Men did nothing but pursue their own Right by the Law.

'Tis thought the Men of the Feather soon saw they were in the Wrong,
but acted like some Men in our World, that when they make a mistake,
being too Proud to own themselves in the wrong, run themselves into
worse Errors to mend it.

So these Lunar Gentlemen disdaining to have it said they could be
mistaken, committed two Errors to conceal one, 'till at last they
came to be laught at by all the Moon.

These poor Men having lain a long while in Prison, for little or no
Crime, at last were advis'd to apply themselves to the Law for
Discharge; the Law would fairly have Discharg'd them; for in that
Country, no Man may be Imprison'd, but he must in a certain Time be
Tryed, or let go upon pledges of his Friends, much like our giving
Bail on a Writ of Habeas Corpus; but the Judges, whether over-aw'd by
the Feathers, or what was the Cause, Authors have not determin'd, did
not care to venture Discharging them.

The poor Men thus remanded, apply'd themselves to the Grandees who
were then Sitting, and who are the Soveraign Judicature of the
Country, and before whom Appeals lie from all Courts of Justice. The
Grandees as in Duty bound, appear'd ready to do them Justice, but the
Queen was to be apply'd to, first to grant a Writ, or a Warrant for a
Writ, call'd in their Country a Writ of Follies, which is as much as
to say Mistakes.

The Consolidators foreseeing the Consequence, immediately apply'd
themselves to the Queen with an Address, the Terms of which were so