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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91274	Seven additional quæres in behalf of the secluded Members, propounded to the twice-broken Rump now sitting, the cities of Westminster, London, county of Middlesex, all other counties, cities, boroughs, in England Wales, and all English freemen, whose members are secluded: and also to Scotland and Ireland.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P4077; Thomason E765_1; ESTC R203353	7,826	8

assembled that the Ordinance of Monday the said 26. of July for the repealing and making void the Ordinance of the 23. of the said July for the setling of the Militia of the City of London being gained by force and violence and all Votes Orders Ordinances passed in either or both Houses of Parliament since the said Ordinance of the 26. of July to the said 6th of August are Null and Void and were so at the making thereof and are hereby declared so to be the Parliament being under a force and not free Doth not absolutely declare adjudge and resolve all the Rumps Votes Acts Orders Ordinances Proceedings touching the Militia of London Westminster and other Counties Excises Customs Monthly Contributions Indemnities Pardons and all other Matters or for sec●uding or suspending any Member and whole House of Peers from sitting their Treasonable perjurious Ingagement and Oath of Abjuration to be all Null and Void at the making thereof and so no waies obliging the City Kingdom Nation secluded Peers or Members in the least degree since the force upon both Houses securing secluding of above 200. Commons yet living continued from Dec. 6. 1648. till Apr. 20. 1653. and from May 7. 1659. till Octob. 13. and now again by the Rumps special Order and Command from Dec. 27. till this instant And that upon these Considerations and parallels of the force then with the successive forces since upon the House and secluded Members 1. The Apprentices force July 26. 1647. was without arms theirs by armed Gards and Souldiers 2ly Transitory but for 2. or 3. hours theirs permanent for sundry whole Months and years 3ly That without the privity or approbation of the House theirs by the Rumps privity order and command 4ly That upon just provocation to repeal an Ordinance to alter the Militia of London gotten by practice and surprize of some Army Officers without the Cities privity to betray and sever it from the Parliament and reduce both under the Armies power Theirs upon mere design and will without provocation to destroy the King Lords KIngdom Parliament alter the Government and usurp the perpetual Parliamentary and Supream Legislative Civil and Military Power of our 3. Kingdoms into their own hands 5ly They secluded never a Lord nor Commoner by force these not only exclude but vote down debar and engage against the whole House of Lords and three parts of four of the Commons House above 200. of them still living against their Protestation Vow League Covenant former Votes Orders Ordinances the Act of 16 Car. ch. 1. 17 Car. c. 6. the Writs and Indentures by which they pretend to sit 6ly The Members pretended to be forced away by the Apprentices were not above 25 or 30 who went not away til 3. daies after the force by an invitation from the Army-Officers against the House will and privity the Members forcibly secluded and then secured 300. and now above 200. besides the Peers are kept out against their wills both by the Rumps privity and command from discharging their Duties 7ly That force was never reiterated by the Apprentices this acted six times actually over and over against the secluded Members 8ly That was accompanied only with a pretended terror in a few Members this with an actual forcible seclusion of above 200. an imprisonment of more than 45. Members sundry weeks months and close imprisonment of others of them in remote Castles without hea●ing or tryal divers years and with subsequent imprisonments and close imprisonments since for refusing the Engagement and a proclaiming others of them Traytors in all Counties Cities Corporations Churches and Chapels only for raising forces to bring in all the secluded Members and procure a FREE PARLIAMENT for which some are now close Prisoners and their Estates sequestred 9ly The Ordinances Votes and Orders declared nul and void by this Ordinance were made and passed by near three hundred Commoners without any Gards or Order to keep out the Speakers and those fugitive Members who voluntarily repaired to the Armie and ratified by the House of Lords then sitting without Gards to seclude any Peer or Member Their Orders Votes Ordinances from Decemb. 26. 1648. till Apr. 20. 1653. and May 7 til Octob. 13. were seldom made by above 40 or 50 Commoners at most without the House of Peers and those now sitting under a force to keep out the secluded Members Peers when they made their last Votes Acts Orders Decem. 26 and 27. were but 43. at most whereof 7. or 8. were no legal Members Therfore upon all these considerations both by the Speakers own printed Letter July 29. and this Ordinance all Votes Orders Ordinances and Acts of the Rump the Parliament being under such a horrid actual visible reiterated approved commanded armed force and so many Members forcibly secluded and restrained must needs be void and null to all intents at their very making and no waies to be owned or obeyed as the secluded House of Lords and Majority of the secluded Commons House have oft publickly declare to our 3. Nations and the world and nothing is or can be valid or legal which they shall order or impose before all the secluded Members be restored without any new test or restriction to sit act and vote with that ancient freedom and safety which of right belongs unto them 7. Whether their present Speaker now a monstrous Plurality Monopoly Medly of sundry inconsistent Greatest Offices of Honor Power and Trust being both sole Lord Keeper of their Great Seal sole Lord General of the Armies by Land sole Lord Admiral of the Navie by Sea sole Lord Warden of the Ports sole Gardian of the Liberties of England sole Master of the Rolls sole Speaker of the Commons House at first and of the two Rumps since its dissolution and sole visible Head of their Vtopian and Harringtonian projected Commonwealth in his political and as strange a Compound in his ethical capacity though but a single Person in his natural be not a sutable Speaker for that monstrous Rump now sitting compacted mostly of Members of the Old Parliament elected and sitting by vertue of the Kings Writs for the defence of Him and his Realm of England and to do and consént to such things as by the common advice and council of the Prelates Lords and Great men of the Realm should be ordaiued and yet destroying engaging and now swearing against both King Kingship Kingdom Peerage and House of Lords and secluding all Members engaging not with them therein cre●ting and stiling themselves the Supreme Authority of the Common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland too by what chymistry and Right is yet unknown being at fir●● by the Writs Indentures and Act by which they sit but Members of the Commons house in the Parliament of the King and Realm of England Next of some new additional Members by writs in the name and under the Seal of the Gardians of their yet unshaped Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland who peece together with the former like the feet and legs of Nebuchadnezzars Image which were part of Iron and part of Clay and lastly the rear of this Rump is made up of the doating old Earl of Salisbury and lunatick young Earl of Pembrook who have degraded themselves of their Peerage and become baser than the basest Commoners to be the Tayl of this strange heterogeneral Monster Whether their continuing obstinate and incorrigible in their Tyrannies Treasons Vsurpations forcible Exclusions of the Lords these their fellow Members notwithstanding all their former and late Dissipations by the Army-Officers the unsafety of their present Condition the General displeasure of the whole Kingdom secluded Lords Commons and most part of the Officers and Souldiers against them the wonderful Providences and Rebukes of God himself from Heaven the Admonitions Intreaties desires of their friends the secluded Members City Country and our 3. Nations and their adding drunkenness to thirst in voting a New Oath of Abjuration Jan. 2. to keep out all the secluded Members and aggravate their former forcible seclusion in the highest extremity instead of repairing or repenting it and deprive them of all possibility of re-admission to sit and vote together with them in freedom and safety Be not a certain symptom that they are now ripe for another total and final ejection by some wonderfull Divine Providence or other to the deserved ruine of their usurped Anti-Parliamentary power Persons Families Estates if not of their very souls seeing God himself hath spoken Nay sworn and will most certainly perform it That those who fear not God nor the King and are given to Change and being often reproved harden their necks and hearts too shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy and shall never enter into his rest Prov. 24. 21 22. ch. 29. 1. Psal. 98. 8 11. FINIS * Exact Collection P. 37 to 78. * 2 of whose 3. Citizens Sir Thomas Some and Mr. Vassal are forcibly secluded as are both the Knights of He●tfordshire Surry Glocestershire Northamptonshire and most other Counti●● Exact collection p. 37 38 c.