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 miniters.—He committed many illutrious members of both houes of parliament to the tower, for oppoing his arbitrary chemes.—He levied many taxes upon the people without conent of parliament;—and then imprioned great numbers of the principal merchants and gentry for not paying them.—He erected, or at leat revived, everal new and arbitrary courts, in which the mot unheard-of barbarities were committed with his knowledge and approbation.—He upported that more than fiend, arch-bihop Laud and the clergy of his tamp, in all their church-tyranny and hellih cruelties.—He authorized a book in favor of ports upon the Lord's day; and everal clergymen were perecuted by him and the mentioned pious bihop, for not reading it to the people after divine ervice.—When the parliament complained to him of the arbitrary proceedings of his corrupt miniters, he told that augut body, in a rough, domineering, unprincely manner, that he wondered anyone hould be o foolih and inolent as to think that he would part with the meanet of his ervants upon their account.—He refued to call any parliament at all for the pace of twelve years together, during all which time, he governed in an abolute lawles and depotic manner.—He took all opportunities to encourage the papits, and to promote them to the highet offices of honor and trut.—He (probably) abetted the horrid maacre in Ireland, in which two hundred thouand Protetants were butchered by the Roman Catholics.—He ent a large um of money, which he has raied by his arbitrary taxes, into Germany, to raie foreign troops, in order to force more arbitrary taxes