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A91269	The second part of A seasonable legal and historical vindication, and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, lawes, government of all English freemen; their best inheritance and onely security against all arbitrary tyranny and Ægyptian taxes. Wherein the extraordinary zeal, courage, care, vigilancy, civill, military and Parliamentary consultations, contests, to preserve, establish, perpetuate them to posterity, against all tyrants, usurpers, enemies, invaders, both under the ancient pagan and Christian Britons, Romans, Saxons. The laws and Parliamentall great councils of the Britons, Saxons. With some generall presidents, concerning the limited powers and prerogatives of our British and first Saxon kings; ... are chronologically epitomized, ... By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4072; Thomason E820_11; ESTC R203292	115,608	151

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 Catholike 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 arraigned condemned and Watson and Clerk two Iesuited 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 Proclamation or Coronation of him which are but Ceremonies as was formerly adjudged in the case of Queen Mary and Queen 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. By their horrid Gun-powder Treason Plot contrived fomented by Garnet Superiour of the English Iesuites Gerard Tesmond and other Iesuites who by their Apostolical Power did not onely commend but absolve from all sin the other Iesuited Popish Conspirators and Faux THE SOULDIER who were their instruments to effect it Yea the Iesuitical 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 Iames himself the Queen Prince Lords Spiritual and Temporal with the Commons assembled together in the Upper-House of Parliament upon the 5 of November Anno Dom. 1605. and then to have forcibly seised with armed men prepared for that purpose the persons of our late beheaded King then Duke of York and 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 the execution in perpetual detestation of it and of the Iesuits and their traiterous Romish Religion which both contrived and approved it the 5 day of November by the Statute of 3 Iacobi 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 Iesuitical Design and keep in memory THIS JOYFUL DAY OF DELIVERANCE for which 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 Iesuites 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 their 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 English●Parliaments and Government upon those Independents and Anabaptistical Sword-men reputed 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 c. 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 Jesuits Colledge at Rome did in the yeer 1641. when the name of Independent 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 they 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 infinitely increased supplanted the Prebyterians by degrees got the whole power of the Army and by it of the Kingdom into their hands and then subverted both the Parliament King and his Posterity So some Independent Ministers Sectaries and Anabaptists ever since 1648. have neglected the observation of the 5 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 rendred 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 whenas 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 Peforming 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 they will 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 James himself in conclusion as some of them have boasted 10. By the Popes Nuntio and 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 Nuncio 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 universal liberty of exercising their Popish Religion throughout his Realms and Dominions and then to train up his Son under them in the Popish Religion To which not onely heretofore but now likewise they strenuously endeavour by all possible means to seduce him as appears more especially by Monsieur Militierre his late book dedicated to him for that purpose Surely all these premised instances compared together will sufficiently inform the world that the late unparellel'd capital Proceedings against our Protestant King Parliament Members Peers House and forced

upon whom but the words imply that it was done by common consent of the Nobles in a Generall Council for their Common Preservation from Plunder not imposed or raised by the Kings Prerogative without their free consents in a General Council or Parliamentary Assembly for so it was assessed and levied in succeeding times Anno Dom. 983. The Danes infesting all the Parts of the Realm and the people not knowing where or how to resist them DECRETVM EST A VIRIS PRVDENTIBVS It was decreed by the Wise-men no doubt in a Generall Councill assembled for that end not by the Kings absolute Authority that they should be overcome with Money who could not be vanquished with the Sword Wherefore they satisfied the Covetousnesse of the Danes with the payment of ten thousand pounds Anno 991. A Tribute of 10000 l. was given them BY THE ADVICE OF SIRICIVS DUKE ETHELWARD AND OTHER NOBLES OF THE REALM that they should cease their frequent Rapines Burnings and Slaughters of men which they used about the Sea Coasts Anno 994. King Aethelred CONSILIO PROCERVM SVORVM by the Counsell of his Nobles no doubt in a Parliamentary Assembly gave them a pension of 16000 l. collected of all England that they should cease from the Rapines and Slaughters of innocent men And Anno 1002. the same King HABITO CONCILIO CVM REGNI SVI PRIMATIBVS utile duxit a Danis dextras accipere c. And CONSILIO PRIMATVM SVORVM by the Counsell of his Nobles or Chief men gave them 24000 l. and Anno 1007. CONSILIO PRIMATVM SVORVM BY THE COUNSEL OF HIS NOBLES he gave them 30000 l. gathered out of all England that they should desist from Rapines and hold a firm Peace with him Anno 1012. Duke Edric and ALL THE NOBLES OF ENGLAND OF BOTH ORDERS to wit the Lords Spirituall and Temporall were assembled together at London before Easter no doubt in a Great Council and continued there so long till the Tribute promised to the Danes should be paid which was 48000 l. All which is recorded in these expresse termes by Mathew Westminster Florentius Wigorniensis and Simeon Dunelmensis in their Chronicles and Histories of these respective years and by Polychronicon Fabian Holinshed Grafton Speed and other late Historians out of them So as this Tax or Tribute paid to the Danes was undoubtedly imposed and levied by common Consent in the Parliamentary Councils of those times not by the Kings own Power and Prerogative alone True it is King Suanus the Dane having conquered most of the Land exacted it from the people and levied it perforce against their wills for the payment of his Souldiers But the Inhabitants of St. Edmonds-bury refused to pay it Whereupon he threatned by force to spoile and destroy the Town but in the midst of his Jollity and Nobles he suddainly cryed out that he was struck through by St. Edmond with a Sword or Speare no man seeing the hand that smote him and so with great horrour and torment died three dayes after at The●ford as Hoveden Annal. pars prior Simeon Dunelmensis de Gestis Regum Angliae Anno 1014. col 170. Math. Westminster Anno 1014 p. 394. Ranulsus de Diceto Abbreviationes Chronicorum col 465. Johann Brompton Chron. col 892. Fabian part 6. c. 200 Polychronicon l. 6. c 16. Speed in his History l. 7 p. 420. with others relate A memorable Punishment for this his illegal Exaction and Oppression As for the Tax of Danegeld imposed on the People to wit 12 d. as some or 2 s as others to be annually paid out of every Hyde or Plowland throughout the Realm except the Lands of the Church and some others exempted from it by special Charters it was imposed by Authority and Acts of Generall Councils onely not by royall Prerogative for Defence of the Kingdome by Land and Sea against the Danes and other Enemies and Pirates as is evident by the Lawes of King Edward the Confessor cap. 12. The Black Book of the Eschequer l. 1. c. 11. Sir Henry Spelman and William Sonmer their respective Glossarium Tit. Danegeld p 200 201. Mr. ●elden his Mar● Cla●sum l 2 as I have irrefragably proved at large in My Humble Remonstrance against the Illegal Tax of Ship-mony p 19. to 25 to which I refer you for fuller satisfaction Anno 1051 this unsupportable Tax of Dane●el● was ●●leased for ever to the People of England by King Edward the Confessor 〈…〉 towards his oppressed People to wit in the 38. year from the time that Suanus King of the Danes commanded it to be yearly paid to his Army in the reign of King Ethelbert Father to this King Edward Which Abbot Ingulph in his History p 897. Iohn Brompton in his Chronicle col 938 9●3 Simeon Dun●lmensis De Gest Reg Angl col 184. Ailredus Abbas Rievalus de Vita miraculis Edwardi Confess col 383. Radulfus de Diceto Abbrev. Chron col 475 Henry de Knyghton de Eventibus Angl l 1 c. 9. col 2331. Mr Selden in his Marc Clausum l 2 Sir Henry Spelman in his G●ossary Title D●●eg●ld and others thus relate in Ingulphus words TRIBUTUM GRAVISSIMUM quod DANEGELD dicebatur OMNI ANGLIAE IN PERPETUUM RELAXAVIT DE TAM FERA EXACTIONE NE IOTA UNVM VOLVIT RETINERE re●oring to the People all the mony then collected and brought into his Bed-chamber by his Officers and there laid in heaps upon which this most holy King as some of these record saw a Devil dancing and triumphing with over much Ioy and calling it HIS MONY QUIA INJUSTE ADQUISITA EST DE SUBSTANTIA PAUPERUM because it was unjustly gotten out of the substance of the poor Subjects though by coulour of former Grants by common consent in Parliamentary Councils upon which occasion this good King forthwith rest● red all that was collected and perpetually released for the future this great and heavy Tribute which had continued near fourty years to the English-men for ever so that after that day it was no more gathered as Roger Hovedon Annal pars prior p 447. Hygden in his Polychron l 6. c 24. Capgrave Surius Ribadenicra Holinshed in the life of Edward the Confessor●Math Westm Simeon Dun●lm●nsis and Florent Wigorniensis An 1051. Grafton in his Chronicle p. 180. Speed in his History of Great Britain l 8. c 6 Sect 7 p 419. Fabian in his Chron part 6. c 210 p 282 with the other forementioned Authors joyntly attest By these four first Generall Taxes and publick charges thus imposed on the ancient Saxons and English onely by common grant and consent in the great Parliamentary generall Councils of the Realm both for the maintetenance of Gods Worship Ministers Religion Learning and defence of the Realm against forraign Enemies and Invasions the truth of the first fundamentall Proposition in the precedent Chapter is abundantly confirmed during all our Saxons Kings Reignes which I shall confirm in subsequent Sections by Presidents in all succeeding ages to