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and Causes cognizable only in Parliament: And by divers other
arbitrary and illegul Courses;
10) And whereas, of late Years, partial, corrupt, and uriqualified,
Peisons liave betn returned, and seived on juiies in Trials,
and, particularly, divers Jurors in Trials for High Treason,
which were not Freeholders;
11) And’ excessive Bail hath bfen required ol Persons
committed in Criminal Cases, to elude the Benefit ot the Laws
made for the Liberty of the Subjects;
12) And excessive Fines have been imposed;
13) And illegal and cruel Punishments inflicted;
14) And several Grants and Promises made of Fines and
Forfeitures, before any Conviction or Judgment against the
Persons upon whom the same were to be levied;
15) All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known
Laws, and Statutes and Freedom, of this Realm:
16) And whereas the said late King James the Second
having abdicated the Government; and the Throne being thereby
vacant:
17) His Highness the Prince of Orange, whom it hath
pleased Almighty God to make the glorious Instrument of
delivering this Kingdom from Popery and arbitrary Power, did, by
the Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and divers
principal Persons of the Commons, cause Letters to he written
to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, being Protestants; and
other Letters to the several Counties, Cities, Universities,
Boroughs and Cinque Ports, for the Chusing of such Persons to
represent them as were of right to be sent to Parliament, to
meet and sit at Westminster upon the 22:th Day of January,
in this Year 1688, in order to such an Establishment, as that
their Religion, Laws, and Liberties, might not again be in
Danger of being subverted;
18) Upon which Letters, Elections having been accordingly
made;
19) And thereupon, the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
and Commons, pursuant to their respective Letters, and
Elections, being now assembled in a full and free Representative
of this Nation, taking into their most serious Consideration the
best Means for attaining the Ends aforesaid, do, in the First
Place (as their Ancestors, in like Case have usually done) for
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