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A56162	The first and second part of A seasonable, legal, and historicall vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ... wherein is irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary records, proofs, presidents, that we have such fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws ... : collected, recommended to the whole English nation, as the best legacy he can leave them / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen. Part 1-2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3954; ESTC R19429	161,045	206

exported or imported except the same be due by Grant IN PARLIAMENT shall incur the penalties and forfeitures OF A PREMVNIRE to the which the King gave his Royal Assent And to prevent any future prescription thereunto by the King they discontinued it for some time and then granted it specially from Month to Month or some short space with sundry limitations and the penalty of A PREMVNIRE if otherwise received by several New Acts of Parliament to which the King gave his assent These Acts the King himself in his Proclamation of the sixteenth of December in the eighteenth year of his reign stiles THE FENCES OF THE SVBJECTS PROPERTY received from Vs and understood by Vs as one of THE GREATEST GRACES THE CROWN EVER CONFERRED ON THE SVBJECT And by that Proclamation he prohibited all his Subjects both the paiment and receipt of any Monies for Customs or other Maritine Duties contrary to this Act by any Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament under pain of a PREMUNIRE and of being likewise proceeded against as ill-affected persons to the Peace of the Kingdome Whereupon the Lords and Commons in their answer to this Proclamation though they declared that the intent and meaning of that penall Clause of a PRAEMVNIRE and other Forfeitures in these new statutes which likewise disable every person Customer Officers who should take or receive or cause to be taken or received any such subsidy or imposition upon any Merchandize during his life to sue or implead any persons in any action reall mixt or personal in any Court whatsoever was only to restrain the Crown from imposing any duty or payment on the Subjects without their consent in Parliament and that it was not intended to extend to any case whereunto the LORDS and COMMONS GIVE THEIR ASSENT IN PARLIAMENT which they never did to this New White-hall Ordinance nor the pretended Act recited in it therefore the imposers and receivers of it by vertue thereof without such assent in Parliament are within the penalties of the aforesaid Statutes Yet to avoid the danger of a Praemunire in their Officers by exacting it only by an Ordinance of both Houses without a speciall Act of Parliament they did by their first Ordinances impose and demand Customes Tonnage Poundage and new Imposts not as a Legal Duty but only BY WAY OF LOANE til the Act of Parliament for their future continuance should be assented to by the King as their Declaration of 31 December 1642. and their Ordinance of the same date concerning the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage attest By what coulor of Law Iustice Right this antient birth-right of all English Subjects so lately declared by three Acts of Parliament to which most of our late and present White-hall Grandees were parties comes to bee lost and forfeited by our contests to preserve it or how the Customes Imposts of Tonnage and Poundage can bee now imposed continued on or exacted from the Subjects by any Powers Officers or persons Whatsoever and levied by severest penalties Forfeitures Imprisonments Seisures by pretext of this White-hal Ordinance though no waies granted by common consent and Act of Parliament without incurring a Praemunire and forementioned penalties disabilities or without subverting the Fundamental Liberty Property Franchises Laws Statutes of the whole English Nation in a farre higher degree then ever in former ages I cannot yet discern and all our New Governours Merchants Customers Officers and other persons who have any Cordial affection Love Zeal to their own or the peoples hereditary Rights and Priviledges may do well to demurre in Law upon it till they can satisfy their own and other mens consciences therein to prevent the dangerous consequences of such an ill president to posterity In the Parliament of 1 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 32 33 34 36. These were the principall Articles of impreachment exhibited against King Richard the Second for which hee was forced to depose himself as unfit to Govern and resign up his Crown to King Henry the Fourth That whereas the King of England out of the profits of the Realm and the Patrimony belonging to his Crown might live honestly without oppression of his people so as the Kingdome were not burdened with the extraordinary expences of warre that this King during the Truces between the Realm and the Adversaries thereof gave and squandered away a great part of the Crown-Lands to unworthy persons and thereupon exacted almost every year so many Taxes and Grants of Ayde from his Subjects of the Realm that hee thereby GREATLY and TOO EXCESSIVELY OPPRESSED HIS PEOPLE TO THE IMPOVERISHING OF HIS REALM That the same King being unwilling to keep and defend the just Laws and Customes of his Realm and to do according to his pleasure whatsoever should suite with his desires frequently when the Laws of his Realm were expounded and declared to him by the Justices and others of his Council who requested him to administer Justice according to those Laws said expresly with an austere and frownning Countenance THAT THE LAWS WERE HIS more suo AFTER his own MANER and sometimes THAT THEY WERE IN HIS OWN BREAST and THAT HEE ALONE COULD ALTER and MAKE THE LAWS OF HIS REALM And being seduced with this opinion he permitted not Justice to be done to very many of his Leige people but compelled very many to cease from the prosecution of common Justice That when as afterwards in his Parliament certain Statutes were made which might always bind till they were specially repealed by another Parliament the same King desiring to enjoy so great Liberty that none of these Statutes might so binde him but that he might execute and do according to the pleasure of his own Will which hee could not do of right subtilly procured such a Petition to be presented to him in his Parliament in the behalf of the Commons of his Realm and to be granted to him in the general THAT HE MIGHT BE SO FREE AS ANY OF HIS PROGENITORS WERE BEFORE HIM By colour of which Petition and Grant he frequently did and commanded to bee done MANY THINGS CONTRARY TO THE SAID STATVTES NOT REPEALED GOING AGAINST THEM EXPRESLY and WITTINGLY AGAINST HIS OATH AT HIS CORONATION That although by the Statutes and Customs of his Realm in the summoning of every Parliament his people in every County of the Realm ought to be free to elect and depute Knights for the said Counties to sit 〈◊〉 Parliament both TO RECEIVE their GRIEVANCES and TO PROSECVTE REMEDIES THEREUPON AS IT SHALL SEEM EXPEDIENT TO THEM yet the said King that he might in his Parliament be able to obtain the effect of his rash Will frequently directed his Mandates to his Sheriffs that they should cause to come to his Parliament CERTAIN PERSONS NAMED BY THE KING HIMSELF AS KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE Which Knights verily favouring the said King he might easily enduce as he frequently did sometimes by divers threats and terrors and sometimes by gifts TO CONSENT TO THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE VERY

or inheritance because in his and the Jesuites Opinion onely not in Truth he was both an Heretick and A TYRANT Asserting That it was lawful for Castle or any other private man TO DESTROY AN HERETICK OR TYRANT much more then him that was both And John Guignardus a Jesuite Fellow of the Jesuites Colledge of Claremount in his Papers then seised by and reported to the Parliament of Paris Anno 1595. not onely compared Henry the third and fourth to Nero and Herod and justified Clements murder of the one and Castles attempt upon the other as most Heroical and praise-worthy Actions but likewise added That if we in the year 1572. on Saint Bartholmews day in the General Massacre of the French Protestants had CVT OFF THE BASILICON VEINE Henry King of Navarre we had not fallen out of a Feavour into that Plague which now we finde Sed quicquid delirant Reges plectunctur Achivi SANGVINI PARCENDO That King Henry should be but over-mildly dealt with if he were thrust from the Crown of France into a Monastery and there had his crown shaven That if he could not be deposed without a war then a war was to be raised against him but if a war could not be levied against him the cause being dead CLAM E MEDIO TOLLATVR he should then be privily murdered and taken out of the way For which the Parliament of Paris adjudged and executed him for a Traytor Yea so desperately were the Jesuites after this bent to destroy this King that Alexander Hay a Scottish Jesuite of Claremont privy to Castles villany used to say That if King Henry the fourth should pass by their Colledge the first there built for them he would willingly cast himself out of his window headlong upon him so as he might break the Kings neck though thereby he brake his own Yet was he punished but with perpetual Banishment After which Jesuitical conspiracies detected and prevented notwithstanding this King Henry before these two attempts to murder him had by their sollicitations renounced the Protestant Religion professed himself a zealous Romanist recalled the Jesuites formerly banished for the murther of Henry the third against his Parliaments and Counsels advice reversed all the decrees of Parliament against them razed the publick Pillar set up in Paris as a lasting Monument of their Treasons and Conspiracies built them a magnificent Colledge in Paris indowed them with a very large Revenue entertained Pere Cotten one of their Society for his Confessor who revealed all his Secrets to the King of Spain bequeathed a large Legacy of Plate and Lands to their Society by his will and was extraordinary bountiful and favourable towards them yet these bloody ingrateful Villains animated that desperate wretch Ravilliac to stab him to death in the open street in Paris Anno 1610. Albigni the Jesuite being privy to this murder before it was perpetrated Yea Francis de Verona in his Apology for John Castle p. 258. thus predicted his second mortal stab in these words Though this Prince of Orange scaped the first blow given him in his cheek yet the next hit whereof this was a presage as the blow given by Castle SHALL BE THE FORE-RVNNER OF ANOTHER BLOW Such implacable Regicides are the Jesuites 4. By their suborning instigating sundry bloody instruments one after another to murder William Prince of Orange prevented in their attempts by God's providence till at last they procured one Balthasar Gerard to shoot him to death with a Pistol charged with three Bullets An. 1584. the Jesuites promising him no less then HEAVEN it self AND A CANONIZATION AMONG THE SAINTS AND MARTYRS for this bloody Treason as they did to James Clement before for murdering the French King And it is very remarkable That after this murder of his Thomas Campanella a Jesuited Italian Frier prescribed this as a principal means to the King of Spain of reducing the Netherlands under his Monarchy again to sow emulation and discords amongst their Nobles States and to murder Prince Maurice his son and successor which he expresseth in these direct termes Maxime opus est ut Serpens seditionis Comes Scilicet Mauritius Interimatur non vero per bellum diuturnum copia illi danda est magis magisque succrescendi which they twice likwise attempted to affect An. 1594 and 1598. No wonder that they so much endeavour by all means instruments to suppress that noble family now to whom the Netherlands principally owe their infranchisement from the Spanish yoak of bondage 5. By their poysoning Stephen Botzkay Prince of Transylvania for opposing their bloody persecution 6. By their manifold bloody Plots and Attempts from time to time to murder depose stab poyson destroy our famous Protestant Queen Elizabeth by open Insurrections Rebellions Invasions Wars raised against her both in England and Ireland and by intestine clandestine Conjurations from which Gods ever-waking providence did preserve her Amongst other Conspiracies that of Patrick Cullen an Irish Frier hired by the Jesuites and their Agents to kill the Queen is observable Holt the Jesuite who perswaded him to undertake the murdering of her told him that it was not onely lawful by the Laws but that he should merit Gods Favour and Heaven by it and thereupon gave him remission of all his sins the Eucharist to encourage him in this Treason the chief ground whereof and of all their other Treasons against this Queen was thus openly expressed by Iaquis Francis for Cullens further encouragement That the Realm of England then was and would be so well setled that unless Mistras Elizabeth so he termed his Dread Soveraign though but a base Landressson were suddenly taken away All the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail to shake and overturn it Which then it seems they principally endeavoured and oft-times since attempted and have now at last effected by those who conceit they demerit the Title of Saints though not in a Romish Kalender and no less then Heaven for shaking overturning and making it No Kingdom 7. By their Conspiracy against King James to dep●ive him of his Right to the Crown of England imprison or destroy his person raise Rebellion alter Religion and Subvert the Stat● and Government by vertue of Pope Clement the eighth his Bull directed to Henry Garnet Superiour of the Iesuites in England whereby he commanded all the Archpriests Priests Popish Clergy Peers Nobles and Catholicks of England That after the death of Queen Elizabeth by the course of Nature or otherwise whosoever shall lay claim or title to the Crown of England though never so directly or neerly interessed by descent should not be admitted unto the Throne unless he would first tolerate the Rom●sh Religion and by his best endeavours promote the Catholick cause unto which by his Solemn and Sacred Oath he should religiously subscribe after the death of that miserable woman as he stilled Queen Elizabeth By vertue of which

Bull the Jesuites after her decease disswaded the Romish-minded Subjects from yielding in any wise obedience to King James as their Soveraign and entr●d into a Treasonable Conspiracy with the Lord Cobham Lord Gray and others against him to imprison him for the ends aforesaid or destroy him pretending that King Iames was no King at all before his Coronation and that therefore they might by force of Arms lawfully surprise his person and Prince Henry his Son and imprison them in the Tower of London or Dover-Castle till they inforced them by duress to grant a free toleration of their Catholick Religion to remove some evil Counsellors from about them and to grant them a free Pardon for this violence or else they would put some further project in execution against them to their destruction But this Conspiricy being discovered The Traytors were apprehended arraighned condemned and Watson and Clerk two Jesuited Priests who had drawn them into this Conspiracy upon the aforesaid Pretext with some others executed as Traytors all the Iudges of England resolving that King Iames being right Heir to the Crown by descent was immediately upon the death of Queen Elizabeth actually possessed of the Crown and lawful King of England before any Proclamat●on or Coronation of him which are but Ceremonies as was formerly adjudged in the case of Queen Mary and Queed Iane 1 Mariae there being no Interregnum by the Law of ENGLAND as is adjudged declared by Act of Parliament 1 Iac. c. 1. worthy serious perusal 8. their horrid Gun-powder Treason Plot contrived fomented by Garnet Superiour of the English Jesuites Gerard Tensmod and other Jesuites who by their Apostolical power did not onely commend but absolve from all sin the other Jesuited Popish Conspirators and Faux The Sculdier who were their instruments to effect it Yea the Jesuitical Priests were so Atheistical as that they usually concluded their Masses with Prayers for the good success of this hellish Plot which was suddenly with no less then 36 Barrels of Gunpowder placed in a secret Vault under the House of Lords to have blown up and destroyed at once King James himself the Queen Prince Lords Spirituall and Temporal with the Commons assembled together in the Upper-House of Parliament upon the 5 of November Anno Dom. 1605. and then forcibly to have seised with armed men prepared for that purpose the persons of our late beheaded King then Dake of York and of the Lady Elizabeth his Sister if absent from the Parliament and not there destroyed with the rest that so there might be none of the Royal Line left to inherit the Crown of England Scotland and Ireland to the utter overthrow and subversion of the whole Royal Family Parliament State and Government of this Realm Which unparallel'd inhumane bloody Plot being miraculously discovered prevented the very day before its execution in perpetual detestation of it and of the Jesuites and their traiterous Romish Religion which both contrived and approved it the 5 day of November by the Statute of 3 Jacobi ch 1. was enacted to be had in perpetual Remembrance that all Ages to come might thereon meet together publickly throughout the whole Nation to render publick praises unto God for preventing this infernal Jesuitical Design and keep in memory this joyful Day of Deliverance for which end special forms of publick Prayers and Thankesgivings were then appointed and that Day ever since more or less annually observed till this present And it is worthy special observation that had this Plot taken effect It was agreed by the Jesuites and Popish Conspirators before-hand That the Imputation of this Treason should be cast upon the Puritans to make them more Odious as now they father all the Powder-Plots of this kinde which they have not onely laid but fully accomplished of late yeers against the King Prince Royal Posterity the Lords and Commons House our old English Parliaments and Government upon those Independents and Anabaptistical Sword-men whom they now repute and stile the most reformed PURITANS who were in truth but their meer under Instruments to effect them When as they originally laid the Plots as is clear by Campanella's Book De Monarchia Hisp ch 25. and Cardinal Richelieu his Instructions at his death to the King of France And it is very observable that as Courtney the Jesuite Rector of the English Jesuites Colledge at Rome did in the year 1641. when the name of Independents was scarce heard of in England openly affirm to some English Gentlemen and a Reverend Minister of late in Cornwal from whom I had this Relation then and there feasted by the English Jesuites in their Colledge That now at last after all their former Plots had miscarried they had found out a sure way to subvert and ruine the Church of England which was most formidable to them of all others by the Independents who immediately after by the Jesuites clandestine assistance infinitely encreased supplanted the Presbyterians by degrees got the whole power of the Army and by it of the Kingdom into their hands then subverted both the Presbyterian Government and Church of England in a great measure with the Parliament King and his Posterity as Monsieur Militiere a Jesuited French-Papist observes So some Independent Ministers Sectaries and Anabaptists ever since 1648. have neglected the observation of the fifth of November as I am credibly informed and refused to render publick thanks to God for the deliverance thereon contrary to the Act for this very reason which some of them have rendered That they would not mock God in publick by praising him for delivering the late King Royal Posterity and House of Lords from destruction then by Jesuites and Papists when as themselves have since destroyed and subverted them through Gods providence and repute it a special mercy and deliverance to the Nation from Tyranny and Bondage for which they have cause to bless the Lord Performing that for the Jesuites and Powder-Traytors which themselves could not effect The Lord give them grace and hearts to consider how much they acted the Jesuites and promoted their very worst Designes against us therein what infamy and scandal they have thereby drawn upon all zealous Professors of our Protestant Religion and what will they do in the end thereof 9. To omit all other Forraign instances cited in Speculum Jesuiticum p. 124 to 130. where you may peruse them at leisure By their poysoning King Iames himself in conclusion as some of them have boasted 10. By the Popes Nuntio's and a Conclave of Jesuites Conspiracy at London Anno 1640. to poyson our late King Charles himself as they had poysoned his Father with a poysoned Indian Nut kept by the Jesuites and shewed often by Conne the Popes Nuntio to the Discoverer of that Plot or else to destroy him by the Scotish wars and troubles raised for that very end by the Jesuites in case he refused to grant them a

illis annis afficerint Praeterea suspicionem cis incu●iat fore ut Jacobus CAEDEM MATERNAM VINDICATURUS SIT c. Exasperandi sunt etiam animi Episcoporū Presbyterorū Anglicorum proponendo illis REGEM SCOTIAE Calvinismum amplexum esse SPE CUPIDITATE REGNI ADACTUMQVE VI A BARONIBUS HAERETICIS quod si vero Regnu● Angliae etiam ●btineat TVM ILLVM CITO PRIOREM RELIGIONEM REVOCATURUM ESSE qùandoquidem non solum MARIA EJVS MATER moriens virum etiā REX IPSE GALLIARVM SVMMOPORE EI RELIGIONEM CATHOLICAM COMMENDARINT c. yet now transcribed almost verbatim out of Thomas Campanella who suggested it against King James to alienate the English from him keep him from the Crown very freshly by the Authors of The True state of the Case of the Commonwealth c. p. 48 49. objected against the present King of Scots and royal Issue to deprive him and them from the Crowne of England and engage the whole English Nation against their Title to vest it in some other Family in greatest power Or if these projects should fail then by dividing us into many Kingdoms or Republicks dislinct one from another and by sowing the seeds of Schisms and making alterations and innovations in all Arts Sciences and our Religion The old Plots of Campanella Parsons and late designs of Cardinal Richelieu of the Pope Spaniard Jesuites to undo subvert our Protestant Churches Kings Kingdoms and Religion as the marginal Authors irrefragably evidence yet all visibly set on foot yea openly pursued and in a great measure accomplished by some late nay present Grandees and Army-Officers who cry up themselves for our greatest Patrons Preservers Deliverers and Anti-Jesuits when they have rather been but the Jesuites Popes Spaniards and other Forraign enemies instruments and factors in all the late changes new-models of our Government Parliaments pretended reformations of our laws and Religion through inadvertency circumvention or self-ended respects as many wise and godly men justly fear For prevention whereof I shall recommend to the whole Kingdoms serious consideration the memorable Preamble of the Statute of 25 H. 8. c. 22. discovering the like Plots of the Pope and our Forraign Enemies to 〈…〉 to prevent them for the future in these ensuing words In their most humble wise shewen unto your Majesty Your most humble and obedient Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled that since it is the natural inclination of every man gladly and willingly to provide for the surety both of his Title and Succession although it touch his only private cause We therefore most rightful and dreadful Soveraign Lord reck●n our selves much more bounden to beseech and instant your Highness although we doubt not of your Princely heart and wisdom mixed with a natural affection to the same to foresee and provide for the perfect surety of both you and of your most lawful Succession and heirs upon which dependeth all our joy wealth in whom also is united and knit the only meer true inheritance and title of this Realm without any contradiction Wherefore We your said most humble and obedient Subjects in this present Parliament assembled calling to our mind the great divisions which in times past have been in this Realm by reason of several Titles pretended to the Imperial Crown of the same which sometimes and for the most p●rt ensued by occasion of ambiguity and doubts then not so perfectly declared but that men might upon froward intents expound them to every mans sinister appetite and affection after their sence contrary to the right Legality of the Succession and Posterity of the lawfull Kings Emperors of this Realm whereof hath ensued great effusion destruction of Mans blood as well of a great number of the Nobles as of other Subjects and specially Inheritors in the same And the greatest occasion hath been because no perfect substantial provision by law hath binmade within this realm it self when doubts and questions have been moved proponed of the certainty legality of the Succession posterity of the Crown By reason whereof The Bishop of Rome See Apostolick contrary to the great and inviolable grants of Jurisdictions By God immediatly to Emperours Kings Princes in succession to their heirs hath presumed in time past to invest who should please them to inherit in other mens Kingdoms Dominions which thing we your most humble Subjects both Spiritual and Temporal do most abhor detest And sometimes other forraign Princes and Potentates of sundry degrees minding rather dissention discord to continue in the realm to th'utter desolatiō therof then charity equity or unity have many times supported wrong titles wher by they might easily facilly aspire to the Superiority of the same the continuance sufferance whereof deeply considered pondered were too dangerous and perillous to be suffered any longer within this Realm too much contrary to the unity peace and tranquility of the same being greatly reproachful and dishonourable to the whole Realm In consideration wherof your said most humble and obedient Subjects the Nobles and Commons of this Realm calling further to their remembrance that the good unity peace and wealth of this Realm and the succession of the Subjects of the same Most specially principally above all wordly things consisteth and resteth in the certainty and surety of the procreation posterity of your Highness in whose most royal person at this present time is no manner of doubt or question Do therefore most humbly beseech your Highnes c. to declare the establishment of the successiō of your royal posterity in the Imperial Crowns of this realm as he and they did by this other succeeding acts of Parl. in 1 Eliz c. 3. 1 Jac. c. 1. to prevent the like civil wars and mischiefs for succeeding ages now revived promoted by the Pope Jesuits Foraign Popish Princes to work our ruine Certainly whosoever shall seriously ponder the premises with these passages in William Watsons Quodlibets concerning the Jesuits 1. That some of the Jesuits society have insinuated themselves into all the Princes Courts of Christendom where some of their Intelligencers reside and set up a secret counsel of purpose to receive and give intelligence to their General at Rome of the secrets of their Soveraigns and of all occurrents in those parts of the world which they dispatch to and fro by such cyphers which are to themselves best but comm̄only only to themselves known so that nothing is done in England but it is known at Rome within a month after at least reply made back as occasion is offered to the consequent overthrow of their own natural Country of England and their native Princes and Realms by their unnatural Treasons against them that so the Jesuits might be those long gowns which should reign and govern the Island of Great

Foundations of the the vast natural Fabrick of the Earth Heavens and world it self of the Artificial Material Foundations of the Material Temple Wals City of Gods own most famous Jerusalem and of private Houses of the spirituall Foundations of the Spiritual Temple City Jerusalem and whole Church of God even Jesus Christ himself of Doctrinal Foundations and first Principles of Religion Christianity Salvation yea of the Politicall Foundations of Kingdomes Republicks Churches Governments States Which being once shaken undermined subverted razed or d●stroyed bring unavoidable ruine and desolation upon them Psal 11. 3. Psal 82. 5. Jer. 50. 15. 51. 25 26. Micah 1. 6 7 9. Even as we daily see Castles Walls Houses to fall instantly to the ground and become an heap of Confusion when their Foundations are blown up decayed or demolished Upon which consideration those publike Laws which establish fence fortifie support the Fundamental Constitutions Rights Liberties Priviledges of any Nation Kingdome Republike essentiall to their being and subsistence as a free or happy people against the Invasions underminings enchroachments of any Tyrants Vsurpers Oppressors or publike enemies are usually stiled Fundamental Laws and have ever been reputed so sacred inviolable immutable in all ages upon any pretences of necessity or publike safety that most Nations and our own English Ancestors above others have freely chosen to hazard yea lose their estates lives in their just defence against such exorbitant tyrannical Kings and other Powers who by force or policy have endeavoured to violate alter or subvert them rather than out of a Cowardice Sottishnesse Carelesnesse or want of cordial love to the Publike to suffer the least infringment repeal or alteration of them to the inthrawling of themselves or their posterities to the arbitrary wils of such domineering Tyrants and Vsurping Powers Now because after all our Old and New many years bloody costly dangerous Contests and Wars for the maintenance of our good Old Fundamental Liberties Laws ●ights Priviledges against all secret or open underminers of them I clearly behold with grief of heart that there is a strang monstrous generation of new Tyrannical State-Hereticks sprung up amongst us who are grown so desperately impudent as not only to write but publikely to assert in print in Books printed by AUTHORITY even in Capitals in every Title page That the Freemen and People of England have no such unalterable Fundamental Laws and Liberties left them by their forefathers as our Ancestours heretofore contested for both in the Field and Parliament-House with William the Conqueror Henry the first King John Henry the third Edward 1. 2. 3. Richard 2. with other Kings and Princes and our late Parliament● and Armies too with King James and King Charls That neither Magna Charta nor the Petition of Right nor the Laws for trying Malefactors by Juries of their Pears are Fundamental or unalterable but that the State Physitians or rather Mountebanks of our time who are not tied up to them but left free unto themselves may lay them quite aside either in part or whol as they see cause Yea have now attained to such a super-transcendent Authority that they may as they assert lay aside all Parliaments Parliamentary wayes appoint something else as more seasonable and proper to us and as Providence makes way for it if they see it more conducing to the safety and good of the Commonwealth that is to their own privat Interests Honors Profits Securities Designes Oppressions Rapines gilded over with this specious pretext And then peremptorily conclude That to plead for these and other fundamental laws and liberties as unalterable though the only Bulwarks Badges of our Freedome is nothing else but to enslave the Nation for by such a Principle people do not only lose their Liberty but are brought under such a kinde of Tyranny out of which AS BEING WORSE THAN THE AEGYPTIAN BONDAGE there is no hope of deliverance An absurd Tyrannical Paradox transcending any I ever yet met with in any Author stripping us naked of all our long enjoyed Laws Liberties Franchises great Charters at once tending onely to reduce and perpetually inthrall us under such an absolute AEGYPTIAN BONDAGE and Tyranny without any hope of future deliverance from it which some now endeavour to entaile on us and our posterities for ever by an Iron law and Yoke of Steel in stead of restoring to us that glorious Freedome which we have so long expected from them in vain And because I finde the generality of the Nobility Gentry Clergy Commonalty of our Nation after all their late years expensive bloody wars and Parliamentary Disputes for the defence and preservation of these our ancient Hereditary Fundamentall Charters Laws Liberties Priviledges so strangely degenerated both from themselves and their Heroick prudent Ancestors as that they are more readily inclined upon every occasion out of a base unchristian unmanly un-english fear or sottish cowardise and stupidity wittingly to desert betray surrender them al up into the hands of any invading Vs●rpers without the least Publike Claim Dissertation Defence Dspute then diligently or couragiously to cōtend or suffer for them of late they did So as that which Paul once taxed in the ●lavish besotted Corinthians 2 Epist 11. 20. may be most truly averred of our degenerated infatuated English Nation Ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man de●●ur you if a man take of you if a man ex●lt himself above your Laws Liberties Franchises Parliaments Kings Nobles Properties Lives Consciences and all that is called God or warshipped if a man smite you on the face notwithstanding all their manifold late Protestations Vows Covenants Remonstrances Declaration● and Publike Engagements to the contrary And withall after diligent enquiry discovering scarce one man of Eminency or Power in the Nation nor so much as one of my degenerated temporizing Profession of the Law even when the whole body of our laws and all its Professors are violently assault●d and devoted unto suddain ruine by many lawlesse spirits who hath so much courage magnanimity honesty zeal or cordial love to his Native Country remaining in his brest as manfully to appear in publike for the strenuous necessary defence of these our Hereditary fundamentall laws liberties rights franchises though their own and every other English Freemans best inheritance and security for fear of being persecuted imprisoned close imprisoned exiled condemned destroyed as a Traytor Rebell Seditious person enemy to the Publike or disturber of the Kingdomes peace by those who are truly such I thereupon conceived I could not undertake or performe a more necessary seasonable beneficiall service for my Country and ingrate unworthy Nation who are now ashamed afraid for the most part to own visit or be seen in the company of those Gallant men much lesse to assist defend and stick close unto them in their dangers according to the sixth Article of their late Solemn League and Covenant

frequently universally invaded assaulted undermined by our Kings and their evil Instruments heretofore and others since and thereupon more strenuously frequently vigilantly maintained fenced regained retained by our Nobles Parliaments and the people in all Ages till of late years than any or all of the rest put together though every of them hath been constantly defended maintained when impugned or incroached upon by our Ancestors and our selves 1 That no Tax Tallage Aid Subsidy Custom Contribution Loan Imposition Excise or other Assesment whatsoever for defence of the Realm by Land or Sea or any other publick ordinary or extraordinary occasion may or ought bee imposed or leavied upon all or any of the Freemen of England by reason of any pretended or real Danger Necessity or other pretext by the Kings of England or any other Powers but only with and by their common consent and grant in a free and lawful English Parliament duly summoned and elected except only such antient legal Ayds as they are specially obliged to render by their Tenures Charters Contracts and the common Law of England 2 That no Free-man of England ought to bee arrested confined imprisoned or in any private Castles or remote unusual Prisons under Souldiers or other Guardians but only in usual or Common Gaols under sworn responsible Goalers in the County where he lives or is apprehended and where his friends may freely visit and releeve him with necessaries And that only for some just and legal Cause expressed in the Writ Warrant or Process by which he is arrested or imprisoned which ought to be legally executed by known legal responsible sworn Officers of Justice not unknown Military Officers Troopers or other illegal Catchpolls That no such Free-man ought to bee denied Bail Mainprise or the benefit of an Habe as Corpus or any other Legal Writ for his enlargement when Bailable or Mainprizable by Law nor to be detained Prisoner for any real or pretended Crime not bailable by Law longer than until the next general or special Gaol-delivery held in the County where he is imprisoned when and where he ought to be legally tried and proceeded against or else enlarged by the Justices without denial or delay of Right and Justice And that no such Free-man may or ought to be out-lawed exiled condemned to any kinde of Corporal punishment loss of Life or Member or otherwise destroyed or passed upon but only by due and lawful Process Indictment and the lawful Trial Verdict and Judgement of his Peers according to the good old Law of the Land in some usual Court of publick Justice not by and in new illegal Military or other Arbitrary Judicatories Committees or Courts of High Justice unknown to our Ancestors 3 That the ordinary standing Militia Force and Arms of the Kingdom ought to reside in the Nobility Gentry Freeholders and Trained Bands of the Kingdom not in Mercenary Officers and Souldiers receiving pay and Contributions from the people more apt to oppress inslave betray than protect their Laws Liberties and to protract than end their Warres and Taxes That no Free-men of England unless it bee by special Grant and Act of Parliament may or ought to be compelled enforced pressed or arrayed to go forth of his own County much less out of the Realm into forreign parts against his will in times of Warre or Peace or except he be specially obliged thereto by antient Tenures and Charters save only upon the sudden coming of strange enemies into the Realm and then he is to array himself only in such sort as he is bonnd to do by the ancient Laws and Customs of the Kingdom still in force 4 That no Free-man of England may or ought to be disinherited disseised dispossessed or deprived of any Inheritance Free-hold Office Liberty Custom Franchise Chattles Goods whatsoever without his own Gift Grant or free Consent unless it be by lawful Processe Trial and Judgement of his Peers or special Grant by Act of Parliament nor to be denied or delayed common Right or Justice in any case 5 That the old received Government Laws Statutes Customs Priviledges Courts of Justice legal Processe of the Kingdom and Crown ought not to be altered repealed suppressed in any sort nor any new form of Government Law Statute Ordinance Court of Judicatury Writ● or legal proceedings instituted or imposed on all or any of the Free-men of England by any person or persons but only in and by the Kingdoms peoples free and full precedent consent in a lawful Parliament wherein the Legislative power solely resides 6 That Parliaments ought to be duly summoned and held for the good and safety of the Kingdom every year or every three years at least or so soon as there is just occasion That the Election of all Knights Citizens and Burgesses to sit and serve in Parliament and so of all other Elective Officers ought to be free That all Members of Parliament Hereditary or Elective ought to be present and there freely to speak and vote according to their Judgements and Consciences without any over-awing Guards to terrifie them and none to be forced sequestered or secluded thence by force or fraud That all Parliaments not thus duly and freely summoned elected freely held but unduly packed without due Elections or by forcible secluding securing any of the Members or not summoning all of them to the Parliament and all Acts of Parliament fraudulently or forcibly procured by indirect means ought to be nulled repealed reputed voyd and of dangerous president 7 That neither the Kings nor any Subjects of the Kingdom of England may or ought to be summoned before any Forreign Powers or Jurisdictions whatsoever out of the Realm or within the same for any manner of Right Inheritance Thing belonging to them or Offence done by them within the Realm nor tried nor judged by them 8 That all Subjects of the Realm are obliged by Allegiance Oaths and duty to defend their lawful Kings Persons Crowns the Laws Rights and Priviledges of the Realm and of Parliament against all Usurpers Traytors Violence and Conspiracies And that no Subject of this Realm who according to his Duty and Allegiance shall serve his King in his Warres for the just defence of him and the Land against Forreign Enemies or Rebels shall lose or forfeit any thing for doing his true duty service and allegiance to him therein but utterly be discharged of all vexation trouble or losse 9 That no publick Warre by Land or Sea ought to be made or leavied with or against any Forreign Nation nor any publick Truce or League entred into with Forreign Realms or States to binde the Nation without their common advice and consent in Parliament 10 That the Kings of England or others cannot grant away alien or subject the Crown Kingdom or antient Crown Lands of England to any other without their Nobles and Kingdoms full and free consent in Parliament That the antient Honours Manors Lands Rents

Revenues Inheritances Rights and Perquisits of the Crown of England originally setled thereon for the ●ase and exemption of the people from all kind of Taxes payments whatsoever unlesse in case of extraordinary necessity and for defraying all the constant ordinary expences of the Kingdome as the expences of the Kings houshold Court Officers Judges Ambassadors Guard Garrisons Navy and the like ought not to be sold alienated given away or granted from it to the prejudice of the Crown and burdenning of the people And that all Sales Alienations Gifts or Grants thereof to the empairing of the publique Revenue or prejudice of the Crown and people are void in Law and ought to be resumed and repealed by our Parliaments and Kings as they have freqeuntly been in all former ages For the Readers fuller satisfaction in each of these propositions some of which I must in the ensuing Chapter but briefly touch for brevity sake having elsewhere fully debated them in print I shall especially recommend unto him the perusall of such Tractates and Arguments formerly published wherein each of them hath been fully discussed which hee may peruse at his best leasure The First of these Fundamentalls which I intend principally to insist on is fully asserted debated confirmed by 13. H. 4. f. 14. By Fortescue Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor of England de Laudibus Legum Angliae dedicated by him to King Henry the 6. f. 25. c. 36. By a Learned and necessary Argument against Impositions in the Parliament of 7. Jacobi by a late reverend Judge Printed at London 1641. By Mr. William Hakewell in his Liberty of the Subject against Impositions maintained in an Argument in the Parliament of 7 Jacobi Printed at London 1641. By Judge Crooks and Judge Huttons Arguments concerning Ship-mony both Printed at London 1641. By the Case of Ship-mony briefly discussed London 1640. By M. St. Johns Argument and Speech against Ship-mony Printed at London 1641. By Sir Edward Cook in his 2 Institutes p. 46. and 57. to 64. and 528 to 537. By the first and second Remonstrance of the Lords Commons in Parliament against the Commission of Array Exact Collection p. 386. to 398. and 850. to 890. and by my own Humble Remonstrance against Ship-mony London 1643. The Fourth part of the Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes p. 14. to 26. my Legall Vindication of the Liberties of England against Illegall Taxes c. London 1649. and by the Records and Statutes cited in the ensuing Chapter referring for the most part to the first Proposition The second third and fourth of them are largely debated and confirmed by a Conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses concerning the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject 3 Aprilis 4 Caroli Printed at London 1642. By Sir Edward Cook in his Institutes on Magna charta c. 29. p. 45. to 57. By the first second Remonstrance of the Lords and Commons against the Commission of Array Exact Collection p. 386. and 850. to 890. By Judge Crooks and Judge Huttons Arguments against Ship-mony By Sir Robert Cotton his Posthuma p. 222. to 269. By my Breviate of the Prelates Encroachments on the Kings Prerogative and the Subjects Liberties p. 138. my New Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny p. 137. to 183. and some of the ensuing Statutes and records ch 3. See 1 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 22 23 24 26 28 43 44 47. The Fift and Sixt of them are fully cleared vindicated in and by the Prologues of all our Councills Statutes Laws before and since the Conquest By 1. H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 33 34 36. an excellent full president Sir Edward Cooks 4 Institutes ch 1. Mr. Cromptons Iurisdiction of Courts Title High Court of Parliament Mr. St. Johns speech against the Ship-mony Judges p. 32 33. my Plea for the Lords my Levellers levelled my Ardua Regni my Epistle before my Speech in Parliament my Memento my Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes part 1 2 3 4. my Legal Vindication against illegal Taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament London 1649. Prynnethe Member reconciled to Prynne the Bar●ester Printed the same year My Historical Collection of the Ancient great Councils and Parliaments of England London 1649. My Truth triumphing over Falshood Antiquity over Novel●y London 1645. 3 E. 1. c. 5 4 E. 3. c. 14. 36 E. 3. c. 10. 1 H. 4. c. 3 4. 5 R. 2. Stat. 2. c. 4. Rastal tit Parliament 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 21. 22. 48. 70. 31 H. 6. c. 1. 39 H. 6. c. 1. Rot. Parl. n. 8. 17 E. 4. c. 7. expresse in point and some of the Records hereafter transcribed In this I shall be more sparing because so fully confirmed in these and other Treatises The Seventh is ratified by Sir Edward Cooks 1. Institutes p. 97 98. 4 Institutes p. 89. and 5. report Cawdries case of the Kings Ecclesiasticall Laws Rastals Abridgement of Statutes Tit Provisors Praemunire Rome and other Records and Statutes in the ensuing Chapter The Eight is verified by the Statutes quoted in the Margin to it and by other Records in the third Chapter The Ninth and Tenth are fully debated in my Soveraign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes par 2. p. 3. to 34. part 4. p. 1. to 13. and 162. to 170. touched in Sir Robert Cottons Posthuma p. 174. 179. confirmed by sundry Presidents in the next Chapter by 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n 32. How all and every of these Fundamentall Liberties Rights Franchises Laws have been unparalledly violated subverted in all and every particular of late years beyond all Presidents in the worst of former ages even by their greatest pretended Propugners their own Printed Edicts Instruments Ordinances Papers together with their illegall Oppressions Taxes Excises Imposts Sequestrations Rapines Violences unjust Proceedings of all kinds will sufficiently evidence if compared with the premised Propositions Not to insist on any fore-past illegall Imposts Taxes Excises under which the nation lately groaned imposed on us by unparliamentary Junctoes or the Army Officers alone from Anno 1648 to 1653. without any real Parliament by their own armed Iurisdiction I shall here instance onyl in 3. or 4 particulars relating wholly to the First Proposition being of most generall greatest present and future concernment of all other to the whole English Nation at this very instant most intollerably oppressed grieved by them directly sweeping away all their Fundamentall Right of Property and consequentially all their Liberty of person Laws Charters at once and that in perpetuity beyond all hopes of Future redemption if not timely prevented by the Vniversality Body of the Realm or their Trustees The first of them is the present imposition and continuance of the strange oppressive monstrous general high Tax of EXCISE imposed on most native and forreign Commodities throughout England and its Dominions which as it was a meer Stranger to all our Ancestors and those now living till within these few years so it was

peremptorily to withstand the firs to prevent a second customary future exaction and payment in like kind pursuing the Poet Ovids old sage Counsel wherewith I shall conclude this point Principiis obsta serò medicina paratur Cum mala per longas invaluere moras How transcendently all the other Fundamental Laws Liberties Rights of our English Freeborn Nation have by late and present Governours and their Instruments been infringed subverted in an higher avowed degree than ever in former ages by forcible tyrannical Proceedings of all kindes in breaking open mens Houses by armed Souldiers and other unsworn illegal Officers Excise-men Sequestrators both by day and night seising their Persons Horses Armes Papers Writings ransacking their Studies Truncks Cabinets upon false surmises suspicions close imprisoning their persons by multitudes without before any examination particular accusation hearing trial in unusual places and some of them in remetest Isles Garrisons under Souldiers Their pressing of men for Land and Sea service and carrying them away perforce by Soldiers Troopers Officers Mariners like so many Prisoners out of their own Counties and the Realm to unnatural unchristian Warrs against their Wills and Consciences Their disinheriting many Thousands of English Freemen of all sorts of their Freeholds Lands Offices Fra●chises Honors Authorities spoyling them and theirs of theirs Goods Chattles Estates Lives in and by Arbitrary Committees Martial other extravagant Courts of highest Injustice Subverting Changing our ancient Fundamental Lawes Statutes and enacting New without the Peoples free consents in Lawfull English Parliaments altering the whole Frame and Constitution of our Monarchy Government and Parliaments themselves Depriving the people of the Free election of their Parliament Members and other Elective Officers contrary to our Lawes Charters Usages securing secluding the Members of Parliament themselves by armed Force dissolving Parliaments by the Sword alone without Writ or legall power contrary to Acts and Privileges of Parliament by erecting New Legislative Tax-imposing Self-created Powers not elected by the People at Whitehall and elsewhere not to be paralleld in any age By creating New-Treasons contrary to the old ones and the Statute of 25 E. 3. and condemning sequestring imprisoning executing English Peers and Freemen only for their loyalty Duty to their lawfull Soveraigns and defence of the Rights Privileges Liberties Laws of the Kingdom Parliament Nation according to their Oathes Protestations League Covenant and Gods own Precepts against the publique Enemies Oppugners Vnderminers Subvertors of and Conspirators against them By making publick wars at Land and Sea with our Christian Protestant Brethren and other Nations and concluding Leagues Truces without common consent or advice in Parliament By alienating selling giving squandring away the ancient Demesnes Lands Honours Rents Revenues Rights Inheritances of the Crown of England yea of Scotland and Ireland likewise to Officers Souldiers of the Army and others for pretended Arrears Services or inconsiderable values which should defray all the constant ordinary Expences of the Government publique State Officers Embassadours Garrisons Navy Courts of the Kingdom and ease the People from all kind of Taxes Payments Contributions whatsoever towards them except in extraordinary emergent cases and necessities in times of war requiring extraordinary expences for their publique safety supplied by Aydes and Subsidies granted only by common consent in Parliament only and not otherwise which now must be wholly or for the greatest part defrayed by the People alone out of their own exhausted private estates by endlesse Taxes Excises Contributions as appears by the 27 28 29 30. Articles of their New ill sounding Instrument foreinsisted on whiles others without right or legal Title enjoy the old standing Demesnes Lands Rents Revenues and Perquisites of the Crown for their private advantage without any Acts of Resumption usual in all former ages to keep the Kingdom Nation from becoming Bankrupts and people from oppression which should ease the people of those intollerable constant burthens lately laid upon them against all Justice Law Conscience and make insufferable wasts and spoyles of the stately Houses Timber Wood● Mines Forrests Parkes of the Crown without restraint to the Kingdoms extraordinary prejudice for which they ought to give an Account and make full reparations if the Earl of Devonshires case Cook 11 Reports f. 89 90 91 be Law And by sundry other particulars requiring whole Baronian volumes to recite and specifie to the full is so well known by dayly experience and multitude of Presidents fresh in memory to our whole three Nations that I shall here no further insist upon them all which experimentally confirm the truth of our Saviours own words Iohn 10 1 10. Verily verily I say unto you He that entreth not by the Do●r into the Sheepfold but climbeth up some other way the same is a Theef and a Robber The Theef cometh not but steal and to kill and to destroy Whatever his pretences be to the contrary And this rule of Johannes Angelius Wenderhagen Politiae Synopticae lib. 3. c. 9. sect 11. p. 3. 10. Hinc Regulae loco notandum Quod omne Regnum vi Armata acquisitum in effectis Subditos Semper in durior is Servatutis conditiones arripiat licet a principio Dulcedinem prurientibus spirare videatur which we now find most true by sad sensible experience Ide● cunctis hoc cavendum Ne temere se seduci patiantur FINIS This Epistle should have been printed before the first part but was omitted through hast a See the several Epistles of Frederick the Emperor against Pope Gegory the 9 and Innocent the 4 recorded by Mat. Paris p. 332. to 693. sparsim b See Extra● de Majoritate Obedientia Augustinus Triumphus Bellarminus Becanu● and others De Monarchia Remani Pontificis Hospinia● Hist Jesui l. 3 4. * Henricus de Knighton de Eventibus Angli ae l. 2. c. 14 15. c See Massaeus Vegius Petrus Ribadeniera in vita Ignatii Loyolae Heylins Micracosme p. 179. d See Lewis Owen his Jesuites Looking-glass printed London 1629. the Epistle to the Reader and p. 48 to 58. Jubilaeum sive speculum Jesuiti●um printed 1644. p. 307 to 213. Hospinian Hist Jesuitica l. 2. * Speculum Jesuiticum p. 210. See Romes Master-peice Conterburies Doom p. 435 c. Hidde● works of Darkness 88 144. e Mercure Iesu●le tom 1. p. 67. Speculum Jesuitieum p. 1. 56. f See Lewis Owen his running Register his Jesuited Looking glass The Anatomy of the English Nunnery at Lisbone g De Monarchia Hispanica p. 146 147 148 149 204 234 235 236 185 186. h See Thomas Campanella de Monarchia Hispaniae Watsons quodhbets Co●loni Posthuma p. 91. 10 107. Cardinal de Ossets Letters Arcana Imperii Hispanici Del●h 1628. Advice a tous les Estat's de Europe touches les maximas Fundamentales de Government diss●iennes Espaginols Pa●is 1625. i Set my Speccb in Parliament p. 107. ●o 119. and the History of Independency k Exact Coll●ction p. 651 652 662 666 813