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NO doubt the Parliament judges the enterprise of the Irish an insolent action, and the con∣spiracy of the Syndic and many Doctors with them against the Rector and the University an effect of blind passion deserving to be repell'd by the publick authority of Justice. If 'tis a crime in the Rector and the University to have perform'd their office, to
have had respect for the Arrests of Parliament and lawes of the Realm, to have hinder'd conspirators against the Churches peace and the King's rights, 'tis so goodly a crime, that 'tis honorable to be ac∣cus'd of it, and glorious to be punisht for it. But the Court ordains not punishments for actions, which it hath alwayes honour'd with praises; and there's reason to hope, that if it have condemnations to pronounce, 'tis against those who favor an enter∣prise wholly unjust, and who tend by this publick division to ruin one of the most ancient works of our Kings, the Mother of all good learning and one of the rarest ornaments of the State and Gallicane Church.
But if they are so in just as to pretend that this De∣cree is the cause of all this trouble, let them look back and see whether the University were not in peace before the Doctrinal Declaration of the Irish. The unreasonablenesse of requiring the connivance of the University, as it is sufficiently shown already. They are the authors of the trouble who thus com∣plain: But 'tis not credible that the Parliament will countenance their pretences, but authorise a De∣cree made for maintainning the discipline of the University, The honour of the Faculty of Divi∣nity, the policy of the Church, the Arrests of the Court, the Lawes of the Realm, the power of our Kings, and the safety of their sacred per∣sons.