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, Salem, Ipswich, and Newbury. Let some regular way be propounded for the debate, Chap. XII.} 1666. said Bellingham, the governor, a man who emphatically hated a bribe.—The king's prerogative gives him power to command our appearance, said the moderate Bradstreet; before God and men we are to obey. —.You may have a trial at law, insinuated an artful royalist; when you come to England, you may insist upon it and claim it.—We must as well consider God's displeasure as the king's, retorted Willoughby; the interest of ourselves and of God's things, as his majesty's prerogative; for our liberties are of concernment, and to be regarded as to the preservation; for if the king may send for me now, and another tomorrow, we are a miserable people.—Prerogative is as necessary as law, rejoined the royalist, who perhaps looked to the English court as an avenue to distinction.—Prerogative is not above law, said the inflexible Hawthorne, ever the advocate of popular liberty. Mass. Hist. Coll