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A56227	A seasonable, historical, legal vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ...; Seasonable, legal, historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4122; ESTC R13248	47,108	63

A Seasonable Historical Legal VINDICATION AND CHRONOLOGICAL COLLECTION Of the good Old Fundamental Liberties Franchises Rights Laws of all English Freemen their best Inheritance Birth-right Security against Arbitrary Tyranny Egyptian Slavery and Burdens of late years most dangerously undermined oppungned and almost totally subverted under the specious feigned Disguise of their Defence Enlargement and future Establishment upon a sure Basis IT is an universal received Principle and experimental Truth beyond all contradiction That no natural structure no arteficial Building no Civil or Ecclesiastical Corporation Realm Reipublicke Government or Society of men no Art nor Science whatsoever can possibly be erected supported established preserved or continued in their being or well being without FOUNDATIONS whereon as they were at first erected so they must necessarily still depend or else they will presently fall to utter ruine Hence it is to wave all Humane Authorities in so clear a Verity that in God's own sacred uner●ing a Word of Truth we find frequent mention of the natural b FOUNDATIONS of the vast natural Fabrick of the Earth Heavens and World it self of the Artificial Material c FOVNDATIONS of the material Temple wals City of Gods own most famous city Ierusalem and of private houses of the Spiritual d FOUNDATION of the Spiritual Temple City Ierusalem and whole Church of God even Iesus Christ himself of the Doctrinal e FOUNDATIONS and first principles of Religion Christianity Salvation yea of the Political f FOUNDATIONS of Kingdoms Reipublikes Churches Governments States which being once shaken undermined subverted razed or destroyed bring unavoidable ruine and desolation upon them Psal. 11. 3. Psal. 82. 5 6. Ier. 50 17. 51 15 16. Mic. 1. 6 7 9. even as we daily see Castles Wals 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 Foundamental Constitutions Rights Liberties Priviledges of any Nation Kingdome Reipublike essential to their being and subsistence as a free or happy people against the Invasions Vnderminings Encroachments 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 Preterces 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 on leavoured to violate alter or subvert them rather then out of Cowardize Scottishnesse Carelessenesse or want of cordial love to the Publike to suffer the Last infringement repeal or alteration of them to the inthralling of Themselves or their Posterities to the arbitrary Wills of such Domineering Tyrants and Vsurping Poners Now because after all our Old and New many yeers bloody costly dangerous Contest and Wars for the maintenance of our Good Old Fundamental Liberties Laws Rights 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 I desperately impudent as not onely to write but publikely to assert in Print in a Books printed by AUTHORITY even in Capitals in the very Title-page That the Free-men and People of England have no such unalterable Fundamental Laws and Liberties left them by their fore-fathers as our Ancestors 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 the second with other Kings and Princes and our late Parliaments and Armies too with King James and King Charles That neither Magna Charta nor the Petition of Right nor the Laws for trying Malefactors by Juries of their peers are Fundamentall or unaltera●le 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 whole as they see cause Yea having now attained to such a super-transcendent Authority as may as they assert DAY ASIDE ALL PARLIAMENTS and PARLIAMENTARY WAYES and 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 Common-wealth that is to their own private Interests Honours Profits Securities Designes Oppressions Rapines gilded over with this specious pretext And then ●●●emptorily conclude That to plead for these and other Fundamental Laws and Liberties as unalterable though the onely 〈◊〉 and Badges of our Freedom is nothing else but to 〈◊〉 the Nation for by such a Principle People doe 〈…〉 their Liberty but are brought under such a kind 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 inthral us under such an absolute AEGYPTIAN BONDAGE and Tyranny without any hope of future deliverance from it which some now endeavour to entail 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 find the Generality of the Nobility Gentry Clergie Commonalty of our Nation after all their late yeers expensive bloudy wars and Parliamentary Disputes for the defence and preservation of these our Ancient Hereditary Fundamental 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 un-Christian un-manly un-English fear or Scottish cowardice and stupidity wittingly to desert betray surrender them all up into the hands of any invading Vsurpers without the least Publike Claim Dissertation Defence or Dispute then diligently or couragiously to contend for them as of late they did So as that which Paul once taxed in the slavish 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 devour you if a man take of you if a man exalt himself above your Laws Liberties Franchises Parliaments Kings Nobles Properties Lives Conscience and a all that is called God or worshipped if a man smite you on the face notwithstanding all their manifold late b Protestations Vows Covenants Remonstrances Declarations and Publike Engagements to the contrary And withal after diligent enquiry discovering scarce one man of Eminencie or Power in the Nation nor so much as one of my degenerated temporizing Profession of the Law even

Judgements and Authorities in all ages undeniably evidencing declaring vindicating establishing perpetuating these Fundamental Hereditary Rights Liberties Priviledges Franchises Customs Laws and abundantly manifesting the extraordinary care industry zeal courage wisdom vigilancy of our Ancestors to defend preserve and perpetuate them to posterity without the least violation or diminution 4. I shall vindicate the exellencie indifferencie and legality of trying all Malefactors whatsoever by Juries of their peers upon legal Processe and Indictments and manifest the illegality injustice partiality dangerous consequences of admitting or introducing any other form of Trials by New Arbitrary Martial Commissions or Courts of High Justice or rather * Injustice inconsistent with and destructive to the Fundamental Rights Liberties Priviledges Laws Franchises of the English Nation and of most dangerous President to Posterity being set up by the greatest Pretenders to Publike Liberty Law and the chiefest inveighers against Arbitrary Regal Tyranny and Power which never publikely established them by any Law and may fall to imitate them in future Ages Each of these I intend to prosecute in distinct Chapters in their order For the first of these That the Kingdome and Free-men of England have some Ancient Hereditary Right Liberties Priviledges Franchises Laws and Customs properly called FVNDAMENTAL and likewise a FVNDAMENTAL GOVERNMENT no wayes to be alt●red undermined subvert●d directly or indirectly under pain of High●treason in those who shall attempt it especially by fraud force or armed power I shall confirm the first part of it by these ensuing punctual Authorities of moment against those a traytorous late-published Pamphlets which professedly deny it and endeavour a total abrogation of all former Laws to set up a New Model and Body of the Law to rule us for the future according to their Pleasures The first is the expresse words of the Great Charters of the Liberties of England granted by b King John Anno 1215. in the 17 yeer of his Reign regranted and confirmed by King Henry the third in the ninth yeer of his Reign and sundry times afterwards and by King Edward the first in the 25 and 28 yeers of his Raign wherein these three Kings successively by their several Grand Charters under their Great Seals did grant give and confirm to all the Free-men of the Realm of England FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR HEIRS FOR EVER the Customs Liberti●s therein contained TO HAVE AND TO HOLD THEM TO THEM AND THEIR HEIRS FROM THEM AND THEIR HE●RS FOR EVER Concluding their Charters thus All these Customs and Liberties aforesaid which we have granted to be holden within this our Realm as much as appertaineth TO US AND OUR HEIRS WE SHALL OBSERVE And ALL MEN OF THIS OUR REALM AS WELL SPIRITUALL AS TEMPORALL as much as in them is shall observe the same against all persons in likewise And we have granted unto them THAT NEITHER WE NOR OUR HEIRES SHALL PROCURE OR DO ANY THING WHEREBY THE LIBERTIES IN THESE CHARTERS CONTAINED SHALL BE INFRINGED OR BROKEN We ●atifying and approving these Gifts and Graunts aforesaid CONFIRM and CORROBORATE ALL THE SAME FOR US AND OUR HEIRS PERPETUALLY and by these Presents as the later Charters run do renew the same Willing and Granting FOR US AND OUR HEIRS THAT THESE CHARTERS AND ALL AND SINGULAR THEIR ARTICLES FOR EVER SHALL BE STEDFASTLY FIRMLY AND INVIOLASLY OBSERVED Sir Edward Cook that reverend learned Judge and Professor of our Laws in his preface to his second Institutes and p. 2. and 77. thereof wherein he comments on this Great Charter printed by two Orders of the House of Commons in Parliament dated 12 Maii. 1641. and 30 Junii 1642. resolves in direct terms That the Great Charter was for the most part declaratory of the Principal Grounds of THE FVNDAMENTAL LAWS OF ENGLAND That these words therein for as and our heirs for ever were added to avoid all scruples THAT THIS GREAT PARLIAMENTARY CHARTER MIGHT LIVE AND TAKE EFFECT IN ALL SUCCESSIONS OF AGES FOR EVER A clear Resolution that the principal Liberties Customs Laws contained in these Great Charters and ratified by them are both Fundamental perpetual and unalitrable being since confirmed in all points by neer fourty several special Acts of Parliament in succeeding Parliaments and likewise by the Solemn Oathes of our Kings Nobles Judges Great Officers and of the People too all severall times sworn to defend and maintaine the same and by sundry Solomn Excommunications against the onfringers or contemners of them in any kind as I shall prove more fully in the third Chapter The second is the punctuall Resolution of the whole Parliament of 1 Jacobi even in a printed act of Parliament chap. 2. and of King James himself in his speech therein as is evident by this Prologue to that act Whereas his most excellent Majestie hath been pleased out of his great wisdome and judgment not onely to represent unto us by his own prudent and Princely Speech on the first day of this Parliament how much he desired in regard of his inward and gratious affection to both the famous and ancient Realms of England and Scotland now united in allegiance and by all subjection IN HIS ROYAL PERSON TO HIS MAJESTY AND HIS POSTERITY FOR EVER that by a speedy mature and sound Deliberation such a future Vnion might follow as should make perfect that mutual love and uniformity of Maners and Customs which Almighty God in his providence for the strength and safety of both Realms hath so far already begun in● pparent sight of all the world but also hath vouchsafed to expresse many ways how far it is and EVER SHALL BE from his Royal and sincere care and affection to the Subjects of England TO ALTER OR INNOVATE the FUNDAMENTAL and ANCIENT LAWS PRIVILEGES and GOOD CUSTOMS OF THIS KINGDOM whereby not only HIS ROYAL AUTHORITY but THE PEOPLES SECURITY OF LANDS LIVINGS and PRIVILEGES ●oth in generall and particular are PRESERVED and MAINTAINED and BY THE ABOLISHING OR ALTERATION OF THE WHICH IT is IMPOSSIBLE BUT that PRESENT CONFUSION WIL FALL UPON the WHOLE STATE and FRAME OF THIS KINGDOM c. In which memorable Clause these four things are observable 1. That the Kingdom and People of England have Fundamental ancient good Laws Privileges and Customs 2. That these are no ways to be altered or innovated and that it always hath been is and ever shall be far from the thoughts and intents of all good Kings Governours and Parliaments who bear a sincere care and affection to the subjects of England to alter or innovate them 3. That by these ancient good Laws Privileges and Customs not onely the Kings Regal authority but the peoples security of Lands Livings and Privileges both in general and particular are preserved and maintained 4. That by the abolishing or altering of them it is impossible but that present confusion will fall upon the whole State and frame of this Kingdome Which I wish all Innovators and New Modellers of our Laws