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A56142	A brief necessary vindication of the old and new secluded members, from the false malicious calvmnies and of the fundamental rights, liberties, privileges, government, interest of the freemen, Parliaments, people of England, from the late avowed subversions 1. of John Rogers ... 2. of M. Nedham ... / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P3914; ESTC R1799	48,614	65

A Brief Necessary VINDICATION Of the Old and New SECLUDED MEMBERS from the false malicious CALVMNIES AND Of the Fundamental Rights Liberties Privileges Government Interest of the Freemen Parliaments People of England from the late avowed Subversions 1. Of John Rogers in his Un-christian Concertation with Mr. Prynne and others 2. Of M Nedham in his Interest will not lie Wherein the true Good Old Cause is asserted the false routed The old secluded Members cleared from all pretended breach of trust The old Parliament proved to be totally dissolved by the Kings death The sitting Juncto to be no Parliament and speedily to be dissolved by the Army-Officers The Oathes of Supremacy Allegiance Fealty to the King his Heirs and Successors to be still binding continuing The New Commonwealth to be the Iesuites Project Ch. Stewart not sworn to Popery as Nedham slanders him The restitution of our Hereditary King and Kingly Government not an Vtopian Republike evidenced beyond contradiction to be Englands true Interest both as Men and Christians and the only way to peace safety settlement By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Swainswick Esq a Bencher of Lincolns-Inne The Second Edition Jer. 51. 9 10. We would have healed ENGLISH BABYLON but she would not be healed forsake her and let us go every one to his own Country for her judgement reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies The Lord hath brought forth our righteousness come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God Ps. 63. 11. But the mouth of them that speak Lies shall be stopped London Printed and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1659. A brief necessary Vindication of the Old and New secluded Members c. ON the 17. of this instant September during my private retirement in the Country for my health and quiet I received 2. Books fraught with malicious calumnies bitter scoffs insufferable Reproaches against my Self and other secluded Members yea destructive to the very fundamental Rights Liberties Privileges Government Interest of the Freemen Parliaments and Realm of England for which we have so many years contested The 1. of these thus intituled A Christian Concertation with M. Prynne M. Baxter M. Harrington for the true Cause of the Commonwealth c. by J. Rogers A most scurrilous 〈…〉 fraught with absurd impertinercies conjuring canting new coyned a swelling words of vanity odious comparisons bitter scoffs raysing Epethites b loathsom stinking obscene Queres defiling the very air c boyish tricks playing with mens names and reputations which he d severely censures in others yet is most guilty of himself displaying him to be rather a e conjuring Sorcerer than Gospel-Minister an Apostate scoffing Lucian than sober real Christian standing much in need of the f several Pills he prescribes Mr. Baxster to purge his filthy stomack spleen brain heart pen from such rotten stinking humors for the future almost every page in his book being either g Scandalum Magnum or Scandalum Magnatum to use his own expressions against all dissenting from him but an h egregious flattery of his own faction The 2. Interest will not lie Or a View of Englands True Interest by Mar● Nedham which had he intituled Interest will lie Or a View of Englands False Interest by Mar. England it had been a true Character of it The first most furiously chargeth me and my secluded companions in the Van the later in the Rear The one with whole Vollies of fired squibs more like a Whiffler than a M●skateer shooting nothing but wild-fire and i bitter words without bullets The other like a Trumpeter rather than a Trooper sounding a fierce charge against us with his Trumpet without wounding us with his Lance or Sword which are very obtuse To avoid prolixity impertinence and repetitions I shall reduce all the material Differences between us into 6. distinct Questions wherin I shall refute what they have published relating to my self the other secluded Members the Rights Privileges Interest of our Parliaments and Nation with all possible Brevity omitting their personal scoffs and scurrilities The 1. Question Question 1 between J. Rogers and Mr. Prynne wherein Nedham hath no share is but this Whether the Defence maintenance of the true Protestant Religion the Kings royal person authority government posterity the privileges and rights of Parliament consisting of King Lords and Commons the Laws Statutes of the Land the Liberty Property of the Subject and peace safety of the Kingdom were the only True and Good Old Cause for which the long Parliament and their Armies first took up Arms in 1642. and continued them till the Treaty with the King 1648. as Mr. Prynne asserts and proves like k a Lawyer by punctual Evidences Witn●sses Votes Declarations Remonstrances Ordinances of both Houses yea of the Army-Officers Generals Council during all the wars in his Good Old Cause rightly stated his True and perfect Narrative The Re-publicans and others spurious Good Old cause briefly and truly anatomized and in his Concordia Discors Or whether the erecting of a New Commonwealth and Parliament without a King and House of Lords and Majority of the Commons House upon the ruines of the late King Kingdom Parliament since 1648. to 1653. and the reviving of it May 7. 1659. by some swaying Army-Officers and the farr Minor part of the old Commons House confederating with them by meer armed power secluding the greatest Number of the surviving Members and whole House of Lords Which J. Rogers endeavors to prove like a Logician without any evidence witness but his own Ipse scripsit though l professedly disclamed by both Houses of Parliament and the Army too in sundry printed Declarations as the highest scandal never once entring into their loyal thoughts When this Logician with all his Sophistry Anatomy Pills Physick can make that which was never in being but since 1648. as we all know and himself asserts in his Concertation p. 7 9. to be the Good Old Cause in being m long before the last Parliament of King Charles for whose defence they first took up arms in 1642. Or that cause which never once entred into their thoughts and was professedly disclamed till 1648. to be the cause they proclamed and fought for from the wars beginning he must yeeld up his Spurious Good Old Cause as desperate his scurrillous Goos-quils to use his n own words dashing the GALL of his ink upon Mr. Prynnes former papers to little purpose in this particular but to blot them a little not to answer them a line nor the Argument of them in the least The 2. Question is this Question 2 Whether Mr. Prynne with the Majority of the Commons House and whole House of Peers were forcibly secluded the Parliament by the Army for any real breach and forfeiture of their trusts in 1648. or ever legally impeached convicted thereof either then or since before any lawfull

the protection and charity of the Spaniard and fly into Flanders having no place else to rest their heads and there to sojourn among Papists and Jesuites in great danger and extreme necessity where to their immortal Honour the Admiration of all true Protestants and Papists too and the Envy of their Protestant malicious persecutors who forced them thither they constantly adhere to and publikely profess the Protestant Religion and will not be seduced from it to Popery notwithstanding the manifold affronts injuries provocations reproaches persecutions of some of their own Protestant Subjects their exile from their Protestant Kingdoms their Protestant Friends in France Holland their extreme pressing necessities and the frequent sollicitations arguments perswasions promises temptations of Priests Jesuites Papists and Popish Princes a to turn Papists as the only means to regain their rights and restore Ch. Stuart to his Crowns and Kingdoms Now that this his forced Exile into France and Flanders by a prevailing party of his own Protestant Subjects against all their Oathes Protestations Vowes Covenants Remonstrances Declarations Allegiancos Duties our Known Laws the practice of all the primitive Christians and other Protestant Churches the principle of Christian Religion and of our own Protestant Church● both in our Articles Homilies Canons Writers Liturgies and his forced sojourning there amongst Jesuites Papists with his grand necessities of which they have been the only Authors to their own eternal infamy and intollerable scandal dishonour shame reproach of our Protestant Kingdoms Churches Religion enforcing him to cry out with holy King David when forced by Saul and his rebellious Son Absolom out of his Kingdom from Gods Ordinances among Pagan Idolaters Ps. 120. 5. Wo is me that I sojourn in Mesech that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar My soul hath long dwelt with them that hate peace c. should be thus objected against him by this rayling Shimel and the Authors of it over and over as a convincing evidence that he is sufficiently affected if not sworn to Popery notwithstanding his open constant avowed profession of the Protestant Religion to the admiration of the world the joy of all true Protestants and Gods great glory as well as his own and made now a motive to excite his Protestant Subjects in this juncture of time and revolution of affairs to take up arms afresh against him to keep him still in exile amidst Jesuits Papists and hinder his restitution to his hereditary Kingdoms and the benefit of Gods Ordinances among his own Protestant Subjects for his and their preservation and of the reformed Religion now much endangered by intestin wars the policies of Jesuits and combination of the Pope and Popish Princes to be totally extirpated throughout the World is not only a most unparalleld piece of malice and calumny but the very quintessence of Jesuitism and Jesuitical policy The rather because all our Protestant Bishops Ministers Martyrs in Queen Maries daies when imprisoned by her for their Religion though restored to her Crown against the usurpations of Queen Jane a Protestant by their assistance and the a Suffolk Protestants quorum propter Religioni● causam propensissimus favor Janae adsuturum inde sperabatur by their joynt Letter to all their Protestant Brethren recorded in b Mr. Fox not only declared Queen Maries open obstinate profession of Popery to be no just cause in Law or Conscience to keep her from her hereditary Right to the Crown but likewise humbly required and in the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ beseeched all that feared God to behave themselves as obedient Subjects to Her Highness and the Supreme powers ordained under Her and rather after their example to give their Heads to the block than in any wise to rebell against the Lords Anointed Queen MARY in no point consenting to any Rebellion or Sedition against Her Highness Much less then ought his slight suggestions of Ch. Stuarts secret inclination to Popery against his constant avowed profession of Protestantism in the very midst of the most Jesuited Papists to be any argument at all for his Protestant Subjects not to assist but to rise up and rebell against him to keep him from the Crown 3ly The extraordinary sottishness and infatuation of those Protestants who will be cheated seduced by such Jesuitical suggestions calumnies as Nedham and others have published of him touching his inclination to Popery to withdraw their affections assistance from him either to supply his necessities or restore him if not to his hereditary Civil Rights yet at least to the comfortable fruition of Gods Ordinances and Christian Society in our Protestant Churches and Kingdom for his spiritual Consolation and Salvation 4ly The most barbarous infernal matchless malice of those degenerated Republican and Army-Saints professing themselves Stars of the greatest Magnitude in the Protestant Orb in expelling their undoubted natural hereditary Protestant King not only out of all his own Protestant Realms and Dominions but likewise out of Holland and France where he lived in exile and had the relief and society of Protestants into Flanders the most Jesuited place in the world as Nedham prints where are none but Papists enforcing him there to live upon their alms alone and keep him there in Exile on purpose to necessitate him with his Brothers followers adherents to renounce the Protestant Religion and party and become professed Papists to destroy murder his and their souls and bodies at once and deprive him of his eternal Crown in heaven as well as of his temporal Crowns on earth a Be astonished O heaven and be ye horribly afraid at this unpresidented Tyranny and Treachery the highest Malignity of Jesuitism and express revived Image of the Jesuites design against his Grandfather King Henry the 4. of France who shifting his Religion by the Jesuites perswasion to secure his Crown and Life against their malicious designs was soon after b by their instigation deprived of both if not of his eternal Crown by a stab through his heart by one of their disciples though he had bequeathed his heart to them by will and built them a magnificent College richly indowed by him with lands and plate If then c the tree as Christ himself resolves may be certainly known by its fruits we may easily judge from whence these rotten bitter fruits of Jesuitism originally sprung and who were the planters of those trees which bear them But if they cannot effect this infernal design to destroy his Soul and body together yet they will make use of it to murder his reputation and render him a suspected if not a devoted proselyte to Popery to debar● his return to his Protestant Kingdoms d And shall not God visit for these sins Shall not his Soul be avenged on such a Nation as this I shall add a 4th Evidence I only pointed at e before worthy special observation which will fully answer the late printed Sheet intituled A clear Vindication of Roman Catholicks from a foul

Kings Revenues into their own hands prevent all hopes of future peace settlement and involve us in endless wars changes revolutions as visible sad experience hath evidenced ever since mutinying the common soldiers against us by misreports the very next morning Dec 6. marching with several Regiments of horse and foot to the doors of both Houses ●uarding all accesses to them where they seised my Self with above 40 Members more at the House door going to discharge their trusts pulled two Members out of the House it self secluded and chased away above 200 Members more besides the Lords whole House And whether the passing of this vote alone after 6. years intestine wars at the earnest desire of our whole 3 Kingdoms almost ruined by them according to our judgements consciences Oaths Protestation Covenant Duty and the trust reposed in us by our electors upon such ample Concessions of Liberty benefit to the Subjects security to Religion and safety to our 3 Kingdoms the Army Parliament all adhering to them as our ancestors selves never formerly possessed expected desired and we never since enjoyed nor can expect under any New Republike or Parliamentary Conventicle whatsoever was a breach of our Parliamentary trusts and a closing with the King upon his own terms and such as within a short time would of necessity have yeelded up betrayed our lives liberties and whole cause contested for into the Kings tyrannical power as these Army-Officers and this impudent Mountebank most scandalously affirm let their own consciences and our whole 3 Nations judge the secured and secluded Members in their Vindication and I in My Speech in Parliament and Epistle before it having so largely refuted it that the Devil himself the a Father of lies would blush to revive such a Lie and Slander as this And how destructive it is and hath been not only to the privileges and freedom but being of Parliaments for Soldiers and those who are no Members without hearing or accusation to pull the Major part of the Members out of the House only for voting according to their consciences after free and full debates against the votes or designs of the lesser inconsiderabler part confederating with the Army let all wise men and the sad effects thereof ever since determin 6ly These Army-Officers never impeached any of the then secluded Members for breach of their trusts to those few sitting Members they left behind of their own party by way of Charge or Article to which they might give a legal answer and be brought to a publike trial and when they were pressed to charge some of them they secured as the greatest Delinquents in this kind with particular breaches of their trusts they answered They had yet no charge at all ready against any of them but hoped to provide one in due time which they never did to this day As for their scandalous Answer Jan 3. being no legal Charge against the Members but a pittiful false excuse of their own breach of trust faith duty in seising and secluding them Mr. Prynne in particular in his Epistle to his Speech and the other Members in their Vindication gave such a satisfactory Answer to all the Calumnies in it as they never yet replyed to And therefore must stand clear from this Scandalum Magnum Magnatum in the sight of God and Man 7ly Sundry of the Members sitting since our seclusion and now again have confessed to me that our seclusion was most unjust and that their forcible seclusions since April 20. 1653. and in 1654. was but a just retaliation and punishment of God upon them for consenting to our unjust seclusion in December 1648. yea a means to deprive us from all future hopes of a free Parliament so long as we had any standing Army in England And yet must we be guilty of breach of trust 8ly Major ●acker himself an Anabaptist then and now again a Member of the Army in the last Convention at Westminster publikely acknowledged in the House in a long Speech that he and others of the Army who had a hand in securing and secluding us were seduced and instigated thereunto by Cromwels and Iretons suggestions that wee were dishonest men who pursued our own private interests and the Kings to the prejudice of the publike But afterwards he clearly discerned That we were very honest Gentlemen pursuing nothing but the publike Interest acting according to our consciences and that he had often cryed God mercy in private and did there again and again cry them mercy in publike and hoped they would all forgive him for having a hand in secluding us which he oft repeated And others have acknowledged they were knaved and fooled into this Action by slanderous Misinformations Wherefore malice it self must needs acquit us from this forged Calumny 9ly Those principal Officers of the Army who accused and secluded us as Trust-breakers in Dec. 1648. both accused those who sate from 1648. till April 20. 1653. turned them all out of doors and declared them actually dissolved for sundry years as farr greater Infringers of their Parliamentary trusts than we stiling them in a two printed Declarations A Corrupt party carrying on their own Designs to perpetuate themselves in the Parliamentary and Supreme Authority never answering the ends which God his People and the whole Nation expected from them c. Therefore if their single accusation of us alone by way of Answer which we refuted in print disabled us for ever to sit in the House since 1648. and now again since May 7 1659. by Nedhams and Rogers resolutions and the Army-Officers who secluded us Then much more this their doubled and trebled Accusation against all sitting after our seclusion and now resitting by way of Declaration which they never yet answered must much more disable them now to sit and act again as a House especially without us as Members of that Parliament if continuing still in being 10ly The trust reposed in all Members of the Commons House secluded or unsecluded in the last Parliament of King Charles is punctually expressed comprised in the Writs and Indentures by which they were chosen returned empowred trusted to fit and act as Members by the Commonalties who elected them and in the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance which they all took and ought to take by the Statutes of 5 Eliz. c. 1. 7 Jac. c. 6. before they could sit or vote as Members Now this trust was wholly and solely to do and consent to those things which should happen to be ordained by Common Consent of the King Lords and Commons by Common counsel of the Realm concerning certain arduous and urgent affairs touching the Defence State Crown of the King and his Kingdom and of the Church of England to bear faith and true Allegiance to the King his heirs and successors and him and them to defend with all rights jurisdictions annexed and belonging to the Imperial Crown of England against all attempts and conspiracies whatsoever As

till we can gain a full and free much-desired legal Parliament in both houses to resolve this doubt which Gods wonder●working Providence I trust will ere long effect by dashing the Army and their new Juncto sudainly in pieces against each other and turning them all out of dores with greater contempt violence hatred dissipation than before April 20. 16●3 〈◊〉 being a principle in Law Policy Nature Eodem modo quo quid constituitur dissolvitur and a just Judgement of God to cast them out of the House for their most treasonable Vsurpation of a Regal and Parliamental power over the whole three Kingdoms and secluding the majority of their fellow Members against all Rules of Law Justice Conscience the Rights Privileges of Parliament and their former Protestation League Covenant Remonstrances by the self-same Army●Officers who secluded them by their confederacie and now have called them in again for the ends recited in my Narrative Which if they refuse to prosecute at the Armies and Sectaries instigation John Rogers his scurrilous Passages and Queres against the old secluded Members p. 7 38 39 c. and Ne●hams large Justification of their former seclusion upon false irrational Jesuitical Principles will sufficiently animate them to thrust their Masters out of doors uppon the self-same reasons and false pretences he allegeth for that seclusion with their approbation yea Rogers his discontented Passages forecited p. 46 47. threaten some sudden approaching storm and ejection to them which they shall not escape Nec enim Lex justior ulla Quam necis artifices ar●i perire suâ So that all the surviving re-secluded Members and our oppressed wearied Nations sha●e ere long once more have cause to say and sing with the Kingly Prophet Ps. 9. 15 16. The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made in the net which they ●id is their own foot taken The Lord is known by the judgement which be executeth the wicked is snared in the works of his own hands Haggaion S●lah 〈◊〉 Sept. 23. ●6●0 FINIS a 2 Pet. 2. 18. Jude 16. b In his p. 35. to 41. c Page 4. 119. d p. 20 21 22 24 98 57. e His own phrases p. 3 4. f p. 59 65 26. g p. 24 25. h p. 10 17 18 19 c. i Psal. 64. 3. k Rogers p. 2. l See my Speech Dec. 4. 1648. p. 79 to 94. m As himself proves Concertation p. 43 44. n page 1. a Page 36 3● * Recorded in the Statute Books of ●topia or his lying Mercuries but no where else b In my Epistle before my speech Dec. 4. 1648. And Vindication of the secured and secluded Members a Tertull. Apologia pro Christianis * Col. Rich his election at Cyrencester as foul as any * And 8 of them by writs after the Kings death as Mr. Cycil that self-degraded Earl of Salisbury and others a See the Epistle Appendix to my Speech 1648. a John 8. 44. a The Armies Declaration Apr. 20 1653. August 22. 1653. And a true state of the Common-wealth of England p. 8 10. a See the second Part of my Register Kalendar of all Parliamentary Writs Objection a Nedham p. 31. * As they have done now again Octob. 13. since this was first printed a See their Declaration c Votes M. 17. for suppressing the Lords House b See my plea for the Lords * Pag. 35. to 42. a Deut. 17. 8 c. 19. 15. John 7. 51. Acts 19. 38. c. 25. 17. Magna Carta c. 29. Cook ibidem b see my Plea for the Lords p 424 to 460. * In his Bridebush * He dyed a Jesuit in the Jesuits College at Rome * See Speed T●ussel Holinshed Walsingham Hall Stow and others in R. 2. H. 4. My Plea for the Lords p. 424 to 456. * Especially the Members sitting by writs issued by the Keepers of the Liberties of England after the Kings beheading † Of 120 ●00 thousand pounds a Month by a Whitehall Ordinance * which by the fame Law reason they have since thrust out of dores usurped the Supreme Legislative power to their General Council of Army Officers Committee of Safety repealing nulling their Juncto●s Acts Orders Proceedings to all intents whatsoever in their Declaration Oct. 27. 1659. a See the Acts Votes Declarations against them * As the General Council of Officers of the Army in their Declaration Octo. 27. 1659. p. 18 19. intend to do * Much lesse their General Council of the Army-Officers and New Committee of Safety * And Fleetwood with his New Committee of Safety now * Page 40 41. * Totles Magna Carta f. 52. Hen. de Knyghton de Event Angl. l. 3. c. 14. My Plea for the Lords p. 268 269 278 279 280 193. Exact Abridgement p. 53. 195 368 376 to 385. * Hobards Reports p. 155. 183. a P 27 to 36. * P. 34 to 41. i See their printed Petitions to that effect to King James Mr. Edwards Gangraenaes and Treatise against Toleration k See my Epistle before my Historical and Legal Vindica●ion e {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} p. 235. to 251. a See Militiere his victory of truth dedicated to him Mutatus Polemo P. 32 33. a Rerum Anglicarum Annales Lond 1616. p. 3. p. 116. Mr. Fox Vol. 3. b Acts and Monuments Vol. 3. p. 101 102. a Jer. 2. 12. b See the General History of France Hospinian Ludovicus Lucius Hist. Jesuitica l. 3. c. 2. Speculum Jesuiticum p. 75. 80. c Mat. 7. 16 20. d Jer. 5. 9 29. e True perfect Narrative p. 62. a 23 Eliz. c. 1. 27 Eliz. c. 2. 1 Jac. c. 4. 3 Jac. c. 5. * Rogers p. 6 10 37 38. 119. Nedham p. 32 c. * See Gildas Beda Aethel●ed 〈◊〉 Mat. Westminster Geoffry Monmouth Wigorniensis Malmsbury Huntingdon Hoveden Matt. Paris Walsingham Simeon D●nelmensis Brompton Knyghton Holinshed Grafton Speed Fox Baker Cambdens Britannia * 25 H. ● c. 22. 1 Eliz. c. 1 3 4. 5 Jac. c. 1 2. with the Acts in the Narrative 〈…〉 * See Rastal Treason Crown Provision Praemunire Rome Recusants † See An Exact Collection and Collection Of them My Speech Memento Prynne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrester The Good Old Cause truly stated * Isay 49. 23. c. 60. 3 10 11. † Ps. 72. 10 11. Isa. 42. 4 12. c. 51. 5. c. 60. 3 9 10. c. 66. 19. * Ps. 63. 3. a Cl. 22 E. 1. dors 10 11. Cl. 24 E. 1. d. 8. 10. Cl. 27 E. 1. d. 7. Cl. 32 E. 1. d. 7. 16. Cl. 34 E. 1. d. 9. 16. Cl. 35 E. 1. d. 9. 15 17. b Liber Regalis Ms. The Breef of the Rites Prayers used at the Kings Coronation Ms. * Gal. 6. 7. a See their Declaration May 6. 1659. b Exact Collection p. 663 664 695 696 See p. 631 632 633. 641 to 645 657 658. * De Clementia l. 1. c. 3 4. * Virgil Georg l. 2. * ●uetonius Tacitus Eutropius plutarch Grimston in his life * Exact Collection p. 657 658 695 696 See my Speech p. 80 81 101 102 103. a Ovid Metamorph lib. 1. b Gen. 1. 2. c Rogers Concertation p. 62 70 c. a 2 Chron. ●0 10. a Titus 1. 16. 2 〈◊〉 1. 1. Jude 4. b Cornelius Cornelii Praefatio in Minores Prophetas Militiere his Victory of Truth See my Narrative p. 55. ‖ Ezech. 37. 23. Ephes. 4. 4 5 6. 1 Cor. 8. 4 6. * Gen. 1. 16. Psalm 136. 8. a In their Agreement of the people Declaration 20. Nov. 1648. b Jan. 6. 1648.