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A96471	Prima pars. De comparatis comparandis: seu iustificationis Regis Caroli, comparatè, contra Parliamentum. Or The first part of things compared: or Of the iustification of King Charles comparitively against the Parliament. Wherein is manifested, that by the cunning contrivance of a wicked party in the House of Commons, who by their fraud, and subtilty, deceive and seduce the major part of the House for their own ambitious ends, our oppressions have been made far more grievous, then they were in the Kings dayes, the course of justice, and reliefe of grievances, is obstructed, and our troubles and pressures are still continued. ... With the names of the heads, of the usurping faction, and advice to all the free men of England, to beware of them, and to take a speedy course to remove and expell them, together with an intimation of a way to effect the same.; De comparatis comparandis. Part 1	Wilbee, Amon.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2113; Thomason E396_11; ESTC R201647	12,847	16

and strange condition We say that by law a man ought not to be kept close prisoner and by the Petition of Right it is declared to be contrary to law to imprison a man without cause shewed or expressed Yet is our King and if they date deale so presumptuously with the King their Soveraign Lord contrary to law doe you thinke country men they will if they can chuse allow you law no no be not deceived But ye shall find more concerning this man our King and this matter and this treacherous parties as they conceive their undiscerned abuses of him and of the whole Kingdome through him and their designes upon him and us by him elswhere following as for Monopolies though they have taken away some yet they continue others witnesse among divers the Monopolie of * And a n●●● Monopoli● lately gra●●●● by them t● 〈◊〉 Crew an●●thers of t●●● Norway t●● Marchant adventurers to the spoyling and destroying of the trade and lively hood of thousands who subsist by that stable trade of Cloathing And for the restraint of the liberty of the Subiect in other interest I can tell you how they have by an illegall Ordinance restrained on Mr. Markham a Citizen of good repute in London the true and lawfull Executer of one Mr. Gamble deceased from receiving or medling with the estate and debts of the said Gamble and have apointed and authorised Mr. Maud and Mr. Bettison two other Citizens who were but Overseers to receive and dispose of the same and neverthelesse they leave Mr. Markam the Executer open and lyable to pay all the testatours debts Legacies and duties and to be accountable for the Estate Is this an Act my friends befitting a Parliament that would be accounted the preserver of the Lawes proprieties and liberties of the free men of England If this be that law libertie interest and proprietie they seeme so zealous and swear so hard for and declate so vehemently to mainetaine I had rather be one of the Turkes Vassells then one of Englands free Commons They proceed and tell you of vexation and oppression by Purveyours Clerks of the Market and Salt-peter men the sale of pretended nuzances as buildings in and about London depopulation c. all which drew many Millions out of the Subiects purses without any considerable profit to his Majestie Doth not the vexation and oppression of the Parliament by their conscience lesse Committee men and their Clerkes their sequestrators and their substitutes Collectors Receivers Porsevants Messengers and their deputies and assistants Informers and a multitude of Excise Cater pillars Publicans and Sinners a rabble indeed of I know not what destroying officers wholike the locusts of Aegypt overspread the whole Kingdome trancendantly exceed these other businesses of Purveyors Clerkes of the market c. and what benefit profit or advantage at all have we had of all those many millions of moneys the Parliament hath dreigned and scrued from us and how have they disposed of it for they are but our Stewards and it is very meet and just that we should have an account but I feare they intend no such matter if they can prevent it And for the depopulation which is the turning of ●rrable land that is common fields into pasture J would this had been the worst that had been done for have not there bin divers acts of Parliament provided against it and did not they justly deserve to be deeply fined who for their owne pride and unreasonable lucre that as the Scripture speakes they might live Lord like alo●e in the midst of the Earth would destroy whole townes of tillage where time out of mind there had been many good houses kept by the plough for the entertainment of the stranger and reliefe of the poore where there had been so many Farmes occupyed by husbandry to the sustaining of many poore samilies by dayes labour and many able farmers had lived that had yeelded aid and subsidies to his Majestie for the service of the Kingdome whereas now in most of these places the townes being depopulated and destroyed and the people that be left beggered and all the common fields and plough-land inclosed and turned into pasture yee shall find nothing for comfort or entertainment but a poote Shepherd living happily in the midst of a multitude of grounds in a poore sheep-Cote standing as a Cottage in the midst of a Vineyard But let such men be assured that Lordlikenesse contracted by such accursed meanes will never continue and he that thinkes the poor and meane man unworthy to live in the earth by him may in due time either him or his posteritie be to seeke a habitation if not beg their bread And for certaine some of our Parliament men were and are guilty of this impoverishing destroying practice and because they were deservedly punished for it did therefore complaine though more of malice then just cause Then they complaine that large quantityes of common and severall grounds have been taken from the subiect by colour of the statute of improvement c and are not the sam● Commons and grounds detained still unto this day and no redresse or remedy ministred and who is in fault but Parliament and that not only private interest but also publique faith had been broken and is not the like dayly done and shamefully continued by the Parliament the complainers of these abuses themselves and they say that the whole Kingdome was like to have been robbed by an abominable project of Brafle money It seemes it was but a like I will not say a yet had they never lyed we had never been deceived But yee may be sure friends and yee will find it certaine if yee be not watchfull and doe not take courage and prevent them that some of them have an abominable treasonable project to rob the whole Kingdome if they can not only of their moneys but of that also which is more precious their birthrights and their liberties and that at once suddenly Then they tell you that a great number of his Majesties Subiects for refusing those unlawfull charges have been vext by long and expensive suits some fined some censured imprisoned c that others have had their houses broke up th●ir goods seized and beene restrained from their callings with many other assertions not answetable to those grievous pressures we now feele And have not great numbers not only of Delinquents but also of their owne friends for refusing because perhaps not able to pay their unlawfull and unreasonable taxes and charges been vexed with long tedious and expensive attendances on themselves and their shamelesse Committees every way equivolent to long suits have not some had their Horses and Cartell taken and driven away some been imprisoned and plundered and others had their houses broken up or forceably entred and their goods seized and made a pray on to their utter undoing And whereas they say that the Starre Chamber did abound in extravagent censures not only for the maintenance and improvement of Monopolies and other unlawfull taxes but for divers other causes where there hath beene no offence or very small c. Whether any Court or Counse● that ever was within the memory of man in this Kingdome did ever more abound I Will not only say with extravagent but with wild wicked contradictory distracted unjust illegall unreasonable and uncolourable Votes Sentences sayings Ordinances Orders and Censutes then this present Parliament and their Committees and all through the subtil●y of the same evill party I appeale not only to the whole land but all the world and those not only for the maintenance and improvement of their unjust unreasonable and mercilesse sequestrations and others their like insupportable taxes and charges things more grievous then precedent Monopolies but for other causes worse and more unrighteous and that generally where the offence hath been very small or none at all As the Committing of Major Tulidah and Mr. Tew doe verifie wherby his Majesties Subjects they say have been oppressed not more then at this present I am certain by grievous Fines imprisonments Stigmatizings mutilation c. these acts were then grievous to them it seems yet now their fingers itch to be exercising them upon others if they had but oppertunity what meanes else that Declaration of the 31. of Decemb. last but I hope that as God did then so he will now by his over-ruling providence give an interruption to the prevailing power and counsell of those who are the Authors and Promoters of such peremptory and heady courses There they complaine also that Judges have been put out of their places for refusing to doe against their oaths c. men they were it seeme● more conscionable then themselves and now by their usurped authority Judges are made and put into places who are glad to observe and serv● their wills For it is not meet nor good manners for these Iudges to oppose or contradict Glyn Maynard Prideaux Brown Wilde or any other of their masters in any thing they plead or move before them and so ye plainly see that our grave Iudges are still in effect but Durante bene placit● Lawyers they say have been checkt for being faithfull to their Clyents Solicitovrs and Atturneys have been threatned and some punished so following law suits and that by this meanes all the approaches of iustic● were forecluded If Lawyers Solicitours and Atturneys be not now

moneys which as I remember were raised and collected for that good Christian worke received and disposed as the most of the rest as is supposed into private pockets and to particular uses Then they complaine of the inlargement of Forrests contrary to Charta Foresta this was not so bad in the King as the i●la●gement of p●iviledges is in the Parliament that was injurious but to some persons in speciall this is to all in generall For the priviledges of Parliament are growne like the rules of Kings Bench prison without limits for if ye doe but present nay only prepare a petition contrary to the humours of the prev●lent malevolent party be it never so legall and necessary demand justice or tell any of them of their shamelesse injustice it is presently voted a breach of their priviledge but they themselves may threaten and revile persons check and reproach yea imprison wi nesses and affront and assault men contrary to the law and the nature of their places take them by the coller and pull them by the throat and that only because they are advertised of their evill as haughty Mr. Hollis did lately Major Tulidah in a word according to the expression of some of them they may doe what they list and some of them doe accordingly act all manner of violence and injustice by vertue of their priviledges O admirable priviledges whose uncircumcised bounds are so absolutely destructive to our lawes rights and liberties Then they tell you of exacting Coat and Conduct money and divers other military charge and of a desperate designe of ingrossing all the Gun-powder into one hand and keeping it in the Tower of London and of the taking away the Armes of the Trained bands of divers Counties c. Though the Parliament have not exacted money under the notion of Coat and Conduct yet they have exacted and still doe exact of you large sums of money to pay their Armies and for other military charges and though they have not taken away the Armes of your Trained bands yet they have taken away your servants and caused you to find both men and Arms to do them service yea they have contrary to law sent forth your Trained bands and their Armes to the hazard of the places from whence they went especially of London City but the disceived fooles did not see the which the King never did as for the designe of ingrossing all the Gun powder into one hand it was not so bad as is the designe of some men in the Parliament of ingrossing the stock of all the moneyes power and priviledges of the whole land into their hands by which means the people shall be utterly impoverished and made slaves Then they complaine of selling the Kings timber the taking away of mens right under colour of the Kings title to land between high and low water markes Of the Monopolies of Sope Salt c. the restraint of the liberties of the Subiects in their habitation trades and other interest And who had more right to sell the Kings timber then himselfe they cannot say he sold any but his owne and what he had a lawfull right and interest in but many of the Parliament have destroyed other mens timber and sold abundance both of woods and goods since these fatall warres and put the moneys I beleeve into their own purses whereunto they had neither title or intrest and to omit those who have indeed been Delinquents how many mens rights even whole estates have these wicked men of the Parliament taken away under colour of Delinquency the right between high and low water mark● the owners whereof have been no Delinquents I need not instance examples too many of their own friends can testifie against them Only one or two for a proofe as Mr. Antrobus an honest pious Minister of the Gospel in Cumberland one who hath both paid to them and suffered for them and for his fidelitie is intrusted as a Commissioner with Mr. Musgrave by his country to solicit the House for redresse of their grievances had his benefice to the value of a 100. l. yearly and his estate the other day adjudgd to be sequestred taken away for Delinquencie to no disadvantage I hope of the Earle of Northumb. and Mr. Barwis a Member of the House of Commons of whom more hereafter one of the Common wealths deceitfull servants and false friends In like manner as I have heard was the Vicar of the rich Viccarage of Wiggen in Lancashire served who afterwards dyed in the Parliament service quarrel yet this was done that one Mr. Case a coveteous Priest might be put in I have indeed observed that since the Parliament got the power into their own hands there hath not been a more sure token of Delinquency in the eyes of some Parliament men and coveteous Priests then a faire house richly furnished a pleasant seat well wooded a good office and a fat benefice or a flock well woolled and sometime a desire of revenge might witnesse Sir Garret kemp of Slindon neare Chichester in Sussex a man of peaceable demeanor and conversation and aged neare 80. yeares having many children and grand children and an estate upwards of 2000. l. per annum well wooded and a great personall estate was totally sequestred to his dammage of neare 20000. l. for denying to send his horses to Chichester to assist Sheriffe Foord against the Parliament and afterwards upon a second warrant sent from them by Foord upon paine of death he being told by his servants the said Sheriffe had declared he must have them Sir Garret replyed if they must have them let them have them upon proofe of which words learned Mr. Sam. Brown and the rest of the reverend Committee of Lords and Commons for sequestration did adiudge and declare the confirmation of the Sequestration of his estate and 10000. l. worth of Beech some of 500. yeares growth because beech cannot be supposed by them to be timber hath felled and disposed of although he hewed within 4. mile of the enemies Garrison and 20. mile distant of the Parliament fo●ces As for the restraint of the liberties of the Subiect in their habitations I say restraint in a mans habitation is far better more comfortable and tollerable then to be restrained in a noysome Gaole or prison where he can have no free communion with his wife children family or friends and is exposed to the ty●anny of Gaolers and all manner of oppressive charges But why talke these men of restraint of the liberties of the Subiects in their habitations when as they restrain the King their sovesaign Lord and ours of liberty in his owne house and that in such a manner as is worse then a prison for commonly and legally men in prison may receive and right letters touching their owne affaires and commune discourse walke and talke with any visitant friend or stranger without prohibition inspection incivill question or restriction but so cannot Charles our King A sad