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A91236	An old parliamentary prognostication made at Westminster, for the new-yeer, and young members there assembled in consultation. Fore-shewing the probable finall issue of all their intended new moddles, acts, and ordinances, from four old printed statutes, and abortive nulled Parliaments, not unworthy of their knowledg most serious consideration & saddest meditation; (and the whole three kingdoms too,) in regard of the present face of our publike affairs.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4024; Thomason E818_11; ESTC R207393	5,207	8

Liberties of the Commons of this Realm by the means and labours of the seditious persons whereby many great Jeopardies Enormities and inconveniences well nigh to the ruin decay and universall subversion of the said Realm have ensued our said ●overaigne Lord the King considering the premises and that the said Lords Estates and other his leige people against whom the said Acts Statutes and Ordinances were made have always had great and faithfull love to the preferment and surety of the Kings person according to their duty and that few of the Acts made in the said Parliament holden at Coventry were made for the weale of the King nor of his said Realm but the greater part of the Acts Statutes Ordinances there made were laboured by the conspiracy procurement excitation of the said evill disposed persons for the introduction and accomplishment of their rancor and inordinate covetise By the advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and at the request of the said Commons in the said Parliament assembled and by the same Authority hath ordained and established That the said Parliament holden at the said City of Coventry be void and holden for no Parliament and that all Acts Statutes and ordinances by the Authority of the same made be reversed adnulled undone repealed revoked voyd and of no force nor effect 17 Ed. 4 Chap 7 Whereas in the most dolorous absence of our Soveraigne Lord the King out of this Realm being in the partis of Holland before his victorious regress into the same Realm in a pretenced Parliament unlawfully and by usurped power summoned by the Rebell and enemy to our Soveraigne Lord the King Henry 8 late in deed not of right King of England holden in the Palace of Westminster the 26 day of November the 9th year of our Soveraigne Lord the King that now is under the coloured title of the said Henry the xlx year of the inchoation of his pretenced Reigne and the first year of the redeption of his usurped power and estate divers and many matters were treated communed and wrought to the destruction and disherison of our Soveraigne Lord the King and of his blood royall by the labour and exhortation of persons not fearing God nor willing to be under the rule of any earthly Prince but inclined of sensuall appetite to have the whole governance and rule of this Realm under their power and domination which communications treaties and workings doth remain in writing and some exemplified whereby many inconveniences may ensue to our said Soveraigne Lord the King and his blood royall which God defend and all Noble men at this time attending about the King and all his other leige people and Subjects unless due remedy be provided in this behalf Our said Soveraigne Lord the King by the assent of the Lords spirituall and temporal and at request of the Commons in the said Parliament assembled and by Avthority of the same for the surety of his noble person his noble issue and the inheritable success of the same and for the surety of all the Lords Noblemen and other his servants and subjects hath ordained and stablished that the said pretenced Parliament with all the continuances and circumstances depending upon the same be void and of none effect and that all acts statutes ordinances treaties communications conventions and workings in the said pretenced Parliament treated communed accorded wrought had or by the Authority of the same Parliament enacted and ordained and all exemplifications made upon the same or any part of them and every of them shall be reversed cancelled voyd undone revoked repealed and of no force nor effect Ezek 17. 26. 27. Thus saith the Lord God remove the Diadem and take off the Crown this shall not be the same exalt him that is low and abase him that is high I will overturn overturn overturn it and it shal be no more until He come whose right it is and I will give it him Isai 29 14. 15. 16. Therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvelous work amongst this people even a marvelous work and a wonder for the wisdome of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shal be hid Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark and they say who seeth and who knoweth us Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potters clay Psal 92. 5. 6 7 8 9. O Lord how great are thy works and thy thoughts are very deep a bruitish man knoweth not neither doth a fool understand this when the wicked spring as the grass and all the works of iniquity do flourish it is that they shall be destroyed for ever but thou Lord art most high for ever more For lo thine enemies O lord for lo thine enemies shall perish all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered but my horn shalt thou advance as the horn of an Unicorn I shall be annointed with fresh oyl Hab. 2. 9. 10. 12. Wo to him that coveteth an evill covetousness to his house that he may set his nest on high that he may be delivered from the power of evil Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people and hast sinned against thy soul VVo to him that buildeth a Town with blood and stablisheth a City by iniquity Isai 17. 12. 13. 14. VVo to the multitude of many Nations which make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters The Nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters but God shall rebuke them and they shall fl●e far off and shall be chased as the chaffe of the Mountains before the winde and like a rolling thing before the whirl wind and behold at evening tide trouble and before the morning he is not This is the portion of them that spoils us and the lot of them that rob us Dan. 8 23. 24. 25. And in the latter time of their kingdom when the transgressions are come to the full a King of fierce countenance and understanding dark sentences shall stand up And his power shall be mighty but not by his own power and he shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper and practice and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand and he shall magnifie himself in and by peace shall destroy many he shall also stand up against the Prince of Princes but he shall be broken without hand Ezek. 13. 5. 10. to 16. Ye have nor gone up into the gaps neither made up the hedg for the house of Israel to stand in the battell in the day of the Lord. Because even because they have seduced my people saying peace and there was no peace and one built up a wall and lo others daubed it with untempred morter Say unto them which daub it with nutempred morter that it shall fall there shall be an overflowing showre and ye O great hail stones shall fall and a stormy wind shall rent it Lo when the wall is fallen shall it not be said unto you where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it Therefore thus saith the Lord God I will even rent it with stormy wind in my fury and there shall be an overflowing showre in mine anger and great hail stones in my fury to consume it So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempred morter and bring it down to the ground so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered and it shall fall and the shall be consumed in the midst thereof and yee shall know that I am the Lord. Thus wil I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon them that have daubed it with untempred morter and will say unto you the wall is no more neither they that daubed it Gal. 5. 14. Am I therfore become your enemy becaus I tel you the truth Psal 107. 43. Whoso is wise and wil observe these things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. FINIS

AN OLD PARLIAMENTARY PROGNOSTICATION MADE AT WESTMINSTER FOR THE NEW-YEER and YOVNG MEMBERS there assembled in Consultation Fore-shewing The probable Finall issue of all their intended new Moddles Acts and Ordinances from four Old Printed Statutes and Ahortive nulled Parliaments not unworthy of their knowledg most Serious Consideration saddest Meditation and the whole three Kingdoms too in regard of the present Face of our publike Affairs Prov. 24. 20 21 22. There shal be no reward to the evil man the lamp of the wicked shal be put out My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change For their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruin of them both Isai 8. 9 10 11 12 13. Associate your selves O yee people and yee shal be broken in pieces take Counsel together and it shal come to nought speak the word and it shal not stand for God is with us For the Lord spake thus to me with a strong hand and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people Saying say ye not A Confederacy to all them to whom this people shal say A Confederacy neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid Sanctifie the LORD OF HOSTS HIMSELF and let him be your fear and let him be your dread Isai 19. 13. 14 The Princes of Zoan are become fools the Princes of Noph are deceived they have also seduced Egypt even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof The lord hath mingled a spirit of perversness in the midst therof they have caused Egypt to err ●n every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit London printed for the Yeer 1655 An Old Parliamentary Prognostication made at Westminster for the New Yeer and Young Members there assembled in CONSVLTATION Prov. 19. 20. Hear Counsel and receive Instruction that thou maist be wise in thy latter end Eccles 1. 15 The thing which hath been is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the Sun 7. Henry 4. Chap. 3. ITem Whereas the Munday next after the Feast of the Exaltation of the holy Cross St●t 1. Printed in the old Stat●tes at large the 2● year of the Reigne of the said late King Richard a Parliament was summoned and holden at Westminster and from thence adjourned to Salop at which Town a certain power was committed by authority of the Parliament to certain persons to proceed upon certain Articles and matters comprised in the Roll of the Parliament thereof made as by the same Roll may appear in which Parliament and also by Authority aforesaid divers Statu tes Judgments Ordinances and Stablishments were made ordained and given erroniously and dolefully in great disinherison and finall destruction and undoing of many honorable Lords and other l●ige people of the Realm and of their heirs for ever Our Soveraigne Lord the K●●g considering the great mischiefs aforesaid by the advice and assent of all the Lords Spiritual and temporal and of all the Commonalty hath judged the said Parliament holden the said 21 yeare and the authority thereof given as afore is said with all the circumstances and dependants thereupon be wholly reversed revoked voided undone repealed and adnulled for ever 31. Henry 6. Chap. 1. Whereas the most abominable Tyrant horrible odious and errant false Traytor John Cade calling and naming himself sometime Mortimer sometime Captain of Kent which name fame act and feats be to be removed out of the speech and mind of every faithfull Christian man perpetually falsly and trayterously purposing and imagining the perpetuall destruction of the Kings said person and finall subversion of this Realm taking upon him royall power and gathering to him the Kings people in great number by false subtil imagined language and seditiously made a stirring rebellion and insurrection under colour of justice for reformation of the Laws of the said King robbing slaying and spoyling great part of his faithfull people Our said Soveraigne Lord the King considering the promises with many other which were more odious to remember by advice and assent of the Lords aforesaid and at request of the said Commont and by authority aforesaid hath ordained and stablished that the said John Cade shall be reputed had named and declared a fase Traytor to our soveraigne Lord the King and that all his Tyranny Acts Feats and false opinions shall be voided abated adnulled destroyed and put out of remembrance for ever and that all indictments and all things depending thereof had and made under the the power of Tyrany shall likewise be void adnulled abated repealed holden for none that the blood of none of them be thereof defiled nor corrupted but by the authority of the said Parliament clearly declared for ever And that all indictments in time coming in like case under power of Tyrany Rebellion and stirring had shall be of no record nor effect but void in Law and all the petitions delivered to the said King in his last Parliament holden at Westminster the 6th day of November the 29 year of his reigne against his mind by him not agreed shall be taken and put in oblivion out of remembrance undone voided adnulled and destroyed for ever as a thing purposed against God and conscience ann against his royall estate and preheminence ana also dishonorable 39. Henry 6 Chap. 1 Whereas it hath been shewed to the King our soveraign Lord by his Leige and faithfull Commons in this present Parliament that divers seditious and evill desposed persons having no regard to the dread of God nor to the damage of the prosperous estate of our said soveraigne Lo●d the King nor his Realm sinistrely and importunely did labour the said King to summon a Parliament to be holden at the City of Coventry the second day of the Month of November the 38. year of his noble Reigne only to destroy certain of the great Nobles faithfull and lawfull Lords and estates of the Kings bloud and other of the faithfull leige people of the same realm of England for the great rancor hatred and malice which the said seditious persons of long time have had against them and of their greedy and insatiable covetise to have the Lands Hereditaments possessions offices and goods of the said Lords and faithful liege peoyle by which sinister labour certain Acts Statutes and ordinances against all good faith and conscience in the said Parliament were made finally to destroy the said lawful Lords estates and liege people and their issues as well innocents as other and their Heirs for ever which parliament was unduely summoned and a great part of the Knights for divers Countyes of this Realm and many Burgesses and Citizens for divers Boroughs and Cities in the same appearing were named returned and excepted some of them without due and free election some of them without any election against the course of the Kings Laws and the