55.
*** Franklyn, p.66.Rushworth, vol.i.p.

55.
**** Kennet, p.

749.
v Franklyn, p.56.Rushworth, vol.i.p.

21, 36, 55.

The king also, in imitation of his predecessors, gave rules to preachers.
All history, said the partisans of the court, as well as the history of England, justify the king's position with regard to the origin of popular privileges; and every reasonable man must allow, that as monarchy is the most simple form of government, it must first have occurred to rude and uninstructed mankind.