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The Speech of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford, Lord Gray of Grooby, &c. at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of Leicester, at Michaelmas, 1690. His Lordship being made Gustos Rotulorum for the said County by the Late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal
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THIS IS now principally Addressed to you, because I know you will read, not with biass'd Understanding, nor Minds preposs'd or warpt, but with unprejudiced Candour and Fairness; and will put that natural and genuine Construction on this most Noble Author's Speech, which, considering the sincerity of his Intentions, it ought to receive; which were (when it was spoken, and continues the same now it is Printed) no other than to support and justifie the Legal proceedings of the late Convention and Parliament, in the placing Their present Majesties on the Throne of their Ancestors, That being (Ultimum necessitatis Praesidium, as Grotius's words are, i.e. *) the last Refuge in that extream Necessity the Government was then brought to, by Those Evil Councellors, Judges and Ministers, who had been imployed by the Late King, to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom, in ways so open and violent, that (as Suetonius saith) vix referri, audirive, nedum credi fas est, it is scarce allowable either to be related, or heard, and much less to be believed.
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