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Show 336 ACTS RELATING Part III. and with a fieady countenance, is more than I can conceive. The Golden Legend, or fome other hilltory equal authentic, {peaks of a time when this might have been done. It was a time brought into remembrance by an ingenious pleader *, at an xra when thefe authorities were in high repute for the purpofe of proving what a man in thofe days would not have thought of proving from any other than fuch authorities; that a man may without inconvenience be judge in his own caufe. A certain pope, infallible Se&.1l. To TIIE COLONIES. 337 they begged to be excufed. \Vhat is to be done then? faid the pope. To be done? replied the cardinals. Why you muf't e'en judge yourfelf. Agreed, faid the pope. I fentence myfelf to be burnt; and burnt he was accordingly. For fo generous a piece of complaifance, the lealt thing they could do was to make a faint of him; and a faint he was. But the Bolton faints are not of this Ptamp. Thus much as to what was done in this fellion towards maintaining the authority of Great Britain. But parliament had pro- as all popes are, was by fome flrange ac~ cident found to have done fomething that he ought not to have done. This put men in, a great perplexity. For who ihould judge the judge of judges, God's lord lieutenant upon earth?' the cardinals grievances of America. To be ready at all times to hear complaints of grievances, is no more than one expects from a Houfe of Commons. They being the next perfons in the world, he wanted the cardinals to judge him.-No--- profefling fuch a readinefs on this particular occafion. After thefe profeflions, when felled, that it would be ready to redrefs the had been at the pains, we fee, of exprefsly complaints were preferred, if couched in * See a pafl'age of the Year Books, cited in III. Blackfi. Comm. c. 20, p. 299. decent terms, it was natural to expect that a decent attention {hould be paid them. they Z Yet / .L fi-jmmmln ' ‘ hm mun |