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A56140 A breife memento to the present vnparliamentary ivnto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute Charles Stewart, their lawful King / by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1649 (1649) Wing P3910; ESTC R33477 13,459 18

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A BREIFE MEMENTO To the present VNPARLIAMENTARY IVNTO Touching their present intentions and Proceedings to Depose and Exeute CHARLES STEWART their lawfull KING By William Prynne Esquire a Member of the House of Commons and PRISONER under the Armyes Tyrany who it seemes have leavyed Warre against the Houses of Parliament their quondam Masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine Captives during their lawlesse Pleasures Proverb 24. 21 22. My Son Feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those who are given to Change for their calamity shall RISE SVDDENLY and who knoweth the ruine of them both Gal. 1.10 If I yet pleased men I should not be the Servant of Christ LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1649. 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 sixth of this present August 1647. to be nul and void VVHereas there was a visible horrid insolent and actual force upon the Houses of Parliament on Munday the 26 of July last where upon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could not returne to sit in safety before Fryday the sixth of August It is therefore declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled that the Ordinance of Munday the said 26 Iuly for the repealing making voyd of the Ordinance of the 23 of the said Iuly for the setling of the Militia of the City of London being gained by force and violence And all Votes Orders Ordinances passed in either or both Houses of Parliament since the said Ordinance of the 26 of Iuly to the said sixt of August are nul and void and were so at the making thereof and are hereby declared so to be the Parliament being under a force and not free Provided alwayes and be it ordained that no person or persons shall be impeached or punished for his or their actions by or upon or according to the aforesaid Votes Orders or Ordinances unlesse he or they shall be found guilty of contriving acting or abetting the aforesaid visible and actual force or being present at or knowing of the said force did afterwards act upon the Votes so forced or were guilty of entring into or promoting the late Ingagement for bringing the King to the City upon the tearmes and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last Iohn Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A breif Memento to the present Vnparliamentary Iunto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and Execute CHARLES STEVVARD their lawfull King of ENGLAND c. GENTLEMEN IT is the observation of King Solomon Prov 25.11 That a word spoken in due season is like Apples of Gold in pictures of silver And seeing I and above two hundred Members more being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparaleld violence upon our Persons and the House cannot speak my mind freely to you in or as the House of Commons I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you only as private Persons under the force consulting in a House without your Fellow-Members advice or concurrence about the speedy deposing and executing of KING CHARLES your lawfull Soveraigne to please the Generall Officers and Grand Councel of the Army who have unjustly usurped to them the supream Authority both of King and Parliament or rather the Iesuits and Popish Priests among or neare them by whose Councels they and you are now wholly swayed and whose trayterous designes you really execute in most of your late Votes and Actings I have only a few words and considerations to impart unto you Dictum sapienti sat est First I shall minde you that by the Common Law of the Realme the Statute of 25 E. 3. and all other Acts concerning Treason it is no lesse then High Treason for any Man by overt act to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of the King or of his eldest Son and Heire though it be never executed much more if actually accomplished That many have been arraigned condemned executed for such intended Treasons in former ages as the Earle of Arundell and others by judgement in Parliament 21. R. 2. Plac Coronae N. 4.6.7 and the Gunpouder Traytors 3. Jacobi to omit others whose Examples should be others admonitions the Heads and Quarters of some of them yet hanging on the Houses where you now meet and sit 2dly That in the Oath of Allegiance which you have all taken immediately before your admission into the House as Members You doe truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in your consciences before God and the World That our Soveraigne Lord King Charles Is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries And that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any Other meanes Nor any other hath any power or authority to Depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to discharge any of his Subiects of his Allegiance and Obedience to his Maiesty or to give leave to any of them to offer any violence to His Maiesties Person State or Government And that notwithstanding any sentence or Declaration of Deprivation made by the Pope c. or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience you will beare true allegiance to His Majestie His heires and successors and him and them wil defend to the uttermost of your power Against all attempts and conspiracies whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or Declaration or otherwise And do thereby further swear that you do from your harts abhor detest and abiure as impious and Hereticall that damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their Subiects or any other whatsoever And that you doe belive and in conscience are resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve you of this Oath or any part thereof and that all these things you did plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words and their plain and common sence without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secrèt reservation whatsoever And that you did make this Rècognition acknowledgement heartily willingly truly upon thè true faith òf a Christian Now whether your present actings intentions against the King be not diametrically repugnant to this solemn Oath which most of you have taken sithence these wars some of you since the Treaty when sworn Sejeants at Law c. let God and the world before whom you sware and your own consciences in which you then swore determine
sit when the rest are absent 6thly Consider that though many of the Kings of Iudah and Israel were extraordinary sinfull and Idelatrous bloody and tyrannicall great oppressours of their people yea shedders of Priests of Prophets and other good mens innocent blood not only in the wars but in peace yet there is not one president in the old Testament of any one King ever juditially impeached arraigned deposed or put to death by the Congregation Shanhedrin or Parliaments of Iudah or Israel That those who slew any of them in a tumultuous or treacherous manner were for the most part slaine themselves either in a tumult or else put to death by their Children who succeeded to the Crown or people of the Land that the Israelites after their revolt from Rehoboham had never any one good King or good day almost among them but were over-run with Idolatry prophanenesse tyranny invaded by enemies involved in perpetuall Wars Civill or Forraign and at last all destroyed and carried away Captives into Babylon as the Books of Kings and Chronicles will informe you That the rule in the Old Testament is not to take any wicked Kings from their Thrones and behead them but Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse And the rule in the New Testament To be subject to Kings and the Higher Powers and to submit unto them even for Conscience and the Lords sake and to make Prayers Supplications and Intercessions for them that under them we may lead a peacable and quiet life in all Godlinesse and honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour not to depose or shed their bloud for which there is no precept And is not this plaine way of God the safest for you and the Army to follow yea the only short cut to Peace and settlement Ruminate upon it and then be wise both for your soules good and the Kingdomes too 7thly Consider that you now meet and sit under the armed force and violence of a mutinous Army who have leavyed Warre against the houses to dissolve them imprison'd many of your Members forcibly secluded more and driven away almost all from the Houses That til the removal of this horrid force reassembling of all your scattered Members with freedome and safety in the Houses al you Vote Act Order or Ordaine by the Armies owne Doctrine in their Remonstrance of August 18 and the Declaration and Ordinance of both Houses made at the Armies instance August 20 1647. is nul and void even at and from the time it was voted acted ordered ordained and so declared by your selves even by this unrepealed Ordinance and by former Parliaments to as 21. R. 2. c 12.1 H 4 c 3.31 H 6 c 1 39 H 6 c 1. And however you may take upon you the name and power of the Houses of Parliament and unvote vote order and ordaine what you please yet take it for an infallible Truth that none of the secluded and absent Members none of the Counties Cities and Burroughs for which they serve not those for whom you serve and represent nor yet the Kingdomes of England Sco●land and Ireland who have as great or greater shares and interest in the person of the King as their lawfull Soveraign and are engaged by Oaths Covenant and all the forecited premises to protect his person and Crown with their lives and estates against all violence danger with Queen Children and Allies in forraigne parts of what Religion soever will never own you in your present condition and constitut●on to be a Parliament but rather a Conventicle or Iuncto nor any thing you vote order or ordain to be vailed And therefore what ever you vote Order or Ordaine concerning the Treaty the deposing or executing the King the Disinheriting or Banishing the Prince dissolving the present Parliament setting up a new confused Representative or new forme of State Goverment only to please the Officers and Army or rather those Jesuits and popish Priests who have overreached instigated them forcibly to prosecute these their treasonable designes and accomplish this their long expected desire work you must do only as private men not as a Parliament and if so what lesser offence then High Treason against the King Parliament and kingdom your present actings and proceedings will prove in the conclusion if you persevere and persist in them I leave to a free Parliament the learned Judges and all Lawyers now sitting and voting among you to consider and resolve Which the Officers and Councell of the Army considering would cast the Odium and danger of all upon you the better to exempt and acquit themselves if after reckonings should come as probably they may and certainely will in Gods due time if you and they repent not give over and crave pardon ere it be over late 8ly Remember That no protestant Kingdome or State ever yet defiled their hands or stained the purity and honour of their Reformed Religion with the deposition or blood of any of their Kings or Princes much lesse of a protestant King o● Prince of a temperate and sober life as the King is who never immediately imbrued his owne hands in any one mans blood in any tyranical or bloody way before or since the wars for ought I can heare but only in a Military And for a Reforming protestant Parl. pretending the most of any to piety religion to stain their profession or honour by the deposition or defile their hands with the blood of a protestant King or for an army of Saints to do it or they to please a Saint-seeming Army and that against so many fore-mentioned oathes protestations declarations Remonstrances Solemn League and covenants one after another to the contrary would be such an unparall'd scandall to the protestant Religion all professors of it who have upbraided the Iesuits and papists with this perfidious treasonable practise of which they have been deeply guilty themselves innocent both in our owne 3 kingdoms and the whole Christian world as would give the greatest occasion advantage and encouragement to the Jesuites papists and all licentious persons to joyne their hands heads purses to suppresse and extirpate it and all the professors of it both at home and abroad that ever yet they had and make Parliaments for ever hereafter execrable and detestable both to Kings and people 9ly Consider that Scotland Ireland are joynt tenants at least wise tenants in Common with us in the King as their lawfull Soveraigne and King as well as ours and that the Scots delivered and left his person to our Commissioners at Newcastle upon this expresse condition That no violence should be offered to his Person c. according to the Covenant How then you can un-king or depose him as to them or take away his life upon pretext of justice without their concurrent assents is worthy your saddest thoughts If