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A91165	Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its Members. To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3930; Thomason E772_3; ESTC R203226	35,699	53

Freemen close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament my self amongst others divers years in remote Castles and keeping us from Gods publike ordinances without any accusation hearing trial or legal cause of commitment expressed in their warrants By presuming upon the Army and Officers sodain invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the Kings death and their above 6. years dissipation by the Army without the election or privity of the people to sit and act as the Parl. and supream power of the Nation to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force and proclaiming Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England Traytors and levying war against them only for raising forces to induce them to call in all the old secluded Members or to summon a new free Parliament and for opposing their new illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes imposed and levyed on the people without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted executed and their estates confiscated as Traytors for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions Sir George his adherents totally acquitted frō the least imputation or guilt of Treason Whether their branding sequestring them for Traytors Apostates Enemies to the publike against Law Conscience too hath not justly brought that wo judgment upon their conventicle Isa. 5. 20 23 24. Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darknesse for light and light for darknesse that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and take away the righteousnesse of the righteous from him Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be rottennesse and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the Law of the Lord and of the Land too and despised the name of the holy one of Israel For all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is streched out still Whether the Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes and Army-Officers beheading of their late Protestant King against the Votes Protestations of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms and Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England their banishing expelling his Royal Protestant Heir Successor to the Crown with all the rest of his Children professing the reformed Religion out of all their Protestant Realms and Dominions their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Ireland and Scotland in an hostile manner with potent Armies and waging warr against them in their own Countries and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England as professed Enemies Traytors Apostates slaying divers thousands of them in the field imprisoning banishing disinheriting sequestring many thousands more of them only for owning crowning assisting their own hereditary Protastant King according to their Oathes Covenants Lawes Homage Allegeance duties and principles of the Protestant Religion to regain and retain his Royal Authority and Kingdoms Their waging of a most bloudy destructive war with our antient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years space together to the slaughter of many thousands of their and our gallantest Protestant Seamen Admirals Sea-Captains of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King his Brethren and followers out of the Netherlands from the Societie and charitable relief of their Protestant friends where they lived as exiles enjoying the free prosession of the Reformed Religion and Communion prayers contributions of the Protestant Churches on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Jesuites Priests Papists to cast them wholly upon their Alms Mercy Benevolence and by these high indignities and their pressing necessities to enforce them if they can to renounce the Protestant Religion and turn professed Papists Their most unhuman unchristian barbarism in depriving them totally of all means of Subsistance by seising all their revenues without allowing them one farthingout of them towards their necessary relief yet enacting it High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects Friends Allies within their Realms or Dominions to contribute any thing toward their support to hold the least correspondency with or make any publique prayers unto God for them as if they were worse than Turks Jews Infidels and most professed Enemies for whom we are not only commanded obliged to pray but also to love feed cloth relieve harbor them in their necessities overcoming their evil with goodness by Christs own example and expressprecepts under pain of everlasting damnation be a conscientious Saint-like performance of and obedience to or not rather an Atheistical obstinate presumptuous rebellion against the 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Mat. 5. 44 45. c. 22. 21. c. 25. 34 to 46. Luke 6. 35. to 39. c. 10. 30. to 38. c. 23 34. Acts 7. 60. Rom. 10. 13 19 20 21. c. 13. 1 to 12. c. 15. 26 27. 1 Cor. 16. 1 2. Jam. 2. 13. and other sacred Texts A religious zealous observation of their * sacred solemn Protestations Vows Covenant Remonstrances Declarations Oathes for the maintenance defence and propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion the Profession and Professors of it against the bloudy Plots Conspiracies attempts practices of the Iesuites and other professed Popish Enemies and underminers of them Or not rather a most perfidious treacherous violation abjuration and betraying of them A loving of their Protestant Brethren with a true heart fervently and laying down their lives for them and being pitiful mercifull compassionate towards them according to these Gospel-precepts Eph. 4. 32. c. 5. 1 2. 1 Pet. 1. 22. c. 2. 17. c. 3. 8. 1 John 3. 11. 14. 33. c. 4. 7 11 12. 20 21. John 13. 34. c. 15. 12. 17. Or not rather a shuting up their bowels of compassion towards them a grieving offending persecuting murdering of their bodies and souls too and an infallible evidence that they are yet no real Saints or children of God but the very children of the Devil abiding in death having no true love of God nor eternal life abiding in them by Christs own resolution John 8. 44 45. 1 John 2. 10. to 18 A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven Isay 52. 11. 2 Cor. 6. 17. Rev. 18. 2 3 4 c. Depart ye depart ye Come ye out of mystical Romish Babylon the mother of whoredoms the habitation of Devils and of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hatefull bird O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues by their forcible driving of their own Protestant King Brethren into Babylon and keeping them therein to have their habitation among Devils foul spirits unclean birds of every kind that so they may participate both in her sins and plagues instead of calling thē out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches * Verily if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall these

hedging up all their new By-wayes with thorns and making a wall cross them that the people are not able to find their pathes nor to overtake nor finde their New Lovers they have hitherto followed and sought after and those mad new whymfies the Jesuites infuse into their Pates from time to time to make them and our Nation ridiculous to all the world till utterly destroyed may not justly engage our three distracted Nations and themselves too now at a total loss to resolve and say with the Israelites when revolted from their rightfull Kings of the House of David in the like case Hos. 2. 7. I will go and return to my first Husband for then was it better with me than now And to imitate the Israelites in the case of King David when expelled his Realm by his usurping son Absoloms rebellion after his rout and slaughter 2 Sam. 19. 9. c. And all the people were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israel saying The king saved us out of the hands of our Enemies and he delivered us out of the hands of the Philistins and now he is fled out of the Land for Absolom and Absolom whom we anointed King over us is dead in battel as their Pro. Oliver Richard and dissolved Juncto are in a moment now therefore why are ye silent and speak not a word of bringing back the King to his House And Zadok and Abiathar the Priests spake unto the elders of Judah saying Why are ye the last to bring the King back to his House seeing ye are his brethren of his bone and his flesh And Amasa bowed the heart of all the Men of Iudah even as one man so that they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy servants So the King returned to Jordan where all the people of Iudah and half the men of Israel met him and conducted him safe to Gilgal and the men of Judah c●ave unto their King from Jordan even to Ierusalem and re-established him in his Kingdom Whether this be not the only safe true legal prudential Christian speedy and ready high-way to their present and future Peace Ease Safety Settlement Wealth Prosperitie both as Men and Christians without any further effusion of Christian bloud expence of Treasure not other new Vertiginous Models Army Councils Treaties tending to further confusions out of which the Nobilitie Gentry Ministry Freeholders Citizens Burgesses Merchants Commons Sea-men Parliaments of our 3. Nations are totally secluded like meer Cyphers by the Juncto and Army-usurpers as if they were meer Aliens and wholly unconcerned in their own Government Settlement who will never acquiesce in any thing but what themselves in a free Parliament shall resolve on * Consider of it take advice and speak your minds without fear hypocrisie or partiality And whether we be not a people marked out and fitted for inevitable destruction having all the symptoms fore-runners of it and sins that hasten it now lying upon us if we * brutishly reject this only means of our preservation and follow the destructive whymsies of those Giddy-pated usurping raw Stears-men of whom we may justly say with the Prophet Isay 3. 1 4 12. Behold the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and the staff the Honourable man and the Counsellor And I will give Children in State-affairs and understanding to be their Princes and Babes shall rule over them And the people shall be oppressed every one by another and every one by his neighbour the child shall be have himself proudly against the ancient and the Base against the Honourable as now they doe O my people they which lead thee cause thée to erre and destroy the way of thy pathes and they that are led of them in their new Jesuitical By-wayes are destroyed by intestine divisions and forein invasions as in Isay 9. 12. to 21. A sad emblem of our present condition and approaching destruction worthy our saddest meditations Whether the twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Juncto by their own Knack of the 12. of October and paper printed by their special permission and command since their dissolution intituled The Parliaments Plea declaring resolving p. 5 6 7. That the people of England are of Right a Frée people to be governed by their own elected Deputies and Trustees in Parliament it being owned on all hands both by Parliament and Army and all the good people engaged with them That the people under God are the original of all just Authority and other original and foundation no man may lay That to deprive or deny the people of this Inheritance is Treason Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Did Cause of the English Nation for as much as a people free by Birth by Laws and by their own Prowess are thereby rendred and made most absolute vassals slaves at will power and greater Treason than this no man can commit That to levy money upon the people without their consent in Parliament is Treason for which every man that so Assesses Collects or gathers it is to be Indicted for his life and must dye as a Traytor not only by their late Knack but by the Fundamental Good Did Laws of the Land against which no By-law is to be made this being a Fundamental law and one of the main birth-rights of England That no Tax or Levy is to be layd upon the people but by their consent in Parliament Be not guilty of the greatest highest Treason Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation and the Army-Officers too confederating with them by depriving and denying the free people to be governed by their own elected Representatives Trustees in a free Parl. by secluding four parts of five of the Knights Citizens Burgesses Barons of Ports out of the long Parl. whiles in being Dec. 1648. with armed power by usurping to themselves the Royal Parliamentary Legislative supream Authority over the people and laying assessing levying intollerable excessive Taxes Excises Militiaes upon them without yea against their consents and protestations and without the consents of the farr greater part of the Commons House the King or House of Lords which they forcibly secluded suppressed destroyed against their fundamental Laws Liberties Privileges Birth-rights Protestations Declarations and solemn League and Covenant by making them most absolute slaves vassals from 1648. till their dissolution in April 20. 1653. and invading inslaving destroying their Protestant brethren of Scotland and Allies of Holland by Land and Sea to the undermining endangering of the Protestant Religion by imposing New Oaths and engagements on them diametrically contrary to the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance which they all solemnly took as Members before they entred the House and disabling all to sue in any Court or enjoy the benefit or protection of the Laws for which they fought and to which they were born heirs who refused to take their Treasonable perfidious Ingagements by securing imprisoning thousands of

in Kings College in Cambridge after that at Salamanca in Spain for 8. years Being demanded by them Whether there were not many Jesuites and Freers then in England He assured them upon his own knowledge they had then above five hundred Iesuites in London and the Suburvs and that they had at least four or five Iesuites and Popish Priests in and about London to every Minister we had there Whereupon they demanding of him How so many Jesuites and Priests were there maintained He answered That the Iesuites and every Order of Fréers had their several Treasurers in London who by Orders from their Provincials furnished them with what ever Monies they wanted by Bills of Exchange returned to them That all the Jesuites and Priests in England were maintained according to their respective qualities A Lords Son like a Lord and a Knights Son like a Knight and if they chanced to meet him in London at their return though he were now in a poor weed they should find him in Scarlet or Plush a better equipage than what he was in He would not discover his true name to them but upon discourse on a sudden he mentioned His Cozen Howard in England which made them suspect he was of that family He told them further that though we were very cunning in England yet the Jesuites and Priests there were too crafty for us lurking under so many disguises that they could hardly be discovered That there was but one way to detect them which they being inquisitive to know He said it was for those who suspected them to be Priests to feign themselves Roman Catholicks and upon that account to desire the Sacrament from them which they could not deny to give them after Confession to them being bound thereto by Oath by which means some of them had been betrayed He further informed them That himself had been at all the several Gathered Churches Congregations Sects in London and that none of them came so near the * Papists in their Opinions and Tenents as the Quakers among whom himself had spoken This relation one of the Gentlemen a person of honor and reputation the other being dead hath lately made to me three several times with his own mouth and will attest it for truth having related it to sundry others since his return into England Which considered Whether it be not the very High-way to our Churches Religions Ministers Nations ruine and destruction to list so many Quakers Anabaptists Sectaries in the Army and New Militiaes in most Counties where they bear the greatest sway and to disarm the Presbyterians and Orthodox Protestants as the only dangerous persons and put all their arms into Quakers Anabaptists and Sectaries hands headed steered by Jesuits Popish Priests and Freers as they have done in Glocester Colchester Cheshire Lancashire and endeavour to doe in other parts to cut all true Protestants throats and set up Popery by the Army which hath so much advanced it of late years before we are aware Let all true zealous Protestants timely seriously consider and endeavour speedily to prevent and the Council of Army-Officers with their new Committee of Safety too if they have any care of their Native Country or Protestant Religion before it be over-late Whether we may not justly fear that God himself in his retaliating Justice for the Junctoes and Armies unparalleld Exile of their Protestant King and Royal posterity into Popish Territories and yet permitting such swarms of Jesuits Monks and Romish Vermin to creep in and reside amongst us may not give up the dissolved Juncto Army Council of Officers Soldiers and their posterities with our whole three Nations as a prey and spoil to these seducing dividing ravening all-devouring Wolves yea to the combined forces of our Spanish and French Popish adversaries to the utter desolation extirpation ruine of our Protestant Religion in the midst of our present divisions and distractions under a just pretext of restoring the exiled Royal issue to their hereditary rights and avenging the manifold indiguities to them and their relations unless timely and wisely prevented by a prudent voluntary clozing with loyal christian restoring them by common consent our selves upon just safe and honourable terms becoming us both as Men Christians and Professors of the Reformed Religion And whether we be not ripe for such a universal desolating judgement as this if we consider Is 24. 16 17 18. c. 33. 1 2. c. 59. 1 to 19. 2 Chr. 3. 6. 15 to 21. Mich. 2. 2 3 4 5. Ezech. 35. 14 15. Joel 3. 6 7 8. or the late and present sufferings of most other Protestant Churches abroad not half so Treacherous Perfidious Wicked Exercrable as we who are now become the very Monsters of Men the scandal shame reproach of Christianity and humanity in the repute of all the world Whether the Juncto and Army-Officers who have like the a Hypocritical Israelites very frequently ordered celebrated many Hypocritical irreligious Mock-facts from time to time to fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse never yet observing practising that fast which God himself requireth to loose the bands of wickednesse to undo the heavy burthens to let the oppressed go free to breakevery yoke to deal their bread to the hungry to bring the poor exiled Protestant Royal issue and their English followers that are cast out by them to their Houses to cover the naked and not hide their selves from their own flesh who have hitherto made their publike and private dayes of Humiliation a constant Prologue to their ambition pride b and rebellious self-exaltation their dayes of praying to God a preface to their preying upon their brethren their seeking of God for direction and assistance in their designs a means to colour and promote the very c works of their father the devil their pretended following the secret impulses of the spirit of God the sole justification of d walking according to the Prince of the air the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience their making taking of solemn Oathes Vowes Protestations Covenants Engagements to be true faithfull oonstant loyal obedient to their Lawfull Kings their heirs successors superiors the Privileges Rights of Parliament our Fundamental Laws Liberties Religion c. a meer engin and diabolical stratagem more cunningly boldly audaciously perfidiously to betray undermine supplaut subvert them have not now just cause to keep many publike private Fasts and dayes of Humiliation to confesse bewaile repent renounce and reform these their transcendent-crying wrath-provoking sins and abominations together with their e building up of Zion their New Republike Free-state Churches Kingdom of Jesus Christ with blood and establishing Jerusalem with iniquity f their devising iniquity and working evil upon their beds and practising it when the morning is light because it is in the power of their hand and swords their coveting other mens fields houses and taking them away by violence so they

oppresse a man yea their Protestant King and thousands more of their Protestant brethren and his house yea a man and his inheritance for fear they incurre the fatal inevitable Woes evills Judgements denounced by God against such crying Sinnes oppressions violences to the utter desolation extirpation of them their families yea of our English Zion and Jerusalem Mic. 2. 1 to 6. Is 32. 1 2. c. 3 throughout with that of Hab. 2. 7 8. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake that shall vex thee and thou shalt be for booties unto them Because thou hast spoyled many Nations all the remnant of the people shall spoyl thee because of mens blood and for the violence of the Land of the City Army and all that dwell therein Whether the Junctoes and Army Councils utter subversion of all our Fundamental Laws especially Magna Charta c. 29 30. the Petition of Right and all other Lawes Statutes which concern the preservation of the Lives Free-holds Liberties Properties Franchises of the Subjects the inheritance and succession of the Crown the Rights and Privileges of Parliament their ending the last Easter Term with very little Law and no conscience at all their beginning Trinity Term with very little Conscience monopolized in their conscientions Speakers brest alone without any Law at all and their holding part only of Michaelmas Term without any Chancery or Conscience voted by some to be both useless and dangerous or any real Law in the judgement of understanding Lawyers and breaking it off without any Law or Conscience to the undoing of many poor oppressed Clients left without relief with their manifold transcendent obstructions subversions both of Law Equity Justice Conscience Property Liberty in their most arbitrary lawlesse Committees of Indemnity and Courts of High Injustice be not a transcendent violation of all their former Remonstrances Declarations Votes Protestations League Covenant and a meer Jesuitical design as I have * elsewhere evidenced to work our utter dissolution the Laws being the only Ligaments to unite and Pillar to support our State and Kingdom whereby not only the Regal and Parliamental authority but the peoples security of Lands livings lives privileges both in general particular are preserved maintained by the abolishing or alteration whereof it is impossible but that present Confusion will fall upon the whole State Frame of this Kingdom and Nation as the Statute of 1 Iac. c. 2. resolves and we finde by woful experience Whether the Army Council of Officers have not most exemplarily and satisfactorily performed this part of their last printed Declaration 27 Octob. 1659. p. 28. We earnestly desire and shall endeavour That a full and through Reformation of the Law may be effected by their new Committee of Safeties imperious Order sent to Mr. Dudley Short a Citizen of London whom Mr. Thurlo whiles Secretary committing close Prisoner to a M●ssenger several weeks so as neither his wife nor friends could have any access unto him upon a meer Trepan and supposed matter of Account between him and a Scotsman with whom he traded enforcing him at last ere released to enter into a Bond of 6000 l. with sufficient security for appearing before the Council of State to go in person into Scotl. when ever he should be required ordering him to go into Scotland soon after under pain of forfeiting his 6000 l. bond upon his own expence where after many weeks attendance and frequent examinations before the Council there touching this account the Scotsman appeared to be indebted to him above 120l whereupon he was dismissed thence For which most unjust vexation oppression and false Imprisonment against the Great Charter c. 29. the Petition of Right with other Acts and the late Statute of 17 Caroli c. 10. For Regulating the Privy Council to Mr. Shorts great expence losse of trade reputation and his damage of Ten thousand pounds as he declared he brought his Action at law in the Common Pleas Court which was set down to be tried at Guildhall the 12. of this November Whereupon Mr. Thurlo procured an express Order from the new Committee of Safety wherein they presume to indemnifie him by their exorbitant arbitrary power against this action of false Imprisonment and to enjoyn the Plaintiff both to surcease and release his sute and never to prosecute it more and command his Counsel Attorney Sollicitor the Judge himself and all other Officers not to proceed therein at their utmost peril upon this ground because if this Trial should proceed any others of the late and present Council of State might have actions brought against them for illegal commitments and imprisonments Upon this the Officers of the Count refused to seal his Record for the Triall and his Attorney and Counsel durst not proceed for fear of being layd by the heels Whereupon he complained against this abuse and moved for a triall in open Court urged these Statutes with the Statutes of 2 E. 3. c. 2. 20 E. 3. c. 1 2. and the Judges Oath That it shall not be commanded by the great Seal nor little Seal to disturb or delay common right And though such commandements do come the Justices shall not therefore cease to do right in any point And that the Justices shall not deny nor delay to no man common Right by the Kings Letters nor none other mans nor for none other cause And in case any Letters come to them contrary to Law they shall do nothing by such Letters and go forth to do the Law notwithstanding such Letters And pressing the Judge to doe him right accordingly and to give him an answer in open Court yet their Order countermanded these Statutes and Judges Oath So that no man though never so unjustly committed oppressed grieved by the Old and New Council of State to his ruine shall have any remedy at all against them since they may thus indemnify each other against all Actions commenced And if they bring an Habeas Corpus for their enlargement and be bayled according to Law by the Judges the new Gardians of our Liberties Preservers of our Safety and Thorough Reformers of our Lawes by extirpating them root and branch will even in the very face of the Court as soon as they have put in bayl in contempt of Law and Justice command Soldiers and their Serjeant at Arms by new Orders to arrest and carry them to other Prisons as they did Mr. Nuport and Mr. Halsey on the 18. of this instant November notwithstanding they had put in bail of ten thousand pounds a piece for their peaceable deportment Yea if any henceforth move for Habeas Corporaes they will remove them unto New Prisons or Gards of Souldiers or send them into Forein parts to prevent their returns and enlargement by our Laws as some have been newly dealt with by these New full through Reformers of the Laws Whether these very first-fruits of their full and through pretended Reformation of our Laws