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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58482	A two-inch board for M. Prynne to peep thorow being a full and satisfactory answer to a late libellous pamphlet ... called, A declaration of the officers and armies illegall &c. proceedings and practices against the XI impeached members ... : with ... a justification of the armies charge and proceedings against the XI impeached members, by law, president, and reason : with certaine considerable queries and observations upon the cities late tumultuous rebellious proceedings agaisnt the Parliament / vvritten by T.R., Gent.	T. R., Gent.	1647 (1647)	Wing R92; ESTC R11143	15,809	20

answer that if the King did recede or retract his charge against the five Members it proves not that the five Members were innocent no more then it argues that because a man Robbed will not prosecute the Theife he is guiltlesse nor doth or can it condemne the Army because they are more resolute in the prosecution against these eleven then the King was against those five What if my neighbour be content to remit or pretermit a Felonie c. for present because of some inconvenience lying in the way of prosecution and the same person having taken thereby encouragement or advantage to rob and spoyle mee I afterwards will prosecute him thereupon to Justice am I therefore injust No sure It is injust to say it But here I will prove that the King did never retract his charge against the five Members and that he did more then once or twice presse the house and most earnestly prosecute for their suspention and restriction For the first page 49. booke of Declarati The King in his message to both Houses concerning this very businesse saith That his Majestie takeing notice that some conceive it disputable whether his proceedings with the Lord Kymbolton Mr. Hollis c. be legal and agreeable to the priviledges of Parliament being very desirous to give satisfaction to all men c. is pleased to wave not retract his former proceedings and all doubts by this meanes being settled when the mindes of men are composed his Majestie * Nore and in booke Declar page 50. In another Message the same words are expressed will proceede thereupon in an unquestionable way But this settlement of doubts and composure of mens mindes it is evident Mr. Hollis and others indanger prevented by raising the storme higher and making the breach widder by which meanes his Maiesty could never enter upon that unquestionable way to make his Charge good against them Now judge I pray you if here was not a reserved resolution in the King of proceeding upon his charge and no retraction and I am perswaded there is so still if things settle and concurre albeit for present he waved it And it followes not because I say I will not call upon such a man this day by reason it is not convenient that I have said or resolved to call upon him no more Here is onely proved and the falshood disproved And for the other that the King never prosecuted the Suspention of the five Members from the House did not the King first send a Sergeant at Armes to the House to demand and apprehend them Secondly did he not go Himselfe and demand them if they had been there yea and seeing they were not there did he not tell the House that he would have them wheresoever hee found them and did expect that they meaning the House should send them unto him so soone as they returned to the House See his Majesties speech 4. January 1641. pag. 36. book Decl. and did hee not also after all this goe in person into London to demand them of the City exhibit articles against them also but they then pleaded priviledge as they do now a thing I conceive Mr. Prynn can instance no example for in all his reading and thus here is another of Mr. Declarers lyes manifested But by these infallible markes it is apparent that the Declaration is Mr. Prynns whose naturall quality is to ly rayle scandalize and clamour I remember Mr. Iohn Lilburne chargeth him in one of his Bookes with 13 or 14. positive lyes in lesse then 8. lines and to speake truth this Declaration and his iustification and demands written libellously against the Army are meerely a composure of lyes calumny forgery and sophistry wherein he powers forth the poyson and bitternesse of his spirit against the Army Oh quantum mutatus ab illo How desperately doth he now prosecute that way which he formerly profest those whom he formerly pretended to affect building againe that which he heretofore destroyed the truth is he is Apostatised and for preferment hath forsaken the truth and much it is to bee feared God hath forsaken him Remember Spyra Mr. Prynn that is in Hebr. 6.4 5 6. A man ye know may give his body to be burnt and yet without charity it availeth him nothing think not what you have suffer'd but consider frō what you are faln it is hard kicking against the pricks wo be to him that is found a fighter against God this being of God as questionles it is to extirpate oppression injustice and to establish Righteousnesse All the Malice Policy and power of you and of the gates of Hell shall not prevaile against it For that fift reason of Mr. Declarers where he saith that the iniustice of the Army appeares by their uniust and unreasonable demands of the Members to be suspended after the House had voted that it did not appeare to them there was any cause of suspension c. it is reasonles and answered sufficiently above Had the Charge been a bare suggestion confesse their votes had been colourable but here was matter of fact charged upon them and the House to vote them quit without a heareing was illegall and a meere forestalling of iustice For his insinuation to excite the Countys and Burroughs for which they ate Members to Petition the House for them as they did for Mr. Hampden c. it is not to be weighed nor are they worthey of that honour or favour of their Country the Coutryes and Burroughs for which they serve have more cause to petition and importune the House for to admit a legall and speedy tryall against them that they may receive iustice for falsifying their trust and betraying of the Kingdome and I wonder with what face Mr. Declarer can attribute faithfullnesse to their votes and advice when as all the land knowes that their votes advice and practises have been generally treasonable pernitious and destructive but in this hee appeares a brazen faced Lawyer who for the wages of Balaam shall Justify the Deivill and Counsell Moab against Jsraell In his fixt instance there is nothing materiall or observable but his Malice how willing and industrious he is to cast dirt upon the Army though it light upon his owne face for there he chargeth them for want of more materiall matter with bringing in their Artickles on Tuesday the sixt of July whereas the House ordered they should bring them in the Friday before was not here a great trespasse and offence a high point of unreasonablenes injustice I belive the accused thinke it too soone and the House of Commons were not so expeditious in delivering in their perticular charge against Stafford Canterbury and Berkly yet kept them under restraint a long time before and after many moneth study and preparation their charge was both lambe and imperfect and far below this as low as Mr. Declarer doth declare it to be but I am perswaded he could be content to have