Justitia Britannica

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BRITISH JUSTICE:
THROUGH WHICH IT IS CLEARLY
evident that certain lost citizens in England were pun-
ished with death on account of base TREASONS:
but that no one was on account of RELIGION
or Roman ceremonies.

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The wicked

always
oppose
masks to
their
crimes.

IT has always been a custom
established in the manner of all
nations and peoples, ever since
the times of the most lost citi-
zens were recorded, that if any
had foully contaminated their lives, or
bound themselves to more serious crimes, the same
people would impose the false names of virtues
and righteous deeds upon their own foulest
shameful acts and filth: both so that they might
pave a sure and easy path for themselves against
all retribution and disgrace, and so that they
might more freely carry their own impious
attempts and wicked undertakings to the ends
which they desired. Which custom, when it in-
creases in a very dangerous way among all
sinners, is retained with the highest and great-
est danger in those who, against the Majesty of
their own princes, against hearths and altars,
against ceremonies and religions, and to sum
it up in one word, against the sweetest father-
land, have wickedly conceived inexpiable frauds.
Of which kind indeed, in these recent times, an
incredible sowing was made by most lost thieves,
domestic citizens, born in the bosom and in the
very bowels of that same common fatherland
of ours, who nevertheless, when for some years
they had behaved themselves observantly and
submissively toward their most august and
anointed Queen Elizabeth, suddenly and un-
expectedly, snatched by bad leaders and au-
thors, and carried off as if by some whirlwind,
first already before in England, then after-
ward likewise recently in Ireland, conspired
most foully, against all right and wrong, tak-
ing up arms against their most sacred Prince
and common fatherland, leading forces into
battle, impiously spreading banners and sails,
sprinkling lies of every kind, and holding
most fatal speeches by which they might
cunningly and craftily join to their own par-
ties and sect the ignorant common people, who
were desirous of new things, and likewise
easily rushing toward their own destruction.
And although nothing