ned: yet if there were just cause to refuse him, the people
of England might do it. For there is a Contract and a bargain
made between the King and his people, and your Oath is taken;
and certainly, Sir, the bond is reciprocal; for as you are the
Liege Lord, so they Liege Subjects. And we know very well, that
hath been so much spoken of, _Ligeantia est duplex_. This we
know, now, the one tie, the one bond, is the Bond of Protection
that is due from the sovereign; the other is the Bond of
Subjection that is due from the Subject. Sir, if this bond be
once broken, farewell sovereignty! _Subjectio trahit_, etc.

These things may not be denied, Sir; I speak it rather, and I
pray God it may work upon your heart, that you may be sensible
of your Miscarriages. For whether you have been, as by your
office you ought to be, a Protector of England, or the Destroyer
of England, let all England judge, or all the world, that hath
look'd upon it. Sir, though you have it by inheritance in the
way that is spoken of, yet it must not be denied that your
office was an office of trust, and indeed an office of the
highest trust lodged in any single person; For as you were the
Grand Administrator of Justice, and others were, as your
delegates, to see it done throughout your realms; if your
greatest office were to do Justice, and preserve your People
from wrong, and instead of doing that, you will be the great
Wrong-doer yourself; if instead of being a Conservator of the
Peace, you will be the grand Disturber of the Peace; surely this
is contrary to your office, contrary to your trust. Now, Sir,
if it be an office of inheritance, as you speak of, your Title
by Descent, let all men know that great offices are seizable and
forfeitable, as if you had it but for a year, and for your life.
Therefore, Sir, it will concern you to take into your serious
consideration your great Miscarriages in this kind. Truly, Sir,
I shall not particularize the many Miscarriages of your reign
whatsoever, they are famously known: It had been happy for the
kingdom, and happy for you too, if it had not been so much
known, and so much felt, as the Story of your Miscarriages must
needs be, and hath been already.

Sir, That which we are now upon, by the command of the highest
Court, hath been and is to try and judge you for th