320_ Mrs N E A t. 's it Vol. of the Audience, and not before. The Lord- Keeper un- advifedly (I hope it was not worfe) produceth the Petition, &c. before the King was made ac- quainted with it ; which made a Project well con - triv'd, break out into a Thunder-clap of Mifchief; which rafh or bad dealing in the Lord Keeper, York could not fufpe&t. That Proteftation follows here, whole like, and almoft the fame, York had found in the Records of the Tower. " Hear and " admire (faysBilhop Hack t, p. 179.) ye Ages to come, what became of this. Proteftation, drawn " up by as many Bifhops, as have often made a whole Provincial Council ; they were all call'd " by the Temporal Lords to the Bar, and from the Bar fent away to the Tower. A rude World, " when it was fafer to do wrong, than to corn- " plain of it : the People commit the Trefpafs, and the Sufferers are punifh'd for their Fault.". Lord Clarendon's Obfervation upon their being fent to the Tower is this : * ' When the Pafììon, Rage and Fury of this Time (hall be forgotten, .t and Pofterity íhall find among the Records of the Supreme Court of Judicature, fo many Orders andRefolutions, in vindication of the Liberties of the Subjets, againft the Imprifonmentof any Man, tho' by the King himfelf, without aflìgn- ing fuch a Crime as the Law bath determined to ' be worthy of Imprifonment ; and in the fame ' Year, by this High Court, í1-,a11 find 12 Bifhops, ' Members of this Court, committed to Prifon for High-Treafon, for prefenting this Proteftation ; t Men will furely wonder at the Spirit of that Re- formation, and even that Claufe of declaring all A&s null, which hadbeen, or fhouldbe done in their abfence, in Defence of which no Man then durit open his Mouth, will be thought goodLaw *' Hillary of the Rebellion, Vol. I. p. 278. ' and
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