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A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

from the beginning of the world was the like never heard of before to this present That this Jesuite Father Parsons in his Book Of the Reformation of all the States of England as he prescribes a Reformation of the Prince Court Counsellors Noblemen Bishops Prelates Pastors Universities Lawyers and Laws in all which he will have strange Metamorphoses so he will have the Court of Parliament it self brought to better order to effect all these dismal changes That the way whereby he they intended to bring about all these changes was to bring all England into an uprore for common Souldiers to examine their Soveraigns what Titles they hold by and by infusing this their Jesuitical principle into the Souldiers and people That every Pecope or Tartarian multitude getting once the title and stile of a publick State or Helvetian Common wealth may alter change innovate the Course Inheritance and Succession of the Crown and Lands under them to make the Island a Iaponian Island of Iesuites and infeoff themselves by hook or crook in the whole imperial dominion of Great Britain putting all the whole Blood Royal of England to the Formidon as but Heirs general in one Predicament For their better accomplishment whereof this William Watson subjoyns his own opinion in these words I verilie think that all the Puritans and Anabaptists will joyn with the Iesuites to effect the●e changes at length how far soever they seem to be and yet are in external profession of Religion there being at least half an hundred principles and odde Tricks concerning Government Authority Tyranny Popularity Conspiracy c. wherein they jump as just together as if both were made of one mould But when they shall thus joyn together he predicts That the Iesuites having more singular fine wits amongst them and manie learned men on their side whereas the Puritans and Anabaptists have none but grossum Caputs the Iesuites manie Gentiles Nobles and some Princes to side with them the Puritans but few of the first rare to have anie of the second and none of the last on their side By consequence if matters come to hammering between the Iesuites and Puritans the latter are sure to be ridden like Fools and come to wrack He superaddes to this That Father Parsons and his Companie have laid a plot as most consonant and fitting for their other Designments That the Common law of the Realm of England must be forsooth utterly abolished or else bear no greater sway in the Realm than the Civil law doth And the chief Reason is for that the State of the Crown and Kingdome by the Common laws is so strongly setled as whilst they continue the Iesuites see not how they can work their wills Secondly the said good Father hath set down a Course how every man may shake off all Authority at their pleasures as if he would become a new Anabaptist or Iohn of Leydon to draw all the World into a Mutiny Rebellion and Combustion And the Stratagem is how the common People and Souldiers must be inveigled and seduced to conceit to themselves such a Liberty or Prerogative as that it may be lawfull for them when they think fit to place and displace Kings and Princes as men do their Tenants at will Hirelings or ordinary Servants Which Anabaptistical and abominable Doctrine proceeding from a turbulent Tribe of trayterous Puritans and other Hereticks this treacherous Iesuite would now foist into the Chatholick Church as a ground of his corrupt Divinitie Mr. Prynne having some year since diligently observed all these passages with sundrie others of this nature in those Secular Priest-books and comparing them with Campanella de Monarchia Hyspanica c. 25.27 Cardinal Richlieues Instructions forecited having likewise read in the Jesuites own printed Books That they had no lesse than 931 Colleges and Seminaries of Iesuites erected in several parts of the World within the space of 120 years and no fewer than 15 Colleges and Seminaries in Provincia Anglicana in the English Province in the year 1640. wherein they had 267. Socii Societatis Fellows of their own Societie besides Novices and 4 Colleges more of English Iesuites beyond the Seas and no less than eight Colleges of Irish and several Residenciaries of Scotish Iesuites in Ireland Scotland and other places And being assured by the publick Speeches of Oliver Cromwell himself first to an Assemblie of Divines and others at Whitehall 1653. and after to his new modelled Parliament at Westminster September 4. 1654. published in print p. 16 17. That he knew verie well that Emissaries of the Iesuites never came over in such swarms as they have done since our late wars and changes were on foot and that divers Gentlemen can bear Witness with him That they have a Consistory and Counsel that rules all the Affairs of the things of England and had fixed in England in the Circuit of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the particular Instrument an Episcopal power with Archdeacons and other persons to pervert and seduce the people And being most certainlie informed That the Arch-Jesuite Sir Toby Mathew though banished by both Houses Sir Kenelme Digby a Jesuited papist whose Father had a chief hand in the old Gunpowder Treason and was himself particularlie imployed to Rome by the Queen to procure men and monies from the Pope against the Parliament where he expected to receive a Cardinals Cap Sir Iohn Winter a person excepted from pardon Mr Walter Mountague two notorious Jesuited Papists who conspired with the Popes Nuncio and College of Jesuites in Longacre to destroy the King and alter the Government of the Kingdome if he refused to turn Roman Catholick and repeal all Laws against Romish Priests Jesuites Papists and for that very end raised the first Scotish wars and which is most observable that Orelly the Popes own Nuncio in Ireland who promoted the late horrid Irish Rebellion and massacre of the Protestants sate President in the General Counsel of the Popish Rebels there for several years to carry on that Rebellion came all over into England walked openly in the Streets and VVestminster Hall when the King was brought to his Tryal and executed by their and other Iesuites instigation and our Old Kingdom metamorphosed into a new Common-wealth That Owen Ro Oneal and all the Irish Rebels under him by Orellies perswasion ent●ed into an offensive and defensive League with the New-Republicans against Marquesse Ormond the Lord Inchequin and Protestant party in Ireland who declared for Monarchy the Kings Title against their Republick And being withall assured by sundry persons of credit That there were many Iesuites under the habit of Souldiers listed in the Army and others of them under the disguise of Physicians Apothecaries Travellers Captains Merchants Factors Tradesmen Anabaptists Ranters Seekers Quakers and other Sectaries dispersed throughout all places to carry on and accomplish those dismal changes so long

whole Parliament of 1 Jacobi ch 2. expresly declared long since in the Prologue of that Act the late long Parliament in sundry Declarations Yea King Charls himself in his Declaration by advice of his Council to all his Subjects Dec. 15. 1641. Exact Collect p. 28 29. his Answer to the Lords and Commons Petition April 9. 1642. Ibid. p. 140. to their Declaration May 4. 1642. p. 163 164. and elswhere the Defence whereof against invasion subversion he made the ground of raising Forces against an Anabaptistical party faction in the Parliament intending to subvert and extirpate them root and branch as you may read at large Ib. p. 326 443 451 514 515 555 556 561 562 579 619. A Collection of Ordinances p. 28 38 39 116 117. Yet notwithstanding all these Parliament Declarations and Commissions in pursuance of them the Army-Officers Souldiers by the Jesuits suggestions have been so farr intoxicated as to attempt the utter subversion and extirpation both of our Laws and Lawyers too for whose defence they were principally raised in pursute of Father Parsons forementioned design under pretext of reforming them though the bare indirect attempt to subvert them in a farr inferiour degree was adjudged HIGH TREASON in Straffords and Canterburies cases for which they both lost their Heads AS TRAYTORS and in the Case of the Ship-mony Judges in the long Parliament That they have prosecuted this design in England to subvert our Fundamental Common Lawes and Great Charter of our Liberties is most apparent by their proceedings in their Mock Parliament and printed Vote 20 August 1653. Ordered there should be a Committee selected To consider of a New Body of the Law and the Government of this Commonwealth Compared with A True state of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. printed 1654. p. 15 16 17 18. which assures us That there was a strong prevailing party in that Assembly whom nothing would satisfie But a total eradication of the whole Body of the Good Old Laws of England the Gardians of our Lives and Fortunes to the utter subversion of Civil Right and Propriety c. And our two Jesuitical Prognosticators were so confident of it as if the Stars in heaven had concurred herein with the Jesuites and Anabaptistical Conventicle then on earth that in their scurrillous Prognostications they predicted the downfall not only of all our Ministers and their Tithes but of our Laws and Lawyers Prognosticating in the moneths of January February September October and December 1654. That the Lawes Lawyers of the Nation should be pulled down to the ground That the Great Charter it self should be called into question with other Liberties as not suting with English mens brains at this time That the Crabtree of the Law should be plucked up by the roots to hinder the future growth thereof There being no reason are should now be governed by the Norman Law since the Norman Race is taken away by the same instrument the sword of Conquest which brought it in They are the very words of these false Prognosticators who have many such like passages in them both before and since Which compared with the late speeches of many Common Souldiers That there should be no more Terms in Westminster Hall That they hoped very speedily to see not only the Lawyers gowns but the Lawyers themselves hanged vp over the Courts in Westminster Hall where the decayed Scots coulours hung to supply their vacant places That it would be a goodly sight to see all the Trees in St. James's Park hung with Lawyers and their gownes with sundry such like speeches since May 6. 1659. All these compared together with what Mr. Prynne hath frequently heard the Soldiers say during his neer 3. years close Imprisonment under them and their New Republike in Dunster Taunton and Pendennys Castles That they hoped ere long to see and leave neither one Lawyer nor Parish Priest throughout England Nor yet steeple steeple-house or Bells which they would sell or cast into Ordinance to fight against the Dutch c. with some Petitions and Pamphlets now on foot to the like tune and the Army-Officers fresh Proposal to those now sitting and their Votes thereon for the reformation of our Laws c. Are an infallible evidence to him that all our former late and present changes of this Nature for which this formerly eiected Repvblican Conventicle is now reassembled are the meer proiections of the All-swaying Jesuits to work our Laws speedy ruine It being their professed practice even in other forein Popish kingdoms to subvert their fundamental Lawes especially those which concern the inheritance succession of the Crown and Liberties of the Subjects for which take these two Testimonies even from forein Papists themselves The 1. in that memorable Peece Consilium de recuperanda et in posterum stu●ilienda Pace Regni P●loniae per Iesuitarum ejectionem presented to the Parl. of Poland An. 1607. out of which they were soon after banished Hic autem vos notare velim ejusdem pestis Iesuitici non minorem efficatiam esse in oppugnanda et expugnanda Republica e●terendis Legibus quoties nempe sentiunt se ab his in instituta sua venatione impediri Et quod ad Leges attinet hae politicae tineae Illas praecipue arrodere consue verunt et exedere quibus jus successionis in regno continetur Libertasque et Pax publica firmatur Which he proves by several prefidents of their shaking abolishing the very fundamental Laws of this Nature in France Hungary Styria Austria Carinthia and elsewhere and that with such success ut obtritis Legibus quibus praedictarum Nationum libertas nitebatur partem earum penitus appresserint partem ad extremam desperationem adigererint In praedictis Provinciis alicubi Illustribus et Antiquissimas Nobilitatis Familiis publice diem dictum esse intra quem se aut coram Iesuitarum Tribunali sistant aut relictis patriis sedibus alio migrent And is not this the sad desperate condition of many antient Noble Protestant Families Knights Gentlemen and others both in England Ireland Scotland and of the Royal Protestant Family since our late Warrs Changes of Government Parliaments and extirpation of all our Fundamental Laws Liberties Properties by the Jesuits and their Instruments O let our whole Nation and Republican Members too once shamefully ejected by those now calling them in consider consider consider this over and over and lay it close to heart least closing with the Jesuites now again in this New Convention as they assuredly did in the Old since December 1648. till April 1653. they incurr that sad fate of King Henry the 4th of France who after the execution of some and banishment of all Jesuites out of France upon John Castles one of their disciples stabbing him in the cheek with an intent to murder him and afterwards recalling favouring flattering them by building a stately College for them entertaining

will after the Parliament and coming to the House only to demand the 5. impeached Members without offering force or secluding any Member but ABOVE ALL HIS LABOVRING THE ENGLISH ARMY TO BE ENGAGED AGAINST THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT being a thing OF THAT STRANGE IMPIETY UNNATURALNES that nothing can answer it but his being a foreiner with his breach of Faith Oath Protestations in levying war war against and offering force to the Parliament only at a distance without keeping out any by armed Gards being the principal unparale'ld Treasons for which the most of those now sitting in their very Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their late proceedings against him and setling the p●esent GOVERNMENT in the way of a FREE STATE now cryed up as their GOOD OLD CAVSE appealed to all the World to judge whether they had not sufficient cause to bring the K. to Iustice and execute him as they did Of all which they were formerly now far more guilty in placing Gards of Horse foot at the Parliament Doors to keep out him other Members it being a force and levying of war upon the House it self and Members which would null all their Acts and Votes as the sitting Members in their Declaration Speaker in his Letter An. 1648. upon the London unarm'd Apprentices Tumults at the House Doors though they kept out none yea some now sitting in their Speeches in the last dissolved Assembly at VVestminster declared very lately After which some of the Officers said Pray talk no more with him whereto he replies he must talk a little more to them in their own Language That the Army-Officers and Counsel themselves had forcibly turned those now sitting out of Doors 20 April 1653. and thus branded them in their Declarations and other Papers he had then about him for their Dilatory proceedings in the House unlimited Arbitrary proceedings at Committees their wholy perverting the end of Parliaments by becoming studious of parties private Interests neglecting the Publick so that no Door of Hope being opened for redress of their grievances nor any hope of easing the people in their burdens it was found at length by these their exorbitances That a standing Parliament was in it self the greatest grievance which appeared yet the more exceeding grievous in regard of a visible design carryed on by some among them to have perpetuated the Power in their own hands it being utterly impossible in that corrupt estate that they who made gain the main of their business should become instruments of our long desired establishment Therefore it became an Act no less pious than necessary for the Army now to interpose upon the same equitable ground as heretofore in the like cases of extremity no ordinary medium being left to provide for the Main in a way irregular and extraordinary by their most necessary and timely dissolution Yet notwithstanding all these brands they have publickly layd upon them which they and others never yet wiped of by any publick Answer as the formerly secluded Members had refuted those base aspersions and calumnies the Army had falsely cast on them they had now invited those very Members to return and fit again without secluding any of them and engaged to yield them their best protection as the Assertors of the Good Old Cause who had a special presence of God with them and were signally blessed in the work yea as the only Instruments for setling and securing the peace and freedom of this Common-wealth Therefore they had farre greater reason to call in him and the other first secluded Members than thus forcibly to exclude and ascribe and give to them alone the Supreame Authority of the Nation which they have engrossed to themselves without the peoples Vote or Election in whō alone they have formerly voted it A presage of their subsequent Free-State proceedings when once setled in their Government and a strange contradiction Wherefore they should much more invite him and others they formerly and now afresh have forcibly secluded against whom they had not the least Exceptions to settle us again in peace and freedome which they had done when they sate had they not secluded them After which one of the Army Officers told Mr. Prynne he had deserted the Good Old Cause To which he replyed That the true Good Cause for which they were first raised was only to defend the Kings person Kingdom Parliament all its Members Privileges and secure them against all force and violence whatsoever which cause they had not only deserted but betrayed and fought against contrary to all former Engagements to which cause he adhered and desired entrance to maintain it To which he answered That indeed was once their Good Old Cause but now it was not so for since they had pursued another Cause Mr. P. replyed that then they were real Back-sliders therein and their Cause neither old nor good but bad new and destructive to the former old one In conclusion Mr. Prynne pressed them to tell him their names which he desired to know They answered they would not tell him He then told them That certainly their Good Old Cause was in their own Judgements and Consciences very bad since they durst not own it by name They answered That Mr. Annesly the last day when they refused to tell their names as they do now had inquired out some of them from whom he might learn them In conclusion when he could not prevayl he told them they declared themselves and those now siting arrant Cowards and their magnified Good Old Cause to be very bad since they were afraid of one single person without Arms when as they were a whole Army of armed men and had above 40 voyces to his one yet were afraid to admit him in for fear he alone should blow them all up with the breath of his mouth and goodness of his cause And so departing he met Mr. Prydeaux in the Lobby and desired him to acquaint those within that he was forcibly kept out of the House by the Souldiers who beset the passages to keep out what Members they pleased Then returning again into the Hall a secluded Member he there met pressing him to know what passed in the Lobby he related the sum of what was done and said which divers pressed about him to hear and some common Souldiers among others who when he had ended his Relation said he was an honest Gentleman and had spoken nothing but truth and reason After which meeting with Colonel Oky in the Hall who came over to transport him from Jersy into England they had some discourse touching his forcible seclusion and the great scandal and ill consequences of it which divers pressing to hear Mr. P. went out of the Hall to avoid Company and meeting with the Member who drew up the Letter to the Speaker perused and signed the fair Copy and so departed to Lincolns Inne without any Company This being an Exact Narration of the truth

in his life time long before his death The first by the Executions of Strafford and Canterbury the impeachments censures of the Shipmony-Judges and other Delinquents both in Scotland I●eland The 2d by the Acts abolishing Shipmony the taking of tonnage poundage and other Taxes without Act of Parliament the Acts for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long intermissions of Parliament For regulating of the Privy-Counsel taking away the Court of Star-Chamber and High-Commission against divers Incroachments and oppressions in the Stannary court For the certainty of Forests and their meets and bounds for the better ordering and regulating the Office of the Clerk of the Market for reformation of false Weights and Measures for preventing vexatious proceedings touching the order of Knightship for the abbreviation of Michae●mas Term and for the free importation of Gunpowder and Salt-peter from forein parts and making of them in England By all these good Acts passed f●eely by the King soon after or before this Act he fully redressed all Grievances then complained of or intended within this Law The 3d. by the Act of Confirmation of the Treaty of pacification between the two kingdomes of England and Scotland The 4th by the several Acts passed for the Relief of his Majesties army And the Northern parts of this kingdom For the better raising and levying of Mariners and others for the present guarding of the Sea and necessary defence of the Realm not Republike For the Subsidies of Tonnage and poundage granted to the King for the speedy provision of money for disbanding the Armies and setling the peace of the two kingdoms of England and Scotland For securing such monies as are due to the Inhabitants of the Northern Counties where his Majesties Army have been billetted And for securing by publike faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to our Brethren of Scotland all passed and published by the King himself Anno 16 17 Caroli 1640. 1641. at least 7. years before his beheading It is most certain that all these ends of making this Law as the Prologue thereof and the word THEREFORE in the Commons prayer infallibly declare were fully accomplished by the King in his life so long before his untimely death Therfore none of thē now remaining to be performed all acted since their accomplishment by those now sitting being diametrically contrary to this Act these ends and occasions of it this Parliament must of necessity be beheaded expired with the King and cannot survive his death 4ly The words That this present Parliament assembled shall not be dissolved unlesse it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose nor shall at any time or times during the continuance thereof twice recited in the subsequent clauses be prorogued or adjourned unlesse it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose can be intended of no other but that present Parliament which passed this Act which consisted of The Kings Maiesty our Soveraign Lord by whom this and all other Acts passed or to be passed was declared and enacted and this intended Act likewise not of his heir or successor after his death and of the Lords and Commons House then in being not any new House of Lords or Commons succeeding after their deaths then sitting Therefore when the King was cut off by an untimely death and thereby an impossibility accruing to dissolve it by an Act of Parliament within the words or intent of this Act it must of necessity be dissolved by his beheading Impossibilities making Acts of Parliament to perform them meerly void as our Lawe makes Impossible conditions 5ly This Act and those who made it must have and had a retrospect to the Writs whereby it and they were summoned and the ends things therein expressed But they all determined and became Impossible after the Kings beheading Therefore the Parliament must be destroyed with him since cessante causa cessat effectus cessante primativo cessat derivativum as all our Lawyers Law-books and natural reason resolve 6ly The last Clause of this Act That every thing and things whatsoever done or to be done to wit by the King or any other for the Adjournment proroguing or dissolving of this present Parliament contrary to this Act shall be utterly void and of none effect do clearly ex●lain the meaning of this Act to be this That it extends only to things done or to be done by the Kings will and power as to his Commissions Proclamations Writs Warrants Precepts to adjourn prorogue or dissolve this Parliament as he had done others heretofore here declared to be utterly null and void not to his death wherein he was only passive being forcible against his will and the Parliaments too which death no Parliament can make null and void in respect of the Act it self so as to restore him to life though the whole Parliament and our three Kingdomes may and ought to null it in respect of the illegal manner of his Execution not to be paralel'd in any Age. 7ly The Commons themselves in their Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom 15 Decemb. 1641. Declared That the abrupt dissolution of this Parliament is prevented by another this Bill by which it is provided it shall not be dissolved adjourned without the consent of both Houses Yea the Lords Commons in their Declaration of May 19. 1642. declare That excellent Bill for the continuance of this Parliament was so necessary that without it we could not have raised so great sums of monies for his Majesties service and Common wealth as we have done and without which the ruine and destruction of the Kingdome must needs have followed as since of the Kingdom and Parliaments too by pretext thereof And we are resolved the Gracious favour of his Majesty expressed in that Bill and the advantage and security which thereby we have from being dissolved by him shall not encourage us to do any thing which otherwise had not been fit to have done Which whether these formerly now sitting have performed let their own Consciences resolve After which the Lords and Commons in their humble Petition to his Majesty Jun. 17. 1642. desire That your Majesty having passed an Act That this Parliament shall not be dissolved but by Act of Parliament your Majestie would not do any thing tending thereunto by commanding away the Lords and great Officers whose attendance is necessary thereunto Therefore the sitting Members abolishing the whole House of Lords and their secluding most of the Commons Members by this Petitions concession must dissolve it Both Lords and Commons in their Declaration 26th Maii 1642. adde We hope the people will never be carryed away with a noyse of words against the Parliament to make any such equitable construction of the Act for the continuance of this Parliament as may tend to the dissolution thereof by the Declaration of the King which they Answer in this

sitting in Parliament and draught of an Agreement of the people for a secure and present peace framed prepared and presented to them to be established and subscribed by the people January 20. 1649. not onlie subscribed thereto but proposed That 150 Members at least be alwayes present in each sitting of the Representative at the passing of any Law or doing of any Act whereby the People are to be bound saving that the Number of sixty may make the House for Debate or Resolutions that are preparatory thereunto Therefore the 42 Members secretlie skipping into the House secluding the rest May 7 9 being not the 10th part of the Members of the old Parl. now surviving by all Nations Laws Consents can be no Parliament nor House of Commons within this Act nor pass anie thing to bind the Majoritie of the Members or people in anie kind whatsoever what ever anie imprudent illiterate shameless namelesse Scriblers or themselves against their own Reasons Consciences Iudgements principles resolutions pretend to the contrarie but dare not once affirm in good earnest It being a received Maxime in all Ages Populi minor pars Populum non obligit 6 ly It is a rule in our Lawbooks That all Statutes ought to be interpreted according to Reason and the true mind meaning intention of those that made them but it is most certain That it is against all reason and the true intents minds meaning of the Makers of this law to make a Parliament without a King or House of Lords or Majoritie of the Commons-House Or that all or anie of them when they made this Act did ever dream of such a Juncto as this now sitting Or to seclude themselves and resign up their own interests freedoms privileges right of sitting in Parliament with them to constitute them the onlie Parliament of England as everie line syllable throughout the Act demonstrates Therefore they neither are nor can be a Parliament within it neither can the Bedlam Turkish Bruitish unreasonable Argument of the longest Sword or Armie-logick nor the petitions addresses of any Crack-brain'd Sectaries and vulgar Rabble of inconsiderable illiterate people nor the presence of anie Lawyers sitting with or acting under them as a Parliament to their own and their Professions dishonour make them so in their own or any Wisemens or Judicious honest Lawyers Judgement whatsoever And therefore out of Conscience shame justice prudence and real Christianitie have they anie left they must needs disclaim themselves to be a Parliament and no longer abuse the Nation or others under their disguise All with Mr. Prynne if admitted would viva Voce have pressed home upon them but being forcibly secluded by their Gards because unable to answer or contradict his Law or Reason he now tenders to their view and the Judgement Resolution of the whole English Nation to whom he appeals with this publick Protestation That if they will freely call in all the surviving Members of the Lords and Commons House sitting till December 1648. without secluding anie by force or new unparliamentarie Impositions or seclusive Engagements which they have no power to impose If they upon a free and full debate shall resolve the old parliament to be still in being and not actually dissolved by the Kings beheading notwithstanding his premised Reasons to the contrarie He will then submit his private Iudgement to their Majority of Voyces in this as well as in all other Parliamentary debates and contribute his best assistance and advice as a Fellow-Member to heal the manifold breaches prevent the approaching ruines of our indangered Church Realms Parliaments Laws Liberties Peace and establish them upon better foundations than those now sitting to promote their own and the Armies interests rather than the peoples or Nations are ever likely to lay Who if they can prove themselves a true and lawfull English Parliament within this Act without either King or House of Lords or this their clandestine forcible entry into and seclusion of their Fellow-Members out of the House and Actings in it to be lawfull equitable righteous honorable parliamentarie Christian and such as well becomes either Saints Members or true good Englishmen by anie Records Parliament Rolls Acts Presidents of like kind in former Ages Law-books Customes Common or Civil-law Scripture Divinitie Reason Ethicks Policks except Machiavils and the sole Argument of the longest Sword the most bruitish unjust unchristian Turkish of all others Mr. Prynne will then publicklie declare them to be that in truth which as yet he neither can nor dares to acknowledge them to be so much as in appellation either as a Member of the Old Parliament a Covenanter a Protester a Lawyer a Scholar a Man an Englishman or a Christian And hopes that upon the perusal hereof they will as much disown themselves to be the Parliament within this Act or anie lawfull Parliament of England even in their Judgments consciences much more in actings for the premised Reasons as he or anie other secluded Members do not out of anie spirit of contradiction but Conscience and common dutie to themselves and their native Country That which principallie elevated yea inflamed Mr. Prynnes zeal both now and heretofore with all his might to oppose all late publick Innovations changes of our antient Government Parliaments Laws was this sad and serious consideration which he shall with all earnest importunitie intreat advise all Army-Officers Souldiers sitting or secluded Members of the Lords or Commons House with all well-affected persons to the safetie settlement of our Religion Church State throughout our three Nations most seriouslie to lay to heart and engrave upon their Spirits not to read it as they do News-broks only to talk of them for a day or two but as they read the evidences of their Inheritances whereby they hold all their earthlie yea heavenly possessions that they may remember act according to it all their lives That William Watson a secular Priest of Rome in his Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay Gentleman printed at Rhemes 1601. in his Quodlibets printed 1602. and William Clerk a Secular Priest in his Answer to Father Parsons Libel 1604. p. 75. c. then best acquainted with the Iesuites designs against England of all others did in precise terms publish to the English Nation in these their printed Books a That Father Parsons the English Jesuite the most active professed enemie to our English Kingship Kings Realm Church Religion his Consederate Iesuitical Society did so long since give out and prophesied That they have it by Revelation and special command from God that their order and Society was miraculously instituted for this end to work a dismal change amongst us wherein all Laws Customes and Orders must be altered and all things turned upside down and that they being the only men who have the name Title and authority of Jesus by them it is that this marvelous change and alteration shall be wrought in such sort as

Fortunes the Reformed Religion Worship Doctrine of the Churches the Rights and Privileges of the Parliaments the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and the Kings Majesties Person Authority and Posterity in the defence and reformation of the true Religion and Liberties of these Kingdoms And with all faith fulnesse endeavour the discovery of all such as have been are or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil Instruments by hindring the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from his People or one of the Kingdoms from the other making any factions or parties among the People contrary to this League and Covenant that they may be brought to publick Tryal and receive condign punishment assisting defending each other in the maintenance and pursuit thereof without any division withdrawing defection or detestable indifferency or neutrality whatever For which end in a brotherly friendly christian yet stout and resolute manner demand publickly of the General Counsel of Army Officers and their Westminster Conventicle 1. By what lawfull Commission Authority or Warrant from God our Laws or the generality of the people of England whom they have voted the Supream Authority and whose Servants they pretend themselves they have formerly and now again forcibly secluded the whole House of Lords and Majority of the Commons House from sitting in our Parliamentary Counsels or the Old Parliament if yet in being and made themselves not only a Commons house but absolute Parliament without a King or them contrary to the very Letter scope of the Act of 17 Car. c. 7. by which they pretend to sit 2ly By what Authority they presume to turn our most antient glorious famous honourable first Christian Kingdom into an infant base ignoble contemptible Sectarian Free-State or Commonwealth and disinherit our hereditary Kings and their Posterity against all our Laws Statutes Declarations Remonstrances Oaths Vows Protestations Leagues Covenants Customs Prescription time out of minde Liturgies Collects Canons Articles Homilies Records Writs Writers and their own manifold obligations to the contrary for their inviolable defence support and preservation only in pursuit of the Jesuites Popes Spaniards and French-Cardinals forecited plots And who gave you this Authority The rather because the whole English-Nation and High Court of Parliament wherein the whole Body of the Realm is and every particular Member thereof either in person or representation by their own Free-elections are deemed to be present by the Laws of the Realm did by an expresse Act 1 Jacobi c. 1. worthy most serious consideration with all possible publick joy and acclamation from the bottom of their hearts recognize and acknowledg as being thereunto obliged both by the Laws of God and Man that the imperial Crown of this Realm with all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to them immediately after the death of Queen Elizabeth did by inherent birth-right and lawfull and undoubted Succession descend come to King Iames as next and sole Heir of the Blood-Royal of this Realm And therunto by this publick Act of Parliament to remain to all Posterity they did humbly and faithfully submit and oblige themselves their Heirs and Posterity for ever untill the last drop of their bloods be spent as the First fruits of this of this High Court of Parliament and the whole Nations Loyalty and Faith to his Majesty and his Royal Posterjty for ever upon the bended knees of their hearts agnizing their most constant Faith Obedience and Loyalty to his Majesty and his Royal Posterity for ever After which the whole English Nation and all Parliaments Members of the Commons House ever since and particularly all Members of the Parliament of 16 Caroli continued by the Statute of 17 Car. c. 7. pretended to be still in being did by their respective Oaths of Allegiance Fealty Homage and Supremacy containing only such Duty as every true and well-affected Subject not only by his duty of Allegiance but also by the com-mandement of Almighty God ought to bear to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors as the Parliament and Statute of 7 Iac. c. 6. declares joyntly and severally oblige themselves 'To bear Faith and true Allegiance not only to his Majesty but his Heirs and Successors and him and them to defend to the uttermost of their power against all Attempts and conspiracies whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity or any of them and to maintain all Iurisdictions Preheminences Authorityes justly belonging united or annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm Which all Members of the long Parl. those now sitting ratified not only by hundreds of printed Declarations Remonstrances Ordinances but likewise by a Religious Protestation Vow and Solemn National League and Covenant publickly sworn and subscribed with all their hands in the presence of God himself and by all the well-affected in these three Kingdoms but by all our ordinary publick Liturgies Collects Directory Articles Homilies Prayers before Sermons in all or most of their Families Closet-Prayers yea Graces before and after meat wherein they constantly prayed to God according to the practise of the Saints in the Old and new Testaments the Primitive Church of God and Heathen Nations of the Church Parliaments of England themselves in all Ages not only for the health life wealth safety prosperity preservation salvation of our Kings and their Realms but likewise of their Royal Issue and Posterity That there might not want a man of that Race to sway the Scepter of these Realm so long as the Sun and Moon shall endure or to the like effect And if they cannot sufficientlie satisfie your judgements consciences in this particular nor answer the precedent reasons in defence of our hereditary Kings Kingship against their Vtopian Republick Then take up the peremptory resolution of all the Elders and Tribes of Israel when oppressed by Samuels Sonnes Mis Government turning aside after filthy lucre and perverting Judgement 1 Sam 8. and say resolutely to them We will have no New Common-wealth nor Vnparliamentary Conventicle to rule over oppresse ruine us Nay But we will have a KING our own lawfull hereditary King to reign over us that We also may be like all other Nations yea like our selves and our Ancestors in all former Ages and that our King may judge us and go out before us and so put a speedy end to all our present future Changes Wars Troubles Fears Dangers Oppressions Taxes and restore us to our pristine Peace settlement unitie amitie securitie prosperitie felicitie upon the Propositions assented to by his beheaded Father in the Isle of Wight whose Concessions the Ho of Commons without division after 3. daies and one whole Nights debate 4 Dec. 1648. notwithstanding all the Armies menaces Resolved upon the Question to be a sufficient Ground for the House to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom upon better terms and greater advantages than ever they have yet enjoyed or can

together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of the people saying say not a Confederacie to whom this people shall say a Confederacie neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid But sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread and he shall be for a sanctuarie Ps 26.3 4 5. O Lord I have walked in thy Truth I have not sat with vain persons neither will I goe in with dissemblers I have hated the Congregation of evil doers and I will not sit with the wicked Pro. 29.25 The fear of man bringeth a snare but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe Ps 18.46 48 50 Ps 144.10 The Lord liveth and bless●d be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted He delivereth me from mine enemies yea thou liftest me up above those that rose up against me thou hast delivered me from the violent man Therfore will I give thanks unto thee O Lord among the Heathen and sing praises unto thy name It is he that giveth Salvation unto Kings that delivereth David his servant from the hurtfull sword Great deliverance giveth he unto his KING and sheweth mercy to his anointed To David and to his seed for evermore Thomas Campanella De Monarchia Hisp c. 30. Omnis haeresis cum ad Atheismum delapsa est per sapientem Prophetam in veritatis viam reducitur habent enim haereses periodum suam ad modum Rerumpublicarum quae à Regibus in Tyrannidem à Tyrannide in Statum Optimatium et inde in Oligarchiam atque tandem in Democratiam in fine rursus in statum Regium revolvuntur William Prynne From my Studie in Lincolns Inne May 18. 1659. FINIS ERRATA Page 34. l. 15. dele it p. 35. l. 4. Melston r. Millington p. 41. ● 18. Precope p. 48. l. 10. r. 1648. p. 49. l. 38. erecting r exciting p. 69. l. 16. both r. doth p. 75. l. 7. as r. was * See the Epistle and Appendix to my Speech in Parliament and the 2d part to the History of Independency a The true State of the case of the Common-wealth in reference to the Government by a Protector and Parliament maintaining therein a full conformity to the declared principles and engagements of the parliament and Army It being the opinion of divers persons who through out the late troubles have approved themselves faithfull to the cause and Interest of God and their Country Presented to the publick for the satisfaction of others printed 1654. p. 9 11. which Mr. Prynne had then in his pocket * Ian. 6. 1648. (a) See Mr. Prynnes Epistle and Appendix to his Speech in parliament His 2d part of the Narrative of the Armies force 1640. and A new Discovery of Free-State Tyrany 1655. (b) See his brief Memento to the present unparliamentary Iuncto 1648. (c) In his Memorial for Reformation of England 1590. Watsōs quodlibets p. 92. to 96.310 to 334. Wil. Clarks his answer to Father Parsons Libel p. 75. (d) De Monarchia Hisp●nica c. 25 27. (e) Romes master piece and hidden works of Darkness brought to publick light (f) Historia part 3d. Venetiis 1648. p. 175 176. (g) See the instrument of Government and petition and advice Section 1. * A Collect p. 849 858 862 863 867 868. i Appendix to his Speech p. 118. and relation of the Members seclusion * See Mr. Prynne Good Old Cause stated stunted p. 3 4 5.6 10 k See Mr. P his Gospel plea Watsons quodlibers and the Case of the Common wealth of England rightly stated i See his legal plea against illegal Taxes his legal Vindication p. 3 3 4. his Brief Register of Parliamentary writs and plea for the Lords l 7 E. 1. Rastall Armor 1. Cooks 4 Instit p. 14. Mr. Prynnes Brief Register of all Parliamentary writs p. 27 28.177 215 216. Exact Abridgement of the records in the Tower p. 11 12 14 17 19 ●● 27 36 38 195. m Mr. Prynnes Brief Register and Survey of Parliamentary writs p 431. n See their Votes Jan. 6. Declaration 11 Martii 1648. The Agreement of the People and Armies Remonstrance and Petition Nov. 16. 1648. Ian. 20. 1649. o 1 Jac. ch 1. Ash-Parliament 10. p Cl. 33. E. 1. m. 4. dors q 1 H 4. Rot. parl n. 25. Plea for the Lords p. 434. r Canterburies Doome p. 27 31. Mr. Pyms Speech 16 F●br 1640. * See his legal Vindication against illegal Taxes p. 44. to 51. His Plea for the Lords and Brief Register * Mr. Rushworths Historical Collect. p. 270 271. ſ Cooks 4 Instit c 1. Cromptons Jurisdiction of Courts Be Tit. Parliament A Brief Register Survey of Parliamentary writs p. 422 423 424 432. Mr. Rushworths Historical collection p. 423. t Cooks 7 Report Calvins case f. 10. * 4 E. 4. 44. v See Mr. Prynnes Brief Register Kalendar Survey of Parliamentary Writs a Cooks 1 Instit p. 181. b. 5 Rep. f. 9. Dyer 190 191 Ash Authority 22.24 the Books there cited 19 H. 7. c 7. * Dyer f. 60. b Modus tenendi Parl. H. de Knyghton de Event Angliae l. 5. col 2680.2681 Grafton p. 349 350 Mr. Prynnes Plea for the Lords p. 27 29. Exact Collection p. 125.142.360 c Plowden f. 117. Dyer f. 107. b. Mr. Seldens Titles of Honor Mr. Prynns Plea for the Lords and House of Peers d Cooks 4 Instit p. 25. 51 E. 3. rot Parl. n. 47. 6 R. 2. rot Parl. 2. n. 52. 11 H. 4. n. 30. e Exact Collection p. 163 164 250 316 317 318 312 793 794. x Cooks ● Report Calvins case f. 10 11. y See the History of Independency part 2. Salmatius Bochartus z Hab. 1.12 Objection 2. Answ Nota. * Better Acts than ever the Republicans made or intend to make for the peoples ease and benefit who only doubled trebled all their Taxes Grievances insteed of removeing them n Brooke Perkins Fit●herbert Ash Tit. Condition 29. o Serj. Finch his Maximes of the Law Cook and others d Exact Col. p. 41. e Exact Col. p. 203. f Exact Col. p. 260. g Exact Col. p. 704. h Exact Collect p. 250. i Exact Collection p. 323. k Exact Collect p. 364. * Some of them Prisoners in execution sent for out of Goal to make up an House * 2 Kin. 21.23 24. c. 14 5.6 1 1 King 16.16 to 21. * See Exact Col. p. 131 148 317 to 314. a Alexand. ab Alexandro Gen. Dierum lib. 3. c 2 10. 2 Sam. 16 18. c. 19.41 42 43.8 11.6 c. 7. 33 H. 8. c. 27. Exact Collect. p. 146. b Page 23. sect 4. printed by the Armies special order 1649. * Ol. Cromwell Ireton Corn. Holland and others of them stiled themselves a Mock-Parliament as Iohn