Sir, he must understand that he is but an officer in trust, and
he ought to discharge that trust; and they are to take order for
the animadversion and punishment of such an offending governor.

This is not law of yesterday, Sir (since the time of the
division betwixt you and your people), but it is law of old. And
we know very well the Authors and the Authorities that do tell
us what the law was in that point upon the Election of Kings
upon the Oath that they took unto their people: And if they did
not observe it, there were those things called Parliaments; the
Parliaments were they that were to adjudge (the very Words of
the Author) the plaints and wrongs done of the king and the
queen, or their children; such wrongs especially, when the
people could have no where else any Remedy. Sir, that hath been
the people of England's case: they could not have their Remedy
elsewhere but in parliament.

Sir, Parliaments were ordained for that purpose, to redress the
Grievances of the people; that was their main end. And truly,
Sir, if so be that the kings of England had been rightly mindful
of themselves, they were never more in majesty and state than in
the Parliament: But how forgetful some have been, Stories have
told us, we have a miserable, a lamentable, a sad experience of
it. Sir, by the old laws of England, I speak these things the
rather to you, because you were pleased to let fall the other
day, You thought you had as much knowledge in the Law as most
gentlemen in England: it is very well, Sir. And truly, Sir, it
is very fit for the gentlemen of England to understand that Law
under which they must live, and by which they must be governed.
And then, Sir, the Scripture says, 'They that know their
master's will and do it not' what follows? The Law is your
master, the acts of parliament.

The Parliaments were to be kept antiently, we find in our old
Author, twice in the year, that the Subject upon any occasion
might have a ready Remedy and Redress for his Grievance.
Afterwards, by several acts of parliament in the days of your
predecessor Edward the third, they should have been once a year.
Sir, what the Intermission of parliaments hath been in your
time, it is very well known, and the sad consequences of it; and
what in the interim instead of these Parliaments hath been by