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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91183	The first part of an historical collection of the ancient Parliaments of England, from the yeer of our Lord 673, till the end of King John's reign, anno 1216. Wherein is cleerly demonstrated by histories and records beyond contradiction, that the ancient parliaments, and great councels of England, during all this tract of time, and many yeers after, were constituted, and consisted onely of our kings, princes, dukes, earls, nobles, barons, spiritual and temporal lords, and those we now usually stile the House of Peers; and that both the legislative and judicial power of our parliaments resided onliy [sic] in them; without any knights, citizens, burgesses of Parliament, or Commons House, not knowne, nor heard of, till of punier times then these. Published, to inform the ignorance, and check the insolent usurpations of those few commoners, who now call themselves not only the Commons House, but Parliament of England; and (as much as in them lies) have most unjustly excluded both our King and lords from being any Members, or branches of our late, or future Parliaments. / By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3957; Thomason E569_23; ESTC R203232	23,817	33

THE FIRST PART OF AN HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF THE ANCIENT PARLIAMENTS OF ENGLAND From the yeer of our LORD 673 till the end of King JOHN's Reign Anno 1216. Wherein is cleerly demonstrated by Histories and Records beyond contradiction That The Ancient Parliaments and Great Councels of England during all this tract of time and many yeers after were constituted and consisted onely of our KINGS PRINCES DUKES EARLS NOBLES BARONS SPIRITUAL and TEMPORAL LORDS and those we now usually stile THE HOUSE OF PEERS and that both the LEGISLATIVE and JUDICIAL POWER OF OUR PARLIAMENTS resided ONLIY IN THEM without any Knights Citizens Burgesses of Parliament or COMMONS HOUSE not knowne nor heard of till of punier times then these Published To inform the Ignorance and check the insolent Usurpations of those FEW COMMONERS who now call themselves not only THE COMMONS HOUSE But PARLIAMENT of England and as much as in them lies have most unjustly excluded both our KING and LORDS from being any MEMBERS or BRANCHES OF OUR LATE OR FUTURE PARLIAMENTS By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Swainswick Esquire Pro. 22. 28. Remove not the ancient Land-mark which thy Fathers have set Grat. Caus 27. Quaest 2. Etiam quod habuit emittat qui quod non accepit usurpat LONDON Printed for Robert Hodges 1649 THE FIRST PART OF AN Historicall Collection of the ancient PARLIAMENTS of ENGLAND THe grosse Ignorance of the ancient constitution of our English Parliaments and fanatick dream of A Supreme Parliamentary and absolute Legislative Authority in THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ALONE yea in a meer REMNANT of it after its dissolution by the Kings beheading first broached by Lilburn Overton and their Levelling party who first suffered under and now most inveigh against that USURPED EXORBITANT POWER being in my apprehension next to Gods wrath for our sins the principal ground-work of all the late unparalleld insolent that I say not monstrous and brutish proceedings against the late and present King the House of Peers and secluded Majority of the late Commons House by the Army and those who now presume to entitle themselves THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND and by pretext thereof obtrude what Acts and Taxes they please upon the people to enslave them to their new erected SOVERAIGN TYRANNY to the hazard of our Kingdoms and of Parliaments themselves I conceived I could not do a more acceptable service to God the Kingdom or this new INSANUM PARLIAMENTUM of NOVICES IN PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS to reduce them to their right wits again being more then BEDLAM MAD as their Acts and Actions testifie then to spend some vacant Hours in gathering into one or two small Bundles the scattered Histories and Records of our ancientest Parliaments and Great Councels which are strangers and unknown to most to instruct their Ignorance check their Arrogance rectifie their presumptuous Ex●●bitances and restore our Parliaments to their ancient constitution splendor honour limits and preserve them from utter abolition for the future through the over-swelling Greatnesse and unsufferable Vsurpations upon King Lords Commons and Kingdom by those now sitting and acting alone beyond and against all Parliamentary precedents in former ages to the astonishment of the present and wonder of succeeding times It is a rule in the Canon Law a Gratian ●aus 11. Quast 2. Privilegium meretur amit●ere qui abutitur potestate yea a Canon in Gods own sacred Law b P●o. 16. 18. Dan. 4. 37. Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall and not so only but it is commonly the cause as well as the fore-runner thereof The Scripture Canon assuring us That a mans pride shall bring him low Prov. 29. 23. Isa 13. 11. c Gen 3. 5. Adam's and Eve's aspiring pride to become as Gods knowing good and evil degraded them below the primitive condition of man wherein they were created and made them like to the d ●sal 49 12. 20. very beasts that perish The e 1 Tim. 3. 6. 2 Pet. 2. 4. Isa 14. 11 12 13 14. ambitious Angels aspiring to be Gods tumbled them down from heaven and metamorphosed them into Divels f Dan. 4. 29. to 35. Nebuchad●●zar's over-weening pride turned him out of his Royall Throne and pallace to grase among beasts And King g Acts 12. 22 23. Herod's bare acceptance of this slattering applause The voice of a God and not of a man made him by the hand of divine Vengeance a present prey to the vilest worms who eat him up alive But to come neerer home What overthrew and destroyed the late be headed King Strafford Canterbury what suppressed abolished the h See the Acts for their suppressio● 17. Caroli Star-chamber High-Commission Councel-Table and our Prelates with their Courts but their encroaching usurping exercising of an exorbitant illegall over-swelling transcendent power and jurisdiction above against and beyond the rules and bounds of Law And what abated the Authority Honour Esteem and reall Power of the late two Houses of Parliament and rendred them vile and despicable in the peoples eyes and affections but their surpassing the bounds of their ancient Parliamentary priviledges and Authority to the grievance of the people Which being so far exceeded in all kinds and degrees by some late Commons now sitting stiling themselves The Parliament and Supreme Authority of England and acting more arbitrari●y and tyrannically in all things then ever any Kings or Parliaments in former ages to the insufferable injury and oppression both of the King Kingdom People and all sorts and professions of men will in conclusion thereby inevitably occasion their own speedy downfall and irrecoverable perdition and without Gods great mercy ruine all our future Parliaments at least wise much eclipse their Honour and Esteem and much abridge the Commons former power and Jurisdiction by bringing all their encroached Authority unto a legall scrutiny and debate which absolute necessity enforces men to for their own and the Kingdoms common preservation and engaged me principally upon this Historicall Collection of the ancient Parliaments of England to abate the swelling Tympany and c●re if possible the exorbitant distempers and dangerous Insolencies of the Levelling sitting Commons who have neither precept not precedent Law nor Canon nor the least shadow of authority from God or Man King or people or any reall priviledges or constitution of our Parliaments to justifie their late proceedings in the least degree The Method I observe in marshalling these Collections is only Chronologicall according to their respective Antiquities beginning with the Reigns of Easewin and Kentwin Anno Domini 673. and ending with King John Anno 1216 containing in all the space of 543 years during which large proportion of time and many yeers after our Parliaments were constituted and made up onely of our Kings Princes Du●es Earls Nobles BARONS Spirituall and Temporall Lords and those who in later ages we stile the HOVSE OF PEERS without any Knights of Shires Citizens Burgesses elected by the people as their Representatives or