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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78069	Mola asinaria: or, The unreasonable and insupportable burthen now press'd upon the shoulders of this groaning nation: by the headless head, and unruly rulers, that usurp upon the liberties and priviledges of the oppressed people. Held forth in a remonstrance to all those that have yet sound and impartial ears to hear, and duly weighed in the scales of equity and justice ... Wherein is demonstrated, what slavery the nation must subject it self to, by allowing the lawfulness and usurped authority of the pretended Long Parliament now unlawfully and violently held at Westminster. By William Prynne, bencher of Lincolns-Inne.	Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6325A; Thomason E985_4; ESTC R203354	3,327	8

MOLA ASINARIA OR The Unreasonable and Insupportable BURTHEN Now press'd upon The Shoulders of this groaning NATION BY The headless Head and unruly Rulers that usurp upon the Liberties and Priviledges of the oppressed People Held forth in a REMONSTRANCE To all those that have yet sound and impartial Ears to hear and duly weighed in the Scales of Equity and Justice By William Prynne Bencher of Lincolns-Inne Wherein is demonstrated What Slavery the Nation must subject it self to by allowing the lawfulness and usurped Authority of the pretended LONG PARLIAMENT Now unlawfully and violently held at WESTMINSTER Jusque datum Sceleri Printed at London in the Year MDCLVIX Mola Asinaria c. Countrymen THere is not any thing in the Universe deserves less to be a Member of it then a self-seeking Man who unconcern'd in the publick Good regards onely his private Interest The World unwillingly contributes to his maintenance and Nature less abhors a Vacuum then that any place should be filled by a Subject so empty of desert He is a savage Creature in the midst of civil People not deserving to be born of others as not caring to live but for himself Nay it is worthily reputed a kind of civil death to do nothing else but live for as long as we have a Country to abide in we have a duty to tender it All we have we have from it and by consequence owe it all we have Our Lives and Fortunes are safest when ventured for the publick Interest and he is the truest Lover of Law and Liberty that affects rather to be ruled then to rule he the freest Subject that creates himself a voluntary Slave to his Countries service Take from the world this inviolable Law that is not writ in brass but deeply imprinted in loyal hearts and it shall again turn savage and barbarous This is a truth so manifest and not to be dissembled that never yet was there a Tyrant but pretended to be a Saviour of the people Liberty Conscience a glorious Nation The Good Old Cause and such specious Names are made use of Nec quisquam alienum servitium dominationem concupivit ut non eadem ista vocabula usurparit These Machiavilian Tricks and political Cheats so often put upon the people of our Nation me thinks should have by this time undeceived us with a sad experience of the miseries we have subjected our selves to by a perpetual itch of reforming annulling creating Laws and framing new Governments to the model of every Grandees ambition and yet we are againe ready to thrust our Necks into a new yoak of Slavery rather then any man will engage his private Fortunes and venture to redeem his Country from Bondage It is laid to the charge of English-men by Forraigners that we are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and above all Nations under Heaven pretending to civility the greatest self-seekers as regarding much more our own particular then the general concerns I must needs say other Nations would have canonized for Martyrs and erected Statues after their death to the memory of some of our Compatriots whom ye have barbarously defaced and mangled yet alive for no other motive but their undaunted Zeal It has been I know not whether I should say your misfortune or my glory to become a Sufferer for a Legal Vindication of the Liberties of our Kingdom but yet I never knew what it was to fear when I perceived my self engaged in so good a cause not envy nor snarling Pamphlets shall stop the course of my Pen freely running into my Countries defence which my Profession and Age forbid me to vindicate by the Sword Let young Men serve it with their strength and arms let old Men secure it by their heads and counsel for my part I desire to live no longer then I can in some sort contribute to so glorious a work I have of late been snarled at for it by certain licentious Scriblers that durst not own their names for fear of discovering their Asses ears however they are pleased to twitch at the honourable remnant of mine They thought to have stopt my mouth by their brauling and braying but I dare yet speak louder and I hope I shall be heard by all such as have yet sound and impartial ears but if my cry will not reach you I fear dear Country-men the voyce of blood will speedily interrupt your slumbring security Those that will be Lawless finde fault with my Writings because I vindicate the anciently established Laws of England and tax me of desperate Non-sense because I will not allow them an unlimited unlegal Legislative Power to repeal annul alter and enact what Laws soever they deem best to serve their own turns They deceitfully cry out Salus populi suprema lex esto an Axiome that I no ways deny to be true but I would desire to be instructed who are to be Judges of what is expedient for the good of the people The Author of the forecited Maxime says Leges Magistratibus praesunt ut Magistratus praesunt populo And the great Doctor St. Austin not doubted to affirm that those societies where Law and Justice is not are not Common-wealths or Kingdoms but Magna latrocinia great thefts and trapanning cheats As for the power of altering Laws or bringing in new ones and setting up new Governments it is allowed by wise men that all power lawfully exercised upon a Commonwealth must necessarily be derived either from the appointment of God who is supreme Lord of all or from the consent of the Society it self that hath the next power to his of disposing of their own Liberty as they shall think fit for their good whose benefit is the end of all Government Therefore whoever arrogates such power to himself that cannot produce one of these two Titles is not a Ruler but an Invader or a Tyrant Now how this pretended Long Parliament restored by the force of Souldiers by whose force it had first been dissolved and was before annulled by the death or murther of King Charles the first that summoned it he being Principium causa finis Parliamenti after his murther the house of Lords and Monarchy being abolished and so many of the ancient Members thrown out new ones unduly elected and such horrid thefts rapes c. committed by them upon the people can lawfully be said the Peoples Representatives and authorized by them is the greatest Riddle that ever was propounded to a puzzled State It was in the year 1649 that I published a Legal Vindication of the Liberties of England in which I demonstrated the nullity of the then-pretended Long Parliament and lately I set forth a lively pattern of the spurious Old Cause pretended to be revived and vindicated by the fine Pageant or now-sitting Ghost of the long-since departed Long Parliament neither need I reason farther with reasonable Persons about it Yet since this Phantastical Hob-gobbling appears still to fright the quiet people and tempts them like an evil Spirit to give themselves to such an unruly Devil I will here onely hold forth to the view of all good Englishmen what slavery they must needs subject themselves unto if they resolve to cast off forever their lawful Master and Soveraign and take for new Masters these upstart domineering Tyrants Let then every honest freeborn Subject of England lay his hand upon his breast and ask of his own Conscience whether notwithstanding all former Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy Protestation solemn Leagues and Covenants c. he can voluntarily submit to and thereby freely acknowledge contrary to his former knowledge and the said Oath c. 1. That there may be and now is a lawfully-assembled Parliament of England actually in being legally continuing after the late Kings death or lawfully re-assembled without King Lords or most of their fellow-Members consisting onely of a few late Members of the Commons House 2. That this Parliament re-established by a Military force and packed together by Power of an Army combining with them hath just and lawful Authority and had it before 1. To arraign condemn and execute their lawful King himself with the Peers and Commons of this Realm 2. To dis-inherit the Kings Posterity of the Crown 3. To extirpate Monarchy and the whole house of Peers 4. To violate the Priviledges Rights Freedoms Customs and alter the Constitution of Parliaments themselves to change and subvert the ancient Government Seals Laws Writs Courts and Coyn of the Kingdom 5. To sell and dispose of all the Lands Revenues Jewels Goods of the Crown with the Lands of Deans and Chapters for their own advantages not for the easing of the people from taxes 6. To dispose of the Forts Ships Forces Offices of Honour Power Trust or Profit to whom they please 7. To raise and keep up what Forces by Land or Sea they please and impose Taxes c. to make what new Acts Laws and reverse what old ones they think meet 8. To absolve themselves by more then a Papal Power and all the subjects of this Land from all the aforesaid Oaths Engagements Protestations c. 9. To permit settle or invent what Sect Heresie or Religion they please provided they be not Papacy or Prelacy and that they allow not blasphemy against the Trinity 10. I ask now if every freeborn Subject that hath not raised himself an Interest by villany or an Estate by robbery or incurred a guilt to the Gallows for having his hand in blood had not better venture Life and Fortunes to reduce the true and lawful Heir into a peaceful Possession of his right then to authorize by his consent a new-fangled Government compacted of Treason Usurpation Tyranny Theft and Murder FINIS Tacit. Cicero De civit Dei