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A91207	A legal vindication of the liberties of England, against illegal taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament, lately enforced on the people: or, Reasons assigned by William Prynne of Swainswick in the county of Sommerset, esquire, why he can neither in conscience, law, nor prudence, submit to the new illegal tax or contribution of ninety thousand pounds the month; imposed on the kingdom by a pretended Act of some Commons in (or rather out of) Parliament, April 7 1649. (when this was first penned and printed,) nor to the one hundred thousand pound per mensem, newly laid upon England, Scotland and Ireland, Jan. 26. 1659 by a fragment of the old Commons House, ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3998; Thomason E772_4; ESTC R207282	74,956	90

them and so be a skreen betwixt them and the people with the name of a Parliament and the shadow and imperfect image of Legal and Just Authority to pick their pockets for them by Assesements and Taxations and by their arbitrary and tyrannical Courts and Committees the best of which is now become a perfect Star-chamber High Commission and Councel-board make them their perfect slaves and vessals With much more to this purpose If then their principal admirers who confederated with the Army and those now sitting in all their late proceedings and cryed them up most of any as the Parliament and Supreme Authority of England before at and since the late force upon the House and its violent purgation do thus in print professedly disclaim them for being any real Parliament or House of Commons to make Acts or impose Taxes upon the people or set up High Courts of Justice to try and condemn the King or any Peers or English Preemen the secluded Lord Members Presbyterians Royalists and all others have much more cause and ground to disavow and oppose their usurped Parliamentary authority and illegal Taxes Acts as not made by any true English Parliament but a Mock-Parliament only Fourthly He therein further avets f f Pag. 52. 53. 56. 57. 58. 59. That the death of the King in Law indisputably dissolves this Parliament ipso facto though it had been all the time before never so intire and unquestionable to that very hour That no Necessity can be pretended for the continuance of it the rather because the men that would have it continue so long as they please are those who have created these necessities on purpose that by the colour thereof they may make themselves great and potent That the main end wherfore the Members of the Commons house were chosen and sent thither was To treat and confer with King Charles and the House of Peers about the great Affairs of the Nation c. And therefore are but a third part ot third estate of that Parliament to which they were to come and joyn with and who were legally to make permanent and binding Laws for the people of the Nation And therefore having taken away two of the three Estates that they were chosen on purpose to joyn with to make Laws the end both in reason and law of the peoples trust is ceased for a Minor joyned with a Major for one and the same end cannot play Lord paramount over the Major and then do what it please no more can the Minor of a Major viz. one Estate of three legally or justly destroy two of three without their own assent c. That the House of Commons sitting freely within its limited time in all its splendor of glory without the awe of armed men neither in Law nor in the intention of their Choosers were a Parliament and therefore of themselves alone have no pretence in Law to alter the constitution of Parliaments c. concluding thus For shame let no man be so audaciously or sottishly voyd of Reason as to call Tho. Prides pittiful Juncto A PARLIAMENT especially those that called avowed protested and declared again and again those TO BE NONE that sate at Westminster the 26 27 c. of July 1647. when a few of their Members were scared away to the Army by a few hours tumult of a company of a few disorderly Apprentices And being no representative of the People much less A PARLIAMENT what pretence of Law Reason Justice or Nature can there be for you to alter the constitution of Parliaments and force upon the people the shew of their own Wills lusts and pleasures for laws and Rules of Government made by a PRETENDED EVERLASTING NULLED PARLIAMENT a Councel of State or Star-Chamber and a Councel of War or rather by Fairfax Cromwel and Ireton Now if their own late confederates and creatures argue thus in print against their being and continuing a Parliament their Jurisdiction Proceedings Taxes and arbitrary pleasures should not all others much more do it and joyntly and magnanimously oppose them to the utmost upon the self-same grounds for their own and the publick ease Liberty Safety Settlement and restoring the Rights Priviledges Freedome Splendor of our true English Parliaments Fifthly He there likewise affirms g g P. 53. 54. 59. 41. that those now fiting at Westminster have perverted the ends of their trusts more then ever Strafford did 1. In not ceasing the people of but encreasing their grievances 2. In exhausting their estates to maintain and promote pernicious Designes to the peoples destruction The King did it by a little Shipmony and Monopolies but since they began they have raised and extorted more mony from the People and Nation then half nay all the Kings since the Conquest ever did as particularly 1 By Excise 2 Contributions 3 Sequestrations of lands to an infinite value 4 Fist part 5 Twentyeth part 6 Meal-mony 7 Sale of plundered good 8 Loanes 9 Benevolences 10 Collections upon their fast days 11 New imposittions or customes upon Merchandize 12 Guards maintained upon the charge of private men 13 Fifty Subsidies at one time 14 Compositions with Delinquents to an infinite value 15 Sale of Bishops lands 16 Sale of Dean and Chapters lands and now after the wars are done 17 Sale of Kings Queens Princes Dukes and the rest of the Childrens revenues 18 Sale of their rich goods which cost an infinite sum 19 to conclude all a Taxation of ninety thousand pounds a moneth since that of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds a Moneth and lately of a whole years Tax within three moneths and now of one hundred thousand pound a a moneth for the same six moneths they have payed their Taxes besides Excise Customes Frequent new intollerable Militiaes Payments to increased swa●ms of poor sequestrations Highway money and other charges now all Trade is utterly lost and the three Kingdomes beggar'd and undone and when they have gathered it pretendingly for the Common-wealths use divide it by thousands and ten thousands a piece amongst themselves and wipe their mouths after it like the impudent Harlot as though they had done no evill and then purchase with it publick Lands at smal or trivial values O brave Trustees that have Protested before God and the world again and again in the day of their straits they would never seek themselves and yet besides all this divide all the choicest and profitablest Places of the Kingdome among themselves Therefore when I seriously consider how many in Parliament and elsewhere of their Associates that judge themselves the onely Saints and Godly men upon the earth that have considerable and some of them vast estates of their own inheritance and yet take five hundred one two three four five thousand pounds per annum Salaries and other comings in by their places and that out of the too much exhausted Treasury of the Nation when thousands not onely of the people of the world as they call them but also

House door above eight hours together the City-Guards there present nor the City relieving them by reason whereof the House was forced to Vote what that rude multitude would demand and then adjourned the House till the next morning After which the House rising the Speaker and many Members going out of the House they 3 forc'd them back again into the House Many of the Apprentices pressing in with them where they stood with their hats on their heads and compelled the Speaker to take the Chair and the House to vote in their presence what they pleased committing many other insolencies as is published by the Speaker of the House of Commons in his Declaration and is too well known by all then present and during the time of this execrable violence done by the said Apprentices 4 Westminster Hall and the Palace yard was fill'd with Reformadoes and other ill-affected persons designed to back them After this the Houses being adjourned till Friday following upon the Thursday the Apprentices printed and posted a paper in several places of the City requiring all their fellows to be early at the Parliament the next morning for that they intended to adjourn by seven of the clock and that for a Moneth Thus the Speakrs 5 with many of the Members of both Houses were driven away from the Parliament These things being seriously considered by us we have thought fit in the name of the Army to declare that all such Members of either House of Parliament as are already with the Army for the security of their persons and for the ends aforesaid are forced to absent themselves from Westminster that 5 we shall hold and esteem them as persons in whom the publick trust of the Kingdom is still remaining though they cannot for the present sit as a Parliament with freedom and safety at Westminster and by whose advice and counsels we desire to govern our selves in the managing these weighty affairs and to that end we * invite them to make repair to this Army to joyn with us in this great cause we being resolved and do hereby faithfully oblige our selves to stand by them therein and to live and die with them against all Opposition whatsoever And in particular we do hold our selves bound to own that honorable act of the Speaker of the House of Commons who upon the grounds he himself expressed in his Declaration sent unto us hath actually withdrawn himself and hereupon we do further 6 ingage to use our utmost speedy endeavours that he and those Members of either House that are thus inforced away from their attendance at Westminster may with freedom and security sit there and again discharge their trust as a free and a legal Parliament and in the mean time we do declare against that late choice of a new Speaker by some Gentlemen at Westminster as 7 contrary to all right Reason Law and Custom and we professs our selves to be 8 most clearly satisfied in all our Judgements and are also confident the Kingdom will herein concur with us that as things now stand there is no free nor legal Parliament sitting being through the aforesaid violence at present suspended And 9 that the Drders Votes or Resolutions forced from the Houses on Monday the 26. of July last as also all such as shall passe in this Assembly of some few Lords and Gentlemen at Westminster under what pretence and colour soever are unto and null and ought Hot to be submitted unto by the free-born Subjects of England And that we may prevent that slavery designed upon us and the Nation that the Kingdom may be restored to a happy State of a visible Government now eclipsed and darkened we hold our selves bound by our duty to God and the Kingdom to bring to condign punishment the Authors and Promoters of that * unparalleld violence done to the Parliament and in that to all the free-born Subjects of England that are or hereafter shall be and therefore we are resolved to march up towards London where we do expect that the well-affected people of that City will deliver up unto us or otherwise put into safe Custody so as they may be reserved to a legal Trial the 10 eleven impeached Members that have again thrust themselves into the management of publick affairs by this wicked design And that all others will give us such assistance therein 11 that the Members of both Houses may receive due incouragement to return to Westminster there to sit with all freedom and so to perform their trust as shall condues to the settlement of this distracted Kingdom and to inflict such punishments upon these late Offenders as shall deter any for the future to make the like attempt Our lives have not been dear unto us for the publick good and being now resolved by the assistance of God to 12 bring these Delinquents to their deserved punishments as that than which there cannot be any thing of more publick concernment to the Kingdom we trust if it shall come to that our bloud shall not be accounted too dear a price for the accomplishment of it And if any in the City will ingage themselves against us to protect these Persons and so put the Kingdom again into a new and miserable War The bloud must be laid to the account of such persons as are the Authors thereof It is our chief aim to settle Peace with Truth and Righteousnesse throughout the Kingdom that none may be oppressed in his just freedom and Liberties 13 much lesse the Parliament it self which things being duly setled we shall be as ready also to assure unto the King his just Rights and Authority as any that pretend it never so much for the better upholding of an ill cause and the countenance of tumultuous violence against the Parliament the which our honest just and necessary undertakings as we are resolved to pursue with the utmost hazzard of our lives and fortunes so we doubt not but we shall find Gods accustomed goodnesse and assistance with us therein till we have brought them to a good and happy conclusion for this poor distracted languishing Kingdom 5ly By the Ordinance of both Houses eagerly promoted by all the fugitive Members engaging with the Army and now sitting as well as others remaining who condemned and passed Votes against the Apprentiees tumult during their absence and never countenanced it in the least degree as * some scandalously and falsly suggest Die Veneris 20 Aug. 1647. An Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in One or Both Houses since the force on Both Houses July 26. until the 6. of this present August 1647. to be Null and Voyd WHereas there was a visible horrid insolent and actual Force upon the Parliament on Monday the 26. of July last Whereupon the Speakers and * many Members of Both Houses of Parliament were forced to absent themselves from the

3 Parl. 2. Rot Parl. n. 3. 6. 5 R. 2 n 64 65. 11 R. 2. n 14 16 20. ● H. 4. n. 2 7. 27 H. 6. n. 12. 28 H. 6. n. 8 9 11. 29 H. 6. n. 10 11. 31 H. 6 n. 22 30 49. * Cooks 4. Institut p. 25. Dyer f 203. * Exact Collect p. 69 70 736 709 722. * Brook Parliment 80. Relation 85. Dyer 85. 1 Is not this the Armies and their own late and present practice 2 Alderman Chambers the eminentest of them is yet since this Declaration discharged by you for his loyalty and conscience only 3 And is it not so by you now and t●ansmirted unto the Exchequer to be levied 4 And do not you now the same ye● some of them verie good Patriots 5 Are not the Generals and Armies Horses and Foot too kept up and continued among us for that purpose being some of them Germans too 6 Not one quarter so g●ievous as the late and present Taxes Excises Customs imposed by you for the like purpose 7 And is it not more unnatural in those now sitting to engage the English Army raised by the Parliament of England and convenanting to defend it from violence against the verie Parliament of England and its Members to seclude exclude and eject the majoritie of their Fellow Members and whole House of Peers by their Votes and Commands and that successively twice after one another and yet to own and support this Army without ●ighting those Members 8 Was not Pride's and the Armies comming thither to seise and actually seising above Forty and secluding above two hundred Members with Thousands of a●med Horse and Foot And their suppressing the House of Lords and re secluding the Members by armed Guards on May 7 9. Dec. 27. 1659. a thousand times a greater offence especiallie after so many Declarations of the Houses against this of the Kings 9 Was not Humphry Edwards now sitting an unduly elected Member one of them thus armed * Henrie Martin is accomptable to the State for above 8700 l. which the Committee of Accounts in two years time could never bring him to account for and yet hath 3000 pound voted him lately for moneys pretended to be di●bursed to whom and for what quae●e * In their p●rliament● P. a p. 5 6 7. See A Full Declaration of the true state of the Case of the secluded Members p. 55 c. ¶ Exact Collection p. 5 6 7 14 342 492. * Exact Collection p. 28 29 214 263 270 491 492 495 496 497 600. * Exact Collect p. 285 286 298 320. 32a 378 379 381 513 514 515 c. 618 619 623 647 c. 671 679 c. A Collect. c. p. 100 102 c. 117. * A Collect. c. p. 327 358 359. 399 404 416 420 c. 694 751 768 769 798 802 806 c. 879 889. * See Cooks 3 Instit. p. 1. 21 22 23. * Can or will the expulsed King himself or his Heirs say more or so much as these if he invade and conquer us by forein forces And were it not better for us then to submit to our lawfull King than to so many thousand perfidious usurping pretended Conquerors of us who of late pretended only they were no other but our Servants not Lords and Conquerors o A Collect. c. p. 599 876. Objct. Answ * See their Votes Jan. 4. Declaracion 17 March 1648. p. 1. 27. * See their Declaration Nov. 20. proposals Dec 6. 164● and Cromwel● Inst●ument Speeches * Ezek. 18 24. * see the 2d part of the History of Independency * See Seldens Titles of Honour * See A Collect p. 94 95 99 698 700 877 878. a See my Jus Pationatus and New Discovery of Free-State tyranny and the Good Old Cause truly stated b See the Coffin for the Good Old Cause John Rogers and Nedham his Interest will not lye My true and perfect Narrative and Consciencious Quaenes where this is fully proved c In their several Agreements of the people ●heir D●cla●ation of Nov. 10. Their Proposals Decemb. 6. And Declaration of March 17. 1648. * Sir Robert Pye others * 3 E. 1. c. 5. See Rastals Abridgements Tit. Elections and Parliament * Febr. 18. 1659. * Cooks 11 Reports f. 98. 2 Chron. 10. 10. q Mat. Paris 517. r Ovid de remed. Amoris * Exact Collections p. 5. 6. And their own Declarations 17. March 1648. p. 7 c. * In their Declarations March 17. 1648. p. 26. s Magna Chart. c. 14. 14 E. 3. c. ● Cook 2. Instit. p. 26 27. 169. 170. t Mar. Paris p. ●60 u A Collection c. p ●71 Semains Case 7 Rep. Sendels Case Lambe●t f. ●7● Daltons Justice of Peace ●24 24 H. 8. c. 4. x See Cook 5 Report f 9 P 92. y See Rastal Title Purveyers z An Exact Collecti on p. 7. a See an Exact Collection and a Collection of publick Orders c. p. 99 698 700 877 878. * Lib. 3. c. 1 2. * See Canterburies Doom and Straffords Trial. * In my Speech 4 Dec. See Romes Master-piece the Epistle to my Jus Patronatus A true and perfect Narrative 1659. the Epistle to the 1. part of my Historical Vindication and Collection 1655.