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 Lordship also wondered why they would not shut the Stable-door, after the steed was stolen, and complain against the Doctor when the injuries he had done were past remedy, as to those that suffered them, and decline the season of impleading him in those Judicatories wherein neither the Doctor nor his patron had much influence, as also in that Parliament which sate since three quarters of the Doctors Administrations were over. I say (my Lord) that when I think upon, and recollect all these and many other Arguments and Probabilities which your Lordship alleadged, being more then I find the Doctor hath since alleadged for himself: and withal, when I consider they were such Reasons as your Lordship was capable of raising from your self, and from the common observation and discourses of the people (your Lordship most wisely forbearing to meddle with any Arguments grounded upon the Quota's, Enhancements, Equalizations, Strings, and other gibbrish) I wonder why I had not faln down before those your Lordships reasonings, your Arguments being so plain and obvious to every capacity,