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A91227	A new discovery of free-state tyranny: containing, four letters, together with a subsequent remonstrance of several grievances and demand of common right, by William Prynne Esquire; written and sent by him to Mr. John Bradshaw and his associates at White-Hall (stiling themselves, the Councel of State) after their two years and three months close imprisonment of him, under soldiers, in the remote castles of Dunster and Taunton (in Somersetshire) and Pendennis in Cornwall; before, yea without any legal accusation, examination, inditement, triall, conviction, or objection of any particular crime against him; or since declared to him; notwithstanding his many former and late demands made to them, to know his offence and accusers. Published by the author, for his own vindication; the peoples common liberty and information; and his imprisoners just conviction of their tyranny, cruelty, iniquity, towards him, under their misnamed free-state.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4016; Thomason E488_2; ESTC R203337	111,299	152

7. Jam. 5. 14. 15. s Rom. 12. 20 Mat 5. 44 45. Luke 6. 27. Prov. 25. 21. 2. Chr. 28. 15. t Acts. 28. 8 9. 30. v Luke 9. 1. 6. Acts. 10. 38. x Luke 22. 50 51 54. y Ephe. 4. 31 32. c. 5. 1 2. z A new Discovery c. p. 84. 86. a 1 Eliz c. 2. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 3 Jac. c. 4 5. 7 Jac. c. 6. 17 Caroli The Act for Triennial Parliaments b See the printed P●oposi●ions sent to the King the last Treaty m● Speech in Parl. p. 57 58. c Exact Coll●ction p. 20. 208. 309. 9 8 909 911. d Exact Col. p. 1 4 5 12 13. 665 669. e Exact Col. p. 1 to 21. 91 98. 106 108 145 199. 206 207. 308 310. 461 to 465. 490 491 492. 508 516 567 570 574. 616 625 628 637 639 640 648 651 to 656 659 to 754 755 764 769 786. 813 814 816 827 832 834 845 861 890 891 896 902 904 907 to 919 932. A Collection of O●dinances p. 23. 30 39. 95 96 97 98. 167 169 185 187. 203 204 210 217 218 227 249 to 267 275 283 309 310 314 360 363 371 379. 412 413 417 424 432 457 458 470 483. 514 517 537 548 576. 616 623 624 666. 704 705 706 724 761 to 829 834 to 870 872 880 883. Appendix p. 1. 15 f 5 El. c. 1 13 El. c. 1. 23 El. c. 1. 27 El●● c. 2. * See the Stationers Reaco● fired * See Canterburies Doom p. 26 27. 178 to 350. g In his Soveraign power of Parliaments and Kingdoms h In his Pe●petuity of a Regenerate mans estate Anti-A●m●anisme c. i In his Breviate Cosens cozening Devotions Quench coal Lame Giles his Haltings A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholike Romes Master-P●ece The Popish Royal Favourite Hidden works of Darknesse brought to publique Light Antipathy of the English Prelacy Cant. Doom Speech in Parliament k A New D●scovery of the Prelates Tyranny p. 141 142. * In the Declaration of 17 Martii 1648 and others l 2 Sam. 19. 43. m Magna Cha ta c. 29. and C●●ks Institutes thereon 1 Sam. 8. 4 19 20 22. 2 Sam. 19. 41 42 43. c. 16. 18. 2 K●ngs 2. 23 24. 2 Chr. 23 t●●oughout c. 26. 1. 23 24. 25. c. 36. 1. The Lords and Comm●●s Declaration 23 Oct●b 1642. Exact Collect p. 660. We must own it AS OUR DUTY that the meanest of the Commonalty may enjoy their own Birth-right Freedom and Liberty of the Laws of the Land BEING EQUALLY INTITULED THEREUNTO WITH THE GREATEST SUBJECT n A New Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny P. 86 87 88. o Maintained in his Soveraign power of Parliaments licenced by the Commons His plea for the Lords The Levellers Levelled Antiquity triumphing over Novelty A brief Historicall Collection of the ancient Parliaments of England and Prynne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrister Irēarches Redivivus p No Bishop no King c. Conference of Hampton Court The Bishop of Downes Sermon The antipathy of the English Prelacy to Unity and Monarchy Epistle Dedicatory to the Parliament q C●nterburies Doome Written and Printed by their speciall Order r Psal 69. 19 20. ſ Psal 31. 12. t Phil. 2. 20 21 22. u Psal 55. 12 13 14. x 2 Cor. 1. 4 5 6 9 10. C. 4 8 9 10. y Rex Omnibus singulis Regni sui Justi●iae est debitor Register of Writs and the Prologues of our ancient Statutes Exact Collection p. 494 498 712 713 714 660. z 1 Sam. 8. 5 20. 2 Sam. 23. 3. 1 King 16. 9. Chap. 10. 9. 2 Chron. 8 9. Chap 10 5 6 7. 2 Sam. 8. 15. Chap 15. 2 5. Psal 82 3. Prov. 8. 15. Jer. 7. 5. Chap. 23. 5. Chap. 33. 15. a Exact Collection p. 268 269 290 291 36● 370 706 to 716. 18 20. E. 3. Rastall Justices Totel● Magna Charta b Brookes Office des Court Job 29. 12 to 18. Isa 65. 1. c Questus est Nobis I. S. ex gravi querela I. S. occepimus Petit Judicium c. Register of Writs and Natura Brevium d Cal●pine Holi●k● Rider Eliot Calvini Lexicon Medicum e Register of Writs Natura Brevium Old and new Books of Entries and all Declarations c. f Luk. 18. 1 2 3 c. Mat. 7. 7 to 13. 1 Joh. 5. 15. g Fitzherbert Brooke Ash Title Petition and Prerogative h See the beginning of most ancient Parliament Rols Title Receivers of Petitions to the King only not them and the Kings Answers to the Petitions of the Lords and Commons i 1 Jac. c. 1. Cokes 4. Instit c. 1. Brooke Title Parliaments Cromptons Jurisdiction of Courts Title Parliaments Sir Tho. Smith De Republica Angl. l 2. c. 2 3 4. Mr. Hackwels manner of passing Bils in Parliament The Petition of Right 3. Car. Exact Collection p. 163 164 250 310 311 317 319 320 468 477 764 768 794 872 873. A Collection of Ordinances 221 222 c. 110 111 756 757. k Exact Collection p. 660 459 28 29 852 854. l 1 Thess 2. 2. m The like we read of the Centurion who beat and imprisoned him mentioned Act. 22. 24 to 30. n A new Discovery c. p. 113 114 115. o Ibidem p. 141 142. p Coke Instit on Magna Charta c. 29. Brooke Habeas Corpus q Exact Collect p. 8 20 28 29 450 660 652 894. r Exact Collection pag. 252 278 285 289 869 871 883 885 866 559 560. t Mat. 5. 15. Luk. 8. 16. Chap. 10. 35. s A new Discovery p. 86 87 88. u Psal 31. 12. y A new Discovery pag. 137 to 143. z 2 Cor. 5. 10. Read Master Strongs his Printed Sermon thereon a Mat. 25. 31 32. 2 Thess 1 7 8 9 Jude 14 15. Jer. 51. 6 11. b Isa 26. 9 11. c Psal 94. 1 2 c. Rom. 12. 19. d Exod. 15. 3. Isa 45. 7. e Psal 59. 10. 17. f Rom. 15. 33. 16. 20. 2 Cor. 13. 11. g Psal 12. 5. 72 4. Isa 49 26. Jer. 6. 6. 22. 15 to 20. 51 35 36. Ezek. 7 11 to 25. 8 17 18 12. 19 20. 21. 6 7 8 9 12 13 20 21 29 30 45 9. Isa 33. 1 2. Jer. 22. Job 20. 15 to 29. Amos 2. 1 2 3 c 3. throughout Hab. 2. 7 8 ●oel 3. 19. Obad. 8. 9 10 to 21. Zeph. 3. 5 6. L●k 3. 19 20 Act. 12 1 to 10. Exod. 3 7 8. 2. 23 24 25. Mat. 25 41 42 43. h See Exact Collection p. 917 918. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons ●xhorting all to Repentance Confession and Humiliation for our enormous sins procuring Gods wrath i A New Discovery of the Prelates tyranny p. 115 116. k Isa 32. 17. l See the Vindication of the secured and secluded Members and my Speech in Parliament m Jer 46. 16. 50. 16. n Jer. 28. ●3 14. 27. ● Ezech. 30. 18. 34. 27.

my self with many of the sincerest Eminentest members of the Commons House whom they then most honored for their Piety Ability Fidelity to the publique Interest impeach condemne behead their Lawfull Protestant King disinherit his Posterity Sec●ude th● greatest part of their fellow Commoners vote downe the whole house of Lords create 50. or 60. of themselves A Parliament of England without King Lords or their secluded Associates Arraignes execute the King Nobles Peers Knights and other English Freemen in a New misintituled High Court of Justice created by themselves alone without any Lawfull Triall by their Peers alter the ancient Hereditary Monarchicall Government of our three Kingdomes into a pretended Free State Common Wealth and other New-modles erect New formes of Parliaments s●als Coynes Writs Courts Legall Procedings create New Treasons diametrically contrary to old ones Suppresse the Presbyterian Government and party for which they were then so Zealous cut off the head of a Presbyterian Eminent Minister of their owne party imprison sequester divers other godly Ministers whom they then most countenanced preferred Suspent all Penall Lawes against Heretickes S●hismatickes Blasphemers Priests Jesuites Sell all the ancient Church Revenues formerly devoted by their Ancesters and voted by themselves for the better maintenance of the Ministry and propagation of the gospel With the ancient Crowne Revenues which should defray the Ordinary expences of the government Repeal the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance which themselves had taken as Members together with the Solemne Protestation Vow League Covenant made and prescribed by themselves under strict penalties and set up a New Engagement point blank against them by which they were all abjured under such disabilities forf●itures paines as they inflicted on such who out of conscience and detestation of Perjury could not submit thereto impose strange illegall oppressing uncessant oft-condemned Excises Imposts Tonnage Poundage Monthly Contributions Shipmony Arrayes Militiaes and publique Charges on the whole Nation without grant or consent in any free or Lawfull English Parliament as no former times can parallel and themselves so frequently voted declared and passed particular Acts and Judgements against at the beginning of the Parliament together with forcible Presses of Souldiers Mariners Seamen from time to time against sundry New Acts and Declarations to which themselves were parties and that only to keep up a constant standing Army in the three Kingdomes to enforce these Illegall Taxes from them and keep them under perpetuall Bondage to their arbitrary new illegall selfe created Powers That they should hostily invade their nearest dearest Protestant Christian brethren of Scotland with an Army against the Act of Oblivion Solemne League Covenant and all their late Obligations to them for their Brotherly assistance assault beseige pillage all their Cities Castles strong Holds and burne some of them with ●●re slay many thousands of their bravest Soldiers who assisted them and ●heir stoutest young men with the sword yea hack wound maime thousands more of them in a barbarous manner with a rage reaching up to heaven slay some persecute imprison others of their eminentest Protestant Ministers Nobles Gentry in remotest Castles sell many of them for Bondslaves to remote Plantations forrage Wast de●troy much of their Country with fire and sword kill many of them with famine keep all their whole Nation like Bondslaves under constant Garrisons and Tributes subvert their old Civill and Ecclesiasticall Laws Parliaments Government imposing New upon them by the sword and be so far from repenting or being greived humbled for these unchristian Cruelties towards them upon no other knowne accompt but their Loyalty to their lawfull King and conscientious adhering to their former Government Lawfull Oathes Covenants that though some of them appointed General day of humiliation throughout the land by an Ordinance of the 15. Febr. 1642. For the cruel and crying Sin of bloud shed especially of the Protestants in Queen Maries time and before amounting but to some hundreds yet they should after prescribe days of publikethanksgiving for the bloudy slaughters of many thousands of their godly Protestant Brethren victories over them hang up all their Captivated Ensignes in triumph in Westminster Hall for a perpetual testimony of this their unprotestant unbrotherly carriage towards them contrary to the Practise of all godly people in former ages and many Gosple Precepts That after this they should picke a quarrell with our old Protestant Friends and Confederates of the united Provinces by putting New restraints upon their Trading beyond all former presidents seising their Ships Merchandize as consiscate and then ingage them in a most bloudy warre and fights against them by Sea to the destruction of many thousand Merchants Mariners and their Families the impoverishing of both Nations the great decay obstruction of Trade and grand advantage rejoycing of our Spanish and other Popish Enemies That they should pull down the Kings Armes by speciall Order out of all Churches Courts and other publique places yet set up the bloudy Crosse as the only Coat of England for the future as it hath since been and is still like to be in its place though they formerly pulled downe demolished all Crosses in such places by special Orders as Superstitious and still permit the Kings Armes and Images too upon his coyn where they yet passe currant That whereas Christ himself in his Gospel commands all Christians not only to make Prayers Supplications and Intercessions for all men in general and for KINGS and their very enemies in particular but also not to hate but love their Enemies to do good to them that hate them and pray for those who dispitefully use and persecute them That they may be the Children of their father which is in heaven For he maketh his Sun to rise upon the evill and the good and sendeth raine both on the just and the unjust Backing it with this reason For if you love them that love you what reward have you do not even the Publicans the same Be you therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect Therefore if thine Enemy hunger feed him if he thurst give him drink Be not overcome with evill but overcome evill with goodnesse In pursuance of which Precepts our King William the I. though now branded for an inhumane tyrant by many was so christianly Charitable Noble Heroicke toward Edgar Athelirig after he gained the Crowne of England from the perjured usurper Harold by the sword that although he was right heire and his only Competitor to the Crowne of England twice set up in Armes against him by the English Nobility and King of Scots to force him from the Thron yet after all his Forces broken when he was quite deserted by his friends upon his addresses to him in Normandy he courteously received him into his favour entertained him for sundry yeares together even in his owne Court Allowed him an Honourable pension of one pound of Silver every day besides a large Donation After which

aliter at que ii qui vino adobruuntur ebrius esset IN INNOXIOS FVRERET c. Vnde PERICV LOSSISSIMA RES EST QVIQVAM COMMITTERE IMPERIVM To pretermit all other forraign presidents of like nature enough to fill whole Volumes I shall instance only in one domestick one not unseasonable for and very parallel to our times related by sundry of our Historians William Langchamp being advanced from an inferiour condition by King Richard the first to be Bishop of Ely Popes Legate Lord Chancellor Chiefe Justice and Protector of England the first who enjoyed that title to my remembrance during the Kings absence in the holy Wars Ann. 1191 c. Was so strangely infatuated intoxicated metamorphosed by these his new honours and powers that he acted many things not onely indiscreetly and untowardly but also most arrogantly insolently tyranically unconscionably covetuously and cruelly tyrannizing beyond all measure over his Fellow Commissioners the Kings own Brethren all the Nobility Clergy Gentry and Commonalty of the R●a●me whom he perpetually greived oppressed with manifold continual and needlesse illegal exactions pressures proud insolent Speeches and behaviour purveyances proling Officers Troopers Guards Garrisons who by some means or other got all the wealth of the kingdome into his and their hands by placing displacing all Officers and disposing all Offices preferments in the Realme at his pleasure by imprisoning crushing trampling under feet all such who durst oppose or appeal against his Tyrannicall Exactions Procedings Usurpations against their ancient Liberties Priviledges Rights Laws AS GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON OR SEDITION And to keep the Nobility Clergy People in this servile condition under him he kept a perpetuall Guard of Frenchmen and Flemings about him never riding abroad with lesse then 1500. Horse to guard him and commanded all the Nobility and their Sonnes to attend upon him and matched his Neeces and kinswomen to them the better to secure and strengthen himself Yea he displaced all the Officers appointed by the King and under pretext of suppressing Thieves and tumults placed garrisons of his own creatures rather to destroy then govern it who kept great troops of cruel and barbarous Souldiers which rode about armed in every place to terrifie the people and be the most wicked executioners of his Violence rapine coveteousnes Exactions sparing neither Clergy man Monke nor Layman and committing many outrages and cruelties in all places without punishment And not contented herewith being sensible of the Nobilities Clergies and peoples indignation against him for these his Exorbitances and Oppressions he sent for div●rs forraigne forces of his Friends and Confederates placing them in the Castles and Garrisons of the Kingdome for his greater security By which Tyranicall courses Multis Terrorem incussit Siluit Regnum Angliae à facie ejus nec fuit qui obmurmuraret ●um sibi in Anglia nihil ad ex●vgnandum restaret writes Mathew Paris In briefe Nu●rigensts records That the Laity o● England experimentally found him MORE THEN A KING And the Clergie MORE THEN A POPE but both of them AN INTOLLERABLE TYRANT Solis complicibus et copri●toribus suis innoxius caeteris indifferentur non tantum PECVNIARVM AMBITV verum etiam DOMINANDI VOLVPTATE ERAT INFESTVS For by reason of HIS DOVBLE POWER or rather treble civill Ecclesiastical Military he usurping the Militia into his own hands alone HE PUT ON THE PERSON OF A DOUBLE TYRANT most arrog●ntly domineering both over the Clergie and people making use of both his powers the more easily to accomplish his designes and crushiug those with his Military and royall power whom he could not subdue with his Ecclesiasticall Authority Non erat qui se absoonderet à calore ejus cum secularis in eo virgam vel GLADIVM Apostolicae potestatis timeret His pompe and pride was more then royall almost in all things Yet such was his secret fear in the midst of his greatness That Clericorum stipatus Catervis MILITVMQVE VALLATVS AGMINI●VS Orientalium more Regum TANQVAM IN EXPEDITIONE JVGITER POSITVS ARMATORVM CIRCA CVBICVLVM SVVM HABERE EXCVBIAS VOLVIT keeping great armed guards about him day and night wheresoever he was or went Hereupon the Nobility and People unable to suffer his intollerable insolencies and oppressions any longer complained most greivously of them ●o the King who thereupon writ to some Nobles to examine and redresse these Greivances And upon the instigation of Earl John the Kings Brother the Nobles of England raysing great forces to suppresse and eject this Tyrant met in a kinde of Parliament the Saturday after Michaelmas Anno. 1191. at L●don Bridge between Reading and Winds●r and after that in Pauls Church and on the East part of the Tower of London where all the Archbishops Bishops Earls and Barons there assembled agreed and resolved the unanimous conscent of all Vt talis de caetero in Regno Angliae non dominaretur per quem Ecclesia Dei ad ignominiam et POPV●VS AD INOPIAM TRAHEBA●VR Ipse enim Cancellarius et satellit●s ejus OMNES REGNI DIVITIAS IT A EXHAVSERANT Vt nec viri Baltheum argento redimitum ne faeminae monile nec viri nobili annulum vel Judaeo relinquerent the saurum vel quidlibet precio●i The saurū quoque domini regis adeo evacua verant ut in scriniis au●●lit●llis Nihil praeter c●aves et vasa vacua possent de elapsa Biennio inveniri Provisum est etiam Vt o●●ia castella quae pro libitu suo idem cancellarius cu●todiae satellitum suorum commisserat redderentur in primis Ipsa turris Londinensis This insolent Oppressor now finding himselfe unable to resist the nobles most of his Freinds rebellious forces deserting him in his distresses fled to the Tower of London refusing to appear before the Lords for fear of violence notwithstanding security tendered to him but at last being necessitated thereunto he sware to perform whatsoever the Lords had Decreed giving sureties to surrender up all the Castles to them and to depart the Realm Whereupon laying down his Offices and Legates Crosse he came to Dover thinking in a clandestine manner to passe the Seas and the better to deceive the Marriners eyes he disguised himself in womens apparel virum in faeminum convertit dum vestem Sacerdotis in meretricis habitum commutavit tunica virida faeminea indutus But being casually discovered by a Mariner to be a man who desired to make use of him as his strumpet and that hatefull Chancellour whom so many had cursed and feared a company of women and vulgar people in great despite threw him to the ground spit upon and beat him very sorely dragged him by the heeles along the Sands and would no doubt have torn him in pieces had not some of the Burgesses of the Town rescued him out of their hands and thrust him into a Seller where he was detained prisoner till they knew the Lords pleasure concerning him Thus he who but a

secret treasonable plots practises had any hand in my last close restraints I cannot certainly resolve seeing my Imprisoners themselves have protested to me they know not by whose or upon what information I was Imprisoned But this some of my Restrainers have confessed to me and my friends That they believe the chief reason of my long close Restraints was to hinder me from writing any thing against their late proceedings and publique Alterations Lawes Liberties which I formerly averred in my Speech in Parliament and Memento when they were first put them in execution to be originally contrived and secretly fomented by the Jesuites to destroy our King Kingdome and Religion That Speech of the Parliament of Paris to King Henry the fourth of France Anno 1603. when he resolved to restore the banished Jesuites against his Parliaments arrest and advise being then my constant asseveration Faxit Deus ut sim falsus vates sed prospicio animo tandem HOC REGNVM OPERA JESUITARUM IN CINERES ABITURUM and that I verily feared and believed the vissible Instruments most active in those dismall Proceedings Changes Subversions then intended and since effected were but the Jesuites deluded seduced Instruments in reality And that which may now at last convince them thereof beyond contradiction is not only the irrefragable evidences lately published in my Epistle to A Seasonable Legal an Historical Vindication of the good old Fundamentall Liberties Rights Lawes Governments of England compared with the excellent Proclamations of Queen Elizabeth and King James against Jesuites but likewise that memorable Piece presented to the states and Nobility of Poland assembled in Parliament 1607. to prevent the Seditious practises tumults of the Jesuites in that Realm intitutled Consilium derecuperonda in posteram stabilienda Pa●a Regni Poloniae per IESVITARVM ELECTIONEM Which clearly demonstrated That the Jesuites Society was purposely instituted by the Pope and Spaniard to advance their intended universall Monarchies and to be their principle Spies Intelligencers Instruments for this purpose the generall of the Jesuites being alwayes a Spaniard by birth or Allegiance and keeping his constant residence at Rome and their Order a most dangerous sharpe active sword whose blade secretly heathed in the bowels of all other Realmes States but the bilt thereof alwayes held in the Popes and Spaniards hands who weild it at their pleasure That the Jesuites instill this Treasonable Principle into their Schollers and Auditors That all Christian Kings and Princes as well Papists as Protestants who shall by any meanes whatsoever fall under the Popes indignation or Sentence or in any sort hinder the Jesuites Projects or not obey them in all things ARE HERETICKS and TYRANTS that thereby their Subjects are actually absolved from all Oathes Obedience and future Subjection to them Whereupon not only the people in generall but any particular person MAY LAWFULLY KILL and DESTROY THEM not without punishmemt only but likewise with GREATEST APPLAVSE and MERIT even of a CANONIZATION FOR A SAINT By which Jesuiticall Decree THE LIFE and DE●TH OF ALL KINGS and ALL THE CIVIL MAGISTRATES OF EVROPE IS SUSPENDED ON THE IESVITES PLEASURE If they favour them they may live and prosper If not THEY MUST PERISH Which the Jesuites proclaiming of the State of Venice through all Italy for most PESTILENT HERETICKS ABOMINABLE TYRANTS only for making lawes to bridle their covetousnes and banishing them for their disobedience and Treachery to the State though professed Roman Catholickes Their fury against Henry the 3. of France in stabbing him to death● though never accused of Heresy and continuing till his death in the Roman Communion only for this reason Quod Seeptrum Regium non ei tradere volebat quem sibi Hi Socij tanquam idoneum m●liti●num suarum administrum gallicae Regem destinaveránt branding him both for an HERE●ICKE TYRANT for this cause alone after his death in severall Bookes REGIS BRITANNIAE PERPETVA PERICVLA the perpetual dangers of the King of great Britain by the Jesuites and the feare of all others who finde this Order offended with them aboundantly testifie After which ensues this considerable Passage touching the Jesuites restlesse e●deavours to subvert all Christian States and the Fundamentall Lawes of all Kingdomes crosse to their Designes especially such as concernc the Succession of their Kings or the Peace and Liberty of their Kingdomes and People which I desire the Newm●dellers of our Lawes Government and Subverters of our liberties sadly to consider DIXI quanta vis sit Aculei Jesuitici contrareges statumque regium quoties hunc molitionibus suis obstare inte Higunt Hic autem vos notare velim EJVSDEM PESTIS non minorem efficaciam esse IN OPPUGNANDA EXPUGNANDA REPVBLICA ATTERENDIS LEGIBVS quoties nempe sentiunt se ab his in institu● â suâ venatione impediri Et quod AD LEGES attinet Hae politicae tineae illas praecipue arrodere consueverunt et exedere quibus jus successionis in regno continetur libertasque et pax publica confirmatur Qualem in Galliis praecipue invererunt Legem illam Salicam matriculam et Fundamentum illius regni perquam stirpis regiae mascula proles exclusis femeles ad Regnum sola admittitur Cujus Legis vigore successio Regni post interfectum Henricum 3. ad Henricum 4. Regem tunc Navarrae devolvebatur Quod ipsum cum SECTA JESVITICA suam interitum interpretaretur Tantum efficere potuit ut Galli hoc reipublicae suae fundamentum ipsimet subruere conarentur ascitâ contra hanc legem Philippi 2. Hispaniarum Regis Filia quam ex Henrici 2. Galliarum Regis filia susceperat in Regni sui haeredem Operis totius promotoribus internuntiis Jesuitis Quod autem Gallis Lex Salica praestat hoc Polonis ad huc Regum Juramenta conferunt per quae hactenus Reipublicae Liberae electionis jus conservatur quam periculose vero Hoc etiam libertatis nostrae fulcimentum ab his cetineisarrosum sit egomet dicere nolo necpublicum dedecus ipsomet divulgabo Ejusdem virtuti● illustre specimen coram oculis nostris in vicina Hungaria Austria Styria Carinthia c. ediderunt eo nimirum successu Vt obtritis legibus quibus praedictarum nationum libertas nitebatur partemearum Penitus oppresserint partem ad Extremam desperationem adegirint Hoc quidem rumor publicus hactenus constanter affirmat in praedictis Provincijs alicubi Illustribus et antiquissimae nobilitatis familiis publicè diem dictum esse intra quem se aut coram Jesuitarum tribunali sistant aut relictis patriis sedibus alio migrent Which a Noble Polonian Knight in his Oration against the Jesuites seconded in that Parliament of Polonia who relating the bloudy warres and tumults raysed by these Gibeanites throughout the Christian world India hath this memorable Passage concerning England Scotland Eodem motuab istis Jesuiticis Gabaonitis

hand IOHN BRADSHAW PRESIDENT Which Warrant further enjoyns him not to suffer me to have conference with any but in his sight and hearing nor to send or receive of any Letters but such as he shall peruse and is accordingly executed amounting to the strictest close Impriso●ent These Proceedings seem to me who am conscious of no guilt very strange Illegall rigorous yea destructive not only to mine own but to all the Peoples Liberties and all our good Laws for their preservation which you and others in present Power have of late years more then once solemnlie covenanted and made large Declarations and Protestations inviolably to preserve especiallie in these daies of Englands freedome from Tyranny as some term if not proclaim them Strange in respect of your self the only visible author of them mine ancient Acquaintance who formerly made so many large Professions of reall Friendship towards me and one of mine own Robe much contemning the Kings Star-chamber Lords and Prelates illegall Warrants and Proceedings in this kind against me from whom I expected no such unjust exorbitant Warrant or Military violeuce as this yet Stranger in regard of my self the Sufferer who having been such an Eminent Martyr both in body and Estate suffering near 8 years Imprisoments close restraints exile 3 Pillories Stigmatizing a ●●uble loss● of ears excessive Fines for the defence of our re●igion Laws Publick Wealth Liberty of the Nation without receiving one penny recompence for all my losses and snffrings though promised voted many Thousands and one of the most devoted faithfull Servants to the old Republick late Parliament of England in whose service I have spent my Estate and studies ever since my enlargement without enjoying the least Preferment which I was never ambitious of or one farthing Salary or reward when others lesse meritorious have been bountifully rewarded with great Sums Offices Pensions expected no such ungratefull Requital as a new excessive tedious close Imprisoment from my professed Friends before the least notice of any complaint against me or summons to appear or answer it Which all circumstances considered is a farr greater Extremity of injustice than I ever yet suffered from my most Capitall Enemies who both in the High Commission and Star chamber did only summon me by a messenger but never Attach me or begin with Execution as you doe first citing me to appear before them and then heard before they committed me or searched my Study and Papers and that by their Legall sworn Officers not armed Souldiers in the open day time not at midnight on the week day not the Lords day and never made made me a close Prisoner at first but onely after hearing and sentence And indeed this cannot but seem strange to me and all men else that I should be the first man now mewed up afresh in all the County for a new Malignant and dangerons Person who was one of the first appeared in it for the Parliament when as others long in actuall arms against it now walk at large and one who took and subscribed the Kings Oath against the Parliament renouncing and declaring them Traytors and Rebels with others whose base unworthy cowardice lost and betrayed the whole County to the Enemie whom they durst never face or encounter are now imployed as great Commanders in our new raising Militia who as I have good grounds to suspect are the originall Contrivers of this my injurious Restraint out of meer mallice or envy to shew that they are now men of trust and power sufficient to Tyrannize over me as well as others who never did them the least injury but only reprehended them for their Injustice and Opressions of which the whole County complained The sat●sfaction of whose malicious desires in this illegall way will purchase you ten thousand times more dishonor and doe you more disservice by discontenting thousands of your Friends and giving your Enemies just occasion of rejoycing than ever their valour or Military Service is like to do you good either in the County or Kingdome and render you as detestable to the People as ever my former suffrings and Imprisoments did the Bishops or Star-chamber the greatest occasion of their downfalls Illegal injurious yea Destructive to the Peoples Libertys and also setled Laws for their Defence in divers respects in which I must crave Liberty a little to expatiate for fear my present silence or flender glances thereat should prejudice my own and the whole Nations Liberties deeply concerned in this new President of Injustice on my self so great a stickler against all Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Proceedings of this nature and one of the greatest Sufferers under them Not to dispute at present the Lawfulnesse of your present Power which many justly question The utmost I conceive you do or can pretend to is only the Power of the ancient privy Council or Council Table under our Kings not in its utmost latitude and exorbitances but as regulatedby the late Act against the Star-chamber Which Councill Table to my best remembrance never issued any Warant so illegall as this in all particulars against my self or others nor executed it by be meer Military Officers on the Lords own day as your Souldiers did this to proclaim to all the world how little they esteem or observ● your new misnamed Act against travelling or arresting any on the Lords day the penalty whereof none dare to levy on Souldiers I shall only here briefly argue and evince the Illegality of your Warrant à Capite ad Calcem as well as my present restrained condition and want of Books and Time will permit me that you and others may see what ground you have to retract and to be ashamed of it as I hope you will upon the reading hereof First I conceive it wholy illegall in respect of the Persons to whom it is directed and by whom it is to be and was accordingly Executed which are not legall civill Officers of Justice as Sherriffs Iustices of Peace Maiors Headboroughs under Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Serjeants sworn Messengers and the like the only lawfull Officers to serve and execute all legall Writs Processe Warrants whatsoever by the Common Statute-Laws and Customs of this Realm who are and ought to be known Refients in the County where they may be always found taking an Oath duly to execute their respective Offices according to Law and Persons of Estate able to render Dammages to the Presons they attach in case their Warrants be illegall or not legally pursued in the execution But meer Souldiers of fortune Strangers having no constant residence nor visible estates in the County to render me or others Dammages in an Action of Trespasse or false Imprisonment should we sue them and no legall Officers known or allowed by out Laws to execute Processes or Warrants from any civill Power no not in times of Warr especially where there is no necessity nor precedent resistance as in my case much lesse in times of Peace as now wherein

the purity of Gods publick Ordinances and sending of Letters when first approved by himself such a Ward and School boy is he yet to this very hour under your Free-State even after the Court of Wards quite voted down And whereas all Collonels and Gentlemen heretofore in actual Arms against the Parliament here or elsewhere secured in their proper Counties only not in foraign in the late times of danger were a full year since enlarged from their far more favourable restraints than his by your general Order and many Theeves Felons legally deserving death both pardoned and set free without any Petitions to you from them and not only diverse Popish Recusants in A●mes but some Popish Pr●ests and Jesuites imprisoned before your Government absolutely released under it yea exempted from the very Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance specially provided prescribed by the wisdom of many pious Parliaments for the detection and prevention of their manifold treasonable practices against our Realms Princes Parliaments Government Laws Liberties and Religion from some if not all old penal Laws formerly made and those 5 new excellent Bills and Oaths of Abjuration for their better speedier discovery a●d suppression so earnestly pressed by our late zealous Parliaments and consented too by the late King so much taxed by you for indulgence towards them in the last Treaty without scruple yet since quite buried with ●im in oblivion and some of them unwittingly as is conceived entertained as Troopers Souldiers in pay in your very Guards for want of such strict inquiries after them and such meanes to prevent their coming over and to detect them as formerly and not one of them for oug●t he can hear close imprisoned if imprisoned at all in remote Castles under such Guards Centinels Restraints as his forementioned though in near one hundred printed Declarations of Parliament remonstrated to the World to be the Original Contrivers the chief Incendiaries Fomentors Promoters of the first late Warres between Scotland and England and the late King and Parliament of purpose thereby to subvert the Protestant Religion both at home and ab●oad destroy that last and all future Parliaments our Lawes Liberties and former setled Government and introduce Popery Anarchy Slavery and Military Tyr●●y in their pl●c●s Whereupon they are grown so audacious as not only secretly to infuse their Jesuitical Tenents Pract●ces Poli●icks of most dangerous consequence expr●ssed in sundry former Acts of P●rliament purposely enacted to prevent them into the Souldiery a●d Pe●ple now much infected with them but likewise by their instruments to translate print and vend publiquely throughout the Nation without Inhibition or Punishment their Jesuitical Books even in folio professedly ass●rting both th● Popes Sup●emacy pra●ing to Saints and Angels Purgatory Masse Transubstantiation and all other points of grossest Popery for undoubted Truths necessary to Salvation and also positively maintaining our true Protestant Religion to be grosse Heresie and our late famous Queen Elizabeth with all true professors thereof to be damnable Hereticks Witnesse the Jesuite Edmond Causin his Holy Court printed in several folio Tomes in London it self translated into English by Papists Jesui●es and dedicated to the two greatest Female Papists Queen Mary and the Dutchesse of Buckingham sold publikely under your Noses and elsewhere with the very Jesuites badge S. I. S●cietatis Iesis in Capitals in the Title Page and this bold subscription Printed at London by William Bently Anno 1650. since his close imprisonment by you and are to be sold by Iohn Williams in Pauls Churchyard where all these Popish Tenents are largely maintained to the great Scandal and Offence of all true Protestants as you may read at leisure Tom. 1. p. 30 to 38 63 64 68 74 75 Tom. 2. p. 168. Tom. 3. p. 425 to 430. 461 462. Tom. 5. p. 173 174. 304 to 319 The Angel of Peace to all Christian Princes p. 10 11 and elsewhere to omit all other Iesui●ical Arminian Popish Erroneous Books against our Religion now publikely written printed vended by thousands under you with impunity though so lately charged pressed by the whole House of Commons against Canterbury as an Article of High Treason for which amongst others he lost his head by Iudgement of Parliament and your own concurrent Votes and Approbations Yet he who out of pure love zeal to his God true Religion Country Parliaments hath constantly stuck unto and written most of any man in times of greatest need and danger in defence of the just Power Rights Privileges of our true English Parliaments and Nation against all Opponents against all late introduced Arminian Popish Iesuitical Errours Doctrines Ceremonies Innovations Books and made the first the fullest discoveries of and Oppositions in print of any man with no little pains cost losse danger against their manifold dangerous Books Practices Plots Conspiracies to undermine our Religion Parliaments Laws Liberties Government and involve all Protestant Kingdoms States Churches in bloody intestine wars to their own mutual destruction but these Iesuites insultation exul●ation and that by approbation authority of Parliament and most of your applauses And hath particularly informed some of you by Letters since his restraints of admired indulgences towards Priests ●esuites of one particular noted Iesuite who for a fortnights space together disputed with a friend of his at St. Omers with 5 other Iesuites more about August 1649 since listed a Trooper in your Guards and of this late printed Iesuites folio Book without any reformation or suppression of either upon his complaints thereof during this their licentious Liberty and Freedom to their grand Rejoycing Advantage and the great Grief Offence of most really affected to our Religion or the publike weal without any cause hearing or release must be shut up and continued close Prisoner by you year after year and sent from one remote Castle to another remoter and worser than it and there kept under strictest Guards Centinels Restraints and most injurious Duresses as aforesaid without any hopes of release notwithstanding his manifold Letters and Addresses to you joyntly and severally in such a way as becomes him though not by unworthy complyances in submission to the self-created new Powers and Titles complaining of these fore-remonstrated Proceedings Searches Imprisonments Translations and Restraints in forraign Counties Castles under Souldiers without any precedent Indictment Tryal and Crime yet specified and undeniably manifesting them to you to be co●trary to all Laws of God Nature Nations the Common L●w and Great Charter of England and other forecited known Statute● Iudgement● Declarations Resolutions R●monstrances of all our late Parliaments the expresse Votes and Resolves of both Houses of Parliament in his own late particular case and others the indubitable Birthright Franchises of eve y English Freeman of very dangerous President Conseq●ence to Posterity and in sundry respects far more exorbitantly unrighteous than his former Grievances and Imprisonments under the worst of your discarded condemned decapitated

who professed himself a Lawyer or ware a Gown upon his back durst affirme That about 50 or 60 members only of the late Commons house confederating with the Army-officers to destroy condemn and behead the King the * head of the Parliament abolish the whole house of Lords the ancientest honorablest chiefest of branch our English Parliaments Wherein the judiciall power of Parliaments wholly or principally resided and secure seclude the majority or five parts of four of the whole Commons house only for voting according to their consciences and endevouring to settle the Peace of the Kingdome after eight years bloudy wars and to subvert all future reall English Parliaments contrary to their trusts and duties the very expresse words of the writs and retornes of those by whom they were made and elected members contrary to the direct tenor of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance which they took and must take before they could sit or vote as Members contrary to the Solemn Protestation Vow League and Covenant which they all made and took after they were Members contrary to their manifold printed Declarations Remonstrances Ordinances Votes whiles there was a reall Parliament and they actuall Members of it contrary to the Desires Petitions of those who intrusted them yea contrary to the principles of the Protestant Religion the Priviledges Rights of Parliaments the fundamentall Lawes of the Land which they professed covenanted ingaged inviolably to maintain as they were Members should be a true and unquestionable Parliament of England of themselves alone without either King or House of Peers or the mainity of the secured and secluded Members especially after the Kings beheading which actually dissolved the Parliament and sitting still under the over-awing guards and force of the Army demanding of him in an earnest manner by what Parliamentary or Legall Records Histories Law-books resolutions of our Judges or Courts of Justice he could prove that unparliamentary Juncto to be a lawfull English Parliament when as his own science and conscience must attest that they all declare and resolve them to be no Parliament at all Whereunto he replyed he must needs confesse that all Records Histories and Law books were clear against him that they were no legall Parliament but yet yet in this case of extremity wherein we then were It was lawfull for the minor part of the Commons Houses to seclude the King and house of Lords with the major part of their fellow-commoners when they would have endangered the ship of the Common-wealth to preserve it from drowning as I my self granted in one of my Books that the Mariners might secure the master of the Sip and thrust him from the sterne in case he would wilfully split it against a Rock or Quick-sands to preserve the ship and themselves from perishing to which I rejoyned that the similitude suited not with the case in question For the secluded majority of the Commons and Lords house according to their trusts duties at the earnest desires of the generality of our three Kingdomes endevoured to preserve and secure the ship of the Common-wealths of England Scotland and Ireland and bring it into a safe harbour by a happy close with the late King upon far more honourable terms and propositions for the subjects benefit liberty weal security to which the King consented then ever we or our ancestors enjoyed or our posterities can hereafter hope for and laboured to their power to prevent those bloudy intestine wars between our Protestant Realms and Allies and that prodigall expences of many millions of treasure which this vi●lence upon the King Peers and Commons house have since produced and is still likely to occasion by these few Members confederacy with the Army who in stead of saving have quite wracked the ship both of our true ancient Parliaments and Republicks and of their new infant Common wealth too and left us in a more desperate distracted unsetled condition then they then found us which he con●essed to be true Therefore he could no wayes justifie this their violence much lesse infer from thence that they were an undoubted true English Parliam●nt for by like reason he might make the Army or Generall Councell of Army Officers the chief authors and actors in this violence only to perpetuate their own armed power and our intestine wars for their own private ends as now all clearly see a true English Parliament as well as that Fag end of the house of Commons confederating with them who now too late repented of this their folly treachery and heartily wish they had joyned with us in our really endevoured and neer accomplished settlement upon the Kings confessions which now they despair of more then ever to enjoy under any New Government To the second I replyed that admit them to be a true English Parliament which I could not grant yet certainly they neither would nor could grant him or his Whitehall associates any such unlimited arbitrary instructions and Tyrannicall power to close-imprison me or others in remote Castles under Souldiers to break open ransack our houses studies seize our writings records deny us liberty of Gods O●dinances or free commerce with others by conference or Letters which the whole Parliament and themselves so lately condemned sentenced and publickly voted declared against as repugnant to the great Charter Lawes Liberties properties of the Nation in my own and others cases and made new acts against And if any such exorbitant tyrannicall power had been granted them upon any pretence yet the Statutes of 25 E. 1. c 1 2. E. 3. c. 1. declare them to be null and void and himself knowing them to be such in law could neither in justice nor conscience pursue them to mine or others prejudice To the third I subjoyned That the many desperate plots and conspiracies against the true reall Common-wealth of England were on his and his associates part who subverted our old Fundamentall Laws Government Monarchy Parliaments and the free course of justice by arbitrary power force and Courts of highest injustice not on mine or the secured and secluded Lords and Commons who detested opposed all their apparent late plots a●d conspiracies against them and that now by Gods retaliating Justice they poor infant Commonwealth founded in Treachery Perjury Violence Injustice Bloud Tyranny was suddenly subverted destroyed by that very armed power which first erected and engaged to support it still But admit the allegation true yet this was very ill Logick and worse Law and Policy because there were many plots and conspiracies against their new infant Republick by others Ergo he and his Whitehal associates might close-imprison me after all my sufferings and services for the publick and all else they pleased in remotest Castles without cause or hearing though guilty of no reall crime plot or conspiracy which strange exorbitancy in my judgment was our principal cause of their new Commonwealths and Whitehall Councels suddenunexpected downfals However I being a Member of Parliament