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A two-inch board for M. Prynne to peep thorow being a full and satisfactory answer to a late libellous pamphlet ... called, A declaration of the officers and armies illegall &c. proceedings and practices against the XI impeached members ... : with ... a justification of the armies charge and proceedings against the XI impeached members, by law, president, and reason : with certaine considerable queries and observations upon the cities late tumultuous rebellious proceedings agaisnt the Parliament / vvritten by T.R., Gent.
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both precedent concurrent subsequent matter and only pickt and chosen what best fitted his base purpose by which false subtill deceitfull recitation he endeavours to make the Armyes present justifiable proceedings to savour all selfe and not to be in the least feasoned with the love of the publique or peoples welfare although they doe amply as ye see declare so he brings in his Jesuiticall and scandalous inference and assertion in the close of this passage saying which their proceedings since against these members demonstrate to be a most reall truth but as Jesuitically leaves out these words of connexion viz Wee therefore declare which conjoine and usher in what the Army there imediately doe declare and lay downe they would have further done in order to the setling and securing of the publique together with their own peculiar right and safety as yee may see at large in the said declaration of Sir Thomas and the Army and this diabollicall Jesuiticall practice and president of foraine falshoods out of truths and perverting of the authours genuen words and intentions to the belying of the authour and deceiving and intraping of others this praevericatour hath learned of that old Sophister and grand Machiavilion the Devill who dealt in like maner with Adam and Eve in Paradice and with Jesus Christ the Son of God and truly it seemes he hath been a good proficient in the Devils Schoole for he hath very notably performed this his publique exercise and therefore deserves to goe out doctor whensoever the Devil pleases but I hope his Riddle being unfolded there is none so ignorant or maliciously wilfull as to be deluded into any prejudicate opinion through his misty writing and unsavory railing against the proceedings of the honourd and ever approved Army who as assâ—…ly and vigorously seeke the universall good and wellbeing of the Kingdom the King and his posterity as conducing thereto 〈…〉 And Mr. Prynn if that be your name Lieutenant Colonell Lilburne and Amon Wil bee dare do that you dare not by this your Declaration and other your libellous pamphlets against his Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Army owne what they have written and do by their subscription And I dare affirme will upon just occasion make that good and much more to the shame and horrour of you and all that abhorred party you plead for And I doubt not but before long Mr. Wil bee or some other wil ring you such a peale for your railing as will make so much of your worships eares as is left to tingle So farewell Rabshakeh Shimei's First-borne Considerable Queries concerning the railing Declarer the eleven impeached Members and the Cities rebellious proceedings I. WHether the Railer be not a Commissioner for Accompts as Mr. Prynn is and having for bribes passed many unjust and false ccompts as that of Sir William Lewes and Clotworthyes probably be and Breretons and others are supposed to bee under the notion of being vouched and being therefore lyable for breach of trust bribery perjury and falshood to be questioned doth it not behove him to stand up thus stiffely for these rotten eleven Members and others their accomplices and confederates in whose discharge or condemnation he is interested II. Whether the eleven Members Mr. Hollis that Roman Cataline and the rest doe not plainly argue themselves guilty of the treasons and trespasses wherewith they stand charged by craving leave to goe beyond Seas though as they pretend but for six months For if they were not what needed they to stirre especially after so much lying boasting pleading and apologizing in speech and print for them III. If they doe goe whether they ever purpose to returne againe But what need that Mr. Hollis his mother son and sister are gone before into France there to prepare for him a place Mr. Massey may go Trade again in Hamborough if he hath had but the honesty to pay the 10000 l' he brake for there which I know hee hath in these wars got plunder enough to doe long since and to leave himselfe a Stock sufficient besides And wealthy Sir William Waller Clotworthy and the rest it is well known have had wit enough to provide against a wet day to make themselves a banck in forren parts as well as at home for they alwayes feared a flight and now they are ready to take it IV. Whether it be not an Act illegall and unjust and contrary to the practise of all judiciall Courts to Vote any man that is charged with treason felony or any other criminall trespasse free or at liberty to travell whither he will without baile or mainprize And whether such ought not rather by the Law of the Land to be secured by safe custody unto triall And whether these eleven Members being at liberty have not procured all these new tumults and troubles V. Whether they who shall vote or set such Offenders free to depart the Kingdome before Justice done are not by the Law of the Land to be taken and adjudged principals and to have judgement of life and limbe as guilty of the accused's crimes VI. Whether Mr. Prynn was not marked with an L. in both checks for a Lay-Elder And now finding that the Presbyterian Kingdome will downe and himself in danger to lose his government and dignity is not growne frantick and distracted VII Whether the now rebellious proceedings of the Lord Major Sheriffes Common Councell and others of the City of London to raise forces against the Army of the Kingdome without Commission from the King and contrary to authority and command of Parliament be not after the manner of Jack Cade and Wat Tyler indeed and deserve the like reward Resolved upon the question That they have made work for the Hang-man and that Gregory by these meanes is likely to be well stored against next Winter with furr'd gowns For the Reversing of the Votes against the Cities late destructive Petition and of the new Ordinance for returne of the Militia by the Parliament on monday last was no Parliament Act they being thereunto enforced through imprisonment and violence and is of no more value then a bond grant or release sealed by a man per minas or per duces imprisonmenti through menaces for feare or by constraint of imprisonment And therefore all these military preparations and proceedings of the City notwithstanding mondayes Votes and Orders are not onely without but against all legall authority whatsoever And truly in that their tumultuous proceedings on monday they not onely violated and assaulted the two Houses of Parliament but the very Majesty and Authority of the King in Parliament It is good therfore for such as have been so forward in these mutinous courses to repent and desist and not proceed to runne their lives and estates into a snare for they know not whom nor can tell what unlesse it be to save the heads of a company of desperate Traitors the chiefest of which Mr. Hollis and Stapleton have been ever exquisite
suspend them by the Law of the Land Here note that he meanes the generall heads of the Charge given in 15 June last and not the particular Charge which came in Tuesday 6. July although like a Juggler he inserts it in such a sort as to have the multitude believe it the same And as for the generall heads there was no answer thereunto required onely therefore a suspertion of the accused as being charged and truly with M. Declarers leave there was both reason and president for it although the House voted against it Look backe and consider the Parliaments proceedings in all times against their Members in such cases and in particular in the last and latest presidents Strafford Canterbury Barkley c. nay have not the Fouse of Commons suspended and excluded divers of their owne Members this Parliament for words and particular actions in the House cases of inferiour nature and consequence to the matter of charge against the 11 Members And againe if those generall heads five in number against the 11. Members which are more large and speciall then the generall charge the House of Commons preferred against the E. of Strafford and B. of Canterbury were insufficient to charge or suspend them of what validitie then were those generall charges of the H. of Commons so vehemently prosecuted by some of these very 11. whereupon Strafford and Canterbury were both charged and suspended yea and secured which these vipers are not what justice then I say in their case had those two and others Peace for shame good M. Simpleton it is an ill bird that bewrayes her own nest you will help to enlarge their charge by and by and while you plead like a mad-man for their justification you will like a fool lay more guilt and condemnation upon them 3. The unjustnesse of the Armies proceedings aginst the 11. Members he faith appeares by the multitude and quality of the parties impeached eleven at once all men of approved integrity fidelity and abilities and there in this third instance he tells you of all their good acts and enlarges their praise beyond their deserts A silly argument without sense or reason to prove the unjustnesse of the charge by the multitude and qualitie of persons accused as if a multitude and those men eminent both for estates and authority could not act treason or be as culpable of criminall trespasses as the poor and meane What thinke ye of the Complotters and Actors of the Gunpowder plot the rising by the Earle of Northumberland and his confederates in the North in the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth Absalom and all the heads of the people against King David Here were as great multitudes and as gallant men in these traiterous actions as any of these 11. Members truly I never thinke of M. Hollis the principall of the eleven but I call to mind Cataline of Rome whose sole ambition was to be the head of a faction though it turned to his ruine as for M. Massey we know he is a good Souldier but no Christian and if the number and the quality be a sufficient excuse to these eleven and of condemnation to their Accusers Sir Tho. the Army for injustice against them Oh how unjust then were all the proceedings against all the aforesaid in those daies but I wil ask this Rabshekah whether he ever heard or read of any grand treason for the 11. Members actions as sleight as he and other knaves fooles make of them when they come to the test wil be found no other even exceeding Straffords and in effect equall to that of the Gunpowder wherein there was not more then a few and those no mean ones confederates Nay do not such abominable actions evermore accompanie the greatest personages and spirits for mean men have neither wit power opportunity or audacity to contrive or act them and therfore are never tempted unlesse by so great ones to be instruments to doe them And as for their abilities and acts of merit by how much the more able and by so much the more wicked therefore by so much the more odible and condemnable The Devill hath as exquisite gifts and endowments and more then any mortall yet not therefore to be either pittied or justified and for the good they or any of them have done why did not they continue in it who hindered them Not to him that runs but to him that holds out to the end of the race belong's the praise Finis coronat factum Justice is like death it takes a man as it findes him it considereth neither quality nor condition what a man was is or hath done but of what he is accused and found guilty and so it rendreth unto him either by acquitting or condemning him The old Earl of Essex in Q. Elizabeths dayes had deserved as well of the Kingdome and was much more honoured and beloved of the people then ever any of these 11. Members yet ye know his end he being found guilty justice forgot his former good services his honour was tainted and all his merits were forfeited and this manner of proceeding is justified by the example of God the most just Judge of quick and dead Ezek. 18.24 Nor are these men of such great eminencie and quality in themselves as they are by that authority wherewith we have invested them as our Trustees the which they have unworthily and unthankfully perverted and abused M. Hollis is the most honourable amongst them but by the evill of his actions is so much the more dishonourable for nobilitas est unica virtus and the rest do we not know them The Merchants of Hamborough can tell you of Massie his manners and his quality and without question there are those can give as true a character of the rest as Mr. Declarer or any other As for the House clearing any of them by Vote or M. Prynnes who never knew aright how to examine or cast up any accompt acquitting them in their accompts is of no value non valet ova duo For if an illegall factious Vote may clean any Member of an accusation of breach of Law or publique trust where then is Englands Law dic quaeso No Sir he that is accused to transgresse the Law must be acquit or condemned by the Law in a publike Judicatory and not by arbitrary Votes within a close room and private walls Strafford and all traitors and trespassers against the publike have been alwaies tried publikely and so it is just legall and meet these should be As for the Committee for Accompts their acquitting men by * As Sir W. Lewis was by name Vouchers that is if they bring in but one or two though they be suborned to sweare that their false accompts are true is of as much credit and value as a thiess procuring witnesses to avouch a stolne horse for which notwithstanding he may be hanged As for his fourth instance of the Armies violence to have the eleven Members suspended before