An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England .. . Of the condition of the Freemen of England^ and the grand Charter^ and feveral Statutes cou cerningthe fame , dfirmg the Reign of theje Kings Of Courts^and their proceedings of Coroners^ sherfffs^, and Crown pleas ; Oj the Militia during thefe Kings Reigns ]^. 71» of the Peace P»3oo PROLOGUE PROLOGUE. fo far as if praife-worthy^ is allone with Dicvine Vrozftdenccyrvrappednp in a i/ail of Kin^^s^and wife men^andthns iniplicitelyhath been delivered to the World by Hijiorians^
An historicall discourse of the uniformity of the government of England .. . Of the condition of the Freemen of England^ and the grand Charter^ and feveral Statutes cou cerningthe fame , dfirmg the Reign of theje Kings Of Courts^and their proceedings of Coroners^ sherfffs^, and Crown pleas ; Oj the Militia during thefe Kings Reigns ]^. 71» of the Peace P»3oo PROLOGUE PROLOGUE. fo far as if praife-worthy^ is allone with Dicvine Vrozftdenccyrvrappednp in a i/ail of Kin^^s^and wife men^andthns iniplicitelyhath been delivered to the World by Hijiorians^who for the moft part do read Men , and weartheir Fens indecyphering their perfons andcon^dit ions : fo/fte of whom , halving met with in-genious Writers furvive themfel<ves^ P^ffi^yfjiore famous after deathihan before : Othersafter a miferable I ife wafled^ are yet more mife^rablc in being little better than Tables to fetforththe Painters worl^manflnp^ and to let the Worldl^now^ that their tiijiorians are more witty thanibenjfdvcs^of whom they wrote were either wife. PROLOGUE. or oood» A)id thus Htjiory that fhould he awitnefs of Truth and time^ becomes little betterthan a parable^ or rather than a nonjence in afair CharaSer^ rvhofe befl commendation is thatits well rvritten. Doubthfs, HiHories ofPerfons^ or hives of Mcn^ have their excellency in fruity for imita^ tion and continuance of Fameyasa rervard of z>ertue : yet rvill not the concervation of thefe together declare the nature of a Common-Weal better^ than the beauty of a body difmembredis revived by thrufling together the ntemberSf which cannot be without deformity, Nor will it be denyed but many wife and good Kings and Queens of this Realm may juftly challen^re the honour of pafpng many excellent Lnws^ (^albeit its the proper worl{^ of the reprefentative body to form them) yet to no one^nor all of them^can we attribute the honour of that Wifdom and Goodnefs that conjiituted this bleffed Frame of Government j
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