་ THE DISCOURSES OF Abbeys, Priories, &c. HE unwillingness of the Monks to part with their Land, will fall out to be just nothing, be cause they are yielded up to the King by a Supreme Hand, (viz.) a Parliament. If a King conquer another Country, the People are loath to lose their Lands; yet no Divine will deny but the King may give them to whom he please. If a Parliament make a Law concerning Leather, or any other Commodity, you and I, for Example are Parliament-Men; perhaps in respect to our own private Interests, we are against it; yet the major part conclude it; we are then involved, and the Law is good. 2. When the Founders of Abbeys laid a Curse upon those that should take away those Lands, I would fain know what Power they had to curse me. "Tis not the Curses that come from the Poor, or from any Body, that hurt me, because they come from them, but because I do B |