The Security of Englishmen's Lives, or the Trust, Power and Duty of Grand Juries of England

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Excerpt from The Security of Englishmen's Lives, or the Trust, Power and Duty of Grand Juries of England: Explained According to the Fundamentals of the English Government, and the Declaration of the Same Made in Parliament by Many Statutes A certain living writer fieakr tour Since the foundation of-the tenglifh government, many have been the attempts to break in Upon its conflitution, and with varidus fuccefs. More than once it has, fecmingly, been quite overturned and deftroyed, either by the open attacks of violence, or by the more fure ways of undermining, fapping and corrupting, and fometimes by all to gether: but tuch has been our happinefs, that providence has, hitherto, been fo be, migu, as, upon all fuch occafions, 'to ftretch forth the almighty arm in our de fence, never failing to animate fume great and good men to undertake the recovery of our civil and religious rights, and enlight ening the minds of the people, to a noble imitation of their virtue and courage. One of which was the great author of Toe Security of Englz flamen 'r Litter who, at a time When defpotifm had taken long firides towards, and very near had broke down all the fences of liberty, fent forth this fmall Treatife into' the world, which, together with fome other e'xcellent things publifhed about the fame time, convinced the generality of the people of the inciti mable value of thofe birth-rights, which were then going to be taken from them, nd raifed that fpirit throughout the king dom, which was at laft produfiive of the great and happy revolution which re liored Olll antient rights and privileges, and confirmed them to us fo f'ctongly, that no. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.