"Albans, afterwards told Mr. Waller, that "his father's cowardice ruined the King." In the Long Parliament, which, unhappily for the nation, met Nov. 3, 1640, Waller reprefented Agmondefham the third time; and was confidered by the difcontented party as a man fufficiently trufty and acrimonious to be employed in managing the prosecution of Judge Crawley, for his opinion in favour of fhip-money; and his fpeech fhews that he did not disappoint their expectations. He was probably the more ardent, as his uncle Hampden had been particularly engaged in the dispute, and, by a fentence which feems generally to be thought unconftitutional, particularly injured. He was not however a bigot to his party, nor adopted all their opinions. When the great queftion, whether Epifcopacy ought to be abolished, was debated, he spoke against the innovation fo cooly, fo reafonably, and fo firmly, that it is not without great injury' to his name that his fpeech, which was as follows, has been hitherto omitted in his, works: "There *There is no doubt but the fenfe of "what this nation had suffered from the pre fent Bishops hath produced thefe com 66 66 plaints; and the apprehenfions men have "of fuffering the like, in time to come, "make so many defire the taking away of Epifcopacy: but I conceive it is poffible "that we may not, now, take a right mea"fure of the minds of the people by their petitions; for, when they fubfcribed them, "the Bishops were armed with a dangerous "commiffion of making new canons, impofing new oaths, and the like; but now we "have difarmed them of that power. These petitioners lately did look upon Epifcopacy "as a beaft armed with horns and claws; "but now that we have cut and pared them "(and may, if we fee caufe, yet reduce it "into narrower bounds), it may, perhaps, "be more agreeable. Howfoever, if they be "ftill in paffion, it becomes us soberly to "confider the right ufe and antiquity there. "of; and not to comply further with a ge 66 This fpeech has been retrieved, from a paper printed at that time, by the writers of the Parliamentary History. Dr. J. ❝neral We have already fhewed, that epifcopacy and the evils thereof are mingled like water *** and oil; we have alfo, in part, fevered them; but I believe you will find, that our laws and the prefent government of the church are mingled like wine and water; fo infeparable, that the abrogation of, at leaft, a hundred of our laws is defired in thefe petitions. I have often heard a noble anfwer of the Lords, commended in this houfe, to a propofition of like nature, but of lefs confequence; they gave no other Kreafon of their refufal but this, Nolumus mutare Leges Anglia: it was the bishops who fo anfwered then; and it would be"come the dignity and wisdom of this house *to answer the people, now, with a Nolumus "mutare. "I fee fome are moved with a number of "hands against the Bishops; which, I con"fefs, rather inclines me to their defence; ❝ for I look upon Epifcopacy as a counterfcarp, or out-work; which, if it be taken VOL.I. 66 A a "by by this affault of the people, and, withaf, "this mystery once revealed, That we muft deny them nothing when they afk it thus in 66 troops, we may, in the next place, have as "hard a tafk to defend our property, as we "have lately had to recover it from the Pre"rogative. If, by multiplying hands and 66 petitions, they prevail for an equality in "things ecclefiaftical, the next demand perhaps may be Lex Agraria, the like equality "in things temporal. "The Roman ftory tells us, That when "the people began to flock about the fenate, " and were more curious to direct and know "what was done, than to obey, that Common-wealth foon came to ruin their Legem rogare grew quickly to be a Legem "ferre: and after, when their legions had "found that they could make a Dictator, "they never fuffered the fenate to have a "voice any more in fuch election. "If these great innovations proceed, I "fhall expect a flat and level in learning too, "as well as in church-preferments: Honos "alit Artes. And though it be true, that 66 grave grave and pious men do ftudy for learning"fake, and embrace virtue for itself; yet it "is true, that youth, which is the feafon "when learning is gotten, is not without "ambition: nor will ever take pains to excel "in any thing, when there is not fome hope "of excelling others in reward and dignity. "There are two reafons chiefly alledged "against our church-government. "Firft, Scripture, which, as fome men "think, points out another form. 66 "Second, The abuses of the present fuperiors. "For Scripture, I will not difpute it in "this place; but I am confident that, when 66 ever an equal divifion of lands, and goods fhall be defired, there will be as many places in Scripture found out, which feem "to favour that, as there are now alledged "against the prelacy or preferment of the church. And, as for abufes, when you 66 are now in the Remonftrance told what "this and that poor man hath suffered by the |