Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	lord_n	majesty_n	seal_n	3,128	5	8.9661	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56162	The first and second part of A seasonable, legal, and historicall vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ... wherein is irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary records, proofs, presidents, that we have such fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws ... : collected, recommended to the whole English nation, as the best legacy he can leave them / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen. Part 1-2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3954; ESTC R19429	161,045	206

Ecclesiasticall Censures Excommunication Suspension Deprivation and Degradation CONTRARY TO THE LAWS of this kingdome Thirteenth He did by his own authority and power contrary to Law procure sundry of his Majesties Subjects and enforced the Clergy of this Kingdome to contribute towards the maintenance of the War against the Scots That to preserve himself from being questioned for these other his Traiterous courses he hath laboured to subvert the Rights of Parliament and the ancient course of Parliamentary proceedings and have not the Army Officers and others actually done it since upon the same accompt and by false and malicious slanders to incense his Majesty against Parliaments All which being proved against him at his Triall were after solemn Argument by Mr. Samuel Brown in behalf of the Commons House proved and soon after adjudged to be High Treason at the Common Law by both Houses of Parliament and so declared in the Ordinance for his Attainder for which he was condemned and beheaded as a Traitor against the King Law and Kingdom on Tower Hill January 10. 1644. 11. In the same Parliament December 21. Jan. 14. Febr. 11. 1640. and July 6. 1641. Sir John Finch then Lord Keeper Chief Justice Bramston Judge Berkley Judge Crawly Chief Baron Davenport Baron Weston and Baron Trevour were accused and impeached by the House of Commons by several Articles transmitted to the Lords OF HIGH TREASON for that they had Traiterously and wickedly endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws and established Government of the Realm of ENGLAND and instead thereof to introd●ce an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government against Law which they had declared by traiterous and wicked words opinions judgements and more especially in this their extrajudiciall opinion subscribed by them in the case of Ship money viz. We are of opinion that when the good and safety of the Kingdome in generall is concerned and the whole Kingdome in danger your Majesty may by Writ under the Great Seal of England without consent in Parliament command all your Subjects of this your Kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such a number of Ships with Men Victuall and Ammunition and for such time as your Majesty shall think fit for the Defence and safeguard of the Kingdome from such danger and perill And we are of Opinion that in such case your Majesty is the sole Judge both of the danger and when and how the sume is to be prevented and avoided And likewise for arguing and giving judgment accordingly in Mr. John Hampdens case in the Exchequer Chamber in the point of Ship money in April 1638 which said opinions are Destructive to the Fundamental Laws of the Realm the Subjects Right of Property and contrary to former Resolutions in Parliament and the Petition of Right as the words of their severall Impeachments run Sir John Fin●h fled the Realm to preserve his head on his shoulders some others of them died through fear to prevent the danger soon after their Impeachments and the rest who were lesse peccant were put to Fines 12. Mr. John Pym in his Declaration upon the whole matter of the charge of High Treason against Thomas Earl of Strafford Aprill 12. 1641. before a Committee of both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall printed and published by Order of the House of Commons proves his endeavour to subvert the Fundamental Laws of England and to introduce an Arbitrary Power to be High Treason and an offence very hainous in the nature and mischievous in the effects thereof which saith he will best appear if it be examined by that universall and supream Law Salu● Populi the element of all Laws out of which they are derived the end of all Laws to which they are designed and in which they are perfected 1. It is an offence comprehending all other Offences Here you shall finde several Treasons Murthers Rapines Oppressions Perjuries There is in this Crime a Seminary of all evils hurtfull to a State and if you consider the Reasons of it it must needs be so The Law is that which puts a difference betwixt good and evill betwixt just and unjust If you take away the law all things will fall into confusion every man will become a law to himself which in the depraved condition of humane nature must needs produce many great enormities Lust will become a Law and Envy will become a law Covetousnesse and Ambition will become laws and what Dictates what decisions such laws will produce may easily be discerned in the late Government of Ireland and England too since this The law hath a power to prevent to restrain to repair evils without this all kindes of mischiefs and distempers will break in upon a State It is the Law that intitles the King to the Allegiance and Service of his people it intitles the People to the Protection and Justice of the King c. The Law is the Boundary the measure betwixt the Kings Prerogative and the Peoples Liberties whiles these move in their Orbe they are a support and security to one another but if these Bounds be so removed that they enter into contestation and conflict one of these great mischiefs must needs ensue if the Prerogative of the King overwhelm the Liberty of the people it will be turned into Tyranny If Liberty undermine the Prerogative it will turn into Anarchy The Law is the safegard the custody of all private interests your Honours your Lives your Liberties and your estates are all in the keeping of the Law without this every man hath a like Right to any thing and this is the condition into which the Irish were brought by the Earl of Strafford and the English by others who condemned him And the reason which he gave for it hath more mischief than the thing it self THEY ARE A CONQUERED NATION let those who now say the same of England as well as Scotland and Ireland consider and observe what followes There cannot be a word more pregnant and fruitfull IN TREASON than that word is There are few Nations in the world that have not been conquered and no doubt but the conquerour may give what Laws he please to those that are conquered But if the succeeding Parts and Agreements do not limit and restrain that right what people can be secure England hath been conquered and Wales hath been conquered and by this reason will be in little better case than Ireland If the King by the Right of a Conquerour give Lawes to his people shall not the people by the same reason be restored to the Right of the conquered to recover their Liberty if they can What can be more hurtful more pernicious than such Propositions as these 2. It is dangerous to the Kings Person and dangerous to his Crown it is apt to cherish ambition usurpation and oppression in great men and to beget sedition discontent in the people and both these have been and in reason must ever be great causes of trouble

no sooner projected by some evil Malignant Jesuited Counsellers about the late King but it was presently condemned and crushed in the very shell when first intended to be set on foot in England by King Charls with the advise and consent of his privie Council at White-Hall by a Commission under the Great Seal of England dated the last of February 3 Caroli issued to thirty three Lords of his Majesties Privie Council and others which authorized commanded them to raise monies BY IMPOSITIONS OR OTHERWISE as they in their wisdoms should finde most convenient and that only for these publike uses THE DEFENCE OF THE KING KINGDOM PEOPLE and of the Kings Friends and Allies beyond the Seas then in such imminent danger that WITHOUT EXTREAMEST HAZARD OF THE KING KINGDOM PEOPLE KINGS Friends and Allies it could admit of no longer delay In which INEVITABLE NECESSITY form and circumstance must rather be dispenced with than the substance lost The Commissioners being thereupon specially injoyned to be diligent in the Service and not fail therein as they tender his Majesties Honour and THE SAFETY OF THE KING and PEOPLE This Commission was no sooner discovered but it was presently complained of by the whole Commons House in the Parliament of 3 Caroli and upon Conference with the Lords it was immediately Voted adjudged by both Houses without one dissenting voyce TO BEE EX DIAMETHRO AGAINST LAW and CONTRARY TO THE PETITION OF RIGHT after which it was cancelled as such in the Kings own presence by his consent order and then sent cancelled to both Houses for their satisfaction before ever it was put in execution and all Warrants for and memorials of it cancelled damned destroyed the Commons further urging That the Projector thereof might be found out by strict inquiry and EXEMPLARILY PVNISHED as the Parliament Journal attests notwithstanding all the specious pretences of inevitable necessity imminent danger and the defence safety of the whole Kingdom People King and his forreign Protestant Friends and Allies then in greater real danger than any now appearing This Original Parliamentary Doom Judgement against that New Monster of Excise was ratified approved pressed by both Houses of Parliament in the Cases of Ship-money and the Commission of Array as you may read at large in Mr. Oliver St. Johns Speech and Declaration delivered at a Conference of both Houses concerning Ship-money 14 January 1640. printed by the Commons Order p. 13. to 20. and The Lords and Commons second Declaration against the Commission of Array Exact collection p. 884 885. from which they then drew this positive conclusion fit to be now considered by our New Governours and the whole Nation THAT TO DEFEND THE KINGDOM IN TIME OF IMMINENT DANGER IS NO SUFFICIENT CAVSE for the King and his Council much less then for those who condemned suppressed them for Tyrants and Oppressors of the People TO LAY ANY TAX OR CHARGE UPON THE SUBJECTS WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT IN PARLIAMENT Yea the whole House of Commons was so zealous against this Dutch Devil of Excise that in their Remonstrance of the state of the Kingdom 15 Decemb 1641. Exact Collection p. 3 4 6. they expresly brand censure the first Attempts to introduce it for A MALIGNANT and PERNI●IOUS DESIGN TO SUBVERT THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS and PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT upon which the JUSTICE OF THIS KINGDOM WAS FORMERLY ESTABLISHED as proceeding from JESUITED COVNSELS BEING MOST ACTIVE and PREVAILING yea for AN UNJUST and PERNICIOVS ATTEMPT TO EXTORT GREAT PAYMENTS FROM THE SUBJECTS Which was to be accompanied as now it is with Billited Souldiers in all parts of the Kingdom and the concomitant of German as now of English HORSE That the LAND MIGHT EITHER SUBJECT WITH FEAR or BE ENFORCED WITH RIGOVR TO SUCH ARBITRARY CONTRIBUTIONS AS SHOVLD BE REQVIRED OF THEM And when some rumours were first spread abroad that the COMMONS HOVSE INTENDED TO LAY EXCISE UPON PEW●ER AND OTHER COMMODITIES they were so sensible of the injustice and odiousness thereof that they thereupon published a special Declaration printed 8 Octob. 1642. Exact Collection p. 638. wherein they not only disclaim renounce any such intention but branded those Reports and Rumours for FALSE and SCANDALOVS ASPERSIONS raised and cast upon the House BY MALIGNANT and ILL-AFFECTED PERSONS TENDING MUCH TO THE DISSERVICE OF THE PARLIAMENT and Ordered That the AVTHORS OF THEM should be inquired aftèr apprehended and brought to the House TO RECEIVE CONDIGNE PUNISHMENT After which this Excise being notwithstanding this Disclaimer and much publick private opposition against it set on foot by some swaying Members upon a pretence of necessity for support of the Army to the great Oppression and Discontent of the People The Generall and general Council of Officers and Souldiers of THE ARMY themselves were so sensible of this illegal oft-condemned New grievance that in the Heads of their Proposals and particulars of their Desires in order to the clearing and securing of the Rights and Liberties of the Kingdom tendred to the Commissioners of Parliament residing with the Army the first of August 1647. printed in their Book of Declarations p. 118 published by their own and the Lords House special Order they ●ade this one principall Desire to the Parliament That the EXCISE may be taken off from such Commodities whereof the poor of the Land do ordinarily live and A CERTAIN TIME TO BE LIMITED FOR TAKING OFF THE WHOLE Yet notwithstanding all these Judgements and Out-cryes against it some of those very persons who thus publickly branded it both in the Parliament House and Army by irregular paper Ordinances as they intitle them dated 24 December 1653. March 17. 1653. and May 4. 1654. have by their own Self-derived supertranscendent Authority without yea against the Peoples consents or any Authority from Parliament imposed continued Excise upon our own Inland and Forreign Commodities in very high proportions from the twenty fourth of March 1654. till the twenty fourth of March 1655. And which is most observable prescribed it to bee levied by putting the Parties to an EX OFFICIO OATH against themselves by Fines Forfeitures SEQVESTRATIONS and SALES OF THE REFUSERS OPPOSERS PERSONAL and REAL ESTATES DISSTRESSES BREAKING UP OF THE PARTIES HOVSES SEISVRES OF THEIR GOODS IMPRISONMENT OF THE PERSONS OF ALL SUCH WHO SHALL HINDER OR OPPOSE THE MINISTERS OR OFFICERS IMPLOYED IN LEVYING or distraining for the same BY LOCKING UP THE DOORS or OTHERWISE And by these their unparalleld Edicts they further order That the Officers of Excise BOTH DAY AND NIGHT shall be permitted free entrance into ALL ROOMES and PLACES WHATSOEVER THEY SHALL DEMAND in Brewers Sope-boylers and others Houses under pain of forfeiture of fifty pounds for every refusal by colour whereof all mens Houses may be robbed plundered and their throats cut by Theeves and Robbers pretending themselves Excise-men Souldiers authorised to make such Searches as many of late have been And they with all their assistants shall bee kept indenspnified in

the Mask and Visard of their Hypocrifie what their the Kings ill Counsels design is To Subject both King and Parliament and Kingdom to their needy Ambitious and Avaritious Spirits and to the violent Laws Martial law of Governing the People by guards and by the Souldiers But alas for grief how superlatively have many of the Army Officers and their confederate members though parties to these Declarations and Protestations violated them and both Houses Faiths Trusts intentions ends in raising the Army in every of these particulars How have they verified justified the Kings Declarations Jealousies concerning the Parliaments Army in every point here and elswhere disclaimed by both Houses How have they exceeded out-acted the Kings Jesuitical Counsellers and most desperate Popish Army in violating subverting both the Parliaments Priviledges Members and Parliaments themselves together with our Fundamental Laws Liberties Government for whose preservation they were only raised paid How have they pursued the Kings and his worst Jesuited Counsellers footsteps in all the charges here objected against them by both Houses in relation to the Parliaments priviledges Members Constitution Rights Laws to their utter subversion dissolution and waged war against them And doth not every man plainly discern through the Mask and Visard of their Hypocrifie to use both Houses expressions that their design is just the same with that here objected by the Parliament to the Kings ill Jesuited Counsellers and Popish army even to subject both King Parliament and Kingdom to their needy ambitious avaritions spirits and to the violent Laws marshal Law of Governing the People yea Parliaments themselves by Guards and by the Souldiers and By Conquest to establish an absolute and unlimited power over the Parliament and good Subjects of this Kingdom as the Houses elswhere thrice objected against the late King his Army and party being the very design as many wisemen fear of the 27 Article of their New Government to settle a constant Annual revenue for the maintenance of 20000 Foot 10000 Horse and Dragoones to be alwayes constantly kept up Winter and Summer without disbanding or diminution for the Defence and Security of England Scotland and Ireland Which must henceforth be kept under by Mercinary Fo●ces to guard of Protectors when as the Heathen Poet assures us ●nteger vitae scel●risque purus non eget Mauri jaculis nec arcu much less our English Nation ever formerly secured by their own unmercinary Militia of the Trained Bands and those Lords and Gentlemen who hold their Lands by Knight-service O that they would now in the name and fear of God as they tender the eternal salvation of their Souls the honour and priviledges of all future Parliaments the ease welfare settlement of our Nation Lay all this most seriously to their Hearts and make it a matter of their greatest lamentation and repentance Besides this have they not falsified that memorable late Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament Novemb. 2. 1642. in Answer to his Majesties well worthy perusal now and made good both for the time past and all succeeding Parliaments whiles there shall be any standing Army in England able to over-power them all the odious scandalous positions in relation to the English Parliament its Members and priviledges deduced from the Kings Declaration only by inference but disclaimed by the King summed up by them in the close of that Remonstrance and published in these ensuing terms as will evidently appear if applied to the Army and their Generall Councel of Officers by adding or exchanging their names only for the Kings in a parenthesis 1. That the King the * Army General and their General Councel of Officers when he pleaseth may declare the Major part of both Houses which in all sorts of Republicks doth yea ought of right to over sway the Minority their Votes to be firm and binding to all men as Aristotle himself resolves a faction of Malignant Schismatical and ambitious Persons so that all Parliaments that have been heretofore and SHALL BE HEREAFTER AND ALL LAWS MADE IN THEM may by this means be called in question at pleasure yea nulled and repealed for ever as some former Parliaments have been when held and over-awed by armed power or unduly elected packed summoned without Lawfull Authority or some of the Members forcibly secluded as you may read at large in the Statutes of 21 R. 2. c. 11 12 16 17 18. 1 H. 4. c. 3. 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 22 23 36 48 66 70. 113. 39 H. 6. c. 1. 17 E. 4. c. 7. worthy the serious perusal of our present Grandees and all illegitimate Parliaments where they may read the fatal end of all new unparliamentary projects laws devices wherein many now so much glory as if they would continue form for ever when as in a few years space they will all probably prove nullities be for ever reversed yea branded to posterity as most pernicious presidents 2. That his Majesty the Army and their General Councel may declare what is the known Law of the Land against the judgement of the Highest Court and consequently of all his Courts So that the safety and right of King and people and THE LAW IT SELF must depend upon his Majesties the Army General and their Councels pleasure 4. That as the King hath a property in his Townes Forts and Kingdoms so he the Army and their General Councel may dispose of them as he pleaseth and the Representative body of the whole Kingdom may not intermedle in discharge of his Majesties the Armies Generals Councels trust though by the advice of evil Councellers they see it diverted to the hazard of the publique peace safety of the Kingdom 5. That his Majesty the Army General and their Councel or any other person may upon suggestions and pretences of Treason Felony or breach of peace or of their Trusts a fourth Army new-minted cause Take the Members of Parliament without giving satisfaction to the House whereof they are Members of the grounds of such suggestion or accusation and without and against their consent as in the case of the late secured secluded Members and their two Junct●'s since so they may Dismember a Parliament when they please and make it what they will when they will 6. That whosoever shall follow the King Army General and their Councel in the wars against the Parliament though it were to destroy Laws Liberty Religion the Parliament it self and the whole Kingdom yet he shall be free from all crime or punishment And that on the other side to oppose by force any such force though in the most Legal way and by authority of the Representative body of the whole Kingdom is to leavy war against the King Army General and TREASON within the Letter of 25 E. 3. or of their new Knacks since So our Lands Liberties Lives Religion and Laws themselves Whereby all the Rights both of King and People

after so many Declarations and solemn Protestations made by his Majesty to rule by the known Laws of this Land his Majesty by advice of his ill Councellors should be perswaded to set such a Commission on foot which is so clearly contrary TO THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THIS LAND the Rights of Property and Liberty of the Subject contrary to former resolutions of Parliament and to the Petition of Right I am certain the generality of the Nation are now as much and more agrieved that some who were Parties to this Declaration and others who have made as many or more Declarations Protestations as his Majesty ever did to rule by the known laws of the Land should since this far exceed his Majesty in the like nay greater more exorbitances in the Militia Excises Taxes Impositions Imprisonments arbitrary extravagant proceedings capital executions in new erected Courts of Injustice and whole volumes of new binding Ordinances as they term them and their ill-sounding Instrument obliging all our three Nations both for the present all future ages in their intention as diametrically contrary as the Kings Commissions of Array to the Fundamentall Laws of the Land four times together so stiled and insisted on as such in this one Declaration of both Houses the Right of Property of the Subject contrary to former Resolutions and the Petition of Right yea which is most abominable to their own Declarations Remonstrances Votes Protestations Vows Solemne Leagues and Covenants in Parliament to their own eternall Infamy as well as the peoples intolerable oppression and slavery who thereupon may justly conclude and protest against them as both Houses did in the close of this Declaration against the Array viz. And the Lords and Commons do and shall adhere to their former Votes Resolutions That all those that are Actors in putting of this Commission of Array these Instruments Ordinances new Taxes Imposts Excises in execution shall be esteemed disturbers of the Peace of the Kingdome and of the Properties and Liberties of the Subject 10. The tenth Evidence is the Vote and Letter of both Houses of Parliament sent to his Majesty at Oxford 9. March 1643. in Answer to his Majesties of the third of March and wherein there is this passage We the Lords and Commons assembled in the Parliament of England c. Have resolved with the concurrent advice and consent of the Commissioners of Scotland to represent to your Majesty in all humility and plainnesse as followeth That this present Parliament convened according to the known and FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THE KINGDOME the continuance whereof is established by a law consented to by your Majesty is in effect denied to be a Parliament c. And hereupon we think our selves bound to let your Majesty know That since the continuance of this Parliament is settled by a Law which as all other laws of your Kingdome your Majesty is sworn to maintain as we are sworn to our Allegiance to your Majesty those Obligations being reciprocall we must in duty and accordingly are resolved with our Lives and Fortunes to Defend and preserve the ●ust Rights and full Power of this Parliament To which the Earle of Essex then General by both Houses order in his Letter to the Earle of Forth January 30. 1643. adds this Corolary My Lord the main●enance of the Parliament of England and the Priviledges thereof is that for which we are resolved to spend our bloud as being THE FOVNDATION WHEREON ALL OVR LAWS AND LIBERTIES ARE BVILT Which both the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in their Declaration 23. March 1643. touching their proceedings upon his Majesties Letter concerning a Treaty of Peace wherein this Earls former letter is recited thus second The Parliament of England is the onely Basis the chief Support and Pillar of our Laws and Liberties c. And if notwithstanding all these Obligations the King shall at his pleasure dissolve this Parliament the Kingdome is not onely deprived of the present but made uncapable of enjoying the benefit of any future Parliament or Laws any longer than shall stand with the will and pleasure of the King and consequently THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ALL OUR LAWS AND GOVERNMENT ARE SUBVERTED Let the Parliament-purging securing sequestring dissolving Officers Army and their Confederates seriously ponder this yea let all the whole English Nation and their Trustees who shall hereafter sit in Parliament consider and reform it in the first place if ever they expect any Freedome free Parliaments Peace settlement enjoyment of their Fundamental Laws Rights or Liberties for the future depending on our Parliaments Freedome and exemption from all force and violence on its Members The eleventh is the Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament 13. Junii 1644. For the Forces raised in the County of Salop which begins thus The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament taking into their serious considerations the great Oppressions under which the Inhabitants of the County of Salop lie by reason the insupportable Taxes c. and the present condition of the County by reason of the great number of Irish Rebels that have invaded it and joyned with Papists and other ill affected Persons now in those parts which threaten the extirpation of the Protestant Religion and the subversion of the FUNDAMENTAL LAWS and GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM For prevention whereof c. A direct Ordinance in point The twelfth is a Declaration of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament 17. Aprilis 1646. Of their true intentions concerning the ANCIENT and FUNDAMENTAL GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOME securing the people against ALL ARBITRARY GOVERNMENT c. wherein they complain That the Enemy being in dispair to accomplish his Designes by War do mis-represent our intentions in the use we intend to make of the great successes God hath given us and the happy opportunity to settle Peace and Truth in the three Kingdomes to beget a belief that we now desire to exc●ed or swerve from our first Aym's and Principles in the undertaking of this War and to recede from the Solemn League and Covenant and Treaties between the two Kingdomes and that we would prolong these uncomfortable troubles and bleeding distractions IN ORDER TO ALTER THE FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTION AND FRAME OF THIS KINGDOME to leave all Government in the Church loose and unsettled and ourselves to exercise THE SAME ARBITRARY POWER OVER THE PERSONS and ESTATES OF THE SVBJECTS which this present Parliament hath thought fit to abolish by taking away the Star-Chamber High-Commission and other arbitrary Courts and the exorbitant Power of the Council Table all which we have seen experimentally verified in every particular in the highest degree notwithstanding this Declaration by some in late and present power and new White-hall Council Tables exceeding the old in illegal Taxes Law-making and other extravagances All which being seriously considered by us c. We do declare THAT OUR TRUE and REAL INTENTIONS ARE and OUR ENDEAVOUR SHALL BE

largly contributed to this war and designe for which he Sir John Winter Master Mountague and others who had a hand in this conspiracy were convented and brought upon their knees at the Commons House-bar Jan. 28. 1640. upon which he retyring into France was about May 1645. sent as a speciall Embassadour from the Queen to the Pope of Rome himself to solicit him for ayds of monies men arms against the Parliament is first audience he had the best reception and fairest Promises of Aid in general that could be wished writing hopefully of supplies of Moneys from Rome to the Queen and others as both Houses of Parliament in their Declaration and Letters published 26 March 1646. proclaim to all the world and likewise good Hopes of a Cardinals Cap for himself or the Lord Aubeny or Mr. Mountagne for which he and the Queen sollicited After that upon his return from Rome he was sent over into England about Decemb. 1648. as a fit instrument to New-moddle us into a Commonwealth and promote the violent Proceedings of the Army Officers and their Confederates set on work by the Jesuits and their Agents against the late King Parliament Members where upon his arrival he was instead of being apprehended and brought to justice for the premises hugged by some Grandees whom he courted permitted to ride and walk about at large while the Members were under strict guards and restraints frequently repaired to Whitehall where he was well received his Sequestration totally taken off without any Fees or gratification by special order and himself now at last permitted to lodge not only in Wildemans House where the Queens Capuchins formerly resided but sometimes in Whitehall it self to the admiration of many understanding Protestants who justly suspect he hath there more disguised Iesuits to consult with and promote both their old and new designs against our Church State Religion Laws Liberties till they have brought them and us to utter ruine I shall for brevity sake acquaint you with one memorable general instance discovering what swarms of Jesuites are now amongst us under other visors An English Protestant Nobleman a person of honor whose Ancestors were Papists being courteously entertained within these two years at Rome by some eminent Iesuits in their chief Colledge there was brought by them into a Gallery having Chambers round about it with Titles over every door for several Kingdoms and amongst the rest one for ENGLAND Upon which he enquiring of the Iesuits what these titles signified was answered by them That they were the Chambers of the Provincial Iesuits of each Kingdom and Province written ever the respective doors wherein they had any members of their society now residing who received all Letters of intelligence from their Agents in those places every week and gave account of the to the General of their Order That the Provincial for England lodged in the Chamber over which the title ENGLAND was written who could shew him the last news from England which he desiring to see they thereupon knocked at the door which was presently opened the Provincial being informed who what the Lord was read the last news from England to them Hereupon the Nobleman demanded of them Whether any of their society were now in England how they could stay with safety or support themselves there seeing most of the English Nobility Gentry and Families that were Papists were ruined in their estates or sequestred by the late wars troubles so as they could neither harbour conceal nor maintain them as they had done heretofore They answered It was true but the greater the dangers and difficulties of those of their society now in England were the greater was their merit And that they had then above fiftéen hundred of their Society in England able to work in several Professions Trades which they had there taken upon them the better to support secure themselves from being discovered who together with some Popish Priests and Friers no doubt upon diligent inquiry will appear to be the chiefest Speakers Quakers Disputers Seducers Rulers in most separate Congregations and the principle brochers of all New Opinions Blasphemies now abounding amongst us This Relation I have heard from the mouth of a Reverend Divine more than once to whom this Noble Lord upo his return into England not many Months since seriously related the Premises averring the truth of them upon his Honour Yet for all this since the stupendious pretended repeals and annihilations of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance that of Abjuration of Popery consented to by the late King in the Isle of Wight purposely made for the better detection and prevention of Iesuites and their treasonable forementioned practises against our Church Kingdoms Princes Religion Parliaments and Government by the wisdom and zeal of our best affected vigilant * Protestant Parliaments I can neither hear nor read of any effectual means endeavoured or prescribed by any in power for the discovery of these Romish Ianizaries or banishing feretting and keeping them out of England where they have wrought so much mischief of late years and whose utter ruine they attempt nor any incouragement at all given to the Discoverers of their Plots and Persons but many affronts and discouragements put upon them and particularly on my self lately mewed up close Prisoner under strictest Guards in remotest Castles near three years space without any Accusation hearing or particular cause yet assigned or disclosed to me though oft then and since demanded by me from my Imprisoners whiles they all walked abroad at large of purpose to hinder me from any discoveries of their practises by my Pen where as they printed vended publickly here in England above 30000 Popish Books of several kinds during my imprisonment without the least restraint to oppugne our Protestant established Religion as many of them do in terminis as most damnable Heresie propagate the Jesuites Plots and antichristian Romish Church and Religion amongst us as you may read at large in the Stationers Beacon fired which seasonable book and Discovery of these Romish Emissaries books and plots some Officers of the Army in their Beacon quenched publickly traduced in print as a New-Powder-Treason of the Presbyterian Party to blow up the Army and that pretended Parliament of their own erection which themselves soon after blew up and dissolved in good earnest pleading for a free Toleration of such Popish Books and all Religions as agreeable to the Armies Engagements and Principles to carry on their designs against our Religion and Laws But most certain it is there hath been of late years not only a General Councel of Officers of the Army sitting many moneths together in Councel to alter and new model all our ancient Laws and Statutes in pursuance of Father Parson's design but likewise two Conventicles of their own selection and election sitting of late in the Parliament House at Westminster assuming to themselves the Name and far

as he shall depute or by his command shall be deputed to keep the peace within the said places and also except the Kings servants according to the Statute of Northampton And it is not the intention of our Lord the King that any Earl or Baron may not have his Lance brought to him in any place but onely in the Kings presence and in the place of Councell The like Proclamations were made in the beginning of the Parliaments of 9. 1● 17 18. 20 25 ●dw 3. and sundry others more necessary to be revived in all succeeding English Parliaments now than ever heretofore since the unpresidented forces upon the late Members of both Houses and the Parliament it self by the Army-Officers and Souldiers raised to defend them from Violence The Treasonablenesse and Transcendency whereof being at large related in my Epistle to the Reader before my Speech in Parliament 4 December 1648 I shall not here criminally presse nor insist on but referred them thereunto However for the future security and freedome of our Parliaments from violence I must crave liberty to inform these Army Parliament drivers forcers dissolvers habituated to this trade That if the late Kings march to the House of Commons accompanied only with some of his Pensioners and others armed with Pistols and Swords meerly to demand but five Members thereof to be delivered up to Justice particularly impeached by him of High Treason some dayes before to wit That they had traiterously endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdome To deprive the King of his Royal power To place over the Subjects an Arbitrary and Tyrannical power To subvert the very Rights and being of Parliaments and by force and terrour to compell the Parliament to joyn with them in their designs for which end they had actually raised and countenanced Tumults against the King and Parliament Or if the Kings bare tampering with some Officers of his own Northern Army to draw a Petition from them to the Houses or march towards London from their quarters not to seise upon force or dissolve the Parliament or its Members but only to over-aw them and impeach the freedom of their debates Votes touching Episcopacy Church-Government and the Kings Revenues were such high transcendent violations of the Priviledges and Freedome of Parliament and unsufferable injuries as both Houses of Parliament separately and joyntly proclaimed them to all the world in severall Declarations during his life Or such capitall crimes as those who condemned and executed him for a Traytor and Tyrant have published in their Declaration of 17 March 1648. touching the grounds of their proceedings against him and setling the Government in the way of a Free State without King or House of Lords since his beheading in these very words But ABOVE ALL the English army was laboured by the King to be engaged against the English Parliament a thing of that strange in piety and unnaturalness for the King of England that nothing can answer it but his being a Forraigner neither could it have easily purchased belief but by his succeeding visible actions in full pursuance of the same as the Kings comming in Person to the House of Commons to seise the five Members whither he was followed with some hundreds of unworthy debauched persons armed with swords and pistols and other arms and they attending him at the door of the House ready to execute what the Leader should command them Which they charged against the King as the highest of his unparralleld Offences for which they appeal to all the world of indifferent men to judge whether they had not sufficient cause to bring him to Justice Though neither he nor his followers then seized secured secluded injured any one Member when they thus went to the Commons House Yea presently retracted his Impeachment and offered all satisfaction that should be desired by the House for this breach of Privilege and though neither the Northern Army nor their Officers ever advanced towards or offered the least violence to the Houses or their priviledges by Petition or otherwise Then certainly the Parliaments own Armies Officers Counsels manifold high printed Declarations of June 14. 23. July 7. Aug. 18. 1647. Nov. 16. Decemb 7. 1648. and others before and since their professed open Oppositions Impeachments against the very Proceedings Votes Orders Ordinances Members of both Houses of Parliament which first raised them principally for their defence Printed by their order in their Book of Declarations The History of Independency and my Speech in Parliament their Impeachment of eleven Members of the House of Commons and sundry Lords at once their securing of above 40 and secluding of above five parts of six of the whole House of Commons at once their avowed marches with the whole Body of the Army in Ba●talia severall times to force the Houses seise their Members over-aw affright dis-member dissolve the Parliament it self and their own new erected Junctoes since and justification of it to all the world in print in their humble Answer touching the secured and secluded Members Jan. 3. 1648. The true state of the case of the Commonwealth of England 1654. and their Declarations concerning their dissolution of their two Junctoes after these Misdemeanours of the King without the least repentance for them must needs be farre more execrable unwarrantable and criminal than the Kings and deserve a severer censure than his Peccadilioes in respect of their crimes And if by the whole Armies printed Remonstrances August 2. and 18. 1647. the tumult of some unarmed London Apprentices who offered some small force to the Houses to the violation of their Priviledges without securing or secluding any one Member deserved a speedy and exemplary capital proceeding against the principal contrivers and Actors in it as they then declared and vehemently urged again and again in those Remonstrances Or if by their own Charge in the Name of the whole Army June 14. 1647. against the XI Members it was so high an offence in them That they joyntly or severally invited encouraged abetted or countenanced several Reformadoes and OTHER OFFICERS AND SOULDIERS TVMVLTVOVSLY AND VIOLENTLY TO GATHER TOGETHER AT WESTMINSTER TO AFFRIGHT ASSAULT THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN PASSAGES TO FROM THE HO●SE TO OFFER VIOLENCE TO THE HOUSE IT SELF BY SVCH VNRVLY OVTRAGES THREATS TO AWE AND INFORCE THE PARLIAMENT And that upon their bare suggestion thereof without any proof at all or colour of truth they presently demanded That the persons impeached MIGHT BE FORTHWITH SECLVDED FROM SITTING IN THE HOVSE and removed thence before any hearing or trial which the Officers and Army eagerly pressed in their Paper of June 15. 1647. Nay if by their own late printed Instrument of the Government of the Commonwealth of England c. Articles 14. 16. All and every person and persons who have aided advised assisted or abetted in any war against the Parliament since the first day of

cloak their intentions from the people they took an Oath of all they met Quod Regi Communibus fidelitatem servarent that they should keep Allegiance and Faith to the King Commons Yea Wat Tyler demanded a Commission from the King to behead all Lawyers Escheaters and others whatsoever that were learned in the laws or communicated with the law by reason of their Office conceiving in his minde that this being brought to passe all things afterwards would be ordered according to his own and the common peoples fancy And he made his vaunt putting his hand to his own lips That before scure dayes came to an end ALL THE LAWS OF ENGLAND SHOULD PROCEED FROM HIS MOUTH Which some of late times seem to speak not only in words but deeds by their manifold new laws and Edicts repealing or contradicting our old This their resolution and attempt thus to alter and subvert the Laws and Government upon full debate in the Parliament of 5. R. 2. n. 30. 31. was declared to be High-Treason against the King and the Law for which divers of the chief Actors in this Treasonable Designe were condemned and executed as Traitors in severall places and the rest enforced to a publike submission then pardoned Let these imitators now remember this old President 2. In the Parliament of 11. R. 2. as appears by the Parliament Rols and printed Statutes at large three Privy Councellours the Archbishop of York the Duke of Ireland and the Earl of Suffolk the Bishop of Exeter the Kings Confessor five Knights six Judges whereof Sir Robert Tresylian Chief Justice was one Blake of the Kings Councel at Law Vsk and others were impeached and condemned of High Treason some of them executed as Traitors the rest banished their lands and goods forfeited and none to endeavour to procure their pardon under pain of Felony for their endeavouring to overthrow a Commission for the good of the Kingdome contrary to an Act of Parliament by force of Arms and opinions in Law delivered by these temporizing Judges and Lawyers to the King through threats and terrour at Nottingham Castle tending to subvert the Laws and Statutes of the Realm overthrow the Power Priviledges and proceedings of Parliament and betray not all the House of Lords but only some of the Lords of Parliament Which Judgement being afterwards reversed in the forced and packed Parliament of 21. R. 2. was reconfirmed in the Parliament of 1 H. 4. c. 3 4 5. and the Parliament of 21. R. 2. totally repealed and adnulled for ever and hath so continued Read Statut. at large 3. In the Parliament of 17 R. 2. n. 20. and Pas 17 R. 2. B. Regis Rot. 16. Sir Thomas Talbot was accused and found guilty of High Treason for conspiring the death of the Dukes of Glocester Lancaster and other Peers who maintained the Commission confirmed by Act of Parliament 10. R. 2 and assembling people in a warlike manner in the County of Chester for effecting of it in destruction of the estates of the Realm and the Laws of the Kingdome 4. In the 29. year of King Henry the sixth Jack Cade under a pretence to REFORM alter and abrogate some laws Purveyances and Extortions importable to the Commons whereupon he was called JOHN AMEND ALL drew a great multitude of Kentish people to Black-heath in a warlike manner to effect it In the Parliament of 29 H. 6. c. 1 this was adjudged High Treason in him and his Complices by Act of Parliament and the Parliament of 31. H. 6. c. 1. made this memorable Act against him and his Imitators in succeding ages worthy serious perusal and consideration by all who tread in his footsteps and over-act him in his Treasons Whereas the most abominable Tyrant horrible odious and errant FALSE TRAYTOR John Cade calling himself sometimes Mortimer sometime Captain of Kent which Name Fame Acts and Feats be to be removed out of the speech and minde of every faithfull Christian man perpetually falsly and traiterously purposing and imagining the perpetuall destruction of the KINGS PERSON and FINAL SVBVERSION OF THIS REALM taking upon him ROYALL POWER and gathering to him the Kings People in great number BY FALSE SVBTIL IMAGINED LANGVAGE and seditiously made a stirring Rebellion and insurrection VNDER COLOVR OF JVSTICE FOR REFORMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE SAID KING robbing slaying spoiling a great part of his faithfull people Our said Soveraign Lord the King considering the premises with many other which were more odious to remember by advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and at THE REQUEST OF THE COMMONS and by Authority aforesaid Hath ordained and established that the said John Cade shall be had named and declared A FALSE TRAYTOR to our said Soveraign Lord the King and that all his Tyranny Acts Feats false Opinions shall be voided abated adnulled destroyed and put out of remembrance for ever And that all Indictments and things depending thereof had and made under the power of Tyranny shall likewise be void adnulled abated repealed and holden for none and that the blood of none of them be defiled nor corrupted but by the Authority of the said Parliament clearly declared for ever And that all Indictments in time coming in like case under power of Tyranny Rebellion and stirring had shall be of no regard or effect but void in Law And all the Petitions delivered to the said King in his last Parliament holden at Westminster the sixth day of November the 29. of his Reign against his minde by him not agreed shall be taken and put in Oblivion out of Remembrance undone voided adnulled and destroyed for ever as a thing purposed against God and his Conscience and against his Royal estate and preheminence and also DISHONORABLE and UNREASONABLE 5. In the 8 year of King Henry the 8. William Bell and Thomas Lacy in the County of Kent conspired with Thomas Cheney the Hermite of the Queen of Fairies TO OVER THROW THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE REALM for effecting whereof they with 200 more met together and concluded upon a course of raising greater forces in Kent and the adjacent Shires This was judged High Treason and some of them executed as Traitors Moreover it was resolved by all the Judges of England in the reign of Henry 8. that an Insurrection against the Statute of Laborers or for the inhansing of Salaries and wages or against any Statute or to remove Councellors or to any other end pretending Reformation of their own heads was TREASON and a levying war against the King BECAVSE IT WAS GENERALLY AGAINST THE KINGS LAW and the Offenders took upon them THE REFORMATION THEREOF which Subjects by gathering of power ought not to do 6. On December 1. in the 21. year of King Henry the 8. Sr. Thomas Moore Lord Chancellour of England with fourteen more Lords of the Privy Councel John Fitz-James Chief Justice of England and Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert Herbert

one of the Judges of the Common Pleas exhibited sundry Articles of Impeachment to King Henry the 8. against Cardinal Wolsey That he had by divers and many sundry wayes and fashions committed High Treason and NOTABLE GRIEVOUS OFFENCES by misusing altering and subverting of his Graces Laws and otherwise contrary to his high Honour Prerogative Crown Estate and Dignity Royal to the inestimable great hinderance diminution and decay of the universal wealth of this his Graces Realm The Articles are 43. in number the 20 21 26 30 35 37 42 43. contain his illegal arbitrary practises and proceedings to the subversion of the due course and order of his Graces Laws to the undoing of a great number of his loving people Whereupon they pray Please therefore your mostexcellent Majesty of your excellent goodnesse towards the Weal of this your Realm and subjects of the same to set such order and direction upon the said Lord Cardinal as may be to terrible example of other to beware to offend your Grace and your Laws hereafter and that he be so provided for that he never have any Power Jurisdiction or authority hereafter to trouble vex or impoverish the common-wealth of this your Realm as he hath done heretofore to the great hurt and dammage of every man almost high and low His poysoning himself prevented his legal judgement for these his Practises 7. The Statute of 3. and 4. Ed. c. 5 6. enacts That if any persons to the number of twelve or more being assembled together shall intend go about practise or put in use with force and arms unlawfully of their own authority TO CHANGE ANY LAWS made for Religion by authority of Parliament OR ANY OTHER LAWS OR STATUTES OF THIS REALM STANDING IN FORCE OR ANY OF THEM and shall continue together by the space of an houre being commanded by a Justice of Peace Mayor Sheriffe or other Officer to return or shall by ringing of any Bell sounding of any Trumpet Drumme Horn c. raise such a number of persons to the intent to put any the things aforesaid in ure IT SHALL BE HIGH TREASON and the parties executed as Traytors After this the Statute of 1 Mariaec 12. Enacted That if twelve or more in manner aforesaid shall endeavour by force to alter any of the Laws or Statutes of the Kingdome the offenders shall from the time therein limited be ad●udged ONELY AS FELONS whereas it was Treason before but this Act continuing but till the next Parliament and then expiring the offence remains Treason as formerly 8. In the 39. year of Queen Elizabeth divers in the County of Oxford consulted together to go from house to house in that County and from thence to London and other parts to excite them to take arms for the throwing down of inclosures throughout the Realm nothing more was prosecuted nor assemblies made yet in Easter Term 39. Elizabeth it was resolved by all the Judges of England who met about the Case that this was High Treason and a levying war against the Queen because it was to throw down all inclosures throughout the Kingdom to which they could pretend no right and that the end of it was TO OVER THROW THE LAWS AND STATUTES for inclosures Whereupon BRADSHAW and BURTON two of the principal Offenders were condemned and executed at Ainstow Hill in Oxfordshire where they intended their first meeting 9. To come nearer to our present times and case In the last Parliament of King Charls Anno 1640. The whole House of Commons impeached Thomas Earl of Strafford Lord Deputy of Ireland of High Treason amongst other Articles for this crime especially wherein all the other centred That he hath TREASONABLY ENDEAVOURED by his Words Actions and Counsels TO SUBVERT THE FUNDAMENTALL LAWS and GOVERNMENT OF ENGLAND and IRELAND and introduce an arbitrary and Tyrannical Government This the whole Parliament declared and adjudged to be High Treason in and by their Votes and a special Act of Parliament for his Attainder for which he was condemned and soon after executed on Tower-Hill as a Traytor to the King and Kingdome May 22. 1641. 10. The whole House of Commons the same Parliament impeached William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury of HIGH TREASON in these very terms February 6 1640. First That he hath traiterously endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdome of England and instead thereof to introduce an arbitrary and tyrannical Government against Law And he to that end hath wickedly and TRAYTEROVSLY advised his Majesty that he might at his own will and pleasure levy and take mony of his Subjects without THEIR CONSENT IN PARLIAMENT and this he affirmed was warrantable by the law of God Secondly He hath for the better accomplishment of that his Traiterous Designe advised and procured Sermons and other Discourses to be preached printed and published in which the Authority of Parliaments and the force of the Laws of this Kingdome have been denyed and absolute and unlimitted Power over the Persons and Estates of his Majesties Subjects maintained and defended not onely in the King but in himself and other Bishops against the Law Thirdly He hath by Letters Messages Threats and Promises and by divers other wayes to Judges and other Ministers of Justice interrupted perverted and at other times by means aforesaid hath endeavoured to interrupt and pervert the course of Justice in his Majesties Courts at Westminster and other Courts TO THE SUBVERSION OF THE LAWS OF THIS KINGDOME whereby sundry of his Majesties Subjects have been stopt in their just suits deprived of their lawfull Rights and subjected to his Tyrannicall will to their ruine and destruction Fourthly That he hath traiterously endeavoured to corrupt the other Courts of Justice by advising and procuring his Majesty to sell places of Judicature and other Offices CONTRARY TO THE LAWS and CUSTOMES in that behalf Fifthly That he hath TRAITEROUSLY caused a a Book of Canons to be compiled and published without any lawfull warrant and Authority in that behalf in which pretended Canons many matters are contained contrary to the Kings Prerogative to the Fundamentall Laws and Statutes of this Realm to the Rights of Parliament to the Property and Liberty of the Subject and matters tending Sedition and of dangerous consequence and to the establishing of a vast unlawfull presumptuous power in himself and his successors c. Seventhly That he hath traiterously endeavoured to alter and subvert Gods true Religion BY LAW ESTABLISHED and instead thereof to set up Popish Religion and Idolatry And to that end hath declared and maintained in Speeches and printed Books diverse Popish Doctrines and Opinions contrary to the Articles of Religion ESTABLISHED BY LAW He hath urged and enjoyned divers Popish and Superstitious Ceremonies WITHOUT ANY WARRANT OF LAW and hath cruelly persecuted those who have opposed the same by corporal punishment and imprisonments and most unjustly vexed others who refused to conform thereunto by

Revenues Inheritances Rights and Perquisits of the Crown of England originally setled thereon for the ●ase and exemption of the people from all kind of Taxes payments whatsoever unlesse in case of extraordinary necessity and for defraying all the constant ordinary expences of the Kingdome as the expences of the Kings houshold Court Officers Judges Ambassadors Guard Garrisons Navy and the like ought not to be sold alienated given away or granted from it to the prejudice of the Crown and burdenning of the people And that all Sales Alienations Gifts or Grants thereof to the empairing of the publique Revenue or prejudice of the Crown and people are void in Law and ought to be resumed and repealed by our Parliaments and Kings as they have freqeuntly been in all former ages For the Readers fuller satisfaction in each of these propositions some of which I must in the ensuing Chapter but briefly touch for brevity sake having elsewhere fully debated them in print I shall especially recommend unto him the perusall of such Tractates and Arguments formerly published wherein each of them hath been fully discussed which hee may peruse at his best leasure The First of these Fundamentalls which I intend principally to insist on is fully asserted debated confirmed by 13. H. 4. f. 14. By Fortescue Lord Chief Justice and Chancellor of England de Laudibus Legum Angliae dedicated by him to King Henry the 6. f. 25. c. 36. By a Learned and necessary Argument against Impositions in the Parliament of 7. Jacobi by a late reverend Judge Printed at London 1641. By Mr. William Hakewell in his Liberty of the Subject against Impositions maintained in an Argument in the Parliament of 7 Jacobi Printed at London 1641. By Judge Crooks and Judge Huttons Arguments concerning Ship-mony both Printed at London 1641. By the Case of Ship-mony briefly discussed London 1640. By M. St. Johns Argument and Speech against Ship-mony Printed at London 1641. By Sir Edward Cook in his 2 Institutes p. 46. and 57. to 64. and 528 to 537. By the first and second Remonstrance of the Lords Commons in Parliament against the Commission of Array Exact Collection p. 386. to 398. and 850. to 890. and by my own Humble Remonstrance against Ship-mony London 1643. The Fourth part of the Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes p. 14. to 26. my Legall Vindication of the Liberties of England against Illegall Taxes c. London 1649. and by the Records and Statutes cited in the ensuing Chapter referring for the most part to the first Proposition The second third and fourth of them are largely debated and confirmed by a Conference desired by the Lords and had by a Committee of both Houses concerning the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject 3 Aprilis 4 Caroli Printed at London 1642. By Sir Edward Cook in his Institutes on Magna charta c. 29. p. 45. to 57. By the first second Remonstrance of the Lords and Commons against the Commission of Array Exact Collection p. 386. and 850. to 890. By Judge Crooks and Judge Huttons Arguments against Ship-mony By Sir Robert Cotton his Posthuma p. 222. to 269. By my Breviate of the Prelates Encroachments on the Kings Prerogative and the Subjects Liberties p. 138. my New Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny p. 137. to 183. and some of the ensuing Statutes and records ch 3. See 1 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 22 23 24 26 28 43 44 47. The Fift and Sixt of them are fully cleared vindicated in and by the Prologues of all our Councills Statutes Laws before and since the Conquest By 1. H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 33 34 36. an excellent full president Sir Edward Cooks 4 Institutes ch 1. Mr. Cromptons Iurisdiction of Courts Title High Court of Parliament Mr. St. Johns speech against the Ship-mony Judges p. 32 33. my Plea for the Lords my Levellers levelled my Ardua Regni my Epistle before my Speech in Parliament my Memento my Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes part 1 2 3 4. my Legal Vindication against illegal Taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament London 1649. Prynnethe Member reconciled to Prynne the Bar●ester Printed the same year My Historical Collection of the Ancient great Councils and Parliaments of England London 1649. My Truth triumphing over Falshood Antiquity over Novel●y London 1645. 3 E. 1. c. 5 4 E. 3. c. 14. 36 E. 3. c. 10. 1 H. 4. c. 3 4. 5 R. 2. Stat. 2. c. 4. Rastal tit Parliament 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 21. 22. 48. 70. 31 H. 6. c. 1. 39 H. 6. c. 1. Rot. Parl. n. 8. 17 E. 4. c. 7. expresse in point and some of the Records hereafter transcribed In this I shall be more sparing because so fully confirmed in these and other Treatises The Seventh is ratified by Sir Edward Cooks 1. Institutes p. 97 98. 4 Institutes p. 89. and 5. report Cawdries case of the Kings Ecclesiasticall Laws Rastals Abridgement of Statutes Tit Provisors Praemunire Rome and other Records and Statutes in the ensuing Chapter The Eight is verified by the Statutes quoted in the Margin to it and by other Records in the third Chapter The Ninth and Tenth are fully debated in my Soveraign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes par 2. p. 3. to 34. part 4. p. 1. to 13. and 162. to 170. touched in Sir Robert Cottons Posthuma p. 174. 179. confirmed by sundry Presidents in the next Chapter by 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n 32. How all and every of these Fundamentall Liberties Rights Franchises Laws have been unparalledly violated subverted in all and every particular of late years beyond all Presidents in the worst of former ages even by their greatest pretended Propugners their own Printed Edicts Instruments Ordinances Papers together with their illegall Oppressions Taxes Excises Imposts Sequestrations Rapines Violences unjust Proceedings of all kinds will sufficiently evidence if compared with the premised Propositions Not to insist on any fore-past illegall Imposts Taxes Excises under which the nation lately groaned imposed on us by unparliamentary Junctoes or the Army Officers alone from Anno 1648 to 1653. without any real Parliament by their own armed Iurisdiction I shall here instance onyl in 3. or 4 particulars relating wholly to the First Proposition being of most generall greatest present and future concernment of all other to the whole English Nation at this very instant most intollerably oppressed grieved by them directly sweeping away all their Fundamentall Right of Property and consequentially all their Liberty of person Laws Charters at once and that in perpetuity beyond all hopes of Future redemption if not timely prevented by the Vniversality Body of the Realm or their Trustees The first of them is the present imposition and continuance of the strange oppressive monstrous general high Tax of EXCISE imposed on most native and forreign Commodities throughout England and its Dominions which as it was a meer Stranger to all our Ancestors and those now living till within these few years so it was

laws and properties * Is there any between the late present powers and them further or longer than they please * Are they not so now * It is not so now when others who condemned and beheaded him for a Tyrant say pretenda●d act it over and over Nota. * Worth consideration of those of the long robe * And how mamy are guilty of this Treason See Hos 3 4 5. cap. 10. 3 4. cap. 1. 4. cap. 1. 4. Zech. 9. v. 5. Hab. 1. 10 14 15. Mic. 4. 9 10. Amos 1. 13 14 15. Lam. 5. 16. Ezech. 19. 1. 14. Isay 17. 3. c. 7. 16. Jer. 17. 25. 27. cap. 18. 7 8. cap. 22. 3. to 13. cap. 25. 8 to 38. cap. 51. 20. Proverb 28. 2. Ezech. 17. 14. cap. 29. 14 25 Isa 47 verse 5. Daniel 4. verse 17. * Are they so now and who have dissolved the Ligaments that formerly united and held them together * Have we not many counterfeit laws and Acts of Parliament of law and yet some counterfeit Judges that execute and give them in charge as true ones * See Exact Collection p. 4. 12 243 262. 321. * Surely there are sundry falshoods in it as well as some truths * If we believe themselves in their own cases * Some mens act ons since declare they had some other ground and ayms than this * Those who severe and disjoynt one house from the other and by force armed power seclude exclude and disjoyn the members of the same House one from another so many times one after another justifie it too are the greatest disjoyners of the House and Parliament and very unlikely to make any firm or reall settlement of this Nation * See my Speech in Parliament p. 100. to 108. a See Gratian Caus 2. Qu. 1. 2. Summa Angelica Rosella Hostiensis Tit. Restituito * See Speeds Hist p. 1250. c. Mr. Vicars History of the Gunpowder-Treason The Arraignment of Traytors * Judg. 5. 21. * See the Laws of King Edward the Confessor confirmed by William the Conquerour Lex 55 56 57. The great Charters of King John and Henry 3. c. 29 30. 25 E. 1. c. 5 6. 34 E. 1. De Tallagio c. 1 14 E. 3. Stat. 1. c. 21. Stat. 2. c. 1. 35 E. 3. Stat. 2. c. 1. 15 E. 3. Stat. 3. c. 5. 21 E. 3. Rot. Parl. N. 16. 25 E 3. Rot. Parl. N. 16 27 E. 3. Stat. 2. c. 2. 36 E. 3. Rot. Parl. N. 26. 38 ● 3. c. 2. 45 E. 3. Rot. Parl N. 42. 11 H. 4. Rot. Parl. N. 50. 1 R. 3. c. 2. The Petition of Right 3 Caroli the Acts against Ship-money Knighthood Tonnage and Poundage 16. 17. Caroli * See Magna Charta c. 29. Cooks Institutes on it 5 E. 3. c. 9 15 E. 3. c. 1 2 25 E. 3. c. 4 28 E. 3. c. 3 37 E. 3. c. 18 42 E. 3. c. 3 2 R. 2. c. 2 4 5 H. 4. c. 10 19 H. 7. c. 10 23 H. 8. c. 8 The Petition of Right 3 Caroli and other Acts in ch 3. 2 H 4. Rot. Parl. N. 60. 69. * 4 E. 3. c. ● 17 R. ● c. 10 * See the Laws of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror Lex 35. 55 56 58. Ras●●als Abridgement Tit. Armour 35 E. 3. c. 8. Rot. Parl. N. 23 The Statures for impressing Souldiers 16 1● Caroli 〈◊〉 E. 3. Stat. 2. c 5. 4 H. 4. c. 13. Exact collection p. 878 879. a See Magna Char. c. 29. 5 E. 3. c. 9. 15 E. 3. c. 1 2 21 E. 3. Rot. Parl. N. 28. 1● E. 3. N 35 36 37. ●5 E. 3. c. 4 Rot. Parl. N. 16. 28 E. 3. c. 3. 37 E. 3. c. ●8 42. E. 3. c. 1. 3. 2 R. 2. Parl. 2. c. 2. 7 R. 3. c. 4. 2 H 4. Rot. Parl. N. 60. 69. 15 H. 6. c. 4. The Petition of Right 3 Car. and the Statutes against Ship-money Knighthood Tonnage and Poundage 16 17 Caroli b See 1 Sam. 7. 4 to the end c. 11. 14 15. c. 12. 1. 2 Sam. 5. 1 2 3. c. 16. 18. 1 King 12. 3. to 21. c. 16. 1● c. 20. 7 8. 2. King 11. 1. to 21. c. 21. 24. c. 23. 30. c King Johns Magna Cha●ta Matth. Paris p. 247. 5 R. 2. c. 4. cook● 4. Instit c. 1. My Plea for the Lords My Ardua Regui The Levellers levelled and Epistle before my Speech in Parliament 4 E. 3. c. 14. 36 E. 3. c. 10. 50 E. 3. N. 151. 1 R. 2. N. 95. 2 R. 2. N. 4 5. d See 39 H. 6. c. 1. 17. E. 4. c. 7. ● H. 4. N. 21 22. 48. 1 H. 4. c 3. * See Rastals Abridgement of Statutes Title Provision● Premunire Rome e Leges Edwardi Regis c. 35 Lambards Arch. F. 135 136. Cooks 7. Report Calvins Case f. 6 7. Leges Willielm● Regis Lex 58 59. Seldens Notae ad Eadmerum p. 191. 11 H. 7. c. 1. 18 19 H. 7. c. 1. 25 H. 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. 3. 28 H. 8. c. 7. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 3. 5. 5 Eliz. 2. c. 1. 1 Jac. c. 1 2. 3. Jac. c. 1 2 4 5. 7 Jac. c. 6. The Protestation League and Covenant and the ancient Oathes of Fealty Homage Mayers Sheriffs Free-men * Daniels History p. 78 79. 80. 123. 10. 12 n. 2. r. 8. H 5. r. 9 1. 1. 6. n. 53. 31. H. 6. r. 7. 1. R. 2. n. 14● 1. H. 4. n. 100. 6 H 4. n. 4. 15. 8. H. 4. n. 12. 33. H. 6. n. 47. 4. G. n. 3● 12 E. 4 n. 6. a See my Declaration and Protestation against the illegal detestable oft-condemned new Tax and Extortion of Excise 1654. Exact collection p. 885. Mr. St. Johns Speech concerning Ship-money p. 15 16. * Exact Collection p. 886. Nota. Nota. * And is not this its present sad slavish condition * Do they not so on Beer Salt and other Manufactures for which they now pay Excise * Witness Mr. ●ony amongst others Nota. See the Arguments concerning them in Mr. Hambdins and others cases 2. * See Cook 4. Justi c. 1. Brooks Parliament 4. 76 42. 107. and my Plea for the Lords * See Cooks 4. Justit c. 1. and Rastal Taxes Nota. Nota. Nota. * Though he came in by the Sword as a kind of Conquerour Nota. Nota. * And are not all the Commons Merchants Freemen of England bound to use the same course and make the s●me Declaration now Nota. * And can our p●esent Grandees take it in ill part if we refuse to pay them now being demand●d without Warrant of a Law and the receivers of them in a Premunire by express Act of Parliamen of 16 Caroli made since this Remonstrance a Alderman Chambers Mr. Rolls and others Nota. * Exact Collection p. 790. to 797. * See Historiae Anglicanae Londini 1652. Col. 2750 2751. Halls Chronicle f. 7 8. John Trussel in 23. R. 2. p 46. Grafton p. 401. Nota. * See Mr. St. Johns Argument at his Attainder p. 36. to 52. * See Judge Crooks Judg Huttons printed Arguments my Humble Remonstrance against the Illegal Tax of Shipmony * Printed at the end of Judge Huttoes A●gument amongst the sta●utes of 16 Caroli * Chap 1. p. Diurnal Occurences Speeches p. 191. to 265. Objection Answer * See p. 12 to 20 before the 1 Proposition and Statutes Arguments thereunto specially 23 E. 1. c. 5. 6. 34. E. 1. c. 1 2 3. 14 E. 3. c. 21 and Stat. 2. c. 1. 3 Caroli The Petition of Right * See their Impeachments printed trials Mr. St. Johns Argument at Law against Strafford p. 34 35. * Cook 4 Inst p. 42. 11 R. 2. c. 4. 1 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 143. 2 H. 4. c. 22. 21 R. 2. c. 4 5 6. 1 H. 4. c 7. rot Parl. n 48. 60. 68. * See Sir Edw. Cooks Preface to his 2. Institutes * Jer. 21. 12. c. 22. 3 4 5. Ps 12. 5 Ezech. 18. 5. to 14. c. 22. 12 13 27 29 30. c. 45. 7. to 10. c. 46. 18. Mich. 3. 1. to 5. c. 2. 1 2 3. c. 7. 2. Isa 58. 6. * See True c. p. 17 18. Objection Answer * Math. Paris Hist Angliae London 1640. p. 810. 818 854 875. * See M● Sr. Johns Speech against the ship-money Judges p. 16 17 18 19. Exact Collect p. 885. * See Heylyns Microcosme p. 756 757 758 395 412. 507. 577. 578. 642. 672. 704. * Exact Coll. p. 7. 575. 639 640 641. 807. 836. 850. to 890. * See the Act of Resumption 28 ● 6. 11. 53. a See Cooks 4 Inst●t c. 1. p. 33. Regal Taxes here ch 3. sect 4 5 6. * See 14 E. 3. c. 21. stat 2. c. 1. 5. R. 2. stat 2. c. 2 3 all Acts for 〈◊〉 * See Henry de Knyghton de Eventibus Angliae l. 5. col 2681. to 2690. 2 R. 2. rot Parl. n. 20 21 24. * Q● Curtius Hist l. 7. p. 831. * Qu. Curtius Hist l. 8. * Printed at Nu●●mbergh 1521. * See Revelationum l. 4. c. 104 105. l. 7. c. 16. l. 8. c. 48. Rev●lationes extravagantes c. 73 80. * Revelationum l. 8. c. 48. * Math Paris Hist Angl. p. 517. * De Remedio Amo●s l. 2. * See Mat. Pa●●s p. 306. 308. Grafton p. 90. 149. Daniel p. 78 79 83 123. 1 R. 2. Rot. Parl. to 148. 1 H. 4. n. 100. 6 H. 4. n. 14 15. 8 H. 4. n. 52. 1 H. 5. c. 6. 28 H. 6. rot Parl. n. 53. 31 H. 6. c. 7. 33. H. 6. n. 47. 4 E. 4. n. 39. 12. E. 4. n. 6.