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endeavour to teach that Elector how unbecoming he had behaved
himself and How little Sense and good Manners he was master of
Thus Gentlemen I have represented in a very natural and reason-
able Light the Consequences of the Doctrine and Position you have
thought fit to lay down with regard to the Good Sense and Good
manners in questioning your good Conduct and from hence it must
be Owned, that had I not entered into any Observations from the
Books on this Subject yet your Declaration of Privileges must neces-
sarily be attended with such destructive Effects to Liberty that they
ought never to be mentioned amongst a free People
But Gentlemen as I have once hit upon the Right with regard to
your Intention in this Matter I may venture to make another Guess
and which is that if it were Possible you Could be so fourtunate as
to Succeed in this long stretch of your Privilege I do not doubt but
the next Step would be to discourage as much as you Could, any
Conversation between the Electors themselves concerning your Ac-
tions in Assembly; for it is Certainly much more difficult for you
now by the Magick Force of your own New Coined Phrase Par-
liamentary legal Construction just as if I should tell you of a West-
minister Hall legal Construction (mere sounds) to fix your wished
for Exposition on that Statute I^st William & Mary than hereafter
to perswade many People that it is not necessary an abuse should be
before a mans face in Order to make it Personal and therefore if too
or more Electors should in a Conversation amongst themselves blame,
and perhaps rail at their Representatives for their Conduct in Assem-
bly, This will be a Breach of Privilege for which the Electors may
be Called to your Bar and by this means the Representative may as-
sure to themselves seats and Power for life, since the Electors would
be deprived of the Freedom of Communicating their thoughts to each
other Concerning their Representatives. It was from the dreadful
Consequences which followed from a House not keeping themselves
within the Known and Settled Bounds of their Privileges that Lord
Clarendon declares " That their (i. e. the House of Commons) being
Iudges of their Privileges should qualify them to make new Privi-

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leges, or that their Judgment should Create them such, as it was a
Doctrine never before heard of so it could not but produce all those
Monstrous Effects of swallowing of the Religion Laws and Liberties
of England in the bottomless and insatiable Gulph of their own
Privileges."
As to the 3^d Head which is the Indecency of Expression. I believe
Gentlemen you have not lately perused the Journals of the Lower
House, and therefore must desire you to Cast an Eye over them
where you will find few Addresses which prove that Care, You
speak of in the Civility of Language in the Intercourse between the
Lower House and myself and the Paper to which this is an Answer
shews such a Propensity to the Continuance of the same unbecoming

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