than _Enemies of
Human Society_, must be consider'd not as _Kings_, but as _Tyrants_.

But to return to the Matter in Hand. Our Commonwealth being constituted
by the Laws of our Ancestors, upon the Bottom above-mention'd, and
participating of all the three Kinds of Government; it was ordain'd,
that once every Year (and as much oftner as important Occasions should
make it necessary) a _Solemn General Council_ shou'd be held: Which for
that Reason, was called a _Parliament_ of the _Three Estates_. By that
Word was meant a Convention or Meeting of Men out of several Parts of
the Country to one Place, there to confer and deliberate concerning the
Publick Welfare: And therefore all Conferences (tho' between Enemies) in
order to a Peace or Truce are always in our Chronicles called by the
Name of _Parliaments_. Now of this Council, the _King_ sitting in his
Golden Tribunnal, was _chief_; next to him were the _Princes_ and
_Magistrates_ of the Kingdom; in the third Place were the
_Representatives_ of the several Towns and Provinces, commonly called
the _Deputies_: For as soon as the Day prefix'd for this Assembly was
come, the _King_ was conducted to the Parliament House with a Sort of
Pomp and Ceremony, more _adapted to popular Moderation_, than to _Regal
Magnificence_: which I shall not scruple to give a just account of out
of our own Publick Records; it being a Sort of _Piety_ to be pleas'd
with the Wisdom of our Ancestors; tho' in these most profligate Times, I
doubt not but it wou'd appear ridiculous to our flattering Courtiers.
The King then was seated in a _Waggon_, and drawn by _Oxen_, which a
_Waggoner_ drove with his _Goad_ to the Place of Assembly: But as soon
as he was arrived at the Court, or rather indeed the Venerable _Palace
of the Republick_, the Nobles conducted the King to the Golden Throne;
and the rest took their Places (as we said before) according to their
Degrees. This _State_, and in this _Place_, was what was called _Regia
Majestas, Royal Majesty_. Of which we may even at this Day observe a
signal Remain in the King's Broad Seal, commonly called the _Chancery_
Seal. Wherein the King is not represented in a _military Posture_ a
Horse-back, or in a _Triumphant Manner_ drawn in his Chariot by Horses,
but sitting in his Throne _Robe'd_ and _Crown'd_, holding in his Right
Hand the Royal Sceptre, in his Left the Sceptre of Justice, and
presiding in his _Solemn Council_. And indeed, in that Place only it can