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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56141	A brief memento to the present unparliamentary juncto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute, Charles Stuart, their lawful King / by William Prynne Esquire ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3911; ESTC R2940	14,625	17

ever shall be dear unto them Now put it to your souls and consciences whether yours and the Armies present Councels and actions do not really justifie the Kings and his parties former suggestions and give the ly to all these Declarations of both Houses who certainly when ever restored to a condition of freedom and liberty of meeting together again will crave publick reparations and justice against you if you violate both their Honor Faith and engagements to the King Kingdom and forre a States against all these their Declarations and Protestations too 5ly Remember that the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament * Exact Collection p. 663. 664 666 687. 686 907 911. Octob. 22. 1642. in the presence of Almighty God which is the strongest obligation that any Christian and the most solemn publick faith that any State or a Parliament can give for the satisfaction of their own consciences and discharge of that great trust that lyes upon them did make this Protestation and Declaration to all this Kingdom and Nation and to the whole world That no private passion or respect No evil intention to his Majesties Person no designe to prejudice his just Honor and Authority engaged them to raise forces or take up Armes That if he would return to his Parliament in peace and by their counsel and advice compose the distempers and confusions abounding in his Kingdoms They would receive him with all Honor yeild him all true obedience subjection and faithfully endeavour to defend his Person and Estate from all danger and to the uttermost of their power establish him in all the blessings of a glorious and happy Reign And that they had no intentions or desire to hurt or injure his Majesty either in his Person or just power Which they seconded by many subsequent Declarations Since which both Houses and the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland have entred into * A Collection c. p. 327. 359. 399. 404. 416. 410 to 418 806. 887. 898. 878 888. 889. Asolemn League and Covenant for the honour and happinesse of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity among other ends therein specified That they shall sincerely really and constantly endeavour with their estates and lives to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion Liberties of the Kingdome that the world may bear witness with their consciences of their Loyalty that they have no thoughts nor intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatnesse That they will with all faithfulness endeavour to discover all evil instruments and incendiaries * Those who depose or divide his Head from his shoulders must be most guilty of this dividing dividing the King from his people that they may be brought to publick trial and receive condign punishment And shall never suffer themselves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terrour to be withdrawn from this blessed union c. which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdoms and the honour of the King but shall all the days of their lives zealously and canstantly continue therein against all opposition And conclude This Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the searcher of all hearts with a true intention to observe the same as we shall answer at the great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed This Covenant you have all taken your selves some of you often * A Collection c. p. 420. c. Imposed it on all our three Kingdoms And will it not stare in your faces your consciences and engage God himself and all three Kingdomes as one man against you if you should proceed to depose the King destroy his person or disinherit his posterity yea bring certain ruine upon you and yours as the greatest * 1 Tim. 3.3.4 Covenant breakers and most perjured creatures under heaven O think and think most seriously upon it before you proceed to further perjuries * Rot. Par. An. 24 F. 3. part 3. m. 2. in dor Rot Par. n. 25 E. 3. par 1. m. 17. Rot. Par. 25 E. 3. n. 30. Cooks 3 Instit p. 145. 146. In 24 E 3 William Thorpe chief Justice of the Kings Bench for taking 80 l. bribes of several persons was by special Commission indicted convicted and condemned to be hanged and to forfeit all his lands Tenements Goods and chattels to the King because thereby Sacramentum Domini Regis quod erga populum habuit custodiendum fregit malicose false rebelliter quantum in ipso fuit which Judgement was affirmed to be just and reasonable in full Parliament where it was openly read by the Kings command as is evident by 25 E. 3. Rot. Parl. nu 10. If then this chief Justice for breaking his Oath to the King and his people as a Judge onely in taking two or three small bribes deserved to be hanged to forfeit all his Lands goods and life by the judgement of a full Parliament then what will such Members deserve to suffer who shall not onlie violate their Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to the King his heirs but likewise the several Protestations solemn League Covenant and the multiplied publick Faiths engagements Declarations Remonstrances and promises of both Houses of Parliament made to God the King the whole Kingdoms and people of England Scotland and Ireland the States of the united Provinces and all the world and that maliciously falsely and rebelliously as much as in them lies and their own private Faith Oaths Vows and Covenants involved in them by deposing and executing the King disinheriting the Prince violating the privileges usurping the power of the Parliament to themselves when most of the other Members are violently secluded by the army to the subversion of the Privileges and freedome of all Parliaments this being one article against King R. the 2d in 1 H. 4. Rot. Par. n. 25. 66. 70. when he was deposed That in the Parliament held at Salop intending to oppresse his people he did subtilly procure and cause to be granted by consent of all the States in the Kingdom which you have not that the power of the Parliament should remain with certain persons h 21 R. 2. c. 16. Lords and Commons to determine certain Petitions then delivered but not dispatched after the Parliament ended by colour whereof the said deputed persons proceeded by the Kings pleasure and will to other things generally concerning the said Parliament to the great derogation of the State and Privileges of the Parliament and the great detriment and pernicious example of the whole Realm and to gain some colour and authority to their doings the King caused the Parliament Rolls to be altered and deleted according to his Vote contrary to the effect of the foresaid concession as you have presumed to null repeal and * Dec. 12 and 13. 1648. unvote divers Votes Orders and Ordinances

sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these expresse words and their plain and common sence without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And that you did make this Recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian Now whether your present intentions and proceedings against the King be not diametrically repugnant to this solemn Oath which most of you have taken sithence these wars and some of you since the Treaty when sworn Serjeants of Law c. let God and the world before whom you swore and your own Consciences in which you then swore determine you acting herein the d See Watsons Quodlibets Th. Campanela de Monarchia Hisp c. 25. Popes and Jesuits designs 3ly That your selves among other Members have in above one hundred e Exact Collections p. 6. 19. 59. 66. 67. 83. 102. 103. 118. 123. 125. 141 142 143. 173. 180. 195. 219. 259. 281. 307. 380. 312. 360 376. 457. c. Remonstrances Declarations Petitions Ordinances and printed papers published in the name and by the authority of one or both Houses of Parliament professed both to the King himself Kingdome world and forein States that you never intended the least injury hurt or violence to the Kings Person Crown Dignity or Posterity but intended to him and his Royal Posterity more honour happinesse Glory and greatnesse than ever was yet enjoyed by any of his Royal Predecessors that you will ever make good to the uttermost with your lives and fortunes the faith and allegiance which in truth and sincerity you have alwayes born to his Majesty that you have proposed to no other ends to your selves but the performance of all duty and loyalty to his Majesties Person That all Contributions and loans upon the publick faith should be imployed onely to mantain the Protestant Religion the Kings authority his Person his Royal dignity the Laws of the Land Peace of the Kingdome and Priviledges of Parliament and not to be imployed against his Majesties person or authority That the f A Collection c p. 18 13. 41 43 44. 49. 51. 51 61. 64. 96. 181 182. 310. 321. 324 325. 496 599. 623. 696. 806 807 879. Appendix p. 15. Armies and forces raised by the Houses were raised for the safety and defence of the Kings Person and of both Houses of Parliament c. That his Majesties Personal safety honour and greatnesse are much dearer to you than your own lives and fortunes which you do most heartily dedicate to and most willingly imploy for the maintenance and support thereof That the Parliament will ever have a care to prevent any danger which his Majesty may justly apprehend to his person That both Houses are resolved to expose their lives and fortunes for the defence and maintenance of the true Religion The Kings person honour and State the power and priviledges of Parliament That notwithstanding his Majesties Proclamations against the General and Army as Traytors yet to witnesse their constant and unshaken Loyalty to his Majesty both Houses do solemnly declare That upon his disbanding his forces return and hearkning to the advice of his Great Council They will really endeavor to make both him and his as much beloved at home and feared abroad as any Prince that swayed the Scepter which is their firm and constant resolution from which they will not be diverted for any private or self-respects whatsoever That they will faithfully endeavour to secure his Majesties person and Crown from all dangers inculcating the apparent danger to his Royal Person among his Popish and Malignant Armies and ill Counsellours and upon that reason perswading and inviting him to desert them and close with his Parliament protesting that the Parliament hath been and ever will be more ready than they to secure and uphold the Prerogative and Honour of the King and preserve the safety of his Royal person which they have oft-times testified by many humble Petitions and Declarations to him the world and Kingdoms with many other such like expressions Which whether your present Actings Counsels do not directly oppose contradict falsifie and give the lie unto to your eternal infamy and breach of publick Parliamentary faith as much as in you lies let both Houses the world and all ●…en judge as they will do in due season your own consciences too 4ly Consider That when the g Exact Collection p. ●98 695 696. 657 658. 991. King and his party did tax the Houses for insinuating That if they should make the highest Presidents of other Parliaments their pattern there would be no cause to complain of want of modesty or duty in them That is they may depose the King when they will are not to be blamed for so doing and that the Army raised by the Parliament was to murther and depose the King Both Houses by two solemn Declarations did most profess●dly declare and protest against it as the falsest and most malicious accusation that could be imagined that the thoughts of it never entred nor should enter into their Loyal hearts Nota. That as God is witness of their thoughts so shall their actions witness to all the world that to the honour of our Religion and of those who are most zealous in it they shall suffer far more for and from their Soveraign than they hoped God would ever permit the malice of his wicked Counsellors to put them to since the happiness of the Kingdome doth so mainly depend upon his Majesty and the Royal Authority of that root That they hoped the contrivers of these false and scandalous reports or any that professed the name of a Christian could not have so little Charity us to raise such a Scandal especially when they must needs know the Protestation made by the Members of both Houses whereby they promise in the presence of Almighty God to defend and preserve his Majesties Person The promise and Protestation made by the Members of both Houses upon the Nomination of the Lord of Essex to be General to live and die with him wherein is expressed That * Which they oft professed both of the Army under the Earl of Essex and Sir Thomas Fairfax too Collection of all Orders c. 8. 13 41 43 44 49 51 61 64 96 99 623 696 879. Apendix p. 15. this Army was raised for the defence of the Kings Person Their often earnest and most humble Adresses to His Majesty to leave that desperate and dangerous Army wherewith he is now incompassed raised and upheld to the hazard of his Own and the Kingdom● Ruin and to come in Person to his Parliament where he should be sure to remain in Honor and Safety and their humble Petition directed to be presented to him by the hands of the Earl of Essex before any blow given to remove his Royal Person from the Army a request inconsistent with any purpose to offer the least violence to his Person which hath been