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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44745	The pre-eminence and pedigree of Parlement whereunto is added a vindication of som passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royal favorite, pen'd and published by Mr. Prynne wherein he stiles him no frend [sic] to Parlements, and a malignant, pag. 42 : with a clearing of som occurrences in Spain at His Maiesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the vocal forest / by J.H. ...	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Popish royall favourite.	1645 (1645)	Wing H3106B; ESTC R41000	11,924	24

THE PREEMINENCE AND PEDIGREE OF PARLEMENT Wherunto is added A Vindication of som Passages reflecting upon the Author In a Book call'd The Popish Royal Favorite Pen'd and Published by Mr. Prynne wherin he stiles him No Frend to Parlements and a Malignant Pag. 42. With a clearing of som Occurrences in Spain at His MAIESTIES being there cited by the said Master Prynne out of the Vocal Forest By J. H. Esquire One of the Clerks of His MAIESTIES most Honorable Privy-Councel Published by special Order London Printed by R. R. for Humphrey Moseley 1645. TO My worthily honored Frend Sir W. S. Knight SIR I Have many thanks to give you for the Book you pleased to send me called The Popish Royal Favorite and according to your advice which I value in a high degree I put Pen to Paper and somthing you may see I have don though in a poor Pamphleting way to clear my self of those aspersions that are cast upon me therin But truly Sir I was never so unfit for such a task all my Papers Manuscripts and Notes having bin long since seized upon and kept from me Adde hereunto that besides this long pressure and languishment of twenty three Moneths close restraint the sense wherof I find hath much stupified my spirits it pleased God to visit me lately with a dangerous fit of sicknes a high burning Feaver with the new Disease whereof my Body as well as my Mind is yet somwhat crazy So that take all afflictions together I may truly say I have passed the Ordeal the fiery Tryal But it hath pleased God to reprieve me to see better days I hope for out of this fatal black Cloud which now oresets this poor Island I hope ther will break a glorious Sun-shine of peace and firm happines To effect which had I a Jury a Grand-Jury of lives I would sacrifice them all and triumph in the oblation So I most affectionately kisse your hands and rest Your faithful though afflicted Servant From the Prison of the Fleet J. H. The Pre-eminence of Parlement Sectio Prima I Am a free-born Subject of the Realm of England whereby I claim as my native Inheritance an undoubted right propriety and portion in the Laws of the Land And this distinguisheth me from a Slave I claim also an interest and common right in the High National Court of Parlement and in the Power the Priviledges and Jurisdiction thereof which I put in equal ballance with the Laws in regard it is the Fountain whence they spring And this I hold also to be a principal part of my Birth-right which great Councel I honour respect value and love in as high a degree as can be as being the Bulwark of our Liberties the main boundary and bank which keep us from slavery from the inundations of tyrannical Rule and unbounded Will-government And I hold my self obliged in a tye of indispensable obedience to conform and submit my self to whatsoever shall be transacted concluded and constituted by its authority in Church or State whether it be by making enlarging altering diminishing disanulling repealing or reviving of any Law Statute Act or Ordinance whatsoever either touching matters Ecclesiastical Civil Common Capital Criminal Martial Maritine Municipal or any other of all which the transcendent and uncontrolable Jurisdiction of that Court is capable to take cognizance Amongst the three things which the Athenian Captain thank'd the gods for one was That he was born a Grecian and not a Barbarian For such was the vanity of the Greeks and after them of the Romans in the flourish of their Monarchy to arrogate all civility to themselves and to term all the world besides Barbarians So I may say to have cause to rejoyce that I was born a vassal to the Crown of England that I was born under so well moulded and tempered a Government which endows the subject with such Liberties and Infranchisements that bear up his natural courage and keep him still in heart such Liberties that fence and secure him eternally from the gripes and tallons of Tyranny And all this may be imputed to the Authority and Wisdom of this High Court of Parlement wherin ther is such a rare co-ordination of power though the Soverainty remain still entire and untransferable in the person of the Prince ther is I say such a wholsom mixture 'twixt Monarchy Optimacy and Democracy 'twixt Prince Peers and Communalty during the time of consultation that of so many distinct parts by a rare co-operation and unanimity they make but one Body Politic like that Sheaf of Arrows in the Emblem one entire concentrical peece and the results of their deliberations but as so many harmonious diapasons arising from different strings And what greater immunity and happines can ther be to a peeple then to be liable to no Laws but what they make themselves To be subject to no Contribution Assessement or any pecuniary levy whatsoever but what they Vote and voluntarily yeeld unto themselves For in this compacted Politic Body there be all degrees of peeple represented both the Mechanick Tradesman Merchant and Yeoman have their inclusive Vote as well as the Gentry in the persons of their Trustees their Knights and Burgesses in passing of all things Nor is this Soverain Surintendent Councel an Epitome of this Kingdom onely but it may be said to have a representation of the whole Universe as I heard a fluent well-worded Knight deliver the last Parlement who compared the beautiful composure of that High Court to the great Work of God the World it self The King to the Sun the Nobles to the fixed Stars the Itinerant Judges and other Officers that go upon Messages 'twixt both Houses to the Planets the Clergy to the Element of fire the Commons to the solid Body of Earth and the rest of the Elements And to pursue this comparison a little farther as the heavenly Bodies when three of them meet in Conjunction do use to produce som admirable effects in the Elementary World So when these three States convene and assemble in one solemn great Junto som notable and extraordinary things are brought forth tending to the welfare of the whole Kingdom our Microcosm HE that is never so little versed in the Annales of this Isle will find that it hath bin her fate to be four times conquered I exclude the Scot for the situation of his Countrey and the quality of the Clime hath bin such an advantage and security to him that neither the Roman Eagles would flie thither for fear of Freezing their Wings nor any other Nation attempt the work These so many Conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings many disturbances and changes in Government yet I have observed that notwithstanding these tumblings it retained still the form of a Monarchy and somthing there was alwayes that had an Analogy with the great Assembly the Parlement The first Conquest I find was made by Claudius Caefar at which time as som well observe the Roman

intelligence 'twixt him and his peeple it acquaints him with the reality of things and with the true state and diseases of his Kingdom it brings him to the knowledg of his better sort of Subjects and of their abilities which he may employ accordingly upon all occasions it provides for his Royal Issve payes his debts finds means to fill his Coffers And it is no ill observation The Parlementary-moneys the great Aid have prospered best with the Kings of England it exceedingly raiseth his repute abroad and enableth him to keep his foes in fear his Subjects in awe his Neighbours and Confederates in security the three main things which go to aggrandize a Prince and render him glorious In sum it is the Parlement that supports and bears up the honour of his Crown and settles his Throne in safety which is the chief end of all their consultations For whosoever is entrusted to be a Member of this High Court carrieth with him a double capacity he sits there as a Pairiot and as a Subject As he is the one the Countrey is his object his duty being to vindicate the Publike Liberty to make wholsom Laws to put his hand to the pump and stop the leaks of the great vessel of the State to pry into and punish corruption and oppression to improve and advance trade to have the grievances of the place he serves for redressed and cast about how to find somthing that may tend to the advantage of it But he must not forget that he sits there also as a Subject and according to that capacity he must apply himself to do his Soveraigns busines to provide not onely for his publike but his personal wants to bear up the lustre and glory of his Court to consider what occasions of extraordinary expences he may have by encrease of Royal Issue or maintenance of any of them abroad to enable him to vindicate any affront or indignity that might be offered to his Person Crown or Dignity by any forrain State or Kingdom to consult what may enlarge his honour contentment and pleasure And as the French Tacitus Comines hath it the English Nation was used to be more forward and zealous in this particular then any other according to that ancient elequent speech of a great Lawyer Domus Regis vigilia defendit omnium otium illius labor omnium deliciae illius industria omnium vacatio illius occupatio omnium salus illius periculum omnium honor illius objectum omnium Every one should stand Centinel to defend the Kings Houses his safety should be the danger of all his pleasures the industry of all his ease should be the labour of all his honour the object of all Out of these premisses this conclusion may be easily deduced that The principal Fountain whence the King derives his happines and safety is his Parlement It is that great Conduit-Pipe which conveighs unto him his peeples bounty and gratitude the truest Looking-Glasse wherin he discerns their loves now the Subjects love hath bin alwayes accounted the prime Cittadel of a Prince In his Parlement he appears as the Sun in the Meridian in the altitude of his glory in his highest State Royal as the Law tels us Therfore whosoever is avers or disaffected to this Soveraign Law-making Court cannot have his heart well planted within him He can be neither good Subject nor good Patriot and therfore unworthy to breathe English air or have any benefit advantage or protection from the Laws Sectio Secunda BY that which hath been spoken which is the language of my heart I hope no indifferent judicious Reader will doubt of the cordial affection of the high respects and due reverence I bear to Parlement as being the wholsomest constitution and don by the highest and happiest reach of policy that ever was established in this Island to perpetuate the happines therof Therfore I must tell that Gentleman who was Author of a Book entituled The Popish Royal Favorite lately Printed and exposed to the world that he offers me very hard measure nay he doth me apparant wrong to terme me therein No frend to Parlement and a Malignant A character which as I deserve it not so I disdain it For the first part of his charge I would have him know that I am as much a frend and as real an affectionate humble servant and votary to the Parlement as possibly he can be and will live and die with these affections about me And I could wish that he were Secretary of my thoughts a while or if I may take the boldnes to apply that comparison His late Majestie used in a famous speech to one of his Parlements I could wish there were a Crystal Window in my Brest through which the world might espie the inward motions and palpitations of my heart then would he be certified of the sincerity of this Protestation For the second part of his charge to be a Malignant I must confesse to have som Malignity that lurks within me much against my will but it is no malignity of mind it is amongst the humours not in my intellectuals And I beleeve there is no natural man let him have his humours never so well ballanced but hath som of this malignity raigning within him For as long as we are composed of the four Elements whence these humours are derived and with whom they symbolize in qualities which Elements the Philosophers hold to be in a restlesse contention amongst themselves and the Stoick thought that the world subsisted by this innatemutual strife as long I say as the four humours in imitation of their principles the Elements are in perpetual reluctancy and combate for praedominancy ther must be some malignity lodg'd within us as adusted choler and the like wherof I had late experience in a dangerous fit of sicknes it pleased God to lay upon me which the Physitians told me proceeded from the malignant hypocondriacal effects of melancholy having been so long in this Saturnine black condition of close imprisonment and buried a live between the Wals of this fatal Fleet These kinds of malignities I confesse are very rife in me and they are not onely incident but connatural to every man according to his complexion And were it not for this incessant strugling and enmity amongst the humours for mastery which produceth such malignant effects in us our souls would be loth ever to depart from our bodies or to abandon this mansion of clay Now what malignity my Accuser means I know not if he means malignity of spirit as som antipathy or ill impression upon the mind arising from disaffection hatred or rancor with a desire of som destructive revenge he is mightily deceiv'd in me I maligne or hate no Creature that ever God made but the Devil who is the Author of all malignity and therefore is most commonly called in French le Malin Asprit the malignant spirit Every night before I go to bed I have the grace I thank God