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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56197	The re-publicans and others spurious good old cause, briefly and truly anatomized. To preserve our native country, kingdom, legal government, Church, parliaments, laws, liberties, privileges of Parliament, and Protestant religion from ruine, scandal, and perpetual infamy; to reform, reclaim all Jesuit-ridden seduced republicans, officers, soldiers, sectaries, heretofore, or now engaged in the prosecution of this misintituled good old cause, from any future pursute thereof, and engage them for ever to abominate it, as apparently tending to publike ruin, their own temporal and eternal condemnation, infamy, our religions reproach, in present and succeeding ages. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4052; ESTC R234922	18,673	20

thrust them out of the Parliament House Whitehall laying their elevated Honor in the dust And by their Declaration of August 22. 1653. and A true state of the Common-wealth of England 1654. p. 8. c. not only declared them to be actually finally and justly dissolved from being any more a Parliament by an extraordinary providence power but also branded them to all posterity for a CORRUPT PAKTY carrying on their own ends to perpetuate themselves in their late PARLIAMENTARIE SVPREAM AVTHORITIE never answoring the ends which God his People and the whole Nation expected from them but exercising an Arbitrary Power over them likely to swallow up all the antient Liberties and Properties of the People and to perpetuate their Vexations and Oppressions in every kind though the multitude of unnecessary Laws and Ordinances many of which were made upon occasion of and to suit with the concernments and interests of partiaular parties tending to the absolute enslaving of the free-born Nation under their perpetual Dictatorship as they there at large remonstrate These New Athenian Republican Tyrants worse than the worst of all our Kings being thus sodainly dismounted by the Army to the general joy and contentment of all three Nations Generall and the Army-Officers seating themselves in the Supream Power which they allawaies retained and actually exercised in reality at their pleasures though their Mock-Porliament had the Title and visible administration therof usurped an absolute Legislative Tax imposing Parliament-modelling electing convening secluding dissolving power at their pleasures and made their Genera under the Title of Lord Protector of the Infant Common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland as the Roman-Souldiers did their Generals under the' Titles of Caesar or Emperour a more absolute real though not nominal King over us than any of our antient Kings and themselves as a Counsel of State and Major Generals under him acted more arbitrarily tyranically oppressively as Legislators Military and civil Dictators Iudges or pety Kings under him than any of our Saxon Kings during the Heptarchy or old Counsel-Table Lords or Lord Lieutenants under our late King though branded by them as the worst of Tyrants Whose exorbitant Authorities being in some measure bounded and their Major-Generalships set aside by the Assembly at Westminster 1657. and their first Protector soon after his beloved Daughter sodainly out off by unexpected death and his Son no former Officer in the Army succeeding him calling a New Convention at Westminster in Ianuary 1658. the all-swaying Army-Grandees either fearing or discerning in him an inclination rather to close with the antient Nobility Gentry Lawyers and Prebyterians than with them and to revive the old English Militia of Trained-bands by degrees for the peoples ease in their Taxes as the probablest means for his own and our Nations ease settlement security Thereupon they resolved to set up their new Republick again but finding themselves and the old and new Rebublican Members with whom they confederated over-voted in the House by the Lawyers and Court-party in their design of the reviving their former Common-wealth purposely to set aside their young Protector or reduce him and the Republick too under their own pristine Wardship they fell to their former Policy whereby they dismembred dissolved the long Parliament setting up a new General Counsel of Officers and Agitators of the Army against their Protectors will and the Votes of those they acknowledged to be the Parliament and General Counsel both of England Scotland and Ireland of both which themselves like Ambidexters were Members by which stratagem they engaged the major part of the forces here to side with them against the Parliament and enforced their Protector by a suddain surprise much against his will unexpectedly to dissolve the Parliament to make themselves the present Supream Counsel Dictators and Governors of our three Nations as their subsequent actions every day more and more demonstrate To engage all the old and new Republican Members Sectaries Souldiers others in this their foreplotted New-Confederacy they did in sundry printed papers at the beginning of the last Convention since its dissolution and in several Speeches in the House extoll The Good Old Cause in which they formerly engaged and what that was themselves in some of their Speeches motions for their indemnity and justification therein have discovered to wit the impeaching and beheading of the late King in an illegal new High Court of Justice against the Votes of both Houses the Presidents of all former Ages the Laws and Statutes of the Land their own Declarations Remonstrances Commissions Oaths Vows Protestations Covenants yea the very Writs and Indentures by which some of them were elected Members of the long Parliament all obliging them in precise terms to defend the Kings Person Crown and lawfull Authority as well as both Houses of Parliament their Members privileges against all violence conspiracies and attempts whatsoever To disinherit his royal posterity to sel divide among themselves all or most of the antient Lands Rents Revenues Treasure of the Crown which formerly defrayed the ordinary expences of the Realm without taxing the people to dissolve the whole House of Lords impeach seclude secure imprison close imprison the majority of the House of Commons opposite to their new spurious Good Cause at their pleasure and to create the small remainder of the Commons confederated with the Army an absolute Parl. and the Supreme Authority of the Nation without King or House of Lords or the major part of their secluded Fellow-Commoners to metamorphose our Old Kingdom into a new Infant Republick Oligarchy under themselves alone to disinherit all secluded Members and other English Freemen of their hereditary Laws Liberties Franchises and put them into a new Praemunire without any legal Indictment or Conviction disabling them to sue in any Court or enjoy receive any office or preferment whatsoever unless they shall perfidiously abjure all former Oaths Protestations Vows Covenants and engage to be true and faithfull to them and their new-minted Republick without a King or House of Lords to new-modle our Nations Parliaments Government subvert our old fundamental good Laws Liberties Properties imprison banish condemn execute our persons sequester confiscate our Lands Offices real personal Estates ransack our Houses Studies papers and create new Treasons forfeitures of our Freeholds at their arbitrary Lordly pleasures to repeal the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance suspend all penal Executions against Jesuits and Romish-Seminaries give a free toleration protection to all sorts of Sects and Religions whatsoever to hold intimate correspondency with Popish Princes Cardinals Jesuits Jesuited Papists and maintain justifie their most abominable treasonable principles as they did in their preceedent concurrent and subsequent to in and after the proceedings against the King Members erection of their new Free-state the worst of all Arbitrary Tyranies All which nought else but this is the only Good Old Cause they now extoll are to act over again perchance to the