Later Stuart tracts . e that at Paris, at , the general compliment of a Health in all Englishcompany is a la sante [de] Monsieur Jack HoWlE] ! the truth ofwhich, there are not a few very good Gentlemen in Town can attest,from whence I think I may draw this Observation, that either he isa Jacobite, or the Jacobites are a very good-natured people. Noscitur ex socio qui non dignoscitur ex se. The following pages contain an exact History of the KentishPetition, and of the treatment the Gentlemen who presented it,met with both from the House, the Sergeant, and at last, from their ountry.
Later Stuart tracts . e that at Paris, at , the general compliment of a Health in all Englishcompany is a la sante [de] Monsieur Jack HoWlE] ! the truth ofwhich, there are not a few very good Gentlemen in Town can attest,from whence I think I may draw this Observation, that either he isa Jacobite, or the Jacobites are a very good-natured people. Noscitur ex socio qui non dignoscitur ex se. The following pages contain an exact History of the KentishPetition, and of the treatment the Gentlemen who presented it,met with both from the House, the Sergeant, and at last, from their ountry. The best way to come to a conclusion, whether the GentlemenPetitioners were well or ill used, is to review the matter of fact ?AII panegyrics and encomiums came short of the natural reflectionswhich flow from a True Account of that proceeding : and the wholeis collected in this form, that all the World may judge by a truelight, and not be imposed upon by partial and imperfect Relations. 159 THE HISTORY OF THE Kentish. PETITION. N THE 29th of April, 1701, the QuarterSessions for the County of Kent, began atMaidstone : where William Colepeperof Hollingbourne, Esq., was chosen Chair-man, though he was then absent; and,with an unusual respect, the Bench ofJustices proceeded to do business, andkept the Chair for him for several hours,till he came. The people of the County of Kent, as well as in mostparts of the Kingdom, had expressed great dissatisfaction atthe slow proceedings of the Parliament; and that the Kingwas not assisted, nor the Protestants abroad considered :and the country people began to say to one another, in theirlanguage, that they had sowed their corn, and the Frenchwere a-coming to reap it ! And from hence it is allowed to proceed that, during thesitting of the Sessions, several of the principal freeholders ofthe County applied themselves to the Chairman aforesaid,and told him, It was their desire that the Bench shouldconsider the making of some application to the
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