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A88244	Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent. Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2172; Thomason E370_12; ESTC R201291	90,580	119

judicative power nor a legislative power inherent in him as is strongly undeniably and unanswerably proved before in pag. 43 44 46 47 60 61. And therefore away with the pretended power of the Lords up with it by the roots and let them sit no longer as they do unlesse they will put themselves upon the love of their Country to be freely therby chosen as their ●ōmissioners to sit in Parliament for I am sure in right all their actions now are unbinding and unindivalid which becomes you O all ye Free-men or Commoners of England out of that duty you ow to your selves yours and your native Country throughly and home to set forth by Petition to your own HOVSE of COMMONS and to desire them speedily to remove them before the Kingdome be destroyed by their crosse proud and inconsistent interest for little do you know what Scotch-ale divers of them are now a brewing Read the Histories of William the Conqueror and you shall easily find that the pride and contention of those English-men that were called Lords amongst themselves was no small cause of the losing of this Kingdome to that Tyrant for saith Speed fol. 409. After the Normans had slain King Harold and overthrown his Army the two great Earles of Yorkshire and Cheshire Morcar and Edwine coming to London where the Londoners c. would gladly have set up Edgar Atheling the true Heire to the Crown to have been their Captain Generall to have defended them from the powerfull Norman Invaders who now was exceedingly fleshed with his victory and now likely to over-run the whole Land yet such was the pride and baesenesse of these two great Lords that the misery distresse and fearfull estate of their native Country could not disswade from their ambition plotting secretly to get the Crown to themselvs which hindered that wise and noble design and totally lost their native Country O COMMONS OF ENGLAND therefore beware of them and have a jealous eye over them and take heed that when it comes to the pinch they serve you not such another trick again For I am sure their interest is not yours nor the publikes neither is it consistent with their ends that you should enjoy Justice or your undeniable and just rights liberties and freedomes And well to this purpose saith Daniel pag. 36. That after the Bishops and the Clergy had shewed their aversnesse to the erecting of that probable meanes that was propounded to hinder the theevish invader the Nobility considering they were so born and must have a King and therefore considering of his power made them strive and run head-long who should bee the first to pre-occupate the grace of servitude and intrude them into forraign subjection So that the poor Commons like a strong vessell that saith hee might have been for good use were hereby left without a stern and could not move regularly trusting and resting it seemes too much upon those Lords which I call the broken Reeds of Egypt by whom they were undone But for the further clee●ng of the Originall of the House of Peers pretended power I shall desire the understanding Reader to read over a little Treatise printed in Anno 1641. called The manner of holding of Parliaments in England in the 28. pag. hee saith King Harold being overcome William the 1. King and Conqueror having obtained the Soveraignty according to his pleasure bestowed Dignities and Honours upon his companions and others Some of them so connext and conjoyned unto the Fees themselves that yet to this day the possessors thereof may seem to be inabled even with the possession of the places only as our Bishops at this day by reason of the Baronies joyned unto their Bishoprickes enjoy the title and preheminence of Barons in highest Assemblies of the Kingdome in Parliament he gave and granted to others Dignities and Honours together with the Lands and Fees themselves hee gave to Hugh Lupas his kinsman a Norman and sonne to Emma sister to the Conqueror by the Mother the Earldome of Choster Adconquirendum Angliā-per Coronam that is in English to conquer and hold to himself and his Heires as free by the Sword as the King of England held it by his Crown to HANNVSRVFVS then Earl of Britain in France the Earldome of Richmond It a lib●re honorifice ut e●ndem Edwinus Comes antea tenue●at that is in English as freely and honourably as Edwine Earle held it before And the Earldome of Arundel which Harrold possessed he granted with a fee unto Roger of Montgomeny And in page 33. the same Author declares That Kings sometimes not regarding the Solemnities of Ceremonies and Charters have only by their becks suffered Dignities and Honours to be transferred So that by what Iam able to gather out of ancient Histories William the Conquerour absolutely subdued the Rights and Priviledges of Parliaments held in England before this time The manner of holding of which as the same Author in his first page declares was by the discreet sort of the Kingdome of England rehearsed and shewed unto the Conquerour which as hee saith he approved of And the same doth John Minshew say in his Dictionary published and printed at London July 22. 1625. fol. 526. his words are these In England the PARLIAMENT is called for the debating of matters touching the Common-wealth and especially the making and correcting of Lawes which Assembly or Court is of all other the highest and of greatest authority as you may read in Sir Thomas Smith de Re. Angl. lib. 2. cap. 1. 2. Cambd. Brit. Compt. Juris fol. 1. And see the Institution of this Court Polydor Virgil lib 11. of his Chronicles refer●eth after a sort to Henry 1. yet confessing that it was used before though very seldome You may find saith he in the former Prologue of the grand Customary of Normandy That the Normans used the same meanes in making their lawes In a Monument os Antiquity shewing the manner of holding this Parliament in the time of King Edward the sonne of King Etheldred which as the Note saith was delivered by the discreeter sort of the Realm to William the Conqueror and allowed by him This writing began thus Rex est Caput c. See more saith he of the course and order of this Parliament in Compt. Juris fol. 1. c. And VOWEL alias Hooker in his Book purposely written of this matter Powels book called the Atturneys Academy Read Mr. William Prynnes first part of the SOVERAIGNE POWER OF PARLIAMENTS AND KINGDOMES printed by the authority of this present Parliament pag 42 43 44. William the Conqueror having as to me is clearly evident subdued Parliaments their power authority priviledges and jurisdiction did set up by the absolute law of his own will for his Compceres Couzens and Connsellors such men who had most pleased him in vassalizing and enslaving this kingdom and the people thereof in whose steps severall of his successors after him did tread So that the kingdome was

his late booke called LONDONS LIBERTIES IN CHAINES DISCOVERED pag. 54 And what me●nes Lieutenant Collonel Iohn Lilburnes p●ttifull Complaints in divers of his bookes against severall Members of the HOVSE of COMMONS but especially against Justice LAVRANCE WHITAKER See Innocency and Truth justified pag. 12. 15. 16. 63. 64. And Londons Liberty in Chaines discovered And what meanes his leud Complaints in his Epistle to Iudge REEVE c. against the Earle of Manchester and Collonel Edward King of Lincolnsh●re whom he accuseth for being Traytors to the trust reposed by the PARLIAMENT in them And yet is so farre from obtaining Justice against them that he is clapt by the heeles in the exceeding chargeable prison of the Tower of London by their meanes And what meanes that extraordinary Complaint of Mr. ANDREWES BVRRELL in his printed REMONSTRANCE TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND against the CHIEFE MEN that are mannagers of the NAVIE viz THE EARLE of WARWICK Mr. GILES GREENE Chairman of the Committee of the Navy Mr. SAMVEL VASSALL and the 2. Mr. Bencis Members of the same Committee c To whose charge he layes little lesse then TREACHERY TO THE WHOLE KINGDOME and couse●ing and cheating of the publicks monyes yea such is his CHARGE there against them that if he be able to make it good THEY DESERVE NO LESSE THEN HANGING And it seemes he is able sufficiently to do it for they dare not call him to account but let him go at Liberty which demonstrat●s to all understanding men They know their own guiltinesse And a thing of as high a consequence is the lamentable Complaint made against Sir Iohn Clotworthy and his friend Mr. Davis c. about their cousening and cheating poore and bleeding Ireland of much of the monies that should have relieved it which Complaint is called The State of the Irish affaires for the Honourable Members of the Houses of Parliament as they lie represented before them from the Committee of Adventurers in London for lands in Ireland sitting at Gr●cers Hall for that service and printed at London by G. MILLER dwelling in the Black-Fryers The abstract of which with some additions are inserted in a written paper which I had from a good hand which followeth thus A further discovery of the evill managing of the affaires of Ireland wherein it doth plainly appeare that above the fourth part of the monies levied for Ireland is pursed by 4. or 5. private men to the value of 97195. l. THat presently after the trouble did breake forth in Ireland there was one Mr. John Davis of the Irish Nation came for England who was trusted by the Parliament with 4000. l. worth of Provisions and appointed Commissary for the disposall of those goods for the English and Scottish Armies in Ireland The said Mr. Davis using indirect wayes by feasting and bribing the Officers having spent 100. l. upon them in a week as he himselfe hath acknowledged and by that meanes he obtained his desire for he valued the goods which he delivered to the Armies at such unreasonable high prizes that in this imployment for the space of 8. or 9. months he so manageth the businesse that he makes the parliament indebted unto him 12195. l. And it will be made manifest by sufficient testimony that before he was put into this imployment he was not worth 200. l. but with feasting and bribing the Commanders of the said Armies He obtaines such an accompt in writing having such friends to assist him that he procures Generall L●sl●yes letter of recommendation for his good service setting forth how seasonable the provisions came to the Army but no mention made that the Parliament sent the goods That after the said Mr. Davis had procured this letter he comes for England the troubles here being great the Parliament had not time to heare him so he continued in and about London for the space of two yeares or thereabouts In which time he was reduced to a meane and low condition in so much as he hath acknowledged he had much ado to ge● mony to buy food for himself his wife yet in this low Condition he puts in Propositions to the Commi●tee of Parliament to deliver 60000. l. in Provisions Armes and Cloth to be paid out of the Ordinance for Ireland which was for above three times as much but he was to have the first mony that came in upon the said Ordinance onely 20000. l. was alotted otherwise The Committee of Adventurers for Ireland were sent for and treated withall to know if they would serve in and deliver those provisions for Ireland who at the first refused to agree by way of bargaine alledging that they would make use of the said Ordinance to serve it with all expedition expecting no profit but the Committee of Parliament said that there was necessity of making agreement by way of contract whereupon the Committee of Adventurers for Ireland did give in Propositions that they would serve and deliver those provisions 7000. l. in 60000. l. under the prises Mr. Davis had given in notwithstanding M. Davis delivered the goods had his prizes for those goods provisions but did fail in all his undertakings both in the time of delivering the goods and also the goods he served were generally very bad as doth appeare by the Testimony of one of the Parliaments Commissioners in Ireland which Testimony and the prises Mr. Davis had is here inserted The reasons why M. Davis had this employment before those Citizens are many I shall name one the cessation of Armes in Ireland being ended divers Commanders came over from thence into this Kingdom who knowing Mr. Davis of old in respect of his large bribes given them did desire the Committee of Parliament that Mr. Davies might be the man for the providing and furnishing of provisions for the service of Ireland alleadging they knew him well as for the Citizens they were more fit to keepe shops then to take care of a Kingdom These Commanders above-mentioned are those who were for the Parliament one year and the next year sided and joyned with the Irish Rebels these are the men who gave this good report of Mr. Davies That Mr. Davies hath made a second bargain with the Committe of Parliament for 45000. l. worth of goods the which mony is fully paid him and the 60000. l. also formerly mentioned and this Committee have allowed him his pretended Debt of 12195. l. out of the money appointed by Ordinance of Parliament only for Ireland and not to pay any debt although never so reall Mr. Davies in the moneth of July 1646. hath made a third agreement for 140000. l. to deliver so much in Arms Provisions other necessaries the money part of it to be paid out of the Excise and the rest by a new Ordinance of Parliament for levying of monies for the service of Ireland the Committe of Adventurers having formerly declared in their book formerly set forth by thē which was presented to divers Members of

Regall Tyrannie discovered OR A DISCOURSE shewing that all lawfull approbational instituted power by GOD amongst men is by common agreement and mutual consent Which power in the hands of whomsoever ought alwayes to be exercised for the good benefit and welfare of the Trusters and never ought other wise to be administred Which whensoever it is it is justly resistable and revokeable It being against the light of Nature and Reason and the end wherefore God endowed Man with understanding for any sort or generation of men to give so much power into the hands of any man or men whatsoever as to enable them to destroy them or to suffer such a kind of power to be exercised over them by any man or men that shal assume it unto himself either by the sword or any other kind of way In which is also punctually declared The Tyrannie of the Kings of England from the dayes of William the Invader and Robber and Tyrant alias the Conqueror to this present King Charles Who is plainly proved to be worse and more tyrannicall then any of his Predecessors and deserves a more severe punishment from the hands of this present Parliament then either of the dethroned Kings Edw. 2. 01 Rich. 2. had from former Parliaments which they are bound by duty and oath without equivocation or colusion to inflict upon him He being the greatest Delinquent in the three Kingdoms and the head of all the rest Out of which is drawn a Discourse occasioned by the Tyrannie and Injustice inflicted by the Lords upon that stout-faithful-lover of his Country and constant Sufferer for the Liberties thereof Lieut. Col. John Lilburn now prisoner in the Tower In which these 4. following Positions are punctually handled 1. That if it were granted that the Lords were a legall Jurisdiction and had a judicative power over the Commons yet the manner of their dealing with Mr. Lilburn was and is illegall and unjust 2. That the Lords by right are no Judicature at all 3. That by Law and Right they are no Law-makers 4. That by Law and Right it is not in the power of the King nor in the power of the House of Commons it selfe to delegate the legislative power either to the Lords divided or conjoyned no nor to any other person or persons whatsoever Vnto which is annexed a little touch upon some palbable miscarriages of some rotten Members of the House of Commons which House is the absolute sole law-making and law-binding Interest of England Hos 8. 4. They have set up Kings but not by me They have made them Princes and I know it not LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1647. The Printer to the Reader IF thou beest courteous Reader contribute but thy Clemency in favourable correctiting the Errata's notwithstanding much due care had in so publike a work as this is as we must acknowledge lye dispersed therin Pag. 1. line 2. for 32. read 33. p. 4. l. 11. for fifthly r. sixthly p. 7. 59. r. in the world see Hos 8. 4 p. 8. l. 17. for they r. he knowing that when he p. 10. l. 20. for Rom. r. revelation l. 29. r. Dan. 43. p. 11. l. 6. for against r. but by l. 38. for name r. hand p. 12. l. 2. r. and as he l. 16. sor 23. r. 33. l. 38. for his r. their p. 13. l. 24 sor ver 11 r chap. 8. ver 11. p. 15. l. 30. for trivial r cruel p. 16. l. 2. for rule r. cover p. 18. l. 16 for and his r. and her p. 19. l. 34. for rerforme r. performe p. 21. l. 1. blot out years of his l. 27. for this r. of this King l. 31. for most r. most base p. 23. l. 4. for 16. r. 6. p. 24. l. 10. for them r. him l. 25. for Realm granted him the ninth peny r Realm dear besides the 9. peny they granted formerly at one time for them to his Predecessor p. 26. l. 20. r have had l. 31. r. unusuall l. 35 r. after this p. 27. l. 2. r. uncounselable l. 26 r late King p. 34. l. 3. 457 r 655. l. 6 264 r 462 p. 39 l. 26 after Charles r but all his Predecessors received their Crown and Kingdom conditionally by contract agreement I doubt not but the present K. Ch his c. p. 40 l. 10. r. by but a l after Kingdō r that there shold not much more be an account of his Office due to this Kingdom it selfe p. 45 l. 23 after people r and comes lineally from no purer a fountain and well-spring then from their Predecessors l 25 blot out Dukes p 48. l. 29. that put in if after p. 56. l. 8 404 406 r. 504 506 p. 59 l. 34 1641 r. 1646. p. 60 l. 10 2 Sam 7 13 r. 1 King 12 1. p. 61 l. 17 at the end of justly r. come by and. l. 18 at the end of Prophet r. to K. Rehoboam who had assembled 18000. chosen men which were Warriers to go fight against the house of Ifrael p. 72 l. 2 in the margent for 254 r 264 l. last of the marg for 4 r. 467 p. 73 l. 15. 16 marg after 29 insert 46. after Rot. 2 insert 4 p. 75 l. 1 in marg for 5 r. 9 4 for 8. r. 18 in marg for 27. r. 2 part l. 9. for 58 r. 38. p. 76 l 19 for own r. other p. 77 l. 9. in marg 22 r. 102. p. 79 l. 1. abeas r. Habeas p. 81 l. 24 r. to deliver to l. 35 r. at which p. 84. l. 2 after his honesty r. his judges cariage l. 7 for Lordships r. Lobby p. 86 l. 26 blot out Dukes p 87 l 1 practises r. prises p. 88 l. 9. King r. Duke p 91 l. 13. r. and afterwards in England made Odo p. 92. l. 2. 3. r. of whose estate l. 36. for unindivalid r. unvalid p. 94 l. 21. r. conquirendum tenendem sibi heredibus adeo libere per gladium sicut ipse rex ten●it Anglia p. 95. l. 36. r. Comissioners p. 96. l 27. for incursion r. innovation p. 97. l. 23. r. But in the Knights p. 97. l. 3. in the marg for 84 r. 8 4 7. p. 98. l. 8. for nor r. for p. 101 l. 12. for 1646. r. 1645. A Table of the principall Matters contained in this ensuing Discourse A ANger of God against Israel for their choice of a King pag. 14. Abuses checkt pag. 25. Acts of the Parliament pag. 33. Appeal of Lient Col. Lilburn to the House of Commons how approved on there pag. 64. Arlet the Whore William the Conquerors Dam page 87. Arlet the Whore marryed to a Norman Gentleman of mean substance pag. 91 B. Bastardly Fountain of Englands Kings pag. 15. Bellamy pag. 1. his basenesse pag. 2 3. Bookes of L. C. Iohn Lilburn before pag. 3. and since the Parliament pag. 3 4 8 Books against L C. Lilburn p. 1. 4. Barons Wars p. 30 31. Behaviour of L. C. Lilburn