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 violence of his own Nature; o that he quickly run himelf out of breath. As oon as he came to the Crown, he eized the Cutoms and Excie without Authority of Parliament: He picked out the Scum and Scandals of the Law to make Judges upon the Bench; and turned out all that would not acrifice their Oaths to his Ambition, by which he dicharged the Lords out of the Tower, inflicted thoe barbarous Punihments on Dr. Oates, Mr. Johnon, &c. butchered many hundreds of Men in the Wet, after they had been trappanned into a Confeion by promie of Pardon, murdered Cornih, got the Dipening Power to be declared in Wetminter-hall, turned the Fellows of Magdalen-college out of their Freeholds, to make way for a Seminary of Priets, and hanged Soldiers for running away from their Colours. He erected the eccleiatical Commiion, upended the Bihop of London, becaue he would not inflict the ame Punihment upon Dr. Sharp, for preaching againt Popery. He cloetted the Nobility and Gentry, turned all out of Employment that would not promie to repeal the Tet, put in Popih Privy-Counellors, Judges, Deputy Lieutenants, and Jutices of Peace; and to get all this confirmed by the hew of Parliament, he proecuted the Work his Brother had begun in taking away Charters, and new modelled the Corporations, by a sort of Vermin called Regulators. He received a Nuntio from Rome, and ent an Ambaador thither. He erected a Popih Seminary at the Savoy to pervert Youth, uffered the Priets to go about in their Habits, made Tyrconnel Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, turned all the Protetants out of the Army and mot of the Civil Employments there, and made Fitton (a Papit, and one detected for Perjury) Chancellor of that Kingdom. He iued out a Proclamation in Scotland, wherein he aerted his Abolute Power, which all his Subjects were to obey without reerve; a Prerogative, I think, never claimed by the Great Turk, or the Mogul. He iued out a Declaration for Liberty of Concience, ordered it to be read in all Churches, and imprioned and tried the even Bihops, becaue they humbly offered their Reaons in a Petition againt it: And to conummate all, that we might have no Hopes of retrieving our Misfortunes,