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being a mere tool of military power, which was permitted to fit for no other purpose than that of lending a pretended parliamentary Authority to the arbitrary measures and wicked resolutions of an illegal Council of War; as if the mere Name of a Parliament without the thing itself (a due Representation of the people) was sufficient to authorize and justify the most detestable Despotism! The whole proceedings of the Council of War, from the time the King was seized at Holmby, (though he himself was deceived by their temporizing dissimulation,) clearly proves their fixed intention to proceed to extremities, contrary to the declared sentiments (42) of the former Parliament,
