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 Yoke when Tyranny ſhould be thereby introduced and accordingly we find, that as they formerly re-elected ſeverals of their Kings, and executed ſome of them; ſo they afterwards diſowned K. Baliol and his Whole Race for his attempting to inſlave the Kingdom's Liberties to the King of England (which furniſhed a notable Precedent for our Revolutioners their not only caſting of the Authority of K. James VII. when he abdicate the Throne, but alſo their his Poſterity from the Succeſſion.) Moreover, that our Anceſtors not only refuſed Subjection to K.James I. while Priſoner with the Engliſh; but when charged, upon their Allegiance, not to fight againſt the Party who had his perſon Priſoner, they anſwered, "That they owned no Priſoner for their King, nor owed any Allegiance to a Priſoner." Which reproves the Madneſs of our Scots Epiſcopals and Papiſts their praying for a King in Exile. And, when Q. Mary would not refrain from Popiſh Idolatory and Tyranny, her Subjects withdrew their Allegiance to her, and depoſed her from the Government: Which plainly ſhews, that the Revelation was not the firſt Time our Rulers have been caſt off for Papery, as well as Tyranny. And as the Race of Stuarts brought not their Charter to our Crown immediately from Heaven, but muſt betake themſelves in the long-run to the Choice of the Eſtates of the Kingdom, and that not abſolutely, but upon Conditions; ſo, upon comparing theſe Conditions to be found in the ſtanding-laws too long to be here ſo much as abridged) with the Declaration of the Eſtates of Scotland and England at the Revolution, there comes out the fulleſt Evidence that K. James VII had broken theſe conditions in the moſt material and important Articles thereof, and that therefore they were free from the Surrender of the Crown made to his Anceſtors. But, ſuppoſing our Prognitors had actually transferred the Crown to the Family of the Stuarts abſolutely and unconditionally, it is yet queſtionable whether they could do ſo; or, if they could diveſt themſelves of