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Show Tbe AuTHOR's LIFE. VoL. I. 1 he mull efteem it a Cruelty in the ligioiiJ .Apprtbenfions ' and co~j,ue~t/ he Benefit of thofe Laws which re· AbftraCl, that Perfons fhould e e~te t ortment in Civil Affairs, have no late to Civil Concerns, who by thitr Dep an Opinion of Faith, and Maner Ways Tranfgreft them, but meer y upon of Confcience. . d P. err Trade and Com111erce, were in lc is well known that Lr~r~y an. DrGerln'~e betwixt Prorefi_ants and Dijthe World long before the ot~ts m I Mankind . and therefore not to be fe"ters, as the Common£ Pri~Iledgesh?f or the other Religious Perfwafion, meafured out by a Con ormtty to r IS, hut purely as Englijhmenid h h f< to e!leem this an Exprellion of Heat Secondly, But we fl1ou rat er c 1cf~lieve 3 London's Recorder {hould fay in the R;ecorde~, than fhthattcf~ cou fi fo much Slavery on the prefent Age, an Eng lifo Pa)ohament . ou tmpo e. (who for ou bt they knoa~, may be and entail it upon thetr own Poftenty ') did te not encourage us to 'ftcli:.oned among tbe Diife.nteDrs.g/ the dehl~ 1:dgmettt from that deliberate believe, it was both hts e;tre an. . ffi ' h'mfelf much to this Elogy he made on the Sponifo Inqdijijlr10nJ rb~PR~afo~ of the Policy and PruPurpofe, viz. 'Till now ! never u~ er oo . . 'Sft them : Jind cer· dence of tbe Spaniards, m fuffermg.Jhi Inqbifitz~~:=;~o the Spanifh Inqui .. tainly it will never be weU wtth ~,Mtzl.Jo.mez f"~hich Sayi':J is almoft inex· fition be in En land. The gro1s a I nny .0 . · to prellible: Wb!, dou rbir bur i•fl!fy ;~alrf 1;.11!{; Jl~{fb~a:i~e,pti{;~}Jog- have prevented the Fzrfl Reformatzon . t IS e h L b genrant the Grand lnquijitor, was a more VebenerablebPerfon tC an, "'there l' ' 1 E ffi that had tter ecome a;e an, ~c-~efiLormer. ht w:io!~ axb:,;p~nt Ciris Recorder. This is fo far from .£~{\~· ~~11C~:v:~ the Sp~niartl, that it is the Way to harden him ~n bis ~d Y g. ben his Abominable Cruelty jhaU be efteemed Pruden«, and bu moj! B:rb~?o;,1 wand Exquifite Torturing of T RuT H1 an exceUent Way to pre· veif ~~ni~'~ordor has fpoke for no more than himfelf, it is well ; b~t cer· tainly He little 'J1ferves to he t!Jougbt a J!ot~flant, and a Lawflr1 that b' b Reformation and Law into the Inquijiuon. And doubtlels th~ Su· 1;;;,n °bovernor.t of the Lutd, are highly obliged in Honour and e011jcze!'ce, [in Difcharge of their Ttuft toG 0 D and :he People) to take thefe Thmgs into their Serious Confideration, as ~hat IS ~xP.eEted from theQl! by thofe who carne!lly wifh theirs, and the Ktngdom s Safety and Profpertty. POSTSCRIPT. The Copy of Judge Keeling's CASE, taken out of the Parliament Journ•l· Die Mercurij, 11th Decembris, 1667. THE Houfe refimred the Hearing of the refl of the Report, touching the Matter of Refirainu upon Jurie~; an.J. tl~at upon rbt Ex_amtnatzon of diver.r Witne.!fu, in fevera/C/aufes of Refirmn.tt put upon Junes, hY, tbe Lord Chief ]ujfice Keeling: Whereupon tbe Com7Jlrtue made thetr Refoluuons, wbich are a1 follooJeJ!J. . . . Firfi, That the Proceedings of the Lord Cb!ef Juf!ue,_ 111 the Cafu w.ow reported, are Innovations, in tbe Trial of ftien for tberr L~ves _and Lbert~es, and that be 1Jatb ufed an Arbitrary and lUega/ Power, w!Jub u of d(mgtf out eonjequence to tbe Lives and Liberties of tbe People of England, and unds to the introdudng of mt Arbitrary Governmnzt. Secondly, That in tbe Place of Judicature, the Lord Chief Jufiice har!J undervalued, vilified, and condemned Magnl Ch:~.rta, tbe G1eat Prefervcr of our Lit•cs, Freedom, aml Property. Thirdly, VoL. I. The A U'T H oR's LIFE. Thirdly, That he be· broll,(ht to Trial, in order to Condign Punijhmcnr, in Jucb MAnner m the lloufe }ball ju4t,e moft fir and requijire. Die Veneris, 13th Decembris, 1667. Refolved, &c. That the Prejidenu and PraOice of Fining or Imprifoning Jurors for Verditb, U illegal. Now whether the Juftices C1[ this Court, in tkeir Proceedings {both to-wards the Prifoners, and Jury) have acted according to Law, and to their Oaths and Duty, to do _Tuftice without Partiality, whereby Right might be Preferved, the Peace of the Land Secured, and our Ancient L:~ws Efrablifhed : Or whether fuch Actions tend not to deprive us of our Lives and Liberties, to rob us of (our Birth·righr) the Fundamemal Laws of England? And finally, to bring in an Arbitrary and Illegal Power, to ufurpthe Benches of all our Courts of J uftice, we leave the Englifh Ret~der to jud~e. Certainly, there can be no higher Affront offered to King and Parliament, than the bringin~ their Reputations into Sufpicion with their People, by the irregular A£l:rons of fubordinareJudges: And no Age can parallel the Carriage of thiS Recorder, Mayor, &c. Nor can we think fo ignobly of rhe Parliament, as that they fhould do lefs then call thefe Perfons to Accounr, who fail'd J_lOt to do it to one lefs Guilty, and of more Repute, (to wit) Judge Keelmg: For if his Behaviour gave juft Ground of Jeiloufie, that he intended an Innovation, and the introducmg an Arbitr.:Iry Government, this Recorder's much more. Did Chief Jufiice Keeling fay, Magna Charta was Magn11 Farra; fo did this Recordu too: And did Juftice Keeling Fine and Imprifon Juries, contrary to all Law, fo did this Ruorderalfo. In fhort, there is no DifFerence, unlefs it be, that the one was queftioned, and the other deferves it: But we defirc in this they may be faid to differ, That though the former efcap'd Punin1ment, the latter may not, who having a Prefident before, did notwithfianding Notoriouily Tranfgrefs. To Conclude: The Law fuppofes the King can't Err, becaufe it is willing to fuppofe, he always A8:s by Law, (and Vo!untal Legis, efl Vo!anttU Regis; Or, the King's \Vill.is regulated by the Law) but ic fays no filch Thing of the Judges. And fince they are obliged by Oath to difregard the King's Letters (though under the Broad and l'rivy Seal) if they any wife oppugn, or contraditl- the Law of the Land; and confidering that every fingle AEtion of an inferior Mini-fier, has an ugly Reference to rhe Supream Magifirare, where not Rchuked; we can't but conclude, that both Judges are anfwer· able for their Irregularities, efpecially where they had not a Limitation of 3 King's Letter, or Command; and that the Supream Magifirare is oblig'd, as in Honour and Safety ro himfelf, ..Alfred like, to bring fuch to Condign PunHhment, left every Seaions produce the like Tragical Scenes of Ufurpation over the Confciences of Juries, to the vilifying and comemnjng of jufiice, and great Detriment and Prejudice of the Good and Honefi Men of this Famous and Free City. Fli!T ]USTITiil. Not long after this Trial, and his Difcharge from Ncu:gau, his Father Hit F.ubrr'1 died, perfeCtly reconciled to his Son, and lef[ him both his P11ternal Blt.f ftatb.ht 1 .f!ng, and a Plcn~i[ul Ejla1c. His¥ Death· Bed Expreffions being very Injlraf!- e.,:q,' BoD tve and R11betuk, defervc a double Reading: He was buried in Rtdc!iff No Crors, Steeple-houfe in the City of Briflo/; and over or near his Sepulchre, is No Crown, · cre£l:ed a fair Monument with the following Infcription. To the J uft Memory of Sir William Penn, Knight, and fotnetimes General, In(triptiow on Born at Brijlol, .An_no 1621. Son of Captain Giles Pemt, feveral Year~ Con· ,;.: F11/ur'1 ful for the Englijh Jn the Alediterranean ; of the Penns of Pennjlodge 1n the mb. County of Wiltt, and thofe Ptnnt of Penn in the County of Buc!a, and by F 2 his |
