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act_n	council_n	parliament_n	privy_a	2,717	5	9.7040	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91165	Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its Members. To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3930; Thomason E772_3; ESTC R203226	35,699	53

his adherents and after their defeat a publike thanksgiving through Westminster and London to mock God himself * who will not be mocked to his very face and ordained a publike thansgiving throughout the whole Nation to abuse both God and them for their Great Deliverance from the most Dangerous Plot and Treason of Sir George Booth and his party to bring in all the old Members to sit with them without turning those then sitting out or to procure a free Parliament that so their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle by this pretext might exercise a Perpetual Tyrannie and Parliamental Authority over them and none thenceforth dare demand a full and free Parliament for the future under pain of highest Treason Apostacie and the losse of their very Heads and estates Whether all these their transcendent High Treasons with their former 1648 against the K. secluded Members Lords Parliament people were not by a most signal miraculous Providence and Justice of God himself recompenced immediately after upon their own Lamberts and other Armie-Officers heads by making their routing of Sir George Booth and his party after their first thanksgiving for it before the next day of general thanksgiving came the very occasion of their sudden unexpected dissolution 1. By over-elevating Lamberts his Officers and Brigades Spirits notwithstanding the signal Marks and Rewards of their Favours towards them for the present and future promises of advancement for their Fidelity to them in this Service to enter into contestations with them by their Petition and Representations 2ly By raising the differences and jealousies between them to such a height and open enmitie notwithstanding all their large Votes compliances to satisfie them all means mediations of Friends and the Londoners publike Feast on their thanksgiving day to reconcile them as to incense the Juncto to vote Major Harrison a chief agent Chairman for the old Members first seclusion uncapable of any publike Trust or Office to vote Lambert Disbrow Creed and 6 more field Officers out of their commands null their Commissions and dispose of their Regiments to the next Officers without any hearing or examination if not threatning to commit Lambert to the Tower as a Traytor to repeal Fleetwoods Commission and Knack to be Lieutenant General of their Forces in England and Scotland and put the command of the Army and new Militia under 7. Commissioners to wrest the power of them both into their own hands 3ly By exasperating Lambert and his confederates by these Votes so far against them giving them such favour with the Armie as to draw up the greatest part of the forces about London in battel array against them and notwithstanding their partie in the Armie whereof they had made many of themselves Colonels their interest in the Militia of Westminster London Southwark and Sir Henry Vanes two Regiments of Gathered Churches who were disgregated and kept their Chambers all that day not one of them appearing in the sield because their valiant Collonel took a Clyster pipe into his fundament instead of a Lance into his hand in the day of battel and durst not hazard a broken pate in the quarrel and then in a hostlle warlike manner to besiege many of them in Whitehall block up all passages to the House seise upon their old Speaker with his Coach Mace and new General without a Sword Armie Troop or Company from whose hands they had freshly received their Commissions turning him back from whence he came to charm all the Junctoes forces so as to march away without drawing one sword or shooting one bullet in their defence so true faithful were they to their good old cause as well as to their New Protectors as to deem neither of thē worth one bloodie nose 4. By engaging Lambert his party notwithstanding all endeavoured seeming accommodations between them to seise upon their House and their provisions of ammunition and victuals in it to lock up the doors and keep constant Guards upon the stairs to seclude all these their new Lords and Masters as they did on May 7 9. and afterwards seclude their fellow-Members and not content herewith by a printed Plea for the Army and Declaration of the General Council of the Army sitting at Wallingford House which called them in and thus shamefully not long after turned them out of doors usurping to themselves both a Regal Authority to call and dissolve Parliaments as they repute and stile them and a Parliamental too in making and repealing Acts of Parliament as they deem them at their pleasure they not only justifie this their forcible ejectment seclusion to all the world by Lex talionis even their own abetting approving justifying the Armies former seclusion of the Major part of their fellow Members who were the House the whole House of Lords and securing the leading Members when overpowred by them and appealing to the Armies Judgements therein but also put a period to their Assemblie branded nulled repealed declared their last Votes Acts Proceedings void to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if they had never been made Censured them as imperfect ineffectual irregular unparliamentary illegal pernicious rash inconsiderate branding each other in several printed Papers for Traytors Trust-breakers Treacherous Perfidious Faithless Vnrighteous Ambitious Self-seeking usurpers of the Soverain Power Oppressors of the free people of England and invaders betrayers of their Liberties Birthrights thereby declaring the old secluded Members the only honest faithfull constant consciencious Men adhering to their good old Cause Oaths Covenant Principles and the publique interest and Sir George Booth himself to be No Traytor but truer Patriot of his Country than any of themselves as dying Purefoy openly acknowledged before his death and others of them confesse in private since even Lambert himself hath done and exceeded that work they feared he would doe by dissolving their Conventicle turning thē out of house power which Sir George did not design Whether all these strange unparalleld sudden unexpected animosities divisions between themselves their uncommissioning dissolving cashiering disofficing one another which I truly predicted to them from Scriptures and former Providences in My Good Old Cause truly stated My True and Perfect Narrative p. 94. 98. and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members p. 61 62. be not the very finger of God himself the Lords own doing truly marvellous in all our eyes yea the very particular Judgment menaced by God himself against all such Traitors and Innovators as most audaciously and professedly violate with the highest hand this divine Precept Prov. 24 21 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change for their Calamity shall soddenly arise and who knoweth the ruine of them both and a verification of Prov. 29. 1 If not a divine infliction of the very Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegypt of old for their crying sins Isay 19. 2 3 c.

oppresse a man yea their Protestant King and thousands more of their Protestant brethren and his house yea a man and his inheritance for fear they incurre the fatal inevitable Woes evills Judgements denounced by God against such crying Sinnes oppressions violences to the utter desolation extirpation of them their families yea of our English Zion and Jerusalem Mic. 2. 1 to 6. Is 32. 1 2. c. 3 throughout with that of Hab. 2. 7 8. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake that shall vex thee and thou shalt be for booties unto them Because thou hast spoyled many Nations all the remnant of the people shall spoyl thee because of mens blood and for the violence of the Land of the City Army and all that dwell therein Whether the Junctoes and Army Councils utter subversion of all our Fundamental Laws especially Magna Charta c. 29 30. the Petition of Right and all other Lawes Statutes which concern the preservation of the Lives Free-holds Liberties Properties Franchises of the Subjects the inheritance and succession of the Crown the Rights and Privileges of Parliament their ending the last Easter Term with very little Law and no conscience at all their beginning Trinity Term with very little Conscience monopolized in their conscientions Speakers brest alone without any Law at all and their holding part only of Michaelmas Term without any Chancery or Conscience voted by some to be both useless and dangerous or any real Law in the judgement of understanding Lawyers and breaking it off without any Law or Conscience to the undoing of many poor oppressed Clients left without relief with their manifold transcendent obstructions subversions both of Law Equity Justice Conscience Property Liberty in their most arbitrary lawlesse Committees of Indemnity and Courts of High Injustice be not a transcendent violation of all their former Remonstrances Declarations Votes Protestations League Covenant and a meer Jesuitical design as I have * elsewhere evidenced to work our utter dissolution the Laws being the only Ligaments to unite and Pillar to support our State and Kingdom whereby not only the Regal and Parliamental authority but the peoples security of Lands livings lives privileges both in general particular are preserved maintained by the abolishing or alteration whereof it is impossible but that present Confusion will fall upon the whole State Frame of this Kingdom and Nation as the Statute of 1 Iac. c. 2. resolves and we finde by woful experience Whether the Army Council of Officers have not most exemplarily and satisfactorily performed this part of their last printed Declaration 27 Octob. 1659. p. 28. We earnestly desire and shall endeavour That a full and through Reformation of the Law may be effected by their new Committee of Safeties imperious Order sent to Mr. Dudley Short a Citizen of London whom Mr. Thurlo whiles Secretary committing close Prisoner to a M●ssenger several weeks so as neither his wife nor friends could have any access unto him upon a meer Trepan and supposed matter of Account between him and a Scotsman with whom he traded enforcing him at last ere released to enter into a Bond of 6000 l. with sufficient security for appearing before the Council of State to go in person into Scotl. when ever he should be required ordering him to go into Scotland soon after under pain of forfeiting his 6000 l. bond upon his own expence where after many weeks attendance and frequent examinations before the Council there touching this account the Scotsman appeared to be indebted to him above 120l whereupon he was dismissed thence For which most unjust vexation oppression and false Imprisonment against the Great Charter c. 29. the Petition of Right with other Acts and the late Statute of 17 Caroli c. 10. For Regulating the Privy Council to Mr. Shorts great expence losse of trade reputation and his damage of Ten thousand pounds as he declared he brought his Action at law in the Common Pleas Court which was set down to be tried at Guildhall the 12. of this November Whereupon Mr. Thurlo procured an express Order from the new Committee of Safety wherein they presume to indemnifie him by their exorbitant arbitrary power against this action of false Imprisonment and to enjoyn the Plaintiff both to surcease and release his sute and never to prosecute it more and command his Counsel Attorney Sollicitor the Judge himself and all other Officers not to proceed therein at their utmost peril upon this ground because if this Trial should proceed any others of the late and present Council of State might have actions brought against them for illegal commitments and imprisonments Upon this the Officers of the Count refused to seal his Record for the Triall and his Attorney and Counsel durst not proceed for fear of being layd by the heels Whereupon he complained against this abuse and moved for a triall in open Court urged these Statutes with the Statutes of 2 E. 3. c. 2. 20 E. 3. c. 1 2. and the Judges Oath That it shall not be commanded by the great Seal nor little Seal to disturb or delay common right And though such commandements do come the Justices shall not therefore cease to do right in any point And that the Justices shall not deny nor delay to no man common Right by the Kings Letters nor none other mans nor for none other cause And in case any Letters come to them contrary to Law they shall do nothing by such Letters and go forth to do the Law notwithstanding such Letters And pressing the Judge to doe him right accordingly and to give him an answer in open Court yet their Order countermanded these Statutes and Judges Oath So that no man though never so unjustly committed oppressed grieved by the Old and New Council of State to his ruine shall have any remedy at all against them since they may thus indemnify each other against all Actions commenced And if they bring an Habeas Corpus for their enlargement and be bayled according to Law by the Judges the new Gardians of our Liberties Preservers of our Safety and Thorough Reformers of our Lawes by extirpating them root and branch will even in the very face of the Court as soon as they have put in bayl in contempt of Law and Justice command Soldiers and their Serjeant at Arms by new Orders to arrest and carry them to other Prisons as they did Mr. Nuport and Mr. Halsey on the 18. of this instant November notwithstanding they had put in bail of ten thousand pounds a piece for their peaceable deportment Yea if any henceforth move for Habeas Corporaes they will remove them unto New Prisons or Gards of Souldiers or send them into Forein parts to prevent their returns and enlargement by our Laws as some have been newly dealt with by these New full through Reformers of the Laws Whether these very first-fruits of their full and through pretended Reformation of our Laws