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A56154	Demophilos, or, The assertor of the peoples liberty plainly demonstrating by the principles even of nature itself, and by the primitive constitutions of all governments since the creation of the world that the very essence and the fundamentals of all governments and laws was meerly the safety of the people, and the advancement of their rights and liberties, to which is added the general consent of all Parliaments in the nation, and the concurrence of threescore and two kings since first this island was visible in earnest, and by commerce with other nations, hath been refined from fable and neglect / by William Prynne ...; Summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, proprieties of all English freemen	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing P3943; ESTC R5727	47,915	74

the Peace in their respective Circuits Counties Corporations and the Justices of the Kings Bench every Term amongst other Articles to the Grand Iury to give them in charge upon their Oaths diligently to inquire of and present all Offences Exactions Oppressions Taxes Imposts and 〈◊〉 whatsoever against the Great Charter the Petition of Right and other Good Lawes for the preservation of the Liberty Right and Property of the Subject by any person or persons to the end that they may be exemplarily punished according to Law by Fines Imprisonments or otherwise as the●… quantity and quality of the Offences deserve It being the * Advice Desire Proposition and Petition of the whole Commons house first and after of the Lords and Commons house joyntly to King Charles in his last Parliament to which he readily assented though never since put into actual execution which is now most necessary to be effectually accomplished for the future having been so long neglected After these Votes and the Petition of Right passed several Impositions upon Wines Currans Tobacco Beer and the taking of Tonnage and Poundage without Act of Parliament being complained of it was by special Votes and Declarations of the Commons House resolved and declared in the same Parliament 8. (e) That the receiving of Tunnage and Poundage and other Impositions not granted by Parliament it * a breach of the fundamental Libberties of this 〈◊〉 and contrary to his Majesties Regal answer to the Petition of Right And those declared Publick Enemies who should thenceforth collect or pay any Customes Tunnage Poundage or Imposts not granted by act of Parliament which was since enacted and declared for Law in the (f) two 〈◊〉 acts for Tunnage and Poundage in the last Parliament of King Charles and all those in a Premunire and disablea to sue in any Court of Justice who shall presume to levy the same without Act of Parliament The case of all Customers Excisemen and their Instruments at this present fit to be made presidents in this kind for the terror of others 9. A Commission from the King under the Great Seal of England directed to 33 Lords and privy Counsellors dated the last of Febr. 3 Caroli stiled (g) a Commission of Excise was complained of and brought into the Commons House and there read which commanded them to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Impositions or otherwise as they in their wisdoms should find convenient for●… the safety and defence of the King Kingdom and People the Kings Protestant Friends and Allies which without hazard of all could admit no delay the necessity being so inevitable that form and circumstances must rather be dispensed with than substance lost Injoyning the Commissioners to be diligent in the service as they tendred the safety of his Majesty and of his People Dominions and Allies This Commission of Excise by the unanimous Vote and judgement of the Lords and Commons was resolved to be against Law and contrary to the Petition of Right And thereupon was cancelled as such in his Majesties presence by his own command and was brought cancelled to the Lords House by 〈◊〉 Lord Keeper and by them afterwards sent to the Commons and the Warrant with all 〈◊〉 of it were cancelled and ordered by the Commons that the Prejector of it should be found out and punished Which judgement (h) was thrice recited confirmed and insisted on by the Lords and Commons and some in greatest present power the last Parliament of King 〈◊〉 in printed Speeches and Declarations And if this intended Commission of Excise though never 〈◊〉 was thus frequently damned as 〈◊〉 intollerable and monstrous Grievance against our Laws Properties and the Petition of Right How much more are all present Orders Commissions Warrants for the actual imposing and levying all sorts of Excises on such without any act of 〈◊〉 X. The Commons House in that Parliament upon solemn Argument and Debate concluded That by the Laws of th is Realm none of his Majesties Subjects ought to be impressed or compelled to goe forth of his County to serve as a Souldier in the Wars except in case of necessity of the sudden comming in of strange Enemies into the Kingdom or except they 〈◊〉 otherwaies bound by the Tenures of their Lands or possessions Nor 〈◊〉 sent out of the Realm against his Will upon any forein●… imployment by way of an honorable banishment Which Resolution in the last Parliament of King Charles was 〈◊〉 and declared to be the Law of the Land and fundamental Liberty of the Subject by the (i) Act for impressing Souldiers for Ireland by two D clarations of the Lords and Commons against the Commission of array and assented to by the King in his answer thereunto All which unanimous Votes Resolutions of both Houses having been 〈◊〉 ratified in two several Parliaments in King Charles his Reign whereof some in present Power were Members and enacted by several Statutes assented to by King Charles himself it must needs be the extremity of Impudency Tyranny Treachery Impiety Perjury Barbarism for any who have formerly contested with him in our Parliaments or in the open field for all or any of these premised Fundamental Rights and Liberties of all English Freemen and who vowed protested covenanted remonstrated again and again before God and all the World inviolably faithfully constantly to defend them with their Lives and Fortunes all their daies in their several places and callings and who beheaded him as the Greatest 〈◊〉 together with Strafford and C 〈◊〉 for infringing them to oppose contradict violate 〈◊〉 infringe them all in a more transcendent publike manner than he or his worst Ministers formerly have done and now not really chearfully to corroborate defend transmit them to posterity in full vigor by all good wayes and corroborations that possibly can be devised without the least opposition and dispute to make the Nation free and their own posterity together with it XI After the Petition of Right had passed the Commons House and was transmitted to the Lords the House of Lords desired that this Clause might be added●… to the close thereof We humbly present this Petition to your Majesty not only with a Care of Preservation of our own Liberties but with a due regard to leave intire that Soveraign Power where with your Majesty is trusted for the Protection Safety and Happinesse of your People The Commons a●…ter a long and full Debate resolved That this Saving ou●…ht to be rejected and by no means to be added to this Petition though very Specious in shew and words for that it would be destructive to the whole Petition and would leave the Subjects in farre worse condition than it found them For whereas the Petition recites That by the Great Charter and other Laws and Statutes of this Land No Loan Tax Tallage or other Charge ought to be imposed on the Subjects or levyed without common consent by Act of Parliament Nor any Freeman of this Realm imprisoned

my Plea for the Lords which you may consult at leisure Therefore no member duly summoned or elected may or ought to be arrested secluded or suspended the Parliament by any Persons or Powers whatsoever upon any pretext or new devised Instrument but only by the House and Parliament it self without the highest injustice affront to the Parli●…ment Member and the people who elect him 3. That the Parliament alone during its sitting and no other person or powers whatsoever is and ought to b●… the sole Iudge of the due elections offences fi●…nesse ejection seclusion suspension imprisonment of the Members of Parliament And that no Member in cases of Treason Felony or Breach of Peace ought to be taken away or detained from the service of the House whereof he is a Member until that House hath satisfaction concerning the truth of the fact and grounds of the Accusation ●… which it is bound to examine and then to proceed against him themselves if it be proper for the Parliament or to suffer him after to be proceeded against elsewhere as resolved in the Presidents of Sir Edmund Sawyer Mr. Baber Sir Simon Steward Sir Robert Stanhop the Earl of Arundel the Lord of Kinbolton and 5 ●…mpeached Members forecited of late By sundry antient Presidents in my Plea for the Lords p. 33 to 54. My Ardua Regni and Levellers Levelled Cooks 4 Inst●…tutes p. 23 24 c. And ●…xpresly declared by the Lords and Commons in their printed Declaration Octob. 23. and Remonstrance Novemb. 2. 1●…42 Exact Collection p. 655 657 723 724 726 727. Wherefore for any persons or Powers out of Parliament to arrest o seclude any Member duly summoned or elected by the People especially without before or against the judgement of the Parliament or withont rendring any reason thereof to the Parliament and People who elect them is the highest usurpation over and affront to the Soveraign jurisdiction of Parliaments that possibly can be devised yea an erection of a supream new Power both over Parliaments themselves and their Members and great injustice to the People lately (g) voted the Soveraign Power and only fountain of all lawfull Authority in the Nation 4. That the Parliaments of England in all former ages have been very diligent vigilant zealous resolute couragious in maintaining these their antient undoubted Privileges of their Members and the Houses of Parliament against the least incroachment or violation not suffering so much as one or two of their Members at any time especially in the Parliaments of King Charles to be imprisoned or restrained from the Parliament for any real ar pretended causes without present demanding of him or them and examining the grounds of their restraints adjorning their Houses and refusing to sit or act til●● till their Members were restored righted and their Privileges repaired And that upon these four grounds worthy special observation 1. Because our Parliaments in former times were constantly adjourned from the day of their first appearance till a further time when any of the Lords Knights and Burgesses by reason of shortness of time other publike imployments or default of the Sheriffs returns were absent and did not appear to make up a full Parliament upon the first day of the Summons which I have proved by 30 Parliaments Presidents and Records (h) elsewhere cited in the reignes of King Henry 3. Edward the 3. Richard 3. and Henry the 4th to which some others might be added to prevent the danger of acting any thing in a thin or packed House 2. Because the undue seclusion of any Members duly elected by force or combination especially when others unduly or not at all elected by the people were returned and admitted as Members hath nullified ma●…e void and rep●…aled all the Acts and Proceedings of former Parliaments thus fraudulently packed for sinister private ends as being no Parliaments at all in law or truth but a packed Conventicle and Confederacy as the printed Statutes of 21 R. 2. c. 12. ●… H. 4. c. 3. and rot. Parl. 1 H. 4. n. 22 23. 38. 48. 66. 70. 38 H. 6. n. 35. 39 H. 6. c. 1. 17 E. 4. c. 7. And the Statutes of 10 H. 7. c. 23. made in Ireland will resolve the perusers of them being over-tedious to transcribe 3. Because else the King and his Council or others might as well summon what Nobles Counties Cities Boroughs they pleased to the Parliament and omit whom else they pleased out of the Summons without any Writs directed to them and seclude or admit whom they pleased when summoned elected returned to serve in Parliament contrary to the (i) Great Charter of King John and the Statute of 5 R. 2. c. 4 ●… which expresly prov●…de That all the 〈◊〉 Citizens B●…gesses 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 shall be Summon●… to every Parliament And if any Sheriff of the Realm be from henceforth negligent in making his returns o●… Writs of the Parliament or that he leave out of the said Returns any Cities or Boroughs which be bound or were of old time wont to come to the Parliament he shall be 〈◊〉 or otherwise punish●…d i●… the mann●…r as was accustomed to be done in the said cas●… i●… im●…s past They being all to be summoned as formerly ex debito Justiciae as Sir Edward Cook resolves in his 4th Institutes p. 1. printed by the Common●… House speci●…l Order else the Parliament will be Void and Null as the Statute of 10 H. 7. ●… a 3. for Ireland declares resolving the Patent of Drogheda to be void upon this reason 4. Because as both Houses of Parliament resolved in their k Declaration of October 23. and Remonstrance Novemb. ●… 1642. published in print to all out 3. Kingdom●… and the World penned and assented to by some Grande●…s in present power 〈◊〉 King or ●…ny prevailing party whatsoever might else at any tim●… secludo and pull out of the House of Parliament all such Members as they sound 〈◊〉 and opposite to their 〈◊〉 Mak●… whom and how many Members they pleased a Major part to carry on t●…eir designes and thereby destroy the whole Body of the Parliament by pulling out the principal Members and pull up their Privileges by the roots A treachery injury innovation not to be tollerated or connived at in the least Degree after so many Protestations Vowes Solemn Leagues Coven●… Declaratio●… Remonstrances both by the Parliament and Army and so many years bloudy Wars for defen●… of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament I shall therefore close up this particular with the memorable words of Lord●… and Commons forenamed Remonstra●… which I desire all Swordmen the whole Nation and those especially who were then Members to take special noti●…e of (l) This Privilege of the Members seclusion from the House and arrests fore mentioned is so clear and essential a Privilege of Parliament that the whole Freedome of Parliament depends upon it For who sees not that by this means under false pretences of Crimes and Accusations

DEMOPHILOS OR THE ASSERTOR OF THE Peoples Liberty PLAINLY Demonstrating by the Principles even of Nature it self and by the Primitive Constitutions of all Governments since the Creation of the World That the very Essence and the Fundamental of all Governments and Laws was meerly the safety of the People and the 〈…〉 ancement of their Rights an●… 〈…〉 erties To which is added 〈◊〉 General Consent of all Parliaments in the 〈◊〉 and the Concurrence of threescore and two 〈◊〉 since first this Island was visible in earnest and 〈…〉 merce with other Nations hath been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Neglect By William Prynne 〈◊〉 Bencher of Lincolns-Inne LO●…DON Printed for Francis 〈◊〉 in the Old-Baily 1658. To the imprejudiced Reader BEing importunately solicited by Mr. VVilliam Shepheard a Lawyer specially imployed by some Swordmen and Grandees at VVhitehall from whence he came to visit me at my Study in Lincolns Inne within two daies after their resolution to call a new Assembly at VVestminster ●…herewith he acquainted me to regulate the abuses in the execution of our Laws that I would consider of such abuses of this Nature as I had observed for him to present to that Assembly to be reformed by them being one chief end of their meeting which I then informed him I had no time to do being ready to take my Journey into the Country and that Sir Iohn Davis in his Epistle to his Irish Reports had written so much in justification of our Laws as would satisfie and silence all soldiers and others that ignorantly censured them He thereupon desired me at my vacant times to consider of this his motion in the Country for the publick good Which I ●…nce calling to mind and considering that in the Par●…iament of 5 R. 2 〈◊〉 Parl. n. 17 18. it was the re●…olution both of the Commons and Lords 〈◊〉 redress of their publick Grievances and oppressio●…s * that Reformation 〈◊〉 ought to begin in the Head and so gradually from the Highest 〈◊〉 to the Feet and that it will be both●… bootlesse impolitick and ridiculous for any publick or private State-Physicians or Reformers to spend their time and pains only to cure some small scratches or cuts in the toes or fingers or breaches in the tyles or seeling of our State and Laws as some Mountebancks and Pseudo-politicians now do and in the mean time to overpasse neglect if not increase dilate the large deadly wounds in the very Head Heart Vital Parts and most dangerous Breaches Underminings in their very Foundations which threaten present death and suddain Ruine to the whole Body of our State Laws Nation if not speedily healed repaired with all possible care and diligence by the most skillfall Artists and Philopaters sufficiently qualified for such a desperate difficult publick cure Repair and with sincere self-denying publick spirits couragiously addressing themselves with all their skill might to this necessary Heroick work And withall observing that there can be no health ease rest quiet but perpetual pain languishing consumption torture decay in the Body politick of our Nation as in the Body n●…tural so long as there is any dislocation fraction convulsion wound malady in the Bones Nerves Arteries or chief Parts and members thereof And then remembring that serious Protestation and solemn League and Covenant which I my self ●…ll members of the late Parliament most Persons in late power and the generality of all the well-affected people to publick Laws Liberty Justice Religion in our three Kingdomes 〈◊〉 long since took in the presence of the most High God Angels and Men with hands li●…ted●… up to Heaven and then subscribed with those hands That they shall with sincerity reality and constancy in their several Vocations endeavour with their Estates and lives mutually to preserve the Rights Privileges Laws and Liberties of the Parliaments and Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland c. And in this common cause of Liberty and peace of the Kingdomes assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing ther●…of and not suffer themselves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided or withdrawn from this blessed union c. but shall all the daies of their lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to their power c. which Solemn League and Covenant I find subscribed in * print by VVilliam Lenthal Speaker Robert Nicholas Gilbert Pickering Oliver Cromwell Philip L. Lisle VVilliam Ellis Oliver Saint-John Miles Corbet John Lisle Francis Rous Nathaniel Fyennes Edmund Prideaux John Glynn Bulstrode VVhitelocke Edward Montagu and others in greatest present power and imployments whom I desire now to remember and perform the same effectually as they shall answer the contrary at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed according to those their printed subscriptions thereof for all the good ends therein prescribed I●… thereupon apprehended I could not perform a more seasonable acceptable or beneficial service to my naaive Country in pursuance of the Protestation ●…nd solemn League and Covenant lying still as sacred Bonds upon my conscience that to draw up this summary Collection of the principal fundamental hereditary Rights Liberties Properties of all English Freemen both in relation to their Persons Estates and free-Elections most mortally wounded more dangerously under-mined shaken subverted by force and fraud of late years since our Parliamentary and Military contests for their defence to the vast effusion of our Treasures and Blood by some who were most deeply engaged in their Protection and preservation than in the very worst of former ages under our late or antient Kings in every particular branch And of the several memorable Votes Resolutions Declarations and Acts of Parliament for their Vindication and Corroboration in the happy Parliament of 3 Caroli remembred and ratified likewise in the last Parliament of King Charles as the most soveraign Balm the most effectual materials prepared applyed by the l●…arnedest skilfullest wisest State-Physicians and Builders in those Parliaments to heal and close up the mortal wounds the perilous Breaches our late Kings * Jesuitical arbitrary tyrannical ill-counsellors and other Viperous self-seeking projectors had formerly made in them to the impoverishing oppressing enslaving of the People and endangering the utter subversion both of our Fundamental Laws Liberties Properties ●… Government Parliaments Kingdomes Religion now in a more desperate deplorable condition than ever unless speedily revived by the fresh application of these healing Cordials reunited repaired supported with these sementing Ingredients by some expert active Chirurgians and Master-builders to whom I humbly recommend them as a brief Corollary to the first and second part of my seasonable legal and Historical Vindication and Collection of the good old fundamental Liberties Franchises Rights Laws of all English Freemen till God shall enable me to compleat the remaining parts thereof in their Chronological series of time the best