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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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