346 Mr. N E A L'S JId Vol. S the and feditious Tumults in Wefinzinfler and White- ` hall, which indeed are fo full ofScandal to our Go- ' vernment, and Danger to our Perfon, that we ` fhall never think of returning thither, till we have ` Juftice for what is paft, and Security for the Time to come.' Neal, Ibid. Nor does his Majefty own the promo- ting or retaining in his Service, any that are difa` fet- ed to the Laws of the Kingdom ; but he will not take a Vote of Parliament for his Guide, till'tis` evident they are without Pafon or Afegion. * If, fays the King, we flicker and prote& any fuch, let our Injuftice be publifh'd to the World But till that be done particularly and manifeftly, ' (For we 'hall never conclude any Man upon a bare ' general Vote of the major Part of either, or both ' Houfes, till it be evident that the major Part be ' without Pefon or 11fec7ion ;) We muft look upon ' the Charge this Declaration puts on us, of cherifh -, ing a difàlfeded Party againft them, as a heavier and unjufter Tax upon our Jufl.ice and Honour, than any we have or can lay upon the Framers of that Declaration.' Neal, Ibid. his 1L,ajefly concludes with a fevere Remark upon the Parliament, calling the Petitions prefented to him mutinous. " !lath a multitude of mean inconfiderable People, about the City of Roa- st don, had liberty to petition againft the t Govern- * Rufhsvorth, Vol. IV. p. 708. Sithop Kennet informs us, ' ThatOttob. 6. 1647. a Petition was prefented to both Houfès, that able and gifted Men might have liberty to preach without Ordination, being app; over! by the Parliament. I'or which the Honfe of Commons thank'd them, for their good Affetion to the Kingdom; affuring them, that their Petition was refrrr'd to a Committee, to confider of a way for examining Inch as Ihould be allow'd. Thus (fays he) the Care of Religion was transform'd from a Convocation to a New Atlembly of Divines, from them to the Houle of o Commons, from thence to the Mob.' Corapleat HYtory, Vol. III. p. 16o. " men'
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