The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANs. VoL. II. King declared he would invade no man's property, yet he iifued out a procla- . Ja1~8s/I. mation. for colleCl:ing t~e duties of. tonnage ~nd _poundage, &c. which ~~ere g1ven t? the late kmg only for hfe; and 10 h1s letter to the (cots par– lwment, wh1ch met March 28, he fays, " I am refolved to maintain my '' power in its greatrflluflre, that I may be better able to difend your 1·e– " ligion againjl fanatics.'' · His feverity Before the king had been two months on his throne, he difcovered [etowar·ds hiS r. · ll h · if h· j" • d · . vere re.entments agama t e enemtes o ts re zgton, an ol' hiS fiucce!Tjon to enemzes. . 'J u~( Burnet, p. :he crown.. Dr. Oates. was brought ou~ of pnfon and tried for pnjztl)', 637. 111 the affa1r of the pop!lh plot, for wh1ch he was fentenced to il:and in the pillory feveral times, to be whipt from Aldgate to Newgate, and from thence to 'Tyburn; which was exercifed with a feverity, unknown to the englijh nation. And Dangeifield, who had invented the meal tub plot. for which he declared he had received money from the duke of York, was indiCl:ed for a libel, and was fined five hundred pounds. He was alfo fentenccd to be pilloried, and whipt from Newgate to 'Tyburn, and and in his return home, was murdered in the coach by one Prances a bar– rifl:er at law, who was afterwards hanged for it. The whigs who went to court, to pay their duty to the king, were received but coldly; fame were· reproached, and others denied accefs, efpecially thofe who who had dif- .dnew partinguiilied themfelves for the bill if exclujion. In the eleCl:ion of a new liament. parliament, all methods of corruption and violence were ufed, to get (uch· ~nrne~ P· members returned, as might be fupple to the king's arbitrary defigm. 22 ' 25 • When the hou(es met, May 22, the king repeated what he h<td declared. in council, that he would preferve the government in church and )late ar by law eflablijhed. Which, Rapin h1ys, he never intended; for he in– finuated in his fpeech, that he would not depend on the precarious aids Gazette, of parliament, nor meet them often, if they did not ufe him well. But N" 2036. the parliament unanimoufiy fettled all the revenues of his late majefty, upon the king for life, which amounted to more than t~vo millions ayear; and pre(ented an addrefs May 27, to defire him to iifue forth his royal proclamation, to caufe the penal laws to be put in execu-tion agail!.fl dif.; flnters from the church qf England. Perftcution This brought down the fl:orm, and revived the perfecution, which r·evived. had ilackened a little upon the late king's death. His majei1y was now encouraged to purfue his brother's meafures. The tories, who adhered· firmly to the prerogative, were gratified with full licenfe to diftrefs the dif flnters, who were to be facrificed over again to a bigotted clergy, and' an incenfed king, zealous for their defl:mCl:ion (fays biiliop Ken– net), in order to unite and encreafe the fl:rength of popery, which he favoured without referve. Upon this, all meeting- houfes of pro-
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