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A91165	Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its Members. To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3930; Thomason E772_3; ESTC R203226	35,699	53

hedging up all their new By-wayes with thorns and making a wall cross them that the people are not able to find their pathes nor to overtake nor finde their New Lovers they have hitherto followed and sought after and those mad new whymfies the Jesuites infuse into their Pates from time to time to make them and our Nation ridiculous to all the world till utterly destroyed may not justly engage our three distracted Nations and themselves too now at a total loss to resolve and say with the Israelites when revolted from their rightfull Kings of the House of David in the like case Hos. 2. 7. I will go and return to my first Husband for then was it better with me than now And to imitate the Israelites in the case of King David when expelled his Realm by his usurping son Absoloms rebellion after his rout and slaughter 2 Sam. 19. 9. c. And all the people were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israel saying The king saved us out of the hands of our Enemies and he delivered us out of the hands of the Philistins and now he is fled out of the Land for Absolom and Absolom whom we anointed King over us is dead in battel as their Pro. Oliver Richard and dissolved Juncto are in a moment now therefore why are ye silent and speak not a word of bringing back the King to his House And Zadok and Abiathar the Priests spake unto the elders of Judah saying Why are ye the last to bring the King back to his House seeing ye are his brethren of his bone and his flesh And Amasa bowed the heart of all the Men of Iudah even as one man so that they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy servants So the King returned to Jordan where all the people of Iudah and half the men of Israel met him and conducted him safe to Gilgal and the men of Judah c●ave unto their King from Jordan even to Ierusalem and re-established him in his Kingdom Whether this be not the only safe true legal prudential Christian speedy and ready high-way to their present and future Peace Ease Safety Settlement Wealth Prosperitie both as Men and Christians without any further effusion of Christian bloud expence of Treasure not other new Vertiginous Models Army Councils Treaties tending to further confusions out of which the Nobilitie Gentry Ministry Freeholders Citizens Burgesses Merchants Commons Sea-men Parliaments of our 3. Nations are totally secluded like meer Cyphers by the Juncto and Army-usurpers as if they were meer Aliens and wholly unconcerned in their own Government Settlement who will never acquiesce in any thing but what themselves in a free Parliament shall resolve on * Consider of it take advice and speak your minds without fear hypocrisie or partiality And whether we be not a people marked out and fitted for inevitable destruction having all the symptoms fore-runners of it and sins that hasten it now lying upon us if we * brutishly reject this only means of our preservation and follow the destructive whymsies of those Giddy-pated usurping raw Stears-men of whom we may justly say with the Prophet Isay 3. 1 4 12. Behold the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and the staff the Honourable man and the Counsellor And I will give Children in State-affairs and understanding to be their Princes and Babes shall rule over them And the people shall be oppressed every one by another and every one by his neighbour the child shall be have himself proudly against the ancient and the Base against the Honourable as now they doe O my people they which lead thee cause thée to erre and destroy the way of thy pathes and they that are led of them in their new Jesuitical By-wayes are destroyed by intestine divisions and forein invasions as in Isay 9. 12. to 21. A sad emblem of our present condition and approaching destruction worthy our saddest meditations Whether the twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Juncto by their own Knack of the 12. of October and paper printed by their special permission and command since their dissolution intituled The Parliaments Plea declaring resolving p. 5 6 7. That the people of England are of Right a Frée people to be governed by their own elected Deputies and Trustees in Parliament it being owned on all hands both by Parliament and Army and all the good people engaged with them That the people under God are the original of all just Authority and other original and foundation no man may lay That to deprive or deny the people of this Inheritance is Treason Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Did Cause of the English Nation for as much as a people free by Birth by Laws and by their own Prowess are thereby rendred and made most absolute vassals slaves at will power and greater Treason than this no man can commit That to levy money upon the people without their consent in Parliament is Treason for which every man that so Assesses Collects or gathers it is to be Indicted for his life and must dye as a Traytor not only by their late Knack but by the Fundamental Good Did Laws of the Land against which no By-law is to be made this being a Fundamental law and one of the main birth-rights of England That no Tax or Levy is to be layd upon the people but by their consent in Parliament Be not guilty of the greatest highest Treason Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation and the Army-Officers too confederating with them by depriving and denying the free people to be governed by their own elected Representatives Trustees in a free Parl. by secluding four parts of five of the Knights Citizens Burgesses Barons of Ports out of the long Parl. whiles in being Dec. 1648. with armed power by usurping to themselves the Royal Parliamentary Legislative supream Authority over the people and laying assessing levying intollerable excessive Taxes Excises Militiaes upon them without yea against their consents and protestations and without the consents of the farr greater part of the Commons House the King or House of Lords which they forcibly secluded suppressed destroyed against their fundamental Laws Liberties Privileges Birth-rights Protestations Declarations and solemn League and Covenant by making them most absolute slaves vassals from 1648. till their dissolution in April 20. 1653. and invading inslaving destroying their Protestant brethren of Scotland and Allies of Holland by Land and Sea to the undermining endangering of the Protestant Religion by imposing New Oaths and engagements on them diametrically contrary to the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance which they all solemnly took as Members before they entred the House and disabling all to sue in any Court or enjoy the benefit or protection of the Laws for which they fought and to which they were born heirs who refused to take their Treasonable perfidious Ingagements by securing imprisoning thousands of

Conscientious Serious THEOLOGICAL AND LEGAL QUAERES Propounded to the twice-dissipated self-created Anti-Parliamentary Westminster Juncto AND ITS MEMBERS TO Convince them of humble them for convert them from their transcendent Treasons Rebellions Perjuries Violences Oppressive illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes Imposts destructive Councils Proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie Kings the old dissolved Parliament the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of their old secured secluded imprisoned fellow-Members the Counties Cities Boroughs Freemen Commons Church Clergie of ENGLAND their Protestant Brethren Allies contrary to all their Oathes Protestations Vowes Leagues Covenants Allegiance Remonstrances Declarations Ordinances Promises Obligations to them the fundamental Laws Liberties of the Land and Principles of the true Protestant Religion And to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels as tend to publike Unitie Safetie Peace Settlement and their own salvation By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Levit. 19. 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him or bear not sin for him 1 Tim. 5. 20. Them that sinne openly rebuke before all that others may fear Prov. 9. 8 9. Rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will yet be wiser Jude 11 12. Wo to them for they have gone in the way of Kain and perished in the gainsaying of Core They are trees whose fruit is withered TWICE DEAD plucked up by the roots London Printed and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660. Conscientious Serious Theological and Legal Quaeres c. THe Wisest of Men and God only wise informs all Sons of Wisdom capable of Instruction that a open rebuke is better than secret love because faithfull are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull whence b he that rebuketh a man for his exorbitant transgressions afterwards shall finde more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue by extenuating excusing or justifying his Offences Upon this consideration I reputed it both a seasonable and Christian duty incumbent on me in this day of the late Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes dissipation humiliation confusion and Army-Officers division amongst themselves to reminde them fully of and * rebuke them plainly sharply for their manifold Treasons Perjuries and other exorbitant Offences against their lawfull Protestant Kings Kingdom the late dissolved Parliament the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of their fellow-Members the whole English Nation Church Ministrie their Protestant Brethren and Allies against all their sacred and civil Obligations to them in a serious impartial convincing least-offensive manner by way of Quaeres drawn from Gods word and plain sacred Scripture-Texts and our known Laws which they have most presumptuously trodden under foot and c would not hearken to in the daies of their late self exaltation and Prosperity like their Predecessors of old among the Jewes when I minded and reminded them over and over not only in my Speech Memento Collections of our antient Parliaments and other publications in the years 1648 1649. in my Epistle to and first Part of My Historical Collections and Legal Vindication 1655. My Republicans Spurious Good Old Cause briefly and truly Anatomized My True and Perfect Narrative and Concordia Discors in May and June last and Brief Necessary Vindication of the old and new secluded Members in September following wherein I truly predicted their former and present dissolutions by those very Army Officers with whom they confederated which they would not credit till dissolved by them being in good hopes that they will now at last Hear counsel and receive instruction that they may be wise in their latter end as God himself adviseth them Prov. 19. 20. 1. Whether their Speaker Mr. Lenthall and those confederate Members of the Commons House who against their duties upon pretext of the unarmed London Apprentices tumult at the House in July 1647. though they secured secluded no Members but only kept them in the House till they had read answered their Petition and then quietly departed went away privily to the Armie by the invitation instigation of some swaying Army-Officers without the leave or privitie of the House brought up the whole Army to Westminster and London to conduct them in triumph to the House caused them to * impeach declare against suspend imprison sundry Members of both Houses nulled all Votes Orders Ordinances Proceedings in their absence by reason of a pretended force upon the House by the Apprentices during that space and declared them meerly void to all intents by the Speakers Declaration and an Ordinance of 20 Aug. 1647. when as there was no force at all upon the Houses during that time and these Members might have freely safely returned to the House alone had they listed without the Army or any one Troop to guard them and afterwards mutinied and brought up part of the Armie again to Westminster to * force the Houses to passe the Votes for No more Addresses to the King contrived in a General Council of Army-Officers and seconded with their Declaration when passed by force and surprize in an emptie House After that most traiterously and perfidiously f confederated with the Army-Officers to break off the last Treatie with the King in the Isle of Wight to seise the Kings person by a partie of the Armie and remove him thence against both Houses Orders notwithstanding his large Concessions and consent to their Propositions to secure seclude all the Members of the Commons House who after many daies and one whole nights debate passed this Vote according to their judgements consciences duties carried without dividing the House notwithstanding the Armies march to Westminster and menaces to prevent it That the answers of the King to the Propositions of both Houses were a ground for the House to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom which Vote of the whole House when there were above 300 Members present about 40 of them only soon after repealed expunged the manner of carrying on of which design against the King and Members was concluded by a Committee at Windsor consisting of 4. Army-Officers wherof Col. Harrison their chair-man and a Member and Col. Rich were two 4. Members of the Commons House whereof Cornelius Holland yet living was one the 3. others since dead 4. Independents and 4. Anabaptists of London wherein a List was made by them what Members should be secluded secured and who admitted to fit this Committee resolving to dissolve both Houses by force and to trie condemn execute the King by a Council of War if they could not get 40 of the Common g House to sit and bring him to Justice as John Lilburn one of that Committee hath published in print approved abbetted the Armies forcible treasonable securing of many Members secluded the Majoritie of

the House by their vote of Jan. 11. 1648. upon the Armie-Officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them Jan. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them contrarie to their Protestation Covenant the Privileges Rights of Parliament the Great Charter the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of the Nation And not content therewith by their own Anti-Parliamentarie antichristian Usurpers to out-act the old Gunpowder Traytors many degrees by the Armies assistance and e opposing advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshipped they most traiterously set aside voted down suppressed the whole House of Lords as dangerous uselesse tyrannical unnecessary usurped engrossed the stile power of the Parliament of England and Supreme Authority of the Nation to themselves alone without King Lords or Majoritie of their fellow secluded Members created a new Monstrous High Court of Justice destructive to all our fundamental Laws Liberties and Justice it self wherein beyond all presidents since the creation they most presumptuously condemned murdered beheaded their own lawfull Hereditarie Protestant King against all their former Oathes Protestations vows Covenants Remonstrances Declarations Obligations Allegiance the Laws of the Land the principles of the Protestant Religion and dissenting votes Protestations Disswasions of the secluded Lords Commons Scots Commissioners London Ministers the intercessions of forein States and our 3. whole Kingdoms together with 3 Protestant Peers soon after After that close imprisoned my self Sir William Waller Sir William Lewes Major General Brown with sundrie other Members divers years in remote Castles without any hearing examination cause expressed or the least reparatiō for this unjust oppression exercising far greater Tyrannie over the Peers their old fellow Members and all English Freemen during the time of their Regality in every kind than the beheaded King or the worst of his predecessors were not by a most just divine retaliation and providence when they deemed themselves most secure and established even for these their transcendent Treasons Perjuries Tyrannies violations of the rights privileges of parliament their own sacred Oathes Protestation League Covenant suddenly dissolved dissipated thrust out of doors Apr. 20. 1653. by Cromwel and the Armie-Officers in a forcible shamefull manner with whom they confederated all along though they received new Commissions from engaged to be true and faithful to them without a King or House of Lords and branded by them to posteritie in their printed Declaration April 20. 1653. as the corruptest and worst of men intollerably oppressing the people carrying on their own ambitious designes to perpetuate themselves in the Parliamentarie and Supreme Authoritie the archest Trust-breakers Apostates never answering the ends which God his people and the whole Nation expected from them c. Col. Harrison himself the Chairman at Windsor Committee to secure us being the very person imploied by Cromwell to pull their Speaker Lenthall out of the chair and turn him with his Companions out of doors Cromwell himself then stigmatizing Sir Henry Vane Henry Martyn Tom Challoner and others of them by name with the Titles of Knave Whoremaster Drunkard c. And not long after to requite his good Services he suddenly turned Col. Harrison Rich and their party out of the Com-House by Force dissolved their Anti-Parliamentarie Conventicle elected only by the Armie Dec. 11. 1653. whiles they were seeking God for direction and soon after cashiered both these * Collonels his former greatest Instruments out of the Armie sent them close Prisoners to remote Castles garded with Armie Troops And as they and their Troops when they seised Major General Brown with other Members and conducted them to Windsor Castle and other Prisons refused to acquaint them whither they were to be sent So M. Jossop the Clerk of their Council of State who brought these Colonels to the Coach at Whitehall garden door when they were conveyed prisoners to remote Castles and their Conductors denied to inform them to what places they were committed whereupon they cried out to the Troopers which garded them Gentlemen is this the Liberty you and we have fought for to be sent close Prisoners to remote-Garrisons from our wives and families they will not tell us whither Will you suffer your own Collonels Officers who have fought for Laws Liberties and have been MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT TO BE THUS USED To which they answered as themselves did in the like case to other secured Members conducted by them We are commanded and must obey not dispute our Orders and so were hurried away as an eye and ear witnesse of the old Parliament related to me within one hour after Yea young Sir Henry Vane himself the bold prejudger of our Debates and Vote in the House touching the Kings concessions if not a promoter of our unjust seclusion for it was-unexpectedly and suddainly not only thrust out from all his Imployments as well as out of the House but sent close Prisoner by Cromwell to Carisbrook Castle in the Isle of Weight the very place where he betrayed his trust to the King and Parliament at the Treaty to gratify Cromwel who by an extraordinary strange providence sent him close Prisoner thither for sundry months to meditate upon this divine Retaliation Whether may not all this dissolved Juncto and its Members from these wonderful Judgements providences now conclude and cry out with that heathen cruel Tyrant Adonibezeck Jud. 1. 7. As I have done so God hath requited me And acknowledge the truth of Gods Comminations against all treacherous betrayers and potent oppressors of their Brethern Obad. 15. As thou hast done it shall be done unto thee thy reward shall return upon thine own head Ps 7. 15 16 He made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which he made his mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing upon his own pate Rev. 13. 9 10. If any man have an ear to hear let him hear He that leadeth into Captivity shall go into Captivity He that killeth with the Sword shall be killed with the Sword Here is the patience and faith of the Saints O that all real and pretended Saints in the dissolved Juncto and Army would now consider and believe it as I lately pressed them to do in the cloze of my Good Old Cause truly stated and the false Vncased yet they would not regard it Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the Kings hands into their own as their only security to sit in safety and perjurious engaging all Officers Souldiers of the Army in England Scotland and Ireland to be true faithfull and constant to them without a King or House of Lords by subscriptions in Parchment Rolls returned to them under all their hands contrary to their former Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations Oaths Vows Covenants Trusts yea the very writs returns which made them Members their own Souldiers Army-Officers first Commissions Declarations Remonstrances Proposals and depending on this g arme of

flesh or broken h reed of Aegypt as a most sure invincible Guard security from all forces and enemies whatsoever that might assault dishouse dethrone them from their usurped supream Regal and Parliamental Authority over the three Nations and their Hereditary Kings * whom they would not have to reign over them hath not been most exemplarily and eminently requited by Gods avenging providence in making the very self-same Army most treacherous and perfidious to themselves to rise up rebel against them several times and turn them out of House power on a sudden when they deemed themselves most secure to make themselves more than Kings and Lords over them and our whole 3. Kingdoms and i An host of the High ones that are on high upon the earth reviving that Ataxie which Solomon complained of as a great error in Government and a divine judgement upon the Authors of State-Innovations Eccles. 10. 6 7 8 9. Folly is set in great dignity and the rich sit in low place I have seen servants on horseback and Princes walking as Servants upon the earth He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and who so breaketh an hedge a Serpent shall bite him Whosoever removeth stones shall be hurt therewith and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby Whether that curse and judgement Jer. 17. 5 6. Thus saith the Lord cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord For he shall be like the heath in the desart and shall not see when good cometh but shall inherit the parched places in the wilderness a salt land and not inhabited hath not justly befallen them and our Nation for relying on trusting to an arm of flesh an Assembly of treacherous men whom themselves taught encouraged to be treacherous perjurious to the King Parl. Lords their fellow-Members and k thereby to themselves yet voted cried them up for their faithfull Army Saviours Deliverers Protectors Shields and only Safeguard after they had dealt treacherously with themselves and all their other Superiors and proved like m Aegypt to the Israelites who trusted on them When they took hold of thee by the hand thou diddest break and pierce through the hand and rent all their shoulder and when they leaned upon thee thou brakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand yea dissolved and n broke them in pieces like a potters vessel so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sheard to take fire from the hearth or water out of the pit And may we not then take up this Song of the Lamb Rev. 15. 3 4. Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty Iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints who shall not fear thee ô Lord and glorifie thy name for thy Iudgements are made manifest Whether their clandestine sudden indirect stealing into the Commons House again May 7. 1659. upon the Army-Officers invitation and Declaration who formerly turned them out of it with highest infamie contempt and desamation April 20. 1653. after about 6. years dissolution and 4. intervenient Vnparliamentary Conventicles wherein manie of them sat as Members and acted as in Parliaments by pretext of their old Writs and Elections as Members of the long Parliament actually and legally dissolved by their traiterous beheading of the King near 11. years before as I have * elsewhere proved without any new writs of summons resummons elections or the privitie of their former electors or fellow-Members Their forcible secluding of my self Sir George Booth Mr. Ansly and all other formerly secluded Members and others not fitting with them from 1648. til April 20. 1653. by Army-Officers and Guards of Souldiers placed at the door for that end and their justification and continuing of this new seclusion as well as the old Their usurping to themselves the Title power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and Supreme Authority of the Nation their exercising both the Highest Regal Parliamental Legislative Tax-imposing Power over our Nations the worst highest of all other Treasons their creating new unheard of Treasons Exiles by their bare Proclamations imposing New intollerable Taxes Excises Militiaes on the whole Nation against all Laws and our Fundamental Liberties Franchises Their most injurious illegal unpresidented proclaming of Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton with other old and new secluded Members of the long Parliament and all their adherents Traytors Enemies to the Common-wealth and Apostates not only in all Counties and Corporations but Churches and Chapels too throughout the Nation to abuse both God and men only for raising forces by virtue of Ordinances and Commissions granted them by the long Parliament which themselves pretended to be still continuing to defend the Rights and Privileges of Parliament to call in all the surviving Members of both Houses to fit with them or procure a free and full Parl duly summoned aecording to the Protestation Vow League Covenant and Laws of the Land being their own and the whole Nations Birthright for defence whereof the Armie it self was both raised continued and themselves in their Proclamation of May 7. 1659. and Declaration of March 17. 1648. promised inviolably to maintain which their own consciences knew to be no Crime nor Treason at all but an honest legal honorable necessarie undertaking justified by all their former Votes Orders Ordinances Commissions for raising forces against the Kings partie for the self-same end And themselves greater Traitors Enemies to the Kingdom and Republike than Strafford Canterbury or the beheaded King in proclaming their defence of this undoubted Inheritance of all English Freemen against their Tyrannical usurpations thereon to be Treason and Apostacy Their sending out Major Gen. Lambert who invited them into the House May 6. conducted them into it but secluded Sir G. Booth other Members out of it May 7. took a new Commission from them afterwards in the House and promised with manie large expressions to be true faithfull constant and yield his utmost assistance to them to sit in safety and support their power with great forces against Sir George Booth and all his adherents in this cause being the Majority of the old Parl. and of the people of the Nation and the true old Parliament if continuing to levie actual warr against them declared * high Treason by sundrie Votes and former Declarations and so resolved by themselves in their Impeachments against the beheaded King the Earl of Holland Lord Capel and sundrie others who accordingly levied war against them routed their forces reduced their Garisons imprisoned their persons sequestred confiscated their estates as Traitors secured disarmed Sir Will. Waller Mr. Holles with sundrie other old Members promised rewards for bringing in the persons or heads of others they endeavoured to secure against all rules of Law and Christianitie kept a publike humiliation for their good successe against Sir George Booth and

his adherents and after their defeat a publike thanksgiving through Westminster and London to mock God himself * who will not be mocked to his very face and ordained a publike thansgiving throughout the whole Nation to abuse both God and them for their Great Deliverance from the most Dangerous Plot and Treason of Sir George Booth and his party to bring in all the old Members to sit with them without turning those then sitting out or to procure a free Parliament that so their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle by this pretext might exercise a Perpetual Tyrannie and Parliamental Authority over them and none thenceforth dare demand a full and free Parliament for the future under pain of highest Treason Apostacie and the losse of their very Heads and estates Whether all these their transcendent High Treasons with their former 1648 against the K. secluded Members Lords Parliament people were not by a most signal miraculous Providence and Justice of God himself recompenced immediately after upon their own Lamberts and other Armie-Officers heads by making their routing of Sir George Booth and his party after their first thanksgiving for it before the next day of general thanksgiving came the very occasion of their sudden unexpected dissolution 1. By over-elevating Lamberts his Officers and Brigades Spirits notwithstanding the signal Marks and Rewards of their Favours towards them for the present and future promises of advancement for their Fidelity to them in this Service to enter into contestations with them by their Petition and Representations 2ly By raising the differences and jealousies between them to such a height and open enmitie notwithstanding all their large Votes compliances to satisfie them all means mediations of Friends and the Londoners publike Feast on their thanksgiving day to reconcile them as to incense the Juncto to vote Major Harrison a chief agent Chairman for the old Members first seclusion uncapable of any publike Trust or Office to vote Lambert Disbrow Creed and 6 more field Officers out of their commands null their Commissions and dispose of their Regiments to the next Officers without any hearing or examination if not threatning to commit Lambert to the Tower as a Traytor to repeal Fleetwoods Commission and Knack to be Lieutenant General of their Forces in England and Scotland and put the command of the Army and new Militia under 7. Commissioners to wrest the power of them both into their own hands 3ly By exasperating Lambert and his confederates by these Votes so far against them giving them such favour with the Armie as to draw up the greatest part of the forces about London in battel array against them and notwithstanding their partie in the Armie whereof they had made many of themselves Colonels their interest in the Militia of Westminster London Southwark and Sir Henry Vanes two Regiments of Gathered Churches who were disgregated and kept their Chambers all that day not one of them appearing in the sield because their valiant Collonel took a Clyster pipe into his fundament instead of a Lance into his hand in the day of battel and durst not hazard a broken pate in the quarrel and then in a hostlle warlike manner to besiege many of them in Whitehall block up all passages to the House seise upon their old Speaker with his Coach Mace and new General without a Sword Armie Troop or Company from whose hands they had freshly received their Commissions turning him back from whence he came to charm all the Junctoes forces so as to march away without drawing one sword or shooting one bullet in their defence so true faithful were they to their good old cause as well as to their New Protectors as to deem neither of thē worth one bloodie nose 4. By engaging Lambert his party notwithstanding all endeavoured seeming accommodations between them to seise upon their House and their provisions of ammunition and victuals in it to lock up the doors and keep constant Guards upon the stairs to seclude all these their new Lords and Masters as they did on May 7 9. and afterwards seclude their fellow-Members and not content herewith by a printed Plea for the Army and Declaration of the General Council of the Army sitting at Wallingford House which called them in and thus shamefully not long after turned them out of doors usurping to themselves both a Regal Authority to call and dissolve Parliaments as they repute and stile them and a Parliamental too in making and repealing Acts of Parliament as they deem them at their pleasure they not only justifie this their forcible ejectment seclusion to all the world by Lex talionis even their own abetting approving justifying the Armies former seclusion of the Major part of their fellow Members who were the House the whole House of Lords and securing the leading Members when overpowred by them and appealing to the Armies Judgements therein but also put a period to their Assemblie branded nulled repealed declared their last Votes Acts Proceedings void to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if they had never been made Censured them as imperfect ineffectual irregular unparliamentary illegal pernicious rash inconsiderate branding each other in several printed Papers for Traytors Trust-breakers Treacherous Perfidious Faithless Vnrighteous Ambitious Self-seeking usurpers of the Soverain Power Oppressors of the free people of England and invaders betrayers of their Liberties Birthrights thereby declaring the old secluded Members the only honest faithfull constant consciencious Men adhering to their good old Cause Oaths Covenant Principles and the publique interest and Sir George Booth himself to be No Traytor but truer Patriot of his Country than any of themselves as dying Purefoy openly acknowledged before his death and others of them confesse in private since even Lambert himself hath done and exceeded that work they feared he would doe by dissolving their Conventicle turning thē out of house power which Sir George did not design Whether all these strange unparalleld sudden unexpected animosities divisions between themselves their uncommissioning dissolving cashiering disofficing one another which I truly predicted to them from Scriptures and former Providences in My Good Old Cause truly stated My True and Perfect Narrative p. 94. 98. and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members p. 61 62. be not the very finger of God himself the Lords own doing truly marvellous in all our eyes yea the very particular Judgment menaced by God himself against all such Traitors and Innovators as most audaciously and professedly violate with the highest hand this divine Precept Prov. 24 21 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those that are given to change for their Calamity shall soddenly arise and who knoweth the ruine of them both and a verification of Prov. 29. 1 If not a divine infliction of the very Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegypt of old for their crying sins Isay 19. 2 3 c.

Freemen close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament my self amongst others divers years in remote Castles and keeping us from Gods publike ordinances without any accusation hearing trial or legal cause of commitment expressed in their warrants By presuming upon the Army and Officers sodain invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the Kings death and their above 6. years dissipation by the Army without the election or privity of the people to sit and act as the Parl. and supream power of the Nation to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force and proclaiming Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England Traytors and levying war against them only for raising forces to induce them to call in all the old secluded Members or to summon a new free Parliament and for opposing their new illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes imposed and levyed on the people without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted executed and their estates confiscated as Traytors for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions Sir George his adherents totally acquitted frō the least imputation or guilt of Treason Whether their branding sequestring them for Traytors Apostates Enemies to the publike against Law Conscience too hath not justly brought that wo judgment upon their conventicle Isa. 5. 20 23 24. Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be rottennesse and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the Law of the Lord and of the Land too and despised the name of the holy one of Israel For all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is streched out still Whether the Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes and Army-Officers beheading of their late Protestant King against the Votes Protestations of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms and Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England their banishing expelling his Royal Protestant Heir Successor to the Crown with all the rest of his Children professing the reformed Religion out of all their Protestant Realms and Dominions their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Ireland and Scotland in an hostile manner with potent Armies and waging warr against them in their own Countries and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England as professed Enemies Traytors Apostates slaying divers thousands of them in the field imprisoning banishing disinheriting sequestring many thousands more of them only for owning crowning assisting their own hereditary Protastant King according to their Oathes Covenants Lawes Homage Allegeance duties and principles of the Protestant Religion to regain and retain his Royal Authority and Kingdoms Their waging of a most bloudy destructive war with our antient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years space together to the slaughter of many thousands of their and our gallantest Protestant Seamen Admirals Sea-Captains of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King his Brethren and followers out of the Netherlands from the Societie and charitable relief of their Protestant friends where they lived as exiles enjoying the free prosession of the Reformed Religion and Communion prayers contributions of the Protestant Churches on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Jesuites Priests Papists to cast them wholly upon their Alms Mercy Benevolence and by these high indignities and their pressing necessities to enforce them if they can to renounce the Protestant Religion and turn professed Papists Their most unhuman unchristian barbarism in depriving them totally of all means of Subsistance by seising all their revenues without allowing them one farthingout of them towards their necessary relief yet enacting it High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects Friends Allies within their Realms or Dominions to contribute any thing toward their support to hold the least correspondency with or make any publique prayers unto God for them as if they were worse than Turks Jews Infidels and most professed Enemies for whom we are not only commanded obliged to pray but also to love feed cloth relieve harbor them in their necessities overcoming their evil with goodness by Christs own example and expressprecepts under pain of everlasting damnation be a conscientious Saint-like performance of and obedience to or not rather an Atheistical obstinate presumptuous rebellion against the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Mat. 5. 44 45. c. 22. 21. c. 25. 34 to 46. Luke 6. 35. to 39. c. 10. 30. to 38. c. 23 34. Acts 7. 60. Rom. 10. 13 19 20 21. c. 13. 1 to 12. c. 15. 26 27. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. Jam. 2. 13. and other sacred Texts A religious zealous observation of their * sacred solemn Protestations Vows Covenant Remonstrances Declarations Oathes for the maintenance defence and propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion the Profession and Professors of it against the bloudy Plots Conspiracies attempts practices of the Iesuites and other professed Popish Enemies and underminers of them Or not rather a most perfidious treacherous violation abjuration and betraying of them A loving of their Protestant Brethren with a true heart fervently and laying down their lives for them and being pitiful mercifull compassionate towards them according to these Gospel-precepts Eph. 4. 32. c. 5. 1 2. 1 Pet. 1. 22. c. 2. 17. c. 3. 8. 1 John 3. 11. 14. 33. c. 4. 7 11 12. 20 21. John 13. 34. c. 15. 12. 17. Or not rather a shuting up their bowels of compassion towards them a grieving offending persecuting murdering of their bodies and souls too and an infallible evidence that they are yet no real Saints or children of God but the very children of the Devil abiding in death having no true love of God nor eternal life abiding in them by Christs own resolution John 8. 44 45. 1 John 2. 10. to 18 A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven Isay 52. 11. 2 Cor. 6. 17. Rev. 18. 2 3 4 c. Depart ye depart ye Come ye out of mystical Romish Babylon the mother of whoredoms the habitation of Devils and of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hatefull bird O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues by their forcible driving of their own Protestant King Brethren into Babylon and keeping them therein to have their habitation among Devils foul spirits unclean birds of every kind that so they may participate both in her sins and plagues instead of calling thē out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches * Verily if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall these

Grymes Brampton Gurdon Edward Harby Col. Edward Harley Major Harley John Hatcher John Haidon James Herbert John Herbert Mr. Hobby Thomas Hodges Denzel Hollis Francis Hollis George Horner Edmund Hostins John Hungerford Col. Hunt Mr. Jennings William Jones George Keckwich Richard Knighly Col. Lassels Henry Laurence Col. Lee Mr. Lewis Col Walter Long Mr. Lowry Col. John Loyde Mr. Lucas Mr. Luckin John Mainard Christopher Martin Major Gen. Edward Massey Thomas Middleton Thomas Moore William Morrice George Mountague Mr. Nash James Nelthrop Alderman Nixon Mr. North Col. Norton Mr. Onslow Arthus Owen Henry Oxinden Mr. Packer Mr. Peck Henry Pellam William Peirpoint Jervase Pigot Mr. Potter Mr. Poole Col. Alexander Popham Mr. Povy Mr. Prisly William Prynne Alexander Pym Charles Pym Mr. Rainscraft Mr. Ratcliffe Charles Rich Col. Edward Rossiter Mr. Scowen Mr. Scut Col Robert Shapcot Col. Shuttleworth Mr. Spelman Mr. Springats Henry Stapleton Robert Stanton Edward Stephens John Stephens Nathaniel Stephens Mr. Stockfield John Swinfen Mr. Temple Mr. Terwit Mr. Thistlethwait Mr. Thomas Isaac Thomas Mr. Thynne Mr. Tolson John Trever Thomas Twisden Serjeant at Law Mr. Vassal Mr. Vaughan Thomas Waller Mr. West Henry Weston William Wheeler Col. Whitehead Henry Wilkes Captain Wingate Mr. Winwood Thomas Wogan Mr. Wray Richard Wynne The Total Number 203. besides the House of Lords An Alphabetical List of all Members of the late dissolved Juncto JAmes Ash Alderman Atkins William Ayre Mr. Baker Col. Bennet Col. Bingham Daniel Blagrave Mr. Brewster William Cawly Thomas Chaloner Mr. Cecil the self-degraded Earl of Salsbury Robert Cecil his son John Corbet Henry Darley Richard Darley Mr. Dixwell John Dove Mr. Downes William Ellys Mr. Feilder Mr. Fell Col. Charles Fleetwood Augustin Garland Mr. Gold John Goodwin Robert Goodwin John Gurdon Mr. Hallowes Sir James Harrington Col. Harvy Sir Arthur Hasilrig Mr. Hayes Mr. Herbert the self-degraded Earl of Pembrook Roger Hill Cornelius Holland Col. Hutchinson Col. Ingolsby Philip Jones Mr. Leachmore William Lenthall Speaker John Lenthall his son John Lisle Philip Viscont Lisle Thomas Lister Nicholas Love Col. Ludlow Henry Martyn a prisoner in execution Mr. Mayne Sir Henry Mildmay Gilbert Millington Col. Herbert Morley Lord Viscont Munson a prisoner in execution Henry Nevil Robert Nicholas Michael Oldsworth Mr. Palmer Alderman Pennington Sir Gilbert Pickering John Pine Edmond Prideaux William Purefoy Thomas Pury Robert Reynolds Col. Rich Luke Robinson Oliver Saint-John Major Saloway Mr. Say Thomas Scot Major General Skippon Augustin Skinner Mr. Smith Walter Strickland Col. Sydenham James Temple Col. Temple Col. Thompson Serjant Thorpe John Trencher Sir John Trevor Sir Henry Vane Col. Waite Mr. Wallop Sir Thomas Walsingham Col. Walton Sir Peter Wentworth Edmond Weaver Mr. White Serjeant Wilde Sir Thomas Witherington Sir Thomas Wroth. The totall Sum 91. Note That of these Members there entred only 42. into the House at first that the rest came in to them by degrees either to keep their old preferments gain new or regain the places they had formerly lost especially the Lawyers who notwithstanding their former complyances are turned quite out of Office and dis-Judged that 8. or more of them came in by New Writs issued in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England after the Kings beheading and were no Members of the long Parliament That there were never 60. of them together in the House at once whiles they sate and but 57. on the 11. and 12. of October last upon the great debate between them and the Army Officers And some that sate formerly with them as the Lord Fairfax John Cary and others refused to sit with them now as having not the least colour of Law to sit or act as a Parliament Yea their Speaker Mr. Lenthal told the Officers of the Army and Members who came to invite him to sit again May 6. That he had a Soul to save and that he was not satisfied in point of Law conscience or prudence that they could sit again But at last when he considered he had an estate to save as he told another Friend that over-ballanced all his former Objections and made him and other Members act against their judgements consciences and to forget our Saviours sad Quaeres Mat. 16. 26. What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul FINIS ERRATA Page 4. Usurpers read usurpation page 17. l. 31. read Rom. 3. 9 10. a Prov. 27. 5 6. b Prov. 28. 23. * Tit. 1. 13. c Jer. 22. 21. c. 5. 5. Ezech. 22. 27. * See a Collection of the Armies Engagements Remonstrances c. p. 106 ●0 145. * Animadversions upon the Armies Remonstrance Nov. 20. 1648. p. 10 11 12. f See the 2. Part of the History of Independency g See the Republicans spurious good old Cause briefly and truly anatomized p. 1 to 6. e 2 Thess. 2. 4. b See their Declarations and Papers of April 20. And August 12. 1653. And true State of the Common-wealth of England p. 8 to 12. * As he did Col. overton Okey and sundry others g Jer. 17. 5. h Isay 36. 6. * Lu. 19. 27. i Isay 2. 4. Jer. 9. 2. c. k Isay 33. 1. Jer. 9 2 to 22. m Isay 36. 6. Ezeck. 49. 6 7. n n Isay 30. 14. * In Prynne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrester A Legal Vindication against illegal Taxes A True and perfect Narrative p. 24 to 34. A brief necessary Vindication of the old and new secluded Members p. 5. * Exact Coll. p. 576 613. A Collection of Ordinances p. 13. 219 220 * Gal. 6. 7. a See the Armies Plea and Declaration 27 october The printed Votes Diurnals and Parliaments Plea a Exod. 8. 19. Psal. 118. 23. * 3 Jac. c. 1 2. * Gen 11. 3 to 10. * Acts 5. 39. c. 23. 9. See my True and perfect Narrative p. 92 93. * De Beneficiis l. 2. c. 20. * See my Concordia Discors * See my Legal Historical Vindication c. * Isay 14. 20. The seed of evil doers shall never be renowned * Ps. 30. 6 7. * Hos. 2. 6 7. * Judges 19. 30. * Understand ye brutish among the people O ye fools when will ye be wise Ps. 94. 8. * See My Concordia Discors * 1 Pet. 4. 18 19. * Jam. 2. 11. * Leopold * Condie * Execution he means * This intimates he was a Priest or Jesuit who writ it * See Mr. Smiths 2. New Books against the Quakers and Dell proving them to be Papists a Is 58 3 to 8. b Psa. 66. 7. c John 8 44 45. Ephes. 5. 19 20 21. d Ephes. 2. 2 3. e Micah 3. 10. Hab. 2. 12. f Micah 2. 1 2 3 4 5. * My true perfect Narrative p. 58 to 64. * Rom. 2. 2 3 8 9 12. h 2 Pet. 2. 7 8. i Psal. 119. 136 k Judges 5. 31. l Judges 4 15. * Psal. 12. 1 2. Psal. 94. 1. * Ps. 37. 38 39. 40.