358 :Mr. NEAL'sIIaVol.;ofthe the Liberty and Property of the Subject, deftruc- tive to Sovereignty, and therefore not confiftent with the very Conftitution and Eífence of the Kingdom _, and to the. Rights and Privileges ' of Parliament that we are bound by our ' Oath, (and all our Subje&s are bound by theirs i of Allegiance, and Supremacy, and their own Proteftatión lately taken, to affift us) to oppofe that Ordinance, which is put already in execution againft us, not only by training and arming our Subjects; but by forcibly removing the Maga- zibes from the Places erefted by the Countrys, to ' their own Houfes, and guarding it there with armed Men ; whither -it will be next removed, and how ufed by fuch Perlons, we know not. And lince neither our Declaration, nor the Tef- timony of fo many of our Lords now with us, ' can produce Credit with thefe Men,, but that they proceed to levy Horfe, and raife Money, and Arms against us, we are not to be blamed, if after fo many gracious Expoftulations with ahem; upon undeniable Principles of Law and Reafon, which they anfwer only by .voting that, which we fay, to be neither Law nor Reafon; and fo proceed aftually to levy War upon us, to jut- iify that which cannot be otherwife defended ; at lait we waise fuch Provifon, that as'we have been driven from London, and kept from Hull, we may nor be furprized át York, but in a Con- rn_ :Hon to refill, and bring to Juftice thofe Men,. wì_oould p,irfuade our People, that their Re- - ligon" its in danger, becaufe we will not confent it (hall be. in their power to alter it by their ,Votes.; or their Liberty in danger, becaufe we. will know no. Judge of that Liberty, but the known Law of the .Land.. Yet whatfoever Pro- , vifion we fhall be compelled to make for our Se- ' curity, we will be ready, to lay-down, as foon as 'they
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