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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91277	A short, legal, medicinal, usefull, safe, easie prescription, to recover our kingdom, Church, nation from their present dangerous, distractive, destructive confusion, and worse than Bedlam madnesse; seriously recommended to all English freemen who desire peace, safety, liberty, settlement. By William Prynne, Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4080; Thomason E772_1; ESTC R203288	6,103	11

aliis omnibus de Com. Cornub. salutem Sciatis quod concessimus Vobis quod liberam habeatis electionem eligendi vobis in Vicecomitem nostrum unum de Com. Cornub. Et ideo vobis mandamus quod eligatis tres fideles discretos de Com. Cornub. illos nobis praesentari fac apud London in Octab. Clausi Pasche nos unum ex illis tribus prout nobis placuerit Vobis dabimus ad Vicecomitem Et interim commissimus Comitatum illum Cornub. cum omnibus illis quae ad nos pertinent dilecto fideli nostro Reginaldo de Valletorta custodiend vobisque mandamus quatinus eidem Reginaldo usque ad praedictum terminum sitis intendentes et respondentes in omnibus tanquam Vic. nostro ballivo nostro Et in hujus c. T. H. de Burgo c. apud Westm xxviij die Jan. an regni nostro 5 to 4ly De Vic electo in Com. Sum. Dorset By Pat. 10. H. 3. memb 4. Rex Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Prioribus Comitibus Baronibus Militibus liberè tenentibus omnibus aliis de communibus Sumerset Dors salutem Sciatis quod electioni quam fecistis de Willo fil Henr. ad Vic. nostrum faciend de Comitat. Sumerset Dorset assensum nostrum praebuimus Et ideo vobis mandamus quod ei tanquam Vic nostro quamdiu nobis placuerit intendentes sitis respondentes In cujus c. Teste Rege apud Winton xxvij die Jan. 5ly By Mat. Paris Mat. Westminster Daniel and others who record that in the 45 year of King Henry the 3d. the King placed new Sherifs in every Countie displacing the Sheriffs the Barons and people had made whereupon the people in every Countie manfully resisted the Sheriffs and would not obey nor regard nor answer them in any thing whereat the King was much troubled Much less then ought they now to obey any Sheriffs obtruded on them by the Army-Officers or any other illegal usurped power 6ly By the Statute of Articuli super chartas An. 28 E. 1. chap. 8. The King hath granted to his people that they shall have the election of Sheriffs in every Shire where the Shrivalty is not of fee if they will And chap. 13. For as much as the King hath granted the election of Sheriffs to the Commons of the Shire the King willeth that they shall chuse such Shyrifs as shall not charge them and that they shall not put in any Officer for rewards or bribes And that they shall not ledge too oft in one place nor with poor persons nor with men of Religion By which Statutes being but confirmations of the peoples former rights by custom or Kings grants on which som of them encroached which was the occasion of these Acts all Counties used to elect their Sheriffs And if they elected any mean or unfitting person as they sometimes did he then commanded them by his Writs to chuse another who was fit to discharge that Office witness this memorable record ensuing Cl. 31 E. 1. m. 13. dorso Rex Coronatoribus et toti communitati Comitatuum Salop. Stafford salutem De Vic. elig Cum nuper pro communi utilitate regni nostri inter alia concesserimus populo ejusdem regni quod habeat si voluerit electionem Vic. in singulis comitatibus dicti regni cum opus fuerit Vicecom praedict in eisdem ubi videlicet Vicecomes de feodo non existit Ac Ricus de Harlegh per vos in Vic. comitatuum praedictorum nuper electus ad officium illud faciendum minus sufficiens est sicut ex testimonio fidedigno accepimus Vobis mandamus quod aliquem qui melius sciat possit officio Vic. dictorum comitatuum intendere et utilior fuerit ad idem officium exequendum in Vic. eorundem comitatuum pro vobis si volueritis eligatis et ipsum sic electum per aliquem legalem et circumspectum hominem ex parte vestra cum literis vestris patentibus sub sigillis sex de discretioribus probioribus Mil. eorundem comitatuum Thess Baronib nostris de Scaccario in crastino Sancti Michaelis prox futuri sine dilatione praesentetis ut ipse ●unc ibidem praestito sicut moris est sacramento extunc ea faciat exerceat quae ad officium Vicecomitis pertinent in com praedictis Et habeatis ibi tunc boc breve Sci●uri quod si talem per vos electum modo praedicto non praesentaveritis coram praefatis Thess Baronibus nostris in crastino praedicto praedicti Thess Burones extunc nobis de alio Vicecomite Vobis praeficiendo in defectu vestri providebunt Teste Rege apud Sarum xvi die April 8. By Claus 12 E 3. pars 2. m. 15. Claus 13 E. 3. pars 3. dors 16. Cl. 14 E 3. pars 2. m. 3. De Vicecomitibus Eligendis per totam Angliam where in are several writs issued authorizing and commanding the people to elect their Shyrifs in every County throughout England with other Records to the like effect over-tedious to recite at large 9ly By Mr. Lambards Archaion f 135. and Sir Edward Cookes 2. Institutes on Magna Charta p. 174 175 558 559 566. who resolve That Sheriffs in antient times were and oft to be chosen by the Free-holders of the County in the County Court as Conservators of the Peace Coroners Verderers Constables Petty Constables were then and since Elected likewise by the people as well by the Kings writs as without them in cases of necessity Xly. By the constant custome of all Corporations which are counties within themselves having power Annually to chuse Sheriffs only by the Kings Charters without any special writ as London Bristol Glocester Yorke Canterbury Coventry c. use to do Therefore every County in England and Wales may do the like without any special writs being a necessary annual antient standing Office especially in these confused times when none have any legal Authority to issue out Writs or Commissions to elect or swear Sheriffs by vertue of the premised Statutes And the Army-Officers with other self-created Usurping Powers may as lawfully obtrude Mayors Sheriffs and other Officers on every Corporation of England without their election and deprive them of their freedome to elect them as thrust Sheriffs Justices of the Peace Coroners or other eligible Officers upon Counties and rob them of this their just antient right and privilege now strenuously to be revived asserted for their common safety against all encroachments thereon The Statute of Westminster 1. ch 5. enacting declaring That all Elections ought to be free and not disturbed by force of arms under great forfeitures by no Great men nor others 3ly Let all Counties Cities Boroughs Ports make choice of the wisest ablest stoutest discreetest Persons such as are best affected to Peace Settlement and the Nations publike Interest for their Knights Citizens and Burgesses not of raw unexperienced timorous or time-serving unstable

self-seeking turbulent men 4ly Let all Counties Cities Noblemen Gentlemen Yeomen Clergymen and Freemen of the Nation unanimously resolve to obey no new illegal tyrannical upstart Powers Officers Conventicles Committees or Councils of men whatsoever forcibly obtruded on them nor to execute any of their Orders or commands but only to obey such legal Officers as themselves shall legally elect or a Free Parliament duly elected by them nor pay any Taxes Customs Imposts Excises Contributions whatsoever to any Officers Souldiers Collectors but such as shall be imposed by common consent in a free and lawfull Parliament it being their antient Birthright for defence whereof the Armie was first raised ratified not only by sundry antient Statutes and the late Petition of Right but several Acts Votes Declarations Judgements the last long Parliament of King Charles acknowledged in the Instrument of Government it self the late Petition and Advice the Armies own former Declarations and the late dissolved Juncto in their very last Knack of the 12. of this instant October their Plea and Papers since 5ly If any Officers and Souldiers of the Army out of faction ambition self-ends or Jesuitical seduction shall obstinately traiterously maliciously or tyrannically oppose the people in their elections of Sheriffs Knights Citizens Burgesses or levie any Taxes Excises upon them by armed violence contrarie to all their former-forfeited now-expired Commissions Declarations Engagements let them then unanimously declare and proceed against them as professed publick Enemies Traitors to their Native Countrie who by their former and late Treacheries Rebellions and unwarrantable proceedings against all their Superiors transcending all presidents in profane or sacred stories have actually in Law justice forfeited not only all their Commissions Commands and Arrears of pay but a their very lives lands estates and that our whole 3. Nations by their Solemn League and Covenant for their own future preservation are obliged to bring them to publike Justice as themselves have proceeded against hundreds nay thousands of other Delinquents not half so criminal as themselves and thereupon intreat all other Officers Souldiers in the Army who have any fear of God or love to themselves their posterities or Native Countrie remaining in their brests as Moses did the Congregation of Israel in the Rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram who mutinied the people against him and Aaron Numb 16. Depart I pray ye from the Tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sinnes So they gat up from the Tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram on every side And as many Officers Soldiers as shall thereupon desert the Tents of their Rebellious Commanders and contribute their assistance for the speedy calling and safe sitting of a free lawful Parliament without any future mutinies to interrupt or dissolve it when convened according to the premised Statute of 16 Caroli c. 1. let them be assured of their full arrears and of indempnitie for what is past which none else but a free and lawful Parliament can grant them all other Indemnities being void in Law And if this will not satisfie let them beware lest the earth cleave asunder that is under them and then open her mouth and swallow them up alive with their houses men goods and all appertaining to them and they perish from among the Congregation as Korah Dathan and Abiram with their families and adherents did by this or some other exemplarie Judgements and a universal Insurrection of our three whole discontented oppressed ruined Nations against them which they may justly fear and expect if they believe there is a righteous God that judgeth in the earth a Lord of hosts able to scatter punish execute vengeance on them here and cast them into hell for ever hereafter for their manifold unlamented reiterated transcendent Rebellions or repute these Texts Canonical which I shall recommend to their saddest Meditations Prov. 29.10 He that being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy as the late Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes Protectors have been Prov. 11.21 Though hand go in hand yet the wicked shall not go unpunished Psal 68.21 God shall wound the head of his Enemies and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his Trespasses Ezech. 24.14 I the Lord have spoken it it shall come to passe I will doe it I will not goe back neither will I spare neither will I repent but according to thy wayes and according to thy doings I will recompence and they shall judge thee saith the Lord. Col. 3.25 He that doth wrong shall receive according to the wrong done and there is no respect of persons with God who can in a moment as easily destroy an whole Armie and great host of men as he did * 2 Kings 13.35 2 Chron. 13.16 17 Sennacheribs Jeroboams and other Armies as any one single person October the last 1659. the day of King-condemning John Bradshawes death and translation to his proper place and arraignment in the Highest Court of Justice FINIS