In  recompence  therefore,  and  acknowleogment
of  so  good  a  government  under  his  infiuenccL
his  person  is  most  sacred  and  inviolable ;  and
whatsoever  excesses  are  committed  against  so
high  a  trust,  nothing  of  them  is  imputed  to  hiiiiy
as  oeing  firee  from  uie  necessity  or  temptation,
but  his  ministers  only  are  accounteble  for  all,
and  must  answer  it  at  their  perils.  He  hatha
vast  revenue  constantly  arising  from  the  hearth
of  the  housholder,  the  sweat  of  the  labourer,
the  rent  of  the  farmer,  the  industry  of  tha
merchant,  and  conse^piently  out  of  the  es^
tate  of  the  gentleman':  a  large  corapetenos
to  defray  the  ordinary  expence  of  the  crown,
and  maintain  its  lustre.  And  if  any  extra-
ordinary occasion  happen,  or  be  but  with  any
probable  decency  pretended,  the  whole  land  at
whatsoever  season  of  the  year  does  yield  hiia
a  plentiful  harvest.  So  forward  are  his  people'^


abroad)  would  think  they  c
nor  chuse,  but  that  the  asking  a  sujlply,  werip
a  mere  formality,  it  is  so  readily  graiited.  Ha
is  the  fountab  of  all  honours,  and  has  more-
over the  distribution  of  so  inany  profitable
offices  of  thehoushold,  of  therevenue,  of  state,
of  law,  of  religion,  of  the  navy  (and,  since  his
present  nuyesty  's  time  of  the  UnnV )  that  it  seems
as  if  the  nation  xx>uld  scarce  furnish  honest
men  enough  to  supply  all  those  employments.
So  that  the  kings  of^  England  are  m  nothing
inferior  to  other  princes,  save  In  being  ndorb
abridged  from  injuring  their  own  subjects:
but  have  as  large  a  field  as  any  of  external  ft"*


549}  STATE  TRIALS,  SS  CHAUsa  II.  Itf83.-^«r  EBgh  Treaim,


two.
fleeted  from  t)ie  integrity  of  their  prindples.
