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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47832	Considerations and proposals in order to the regulation of the press together with diverse instances of treasonous, and seditious pamphlets, proving the necessity thereof / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1663 (1663)	Wing L1229; ESTC R19523	23,965	49

Humour of the Multitude whereas they that write in the fear of a Law are forc'd to cover their Meaning under Ambiguities and Hints to the greater Hazzard of the Libeller than of the Publique Seventhly They must be supprest in Order to a Future Regulation for otherwise 't is but Antedating New Books and making them pass for Old ones which may be done with very little Hazzard of Detection or else as any Saleable Book grows scarse t is but Reprinting it with a false Date and by these Additions and Recruits a Stock of Seditious Pamphlets shall be kept in Motion to the end of the world In Fine if they are not fit to be Sold they are not fit to be kept for a verbal Prohibition without an Actual Seizure will be rather an Advantage to the Private Trade then a Hindrance and bring Profit to the Factious Book-sellers and Printers that have Copies ly upon their hands by Enhansing the Prices Having already set forth the Quality of those Pamphlets that ought to be suppress'd together with the Necessity of Suppressing Old as well as New It will now follow properly that I give some Instances of both sorts upon the foregoing Subjects Instances of Treasonous and Seditious Pamphlets I. Against the Life of the Late King The Armies Remonstrance from St. Albans Nov. 16. 1648. We Propound that That Capital and Grand Author of our Troubles the Person of the King may be speedily brought to Justice for the Treason Bloud and Mischief He is Guilty of God's Delight in the Progress of the Vpright Have ye not sins enough of your own but will ye wrap your selves up in the Treachery Murder Bloud Cruelty and Tyranny of others P. 17. Set some of those Grand Malefactors a Mourning that have Caus'd the Kingdom to Mourn so many years in Garments Roll'd in Bloud by the Execution of Justice c. P. 19. II. In Justification of Putting His Late Majesty to Death The Speeches and Prayers of some of the Late King's Iudges That men may see what it is to have an Interest in Christ in a Dying hour and to be Faithful to his Cause I look upon it the Murther of the King as the most Noble and high Act of Justice that our Story can Parallel P. 41. Mercurius Politicus That Heroick and most Noble Act of Justice in Judging and Executing the Late King An Act Agreeing with the Law of God Consonant to the Laws of Men and the Practices of all well order'd States and Kingdomes P. 784. Charles the First was Executed a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a Publique Enemy to the Nation P. 1032. III. Against the Title of the Royal Family to the Crown of England Mercurius Politicus Playing the second Part of Perkin Warbeck who once Invaded the North after the same manner with a Crew of Sects at his Heels and had every Jot as good a Title as Himself or as his Predecessor Henry the 7th We had a sufficient Reason to lay aside this Bastard Race of Usurpers and Pretenders if it were for no other Cause but the Meer Injustice and vanity of their Title We have cause to Cut off this Accursed Line of Tyranny Bloud and Usurpation The False Brother The Parliament having wisely Chang'd the Government to a Common-wealth and Cut off that hereditary Usurpation of Monarchy which was never either justly Begun or Continued P. 34. The Rise Reign and Ruine of the House of Stuarts The true Pourtraiture of the Kings of England It is high time now to End that Line that was never either well Begun or Directly Continued P. 42. A Short Reply c. together with a Vindication of the Declaration of the Army of England Touching the Right of This King's Inheritance We affirm it not only to be none Originally without the Content of the Nation but also to be justly Forfeited by his Own and Father's Destructive Engagements against the Common-wealth and therefore we know not of any Duty we Owe him more than to any other engaged Enemy of the Land IV. Treasonous Malicious and Scandalous Libels against the Person of his most Sacred Majesty and the Royal Family Plain English What hope that the Reformed Religion will be protected and Maintained by the Son which was so Irrellgiously betray'd by the Father A Door of Hope C. S. the Son of That Murtherer is Proclaimed King of England Whose Throne of Iniquity is built on the Bloud of Precious Saints and Martyrs The Case of King Charles The Murtherers of our Saviour were less Guilty than that Prince An English Translation of the Scottish Declaration Let Justice and Reason blush and Traytors and Murtherers Parricides and Patricides put on white Garments and Rejoyce as Innocent ones if This Man the late King should escape the hands of Justice and Punishment An Implacable and Gangren'd Person A Butcher rather than a Prince of Bowels and Affection Charles the 2d the Son of a Blondy Father Heir to an Entayl'd Curse more certain than to his Kingdom Train'd up in Bloud and one that never suck'd in any other Principles but Prerogative and Tyranny The None-such Charles Charles the First rather chose to submit to the Justice of an Axe in a Hang-mans hand than to sway a Scepter with Equity This Age knows what such a Tyrant was in not feeling his force any more upon their Throats A True State of the Case of the Common-wealth That Accursed Interest a Family that God has cast out before us that has worn the marques and badges of Gods high displeasure for almost these Hundred years P. 47. The Person of the young Pretender is a son of Blond c. P. 48. Mercurius Britanicus If any man can bring any tale or tiding of a wilfull King which hath gone astray these four years from his Parliament with a Guilty Conscience Bloudy Hands a Heart full of broken Vowes and Protestations c. P. 825. V. Pamphlets tending manifestly to stir vp the People against his Sacred Majesty and the Establish'd Government God's Loud Call Oh! Worm Darest thou be so impudent to put thy self in Gods stead to meddle with mens Consciences and Lord it in Religious Concerns Smectymnuus Redivivus The Plastring or Palliating of these Rotten Members Bishops will be a greater Dishonour to the Nation and Church than their Cutting off and the Personal Acts of These Sons of Belial being Conniv'd at become National Sins The Root of these Disorders viz. Popery Superstition Arminianism and Prophaneness proceedeth from the Bishops and their Adherents whereof the King is One. A Sermon Preached at Aldermanbury-Church Dec. 28. 1662. The tongue of Man is not able to express the Misery of that Nation where the Ark of God is Taken P. 8. and the Ark of God is in This Instant in Danger of being Lost P. 11. We have lost our first

Love to the Gospel and to the Ordinances ibid. Abundance of Priests and Jesuits are in the midst of us and Popery preach'd amongst us But where are our old Eli's now our Moses's our Elijahs our Vriahs Animadversions upon the Bishop of Worcesters Letter We may lawfully refuse to submit unto such Impositions as God hath no where commanded The Year of Prodigies Amongst the Hellish rout of Prophane and ungodly men let especially the Oppressors and Persecutors of the True Church look to themselves when the hand of the Lord in strange Signs and Wonders is lifted up among them for The final overthrow of Pharaoh and the Aegyptians those cruel Task-masters and Oppressors of the Israelites did bear date not long after the Wonderfull and Prodigious Signs which the Lord had shewn in the midst of them A Word of Comfort The Church of God appears in his Cause and loseth Bloud in his Quarrel P. 8. Is not God upon the Threshold of his Temple ready to fly Are not the shadowes of the Evening stretched out and may we not fear the Sun-setting of the Gospel P. 30. The Lord may let his Church be a while under Hatches to punish her Security and to awaken her out of her slumbering fits yet surely the storm will not continue long A Dispute against the English-Popish Ceremonies Be not deceiv'd to think that they who so eagerly press this Course of Conformity have any such end as Gods Glory or the Good of his Church and Profit of Religion P. 9. Let not the Pretence of Peace and Unity cool your fervour or make you spare to oppose your selves unto those Idle and Idolized Ceremonies against which we dispute P. 11. Instances of Pamphlets containing Treasonous and Seditious POSITIONS VI. The Three Estates are Co-ordinate and the King one of the Three Estates Baxters Holy Common-Wealth The Soveraignty here among us is in King Lords and Commons P. 72. Parliament-Physick for a Sin-sick Nation The Government of England is a Mixt Monarchy and Govern'd by the Major part of the Three Estates Assembled in Parliament Ahabs Fall with a Post-script to Dr. Fern. The Houses are not only Requisite to the Acting of the Power of making Lawes but Co-ordinate with his Maiestie in the very Power of Acting VII The Soveraignty is in the Two Houses in Case of Necessity The Peoples Cause stated in the Pretended Tryal of Sir Henry Vane The Delegates of the People in the House of Commons and the Commissioners on the Kings Behalf in the House of Peers concurring do very far bind the King if not wholly And when These cannot Agree but break one from another the Commons in Parliament Assembled are ex Officio ☞ the Keepers of the Libertys of the Nation and Righteous Possessors and Defenders of it against all Usurpers and Usurpations whatsoever Observations upon his Majesties Answers c. Parliaments may Judg of Publique Necessity without the King if Deserted by the King and are to be accompted by Virtue of Representation as the whole Body of the State Right and Might well met Whensoever a King or other Superiour Authority creates an Inferiour they Invest it with a Legitimacy of Magistratical Power to punish Themselves also in Case they prove Evill-Doers VIII The Power of the King is but Fiduciary and the Duty of the Subjects but Conditional Ius Populi Princes Derive their Power and Prerogative from the People and have their Investitures meerly for the Peoples Benefit Vindiciae contra Tyrannos If the Prince fail in his Promise the People are Exempt from their Obedience the Contract is made Voyd and the Right of Obligation is of no Force It is therefore permitted to the Officers of a Kingdome either All or some good Number of them to suppress a Tyrant The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Proving that it is Lawful for any who have the Power to call to Account a Tyrant or wicked King and after due Conviction to depose and put him to Death if the ordinary Magistrate have Neglected or Deny'd to doe it IX The King is Singulis Major Universis Minor A Declaration of the Lords and Commons touching the Four Bills It is the Kings Duty to pass all such Lawes as Both Houses shall Judg good for the Kingdom Upon a supposition that they are good which by them are Judg'd such De Monarchiâ Absolutâ Detrahere Indigno Magistratum etsi Privati non debeant Populus tamen Universus quin possit nemo opinor dubitabit P. 9. Thorps Charge to the Grand-Iury at York March 20. 1648. Kings are Accountable to the People I do not mean to the Diffused humours and fancyes of particular men in their single and natural Capacities but to the People in their Politique Constitution lawfully Assembled by their Representative P. 3. 1649. X. The Kings Person may be Resisted but not His Authority Lex Rex He that Resisteth the King commanding in the Lord Resisteth the Ordinance of God But he who Resisteth the King Commanding that which is against God Resisteth no Ordinance of God but an Ordinance of Sin and Sathan P. 267. XI The King has no Power to Impose in Ecclesiastical Affairs The Great Question I hold it utterly Unlawful for any Christian Magistrate to Impose the Use of Surplices in Preaching Kneeling at the Sacrament Set-Forms of Prayer c. When once Humane Inventions become Impositions and lay a Necessity upon that which God hath left Free then may we lawfully Reject them as Plants of Mans setting and not of Gods owning XII The Parliament of November 3d. 1640. is not yet Dissolv'd The Peoples Cause Stated in the Pretended Tryall of Sir Henry Vane How and when the Dissolution of the Long-Parliament according to Law hath been made is yet Unascertain'd and not particularly Declar'd by reason whereof and by what hath been before shew'd the state of the Case on the Subjects part is much altered as to the Matter of Right and the Usurpation is now on the other hand ☞ XIII The Warre Rais'd in 1642. in the Name of King and Parliament was Lawful Baxters Holy Common-Wealth I cannot see that I was mistaken in the main Cause nor dare I repent of it nor forbear the same if it were to do again in the same State of things And my Judgment tells me that if I should do otherwise I should be Guilty of Treason or Disloyalty against the Soveraign Power of the Land and of Perfidiousness to the Common-Wealth The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charles the Second A King abusing his Power to the overthrow of Religion Lawes and Liberties may be Controll'd and Oppos'd This may serve to Justifie the Proceedings of this Kingdome against the Late King who in an Hostile way set himself to overthrow Religion Parliaments Lawes and Liberties XIV The Covenant is