at which time that free and generous people made a
Shift to surprise them in their design, and give them the bloody
reward of their Treason. In Athens, they destroyd that
glorious Free. State, first under their T[unr]. Tu[unr]woi, by
ingrossing all power into the hands of their own Order,
Which was afterward usurpt by thirty of their fellows; and
When that Tyranny could hold no longer, then in process of
time they erected a new one, called Apx[unr], the Decennall
Governors, which swayed all, for Ten years; and with no less
Tyranny than the former, because they had an Interest distinct,
being of a rank Superior to the People. In Heraclea
likewise it is very memorable, that the Great ones were the
men that drove out the tyrant Clearchus, but with an Intent
(it seems) to set up themselves in his Tyranny; wherein the
People preventing them by making the State free, they were
So impatient of the Peoples freedom, that rather then suffer
it they called home the Tyrant againe, which nevertheless
turn'd afterwards to the destruction of their owne persons,
through not of their Interest and Families.
From Greece let us travell to Rome, where after the expulsion
of Kingly Tyranny, a new one was substituted in its place
by permitting those that called themselves the Nobility, to
arrogate all authority unto themselves, This wrought so
disastrous an effect, that the people allowing of a standing
Titular Order of Nobility, soon lost all other enjoyments, as
well as their Liberty; for, those grand Tituladoes made it
their business every way to vex and keep them under, insomuch
that they were forced into continuall mutinies for remedy;
one while against the usury and exactions of their Nobles;
another while for Land, & sometimes for Bread, sometimes
also for liberty of Marriages, and lastly for the liberty of the
whole State, when they procured the Tribunes and free Suffrages;
with power of electing and calling their supreme Assemblies:
but yet for all this, they could never enjoy any thing
in quiet, but that they were still plagued with the subtilties
and encroachments of their Nobles, all along, from before
Appius Claudius; but especially then, and afterwards downe