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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47832	Considerations and proposals in order to the regulation of the press together with diverse instances of treasonous, and seditious pamphlets, proving the necessity thereof / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1663 (1663)	Wing L1229; ESTC R19523	23,965	49

Love to the Gospel and to the Ordinances ibid. Abundance of Priests and Jesuits are in the midst of us and Popery preach'd amongst us But where are our old Eli's now our Moses's our Elijahs our Vriahs Animadversions upon the Bishop of Worcesters Letter We may lawfully refuse to submit unto such Impositions as God hath no where commanded The Year of Prodigies Amongst the Hellish rout of Prophane and ungodly men let especially the Oppressors and Persecutors of the True Church look to themselves when the hand of the Lord in strange Signs and Wonders is lifted up among them for The final overthrow of Pharaoh and the Aegyptians those cruel Task-masters and Oppressors of the Israelites did bear date not long after the Wonderfull and Prodigious Signs which the Lord had shewn in the midst of them A Word of Comfort The Church of God appears in his Cause and loseth Bloud in his Quarrel P. 8. Is not God upon the Threshold of his Temple ready to fly Are not the shadowes of the Evening stretched out and may we not fear the Sun-setting of the Gospel P. 30. The Lord may let his Church be a while under Hatches to punish her Security and to awaken her out of her slumbering fits yet surely the storm will not continue long A Dispute against the English-Popish Ceremonies Be not deceiv'd to think that they who so eagerly press this Course of Conformity have any such end as Gods Glory or the Good of his Church and Profit of Religion P. 9. Let not the Pretence of Peace and Unity cool your fervour or make you spare to oppose your selves unto those Idle and Idolized Ceremonies against which we dispute P. 11. Instances of Pamphlets containing Treasonous and Seditious POSITIONS VI. The Three Estates are Co-ordinate and the King one of the Three Estates Baxters Holy Common-Wealth The Soveraignty here among us is in King Lords and Commons P. 72. Parliament-Physick for a Sin-sick Nation The Government of England is a Mixt Monarchy and Govern'd by the Major part of the Three Estates Assembled in Parliament Ahabs Fall with a Post-script to Dr. Fern. The Houses are not only Requisite to the Acting of the Power of making Lawes but Co-ordinate with his Maiestie in the very Power of Acting VII The Soveraignty is in the Two Houses in Case of Necessity The Peoples Cause stated in the Pretended Tryal of Sir Henry Vane The Delegates of the People in the House of Commons and the Commissioners on the Kings Behalf in the House of Peers concurring do very far bind the King if not wholly And when These cannot Agree but break one from another the Commons in Parliament Assembled are ex Officio ☞ the Keepers of the Libertys of the Nation and Righteous Possessors and Defenders of it against all Usurpers and Usurpations whatsoever Observations upon his Majesties Answers c. Parliaments may Judg of Publique Necessity without the King if Deserted by the King and are to be accompted by Virtue of Representation as the whole Body of the State Right and Might well met Whensoever a King or other Superiour Authority creates an Inferiour they Invest it with a Legitimacy of Magistratical Power to punish Themselves also in Case they prove Evill-Doers VIII The Power of the King is but Fiduciary and the Duty of the Subjects but Conditional Ius Populi Princes Derive their Power and Prerogative from the People and have their Investitures meerly for the Peoples Benefit Vindiciae contra Tyrannos If the Prince fail in his Promise the People are Exempt from their Obedience the Contract is made Voyd and the Right of Obligation is of no Force It is therefore permitted to the Officers of a Kingdome either All or some good Number of them to suppress a Tyrant The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Proving that it is Lawful for any who have the Power to call to Account a Tyrant or wicked King and after due Conviction to depose and put him to Death if the ordinary Magistrate have Neglected or Deny'd to doe it IX The King is Singulis Major Universis Minor A Declaration of the Lords and Commons touching the Four Bills It is the Kings Duty to pass all such Lawes as Both Houses shall Judg good for the Kingdom Upon a supposition that they are good which by them are Judg'd such De Monarchiâ Absolutâ Detrahere Indigno Magistratum etsi Privati non debeant Populus tamen Universus quin possit nemo opinor dubitabit P. 9. Thorps Charge to the Grand-Iury at York March 20. 1648. Kings are Accountable to the People I do not mean to the Diffused humours and fancyes of particular men in their single and natural Capacities but to the People in their Politique Constitution lawfully Assembled by their Representative P. 3. 1649. X. The Kings Person may be Resisted but not His Authority Lex Rex He that Resisteth the King commanding in the Lord Resisteth the Ordinance of God But he who Resisteth the King Commanding that which is against God Resisteth no Ordinance of God but an Ordinance of Sin and Sathan P. 267. XI The King has no Power to Impose in Ecclesiastical Affairs The Great Question I hold it utterly Unlawful for any Christian Magistrate to Impose the Use of Surplices in Preaching Kneeling at the Sacrament Set-Forms of Prayer c. When once Humane Inventions become Impositions and lay a Necessity upon that which God hath left Free then may we lawfully Reject them as Plants of Mans setting and not of Gods owning XII The Parliament of November 3d. 1640. is not yet Dissolv'd The Peoples Cause Stated in the Pretended Tryall of Sir Henry Vane How and when the Dissolution of the Long-Parliament according to Law hath been made is yet Unascertain'd and not particularly Declar'd by reason whereof and by what hath been before shew'd the state of the Case on the Subjects part is much altered as to the Matter of Right and the Usurpation is now on the other hand ☞ XIII The Warre Rais'd in 1642. in the Name of King and Parliament was Lawful Baxters Holy Common-Wealth I cannot see that I was mistaken in the main Cause nor dare I repent of it nor forbear the same if it were to do again in the same State of things And my Judgment tells me that if I should do otherwise I should be Guilty of Treason or Disloyalty against the Soveraign Power of the Land and of Perfidiousness to the Common-Wealth The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charles the Second A King abusing his Power to the overthrow of Religion Lawes and Liberties may be Controll'd and Oppos'd This may serve to Justifie the Proceedings of this Kingdome against the Late King who in an Hostile way set himself to overthrow Religion Parliaments Lawes and Liberties XIV The Covenant is

such Receipt they give notice to that they have such Quantityes of Books in their Custody and to whom they belong They hold Intelligence Abroad by the means of Posts Carryers Hackny-Coachmen Boatmen and Marriners and for fear of Interceptions they Correspond by False Names and Private Tokens so that if a Letter or Pacquet miscarry people may not know what to make on 't As for the Purpose so many Dozen of Gloves stands for so many Dozen of Books Such a Marque for such a Price c. They enter in their Day-Books only in General terms such and such Parcells of Books without naming Particulars 1. Let every Stationer living in or about London be oblig'd to keep a Day-Book of the Particulars of all the Unlicens'd Books and Papers which he sends causes or allowes to be sent by any of the Messengers above-mentioned into any parts of his Majestyes Dominions and let him Enter the Names likewise of the Persons to whom he sends them under a Penalty if either he be prov'd to have kept a False Book or to have Corresponded under a False Name and let every Stationer elsewhere i. e. within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales be oblig'd to keep a Day-Book likewise of what Unlicens'd Books and Papers he Receives and from whom upon the like Penalty 2. Let no Stationer presume to send cause or allow to be sent either by Land or Water any Dry-Fatts Bales Packs Maunds or other Fardells or Packquets of Printed Books or Papers without superscribing them in such sort that they may be known to be Books together with the Names of the Persons from whom they are sent and to whom they are Directed Under peyn of Forfeiting all Parcels of Books that are not so superscrib'd or otherwise that are advertis'd under False Names 3. Let every Hackny-Coach-man Carrier Boatman or Mariner that knowingly Transgresses in the Private Conveighance of such Letters or Packquets as aforesaid be subjected to a Particular Penalty Concerning Books Imported They must be First Prepar'd beyond the 〈◊〉 Secondly conveighed hither and Thirdly Received and Distributed here Let the English Printer Vender or Utterer of any Books written in the English Tongue or by an English man in any Other Tongue and Printed beyond the Seas to the dishonour of his Majestie or of the Establish'd Government be required to appear from beyond the Seas by a Certain Day and under such a Penalty which if he Refuse or wilfully fayl to do Let it be made Penall for any Person Living within his Majestys Dominions after sufficient Notice of his such Contempt to hold any further Correspondence with him Either by Message Letter or otherwise till he hath given satisfaction for his Offence Let a General Penalty be layd upon the Importers of any English Books whatsoever Printed beyond the Seas And so likewise upon the Contracters for the Receivers Concealers and Dispersers of any Books whatsoever Imported into This Realm and Disposed of without due Authority It rests now to be Consider'd First What Books are to be supprest and Secondly Into what hands the Care of the Press is to be Committed The Books to be supprest are as follows FIrst All Printed Papers pressing the Murther of the late King Secondly All Printed Iustifications of that Execrable Act. Thirdly All Treatises Denying His Majesties Title to the Crown of England Fourthly All Libels against the Person of His Sacred Majesty His Blessed Father or the Royal Family Fifthly All Discourses manifestly tending to stirr up the People against the Establish'd Government Sixthly All Positions Terminating in This Treasonous Conclusion that His Majesty may be Arraign'd Iudg'd and Executed by his People such as are These Following Coordination The Sovereignty of the Two Houses or of the House of Commons or of the Diffusive Body of the People in Case of Necessity The Iustification of the Warr Rais'd in 1642. in the Name of King and Parliament The Defence of the Legality and Obligation of the Covenant The Separation of the Kings Person from His Authority The Denyal of His Majesties Power in Ecclesiastical Affairs The Mainteyning that the Long-Parliament is not yet Dissolv'd If it be objected that This Looks too farr Back It may be Answer'd that Persons are Pardon'd but not Books But to more Particular Reasons for the Suppressing of Old Pamphlets First It is with Reverence a Duty both from his Sacred Majesty and his Parliament to the Honour and Memory of the Late King to deliver the Reputation of That Blessed Martyr from the Diabolical Calumnies and Forgeries which are yet Extant against his Person and Government Secondly It is as much a Duty toward our Present Sovereign of whose Royal Family and Person as much Ill is said and Publish'd as is possible for the Wit of Man to Utter or for the Malice of Hell to Invent. Thirdly In Relation to Political Ends and to the security of the Publique they ought to be supprest for they do not only Revile and Slander his Majesties Royal Person but many of them Disclaim his very Title to the Crown and Others Subject his Prerogative and Consequently his Sacred Life to the Sovereign Power of the People and this is done too with all the Advantages of a Pestilent and Artificial Imposture Now why a Pamphlet should be Allow'd to Proclaim This Treason to the World which but whispered in a Corner would certainly bring a Man to the Gallows is not easily Comprehended Fourthly It makes the English Nation cheap in the Eyes of the World to find the Bloud and Virtues of the Late King appear so little to be consider'd beside the Hazardous Consequence of Blasting the Royal Cause and of Discourageing Loyalty to Future Generations by transmitting the whole Party of the Royallists in so many Millions of virulent Libels to Posterity for a prostitute Rabble of Villeins and Traytours Fifthly Those Desperate Libells and Discourses do not only Defame the Government Encourage and Enrich the Faction and Poyson the People but while They are Permitted Those Stationers and Printers that would otherwise be Honest are forced either to play the Knaves for Company or to Break for there 's scarce any other Trading for them but in That Trash Their Customers will be supply'd and if they ask for any of these Treasonous Books they must either Furnish them or Lose their Custom Sixthly The same Reason that prohibits New Pamphlets requires also the Suppressing of Old ones of the same Quality for 't is not the Date that does the Mischief but the Matter and the Number If they be Plausible and Cunning enough to Deceive and then Numerous enough to Spread Buchanan and Knox will do the business as sure as Baxter and Calamy Besides that in some Respects the Old Ones have a great Advantage of the New for being Written in times of Freedom and Menag'd by great Masters of the Popular Stile they speak playner and strike homer to the Capacity and