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A38418	Englands present case stated ... partly occasioned by the late proclamation for the convening of a Parliament ... wherein the arbitrary unparallel'd proceedings of the army and their adherents, since 1641 to this time, their dissolving of all Parliament powers and governments to perpetuate themselves are discussed and discovered ... : as also a declaration to live and die with the generals by authority of Parliament and the city of London in defence of the Parliament, laws, city and nations ...		1659 (1659)	Wing E3018; ESTC R21515	8,218	18

ENGLANDS present Case stated IN A further Remonstrance of many thousands of the Citizens Housholders Freemen and Apprentizes of the City of LONDON agreeing with the sence of the major part of the People of this NATION ●artly occasioned by the late Proclamation for the convening of a Parliament by the arbitrary Will and power of Charles Lord Fleetwood Bulstrod Lord Whitlock Desborough and some others of the Military Officers at Wallingford House and elsewhere tending to the utter subversion of the Rights Liberties and Priviledges of Parliaments Governments Laws Freedoms and Proprieties of the Free people of the Nation Against which they do protest Wherein the arbitrary unparallel'd proceedings of the Army and their adherents since 1641. to this time their dissolving of all Parliament Powers and Governments to perpetuate themselves are discussed and discovered With several serious Proposals and Expedients for the speedy composure of all Interests and Differences setling the Nation in Peace and Unity upon a righteous Foundation to prevent the spilling of more English Bloud As also a Declaration to live and die with the Generals by authority of Parliament and the City of London in Defence of the Parliament Laws City and Nations and the Rights Priviledges Liberties Freedoms and Proprieties of the free People against all persons whatsoever that shall Declare or Act against the same or exercise an arbitrary illegal Power in imprisoning or levying of Taxes Excise Custom Free-quarter or otherwise without authority of Parliament Printed Anno Domini 1659. ENGLANDS Present Case Stated CHARLS late King of England in the Year 1640. did summon a Parliament consistting of two Houses of Lords and Commons to do and consent to those things which should happen to be ordained by Common consent of the King Lords and Commons by Common Council of the Realm concerning certain arduous and urgent affaires touching the Defence State Crowns of the King and his Kingdome and of the Church of England To bear faith and true Allegiance to the King his Heirs and Successors and him and them to defend with all rights and jurisdictions annexed and belonging to the Imperial Crown of England against all attempts and conspiracies whatsoever Withall which the Writs themselves Returns Oathes Protestation League Covenant Declarations Votes and Remonstrances of both Houses of Parliament submitted unto sworn engaged to maintain by all the people of England besides the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance do agree and solemnly bind them to the performance thereof Quer. 1 Quer. 1. Who can absolve and nullifiie these Oathes by the Laws of God and man and how well the same have éen observed by the Army the Authors of all our troubles though many of them have béen and continue great professors of and pretenders to Religion is submitted to the consideration of the Nations and whether the Army who were the Authors and Promoters and forcible Compellers of the breaches thereof have not committed hainous perjuries and involved the people in a National sin not to be pardoned by the Laws of God and Man without cordial contrition and actual satisfaction and reparation with amendment of their lives and conversations for the time to come King Charles That commoned the said Parliament died a violent death by the hands of his own subjects servants the Army as an Offendor some of them declaring against his office some against his misgovernment and promising Reformation in Church and State wherein we judge the Army the Active and the Parliament the Passive power who were forced to yield unto and comply with them therein Quer. 2 Quer. 2. Whether those that ruled since under the Army were not guilty of far more hainous sins and trangressions then these for which they impeached their KING Quer. 3 Quer. 3. Whether they have not since set up a single Person who with his adherents were guilty of more arbitrarines and tyranny then the virulency of their Pens and malice of their Tongues could impeach their lawful Soveraign Quer. 4 Quer. 4. What Reformation have been since wrought in Church and State as was promised to the Nations Or rather are not the Nations Impoverished by the Ambition pride and Covetousness of those that si●ce Usurped the Supream power having consumed many Millions of Money besides the spilling the Blood of so many thousands Christian English Freemen the Arbitrary and wrongful imprisonment of their persons Imbezelling and Robbing them of their Goods the Destruction of the Trade Honour and Interest of the Nations both at home and abroad and all these evils wrought by an Apostatized Ambitious Deceitful over-ruling part of the Army 5. Whether by the Death of the late King Charles the said Parliament which were called by his writ to consult and advise with him being the head and one of the thrée Estates which make a Parliament were ipso facto dissolved And whether after his death they had any power to sit or make Laws which require the royal consent of the King for if the head be cut off how can the Body live or act and with whom could they treat consult or advise 6. If so What power Oliver Cromwel or Richard his Son and their awherents being common Subjects of the Nation had to call Parliaments or make Laws since neither of them did pretend Title to the Crown and therefore may not bear the favourable stile of Usurpers or Kings de factor But rather ought to bear the names of unparallelled-unpardonable Traitors meriting exemplary condigne punishment de jure and therefore of what validity are their Acts and Ordinances 7. What legal power hath Charles Fleetwood John Lambert or Bulstrode Whitlock Desborough or any others of their confederacie to call a Parliament 8 If they call a Parliament as souldiers who will obey them or how may they be submitted unto without giving up the rights liberties and priviledges and birth-rights of the people of the thrée Nations to a few inconsiderable persons in Armes against whom General Monck Admiral Lawson the City of London and aswell the two Houses of parliament sitting in 1640. as the remainder of the parliament that last sat do protest against and declare them Rebels and Traytors by the Laws of the Nation and every one of the said great Bodies remaining Authorities and powers appear more considerable and have greater right therein in the judgement and opinion of the Major part of the people of the thrée Nations and greater estates and fortunes to answer for their actions then these few persons that assume to themselves this Regal Magisterial and Legislative power 9. Consider the ill consequence of the Nations condiscention and submission to such a Call since it procéeds from a party or faction in an Army who have béen the instruments to put their Lawful King to Death Subverted Dissolved and interrupted all that boar the name of Parliaments ever since they left their own Call and whereunto they have submitted and received their Commissions from them and in the face of the Nations

promised to yieldobedience unto them and all this evil carried on to perpetuate themselves and posterity in an Arbitrary Military tyrannical power over our lives persons and estates under the many specious false pretences of Reformation Religion Freedom Liberty of conscience securing our civil and spiritual rights which they every day destroy and deprive us of who are now necessitated to call a Parliament for the safety of themselves or rather nine field Officers against their own wills and dispositions to amuse and silence the Nation and hold the hands of the people from executing Gods wrath and vengeance on them until they arm and strengthen themselves with the basest and most sordid sort of the people in hops of the plunder of the City and Nation persons destructive to all Governments Civil societies Rights and proprieties and when they have fortified themselves with these miscreants and hirelings they will according to their wonted practise either dissolve this parliament now intended to be convened if they cannot by their factious partial Sheriffs Sword-men and loose adherents form them according to their own unlymitted unsetled wills pleasures or otherwise seclude all those that are not for their profit interest by colour of their pocket dormant exceptions fundamentals restrictions and qualifications already prepared to be provided for the purpose notwithstanding their sugered pretence of a Free Parliament never by them i●tēded being a constitution really astablished far more destructive to them then the last parliament whose readmission they fear well knowing their guilt and that the Parliament know also how well they kéep their Oaths Faith and promises according to that old verse Nulla fides pietasque vi●is qui castra sequntur And those that shall have leave to sit shall serve only for these purposes viz. 1 To pase an act of Indempnity for all their former evill doings and breaches of faith and trust and for what ever more Villanies shall be committed by them or their Party for the time to come and to have a standing perpetuall Committee for that purpose 2 To Vote this Part of the Army that call them the everlasting Army to hold and continue these severall Mllitary commands now assumed by themselves and given to one another during their lives and to intail the same with a Continuando to posterity being one of their Ungratious Trayteerous Shameless Fundamentals 3 To lay heavy unsupportable Taxes and Impositions on the poor afflicted oppressed thred bare Nation now lying under that unsufferable burthen of free quarter against all Law and Conscience being one of the great Crimes wherewith they charged the late King and the Earle of Strafford and others and took away their Lives on pretence of being guilty thereof and for which these Arminians Anabaptistarians and wicked Traytors ought to die the common death of Traytors Thieves and Murtherers by the Laws of the Nation 4. To take away Tyths Ministers and Ministry with the Universities and to bring the Tyths Church-Revenues Colledge-pensions and all Charitable Gifts into a publique Treasury for the maintenance of these Legislators whilest the Learned Ministers of the Nation go begging and in their stead to appoint a few Mechanick ignorant Emissaries to preach up the Army Doctrines and Interests after the rate of 20 l. per annum as they have already practiced in Wales and other remote parts of the Nation 5. To take away the Law Professors and profession thereof sequester all the rich Offices and places belonging to Courts of Justice being the officers Freeholds into their own hands under pretence of regulation of the Laws which they neither understand nor intend to obey that the Nations may be governed by their own arbitrary wills and pleasures and nothing left to secure Propriety Interest Priviledge Freedom or Liberty of the people But the Lord have mercy upon us 6. To grant Liberty of Conscience to themselves and all of their own party and no others to violate all Laws Oaths Covenants Vows Promises Protestations Declarations and all that is called sacred and to walk after their own pride lust and avarice and to grant liberty to all others to labour and work for them as their slaves and vassals and to endure all manner of ignominious reproches punishments imprisonments poverty and death it self for which the people shall be bound to prvy as the onely remedy to rid them from their unsufferable slavery and bondage 10. It it map not be yet seasonable to ask Honcurable Person the L. Whitlock by what Authority he doth so highly adventure to call a Parliament whether by Authority of the Army Officers at Wallingford House or by vertue of the Act of King Lords and Commons of 16 Car. as Lord keepper of the great Seal of England and to consider the consequence thereof and the punishments appertaining to any that shall counterfeit the great Seal and assume to themselves so great an Authority being as high a Treason as may be 11. If by power of the Military Officers then he is desired to consider who gave them Commissions whether they that gave them their Commissions those from whom they derive their Authority have not been twice interrupted kept out and secluded by their dutiful servants and how perilous it is for his Lordship being an Eminent member of the Law to indanger his own Person and Estate the Liberties Laws and Priviledges of the whole Nation to satisfie the Lusts and boundless siekle wills of those Military Changlings he now seems to serve méerly for self perservation and the Custody of the Seal 12. If as Lord Keeper he issues forth writs then who Commissionated him sure the King did never impower him and if he did his Commission determined with his death whereto he contributed and we are sure be bare not own a Commission from his Son 13. If from the Parliament in 1648 1653 and 1659. Then certainly either they are a Parliament still or he is no Lord Keeper and why he should bury his Masters and Fellow Members alive a reason is humble demanded when as Commissionated by the last Parliament he had two equally trusted with him by the names of Lords Commissioners and not Lord Keepers viz. the Lord Widdrington and Lord Keeble who are both alike And it is not amisse to put his Lordship in remembrance that Oliver Cromwell did since change these Commissioners and appointed the Lord Fines and the Lord Lisle President of the High Court of Justice and his Lordship was at last added to them Lord keepers And the last Parliament appointed the Lord Bradshaw Lord Terrill and Lord Fountain Lords Kéepers and how the Lord Whitlock came by the Seal and the single Office of Lord Keeper is worthy the Inquiry But how he comes to issue forth Writs for a Parliament to be chosen and held the 24 of January next deserves a greater Examination 14. If by colour of the Act of 16 Car. Then whether the thrée years time be not lorg since elapsed