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A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

without conviction hearing or the least legal proceeding many hundreds of Ministers Schoolmasters Scholars of the late Kings party though learned orthodox godly pious peaceable formerly indemnified and admitted to exercise their functions and prohibit them any more to preach marry administer the Sacrament pray teach School in any publike place or private meeting of any other persons than those of their own family or in any Gentlemens houses as Chaplains or Tutors to their Children under pain of 3 Moneths imprisonment for the first 6 moneths for the 2d and perpetual banishment for the 3d Offence And to punish them as Rogues and Vagrants if they wandred abroad to begg their bread on purpose to starve both them their wives families or enforce them to flie into forein Popish Realms being excluded out of the Netherlands and there turn Papists to preserve their lives when all Priests Jesuites Sectaries whatsoever and Jewes themselves had so much Liberty under him Was such a transcendent Barbarism Impiety and High way to extirpate our Religion as pious learned Archbishop Vsher told him when he mediated for their libertie and could not prevail as he told Mr. Prynne and others with tears which brake his heart soon after as the Pope and Jesuites themselves could not have invented the like and exceeded all forein persecutions against Protestant Ministers in Piemont Bohemia and Silesia by Popish Princes being of a different Religion but be a pretended Protestant Zealot 7. His Extending not only his Toleration but real Protection to all Sects whatsoever except POPERY and PRELACY and passing the late Bill 1657. put on by the Presbyterians against Papists might savour of some disgust against those of the Romish Religion But his extraordinary intimacy with Cardinal Mazarine Sir Kenelm Digby a most dangerous Jesuited Papist lodged by him in Whitehall a chief Instrument of the union between him and Mazarine and sundry other Papists Jesuites Popish Priests His suspending all penal Lawes Executions against Popish Priests Jesuits though sometimes taken in their pontificalibus at Masse and soon after released His protections under hand and seal to sundry of them particularly to Maurice Coury Provincial of the Franciscans in England Their coming over in greater swarms of later times than ever heretofore without restraint as himself printed as well as declared in his publike Speeches His endevours to stop the late Bill against Papists the very morning he was to pass it by his Whitehall Instruments who moved its suspension for a time as not suiting with present Forein correspondencies against whom it was carried by 88. Votes That it should be carried up with the rest then passed With the Copy of his Letter to Card Mazarine in many good hands affirmed to bee real not counterfeit excusing his passing this Bill as carried on by a violent Presbyterian party much against his with yet it should not hurt them though passed c. which accordingly fell out The large expressions made to those of Dunkirkin his name by their Gov Lockert to protect them in the full and free exercise of their Romish Religion as amply as ever the King of Spain did with other particulars of that nature And his great incouraging of all sorts of Sects headed acted by disguised Jesuits Priests Friers as M. P. hath elswhere fully evidenced Are demonstrations beyond all exceptions what an Advancer he was of the true Protestant cause and Religion 8. His undermining subverting all our Fundamental Lawes Liberties Properties and Parliaments too in the highest degree by his own and his Army-Officers Councils new printed Folio Ordinances Instruments Taxes Excises High Courts of Injustice Major Generals Commissions Instructions Proceedings by committing sundry persons Close prisoners some of them to forein Islands without any cause expressed legal trial or conviction dive●s moneths years by warrants under his own or his Councils hands His stopping returns of Habeas Corpora when granted or removing the Prisoners to new remote prisons His seising securing the persons horses arms of thousands and banishing them from London time after time upon meer forged Plots Fears His disbenching his own Judges for not complying with his illegal will His oft stiling MAGNA CHARTA MAGNA FARTA with highest indignation Committing 3. Lawyers to the Tower at once as Traytors for daring to argue an Habeas Corpus against his illegal Commitment and Whitehall Ordinance for Excise in Conyes case a president not to be paralleld his prohibiting all Lawyers Sollicitors Judges and Courts of Justice whatsoever under him to plead act or admit any proceedings or legal trial at Law against his illegal Ordinances and absolute commands under pain of his highest indignation His defrauding most Patrons of their livings and lapsing them by his own Ordinances Instruments into his own hands refusing their honestest ablest Clerks without any cause assigned and denying them the benefit of Quare Impedits after judgement given upon them by his own Judges All these are clear demonstrations to Mr. P. beyond contradiction That our Infant Commonwealth both in its birth growth progress under its old Guardians and New Protector was but the Jesuits Popes Spaniards Mazarines and our Popish Enemies new Creature and Instrument to ruine our Protestant Church Religion King kingdoms Laws Liberties The very name of Magna Charta it self for which our ancestors heretofore spent so much bloud and treasure in reality and we of late only in pretence being so exec●able to our New Free-States men that in September 1650. it was expunged out of a Petition M. P. drew for Mr. Luttrel to ●ave Dunster Castle the habitation of him and his ancestors from being pulled down over his head before hearing or Notice by an Order issued for that purpose and put in execution to John Bradshaw and their Free-State Council at Whitehall by their Attorney Prideaux order because it would distast them and a Great Fart was more savory to Olivers red nose than it all in pursuance of the Jesuits old Plot as you have heard out of Watsons Quodlibets This M.P. shall a little infist on because of a present design against our Laws now eagerly pursued The late Parliament in above one hundred Declarations Ordinances Orders Votes made this their principal Charge against the Kings Jesuitical Counsellors and the Popish Forces raised by him against the Parliament that they endeauoured the subversion and extirpation of our antient fundamental Laws Government and that one of the chiefest causes of their taking up arms and raising Armies against them was for the necessary defence and preservation of these antient Good old Laws and Liberties the Inheritance and Birthright of every English Freeman whereby not only his Majesties Regal Authority but the Peoples security of Lives Lands Livings Privileges Liberty both in general and particular are preserved and maintained and by the abolishing innovating or alteration of which it is impossible but that present confusion will fall upon the whole State and Frame of this Kingdom as the

and make it their prey if he would turn Papist under pretext of restoring him to his Crown you may read in this Jesuit p. 33 34 35 36. and in Militiere his Victorie of Truth dedicated to King Charles after his Fathers death to pervert him in his Religion as the only means of his restitution These Passages of this Jesuit who stiles himself p. 39. The faithful Servant of the Common-wealth of England ● dedicated to President Bradshaw himself and printed by his SPECIAL COMMAND and our Republican Governours now sitting Ann. 1650. when Mr. Prynne was committed close Prisoner by them without hearing or accusation will justifie the truth of all his former Discoveries That your beheading the King and degrading our Kingdom into a New Free-State was the verie French Cardinals Spaniards Popes and Jesuits plot to ruin both our Protestant Kings Kingdom Church Religion even by your own confessions and that it gave unto them strong arguments to perswade the Kings posteritie and partie for ever to abominate our Religion as manie of them have done upon this very account though the King himself and his Brothers yet continue constant through Gods mercie against all provocations to their eternal honour but your perpetual infamie who have put them upon such direfull Temptations 2. Before you engage in any other Business peruse all former Acts and Petitions of our Protestant Parliaments since 1 Eliz. to this present against Jesuits Seminarie Priests Papists Poperie the manifold mischiefs dangers accrewing by their increase toleration and s●spe●sion of our Lawes against them the causes of their growth amongst us and remedies to prevent the same Then put them all with the Oath of Abjuration and 5. Bills against them assented to by the late King in the last Treatie into immediate impartial vigorous execution 3. Imploy faithfull knowing stout active persons with sufficient power and encouragements to discover detect apprehend them under what ever disguise and shelter they now secure themselves Especially take diligent care to ferret these Romish Vermin and Troublers of our Israel out of all your Armies Garrisons Camps and all Sectarian separate Congregations the Boroughs wherein now they lurk securely by putting them all to the Test of the Oaths of Abjuration Supremacie and Allegiance 4. Permit no Seminarie Priests Friers Romish Emissaries of any Nation but especially no Jesuits of any their 4. ranks to remain in our Realms or Dominions it being impossible to enjoy any peace settlement in Church or State or to expect anie dutifull obedience quiet in or from the Armie whiles these firebrands of Sedition Treason remain within our coasts upon which account they have been by sundrie Proclamations of Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles not only banished out of England Scotland Ireland and all their Dominions but likewise out of France Germanie Poland Bohemia Austria M●ravia Transilvania Hungarie Venice and other Popish Kingdomes States as well as out of the Netherlands Denmark Sweden and Protestants Territories as the Authors of all their Wars Troubles Tumults Insurrections Rebellions Treasons Regicides and the publike P●sts of Church and State 5. Put no arms into Anabaptists or Quakers hands formerly decrying them as unlawful lest London become another Munster and England another Germanie in few moneths space 6. Since Christ Jesus who is truth it self hath laid down these 3. Gospel-maxims of infallible veritie Mat 7.15 to 21. Lu. 6.43 c. That Ravencus wolves in sheeeps clothing as well as trees are and shall be known by their fruits John 8.44 You are of your Father the Devil for his works ye doe Rom. 6.16 That to whom ye yield your selves servants to obey his servants ye are to whom ye obey If all the premises infallibly convince your Consciences Judgements as they will and must do That all the forementioned fruits you have produced since December 4. 1648. are the proper fruits of Jesuits and Romish wolves in sheeps clothing yea the very worst sowrest of all their Fruits and Powder Treasons That the workes you have done in murdring our Protestant King destroying our Parliaments Kingdoms Government Laws secluding your fellow-M●mbers and Lords House by force erecting your New Republike and Parliamentarie Conventicle c. are the Works of the Jesuites and Devil That you have yielded up your selves as obedient servants unto them in everie of these against your own former Oaths Protestations Vows Covenants Declarations Commissions Principles Professions Judgments rightly informed consciences the Votes Obsecrations Disswasions of your Fellow Members and most indeared Protestant Friends Ministers Relations the Indentures Desires of those Counties Burroughs you represent And that the very Principles by which you have acted since Dec. 1648 and now again a●e the very Jesuits principles as you may read at leisure in Johannis Mariana De Rege Regum Institutione l. 1. c. 6. Creswels Philopater Franciscus Verona Constantini Apologia pro Johanne Castellio et Jesuitis Jesuitae Reinaldi liber De Iusta Reipublicae Christianae in Reges Impios et Haereticos authoritate c. published under the name of William Rosse in Ludovicus Lucius Historia Jesuitica l. 2. c. 3. Hospinian Hist Jesuitica l. 3. 4. Speculum Jesuiticum printed 1644. wherein you may truly view your Jesuitical Physiognomies heads perrewigs instead of your old genuine Protestant complexions brains notions hair And if the present fresh Address●s Petitions of Anabaptists Quakers Sectaries from Southwark Warminster Hertfordshire Kent and other places to the Army-Officers and your selves with their late listings in the Army affronts to Ministers in their Churches ejection of some of them to intrude themselves alreadie budding forth sufficiently discover whose Servants you are and whose drudgerie you must execute O then immediately abjure rescinde and null them all with highest indignation and persist no longer in any such destructive waies counsels projects under any pretext consideration interest or perswasions whatsoever But rather remember Mr. Oliver Saint-Johns words now sitting amongst you in his Argument at Law against the Earl of Strafford printed by the Commons house special Order p. 64. In this I shall not labour to prove That the endeavouring By Words Counsels and Actions to subvert the fundamental Lawes and Government of the Kingdom is Treason by the Common Law If there be any Common Law Treasons left nothing Treason if this he not to make a Kingdom no Kingdom And then consider Sir Edward Cooks memorable Observation published by the Commons Order 3 Instit c. 2. p. 35 36. It appeareth in the holy Scripture That TRAYTORS never prospered what good soever they pretended but were most severely and exemplarily punished in conclusion which he proves by the examples of Corah Dathan and Abiram Num. 16.31 32. c. 27.3 Athaliah 2 Kings 1.1.16 Bigthan and Teresh Esth 2.21.23 c. 6.2 Absolom 2 Sam. 18.9.14 Abiathar 1 King 2.26 27. Shimei 2 Sam. 6.5 6. 1 Kings 2.8.46 Zimri 1 Kings 16 9.18 Theudas Acts 5.36 37. and Judas Iscariot

the Traytor of Traytors Acts 1.18 Mat. 27.5 Peruse over all our Books Records Histories and you shall finde a principle in Law a rule in Reason and a trial in experience That Treason doth ever produce fatal and final destruction to the Offender and never attaineth to the desired end two incidents inseparable thereunto And therefore let all men abandon it as the most poisonous Bait of the Devil of Hell and follow the precept in holy scripture Fear God honor the King and have no company with the Seditious Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum So he Now because M.P. finds some Grandees of his own Profession sitting in the House to countenance and make up this Vnparliamentary Juncto he shall desire them in the first place seriously to consider how much they have formerly and now again dishonoured themselves and the whole profession of the Law in sitting in complying with acting under such illegal Anti-Parliamentary Conventicles Powers Changes Changers yea crying them up for legal English Parliaments Powers obeying executing all their illegal new Knacks Orders Ordinances as Acts of Parliament in civil criminal real or personal Causes against all Records Law-books presidents of former Ages their own Judgments Oaths Science Consciences to the intollerable scandal of their Robe the injurie abuse of the whole Nation the prejudice of all their lawfull Superiours and the Publick the encouragement of usurping Traytors Tyrants Oppressors in their waies of wickedness the ill example of most others and their own just reproach 2ly To observe How God in his retaliating Justice hath recompensed this their wilfull prevarication upon their own heads by turning many of them out of their respective places of Judicature honor profit the ground of this their sinfull complyance with infamy dishonour reproach even by the very Persons with whom they unworthily complyed and those especially in present power who had neither been an House of Commons much lesse a mock Parliament without their presence and complyance 3ly That the base unworthy unchristian complyance of the Lawyers and Clergy of England with our late trayterous Innovators Usurpers out of base fear sordid covetousnesse ambition self-saving or self-seeking to the prejudice ruine of King Kingdom Parliament Lords Law hath brought an universal odium upon them with those with whom they most complyed as well as others the Army Officers and present Juncto under a pretext of Reforma●ion designing both their ruines through the Jesuites Politicks who now bear greatest sway having turned many of them with scorn and contempt out of their former places of Judicature beyond their expectations and reviled both their persons and professions to their faces as a Generation of sordid Temporizers and useless faithless persons not fit to be entrusted any more but discarded out of their new lawlesse Republick which hates both Law and Gospel as warranted by neither and repugnant unto both 4ly That the only way now to regain their lost Honour and preserve both our Laws Liberties Religion establish future peace settlement and prevent impendent ruine is to endeavour to restore our antient hereditary just legal Kingship Kings Governors Government with all their necessary invaded Prerogatives Lands Revenues Rights Jurisdictions and inviolably to preserve them with their lives and estates against all conspiracies of Popes Jesuits and foreign enemies to subvert and undermine them in any kind as the several memorable Parliaments and Statutes of 29 H. 6. c. 1. 31 H. 6. c. 1. 39 H. 6. c. 1. 25 H. 8. c. 22. 2 E. 6. c. 26. 7 E. 6. c. 12. 1 Eliz. c. 3.4.20 5 Eliz. c. 1.29.30 13 Eliz. c. 1.2 23 24 18 Eliz. c. 21.22 23 Eliz. c. 1.13.14 27 Eliz. c. 1 2.28.21 29 Eliz. c. 7 8. 31 Eliz. c. 14 15. 35 Eliz. c. 2.12 13. 39 Eliz. c. 26 27. 43 Eliz c. 17 18. 1 Jac. c. 1. 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5 25 26. 7 Jac. 6 22 23. 21 Jac. c. 32 33. 3 Car. c. 5 6. in their respective preambles and bodies worthy our most serious review in the Statutes at large resolve being more to be credited pursued than all the rash Jesuitical suggestions votes and inconsiderable resolutions of any unparliamentarie Conventicle or upstart Pseudo-Polititians advancing themselves to the helm of our new Republick by colour of the Statute of 17 Car. 7. Which Bill by the Commons House resolution in their Remonstrances of 15 Dec. 1641. seems to be some restraint of the Regal power in dissolving of Parliaments not to take it out of the Crown but to suspend the execution of it for the time and occasion only which was so necessary for the Kings own security and the Publick peace that without it they could not have undertaken any of those great things but must have left both the Armies to disorder and confusion and the whole Kingdome to blood and rapine Therefore the Parliament must needs determine by the Kings death as he hath infalliby evidenced beyond contradiction In the last place Mr. Prynne shall most importunately beseech all the antient Nobility secluded Members well-affected Gentry Clergy Commonalty of the English Nation which had never so many effeminate false heads and hearts as now many Jesuite Priest Monk lurking under the disguise of womanish Perewigges brought into fashion by them as they now tender their own private or the publick safety weal settlement and preservation of our endangered Church Religion Kingdom Parliament Laws Privileges Properties and prevention of their impendent ruine First of all seriously to consider lament cast off reform their own late present monstrous sottish stupidity sleepinesse self saving self-seeking Spirits and most unworthy un-manly un English unchristian pusillanimity cowardize fear of a few contemptible Mercinary mortal men who shall shortly dye and become as dung upon the earth and their grosse breach of all publick Oaths Protestations Leagues Covenants in not opposing resisting them manfully in their several places and callings Which hath been the principal cause of all the publick Changes Innovatons Oppressions Grievances Exorbitances Insolencies they have hitherto suffered by their own armed hirelings and are the saddest symptomes of our approaching imminent desolation if not speedily repented redressed redressed ere it be over late 2ly To pursue these Gospel advises 1 Cor. 16.13 Watch ye stand fast in the Faith quit ye like men be strong Gal. 5.1 Phil. 1.27 28. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not intangled again with the yoke of Bondage in one Spirit striving together with one mind for the Faith of the Gospel the fundamental Laws Liberties Government Privileges of the Nation And in nothing terrified by your Adversaries which will be to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God 3ly Do you all now publickly resolutely constantly unanimously according to the tenor of the Solemn League and Covenant claim assert vindicate and endeavour to preserve with your Lives and

will after the Parliament and coming to the House only to demand the 5. impeached Members without offering force or secluding any Member but ABOVE ALL HIS LABOVRING THE ENGLISH ARMY TO BE ENGAGED AGAINST THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT being a thing OF THAT STRANGE IMPIETY UNNATURALNES that nothing can answer it but his being a foreiner with his breach of Faith Oath Protestations in levying war war against and offering force to the Parliament only at a distance without keeping out any by armed Gards being the principal unparale'ld Treasons for which the most of those now sitting in their very Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their late proceedings against him and setling the p●esent GOVERNMENT in the way of a FREE STATE now cryed up as their GOOD OLD CAVSE appealed to all the World to judge whether they had not sufficient cause to bring the K. to Iustice and execute him as they did Of all which they were formerly now far more guilty in placing Gards of Horse foot at the Parliament Doors to keep out him other Members it being a force and levying of war upon the House it self and Members which would null all their Acts and Votes as the sitting Members in their Declaration Speaker in his Letter An. 1648. upon the London unarm'd Apprentices Tumults at the House Doors though they kept out none yea some now sitting in their Speeches in the last dissolved Assembly at VVestminster declared very lately After which some of the Officers said Pray talk no more with him whereto he replies he must talk a little more to them in their own Language That the Army-Officers and Counsel themselves had forcibly turned those now sitting out of Doors 20 April 1653. and thus branded them in their Declarations and other Papers he had then about him for their Dilatory proceedings in the House unlimited Arbitrary proceedings at Committees their wholy perverting the end of Parliaments by becoming studious of parties private Interests neglecting the Publick so that no Door of Hope being opened for redress of their grievances nor any hope of easing the people in their burdens it was found at length by these their exorbitances That a standing Parliament was in it self the greatest grievance which appeared yet the more exceeding grievous in regard of a visible design carryed on by some among them to have perpetuated the Power in their own hands it being utterly impossible in that corrupt estate that they who made gain the main of their business should become instruments of our long desired establishment Therefore it became an Act no less pious than necessary for the Army now to interpose upon the same equitable ground as heretofore in the like cases of extremity no ordinary medium being left to provide for the Main in a way irregular and extraordinary by their most necessary and timely dissolution Yet notwithstanding all these brands they have publickly layd upon them which they and others never yet wiped of by any publick Answer as the formerly secluded Members had refuted those base aspersions and calumnies the Army had falsely cast on them they had now invited those very Members to return and fit again without secluding any of them and engaged to yield them their best protection as the Assertors of the Good Old Cause who had a special presence of God with them and were signally blessed in the work yea as the only Instruments for setling and securing the peace and freedom of this Common-wealth Therefore they had farre greater reason to call in him and the other first secluded Members than thus forcibly to exclude and ascribe and give to them alone the Supreame Authority of the Nation which they have engrossed to themselves without the peoples Vote or Election in whō alone they have formerly voted it A presage of their subsequent Free-State proceedings when once setled in their Government and a strange contradiction Wherefore they should much more invite him and others they formerly and now afresh have forcibly secluded against whom they had not the least Exceptions to settle us again in peace and freedome which they had done when they sate had they not secluded them After which one of the Army Officers told Mr. Prynne he had deserted the Good Old Cause To which he replyed That the true Good Cause for which they were first raised was only to defend the Kings person Kingdom Parliament all its Members Privileges and secure them against all force and violence whatsoever which cause they had not only deserted but betrayed and fought against contrary to all former Engagements to which cause he adhered and desired entrance to maintain it To which he answered That indeed was once their Good Old Cause but now it was not so for since they had pursued another Cause Mr. P. replyed that then they were real Back-sliders therein and their Cause neither old nor good but bad new and destructive to the former old one In conclusion Mr. Prynne pressed them to tell him their names which he desired to know They answered they would not tell him He then told them That certainly their Good Old Cause was in their own Judgements and Consciences very bad since they durst not own it by name They answered That Mr. Annesly the last day when they refused to tell their names as they do now had inquired out some of them from whom he might learn them In conclusion when he could not prevayl he told them they declared themselves and those now siting arrant Cowards and their magnified Good Old Cause to be very bad since they were afraid of one single person without Arms when as they were a whole Army of armed men and had above 40 voyces to his one yet were afraid to admit him in for fear he alone should blow them all up with the breath of his mouth and goodness of his cause And so departing he met Mr. Prydeaux in the Lobby and desired him to acquaint those within that he was forcibly kept out of the House by the Souldiers who beset the passages to keep out what Members they pleased Then returning again into the Hall a secluded Member he there met pressing him to know what passed in the Lobby he related the sum of what was done and said which divers pressed about him to hear and some common Souldiers among others who when he had ended his Relation said he was an honest Gentleman and had spoken nothing but truth and reason After which meeting with Colonel Oky in the Hall who came over to transport him from Jersy into England they had some discourse touching his forcible seclusion and the great scandal and ill consequences of it which divers pressing to hear Mr. P. went out of the Hall to avoid Company and meeting with the Member who drew up the Letter to the Speaker perused and signed the fair Copy and so departed to Lincolns Inne without any Company This being an Exact Narration of the truth

substance of what passed between Mr. P. the Army Officers and those now fitting on the 7th and 9th of this instant May both in the Lobby House and elsewhere Mr. Prynne being since necessitated to publish it to prevent and rectifie the various misreports thereof He shall now relate as a Corollary thereunto the true and only reasons then inducing him after earnest Prayer to God for direction and protection in this Grand Affair to press the admission of himself and other Members into the House to correct the manifold contradictory censures of what he then did and spoke Some have been staggared and amazed at it as if he were now turned an Apostate from his former principles acting both against his Judgement and Conscience to cry up and make himself a Member of that old Parliament which he publickly printed to be dissolved above ten years since by the Kings death Others have censured it for a rash foolish and desperate attempt A third sort condemn it as a seditious tumultuous if not treasonable Action prejudicial to the publick peace and settlement deserving severe exemplary punishments A fourth Classis doome it as a scandalous Act dishonorable destructive to our Religion A fifth sort cry it up as a most necessary heroick rational zealous Action deserving everlasting honor prayse thanks from the whole English Nation and a necessary incumbent duty as a Member of the old Parliament though legally dissolved being pretentionally now revived against Law Truth by those very Army Officers who six years past ipso facto dissolved and declared it to be dissolved yea have held many new Mock-Parliaments of their own modelling since all proving abortive by forcible ruptures as the long Parliament did It is not in Mr. Prynnes power to reconcile or controll these contradictory censures neither was he ever yet so foolish or vain-glorious as to be any wayes moved with the censures opinions or applauses of other men nor so ambitious covetous as to pursue any private interest of honor profit revenge c. under the notion of publick Liberty Law Reformation as many have done nor so Sycophantical as to connive at others destructive exorbitances guilded over with specious Titles this being his constant rule to keep a good Conscience in all things both towards God and man Acts 24.16 to discharge his publick trust duty towards God and his Native Country though with the probable hazard of his life liberty estate friends what else may be precious to other men to trust God alone with the success reward of his endeavors to let others censure him as they please to fear no Mortal or power whatsoever in the discharge of his duty who can but kill the Body Mat. 10.23 nor yet do that but by Gods permission being utterly unable to touch the Soul but to fear him alone who can cast both Soul and Body into Hell The only ground end motive inducing Mr. Prynne thus earnestly and timely to get into the House was no wayes to countenance any unparliamentary Conventicle or proceedings whatsoever nor to own those then sitting to be the old true Commons House of Parliament whereof he was formerly a Member as now constituted much less to be the Parliament it self then sitting but to discharge the trust to which he was once unvoluntarily called without his privity or solicitation by an unanimous election a little before the last Treaty with the King having refused many Burgesships freely tendred to him with importunity both before his election at Newport and since being never ambitious of any publick preserments which he might have easily obtained had he but modestly demanded or signified his willingness to accept them After his election against his will and inclination he came not into the House till the Treaty was almost concluded and that at the request of divers eminent Members only with a sincere desire to do that cordial service for preservation of the King Kingdom Church Parliament Laws Liberties of England and prevention of those manifold Plots of forein-Popish Adversaries Priests Jesuites Sectaries seduced Members Army-Officers and Agitators utterly to subvert them which other Members overmuch or totally neglected coldly opposed or were totally ignorant of What good service he did in the House during that little space he continued in it is fitter for others then himself to relate How fully he then discovered to them the true original Plotters fomenters of that Goad Old Cause now so much cryed up and revived how strenuously he oppugned how truly he predicted the dangerous consequences of it since experimentally verified beyond contradiction his printed Speech Decemb. 4. 1648. can attest and his Memento whiles he was a prisoner For this Speech good service of his in discovering oppugning the New Gunpower-Treason then plotted and ripened to perfection to blow up the King Parliament Lords Laws Liberties Religion at once violently prosecuted by the force Remonstrance and disobedient practises of the rebellious Army Officers and Souldiers he was on the 6th of December 1648. forcibly seised on at the Lobby-Door as he was going to discharge his trust and caried away thence by Col. Pride and others How unhumanly unchristianly Mr. Prynne seised with other Members at the House door Decemb. 6. was used by the Army-Officers who lodged him them in bell on the bare boards all that cold night almost starved him and them with hunger and cold at Whitehall the next day imprisoned him many weeks in the Strand and after seised kept him by a new Free-state warrant a strict close Prisoner in three remote Castles nigh three years for his Speech in the House against their most detestable Treasons and Jesuitical proceedings against the King Parliament Privileges and Members of it is elsewhere at large related This being all he gained by being a Member and for asserting that true Good Old Cause against the new Imposture now cryed up afresh to turn our antient Kingdom into a New Republick and our Parliament of King Lords and Commons into a select unparliamentary juncto or forty or fifty Members of the old dissipated House of Commons elected impowred only by the Army not People to act what they prescribe to extirpate King Lords Monarchy Magistracy Ministry Laws Liberties Properties and reduce them all under Jesuit ●●oe at first and our forein Enemies Vassallage in conclusion Mr. Pry●●e then being most clearly convinced thereof by what he formerly published as a Member in his Speech and Memento and since in his Epistle to a New Discovery of Free-State tyranny his Jus Patronatus his historical and legal Vindication of the fundamental Laws Liberties Rights Properties of all English Freemen A new Discovery of Romish Emissaries his Quakers unmasked and in his Republicans Good Old Cause truly and fully anatomised wherin he infallibly demonstrates their converting of our late English Monarchy into a new Common-wealth or elective Protectorship to be the antient projected moddles of Father Parsons and other Jesuites and Tho. Campanella the

kingdom so soon as he lost his life 5ly The end of summoning this Parliament was only this for the King himself to have a conference and Treaty with the Prelates and Nobles and for them to be personally present with Vs not our heirs or successors to give Vs their Counsel c. not our heirs and successors All frustrate made impossible and absolutely ceasing by his death because when once dead they can neither parlie conferr nor treat with the King himself nor the King with them nor be personally present with Him for that purpose unlesse they will averr that a meer dead headlesse King can really confer treat parly consult advise with his living Prelats Lords Parliament and they with him be Parliamentally present with each other in the Lords House neither of which they dare admit into it for fear the King if living and Lords too should afright them out of it as the Kings ghost yea the memorial of it though dead might justly do 6ly The mandatory part being in the Kings name alone to summon them to treat with and give their Counsel unto Vs concerning the foresaid businesses relating to Vs and the defence of Our Realm Our Businesses aforesaid not our heirs and successors He and his businesses all ending when he expires the Parliament must of necessity determine 7ly The Parliament ceasing to be the Common counsel of the King and his kingdom and nothing possible to be ordained BY US the King not his heirs and successors Prelates Nobles in Parliament without his concurrent Vote or when he is dead unless a dead King can give counsel make Ordinances give his royal assent to Bills when deceased It must inevitably follow that all the Authority causes grounds ends for which the Members of this Parliament were all summoned to treat consult and give their advice to the King himself determining and becoming impossible to be performed by his death the Parliament must of necessity expire and be dissolved even as the natural body ceaseth to be and remain a living man when the Head is quite cut off If then those now sitting who cut off the Kings Head the Head of the Parliament and thereby destroyed that temporary body politick will have their Conventicle revived by this Act they must set on his head again raise him alive out of his Grave and bring him back into the House to impeach condemn decapitate them in this true High Court of Justice for this their beheading him in their Court of Highest Injustice Which Mr. Prynne presumes they dare not doe least his revived Ghost should scare them thence or justly retaliate their transcendent Treachery 4ly If any man by his will deed the King by his Commissions the Parliament by a special Act or Order shall authorize impower any 3. persons joyntly to sell lands give livery and seisin execute any Commission as Judges Justices Commissioners Auditors or Committees of Parliament if any one of them die both the survivors joyntly or severally can doe nothing because their authority trust was joynt not several and joyntly nor seperately to be exercised If there be not 40 Commoners in the House they cannot sit or act as an House nor dispatch the least affair no more can any Committee of either House unless their Number be sufficient to make up a Committee as the orders and custom of Parliament appoint Therfore the Parliament of England being a Corporation compacted joyntly of the King Lords and Commons House and three estates The death of the King necessarily dissolves the Parliament notwithstanding this Act which did not alter the Parliaments Old constitution but establish it The Kings personal absence from his Parliament heretofore and of late was reputed very prejudicial to it and his calling away some Lords Great Officers and other Members from it a high way to its present dissolution in his life Therefore it must much more be dissolved by his death and the Lords and Commons forcible seclusion both before and since it by the Army and sitting Members they having Vocem locum in quolibet Parliamento Angliae as our Law-books Statutes and their Patents resolve 5ly The principal end of calling Parliaments is to enact new and necessary Laws and alter repeal such as are ill or inconvenient as the Prologues of our printed Statutes our writs of Summons Law-books attest and all accord But no new Act of Parliament can be made nor no former Acts altered repealed but by the Kings royal assent who hath a Negative voice to deny as well as Affirmative to assent to them as well as the Lords and Commons as all our Parliaments Judges Law-books Parliament Records Treatises of Parliaments the printed Statutes in each Kings reign more particularly the Statutes of 33 H. 8. c. 21. 1 Jac. c. 1. in the close resolve Yea both Houses acknowledged it in all contests with the late King our Kings Coronation Oaths and all our antient Saxon Kings Lawes attest it Therefore his death must needs dissolve the Parliament notwithstanding this Act because it could make no Act for its dissolution nor declare alter repeal any other Law without his royal assent There are but 2. Objections made by any sitting or secluded Members against these Reasons that his death should not dissolve the Parliament The 1. is this which the Republicans themselves formerly and now insist on That the King doth never die in judgement of Law and that there is no Interregnum because the Crown immediately descends to his right heir who by Law is forthwith King de jure and de facto before his actual Proclamation or Coronation as the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. Cooks 7 Rep. f. 10 11. Calvins case and other Books resolve To which Mr. Prynne Answers 1. That this argument is but an Axe to chop off their own heads and supremacy as they did the Kings and the Objectors now sitting must either renounce their sitting acting Knacks Declarations against the late King Kingship and the House of Lords or quite disclaim the Objection For if the King never dies Then by their own confession and our Lawes we are still a Kingdom not a Republike yea Charles Steward as heir to his beheaded Father was and is still de Jure de facto the lawfull King of England and supreme Lord and Governour of our Church Kingdom there being no Interregnum ever since his Fathers death and then what becomes of all their absurd illegal Knacks against his Regality and Kingship it self of which they are forced now to pray in ayd to make themselvs a Parliament of their Mock-Parliament without King and House of Lords of their perfidious treacherous Engagements against both and Supreme Authority of the Nation which they have tyrannically usurped 2ly Though the King in genere or rather Kingship it self never dies yet the King in Individuo may and doth oft times die and if the successive deaths of all our Kings since we were a

in good hopes that all these undenyable unanswerable Scriptural considerations will fully convince and convert our Republican Conventicle and Army-Officers too from their Jesuitical destructive modle of A Common-wealth unto the love and restitution of our antient hereditary Kings Kingship as the only Divine Saint-like Gospel safe probable way to our future lasting peace and settlement which he intended to have propounded to them Finally if you are resolved notwithstanding the premises to Act as a Parliament without your secluded fellow Members King or House of Lords then follow the Presidents of all your Protestant Predecessors in these particulars 1. Take into your saddest considerations the great increase disguises of dangerous Jesuits and other Romish vipers now amongst us which A. B. a Jesuite in his Mutatus Polemo Or The Horrible Stratagems of the JESUITS lately practised in England during the Civil Wars and now discovered by him a RECLAIMED ROMANIST imployed before as a Workman of the Mission from his Holiness dedicated by him to your own President Bradshaw published by SPECIAL COMMAND of your New Republike London Printed for Rob. White 1650. thus relates to your selves and the world p. 3 4. That he could bring in to your COUNSEL-TABLE a horrible long Catalogue of more perniciously damnable Actors of JESUITICAL Devils in mens shapes yea in MINISTERS too crept in from forein Seminaries to undermine our Church and State then was in the yeer 1605. in that infernal Powder-plot That there was one Regiment or more of them under Sir John Kempsfield a Commander of the Horse in the late Kings Armie who discerning the Kings inclination to close with the Scots and Presbyt●rians and expecting no advantage to their Cause by siding with him held their private Conventicles and Councels at Oxford wherein they resolved to desert and draw off all their own and all his other Forces from him and close with the prevailing Parliament partie which they accordingly effected That upon the Kings departing to the Scots Armie and surrender of Oxford the Jesuits Priests and Popish partie under him not only changed the habits of their minds but bodies also turning from upside Cavaliers and High Royalists and God-dammees holie Converts and Parliamenteers nothing but the Holy Covenant being heard in their mouthes For our bodies Proteus is lesse than a fiction to us He that ere while was a Commander in a ranting equipage is now slinking into a Coblers stall or Weavers loom or Tapsters Apron or Coachmans box or Beggars weed or Horsemans frock or Serving-mans liverie or Tailors shop or Pulpit-thumping Presbyters Gippo into what not It is not unknown what trade we drive beyond Sea when no Trade comes amisse to us To make this good our Governors the States of this Commonwealth if they will deign to hear me now their true Servant shall bee e●tsoon able to call out manie a sheep-clothed-wolf from their stations stalls looms aprons weeds liveries shops yea and Bust coats what say you to Pulpi●s too Let not Engl. now like a bird ah me pursued by several fierce flying Falcons and too too near the intended hard gripes of their cruely sharp tallons either out of a dull or drowsie sottishness or a phantastical humour of contradiction suppose I ●peak what I know not if I should tell them I can and now being about to do it will but privately before Authoritie produce a Catalogue of Catholicks Fathers so we will be called of several Orders and others that are Natives gone into remote Counties who duly go to Church too and of an incredible number now living in this Commonwealth under several Notions whcih I my self can point at with a drie singer I tell thee in general there is scarce a Town or Citie but in few miles of it I can furnish the Reader to thy Amazement be it spoken with some who have lived in England 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 20 40 50 years I. B. of Ne. in Es unknown unsuspected but taken for clean contrarie let them avoid me if they can They are his own words Page 26. to 37. he shews how Mons Mintril the French agent trepand the poor Cavaliers of the Kings partie in transporting them out of Scotland into France how they were there butchered by the French Such is their love to the Royal party of England what endeavours were used by Card Mazarine Father D. and le M. to seduce and corrupt Prince Charls in his Religion both before and after his Fathers death and what promises were made both by the French and Spaniard that all Catholick Princes should be invited and consulted with for an unanimous invasion of England if he would turn Catholick Page 32 33. hee hath this memorable passage During these Sollicitations news comes aloft upon the wings of the wind That the People and State of England had summoned his Father to an High Court of Judicature to bring him to a trial for all the innocent bloud he had spilt and the hideous devastations he had caused This was no little good News to the Cardinalitical party I mean the Iesuitical this Jesuit himself being then at the French and Princes Court in Paris For in my next I shall satisfie thee concerning their cunning workings how even those who pretend so much charitie to the Son did seek by all Machinations to expedite and accelerate this high piece of Iustice upon the Father And now say his Tutors to him If they proceed to death with your Father it will prove the better for you for it shall utterly alien the hearts affections of the people from them and you shall finde them to be more eagerlie violent for your reinvestment not considering the change of your Religion which by anie means shall not be known but to your good Catholick Subjects of England till such time as you have vested power enough into your own hands to protect it and your self in it But indeed the Lad had somewhat of his Fathers astutiousnesse in him and presently asked the CARDINAL the same question as his Father once did the King of Spaine when he was almost easilie intreated to have turned to the Faith Catholick How shall I said he ever expect to be King of England if once the English should understand I have turned Catholick To which they easilie gave a sati●factorie resolution telling him That as the case now stood he must never look to be admitted but by fire and sword the main force of Armes must make way for him neither could he in the least atchieve that or put it in execution without the ayde of Catholike Princes which they will never be brought to act in without a firm assurance of your real and faithfull conuersion What impressions the News of his Fathers decollatiō made upon him what use the Cardinal and Jesuits made of it to induce him and others to Poperie and what endeavors were used by the Jesuits to make up a peace between the Spanish and French to invade England

r 2 Tim. 2.22 Rev. 22.5 ſ Lu. 12.32 c. 22.22 t Iames 2.5 u Mat. 25.34 x Ps 47.7 Gen. 18.25 y Rev. 5.3 c. 19.16 1. Tim. 6.15 z Ti● 1.16 a Hib. 6.9 d Isay 1.24 b Acts 26.27 c Gal. 6.16 * 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3. * See Tertull●an Apologia e Isay 1.2 Ps 114.7 f See the True Old Cause truly stated g 1 Iohn 9.12 to 23. h Acts 13.22 i Sam. 24.3 to 20. c. 26.8 9 10 11 c. k 2 Sam. 4.10 11 12 l 1 Sam. 24.4 5. m Iob 11.44 n Mat. 27.35 n 2 Sam. 18 3. * 2 Chron. 13.20 o Ezech. 21.27 p Isay 10.5 7. Ie● 25.9 c. q Isay 10.6 c. 7.18 19. r Lu. 13.25 to 30. ſ 1 Cor. 6 9 10 11. Ga● 15.20 21.5.5 Ps 15.1 23.4 5. t Mat. 26.47 67 68. c 27. to 38 66. c. 28.11 to 16. John 19 23 24.32.34 u ● Chron 22.8 c. 28.3 x Heb. 7.2 Isaiah 9.6 1 Pet. 4.9 y Rom. 10.15 Eph. 6.16 c. 2.17 z 2 Cor. 5.20 c. 14.32 Eph. 2.17 a Rom. 14.17 b Isay 59.7 8. 2 Chron. 15.5 6. Ier. 4.10 19 20 c. 8 15 16. c Mat. 10.9 10. Lu. 9 3. c. 22.35 Mar. 6 8 9. c Mat. 10.9 10. Lu. 9 3. c. 22.35 Mar. 6 8 9. d Gen. 32.10 Exod. 12.11 c. 21.19 2 Kings 4.29 * See Knolls Turk●sh History Pauli Orosii Historia The History of the Arbigenses * See Mr. Edwards Gangraenaes e Relatio de stratagematis Sophismatis Iesuitarum c. 4. f Lud. Lucius Hist Iesuit l. 1. c. 7. p. 156. Cornelius Cornelii Epist Com. in Minores Prophetas And his Epistle to his Historical and Legal Vindication c. h Mat. 16.24 Mar. 10.21 Lu. 9.23 c. 14.27 i Mat. 19 21 22. * Psal 95.8 10 11. * Isay 59.8 Nota. d Lu. 6.22 e 1 Cor. 4 8. f Dan. 2.47 Col 1.16 17. c. 2.10 1 Tim. 6.15 16. Rev. 17.14 c. 19.18 Eph. 1 21. g Ep. Vshers Eccles Brit. Antiq. c. 3 4 5 6 7.8 Spelmanni Concil Tom. 1. Epist Ded. to it Fox Acts Mon. in H. 8. E. 6. Qu. Eliz. their Statutes to this purpose h Malmsb de Gestis Regum l. 3 c. 13. Mat. Westm Anno 1055. Polycbron l. 6. c. 18 Sim Dunelm col 136. Bromton col 909.955 Ael●edus de Vita Mirac Edw. Confess i Rom 9 19. 1 Cor. 10.22 * 2 Kings 17 20 21 22 25. * 1 Tim. 6.15 Dan. 2.21 c. 4.25 35 c. * 2 Sam. 7.12 1 Kings 11 36. 2 King 8.19 Psal 132.11.12 13 14. * See Bishop vshers Annal. vel Test p. 133. * 2 Chron. 23 2 Kings 11. ‖ 2 Chron. 24 25 26. c. 25.1 2 3 4. 2 Kings 14. to 7. * 2 Chron. 33.20 21 22.23 24 25. 2 Kings 19 to 26. g 9 E. 2. c 8.1 Mar. ses 2 c. 1. 7 H. 7 c. 1. h Aristot Polit l. 3. c. 12. l. 4. c. 2 l. Case Sphaera Civitatis l. 3. c. 5. p. 238. l. 4. c. 3. p. 324. * Worthy serious particular perusal ‖ Prov. 19 10● c. 30.21 22. Eccl. 10.5 6.7 a Dion Cassius Dionys Halicar Polybius Livy Justin Eutropius Godwins Roman Antiquities Bodins Common-wealth (b) Aelian Var. Historia l. 5. c. 53. c Grotius de Jure Belli l. 3. c. 15. p. 537. d See my Speech p. 102 103 104. e Psal 11.3 ‖ Ibid. p. 10 11. Nota. ‖ See here p. p. 43 46 62 63. ‖ See my Epistle to a Seasonable Vindication c. Edit 2. 1655. My Quakers Unmasked A New Discovery of Romish Emissaries 1656. The Plots of the Jesuites printed 1653. And the Jesuits undermining of parliaments and Protestants By William Castle 1642. ‖ Printed in my Hidden Works of Darkness c. Mr. Rushworths Historical Collections p. 41. to 44.121 129 185. to 190 140 141 510 568. Exact Collection p. 5. to 20. ‖ Romes Masterpiece p. 14.15 ‖ Ludovicus Lucius Hist Jesuit l. 3. c. 2. p. 271 2●4 374. l. 3. c. 2. p. 607 609 610 611 614 639 671 673 c. Hospinian Hist Jesuit l. 3. 4. Speculum Jesuiticum ‖ See Lucas Osiander contra Anabaptistas ‖ Prov. 24.21 1 Pet. 2.17 ‖ Exact Collection P. 17. a Iud. 18.7.27 b Mat. 16.25 c Prov. 29.25 Isay 8.12 13. c. 7.4 c. 41.14 c. 44.8 Mat. 10.28 d Isay 13.6 7.8 c. 27.11 c. 24.17 Iudg. 20.41 42 Is 3 4. Ier. 48.43 44. c. 49.24 29. Lam. 3.47 Ezech. 30.13 14. e Collect. of Ordinances P. 420 to 427. Mat. 21.23 f Exact Collection and a Collection of them The Good Old Cause truly stated g See the Letany Collects for the King Queen and Royal Issue Canons 1605. Can. 54. h Tertulliani Apol●g Euseb de Vira Constantini l. 4. c. 19 10. Cassiador Hist Tripartira l. 5. c. 22. Athanatius Apologia ad Constantinum Imp. Sozomen Eccles Hist l. 2. c. 18. l. 4. c. 13. Surius Concil Tom. 1. p. 617. Tom. 2. p. 670 737.738.739 740 762 853 869 871.875 880 891 925 926 1022 1024 1039. Tom. 3. p. 8.238 Cl. 1 E. 1. d. 17. Cl. 24 E. 1. d. 10. Cl. 34 E. 1. d. 9 16. Cl. 35 E. 1. d. 15. cl 9 R. 2. d. 11. cl 15 R. 2. d. 56. cl 16 R. 2. d. 11. cl R. 2. d. 35. * 2 Chron. 10 6.101● See My New Discovery of Free State Tyranny And Englands New Chains * 2 Chron 28.2.3.22 to 36. k Psal 20.8 i Chytrai Chron. Sax●nia l. 14. p 411 to 414. Munsteri Cosmog l. 3. c. 142 Sleidan Comment l. 10 n Psal 4.8 Psal 11● 41 See Polybii Hist lib. 6. p. 521 to 527.