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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91227	A new discovery of free-state tyranny: containing, four letters, together with a subsequent remonstrance of several grievances and demand of common right, by William Prynne Esquire; written and sent by him to Mr. John Bradshaw and his associates at White-Hall (stiling themselves, the Councel of State) after their two years and three months close imprisonment of him, under soldiers, in the remote castles of Dunster and Taunton (in Somersetshire) and Pendennis in Cornwall; before, yea without any legal accusation, examination, inditement, triall, conviction, or objection of any particular crime against him; or since declared to him; notwithstanding his many former and late demands made to them, to know his offence and accusers. Published by the author, for his own vindication; the peoples common liberty and information; and his imprisoners just conviction of their tyranny, cruelty, iniquity, towards him, under their misnamed free-state.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4016; Thomason E488_2; ESTC R203337	111,299	152

is your new Free-State Whitehall transcendent Iustice worthy to be registred for your Honour to all Posterity towards this Remonstrant instead of recompencing his former voted Dammages Losses Services for the publick to his extraordinary Prejudice and Oppression the exceeding grief of his kinred friends and most religious truly publique spirited men to the great rejoycing of his Iesuitical and Prelatical Malignant Enemies and no great honour to your Iustice or Government And that only as most conjecture in imitation of the Prelates heretofore of purpose to disable and ●inder him from writing or publishing any thing more in Defence or vindication of our endangered invaded Religion Government Laws Liberties Franchises Properties Freeholds Lives against the manifold new encrochments on them and subversions of them under pretext of their support or making any fr●sh discoveries of the Jesuites Papists and their confederates various plots and practises now very rife and visible to undermine them and engage our own and all other Protestant Kingdomes States Churches in destru ctiveunreconcilable Wars and differences agreeth either to their mutuall and the Protestants Religions ruine or to countermine these their designes as he hath done formerly to his power Or else as others conceive to force him by tedious uncomfortable imprisonments and extreame penury to turn a practicall Apostate and perjured abjurer of all his former Orthodox loyall Principles Writings Books Oaths Covenants Protestations concerning King Kingdome Lawes Liberties Properties Taxes Parliaments Government Lords hereditary just right to sit vote judge in our Parliaments as Peers and thereby to verifie all the Prelates malicious Aspersions upon all Puritans in generall and himself in particular in their two late Star-chamber Bils and Speeches there exhibited against him and render him really guilty of beheaded Canterburies Treasons in an higher degree then he after his injoyned printing and publication of his Charge Tryall and Condemnation for them by the Commons House speciall Order to his eternall infamy here and damnation hereafter neither of which through the assistance of heaven no Prisons Tortures Powers on earth shall ever compell or perswade him to do or in case of his resolved Non-compliance herein under seigned Machivilian pretexts of his wilfull obstinacy and contempt of your new-created authority whose legality it must be no lesse then High Treason for him to dispute in law or conscience being now as absolutely to be submitted to by all men as the Popes it self in Rome by an implicit faith and blinde obedience even to break his heart with grief if possible by depriving him of the comfort of his Friends Kindred Books Calling all free converse with men by Letters or conference all publick Trusts and private usefull imployments to passe away his solitary houres laying him quite aside like a broken uselesse vessell restraining him under strictest Gards as the most dangerous enemy instrument to his Countries weal after all his reall losses studies sufferings for its benefit whose truest welfare he hath ever cordially studied to his private prejudice whiles others under pretext thereof have wholly sought their own particular emoluments to its irreparable dammage if Vox Populi be truth and by such ingratefull usage ill requitals of all his former merits by his very late pretended friends to hasten his passage from these strong earthly purgatives to a better world Or else if this plot prevail not through Gods supporting power as hither it hath not to starve or kill him outright in forain incommodious prisons for want of legall matter or proof to take away his head after your Whitehall Predecessors double cropping off his ears as some of his friends conceive You having of late refused as he is informed to receive any more Petitions in his behalfe from his own Sister or any others or to release or remove him from his ill winter prison or to pay his publick debt allow him diet or do him any common right or justice which though due Ex officio mero from all Kings Powers Governments Magistrates whatsoever by the Lawes of God Nature Nations and Oaths to their meanest subjects and particularly by our own Kings Judges Justices and great Officers usuall Oathes the great Charters and other Statutes resolutions to every English freeman upon their respective demands of or motions for it yea upon bare information from others without any suit or motion by for or from the oppressed injured parties in such cases as his is without any formall Petition to them for it as the Formes of most legall Writs sued forth of course and most Plaints and Declarations manifest every reall demand of right by word or writing being in truth a reall Petition for it and every Petition of Right but a more bashfull demand thereof as all Dictionaries in the words Peto Petitio the usuall Law phrases Petere Debitum Petere Judicium c. the ordinary motions of the Councell or Parties in all our Courts of Justice for Law or Right without written or verball Petitions for them and the Scripture it self resolve yet such is your unparalleld injustice toward him that unlesse he will present a submissive Petition to you after the new mode wherewith he is unacquainted subscribed with his own hand you will neither release nor right him in any kind Which as it seems very strange unto him he desiring not meer grace or mercy from you but only common known right and Justice against undeniable oppressions by your selves and instruments so all his former Letters and his friends addresses to you being reall legall though not formall Petitions for right and justice yet denied him and formall Petitions even for right it self by the resolution of our Law-books the Records of our ancient Parliaments and late Petition of Right Petitions of this nature being originally due to our English Kings alone as their unseparable regall prerogative not to any Subjects whatsoever nor yet to the very House of Lords Commons or any other Courts of Justice Councell Judges Justices Great Officers or Grandees whatsoever being no King but Subjects which anciently were but the inferiour peoples hands or Masters of Requests to receive and present their formall Petitions to our Kings both in and out of Parliament and had no other Bils of Parliaments but meer Petitions of Right or Grace to the King whose Royall answer to them by way of concession made them Acts Lawes and his disassent meer Nullities as our old Parliament Records and the late Petition of Right 3. Caroli resolve Which transcendent Prerogative of our Kings alone by Law of meer Right incommunicable to any other Subjects he hopes you will not now arrogate to your selves by enforcing him through duresse to a formall submissive Petition to you as his Soveraignes before you will enlarge or do him common right or justice having both abolished and publickly engaged your selves and also others to your power against

unto you this Large Remonstrance of his severall successive Grievances illegall restraints close imprisonments pressures under you and your Officers the only legall reall petition you can in justice expect from him whereby he doth after his full two years and three months forementiond illegal close imprisonments and Pressures under you before any legall Indictment Tryall or Crime objected against him once more joyntly and severally demand from you and every of you of meer common right and Justice without any further deniall or delay his absolute freedome and enlargement from all his present restraints with full undelayed reparations for all his dammages losses expences sustained thereby and by all other his remonstrated injuries from the authors and instruments of them according to all the forecited Lawes Statutes Oathes Protestations Vowes Covenants Declarations Remonstrances and your bounden duty by Gods own sacred Edicts And that he having already wasted above ten whole years of his short expired life in ten severall prisons only for his free unmercenary defence of publick Liberty Lawes and Religion out of pure conscience zeal duty he may be no longer enforced without guilt or Tryall upon any carnall State policies or old exploded Whitehall pretences of necessity danger or publick safety the damned Pleas for his former illegall close imprisonments sufferings exile and his present likewise to consume the short remainder of his declining dayes like a lighted candle under a bushell or a dead man out of minde in obscure Prisons at farthest distance from his friends where he can neither enjoy their sweet society nor serve his God his Countrey or private family with that freedome and improvement of his Talents for their best advantage as he doth desire nor any longer detained prisoner under the custody of such Martiall Gardians who are for the most part professed enemies both to our Lawes Lawyers Ministers Ministry Gods publick Ordinances Sacraments Churches Chappels Glebes Tithes and whatever else the piety or bounty of former times hath devoted to the maintenance of Gods worship Religion or Learning and therein to our Religion and Learning it self under a pretence of transcendent sanctity and a new monstrous kind of zeal to reforme Religion propogate the Gospell and support true Preachers of it by the readiest unrighteous sacrilegious irreligious wayes that the Jesuites or worst enemies of the Gospell could invent eternally to extirpate it and all true Ministers of it now as violently and publickly impiously pursued by them and some other Army Officers contrary to the pious practises and sacred presidents of all godly martiall Kings Generals Colonels Captains of thousands hundreds and Armies recorded by God himself in the old and new Testament who were so enamoured ravished and eaten up with the love zeal beduty of Gods House Temple Tabernacle Sanctuary publick ordinances Worship Priests Ministers so carefull to frequent maintain advance encourage them that they chearfully and bountifully contributed not only the Tithes First-fruites and oblations of all their estates but the very tenths of all their spoiles with all the Pretious stones Jewels Ear rings Rings Chaines Bracelets Tablets vessels of gold and silver Treasures Brasse and Iron taken in the Wa●s to the building adorning repairing of magnificent Tabernables Temples Houses Synagogues Churches devoted to Gods publick service and maintaining of Gods publick worship Ministers Priests Levites and other Officers attending thereupon in these publick Edifices to which they joyfully constantly and zealously resorted without separation from them as Gen. 14. 20. Exod. 35. 20 30. Ch. 38. 1 10. Numb 31. 28 54. 2 Sam. 8. 10 11 12. 1 Chron. 21. throughout Ch. 26. 26 27 28. a memorable text Ch. 29. 1 10. 2 Chron. 15. 11. Luk. 7. 1 5 6. Heb. 7. 4 6. Psal 5. 7. 21. 6. 26. 8. 27. 4. 36. 8. 42. 4. 52. 8. 55. 14. 65. 4. 66. 13. 69. 9. 84. throughout 42. 1 2. 116. 13. 102. 1 9. 134. 1. 135. 1. Isa 2. 2 3. Mich. 4. 1 2. Joh. 2. 16 17 18 20. Luk. 2. 27 37. Ch. 20. 1. Ch. 24. 53. Act. 2. 46. Ch. 3. 1 8. Ch. 5. 20 21. Rev. 7. 15. resolve To the shame of those his irreligious Gardians of a different judgment and practise who debarred him from all resort to Gods publick Ordinances and Ministers in the Parish Churches of the Garisons wherein he hath been restrained dedicated to Gods worship and still detain him close Prisoner as aforesaid by colour of this your void illegall Warrants bare Transcript without date thus subscribed by them as a true Copy SIR WE have been informed that Taunton is an unfit place for the imprisonment of Mr. Prynne where he now is we therefore desire you to give order for the removall of the said Mr. Prynne to Pendennis Castle and that HE BE THERE KEPT UPON THE SAME WARRANT UPON WHICH HE HATH BEEN PRISONER AT DUNSTER CASTLE AND NOW AT TAUNTON till further Order And that whiles he is there in restraint he may have liberty to go to the publick Odinances of Gods worship if he shall desire the same Signed in the Name and by Order of the Councell of State by authority of Parliament John Bradshaw President This is a true Copy John Disbrowe This is a true Copy of the aforesaid Copy Charles Shrubsoll This Copy only or your Originall Warrant as the science and conscience of every Lawyer amongst you and his who signed it must informe you is meerl● void illegall and no justification for these his foremen●ioned Restraints or Imprisonment in Pendennis Castle before any tribunall of God or Man for these following Reasons 1. Because contrary to all former Councell Table Warrants of this nature All old Councell Table Orders Warrants for his and others imprisonments were fig●ed and subscribed not only by the President alone but by all the Lords and Councell consenting to them then present as by Law they ought that so they might know all those that Imprisoned them and whether enough to make a Councell and whether to bring their actions against all or any of them if wrongfully imprisoned as you may read in A new Discovery of the Prelates Tyranny pag. 9 10 15 16 18 69 85 86 90 to 97. 2. Because this single signing of Warrants by one of you alone against ●ll Law and former Presidents disenabling the Prisoner to know who they were who committed and translated him from prison to prison except the first and sole subscriber John Bradshaw the rest it seems being ashamed to subscribe or own it or the former Warrants for his restraints being so unjust and defective in Law And the subscriber alone being no Councell and having no power solely to act any thing but only joyntly with such a number of Associates who cannot translate their power or trust to him but must execute it themselves This Warrant and the former so signed must needs be void in Law and unwarrantable or