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 the Kings of England that ſhall come hereafter; ſince no Body likes to Govern by Laws which they do not like.

After all theſe Lauds and Praiſes of the Engliſh Laws, which the Chancellor has ſtuck all over with Stars quite through his Book, and has made their Perfection to Center in this, that they either Are or Soon may be the Beſt in the World, becauſe in cafe they labour under any defect, that Fault may be Immediately amended by a wiſe Senate: What if that wiſe Senate be no where to be found, or is at no Certainty? It is then Impoſſible to render the Chancellor’s Latin into Engliſh. For the ſpeedy Perfection of the Engliſh Laws which the Prince and he are agreed is Concitò & Citiſſimè, may be rendred, either at the Four Years end, or the Twelve Years end, or at the World’s end. For ſo I am ſatisfied it was meant, after a Ten Year’s Interval of Parliaments, if the Herb-woman at Edinburgh had not thrown her Cricket-ſtool at the Arch-Biſhop’s Head. And ſo Dr. Heylin I remember does not ſo much acknowledge that Secret as Juſtify it. It is in his little Book of Obſervations upon Hammond L’Eſtrange’s Hiſtory of the Reign of K. Charles I. Says Hammond, upon the Diſſolution of that wiſe Parliament in 28. (to whom we owe the Petition of Right) All wiſe Men concluded that there