see their Friends from their Enemies; to the Disheartening of All True Protestants, and the Encouraging of the sons of the Church, We your Majestie's Dissenting Subjects, being thereby brought unto so low a state, That without a timely Relief, we the Godly People of the Land must Inevitably perish; May it please your Majesty to grant the Right of Calling and Dissolving Parliaments, Entring into Associations, Leagues and Covenants; The Power of the Militia; War and Peace; Life and Death; The Authority of Enacting, suspending, and Repealing Laws, to be in your Liege People, the Commons of England, And these things being granted, (whereof your Petitioners stand in Great need) If your Majesty wants either Men, or Moneys for the support of your Royall Dignity and Government, your Majesty shall see what we your Loyall Petitioners will do for you. Q. What a Rogue are you to make me write such a Petition? A. And what a Fool were you to expect others? for all the Rest is Cant and Gibbrish, But this is English._ Ad magnam disturbationem pacis dicti domini regis, in malum exemplum omnium aliorum in consimili casu delinquentium, ac contra pacem dicti domini regis nunc coronam et dignitatem suas &c.[218] The result of the prosecution does not appear. 259. The Impartial Protestant Mercury, April 28, 1681. For publishing this periodical a prosecution was instituted against Henry Carr. The information is as follows:-- Memorandum quod Samuel Astry armiger coronator et attornatus domini regis in curia ipsius regis coram ipso rege qui pro eodem domino rege in hac parte sequitur in propria persona sua venit hic in curia dicti domini regis coram ipso rege apud Westmonasterium die Sabbati proximo post Crastinum Animarum isto eodem termino, et pro eodem domino rege dat curiæ hic intelligi et informari quod Henricus Carr de parochia Sancti Sepulchri Londoniæ generosus existens perniciosa persona et machinans et malitiose intendens discordiam et scandalum inter dominum regem et populum suum et magnates hujus regni Angliæ incitare et movere vicesimo octavo die Aprilis anno regni domini nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, et Hiberniæ regis, Fidei Defensoris, &c., tricesimo tertio apud Londoniam quoddam falsum scandalosum et malitiosum libellum intitulatum _The Impartiall Protestant Mercury_. In quoquidem libello inter alia continetur prout sequitur. _Hicks's Hall, Aprill the twenty seventh. Our Sessions for Middlesex began some days since, which 'tis said gave occasion to an old drudge at speechmaking most elegantly to exercise his talents; wherein (not to baulk the Common theme) the Dissenters and Whiggs were thrasht to atoms, and some were so unjust as to interpret it an insinuation that their Fines and Forfeitures must make up the extraordinary charges of the Government; but since 'tis notorious that the Papists have generally the better_ [word