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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

excitato impulsa est Anglia Scotia quae Regna cum antea externorum hostium impetum depulerunt Nunc domesticis dissidijs debiltata et ad interitum jam inclinata sunt Id verò totum acceptum referrendum est istis sanctissimis patribus Gabaonitis Jesuiticis Which he ushers in with this precedent Observation concerning their carriage in America to subject it to the Spanish vassallage Eisdem artibus et hoc Religionis Nomine illas Provincias Hispanico Regi potentissimo subjicerunt à quo illi emissi Ut exploratores eo consilia omnia retulerunt Ut primum domestica dissidia excitarent deinde Hispanicos exercius in regna convulsa dissidiis domesticis debilitata adducerent Quod assecuti sunt omnia caedibus sanguine ita replent ut non solum Consilij Capiendi sed etiam Ne respirandi quidem spacium relinquant illis a quibus amanter humaniter fuerant excepti All which particulars being likewise more largly justified demonstrated in that elegant Solid Oration of the Parliament of Paris to King Henry 4. Anno. 1603. against the Jesuites restitution contrary to the former Parliamentary Arrest for their perpetual banishment out of France which they therein predicted would prove fatall to him as it did in truth by their manifold attempts against not only against the French Kings lives Crownes but also against the Lawes and Liberties both of the Realme and Church of France thus poetically expressed in an Epigram presented to King Henry the fourth the same year upon the same occasion by a true French Philopater Cui nam hominum ignotum est ' Jesuita nocte dieque ' Nil meditari aliud quam qua ratione modove ' Prisca statuta queant patriasque evertere Lege Inque locum ' antiquis totum in contraria nobis ' Jura dare sanctos privata ad commoda Ritus Flectere nulli unquam quod post mutare licebit ' Antique deflet proh libertatis honorem ' Auria libertas sic sic calcabere Sione ' Illa tibi fraenum injiciet Jesuitica pestis Vltima Fex hominum Satanaeque Excrementum Quo nil terra tulit pejus necfaedius unquam Mortem norant animare Et Tumultos Suscitare Hi submittant Proditores Hi subornant Percussores Excitant Seditiones Nutriunt Rebelliones Modo jubeat Romanus Vel sic postulat Hispanus Servit his Cor Sermo Manus Adds another In Officinam Jesuiticam I now referre it to the consciences of all my late Imprisoners and all other Subvertors Underminers New-Modellers of our ancient Fundamentall Lawes Liberties Parliaments Governments Kings and hereditary Regall Succession contrary to their former Oathes Protestations Covenants Declarations Remonstrances Professions Principles Resolves Commissions Trusts Advices Votes of the Majority of both Houses of Parliament and our three Kingdomes sadly to consider without passion or partiallity whether all our late intestine bloudy warres with their strange unparalleld Proceedings and Changes of this Nature which I opposed to my power proceeded not originally from the Jesuites projection suggestion and solicitation to ruine our Protestant Kings Kingdomes Lawes Liberties Churches Parliaments and whether they were not the very Jesuites reall though deluded circumvented Instruments in promoting accomplishing them with all earnestnesse violence zeal fury against the votes of the secluded majority of both Houses and of our three Protestant Nations to the Jesuites and Papist great content the grief of most Zealous Protestants the intollerable Scandall Infamy Dishonour of the most Zealous professors of the Protestant Religion and the exiting of many late and present bloudy persecutions against them by Popish Princes in Bohemia Austria Styria Savoy and other parts as a generation of Seditious Factious Antimonarchicall turbulent perfidious disloyall treacherous spirits and dangerous Regicides as they now repute them and publish us be in printed bookes and hereupon let them now resolve their own consciences and the world with what colour of Christianity Law Justice they could so illegally maliciously despitefully close imprison restrain my person seise all my Papers Records c. only to debar me from detecting opposing these their Jesuiticall Journey workers with my pen and indeavouring to translate the Odium of these their true originall Architects the Jesuites who are so impudent and malicious Vt etiam sua suorumque FACINORA AC PARRICIDIA EV ANGELICIS TRANSCRIBERE NON VERANTVR as Ludovicus Lucius proves by severall instances to render the Doctrine and Persons of the Protestants odious and detestable to the whole world And whose principall scope and designe is by severall stratagems to engage all Protestant Princes Kingdomes States Churches in unchristian divisions tumults warres between themselves and against each other Vt continuis se vonficient et atterent viribus ut COMMUNI MOX SUPER VENTVRO HOSTI RESISTERE NEQUEANT Sub nomine et praetextu Religionis Catholicae praesidioque authoritate Papae Hispaniarum Regis ubique locorum sese insinuare OMNIA DE NOVO PRO ARBITRIO SUO INSTITUERE ET AD JESUITICUM FUSORIUM CONFORMARE omnes Evangelicos igne ferro veneno pulvere tormentario BELLIS alijs Machinationibus opprimere viriliter extirpare Sicque SEIPSOS DOMINOS AC MAGISTROS TOTIUS MUNDI EFFICERE as those who please may read at large in Johannis Cambilhonus De abstrusioribus Jesuitarum artibus studijs in Hasenmullerus Hospinian Ludovicus Lucius their Historia Jesuitica Speculum Jesuiticum Watsons Quodlibets with others our New Statizers may do well most seriously to peruse and study the better to countermine the Jesuites pernicious plots against us for the future which have wrought such strange confusions warres alterations various Revolutions in Church and State amongst us in few years last past as all former ages can not parallel If any of my imprisoners or others demand why I did not during all the time of my close Restraints sue out an Habeas Corpus to procure my Liberty in a Legall way or why upon my Enlargement I brought not an action of false Imprisonment against my Committers or their under-Goalers to recover Dammages for my illegall Restrains or a Writt of Restitution to re-invest me in my Recordership of Bath of which I was injuriously dispossessed without cause or hearing by a Whitehall Letter and another time-serving Member introduced during my restraint I Answere 1. That the want of a true Legal Power Jurisdiction and Court of Justice from whom to demand sue and before whom to prosecute these Legal Writts disabled me to pursue them And to demand them from or prosecute them under those illegall Usurped New self-created Powers and Jurisdictions of the Jesuites projection which illegally committed and ejected me from my Recordership had been a reall acknowledgment of and submission to them on record as Lawfull against my Science Conscience Judgement Oathes Protestation Vow League Covenant our known Lawes Statutes and Parliamentary Declarations which I durst not in conscience or prudence violate to

the purity of Gods publick Ordinances and sending of Letters when first approved by himself such a Ward and School boy is he yet to this very hour under your Free-State even after the Court of Wards quite voted down And whereas all Collonels and Gentlemen heretofore in actual Arms against the Parliament here or elsewhere secured in their proper Counties only not in foraign in the late times of danger were a full year since enlarged from their far more favourable restraints than his by your general Order and many Theeves Felons legally deserving death both pardoned and set free without any Petitions to you from them and not only diverse Popish Recusants in A●mes but some Popish Pr●ests and Jesuites imprisoned before your Government absolutely released under it yea exempted from the very Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance specially provided prescribed by the wisdom of many pious Parliaments for the detection and prevention of their manifold treasonable practices against our Realms Princes Parliaments Government Laws Liberties and Religion from some if not all old penal Laws formerly made and those 5 new excellent Bills and Oaths of Abjuration for their better speedier discovery a●d suppression so earnestly pressed by our late zealous Parliaments and consented too by the late King so much taxed by you for indulgence towards them in the last Treaty without scruple yet since quite buried with ●im in oblivion and some of them unwittingly as is conceived entertained as Troopers Souldiers in pay in your very Guards for want of such strict inquiries after them and such meanes to prevent their coming over and to detect them as formerly and not one of them for oug●t he can hear close imprisoned if imprisoned at all in remote Castles under such Guards Centinels Restraints as his forementioned though in near one hundred printed Declarations of Parliament remonstrated to the World to be the Original Contrivers the chief Incendiaries Fomentors Promoters of the first late Warres between Scotland and England and the late King and Parliament of purpose thereby to subvert the Protestant Religion both at home and ab●oad destroy that last and all future Parliaments our Lawes Liberties and former setled Government and introduce Popery Anarchy Slavery and Military Tyr●●y in their pl●c●s Whereupon they are grown so audacious as not only secretly to infuse their Jesuitical Tenents Pract●ces Poli●icks of most dangerous consequence expr●ssed in sundry former Acts of P●rliament purposely enacted to prevent them into the Souldiery a●d Pe●ple now much infected with them but likewise by their instruments to translate print and vend publiquely throughout the Nation without Inhibition or Punishment their Jesuitical Books even in folio professedly ass●rting both th● Popes Sup●emacy pra●ing to Saints and Angels Purgatory Masse Transubstantiation and all other points of grossest Popery for undoubted Truths necessary to Salvation and also positively maintaining our true Protestant Religion to be grosse Heresie and our late famous Queen Elizabeth with all true professors thereof to be damnable Hereticks Witnesse the Jesuite Edmond Causin his Holy Court printed in several folio Tomes in London it self translated into English by Papists Jesui●es and dedicated to the two greatest Female Papists Queen Mary and the Dutchesse of Buckingham sold publikely under your Noses and elsewhere with the very Jesuites badge S. I. S●cietatis Iesis in Capitals in the Title Page and this bold subscription Printed at London by William Bently Anno 1650. since his close imprisonment by you and are to be sold by Iohn Williams in Pauls Churchyard where all these Popish Tenents are largely maintained to the great Scandal and Offence of all true Protestants as you may read at leisure Tom. 1. p. 30 to 38 63 64 68 74 75 Tom. 2. p. 168. Tom. 3. p. 425 to 430. 461 462. Tom. 5. p. 173 174. 304 to 319 The Angel of Peace to all Christian Princes p. 10 11 and elsewhere to omit all other Iesui●ical Arminian Popish Erroneous Books against our Religion now publikely written printed vended by thousands under you with impunity though so lately charged pressed by the whole House of Commons against Canterbury as an Article of High Treason for which amongst others he lost his head by Iudgement of Parliament and your own concurrent Votes and Approbations Yet he who out of pure love zeal to his God true Religion Country Parliaments hath constantly stuck unto and written most of any man in times of greatest need and danger in defence of the just Power Rights Privileges of our true English Parliaments and Nation against all Opponents against all late introduced Arminian Popish Iesuitical Errours Doctrines Ceremonies Innovations Books and made the first the fullest discoveries of and Oppositions in print of any man with no little pains cost losse danger against their manifold dangerous Books Practices Plots Conspiracies to undermine our Religion Parliaments Laws Liberties Government and involve all Protestant Kingdoms States Churches in bloody intestine wars to their own mutual destruction but these Iesuites insultation exul●ation and that by approbation authority of Parliament and most of your applauses And hath particularly informed some of you by Letters since his restraints of admired indulgences towards Priests ●esuites of one particular noted Iesuite who for a fortnights space together disputed with a friend of his at St. Omers with 5 other Iesuites more about August 1649 since listed a Trooper in your Guards and of this late printed Iesuites folio Book without any reformation or suppression of either upon his complaints thereof during this their licentious Liberty and Freedom to their grand Rejoycing Advantage and the great Grief Offence of most really affected to our Religion or the publike weal without any cause hearing or release must be shut up and continued close Prisoner by you year after year and sent from one remote Castle to another remoter and worser than it and there kept under strictest Guards Centinels Restraints and most injurious Duresses as aforesaid without any hopes of release notwithstanding his manifold Letters and Addresses to you joyntly and severally in such a way as becomes him though not by unworthy complyances in submission to the self-created new Powers and Titles complaining of these fore-remonstrated Proceedings Searches Imprisonments Translations and Restraints in forraign Counties Castles under Souldiers without any precedent Indictment Tryal and Crime yet specified and undeniably manifesting them to you to be co●trary to all Laws of God Nature Nations the Common L●w and Great Charter of England and other forecited known Statute● Iudgement● Declarations Resolutions R●monstrances of all our late Parliaments the expresse Votes and Resolves of both Houses of Parliament in his own late particular case and others the indubitable Birthright Franchises of eve y English Freeman of very dangerous President Conseq●ence to Posterity and in sundry respects far more exorbitantly unrighteous than his former Grievances and Imprisonments under the worst of your discarded condemned decapitated

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

Edgar going to the holy warres into Apulia with many Ships and Souldiers he was in returne from thence courteously entertained and had many benefits bestowed on him by the Emperors of Greece and Germany who disired to retain him in their Courts Which Courtesie he refusing out of love to his Native Country returned again into England where he lived quietly all his Reigne And although William Rufus his Sonne upon some differences arising between them amounting to a competition to the Crowne banished him into Scotland for a time Yet at l●st he received him both into his favour and Court too and in the 7. year of his reign sent him Cheife Commander with an Army into Scotland to establish his Cosen Edgar Son of King Malcombe King in the Throne and to expell his Uncle Dufenald who had usurped it by violence Such was the Noblenesse of these successive Kings to this-right Heire to their Crowns That yet ●hey notwithstanding should contrary to these Gospel Precepts and this domestick memorable president contrary to the resolution of a very Heathen Nihil est iniquius quam aliquem Heredem paterni odii Fieri To Gods own resolution Ezec. 18. 17 2 Chron. 21. 6. 7. c. 28. 27. c. 33. 20. c. and of our English Nobles and Nation in the case of K. Hen. 3. whom they crowned for their K. notwithstanding his Father K. Johns faults Quia propria patris iniquitas ut CUNCTIS VIDEBATUR Filio non debuit imputari be so unchristian uncharitable towards their beheaded Kings Royall Posterity and Right Heire to the Crown though Protestants as not only to prohibit all publique Prayers unto God for them under pain of High Treason and severest Penalties to banish them out of all their Realmes and Dominious to which they were borne Heires under pain of High Treason and death it selfe if ever they set footing in them not to allow any of them the least breathing place therein nor the least standing Pension for their necessary support in other Climates out of their owne Hereditary large Revenues which they have seised on to prohibit any other within their Territories publiquely or secretly to ayde or relieve them under paine of High Treason losse of Liberty Life Estate But likewise to treat with other forraign Protestant States and Princes to banish both them and their Protestant Adherents out of their Territories thereby to necessitate them ●o the intollerable Scandall of our Religion and Nation to live upon the meer Almes of Popish Princes and For●aig ners like distressed Exiles to the great peril of their Soules and apparent hazards of their seduction from our Religion by exposing them to so manifold temptations provocations to renounce it Of which the Jesuits and Papists make great advantage to draw others from us to their Romish Superstitions And not content herewith to treat with those Popish Princes Stats where now they are entertained to remove them out of their Dominions and withdraw all Charitable Supplies for their relief that so they may inevitably perish and have neither being nor subsistance in this world nor place to r●st their heads in Which transcendent unparalleld Proceedings as many intelligent Protestants conceive have been the principle inpulsive cause and argument the Jesuites have made use of to incite the Emperor of Germany to banish all the Protestants by severest Edicts out of Bohemia Austria Styria and other his Hereditary Dominions and incensed the Duke of Savoy by severe Proclamation and by a bloody Army of Irish and other Papists to massacre many thousands of them and endeavour their utter extirpation out of his Territories and will probably instigate all Popish Princes States of Christendome to unite their forces together to extirpate us and all other Protestants out of the world for these premised unchristian Exorbitances which Militiere and other Papists in late printed Bookes impute to the Principles of the Reformed Religion Should Elisha himselfe I say have predicted all or any of these particulars to them before they were acted by them and that they should publikely justifie them before all ●he World in many Printed Papers and most Christian Righteous Just Heroicall Actions without the least remo●se or shame as they have done I appeal to their owne consciences whether they would not have bin as incredulous therof nay more discontented with the Prophet for medling in them as Hazael was and would not have returned him the self same Answer as he did or a worse What are thy Servants Dogs n●y Devils incarnate and the Monsters of men that we should do all these great strange incredible things And yet since they have acted them all over and pursued them with eagernes instead of repenting of them and esteem all such their Capitall Enemies yea little lesse then greatest Tratyors to them and their New Republike who out of cordiall Love to their Soules meere Conscience towards God and duty to their Native Country shall dare presume to disswade them from reprehend them for oppose them in or move them to sincere repentance for the same Which I beseech them now in the fear of God seriously to reveiw retract reform if ever they expect grace or pardon before any Tribunal of God or Men where they must sooner or latter be called to accompt for them notwithstanding all their present Power or armed forces to secure them from humane Justice unable to resist divine From this perillous corrupting transforming leaven usually accompanying Empire and great Honors the very Heathen Philosophers and others deduced these three Proverbs Honores mutant Mores Magistratus virum indicat vis nosse virum committee imperium And Huldricus Zuinglius renders this reason of it Adeo late vast●t hominum mentes rei gloriaeque ●upid● tametsi interim pulchre celet omnia non alia res est quae latentes cupiditates magis exulcerat QVAM IMPERIVM tunc enim occasionem se invenire arbitrantur qua maxime grassari possunt Caeterum ubi jam via patet nemo retrahere potest ut vel moderate videantur concupivisse c. He instanceth in two examples to prove what strange alterations Empire and power operate in mens minds and manners First in King Saul next in Pythagoras the Phylosopher who although whiles a private person he was such an extraordinary humble meek pittifull mortified self denying and cynical a person that he would neither kill nor eat any living creature whatsoever nor any pulse or thing that had red spots or colour of bloud upon it renounced all worldly honours pleasures profits pompe pride would seldome converse with men or utter any word in any company injoyning almost perpetuall silence to himself and five years taciturnity to all his Schollers ere they should presume to speak in publike yet no sooner was he made a King by the people for his transcendent vertues seemingly against his will but he became a transcendent bloody Tyrant OMNIVM ingurgitavit haud