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LIBEL .

This disposition of in men to do themselves right by violence, is spoken of as a
terrible thing — meanwhile It is however this disposition to which all the provisions for
the preservation of our constitution refer, to which they suppose, and on which for
their efficacy they ultimately depend.

If a sufficient number conceive it at once , & conceive it strongly, civil war must be
the consequence, or the punishment of those, whose misconduct misdemesnours real or supposed
have has occasioned caused them to conceive it—.

If a number not sufficient conceive it, if against a public character person set of men they
must be hanged or beheaded lose their heads or break their necks: . There is no help for it — if against a p
private one, they must be fined or imprisoned, or suffer what else the Judges
of the K. B. where it falls on his Associates should in their discretion think fit to do with them

I am one of those, (I beg pardon of some Gentlemen for my confession) who
from the commencement, to the present situation of those disputes which at present pr
occupy the nation [+],
[+] i:e: those of it who have
& then when they have nothing
else to think of
have not never conceived any thing like any such dispri
but as there are incidents of some sort or other which would it to every man, so ar
there, to me: I will name two of them for the sake of argument —
One is, if the Parliament were now as they did once pass a Law, giving to all the King's
Proclamations which should be made the authority of Statutes — the other is,
a Law obliging all the good people of Great Britain to go to Mass, & subscribe
Popish Articles on pain of turning — I would then join the first
Articles if possible more absurd
than those which our Priests
gratify themselves the p
in their miserable . . . . .
party that I saw got together with any probability of success to force him
to give the power back again to whence he had it: to make them let us
go to Church (or Kirk), and burn the Articles — If this was done all would
be very well again — if it was not done, I must follow somebody or other
than understood it+ viz. the better than myself, if go to the trade of cutting throats
which I don't like — If I should meet with one such one that would, I must be
sore vexed at seeing a possibility of success in doing otherwise — If I met w
some, but not enough, I should be knocked of the head with expedition, or
make off if I could do that & nothing better in read in against prison his trial, or go to swing with all due pr

I wish it were otherwise
I wish the certainty of the things of this world were such the determination of
the g & important questions
rested on some more secure foundation,
than that of hasty &
hazarded opinions.

If you keep it not up always
you will never have it when
it is wanted —
You will can never know when
it is wanted, but by from the permittal
by means of it's exertion.

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Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	182	Info in main headings field	libel
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