A discourse concerning excommunication, as executed by officials. And concerning the common law writts, de excommunicato capiendo, and de cautione admittenda; for the punishment of persons excommunicated, and their deliverance from the punishment. : VVherein is examined, whether the execution of the former as executed by many, be not a profanation of a great ordinance of God; whether by the second the subjects in many cases be not unwarrantably oppressed; as also by the difficult granting of the other, which is a common law writt, and the right of every subject to be obtained without difficulty? Discoursed in a letter to an honourable friend, by one who is a friend to the English liberty. Wrote before the Parliament which sat from March, 1678, to the end of May, 1679, and now published