by the known honesty of another Evidence:  but if he be condemn’d, let us see what truth will come out of him, when he has Tyburn and another World before his Eyes.  Then, if he confess any thing which makes against the Cause, their Excuse is ready; he died a Papist, and had a dispensation from the Pope to lie.  But if they can bring him silent to the Gallows, all their favour will be, to wish him dispatch’d out of his pain, as soon as possibly he may.  And in that Case they have already promis’d they will be good to his Wife, and provide for her, which would be a strong encouragement, for many a woman, to perswade her Husband to digest the Halter.  This remembers me of a certain Spanish Duke, who commanding a Sea-Port-Town, set an Officer of his, underhand to rob the Merchants.  His Grace you may be confident was to have the Booty, and the Fellow was assur’d if he were taken to be protected.  It fell out, after some time, that he was apprehended:  His Master, according to Articles, brought him off.  The Rogue went again to his vocation, was the second time taken, delivered again, and so the third.  At last the matter grew so notorious, that the Duke found, it would be both scandalous and difficult to protect him any longer; But the poor Malefactor sending his Wife to tell him that if he did not save him he must be hanged to morrow, and that he must confess who set him on:  His Master very civilly sent him this Message; Prithee suffer thy self to be hanged this once to do me a Courtesie, and it shall be the better for thy Wife and Children.

’But that which makes amends for all, says our Author, is the Kings resolution to have frequent Parliaments.  Yet this, it seems, is no amends neither:  for he says Parliaments are like Terms, if there be Ten in a Year, and all so short to near no Causes, they do no good.’

I say on the other hand, If the Courts will resolve beforehand to have no Causes brought before them, but one which they know they cannot dispatch; let the Terms be never so long, they make them as insignificant as a Vacation.

The Kings Prerogative, when and where they should be call’d, and how long they should sit, is but subservient, as our Friend tells us, to the great design of Government; and must be accommodated to it, or we are either denyed or deluded of that Protection and Justice we are born to.

My Author is the happiest in one faculty, I ever knew.  He is still advancing some new Position, which without proving, he slurs upon us for an Argument:  though he knows, that Doctrines without proofs will edifie but little.  That the Kings Prerogative is subservient, or in order to the ends of Government is granted him.  But what strange kind of Argument is this, to prove that we are cheated of that Protection to which we are born.  Our Kings have always been indued with the power of calling Parliaments, nominating the time, appointing of the Place, and Dissolving them when