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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

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

one of them for his Confessor and bequeathing his very heart unto them to be interred with them after his death together with a very large Legacy of Plate and Lands yet they soon after procured their desperat Assassinate and Disciple Ravilliac to stabb him to the heart in the open street in Paris An. 1610. A Just reward for his neglect contempt of his Parliaments timely admonitions in sundry Remonstrances presented to him never to trust or recall them more and the notable Epigram against the Jesuits tendred to him by a true Philopater Anno 1603. wherein there is this memorable passage in relation to their subversion of all antient Fundamental Laws Cuinam Hominum ignotum est Iesuitas nocte dieque Nil meditari aliud quam qua ratione modove Prisca Statuta queant Patriasque evertere Leges Inque locum Antiquis totum in contraria Nobis Iura dare sanctos privata ad commoda Ritus Pl●ctere nulli unquam quod post mutare licebit c. M. Prynne considering all these particulars and knowing that this sodain re-assembly of the old eiected Republican M●mbers now fitting originally proceeded from the Jesuits projection sollicitation and Anabaptistical Sectarian party formerly combining with them in all their proceedings against the late King at whose execution the Queens own Conf●ssor was present in a Soldiers habit flourishing his sword when his head was off as well as other Jesuits Popish Priests overjoyed with that spectacle the secluded Members the House of Lords and transformation of our Kingdom into a Commonwealth to accomplish their remaining designs left unfinished pro●ected in terminis by Father Parsons and the Jesuites and violently pursued in the short Mock-Parliament nominated at Whitehall by the Army-Officers themselves 1653. viz To eradicate the National Church Ministers Ministry of England Advowsons Tithes Glebes with Parochial Churches Chapels as Antichristian and leave not one stone of them upon another Which John Canne the new-voted Diurnall-man in his Voice from the Temple then dedicated to them particularly excited them to with all speed and earnestness as their Generation-work expected required of them by God and all the Saints of the Land To sell all the Crown Colleges Vniversities and Corporations lands yet remaining to support and pay the Jesuited Army kept up so long on purpose to ruine eat us out M. Prynne thereupon held it his bounden duty both as a Member Lawyer Englishman and former Patriot of his Countries Liberties against all Jesuitical Vnderminers of them and our Protestant Religion truly fully to discover the same to the whole English Nation Army and those now sitting and to press it home upon their Consciences by this his Narrative whether they will hearken to believe obey it or not since he was forcibly secluded from doing it by Speech having sufficient warrant encouragement and protection for it as he apprehends from God himself Ezech. 2.4 5 6. and Jer. 1.18 19. For they are hard of face and stiff hearted Therefore Son of man I do send thee unto them and thou shalt say unto them thus saith the Lord. And they whether they will hear or whether they will forbear for they are a rebellious House yet shall know that there hath been a Prophet among them And thou Son of man be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words though briers and thorns be with thee and thou doest dwell among Scorpions Be not afraid of their Faces nor be dismayed at their Looks though they be a Rebellious House And thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether th●y will forbear But thou Son of man hear what I say unto thee and O that all the seduced Army Republican Members and their confederates would now hear and obey it too Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious House For behold I have made thee this day a defenced City and an iron pillar and brazen walls against the whole Land against the Princes thereof and the Priests thereof and against all the people of the Land engaged against thee and thy true Good Old Cause And they shall fight against thee by sundry scurrillous Pasquils Petitions Slanders Reproaches and armed secluding Guards but they shall not prevail against thée For I am with thee saith the Lord as well now as in all former Engagements Trials for this Good cause to deliver thée The assurance whereof hath made him so resolute as singly by himself to encounter an whole armed Host and House at once and throuh Gods blessing to rout them in a manner by his bare presence and their Good Old Cause in a great measure by his single Opposition The sole praise whereof he desires to render wholly and solely to the Lord of Hosts and God of the Spirits of all Flesh and not in any kind or part to himself a meer worm and not a man an earthen V●ssel yea one of the weak base despised things of the world and a thing that can not whom yet God can and may make use of to confound the things that are mighty and to bring to nought things that are that no Flesh shall glo●y in his presence and that the excellency of the power might be of God and not of him who hath promised that One of his faithfull people shall chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight in a true Good Old Cause and Quarrel for the Lord their God be it is that fighteth for them as he hath promised What then might all the secluded Members and old Lords House do and all the well affected Orthodox Protestants in our three Nations had they but hearts wisedoms courage to joyn their Counsels and endeavours together according to their Solemn League and Covenant to vindicate their true Old Cause and Parliamentary privileges against all inconsiderable Oppugners and Subverters of them Mr. Prynne having neither Wife nor Child to provide for not much to care for and never yet desiring any New Office Advancement or Employment in this present world nor receiving the least reward for all his faithfull publick services nor recompence for his manifold losses sufferings expences for the Publick to whom he hath ever been a faithfull unmercinarie Servant is in good hopes that the serious perusal of the premises will convince the Good Old Cause now cryed up to be a cheat of the Iesuites put upon the Army as Hugh Peters apprehends stiles it in his Letter the 10th of this May to a chief Officer of the Army and also wipe off all the Mis-reports Scandals Reproaches Censures yea acquit him from the heavy charge of Sedition Mutiny Treason against the Infant House and Republick cast upon him for his actions or discourses here related by those who are reallie guiltie of these Crimes in the highest degree by subverting our antient Kings Kingdomes Kingship Parliaments Peers Privileges Laws Liberties Properties Oaths by their Iesuitical plots and innovations and making a prey of

universal not partial of all their forces upon the House and Members especially of their greatest Dec. 6. 1648. when they not only secluded but secured and imprisoned him and 40 more in Hell and other places forced away 3 times as many more for discharging their trusts asserting the true GOOD OLD CAUSE against their Commissions trusts Protestations and printed Remonstrances which if they would look back upon and well consider as they proclaim they had don in their New Decl. they would find to be one of their greatest Backslidings where they first turned out of the way which caused God to withdraw his presence and GOOD SPIRIT FROM THEM ever since and give them up to the prosecution of a New Romish GOOD OLD CAVSE which had brought us into that posture and occasioned those vicissitudes of dangers and caused God in his Providence to make all Essaies to settle us utterly ineffectual to convince them of and reclaim them from their Error which they now pursued afresh as vigorously as ever That for his own part after his Impisonment by them against both Lawe and Privilege in 1648. in sundry places he was again forcibly seised by some of the Army in his House in 1650. and kept a close Prisoner near 3. years under armed guards of Souldiers in 3. remote Castles farr distant frō those then sitting Therfore they could not make their unrighteous Imprìsonment of him then without any cause or hearing a just ground to seclude him from sitting now But all these expostulations of M. P. and others not prevailing they desired all present to take notice and bear witnes of this high affront and breach of Privilege in this their forcible seclusion And so departing Mr. Knightly meeting Major General Lambert in the Lobby complained to him of this Forcible seclusion who gave him a civil Answer to this effect That things were now in an hurrie and their entring at this time into the House might cause some disturbance but doubted not such course would be taken by the Officers of the Army in few daies that none should be forcibly secluded and so they went from the Lobby into the Hall from whence they came acquainting those Members they left there with the premises After some conference with one another it was thought fit they should meet about 4. a clock in the Evening under Lincolns Inne Chappel and in the mean time that every one should inquire what old secluded or secured Members were now in town and how many Members of the long Parliament were yet living chosen or sitting before December 6. 1648. when they were first forcibly secluded by the Army Some met accordingly and upon conference found there were about 80 secluded Members now in London and Westminster being near double the number of those sitting that day and above 300 Members of all sorts yet living chosen or sitting in the Commons House before Decemb. 1648. over and above those that now sate all which they conceived ought in justice to be summoned by the Speakers Letter freely to meet and sit in the House at a convenient time to be agreed upon In order whereunto some ten of them met in the Counsel-Chamber of Lincolns Inne where the old Speaker used to sit in Counsel as a Bencher with the rest of the Benchers concerning the affairs of the Society as the fittest place to write down a Catalogue of all the surviving Members names by the help of their Memories and the printed list of them which having finished they departed agreeing to meet in Westminster Hall about 9 of the clock on Monday morning whither M. P. carried the list of the names formerly written digested into an Alphabetical order to communicate it to other Members Those that sate meeting on the Lords day adjourned their House till ten of the clock Monday morning But the Courts not sitting in VVestminster-Hall that day Mr. P. found the Hall very thin few Members in it whiles he was standing in the Hall expecting those who promised to meet there he was twice informed one after another that there were no Guards at all at the House Door that any person might freely go into it without examination there being but few Members within and the Doors standing open Whereupon he spake to 4 or 5 Members there met to go along with him into the House and if they were freely admitted to give notice of it to the rest to follow after if they pleased Some of them were unwilling to go being formerly repulsed thinking it better to make a Narrative of their former forcible seclusion on Saturday and to signifie it by a Letter directed to the Speaker subscribed with their names which Mr P. conceived superfluous since the Door now stood feeely open to all without any Guards to seclude any and that as he apprehended in pursute of Major General Lamberts promise to Mr. Knightly And it would be idle to complain of that force by Letter wherewith they might now acquaint those then sitting by their own mouthes if there were cause Vpon which ground M. Prynne Mr. Annesly and Mr. Hungerford about ten of the clock went to the House where the doors of the Lobby House were at first knock opened to them by the ordinary Door-keepers upon their telling thē they were Members there being no Guard at either door who delivered to each of them as Members a printed Paper intitled A Declaration of the Parliament assembled at Westminster Saturday 7. May 1659. They found not about 9. of 10. of those who sate within the House who courteously saluted them After some short discourses Mr. Annesly and Mr. Hungerford leaving Mr. Prynne in the House out of which he resolved not to stir upon any occasion for fear of a new forcible seclusion went back into the Hall to acquaint the Members in it they might freely enter if they pleas●d Mr. Annesly returning was forcibly kept out from re-entring by some Soldiers sent thither as he conceited for that purpose Wherwith he acquainted Mr. P. by a Note desiring to speak with him at the House door which being opened Mr. Annesly pressed to go in to speak with him but was denied entrance unless he would give his paroll presently to come out again and not stay in whereupon he said Though they had often broken their parolls with them yet he would not break his parol but would come forth so soon as he had spoken with M. P. which he accordingly performed After this Mr. P. had conference with divers Members as they came in who said they were glad to see him in health and meet him there again The House being thin M. P. turned to the Statute of 17 Caroli c. 7. reading it to himself and after that to two other Members telling them it was a doubt whether the old Parliament was not determined by the Kings death notwithstanding that Act which was fit to be first freely debated in a full House before ought else was done Upon which they

spoliasti me Hic fortasse ut evadas hanc vocem mutata consuetudine cogitas spoliare Paganum vestire Christianum Ad hoc respondebit tibi Christus immo respondet tibi nunc per servum qualemcunque Ministrum suum Etiam hic parce damnis meis Cum enim qui Christianus es spolias Paganum impedis fieri Christianum Etiam hic fortasse respondebis Ideo spolio Paganum ut per hanc asperam salubrem Disciplinam faciam Christianum Audirem crederem si quod abstulisti Pagano redderes Christiano c. O that our Harpyes and Beasts of prey who have obliterated the tenth Commandement out of all their Decalogues as the Papists have done the second would lay it close to heart being Saint Augustines 21. Sermon to them as well as Mr. Prynnes The rather because the night before O. Cromwell Pro. died Mr. Prynne then being at Swainswick near Bath having never dreamed of him before dreamt he was dangerously sick at Bath and that he then sent a special Messenger to him importunatly desiring he would presently repair to Bath for he was very sick and desired much to speak with him Whereupon though he never saw him since 1647. he presently went to Bath where finding him lying on his bed he told Mr. P. he was very sick and had sent for him to tell him what he should do in this condition Mr. Prynne thereupon forthwith answered That he could give him us better nor other Counsel than that of Saint Augustine asserted by all Divines as an undoubted truth Non Remittetur peccatum nist restitnatur ablatum That there was no remission of Sin without full restitution of Rapine Therefore he must forthwith restore the banished King to his Crown and Kingdoms of which he had most unjustly deprived him the Parliaments to its just rights freedomes and privileges which he had utterly subverted and the people to their fundamental Laws Liberties Properties of which he had most unjustly and perfideously defrauded them more than any man against his Oaths trust duty under pretext of defending them repent of all the blood he had shed and mischief he had done then there was hope of mercy and pardon for him both from God and Men otherwise there was none at all for ought he knew At he standing mute as much amazed without any Reply Mr. Pr· thereupon departed without more words and the next morning told this dream to his Sister and sundry others telling them he was confident he should hear some strange news of Cromwell very speedily since he never dreamed of him before and within three daies after he heard of his death about 12. hours after his dream O that all other Usurpers of others Estates Offices Lands places by bloud and rapine would sadly consider of it and make real restitution of them before they die then would our peace be soon restored without war or bloudshed and their souls saved which else in all probability will be damned without real restitution when possible to be made 4. His relieving interceding for the massacred persecuted Protestant Albigenses in Piedmont charitable Collections for them and others was a Christian work worthy applause But his giving just provocation to Popish Princes abroad by the Jesuites instigation to extirpate their Religion as a very Seminary of Treason Sedition Rebellion and to massacre eradicate them as a Company of Traytors Antimonarchists Regicides Hypocrites Rebels and Seditious persons from his own and his Confederates Antimonarchical principles practises Treasons Rebellions of this kinde both against their King Parliament Monarchy their confederated Brethren of Scotland and their K●ng as being all of one Religion perswasion his accommodating the King of Spain with whole Regiments of bloudie Irish Papists who had embrewed their hands in so much Protestant bloud in Ireland and were the chief Instruments in murdering these poor Protestants his negligence in examining the misimployment of this and other Collections under him for distressed foreign Protestants the greatest part of which are yet in the Collectors hands or diverted otherwise Was in truth but first to kill wound plunder and then relieve them when too late 5. His Confederacy with the King of Sweden to invade the Kingdom of Poland and usurp that Crown by force without right or colourable Title upon pretext to advance the Protestant cause relieve the Protestant Churches propagat the Gospel there had some specious shew of zeal to Religion But to doe apparent evil that good might come of it to ingage in such a war to propagat the Gospel of peace which ended in the total extirpation of all the Protestants and their Churches in Poland whence they are now totally extirpated as himself related in his Briefs papers for their over-late relief and produced a new bloudie warr wherein he also sided with him against the King of Denmark a Protestant King the Marquess of Brandenburgh the Dutch and other our Protestant allies sadly divided against each other in late bloudy battles by Land Sea to the endangering of all the Protestant Churches throughout the world and engaging them all in a New Warre and our three N●tions in all probability against our Protestant Brethren now the Popish Kings are reconciled and ready to destroy us all being broken in pieces amongst our selves impoverished butchered by one another rather like savage beasts than men or Christians and that in direct pursuance of Campanellius Richelieus and other Jesuited Plots who expresly write That the Catholicks are to use all arts and means to divide the Protestants Lutherans Calvinists and Sectaries one from and against each other by various arts and means and all occasions laid hold of for that purpose that they may with more ease oppress destroy them all and that they ought not to neglect the opportunity to accomplish their utter extirpation when their monies are exhausted their forces weakned and they divided by their intestine wars The best means being thus to destroy them by themselves till they like the Kite in the Fable shall devour the Frog and Mouse together during their combats with each other Was such a Machiavilian Policy to advance the Protestant cause as Mazarine and the Jesuites suggested to him on purpose to effect their ruine as all Wise men and his own Creatures now over-late discern and Bedlam Hugh Peters in his Letter to a Great Army-Officer the 10th of this instant May. 6. His endeavour to bring in the Jews with their Synagogues and Jewish Ceremonies under a pretended hopes of their long-desired Conversion but ●eal intended expectation to finger Two hundred thousand pounds of their gold at present and all the rest in future when transplanted to set up their Antichristian Judaism in direct contradiction to our Saviour Jesus Christ and at the very self-same time by his printed Declaration 24 Novemb. 1655. and private Instructions to his New Basha's or Major Generals to eject silence at one blow