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A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

Act of Parliament to be likewise passed for that purpose And that the House of Péers shall not at any time or times during this present Parliament be adjourned unless it be by themselves or their own Order And in like manner That the House of Commons shall not at any time or times during this present Parliament be adjourned unless it be by their own Order And that all and every thing or things whatsoever done or to be done for the adjournment proroguing or dissolving of this present Parliament shall be utterly void and of none effect Then they intended to send for the rest of the Members walking in the Hall to come in unto them and to move that all surviving Members of this Parliament might by joynt consent particularly be sent to and invited to meet and sit in the House at a convenient day before any Vote or Order passed by thē then sitting thus sodainly convened without any notice which would be interpreted rather a surprize and un-Parliamentary practice both by the absent Members and the whole Nation than any obliging Parliamentary Vote or Order of the House and more discontent than invite or unite the absent unsummoned Members than unite them making the rent greater than before And when they were there assembled that in the first place they might freely fully debate this Question wherein there were different Opinions between the Members themselves and other learned Lawyers Whether this Parliament was not actually dissolved by the late Kings forcible death which is clearly Mr. P. his opinion formerly published Or Whether it was not still in being by vertue of this Act notwithstanding the Kings death or any other thing or things done already by the Army-Officers or others for the adjourning proroguing or dissolving thereof If it should upon such debate be Voted by the Majority of the House to be really and legally dissolved they held it their duties and theirs now sitting to acquiesce therein and act no farther as a Parl. But if voted still in being they all held it their duty to sit and joyn their best Counsels and Endeavours to settle the Government Peace Safety of our distracted Church and Nations now more shaken unsetled endangered in their apprehensions than ever and would submit their private contrary Opinions in this as in all other Votes to the over-ruling Judgement of the whole House as the only hopefull way to revive the antient Constitution Rights Privileges of Parliament and resettle us upon lasting foundations of Peace and Prosperity Upon these Resolutions alone none other which Mr. P. intended to propose to those then sitting he went to the Lobby door of the Commons House accompanied with Sir George Booth Mr. Arthur Annesley Sir John Evelyn Mr. Th. Gewen Mr. Charles Rich Mr. Mountague Mr. Ri. Knightly Mr. Hungerford and one or two more which being shut to keep out the people crowding on the stairs to get in through whom they could hardly pas Mr. P. knocked twice or thrice but could get no admittance till the door being opened to let out M. Nye som other Ministers Mr. P. with Sir Geo. Booth and Mr. Annesly being formost pressed into the Lobby and then the door being shut bolted again Mr. P. unbolted held it open till the rest came in where they finding Mr. John and Mr. James Herbert standing in the Lobby acquainted them with their intentions to go then into the House who resolved to go in with them Coming all up towards the House door which was shut and kept Guarded as it presently appeared by som Officers of the army Mr. P. required them to open the door to let them in being all Members of the old Parliament who thereupon demanded Whether they had continued sitting in it since 1648. to 1653 M. P. the rest all answered That being Members of the old Parliament they would give no account to thē or any others of their sitting but only to the House it self wherof they were Members being contrary to the Privilege of Parliament which they others were obliged inviolably to maintain Upon which demanding their names they said that if they would send in a Note of their names to the House and they ordered them to come in they should be admitted Whereto Mr. P. replied We yet knew not who were within the House nor whether they were yet sitting nor upon what account they sate nor was it agreeable with the Custom or Privilege of Parliament for one Member to send tickets to his fellow Members for free admission into the House being all equals and having an equal right freely to enter into it at all times as well as they nor was it their duty thus to capitulate with Members but obey their just commands in opening the door Which they still refusing Mr. P. demanded Who and what they were being all strangers to them and by whose authority or order they thus forcibly kept them out They answered they were Officers of the army and had sufficient Authority to keep thē out if they had not sate since 1648. till 1653. Mr. P. demanded From whom they had their warrant since they could have none from those within being but newly entred and none else could give thē such a warrant nor they within before they heard them and gave good reason for it demanding them to produce their Order if they had any in writing that they might know by whose authority they were thus forcibly kept out demanding their several names twice or thrice wherwith they refused to acquaint them Upon this M. P. told them They doubted of their Authority Orders thus to seclude thē because they were either ashamed or afraid to tell thē their names when as they told them theirs That they knew not whether they were Officers of the Army or not unless they knew their names that so they might inquire the truth of it or saw their Commissions And if they were Army-Officers indeed they had published a printed Decl. in all their names that morning inviting as they conceiv'd all Members they formerly secluded to return sit again in the Hous to discharge their trusts wherin they professed their former force upon seclusion of them to be a Backsliding and wandring into UNRIGHTEOUS PATHS which they seemingly repented of promising to yield their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety and praying for the presence and blessing of God upon their endeavours And if now within few hours after this Remonstrance published they thus highly and publikely violated it in the view of all there present by returning to their former Backslidings and Unrighteous paths in secluding those who were Members afresh and violating their own Declaration none would henceforth credit them or it Upon which one of them told M. P. He knew he was none of them who sate since 1648 till 1653. therfore they were not bound to let him in being not within their Declaration Who retorted he thought their repentance had been

kingdom so soon as he lost his life 5ly The end of summoning this Parliament was only this for the King himself to have a conference and Treaty with the Prelates and Nobles and for them to be personally present with Vs not our heirs or successors to give Vs their Counsel c. not our heirs and successors All frustrate made impossible and absolutely ceasing by his death because when once dead they can neither parlie conferr nor treat with the King himself nor the King with them nor be personally present with Him for that purpose unlesse they will averr that a meer dead headlesse King can really confer treat parly consult advise with his living Prelats Lords Parliament and they with him be Parliamentally present with each other in the Lords House neither of which they dare admit into it for fear the King if living and Lords too should afright them out of it as the Kings ghost yea the memorial of it though dead might justly do 6ly The mandatory part being in the Kings name alone to summon them to treat with and give their Counsel unto Vs concerning the foresaid businesses relating to Vs and the defence of Our Realm Our Businesses aforesaid not our heirs and successors He and his businesses all ending when he expires the Parliament must of necessity determine 7ly The Parliament ceasing to be the Common counsel of the King and his kingdom and nothing possible to be ordained BY US the King not his heirs and successors Prelates Nobles in Parliament without his concurrent Vote or when he is dead unless a dead King can give counsel make Ordinances give his royal assent to Bills when deceased It must inevitably follow that all the Authority causes grounds ends for which the Members of this Parliament were all summoned to treat consult and give their advice to the King himself determining and becoming impossible to be performed by his death the Parliament must of necessity expire and be dissolved even as the natural body ceaseth to be and remain a living man when the Head is quite cut off If then those now sitting who cut off the Kings Head the Head of the Parliament and thereby destroyed that temporary body politick will have their Conventicle revived by this Act they must set on his head again raise him alive out of his Grave and bring him back into the House to impeach condemn decapitate them in this true High Court of Justice for this their beheading him in their Court of Highest Injustice Which Mr. Prynne presumes they dare not doe least his revived Ghost should scare them thence or justly retaliate their transcendent Treachery 4ly If any man by his will deed the King by his Commissions the Parliament by a special Act or Order shall authorize impower any 3. persons joyntly to sell lands give livery and seisin execute any Commission as Judges Justices Commissioners Auditors or Committees of Parliament if any one of them die both the survivors joyntly or severally can doe nothing because their authority trust was joynt not several and joyntly nor seperately to be exercised If there be not 40 Commoners in the House they cannot sit or act as an House nor dispatch the least affair no more can any Committee of either House unless their Number be sufficient to make up a Committee as the orders and custom of Parliament appoint Therfore the Parliament of England being a Corporation compacted joyntly of the King Lords and Commons House and three estates The death of the King necessarily dissolves the Parliament notwithstanding this Act which did not alter the Parliaments Old constitution but establish it The Kings personal absence from his Parliament heretofore and of late was reputed very prejudicial to it and his calling away some Lords Great Officers and other Members from it a high way to its present dissolution in his life Therefore it must much more be dissolved by his death and the Lords and Commons forcible seclusion both before and since it by the Army and sitting Members they having Vocem locum in quolibet Parliamento Angliae as our Law-books Statutes and their Patents resolve 5ly The principal end of calling Parliaments is to enact new and necessary Laws and alter repeal such as are ill or inconvenient as the Prologues of our printed Statutes our writs of Summons Law-books attest and all accord But no new Act of Parliament can be made nor no former Acts altered repealed but by the Kings royal assent who hath a Negative voice to deny as well as Affirmative to assent to them as well as the Lords and Commons as all our Parliaments Judges Law-books Parliament Records Treatises of Parliaments the printed Statutes in each Kings reign more particularly the Statutes of 33 H. 8. c. 21. 1 Jac. c. 1. in the close resolve Yea both Houses acknowledged it in all contests with the late King our Kings Coronation Oaths and all our antient Saxon Kings Lawes attest it Therefore his death must needs dissolve the Parliament notwithstanding this Act because it could make no Act for its dissolution nor declare alter repeal any other Law without his royal assent There are but 2. Objections made by any sitting or secluded Members against these Reasons that his death should not dissolve the Parliament The 1. is this which the Republicans themselves formerly and now insist on That the King doth never die in judgement of Law and that there is no Interregnum because the Crown immediately descends to his right heir who by Law is forthwith King de jure and de facto before his actual Proclamation or Coronation as the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. Cooks 7 Rep. f. 10 11. Calvins case and other Books resolve To which Mr. Prynne Answers 1. That this argument is but an Axe to chop off their own heads and supremacy as they did the Kings and the Objectors now sitting must either renounce their sitting acting Knacks Declarations against the late King Kingship and the House of Lords or quite disclaim the Objection For if the King never dies Then by their own confession and our Lawes we are still a Kingdom not a Republike yea Charles Steward as heir to his beheaded Father was and is still de Jure de facto the lawfull King of England and supreme Lord and Governour of our Church Kingdom there being no Interregnum ever since his Fathers death and then what becomes of all their absurd illegal Knacks against his Regality and Kingship it self of which they are forced now to pray in ayd to make themselvs a Parliament of their Mock-Parliament without King and House of Lords of their perfidious treacherous Engagements against both and Supreme Authority of the Nation which they have tyrannically usurped 2ly Though the King in genere or rather Kingship it self never dies yet the King in Individuo may and doth oft times die and if the successive deaths of all our Kings since we were a

Italian Frier specially recommended by them to the pursuite of the King of Spain who prosecuted it all he could to promote his universal Monarchy and so much rejoyced at it that he was the first foreign King who presently sent an extraordinary Ambassador to congratulate the accomplishment applaud the constitution of enter into a League of Friendship with it whose flattering panygerick in his Great Catholique Kings name in prayse thereof and what an honour it was to them that he was the first forein Prince that owned them for a Common wealth made the Commons House so intoxicated that they gratified him in all his requests and pursued all his designs only to ruine us and the Netherlands layd down by Campanella De Monarchia Hispanica c. 25 27. by furnishing him with many thousands of Irish forces quarrelling with the Hollanders maintaining above three years bloody wars with them with infinite losse and expence to both Nations taking the French Kings Fleet provisions merely designed for the reliefe of Dunkirk whereby he presently regained it to our prejudice And on the other hand Cardinall Richlieu of France the great Incendiary of Christendome and somenter of all our Domestick wars in his life the French King and Mazarine by his instructions in writing after his death vigorously pursued this very design His instructions to this purpose recorded by Conte de Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato an excellent Italian Historian are very memorable who relates That Cardinal Richelieu Anno 1642. after he had involved the King Parliament and Ireland in a bloody Civil war being near his death delivered these politick instructions for the King his Master to pursue for carrying on his designs in relation to England with successe That above all other things he should endeavour to keep the Government of Great Britain divided and dis-united by ayding the weaker party that the other might not make it self too powerfull By cau●ing the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland to be divided either by nominating other Kings elective of another family accomplished by erecting an elective Protector or by moulding them into a Common-wealth as our Republicans have formerly and now done again Yet with this caution That when they are reduced into a Common-wealth so to order the matter That it may not be united into one but divided How punctually Cardinal Mazarine prosecuted these instructions ever since and accomplished them at last the Letters taken in the Lord Digbyes Cabinet printed by the Parliaments order 1646. and O. Cromwels late intimate correspondency with Mazarine discover And how much the Iesuites and Catholicks in France in November 1648. approved applauded the turning of our hereditary Monarchy which they irreconcila●ly hated envyed as well as the late King and turning the Old Parliament into a new Republican Representative and that all their hopes to effect it were in the Army to whom they wished all prosperity therein you may read in a Letter sent from thence by the Armies Agent to a sitting Republican Member soon after published by Mr. Prynne who got the original Mr. Prynne knowing all this and clearly discovering a fresh combination between the Sectaries Republican Anabaptistical Jesuitical levelling party to pursue their designs afresh and accomplish what they formerly attempted in the short Mock-Parliament of their own election creation Anno 1653. and what was then passionately recommended to them by John Canne the Anabaptist in his Voyce from the Temple dedicated to them as their Generation work which God and all his people then expected and required from them even to extirpate the Church Ministry of England Advowsons Glebes Tithes and demolish all Parish Churches as Antichristian to extirpate the Law root and branch under pretext of reforming and new-moulding it to sell all Corporation and College lands and set up a popular Anarchy or tyrannical Oligarchy among us under the disguise of the Old Dissolved Parliament sitting from 1648. till April 20. 1653. after six years violent ejection of them with highest scorn and reproach yet now invited by them to sit again to effect these Romish designs to our utter Confusion but secluding all those who were like to obstruct or defeat them Upon this consideration Mr. Prynne as a secluded Member of the old Parliamemt wherein he detected oppugned all these Treasonable Designs heretofore and since its dissolution by the Kings beheading held it his bounden duty to prevent defeat them now and nip them in the bud whereupon so soon as those now sitting entred the House he assayed to go into it with as many old secluded Members as he could there being 80 of them in London For although his judgement be that this Parliament is quite dissolved by the Kings beheading as he oft declared in print yet since the Army-Officers and those now sitting with sundry others pretend it still in being and under that pretext alone have acted all their publick Tragedies and Innovations he conceived himself bound in Conscience upon their Concessions to endeavour to prevent these mischiefs and do all Publick good he might with better warrant and reason than most Ministers Lawyers Justices Magistrates Members of late Parliaments as they style them have prayed for complyed with acted in under those late Governors Governments mock Parliaments as he is confident some now sitting among them in this new Convention believe it dissolved and yet go in only to prevent and allay those mischiefs which others violently pursue which their own Consciences and our laws resolve them without scruple to be utterly illegal whereas this old Parliament whereof he was a Member was most legallie summoned and convened beyond dispute and hath the colour of a legal Act or Parliament for its continuance which those since have wanted of which Act the greatest part of those now sitting taking advantage notwithstanding their new Instruments Declarations Petitions Advises Addresses and Sessions in other new Parliaments since and it being a great dispute now among most secluded Members whether that Parliament was not yet alive though the King be dead the majority of their Voyces over-ruling his private Judgement as in all other Parliamentary Votes and proceedings gave a present sufficient call warrant to him and others to enter the House to debate it and act what and as they did which will satisfie all those who censure it as unwarrantable or contradictory to his judgement especially when they shall hear what he really intended to propose to the sitting Members when he got into the House had they not gone out to prevent it 1. He intended to inform them of those destructive Jesuitical ends and designs forementioned which they were now purposely called in to accomplish carrying along Thomas Campanella Richilieus Instructions with other Books papers of theirs and some printed Copies of the Republicans and others Good Old Cause truly and fully anatamised now put out and published to dis-engage them from its pursute at the first before they

Frauds and indirect practises in others 3ly That old House of Commons had a special care of providing for the Kings Armie his urgent and present occasions professed themselves his loyal Subjects and him to be their King and Soveraign Lord humblie besought his most Excellent Majesty that it might be declared and enacted by him that this Parliament might not be dissolved prorogued or adjourned but by Act of Parliament acknowledging they could make no such Act without his Majesties Royal assent and that both the King and Lords House were essential Members of the Parliament within this Act. But those sitting since 1648. till 1653. and now again thus entring the House by pretext of this Act have renounced abjured and professedlie engaged against all this to which they are direct Antipodes Therefore no Commons House within this Act. 4ly The Commons House within this Act was that House which was then in being when this Act passed dulie elected by the people by the Kings Writs not the Armie-Officers and pursued the self-same ends recited in the preamble for which this Act was made and assented to by the King and Lords But this New House was created constituted not by the Kings writs or peoples election but the Armies swords and conspiracie 7 years after this Act first passed then disowned and turned out of Doors above 6 years by the Army and now re-inducted into it by their armed Votes and force to serve their ends not to pursue those mentioned in the Act accomplished many years since and now becoming impossible Therefore they are not so much as an House of Commons within this Act and the Armie-Officers and Souldiers who formerly thrust them out now recall them may do well to consider that Gospel-Text Gal. 2.18 If I build again the thing I destroyed I make my self a Transgressor even against this very Law as well as the law of God and other laws of the Land XI If they are not so much as a Commons House of Parliament much less then are they the lawfull Parliament of England in anie sense within the letter or meaning of this Act no more than so manie of the old Gunpowder Popish-Traitors had their Treason taken so good effect in blowing up King Iames the Lords whole House and majoritie of the Commons House there assembled as their late new Powder-plot hath done had been the onlie lawfull Parliament of 3 Iac. they destroyed in case they had entred then into the Commons House with the Mace before them and created stiled themselves alone the Parliament of England as a right devolved unto them by Conquest or Succession which had they presumed to do no doubt the whole English Nation would have risen up against them as one man and never have so far dishonored themselves their Religion or Countrie as to own and submit to those Jesuitical Romish-Traitors only for destroying of their lawfull King Lords House and English Parliament it self as the onlie true old English Parliament then re-assembled The Reasons are unanswerable 1. Because the whole House of Commons then sitting in its primitive splendor fullnesse freedome was by its own quadruple acknowledgement in it no more but the Commons House and one Member of this Parliament not the Parliament it self never owning owning but professedlie disclaiming it self to be the Parliament or present Parliament within this Act. 2 ly Because this Act was made not by the Commons alone without the King or Lords concurrence but by the King as their Soveraign Lord declaring and enacting and the Lords and Commons as jointlie assenting thereunto 3 ly Because it is most absurd to conceive that the King and Lords by passing this Act to continue this Parliament as then constituted till dissolved by Act of Parliament did ever intend to seclude themselves quite out of it or to make the Commons House alone an absolute independent Parliament without both or either of them though five times speciallie providing by name for their Parliamentarie interests Or that they or the Commons intended to make each of themselves a distinct Parliament without the other and so to erect three New Parliaments at once by providing against the untimelie proroguing adjourning or dissolving of one The King and Lords both jointlie and severallie having the self-same Arguments from this Act to prove each of them a several or joint Parliament without the Commons by the Commons own intention in passing this law as the Commons have to justifie themselves to be a Parliament now they have secluded and engaged against them both and will admit of neither as Members of their Parliament when as this verie Act preciselie prohibits the King to dissolve prorogue or adjourn the Parliament or either House therof or the Lords to prorogue or adjourn much less dissolve the Commons House or the Commons to prorogue or adjourn much lesse dissolve the Lords House declaring and enacting That at any time or times during the continuance of this Parliament the Lords House shall not be adjourned nor yet the Commons House but onlie by their own respective Orders and by themselves alone declaring enacting everie thing and things whatsoever done or to be done to the contrarie to be utterly void and of none effect 4 ly Because this Act both in the Title prologue and body prevents onlie the untimely proroguing adjourning and dissolving of this present Parliament at any time or times during the continuance of it but by Act of Parliament or themselves stiling it 8. several times this present Parliament and giving it no other Title yea it preciselie describes it to be a Parliament onlie of King Lords and Commons as it was when this Act was made and so to continue till its dissolution But the Parliament now sitting was not this present Parliament being not then known heard of nor imagined ever to start up in After-ages by any who made or consented to this Law it being created onlie by the Armie 7 years after this Act and now revived full 18 years after it without anie King or House of Lords and protesting engaging against them both as no Members of it Neither can they pursue any one of those ends for which this Parliament was continued Therefore they are doubtlesse beyond dispute no Parliament at all within the words or intention thereof their own Consciences Reason being Judges whatever they pretend nor yet by their own Republican principles a free and equal Representative of the people 6 ly By the Law and Custom of all Nations Nature Reason Justice Equitie the laws of England and of all publick or private Ecclesiastical Civil or Militarie Councils or Corporations the Majority of persons Members Voyces Votes are alwayes reputed the Parliament Council Synod Corporation and do yea ought of right to bind the lesser part as well in making Laws Ordinances as Elections and all else that concerns the publick Yea the General and General Counsel of the Army-Officers in their Petition to those and others now

since predicted projected by Father Parsons and the Iesuites Yea being further assured by an eminent Divine and others more than once from the mouth of a Noble English Lord returning from Rome about 4 years since That the Provincial of the English Jesuites when he went to see their College in Rome assured him they had then above fifteen hundred of their Society of Iesuites in England able to work in several Professions and Trades which they had there taken upon them the better to support and secure themselves from being discovered and infuse their Principles into the vulgar People That the Great Anabaptist styled The Administrator of Hexam near Newcastle in the North since removed to Colchester was lately a Papist if not a Priest or Iesuite that Ramsey the Scotish Jesuite was purposely sent ouer into England by the Pope Iesuites An. 1653. under the notion of a Iew to infuse new Notions into the Anabaptists side with them who therupon addressed himself to Paul Hobson the Anabaptist a Grand Army-preacher and this Administrators Congregation where he made a publick profession That he was a Iew by birth but was now thorowly converted to the Christian Religion by their instruction with a publick Confession of his Faith which they printed whereupon he was publickly dipped by this Administrator at Hexam and received as a Member into their Anabaptistical Church who much gloried in it till within few weeks after he was by the Maior and Ministers of Newcastle clearly discovered to be a grosse Impostor yea a Scotish Iesuite and sent up by them to London where after some restraint he was enlarged without any punishment and not long since twice boldly entred into the University Schools at Cambridge desiring conference with Mr. Smith the Hebrew Lecturer there with whom he discoursed in Hebrew professing himself to be Soul and Body for the Catholick Church of Rome That Eleazer Ben-Isaiah and his Brother Joseph 2. Grand Jesuitical Impostors at the self-same time under the Notion of converted Iews were dipped by the Anabaptists maintaining Dipping not Sprinkling to be the only Baptisme of Iesus Christ and the Anabaptists to be the only strong and glorious Christians in their printed Book dedicated unto our new Republican Parliament Counsel of State 1653 Which Mr. Pr. soon after his inlargement frō Pendennys Catile meeting with discovered them to be gross Impostors one of them a Trooper in P. Ruports Army who after a Collection made for him as a Converted Iew at Dursty in Glostershire by Mr. Woodward on the Lords day drank five jugges of Bear with sundry pipes or Tobacco whereby to digest his Lords day Supper and disgorge his Sermons then locking his Chamber Door in the Inne he ran to the Maid he had sent to warm his Bed and attempted to ravish her whereupon she crying out the Boy of the House being about 11 a clock at night endevouring to raise the Neighbors he therupon fled from thence since which Mr. Prynne heard no more tydings of him And having since that most clearly discovered to the whole Nation in his Books intituled The Quakers Vnmasked and New Discovery of Romish Emissaries printed 1655. and 1656. That the Franciscan Freers and Iesuites were the first Erectors of our new Sect of Quakers Ignatius Loyola the Jesuites Founder being first a Souldier then a Quakers next a Speaker last of all a professed Jesuit as his Disciples now are first Iesuites then Quakers Speakers Souldiers before or after That Maurice Conry an Irish Franciscan late Provincial of the English Franciscan Fryers having 15 extraordinary faculties granted him to exercise here in England as to absolve all Hereticks in England of what Nation soever to admit men into his Order To dispence with Oaths with saying Canonical Hours the Ceremonies of the Mass for keeping Heritical Books and other particulars which might discover any of them to be Freers or Papists to authorize print what Books he allowed concealing both the Name of the Author Printer place Non obstante Consilio Tridentino came over into England under the disguise of a Spanish Captain having sundry Pasports from the King of Spains Officers in the Low Countries to raise men for his service in England and Ireland where he continued during the Regency of our Republicans After which in the year 1653. he procured a pass and protection to all Officers by Sea and Land under Ol. Cromwels own hand and Seal to pass and repass about his occasions to and from Ireland all which were taken about him in Bristol 20 November 1655. and the very Originals under Seal brought to Mr. Prynne who published some of them in print yet after near two years imprisonment at Bristol upon a Habeas Corpus brought by Conry he was turned over Prisoner to Newgate to be tryed as a Popish Priest and let go thence by direction as was conceived before the Sessions and never enquired after since Mr. Prynne discovering all this and much more and being most fully assured that all the Rebellions in the Army since 1646. against the King Parliament Members and all the late Changes Revolutions of our Government ever since proceeded originally from the Jesuites and Romish Agents powerfull influences upon the seduced Army-Officers Souldiers Sectaries and Republican Members And long since taking special notice that during the Armies Republicans proceedings against the King in hammering out their new Common-wealth all the most eminent zealous religious Members of the Commons House most opposite to Jesuites Papists Popery were totally secluded secured by the Army and their Votes Protestations Advices with the Addresses Disswasions of all the Godly Ministers of London and other parts yea VVilliam Sedgwicks their own Chaplains totally rejected with highest contempt and the Counsels of the most desperate Jesuites and popish Agents flocking to London from all forein parts and walking freely in the Streets whiles the Members were under strictest restraints vigorously pursued So all their subsequent Actions demonstrated to him and all considerate Protestants whose Creature their New Republick originally was and for whose service it was created as these memorable particulars evidence 1. They did quite set aside all those 5. strict excellent Bills against Iesuites Seminary Priests Popish Recusants and the exercise of any their Romish Superstitions in any place within our Realms which the secluded Members and Army-Officers too at first eagerly pursued and the King in the Treaty of the Isle of VVight assented to at the first without any scruple For which the Iesuites in France at general Meeting there presently resolved to bring him to Iustice and take off his Head by the power of their Friends in the Army as the King himself was certified by an express from thence and wished to provide against it but two dayes before his removal by the Army from the Isle of VVight in order to his execution 2ly They totally set aside and repealed by express Votes and printed Knacks the very

Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance as unlawfull Oaths which themselves took and ought to take before they sate or could sit as Members in the Commons House by the Statutes of 5 El. c. 2. 7 Iac. c. 6. which Oaths were specially made by the great wisedom care and piety of our Protestant Parliaments purposely to detect the persons and prevent the plots conspiracies Assasinations Treasons Vsurpations and new Gun-powder plots of the Romish Jesuites popish Priests Papists and their Instruments against the Lives Crowns Prerogatives of our Protestant Kings Princes their Royal posterity Realms Parliaments our protestant Church and Religion as the Statutes of 1 Eliz. c. 1. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 3 Jac. c. 4. 7 Iac. c. 6. and other Acts with King Iames his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance and sundry learned Treatises in defence of these Oaths declare at large Which Oaths were refused opposed only by the most Iesuited and desperate Papists at home and abroad but approved by the moderatest and loyallest Priests and Lay-Papists who writ in justification of them and repealed to their greatest joy and advantage by our Jesuitized zealous Republicans 3ly They discharged absolved themselves and all other Members Subjects Officers who had taken these Oaths as most had frequently done from the future Observation of them and of their Solemn Protestation Vow League National Covenant made in pursuance of them contrary to this expresse Clause in the Oath of Allegiance I do believe and in Conscience am resolved That neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath Power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred to me and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the expresse words by me spoken and plain and common sense of the said words without any equivocation or mental reservation And I do make this recognition and acknowledgement Heartily Willingly and Truly upon the Faith of a Christian Yet these faithlesse Republicans who took this Oath as Members and several times else upon other occasions thus atheistically like so many absolute Popes against all Laws of Nations Nature absolved themselves and all others from it and set it with the Oath of Supremacy Covenant Protestation quite aside like old Almanacks out of date 4ly Not content herewith they imposed a new Engagement diametrically contrary to these Oaths the Protestation Vow Solemn League and Covenant which every one must subscribe with his hand To be true and faithfull to their New Common-wealth as established by them without a King or House of Lords putting all English Freemen whatsoever into a New-praemunire upon a bare suggestion only before proof or conviction and disabling them to sue in any Court of their Republick or to receive or enjoy any degree office augmentation or preferment whatsoever Spiritual Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or sit as Members then and now again unless they would publickly subscribe it Which Engagement thousands of our Godly protestant Ministers Gentry Freemen refusing to subscribe were thereupon barred of their Actions Executions Iudgements to recover their just Debts Rights Inheritances Goods Offices denyed their degrees of Learning ejected out of their Benefices Headships Fellowships Vice-Chancelorships Augmentations Offices Freeholds Callings against all rules of Law Conscience Iustice Equity Religion the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of the Land their Native Birth-Rights after all their Contests Wats Contributions Prayers Fasts endeavours for their defence And all by these Free-State-Men A Tyranny Treachery Perjury Apostacy transcending any since the Creation yet most eagerly pursued by them all their Reign to the utter ruine of many consciencious honest Protestants and great rejoycing of all Iesuites and Popish Enemies both at home and abroad 5ly The very first Act of Iustice they did by the first Commission of the peace they passed under their New Republican Great Seal for Middlesex at the first Sessions held under them at Hix-hall Febr. 1628. was the enlarging of a dangerous Jesuits and another old seducing Papist formerly imprisoned in the New prison the only Acts done in this first Session as th●se present then informed Mr. Prynne with much regret Which was seconded with the subsequent enlargement of other Jesuites Priests Papists elsewhere imprisoned whereas on the contrary they shut up Sir William Waller Sir Will. Lewes Sir John Clotworthy Major General Brown Comissary Coply Mr. Prynne Mr. Clement Walker close prisoners in sundry remote Castles divers years together without any cause expressed and Mr. Gewen with other Members several Monthes and sundry Godly Ministers Protestants of all sorts throughout the Land as well Paliamenteers as former Cavaliers yea beheaded Mr. Love an eminent Protestant Minister and other Protestants but not one Papist in their illegal High-Courts of Justice erected by them against all our Laws whiles these Romish Locusts were thus enlarged unprosecuted and had free liberty to wander up and down our three Nations and act what they pleased to work our Kingdoms Churches and Religions ruine 6ly The first who publikely owned them for a Common-wealth congratulated this their glorious change atchievement and entred into a League with them was the most Catholick K. of Spain the Popes Jesuites chief Patron and Propagator of their Catholick Faith and designs whose interests they prosecuted during all their Republican domination 7ly They entted into a bloodie invasive war against their Brethren of Scotland onlie for owning their rightfull Soveraign King CHARLES after his Fathers beheading according to their Laws Oathes Duties and Solemn League and Covenant invaded their Country without any provocaion slew many thousands of them with furie and cruelty in the Field starved destroyed hundreds of them taken prisoners by them and sold others of them into forein plantations for Slaves imprisoned sequestred banished most of their zealous Godly Protestant Ministers Nobles Gentry took all their Cities Castles Forts Amunition Arms conquered inthralled their whole Kingdom put them under intollerable Taxes Tributes and Iron-yokes of armed Governors Garrisons still continued amongst them to our cost destroyed their presbyterial and civil Government and for an everlasting Monument of this their barbarous unbrotherly kindnesse and gratitude towards them for their former assistances not only kept Solemn publick Thanksgiving-Dayes throughout their Republicke for their Slaughters of and Victories over them but hanged up all their Ensigns in Westminster Hall and transported all their Records close prisoners to the Tower of London where they yet continue 8ly They instigated the Dutch to set aside the Prince of Orange his Family and put them out of the superiour Commands places of Trust they formerly merited and enjoyed out of malice to the beheaded Kings Progeny mutined the States against each other and then entted into a most costly bloody dangerous unchristian War with those our old Protestant Friends and Allyes continuing all

without conviction hearing or the least legal proceeding many hundreds of Ministers Schoolmasters Scholars of the late Kings party though learned orthodox godly pious peaceable formerly indemnified and admitted to exercise their functions and prohibit them any more to preach marry administer the Sacrament pray teach School in any publike place or private meeting of any other persons than those of their own family or in any Gentlemens houses as Chaplains or Tutors to their Children under pain of 3 Moneths imprisonment for the first 6 moneths for the 2d and perpetual banishment for the 3d Offence And to punish them as Rogues and Vagrants if they wandred abroad to begg their bread on purpose to starve both them their wives families or enforce them to flie into forein Popish Realms being excluded out of the Netherlands and there turn Papists to preserve their lives when all Priests Jesuites Sectaries whatsoever and Jewes themselves had so much Liberty under him Was such a transcendent Barbarism Impiety and High way to extirpate our Religion as pious learned Archbishop Vsher told him when he mediated for their libertie and could not prevail as he told Mr. Prynne and others with tears which brake his heart soon after as the Pope and Jesuites themselves could not have invented the like and exceeded all forein persecutions against Protestant Ministers in Piemont Bohemia and Silesia by Popish Princes being of a different Religion but be a pretended Protestant Zealot 7. His Extending not only his Toleration but real Protection to all Sects whatsoever except POPERY and PRELACY and passing the late Bill 1657. put on by the Presbyterians against Papists might savour of some disgust against those of the Romish Religion But his extraordinary intimacy with Cardinal Mazarine Sir Kenelm Digby a most dangerous Jesuited Papist lodged by him in Whitehall a chief Instrument of the union between him and Mazarine and sundry other Papists Jesuites Popish Priests His suspending all penal Lawes Executions against Popish Priests Jesuits though sometimes taken in their pontificalibus at Masse and soon after released His protections under hand and seal to sundry of them particularly to Maurice Coury Provincial of the Franciscans in England Their coming over in greater swarms of later times than ever heretofore without restraint as himself printed as well as declared in his publike Speeches His endevours to stop the late Bill against Papists the very morning he was to pass it by his Whitehall Instruments who moved its suspension for a time as not suiting with present Forein correspondencies against whom it was carried by 88. Votes That it should be carried up with the rest then passed With the Copy of his Letter to Card Mazarine in many good hands affirmed to bee real not counterfeit excusing his passing this Bill as carried on by a violent Presbyterian party much against his with yet it should not hurt them though passed c. which accordingly fell out The large expressions made to those of Dunkirkin his name by their Gov Lockert to protect them in the full and free exercise of their Romish Religion as amply as ever the King of Spain did with other particulars of that nature And his great incouraging of all sorts of Sects headed acted by disguised Jesuits Priests Friers as M. P. hath elswhere fully evidenced Are demonstrations beyond all exceptions what an Advancer he was of the true Protestant cause and Religion 8. His undermining subverting all our Fundamental Lawes Liberties Properties and Parliaments too in the highest degree by his own and his Army-Officers Councils new printed Folio Ordinances Instruments Taxes Excises High Courts of Injustice Major Generals Commissions Instructions Proceedings by committing sundry persons Close prisoners some of them to forein Islands without any cause expressed legal trial or conviction dive●s moneths years by warrants under his own or his Councils hands His stopping returns of Habeas Corpora when granted or removing the Prisoners to new remote prisons His seising securing the persons horses arms of thousands and banishing them from London time after time upon meer forged Plots Fears His disbenching his own Judges for not complying with his illegal will His oft stiling MAGNA CHARTA MAGNA FARTA with highest indignation Committing 3. Lawyers to the Tower at once as Traytors for daring to argue an Habeas Corpus against his illegal Commitment and Whitehall Ordinance for Excise in Conyes case a president not to be paralleld his prohibiting all Lawyers Sollicitors Judges and Courts of Justice whatsoever under him to plead act or admit any proceedings or legal trial at Law against his illegal Ordinances and absolute commands under pain of his highest indignation His defrauding most Patrons of their livings and lapsing them by his own Ordinances Instruments into his own hands refusing their honestest ablest Clerks without any cause assigned and denying them the benefit of Quare Impedits after judgement given upon them by his own Judges All these are clear demonstrations to Mr. P. beyond contradiction That our Infant Commonwealth both in its birth growth progress under its old Guardians and New Protector was but the Jesuits Popes Spaniards Mazarines and our Popish Enemies new Creature and Instrument to ruine our Protestant Church Religion King kingdoms Laws Liberties The very name of Magna Charta it self for which our ancestors heretofore spent so much bloud and treasure in reality and we of late only in pretence being so exec●able to our New Free-States men that in September 1650. it was expunged out of a Petition M. P. drew for Mr. Luttrel to ●ave Dunster Castle the habitation of him and his ancestors from being pulled down over his head before hearing or Notice by an Order issued for that purpose and put in execution to John Bradshaw and their Free-State Council at Whitehall by their Attorney Prideaux order because it would distast them and a Great Fart was more savory to Olivers red nose than it all in pursuance of the Jesuits old Plot as you have heard out of Watsons Quodlibets This M.P. shall a little infist on because of a present design against our Laws now eagerly pursued The late Parliament in above one hundred Declarations Ordinances Orders Votes made this their principal Charge against the Kings Jesuitical Counsellors and the Popish Forces raised by him against the Parliament that they endeauoured the subversion and extirpation of our antient fundamental Laws Government and that one of the chiefest causes of their taking up arms and raising Armies against them was for the necessary defence and preservation of these antient Good old Laws and Liberties the Inheritance and Birthright of every English Freeman whereby not only his Majesties Regal Authority but the Peoples security of Lives Lands Livings Privileges Liberty both in general and particular are preserved and maintained and by the abolishing innovating or alteration of which it is impossible but that present confusion will fall upon the whole State and Frame of this Kingdom as the

the Traytor of Traytors Acts 1.18 Mat. 27.5 Peruse over all our Books Records Histories and you shall finde a principle in Law a rule in Reason and a trial in experience That Treason doth ever produce fatal and final destruction to the Offender and never attaineth to the desired end two incidents inseparable thereunto And therefore let all men abandon it as the most poisonous Bait of the Devil of Hell and follow the precept in holy scripture Fear God honor the King and have no company with the Seditious Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum So he Now because M.P. finds some Grandees of his own Profession sitting in the House to countenance and make up this Vnparliamentary Juncto he shall desire them in the first place seriously to consider how much they have formerly and now again dishonoured themselves and the whole profession of the Law in sitting in complying with acting under such illegal Anti-Parliamentary Conventicles Powers Changes Changers yea crying them up for legal English Parliaments Powers obeying executing all their illegal new Knacks Orders Ordinances as Acts of Parliament in civil criminal real or personal Causes against all Records Law-books presidents of former Ages their own Judgments Oaths Science Consciences to the intollerable scandal of their Robe the injurie abuse of the whole Nation the prejudice of all their lawfull Superiours and the Publick the encouragement of usurping Traytors Tyrants Oppressors in their waies of wickedness the ill example of most others and their own just reproach 2ly To observe How God in his retaliating Justice hath recompensed this their wilfull prevarication upon their own heads by turning many of them out of their respective places of Judicature honor profit the ground of this their sinfull complyance with infamy dishonour reproach even by the very Persons with whom they unworthily complyed and those especially in present power who had neither been an House of Commons much lesse a mock Parliament without their presence and complyance 3ly That the base unworthy unchristian complyance of the Lawyers and Clergy of England with our late trayterous Innovators Usurpers out of base fear sordid covetousnesse ambition self-saving or self-seeking to the prejudice ruine of King Kingdom Parliament Lords Law hath brought an universal odium upon them with those with whom they most complyed as well as others the Army Officers and present Juncto under a pretext of Reforma●ion designing both their ruines through the Jesuites Politicks who now bear greatest sway having turned many of them with scorn and contempt out of their former places of Judicature beyond their expectations and reviled both their persons and professions to their faces as a Generation of sordid Temporizers and useless faithless persons not fit to be entrusted any more but discarded out of their new lawlesse Republick which hates both Law and Gospel as warranted by neither and repugnant unto both 4ly That the only way now to regain their lost Honour and preserve both our Laws Liberties Religion establish future peace settlement and prevent impendent ruine is to endeavour to restore our antient hereditary just legal Kingship Kings Governors Government with all their necessary invaded Prerogatives Lands Revenues Rights Jurisdictions and inviolably to preserve them with their lives and estates against all conspiracies of Popes Jesuits and foreign enemies to subvert and undermine them in any kind as the several memorable Parliaments and Statutes of 29 H. 6. c. 1. 31 H. 6. c. 1. 39 H. 6. c. 1. 25 H. 8. c. 22. 2 E. 6. c. 26. 7 E. 6. c. 12. 1 Eliz. c. 3.4.20 5 Eliz. c. 1.29.30 13 Eliz. c. 1.2 23 24 18 Eliz. c. 21.22 23 Eliz. c. 1.13.14 27 Eliz. c. 1 2.28.21 29 Eliz. c. 7 8. 31 Eliz. c. 14 15. 35 Eliz. c. 2.12 13. 39 Eliz. c. 26 27. 43 Eliz c. 17 18. 1 Jac. c. 1. 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5 25 26. 7 Jac. 6 22 23. 21 Jac. c. 32 33. 3 Car. c. 5 6. in their respective preambles and bodies worthy our most serious review in the Statutes at large resolve being more to be credited pursued than all the rash Jesuitical suggestions votes and inconsiderable resolutions of any unparliamentarie Conventicle or upstart Pseudo-Polititians advancing themselves to the helm of our new Republick by colour of the Statute of 17 Car. 7. Which Bill by the Commons House resolution in their Remonstrances of 15 Dec. 1641. seems to be some restraint of the Regal power in dissolving of Parliaments not to take it out of the Crown but to suspend the execution of it for the time and occasion only which was so necessary for the Kings own security and the Publick peace that without it they could not have undertaken any of those great things but must have left both the Armies to disorder and confusion and the whole Kingdome to blood and rapine Therefore the Parliament must needs determine by the Kings death as he hath infalliby evidenced beyond contradiction In the last place Mr. Prynne shall most importunately beseech all the antient Nobility secluded Members well-affected Gentry Clergy Commonalty of the English Nation which had never so many effeminate false heads and hearts as now many Jesuite Priest Monk lurking under the disguise of womanish Perewigges brought into fashion by them as they now tender their own private or the publick safety weal settlement and preservation of our endangered Church Religion Kingdom Parliament Laws Privileges Properties and prevention of their impendent ruine First of all seriously to consider lament cast off reform their own late present monstrous sottish stupidity sleepinesse self saving self-seeking Spirits and most unworthy un-manly un English unchristian pusillanimity cowardize fear of a few contemptible Mercinary mortal men who shall shortly dye and become as dung upon the earth and their grosse breach of all publick Oaths Protestations Leagues Covenants in not opposing resisting them manfully in their several places and callings Which hath been the principal cause of all the publick Changes Innovatons Oppressions Grievances Exorbitances Insolencies they have hitherto suffered by their own armed hirelings and are the saddest symptomes of our approaching imminent desolation if not speedily repented redressed redressed ere it be over late 2ly To pursue these Gospel advises 1 Cor. 16.13 Watch ye stand fast in the Faith quit ye like men be strong Gal. 5.1 Phil. 1.27 28. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not intangled again with the yoke of Bondage in one Spirit striving together with one mind for the Faith of the Gospel the fundamental Laws Liberties Government Privileges of the Nation And in nothing terrified by your Adversaries which will be to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God 3ly Do you all now publickly resolutely constantly unanimously according to the tenor of the Solemn League and Covenant claim assert vindicate and endeavour to preserve with your Lives and

together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall not stand for God is with us For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of the people saying say not a Confederacie to whom this people shall say a Confederacie neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid But sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread and he shall be for a sanctuarie Ps 26.3 4 5. O Lord I have walked in thy Truth I have not sat with vain persons neither will I goe in with dissemblers I have hated the Congregation of evil doers and I will not sit with the wicked Pro. 29.25 The fear of man bringeth a snare but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe Ps 18.46 48 50 Ps 144.10 The Lord liveth and bless●d be my rock and let the God of my salvation be exalted He delivereth me from mine enemies yea thou liftest me up above those that rose up against me thou hast delivered me from the violent man Therfore will I give thanks unto thee O Lord among the Heathen and sing praises unto thy name It is he that giveth Salvation unto Kings that delivereth David his servant from the hurtfull sword Great deliverance giveth he unto his KING and sheweth mercy to his anointed To David and to his seed for evermore Thomas Campanella De Monarchia Hisp c. 30. Omnis haeresis cum ad Atheismum delapsa est per sapientem Prophetam in veritatis viam reducitur habent enim haereses periodum suam ad modum Rerumpublicarum quae à Regibus in Tyrannidem à Tyrannide in Statum Optimatium et inde in Oligarchiam atque tandem in Democratiam in fine rursus in statum Regium revolvuntur William Prynne From my Studie in Lincolns Inne May 18. 1659. FINIS ERRATA Page 34. l. 15. dele it p. 35. l. 4. Melston r. Millington p. 41. ● 18. Precope p. 48. l. 10. r. 1648. p. 49. l. 38. erecting r exciting p. 69. l. 16. both r. doth p. 75. l. 7. as r. was * See the Epistle and Appendix to my Speech in Parliament and the 2d part to the History of Independency a The true State of the case of the Common-wealth in reference to the Government by a Protector and Parliament maintaining therein a full conformity to the declared principles and engagements of the parliament and Army It being the opinion of divers persons who through out the late troubles have approved themselves faithfull to the cause and Interest of God and their Country Presented to the publick for the satisfaction of others printed 1654. p. 9 11. which Mr. Prynne had then in his pocket * Ian. 6. 1648. (a) See Mr. Prynnes Epistle and Appendix to his Speech in parliament His 2d part of the Narrative of the Armies force 1640. and A new Discovery of Free-State Tyrany 1655. (b) See his brief Memento to the present unparliamentary Iuncto 1648. (c) In his Memorial for Reformation of England 1590. Watsōs quodlibets p. 92. to 96.310 to 334. Wil. Clarks his answer to Father Parsons Libel p. 75. (d) De Monarchia Hisp●nica c. 25 27. (e) Romes master piece and hidden works of Darkness brought to publick light (f) Historia part 3d. Venetiis 1648. p. 175 176. (g) See the instrument of Government and petition and advice Section 1. * A Collect p. 849 858 862 863 867 868. i Appendix to his Speech p. 118. and relation of the Members seclusion * See Mr. Prynne Good Old Cause stated stunted p. 3 4 5.6 10 k See Mr. P his Gospel plea Watsons quodlibers and the Case of the Common wealth of England rightly stated i See his legal plea against illegal Taxes his legal Vindication p. 3 3 4. his Brief Register of Parliamentary writs and plea for the Lords l 7 E. 1. Rastall Armor 1. Cooks 4 Instit p. 14. Mr. Prynnes Brief Register of all Parliamentary writs p. 27 28.177 215 216. Exact Abridgement of the records in the Tower p. 11 12 14 17 19 ●● 27 36 38 195. m Mr. Prynnes Brief Register and Survey of Parliamentary writs p 431. n See their Votes Jan. 6. Declaration 11 Martii 1648. The Agreement of the People and Armies Remonstrance and Petition Nov. 16. 1648. Ian. 20. 1649. o 1 Jac. ch 1. Ash-Parliament 10. p Cl. 33. E. 1. m. 4. dors q 1 H 4. Rot. parl n. 25. Plea for the Lords p. 434. r Canterburies Doome p. 27 31. Mr. Pyms Speech 16 F●br 1640. * See his legal Vindication against illegal Taxes p. 44. to 51. His Plea for the Lords and Brief Register * Mr. Rushworths Historical Collect. p. 270 271. ſ Cooks 4 Instit c 1. Cromptons Jurisdiction of Courts Be Tit. Parliament A Brief Register Survey of Parliamentary writs p. 422 423 424 432. Mr. Rushworths Historical collection p. 423. t Cooks 7 Report Calvins case f. 10. * 4 E. 4. 44. v See Mr. Prynnes Brief Register Kalendar Survey of Parliamentary Writs a Cooks 1 Instit p. 181. b. 5 Rep. f. 9. Dyer 190 191 Ash Authority 22.24 the Books there cited 19 H. 7. c 7. * Dyer f. 60. b Modus tenendi Parl. H. de Knyghton de Event Angliae l. 5. col 2680.2681 Grafton p. 349 350 Mr. Prynnes Plea for the Lords p. 27 29. Exact Collection p. 125.142.360 c Plowden f. 117. Dyer f. 107. b. Mr. Seldens Titles of Honor Mr. Prynns Plea for the Lords and House of Peers d Cooks 4 Instit p. 25. 51 E. 3. rot Parl. n. 47. 6 R. 2. rot Parl. 2. n. 52. 11 H. 4. n. 30. e Exact Collection p. 163 164 250 316 317 318 312 793 794. x Cooks ● Report Calvins case f. 10 11. y See the History of Independency part 2. Salmatius Bochartus z Hab. 1.12 Objection 2. Answ Nota. * Better Acts than ever the Republicans made or intend to make for the peoples ease and benefit who only doubled trebled all their Taxes Grievances insteed of removeing them n Brooke Perkins Fit●herbert Ash Tit. Condition 29. o Serj. Finch his Maximes of the Law Cook and others d Exact Col. p. 41. e Exact Col. p. 203. f Exact Col. p. 260. g Exact Col. p. 704. h Exact Collect p. 250. i Exact Collection p. 323. k Exact Collect p. 364. * Some of them Prisoners in execution sent for out of Goal to make up an House * 2 Kin. 21.23 24. c. 14 5.6 1 1 King 16.16 to 21. * See Exact Col. p. 131 148 317 to 314. a Alexand. ab Alexandro Gen. Dierum lib. 3. c 2 10. 2 Sam. 16 18. c. 19.41 42 43.8 11.6 c. 7. 33 H. 8. c. 27. Exact Collect. p. 146. b Page 23. sect 4. printed by the Armies special order 1649. * Ol. Cromwell Ireton Corn. Holland and others of them stiled themselves a mock-Mock-Parliament as Iohn