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A56153 Mr. Prynnes demand of his liberty to the Generall, Decemb. 26, 1648 with his answer thereto, and his declaration and protestation thereupon. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1648 (1648) Wing P3941; ESTC R35131 2,399 1

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Mr. PRYNNES Demand of his Liberty to the GENERALL Decemb. 26. 1648. with his Answer thereto and his Declaration and Protestation thereupon For the Honourable Lord Fairfax Generall of the present Army THese are to acquaint your Lordship That I being a Member of the Commons House of Parliament a Freeman of ENGLAND a great sufferer for and an assertor of the Subjects Liberties against all Regall and Prelaticall Tyranny and no way Subject to your owne your Councell of Warres or Officers Military power or jurisdiction going to the House to discharge my duty on the sixt of this instant December was on the staires next the Commons House doore forcibly kept back from entring the House seized on and carried away thence without anie pretext of Lawfull Authoritie or cause assigned by Col. PRIDE and other Officers and Souldiers of the Armie under your Command And notwithstanding the Houses demand of my enlargement both by their Serjeant and otherwise ever since unjustly detained under your Marshalls Custodie and tossed from place to place contrarie to the known Priviledges of Parliament the libertie of the Subject and fundamentall lawes of the land which you are engaged to maintain against all violation And therefore do hereby demand from Your Lordship my present enlargement and just Libertie with Your Answer hereunto From the Kings head in the Strand December 26 1648. WILLIAM PRYNNE This was delivered to the Generalls owne hands at his House in Queenestreet about three of the clock the same day it beares date by Doctor Bastwicke who returned this answer by him upon the reading thereof That he knew not but Mr. PRYNNE was already released and that Hee would send to his Officers to know what they had against him Who it seemes act all things without his privity and steer all the Armies present Counsells and Designes according to their absolute wills The Publick Declaration and Protestation of William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne Esquire against his present Restraint and the present destructive Councells and Iesuitical Proceedings of the Generall Officers and ARMY I William Prynne a Member of the House of Commons and Freeman of England who have formerly suffered 8. yeares imprisonment four of them close three in exile three Pillories the losse of my Eares Calling Estate for the vindicating of the Subjects just Rights and Liberties against the arbitrary Tiranny and Iniustice of King and Prelates and defence of the Protestant Religion here established spent most of my strength and studyes in asserting the Peoples iust Freedome and the Power and Priviledges of Parliament against all Opposers and never received one farthing by way of dammages gift or recompence or the smallest benefit or preferment whatsoever for all my sufferings and publike services Doe here solemn●y declare before the most just and righteous God of Heaven and Earth the searcher of all hearts the whole Kingdome English Nation and the World that having according to the best of my skil and judgment faithfully discharged my trust and duty in the Commons House upon reall grounds of Religion Conscience Justice Law Prudence and right reason for the speedy and effectuall settlement of the Peace and safety of our three distracted bleeding dying Kingdoms on Munday the 4th of December I was on Wednesday morning following the sixt of this instant going to the House to dischage my duty on the Parliament staires next the Commons doore forcibly seized upon by Col. Pride Sir Hardresse Wa●●er and other Officers of the Army who had then beset the house with strong Guards and whole Regiments of Horse and Foot haled violently thence into the Queens Court notwithstanding my Protestation of breach of Priviledge both as a Member and a Freeman by a mere usurped tirannicall power without any lawfull Authority or cause assigned and there forcibly detained Prisoner with other Members there restrained by them notwithstanding the Houses double demand of my present enlargement to attend its service by the Sergeant and that night contrary to faith and promise carried prisoner to Hell and there shut up all night with 40 other Members without any lodging or other accommodations contrary to the known Priviledges of Parliament the fundamentall Lawes of the Realme and Liberty of the Subiect which both Houses the three Kingdomes the Generall with all Officers and Souldiers of the Army are by solemn Covenant and duty obliged inviolably to maintaine Since which I have without any lawfvll Power or Authority been removed and kept prisoner in severall places put to great expences debarred the liberty of my person calling and denyed that Hereditary Freedome which being to me of right both as an Freeman a Member an eminent sufferer for the publike and a Christian by these who have not the least shaddow of Authority or Justice to restraine me and never yet objected the least cause of this my unjust restraint I do therefore hereby publiquely protest against all these their proceedings as the highest usurpation of an Arbitrary and tyrannicall Power the greatest breach of Faith Trust Covenant Priviledges of Parliament and most dangerous encroachment on the Subiects Liberties and Lawes of the Land ever practised in this Kingdome by any King or Tyrant especially by pretended Saints who hold forth nothing but Iustice Righteousnesse liberty of Conscience and publike freedome in all their Remonstrance whiles they are tryumphantly trampling them all under their armed Iron feet And do further hereby appeal to summon them before all the Tribunalls Powers in Heaven and Earth for exemplary Iustice against them who cry out so much for it against others lesse Tyrannicall Oppressive uniust and fedifragus to God and men then themselves And doe moreover Remonstrate that all their present exorbitant Actings against the King Parliament present Government their New-modled Representative are nothing else but the designs and projects of Iesuits Popish Priests Recusant who beare chiefe sway in their Councels to destroy and subvert our Religion Lawes Liberties Government Maiestracy Ministry the present and all future Parliaments the King his Posterity and our three Kingdomes the Generall yee Officers and Army themselves and that with speedy and inevitable certainty to betray them all to our forraigne Popish Enemies and give a just ocasion to the Prince and Duke now in the papists power to alter their Religion engage them and al foraign Princes and Estates to exert all their power to suppresse and extirpate the Protestant Religion and Posessors of it through all the world which these unchristian scandalous treacherous Rebellious Tyrannicall Jesuiticall disloyal bloody present Counsels and Exorbitances of this Army of Saints so much pretending to Piety and Iustice have so deepely wounded scandalised and rendred detestable to all pious carnall and morall men of all conditions All which I am and shall alwayes be ready to make good before God Angels Men and our whole three Kingdoms in a free and full Parliament upon all just occasions and seal the truth of it with the last drop of my dearest blood In witnesse whereof I have hereunto subscribed my Name at the signe of the Kings head in the STRAND Decemb. 26. 1648. WILLIAM PRYNNE