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Show r 62 1 Wales, by aé‘t of Parliament. [ 63 ] From that mo- fl/Jarated out andft'onzyour high court ofparliament, ment, as by a charm, the tumults fubfided; obe- to have any knights and burgeflhs within the find court; by rea/on whereof the faid inhabitants have dience was refiored; peace, order, and civiliza- tion, followed in the train of liberty-VVhen the day-{tar of the Englilh conftitution had arifen in their hearts, all was harmony within and without-- hitherto fzflainea' ntani/old dyheri/ons, lofles and dfl'fimages, as well in their lands, goods, and bodies, as in the good, civil, andpolitich governance and main- tenance of the coin/nonwea/th of their faid country: (2. ) findfor as much as the faid inhahitants have Sitnul alba nautis always hitherto been bound by the acts and flatutes made and ordained by your fiiid highnefls, and your Stella refulflt, Defluit jaxis agitatus humor: Concidunt venti, fugiuntgue nubes: Et minax [guodjic volaere) ponto Unda recumbit. rnojt noble progenitors, by authority of the fetid court, as far forth as other counties, cities, and boroughs have been, that have had their hn/ghts and burgefles within your faia' court of parliament, andyet have had neither hnight ne burgeflr there/or the jaid county The very fame year the county palatine of Chefler received the fame relief from its oppreflions, and the fame remedy to its diforders. Before this time Chefler was little lefs diflempered than Wales. The inhabitants, without rights themfelves, were the fittef't to defiroy the rights of others; and from thence Richard II. drew the {landing army of Archers, with which for a time he oppreffed England. The people of Chefter applied to Parliament in a petition penned as I {hall read to you: palatine; the faia' inhabitants, for lach thereof; have been oftentimes touched and grieved with ac'ts and flatutes made within the faid court, as well derogatory unto the nzo/t antient jurgfdiflions, liberties, and privileges ofyour faid county palatine, as prejudicial unto the common wealth, quietneji, refl, and peace of your grace's mo/Z hounden fubjefts inhabiting within ‘ the fame. What did Parliament with this audacious addrefs P-rejeét it as a libel? Treat it as an affront to government? Spurn it as a derogation from .To the Kingr our Sovereign Lord, in mofl humhle the rights of legiilature? Did they tofs it over the new: flJewn unto your Excellent Maje/ty, the inha- table? Did they burn it by the hands of the com- bitants of your Grace's county palatine of Chcjler; mon hangmanP-They took the petition of That where the faid county palatine o/‘Chefler is and hath been always hitherto exempt, excluded and grievance, all rugged as it was, without {oftening or temperament, unpurged of the original bitternefs 5 ‘feparated |