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A91183	The first part of an historical collection of the ancient Parliaments of England, from the yeer of our Lord 673, till the end of King John's reign, anno 1216. Wherein is cleerly demonstrated by histories and records beyond contradiction, that the ancient parliaments, and great councels of England, during all this tract of time, and many yeers after, were constituted, and consisted onely of our kings, princes, dukes, earls, nobles, barons, spiritual and temporal lords, and those we now usually stile the House of Peers; and that both the legislative and judicial power of our parliaments resided onliy [sic] in them; without any knights, citizens, burgesses of Parliament, or Commons House, not knowne, nor heard of, till of punier times then these. Published, to inform the ignorance, and check the insolent usurpations of those few commoners, who now call themselves not only the Commons House, but Parliament of England; and (as much as in them lies) have most unjustly excluded both our King and lords from being any Members, or branches of our late, or future Parliaments. / By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3957; Thomason E569_23; ESTC R203232	23,817	33

ARCHIEPISCOPO caeterisque Angliae Episcopis MAGNATIBVS who subscribed it n Spelman Concil p. 342. An. Dom. 838. I read of Concilium Pan-Anglicum a Councel or Parliament of all England held at Kingston where King Egbert and his Son Ethelwalf presided una cum Ceal●●tha the Archeipiscope Doroberniae caeterisque Anglia EPISCOPIS OPTIMATIBVS Wherein the manner of Mallings which King Baldre● had sometimes giVen to Christ-Church in Canterburis and afterwards substracted from it Eo-quod MAGNATES 〈◊〉 donationem illam ratam fore Et quia ille Rex CVNCIIS PRINCIPIBVS non placuit nolu 〈◊〉 donum ejus per 〈…〉 was now again resetled and confirmed to that Church by King Egbert and his Son A●helwolf consentientibus demum MAGNATIBVS A clear evidence of the Noble-mens Negative voice in Parliaments to hinder the King from disposing any Lands of the Crown to pious or other uses without their consents in Parliament where we finde not a word of the Commons or of their assent or dissent in that age o Spelman Concil p. 344. An. Christi 850. There was a Councel kept at Benningdon à PRAELATIS ET PROCERIBVS Regni Merciae under King Bertulph where Lands were setled and confirmed on the Abbie of Crowland by the King Bishops and Nobles without the assent or mention of any Commons p Spelman Concil p. 344. An. Dom. 851. There was a Councel held at Kingsbury under King Bertulph praesentibus ●eolnotho ARCHIEPISCOPO Do●oberniae caeterisque Regni Merciae EPISCOPIS MAGNATIBVS without Knights or Burgesses which setled the affaires of the Realm and confirmed this Kings ample Charter to the Abbey of Crowland subscribed by the King Archbishop Bishops Abbots Dukes and Earles q Malmesh de Gestis Regum Angl. l. 2. c. 2. Ingulphi Hist Matth. Westm Anno 854. Wigorniensis An. 855. Spelman Concil p. 348 350. Seld. Titles of Honor p 2. cap. 5. sect 6. p. 633. An. 855. There was a Parliament or Councel of all England held at Winchester where Ae●helwolf King of West-sex Beorred King of Mercia and Edmund King of East sex were present together with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York caeterisque Angliae Episcopis Magnatibus wherein King Aethelwolf omnium PRAELATORVM AC PRINCIPVM SVORVM gratuito consilio without any Knights or Burgesses there expressed gave the tithes of all the lands and goods within his Dominions to God and the Church there stiled Concilium salabre which hath continued ever since in force till now About the yeer of our Lord 930. * Wil Malm●b de Gest Reg. Angl. l. 2. c. 6. p. 52. King Aethelstan by his Charters gave divers lands to the Abbey of Malmsbury in one whereof there was this Subscription or Postscript S●iant Sapicutes Regionis nostrae no● ha● ha● prata●●s terras me injuste rapuiss● rapinam Deo d●diss● sed sic 〈◊〉 accepi QUEMADMODUM JUDICAVERUNT OMNES OPTIMA●ES REGNI ANGLORUM to wit in a full Parliament which then consisted only of the King and all the Nobl●s of England as these words insinuate who adjudged these 〈◊〉 to be the Kings and not Elfreds which E●fred forwearing himself before the A●tar of Saint Peter at Rome in the presence of Pope John and there falling down dead as soon as he had forsworn himself and dying within three daies after the Pope thereupon sent to King Ethelstu● to advise him what he should doe with his body and whether he should be buried with other Christians Whereupon OPTIMATES REGIONIS NOSTRAE humbly desired of the King that he might have Christian buriall which he assented to the Nobles only being then the only great Councel of the Kingdom assembled it seems upon this occasion to advise the King what Answer to return to the Pope concerning Elfreds but all whose lands they then adjudged to be forfeited to the King for his Treason against him in his life time in ●ndeavouring to dis●n●●● it him of his Crown and to imprison and put out his eyes * Wil. Malmsb. de Gest Reg. Angl. l. 2. c. 7. p. 53 54. Anno Dom. 944. Indict 1. King Edmond granted many large Liberties and the Mannor of Gl●stenbury to the Abble thereof by his Charter made it seems in Parliament as most of such Charters were which begin● thus In nomine Domini c. Ego Edmundus Rex Anglorum 〈◊〉 que Gentium gubernat●● 〈◊〉 Rector CVM CONSILIO ET CONSENSV OPTIMATVM MEORVM conced● Ecclesiae Sanctae D●i Gini●ri●●● Muriae Glastoniae c. A clear evidence that the Nobles in that age were the Kings great Counsell and Parliament without any Knights Citizens or Burgesses of which we finde no mention in Charters or Storie r Ingulphi Histor p. 874. Spelman Concil page 428. Mr. Seldeno Titles of Honor part 2. ch 5. p. 633. An. 948. There was a Parliament or Councel held at London under King Ed●●d on the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary cum universi MAGNATES REGNI per Reg●●m Edictum summoniti tam Archiopiscopi Episcopi A●●ites quàm caeteri totius Regni PROCERES ET OPTIMATES Londoni convenissent ad tractandum de●n●go●is publicis 〈◊〉 ●egni Where we read of no Knights Citizens or Burgesses bu● only of Archbishops Bishops Abbots and all the Nobility of the Land summoned to this famous Parliament to consult of the publike affaires of the whole Kingdome Anno 965. so Malmsbury Malmsb● de Gest●s Reg. Angl. l. 2. cap. 8 p 56 57. or 970. So Spelman King Edgar called a Councel at London where himself his Mother Cli●● his Successor t Spelman Concil p. 483. the King of Scot● the Admirall 〈◊〉 both the Archbishops cateriq●● Episcopis 〈…〉 Prop●●bus were present and subscribed his Charter therein granted to the Abbey of Glastenbury COMMUNI EPISCOPO●UM A●●ATUM PRIMORUM QU● CONSI●●O GENERALI AS●INSU PONTI●ICUM A●BATUM OPTIMATUM 〈◊〉 CONCI●●O OMNIUM PRIMATUM ●●ORUM without any Commons present or mentioned to be there t Spelman Concil p. 490. An. 975. King Edgar and his Queen Elf●●us Prince of M●●●ia 〈◊〉 Duke of the East-●●gles Elfwol● his kinsman Archbishop Dunstan cum caeteris Episcopis Abbatibus Brick●●tho COMITE cum NOBILITATE TOTIUS R●GNI held a Councel at Winchester without any Commons u Huntingdon Hist l. 5. p. 357 Matth. West An. 755. usque 1002. An. 977. in the Counc●l of Cal●e under King Edward OMNES ANGLORUM OPTIMATES were present together with the Bishops and Clergy but no Knights and Burgesses for ought is recorded where the floor sinking under them all but Danstan fell down some of them being grievously hurt others slain upon which Henry Huntind●● makes this memorable Observation applicable to our times Signum scilicet Dei excelsi fuit quod Proditione Interfection● Regis sui ab amore Dei cas●ri assent 〈…〉 diversis Gentibus digna contrition● conter 〈◊〉 For King Ed●ard being soon after ●lain 〈◊〉 Gentis sua p●rsida who i●ici●ias qu●

that the King and his Nobles and Barons alone were the onely Parliament and Legislator● in those dayes without any Knights Burgesses or Commons d Wigerniensis An 1070 Mat. Paru●●n 10 5. p 20. Seld. Tit. Hon. p. 701. An. 1070. In a Parliament or Councel held at Pedreda the controversie between Thomas Archbishop of York and V●stan Bishop of Worcester touching certain Lands was determined quietly in Concilio celebrat● coram REGE Do●ebernens atque PRIMATIBVS TOTIVS REGNI ADJVDICANTIBVS terminata est as Wigorniensis and Matthew Paris testifie e ●adner Hist Nov. l. 1. pag. 9. Seldmi Notae ad Eadme● pa. 197. c. 199. ●eld Tit. of Hon. p. 702. An. 1071. In the first year of King William the first his Reign at Pinnedene there was held PRINCIPVM CONVENTVS an assembly of the Nobles or Parliament by the Kings command wherein the controversie between Laufran● arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Odo Earl of Kent concerning divers Lands and Manners belonging to the church of Canterbury was determined which the King when he heard commended Laudans CVM CONSENSV OMNIVM PRINCIPVM SVORVM CONFIRMAVIT c. The King Spirituall and Temporall Lords and Barons without any Knights Burgesses or Commons for ought is recorded in our Histories being then the Parliament and they the f Seld. Notae ad Eadmerum p. 190 191. COMMUNE CONSILIUM TOTIUS REGNI NOSTRI mentioned in his Laws About the same time this King William commended and corrected the Episcopall and Ecclesiasticall Law● of the Realm g 2 Rich. 2. membr 12. nu 5. Seld Notae and Eadm p. 167 168. COMMVNI CONCILIO consilio ARCHIE●ISCORVM caeterorum EPISCOPORVM ABBATVM Omnium Principum Regni me● 〈◊〉 Judicavit as is manifest by his Rescript to Remigi●s Bishop of Lincoln And in the Libel exhibited by the Clergy to King Edward the first in Parliament there is this Recitall of this act of Reformation Cum Willi●●●us dudum Rex Angliae de COMMUNI CONCILIO ARCHIEP●●COPORUM ABBATUM OMNIUM PROCERUM REGNI SUI leges Episcop●●s quae non benè ne● secundum sanctum canonem praecepiae ●●crant in ●eg●o Angliae observand●● in●●●cusse judicaverit which manifests the Parliament and Common Councel in his reign be to the King and the Spirituall and Temporall Lords of the whole Kingdom without any House of Commons at all divided from or an●●oxed with them In the year book of 21. Edw. 3. f. 60. We read that the Abbot of Bury by an Ordin●m● in the reign of William the Conquerour m●de in Parliament by the King the Archbishop of Canterbury and BY ALL THE OTHER BISHOPS EARLS and BARONS of the Land was ex●●pted from all Episcopall jurisdiction And in his h Selden Notae ad E●dmerum p. 165. Charter to the Abbie of ●atth ●●de in Parliament there is this clause N●tum sit ●obis me 〈◊〉 confirm●ss● asso●●● La●franci Archiepiscopi 〈◊〉 Stigandi Episcopi 〈◊〉 CONCILIO ●tiam EPISCO●ORUM BARONUM MEORUM ●s Ecclesia s●ncti 〈◊〉 de Bello c. 〈…〉 ac qui●tu in perpet●●● 〈…〉 c. So as in his Reign there appeares no evidence for any Knights of Shires or Burgesses sitting or voting in Parliament but only the King and his Lords Spirituall and Temporall 〈…〉 judged and determined all publike affaires In the seventh yeer of King i 〈◊〉 Nov. l. 1 p. 〈◊〉 ●eldon● 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 p. ●02 William 〈◊〉 ann 1035 at the instance of arch-Bishop Anselm to end the controversies between the King and him there was a Parliament summoned at Rochingham Castle quatenus Episcopis Abbatibus Cunctisque Regni Principibus una cocuetibus communi assensu defiruretur ut●um salvâ reverentiâ obedientiâ sedis Apostalicae Anselmus possit fidem terreno Regi servare annon Fit itaque conventus omnium c. Anselmus autem Episcopis Abbatibus Principibus ad se à Regio secreto vocatis eos assistentem Monarcham c. numero am multitudinem hâc voce alloquitur The Bishops and Proceres Regni did all in this great councel k Eadmarus Nov. l. 2. p. 38. 39 40. About the ninth yeer of King William Rufus anno 1097 in the month of August cum de statu Regni acturus Rex Episcopos Abbates quosque Regni Proceres in unum praecepti sui sanctione egisset dispositis quae adjurationis illorum causae fuerant writes Eahmerus Anselme renewed his request to the King where Rex Episcopi Principes Quique Proceres are brought in as the only Members of and actors in the Parliament without any Commons at all l M●tt Paris p. 52 53. Seld. Tules of Hon● p. 702 703. Anno Dom. 1100 William Rufus dying without issue and Robert his elder brother being absent Henry the First was chosen and crowned King Clero Pagnetibus cunctis by the Clergy and all the Nobles upon condition that he should willingly grant and by his charter confirm those Liberties and ancient customes which flourished in the Kingdom in the time of Saint Edward the King which he did accordingly reciting in his Charter Sciatis me Dei Misericordià Communi Cons●li● Baronum Regni Regem esse coronatum Forestas Communi Consilo Baronu●●eorum in manu mea retinui Legem Regis Edwardi vobis reddo cum illis emendationibus quibus Pater meus eam emendavit Constl●o Baronum ●uorum His testibus Archiepiscopis Episcopis ●omitibus Baronibus Vicecomitt●bus Optimatibus totius Regni Angliae quando coronatus fui m Eadm Hist Nov l 3. p. 67. Wi●l Malmes de Gestis Pon. Angliae l. 1. p. 228. Hoved. Ann l. pa●s 1 p 469. Matth. Westm Anno 1102. pag. 23. An●iq Eccles 〈◊〉 pag. 104. 10● ●eld Tit. of Hon p 703. Ann. Dom. 1102. in the third year of King Henry the first there was a Councel held at Westminster Huic conventui affuerunt Anselmo Archiepiscopo petente à Rege Pr●nates Regni quatenus quicquid e●usdem Concilii authoritate decerneretur Vtriusque Ordinis concordi curâ solicitudine ratum servaretur write Eadmerus and Malmesbury in the self-same words In this Councel divers canons were made and published Communi Consensu Episcoporum Abbatum Principum totius Regni Principes Regni sui Omnes tam Ecclesiastci quam Secularis Ordinis were present with the King in this Councel writes Hoveden n Math. Paris Hist Angliae p. 59. Anno Dom. 1106. King Henry the first Magnetibus Regni ob hoc Londonium Edicto Regio convocatis made a flattering Speech unto them promising to ratifie King Edwards Laws both by his Charter and Oath if they desired it so as they would assist him against his Brother Robert and the Normans which they did o Math. Paris p. 60. Eadmerus Hist Nov. l. 4. p. 91. Hoveden Annal pars 1. p. 471. Anno 1107. There was another Parliament and Councel held at London under this King

THE FIRST PART OF AN HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF THE ANCIENT PARLIAMENTS OF ENGLAND From the yeer of our LORD 673 till the end of King JOHN's Reign Anno 1216. Wherein is cleerly demonstrated by Histories and Records beyond contradiction That The Ancient Parliaments and Great Councels of England during all this tract of time and many yeers after were constituted and consisted onely of our KINGS PRINCES DUKES EARLS NOBLES BARONS SPIRITUAL and TEMPORAL LORDS and those we now usually stile THE HOUSE OF PEERS and that both the LEGISLATIVE and JUDICIAL POWER OF OUR PARLIAMENTS resided ONLIY IN THEM without any Knights Citizens Burgesses of Parliament or COMMONS HOUSE not knowne nor heard of till of punier times then these Published To inform the Ignorance and check the insolent Usurpations of those FEW COMMONERS who now call themselves not only THE COMMONS HOUSE But PARLIAMENT of England and as much as in them lies have most unjustly excluded both our KING and LORDS from being any MEMBERS or BRANCHES OF OUR LATE OR FUTURE PARLIAMENTS By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Swainswick Esquire Pro. 22. 28. Remove not the ancient Land-mark which thy Fathers have set Grat. Caus 27. Quaest 2. Etiam quod habuit emittat qui quod non accepit usurpat LONDON Printed for Robert Hodges 1649 THE FIRST PART OF AN Historicall Collection of the ancient PARLIAMENTS of ENGLAND THe grosse Ignorance of the ancient constitution of our English Parliaments and fanatick dream of A Supreme Parliamentary and absolute Legislative Authority in THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ALONE yea in a meer REMNANT of it after its dissolution by the Kings beheading first broached by Lilburn Overton and their Levelling party who first suffered under and now most inveigh against that USURPED EXORBITANT POWER being in my apprehension next to Gods wrath for our sins the principal ground-work of all the late unparalleld insolent that I say not monstrous and brutish proceedings against the late and present King the House of Peers and secluded Majority of the late Commons House by the Army and those who now presume to entitle themselves THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND and by pretext thereof obtrude what Acts and Taxes they please upon the people to enslave them to their new erected SOVERAIGN TYRANNY to the hazard of our Kingdoms and of Parliaments themselves I conceived I could not do a more acceptable service to God the Kingdom or this new INSANUM PARLIAMENTUM of NOVICES IN PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS to reduce them to their right wits again being more then BEDLAM MAD as their Acts and Actions testifie then to spend some vacant Hours in gathering into one or two small Bundles the scattered Histories and Records of our ancientest Parliaments and Great Councels which are strangers and unknown to most to instruct their Ignorance check their Arrogance rectifie their presumptuous Ex●●bitances and restore our Parliaments to their ancient constitution splendor honour limits and preserve them from utter abolition for the future through the over-swelling Greatnesse and unsufferable Vsurpations upon King Lords Commons and Kingdom by those now sitting and acting alone beyond and against all Parliamentary precedents in former ages to the astonishment of the present and wonder of succeeding times It is a rule in the Canon Law a Gratian ●aus 11. Quast 2. Privilegium meretur amit●ere qui abutitur potestate yea a Canon in Gods own sacred Law b P●o. 16. 18. Dan. 4. 37. Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall and not so only but it is commonly the cause as well as the fore-runner thereof The Scripture Canon assuring us That a mans pride shall bring him low Prov. 29. 23. Isa 13. 11. c Gen 3. 5. Adam's and Eve's aspiring pride to become as Gods knowing good and evil degraded them below the primitive condition of man wherein they were created and made them like to the d ●sal 49 12. 20. very beasts that perish The e 1 Tim. 3. 6. 2 Pet. 2. 4. Isa 14. 11 12 13 14. ambitious Angels aspiring to be Gods tumbled them down from heaven and metamorphosed them into Divels f Dan. 4. 29. to 35. Nebuchad●●zar's over-weening pride turned him out of his Royall Throne and pallace to grase among beasts And King g Acts 12. 22 23. Herod's bare acceptance of this slattering applause The voice of a God and not of a man made him by the hand of divine Vengeance a present prey to the vilest worms who eat him up alive But to come neerer home What overthrew and destroyed the late be headed King Strafford Canterbury what suppressed abolished the h See the Acts for their suppressio● 17. Caroli Star-chamber High-Commission Councel-Table and our Prelates with their Courts but their encroaching usurping exercising of an exorbitant illegall over-swelling transcendent power and jurisdiction above against and beyond the rules and bounds of Law And what abated the Authority Honour Esteem and reall Power of the late two Houses of Parliament and rendred them vile and despicable in the peoples eyes and affections but their surpassing the bounds of their ancient Parliamentary priviledges and Authority to the grievance of the people Which being so far exceeded in all kinds and degrees by some late Commons now sitting stiling themselves The Parliament and Supreme Authority of England and acting more arbitrari●y and tyrannically in all things then ever any Kings or Parliaments in former ages to the insufferable injury and oppression both of the King Kingdom People and all sorts and professions of men will in conclusion thereby inevitably occasion their own speedy downfall and irrecoverable perdition and without Gods great mercy ruine all our future Parliaments at least wise much eclipse their Honour and Esteem and much abridge the Commons former power and Jurisdiction by bringing all their encroached Authority unto a legall scrutiny and debate which absolute necessity enforces men to for their own and the Kingdoms common preservation and engaged me principally upon this Historicall Collection of the ancient Parliaments of England to abate the swelling Tympany and c●re if possible the exorbitant distempers and dangerous Insolencies of the Levelling sitting Commons who have neither precept not precedent Law nor Canon nor the least shadow of authority from God or Man King or people or any reall priviledges or constitution of our Parliaments to justifie their late proceedings in the least degree The Method I observe in marshalling these Collections is only Chronologicall according to their respective Antiquities beginning with the Reigns of Easewin and Kentwin Anno Domini 673. and ending with King John Anno 1216 containing in all the space of 543 years during which large proportion of time and many yeers after our Parliaments were constituted and made up onely of our Kings Princes Du●es Earls Nobles BARONS Spirituall and Temporall Lords and those who in later ages we stile the HOVSE OF PEERS without any Knights of Shires Citizens Burgesses elected by the people as their Representatives or