.</P>
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<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>Propo&s;ition 3.</HEAD>
<P>That the &s;ame are al&s;o derog<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ry to the Kings Right to the Crown, to his Honour, and to his ju&s;t inte|re&s;t in the peoples affections.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proof">
<HEAD>Proofe.</HEAD>
<P>FOr it is confe&s;t on all &s;ides (particularly by Ma&s;ter <HI>Mar&s;hall</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Pri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> the Prolocutors of the Parliamentarians, and by Doctor <HI>Hud&s;on</HI> the grand Royali&s;t) that the Title of Conque&s;t is <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Likewi&s;e by our own Laws, obligations ex|torted by du|re&s;&s;e (as is fealty to a con|que&s;t) are voydable.</NOTE> unju&s;t, as being gained by murderous Rapine; So that while we ground the
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Kings Title on a Conque&s;t, we make him a predonicall U&s;urper, and defraud him of his ju&s;t Right founded on Saint <HI>Edwards</HI> Legacie joyned with this Nations Admi&s;&s;ion, be|&s;ides his Heire&s;hip to the Engli&s;h Bloud, as I have &s;hown in my <HI>Plain Engl. page the la&s;t,</HI> and in <HI>Anti-Norman, pag.</HI> 19. And as for his honour and ju&s;t intere&s;t in the peoples affecti|ons, they con&s;i&s;t in his being <HI>Pater Patriae,</HI> as him&s;elfe al&s;o al&s;o lately intimated; but the Title of the Conque&s;t holds him in the quality not onely of a forreigner, but al&s;o of the capitall enemy of his Subjects, and &s;o affords their mindes more provocation unto hatred and revenge, then unto affe|ction or allegiance, as I have plainly &s;hown in my Preface to <HI>Plain Engl.</HI> and in <HI>Anti-Norm. pag.</HI> 20, 21. and may be di&s;cerned from tho&s;e &s;utable fruits of it, which I &s;hall here|after &s;pecifie. Neither doe the Innovations (the Effects and badges of the (pretended) Conque&s;t) want their &s;hare in the like effect, as being a ju&s;t cau&s;e of the di&s;-reli&s;hment and contempt of our Laws, (&s;o Normanized both in matter and forme) by under&s;tanding men, and (no doubt) the ground of that generall and inbred hatred which &s;till dwels in our common people again&s;t both our Laws and Lawyers.</P>
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<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>Propo&s;ition 4.</HEAD>
<P>That the &s;ame have been the Root and Cau&s;e of all the Civill Wars (about temporall matters) that ever were in this Kingdom betwixt King and People, and are likewi&s;e for the time to come, de|&s;tructive to all well grounded, firme and la&s;ting unity, peace, and concord in this Realm, and con&s;e|quently to the &s;trength of the &s;ame.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proof">
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<HEAD>Proofe.</HEAD>
<P>THe Narrative is evident from hi&s;tory, the re&s;t from rea&s;on; for how can there be union in affection be|twixt tho&s;e that are profe&s;t &s;trangers and enemies one to another as this Title and Innovations (the En&s;ignes of ho&s;tility) render our Kings &amp; people, moreover the &s;aid Title (by rea&s;on of the unlimited prerogative in&s;eparably appen|dant) is apt to &s;ugge&s;t &s;eeds of Tyranny to the Crown (as it hath continually dont) &amp; con&s;equently of in&s;urrections to the &s;ubject, to the di&s;turbance of the publike peace, which is Con|firmed by the &s;aid many Civill warres we have had in this Kingdome &s;ince the&s;e Abu&s;es were &s;et on foote, whereas be|fore, we never had any; And weakne&s;&s;e mu&s;t needs wait upon that Body where there is &s;uch a di&s;union and antipathy betwixt the Head and Members.</P>
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<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>Propo&s;ition 5.</HEAD>
<P>That the introduction of the &s;aid Title and Innova|tions was, and the retaining of them is contrary to the fundamentall Con&s;titution of this Kingdom.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proof">
<HEAD>Proofe.</HEAD>
<P>FOr the <HI>Normane</HI> Duke was admitted as Legatee of Saint <HI>Edward,</HI> and upon his Oath to pre&s;erve our Lawes and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Not any Hi|&s;tory or Re+cord &s;ayth that he claimed the Crown (before hee had it) as Conqueror of <HI>England,</HI> much le&s;&s;e that hee was acknow|ledged for &s;uch by the Engli&s;h or &s;ubmitted to under that Title; there|fore the a&s;&s;um|ption of that Title after|ward was u&s;urpatory: See my <HI>Anti-Norm.</HI> p. 15, 19.</NOTE> Liberties, and not as a Conquerour nor yet for an Inno|vator, as the mo&s;t authentique Hi&s;torians te&s;tifie, among
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whom hone&s;t <HI>Aemilius Veronen&s;is</HI> an impartiall &s;tranger writing of this matter, &s;ayth expre&s;ly, <HI>non ip&s;s homines &s;ed cau&s;a defuncti victa extinct aque,</HI> that it was not the Engli&s;h Nation, but the U&s;urper <HI>Harold</HI> that was overcome, and as (in oppo&s;ition to the Innovations) I &s;hall make more clear in the confirmation of my next Propo&s;ition; In&s;omuch that the violent introduction of the &s;aid Abu&s;es was, and the per|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tinacious upholding of them is an u&s;urpant&punc; perjurious and perfidious robbing us of the Title and quality of a free Na|tion.</P>
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<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>Propo&s;ition 6.</HEAD>
<P>That the reteining of the &s;ame is contrary to the Co|ronation Oath of all our Kings, and to the Oaths and Duties of Parliament and People.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proof">
<HEAD>Proofe.</HEAD>
<P>FOr it is the fir&s;t and chiefe part of the proper and So|lemne Oath of all our Kings at their Coronation (as it was the fir&s;t <HI>Normanes</HI> like Oath, either at his Corona|tion or (at lea&s;t) <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See M. <HI>Pryns Pryns</HI> citations of te&s;timonies to this pur|po&s;e, in his <HI>S. P.</HI> p. 51, 52. and my <HI>Anti-Norm&punc;</HI> p. 15.</NOTE> before his full admi&s;&s;ion and confirma|tion by the Engli&s;h State) to pre&s;erve our Laws and Liber|ties e&s;tabli&s;hed by Saint <HI>Edward,</HI> which are incon&s;i&s;tent with the &s;aid Title and Innovations; Neither can any man &s;ay, that becau&s;e the Oath binds al&s;o to the confirmation of other Kings Grants, therefore the&s;e Innovations are inclu|ded; for Grants imply a precedent asking, and how far the&s;e Innovations were from ever being asked I have before &s;hown; And moreover the confirmation is e&s;pecially limi|ted to the Laws of King <HI>Edward,</HI> as being both the mo&s;t
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de&s;ired and de&s;irable. And for Parliament and People, they are bound both by their naturall and officiall Duties, and moreover by their late &s;olemne Covenant, unto the vindi|cation of their Nationall Rights and Liberties, of which tho &s;aid Title and Innovations are the greate&s;t oppo&s;ites, as I have before &s;hown.</P>
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<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>Propo&s;ition 7.</HEAD>
<P>That untill this Title and Innovations are aboli&s;hed, there can be no Honour, Freedome or Happine&s;&s;e to this Nation; That the inception of that enter|prize is the mo&s;t hopefull means for curing the pre&s;ent Divi&s;ions, and that there is no colourable Objection again&s;t the performing it.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proof">
<HEAD>Proofe.</HEAD>
<P>FOr untill the Cau&s;e be taken away the Effect is not like to cea&s;e, I have before &s;hown how de&s;tructive the&s;e Abu&s;es are to our Honour, Rights, and Unity, While they remain, we are in the quality of captive &s;laves, and our Kings in the &s;emblance of forreign and u&s;urping Lords; And as the&s;e evils were the cau&s;e of the fir&s;t fracture and &s;ub&s;e|quent Antipathy in this Kingdom betwixt Crown and Subject, So there can be no &s;olid clo&s;ure betweene them un|till they are repealed; The&s;e being removed, the whole Nation (both King and people) will be re&s;tored into the quality of one naturall Body, which (as <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See M. <HI>Pryns</HI> citation of him in his <HI>S. P.</HI> p. 38.</NOTE> <HI>Forte&s;cue</HI> hath aptly ob&s;erved out of <HI>Ari&s;totle)</HI> hath a &s;et forme of duty and affection con&s;tituted betwixt the Head and Members;
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And as touching this works expediencie toward re-uniting divided Engli&s;hmen, it is evident, for if the common ho|nour and happine&s;&s;e of the Nation be the &s;cope of their de|&s;ignes, they have no other high way to their end but this; al&s;o it may be learnt from the common practice of di&s;tracted States, who&s;e u&s;uall remedy is the a&s;&s;aulting of a common Enemy, of which &s;ort are the&s;e Abu&s;es, being a forreigne u&s;urpation that hath a more generall, ho&s;tile, and mi&s;chie|vous malignity again&s;t our Nation, in it, then any other ad|ver&s;ary we have at this day, &s;ave that it wants &s;trength and formidablene&s;&s;e, for that there is no man among&s;t us hath any colourable cau&s;e to defend it; Moreover, untill this be redre&s;t, all el&s;e that is done is but as building of Ca&s;tles in the aire, that have no firme foundation, but may be blown down with the Kings arbitrary breath, as I have before pro|ved; And if any object the trouble&s;omne&s;&s;e and difficulty of rooting out the Innovations, I an&s;wer, that that particular may be con&s;ummated at lei&s;ure, that we have taken more pains about things of lower concernment, and that the re|&s;tauration of our Rights ought not to &s;eeme unto us more laborious or difficult, then did to our enemies the introducing of the contrary.</P>
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<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="proposition">
<HEAD>Propo&s;ition 8.</HEAD>
<P>That all Engli&s;h men that are active in maintaining the &s;aid Title and Innovations, are the mo&s;t flagi|tious Traytors both to their King and Countrey that ever were.</P>
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<DIV2 TYPE="proof">
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<HEAD>Proofe.</HEAD>
<P>IT is apparent from the premi&s;es, it being al&s;o evident that in compari&s;on of &s;uch, <HI>Strafford</HI> in his wor&s;t appearance was a good Patriot; And as for the defaults of former times in this particular, they are not now pretendible for ex|cu&s;e, for that now heaven holds forth power and op|portunity far more liberally then ever heretofore or perhaps then hereafter, for a&s;&s;erting of Truth, and e&s;tabli&s;hing Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e in this Kingdom.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Imprimatur</HI> Gilbert Mabbot.</P>
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