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A91227	A new discovery of free-state tyranny: containing, four letters, together with a subsequent remonstrance of several grievances and demand of common right, by William Prynne Esquire; written and sent by him to Mr. John Bradshaw and his associates at White-Hall (stiling themselves, the Councel of State) after their two years and three months close imprisonment of him, under soldiers, in the remote castles of Dunster and Taunton (in Somersetshire) and Pendennis in Cornwall; before, yea without any legal accusation, examination, inditement, triall, conviction, or objection of any particular crime against him; or since declared to him; notwithstanding his many former and late demands made to them, to know his offence and accusers. Published by the author, for his own vindication; the peoples common liberty and information; and his imprisoners just conviction of their tyranny, cruelty, iniquity, towards him, under their misnamed free-state.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4016; Thomason E488_2; ESTC R203337	111,299	152

for the future act any thing to the prejudice of the Common-wealth and the present Government thereof The Councell have thought fit that the taking of his Bond should be left to your care and do therefore desire you to see the same entred into by the said Mr. Prynne according to usuall forme and the condition above mentioned which Bond when the said Mr. Prynne hath entred into accordingly as is hereby directed you are to return the Bond to the Councell and to set Mr. William Prynne at Liberty Whitehall Feb. 2. 1652. JOHN BRADSHAW President To the Governour of Pendennis Castle These Signed in the name and by Order of the Councell of State appointed by authority of Parliament Exam. John Thurlo Clerk of the Councell Upon reading of this Order and Warrant brought me by the Deputy Governour I peremptorily resused to enter into any Bond at all upon any termes the Illegality and Tyranny of which Bond and Condition I at length expressed in a Letter to a Member of Whitehall that sent them resolving rather to die a Prisoner then live a Bondman in my Native Country where I was borne a Freeman Whereupon they sent this absolute Order for my enlargement without any Bond or limitation whatsoever upon which I was thence released THese are to will and require you forthwith upon sight hereof to discharge and fet at liberty the body of Mr. William Prynne from his Imprisonment if he be under restraint with you for no other cause then that is expressed by the Order of the Councell for his Commitment of which you are not to fail and for which this shall be your Warrant Given at the Councell of State at Whitehall this 18. day of February 1652. To the Governour or Commander of the Castle of Pendennis JOHN BRADSHAW President Signed in the name and by Order of the Councell of State appointed by authority of Parliament Exam. Jo. Thurlo Cler. Concil Upon my repair to London in November last I writ and sent this ensuing Letter to Mr. Bradshaw SIR UNderstanding you are now returned to Westminster I thought meet to minde you that by sundry illegall Warrants under your hand during your cashiered Whitehall superlative power my study in Lincolnes Inne and house study at Swainswick were searched my Records Writings Papers taken away my person forcibly seized by and close Imprisoned in three severall remote Castles under Souldiers for two years and eight months space my Prison-chamber and very Pockets ransacked my notes tables to the Books I read in prison violently taken from me all persons prohibit●d to speak with me but in the presence and hearing of my Gardians all Letters to or from me inte●cepted pe●used the liberty of sending Letters to demand my freedome debarred accesse to Gods tublick Ordinances denyed me my Laundresse Brother in Law Servant with some others imprisoned and examined extrajudicially against me and that before without the least legall accusation hearing tryall or any particular crime or cause objected against or hitherto signified unto me contrary to all rules of Law Justice the great Charters of England the Pe●ition of Right and the Votes of both Houses of Parliament in my very case as you well know and I then informed you at large by severall Letters to the prejudice of my health decay of my estate and extraordinary dammage after all my former unrecompensed great losses and martyrdomes for our Religion Laws Liberties under the beheaded King Prelates and old exorbitant Councell table The true cause of whose Tyrannicall proceedings against me being yet unknown even to such of your late Whitehall associates as I have hitherto met with who are ashamed of these Barbarismes and remit me wholly to your self for the true reason of them of which they professe themselves ignorant I thereupon held it necessary and just now at last to demand from you by writing the true reall cause of these irregular restraints and proceedings against me together with full damages for the same in private before I demand them in such a publick manner if necessitated thereunto as may expose you to greater obloquy and infamy then ever beheaded Canterbury sustayned for his ●xorbitances against me For my own part I was never of a revengefull spirit yet I cannot be so stupid as to put up these transcendent iujuries and illegall oppressions I sustained under you because I underwent them not as a private person but as A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT and that in and for the publick cause of the whole English Nation I then supported whereupon I must no● passe them by in silence without publick satisfaction even for the present and future benefit of the Nation and vindication of the liberties and p●iviledges of Parliament according to the Tenor o● the Covenant lest by my sil●nce they should prove dangerous presidents to prejudice posterity I b●ing then a Member of Parliament i● the former Parliament continued in being as you affirmed it did in your very Warrants for my restraints Wherefore seeing we are once more become fellow commoners again I do hereby in justice require and expect from you an undelay●d ●ccount both of the grounds of my forementioned illegall unchristian injuries and restraints with full reparations for the same as I did from Canterbury and my quondam Lordly Whitehall unjust censurers which I presume you will not disdain to render to him who through Gods mercy maugre all mens Tyranny still continues to be what you ever found him Your long oppressed yet still unconquered Tyranno-mastix William Prynne From my Chamber at Lincolnes Inne Nov. 24. 1654. To this Letter Mr. Bradshaw returning a long unsatisfactory answer in writing dated the 1 of of December I thereupon sent him this Reply thereto SIR UPon my return late last night to my Chamber I found your answer to my former lines under my door which by reason of company I had no time to peruse till now wherein as I finde not the least satisfaction touching the particular grounds of these illegall proceedings against me I informed you of justifiable as you well know by no Lawes of God or Man so your hand alone being to the Warrants prescribing and occasioning them contrary to the presidents in former times and all my commitments by the old Whitehall councell to which all my committers subscribed their hands or had their names superscribed by the Cle●k of the Councell as you may see in my New discovery of the Prelates Tyranny I could resort to none but your selfe both for satisfaction and reparation being wholly ignorant who else concurred with you therein For any pretended mercy shewed to me by you or others of your associates in my restraints under you I must yet account them such mercies only as Solomon defines them Prov. 12. 10. and you such friends alone as Job and David complain of Job 19. 13 14 19 to 24. 6. 14 15. Psal 41. 9. 55. 13 c. As for the surmised benefit you did me at last by your casting voice

Saints and Servants Rev. 2 16. And further assures us That Christ at the last Judgement will say to those who did but only not feed cloth and visit the least of his Saints when they were in Prison Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the ●evil and his Angels What an heavy Doom then will he passe against those who against all Rules of Law and Justice cast them into Prison and will there neither feed cloth nor visit but starv● their bodies and souls too as much as in them lyeth by depriving them of Gods Ordinances and all means of livelihood as you do me after all my former great losses and long-continued suffrings I cannot as yet be so uncharitable as to believe you design the ruine of my soul body and wasted Estate but if you de facto do it by this injurious restraint your sinne is as great as if you did design it If you think to justifie or excuse these Irregularities and unjust violent Proceedings against me by pretext of Necessity and publike Danger the only thing in Justification I yet hear alleged by your Instruments As this will be no Plea at all before Christs Tribunal in the great day of Judgment who prohibits all kind of violonce injustice oppression injury upon any Pretence what soever and will severely punish it their Damnation being most just who do evill upon this unrighteous ground that good may come of it So it will not hold water before mans Tribunal being resolved declared by the Judgement of both Houses and an Act of Parliament in cases of Shipmony Excise Loans to be no cause nor Justification of a Distresse much lesse of an Imprisonment And it being a Necessity and Danger of your own making not mine the Rule of Law is That noman shall take advantage of his own wrong to the prejudice of another The late Beheaded King in his Answer to the Petition of both Houses 26 Martii 1 642. is so ingenious as to confesse That the violating of Laws by his Ministers and the mischief that then grew by Arbitrary Power was made plausible to Us by the suggestion of Necessity and Imminent danger and thereupon he gave both Houses this caution And take you heed you fall not into the same Error upon the same suggestions which in his Answer to the Remonstrance of the Lords and Commons of the 9th of May 1642. he thus seconds And therefore we had good cause to bestow that Admonition for we assure you it was an Admonition of our own upon both Houses of Parliament to take heed of inclining under the specious shews of Necessity and Danger to the exercise of such an arbitrary Power they before complained of The Admonition will do no harm and we shall be glad to see it followed And therefore for you or those now acting after these two serious Admonitions to pretend Necessity and Imminent Danger for these with other Arbitrary courses Proceedings condemned in and by the King himself and the whole Parliament must be the hight of Oppression Injustice and will render you more detestable to the Nation and World than ever they did the King or his Evil Counsellors To trouble you no further at present I shall only inform you That the Commons in their Remenstrance of the State of the Kingdom Decemb. 15. 1641. Yea both Lords and Common● in their Declaration of 4 August 1642. among other Designs Practices of the Malignant Party and Counsellors about the King complained of this as one of the most dangerous That they endeavoured to make those odious under the name of Puritans who sought to maintain the Religion Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom and such men were sure to be weeded out of the Commission of the Peace and out of all other imployments of Power and Authority in the Government of the Country Many Noble Personages were Counsellors in name but the Power and Authority remained in a ●ew of such as were most addicted to this P●rty whose Resolutions and Determination● were brought to the Table for countenance and execution and not for Debate and Deliberation and no man could offer to oppose them without disgrace and hazard to himself Nay those that did not wholly concurr and actually contribute to the furtherance of their Designs though otherwise Persons of never so great honour and abilities were so far from being imployed in any Place of Trust and Power that they were neglected discountenanced and upon all occasions injured and oppressed The Laws were no Defence or Protection to any Mans Right all was subject to Will and Power which imposed what payments they thought sit to drain the Subjects purses and to supply those Necessities which their ill Counsels had brought upon the King and gratifie such as were Instruments in promoting these illegal and oppressive Courses They who yielded and complyed were countenanced and advanced all others disgraced and kept under that so Mens minds made poor and base and their Liberties lost and gone they might be ready to let go their Religion and submit to the subversion and alteration of the Laws and Government which they designed And whether your Proceedings in the self-same kind against my self others who have suffered and stood so much for Religion Laws and publike Liberties in the worst of former times thus complained against and securing restraining us to boot in a more more violent way than the King and his evill Counsellors proceeded against us heretofore will not draw a greater guilt disreputation heavier judgement upon you and your Associates then they complained of did upon them if you persevere impenitently in such execrable Machiavilian carnal Practices I leave to your own Consciences to determine Sir I was never yet a flatterer of any Person or p●rsons how great soever in arbitrary and illegal w●ys and my present extremities will be a sufficient Apology for this my boldnesse and plain dealing with you as well as others heretofore in like cases wherein the whole N●tions Liberties are concerned as much as mine own wherefore I do once more upon the premised Votes and Gro●nds of right demand my present ●nlargement the restitution of my seised Papers Writings Records Books Tr●●●ks from you and your Associates with reparations for these injurious proceedings against me from your selves 〈◊〉 the Origin●l Authors and Principal Actors in them And so exp●cting your undelayed Answer to my former and present Demands who amidst your manifold imployments may spare as much time to doe me right as wrong that so I may know how to steer my course I must and shall till then remain Your unjustly close restrained Captive WILL. PRYNNE For his quodam kind Friend Mr. Serjeant Iohn Bradshaw at Whitehall these Dunster Castle 16 July An. Dom. 1650. The third Letter to Mr. Bradshaw SIR I And my Servant attending on me have for above 6 weeks space against all Rules of Law Justice and the

the S●eriffs and Justices only are to su●presse all force and sumults if there be any need by the Posse Comitatus in which cases Souldiers are only to assist them as auxil ari●s not as sole as princible Officers or Executioners as in and by your Warrants they are now usually made against Law and the practices of all former ages Which late illegall Vsage of imploying Souldiers in this kind to arest mens Persons break up and search their Houses reputed High Treason and a levying of Warr against the King and his People in Straffords case the very last Parliament as it hath allready occasioned many Barbarous Murders dangerous Burglares and Roberies in sundry places and in the very heart of of London it self by Souldiers and others pretending Warrants from your New Council of State or others in present power to apprehend Delinquents or search for Armes Papers c. so it is like to produce many more sad Tragedies and outrages of this kind to the endangering of all mens Persons lives estates thus prostituted to the violence rapine of every Rogue Thief Villain who shall but counterfeit himself a Souldier and pretend your Warrant for search of any mans house study or apprehension of any mans Person he hath a design to rob or murther Which common mischief can be no otherwise prevented but by directing all warrants only to known Officers according to Law ● publick Declaration to all the Kingdom that no Souldiers or others under Pain of death shall dare presume to execute or counterfeit any such Warrants for the future it being no part of their calling or imployment and a great oppression and terror to the People contrary to the expresse clause of the Commissions of the Peace and of Oyer and Terminer against such who ride armed in companies to the Terrror of the Kings people who cannot easily distinguish who are Souldiers really imployed and who are Counterfeits and have sometimes been affrighted not only to sicknesse and great distempers of spirit but even to death it self by the sudden violent Attachments and searches of Souldiers of whose rudeness and incivility in their executions others have much complained though those who seised me were as respective towards me as your warrant would permit transgressing only in the unseasonablenesse of the time and illegalities you injoyned them 2. Your warrant is directly contrary to Law and the Subjects Liberty in that it commits me Prisoner yea close Prisoner ●efore without the least Accusation conviction of any particular Crime any hearing ●xamining● what I can say for my self and so a meer forejudging of me going to ●xecution before the fact examined contrary to all forms of Legal proceedings in all criminal causes whatsoever where the accused Persons for any Trespasse Felony or Treason are first sent for examined in the presence of their Accusers before they be committed Contrary to the very proceedings of the most exorbitant High Commisioners who at first only summoned not attached me for my Perpetuity after that for my Cosens cozening Devotions to appear answer the same before them Contrary to the proceeding of the Lords atthe Councill Table it self for my Histriomast ix suggested to be Seditious and Scandalous in the Superlative degree to the King Queen Court Councill Kingdome Government who yet thereupon only summoned me by a single sworn Messenger to appear in the Inner Star-chamber before them to answer such things as should be there objected against me for that Book but never once seized or Committed my Person untill after they had examined and heard me concerning i● such was their Iustice and moderation towards me in their first Processe whereas you now commit me close Prisoner at a great distance before yea without any Summons hearing or examination I know not for what pretended writings So much do you now out-strip them in violence injustice Whereas if you had ought against me you might have summoned me to appear before you whiles I was in London the last Term in commons or since that residing openly constantly at my country House without absenting my self or being ever yet a fugitive and examined me as they did before you thus rashly committed me hand over head in such a notorious way of violence in the face of all the County and Kingdome who cannot but conclude you are more Tyrannically exorbitant herein than ever the King or Prelates were against me and have hereby most notoriously infringed Magna Charta c. 29. the Statutes of 25. E. 1. c. 1. 2. 28. E. 1. c. 1. 5. E. 3. c. 4. 37. and 42. E. 3. With other Acts collected by Rastall in his Abridgment tittle accusation the Petition of Right the Resolation of the three last Parliaments and all our Law-books which directly enact adjudge and declare That no Freeman ought to be attached or imprisoned upon any Accusation or suggestion made to the King or his Councell much less then unto you unlesse it be by Inditement impeachment of his good and lawfull Neighbours or by Processe made by a writ originall at the common Law And if any thing be d●ne against the same it shall be reversed and holden for none Which Laws you have sworn professed covenanted to observe and are bound to do it as a Lawyer much more as a Christian it being the very Law of the Pagan Romans Acts. 25. 16. and of the very Jews themselves Iohn 7. 44 c. whose Officer● refuse to apprehend our saviours Person upon the High Priests warrant because never man spake as he did and their Law judged not any man to be apprehended much lesse imprisoned before it heard him and knew what he doth Wherefore you cannot but recal● and condemn this Warrant and its execution as most repugnant to these Statutes and the very Law of Nature of Nations and Gods own Proceedings with the worst of men 3. Every Warrant of Attachment Sr. Edward Cook proves at large in his 2 Institutes On Magna Charta c. 29. ought to be to summon or bring the parties to be examined before they be committed and every Mittimus after examination ought to expresse the cause justly and time for which they are to be imprisoned as during pleasure or till further order or till they shall put in bayl or be delivered by Law as likewise the manner how they shall be tryed for what they are accused and not be absolute as a Iudgement or sentence after hearing But your Warrant is a meer Iudgement before hearing or examination without any such causes committing me close Prisoner without any limitation of time and so for ought I know during life or ever intending to bring me to any legall examination or Tryall Therefore altogether illegall in this respect 4. The Statutes of 5. E. 3 c 8. 23. H. 8. c. 2 and 5. H. 4. cap. 10. enact That the Prisons to which evill doors shall be committed for their evil offences shall be in the most eminent

hath a being since the Kings beheading the Lords suppression and most Common●●eclusion as you hold it hath an high infring●●nt of the Priviledges of P●rliament of which whosoever are or shall be guilty they are by several Orders votes a●d Ordinances of Parliam●●t declared to be En●mies both to th● Parliament and Co●mon weal●h of England ●nd to be appr●●ended and proc●●ded against as such In all which respects your present Warrant and the execution of it being so diametrically contrary to the known Laws and Statutes of the Realm the votes and Declarations of both Houses of the Parliament in mine own and others cases and the late Declarations of Febr. the 11. and March 17. 1648. of those now acting I shall of meer Right not any grace or favour demand and expect from your self and your Ass●ciates of the long Robe my quondam speciall Friends who know all the premises to be Law and this Warrant most illegall a present revocation and condemnation ●hereof as such and my present absolute inlargement without any condition restriction caution or engagement whatsoever which I resolved never to enter into being liable only to punishment when and if I do amisse and am legally convicted of it that so I may follow my Country affairs this harvest time without any such future interruption and vexation And withall to send me the names of my Accusers and their particular Accusation if there be any such that so I may rec●ive reparations from them or you for this most injurious restraint to my great trouble cost and prejudice which I am confident you neither will nor can in Iustice or honor deny me But if this will not be granted as this my unjust restraint may then prove as prejudiciall to you as my former Imprisonments did to the Canterbury the Pr●lates and Star-chamber and will cry as lowd to heaven against you as they did against them till God himself delivered me by some other means I shall then request this Justice only at your hands First that you would take care that my soul be not starved for want of spirituall food or free accesse unto it when there are any sermons in the Town where there is yet no setled Minister but a Lecture at some times and days A Libert● enjoyed during my former Imprisonments 2. That you will allow and take care for my dyet during my close restraint if you will needs keep me up a close Prisoner my estate being exhausted by my former suffrings the losse of my calling publick Taxes Free quarter and scarce able to support my family at home now left like sheep without a shepheard 3. That if you will not be so just and charitable that at least you will cause the 800 l. due unto me as contractor for which I never received o●e farthing though it cost and lost me double the value and I should never have demanded it but upon this extraordinary occasion of expence with all the free quarter certified to be due unto me for the last year under 〈◊〉 Commissioners hands and yet not satisfied to be forthwith paid to help sustain me during this my present extremity which I hope you will not delay or deny I shall till then remain Yours illegally restrained close Prisoner WILL. PRYNNE Dunster-Castle July 5. 1650. Mr. Prynnes second Letter to Mr. Bradshaw SIR I Informed you by my Letter the 5 of this instant Iuly of the forcible breaking and searching of my house and Study at Swainswick seising and carrying away my Person and Papers about Midnight on the Lords Day by a Party of Horse and my close imprisonment ever since in Dunster Castle by pretext of a Warrant signed with your hand the illegality whereof and of its execution I therein undeniably demonstrated by Acts Votes Resolutions of Parliament in my very case and proved them more exorbitant then the worst first proceedings of the Prelates High Commission Council Table or Star-chamber against me under the late King whom you your self condemned to have his head severed from his shoulders for a Tyrant demanding thereupon of meer right my present Enlargement from this unjust imprisonment with reparations for the same To which as yet receiving no answer after above a fortnights restraint contrary to expectation and Magna Charta it self Nulli negabimus nulli differemus justitiam aut rectum and hearing that by a like illegal Warrant under your hand made to Souldiers not sworn Officers they have broken open my Study seised all my writings Trunkes at Lincolns Inn carryed them to White-Hall contrary to the Law of the Land and Liberty and property of the Subject I am thereupon necessitated for the Defence of mine own and the Nations Liberties for which I have so deeply suffered in Defence whereof we have of late years spent so many Millions of Treasure and Tuns of Gallant English blood to make this solemn Protestation to you and all the world That these Warrants and Proceedings of yours against me are altogether illegal tyrannical and exorbitant contrary to Magna Charta the Petition of Right the Resolutions of the 3 last Parliaments the votes of both Houses in my very Case and the Cases of my Brother Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton the Law of the Land the Subjects Liberties and Property and many Declarations of the last Parliament published to the World To begin with the breaking up of my House Study seising of my writings and Papers Records and imprisoning my Person before any hearing examining or legal accusation against me by colour of your illegal Warrant the revived Exorbitances of the High Commission and old Council Table under which the Freemen of England formerly groaned and most sadly complained I shall desire you and the whole Kingdom by way of supplement to my former Letter to take notice 1. First That in the cases of my Brother Dr. Bastwick and Mr. Burton whose Houses Studies were broken open searched and their Writings Books Persons seised by colour of a Warrant from the High Commis old Council-Table the whole House of Commons upon the report of their Cases passed these two Votes Feb. 24. 1640. Resolved upon the Question That the Precept made by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and other high Commissioners for causes Ecclesiastical within the Realm of England for apprehending the body of Doctor Bastwick and for searching for and seising of his Books and the making and issuing thereof and likewise the Messengers Act in searching Dr. Bastwicks House and Study and searching and taking away his Books and Papers by that Precept ARE AGAINST LAW AND THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT And March 12. 1640. Resolved upon the Question That the breaking open of Mr. Burtons House and arresting his person before any cause depending against him in the Star-Chamber and his close imprisonment thereupon are against the Law and Liberty of the Subject That Iohn Wragge hath offended in searching and faising th● Books and Papers of Mr. Henry Burton

Common Liberty of every Subject which they might resist with force but those to be publike Enemies to the State who attempted them Whereunto his Gardians replyed They were commanded by you to do it and therefore must obey without dispute against thes● Declarations Adding that they must and would kill hang or cut his throat though never ac●used nor condemned of any offence if enjoyned by you so to doe so well were they versed in the Jesuites Doctrine and Practise of blind Obedience and Assassination too upon all occasions Of all which particulars though he earnestly complained to all and sundry of you by divers Letters yet he received not the least redresse But was to Mr. Lutterils and the Countries great charge and oppressing kept there still clōse Prisoner in Mr. Lutterils domestick Castle Lodgings with 20 Souldiers purposely to guard him sundry Months after the Castle walls and out-Houses there demolished before any notice or without the least ●atisfaction given to the owner thereof Mr. Lutteril damnified above 4000l thereby to recompense his former 6000l losses by the Kings party for his fidelity to the Parliament whom he served gratis as a Collonel and the Garrison thence removed by your specia● Order which in Law reversed your Warrant for his Imprisonment there and set him free After which on the 12 Iune 1651. by a Warrant from Colonel Desbrow without any from you to increase his expences and vexation he was translated to Taunton Castle notwithstanding his Protest against it as being then set at Liberty in point of Law by Dunster Castles dismantling and that Garrisons dissolution to which only he was confined and no Prisoner to this Collonel nor subject to his Military Power by any Law he knew whither being brought close Prisoner he was for want of Bedding which the Governour could neither borrow nor hire in the Town so much did they detest his causelesse close imprisonment there mued up close Prisoner in an Inn over against the Castle even when some Collonels formerly in armes for the King were there set free with two Souldiers to guard him who had so much good manners as not to permit Captain Georges though then a Collonel of the County Militia Horse to see or speak with him in their presence unlesse he would first seek out his Governour at the Castle and gain his license two others of them having the like rudenesse at Dunster Castle as to quarrel with and affront two Devonshire Gentlemen of quality there visiting Mrs. Lutterel their Kinswoman only because one of them passing by your Prisoner as he was walking moved his hat and said God blesse you Sir without the Governours previou● licence and the other recited only a consolatory Latin verse to him out of Virgil whereupon they saucily told him he ought to speake no word or language but what they understood should answer it to you if he did And whereas he desired the Governour at Taunton being very near the Church to permit him to goe to the publick Ordinances there he having no Order to restrain him from them or so much as to imprison him there from you he peremptorily refused it whereupon he demanded leave to send a Note to Taunton Church to desire the Prayers of that Congregation from which he was debarred to this effect Mr. William Prynne having for 12 Moneths space last past been totally deprived of and debarred from Gods publike Ordinances which he enjoyed in his former close restraints and from free converse with men without any particular cause yet declared to him for this his strict restraint desires the publike and private prayers of this Congregation whereto he is now denyed accesse for restitution to Gods Ordinances and his just Christian and Civil Liberty after full ten yeans imprisonments and sufferings for Defence of our Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdome and Nation which Note he inclosed in a Letter to his Governour proving it to be a chief part of Christian Liberty and a Gospel Duty for him to desire and them to make their publick private Prayers to God for him in such a condition By Acts 10. 5. 12. Rom. 15. 31 32. 2 Cor. 1. 9 10 11. 2 Thes 3. 1 2. 2 Tim. 1. 2 3. Adding that all the world and his own Conscience would cry shame on and condemn him if he should now deny him the benefit thereof Upon which his Governour was so surprized that to prevent the infamy of stopping this Note or reading it publikely in the Church if sent he ordered his Lieutenant to accompany his Prisoner to the Congregation with his two other Guardians About two weeks following upon a bare Information That Taunton was an unfit place for his restraint because he had some acquaintance and good accommodations for Soul and Body there and was nearer his friends than before though not unfit for Collonels of that County formerly in Armes against the Parliament there lodged in Innes and private houses walking about the streets at pleasure with one single Soldier only to guard them he was about the 27 of June 1651. by your fresh warrant upon few hours warning before he could procure a horse for his Servant or necessaries for so long and costly a journey notwithstanding his special open Protestation against his transcendent vexation and reading the late unanimous Votes of all the Commons and most of your selves in Parliament against it in his own aud his former fellow sufferers Cases to his Condnctors mounted against his will upon a Troopers Horse without his Servant cloaths or Linnen by a party of Captain Warringtons Troop and by them carryed close Prisoner that night to Crediton in Devonshire and from thence by other fresh Parties of other Devonshire and Cornish Troops who were all generally very civil to him some of them having formerly conducted him voluntarily towards London in his return thither from his pristine close restraints in ferein Castles and lamenting they were now forc'd against their wills to conduct him to a new close Prison without an cause or crime at all expressed in their Warrant He was on the 2 of Iuly 1651. brought close Prisoner to Pendennis Castle near the extremest parts of Cornwall 50 miles further than the Star-chamber Lords by their last severest sentence sent Dr. Bastwicke and him whether his very trespassing Beasts could not be driven by Law being above one hundred and fifty miles from his house near two hundred and fifty miles from his Library and usual Residence at Lincolns Inne out of all common roads where his kinred friends at such a vast distance can neither conveniently visit send to hear from nor supply him with necessaries where he can have no accommodation of Books to read nor of Physick Physicians or other conveniences in case of sicknesse nor lodging fit for a Gentleman being for three Months space imprisoned in a narrow Chamber newly made for him for want of other Lodgings just over and

the purity of Gods publick Ordinances and sending of Letters when first approved by himself such a Ward and School boy is he yet to this very hour under your Free-State even after the Court of Wards quite voted down And whereas all Collonels and Gentlemen heretofore in actual Arms against the Parliament here or elsewhere secured in their proper Counties only not in foraign in the late times of danger were a full year since enlarged from their far more favourable restraints than his by your general Order and many Theeves Felons legally deserving death both pardoned and set free without any Petitions to you from them and not only diverse Popish Recusants in A●mes but some Popish Pr●ests and Jesuites imprisoned before your Government absolutely released under it yea exempted from the very Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance specially provided prescribed by the wisdom of many pious Parliaments for the detection and prevention of their manifold treasonable practices against our Realms Princes Parliaments Government Laws Liberties and Religion from some if not all old penal Laws formerly made and those 5 new excellent Bills and Oaths of Abjuration for their better speedier discovery a●d suppression so earnestly pressed by our late zealous Parliaments and consented too by the late King so much taxed by you for indulgence towards them in the last Treaty without scruple yet since quite buried with ●im in oblivion and some of them unwittingly as is conceived entertained as Troopers Souldiers in pay in your very Guards for want of such strict inquiries after them and such meanes to prevent their coming over and to detect them as formerly and not one of them for oug●t he can hear close imprisoned if imprisoned at all in remote Castles under such Guards Centinels Restraints as his forementioned though in near one hundred printed Declarations of Parliament remonstrated to the World to be the Original Contrivers the chief Incendiaries Fomentors Promoters of the first late Warres between Scotland and England and the late King and Parliament of purpose thereby to subvert the Protestant Religion both at home and ab●oad destroy that last and all future Parliaments our Lawes Liberties and former setled Government and introduce Popery Anarchy Slavery and Military Tyr●●y in their pl●c●s Whereupon they are grown so audacious as not only secretly to infuse their Jesuitical Tenents Pract●ces Poli●icks of most dangerous consequence expr●ssed in sundry former Acts of P●rliament purposely enacted to prevent them into the Souldiery a●d Pe●ple now much infected with them but likewise by their instruments to translate print and vend publiquely throughout the Nation without Inhibition or Punishment their Jesuitical Books even in folio professedly ass●rting both th● Popes Sup●emacy pra●ing to Saints and Angels Purgatory Masse Transubstantiation and all other points of grossest Popery for undoubted Truths necessary to Salvation and also positively maintaining our true Protestant Religion to be grosse Heresie and our late famous Queen Elizabeth with all true professors thereof to be damnable Hereticks Witnesse the Jesuite Edmond Causin his Holy Court printed in several folio Tomes in London it self translated into English by Papists Jesui●es and dedicated to the two greatest Female Papists Queen Mary and the Dutchesse of Buckingham sold publikely under your Noses and elsewhere with the very Jesuites badge S. I. S●cietatis Iesis in Capitals in the Title Page and this bold subscription Printed at London by William Bently Anno 1650. since his close imprisonment by you and are to be sold by Iohn Williams in Pauls Churchyard where all these Popish Tenents are largely maintained to the great Scandal and Offence of all true Protestants as you may read at leisure Tom. 1. p. 30 to 38 63 64 68 74 75 Tom. 2. p. 168. Tom. 3. p. 425 to 430. 461 462. Tom. 5. p. 173 174. 304 to 319 The Angel of Peace to all Christian Princes p. 10 11 and elsewhere to omit all other Iesui●ical Arminian Popish Erroneous Books against our Religion now publikely written printed vended by thousands under you with impunity though so lately charged pressed by the whole House of Commons against Canterbury as an Article of High Treason for which amongst others he lost his head by Iudgement of Parliament and your own concurrent Votes and Approbations Yet he who out of pure love zeal to his God true Religion Country Parliaments hath constantly stuck unto and written most of any man in times of greatest need and danger in defence of the just Power Rights Privileges of our true English Parliaments and Nation against all Opponents against all late introduced Arminian Popish Iesuitical Errours Doctrines Ceremonies Innovations Books and made the first the fullest discoveries of and Oppositions in print of any man with no little pains cost losse danger against their manifold dangerous Books Practices Plots Conspiracies to undermine our Religion Parliaments Laws Liberties Government and involve all Protestant Kingdoms States Churches in bloody intestine wars to their own mutual destruction but these Iesuites insultation exul●ation and that by approbation authority of Parliament and most of your applauses And hath particularly informed some of you by Letters since his restraints of admired indulgences towards Priests ●esuites of one particular noted Iesuite who for a fortnights space together disputed with a friend of his at St. Omers with 5 other Iesuites more about August 1649 since listed a Trooper in your Guards and of this late printed Iesuites folio Book without any reformation or suppression of either upon his complaints thereof during this their licentious Liberty and Freedom to their grand Rejoycing Advantage and the great Grief Offence of most really affected to our Religion or the publike weal without any cause hearing or release must be shut up and continued close Prisoner by you year after year and sent from one remote Castle to another remoter and worser than it and there kept under strictest Guards Centinels Restraints and most injurious Duresses as aforesaid without any hopes of release notwithstanding his manifold Letters and Addresses to you joyntly and severally in such a way as becomes him though not by unworthy complyances in submission to the self-created new Powers and Titles complaining of these fore-remonstrated Proceedings Searches Imprisonments Translations and Restraints in forraign Counties Castles under Souldiers without any precedent Indictment Tryal and Crime yet specified and undeniably manifesting them to you to be co●trary to all Laws of God Nature Nations the Common L●w and Great Charter of England and other forecited known Statute● Iudgement● Declarations Resolutions R●monstrances of all our late Parliaments the expresse Votes and Resolves of both Houses of Parliament in his own late particular case and others the indubitable Birthright Franchises of eve y English Freeman of very dangerous President Conseq●ence to Posterity and in sundry respects far more exorbitantly unrighteous than his former Grievances and Imprisonments under the worst of your discarded condemned decapitated

Predecessors at Whitehall as your own Judgements Consciences upon perus●l hereof cannot but acknowledge before all Tribunals of God and Man And although he hath hereupon earnestly pressed you joyntly and severally from time to time both by Letters and Friends for his own and the worlds satisfaction to specifie the true cause of these your rigorous anomolous Proceedings and wrongfull long Restraints inconsistent with your manifold printed Protests for advancing every m●ns publike Liberty and abandoning all Approaches towards abolished pristine Tyranny And if it be only for difference in Iudgement and Conscience from you concerning our late publique Charges and Affairs the dangerous bloody Consequences whereof since experimentally verified he truly predicted in his printed Speech in Parliament and other writings not then credited by you as he and others conjecture that then he and those of his opinion being the far greatest part of the late undoubted Parliament and English Nation and having by all Laws of God and Men as just as true as real full large if not larger an interest in the Republike as those in greatest present power and all others of a different Perswasion being all equally English Freemen and Peers herein with you and them may not be prejudged convinced without a free Legal publike hearing by meer Tyrannical violent Iron Arguments and Prisons alone as hitherto we have been but that you would like rational men pious Christians A●sertors of Liberty of Conscience and Common Freedom admit him for his own and their conviction and satisfaction it mistaken or erronious in our Judgements or Consciences to debate these our D●fferences of highest publike Concernment in a free publike manner by word or writing in point of Divinity Law Reason and true Sta●e-Policy with all or any of the ablest Divines Lawyers Scholars Statesmen of a different Judgement from him or else quietly to enjoy and follow the D ctates of his own resolved Conscience and Iudgement therein without molestation in this age when not only Liberty but Licentiousnesse of Conscience in the chiefest Principles of Religion and most other thin gs are so much practised and patronised Or if it be any real transcendent Crime against any known Law of the Land deserving such severities before hearing or tryal or a Capital punishment after them whereof he believeth himself really innocent in the impartial verdict of your own Consciences that then you would of Common Right and Iustice according to Magna Charta and other forecited Laws without further delay or denial bring him to a lawfull fair publike Tryal by his Lawful Peers and Legal Iudges in some usual Court of Iustic● before all the world where he might openly make his full defence against your Charge and thereupon be either justly condem ed if guilty or immediately enlarged repaired for all his forementioned injurious Sufferings Imprisonments and his Dammages thereby sustained if found Guiltlesse or else absolutely released as well as imprisoned by you without tryal and repaired by his yet unknown clandestine malitious Accusers if you have no such real actual Crime to charge against him Or if neither of these might be granted under your Free-State never yet denyed any English Freeman under the greatest former Regal Tyranny that then you would either permit him Free Liberty to transport himself into some strange foraign Climate if unworthy to breath freely in his own Native Country after all his unrecompensed faithfull eminent Services Losses Sufferings for it where he hopes to find better usage and more Freedom Iustice amidst meer Strangers and Foraigners than he had yet enjoyed under professed Popish Prelatical Enemies heretofore or pretended late Christian reall Friends in power since Or otherwise if you are resolved to wear out the short Remainder of his expiring Life in remote obscure Prisons with●ut tryal or hearing of purpose to hinder him from doing the Church of God or his Native Country any further service in this world when others are acting so much mischief and treason against them both that then according to Iustice and ancient Practice under our Kings you would afford him a Competent Allowance of Diet in some more convenient usual Prison than this where he might have all fitting Accommodations in health and sicknesse Or otherwise forthwith pay him the 800l publike Debt long due unto him as a Contractor for which he never yet received one farthing though he thereby lost and expended many pounds besides his pains or order him some of his voted Dammages to be paid him by his former unrighteous Censurers sitting amongst you to help defray his Debts and extraordinary Prison expences having exhausted his private estate for the publike and to defray his extraordinary Prison expences and lost the Practice of his very Calling to support him by your strict Duresses And albeit his only Sister out of her natural affection to him without his privity hath thrice humbly Petitioned you as he hath heard and others of his Friends oft earnestly sollicited and petitioned you on his behalf to the like effect yet hitherto such is his unhappinesse or rather your hard-heartednesse as some esteem it that he and they could never hitherto receive the least satisfactory Answer to all or any of these his just Demands being still continued a close Prisoner by you in sundry respects in this remote incommodious Castle yea that which adds exceedingly to the Transcendency of your In ustice Oppression and Tyranny towards him is this That instead of enlarging relieving or answering his Sisters late Petitions to you in his behalf you have very lately as he is credibly informed voted him out of his poor Recordership of the City of Bath to which he was about 5 years since without his privity or sollicitation freely elected by the unanimous Vote of the whole City and by two several Letters under all the Aldermens and Mayors hands importuned to accept it er● he would imbrace it And that on no other ground or cause but only because you have so long imprisoned him against all Law without any cause yet expressed before the least hearing or complaint against the expresse Letter of Magna Cha ta and other fundamental Laws and that upon the motive of one of your Whitehall Members his pretended great Friend and Servant then in the Chair who by his Letter in your Names writ to the City to elect a new Recorder in his place being disabled to execute it by your imprisonment of him and withall particularly recommending his own Son in-Law Iames Ash a Westminster Memb●r to the Office which being seconded by his own Fathers sollicitation another sitting Member his near Neighbour thereupon he was without any justice hearing or other cause or tryal contrary to the Great Charter Petition of Right and all Rules of Iustice outed of his Recordship his 4 years salary of x ls per annum then in arrear detained from him and never since paid him by the City and this other Member intruded into his Place su●h

worldly comforts publick Trusts and Imployments into remotest Prisons without cause against all Laws into your houses who will not so much as once permit him to return into his own house and so long debarred him from Gods own houses If you see the naked that you cloth him and you have almost made him naked by depriving him of his Calling Friends Imployments detaining his publick oft-demanded debts his extraordinary prisonexpences and late Militia charges enforcing his friends to sell all his stock superadded to all his other payments reducing him to his very worst old Jersie Prison rags and clothes to cover his nakednesse by these mercilesse undoing extremities And that you hide not your selves from your own flesh as you do from him by not receiving some breaking up others of his Letters of complaint without reading them slighting all the rest and answering none of them but by denials refusing to hear dispute or speak with him face to face for ought you can charge him with as persons either ashamed afraid or unable to encounter or behold him after so many indignities or to make good your own cause or proceedings against him by Divinity Law Religion or any sole hearing and yet hide him from his own flesh too by keeping him from his Friends Kindred and them from him by strict restraints in remotest Garisons from them of purpose to deprive him of their visits Give him leave then upon all these grounds in the name and fear of God as your former true Christian friend and present impartiall monitor without all carnall fear or sordid flattery seriously to exhort and faithfully to perswade all and every of you not so much for his own interest as your own truest good salvation and our whole Nations welfare both before and on your Solemne Fast-day to lay all his former Remonstrated pressures and long illegal close restraints as close as may be to your souls and both publickly and privately with deepest sorrow shame and detestation to confesse acknowledge bewaile abhorre renounce redresse repair them by his present honourable enlargement and other proportionable recompences to him and the grieved Nation as crying God-provoking sins which if not then thus seriously acknowledged repented and rerlly redressed may and will draw down as exemplary Justice and Vengeance on your heads and present exorbitant Power as his former sufferings of this natnre did upon beheaded Canterbury with other you immediate Predecessors at Whitehall and their exorbitant authority though then better setled secured by our Laws and long Prescription then you or your present slippery peace And withall before or on that day at furthest effectually sincerely by reall performances and actuall ex●cutions to keep and render unto God that practicall forementioned Fast which he hath chosen and expecteth at your hands in all the respective branches thereof both in relation to himself and all other oppressed afflicted impoverished ones throughout our three Nations now groaning languishing and almost expiring under manifold bonds of wickednesse heavy burdens oppressions yoakes already hinted to you without which all your prayers will be but meer howlings in his ears all other feigned humiliations a meer atheisticall abuse of this most sacred Ordinance to meer politick sinfull ends to which it is oft abused nay a Fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse as God there resolves by making it a generall engine to raise foment encourage countenance justifie new unchristian inhumane unrighteous impolitick divisions factions Warres with and again our very fellow-Christians upon slight pretences dissents and private differences without just substantiall grounds warranted by Gospell principles presidents precepts which instruct all Christian men and States too to love like Brethren to passe by and forgive their enemies injuries and offences to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace to live in peace and follow peace with all men to seek one anothers welfare to lay do●n their life 's for their brethren to study to be quiet to live in all Peaceablenesse and honesty to give no scandall nor offence and do no wrong nor violence one to another to beat their Swords into Plow-shares their Speares into pruning hookes not to lift up a sword one against another or learn warre any more to put up the sword into the sheath because all those that take the sword shall perish with the sword Not to bite and devour one the other lest they be consumed one by another resolving all Warres and Fightings amongst them to come only from their lusts that warre in their Members and all wisdome to raise soment and manage them not to descend from heaven above but to be carnall sinfull devilish And if your publick Fast be now secretly designed to any such unchristian purposes as aforesaid or not accompanied with that reall Fast fore-specified it will be so far from allaying that it will far more incense Gods wrath so far from procuring obtaining publick peace that it will encrease your Warres and enemies so far from establishing your new republick that it will suddenly and certainly subvert it if not by others yet by the very Army and armes of flesh you most depend on so far from securing our sinfull Nation or Religion from forain enemies and plunders thereof that it will expose them to their combined invasions on all hands to their great molestation devastation if not finall extirpation out of the long enjoyed Land of their Nativity as the Britains of old for all your and their late encreased desolating crying sins which hath been and yet is the grounded fear and is and shall be the dayly fervent deprecation of your oppressed close Prisoner necessitated by your defaults to this prolix Remonstrance of his Grievances and finall demand of Right Liberty Justice from you which God himself will both hear and grant if you now prove more deafe and dumbe thereto then the unrighteous Judge in the Gospell after all former Solicitations Letters Suites and this ultimate addresse unto you by Your two years and three months causelesse close Prisoner William Prynne From his ill moist close Prison-chamber in Pendennis Castle 26. Septem 1652. After this Remonstrance sent upon the motion of some of my friends this Order and Warrant thereon was made at Whitehall and sent to Pendennis Castle for my release Tuesday first of February 1652. At the Councel of State at Whitehall Ordered THat Mr. William Prynne be discharged from his Imprisonment he giving his Bond to the summe of one thousand pounds That he will not for the future act any thing to the prejudice of this Common-wealth and the present Government thereof Exam. John Thurlo Clerk of the Councell SIR THe Councell hath thought fit that Mr. William Prynne now Prisoner with you in the Castle of Pendennis shall be discharged from th restraint upon him he giving his own Bond of one thousand pound that he will not

me then now they are ashamed of my long injurious imprisonment without any legall ground or cause If any in present or future Power contemning these Christian Instructions and all Laws of God and Man shall think to support themselves in any Arbitrary violent illegall oppressive wayes to the generall oppression of the people by the power of armed Forces Let them remember that of Psalm 33. 16. There is no King saved by the multitude of an Host a mighty man is not delivered by much strength And know that all the Hosts Guards under Heaven can neither save nor secure any unrighteous violent Tyrants or Oppressors from the Justice of that Omnipotent God who hath decreed Psal 140. 11. Evill shall hunt the man of violence to his overthrow that bloody violent and deceitfull men shall not live out half their dayes be brought down by him into the pit of destruction Psal 55. 23. And that all those who take the Sword shall perish by the sword Mat. 26. 42. Which the Histories of all ages places Zach. 9. 1 2 3 4 5. Isay ●4 10. to 20. worthy their saddest perusall with the forecited president of William Lanchamp sufficiently confi●me their very Armies Guards themselves becoming many times their Executioners as Seneca de Clementia l. 1. c. 25 26. most elegantly records Yea sometimes the most victorious Generals Armys when they prove treacherous too and mutinous against their Soveraign Lords and Masters contrary to their Oathes Trusts become mutually treac●erous and destructive to each other in conclusion Of which I shal give you only one memorable example When Alexander the great his Captaines had after all his Conquests poysoned him murdered his Mother Wives Sonnes and all his Kindred and divided his Kingdomes Dominions and Conquests between them by divine Justice for his unjust ambitious invasions of others Crowns and Territories their own ambition covetousnesse presently armed them against each other till they and their old victorious conquering Army with thousands more were totally slaine and destroyed one by another Amongst the rest Eumenes the greatest Polititian of them all and inferior to none of them in valour to whom Cappadocia and Paphagonia were asigned having gained two victories against his Opposites and routed Antigonus and his Army in a third Battle with part of his forces The Arggraspides Alexanders old invincible Army by whom he obtained all his Conquests growing mutinous and contemning his commands because some of Antigonus forces in that battle had taken their Wives Children Prisoners with all the spoyles and rewards of their long warfare Thereupon they refused to fight any more to regain their Wives children plunder and openly reviled Eumenes as the cause of this great losse of all they had gained in the former warres by engaging them in new wars in their old age with vaine deceitfull promises And presently without their Captains knowledge sen● secret Messengers to Antigonus petitioning him to restore their Wives Children and plunder to them who promised to restore them if they would deliver up Eumenes to him Whereupon they forthwith seised upon Eumenes as he was endeavouring to escape their hands and bound him in chains to carry him captive to Antigonus Upon which craving leave to speak to the Army which was granted He used these expressions to them shewing them the chaines they had treacherously laid upon him against their Oaths * Cernite Milites habitum atque ornamentum Ducis vestri quae non hostium quisquam imposuit nam hoc etiam solatio foret VOS ME EX VICTORE VICTVM VOS ME EX IMPERATORE CAPTIVVM FECISTIS QVATER INTRA HVNC ANNVMIN mea VERBA JVREJVRANDO OBSTRIATI ESTIS ista mitto Verum oro si propositorum Antigoni in meo capite summa consistit inter vos me velitis mori Nam neque illius interest quemadmodum aut ubi eudam ego fuero ignominia mortis liberatus Hoc si impetro soluo v●s Jurejurando quo toties vos Sacramento mihi devovistis Aut si ipsos pudet roganti vim adhibere ferrum huc date permittite quod vos facturos pro Imperatore jurastis Imperatorem pro vobis sine religione juramenti facere When they would neither slay him themselves nor permit him to kill himself upon this his patheticall request turning his intreaties into imprecations against them for their perjuries treacheries to him and their other Generals he said At vos devota capita respiciant Dii perjuriorum vindices talesque vobis exitus dent quales vos ducibus vestris dedistis Nempe vos iidem paulò ante Perdi●ae sanguine estis aspersi in Antipatrum eadem moli●i Ipsum denique Alexandrum si fas fuisset eum mortali manu cadere Interempturi quod ●aximum erat seditionibus agitastis Vltima nunc ego perfidorum victima ●as vobis diras atque inferias dico ut inopes extorresque omne ●vum in hoc castrensi exilio agatis devorentque vos arma vestra quibus●plures vestros quam hostium Duces absump●istis After which commanding his Keepers to go before with him to Antigonus his Tents The whole Army followed their General whom they thus betraied who being himself a Captive led the triumph of himself and his army likewise into the Tents of his conquered Enemy delivering up all the fortunes successes of King Alexander all the palms and Lawrels of so many wars and victories together with themselves into Antigonus his hands together with the Elephants and Eastern Auxiliaries following them that nothing might be wanting to the triumph Antigonus overjoyed with this unexpected successe more glorious to him then all Alexanders victories in that he had thus overcome those by whom Alexander had Conquered the World divided these Conquerours of the World through out his Army restoring what was taken from them according to his promise But in a few dayes after Ibricius by his command put all these mutinous Argyraspides Conquerours and Plunderers of the World to the sword destroying every man of them not so much as one escaping prohibiting Eumenes to come into his presence verecundia prioris amicitiae committed him to custody and soon after caused him to be slain being not long after slain himself in a battle by his former fellow Captains under Alexander who destroyed each other by the sword This was the tragicall end of Alexander himself and of all his victorious old Conquering Plundering Treacherous Officers and whole Army too which our conquering domineering Army Officers Souldiers now with all depending on their support may do very well advisedly to consider upon this information of their late long causelesse Prisoner under their strictest guards who shall close up all with Solomons words which he hopes to finde experimentally verified for this his impartiall Discovery Prov. 28. 23. He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall finde more favour then he that flattereth with the tongue and Prov. 9. 8 9. Rebuke a wise man and he will