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A56138	A briefe memento to the present un-parliamentary junto touching their present intentions and proceedings, to depose & execute Charles Steward, their lawfull King. By William Prynne Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons, and prisoner under the Armies tyranny; who, it seemes, have levyed war against the Houses of Parliament, their quandam-masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine captives, during their lawfull pleasures.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3909A; ESTC R203360	14,504	18

A BRIEFE MEMENTO To the present VN-PARLIAMENTARY IUNTO Touching their present Intentions and Proceedings to Depose Execute CHARLES STEWARD their lawfull KING By William Prynne Esquire a Member of the House of Commons and Prisoner under the Armies Tyranny who it seemes have Levyed War against the Houses of Parliament their quandam-Mastersswhose Members they now forcibly take and detaine Captives during their lawfull Pleasur●… PROV. 24. 21 23. My Sonne Feare thou the Lord and the King and m●…ddle not with those who are given to Change For their calamitie shall Rise Suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both GAL. 1. 10. If I yet pleased men I shou'd not be the Servant of Christ LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1648. Die Veneris 20. August 1647. An Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both Houses since the force on both Houses Iuly 26. untill the sixth of this present August 1647. to be null and voyd VVHereas there was a Visible Horrid Insolent and Actuall sorce upon the Houses of Parliament on Munda●… the 26. of July last wherupon 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 return to sit in safety before Friday the sixt of August It is therefore declared by the Lords Commons in Parliament Assembled That the Ordinance of Munday the said 26. of July for the repealing and making voyd of the Ordinance of the 23. of the said July for the setling of the 〈◊〉 of the Citie 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 July to the said sixt of August are null 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 guiltie of contriving acting or abetting the aforefaid visible and actuall 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 Citie upon the ●…armes and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A breif Memento to the present Vnparliamentary Iunto touching their present intentions and proceedings to Depose and Execute CHARLES STEWARD their law●…ull King of ENGLAND c. Gentlem●… IT is the observation of King Solomon Pro. 25. 11. That a word spoken in due season is like Apples of Gold and Pictures of Silver And seeing I and above two hundred Members more being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparale●…d violence upon our Persons and the House cannot speake my mind ●…reely to you in or as the House of Commons I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you only as private P●…rsons under a force consulting in the House without your Fellow-Members advice or concurrence about the speedy deposing and execu●…ing of KING CHARLES your lawfull Soveraigne to please the Generall Officers and Grand Councell of the Army●… who have unjustly usurped to them the supreame authority both of King and Parliament or rather the ●…suits and Popish Priests among or neare them by whose Councells they and you are now wholly swayed and whose trayterous designes you really execute in most of your late Votes and Actings I have onely a few words of consideration to impart unto you Dictum sapienti s●…t est First I shall minde you that by the Common Law of the Realme the Statute of 25. E. 3. and all other Act●… concerning Treason it is no lesse then High Treason fór any Man by over-Act to compasse or imagine the depositio●… or death of the King or of his eldest Son and Heire though it be never executed much more if actuasly accomplished That many have bin arraigned conde●…ned executed for such intended Treasons in former ages as the Earle of Arundell and others by Iudgement in Parliament 21. R. 2. Plac. Coronae N. 46. 7. and the Gunpowder Traytors 3. Iacobi to omit others whose Examples should be others admo●…ions the Heads and Quarters of some of them yet hanging on the Houses where now you meete and si●… 2ly That in the Oath of Allegiance which you have all taken immediatly 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 Charl●…s Is lawfull an●… rightfull 〈◊〉 of this 〈◊〉 and of all other His Majesties Dominions and Countries And hat 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 ●…thority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to discharge any of His Subjects of H●…s Allegiance and obedience to His 〈◊〉 or to give leave to any of them to offer any violence to His 〈◊〉 Person State or Gover●…ent And that notwithstandiug any sentence or Declaration of Depri●…ation 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 w●…ll defend to the utmost of your power Against all attempts and 〈◊〉 whatsoever which shall be made against his or their P●…rsons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise And doe thereby further sweare that you doe from your hearts abhor detest and abjure as impious and Herericall that damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by tht Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And that you doe ●…lieve and in conscience are resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whats●…ever hath power to 〈◊〉 you of this D●…th 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 secret reservation whatsoever And that you did make this Recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly truly upón the true faith of a Christian Now whether your present actings intentions against the King ●…e not diametrically repugnant to this so●…emn Oath which most of you have taken 〈◊〉 ●…hese warrs som of you since the Treaty when 〈◊〉 Serjea●…ts at 〈◊〉 c. let God and the World before whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 owne Consciences in which you then

it being against Magna Charta as the * Barons declared in Parl. Anno Dom. 1257. in the reigne of K. H. the 3d. for a few Members to sit when the rest are absent 6thly Consider that though many of the Kings of Judah and Israel were extraordinary sinfull and Idolators bloody and tyrannicall great oppressors of their people yea shedders of Priests of Prophets and other good mens innocent blood not onely in the wars but in pe●…ce yet there is not one president in the Old Testament of any one King ever juditially impeached arraigned deposed or put to death by the Congregation Sanhedrin or Parliaments of Judah or Israel That those who slew any of them in a tumultuous or treacherous manner were for the most part slaine themselves either in a tumult or * else put to death by their Children who succeded to the Crow●…e or people of the Land and that the Israelites after their revolt from Rehoboam had never any one good King or good day almost among them but were over-run with Idolatry prophanenesse tyranny iuvaded by enemies involved in perpetuall warres Civill or Forraigne and at last all destroyed and carried away Captives into Babylon at the Books of Kings and Chronicles will informe you That the rule in the old Testament is not to take any wicked Kings from their Thrones and behead them but * Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse And the Rule in the New Testament To be subject to Kings and the Higher Powers and to submit unto●… them even for conscience and the Lords sake and to make Prayers Supplications and Intercessions for them that under them we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour not to depose or shed their blood for which there is no precept And is not this plaine way of God the safest for you and the Army to follow yea the onely short cut to Peace and settlement Ruminate upon it and then be wise both for your soules good and the Kingdomes too 7thly Consider that you now meet and sit under the armed force and violence of a mutinous Army who have leavied Warre against the Houses to dissolve them imprisoned many of your Members forbly secluded more and driven away almost all from the Houses That till the removall of this horrid force and re-assembling of all your scattered Members with freedom and safety in the Houses all you Vote Act Order or Ordaine by the Armies own Doctrine in their Remonstrance of Aug. 18. and the Declaration and Ordinance of both Houses made at the Armies instance Aug. 20. 1647. is null and void even at and from the time it was voted acted ordered ordained a●…d so declared by your selves even by this unrepealed Ordinance and by former Parliaments to as 21. R. 2. c. 12. 1. H. 4. c. 3. 31 H. 6. c. 1. 39. H. ●… c. 1. And however you may take upon you the name and power of the Houses of Parliament and unvote vote order and ordaine what you please yet take it for an infallible truth that none of the * secluded and absent Members none of the Counties Cities and Borroughs for which they serve nor those for whom you serve and represent nor yet the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland who have as great or greater a share and interest in the person of the King as their lawfull Soveraigne and are engaged by Oaths Covenant and all the forecited premises to protect his person and Crown with their lives and estates against all violence and danger with his Queen Child●…en and Allies in forraigne pa●…ts of what Religion soever will never own you in your present condition and constitution to be a Parliament but rather a Conventicle or Junto ' nor any thing you vote order or ordain to be * valid And therefore whatever you vote order or ordaine concerning the Treaty the deposing or executing the King the dis-heriting or banishing the Prince dissolving the present Parliament setting up a new confused Representative or new forme of State Government only to please the Office●… and Army or rather those Jesuits and popish Priests who have over-reached and instigated them forcibly to prosecute these their treasonable designes and accomplish this their long expected desire and work you must do only as private men not as a Parliament And if so what lesser offence then High Treason against the King Parliament and Kingdom your present actings and proceedings will prove in the conclusion if you persevere and persist in them I leave to a free Parliament the learned Judges and all Lawyers now sitting and voting among you to consider and resolve Which the Officers and Councell of the Army considering would cast the Odium and danger of all upon you the better to exempt and acquit themselves if after reckonings should come as probably they may and certainly will in Gods due time if you and they repent not Give over and crave pardon ere it be over late 8Iy Remember That no Protestant Kingdome or State ever yet defiled their hands or stained the purity and Honour of their Reformed Religion with the deposition or blood of any of their Kings or Princes much lesse of a Protestant King or Prince of a temperate and sober life as the King is who never immediatly imbrued his own hands in any one mans blood in any tyrannical or bloody way before or since the wars for ought I can heare but only in a Military And for a reforming Protest Parl pretending the most of any to piety Religion to stain their profession or honour by the deposition or defile their hands with the blood of a Protest King or for an army of Saints to do it or they to please a Saint●… seeming Army and that against so many forementioned Oaths Protestations Declarations Remonstrances Solemne Leagues Covenants one after another to the contrary would be such an unparalleld scandall to the Protest Religion and all professors of it who have upbraided the Jesuits and Papists with this perfidious and treasonable practise of which they have bin deeply guilty and themselves innocent both in our own 3. Kingdoms the whole Christian world as would give the greatest occasion advantage and encouragement to the Jesuits Papists and all licentious persons to joyne their hands heads purses to suppresse and extirpate it and all the professions of it both at home and abroad that ever yet they had and make Parliaments for ever hereafter execrable and detestable both to Kings and People 9ly Consider that Scotland and Ireland are joyntenants at least wise Tenants in Common with us in the King as their Lawfull Soveraigne King as well as ours that the Scots delivered and left his per●…on to our Commissioners at New●…Wstle upon this expresse condition That no violence should be offered to his Person

swore determine you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Popes 〈◊〉 desigues 3dly That you●… s●…lves a●…ng 〈◊〉 Members have in above one hundred Remonstrances D●…clarations Peti●…ions Ordinances and Printed Papers pub●…ished in the name and by 〈◊〉 authority of one or both Houses of Parliament professed both to the King ●…himselfe Kingdome World and forraigne States that you never intended the least hurt injury or violence to the Kings Person Crowne Dignity or Posterity but intend to him and his Royall Posterity more honor Happinesse Glory and Greatnesse then ever was yet enjoyed by any of his Royall Predecessors That you will ever make good to the uttermost with your lives and fortunes the Faith and Allegiance which in truth and sincerity you have alwayes borne to His Majestie That you haue proposed no other ends to your selves but the performance of all Duty and Loyalty to His Majesties Person That all contributions and Loanes upon the Publique Fa●…th should be imployed onely to maintaine the Protestant Religion the Ki●…gs Authority His Person His Royall Dignity the Lawes of the Land Peace of the Kingdome and priviledges of Parliament ●…d not to be imployed against His Ma●…esties Person or Authority That the Armies and Forses raysed by the Houses were raysed for the 〈◊〉 and defence of the Kings Person of 〈◊〉 Houses of Parliament c. 〈◊〉 His Majesties personall 〈◊〉 honeur and greatnesse are much dearer to you then your owne lives and fortunes which you do●… most heartily dedicate shall most willingly imploy for the maintenance and support thereof Tha●… the Parliament will ev●…r have a care ●…o prevent a●…y 〈◊〉 w●…ich 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m●…y justly apprehend to His person That both Houses are resolved to 〈◊〉 their lives and 〈◊〉 ●…or the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the true Religion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Person 〈◊〉 and State the power and priviledges of Parli●…ment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 His 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 againg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an●… Army as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to witnesse their constant and 〈◊〉 Loyalty to His 〈◊〉 both Houses so solemnly declare That upon his disbanding his forces and return harkning to the advice of his Great Councell They wil really endeavour to make both him his as much beloved at ●…lome feared abroad as any Pr. that ever swayed this Scepter whic●… is their 〈◊〉 and constant Resolution from which they will not be diverted for any private or self-respects whatsoever That they will faithfully endeavour to secure his 〈◊〉 Person Crown from al dangers inculcating the apparent danger to his 〈◊〉 Pers●…n among his Popish and Malignants Armies ill Councellors upon that reason perswading and inviting him to desert them and close with his Parliament protesting that the Parliament hath bin is and ever will be more ready then they to secure and uphold the Authority Prerogative and Honour of the King and preserve the safety of his 〈◊〉 Person which they have oft times 〈◊〉 by many humble Petitions and Declarations to Him the World and Kingdome with many ot●…er such like expressions Which whether your present Actings and Councels do not directly oppose contradict and give the lye unto to your eternall infamy and breach of publike faith as much as in you lyes let both Houses the world and all men judge as they will do in due season Fourthly Consider that when the * King and his partie did tax the Houses for insinuating That if they should make the highest presidents of other Parliaments their patterne there would be no cause to complaine of want of modesty or duty in them That is th●…y m●…y 〈◊〉 the King 〈◊〉 they will and are not to be blamed for so doing and that the Army raised by the Parliament was to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 the King Both Houses by two solemne Declarations did most professedly declare and protest against it as the falsest and most malicio●… accusation that could be imagined that the thoughts of it never 〈◊〉 nor should enter into their loyall hearts That as God is witnesse of their thoughts so shall their actions witnesse to all the world that to the honor of our Religion of those who are most zealous in it they shall suffer far more for from their Soveraign then they hoped God would ever permit the malice of his wicked Councellors to put them to since the happinesse of the Kingdom doth so mainly depend upon His Majesty and the Royall Authority of that root That they hoped the contrivers of these false scandalous reports or any that professed the name of a Christian could not have so little charity as to raise such a scandall especially when they must needs know the Protestation made by the Members of both Houses whereby they promise in the presence of Almightie God to defend and preserve his Majesties Person The promise and Protestation made by the Members of both Houses upon the Nomination of the Lord of Essex to be Generall and to live and dye with him wherein is expressed * That this Army was raysed for defence of the Kings Person Their often earnest and most humble addresses to his Majestie to leave that desperate and 〈◊〉 Army wherewith he is now encompassed raysed and upheld to the hazard of his own and the Kingdoms 〈◊〉 to come in Person to his Par●…ment where he should be sure to remain in honour and safety and their humble petition directed to be presented to him by the hands of the Earle of Essex before any blow given to remove his Royall Person from the Army a request inconsistent with any purpose to 〈◊〉 th●… least violence to his Person which hath and ever shal be dear u●…to them Now put it to your Soules and Consciences whether yours the Armies present Councells and Actions do not really justifie the King and his parties former suggestions and give the Lye to these Declarations of both Houses who certainely when ever restored to a condition of freedome and libertie of meeting together againe will crave publike reparations and justice against you if you violate both their honour faith and engagements to the King Kingdome and forraign States against these their Declarations Protestations too Fifthly Remember * that the Lord and Commons Assembled in Parliament Octo. 22. 1642. did in the presence of Almightie God which the strongest obligation that any Christian and the most solemne publike faith that any state as a Parliament can give for the satisfaction of their own Consciences and discharge of that great trust that lyes upon them make this Protestation and Declaration to all this Kingdome and Nation and to the whole world That no private passion or respect No evill intention to his Majesties Person no designe to prejudice his just Honor and Authoritie engaged them to rayse forces or take up Armes That if he would return to his Parliament in peace and by their counsells and advise compose the distempers and confusions abounding in his Kingdomes They would receive him with all Honour yeeld him