7 - 28 - 3 6 MFP Grant *7-21-36 32318 CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. Page TENURE OF THE MAGISTRATE continued. A Defence of the People of England in Answer to Salmasius's Defence of the King An Answer to a most Puerile Apology for the - A Second Defence of the People of England, against the infamous anonymous Libel, enti- titled, The Cry of the Royal Blood to Heaven, against the English Parricides. The Author's Defence of himself, in answer to Alexander More, Ecclesiastic, the Author (rightly so called) of the famous Libel, entitled The Author's Answer to the Supplement of Alex- The ready and easy Way to establish a free Com- monwealth, and the excellence thereof, com- 328 449 556 588 A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, IN ANSWER TO SALMASIUS'S DEFENCE OF THE KING. PREFACE. ALTHOUGH I fear, lest, if in defending the people of England, I should be as copious in words, and empty of matter, as most men think Salmasius has been in his defence of the king, I might seem to deserve justly to be accounted a verbose and silly defender; yet since no man thinks himself obliged to make so much haste, though in the handling but of any ordinary subject, as not to premise some introduction at least, according as the weight of the subject requires; if I take the same course in handling almost the greatest subject that ever was (without being too tedious in it) I am in hopes of attaining two things, which indeed I earnestly desire: the one, not to be at all wanting, as far as in me lies, to this most noble cause, and most worthy to be recorded to all |