But alas, these are not the passages which have raised so much fury against me. One or two mistakes in facts of no importance, or a single blunder, would not have provoked them; they are not so tender of my reputation as a writer. All their outrage is occasioned by those passages in that paper, which they do not in the least pretend to answer, and with the utmost reluctancy are forced to mention. They take abundance of pains to clear Guiscard from a design against Mr. Harley’s life, but offer not one argument to clear their other friends, who in the business of Gregg, were equally guilty of the same design against the same person; whose tongues were very swords, and whose penknives were axes.
[Footnote 1: No. 33 in the reprint. [T.S.]]
[Footnote 2: Cicero, “Ep. ad Att.,” xv. 13. “As to the maintenance of liberty—surely the most precious thing in the world—I agree with you.”—E.S. SHUCKBURGH.]
[Footnote 3: The following pamphlets may be instanced:—“Julian the Apostate,” [by S. Johnson], 1682; “[Passive Obedience] A Sermon preached before the ... Lord Mayor,” etc., by B. Calamy, 1683; “Passive Obedience Stated and Asserted,” by T. Pomfret, 1683; “The Doctrine of Non-Resistance,” [by E. Bohun], 1689; “History of Passive Obedience,” [by A. Seller], 1689; “A Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness,” etc. [by E. Stillingfleet], 1689; “Christianity, a Doctrine of the Cross,” [by J. Kettlewell], 1691; and “The Measures of Submission,” by B. Hoadly, 1706. [T.S.]]
[Footnote 4: The Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject (1 Will. and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 2), and the Act for the Further Limitation of the Crown (12 and 13 Will. III. c. 2), limited the power of the Crown in various respects. [T.S.]]
[Footnote 5: “The Commonwealth of Oceana,” by James Harrington, 1656. [T.S.]]
[Footnote 6: Henry Dodwell (1641-1711), non-juror, and author of “An Admonitory Discourse ... Schism” (1704), “Occasional Communion” (1705), etc.
George Hickes (1642-1715), non-juror. Dean of Worcester (1683-91), and author of “The Pretences of the Prince of Wales Examined, and Rejected” (1701).