Treasons Masterpiece, Date
The Objections of the Government now, and of the Government under the Keepers of the Liberties, and the quietneſs under both of them.
1. REmember the difficulties in making.
2. The grounds why the Judges acted, though ſome refuſed.
3. That upon debate when inconveniencies were ſet forth, theſe grounds another Parliament might change, and the like.
4. To the government, the diſlike of the people, how ſome diſreliſh this now ſet up.
5. The Laws did proceed farre, when the Ordinary proceſs diſobeyed, a good army to help us, the ground and reaſon of the warre againſt the perſon: for the breach of truſt in his departure againſt his firſt promiſe in Parliament, upon the Petition of the Speakers, &c. and was not againſt the office but againſt breach of truſt in that office, by the abſence of the perſon.
There is alſo another reaſon why the office cannot be annext to another name, either by act of Parliament or otherwiſe, for in any other name you muſt ſuppoſe the office, the King, ſo that any other name is but a fiction in reſpect of the right name, and that would be very dangerous, both to the laws and to the propertie, to lay the baſis and foundation upon a fiction, which was a reaſon that ſome of the Judges forbare to act upon the name of Cuſtos libertatis Angliae, &c. and the ſame reaſon upon any other name; I urged alſo that this Petition and advice was matter of right not of grace, which was never denied by any Prince in this Nation, nor can it be, becauſe there is an obligation in all caſes to do Right, and this obligation is upon the Protector whilſt he takes upon him the cheif Magiſtracy.