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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29267	To the right honourable, the supreme authority of this nation, the Commons assembled in Parliament an appeal in the humble chain of justice against Tho. Lord Fairfax, general of the English army, raised, and declared to be raised, for the propogation and defence of impartial justice, and just liberty in the nation / by Captain William Bray ...	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4301; ESTC R170764	10,631	20

Nation but not so as unnaturally and unreasonably to exclude themselves after their Successes and Deliverances from justice and right The disadvantages of Arbitrary power to reside in any person over all or any of the people may become at length to be so setled as that it will be a personal Interest in him and his Creatures and a pretended Prerogative against the Publick Interest of common right peace and safetie and at length this Maxime will be brought in in time That the General can do no wrong even as it was said that The King can do no wrong which as Mr. Solicitor Cook saith in King CHARLES his Case is Blasphemy against the great God of Truth and Love for onely God cannot erre because what he wils is right because he wils it And it is a sad thing saith he to consider that learned men for unworthy ends should use such art to subdue the people by transportation of their senses as to make them beleeve that the Law is That the King can do no wrong In these times of confusion evill apostacie and warring unto bloud which cryes I have weighed much with my self what is the onely way to compose our differences amongst our selves and make a compleat reconciliation and I finde nothing so likely as a mutuall Agreement amongst the People by making of just Laws agreeable to the Law of Nature which is undemonstrable which needs no demonstration were it not for corruption and interests It is as Mr. John Cook saith in his book against the King the unanimous consent of all rationall men in the world written in every mans heart with the pen of a Diamond in Capital Letters and a Character so legible that he that runs may read And it is nothing else but the policie of Polititians to live honourably by the ruines and warrings of the people to keep off an insisting upon Laws of Settlement and Agreement and to insinuate into corruption and interests that are strongest and most prevalent that so they may keep themselves in the power of the Sword without reason in War and after War O sad end of War to the People But now every drop of blood and injustice will be recorded in mindes of just men England hath eys the people thereof will not be deluded after so much blood And for my part I cannot but think that all impartiall men whether Presbyterians or Independents or any else under any other name that are not choaked by preferments from the present Power or in expectation of Honour by favour and promise would have impartial justice and an equall distribution according to principles amongst the people And I hope there be many impartiall men that have places of Honour who for their Countries sake would willingly adventure but it is not common Dominion and Avarice are the great gods of the world But when Polititians do wave the Agreement of the People in the Laws of Nature and Reason then we may justly fear a Designe for it is because they would not have the people see nor understand for then they know they could not do what they please and continue in the Throne they could not get Persons to be esteemed more then Principles But I shall shew unto this Honourable House how his Excellency the General of the English peoples Armie hath dealt with me as well as with other of the people and how such actions are the paths of former Powers And I shall shew of what a dangerous consequence the actings of the Generall are and how consonant to the late Kings actings amongst the people And indeed Mr. Solicitor Cook saith That if any of those that tried the King shall turn Tyrants or consent to set up any kinde of Tyrannie by a Law or suffer any unmercifull domineering over the consciences persons and estates of the free people of this Land they have pronounced sentence against themselves Master Solicitor Cook hath these several Arguments against the Kings Tyranny and Policies cited in King Charls his CASE First The King when there ever was a spirit of Justice stirring and discovered in the House he sends the Black Rod and dissolves the Parliament and so the Parliament men were fain to go home with a flea in their ear and tell the Free-holders in the Country of the bravery of the King and Lords So the Generall c. when he saw the spirit of Justice stirring in the Armie amongst the free people and Souldiery of this Nation that had adventured their bloud he dissolved their Generall Councell of two Officers and two Souldiers of every Regiment c. Secondly If the people clamour for another Parliament then there goes out another Summons yet a way made to make all fruitlesse by a negative voyce that the people cannot save themselves without him and must cut their own throats if commanded so to do So if any of the people in the Armie claim and clamour for their Rights even for their indisputable rights of Petitioning then presently there is an Order from the Generall and some other Officers or a Command and negative Voice to hinder the same Whereas they charged Hollis and Stapleton for overthrowing the Rights and Liberties of the Subjects of this Nation in arbitrary violent and oppressive wayes and endeavoured by indirect and corrupt practices to delay and obstruct Justice to the great dammage and prejudice of divers of the poor Commoners of England petitioning for the same Thirdly Another means he had to put some others between him and the Peoples hatred by a pretended prerogative to be the sole Judge of Chivalry and to have the sole power of conferring Honours that so he might be sure to have two against one to stand for his Prerogative against all right and reason And so What gaping and depending upon the Generall after Places of Honour and Profit What undermining any one that is out of favour though without cause and what snares there are and have been laid for the casting out of those that have appeared conscientiously stedfast to their principles for the Rights of the People Let all rational men judge Fourthly Another means he had to delude the People to make the People beleeve That he had committed all Justice to the Judges and distributed the execution thereof into severall Courts and that the King cannot so much as imprison a man without Law or reason But see what a mockery this was to Justice If the King have a minde to have any publick spirited men removed out of the way this man is kill'd the murtherer known a Letter comes to the Judge and it may be it shall be found but Man-slaughter So when the Lord did though with much temperance as I appeal to the world make me to own things that are just according to their own former words and actions as after appears in my Case then I was presently a mark to shoot at and though this hath not extended to murther mee as yet yet it hath extended as much