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A Hu-and Cry after the fundamental Laws and Liberties of England, &c.
YOU are immediatly upon sight hereof, to make your ••epair to all suspected places within your several Limits in Jurisdictions, and there to mak•• diligent search and enquiry after a Cabinet of Jewels o•• inestimable worth and value, which hath been purchased with the Blood and Treasure of our Ancestors; and not only ••o, but within these 12 years it hath cost this Nation many millions of Treasure, besides the lives of some hundreds of thousands of English men, whom the world (to succeeding Ages) will admire for their gallantry in the several Bat∣tels and Co••fl••cts during the late Destroy in intestine wars, in defence of the said Jewels, heretofore called and known by the Fundamentall Laws and Liberties of England: part of which Laws and Native Rights are contained in Magna Charta, and the Petition of Right; the excellency of which Law, might English-men enjoy the benefit of them, as all a∣long this War they have been promised, would make English men the happiest Nation in the world, notwithstanding there are many essentiall things concerning the Priviledges and Immunities of the good people of England, which is not contained in the said Magna Charta, and Peti∣tion of Right; yet so excellent are those things contained in those Laws, that were the people suffered to enjoy, which is their Right by Law, then would England be the freest people in the world: This is mentio∣ned, because the said Laws were ratified and confirmed by divers Kings of this Nation, and in particular by the late King Charles, whom the late Parliament put to death for a Tyrant, for violating the said Laws, there∣by degenerating from a King into a Tyrant, as all Supream Magistrates do that cease to rule by known Laws and Rules, meerly by his Arby∣trary Will and Power.