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A81579	The declaration, vindication, and protestation, of Edward Dobson, citizen, and stationer, of London. VVherein is shewed the many illegall and unjust imprisonments which the said stationer hath suffered, through the malicious and envious informations of Brownists, Anabaptists, Antinomians, and other seditious sectaries: contrary to the lawes of God, the liberty of the subject, and the lawes of the land, all which have been protested, and covenanted to be maintained with lives and fortunes. Together with the manner of his coming from Worcester to Northampton, and of his barbarous usage there, by the governour and others, contrary to the declaration published in the names of the two kingdomes, upon the sincerity of which he did depend. Also a relation of his illegall imprisonment upon a pretended suspition of bringing a saw to the Irish Lords (as is most scandalously published) for their escape out of the Tower.	Dobson, Edward, 17th cent.	1644 (1644)	Wing D1751; Thomason E257_8; ESTC R212485	8,262	8

with the ruines their breaking downe the railes spoiling the Communion Table pulling down Pulpits as if they intended to set u a tub or barrell to preach in and which is worst of all their picking the poores box and stealing their bread from off the shelfe which is their prime aime at their first coming into the Churches to plunder And as if the ills that they had already done could not be safe but by attempting greater they proceed further by laying violent hands on the Ministers tearing the Surplice off their backs trampling the Book of Common Prayer under feet the abuse of which ought to be punished according to the Lawes with great severity Yet have not the two Houses of Parliament declared their dislike nor punished any since the Kings departure as ever I could heare The Philosopher sayes Qui vitia non prohibet jubet approbat Those that conuive at vices and do not punish them approve of and command them But let us consider further what non-fence false Doctrine and blasphemie is preached up and downe the City by these orbicular Independents lumps of ignorance and sillie fellowes in black most of them being ignominious and contemptible Mechanicks It was Ierobohams sin in making the meanest and vilest of the people Priests and I pray God that it be not the two Houses sin in suffering the meanest and the vilest of the people to preach and to make themselves Priests even such as are Tinkers Weavers Brewers Bakers religious Sowgelders and Button-makers But to leave this and come to the illegality of my own imprisonments The cause then of my first imprisonment was for selling a Book intituled A Declaration of the Practises and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex against Her Majesty c. This Book was published by the authority of Queene Elizabeth and the whole State in the yeare 1600. For this booke so lawfully licensed was I most unlawfully sent to Newgate by Isaac Pennington the Traitor and pretended Major as the King stiles him during my imprisonment in Newgate one Clarke a pretended Constable with his rabble forces the key of my shop from me then goes to my shop and because he could not open my shop doore quickly breakes it open and fals to plundering where he tooke a sword and gold belt a Set of Pictures Sir Edward Deerings Speeches twelve of the aforesaid Books and a Bible saying that I was a Malignant and that they were Malignants goods for such they make those and their goods that have any thing to lose and that he would carrie them to the Lord Majors but whether he did or no I leave to his owne conscience which best knowes I am sure I received them not again although I have used all possible meanes that may be Now whether this be the Liberty of the Subject I appeale to all the world or whether there be such a thing as liberty left us in London unlesse libertie to plunder or if when they say libertie they do not equivocate and mean imprisonment bondage and slaverie For they have Maxims ex contrariis to fight for the King and yet shoot great Cannon shot at him destroy his Person and yet preserve the King that treason cannot be committed against his Person but his Power which Power the two Houses are and therefore D. Lopus and Parry who attempted to destroy Queene Elizabeths Person were not traitors but died verie innocent and the learned Judges who condemned them as guiltie of high treason did them great injustice so did the Judges who judged the Earle of Essex this mans Father guiltie of high Treason for attempting and endeavouring to take away evill Councellours from Queen Elizabeth as appears by the Earle of Essex's Defence and their Replie The Defence For my part I intended no hurt to Her Majesties Person but onely to take away her evill Councellours c. The Replie The Judges delivered their opinion in matter of Law upon two points The one That in case where a Subject doth attempt to put himselfe into such a strength as the King shall not be able to resist him and to force and compell the King to governe otherwise then according to his owne royall authority and direction 't is manifest rebellion The other That in every rebellion the Law extendeth as a consequence the compassing the death and deprivation of the King as foreseeing that the Rebell and Traytor will never suffer the King to live or raigne which might punish or take revenge of his Treason and Rebellion And therefore this is not onely the sense of the Law but even common reason and experience teacheth as much For the Subjects never obtained a superioritie over their King but immediately followed the death and deposition of the King as in the example of Edward the second and Richard the second But to returne to any owne occasion I wonder what Clarke or any of these holy pious and religious plunderers who rob men in the feare of the Lord and under a collour of Religion and long Prayer devour Widdowes houses will answer Christ at the day of Judgement when he will say I commanded you that you should not covet rob nor plunder your neighbours Why did you Why truly Lord I was told that they were Malignants and that their goods were Malignant goods blendes Lord I had an Ordinance of Parliament for what I did then Let them see whether their pleading that their neighbours were Malignants or that their Ordinance or rather Patent to plunder will beare them out at that day for the breach of Gods Commandements But these franticke Brownists and wild Ambaptists have learn'd new Maxims of Divinity as first That the dominion of things is founded in grace and not in nature from whence they conclude that they may rob the wicked as they say the Isrealits did the Egyptians Secondly that the wicked are usurpers and that they onely have right to the creatures being as they stile themselve● the meek of the earth but not to insist on these things and come to the second cause of my imprisonment which was For beating one Nicholas Tew an Anabaptist for saying The King had none but Rogues about him and for asking him with what conscience he could say so he having taken the late Protestation to defend the Kings Honour For this by the information of the said Tew and one Thomas Andrews an arrant honest man was I apprehended and had before Isaac Pennington my old friend who committed me to Woodstreet Compter and the next day was sent with a Rabble to the Parliament House from thence I made my escape to Oxford after my departure they plundered me of all the Ware in my Shop to the value of above one hundred pounds besides my wearing Cloathes and contrary to the rules of good huswifery left not so much as an egge in the nest for the henne to sit upon not content with this they make a further gradation to perpetrate their

THE DECLARATION VINDICATION AND PROTESTATION OF EDWARD DOBSON Citizen and Stationer of LONDON VVherein is shewed the many illegall and unjust impri●onments which the said Stationer hath suffered through the mali●ious and envious informations of Brownists Anabaptists Antinomians and other seditious Sectaries contrary to the Lawes of God the Liberty of the Subject and the Lawes of the Land all which have beene Protested and Covenanted to be maintained with Lives and Fortunes Together with the manner of his coming from Worcester to Northampton and of his barbarous usage there by the Governour and others contrary to the Declaration published in the names of the two Kingdomes upon the sincerity of which he did depend Also a Relation of his illegall imprisonment upon a pretended suspition of bringing a Saw to the Irish Lords as is most scandalously published for their escape out of the Tower Poenas profundi fraudes Capitisque Rotundi Et Judae suavium det Deus ut caveam Deliver me O God I pray from all that is amisse Hells punishment Roundheads coz'ning and from a Judas kisse Possumus quod jure possumus Max. Leg. They have sworne falsly in making a Covenant Hosea 10.3 4. novemb 6th BRISTOLL but indeed London Printed in the Yeere M.DC.XLIIII The Declaration Vindication and Protestation of EDVVARD DOBSON Citizen and Stationer of LONDON IF according to the old Proverb Loosers may speak by authority then may not I be silent considering the many pressures and oppressions the arbitrary and tyraunicall Government usurped by my fellow-Subjects but exercised over me and other His Majesties loyall Subjects by reason whereof we are fallen to as sad if not sadder condition then the Athenians under their thirty Tyrants Those then that would have beheld these men at the beginning of this Parliament and have marked with what zeale and hast they went to Westminster to cry Justice Justice against the Earle of Strafford for bringing an arbitrary and tyrannicall government into Ireland would have little thought that ever they themselves would have exercised the same government in England over their fellow-Subjects as now they doe So that they stand not upon the Quid but the Qualis what persons For so long as themselves rule they are content It seemes that they have learned some Maxime of humane policie To hate and decline that in others that they may with the more security and lesse suspition accomplish the same to themselves This arbitrary and tyrannicall government doth very ill beseem a Prince the Earle of Strafford in Ireland or any other Noblemen but doth become Weavers Basket-makers or such kind of Mechanicks in England very well So the Irish Rebellion is called a horrid and bloudy action a cruell warre but the English and Scotch Rebellion is stiled a holy and just Warre the good Cause a fighting the Lords Battells the maintenance of Religion Lawes and Liberty So the Kings tax of Ship-money was counted an illegall imposition a heavy burden and a great grievance because it was taken without the consent of the three Estates in Parliament But the taking though in the same manner the twentieth and fift part of mens estates besides Excise plunder and other illegall Taxes are no burden no grievance but a great ease to the people So the Oath ex Officio though legall w●s a great burden and oppression to mens consciences because it betrayed Off●nders into the hands of Justice But the Scorch and English Covenant though forced with the greatest severity or rather the French League is no offence no scruple at all but a great ease to mens consciences So the silenci●g ignorant illiterate seditious and factious Ministers by the Bishops was stiled a Prelaticall persecution an Antichristian Tyranny and a stopping the mouths of Gods faithfull Ministers But the silencing imprisoning and plundering of learned and pious D. Featly D. Holdsworth M. Vdall and many other Orthodox and Protestant Divines unblameable untill these th … s is nothing with them but the suppression of Popery and Popish Ministers for such they term● all who hold and conforme themselves to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church established by Law And thus have they learned like the Jewes to put darknesse for light and l ght for darknesse to call evill good and good evill It is not unknowne to the world how by their scanda●ous and lying Pamphlets they labour daily to possesse the people of the Kings intention to bring in Popery And what is this think we but onely that they in the interim may with the lesse suspition and more security bring in Atheisme Heresie and all Sects and Schismes which have beene ever since Christ How have they trampled under Feet the Temporall and Ecclesiasticall Lawes As by imprisoning of mens bodies plundering and taking from them their estates and robbing their King of his Forts Townes Navies Magazines and Militia How do they obey Christ who says Render to Caesar though a Heathen the things that are Caesars when they take all from him It is not give to Caesar but render implying that Kings live not upon the gifts and almes of their Subjects but that they have as great if not greater right to their Revenues as Subjects to their goods With what conscience then can the two Houses usurpe the Militia which by the Scripture hath for many yeares belonged to the disposing of Kings as appeares by that Text in 2 Sam. 18.1 David the King set or made Captains over Fifties Hundreds and Thousands It doth not say his great Councell or his Parliament nay the word Parliament is not to be found in all the Scriptures and we know that Parliaments had their originall and being from Kings What monsters then are they that would undermine depose and destroy those that gave them their being Are they any better then vipers who eat out the bowels of their mothers I speake not this of a free Parliament there was never any King deposed or wronged by a free Parliament neither is it de Jure in the power of a Parliament for God sayes plainly By me Kings rule or raigne Prov. 8.15 He doth not say by Parliaments or by the peoples authority nor are they accomptable to their Subjects in case of errour or faults but onely to God as is most cleare in King David who though he sinned against man yet appealed onely to God saying Against thee against thee onely have I sinned c. Psal 51. I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12.13 And whereas King Richard the second is instanced and objected I answer That the deposing of King Richard to the scandall of this Nation was an act of high Treason upon the fairest relation I will now speake something concerning the abuses of the Church and then of my owne And first let us consider the sacriledge profanenesse and many insolencies offered in Gods house by the Parliaments souldiers as they are commonly called as their hewing and hacking downe the stone-workes as if they intended to build their Babel