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A96470	Plain truth vvithout feare or flattery: or a true discovery of the unlawfulnes of the Presbyterian government, it being inconsistent with monarchy, and the peoples liberties; and contrary both to the Protestation and Covenant. The end of establishing the militia of London in such hands as it is now put into by the new ordinance. The betraying votes, and destructive practises, of a trayterous party in the House of Commons, concerning certain pettions [sic] for liberty and justice. Also a vindication of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax concerning certain scurrulous words uttered by some of the said faction. VVith the meanes and wayes that must be used to obtain reliefe against the said tyrannous usurpers; and for reducing the Parliament to its due rights, power and priviledges, in the preservation of the kingdomes lawes and liberties / VVritten by Amon VVilbee.	Wilbee, Amon.; Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing W2112; Thomason E516_7; ESTC R204095	30,871	22

without much search find enough doubtless at this time yea have not M. Hollis and others his complices and confederates not onely verifyed many or most of those * Read consider them and compare them with their actions B. Decla page 34. articles of Treason and misdeameanours but also augmented and exceeded them in many things I could but at present for speciall reasons will not particularize in the mean time my friends make use of your owne observations call your memories to account and compare things with things advise well make your selves strong and feare not Why should the old English proverb for our love and faithfulness be made true upon us Save a traytor or theefe from the gallowes and he shall be the first that shall hang you indeed we are neer it if wee doe not bestir our selves and prevent it But it is better that a few presumptuous men whose Lucifer-like pride and ambition hath lifted them up to Heaven should be cast down into oblivion and darkness then the whole Nation perish And therefore yee free Commoners of England up quickly and looke about you consider seriously the snare prepared for you and compare the vehement endeavours of these trayterous persons to disband the Army which hath fought and is resolved to stand for your liberties with this their patterne and first piece of thraldome in setling the Militia thus at this time in such mens hands in London and their putting power into the hands of such as are enemies to the publicke in the Country and see if these men intend any thing to you and yours but bondage and slavery and this is part of that ye are told in the * Both worth your notice books called the Warnings for all the Counties of England and the New found Stratagem upon the Petition of Essex Be vigilent therefore and assistant to keep the Army on foot for your owne defence and preservation of your selves your estates and liberties Country and posterities from inextricable vassalage and irrecoverable ruine for that once downe this ambitious party who aime at Soveraignity to make the King their scorne and us their slaves will presently not only turne the Militia in every place upon the Country as they have already designed in the City but raise horse also after the manner of Germany in all Counties of the Kingdome for the better securing themselves and this their forme of tyranny and if such men be not traytors who be Where shal we find any and if this be to imploy their publicke trust for the * Book Decl. page 700. publicke good and whether their † Page 172. onely alme be herein the Kingdomes safety and the peoples peace as they have declared and spoken let all England judge And thus yee see they falcify their words and Declarations as well as breake their Oaths and Protestations but in their Booke of Declarations page 207. they say That in case of extreame danger and his Majesties refusall to settle the Militia of the Kingdome the Ordinance that is the Ordinance which was then made in that time of such extreame danger agreed upon by both Houses for the Militia doth oblige the people and ought to be obeyed by the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome but now blessed be God here is no such case of extreame danger neither hath the King been so much as petitioned or sought unto for this Ordinance of the Militia of London and therefore it doth not bind the People nor can they by the fundamentall Lawes of the Land be compelled to obey it besides they ordering the Militia to the publicke hurt and not to the publicke good contrary to the intent and equity of the law and the end of their trust the people are ipso facto discharged of their obedience to their Ordinance for wee are not bound to obey to our own damage and destruction see this proved by their owne distinction and argument in Book of Decl. page 150. But to make a farther discovery of the truth by discovering more of this evill Parties falshoods breach of trust and traiterous practices against us take notice that in the Booke of Declarations pa. 720. the Parliament declare That it is the liberty and priviledge of the People to petition unto them for the ease and redress of their grievances and oppressions and that they are marke bound in duty to receive their Petitions here is a faire acknowledgment but I pray you marke their actions many thousand honest and really affected to the publicke liberty in the City had prepared a petition to have beene presented to the House of Commons for redress of some grievances and oppressions and restoration of some liberties and priviledges comprehending nothing but things legall and just what they ought to grant this Petition contrary to all course of Parliament and the liberty of the Subject was by the power and subtilty of the aforesaid faction or party who have their setting dogges and beagles to discry and hunt for them intercepted as thus they anticipated the Armies Petition before it was perfected and made ready to be presented the copy of it was read in the House and referred to a Committee whereof fierce fiery M. Lee was Chaire-man to examine and report it they did not so by the factious Petition and Remonstrance framed by the pretended Lord Mayor and common councell men against which they then nor finding any just cause of exception held the vowchers thereof with faire words in hopes of an answer untill they had mounted their late new Ordinance of the Militia for London and then they declared their distate and displeasure against it the which injust dealing and violation of our native liberty and priviledge the Petioners not brooking presented a Petition to the House of Commons for justice and redress and desire that their former Petition might not be censured before it was in due order presented hereupon Hollis Stapleton and the rest of that faction traytours to their Country according to their usuall course through their malignant influence prevalency procured this latter Petition to be voted seditious and that both it and the former should be burnt by the hands of the hang man was there ever such a thing done before by a Parliament in England sure not and that to question any act done in the House was a breach of the priviledges of Parliament but by cunning to intetcept the former Petition and tyrannically to suppress and reject it and illegally to imprison some of the Petitioners for it as they have done M. Tue and M. Browne was no breach of the priviledge of the subject No deare friends and fellow Commoners unless ye have like fooles resolved with your selves after so sharpe and bloody a contestation for your Law and your liberties to relinquish your claime by Magna Charta and the good old Law and to hold your lives and liberties and all you have by the Arbitrary Votes of the House of Commons and to become

PLAIN TRVTH VVithout FEARE or FLATTERY Or a true DISCOVERY OF The unlawfulnes of the Presbyterian government it being inconsistent with Monarchy and the Peoples Liberties and contrary both to the Protestation and Covenant The end of establishing the Militia of London in such hands as it is now put into by the new Ordinance The betraying Votes and destructive practises of a trayterous Party in the House of Commons concerning certain Pettions for Liberty and Justice ALSO A Vindication of his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX concerning certain scurrulous words uttered by some of the said Faction VVITH The meanes and ways that must be used to obtain reliefe against the said tyrannous Usurpers and for reducing the Parliament to its due Rights Power and Priviledges in the preservation of the Kingdomes Lawes and Liberties VVritten by AMON VVILBEE Isaiah 3 12 13 14. Children are extortioners of my People and women have rule over them O my People they that lead thee cause thee to erre and destroy the way of thy paths The Lord shall enter into judgement with the Ancients of his People and the Princes thereof for yee have eaten up the Vinyard the spoyle of the poore is in your houses What have yee to do that yee beat my People to pieces and grinde the faces of the poore saith the Lord even the Lord of Hosts Woe be to the wicked it shall be evill with him for the reward of his hands shall be given him Printed and published for the information advice and benefit of the poore oppressed betrayed and almost destroyed Commons of England 1647. PLAIN TRVTH VVithout Feare or Flattery IN the 28. Psalm Verse 6. the Spirit of God speaking there of Judges and Rulers saith they are Gods and all of them children of the most high but he telleth them they shall dye like men and fall as one of the Princes We unhappy men of England have at this time a generation of ambitious imperious men some of both Houses of Parliament whose names ye may elsewhere find who by their power and subtill practises do frame and assume to themselves a supreame power over us and would faine be taken for Gods and sonnes of the most high by us yet they neither rule us like Gods nor demeane themselves amongst us as children of the most high but rule us like Tyrants a degenerate kind which God never made nor owned and demean themselves more like children of disobedience serving their own base lusts and pleasures then children of the most high for were they such they would seeke the will of their Father in heaven and good of his People But the Spirit saith they shall dye like men the which it may be doubted these men believe not but rather with the Athiesticall Epicure thinke they shall dye like Beasts and that the soule aswell as the body returnes to the primam materiam and so if they can but escape the stroake of justice here they dreame not of hearing of their wicked deeds hereafter and therefore they have resolved it appeares for the accomplishment of their own unrighteous ends after the manner of all Athiesticall Statesmen who cast the feare of God and consideration of death and judgement behind them to assay all wayes and meanes of wickednes as to vow and not pay to promise and not performe sweare and forsweare covenant and breake to feign flatter and play the hypocrite I had almost said the devill to betray destroy rob spoyle oppress and violate all law and rule of government infringe all rights and liberties imprison persecute deceive their trust requite evill for good and do all manner of mischiefe and injustice even whatsoever Sathan and their wicked hearts shall prompt them unto insomuch that whatsoever they say or make shew of their evil doings declare that they believe not an immortallity and judgement they profess themselves Christians but if yee observe and consider their actions you must say and if you were a stranger you would sware they were heathens yea they do worse then heathens for did ever heathens take the name of their insensible Gods of wood and stone so frequently and solemnly into their mouthes by way of oath and covenant as these men have done and had it so little in reverence and so little respect to what they have sworne as these men have had the name of the great and terrible God of heaven and of their oathes made unto him read all Stories and search all Centuries of Ages and if there be any such example of perjury and swearing falsly by their God equivalent to the example of these men of this generation I will freely offer my selfe for a sacrafice to expiare my offence against their holines and yet they are ready with Agurs Harlot Pro. 30. 20. to wipe their mouthes and say we have done no wickednes But that the truth may be made apparent and expatiated let us heare their promises vowes and speeches and compare their deeds and practises First they do in the Protestation promise vow and protest in the presence of Almighty God whom sure they thinke is like the God of Baals Priests that could neither heare nor see to maintain and defend with their lives powers and estates the true reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish innovations within this Realme contrary to the same doctrine c. Yet they are now setting up and have set up so farre as in them lyeth a Religion never before heard of within this Realme and quite contrary to the professed doctrine of the Church of England it being wholly opposite unto Christ and a meere Popish innovation brought out of Scotland and violently imposed upon us And thus it comes to pass by the confederacy of a haughty trayterous Party in the Houses of Parliament of which are the Earles of Manchester and Stamford Sir Phillip Stapleton M. Hollis and others with the proud covetous Priests for the advancement of their designe of usurpation and lordlines both over his Majesty and us vow and protest in like manner to maintain and defend the Kings royall person honour and estate and the lawfull rights and liberties of the Subject and every one that should make the said Protestation in pursuance of the same and that they will not for hope feare or other respect relinquish this promise vow and protestation And do they not accordingly maintain and defend the Kings royall person honour and estate His person with a company of Commissioners of their own stamp and temper and with a guard of able Horsmen and Souldiers debauched Graves his Regiment as if they were affraid to intrust any of the honest Commanders about him as if he were rather a Prince of Theeves then a Prince of three Kingdomes or of a free People and his honour and estate they defend with all the power and might they can taking the Supream power upon themselves to grant Pardons sell the Lands purchased with

as partakers and to undergo the censure of confederates and compactours Sure and stable is this principle Salus Populi est suprema Lex The welfare and safety of the People is the supream Law and therefore where this end is by Trustees perverted or neglected the People by the Law of nature have power to preserve and secure themselves and as certain is that Rule that Major qui facit quam quod fit He which makes is greater then that which is made and therefore is to be preferred and in case that which is made prove useless hurtfull or unprofitable he which makes hath power to modifie restraine remove or nullifie even as seemeth good unto him and may most conduce to his good and benefit And therefore in case we cannot receive justice from the Parliament let us force our powers and apply our selves my friends and fellow Commoners to have justice upon the Authors of our injustice and oppressions and no longer stand still like People without life and spirit and suffer our just and reasonable demands and tequests to be distasted and despised as dung or dirty our Petitions for liberty and justice to be illegally censured and sentenced to be burnt as some horrid treasonable and blasphemous opinions or papers and our neighbours friends and fellow Commoners to be tyrannically imprisoned and barbarously used before our eyes for standing up in the behalfe of the Kingdome and petitioning for our native and lawfull rights and liberties by a desperate wicked party of false perfidious men in both Houses Machivilians and Traytors whose Votes and Councels waies and workings tend only to secure their guilty carcases from justice and to enslave and destroy us and our rights and freedomes who have no feare of the Lord before them nor any compassion or tender respect to their native Country this distressed Nation And now yee grave and wealthy Citizens of the Presbyterian faction whose eyes are swolne with fatnesse and whose hearts with pride and ambition Who happily according to the generall fortune of the great men of London are endued with a greater portion of riches state and presumption then of prudence integrity or wisdome Give me leave to tell you an Itinerant story or a paraboricall tale of two Travellers There were two Travellers met upon the road and passed friendly along time in silence together at length they discover to each other whether they are going and the end and intention of their travell and the way they would walke and they agreed both in one mind and upon one thing and so they ratifie their association and friend-ship but the one was not only weary but ore weakned at least he so appeared both in strength and purse by reason of his long journy and the many difficulties and dangers he had already incountered and overcome and very knowing was hee of the way that was yet to be travelled and of the dangers and difficulties which would oppose them therein before they should come to their journies end the other albeit he had come as farre yet by reason he was throughly well furnished and provided of moneies and all needfull supplies at his first setting forth did retaine the more ability and strength and had the most monies for his support throughout but alas he was not so knowing in the way nor skilfull as the other to avoid the dangers therein whereupon he promiseth the other assistance with his purse and strength to carry him through all straits till they come to their journies end so that he would be aiding and assisting to him with his Councell and advice for the suppressing and passing of those oppositions and perils which were in the way yet unpassed both agreed rejoyced and on they journied with all reciprocall officiousness and respect each to other the weake man he wanted not supply or support the other he wanted no comfortable words councell or politick advice untill after many extremities and straights past they came to the last and greatest and that was a steepe craggie mountaine full of straight passages slippery by-waies and dubious windings with desperate precipices on each side the faire and safe way which lede to a better end lying direct in the middle Here these two Travellers were put to a stand the weake wearied man was not able of himselfe to assend the other notwithstanding his strength durst not adventure alone lest he should slip and fall or loose his way and become a pray at length the weake man lends the other his staffe to stay him up and defend him and the strong man by his strength takes up the weake and so they both with much hazzard and trouble gat up to the top of this incacessable Mountaine and now they might see the long desired end of their journy and themselves past all danger which made them both glad and to congratulate * Observe But the weary weake man having now beene brought as the charge and by the strength and support of the other through all straites and difficulties and knowing himselfe to be much in arreare to his friendly fellow Traveller and that he would expect satisfaction and recompence and like benificence from him when they were at rest and all things were accomplished He tooke his staffe from him which he had lent him for a stay and defence unto him untill he had carried him up the hill and taking an occasion to quarrell with him about some slip denyall of some monies or neglect of his advice fell upon him and beate him bound him and robbed him of his mony and treasure and so left him in the middest of a thicket destitute and so destroyed and undone The weake weary man yee may suppose to be the Parliament The stronger and better provided to be the wise Lord Major Aldermen and Common-councel-men with the rest of the Presbyteriall faction in London The Mountaine to be the Presbyters designe and the Staffe to be the Militia which is now put into the hands of the Presbyterian party in London The application I leave to the appeheesion of them and of all judicious Citizens And Commoners of England And will conclude with wise Solomon There is no new thing under the Sunne that which hath beene is now And what is there that hath beene which may not be againe Pramoniti proemuniti fore warned halfe Armed and proevisa minus loedunt things fore-seen doe less hurt I wish you really well yee grave Citizens of London both for your owne and Englands sake and God make you discerning and wise that yee may not by the dissembling epistles and speeches of a deceitfull hypocriticall Nation and the subtill sophistry of an ambitious aspiring party in both Houses of Parliament such as Stapleton Hollis c. and of the proud covetuous Clergy be made the instruments after you have served their turnes of your own ruine and the Lands I could here take occasion as there is good reason howsoever what is for present pretermitted is not

insatiable avarice of an company of trayterous persons in both houses of Parliament the chiefe of which are Manchester and Stamford Stapleton and Hollis Merrick and some others who have runne themselves by their wicked deeds against the King and Common Wealth into a desperate condition and therefore endeavour by all meanes to bring the Land into a confusion and so to make our latter end worse then our beginning This Stapletons Speech verifies who lately said It is now come to this that either we must sinke them meaning the Army and their friends or they sinke us unto this end it seemes they have so highly provoked the Army For prevention of which calamity and to procure our selves ease and remedy we must take them away charge them home and demand their persons to be delivered up to justice why feare we what power hath any Parliament man that he hath not received from them that chose him And if a King so soon as he ceaseth to rule by the known Law doth degenerate into a Tyrant and is worthy to be ejected what are those Parliament men Manchester Hollis Stapleton and others of this Faction who have so probably contrary to their Oathes trusts and duties left all rule of Law and Justice and by their power and prevalency have dealt with us and disposed of our estates and libertyes after their own wicked crooked wills and what are these men worthy of according to law and reason expulsion is too little and beheading is too honourable But happily some of them may say by me because I declare that which they can no wayes colour that I am mad I am sure they are and their madnes doth appeare to all men otherwise some of them would not have so basely reproached his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax who came to London only because of his disease and staid there a while for his infirmity and weakenes in saying it was fitter for him to be with his Army which is in a distemper then to be in Hide Parke courting of Ladies If the Army be distempered hath not Manchester Stapleton Hollis and that turbulent faction distempered them by their im-parliamentary Declaration against them and ingratefull abuse of them Nay do they not distemper and trouble the Parliament and whole Kingdome are not they the only obstructers of our setlement in England and of the reliefe of distressed Ireland are not these I say the cause of all our distraction and disturbance I wish they were not and as for Sir Thomas his courting of Ladies I would Sir Peter Temple Sir John Merrick Sir John Hipsly M. Moyle Moore Bell Bowyer and too many more among them did not more court Harlots visit Whores and exercise drunkennes * Foth what a stinke is here and other basenes then honourable Sir Thomas worthy man doth delight in courting of Ladies I do remember when the Earle of Essex and his chiefe commanders Merrick one of the trayterous crew and the rest came to London to laze smoake tobacco and Oh sweet Reformers drinke Sack court complement vaunt and vapour of that they never did and a potent enemy at hand in the field who came up to Brainford to the hazzard Army and Citie before they were discovered and no chiefe Officer there either of the whole to command or deliver forth * Ammunition and when not only the Generall but all the chiefe officers while there was a destroying enemy in power Thanks false Merrick thou didst the like and worse at Edge-hill abroad came and staid their own time in London to revell ramble and rore drink domineere and whore while the souldier was left without restriction or order to range raven and plunder spoyle and make waste at Saint Albans and in the Country thereabouts and no complaint made of distemper or disorder either by the House or any of their Members but the Proverb is that some may better steale a Horse then others looke over the hedge If Sir Thomas his officers or souldiers were like wicked Col. Graves then this evill Faction might say they were distempered indeed yet this lewd shameles man is Stapletons only Minion and the principall instrument as truly most fit for their wicked purpose in the Army for this malicious malevolent party but these men like Toads are so big swoln with pride and despite that they are ready to burst and their poyson will never be purged out nor we freed from the diffused venome of it till some of them be highly exalted and made an example Take away the wicked from the King saith Solomon and his Mhrone shall be established in righteousnes take away the wicked and trayterous out of both Houses of Parliament and the Parliament shall be upright and prosper and wee poore Commons be soone established in peace and happyness In the Booke of Declarations pag. 207. they seem to cleare themselves of a charge laid upon them by the King saying That there was no colour that they went about to introduce a new Law much less to exercise * Marke an arbitrary power but to prevent it How true this tax or charge hath since proved let the whole Land judge and their own actions witness for if they have not brought in a new Law I am sure they have made no use of the old unless it hath been for evill And whether they have exercised an Arbitrary power I need not aske the question for it is past doubt or scruple But they say in the same Declaration That this Law is as old as the Kingdome To wit That the Kingdome must not be without a meanes to preserve it selfe It is well yet truly granted By their own principle you see the naturall or reall body politique in case the Representative or virtuall faile and deceive their trust * Marke and make use of it hath power to preserve it selfe Marke yee free Commons of England here is a sure ground for yee to stand on yee are not yet past hope nor destitute of meanes of helpe therefore cheare up your spirits and quit your selves like men imploy ahd improve your just powers for the preservation of your selves against all those selfe-seeking ambitious trayterous tyrannicall spirits in both Houses who have forsworn themselves betrayd their trust and imployed all their power and interest wherewith yee intrusted them for your good and safety to your woe and misety And yee faithfull in the House of Commons whose hearts have ever been upright although yee have been awed and overpowred to God your King and Country beware of these seducers who would involve you in the same treasonable works with them that so they like Pick-pockets may the better scape in a crowd unseen rather protest against them and their proceedings and declare them to the Kingdome serve them as they have served others thus ye will acquit your selves of jealousies and guilt discharge your trust and duties and endeare your selves to your Countryes otherwise you must expect to suffer

Tenants at will unto a company of traytors and tyrants Vp in Gods name up demand redress and vindicate your selves and native rights against Votes and Voters hodie mihi cras tibi what these men doe to this or that parte or place of the Kingdome and people to day they may and will doe to another parte or place to morrow And they have injustly refused more then a few as that of the Counties of Bunckinham and Hereford and divers others from all parts petitioners for redress of grievances and granting of liberties already and in this late particular president is the very essence and end of a Parliament perverted the rights of Parliament and the ancient course of Parliamentary proceedings subverted and our native rights and priviledges so much as lies in this distructive party wholy vacated and destroyed And whether this strange Vote and fact doe not justifie the fifth article exhited by the King against Hollis and others 1641. Book Decl. page 35. by which he chargeth them To have trayterously endeavoured to subvert the very rights and beings of Parliaments I beseech you all yee lovers of Englands liberties consider and judge And also part of that first seaventh Article exhibitted by the House against the Earle of Strafford Yea consider I beseech you compare and see if the words waies councels and practices of the Earle of Manchester Hollis Stapleton and others their complices and confederates doe not fully answer the 1 2 5. and Part of the 6. Article exhibited in 1641. by the King and to the first and part of the 2 3 4 6 7. Articles and some others only mutatis mutandis which were exhibited by the House of Commons against Strafford and also to some which were exhibited against Canterbury even as face answereth to face in water Truly wee are no longer free but absolute slaves already if wee may not Petition for our liberty what unless wee will first aske them what we shall petition we must not it seems at all petition Away with such Traytors from the Earth This Act and Vote answers those trayterous speeches of Harvy and Solloway two corrupt men of the House of Commons who impudently said note That the Parliament might doe what they would and were not to be questioned for it One of the Articles of high treason charged upon the Earle of Strafford was as appeares in the fourth article of his second impeachment or accusation that he should declare and say That Ireland was a conquered Nation and that the King might doe with them what he pleased and is not here as much spoken and more by these two trayterous spirits Harvy and Solloway For Ireland was indeed a Nation by us conquered and his speech related to the King who was their head and had a Power over them but these mens words are spoken of us a free People who though formerly conquered yet have long since redeemed our liberties with our swords and relate to a company of men who are but subjects and the Kingdomes servants only called and chosen to councell and advise not to reigne and tyrannize But let us argue it all other Courts in the Land whatsoever have rules of jurisdiction and limmits and hath the supreame Court of Parliament none It is very unreasonable even against all rule of reason that that Court which prescribes rules to all other Courts should be without all rule it selfe The Lord chiefe Justice Cook in his treatise of the jurisdiction of the high Court of Parliament declares and proves otherwise and I am certaine that it is against the very constitution and being of it for there is both * See Cooks Instituts Rotu Parli Lex confuetudo Parliamenti both a Law and a custome or usage of Parliament Besides there is a fundamentall Law of the Land against which the Parliament cannot that is lawfully as a Parliament act for whatsoever act is made or done in Parliament that is contrary to Magna Charta is void no Law and not to be * See 42. Ed. 3. chap. 1. obeyed and what force then if well examined are most of our present Parliament Votes Orders and Ordinances by which it is evident that the Parliament is not * But new Lords new laws without a law and rule nor may doe what they will nor any thing onely in case of extremity and then also for good of the publicke and not unto example contrary to the fundamentall Lawes and constitutions of the Kingdome And was not one Wentworth of the House of Commons questioned yea and committed in the daies of queen Elizabeth for his words and deeds in the House And can they themselves deny but that for Treason fellony and breach of the Peace they are questionable By all which it is cleare that the proudest of them may be questioned and is accountable for any misdemeanour or illegall unjust act done by them within the House They say to question them for any thing out of the House is a breach of their priviledge and must we question them neither in the House What is a Parliament man lawlels Neither without nor within there is a new priviledge as their Ordinances are a new manner of Lawes it was not so of old The King who is the Supreame head is not without the Law he may not doe what he list Sure then much less may they who are but subjects and only councellers not Commanders Servants not Masters But is not this strange doctrine my friends that a Parliament man must not be questioned for whatsoever he doth in the House Lo here is a new hidra-headed prerogative for you to suppress which yee never expected Lop it betimes for this position tends directly to the subversion of all our Lawes and liberties and the exaction of an arbitrary rule over us And if this Vote Be not treasonable what is For by this rule they may within the House consult contrive and act high treason againg King and Kingdome commit murder pick pockets and breake the peace devise and conspire to destroy and massacre us to robbe and spoyle us and not to be questioned because it was resolved and done within the House Brave Parliamentary principles Is it not more then high time fellow Commoners to rouze up our spirits and bestir us to to bring such as are the authors and promoters of these and such like destructive comands and actions to condigne punnishment shall not the Judge of all the world saith Abraham do right and shall not the Court of Courts the supreame Court of all the Kingdome we may say do right Woe is to us for lamentable is our case our streame must needs be puddle dirt when our very fountain is filthy and corrupt Corruptio optima est pessima that which is best being corrupted is the worst that which was formerly Englands Balsum and Antidote is now become Englands greatest Coros ive and poyson yet not in it selfe but by accident through the boundles ambition and