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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96471	Prima pars. De comparatis comparandis: seu iustificationis Regis Caroli, comparatè, contra Parliamentum. Or The first part of things compared: or Of the iustification of King Charles comparitively against the Parliament. Wherein is manifested, that by the cunning contrivance of a wicked party in the House of Commons, who by their fraud, and subtilty, deceive and seduce the major part of the House for their own ambitious ends, our oppressions have been made far more grievous, then they were in the Kings dayes, the course of justice, and reliefe of grievances, is obstructed, and our troubles and pressures are still continued. ... With the names of the heads, of the usurping faction, and advice to all the free men of England, to beware of them, and to take a speedy course to remove and expell them, together with an intimation of a way to effect the same.; De comparatis comparandis. Part 1	Wilbee, Amon.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2113; Thomason E396_11; ESTC R201647	12,847	16

the whole Kingdome and frame of government is indangered and the power and authority of parliament is dishonoured blemished and made contemptible J doe remember that after the Kings return in 1641. from the Parliament in Scotland divers jealousies did arise in the apprehention of this present Parliament in England concerning a strong designe by a Malignant Jesuited party to devide the King and Parliament and to deprive the people of the fruit of all the Parliaments earnest and faithfull labours and endeavours as they then affirmed for the establishing the people in safety peace and happinesse Whereupon they fall on declaring and in Decemb. 1642. they publish a large Remonstrance to the whole kingdome conteining the roots growth meanes oblique and direct together with the actors and promotors of this designe for the subverting the fundamentall lawes and principles of this government wherein after s●me matter of introduction among other things as misprisions in the Kings government They complain of charging the Kingdom with ●●●●●ting ● ldiers and of a concomitant design of Germain Horse that the land might either submit with fear or be inforced with rigour to such arbitrary contributions as should be required of them And I pray you fellow Commoners stands not the Parliament guilty of this accusation of billerting Soldiers on the Kingdome even ever since they raised armes and that in a more intollerable manner then that was in those times For the Parliament by themselves and their distr ying Committees and Commissions have levied great taxes and raised large sums of money in all parts the which the King did not with a pretence to pay the Soldiers that they might in all places pay their quarters yet was the Soldier never paid but the Country were both assessed and exhausted and also burthened with free quarterings and neverthelesse if the people refused to pay their taxes the Committees sent a party of horse and either took the persons prisoners as well friends as adversaries or plunder them the which I am sure was fully answerable to that Concommitant design which was then as themselves doe say but intended of German Horse And I doe wish there were not now in hard a designe by an ambitious party in the Parliament for the establishment and making perpetual of this same inssaving practice of billitting Solders and German horse as they call it throughout the Kingdome that thereby the people may either submit with feare or be enforced with rigour to pay such arbitrary contributions as shall be exacted of them But alas it is too manifest a man halfe blind may see it But it will be said the Parliament have been necessitated to this there hath been I conteste a necessity of raising Soldiers but not of billitting them without paying their quarters For the Parliament and their Committees have raised unspeakable sums to pa●●th Soldiers to the end they might pay their quarters the which they or their Committees as is suspected have put into their own purses and never paid them but burthened the Country notwithstanding with free quarters They complaine also of the Kings raising great sums by way of Privie Seales proportionable to subsidies And have not the Parliament done the selfe same thing by way of publique faith and that much more abundant Aske London and a numberless multitude of all sorts of persons and they will with no lesse then heavie sighes testifie this truth And whether had yee rather a Privie Seale or the publique saith Verum horum mavis accipe many feare the last will prove the worst securities They complain also of an uniust and pernicious attempt to extort great payments from the Subiect by way of Excise This it seemes was then but an Attempt but the Parliament have notwithstanding the iniustice and perniciousnesse of it really acted it and so by their owne tearmes they have herein exceeded the King for iniust and pernitious dealing They complaine also that the Petition of Right which was granted in full Parliament was blasted by an illegall Declaration and of the presumptuous injustice of such Ministers as durst breake the lawes and suppresse the liberties of the Kingdome The Petition of Right was then as themselves say only blasted by an illegall Declaration But have not they since blasted it and made it also fruitlesse by a multiude of illegall actions as false imprisonments and examining of men after the manner of the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission upon Interrogatories against themselves and with many other like unjust practises as herein after more plainly appears And I appeal to all if ever any manifested more presumption in daring to break the lawes and suppresse the liberties of this Kingdom then many of themselves They also complain of the illegall imprisonment by the King of some Members of the House of Commons at the breaking up of the Parliament 40. Car. deteining them close prisoners c. not permitting their wives to come unto them c. and so keeping them in this oppressed condition by reason of which their cruell and harsh imprisonment some have dyed whose blood as they say cryes for vengeance or repentance of the Ministers of State who at once obstructed both the course of his Majesties justice and mercy I will not here discusse the imprisonning of Sir Ra. Hopton and Mr. Martin two of their own Members for speaking their minds freein in the House of Commons albeit without question one if not both the commitments for the causes were contrary were illegall and contrary to the law and custome of Parliament but it is certain they have in all respects justified this act of the Kings by inflicting the same measure of injustice and cruelty upon divers of their fellow Members of the body politique as on L. C. John Lilburn Mr. Musgrave Mr. Rich. Overton and his wife both Mr. Larners servants and others which they so much condemn in his Majestie and his Ministers But the house of Commons will happily say that they were committed and thus used by the House of Lords Not all and besides there is an old rule qui non vetat peccare cum potest jubet He who hinders not an evill when it is in his power commands it And moreover this is certain that many poore prisoners for debt and others their fellow Subiects as I shall herein plainly demonstrate who have petitioned them more then these 5. yeares for redresse have through their neglect by the cruelty inhumain usage of Gaolers Sir I. L. of the Kings Bench Henry Wollaston of Newgate such monsters and others been miserably destroyed and perished in prison whose blood without doubt cryes loud in the eares of the Lord of Hosts for vengeance without repentance upon tha heads and hearts of them the ministers of State who have been intrusted for the preservation of the Nation and notwithstanding all petitioning have neither done iustice nor shewed mercy No nor cannot either by preaching praying petitioning speaking or any peaceable meanes be induced