lowing Privileges to the Archbiſhops, Biſhops, Priors and Barons of our Kingdom, &c.
The Houſe of Commons is not once mention'd in the Articles of this Charter, a Proof that it did not yet exiſt, or that it exiſted without Power. Mention is therein made, by name, of the Freemen of England, a melancholy Proof that ſome were not ſo. It appears by the thirty ſecond Article, that theſe pretended Freemen ow'd Service to their Lords. Such a Liberty as this, was not many removes from Slavery.
By article XXI, the King ordains that his Officers ſhall not henceforward ſeize upon, unleſs they pay for them, the Horſes and Carts of Freemen. The People conſider'd this Ordinance as a real Liberty, tho' it was a greater Tyranny. Henry the ſeventh, that happy Uſurper and great Politician, who pretended to love the Barons, tho he in reality hated and fear'd them, got their Lands alienated. By this means the Villains, afterwards acquiring Riches by their Induſtry, purchas'd the Eſtates and Country-
