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A91303	The treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, in doctrine and practise. Together with an exact parallel of the jurisdiction, power, and priviledges claimed and exercised by our popish Parliaments, prelates, Lords and Commons in former times, with those now claimed and practised by the present Parliament, Lords and Commons, which are here manifested to be farre more loyall, dutifull, moderate; more consistent with, lesse invasive on, and destructive to the Kings pretended soveraigne power and prerogative, then those of popish parliaments, and subjects. Wherein likewise the traiterous, antimonarchicall doctrines, practises and attempts of papists upon their soveraignes prerogatives, crownes, persons, with the dangerous consequences, effects, and designes, of their present illegall arming, and accesse to the Kings Army, and person by meanes of evill counsellours, are briefely discovered; ... It is ordered by the Committee for Printing that this treatise be forthwith printed and published, by Michael Sparke, senior. Januar. 13. 1642. John White.; Soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes. Part 1	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1643 (1643)	Wing P4108; Thomason E248_1; ESTC R203188	101,087	43

forced on the King Edward the second presumptuous an● TREASONOUS ORDINATIONS not onely to reforme the Kings house and Counsell and t● place and displace all great Officers at their pleasure but even claim a joynt interest in the Regiment of the Kingdome together with the King which William Inge a Judge of the Common Law with other like sticklers tray●erously perswaded them was according to Law which grosse slander of the Parliament House would have bee● capitall at least in former ages and may now indanger the heads of those who speake or write the sam● of the present Parliament Never did any of our Kings charge any Parliament with high Treason hither to much lesse indict or wage warre against the Parliaments as Traytors which questioned or depose● them for offences against the Kingdome Let none then dare affirme that the Houses of Parliament are or can be Traytors now for providing for their owne and the Kingdomes safety Fifthly That to conspire or levy warre against the Parliament or Kingdome to dissolve or destroy it or the Members of it is no lesse then High Treason as hath beene solemnely adjudged in Parliament 15 E. 2. in the Act entituled Exilium Hugonis le de Spenser in 11 Rich. 2. c. 2 3 4. and in the Parliament Roll Printed by Order of both Houses August 27. 1642. And before both these in k Lib. 14. sect 112. Stamf. l. 1. c. 2. f. 1. b. and Cromptons Ju●isdict f. 73. Glanvil who declares it to be Treason even at the Common Law Si quis machinatus fuerit vel aliquid fecerit in SEDITIONEM REGNI agreeable to l Instit l. ult Tit. 8. Vlpian and the m Tit. 3. Saxon Lawes which informe ●● of Treasons against the Common-wealth and Kingdome the case of n Cice●o Orat. in Catil Cateline and o Liv. hist l. 23. sect 17. others as well as against the King and to the Statute of 13 Eliz. c. ● which makes it High Treason for any person to stirr● up a●y Forainers or strangers with force to invade this Realme or Ireland And if it be no lesse then high Treason against the King to slay the Chancellour Treasurer or any of the Judges or Justice● of either Bench Eyer Assiz● or Oyer and Terminer being in their places doing their Offices though by the Kings command as is cleare by 25. E. 3. c. 2. and all our Law Bookes then much more must it be high Treason against the King and Kingdome to warre against the highest Court of Parliament or slay any member of it for doing thei● Offices and executing the Houses just Commands as I shall in due place more fully manifest In briefe the Gun powder plot in 3 Jacobi to blow up the Parliament House was then adjudged resolved by the Parliament * 3 Jac. c. 1 2. 4 5. in his Proclamations for apprehending those Traytors The proceedings against Traytors Spee hist p. 1248. to 1257. King and Judges to be high Treason not onely against the King but Parliamen● and Kingdome too and to blow up or assault the Parliament now in the Kings absence is question le●● high Treason both against the King Parliament and Kingdome Yea the statute of 28. H. 8. c. 7. declares those Who shall claime the Crowne even of right in any other manner then it limited by vertue and authority of that act after the Kings death with all their Counsellors and abettors to be deemed and adjudged HIG● TRAITORS TO THE REALME not the King and such their offence to be rep●ted HIGH TREASON and they for it to suffer such paines of death and forfeiture of Lands an● Goods as in any cases of high Treason is used And I read in * Par. 7. p. 186. Fabian that Eguiran chiefe Counsellor to Philip the third of France was judged to death and hanged on the Gibbet at Paris for Treason against King Philip and the REALME OF FRANCE as our powder Traytors were executed for high Treason against the King and Realme of England And by the Statutes of 5. R. 2. c. 6. II R. 2. c. 1. 3. 17. R. 2. c. 8. 21. R. 2. c. 2. 4. 20. 3. H. 5. S●a 2. c. 6. 1. Mariae c. 6. certaine offences are declared and made high treason and the committers of the● Trayters and enemies not onely to and against the King but likewise TO AND AGAINST TH● REALME and in particular the illegall indicting of some Lords to destroy them as guilty of High Treason for procuring a Commission in Parliament supposed prejudiciall to the King and his Crowne 10 R. 2. c. I. and the opposing and annulling of that Commission and of some Processe Judgements Executions made given and affirmed in some of those Parliaments raising forces and le●ying warre against the Parliament and Members of it to destroy them were then * See Walsingh Holinshed Fabian Grafton Stow Speed in 10. 11. R. 2. 21. R. 2. c. 12. adjudged High Treason both against the King and THE REALME though done by the Kings expresse Commission and command The reason is because the King in judgement of Law * See here p. 20 21. 22. is ever legally present in and with his Parliament when they sit as I have already proved where ever his person is and his royall legall will of which alone the Law takes notice is ever presumed to concurre with his greatest Councell the Parliament against whose Priviledges safety and protection he neither can nor ought by Law or right to attempt any thing and if any personall Commands or Commissions of the King under his great Seale to doe ought against Magna Charta the Subjects liberty safety property the Parliaments Priviledges the Common or Statute Lawes of the Realme all which expressely prohibit the levying of warre killing wounding murthering impris●ning disin●e●i●ing robbing or plundering of the Subjects without legall triall or conviction as d●e the Statutes of 2 R. 2. c. 7. 1 H. 5. c. 6. 1 H. 5. c. 6. which prescribe exemplary punishments against such Plunderers and Robbers especially the Welshmen issue out to any person or persons whatsoever especially to raise forces on levie warre against the Parliament or Subjects they are meerely void in Law and will rather aggravate then extenuate the guilt of those who obey or execute them as is clearely resolved not onely by 42. Ass p. 5. 12. Brooke Commissions 15. 16. Cooke b. 5. f. 50. 51. l. 7. f. 36. 37. l. 8. f. 125. to 129. but likewise expressely adjudged and enacted by the Statutes of 15. E. 3. Stat. 1. c. 1. 3. 42. E. 3. c. 1. 3. 11. R. 2. c. 1. to 6. 21. Jac. c. 3. the Petition of Right 3. Caroli 28. E. 2. Artic super Chartas c. 2. 4. E. 3. c. 4. 5. E. 3. c. 2. 25. E. 3. c. 1. 15. 34. E. 3. c. 2. and generally byall Statutes concerning * See Rastals abridgement Tit. Purveyors Purveyors by the memorable old Statute of 25.

by Parliament and violently p●t to death though the Kings highest Officer and darling Minions o Walsingham Holinsh Speed Grafton Stow in 11 R. 2. c. 1. 6 7. Froysards Chron. part c. 97. Michael De La Pole wi●h other great Officers and Favourites to King Richard the second condemned deprived of their Offices banished and executed by the Peere● in Parliament together with Trisilian Belknap and their fellow Judges who misadvised him in point of Law p Hall Stow Speed Holinsh Grafton Fox in H. 6. Humph●ey Duke of Glocester Protector to King Henry the sixt arrested of high Treason in a Parliament at Bury and there murdered q Hall Holi Grafton Stow in H. 8. Cardinall Wolsey that powerfull favourite ●o King Hen●y the eight accused and put from his Chancellorship and other Offices by the Parliament r Fox Speed Holinshed Stow Grafton in Ed. 6 The Duke of Sommerset Lord Protector to King Edward the sixt accused and attainted of high Treason in Parliament for which he lost his head the great Earle of Strafford Lord Depu●y of Ireland who lost his head this Parliament for Treason full sore against his Majesties and the Queenes wills with infinite others mentioned in our Stories and Records Nay Queenes themselves have undergone ●he censures of Parliament of which we have sundry precedents in ſ See Fox Hall Speed Holinshed Grafton in his life 28. H. 8. c. 7. p. 35. p. 8. c. 1. King Henry the eight his Reigne not onely to divorce but losse of their very heads and shall any Delinquent then thinke to be protected by any power against the Parliaments justice now 13. Not to mention the Parliaments Soveraigne Power and Jurisdiction t Matth. Paris p. 560. 562. 933 934 935. Speed p. 750. Grafton p. 188 189. 240 241. 221 222 223. The severall Acts for Subsidies and Rastal Warre Truce Armes Money Mint Musters Taxes Tonnage Poundage The Parliaments two Remonstrances concerning the Militia C●oks Instit on Artic Super Chartas in Making or proclaiming warre or Peace in which they have oft ti●es not onely advised but overswayed the King in creating the highest Officers in Ordering the Militia of the Kingdome by Sea and Land by setled Lawes of which more an on or in ordering the coyne and Money of the Land together w●th the Mint or designing how the Subsidies and Aydes granted by them to the King shall be disposed of to the Kingdomes use of which there are sundry precedents All which are strong See Bodines Commen wealth l. 1. c. 10. evidences of its Soveraigne Authority together with the Acts concerning his Purveyance and all Revenues royall Nor yet to remember this infallible Argument to prove Kingdomes greater and more valuable then Kings that Kings as publique Servants to their Realmes ought to hazard their lives for their Kingdomes safety and preservation as many have done in wa●●es against enemies but never ought the whole kingdome to be lost or hazarded to preserve its Kings P●erogatives that of John 11. 48 49 50. and chap. 18. 14. being an undoubted rule in Divinity and Policy * That it is expedient that any one man though a King should dye for the people that the whole Nation perish not rather then the whole Nation dye for him There is one cleare Demonstration yet remaining to prove the Supreame power of Parliaments above Kings themselves which is this That it is the highest Court and power to which all x See Sir Thomas Smiths Common wealth l. 2. c. 1. 2. Holinsheds Description of England c. 8. p. 173 and Chronicles of Ireland p. 127. to 130. Cromptons Jurisdiction Appeales are lastly and finally to be made from all other Courts and Judges whatsoever yea from the Kings owne personall resoluti●ns in or out of any other his Courts and such a transcendent Tribunall from whence ●here is no appeale to any other Court or person no not to the King himselfe but onely to another Parliament If any erroneous judgement be given in the Kings Bench Exchequer Chamber Chancery Court of Wards or any other Court within the Realme or in the Parliament in Ireland it is finally to be reversed o● determined in Parliament by a Writ of y 1 H. 7. 1. Br. Parliament 92. 98. Error 65 88. 137. See Ash Error 65 66 67 68 70. Error or upon a Petition or Bill If any sentence be unjustly given in any Ecclesiasticall Courts or before the Delegates the finall Appeale for redresse must be to the Parliament Illegall sentences in the now exploded extravagant Courts of Star-Chamber or High Commission Injuries done by the King and his privy Councell at the Councell Table are examinable and remediab●e in this High Court Nay if the King himselfe should sit in person in the Kings Bench or any other Court as sometimes our Kings have done and there give any judgement it is not so obligatory or finall but that the party against whom judgement is pronounced may appeale to the Parliament for reliefe But if the Parliament give any judgement There * See 22 E 3. 3 Error 8. 8 H 4. 12 13 can be no Appeale to any hig●er Tribunall Court or Person no not to the King but onely to the next or some other Parliament as is evident by experience by all z 21 R. 2. c. ● to 15. 1 H. 4. c. 2 3 4. 8 H. 4. 12 13. See 1 Mariae c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. ● 3. 21 Jac. c. 28. And all Acts for restitution in blood of Persons Attainted and Acts of repealing S●atutes Bracton l. 1. c. ● Attainders of Treason by or in Parl●ament by all inconveent and unjust Act● passed in Parliament which concerne either King or Subject Which cannot be reversed nor repealed though erroneous nor the right heire restored in blood by any Charter f●om the King but onely by an Act of repeale or restitution in blo●d by another Parliament Now this is an infallible Maxime both in the Common Civill and Canon Law that The Court or person to w●om the last appeale is to be made is the Supreamest power as the a See Ashes Tables Error 65 66 67 68 69 70. Kings Bench is above the Common Pleas the Esc●equer Chamber * See Matthew Paris p. 268. Legimus quod multi al● Reges imo Reguli usque ad mortem dimica●unt c. above the Kings Bench and the Parliament above them all because a Writ of Error to reverse erroneous judgements given in the Common Pleas lyeth in the Kings Bench Errors in the Kings Bench may be reversed in the Eschequer Chamber and errors in all or either of them may be redressed finally in Parliament from whence there is no further appeale Hence the Canonists conclude a b Bodin l. 1. c. 10. Summa Angelic● Rosella Tit. Appellatio Lindwood lib. 2 de Appellationibus Fox Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 448 449. 452. 506. 24. H. 8. c. 12. All Papists and Protestants

1. c. 2. 19. H. 6. 63 a. 64. b. 31. H. 8. c. 10. Dyer 60 a. Cookes Institutes on Littleton f. 109. 110. Writers resolve is the most high and ab●olute power the supreamest and most ancient Court of the Realme of England and hath the power of the whole Realme both Head and Body and amorg other Priviledges this is the highest that it is above the Law ●t selfe having power upon just grounds to alter the very common Law of England to abrogate and repeale old Lawes to enact new Lawes of all sorts to impose taxes upon the people yea it hath power to declare the meaning of any doubtfull Lawes and to repeale all Patents Charters Grants and ●udgements whatsoever of the King or any other Courts of Iustice if they be erronious or illegall not onely without but against the Kings personall consent so far as finally to obliege both King and Subjects Now it is cleare on the contrary side that the King hath not the power of the whole Realm ●ested in his person that he t Fortescue c. 10. to 1● Bracton l. 1. c. 8. l 3. c 9. Fleta l 1 c. 5. 17. Brooke Patents 25. 41. 12. 51. 53. 69 73. 100 Prerogative 15. 103. Commissions 15. 16. See Iudge Crooks and Iudge Huttons Arguments against Ship-money Petition of Right 3. Carol. Br. Parliament 42. and his Prerogative are not above but subordinate to the Lawes of the Realme that he cannot by his absolute regall power altar the Common Law of the Realme in any particular point whatsoever that he cannot repeale any old nor enact any new Law whatsoever norimpose the least taxe or common charge upon his people nor imprison their persons distraine s Sir Thoma● Smith of the Common-wealth of England l. ● c. 1. 2. Holinshed Description of England c. 8. p. 173. Cambdens Brittania p. 173. Iohn Vowels Order and usage how to keepe a Parliament in Holinsheads Chronicles of Ireland p. 101. to 120. Minshewes Dictionary Tit. Parliament their goods declare any Law or reverse any judgement in the meanest of his Courts without or against his peoples joynt consents in Parliament For Potestas sua Juris est non Injuriae Nihil ●liud potest Rexin terris ni●i ID SOLVM QVOD DE JVRE POTEST Bracton l. 3. c. 9. f. 107. Therefore without any peradventure the Parliament in this regard is the most Soveraigne Authority and greater in jurisdiction than the King v Of the Common-wealth l. 2. c. 10. p. 159. Iohn Bodin that great Lawyer and Polititian resolves That the chiefe marke of an absolute and Soveraigne Prince is to give Lawes ●o all his Subjects in generall and to every of them in particular without consent of any other greater equall or lesse than himselfe For if a Prince be bound not to make any Lawes without the consent of a greater than himselfe he is then a very Subject if not without his equall he then hath a Companion as x l. 2. c. 16. f. 34. a. l. 1. c. 8. f. 5. b. Fleta l. 1. c. 17. Walfingham Hist p. 36 37. 40. Bracton and others forecited say our English King hath namely his Earles and Lords thence-stiled Comites if not without the consent of his inferiours whether it be of his Subjects or of the Senate or of the people he is then no Soveraigne Whence it followes that the Kings of England who cannot make any Law to obliege either all or any of their Subjects nor impose any * Taxes nor repeale any Common or Statute Law but in and by their Parliaments are no absolute Soveraigne Princes as some Royalists and Court Divines most falsly averre them to be but meere mixt Soveraignes inferiour to their Lawes and Parliaments the ●ole Law-makers and Law-alterers though not against but with the Kings assents considered not abstractively as Kings but copulative as a branch and member of the Parliament And indeede to speake impartially though the kings Royall assent y See Sir Thomas Smiths Common wealth of England l. z. c. 1. 2. 3. Holinshed Description of England c. 8. p. 173. Chronicles of Ireland p. 101. 102. M. Hackwels manner of passing B 〈…〉 Sect. 8. p. 74. Brooke Parliament 4. 107. 33. H. 6. 33. 33 H. 8. c. 21. Cromptons Iurisdiction f. 7. b. Br. Parliament 26. 39. 40 41. be generally requisite to passe and ratifie Lawes yet I humbly conceive that the originall prime Legislative power of making Lawes to binde the Subjects and their Posteritie rests not in the kings owne royall person but in the Kingdome and Parliament which represents it For first admit the king should propound any Lawes to his people as kings and Lawgivers usually did at first yet these Lawes would no wayes obliege them unlesse they voluntarily consented and submitted to them in Parliament and the sole reason why our Acts of Parliament binde the Subjects in former times and at this day is not because the king willed them z 4. H. 7. 18. 7. H. 7 14. 11. H. 7. 27. 33. H 6. 17. Bro. Parliament 4. 40. 76. 107. Cromptons Iurisdiction f. 8. but because the people gave their a Bro. Ancient Demesne 2● 10. H. 7. 20. a. 33. H. 8. c. 17. generall consents unto them in Parliament as Sir Thomas Smith in his Common-wealth of England Holinshed the Prologues to most Ancient Statutes the King by the advise and assent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons and at the speciall request of the Commons in Parliament assembled and by THE * See 2. 7. 8. 12. 14. 17. 4. H. 7. AUTHORITY OF THE SAME PARLIAMENT doth grant and ordaine c and all our Law-bookes resolve and that upon this received Maxi ne of Law Quod tangit omnes ab omnibus debet approbari The king doth but like the Minister in Marriage declare it to be a Law but t is the parties consents which makes the marriage and the people onely that makes it ● Law to binde them whence those in a Cook 7. ●●luins case 7. H. 6. 35. b. Dyer 373. Br. Parliament 98. Scotland Ireland Man Garnsey ●●● Jer●●e are not bound by our English Statutes nor we by theirs nor tenants in Ancient demesne because they consented not to them Therefore the chiefe Legislative power is in the people and both Houses o● Parliament not in the king as it was in the Roman State Where the b Livy Hist ● 1. 2. Bodin Common-wealth ● 1 c. 10. people had the So●eraigne Iurisdiction of making and confirming Lawes to binde them not their Kings Emperours o● Senate as I shall hereafter manifest Secondly this appeares by the case of c Fiz Assise 413. Avowry 74. Praescri●●ion 67. Broo Custome 31. Co. 5. Rep. f. 63. 64. 67. 68 Kit●chin 45. 73 ●0 Customes and By-Lawes in Corporations and Mano●●s which binde all the Corporation and Tenants if they be reasonable without the Kings or Lords consents by reason of

other and all attainders and Acts against him by Edward the fourth and King Richard s Grafton p. 856. this Parliament annibilated After him King Hen●y the eighth to ratifie his divorce from Que●ne Katherine caused it to be confirmed and his t Sp. p. 1028. Marriage with her to be utterly dissolved by Act of Par●iament and by u 25 H. 8. c. 22. 26 He. 8. c. 13. 28 H. 8 c. 7. 35 H. 8. c. 5. See Hall sundry Acts ratified his subsequent Marriages and setled the descent of the Crowne to ●is posterity somewhat different from the course of the Common Law which Statutes were afterwards altered ●nd the descent of the Crowne setled by other speciall Bils in Parliament both in x 1 Mar. c. 1. Parliament 2. c. 1. 2. 1 Eli. c. 3. 13 Eliz. c. 1. Queene Maries and Queene Elizabeths Reignes Whose Titles to the Crowne were setled and in some sort created by the ●arliament By the notable Sta● of 13. Eli. c. ● worthy reading for this purpose it is made no lesse then high Treason ●o affirme That the Queene WITH and BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE PAR●IAMENT of England is not able to make Lawes and Statutes of sufficient force and validity to binde li●it restraine and governe all persons their Rights and Titles that in any wise may or might claime any interest or ●ossibility in or to the Crowne of England in possession re●ainder inheritance succession or otherwise howsoever ●nd all other persons whatsoever King Edward the sixt Queene Elizabeth and other our Princes holding ●heir Crownes by a Parliamentary Title rather then by the course of the * See Cooks Institut Littlei f. 15 16. Common Law which this ●tatute affirmes the Parliament hath power to alter even in case of descent of the Crowne It is observable that the Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 28 H 8. c. 7. and 35 H. 8. c. 1. doe not onely Nul●●fie some of this Kings marriages and ratifie others of them declaring some of his issues legitimate and heredi●ble to the Crowne others not and appoint the Queene if living to be Protector of the infant King or Queene ●at should inherit the Crowne or such of the Lords as the King by his last will should designe But likewise pre●cribe strict Oathes for every Subject to take to maintaine the Succession of the Crowne as it is limited ●y those Acts which Oathes for any to refuse is made high Treason or to write or speake any thing a●ainst the Succession of the Crowne as it is therein limited And withall they derive a plenary authority ●● the King who thereupon * 35 H. 8. c. 1. acknowledgeth the great trust and confidence his loving Subjects had in him ● putting in his hands wholly the Order and Decla●ation of the Succession of this Realme by his Letters Patents ●der his Seale or his last will in writing signed with his ●and for la●ke of issue lawfully begotten of his bo●● to * 28 H. 8. c. 7. 35 H. 8. c 1. give limit assigne appoint or dispose the imperiall Crowne of the Realme to what person or persons ●d for such estate in the same and under such conditions as it should please his Majesty The Parliament therein ●omising by o●e common assent to accept take love dread and obey as their legall Governours and Supreame ●ads such person or persons onely as the King by au●hority of those Acts sh●uld give the Crowne unto and ●olly to st●cke to them as true faithfull Subjects Provided that if any of his Children or Heires afterward ●d usur●e one upon the o●her in the Crowne of this Realme or claime or challenge the said Imperiall Crowne ●●erwise or in any other course forme degree or condition then the same should be given disposed or li●ted unto them by the King by ver●ue of those Acts. Or if any person or persons to whom it should please ●● King by autho●ity of those Acts to dispose the said Crowne and Dignity of this Realme or the Heires of any ● them should at any time hereafter demand challenge or claime the Crowne of this Realme otherwise or in ●y other course forme degree or condition then the same should be given disposed and limited unto them by ●● King by ver●ue and authority of these Acts That then all and singular offenders in any of the premises ●ntrary to these Acts and all their Abettou●s Maintainers Factours Counsellours and Aiders therein shall be ●emed and adjudged HIGH TRAYTORS TO THE REALME and that every such ●ence shall be accepted reputed and taken to be high Treason and the offenders therein their ayders c. ●● every such offence shall suffer such judgement pai●es of death losses and forfeitures of Lands Goods and Pri●ledges of sanctuary as in any cases of high Treason And over that as well the Kings said Hei●es and Children every such person and persons to whom the Crowne should be limited as aforesaid and e●ery of their Heires ●● every such offence above specified by them or any of them to be committed shall lose and forfeit as well all such ●ight Title and interest that they may claime or challenge in or to the Crowne of this Realme as Heires by ●scent or by reason of any gift or Act done by the King for his or their advancement by authority of those Acts by any manner of meanes or pretence whatsoever And the Statute of 35. H. 8. c. 1. which entailed the Crowne upon Queene Mary after Edward the 6. his decease without issue hath this proviso That if the said Lady Mary doe not keepe and performe ●● conditions as King Henry by his Letters Patents or last Will in writing should hereafter declare and limit ●●● said estate in the Imperiall Crowne That then and from thenceforth the said Imperiall Crowne shall be● come to the Lady Elizabeth and the heires of her body lawfully begotten in such like manner and forme a● th●● the said Lady Mary were then dead without any ●eires of her body begotten any thing in this Act contained ● the contrary notwithstanding And the like proviso there is for Queene Elizabeth That if she performe not ●● like conditions limited as aforesaid to her estate in the Crowne That then the said Imperiall Crowne shall ● and come to such person or persons as the King by his Letters patents or last will shall limit or appoint By ● which Acts worthy reading and consideration the Parliaments Supreame power of setling and disposing the descent and inheritance of the Crowne and giving Authority even to the King himselfe to ●●pose of it upon condition on paine of forfeiture as aforesaid which the King alone had no right nor po●er at all to doe will easily appeare to the most malignant Spirits In the first y ● Jac. c. 1. Parliament of our late King James the first Bill then passed was an acknowledgem●● and confirmation of his immediate lawfull and undoubted succession and right to

doe both ● point of Law Divinity conscience resist the highest powers because they resist the Parliament and ● shall receive damnation to themselves for it either here or hereafter if they repent not which I seriously ●sire all those Delinquents Papists Malignants ill Counsellers and Cavaliers to consider who con●ary to severall Orders and Declarations of Parliament yea contrary to the Law of God of Nature of the ●ealme have like unnaturall Vipers taken up offensive Armes against the Parliament and Kingdome to ●ine them with our Religion Lawes and Liberties at once Thirdly Hence it followes that the Resolutions and Declarations of the Lords and Commons in Parlia●ent the supremest Court against the Commission of Array Arming of Papists raising of Forces impo●g Taxes to maintaine Warre against the Parliament plundering and the like ought to be obeyed and sub●itted to as lawfull and binding both by the King himselfe the Kingdome and every private Subject ●hatsoever and that the Kings extrajudiciall and illegall Declarations out of Parliament in direct oppo●ion and contradiction to the resolutions and Votes of both Houses in Parliament ought not to be obeyed ●e King himselfe as our Law Bookes resolve being no t 8 H. 4. 13. b. 24 H. 8. c. 12. 52 H. 3. c. 1. 25 H. 8. c. 21. Cookes 1 Institutes on Mag. Charta f. 103. See here p. 14. 34. competent Judge especially out of his Courts ●hat is Law or what not in those Cases but the Parliament onely Which extrajudiciall new device of con●olling affronting the Resolutions and Declarations of both Houses by opposite Proclamations and ●●clarations published in his Majesties name is such a transcendent violation of and contempt against ●e knowne priviledge the sacred venerable Authority and power of Parliaments as I am confident ●● age can parallell and if not severely vindicated by exemplary punishments of the highest nature up●● those ill Counsellors and corrupt Lawyers who contrive and pen them will bring this Highest grea●st and most honorable Court wherein the u 31 H. 8. c. 1 1 Jac. c. 1. Dr. Student 44. a. whole Kingdome and every member of it are represented into ●eater contempt and lesse estimation with all men whether Natives or Forainers then the basest Court ●● Pipouders is No King nor Subject ever yet attempted such affronts against the Resolutions of any Jud●s in inferiour Courts Let no person whatsoever then presume by pen or tongue any longer to a●●igne or traduce the Resolutions and Ordinances of this highest Tribunall If Kings or Counsellors of ●ate willinstruct or excite the Subjects perempto●ily to disobey and contemne the Ordinances the ●udgements of the Parliament let them never expect the least obedience or submission to any of their ●wn commands which are of lesser credit and Authority Fourthly That the Parliament and whole Kingdome being the highest power or any Member of ●●e Parliament cannot by any publicke Acts or Votes of theirs consented to in Parliament become Tray●●s or guilty of high Treason against the King either by the Common Law o● the S●atute of 25. Ed. 3. b page 4 5. ● 2 of Treasons which running in the singular number If A MAN c. that is any private man ● men by their owne private authority shall levy warre against the King c. it ought to be judged high ●reason extends not to the whole Kingdome or Court of Parliament representing it of which no trea●n was ever yet presumed and by this very act is made the Judge of all Treasons that are doubtfull being ●ver yet included within the words or meaning of any Law concerning Treasons and therefore cannot be ●ilty of it Hence the depositions of a Graf par● 6. p. 62 63. Galfredus Mo●●● Fabia● Polychr others Archigallo and Emcrianus two ancient British Kings by the unani●ous assent of the Lords and Commons for their rapines oppressions and Tyranny with other forenamed Sax● Kings and of Edward the second Richard the second Henry the sixth Edward the fourth by Acts ●● Parliament the creating of Richard the third King and the frequent translations of the Crowne from ●e right heire at Common Law to others who had no good title by the whole Kingdome or Parliament ●o lesse then c Bracton l. 2 Glan l. 2. f. 112 Myrror c. 1 sect 4. Britton c. 8. f. 16. c. 22. f. 39 25. E. 3. ● 2. See Rastal ●rote Sta●●f Crompt Dalton in their Titles Chapters of Treason high Treason in private persons was never yet reputed much lesse questioned or adjudged ●igh Treason in the whole Kingdome or Parliament or any chiefe active Members in these Parliaments which being above the King are uncapable of Treason for any their judiciall actions and resolutions in such cases being onely Tortious and Erroneous reversible by other Acts in Parliament not Trayterous and Rebellious as appeares by all the forequoted Statutes and by 13 Eliz. c. ● which makes it high Treason d page for any person to affirme That the Queene by Authority of the Parliament of England is not able to make Lawes e Walsingham Holin Graf Sto. Speed Martyn Fab. Polychro in 21 R. 2. 11 R. 2. c. 3 4. 21 R. 2. c. 12. and Statutes of sufficient force to alter limit and binde the Crowne of this Realme and the descent limitation inheritance and government thereof And for direct Authorities in this very point Robert Tresylian and Belknap then chiefe Justices Holt Fulthorpe and Burgh Judges Locton Kings Sergeant and Blake the Kings Counsell in the Parliament o● 1● Rich. 2. were condemned executed and banished the Realme as guilty of high Treason onely for affirming under their hands and seales f See the particulars more at large in 21 R. 2 c. 12. That the Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundell aad Warwicke were and that other Lords and Commons might be guilty of high Treason for procuring a Commission and other proceedings in Parliament and be punished for it as Traytors Which opinion of theirs being afterwards affirmed for Law in a packed Parliament 21 Rich. 2. was the very next Parliament in 1 Hen. 4. c. 2 3 4. repealed and the judgement given against those Judges for this Trayterous opinion tending to the utter subversion of Parliaments resolved and enacted to be just This g See 1 H. 4. c. 3. and here p. 13. Judge h Spee p. 747 Belknap foresaw and therefore was unwilling to put his Seale to this opinion Saying There wanted but a hurdle a horse and hal●●● to carry him where he might suffer the death HE HAD DESERVED for if I had not done this ● should have dyed for it and because I have done it I DESERVE DEATH for betraying the Lords Which makes me wonder at a passage in i Hist p. 675 Speed who records it now frequent in Malignants mouthe● That the very shop where the Barons originall Treasons were forged was THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE wherein from time to time they