CITY.

1. WHAT makes a city? Whether a bishoprick or any of that nature? Answ. It is according to the first charter which made them a corporation. If they are incorporated by name of civitas they are a city, if by the name of burgum, then they are a borough.

2. The lord mayor of London by their first charter was to be presented to the king, in his absence to the lord chief justiciary of England, afterwards to the lord chancellor, now to the barons of the Exchequer; but still there was a reservation, that for their honour they should come once a year to the king, as they do still.

CLERGY.

1. THOUGH a clergyman have no faults of his own, yet the faults of the whole tribe shall be laid upon him, so that he shall be sure not to lack.

2. The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have had her husband against his own eyes: what! will you believe your own eyes before your own sweet wife?

3. The condition of the clergy towards their prince, and the condition of the phy

sician is all one: the physicians tell the prince they have agric and rhubarb, good for him, and good for his subjects' bodies; upon this he gives them leave to use it, but if it prove naught, then away with it, they shall use it no more; so the clergy tell the prince they have physic good for his soul, and good for the souls of his people; upon that he admits them: but when he finds by experience they both trouble him and his people, he will have no more to do with them. What is that to them or any body else if a king will not go to heaven?

4. A clergyman goes not a dram further than this, you ought to obey your prince in general; if he does he is lost: how to obey him you must be informed by those whose profession it is to tell you. The parson of the Tower, a good discreet man, told Dr. Mosely, who was sent to me, and the rest of the gentlemen committed the third of Charles, to persuade us to submit to the king, that they found no such words as parliament, habeas corpus, return, tower, &c. neither in the fathers, nor the school-men, nor in the text, and therefore for his part he believed he understood nothing of the business. A satire upon all those clergymen that meddle with matters they do not understand.

All confess there never was a more learned clergy, no man taxes them with ignorance. But to talk of that, is like the fellow that was a great wencher; he wished God would forgive him his lechery, and lay usury to his charge. The clergy have worse faults.

6. The clergy and laity together are never like to do well; it is as if a man were to make an excellent feast and should have his apothecary and physician come into the kitchen: the cooks, if they were let alone, would make excellent meat; but then comes the apothecary and he puts rhubarb into one sauce, and agric into another sauce. Chain up the clergy on both sides.

HIGH COMMISSION.

1. MEN cry out upon the high commission, as if the clergymen only had to do in it, when I believe there are more laymen in commission there than clergymen, if the laymen will not come, whose fault is that? So of the starchamber, the people think the bishops only censured Prinne, Burton, and Bastwick, when there were but two there, and one spake not in his own cause.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

1. THERE be but two erroneous opinions in the house of commons, that the lords sit only for themselves, when the truth is, they sit as well for the commonwealth. The knights and burgesses sit for themselves and others, some for more, some for fewer, and what is the reason? Because the room will not hold all: the lords being few, they all come, and imagine the room able to hold all the commons of England, then the lords and burgesses would sit no otherwise than the lords do. The second error is, that the house of commons are to begin to give subsidies, yet if the lords dissent they can give no money.

2. The house of commons is called the lower house in twenty acts of parliament, but what are twenty acts of parliament amongst friends?

3. The form of a charge runs thus, I accuse in the name of all the commons of England, how then can any man be as a witness, when every man is made the accuser?

CONFESSION.

1. IN time of parliament it used to be one of the first things the house did, to petition the

king that his confessor might be removed, as fearing either his power with the king, or else, lest he should reveal to the pope what the house was in doing, as no doubt he did, when the catholic cause was concerned.

2. The difference between us and the Papists is, we both allow contrition, but the Papists make confession a part of contrition; they say a man is not sufficiently contrite till he confess his sins to a priest.

3. Why should I think a priest will not reveal confession? I am sure he will do any thing that is forbidden him, haply not so often as I. The utmost punishment-is deprivation, and how can it be proved that ever any man revealed confession when there is no witness? And no man can be witness in his own cause: A mere gullery. There was a time when it was public in the church, and that is much against their auricular confession.

COMPETENCY.

1. THAT which is a competency for one man, is not enough for another, no more than that which will keep one man warm, will keep another man warm; one man can go in doublet and hose, when another man cannot be

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