a little to the grief, that the English should keep us in so close
again upon our Coasts; and we see no remedy, became the
want of men is so great, that we have not where with to man
those ships which are in this, or any other of the Ports.
You may see by what follows how things go in Switzerland;
The chiefest heads of the Sentence of the Lords Arbitrators
of the two Cantons of Basil and Appenzel.
1. That in the common Baylywicks, where both Religions are
professed, they should stand to agreements and Treatyes made
formerly; and that there is none of the said Religions shall
have preheminence or authority above the other. That it
shall be lawful for any one of the said Religions, to make
choice of either the reformed or Popish Religion, as he pleaseth,
without any hindrance or molestation. That the protestants
in the said common Baylywicks shall by no meanes, be
oblieged by the Papists, to pull their hats off at the sound of
the Bells, nor before the Crosses upon the Graves, and shall
not be forced to keep the holydays, not to marry at certain
times, nor to bury the children dead without Baptisme in
common places. That where there is but one Temple for both
religions, they shall on both sides keep the appointed times
for other exercises: That the Evanelies Protestants shall
have their schools settled, and the freedom of cathechising
their children without any disturbance. That they shall freely
make use of the Temples for them funeral sermons, make
use every where of the Bells, according to their need and the
form of their Religion. That Servants [unr] not homolested
for their Religion, nor any of them forced to any thing contrary
to their own Religion. That the protestants shall have
liberty to send their minister to the p[unr]rsons for the strengthning
and comforting of such there is are Protestants, And
that generally all calumniations, cither in writing or in Pulpits,
and all cavils, jestings, and making of either Religion,
shall be henceforth wholly forbidden, and the offenders severely
punished by the respect we officers of both Religions, by
great penalties, yea and corporal punishments.