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A56140 A breife memento to the present vnparliamentary ivnto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute Charles Stewart, their lawful King / by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1649 (1649) Wing P3910; ESTC R33477 13,459 18

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A BREIFE MEMENTO To the present VNPARLIAMENTARY IVNTO Touching their present intentions and Proceedings to Depose and Exeute CHARLES STEWART their lawfull KING By William Prynne Esquire a Member of the House of Commons and PRISONER under the Armyes Tyrany who it seemes have leavyed Warre against the Houses of Parliament their quondam Masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine Captives during their lawlesse Pleasures Proverb 24. 21 22. My Son Feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those who are given to Change for their calamity shall RISE SVDDENLY and who knoweth the ruine of them both Gal. 1.10 If I yet pleased men I should not be the Servant of Christ LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1649. Die Veneris 20. Aug. 1647. An Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both houses since the force on both Houses July 26. until the sixth of this present August 1647. to be nul and void VVHereas there was a visible horrid insolent and actual force upon the Houses of Parliament on Munday the 26 of July last where upon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could not returne to sit in safety before Fryday the sixth of August It is therefore declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled that the Ordinance of Munday the said 26 Iuly for the repealing making voyd of the Ordinance of the 23 of the said Iuly for the setling of the Militia of the City of London being gained by force and violence And all Votes Orders Ordinances passed in either or both Houses of Parliament since the said Ordinance of the 26 of Iuly to the said sixt of August are nul and void and were so at the making thereof and are hereby declared so to be the Parliament being under a force and not free Provided alwayes and be it ordained that no person or persons shall be impeached or punished for his or their actions by or upon or according to the aforesaid Votes Orders or Ordinances unlesse he or they shall be found guilty of contriving acting or abetting the aforesaid visible and actual force or being present at or knowing of the said force did afterwards act upon the Votes so forced or were guilty of entring into or promoting the late Ingagement for bringing the King to the City upon the tearmes and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last Iohn Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A breif Memento to the present Vnparliamentary Iunto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and Execute CHARLES STEVVARD their lawfull King of ENGLAND c. GENTLEMEN IT is the observation of King Solomon Prov 25.11 That a word spoken in due season is like Apples of Gold in pictures of silver And seeing I and above two hundred Members more being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparaleld violence upon our Persons and the House cannot speak my mind freely to you in or as the House of Commons I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you only as private Persons under the force consulting in a House without your Fellow-Members advice or concurrence about the speedy deposing and executing of KING CHARLES your lawfull Soveraigne to please the Generall Officers and Grand Councel of the Army who have unjustly usurped to them the supream Authority both of King and Parliament or rather the Iesuits and Popish Priests among or neare them by whose Councels they and you are now wholly swayed and whose trayterous designes you really execute in most of your late Votes and Actings I have only a few words and considerations to impart unto you Dictum sapienti sat est First I shall minde you that by the Common Law of the Realme the Statute of 25 E. 3. and all other Acts concerning Treason it is no lesse then High Treason for any Man by overt act to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of the King or of his eldest Son and Heire though it be never executed much more if actually accomplished That many have been arraigned condemned executed for such intended Treasons in former ages as the Earle of Arundell and others by judgement in Parliament 21. R. 2. Plac Coronae N. 4.6.7 and the Gunpouder Traytors 3. Jacobi to omit others whose Examples should be others admonitions the Heads and Quarters of some of them yet hanging on the Houses where you now meet and sit 2dly That in the Oath of Allegiance which you have all taken immediately before your admission into the House as Members You doe truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in your consciences before God and the World That our Soveraigne Lord King Charles Is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries And that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any Other meanes Nor any other hath any power or authority to Depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to discharge any of his Subiects of his Allegiance and Obedience to his Maiesty or to give leave to any of them to offer any violence to His Maiesties Person State or Government And that notwithstanding any sentence or Declaration of Deprivation made by the Pope c. or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience you will beare true allegiance to His Majestie His heires and successors and him and them wil defend to the uttermost of your power Against all attempts and conspiracies whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or Declaration or otherwise And do thereby further swear that you do from your harts abhor detest and abiure as impious and Hereticall that damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their Subiects or any other whatsoever And that you doe belive and in conscience are resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve you of this Oath or any part thereof and that all these things you did plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words and their plain and common sence without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secrèt reservation whatsoever And that you did make this Rècognition acknowledgement heartily willingly truly upon thè true faith òf a Christian Now whether your present actings intentions against the King be not diametrically repugnant to this solemn Oath which most of you have taken sithence these wars some of you since the Treaty when sworn Sejeants at Law c. let God and the world before whom you sware and your own consciences in which you then swore determine