244 Mr. N E A L'S IF Vol. of the the Execution of their Funbion, and from their Right, never faw one happy Day, till by the ' Miracle of Providence, they were, by the Refto- ' ration of the Illuftrious Son of the glorious Mar- ' tyr, repoffefs'd of their Office and Right.' Neal, p. 426. Lord George Digby, an eminent Royalict, (poke with great warmth agaiafl the Root and Branch Petition, and with no lefs Zeal for the Reformation of Grievances. Mr. Neal has given us the warm Paffages of his Speech againft the Bi- fhops. But the main of his Objections againft the Petition, and his Encomium upon Epifcopal Govern- ment, he has prudently omitted. I look not (rays he} on this Petition as a Petition from-the City ofLondon; but I know ' not what, i g000 Londoners, all that could be got ' to fubfcribe, &c. I don't know, I proteff, towhat good end it can be committed, being fo full of contemptible Things. But firnt, let me recall to your mind the manner of its Delivery ; and I ' am confident there is no Man ofJudgment, that' will think it fit for a Parliament, under a Mo- narchy, to give countenance to irregular and tu- multuous Affemblies of People, be it for never fo good an End : Befides, there is no Man of the ' leaft Infight into Nature or .I-Iiftory, but knows the Danger, when either Time orpretendedStiitmu- ' lation of Confcience, bath once given a Multitude Agitation, contemptible Things fwarn;. Sir, in f. the 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 Articles of this Pe tition ; did ever any body think that the_Gaieties of Ovid, or T'om Cor;at's Mule, fhould by 15000 ' have been prefnted to a Parliament, as a Mo- tive for the ExtirpationofBifhops. TheScandal of the Rochet, the Lawn-Sleeves, the Four-Cor- ner Cap, the Cope, the Surplice, the 'Tippet, the * dtsaJhrarth, vol. IV. p. 171, 172. 6Hood,
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