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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

Ambassage the most and impious that ●ver was sent by any Christian Prince unto Maramumalim the Mo●●● intituled The great King of Africa c. Wherein he offered to render u●to him his Kingdome and to hold the same by tribu●● from him as his Soveraign Lord to forgoe the Christian faith which he held va●● and receive that of Mahomet But leaving him and his people together by the cares striving with him for their ●●●r●es and freedomes a● justly they might which at last brought in the French amongst them to the almost utter ruine and destruction of the whole Kingdome and at last he was poysoned by a Monk It was this King or Tyrant that enabled the Citizens of London to make their Annuall choyce of a Mayor and two Seriffes Martaine 59. The Kingdome being all in broyles by the French who were called in to the aid of the Barons against him and having got footing plot and endevour utterly to extinguish the English Nation The States at Gl●cester in a great Assembly caused Henry the third his sonne to be Crowned who walked in his Fathers steps in subverting the peoples Liberties and Freedomes who had so freely chosen him and expelled the French yet was hee so led and swayed by evill Councellors putting out the Natives out of all the chief places of the Kingdome and preferred strangers only in their places Which doings made many of the Nobility saith Daniel folio 154. combine themselves for the defence of the publick according to the law of Nature and Reason and boldly doe shew the King his error and ill-advised course in suffering strangers about him to the disgrace and oppression of his naturall liege people contrary to their Lawes and Liberties and that unlesse he would reforme this excesse whereby his Crown and Kingdome was in imminent danger they would withdraw themselves from his Councell Hereupon the King suddenly sends over for whole Legions of Poictonions and withall summons a Parliament at Oxford whither the Lords refuse to come And after this the Lords were summonedto a Parliament at Westminster whither likewise they refused to come unlesse the King would remove the Bishop of Winchester and the Poictonians from the Court otherwise by the common Counsell of the Kingdom they send him expresse word They would expell him and his evill Councellors out of the land and deale for the creation of a new King Fifty and six yeares this King reigned in a manner in his Fathers steps for many a bloody battell was fought betwixt him and his people for their Liberties and Freedomes and his sonne Prince Edward travelled to the warres in Africa The State after his Fathers death in his absence assembles at the New Temple and Proclaim him King And having been six yeares absent in the the third yeare of his reigne comes home and being full of action in warres occasioned many and g●eat Levies of money from his people yet the most of them was given by common consent in Parliament and having been three years out absent of the Kingdom he comes home in the 16. year of his reign And generall complaints being made unto him of ill administration of justice in his absence And that his Judges like so many Jewes had eaten his people to the bones ruinated them with delays in their suits and enriched themselves with wicked corruption too comon a practice amongst that generation he put all those from their Offices who were found guilty and those were almost all and punished them otherwise in a grievous manner being first in open Parliament convicted See Speed folio 635. And saith Daniel folio 189. The fines which these wicked corrupt Judges brought into the Kings Coffers were above one hundred thousand marks which at the rate as money goes now amounts to above three hundred thousand Markes by meanes of which he filled his empty coffers which was no small cause that made him fall upon them In the mean time these were true branches of so corrupt a root as they flowed from namely the Norman Tyrant And in the 25. yeare of his reigne he calles a Parliament without admission of any Church-man he requires certain of the great Lords to goe into the warres of Gascoyne but they all making their excuses every man for himselfe The King in great anger threatned that they should either goe or he would give their Lands to those that should Whereupon Humphry Bohun Earle of Hereford High Constable and Roger Bigod Earle of Norfolk Marshall of England made their Declaration That if the King went in person they would attend him otherwise not Which answer more offends And being urged again the Earle Marshall protested He would willingly go thither with the King and march before him in the Vantguard as by his right of inheritance he ought to doe But the King told him plainly he should goe with any other although himself went not in person I am not so bound said the Earle neither will I take that journey without you The King swore by God Sir Earle you shall goe or hang. And I sweare by the same oath I will neither goe nor hang said the Earle And so without leave departed Shortly after the two Earles assembled many Noblemen and others their friends to the number of thirty Baronets so that they were fifteen hundred men at Arms well appointed and stood upon their own guard The King having at that time many Irons in the fire of very great consequence judged it not fit to meddle with them but prepares to go beyond the Seas and oppose the King of France and being ready to take ship the Archbishops Bishops Earles and Barons and the Commons send him in a Roll of the generall grievances of his Subjects concerning his Taxes Subsidies and other Impositions with his seeking to force their services by unlawfull courses c. The King sends answer that he could not alter any thing without the advice of his Councell which were not now with them and therefore required them seeing they would not attend him in this journey which they absolutely refused to doe though he went in person unlesse he had gone into Fra●c● or Scotland that they would yet do nothing in his absence prejudici●●l to the peace of the Kingdom And that upon his return he would set all things in good order as should be fit And although he sayled away with 500. sayle of ships and 18000. men at Armes yet he was crossed in his undertakings which forced him as Daniel saith to send over for●more supply of treasure and gave order for a Parliament to be held at York by the Prince and such as had the managing of the State in his absence wherein for that he would not be disappointed he condescends to all such Articles as were demanded concerning the Great Charter promising from thence-forth never to charge his Subjects otherwise then by their consents in Parliament c. which at large you may reade in the Book of Statutes for which the Commons of

the rest of his Suffragans solemnly pronounced the Sentence of Excommunication whi●h then was a fe● full thunder-bolt against all such who should contradict those Articles which were there publikely read before the Barons and Commons of the Realme in the presence of the King Amongst which the observation and execution of Magnae Charta is required with all other ordinances necessary for the Church and Kingdome and that as the said King had done all st●angers should be banished the Court and Kingdome and all ill Councellors removed That the businesse of the State should be treated on by the Councell of the Clergy and the Nobles That the King should not begin any war or go any way out os the Kingdom without the common Councell of the same Daniel fol. 205. Speed fol. 652. But this King for his evill government breaking his Oaths and Contracts with his People was therefore by common consent in full Parliament deposed Which we shall have occasion b● and by more fully to speak of and the Bishop of Hereford as the mouth of those Messengers that were sent by the Parliament the Body of the State told him that the Common-wealth had in Parliament elected his eldest Son the Lord Edward for King and that he must resigne his Diadem to him or after the refusall suffer them to elect such a person as themselves should judge to be most fit and able to defend the Kingdome This Prince being crowned raigned above 50. years and hath the best commendation for Manhood and Justice of any Prince that went before him or that followed after him who yet notwithstanding though he came in by election and took the Oath at his Coronation which his Father took before him yet he fayled often in the performance of it Of which the BBp. of Canterbury in an Epistle written to him when hee was in France tells him home of it in these words That it was the safety of Kings and their Kingdoms to use grave and wise Councellors alleadging many examples out of holy Writ of the slourishing happinesse of such as took that course and their infelicity who followed the contrary Then wills him to remember how his Father led by evill Councell vexed the Kingdome putting to death contrary to the Law of the Land divers of the Nobility and wished him to consider what hapned thereby unto him 〈◊〉 to call to mind how himself at first through evill Councell about 〈◊〉 almost lost the hearts of his people But afterwards by the great 〈◊〉 and care of his Prelates and Nobles his affaires were 〈…〉 into so good order as he recovered them and is reputed the noblest Prince in Christendome But now again at present through the 〈◊〉 Councell of such as effect their own prosit more then his honour o● the welf●re of his People he had caused Clergy-men and others to be ar●ested and held in prison by undue proceeding without being indicted or convilled contrary to the Laws of England which he saith he was ●●●nd by his Oath at his Coronation to observe and against Magna Charta which whosoever shall presume to infringe are to be by the Prelates excommunicate so that hereby he incurred no small detriment to his Soule and to the State and his Honour which he doubted if he proceeded in it would loose both the hearts of the people and their ayd and helpe Daniel Foli 229. 230. For which the King sharply according to his prerogative power reproveth him But shortly after the King found much to do● in the Parliament held at London being earnestly petitioned by the whole Assembly that the great Charter of Liberties and the Charter of Forrests might be duly observed and that whosoever of the Kings Officers in●ringed the same should loose their place That the high Officers of the Kingdome should as in former times * Read Daniel fol. 149. be elected by Parliament But the King stood stiff upon his prerogative but yet yeelded that these Officers should receive an Oath in Parliament to do justice unto all men in their Offic●s and thereupon a Statute was made and confirmed with the Kings Seal both for that and many other Grants of his to the Subj●cts which notwithstanding were for the most part presently after revoked Daniel fol. 231. But forasmuch as About this time in the Statute-Bookes at large fol. 144. l find was an excellent Oath made in the 18. of Edw. 3. Anno 1344. intituled The Oath of the Justices I conceive it may be worth the reading and therefore it is not unnecessary here to ins●rt it which thus followeth YE shall swear that well and lawfully ye shall serve our Lord the King and his People in the Office of Iustice and that lawfully ye shall counsell the King in his businesse And that ye shall not counsell nor assent to any thing which may turn him in dammage or disherison by any manner way or colour And that ye shall not know the dammage or disherison of him whereof ye shall not cause him to be warned by your self or by others and that ye shall do equall Law and execution of right to all his Subjects rich and poore without having regard to any person And that you take not by your self or by other privatly nor apertly guift nor regard of gold nor silver nor of any other thing which may turn to your profit unlesse it be meat or drinke and that of small value of any man that shall have any plea or processe hanging before you as long as the same processe shall be so hanging nor after for the same cause And that ye take no Fee as long as ye shall be Justice nor Robes of any man great or small but of the King himself And that ye give none advice nor counsell to no man great nor small in no case where the King is party And in case that any of what estate or condition they be come before you in your Sessions with force and arms or otherwise against the peace or against the form of the Statute thereof made Stat 2. E. 3. 3. to disturb execution of the Common-Law or to ●●●ace the people that they may not pursue the Law that ye shall cause their bopies to be arrested and put in prison And in case they be such that ye cannot arrest them that ye certifie the King of their names and of their misprision hastily so that he may thereof ordain a conveniable remedy And that ye by your selfe nor by others privily nor apertly maintain any plea or quarrell hanging in the Kings Court or else-where in the Country And that ye deny to no man common right by the Kings Lett●rs nor none other mans nor for none other cause in case any Letters come to you contrary to the Law that ye do nothing by such Letters but certifie the King thereof and proceed to execute the Law notwithstanding the same Letters And that ye shall do and procure the profit of the King and his Crown with

but he was also made King at Shechem by all Israel 1 King 12. ● And afterwards Jeroboam the son of Nebat Solomons servant and all the congregation of Israel went to Rehoboam to claim the making good of the GREAT CHARTER of Nature viz. to claim relaxation of oppression and protection according to justice that is to say that he should doe to them in governing them justly as he would have them to doe to him in yeelding him subjection and obedience this being the whole Law of GOD both Naturall and Morall and therefore they tell Rehoboam that the King ●his Father had broke their Charter and made their Yoak grieuous which you may read of in Chap. 4. Now therefore make thou observe they doe not say Most gracious Soveraigne nor Most excellent Majesty the grievous service of thy Father and his heavy yoak which he put upon us lighter and we will serve thee But the King rejecting the advice and counsell of his old and g●od Counsellors which as we may say was to govern them according to Law contained in Magna Charta and the Petition of Right c. and not to rule and governe them according to his Prerogative or perverse Will For they tell him If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day and wilt serve them mark it well and answer them and speak good words to them then they will bee thy servants for ever But he forsook the counsell of the old men which wee may call GOOD COMMON-WEALTHS-MEN and followed the advice of his young-men which we call the Cavaliers or men for the Prerogative And saith the Text he answered the people roughly saying My Father made your yoak heavy and I will adde to your yoake My Father also chastised you with whi●s but I wil chastise you with Scorpions 1 Kings 12. 3 4 5 6 7 8 14. But saith the Text vers 15 when all Israel saw that the King hearke●ed not unto them the people answered the King saying What portion have we in David Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse To your Tents O Israel Now see to thine own house David So Israel departed to their tents and revolted or rebelled against the House of David and called all the cōgregation of the people together and with an unanimous consent made Jeroboam King over all Israel as Rehoboam was over Juda having both an assignation from GOD 1 King 11. 11 12 13 26 29 30 31 35 37 38. and a solemne legall publick Call and Election from the people 1 Kings 12. 2 3 20 21. and of his Regality and Kingship as legally and justly by God himselfe approved by sending his Prophet tobring the kingdom back to Solomons son to command him and Juda c. Observe he calls them not Rehoboams people not to goe up nor fight against their brethren the children of Israel Which command as most just they observed vers 21 22 23 24 Yea and God himselfe in the 14. chapter and 7. verse beareth witnesse that he himselfe exalted Jeroboam from among the people and made him Prince over his people Israel and rent the Kingdome from the house of David and gave it unto him And afterwards when God upbraids him it was not because he was an usurper a traytor or a ●ebe●l against his masters son King Rehoboam but because he had not been as his servant David was who followed him with a perfect heart but had done evill above all that was before him in making him other Gods and molten Images to provoke me saith God to anger and hast cast me behind thy back So that here is a cleare demonstratio● that it is lawfull in the sight of God as well as in the sight of Man for a people to with-draw their obedience from that Magistrate or King that refuseth to govern them by legall justice but oppresseth them contrary to the end of the trust reposed in him which was never for their woe but for their weale and so breakes that tacit contract that by vertue of his Induction into his Office is Naturally and Rationally implyed to be made although it never be expressed It being as the Parliament saith Book Declar. Pag. 150. irrationall to conceive that when the Militi● of any is com●itted to a Generall although it be not with any expresse condition that he shall not turne the mouthes of his Cannons against his own Sou●diers for say they that is so naturally and necessarily implyed that its needlesse to be expressed insomuch as if he did attempt or cō●●nd any such thing against the nature of his trust and place it did Ipso facto estate the Armie in a right of disobedience except we thinke that obedience binds men to cut their own throates or atleast their Companions Having laid this foundation I will come now to speak something of those five particulars which is before-mentioned and laid down in the sixth page of this Discourse which are thus expressed First if it were granted that the Lords were a legall Jurisdiction and had a judicative power over the Commons yet the manner of the Lords dealing with Lieut. Col. Lilburn is illegall and unjust Secondly That if the Lords were a Judicature yet they have no jurisdiction over Commoners Thirdly That they are no Judicature at all Fourthly That they by Law and Right are no Law-makers Fifthly That by Law and Right it lyeth not in the power of the King nor in the House of Commons it self to delegate the legislative power either to the Lords divided or conjoyned nor to any other persons whatsoever For the first of these viz. That the manner of the Lords proceeding with Lieu. Col. Lilburn was and is illegall is cleer and that I prove thus The Law requires that before the body of a Free-man be attached or summoned to a Bar of Justice to answer a Chage that there shall be an originall Declaration or Charge filed in the Court before so much as either the Writ Attachment or Warrant go out to seize upon or summon the party accused See Sir Edw. Cookes 2. part Institut f. 46 50 51. Read the Statu●e c. quoted in those Margents but there was no such matter in Mr. Lilburns case For although as he declares in his book called The Freemans freedome vindicated page 3 the Lords 10. June 1646. sue out a Warrant to summon him upon sight thereof to answer such things as he stands charged with before their Lordships concerning a Pamphlet entituled The just mans justification or A Letter by way of Plea in Barre And accordingly the 11 of June 1646. he appeared at their Bar expecting there to have received a written Charge according to Law and Justice which they both refused to shew him or let him know whether they had any such legall Charge or no against him but presse him contrary to the Petition of Right and the Law of the Land to answer to Interrogatories concerning himself a practice condemned by themselves in his own case