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A56162	The first and second part of A seasonable, legal, and historicall vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ... wherein is irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary records, proofs, presidents, that we have such fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws ... : collected, recommended to the whole English nation, as the best legacy he can leave them / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen. Part 1-2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3954; ESTC R19429	161,045	206

exported or imported except the same be due by Grant IN PARLIAMENT shall incur the penalties and forfeitures OF A PREMVNIRE to the which the King gave his Royal Assent And to prevent any future prescription thereunto by the King they discontinued it for some time and then granted it specially from Month to Month or some short space with sundry limitations and the penalty of A PREMVNIRE if otherwise received by several New Acts of Parliament to which the King gave his assent These Acts the King himself in his Proclamation of the sixteenth of December in the eighteenth year of his reign stiles THE FENCES OF THE SVBJECTS PROPERTY received from Vs and understood by Vs as one of THE GREATEST GRACES THE CROWN EVER CONFERRED ON THE SVBJECT And by that Proclamation he prohibited all his Subjects both the paiment and receipt of any Monies for Customs or other Maritine Duties contrary to this Act by any Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament under pain of a PREMUNIRE and of being likewise proceeded against as ill-affected persons to the Peace of the Kingdome Whereupon the Lords and Commons in their answer to this Proclamation though they declared that the intent and meaning of that penall Clause of a PRAEMVNIRE and other Forfeitures in these new statutes which likewise disable every person Customer Officers who should take or receive or cause to be taken or received any such subsidy or imposition upon any Merchandize during his life to sue or implead any persons in any action reall mixt or personal in any Court whatsoever was only to restrain the Crown from imposing any duty or payment on the Subjects without their consent in Parliament and that it was not intended to extend to any case whereunto the LORDS and COMMONS GIVE THEIR ASSENT IN PARLIAMENT which they never did to this New White-hall Ordinance nor the pretended Act recited in it therefore the imposers and receivers of it by vertue thereof without such assent in Parliament are within the penalties of the aforesaid Statutes Yet to avoid the danger of a Praemunire in their Officers by exacting it only by an Ordinance of both Houses without a speciall Act of Parliament they did by their first Ordinances impose and demand Customes Tonnage Poundage and new Imposts not as a Legal Duty but only BY WAY OF LOANE til the Act of Parliament for their future continuance should be assented to by the King as their Declaration of 31 December 1642. and their Ordinance of the same date concerning the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage attest By what coulor of Law Iustice Right this antient birth-right of all English Subjects so lately declared by three Acts of Parliament to which most of our late and present White-hall Grandees were parties comes to bee lost and forfeited by our contests to preserve it or how the Customes Imposts of Tonnage and Poundage can bee now imposed continued on or exacted from the Subjects by any Powers Officers or persons Whatsoever and levied by severest penalties Forfeitures Imprisonments Seisures by pretext of this White-hal Ordinance though no waies granted by common consent and Act of Parliament without incurring a Praemunire and forementioned penalties disabilities or without subverting the Fundamental Liberty Property Franchises Laws Statutes of the whole English Nation in a farre higher degree then ever in former ages I cannot yet discern and all our New Governours Merchants Customers Officers and other persons who have any Cordial affection Love Zeal to their own or the peoples hereditary Rights and Priviledges may do well to demurre in Law upon it till they can satisfy their own and other mens consciences therein to prevent the dangerous consequences of such an ill president to posterity In the Parliament of 1 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 32 33 34 36. These were the principall Articles of impreachment exhibited against King Richard the Second for which hee was forced to depose himself as unfit to Govern and resign up his Crown to King Henry the Fourth That whereas the King of England out of the profits of the Realm and the Patrimony belonging to his Crown might live honestly without oppression of his people so as the Kingdome were not burdened with the extraordinary expences of warre that this King during the Truces between the Realm and the Adversaries thereof gave and squandered away a great part of the Crown-Lands to unworthy persons and thereupon exacted almost every year so many Taxes and Grants of Ayde from his Subjects of the Realm that hee thereby GREATLY and TOO EXCESSIVELY OPPRESSED HIS PEOPLE TO THE IMPOVERISHING OF HIS REALM That the same King being unwilling to keep and defend the just Laws and Customes of his Realm and to do according to his pleasure whatsoever should suite with his desires frequently when the Laws of his Realm were expounded and declared to him by the Justices and others of his Council who requested him to administer Justice according to those Laws said expresly with an austere and frownning Countenance THAT THE LAWS WERE HIS more suo AFTER his own MANER and sometimes THAT THEY WERE IN HIS OWN BREAST and THAT HEE ALONE COULD ALTER and MAKE THE LAWS OF HIS REALM And being seduced with this opinion he permitted not Justice to be done to very many of his Leige people but compelled very many to cease from the prosecution of common Justice That when as afterwards in his Parliament certain Statutes were made which might always bind till they were specially repealed by another Parliament the same King desiring to enjoy so great Liberty that none of these Statutes might so binde him but that he might execute and do according to the pleasure of his own Will which hee could not do of right subtilly procured such a Petition to be presented to him in his Parliament in the behalf of the Commons of his Realm and to be granted to him in the general THAT HE MIGHT BE SO FREE AS ANY OF HIS PROGENITORS WERE BEFORE HIM By colour of which Petition and Grant he frequently did and commanded to bee done MANY THINGS CONTRARY TO THE SAID STATVTES NOT REPEALED GOING AGAINST THEM EXPRESLY and WITTINGLY AGAINST HIS OATH AT HIS CORONATION That although by the Statutes and Customs of his Realm in the summoning of every Parliament his people in every County of the Realm ought to be free to elect and depute Knights for the said Counties to sit 〈◊〉 Parliament both TO RECEIVE their GRIEVANCES and TO PROSECVTE REMEDIES THEREUPON AS IT SHALL SEEM EXPEDIENT TO THEM yet the said King that he might in his Parliament be able to obtain the effect of his rash Will frequently directed his Mandates to his Sheriffs that they should cause to come to his Parliament CERTAIN PERSONS NAMED BY THE KING HIMSELF AS KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE Which Knights verily favouring the said King he might easily enduce as he frequently did sometimes by divers threats and terrors and sometimes by gifts TO CONSENT TO THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE VERY

PREJVDICIAL TO THE REALM and VERY BVRDENSOME TO THE PEOPLE and specially TO GRANT TO THE SAID KING A SUBSIDY FOR CERTAIN YEARS TO THE OPPRESSING OF His People overmuch That although the Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels of every Freeman by the Laws of the Realm used in all former ages past ought not to be seized unless they had forfeited Yet notwithstanding the said King purposing endeavouring to enervate these Laws in the presence of very many of the Lords and Commons of this Realm frequently said and affirmed That the Life Lands Tenements Goods and Chattles of every one of his Subjects are at his will and pleasure without any Forfeiture by the known Laws which is altogether contrary to the Laws customs of the Realm aforesaid Whether all these high Misdemeanors charged against King Richard have not been revived and acted over and over both by words and deeds in a farre higher degree than ever he was guilty of them by some late present Whitehall Grandees Army-Officers New Instrument-makers Legitors and Imposers of Excises Customs Imposts Tonnage Poundage Contributions for many years yet to come and of that constant Annual Revenue projected intended by them in their 27 Article I remit to their own judgements consciences and our whole Kingdom to resolve and what they demerit for such extravagant high offences for which he lost Crown and Regal power let others determine The 3. particular is their late incumbent Imposition of 6. Moneths new Contribution by a meer Self-enacted Whitchall Jurisdiction without any consent grant in or by the People in Parliament by that they intitle An Ordinance of the 8. of ●une 1654. beginning thus in a most imperial Stile transcending all former Acts of Parliament granting or imposing any Subsidies without any Prologue to sweeten it or court the people to its ready payment Be it Ordained and Enacted by his Highness the Lord Protector with the consent of his Council and it is hereby Ordained That towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth An Assessement of one Hundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds per Mensem for Three Monethe commencing the 24 of Iune 1654 and ending the 29 of Sept. following shall be Taxed Levied Collected and Paid in England and Wales in such sort as is hereafter expressed The full sum of the said Three Months Assessment of One hundred and twenty thousand pounds by the Month to be at once wholly collected and paid in to the Receivers Generall at or before the tenth day of October next c. The Levying thereof upon the refusers hath been by distress of Goods by Souldiers Troopers and quartering them on the refusers till payment and double the value many times paid to and exacted by the Souldiers for their pains adjudged even by some of our New Grandees Votes who prescribe such Taxes and wayes of levying them to be No less then High Treason and levying Warre in Straffords case for which principally he was condemned and lost his head on Tower Hill as a Traytor In this New Whitehall Tax without a Parliament intended as a leading President to bind the whole Nation in perpetuity if now submitted to as the 27 Article intimates there is a double violation subversion of the Fundamental Laws and Properties of the Nation in the Highest degree The first is by the reviving imposing of Ship-mony on the whole Realm and all Inland Counties as well as Maritine for the Maintenance of the Navies by Sea which should be maintained only by the Customs and that in a farre higher proportion than the Shipmony imposed by Writs by our late beheaded King amounting to no less than Forty thousand pounds per Mensem at last by way of Contribution alone besides the Customs Tonnage Poundage and Excise paid towards it This Imposition of Shipmony by the late King though ratified with the advise and consent of his Council many colourable Presidents Records in all former ages and the precedent Resolution of all his Iudges under their hands as just and legally imposed in case of Necessity and Publike danger only without consent in Parliament together with the Iudgement and Proceedings of the Iudges in the Eschequer Chamber in justification thereof were in the last Parliament after solemne debate by the Votes and Iudgements of both Houses on the 20. Ian. and 26 February resolved Nemine contradicent● To be contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm contrary to the Rights and Properties of the Subjects of this Realm contrary to former Iudgements in Parliament contrary to the great Charter and to the Petition of Right and voted to be so declared by the Iudges at the Assizes in the severall Counties the same to be entred and inrolled in the severall Counties by the Clerks of the Assises After which it was for ever damned by a special Act of Parliament to which the King himself gave his Royal assent afterwards cited and enforced by both Houses Exact Collection p. 886. 887. in the case of the Array And those Iudges who argued That the King might lawfully impose Shipmony on the Subjects without a Parliament in cases of Danger and Necessity of which they affirmed him to be the sole Iudge were by all impeached by the House of Commons of High Treason for these Opinions of theirs whereby they trayterously and wickedly endeavoured to subvert The Fundamental Laws and established Government of the Realm of England and instead thereof to set up an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government against Law of which at large before How any present Powers or Persons then can either impose justify levy enforce it upon any Pretext of Necessity or publique Danger on the whole Nation after all these late Resolutions Iudgements Votes Impeachments and a special Act of Parliament so fresh in memory especially such who were parties to them without incurring the self-same Impeachments and guilt as these Ship-mony Iudges did or a severer Censure then they sustained let their own Conscsences and those who may on● day prove their Iudges resolve them at leasure being past my skill to doe it The 2. is By the imposing of a direct heavy Tax Tallage and Monthly contr●bution and that only for the Maintenance of such a Land Army which hath offered force unto the Members of both Houses subverted destroyed that Parliament Government Laws Libertie for whose preservation they were specially raised Commissioned engaged without yea against the Peoples assent in Parliament which no King of England with the advice and consent of his Council had ever any Right or Power to doe or audacity enough to attempt no not William the Conqueror C●nute Henry the 4th Edward the 4th or Henry the 7th who came principally by power of the Sword to their Soveraign Regall Authorities By what Justice Power Legal Right any other person or persons whatsoever who are neither rightfull Kings nor Parliaments of England in their own or others repute can either impose levy exact such

greatest pretenders to publike Liberty Law and the ●heifest inveighers against Arbitrary Regal Tyranny and Power which never publikely established such arbitrary illegal Tryals and new Butcheries of Christian English Freemen by any law and may fall to imitate them in future Ages by their example Each of these I intend to prosecute in distinct Chapters in their order CHAP. 1. 1. For the first of these That the Kingdome and Freemen of England have some ancient Hereditary Rights Liberties Priviledges Franchises Laws and Customs properly called FVNDAMENTAL and likewise a FVNDAMENTALL GOVERNMENT no wayes to be altered undermined subverted directly or indirectly under pain of High Treason in those who shall attempt it especially by fraud force or armed power I Shall confirm the first part of it by these ensuing punctual Authorities of moment against those traiterous late published Pamphlets which professedly deny it and endeavour a totall abrogation of all former Lawes to set up a New modell and Body of the law to rule us for the future according to their pleasures The first is the expresse words of the great Charters of the Liberties of England granted by King John Anno 1215. in the 16 year of his Reign Regranted and confirmed by King Henry the third in the 9 year of his Reign and sundry times afterwards and by King Edward the first in the 25 and 28 years of his reign Wherein these three Kings successively by their several grand Charters under their great Seals did grant give and confirm to all the Nobility is and ever shall be far from the thoughts and intents of all good Kings Governours and Parliament who bear a sincere care and affection to the Subjects of England to alter or innovate them 3. That by these ancient good Laws Priviledges and customs not only the Kings Regall Authority but the peoples Security of lands livings and priviledges both in general and particular are preserved and maintained 4. That by the abolishing or altering of them it is impossible but that present confusion will fall upon the whol state and frame of this Kingdom Which I wish all Innovators and New Modellers of our Lawes and Government would now at last lay seriously to heart and the whole Kingdome and English Nation sadly consider who have found it an experimental truth of late years and no imaginary seigned speculation 3. The third is The Remon●trance of the whole House of Commons in Parliament delivered in Writing to King James in the Parliament of 7. Jacobi Anno 1610. which begins thus To the Kings most Excellent Majesty Most Gracious Soveraign Whereas we your Majesties most humble Subjects the Commons assembled in Parliament having received first by Message and since by speech from your Majesty a Command of restraint from debating in Parliament your Majesties Right of imposing upon your Subjects Goods exported out of or imported into this Realm yet allowing us to examine the grievance of these Impositions in regard of quantity time and other circumstances of disproportion thereto incident We your humble Subjects nothing doubting but that your Majesty had no intent by that command to infring the ancient and fundamentall Rights of the Liberty of PARLIAMENT in point of exact discussing of all matters concerning them and their Possessions Goods and Rights whatsoever Which yet we cannot but conceive to be done in effect by this Command Do with all humble Duty make this Remonstr●nce to your Majesty First we hold it an Ancient general and undoubted Right of Parliament to debate freely all matters which do properly concern the Subject and his Right or Estate which freedome of debate being once fore-closed the essence of the Liberty of Parliament is withall dissolved c. Here the whole House of Commons in a speciall Remonstrance to King James printed and published by Order of a Committee of the House of Commons for licensing of Books dated 20 Maii 17. Caroli 1641. Declare resolve vindicate and maintain one principal ancient fundamentall general undoubed right of the Liberty of Parliament against the Kings intrenchment on it Of which should they be but once fore closed the Essence of the Liberty of Parliament is withall dissolved And peradventure it may not be unworthy the most serious disquisition of the next ensuing nominal or real Parliament to examine whether some clauses and restrictions in the 9. 12. 14. 16 17. 21. 22. 24 25. 27. 30. 32 33. 36 37 38 39 40. Articles or strings of the New Instrument intituled The Government of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging as it was publikely declared at Westminster the 16. day of December 1653 c. do not as much nay far more intrench upon the ancient Fundamental General undoubted Rights and Liberty of Parliament and parliamentary free debates to the dissolution of the Essential liberty of all future Parliaments as this Command of King James did or as the Bishops late Canons imposed on the Clergy in and by the Convocation Anno 1640. ever did and this clause in their c. Oath then made now imitated by others who condemned it I. A. B. do swear that I will never give my consent to alter the Government of this Church by Arch-bishops Bishops Deans and Arch-Deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand Which clause and Oath imposed onely on the Clergy-men Resolved by the whole House of Commons and Peers too in Parliament without one dissenting voice December 16. 1640. to be a most dangerous illegal Oath contrary to the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and to the Fundamental Laws and Statutes of the Realu● c. and of dangerous consequence the contriving whereof was objected to the late Archbishop of Caterbury in his original Articles of High Treason for which amongst other things he lost his head The fourth is the notable Petition of Grievances of the whole House of Commons in Parliament presented to King James in the seventh year of his Reign after their Vote against his Right to levy Impositions on goods imported or exported without assent and grant of Parliament in these ensuing words The Policy of this your Majesties Kingdomes appropriates unto the Kings of this Realm with assent of Parliament as well the Soveraign power of making Laws as that of taxing or imposing upon the Subjects Goods or Merchandises wherein they have justly such a property as may not without their consent be altered or changed this is the cause that the people of this Kingdome as they have ever shewed themselves faithfull and loving to their Kings and ready to aid them in all just occasions with voluntary contributions so have they been ever careful to preserve their own Liberties and Rights when any thing hath been done to prejudice or impeach the same And therefore when their Princes either occasioned by war or by their own bounty or by any other necessity have without consent of

Parliament set on Impositions either within the Land or upon commodities exported or imported by the merchants they have in open Parliament complained of it in that it was done without their consents and thereupon never failed to obtain a speedy and full redresse without any claim made by the Kings of any Power or Prerogative in that point And though the Law of property be original and carefully preserved by the Common Laws of this Real WHiCH ARE AS ANCIENT AS THE KINGDOME IT SELF yet those famous Kings for the better contentment and assurance of their loving Subjects agreed THAT THIS OLD FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT observe the words should be further declared and established by Acts of Parliament wherein it is provided That no such Charge shall ever be laid upon the People without their common Consents as may appear by sundry Records of former times We therefore your Majesties most humble Commons assembled in Parliament following the example of this worthy care of our Ancestors and out of our Duty to those for whom we serve finding that your Majesty without advice of your Lords and Commons hath lately in times of Peace Set both greater Impositions and farre more in number than any your Noble Ancestors did ever in time of Warre do with all humility present this most just and necessary Petition unto your Majesty THAT ALL IMPOSITIONS SET WITHOVT ASSENT IN PARLIAMENT MAY BE QVITE ABOLISHED AND TAKEN AWAY And that your Majesty likewise in imitation of your Royal Progenitors will be pleased that a Law in your time and during this Session of Parliament may be also made to declare That all Imposition of any kinde set or to be set upon your people their Goods or Merchandises save onely by common Consent in Parliament are and shall b● Void wherein your Majesty shall not onely Give your Subjects great Satisfaction in point of their Right but also bring exceeding joy and comfort to them who now suffer partly through the abating of the price of Native Commodities and partly through the raising of all Forraign to the overthrow of Merchants and shipping the causing of general dearth and decay of all wealth among your people who will be thereby no lesse discouraged than disabled to supply your Majesty when occasion shall require In which memorable Petition the whole House of Commons resolve in direct terms 1. That the Subjects of England have old original Fundamental Rights and more particularly in the Property of their Goods exempted from all Impositions whatsoever in times of peace or war without their common consent in Parliament declared and established both by the ancient and common law of England and sundry Acts of Parliament and records of former times 2. They declare the constant vigilant care zeal of our ancestors and former Parliaments in all ages inviolably to maintain defend preserve the same against all enchroachments together with their own care duty and vigilancy in this kind in that very Parliament 3. They relate the readinesse of our Kings to ratifie these their Fundamental Rights by new Acts of Parliament when they have been violated in any kinde 4. They declare the benefit accruing both to Prince and People by the inviolable preservation and establishment of this old Fundamental right and the mischiefs accruing to both by the infringment thereof by arbitrary illegall impositions without full consent in Parliament 5. They earnestly in point of Conscience prudence and duty to those for whom they served Petition his Majesty for a new Law and Declaration against all new Impositions and Taxes on inland Goods or Merchandises imported or exported without the peoples free consent in Parliament as null void utterly to be abolished and taken away Whether it will not be absolutely necessary for the whole English Nation and the next ensuing National or reall Parliament to prosecute enact establish such a Declaration and Law against all such former and future arbitrary illegal oppressive Taxes Impositions Excises that have been imposed and continued for many years together on the whole kingdome by new extravagant self-created usurping ARMY-OFFICERS and other Powers without free and full consent of the people in Lawfull English Parliaments against all former Laws Declarations and Resolutions in Parliaments to their great oppression enslaving undoing in far greater proportions multiplicity and variety than ever in former Ages without the least intermission and likewise against their late declared designe to perpetuate them on our exhausted Nation without alteration or diminution beyond and against all presidents of former Ages both in times of Peace and War for the future by the 27 28 29 30 39. Articles of the Instrument entituled The Government of the Common-wealth of England c. I remit to their most serious considerations to determine if ever they resolve to be English Freemen again or to imitate the wisdome prudence zeal courage and laudable examples of their worthy Ancestors from which they cannot now degenerate without the greatest Infamy and enslaving of themselves with their Posterities for ever to the arbitrary wils of present or future Vsurpers on their Fundamental Rights and Liberties in an higher degree then ever in any precedent Ages under the greatest Conquerours or Kings after all their late costly bloody Wars for their Defence against the beheaded King 5 The fifth is A learned and necessary Argument made in the Commons House of Parliament Anno 7. Jacobi to prove That each Subject hath a Property in his Goods shewing also the extent of the Kings Prerogative in Impositions upon the Goods of Merchants exported or imported c. by a late learned Judge of this Kingdome printed at London by Richard Bishop 1641. and Ordered to be Published in Print at a Committee appointed by the Honorable House of Commons for examination and Licensing of Books 20. Maii 1641. In which Parliamentary Argument p. 8. 11. 16. I finde these direct Passages That the New Impositions contained in the Book of Rates imposed on Merchandizes imported and exported by the Kings Prerogative and Letters Patents without consent in Parliament is against the natural Frame and Constitution of the Policy of this Kingdome which is JVS PVBLICVM REGNI AND SO SVBVERTETH THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THE REALM and introduceth a new Form of State and Government Can any man give me a reason why the King can only in Parliament make Laws No man ever read any Law whereby it was so ordained and yet no man ever read that any King practised the contrary therefore IT IS THE ORIGINAL RIGHT OF THE KINGDOME AND THE VERY NATURAL CONSTITUTION OF OUR STATE AND POLICY being one of the highest Rights of Soveraign Power If the King alone out of Parliament may impose HE ALTERETH THE LAW OF ENGLAND IN ONE OF THESE TWO MAIN FUNDAMENTAL POiNTS he must either take the Subjects Goods from them without assent of the Party which is against the law or else he must give his own Letters Patents the force of

for the granting to your Majesty such a Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage as might uphold your Profit and Revenue in as ample manner as their just care and respect of Trade wherein not only the prosperity but even the life of the Kingdom doth consist would permit But being a work which will require much time and preparation by Conference with your Majesties Officers and with the Merchants not only of London but of other remote parts they finde it not possible to bee accomplished at this time wherefore considering it will be much more prejudicial to the Right of the Subject if your Majesty should continue to receive the same without Authority of Law after the determination of a Session then if there had been a recess by Adjournment only in which case that intended Grant would have related to the first day of the Parliament and assuring themselves That your Majesty is resolved to observe that your royal Answer which you have made to the Petition of Right of both Houses of Parliament yet doubting lest your Majesty may be mis-informed concerning this particular case as if you might continue to take those Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage and other Impositions of Merchants without breaking that Answer they are forced by that duty which they owe to your Majesty and to those whom they represent to declare THAT THERE OVGHT NOT ANY IMPOSITION TO BE LAID VPON THE GOODS OF MERCHANTS EXPORTED OR IMPORTED WITHOVT COMMON CONSENT BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT WHICH IS THE RIGHT AND INHERITANCE OF YOVR SVBJECTS FOVNDED NOT ONLY VPON THE MOST ANTIENT AND ORIGINAL CONSTITVTION OF THIS KINGDOM BUT OFTEN CONFIRMED AND DECLARED IN DIVERS STA●VTE LAWS And for the better manifestation thereof may it please your Majesty to understand That although your royal Predecessors the Kings of this Realm have often had such Subsidies and Impositions granted unto them upon divers occasions especially for the guarding of the Seas and safeguard of Merchants yet the Subjects have been ever careful to use such Cautions and limitations in those Grants as might prevent any Claim to be made that such Subsidies do proceed from duty and not from the free gift of the Subject and that they have heretofore limited a time in such Grants and for the most part but short as for a year or two and if it were continued longer they have sometimes directed a certain space of resensation or intermission that so the Right of the Subject might be more evident At other times it hath been granted upon occasion of Warre for certain numbers of years with Proviso that if the Warre were ended in the mean time then the grant should cease And of course it hath been sequestred into the hands of some Subjects to bee imployed for guarding of the Coasts and it is acknowledged by the ordinary Answers of your Majesties Predecessors in their assents to the Bills of Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage that it is of the nature of other Subsidies proceeding from the good will of the Subject Very few of your Predecessors had it for life until the reign of Henry 7. who was so farre from conceiving he had any right thereunto that although he granted Commissions for collecting certain Duties and Customs due by Law yet he made no Commission for receiving the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage until the same was granted to him in Parliament Since his time all the Kings and Queens of this Realm have had the like Grants for life by the free love and good will of the Subject and whensoever the people have been grieved by laying any Impositions or other Charges upon their Goods and Merchandizes without authority of Law which hath been very seldome yet upon complaint in Parliament they have been forthwith releeved saving in the time of your royall Father who having through ill counsel raised the Rates of Merchandizes to that height at which they now are yet he was pleased so farre to yee●d to the complaint of his people as to offer that if the value of these Impositions which he had set might be made good unto him he would bind himself and his Heirs by Act of Parliament never to lay any other which offer the Commons at that time in regard of the great burthen did not think fit to yeeld unto Nevertheless your loyal Commons in this Parliament out of their especial zeal to your Service and special regard of your pressing occasions have taken into their considerations so to frame a Grant of Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage to your Majesty that both you might have been better enabled for the defence of your Realm and your Subjects by being secure from all undue Charges be the more encouraged cheerfully to proceed in their course of Trade by the encrease whereof your Majesties profit and likewise the strength of the Kingdom would be very much augmented But not being now able to accomplish this their desire there is no course left unto them without manifest breach of their Duty both to your Majesty and their Country save only to make this humble Declaration THAT THE RECEIVING OF TONNAGE and POVNDAGE and OTHER IMPOSITIONS NOT GRANTED BY PARLIAMENT IS A BREACH OF THE FVNDAMENTAL LIBERTIES OF THIS KINGDOM and CONTRARY TO YOVR MAJESTIES ROYAL ANSWER TO THE SAID PETITION OF RIGHT And therefore they do most humbly beseech your Majesty to forbear any further receiving of the same and not to take it in ill part from those of your Majesties loving Subjects WHO SHALL REFVSE TO MAKE PAIMENT OF ANY SVCH CHARGES WITHOVT WARRANT OF LAW DEMANDED And as by this forbearance your most excellent Majesty shall manifest unto the World your ROYAL JUSTICE IN THE OBSERVATION OF YOVR LAWS so they doubt not hereafter at the time appointed for their coming again they shall have occasion to express their great desire to advance your Majesties HONOVR and PROFIT The King dissolving this Parliament on a sudden and continuing to take Tonnage and Poundage by his Royal Prerogative without any Act of Parliament sundry Merchants upon the Commons Remonstrance refused to pay the same whereupon their Goods were seised of which they complaining in Parliament 16 Caroli were Voted full Reparations against the Customers with Dammages for the same And to prevent the Kings Claim thereunto by right with all future Demands and Collections thereof from the Subject without grant in Parliament they Declared and Enacted by three special Acts of Parliament 16 17 Caroli That IT IS and HATH BEEN THE ANTIENT RIGHT OF THE SVBJECTS OF THIS REALM That NO SUBSIDY CVSTOME IMPOST OR OTHER CHARGES WHATSOEVER OVGHT OR MAY BE LAID OR IMPOSED UPON ANY MERCHANDISE EXPORTED OR IMPORTED BY SUBJECTS DENIZENS OR ALIENS WITHOVT COMMON CONSENT IN PARLIAMENT and that if any Customer Controller or any other Officer or Person should take or receive or cause to bee taken or received the said Subsidy or any other Impost upon any Merchandize whatsoever

Bull the Jesuites after her decease disswaded the Romish-minded Subjects from yielding in any wise obedience to King James as their Soveraign and entr●d into a Treasonable Conspiracy with the Lord Cobham Lord Gray and others against him to imprison him for the ends aforesaid or destroy him pretending that King Iames was no King at all before his Coronation and that therefore they might by force of Arms lawfully surprise his person and Prince Henry his Son and imprison them in the Tower of London or Dover-Castle till they inforced them by duress to grant a free toleration of their Catholick Religion to remove some evil Counsellors from about them and to grant them a free Pardon for this violence or else they would put some further project in execution against them to their destruction But this Conspiricy being discovered The Traytors were apprehended arraighned condemned and Watson and Clerk two Jesuited Priests who had drawn them into this Conspiracy upon the aforesaid Pretext with some others executed as Traytors all the Iudges of England resolving that King Iames being right Heir to the Crown by descent was immediately upon the death of Queen Elizabeth actually possessed of the Crown and lawful King of England before any Proclamat●on or Coronation of him which are but Ceremonies as was formerly adjudged in the case of Queen Mary and Queed Iane 1 Mariae there being no Interregnum by the Law of ENGLAND as is adjudged declared by Act of Parliament 1 Iac. c. 1. worthy serious perusal 8. their horrid Gun-powder Treason Plot contrived fomented by Garnet Superiour of the English Jesuites Gerard Tensmod and other Jesuites who by their Apostolical power did not onely commend but absolve from all sin the other Jesuited Popish Conspirators and Faux The Sculdier who were their instruments to effect it Yea the Jesuitical Priests were so Atheistical as that they usually concluded their Masses with Prayers for the good success of this hellish Plot which was suddenly with no less then 36 Barrels of Gunpowder placed in a secret Vault under the House of Lords to have blown up and destroyed at once King James himself the Queen Prince Lords Spirituall and Temporal with the Commons assembled together in the Upper-House of Parliament upon the 5 of November Anno Dom. 1605. and then forcibly to have seised with armed men prepared for that purpose the persons of our late beheaded King then Dake of York and of the Lady Elizabeth his Sister if absent from the Parliament and not there destroyed with the rest that so there might be none of the Royal Line left to inherit the Crown of England Scotland and Ireland to the utter overthrow and subversion of the whole Royal Family Parliament State and Government of this Realm Which unparallel'd inhumane bloody Plot being miraculously discovered prevented the very day before its execution in perpetual detestation of it and of the Jesuites and their traiterous Romish Religion which both contrived and approved it the 5 day of November by the Statute of 3 Jacobi ch 1. was enacted to be had in perpetual Remembrance that all Ages to come might thereon meet together publickly throughout the whole Nation to render publick praises unto God for preventing this infernal Jesuitical Design and keep in memory this joyful Day of Deliverance for which end special forms of publick Prayers and Thankesgivings were then appointed and that Day ever since more or less annually observed till this present And it is worthy special observation that had this Plot taken effect It was agreed by the Jesuites and Popish Conspirators before-hand That the Imputation of this Treason should be cast upon the Puritans to make them more Odious as now they father all the Powder-Plots of this kinde which they have not onely laid but fully accomplished of late yeers against the King Prince Royal Posterity the Lords and Commons House our old English Parliaments and Government upon those Independents and Anabaptistical Sword-men whom they now repute and stile the most reformed PURITANS who were in truth but their meer under Instruments to effect them When as they originally laid the Plots as is clear by Campanella's Book De Monarchia Hisp ch 25. and Cardinal Richelieu his Instructions at his death to the King of France And it is very observable that as Courtney the Jesuite Rector of the English Jesuites Colledge at Rome did in the year 1641. when the name of Independents was scarce heard of in England openly affirm to some English Gentlemen and a Reverend Minister of late in Cornwal from whom I had this Relation then and there feasted by the English Jesuites in their Colledge That now at last after all their former Plots had miscarried they had found out a sure way to subvert and ruine the Church of England which was most formidable to them of all others by the Independents who immediately after by the Jesuites clandestine assistance infinitely encreased supplanted the Presbyterians by degrees got the whole power of the Army and by it of the Kingdom into their hands then subverted both the Presbyterian Government and Church of England in a great measure with the Parliament King and his Posterity as Monsieur Militiere a Jesuited French-Papist observes So some Independent Ministers Sectaries and Anabaptists ever since 1648. have neglected the observation of the fifth of November as I am credibly informed and refused to render publick thanks to God for the deliverance thereon contrary to the Act for this very reason which some of them have rendered That they would not mock God in publick by praising him for delivering the late King Royal Posterity and House of Lords from destruction then by Jesuites and Papists when as themselves have since destroyed and subverted them through Gods providence and repute it a special mercy and deliverance to the Nation from Tyranny and Bondage for which they have cause to bless the Lord Performing that for the Jesuites and Powder-Traytors which themselves could not effect The Lord give them grace and hearts to consider how much they acted the Jesuites and promoted their very worst Designes against us therein what infamy and scandal they have thereby drawn upon all zealous Professors of our Protestant Religion and what will they do in the end thereof 9. To omit all other Forraign instances cited in Speculum Jesuiticum p. 124 to 130. where you may peruse them at leisure By their poysoning King Iames himself in conclusion as some of them have boasted 10. By the Popes Nuntio's and a Conclave of Jesuites Conspiracy at London Anno 1640. to poyson our late King Charles himself as they had poysoned his Father with a poysoned Indian Nut kept by the Jesuites and shewed often by Conne the Popes Nuntio to the Discoverer of that Plot or else to destroy him by the Scotish wars and troubles raised for that very end by the Jesuites in case he refused to grant them a

cloak their intentions from the people they took an Oath of all they met Quod Regi Communibus fidelitatem servarent that they should keep Allegiance and Faith to the King Commons Yea Wat Tyler demanded a Commission from the King to behead all Lawyers Escheaters and others whatsoever that were learned in the laws or communicated with the law by reason of their Office conceiving in his minde that this being brought to passe all things afterwards would be ordered according to his own and the common peoples fancy And he made his vaunt putting his hand to his own lips That before scure dayes came to an end ALL THE LAWS OF ENGLAND SHOULD PROCEED FROM HIS MOUTH Which some of late times seem to speak not only in words but deeds by their manifold new laws and Edicts repealing or contradicting our old This their resolution and attempt thus to alter and subvert the Laws and Government upon full debate in the Parliament of 5. R. 2. n. 30. 31. was declared to be High-Treason against the King and the Law for which divers of the chief Actors in this Treasonable Designe were condemned and executed as Traitors in severall places and the rest enforced to a publike submission then pardoned Let these imitators now remember this old President 2. In the Parliament of 11. R. 2. as appears by the Parliament Rols and printed Statutes at large three Privy Councellours the Archbishop of York the Duke of Ireland and the Earl of Suffolk the Bishop of Exeter the Kings Confessor five Knights six Judges whereof Sir Robert Tresylian Chief Justice was one Blake of the Kings Councel at Law Vsk and others were impeached and condemned of High Treason some of them executed as Traitors the rest banished their lands and goods forfeited and none to endeavour to procure their pardon under pain of Felony for their endeavouring to overthrow a Commission for the good of the Kingdome contrary to an Act of Parliament by force of Arms and opinions in Law delivered by these temporizing Judges and Lawyers to the King through threats and terrour at Nottingham Castle tending to subvert the Laws and Statutes of the Realm overthrow the Power Priviledges and proceedings of Parliament and betray not all the House of Lords but only some of the Lords of Parliament Which Judgement being afterwards reversed in the forced and packed Parliament of 21. R. 2. was reconfirmed in the Parliament of 1 H. 4. c. 3 4 5. and the Parliament of 21. R. 2. totally repealed and adnulled for ever and hath so continued Read Statut. at large 3. In the Parliament of 17 R. 2. n. 20. and Pas 17 R. 2. B. Regis Rot. 16. Sir Thomas Talbot was accused and found guilty of High Treason for conspiring the death of the Dukes of Glocester Lancaster and other Peers who maintained the Commission confirmed by Act of Parliament 10. R. 2 and assembling people in a warlike manner in the County of Chester for effecting of it in destruction of the estates of the Realm and the Laws of the Kingdome 4. In the 29. year of King Henry the sixth Jack Cade under a pretence to REFORM alter and abrogate some laws Purveyances and Extortions importable to the Commons whereupon he was called JOHN AMEND ALL drew a great multitude of Kentish people to Black-heath in a warlike manner to effect it In the Parliament of 29 H. 6. c. 1 this was adjudged High Treason in him and his Complices by Act of Parliament and the Parliament of 31. H. 6. c. 1. made this memorable Act against him and his Imitators in succeding ages worthy serious perusal and consideration by all who tread in his footsteps and over-act him in his Treasons Whereas the most abominable Tyrant horrible odious and errant FALSE TRAYTOR John Cade calling himself sometimes Mortimer sometime Captain of Kent which Name Fame Acts and Feats be to be removed out of the speech and minde of every faithfull Christian man perpetually falsly and traiterously purposing and imagining the perpetuall destruction of the KINGS PERSON and FINAL SVBVERSION OF THIS REALM taking upon him ROYALL POWER and gathering to him the Kings People in great number BY FALSE SVBTIL IMAGINED LANGVAGE and seditiously made a stirring Rebellion and insurrection VNDER COLOVR OF JVSTICE FOR REFORMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE SAID KING robbing slaying spoiling a great part of his faithfull people Our said Soveraign Lord the King considering the premises with many other which were more odious to remember by advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and at THE REQUEST OF THE COMMONS and by Authority aforesaid Hath ordained and established that the said John Cade shall be had named and declared A FALSE TRAYTOR to our said Soveraign Lord the King and that all his Tyranny Acts Feats false Opinions shall be voided abated adnulled destroyed and put out of remembrance for ever And that all Indictments and things depending thereof had and made under the power of Tyranny shall likewise be void adnulled abated repealed and holden for none and that the blood of none of them be defiled nor corrupted but by the Authority of the said Parliament clearly declared for ever And that all Indictments in time coming in like case under power of Tyranny Rebellion and stirring had shall be of no regard or effect but void in Law And all the Petitions delivered to the said King in his last Parliament holden at Westminster the sixth day of November the 29. of his Reign against his minde by him not agreed shall be taken and put in Oblivion out of Remembrance undone voided adnulled and destroyed for ever as a thing purposed against God and his Conscience and against his Royal estate and preheminence and also DISHONORABLE and UNREASONABLE 5. In the 8 year of King Henry the 8. William Bell and Thomas Lacy in the County of Kent conspired with Thomas Cheney the Hermite of the Queen of Fairies TO OVER THROW THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE REALM for effecting whereof they with 200 more met together and concluded upon a course of raising greater forces in Kent and the adjacent Shires This was judged High Treason and some of them executed as Traitors Moreover it was resolved by all the Judges of England in the reign of Henry 8. that an Insurrection against the Statute of Laborers or for the inhansing of Salaries and wages or against any Statute or to remove Councellors or to any other end pretending Reformation of their own heads was TREASON and a levying war against the King BECAVSE IT WAS GENERALLY AGAINST THE KINGS LAW and the Offenders took upon them THE REFORMATION THEREOF which Subjects by gathering of power ought not to do 6. On December 1. in the 21. year of King Henry the 8. Sr. Thomas Moore Lord Chancellour of England with fourteen more Lords of the Privy Councel John Fitz-James Chief Justice of England and Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert Herbert

ALL CAUSES RELATING TO THE EXCISE from time to time against all Sutes or Actions brought or other molestations against them by the Parties grieved who are usually Fined Imprisoned enforced to pay Costs of Sute only for suing for relief yea which I cannot think of without horrour and amazement ALL COVRTS OF JUSTICE OF THIS COMMON-WEALTH and ALL JUDGES and JUSTICES OF THE SAME SHERIFS COVNSELLORS ATTURNIES SOLICITORS and ALL OTHER PERSONS are thereby expresly required to conform themselves accordingly in all things WITHOVT ANY OPPOSITION OR DISPVTE WHATSOEVER as the precise words of their Ordinance of 17 March 1653. proclaim to all the Nation Which declares further That IT IS NECESSARY to provide A CONTINVAL SVPPLY for the carrying on the weighty Affairs of this Common-wealth OVT OF THIS REVENVE OF EXCISE And do not these Clauses compared with the 27. 29. Articles of their Instrument clearly discover a fixed Resolution in these new Legislators to continue and perpetuate upon the whole Nation this importable Grievance of Excise from year to year without intermission or end to be leavied by the means aforesaid to hinder all and every the Freemen of England from endeavouring to free or exempt themselves or their Posterities from it hereafter by any Sute Action Habeas Corpus or other legal remedy in any Court of Justice whatsoever yea peremptorily positively to prohibit enjoyn all Courts of Justice Judges Justices Sheriffs Counsellours Atturnies Solicitors with all other persons of this Common-wealth both for the present and future Ages to give them the least legal assistance advice or relief against the same or against any Officers or Assistants which shall forcibly l●a●ie it by distress Fines Imprisonnents Confiscation of Goods Sequestrations Sales of their personal or real Estates or otherwise I appeal then in the behalf of all the Freeborn People of England the Souls and Consciences of these new Ordinance-makers with all the Executioners of them in any kinde before all the Tribunals of Heaven and Earth whether they have not by these their Dismal Ordinances more desperately irrecoverably totally finally as much as in them lies undermined subverted and quite blown up at once all the Foundations of our hereditary Fundamentall Properties Liberties Laws for eternity and levelled them to the dust then the worst of all our Kings or former Councill-tables ever did Deprived the whole Nation and every particular Free-man in it of all future benefit of our Laws Statutes and Courts of Justice for their just relief against this intolerable Oppression and thereby reduced us to the condition of the most slavish captivated fettered Bond-slaves and conquered Vassals under heaven without any visible means or hopes of future enfranchisement under a pretext of fighting for maintaining protecting enlargeing our former properties and freedomes to a more miserable sordid servile condition than either we or our Ancestors sustained under the worst of al our Kings and their most pernicious Counsellors who never in any age attempted tither to make or impose such Extravagant enslaving Ordinances or Excises with such strange penalties Forfeitures Imprisonments Sequestrations sales most unrighteous Monstrous Inhibitions of all legal suites means for cheirrelief in Courts of Justice as they have done King Charles himself though condemned beheaded by them for the worst of Tyrants and Oppressors permitting his Subjects free Liberty to dispute the Legality of Fines for Knight-hood Ship mony Tonnage Poundage Loanes Excise and other Impositions not only in his Parliaments where they were fully debated without restraint and Laws passed against them afterwards by his own Royall assent thereto but likewise in all his other Courts where they were first brought in question Yet now in our N●w Free State under these greatest pretended Patrons of our Laws and Liberties all Courts Judges Justices and other Officers must conform to these illegall Impositions and their tyrannicall waies of inforcement without any opposition or dispute whatsoever and all Counsellors Attornies Solicitors and others must neither argue nor advise nor act in any kinde against them And is this the glorious old antient English Liberty Freedome Property Law and free course of Justice wee have spent so many millions of Treasure so many years of publique Consultations warres Prayers Fasts Tears and such Oceans of precious christian Protestant English blood inviolably to maintain and perpetuate to posterity If any Free-born English men whatsoever dare publikely averre it let them do it at the perill of their infamy execration in all future ages yea of their own heads and Souls If they cannot but now absolutely disavow it let them with shame and indignation disclaim renounce such illegall Ordinances Excises as most detestable both to God and all true-born English free men The 2 is The present continuing Impositions of Customes Tonnage and Poundage upon Goods Merchandizes imported and exported without any grant thereof by Parliament by a new Printed Paper entituled an Ordinance of March 23 1653. thus peremptorily imposing them without any Prologue or Inducement to satisfy the people either in Equity or Justice much lesse in their Legality in respect of those who thus impose them for sundry years yet to come Be it ordained by his highness the Lord Protector with the advise and consent of the Councell that one Act of Parliament though no Act at all by any known Laws Statutes Law-books Records Customes or Constitutions of the Realm bu● a meer Nullity entituled an Act for the Continuation of the Customes until the 26 of March 1653 and all clauses and powers therein contained are and ARE HEREBY CONTINUED and SHALL and DO STAND IN FULL FORCE UNTILL THE 26 DAY OF MARCH in the year of our Lord 1658. c. By which these New Legislators by their own inherent Superlative Power presume to impose this Tax upon the whole Nation without any grant in Parliament for full 5 years space not only contrary to the Presidents in all former Kings raigns who never claimed nor received it but by speciall grant in Parliament but likewise contrary to this memorable Remonstrance made by the whole House of Commons in the Parliament of 3 Caroli never yet Printed to my knowledge Most gracious Soveraign your Majesties most loyall and dutifull Subjects the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled being in nothing more carefull than of the Honour and Prosperity of your Majesty and the Kingdome which they know doth much depend upon that union and relation betwixt your Majesty and your people do with much sorrow apprehend that by reason of the incertainty of their continuance together the unexpected interruptions which have been cast upon them and the shortness of time in which your Majesty hath determined to end this Session they cannot bring to maturity and perfection divers businesses of weight which they have taken into their consideration and resolution as most important for the common good Amongst other things they have taken into especiall care the preparing of a Bill

●ovemb Decemb. Jan. 1648. An. 1652 1653. their True state of the case of the Commonwealth of England c. p. 4. to 35. Ann. 1654. with some other Papers Speeches since m Exact collect p. 3 4. to 16. n Exact col p. 3 4 to 16. 651 652 653. Nota. o If one Member suffer all the Members suffer with it 1 Cor. 12. 26. p See Cooks 4 Instit c. 1. p. 15 16 17. 23. 24 25 and my Plea for the Lords q Nor yet against my self and other secured secluded and long imprisoned Members * See that of Iune 14. of Aug. 2 18. 1647 and the Letters of Iuly 29. 1647. The Declarations of Nov. 16. Dec. 6. 1648. * Job 38. 11. * And are they not so now almost past hopes of any future re-planting * Modus tenendi Parliamentum Cook 4. Instit c. 1. * Exact Coll. p. 550. 595. 321 322 364. 618. 894 895. 919 920. A Collection of Ordinances p. 28 39. 116. 117. * Let those who took it remember their violations of it repent See Exact Collect. p. 497 498. * Was this verified by many of these Remonstrants * Exact Coll. P. 262. 282. 284. to 289. 297 298. 490. 424. 500 502 404 514 517 521 522 526. 528 530 531 534. 550 551 554 558 561 564 574. A Collection p. 117. 452 453. * Exact Coll. p. 688 689. 696 697. * So stiled Exact Col. p. 4. 12. 34. 61. 243. 262. 321. 500 502. in the Decl. of the Lords Commons concerning His Majesties Proclamatiō Iune 6. 1642. p. 4. besides the authorities in the 1. chap. * Exact Coll. p. 617. 631 730. * Horace * Exact Col. p. 686 to 730. * Exact coll p. 729. See their Declarations Papers of Aug. 7. 1647. D. c. 7. Jan. 3. 1648 where they thus Declare and brand them * Quod pluribus visum probatumque fuerit id in OMNIBUS REBUS-PUBLICIS VALET In Oligarchia enim Aristocratia Democratia quod eorum qui Rempublicam gerunt MAJORI PARTIS PLACUERIT i. e. RATUM AC FIRMUM Politicorum l. 4. c. 8. See 33 H. 8. c. 27. * Which now they do * See their impeachment of the xi Members the humble Answer of the Gen. Councel Officers of the Army c. Jan. 3. 1648. * Have they not lately done so since this was penned as well as heretofore * Exact coll P. 496. * And are they not so lost now * Epistola ad solitariam Vitam agentes Sir Christopher Sybthorpe his Reply to an Answer made by a Popish Adversary Dublin 1625. p. 27 28 29. * See the Declaration of the Lords and Commons June 6. 1642. concerning this Statute * Is not the quartering of Horse and Foot in or near such places to affright and overawe Parliaments and their Members a Violation of this Law Proclamation Law and Custom of all English Parliaments fit to be redressed * Exact coll p. 34. 56. 66 67 68 76 77 198 200 201 202 246 695 723. 729. * Let those observe this Impeachment who are now really guilty of it in the highest degree * Exact Coll. p. 118 195 207. to 237. 248 273 293. 523 524 525 617 631 660 695. * Exact Coll. in the pages quoted before * Exact Coll. p. 51 52 54. 66 67. and elswhere * See their Declaration of June 23. 1647. Aug. 18. Dec. 6. 1648 * And their Generals Letter from Bedford 29 July 1647. * See a Declaration of the Gen. Councel Armies Engagements c. p. 49. * Article 10 12 21 22 24 27 30 32 36 37 38 39. * See Exact Collect. p. 320 321 322. 561 the true and excellent constitution of our Parliament * Exact Col p. 723 724. 726 727 Nota. Nota. * Exact Coli p. 561. * Exact Coll. p. 696. * How much it and they have been dishonoured by the contrary let the Army Officers read at leasure in Militiere his Victory of Truth Nota. Nota. * Exact Coll. p. 730. * Who in their Letters of July 18. 1647. Propositions of Aug. 2. and other of their Declarations professed to all the world That it was fully agreeable to all their Principles should be their desires and endeavours to maintain Monarchy the Priviledges and Freedom of the Parliament and the Rights of his Majesty and Royal Family that so a lasting Peace and Agreement might be setled in this Nation c. Which otherwise they confessed then in good earnest could not be hoped for nor expected Whence they intituled their Printed Book A Declaration of the Engagements Remonstrances Representations Proposals Desires and Resolution from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fair●ax and THE GENERAL COUNCEL OF THE ARMY FOR SETLING OF HIS MAJESTY IN HIS JUST RIGHTS THE PARLIAMENT IN THEIR JUST PRIVILEDGES and THE SUBJECTS IN THEIR LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMES Printed by their and the Lords House special Order London 1647. Let them now seriously consider and perform it in good earnest * De Clement l. 1. c. 26. f Psal 37 7 Psal 73. 3 c. Eccles 8. 11 12. t Ez●k 22. 30. v See 2 King 10. 1 to 12. Esth 8. 17. x Deut. 32. 17. 1 Cor. 10. 20. Rev. 9. 20. Ephes 2. 2. y Plutarch Arrianus Quintus Curtius Suetonius Grimston in the life of Alexander and Julius Caesar Balaeus his Lives of the Popes Mornyes Mystery of Iniquity z 2 King 18. 33 34 35. c. 19. 17 18 19. Isa 10. 7. to 16. a Rev. 13. 1. to 18. c. 16. 13. 14. c. 19 20. 1 King 22. 6. to 24. b Ephes 2. 2. c Paterculus Pluta●●h Su●tomus Antonni Chronica Grimston and others in hi● Life Jacobus Usserius Ann●lium pars p●sterior p. 366 367. * Do not some now by words and deeds repute it and the People so * See Mat. West an 655. 1 Kings 16. 2 Kings 15. 2. Chron. 13. 17 18 19 20. and our King Richard the third * See the Turkish History in his life * See Huntingdon Mat. west An. 655. Grafton Speed Holinshed Fabian Brompton in the life of Penda d Judg. 1. 2. to 8. e See Joel 3. 6 7 8. Mat. 26. 52. Sir Walter Rawleighs Preface to his History of the World Dr. Beards Theatre of Gods Judgements on the 6 and 8 Commandements f Isa 51. 6. 12. c. 26. 13 14. Psal 82. 7. Psal 146. 354. g Rom. 8. 36. 37. Psal 3. 6. * See Part. 1. p 14 15 16. b See 1 Sam. 8. 4 to 22. ch 12. 2. 2 Sam. 18. 2 3 4. Jer. 38. 5. i Tac●●us in vita Agricole k Jer. 28. 13 14. * Part. 1. ch 1. † See the Homilies against Disobedience wilfull Rebellion * A Declaration of the Egagements Remonstrances Resolutions of Sir Tho. Fanfax the General Councel of the Armie London 1647. p. 150. l 1 Cor. 16. 13. m Recorded in Livy Tully Plutarch Valerius Maximus and others Recta honesta digna Imperio digna populo Romano