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too much moved with the found of Martial In­struments. 'Tis not the fear of Imprisonment, or, if need be, of Death it self, that can keep a true-hearted English Man from the care to leave this part of his Inheritance as entire to Po­sterity, as he received it from his Ancestors.

This therefore let us first do, and the more speedily, that we may come to the matter of Sup­ply; let us give new Force to the many Laws, which have been heretofore made for the main­taining of our Rights and Priviledges, and endea­vour to restore this Nation to the Fundamental and Vital Liberties, the Propriety of our Goods, and the Freedom of our Persons: No way doubting, but we shall find His Majesty as gracious and rea­dy, as any of his Royal Progenitors have been, to grant our just Desires therein. For not only the People do think, but the Wisest do know, That what we have suffered in this long Va­cancy of Parliaments, we have suffered from his Ministers. That the Person of no King was ever better beloved of his People; and that no Peo­ple were ever more unsatisfied with the Ways of levying Moneys, are Two Truths which may serve one to demonstrate the other: For such is their Aversion to the present Courses, That neither the admiration they have of his Maje­sties native Inclination to Justice and Clemency, nor the pretended Consent of the Judges, couldmake

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