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A91237	The opening of the great seale of England. Containing certain brief historicall and legall observations, touching the originall, antiquity, progresse, vse, necessity of the great seal of the kings and kingdoms, of England, in respect of charters, patents, writs, commissions, and other processe. Together with the kings, kingdoms, Parliaments severall interests in, and power over the same, and over the Lord Chancellour, and the lords and keepers of it, both in regard of its new-making, custody, admi nistration [sic] for the better execution of publike justice, the republique necessary safety, and vtility. Occasioned by the over-rash censures of such who inveigh against the Parliament, for ordering a new great seale to be engraven, to supply the wilfull absence, defects, abuses of the old, unduely withdrawne and detained from them. / By William Prynne, Utter-Barrester of Lincolns Inne. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing P4026; Thomason E251_2; ESTC R234376	44,104	39

all and in their default or neglect the Free-holders and Citizens of each County City and Borough are enabled to elect Knights Citizens and Burgesses without any Writ at all and the Election and Parliament to be as effectuall as if summoned under the great Seale of England If then a Parliament may be thus summoned by the Lord Keeper himselfe by a Writ under the great Seale without the Kings privity or contrary to his Command or by a Writ under the Lords Seals only or without any Writ at all in some cases and that by expresse provision of an Act made this Parliament why this Parliament may not by as good or like reason now it is assembled and perpetuated by another Act make a new great Seale to seale Writs of Election or grant out their Writs without the great Seale by an Ordinance of Parliament onely to compleat the Houses now the great Seale hath beene so long absent and such Writs refused to be issued under it though oft desired without any danger of Treason or derogation to the Kings Prerogatives I cannot yet dicerne It being farre lesse for a sitting Parliament in this case to make a new great Seale or issue out Writs of Election without the Kings privity now in Armes against it to recrute it s own Members then for the Chancellour Keeper Lords or Commons themselves out of Parliament thus either with or without Writ to summon and hold a Parliament without yea against the Kings assent his Proclamations or Inhibitions to the contrary And those fundamentall principles of Law State-policy with that soveraigne power of the Parliament and Kingdome above our Kings which induced both Houses thus to make and his Majestie readily to assent to this late Act for the common benefit and safety of the Realm in case of His Owne or the Lord Keepers wilfull neglect or refusall to doe their duties will doubtlesse inable the Houses now sitting to make a new great Seale or issue out Writs of Election Errour and the like either under it or without it during the voluntary absence of the King Lord Keeper and great Seale from the Parliament contrary to Law Custome Duty Oath of purpose to compleat the Houses and expedite publike Justice obstructed by their absence And the rather may the Parliament doe it in case of Writs of Election because such Writs with the Elections made by vertue of them have usually beene ordered formed issued our determined judged onely by the Parliament and Writs for new Elections by reason of death or removall have constantly issued out of course by Order or Warrant from the Speaker or Commons House onely without speciall Warrant from the King himselfe without refusall or deniall as is evident by the Statutes of 5 Rich. 2. cap. 4. 7 Hen. 4. cap. 15. 11 Hen. 4. cap. 1. 8 Hen. 5. cap. 1. 6 Hen. 6. cap. 4. 8 Hen. 6. cap. 7. 10 Hen. 6. cap. 2. 23 Hen. 6. cap. 11. 32 Hen. 6. cap. 15. 8 Hen. 8. cap. 16. 35 Hen. 8. cap. 11. Br. Parliament 7. Dyer f. 60. Cromptons Iurisdiction of Courts f. 3 4 16. Neither can they be denied o● the Houses kept incompleat against their wills by his refusall without apparent breach of the priviledge of Parliament yea of Magna Charta it selfe as the Lords resolved An. 1256. in Henry the third his reigne and the whole Parliament since 1 Hen. 4. Rot. Parl. num 21 22. as I have * elsewhere proved From all which Authorities I humbly conceive the Parliament may lawfully in the case fore-stated both make a new broad Seale and Keeper of it to fill up the Houses and redresse the obstructions of Justice of Parliamentary proceedings occasioned by the great Seales absence To these authorities I shall annex the ensuing Reasons both of Law and State First the Parliament the supreame power and Judicature in England having the chiefe interest and propriety in the GREAT SEALE OF ENGLAND in respect of ●●s publike use may lawfully new make and use that Seale which is it own in respect of property and use and the Kings only as their publike Minister Secondly that the Parliament being the chiefe State-physician of the Realme may and ought by Law to redresse all publike grievances therefore the grievances and obstructions of Justice occasioned by the old great Seale and Lord Keepers absence or abuse by making new Thirdly the Parliament may and ought to supply all defects defaults of State Officers Laws Affairs prejudiciall to the Realme Hence it alwayes hath supplied the Minority Detage or Absence of our Kings by constituting a Vice-Roy of their own election to exercise all royall Authority the absence of the Lord Keeper or Speaker of the lower House when sicke by substituting others to supply their places the defects of the Common Law by new Statute-Laws and providing new Laws Courts Seale against new mischiefs not remediable by old Acts. This appeares most lively by the Act for Trieniall Parliaments forecited wherein the wilfulnesse and negligence of the King is ordered to be supplied by the Lord Keeper the Lord Keepers by the Lords the Lords by the Sheriffs of Counties Majors and Bailiffs and theirs by the Freeholders Citizens and Burgesses The Councell of Basil and others * forecited are to like purpose and the Statute of 25. Hen. 8. c. 21. which Law abolishing the Popes authority enables the Archbishop of Canterbury to grant all Ecclesiasticall Licences and Dispensations here which the Pope alone formerly granted at Rome and then provides that in case the Archibishop should wilfully and obstinately refuse to grant such Licences and Dispensations to those who demanded them without a just and reasonable cause that then an Injunction should issue out of the Chancery under the great Seale to him commanding him to grant them and if he then wilfully refused to doe it that then the King upon every such default and wilfulnesse should grant a Commission under the great Seale to any two Prelates or spirituall persons that would grant them by an instrument in writing under THEIR SEALES The Parliament therefore now summoned and sitting by like reason lawfully may and is bound in duty to supply the present wilfull absence of the Lord Keeper and great Seale treacherously carried from it beyond expectation contrary to promise and so long detained thence by constituting New ones in their places It was one principall Article preferred by * the Parliament against Cardinall Wolsey That when he was sent Ambassadour into Flanders to the Emperour he carried the Great Seale with him without the Kings consent for which he was displaced and fined Much more then may the Parliament displace the Lord Keeper for carrying away the great Seale the onely Seale of this high Court in a surreptitious manner from them contrary to his duty without and against their consents and make a new great Seale and Keeper in lieu of the old Fourthly the Parliament is bound to take care That publike Justice according to *

Magna Charta and other Acts be not delayed nor denied to any Subjects that desire or neede it being the supreamest Court of Justice to punish all offences neglects supply all defects in the highest Officers of Justice Therefore to provide a new broad Seale and Keeper of it since publike Justice is denied to most obstructed delayed to all by the unlegall wilfull absence of the old great Seale and Lord Keeper from the Parliament and Courts at Westminster Fifthly The Houses of Parliament in point of honour trust duty more especially since their late Protestations and Covenants are bound universally to preserve their own just Priviledges Rights and Liberties whereof these are indubitable ones That the Lord Chancellour Keeper of the Great Seal of England together with the Seal it selfe remaining in his custody ought alwaies constantly to attend the Parliament and be present with it First x because the Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the Great Seale is alwaies a necessary member of the Vppor-House and the Speaker of it by vertue of his very Office Secondly because not onely constant custome but y sundry Acts of Parliament require the Chancellours and Keepers speciall presence in Parliament in direct termes Thirdly because the Chancellour and Great Seale are and ought to be necessarily present in Parliament being the onely proper Seale of this highest Court for divers publique ends 1. To issue out Writs z of summons and new elections for summoning the Members of both Houses as oft as there is need to keep the Houses compleat 2. To seale Writs of a Error brought in Parliament 3. To Seale b Writs of Priviledge for members of Parliament or their meniall servants when there is cause 4. To issue and Seale such c new Writs as shall be devised in Parliament upon new occasions 5. To issue out and seale such d Commissions as shall be necessary upon publique imployments Trials criminall or judiciall Taxes or Subsidies appointed in and by Parliament 6. To seale such e Patents and Charters of Honours Lands Priviledges Offices and the like which shall be thought meet to be granted in Parliament as most old Charters were 7. To seale Parliament pardons and all Proclamations exemplifications of private Acts of Parliament and such Acts as are to be proclaimed to such who require them 2 H. 5. c. 4. 1 R. 2. c. 6. 1 H. 7. f. 23. 25. Coronc 49. 33 H. 6. 17. Parl. 1. 21 E. 4. 56. Dyer 135. Cooke l. 8. f. 7. 8. 28. 43 E. 3. c. 5. 2 H. 5. c. 46. 1 H. 6. c. 2. 26 E. 3. c. 16. Ashes Tables Proclamation 39. In all these respects with others the Lord Chancellours Keepers and great Seales presence being simply necessary in Parliament where by Law and custome they ever have beene and ought to be till this late president The Houses lawfully may and in point both of honour and justice ought for the maintenance of their owne undoubted priviledges to constitute a new great Seale and Keeper of it if the old be not returned to them speedily having beene wilfully above twelve Moneth space withdrawne detained from them on purpose to dissolve the Parliament retard or frustrate all its proceedings and stop the common course of justice contrary to all Law and Justice In few words this Parliament without any exception of King Courtiers Malignants or any other I have yet heard of have made a new master of the Mint at least restored an old one to his place who was dispossessed coyned money and made new stamps for that purpose where the old were broken or worne out without the Kings consent or any tax of treason or disloyalty Therefore by the selfe-same Law and reason they may lawfully make a new Great Seale and Lord Keeper of it for the ends aforesaid to supply the absence defects and prevent the grosse abuses of the old without any Treason or disloyalty The VOTES of the House of COMMONS together with their reasons for the making of a new Great Seale of England presented by them to the LORDS at a Conference Iuly 4. 5. Anno 1643. Resolved upon the Question June 14. 26. 1. THat the Great Seale of England ought to attend the Parliament 2. That the absence of it hath been a cause of great mischiefe to the Common-wealth 3. That a Remedy ought to be provided for these mischiefes 4. That the proper remedy is by making a New Great Seale The mischiefes occasioned by conveying away the Great Seale from the Parliament represented to the Lords at a Conference Iuly 5. 1643. are these 1. IT was secretly and unlawfully carried away by the Lord Keeper contrary to the duty of his place who ought himselfe to have attended the Parliament and not to have departed without leave nor should have beene suffered to convey away the Great Seale if his intentions had been discovered 2. It hath been since taken away from him and put into the hands of other dangerous and ill affected persons so as the Lord Keeper being sent unto by the Parliament for the sealing of some Writs returned answer That he could not Seale the same because he had not the Seale in his keeping 3. Those who have had the mannaging thereof have imployed it to the hurt and destruction of the Kingdome sundry waies By making new Sheriffes in an unusuall and unlawfull manner to be as so many Generals or Commanders of Forces raised against the Parliament By issuing out illegall Commissions of Array with other unlawfull Commissions for the same purpose By sending forth Proclamations against both Houses of Parliament and severall Members thereof proclaiming them Traitors against the Priviledges of Parliament and Lawes of the Land By sealing Commissions of Oyer and Terminer to proceed against them and other of His Majesties good Subjects adhearing to the Parliament as Traitors By sending Commissions into Ireland to treate a peace with the Rebels there contrary to an Act of Parliament made this Session Besides divers other Dangerous and illegall acts have been passed under the Great Seale since it was secretly conveyed away from the Parliament whereby great calamities and mischiefes have ensued to the Kindomes prejudice The mischiefes proceeding through want of the Great Seale 1. THe Termes have been adjourned the course of justice obstructed 2. No originall Writs can be sued forth without going to Oxford which none who holds with the Parliament can doe without perill of his life or liberty 3. Proclamations in Parliament cannot issue out for bringing in Delinquents impeached of High-Treason or other Crimes under paine of forfeiting their estates according to the ancient course 4. No Writs of Error can be brought in Parliament to reverse erronious judgements nor Writs or Election sued out for choosing new Members upon death or removall of any whereby the number of the Members is much lessened and the Houses in time like to be dissolved if speedy supply be not had contrary to the very