But to return to the Matter in Hand.  Our Commonwealth being constituted by the Laws of our Ancestors, upon the Bottom above-mention’d, and participating of all the three Kinds of Government; it was ordain’d, that once every Year (and as much oftner as important Occasions should make it necessary) a Solemn General Council shou’d be held:  Which for that Reason, was called a Parliament of the Three Estates.  By that Word was meant a Convention or Meeting of Men out of several Parts of the Country to one Place, there to confer and deliberate concerning the Publick Welfare:  And therefore all Conferences (tho’ between Enemies) in order to a Peace or Truce are always in our Chronicles called by the Name of Parliaments.  Now of this Council, the King sitting in his Golden Tribunnal, was chief; next to him were the Princes and Magistrates of the Kingdom; in the third Place were the Representatives of the several Towns and Provinces, commonly called the Deputies:  For as soon as the Day prefix’d for this Assembly was come, the King was conducted to the Parliament House with a Sort of Pomp and Ceremony, more adapted to popular Moderation, than to Regal Magnificence:  which I shall not scruple to give a just account of out of our own Publick Records; it being a Sort of Piety to be pleas’d with the Wisdom of our Ancestors; tho’ in these most profligate Times, I doubt not but it wou’d appear ridiculous to our flattering Courtiers.  The King then was seated in a Waggon, and drawn by Oxen, which a Waggoner drove with his Goad to the Place of Assembly:  But as soon as he was arrived at the Court, or rather indeed the Venerable Palace of the Republick, the Nobles conducted the King to the Golden Throne; and the rest took their Places (as we said before) according to their Degrees.  This State, and in this Place, was what was called Regia Majestas, Royal Majesty.  Of which we may even at this Day observe a signal Remain in the King’s Broad Seal, commonly called the Chancery Seal.  Wherein the King is not represented in a military Posture a Horse-back, or in a Triumphant Manner drawn in his Chariot by Horses, but sitting in his Throne Robe’d and Crown’d, holding in his Right Hand the Royal Sceptre, in his Left the Sceptre of Justice, and presiding in his Solemn Council.  And indeed, in that Place only it can be said that Royal Majesty does truly and properly reside, where the great Affairs of the Commonwealth are transacted; and not as the unskilful Vulgar use to profane the Word; and whether the King plays or dances, or prattles with his Women, always to stile him YOUR MAJESTY.