Ib.
s. 81-2.
How is it that any deeply-read historian should not see how imperfect and precarious the rights of personal liberty were during this period; or, seeing it, refuse to do justice to the patriots under Charles I? The truth is, that from the reign of Edward I, (to go no farther backward), there was a spirit of freedom in the people at large, which all our kings in their senses were cautious not to awaken by too rudely treading on it; but for individuals, as such, there was none till the conflict with the Stuarts.
Ib.
s. 84.
Of such a conclusion of state, quæ aliquando incognita, semper justa, &c.
This perversion of words respecting the decrees of Providence to the caprices of James and his beslobbered minion the Duke of Buckingham, is somewhat nearer to blasphemy than even the euphuism of the age can excuse.
Ib.
s. 85.
— — tuus, O Jacobe, quod optas
Explorare labor, mihi jussa capessere fas est.