London Journal (Newspaper) - January 6, 1728, London, Middlesex The L OrN DON JOURN A L. Sa January 6. 440 To the Author of the London Journal Cannot but think that the lowing Letter will a Place in your as containing fome Remarks which your Readers will I be to Ir Is upon a in which ajl ate immediately And were the Author of it to trace the of Sanguinary Laws fuch Scene of of of Tyranny would as is. not to and ought to by every one that knows what or or what the Right of Private and I ant TO read over with fome Care your late upon the Obligation and Duty which are under to Truth And this led mf to look that I might fee if and had gone together with us if they had and upon what had It appears to have been the ancient for the Clergy to condemn certain Opinions which they judged to be falft but then the Perfins of Men were liable at only to Bur theft not being able to produce the I could not but that as as They had got the from Excommunications they have proceeded to to to and at laft to And I muft that in this they have and For the Clergy to have had a Right to a Man for they had a Right to the till they could put a Stop to That for which the was Wherever a Penny is rightly levied for any if That be not to cure the the may be enlarged and it will be lawful to or Twelve or Two or Two or any larger till you make the Penalty fo heavy as to keep People from And where Pines are found to be it will be (I upon Supposition that it is lawful to begin with fome how it may - it I be lawful to proceed to any even to Death it The that I met with of Men delivered over to the Secular Arm to be fome German Men if they are not which I am always in- theft and fuch like jealous and would have no body elft too it being fo to that were delivered up to the Secular Arm in England were fome Germans who denied and the and Theft Men coming into were condemned by a Council at and over to the Civil to be treated as Accordingly they were marked in the or with a red hot and out of Doors naked in the of Winter Where none daring to relieve Order having been to the they died of and and were the that ever fuffered for in This in the 6th of Henry A.D. It but that theft unhappy People feem nothing but Determinations Things they They were Foreigners and therefore might have had fome claim to Mercy from their own and from thoft who are peculiarly eminent for They that which they could not find that had ever and therefore might have farae Relief from us as Bw gion always fires thoft which true Religion to correct and But inhuman and barbarous this Order of Henry yet no Law was made in before Richard the Time a weak who had to know hts People's nor the nor the to defend them the of Him an Act was That millions upon the Certificate and of the into the be by the Chancellor to the Sheriffs and to apprehend certain Preachers of who full of Errors and and their and to keep them in until they according to the Law of the Holy This was done in the Year 1582 and by Authority of the Followers of Wickliffe were proceeded with great This was by the but was fraudulently procured of the King But even it a regular yet contrary to the Letter of the procured from the King directed to and in virtue of them they and in their own whom they thought fit to with No wonder therefore at the next Meeting of that the Houfe of relented this That they it as Infringement of their and upon the thus as the of the of all the Subjects of therefore petitioned the that this AS mould be and the King being under for to the fays Some pretend by the Artifices of the Clergy this Revocation was razed out of the Parliament where it is not to be in the Words of the Author of the Life of Richard the in the of the Artifices of the u. the Repeal was carried on by virtue of the faid without the lead regard had to which the that that Aft cf Repeal has never fince been printed among our Whenever any one gets out of the way of or they proceed Step by to Cruelty and and loft all Senft of and feel nothing of that Curb which and common Senft lay upon Mens It was grown (I will not call the of thoft Times however Law was to Men for during Richard the His Henry who was willing to gratify the Clergy who had him in getting of the and he was would have his had they been - Henry was the who the Law de This Prince to gain the of That none mould preach any trine contrary to the or the Determination of the Holy and that none favour or abet fuch or their nor keep their but liver them to the of the within Forty Days after the Proclamation of this And if any were or doing this then the Ordinary might and keep them till they were canonically of the Articles laid to their or abjure and if they were he might fine and keep them in as to him feem And if any being did to or after did fall into then they were to be left to the Secular And the or Bailiffs being at the palling the were to receive them after and they before the People in a High Place to be Thus was brought in under the Name of of Law and no fooner was this fatal Statute but a poor Man was instantly being burnt This was the in of being burnt alive for A. D. 1401. I cannot fend ions when I began to think upon this and therefore beg leave tc my for this Tour humble the Favour of you to the following Lines by Mr. to the Reverend Mr. on the late Publication of his and you'll oblige &c. the by Speaks but the Dictates of an Heart Zeal for Merit may too far For 'tis to commend Tet to Thee in grateful will join Each and Follower of the Tuneful The Grecian by thy Revives and reigns the Laureat of our Our Fair with deep Attention read What Lives the ancient Ladies Perhaps to imitate Then may And learn from Andromache Beaux can boldly now of H o m e r And tell ed from the Greek Kor here our or our muft endt To nobler thy Thoughts From lofty when by j h o v a's while we we View loaded Mountains as He moves And feem to hear attending Thunders 'Tis thine in Way the Soul to Sink into or Alternate at thy Call Or Rage the or fills the Eyes Accept this vain Attempt to Sincere my tlo my As when a Crowd fome Patriot And roars in Confined that was for Duty He takes the homely Tribute with FOREIGN January 6. SOme Advices from Vienna that upon the News of the the Accommodation between the King of arid his Imperial gave Orders to Earon to repair forthwith to and that being to take with him the Secretary of the for the 'twas believed his Excellency would go from Paris to without returning to Jan. 7. On the 2athe Court went from Verfailles to And on the 6th the King went to the of La to keep of the On Candlemas Eve the King will come to lie at and the next after having at the of the Knights of the Holy his will go back to from whence the whole Court will return to Verfailles the Saturday in January S. The Burials in this which laft Week were 368, amount in this but to 296". Jan. 8 Letters from Vienna of the 27th paft that Baron was on his Departure to 'Tis from that the Duke de Conferences with the Ruffian turned principally on and the building of Ships for the King of Letters from that rl Peace between the Ottoman Port and the Sulta was the oth of
