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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56207	A short, legal, medicinal, useful, safe, easie prescription to recover our kingdom, church, nation from their present dangerous, distractive, destructive confusion and worse than Bedlam madnesse seriously recommended to all English freemen who desire peace, safety, liberty, settlement. By William Prynne, Esq; a bencher of Lincolns-Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4080A; ESTC R219708	6,459	8

A Short Legal Medicinal Useful Safe Easie PRESCRIPTION To recover Our Kingdom Church Nation from their present dangerous distractive destructive CONFUSION And worse than Bedlam Madnesse SERIOUSLY Recommended to all English Freemen who desire Peace Safety Liberty Settlement By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Judges 19. 30. Consider of it take advice and speak your mindes Prov. 12 19 20. Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil but to the counsellors of peace is joy There shall no evil happen to the just but the wicked shall be filled with mischief LONDON Printed in the Year of General Monck's Invasion 1659. A short legal medicinal useful safe easy Prescription c. THe Ambition Treachery Turbulency Avarice and late infused Jesuiticall Principles of some swaying Officers in the Parliaments Army aspiring after the Supream Authority Government and publick Revenues of our three Kingdomes having so far corrupted their Judgments seared their Consciences depraved their Wills and hardned their Hearts as openly frequently to violate all sacred Oaths Vows Covenants Obligations Trusts Commissions Engagements to the late King his Heirs and S●●cessors the old Parliament Kingdome Nation for whose defence they were originally raised Commissioned and to their own new-created Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes Conventions Protectors and Conventicies which they have all successively subverted engrossing the Soveraign Royall and Parliamental Power into their own hands a opposing and advancing themselves by meer Treachery Perjury Violence and other desperate wayes of unrighteousnesse like that man of sin and Mystery of Iniquity above all that is worshipped and called God making no lesse then three publick Revolutions of our Government and forcibly dissolving two Parliaments as they deemed them of their own modelling b convening within six Moneths space last past and thereby made our formerly renowned Nations the scorn reproach wonder derision of all the world themselves the Monsters of Men the shame of Christianity Chivalry exposed our three Nations to the uttermost extremity of danger by new unpresidented Ataxies Divisions Encroachments upon their Hereditary Rights Liberties Properties caused a totall decay of all sorts of Trade Justice Legall proceedings at home and occasioned a speedy much feared Ivasion from our potent combined Popish adversaries abroad when thus miserably distracted discontented impoverished and totally disabled to repulse them It is high time for every publick-spirited Elishman in this strange distracting Confusion which hath almost as much divided discontented all conscientious Officers Souldiers in the Army Navy as the people of all Callings Conditions to contribute their best advice by all just legall hopefull speedy wayes agreeable with the Lawes of God and the Land and those Rights Liberties of the people the defence whereof all Officers Souldiers in the Army have so * frequently constantly avowed they were principally raised and Resolved to defend though they have hitherto failed in their promises to recover us ou● of the Labyrinth of our almost inexetricable ●mazing Confusions settle o● pernicious distractions and prevent that visible imm●nent universall desolation else likely to fall upon our Church State Nation Rel●gion beyond all possibil●ty of escape through the Army Officers rash destructive Counsells and violations of their Trusts Oaths Engagements both as Souldiers Christians and Members of the K●ngdome The onely just legall probable means now left that I can prescribe both for our Nation Churches Armies present and future safety too if they will cordially and Christianly submit thereto as they oug●ht in Conscience Justice prudence is 1. For all the antient Nobility of the Kingdome the c Hereditary Great Counsell and Counsellors of the Nation in all Actuall Interregnums and publick Confusions as our Historians Law-books and the Commons themselves in the long Parliament Resolved both by Custome Law Right to assemble themselves by Common consent at Westminster or so many of them at least or their Heirs if dead who constantly adhered to the long Parliament and there to issue out Writs according to the Statute of 16 Ca●o●● cap. 1. on the third Monday of Nov●mber next under 12 or more of their hands and Seals for a free and legall Election of Knights Citizens Burgesses Barons in every City County Borough Port according to former usage to appear at the Parl●ament-house in Westminster the third Monday in January next ●●●suing at a Parliament then and there to be held in such manner and form as this Act prescribes wherein such Proposalls and Counsells may by common consent be pursued as may through Gods blessing soon restore our pristine Peace Trade Honour Wealth Prosperity Felicity Settlement and secure us from all future changes 2ly For all Freeholders in every County of the Kingdome at the next County Court in November to meet together and make choise of the ablest honestest ●●●est stoutest Gentlemen for their Sheriffs to keep the Peace of the County command the Militio suppresse all Insurrections elect return Knights Citizens Burgesses to serve in Parliament and execute the Office of a Sheriff it being their antient legal Right and Priviledge by speciall Grants of our Kings both in and out of Parliament which none in late or present power ought to encroach upon or deprive them of and they are all now bound to exercise and maintain for their own preservation and safety This their right I shall clearly evidence beyond contradiction 1 By the peoples ancient Right Edward the Confessors time or before in their Folkmo●● to chuse an He●etoke a Baron or person of quality in every County in nature of a Ca●●●in who had the power of the County and Militia in every shire 〈◊〉 et Uicec●mites Provinciatum et Cemitatuum ●ligi beb●nt per singu●os Cemitatus in pleno Folkmoto as Sheriffs of Provinces and Counties ought to be chosen in every County as you may read at large in Mr. Lambards Arckaion ● 135 de Hetetochiis in Sir Henry Spelmans Glossarium Dux Heretochius p. 232 348 349. My Soveraign power of Parliaments part 2. p. 24 25. Cooks 2 Institutes p. 174 175. 2 By Rot Claus. Anno 16 Johannis Regis part 2. m. 2. dorso Dominus Rex concessit Baro●…ibus suis Militibus liber è tenentibus de Cornubia qued habeant Vicecomitem de aliquo ipsorum ad Electionem eorum Idem vero Barones Mi●…ites ●…iberè ten●…ntes conce●…sserunt Willielmo 〈◊〉 quod h●…beat Hund●…edum de Estweneleser ad feodi firmam sibi haeredibus suis imperpetuum per dimidium marci Argenti ad ●…estum Sancti Michaelis reddendum 3ly By Rot. Pat. An. 5 H. 3. memb. 6. H. Dei gratia c. Archiepiscopis Episco i●… C●…mitibus B●…ronibus Militibus libere tenentibus al●…is omnibus de Com. Corn●…b salut●…m 〈◊〉 quod concessimus Vobis quod l●…beram 〈◊〉 electionem el●…gend vobis in Vicecomi●…em nostrum unum de Com. 〈◊〉 Et ideo veb●…s mandamus quod ●…ligatis tres ●…ideles discr●…tes de Com Cornu●…