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A56140 A breife memento to the present vnparliamentary ivnto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute Charles Stewart, their lawful King / by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1649 (1649) Wing P3910; ESTC R33477 13,459 18

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A BREIFE MEMENTO To the present VNPARLIAMENTARY IVNTO Touching their present intentions and Proceedings to Depose and Exeute CHARLES STEWART their lawfull KING By William Prynne Esquire a Member of the House of Commons and PRISONER under the Armyes Tyrany who it seemes have leavyed Warre against the Houses of Parliament their quondam Masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine Captives during their lawlesse Pleasures Proverb 24. 21 22. My Son Feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those who are given to Change for their calamity shall RISE SVDDENLY and who knoweth the ruine of them both Gal. 1.10 If I yet pleased men I should not be the Servant of Christ LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1649. Die Veneris 20. Aug. 1647. An Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both houses since the force on both Houses July 26. until the sixth of this present August 1647. to be nul and void VVHereas there was a visible horrid insolent and actual force upon the Houses of Parliament on Munday the 26 of July last where upon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could not returne to sit in safety before Fryday the sixth of August It is therefore declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled that the Ordinance of Munday the said 26 Iuly for the repealing making voyd of the Ordinance of the 23 of the said Iuly for the setling of the Militia of the City of London being gained by force and violence And all Votes Orders Ordinances passed in either or both Houses of Parliament since the said Ordinance of the 26 of Iuly to the said sixt of August are nul and void and were so at the making thereof and are hereby declared so to be the Parliament being under a force and not free Provided alwayes and be it ordained that no person or persons shall be impeached or punished for his or their actions by or upon or according to the aforesaid Votes Orders or Ordinances unlesse he or they shall be found guilty of contriving acting or abetting the aforesaid visible and actual force or being present at or knowing of the said force did afterwards act upon the Votes so forced or were guilty of entring into or promoting the late Ingagement for bringing the King to the City upon the tearmes and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last Iohn Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A breif Memento to the present Vnparliamentary Iunto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and Execute CHARLES STEVVARD their lawfull King of ENGLAND c. GENTLEMEN IT is the observation of King Solomon Prov 25.11 That a word spoken in due season is like Apples of Gold in pictures of silver And seeing I and above two hundred Members more being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparaleld violence upon our Persons and the House cannot speak my mind freely to you in or as the House of Commons I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you only as private Persons under the force consulting in a House without your Fellow-Members advice or concurrence about the speedy deposing and executing of KING CHARLES your lawfull Soveraigne to please the Generall Officers and Grand Councel of the Army who have unjustly usurped to them the supream Authority both of King and Parliament or rather the Iesuits and Popish Priests among or neare them by whose Councels they and you are now wholly swayed and whose trayterous designes you really execute in most of your late Votes and Actings I have only a few words and considerations to impart unto you Dictum sapienti sat est First I shall minde you that by the Common Law of the Realme the Statute of 25 E. 3. and all other Acts concerning Treason it is no lesse then High Treason for any Man by overt act to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of the King or of his eldest Son and Heire though it be never executed much more if actually accomplished That many have been arraigned condemned executed for such intended Treasons in former ages as the Earle of Arundell and others by judgement in Parliament 21. R. 2. Plac Coronae N. 4.6.7 and the Gunpouder Traytors 3. Jacobi to omit others whose Examples should be others admonitions the Heads and Quarters of some of them yet hanging on the Houses where you now meet and sit 2dly That in the Oath of Allegiance which you have all taken immediately before your admission into the House as Members You doe truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in your consciences before God and the World That our Soveraigne Lord King Charles Is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries And that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any Other meanes Nor any other hath any power or authority to Depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to discharge any of his Subiects of his Allegiance and Obedience to his Maiesty or to give leave to any of them to offer any violence to His Maiesties Person State or Government And that notwithstanding any sentence or Declaration of Deprivation made by the Pope c. or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience you will beare true allegiance to His Majestie His heires and successors and him and them wil defend to the uttermost of your power Against all attempts and conspiracies whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or Declaration or otherwise And do thereby further swear that you do from your harts abhor detest and abiure as impious and Hereticall that damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their Subiects or any other whatsoever And that you doe belive and in conscience are resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve you of this Oath or any part thereof and that all these things you did plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words and their plain and common sence without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secrèt reservation whatsoever And that you did make this Rècognition acknowledgement heartily willingly truly upon thè true faith òf a Christian Now whether your present actings intentions against the King be not diametrically repugnant to this solemn Oath which most of you have taken sithence these wars some of you since the Treaty when sworn Sejeants at Law c. let God and the world before whom you sware and your own consciences in which you then swore determine
your acting herein the Popes and Iesuits designes 3dly That your selves among other Members have in above one hundred Remonstrances Declarations Petitions Ordinances and printed papers published in the name and by the authority of one or both Houses of Parliament professed both to the King himselfe Kingdome World and forraign States that you never intended the least hurt injury or violence to the Kings Person Crown Dignity or Posterity but intended to him and his Royall Posterity more honour happinesse Glory and Greatnesse then ever was yet enjoyed by any of his Royall Predecessours That you will ever make good to the uttermost with your lives and fortunes the faith and allegiance which in truth and sinceritie you have alwayes horne to his Majesty that you have proposed no other ends to your selves but the performance of all duty and loyalty to his Majesties Person That all Contributions and loanes upon the publike faith should be imployed only to maintain the Prote●●ant Religion the Kings authority his Person his Royall Dignity the Lawes of the land Peace of the Kingdome and priviledges of Parliament and not to be imployed against his Majesties person or authority That the Armies and forces raised by the Houses were raised for the safety and defence of the Kings Person and of both Houses of Parliament c. That his Majestes Personall safety honour and greatnesse are much dearer to you then your owne lives and fortunes which you do most heartily dedicate and shall most willingly imploy for the maintenance and support thereof That the Parliament will ever have a care to prevent any danger which his Majesty may justly apprehend to his person That both Houses are resolved to expose their lives and fortunes for the defence and maintenance of the true Religion The Kings person honour and State the power and priviledges of Parliament That notwithstanding his Majesties proclamations against the General and Army as Traytors yet to witnesse their constant and unshaken Loyalty to his Maiesty both houses do solemny declare That upon his disbanding his forces return harkning to the advise of his Great Councel They will really endeavour to make both him his as much beloved at Home feared abroad as any Pr. that ever swayed this Septer which is their firm and constant Resolution from which they wil not be diverted for any private or self respects whatsoever That they will faithfully endeavour to secure his Maiesties Person Crown from all dangers inculcating the apparent danger to his Royal Person among his popish Malignants Armies ill Councelors upon that reason perswading and inviting him to desert them and close with his Parliament protesting that the Parliament hath been is ever wil be more ready then they to secure and uphold the ●uthority Prerogative and Honor of the King and preserve the safety of his Royal Person which they have oft times testified by many humble Petitions and Declarations to Him the World and Kingdome with many other such like expressions Which whether your present Actings and Counsels do not directly oppose contradict and give the lye unto to your eternall infamy and breach of publique faith as much as in you lies let both Houses the world and all men judge as they will doe in due season 4thly Consider That when the King and his party did taxe the Houses for insinuating That if they should make the highest presidents of other Parliaments their pattern there would be no cause to complain of want of modesty or duty in them That is they may depose the King when they wil and are not to be blamed for so doing and that the army raised by the Parliament was to murther and depose the King Both houses by two solemne Declarations did most professedly declare and protest against it as the falsest and most malicious accusation that could be imagined that the thoughts of it never entred nor should enter into their loyal hearts That as God is witnesse of their thoughts so shall their actions witnesse to all the world that to the honor of our Religion of those who are most zealous in it they shal suffer far more for from their Soveraign then they hoped God would ever permit the malice of his wicked Councellors to put them to since the happinesse of the Kingdome doth so mainly depend upon hi● Majesty and the Royall Authority of that root That they hoped the contrivers of these false and scandalous reports or any that professed the name of a Christian could not have so little charity as to raise such a scandall especially when they must needs know the Protestation made by the Members of both houses whereby they promise in the presence of Almighty God to defend and preserve his Maiesties Person The Promise and Protestation made by the Members of both houses upon the Nomination of the Lord of Essex to be Generall and to live and die with him wherein is expressed That this Army was raised for defence of the Kings Person Their often earnest and most humble addresses to His Majesty to leave that desperate and dangerous Army wherewith he is now encompassed raised and upheld to the hazard of his own and the Kingdomes ruine and to come in Person to his Parliament where he should be sure to remain in honour and safety and their humble petition directed to be presented to him by the hands of the Earl of Essex before any blow given to remove his Royal person from the Army a request inconsistent with any purpose to offer the least violence to his person which hath and ever shall be dear unto them Now put it to your soules and consciences whether yours and the Armies present Councels and actions doe not really justifie the Kings and his parties former suggestions and give the lye to these Declarations of both Houses who certainly when ever restored to a condition of freedome and liberty of meeting together againe will crave publike reparations and justice against you if you violate both their Honour faith and engagements to the King Kingdome and forraign States against these their Declarations and Protestations too 5thly Remember that the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament Octob. 2● 1642. did in the presence of Almighty God which is the strongest obligation that any Christian and the most solemne publik faith that any state as a Parliament can give for the satisfaction of their own consciences and discharge of that great trust that lyes upon them make this Protestation and Declaration to all this Kingdome and Nat on and to the whole world That no private passion or respect No evil intention to his Maiesties person no designe to preiudice his iust honour and Authority engaged them to raise forces or take up Armes That if he would return to his Parliament in peace and by their counsels and advice compose the distempers and confusions abounding in his Kingdomes They would receive him with all Honour yeeld