In most particulars he excuses himself by this, that he was but one of many, who either in council, star-chamber, or high commission voted illegal things.

Now though this was true, yet a chief minister, and one in high favour, determines the rest so much, that they are generally little better than machines acted by him.

On other occasions he says, the thing was proved but by one witness.

Now, how strong soever this defence may be in law, it is of no force in an appeal to the world; for if a thing is true, it is no matter how full or how defective the proof is .-- _Swift._ All this is full of malice and ill judgement.
Ibid.

_Burnet,_ speaking of the "Eikon Basilike," supposed to be written by Charles the First, says:--There was in it a nobleness and justness of thought with a greatness of style, that made it to be looked on as the best writ book in the English language .-- _Swift._ I think it a poor treatise, and that the King did not write it.
P.51.