As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question, (and in matters too.which might never have been thought of, had not the sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry,) and as the king of England hath undertaken in his own mgr/2t to support the parliament in what he calls theirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to re jcet the usurpation of either.