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A91291	A summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, proprieties of all English freemen; both in their persons, estates, and elections; and of the memorable votes, resolutions, and Acts of Parliament, for their vindication and corroboration, in the late Parliaments of 3 & 17 of King Charles; collected out of their Journals, and printed Ordinances. Most necessary to be known, considered, re-established (in this present juncture of publick affairs) with all possible old and new securities; against past, present, and future publick violations, under-minings, by force or fraud, for the much-desired healing of the manifold large mortal wounds in these chief vital parts, and repairing the various destructive subversive breaches in these prime foundations of our English state fabrick; without which no effectual present or future healing, union, peace, or settlement can possibly be expected, or established in our distracted nations. / By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4095; Thomason E892_3; ESTC R206517	46,699	73

both by the Parliament and Army and so many years bloudy Wars for defence of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament I shall therefore close up this particular with the memorable words of Lords and Commons forenamed Remonstrances which I desire all Swordmen the whole Nation and those especially who were then Members to take special notice of l This Privilege of the Members se●●usion 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 such and so many Members of both or either House may be taken out of it at any time by any persons to serve a torn and to make a major part of whom they will at pleasure And therefore as the Freedom of the Parliament dependeth in a great part upon this Privilege and the Freedome of this Nation upon the Freedome of Parliaments We have good cause to believe that the People of England knowing that their Lives and Fortunes are bound up in this Bundle will venture their Lives and Fortunes in this Quarrel Accursed and for ever execrated then let all those Sword-men and Innovators be who by any Matchiavilian Policies Engines or Instruments whatsoever shall endeavour to deprive the Parliaments and People of England of this their antient essential Privilege and Freedoms or necessitate them once again to venture their Lives or Fortunes in this quarrel to maintain or regain the same by a New war or insurrection against the Imprisoners or Secluders of any of their duly elected and best respected publick Trustees out of our Parliaments in time to come as they have oft times done for some years by-past to the subversion of Parliaments and Peoples general affront and discontent To prevent which danger I could heartily wish that a free Legal English Parliament might be duly summoned either by the Peers of the Realm or by the Freeholders Freemen and Burgesses of every County City and Borough in their default according to the late Act for triennial Parliaments yet in force to which many in present power were assenting to redress all high violations of our Parliaments just Rights and Privileges and prevent the like for the future reform all publick Grievances remove all unrighteous oppressions compose our manifold sad Divisions Schismes Fractions both in Church and State and settle our three distracted Kingdoms in such unity peace prosperity after all our destructive wars as all good men long pray for and none but Traytors or professed Enemies to our Tranquillity and Welfare can or dare oppose 15. The whole House of Commons m impeached and the Lords House judicially sentenced D● Manwaring then a Member of the Convocation for preaching before the King and publishing in print in two Sermons intituled Religion and Allegiance contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm and propriety of the Subject 1. That the King is not bouud to keep and observe the good Laws and customes of the Realm concerning the Rights and Liberties of the Subject who undoubtedly inherit this Right and Liberty not to be compelled to contribute any tax tallage aid or to make any loans not set or imposed by common consent by Act of Parliament And that his Royal will and command in imposing Loans Taxes and other Aids without Common consent in Parliament doth so far bind the conscience of the Subje●● of this Realm that they cannot refuse the same without peril of damnation 2. That those his Majesties Subjects who refused the Loan imposed on them did therein offend against the Law of God against his Majesties supream Authority and by so doing became guilty of impiety disloyalty rebellion disobedience and lyable to many other Taxes and censures 3. That authority of Parliament is not necessary for raising of Aids and Subsidies That the slow proceedings of such Assemblies are not fit for the supply of the urgent necessities of the State but rather apt to produce sundry Impediments to the just designs of Princes and to give them occasion of displeasure or discontent For which Sermons and positions the Lords House adjudged 1. That this Dr. Manwaring notwithstanding his humble Petitions and craving pardon for these offences shall be imprisoned during the pleasure of the House 2. That he be fined 1000 l. to the King 3. That he shall make such a submission and acknowledgement of his offences as shall be set down by a Committe in writing both at the Lords Bar and in the House of Commons which he accordingly made 4. That he shall be suspended for the time of three years from the exercise of the Ministry 5. That he shall be for ever disabled to preach at the Court hereafter 6. That he shall be disabled hereafter to have any Ecclesiastical dignity or secular Office 7. That the same Book is worthy to be burnt and that for the better effecting thereof his Majesty may be moved to grant a Proclamation to call in the said Books that they may be burnt accordingly in London and both Universities and for inhibiting the printing hereof upon a great penal●y Which was done accordingly Whether some late Court-Chaplaint or Parasites have not incurred the like offences and demerit not as severe a censure as he for some Sermons and printed Pamphlets * Instruments of like nature is worthy the consideration of the next publike Assembly and future English Parliaments XV The n House of Commons sent for and committed Mr. Laughton and Mr John Trelawny to the Tower and Sir William Wray and Mr. Edward Trelawny to the Sergeant at Arms during the Houses pleasure and ordered them to make a Recognition of their offences at the Assises in Cornwal for interrupting the freedomes of Elections in that County For that some of them being Deputy Lieutenants and others of them Justices of Peace of the County of Cornwal writ Letters to this effect Whereas the safety of the Realm depends upon the Parliament we the Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices to whose care the County is committed finding A. and B. fit persons have desired them to stand to be Knights whereof we give you notice and advising Sir John Eliot and Mr. Cariton to desist that they wished them not to be chosen and menacing them in this manner but if you go on we will oppose you by all means lest his Majesty suspect our fidelity since you know how gracious you are to his Majesty and how many waies he hath expressed his displeasure against you And his Majesty will conceive your Election to be an affront to his service and so we shall draw the displeasure of the King on us Our hope is that you out of conscience and loyalty will not seek this place and we let you know that if you do we will oppose you all we can c. And writing Letters to others of the County to this effect Whereas unquiet Spirits seek their own ends

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 Legacy I can leave behind me to my Native Country and the whole English Nation whose real Liberty VVeal Tranquillity Prosperity next to Gods glory and the safety of our endangered Church and Religion hath been the sole scope end of this and all other his publications who though ingratefully despitefully requited for most of them would repute it his greatest infelicity to be enforced or hear other Cordial State-Physicians compelled now at last to say of England as Gods people once did of Babylon Jer. 51. 8 9 10. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed howle for her take balm for her pain If so be she may be healed VVe would have healed Babylon but she is not healed forsake her and let us go every one into his own Country for her judgment reacheth unto Heaven and is lifted up even to the Skies Yet the Lord hath brought forth our righteousnesse as he hath maugre all Enemies Oppositions Slanders the righteousnesse of him who desires thy kind acceptation of this Breviary and prayers for Gods blessing upon this and all other his real endeavours for sick desperately-wounded Englands cure Swainswick Septemb. 6. 1656. William Prynne A Summary Collection of the principal fundamental Rights Liberties Properties of all English-Freemen c. THe Liberty of the Subjects Persons having in the three first years of our late King Charles his Reign been very much invaded endangered under-mined 1. By Imprisonment of their Persons by the Lords of the Council without any special Legal cause assigned in the Warrants for their commitment but only the Kings command 1. By honorable banishments upon pretence of forein imployments 3. By confinements to particular places 4. By remanding and not bayling them by the Judges upon Habeas Corpora sued forth by them 5. By Commissions for Trials of Souldiers and others for their lives by Martial Law in times of peace when other Courts of Justice were open and the like The properties of their Goods and Estates being likewise much encroached upon and in a great measure subverted 1 By forced Loans and contributions 2. By Lieutenants and Deputy Lieutenants exorbitant Powers and new rates taxes imposed on and forced from them without grant in Parliament for billeting Souldiers and quartering Souldiers in mens Houses against their wills till they paid those rates 3. By exacting Tunnage Poundage New customes and impositions without special grant and act of Parliament 4. By an intended Commission of Excise never put in execution and other particulars of like nature And the Liberty of their Free-elections much impeached by Lieutenants and others Letters menaces summoning of trained Bands to elections and the like indirect courses Whereupon the Parliament begun on Monday 17 Martii 3 Caroli in the year of our Lord 1627 to vindicate these their infringed Liberties properties freedomes and preserve them from future violations of this nature after many learned Arguments by Sir Edward Cook Mr. Noy Mr. Selden Mr. Littleton Mr. Mason Mr. Creswel Mr. Shervile Mr. Sherland Mr. Bancks Mr. Rolls Mr. Ball with other Lawyers and able Members of the Commons House passed their unanimous Votes against them Nemine centradicente fit now to be revived re-established after more dangerous avowed publick Violations of our hereditary Fundamental Liberties Properties by the greatest pretended Military and civil Champions for and Patrons Assertors and Protectors of them than any in former ages as the probablest means under God then and now to cure the mortal distempers and repair the sad divisions breaches desolation of our Land a Resolved upon the Question 1. That * no Freeman ought to be committed deteined in Prison or otherwise restrained by command of the King or privy Council or any other unless some cause of the commitment restraint or deteiner be expressed for which by Law he ought to be committed deteined or restrained 2. That a Writ of Habeas Corpus may not be denied but ought to be granted to every man that is committed or deteined in Prison or otherwise restrained although it be by command of the King or Privy Councill or any other he praying the same 3. That if a Freeman be committed or deteined in Prison or otherwise restrained by command of the King or Privy Council or any other no cause of such commitment deteiner or restraint being expressed forthwith for which by Law he ought to be committed restreined or detained and the same being returned upon an Habeas Corpus granted for the same party that then he ought to be delivered or bayled 4. b That no Freeman ought to be confined to his House or any other place by any command of the King or Privy Council or any other unless it be by * Act of Parliament or by other due course or Warrant of Law 5. c That the Commission for martial Law and all other of such nature to be executed within the Land at such times as were appointed by this Commission then questioned to wit in times of peace when the Kings Courts of Law were open and other Legal trials might be had by Juries in Courts of Iustice are against the Law 6. That † billetting and placing of Souldiers or any other person in the House of any Freeman against his will is against the Law 7. d That it is the * antient and undoubted Right of every Freeman that he hath a full and absolute propriety in his goods and Estate And that no taxes Tallages loan benevolence or other charge ought to be commanded imposed or levyed by the King or his Ministers without common consent by Act of Parliament All which Votes were drawn up and inserted into the Petition of Right assented to by the Lords and at last by the King himself in his Answer to that petition as the antient Fundamental Rights and Liberties of all English Freemen And therefore after all our late Parliamentary and Military contests wars for their defence fit to be confirmed ratified by all sorts of Domestick waies and policies by which the great Charter was * antiently confirmed and all violations of them exemplarily punished without any further argument or debate being indisputable principles and foundations whereon all our Liberties Properties as English Freemen are bottomed To which end I would advise that all Civil and Military Officers

A SUMMARY COLLECTION Of the principal FVNDAMENTAL RIGHTS LIBERTIES PROPRIETIES OF ALL English Freemen Both in their Persons Estates and Elections and of the memorable Votes Resolutions and Acts of Parliament for their Vindication and Corroboration in the late Parliaments of 3 17 of King Charles collected out of their Journals and printed Ordinances Most necessary to be known considered re-established in this present juncture of Publick Affairs with all possible old and new securities against past present and future publick Violations Under-minings by force or fraud for the much-desired healing of the manifold large mortal Wounds in these chief Vital parts and repairing the various destructive subversive Breaches in these prime foundations of our English State Fabrick without which no effectual present or future Healing Union Peace or settlement can possibly be expected or established in our distracted Nations By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Jer. 9. 21. Is there no Balm in Gilead is there no Physician there why then is not the health of the Daughter of my people recovered Jer. 51. 8. Take Balm for her pain if so be she may be healed 1 Chron 19. 13. Be of good courage and let us behave our selves valiantly for our people and for the Cities of our God and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight London Printed for the Author 1656. 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 wherewith 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 John Davis in his Epistle to his Irish Reports had written so much in justification of our Laws as would satisfie and silence allsoldiers 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 since calling to mind and considering that in the Parliament of 5 R. 2 rot Parl. n. 17 18. it was the resolution both of the Commons and Lords desiring redress of their publick G●ievances and oppressions * that Reformation alwaies ought to begin in the Head and so gradually from the Highest Members 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 Under-minings 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 skilfull 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 natural 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 all 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 not long since took in the presence of the most High God Angels and Men with hands lifted 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 thereof 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 native Country in pursuance of the Protestation and solemn League and Covenant lying still as sacred Bonds upon my conscience than 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 learnedest 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 sormerly made in them to the impoverishing oppressing enslaving