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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81579	The declaration, vindication, and protestation, of Edward Dobson, citizen, and stationer, of London. VVherein is shewed the many illegall and unjust imprisonments which the said stationer hath suffered, through the malicious and envious informations of Brownists, Anabaptists, Antinomians, and other seditious sectaries: contrary to the lawes of God, the liberty of the subject, and the lawes of the land, all which have been protested, and covenanted to be maintained with lives and fortunes. Together with the manner of his coming from Worcester to Northampton, and of his barbarous usage there, by the governour and others, contrary to the declaration published in the names of the two kingdomes, upon the sincerity of which he did depend. Also a relation of his illegall imprisonment upon a pretended suspition of bringing a saw to the Irish Lords (as is most scandalously published) for their escape out of the Tower.	Dobson, Edward, 17th cent.	1644 (1644)	Wing D1751; Thomason E257_8; ESTC R212485	8,262	8

THE DECLARATION VINDICATION AND PROTESTATION OF EDWARD DOBSON Citizen and Stationer of LONDON VVherein is shewed the many illegall and unjust impri●onments which the said Stationer hath suffered through the mali●ious and envious informations of Brownists Anabaptists Antinomians and other seditious Sectaries contrary to the Lawes of God the Liberty of the Subject and the Lawes of the Land all which have beene Protested and Covenanted to be maintained with Lives and Fortunes Together with the manner of his coming from Worcester to Northampton and of his barbarous usage there by the Governour and others contrary to the Declaration published in the names of the two Kingdomes upon the sincerity of which he did depend Also a Relation of his illegall imprisonment upon a pretended suspition of bringing a Saw to the Irish Lords as is most scandalously published for their escape out of the Tower Poenas profundi fraudes Capitisque Rotundi Et Judae suavium det Deus ut caveam Deliver me O God I pray from all that is amisse Hells punishment Roundheads coz'ning and from a Judas kisse Possumus quod jure possumus Max. Leg. They have sworne falsly in making a Covenant Hosea 10.3 4. novemb 6th BRISTOLL but indeed London Printed in the Yeere M.DC.XLIIII The Declaration Vindication and Protestation of EDVVARD DOBSON Citizen and Stationer of LONDON IF according to the old Proverb Loosers may speak by authority then may not I be silent considering the many pressures and oppressions the arbitrary and tyraunicall Government usurped by my fellow-Subjects but exercised over me and other His Majesties loyall Subjects by reason whereof we are fallen to as sad if not sadder condition then the Athenians under their thirty Tyrants Those then that would have beheld these men at the beginning of this Parliament and have marked with what zeale and hast they went to Westminster to cry Justice Justice against the Earle of Strafford for bringing an arbitrary and tyrannicall government into Ireland would have little thought that ever they themselves would have exercised the same government in England over their fellow-Subjects as now they doe So that they stand not upon the Quid but the Qualis what persons For so long as themselves rule they are content It seemes that they have learned some Maxime of humane policie To hate and decline that in others that they may with the more security and lesse suspition accomplish the same to themselves This arbitrary and tyrannicall government doth very ill beseem a Prince the Earle of Strafford in Ireland or any other Noblemen but doth become Weavers Basket-makers or such kind of Mechanicks in England very well So the Irish Rebellion is called a horrid and bloudy action a cruell warre but the English and Scotch Rebellion is stiled a holy and just Warre the good Cause a fighting the Lords Battells the maintenance of Religion Lawes and Liberty So the Kings tax of Ship-money was counted an illegall imposition a heavy burden and a great grievance because it was taken without the consent of the three Estates in Parliament But the taking though in the same manner the twentieth and fift part of mens estates besides Excise plunder and other illegall Taxes are no burden no grievance but a great ease to the people So the Oath ex Officio though legall w●s a great burden and oppression to mens consciences because it betrayed Off●nders into the hands of Justice But the Scorch and English Covenant though forced with the greatest severity or rather the French League is no offence no scruple at all but a great ease to mens consciences So the silenci●g ignorant illiterate seditious and factious Ministers by the Bishops was stiled a Prelaticall persecution an Antichristian Tyranny and a stopping the mouths of Gods faithfull Ministers But the silencing imprisoning and plundering of learned and pious D. Featly D. Holdsworth M. Vdall and many other Orthodox and Protestant Divines unblameable untill these th … s is nothing with them but the suppression of Popery and Popish Ministers for such they term● all who hold and conforme themselves to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church established by Law And thus have they learned like the Jewes to put darknesse for light and l ght for darknesse to call evill good and good evill It is not unknowne to the world how by their scanda●ous and lying Pamphlets they labour daily to possesse the people of the Kings intention to bring in Popery And what is this think we but onely that they in the interim may with the lesse suspition and more security bring in Atheisme Heresie and all Sects and Schismes which have beene ever since Christ How have they trampled under Feet the Temporall and Ecclesiasticall Lawes As by imprisoning of mens bodies plundering and taking from them their estates and robbing their King of his Forts Townes Navies Magazines and Militia How do they obey Christ who says Render to Caesar though a Heathen the things that are Caesars when they take all from him It is not give to Caesar but render implying that Kings live not upon the gifts and almes of their Subjects but that they have as great if not greater right to their Revenues as Subjects to their goods With what conscience then can the two Houses usurpe the Militia which by the Scripture hath for many yeares belonged to the disposing of Kings as appeares by that Text in 2 Sam. 18.1 David the King set or made Captains over Fifties Hundreds and Thousands It doth not say his great Councell or his Parliament nay the word Parliament is not to be found in all the Scriptures and we know that Parliaments had their originall and being from Kings What monsters then are they that would undermine depose and destroy those that gave them their being Are they any better then vipers who eat out the bowels of their mothers I speake not this of a free Parliament there was never any King deposed or wronged by a free Parliament neither is it de Jure in the power of a Parliament for God sayes plainly By me Kings rule or raigne Prov. 8.15 He doth not say by Parliaments or by the peoples authority nor are they accomptable to their Subjects in case of errour or faults but onely to God as is most cleare in King David who though he sinned against man yet appealed onely to God saying Against thee against thee onely have I sinned c. Psal 51. I have sinned against the Lord 2 Sam. 12.13 And whereas King Richard the second is instanced and objected I answer That the deposing of King Richard to the scandall of this Nation was an act of high Treason upon the fairest relation I will now speake something concerning the abuses of the Church and then of my owne And first let us consider the sacriledge profanenesse and many insolencies offered in Gods house by the Parliaments souldiers as they are commonly called as their hewing and hacking downe the stone-workes as if they intended to build their Babel