An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the Nation; in Three Parts. Together with Reflections on a Pamphlet, Stiled a Just and Modest Vindication

Download or read book An Address to the Freemen and Freeholders of the Nation; in Three Parts. Together with Reflections on a Pamphlet, Stiled a Just and Modest Vindication written by Edmund Bohun and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1683 edition. Excerpt: ...not the they wererneithcr Gentlemen nor Free-holden, but that they (the Procu-. ters of Subscriptions ) flrduldget 44 many Hand: m they could. ' ' Crediblc ( 10 ) r Credible hands, One of these Procurers coming to a Godly Weaver in EfflZ-x to get his hand to the Petition, the Weaver, be were at home, but be is now gone will: a Cow to a Neig/oooafr Bull. That is not/ring, laid the Petition-Monger, I canser his hand. Which he accordingly presently did, and madethe poor Boy become an humble Supplicant to the King, when he thought of nothing less. But I must confess they varied in one thing from the Old method a for they did not present them as heretofore by the hands of great Multitudes of the Petitioners, but usent them by some few persons of the better sort, which was a-Civility was not so much paid to his Majesty, as his Guards, who might have endangered these Gentlemen Orators Skulls, if they had made as bold with the Son, as their Predecessors did with the Unarmed Father. For my part, whenI reflect seriggsly on this Strata; gem, I cannot perswade my self they had any great' lzope to prevail upon the King by it; who too well remembred what ill Consequences had followed this way of proceeding in the Reign of his Father, to Countenance it in his own, by granting any thing thatss was so asked. And therefore I conceive the Cunningest of their designs.' Secondly, To Try whether the People might be brought to Tumult if they had occasion for.it. Thirdly, To incense them the more against the Government if these Petitions were denyed, by representing it as a personal injury to them, every man being Naturally more fond of his own than anothers Counsel. _ Fourthly, to shew the Number and Strengthf-o her, 1679. when he declared they should finally...