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502. The same topics were enforced by Sir Thomas Wentworth.
After mentioning projectors and ill ministers of state, "These," said he, "have introduced a privy council, ravishing at once the spheres of all ancient government; destroying all liberty; imprisoning us without bail or bond. They have taken from us--What shall I say? Indeed, what have they left us? By tearing up the roots of all property, they have taken from us every means of supplying the king, and of ingratiating ourselves by voluntary proofs of our duty and attachment towards him. "To the making whole all these breaches I shall apply myself, and to all these diseases shall propound a remedy.
By one and the same thing have the king and the people been hurt, and by the same must they be cured. We must vindicate--what? New things? No: our ancient, legal, and vital liberties; by reenforcing the laws enacted by our ancestors; by setting such a stamp upon them, that no licentious spirit shall dare henceforth to invade them.
And shall we think this a way to break a parliament? No: our desires are modest and just.
I speak both for the interest of king and people.
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