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. He erected Arbitrary Courts, and enlarged others, as the High Commiion Court, the Star-Chamber, Court of Honour, Court of Requets, &c. and unpeakable Oppreions were committed in them, even to Men of the firt Quality. He commanded the Earl of Britol and Bihop of Lincoln not to come to Parliament; and proecuted a great many of the mot eminent Members of the Houe of Commons for what they did there, ome for no caue at all, and would not let them have the benefit of Habeas Corpus; upended and  Arch-Bihop Abbot, becaue he would not licene a Sermon that aerted Depotic Power, whatever other caue was pretended. He upended the Bihop of Gloceter, for refuing to wear never to conent to alter the Government of the Church; upported all his Arbitrary Miniters againt the Parliament, telling them that he wondred at the foolih Impudence of any one to think he would part with the meanet of his Servants upon their account: and indeed in his Speeches, or rather Menaces, he treated them like his Footmen, calling them, Seditious, and Vipers. He brought unheard of into the Church; preferred Men of Arbitrary Principles, and inclinable to Popery, epecially thoe Firebrands, Laud, Mountage, and Manwaring, one of whom had been complained of in Parliament, another impeached for advancing Popery, and the third  in the Houe of Lords. He dipened with the Laws againt Papits, and both encouraged and preferred them. He called no Parliament for twelve years, and in that time governed as arbitrarily as the Grand Seignior. He abetted the Irih Maacre, as by their producing a Commiion under the Great Seal of Scotland, by the Letter of Charles the 2d in  of the Marques of Antrim, by his topping the Succours that the Parliament ent to reduce Ireland ix Months under the Walls of Cheter, by his entring into a Treaty with the Rebels after he had engaged his Faith to the Parliament to the contrary, and bringing over many thouands of them to fight againt his People. It is endles to enumerate all the Oppreions of his Reign; but having no Army to upport him, his Tyranny was precarious, and at lat his ruin. Tho' he extorted great