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A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

in his life time long before his death The first by the Executions of Strafford and Canterbury the impeachments censures of the Shipmony-Judges and other Delinquents both in Scotland I●eland The 2d by the Acts abolishing Shipmony the taking of tonnage poundage and other Taxes without Act of Parliament the Acts for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long intermissions of Parliament For regulating of the Privy-Counsel taking away the Court of Star-Chamber and High-Commission against divers Incroachments and oppressions in the Stannary court For the certainty of Forests and their meets and bounds for the better ordering and regulating the Office of the Clerk of the Market for reformation of false Weights and Measures for preventing vexatious proceedings touching the order of Knightship for the abbreviation of Michae●mas Term and for the free importation of Gunpowder and Salt-peter from forein parts and making of them in England By all these good Acts passed f●eely by the King soon after or before this Act he fully redressed all Grievances then complained of or intended within this Law The 3d. by the Act of Confirmation of the Treaty of pacification between the two kingdomes of England and Scotland The 4th by the several Acts passed for the Relief of his Majesties army And the Northern parts of this kingdom For the better raising and levying of Mariners and others for the present guarding of the Sea and necessary defence of the Realm not Republike For the Subsidies of Tonnage and poundage granted to the King for the speedy provision of money for disbanding the Armies and setling the peace of the two kingdoms of England and Scotland For securing such monies as are due to the Inhabitants of the Northern Counties where his Majesties Army have been billetted And for securing by publike faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to our Brethren of Scotland all passed and published by the King himself Anno 16 17 Caroli 1640. 1641. at least 7. years before his beheading It is most certain that all these ends of making this Law as the Prologue thereof and the word THEREFORE in the Commons prayer infallibly declare were fully accomplished by the King in his life so long before his untimely death Therfore none of thē now remaining to be performed all acted since their accomplishment by those now sitting being diametrically contrary to this Act these ends and occasions of it this Parliament must of necessity be beheaded expired with the King and cannot survive his death 4ly The words That this present Parliament assembled shall not be dissolved unlesse it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose nor shall at any time or times during the continuance thereof twice recited in the subsequent clauses be prorogued or adjourned unlesse it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose can be intended of no other but that present Parliament which passed this Act which consisted of The Kings Maiesty our Soveraign Lord by whom this and all other Acts passed or to be passed was declared and enacted and this intended Act likewise not of his heir or successor after his death and of the Lords and Commons House then in being not any new House of Lords or Commons succeeding after their deaths then sitting Therefore when the King was cut off by an untimely death and thereby an impossibility accruing to dissolve it by an Act of Parliament within the words or intent of this Act it must of necessity be dissolved by his beheading Impossibilities making Acts of Parliament to perform them meerly void as our Lawe makes Impossible conditions 5ly This Act and those who made it must have and had a retrospect to the Writs whereby it and they were summoned and the ends things therein expressed But they all determined and became Impossible after the Kings beheading Therefore the Parliament must be destroyed with him since cessante causa cessat effectus cessante primativo cessat derivativum as all our Lawyers Law-books and natural reason resolve 6ly The last Clause of this Act That every thing and things whatsoever done or to be done to wit by the King or any other for the Adjournment proroguing or dissolving of this present Parliament contrary to this Act shall be utterly void and of none effect do clearly ex●lain the meaning of this Act to be this That it extends only to things done or to be done by the Kings will and power as to his Commissions Proclamations Writs Warrants Precepts to adjourn prorogue or dissolve this Parliament as he had done others heretofore here declared to be utterly null and void not to his death wherein he was only passive being forcible against his will and the Parliaments too which death no Parliament can make null and void in respect of the Act it self so as to restore him to life though the whole Parliament and our three Kingdomes may and ought to null it in respect of the illegal manner of his Execution not to be paralel'd in any Age. 7ly The Commons themselves in their Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom 15 Decemb. 1641. Declared That the abrupt dissolution of this Parliament is prevented by another this Bill by which it is provided it shall not be dissolved adjourned without the consent of both Houses Yea the Lords Commons in their Declaration of May 19. 1642. declare That excellent Bill for the continuance of this Parliament was so necessary that without it we could not have raised so great sums of monies for his Majesties service and Common wealth as we have done and without which the ruine and destruction of the Kingdome must needs have followed as since of the Kingdom and Parliaments too by pretext thereof And we are resolved the Gracious favour of his Majesty expressed in that Bill and the advantage and security which thereby we have from being dissolved by him shall not encourage us to do any thing which otherwise had not been fit to have done Which whether these formerly now sitting have performed let their own Consciences resolve After which the Lords and Commons in their humble Petition to his Majesty Jun. 17. 1642. desire That your Majesty having passed an Act That this Parliament shall not be dissolved but by Act of Parliament your Majestie would not do any thing tending thereunto by commanding away the Lords and great Officers whose attendance is necessary thereunto Therefore the sitting Members abolishing the whole House of Lords and their secluding most of the Commons Members by this Petitions concession must dissolve it Both Lords and Commons in their Declaration 26th Maii 1642. adde We hope the people will never be carryed away with a noyse of words against the Parliament to make any such equitable construction of the Act for the continuance of this Parliament as may tend to the dissolution thereof by the Declaration of the King which they Answer in this

were engaged therein by any Votes or Actions if he could but gain audience or patience to hear them pressed on their Consciences Viva Voce But their unparliamentary adjourning on purpose to prevent it when he was in and forcibly resecluding him by armed Gards when once out he held himself bound in Conscience to publish that to them and the the world in print which he was not permitted libertie to speak as he formerlie did when forcibly imprisoned and kept from the House by the Armie as now upon the like account in his Brief Mememto to the present unparliamentary Juncto from his Pison-Chamber at the Kings Head which they soon after took of Jan. 1. 1648. 2ly He intended to propose That all armed Gards of Souldiers in or near the Cities of London or Westminster might by publick Proclamation be removed to a convenient distance thence according to the antient Custome Presidents and Privileges of Parliament prohibiting not only all armed forces but the very bearing of any Arms or weapons in or near the place where the Parliament did sit under severest penalties lest they should over-awe the Members or any way interrupt their proceedings which the undutifull mutinous Officers Souldiers now in and near the City though raysed purposely to protect the Parliament and its Members from all force whatsoever have frequently done nay forcibly secluded imprisoned ejected the Members themselves sundry times yea turned the now sitting Members out of Doors and now again on Saturday last and this very Morning secluded him and sundry Members when they came to enter in 3ly That all the Lords all secured secluded Members of the old Parliament not sitting after Decemb. 8. 1648. now about the City being double in number to those now sitting might presently be called and freely admitted into the House And all living Members of the old Commons House elected or sitting at or before that time might by the Speakers Letter be desired in all their names to meet together in the Commons House forty daies after the ordinary time limited in most writs of Summons or Resummons of Parliament and nothing acted or voted in the interval as a House of Commons till they were all assembled after their ten years seclusion dissipation by the Armies force and war upon them This suddain unexpected Clandestine stealing into the Commons House of about 41 or 42. Members alone without any general notice given thereof to all the other surviving absent Members or places which elected them sitting presently as an House of Parliament accompanied with a present forcible seclusion of all but their own Confederates being a most unparliamentary practice conspiracy surprise unworthy Saints or persons of Honour destructive to the very being Privileges of Parliament injurious to the whole Nation as well as absent and secluded Members yea contrary to their own Republican Votes Principles That the Supream Authority of the Nation resides only in the Generality of the people That it cannot be transferred from them to any others in or out of Parliament but by their free consents and elections That their Representatives in Parliament ought to be equally distributed throughout the Nation No Member to be secluded when duly elected and all things to be carryed only by majority of Voyces Contrary to the principles of Law Equity common Justice Reason which resolve that publick Acts of Parliament bind all men because they all are Parties and Assenters to them by their election of Knights Citizens and Burgesses impowred intrusted by them and present when they passed by their common assent Which they cannot be when the farre greater number are absent secluded and have no notice of their present sitting Contrary to common Right and that just Maxime inserted into some antient Parliament Writs of Summons and elections to Sheriffs quod omnes tangit ab omnibus approbetur that which concerns all ought to be approved by all And not only so but this their surreptitious fraudulent suddain sitting and acting by themselves as a Parliament if they proceeded would make them far more criminal and guilty of highest Treason than King Richard the 2d of old impeached and dethroned in the Parliament of 1 H. 4. amongst other Articles for this That the said King in his last Parliament at Salop purposing to oppress his people subtlely procured and caused to be granted That the Power of the Parliament by the consent of all the States of his Realm should remain with certain Persons to determine after the Parliament dissolved certain Petitions delivered in the same Parliament at that time not dispatched By colour of which Concession the persons so deputed proceeded to other things generally touching that Parliament and that by the Kings will In derogationem status Parliamenti in magnum incommodum totius Regni pernitiosum exemplum In derogation of the State of the Parliament and to the great disprofit prejudice of the whole Realm and permitious example And that they might seem to have some kind of colour Authority for this kind of their proceedings the King caused the Rolls of the Parliament according to his Vote to be changed and deleted contrary to the effect of the foresaid Concession which is likewise mentioned in the printed Act of 1 H. 4. c. 3 and thus amplyfied That a certain power was committed by authority of Parliament to certain persons to proceed upon certain Articles comprised in the Rolls of the Parliament thereof made and by authority aforesaid divers Statutes Judgements Ordinances and Stablishments were made ordained and given erroneously and dolefully in great disherison and final destruction and undoing of many honourable Lords and Liege-people of the Realm and their Heirs forever wherupon that whole Pariament of 21 R. 2. with all the circumstances and dependents thereupon were wholy reversed revoked voyded undone repealed and annulled for ever If this then were so high a crime and breach of royal Trust in King R. 2. even by consent and authority of the whole Parliament and three Estates subtilly to procure the power of the whole Parliment to remain in the hands of certain Persons which themselves approved of who exceeded their Commission and acted generally as a Parliment And if this was a grand derogation of the state of the Parliament a great damage to the whole Realm and permitious example for posterity for which in the very next Parliament they impeached deposed him and nulled all these proceedings for ever Then questionless their former sitting acting in the Commons House from December 7 1648. till Apr. 20. 1653. and now again without yea against the consents Votes of the Parliament 3 Estates secluded Members their repealing altering the very Acts Ordinances of the Lords and Commons concerning the Treaty with the King and sundry others their nulling the Act for Trienial Parliments the continuance sitting of the Lords in this Parlament their ●eclaring themselves alone to be the Parliament of England beheading the King himself their

kingdom be not a sufficient proof thereof the very Objectors and John Bradshawes beheading the late King and putting him to such a shamefull publike death as no Pagan nor Christian lawfull King of England ever formerly suffered by perfidious perjurious treacherous Subjects since it was an Island against our Laws and Votes of Parliament in the Highest Court of Injustice created by them for that end is a sufficient evidence that the King of England dieth as well as other men as they all must likewise doe in Gods due time unless they will make the World believe to expiate their Treason that they did not kill the King in cutting off his head but that he is still alive because some others as is reported did reunite and sow it to his bodie when severed from it by them But of this enough since M. P. presumes they will henceforth rather renounce their Parliaments being than bottom its present existence upon this bloudy foundation and their exploded Kingship The 2d Objection is from the words of the Statute of 17 Caroli c. 7. which declareth enacteth That this present Parliament now assembled shall not be dissolved unless it be by Act of Parliament In the Negative Ergo It shall not be dissolved by the Kings death being no Act of Parliament nor any Act of Parliament yet made for its dissolution Whereunto Mr. Prynne answers 1. That the sole end scope of this Act was not to provide against the dissolution of the Parliament by the Kings natural or violent untimely death not then thought of he being in perfect health likely to live many years by the course of nature and to survive all the ends for which this Act was made but to raise credit for the Parliament to provide monies by this Act to prevent the untimely dissolution proroguing adjourning of this Parliament by the Kings own regal power He having prorogued dissolved all former Parliaments during his Reign in discontent by his Regal power not death against the Lords and Commons wills 2ly This is intituled An Act to prevent Inconveniences which may happen by the untimely adjourning proroguing or dissolving of this present Parliament and the Prologue Body of the Act provide joyntly and severally against all three to wit the untimely proroguing or adjourning as well as dissolving of this Parliament But no Parliament ever was is or possibly can be untimely prorogued or adjourned by the Kings death but only by his actual Regal will and power Therfore the dissolving of it intended by this Act must be only an untimely dissolution by his actual will Commission writ and regal power alone by which his former Parliaments were prorogued dissolved against the Lords and Commons assents not by his death whether natural or violent being against his will and no part of his Regal Supremacy but only of his human frailty 3ly The Inconveniences the Commons feared would ensue by the untimely dissolution of this Parliament and endeavoured to prevent by this Act are thus expressed in the Prologue Where as great sums of mony must of necessity be suddainly advanced and provided for relief of his Majesties Army people of the Nothern parts of this Realm and to prevent the imminent danger this Kingdome is in and for supplying of other his Majesties present and urgent occasions which cannot be so timely effected as is requisite without credit for raysing the said mony which credit cannot be obtained untiil such Obstacles he first removed as are occasioned by Fears Jealousies Apprehensions of divers of his Majesties Subjects that this present Parliament may be adjourned prorogued or dissolved 1. before Justice shall be executed upon Delinquents 2ly publike grievances redressed 3ly a firm peace between the two Nations of England and Scotland concluded 4ly and before sufficient provision be made for the repayment of the said monies so to be raysed all which the Commons in this present Parliament assembled having duly considered do therefore humbly beseech your most excellent Majesty that it may be declared and enacted And be it therefore declared and enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord with the assent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same That this present Parliament now assembled shall not be dissolved unless it be by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose c. By which it is undenyable 1. That the Commons when they petitioned for the King when he declared enacted the Lords and Commons when they assented to this Act did never think of or intend to provide against a dissolution of this Parliament by the Kings untimely death nor of a future dissolving it by an Act of Parliament by his Successors or others after his decease but on the contrary presupposed the continuance of his life and of this Parliament thereby till all the inconveniences they recite were prevented and a new Act passed by him and them jointly to dissolve this Parliament when these Inconveniences were prevented and things effected Which is irrefragable 1. Because they declare in Terminis The speedy advancing and providing of monies for the relief of his Majesties Armies and people of the Nothern parts not their subsequent Armies and the supply of his Maiesties present and urgent occasions not their own and the Fears Jealousies and App●ehensions of divers his Maiesties Loyal Subiects c. ●o be the only ground of their humbly beseeching his Maiesty for this Act. All which presuppose his life being preservation and the Commons great care of complying with him as their Soveraign Lord without the least thought of his untimely death since happening or secluding the King or his Poûeritie out of this and all future Parliaments by colour of this Act as those now sitting have done point-blanck against it 2ly The Fears Jealousies and Apprehensions they had occasioning this Act were only these That this Parliament might be adjourned p●orogued dissolved 1. Before Justice shall be duly executed upon Delinquents then in being and complained of as Strafford Canterb●ry the Ship-mony Judges and others not new Delinquents since not then dreamed of 2ly Before publick Grievances redressed hose then complained of not others arising afterwards 3ly Before a firm peace between the two Nations of England and Scotland concluded by reason of the former not subsequent breaches between them and the King 4ly Before sufficient provision to be made for the repayment of the said monies to be raised not for the Parliaments subsequent Armyes and occasions but for his Maiesties Army and people in the North the preventing the then imminent danger of this Kingdom not of our new Common-wealth or dangers since arising and for supply of other his Maiesties present not future and urgent occasions But none of these four particulars could be accomplished by the Lords or Commons alone af●er his Majesties death but by the King alone or by his concurrence with them whiles living Yea they were all actually accomplished

after that they had slain Athaliah with the Sword 2 Kings 11.4 c. 2 Chron. 23. This Ioash being afterwards slain by the conspiracy of his Servants against him Amaziah his Son reigned in his stead by hereditarie Succession who when he was established in the kingdō slew his Servants that had slain the King his Father but not their Children according to the Law of Moses After this Ammon the Son of Manasses succeeding his father worshipping his Idols following his Sinnes and trespassing more and more without humbling himself his Servants conspired against him and slew him in his own House But the People of the Land slew all that had conspired against King Ammon and made Josiah his Son King in his stead not disinherited him for his Fathers and Grand-Fathers crying Sinner as the only means ordained by God for their safety peace and settlement Which sacred Presidents of Gods own registring and his peculiar peoples making in obedience to his Commands for our imitation in like cases are a more real sacred means to our present peace safety establishment than any the Army-Saints Sectaries Iesuites and Westminster Conclave can prescribe and the Parliament Statute of 27 Eliz. c. 1. have declared enact●diit to be legal as well as scriptural 11ly When God himself promised restitution from Captivity and resettlement re-establishment to his people he doth it by promising the restitution of their lawfull hereditary King and kingdom to them and the re-uniting of their kingdoms formerly divided by rebellion against and revolt from the House of David and hereditary Royal line into one Mich. 213. c. 4.8 Their King shall pass before them and the Lord on the head of them even the first Dominion the Kingdom shall come to the Daughter of Jerusalem Zech. 9.9 c. Rejoyce greatly Oh Daughter of Zion behold thy King cometh unto thee be is just and having Salvation c. and his Dominion shall be from Sea to Sea and to the end of the Earth Isaiah 32.1 2. Beho●d a King shall reign in Righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in Judgement And he shall be as a hiding place from the wind and a Covert from the Tempest as Rivers of Water in a dry place as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land Ezech. 37.22 24. And I will make them one Nation in the Land upon the Mountain of Israel and one King shall be King to them all and they shall be no more two Nations neither thall they be divided into two Kingdoms any more And David my Servant shall be KING over them they shall all have one Shepheard over them they shall also walk in my Judgements and keep my Statutes and do them And they shall dwell in the Land that I have given to Iacob my Servant even they and their Children and their Childrens Children FOR EVER and my Servant David shall be their Prince for ever Which is likewise repeated and amplyfied Ezech. 39.23 24 Zeph. 3.13 14. Jer. 23.4 5 c. 33.14 15 16. Which Texts though mistically meant of our King and Saviour Jesus Christ hereditary Son of David according to the flesh sitting upon his Fathers Throne and ruling for ever over his mystical Kingdom and Church as is evident by comparing them with Isay 9.6 7 18. Dan. 7.27 Lu. 1.32 33. yet since King David Solomon and other pious Kings of Israel and their hereditary kingdom were types of our Spiritual King Iesus and of his everlasting spiritual kingdom And Christ Jesus under the very Title Name Notion of an hereditary King alone not of an Optimacy Oligarchy Popularity Democracy or elective King is thus prophesied to be a Saviour Redeemer Restorer Establisher Preserver Defender of his captivated oppressed inthralled dissipated divided unreformed Subjects Kingdom Church People and his perpetual presence with and reign over them is made the only ground of the restauration unity felicity prosperity safety perpetuity of his kingdom and people as David Solomon and other good Kings of Israel were to their Subjects during their successiive Reigns and seeing Christs mistical Church and Saints are alwaies thus stiled his Kingdom a Kingdom but never a Free-State or Common wealth at least but once Eph. 2.12 the only Text throughout the whole Bible where this word is mentioned in any kind and that not in opposition or contradistinction to a Kingdom but as the very same thing with it as our Kingdom in some Statutes is stiled a Common wealth as being the excellentest honourablest durablest freest happiest of all other forms of Republick under which general name it is comprised It thence infallibly follows that an hereditary Kingship kingdome is the best happiest durablest securest honourablest desireablest of all other Governments whatsoever being the verie Government of Jesus Christ himself who according to the flesh was born King of the Iews and sits upon the Throne of David his Father Mat. 2.2 Lu. 1.32 33. and was not chosen King by his Saints like an Elective King but elected them to be his Subjects as he expreslie resolves Iohn 15.16 1 Pet. 1 2.9 Rev. 17.14 And that the restitution of this our antient Kingly Government not of a new Jesuitical Spanish Outlandish Republick is the true and only way to our restauration redemption peace settlement safetie and future prosperity as the Parliament and most excellent preamble of the Statute of 25 H. 8. c. 22 worthy perusal resolves Wherin after many long intestine civil wars for the Title succession of the Crown and Soveraigntie of our Realm The Nobles and Commons assembled in Parliament calling to mind That the unity peace and wealth of this Realm and the Succession and Inheritance of the Subjects in the same most specially and principally above all worldly things let our Republicans and Westminster Juncto observe it well consisteth and resteth in the certainty and surety of the procreation and posterity of the Kings Highness in whose most Royal person at this present time is no manner of doubt nor question as the Statutes of 1 Jac. c. 1 2. resolve there was none at all in King Iames or King Charles did thereupon by this special Act and a strict Oath declare aad establish the surety title or succession of the Crown of England in him and his Heirs for ever upon which dependeth all our joy and wealth as they more at large expresse 13ly God himself in direct terms declares that it is a matter and badge of honour and prosperity for any Nation to be advanced from a Commonwealth or Principality into a Kingdom Ezech. 15.13 14. Thou didst prosper into a Kingdom And thy renown went forth among the Heathen for thy beauty for it was perfect through my comelynesse which I put upon thee saith the Lord which compared with Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers that are ordained of God Col. 1.16 For by him are all things created that are in Heaven and

the Traytor of Traytors Acts 1.18 Mat. 27.5 Peruse over all our Books Records Histories and you shall finde a principle in Law a rule in Reason and a trial in experience That Treason doth ever produce fatal and final destruction to the Offender and never attaineth to the desired end two incidents inseparable thereunto And therefore let all men abandon it as the most poisonous Bait of the Devil of Hell and follow the precept in holy scripture Fear God honor the King and have no company with the Seditious Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum So he Now because M.P. finds some Grandees of his own Profession sitting in the House to countenance and make up this Vnparliamentary Juncto he shall desire them in the first place seriously to consider how much they have formerly and now again dishonoured themselves and the whole profession of the Law in sitting in complying with acting under such illegal Anti-Parliamentary Conventicles Powers Changes Changers yea crying them up for legal English Parliaments Powers obeying executing all their illegal new Knacks Orders Ordinances as Acts of Parliament in civil criminal real or personal Causes against all Records Law-books presidents of former Ages their own Judgments Oaths Science Consciences to the intollerable scandal of their Robe the injurie abuse of the whole Nation the prejudice of all their lawfull Superiours and the Publick the encouragement of usurping Traytors Tyrants Oppressors in their waies of wickedness the ill example of most others and their own just reproach 2ly To observe How God in his retaliating Justice hath recompensed this their wilfull prevarication upon their own heads by turning many of them out of their respective places of Judicature honor profit the ground of this their sinfull complyance with infamy dishonour reproach even by the very Persons with whom they unworthily complyed and those especially in present power who had neither been an House of Commons much lesse a mock Parliament without their presence and complyance 3ly That the base unworthy unchristian complyance of the Lawyers and Clergy of England with our late trayterous Innovators Usurpers out of base fear sordid covetousnesse ambition self-saving or self-seeking to the prejudice ruine of King Kingdom Parliament Lords Law hath brought an universal odium upon them with those with whom they most complyed as well as others the Army Officers and present Juncto under a pretext of Reforma●ion designing both their ruines through the Jesuites Politicks who now bear greatest sway having turned many of them with scorn and contempt out of their former places of Judicature beyond their expectations and reviled both their persons and professions to their faces as a Generation of sordid Temporizers and useless faithless persons not fit to be entrusted any more but discarded out of their new lawlesse Republick which hates both Law and Gospel as warranted by neither and repugnant unto both 4ly That the only way now to regain their lost Honour and preserve both our Laws Liberties Religion establish future peace settlement and prevent impendent ruine is to endeavour to restore our antient hereditary just legal Kingship Kings Governors Government with all their necessary invaded Prerogatives Lands Revenues Rights Jurisdictions and inviolably to preserve them with their lives and estates against all conspiracies of Popes Jesuits and foreign enemies to subvert and undermine them in any kind as the several memorable Parliaments and Statutes of 29 H. 6. c. 1. 31 H. 6. c. 1. 39 H. 6. c. 1. 25 H. 8. c. 22. 2 E. 6. c. 26. 7 E. 6. c. 12. 1 Eliz. c. 3.4.20 5 Eliz. c. 1.29.30 13 Eliz. c. 1.2 23 24 18 Eliz. c. 21.22 23 Eliz. c. 1.13.14 27 Eliz. c. 1 2.28.21 29 Eliz. c. 7 8. 31 Eliz. c. 14 15. 35 Eliz. c. 2.12 13. 39 Eliz. c. 26 27. 43 Eliz c. 17 18. 1 Jac. c. 1. 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5 25 26. 7 Jac. 6 22 23. 21 Jac. c. 32 33. 3 Car. c. 5 6. in their respective preambles and bodies worthy our most serious review in the Statutes at large resolve being more to be credited pursued than all the rash Jesuitical suggestions votes and inconsiderable resolutions of any unparliamentarie Conventicle or upstart Pseudo-Polititians advancing themselves to the helm of our new Republick by colour of the Statute of 17 Car. 7. Which Bill by the Commons House resolution in their Remonstrances of 15 Dec. 1641. seems to be some restraint of the Regal power in dissolving of Parliaments not to take it out of the Crown but to suspend the execution of it for the time and occasion only which was so necessary for the Kings own security and the Publick peace that without it they could not have undertaken any of those great things but must have left both the Armies to disorder and confusion and the whole Kingdome to blood and rapine Therefore the Parliament must needs determine by the Kings death as he hath infalliby evidenced beyond contradiction In the last place Mr. Prynne shall most importunately beseech all the antient Nobility secluded Members well-affected Gentry Clergy Commonalty of the English Nation which had never so many effeminate false heads and hearts as now many Jesuite Priest Monk lurking under the disguise of womanish Perewigges brought into fashion by them as they now tender their own private or the publick safety weal settlement and preservation of our endangered Church Religion Kingdom Parliament Laws Privileges Properties and prevention of their impendent ruine First of all seriously to consider lament cast off reform their own late present monstrous sottish stupidity sleepinesse self saving self-seeking Spirits and most unworthy un-manly un English unchristian pusillanimity cowardize fear of a few contemptible Mercinary mortal men who shall shortly dye and become as dung upon the earth and their grosse breach of all publick Oaths Protestations Leagues Covenants in not opposing resisting them manfully in their several places and callings Which hath been the principal cause of all the publick Changes Innovatons Oppressions Grievances Exorbitances Insolencies they have hitherto suffered by their own armed hirelings and are the saddest symptomes of our approaching imminent desolation if not speedily repented redressed redressed ere it be over late 2ly To pursue these Gospel advises 1 Cor. 16.13 Watch ye stand fast in the Faith quit ye like men be strong Gal. 5.1 Phil. 1.27 28. Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free and be not intangled again with the yoke of Bondage in one Spirit striving together with one mind for the Faith of the Gospel the fundamental Laws Liberties Government Privileges of the Nation And in nothing terrified by your Adversaries which will be to them an evident token of perdition but to you of salvation and that of God 3ly Do you all now publickly resolutely constantly unanimously according to the tenor of the Solemn League and Covenant claim assert vindicate and endeavour to preserve with your Lives and

Italian Frier specially recommended by them to the pursuite of the King of Spain who prosecuted it all he could to promote his universal Monarchy and so much rejoyced at it that he was the first foreign King who presently sent an extraordinary Ambassador to congratulate the accomplishment applaud the constitution of enter into a League of Friendship with it whose flattering panygerick in his Great Catholique Kings name in prayse thereof and what an honour it was to them that he was the first forein Prince that owned them for a Common wealth made the Commons House so intoxicated that they gratified him in all his requests and pursued all his designs only to ruine us and the Netherlands layd down by Campanella De Monarchia Hispanica c. 25 27. by furnishing him with many thousands of Irish forces quarrelling with the Hollanders maintaining above three years bloody wars with them with infinite losse and expence to both Nations taking the French Kings Fleet provisions merely designed for the reliefe of Dunkirk whereby he presently regained it to our prejudice And on the other hand Cardinall Richlieu of France the great Incendiary of Christendome and somenter of all our Domestick wars in his life the French King and Mazarine by his instructions in writing after his death vigorously pursued this very design His instructions to this purpose recorded by Conte de Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato an excellent Italian Historian are very memorable who relates That Cardinal Richelieu Anno 1642. after he had involved the King Parliament and Ireland in a bloody Civil war being near his death delivered these politick instructions for the King his Master to pursue for carrying on his designs in relation to England with successe That above all other things he should endeavour to keep the Government of Great Britain divided and dis-united by ayding the weaker party that the other might not make it self too powerfull By cau●ing the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland to be divided either by nominating other Kings elective of another family accomplished by erecting an elective Protector or by moulding them into a Common-wealth as our Republicans have formerly and now done again Yet with this caution That when they are reduced into a Common-wealth so to order the matter That it may not be united into one but divided How punctually Cardinal Mazarine prosecuted these instructions ever since and accomplished them at last the Letters taken in the Lord Digbyes Cabinet printed by the Parliaments order 1646. and O. Cromwels late intimate correspondency with Mazarine discover And how much the Iesuites and Catholicks in France in November 1648. approved applauded the turning of our hereditary Monarchy which they irreconcila●ly hated envyed as well as the late King and turning the Old Parliament into a new Republican Representative and that all their hopes to effect it were in the Army to whom they wished all prosperity therein you may read in a Letter sent from thence by the Armies Agent to a sitting Republican Member soon after published by Mr. Prynne who got the original Mr. Prynne knowing all this and clearly discovering a fresh combination between the Sectaries Republican Anabaptistical Jesuitical levelling party to pursue their designs afresh and accomplish what they formerly attempted in the short Mock-Parliament of their own election creation Anno 1653. and what was then passionately recommended to them by John Canne the Anabaptist in his Voyce from the Temple dedicated to them as their Generation work which God and all his people then expected and required from them even to extirpate the Church Ministry of England Advowsons Glebes Tithes and demolish all Parish Churches as Antichristian to extirpate the Law root and branch under pretext of reforming and new-moulding it to sell all Corporation and College lands and set up a popular Anarchy or tyrannical Oligarchy among us under the disguise of the Old Dissolved Parliament sitting from 1648. till April 20. 1653. after six years violent ejection of them with highest scorn and reproach yet now invited by them to sit again to effect these Romish designs to our utter Confusion but secluding all those who were like to obstruct or defeat them Upon this consideration Mr. Prynne as a secluded Member of the old Parliamemt wherein he detected oppugned all these Treasonable Designs heretofore and since its dissolution by the Kings beheading held it his bounden duty to prevent defeat them now and nip them in the bud whereupon so soon as those now sitting entred the House he assayed to go into it with as many old secluded Members as he could there being 80 of them in London For although his judgement be that this Parliament is quite dissolved by the Kings beheading as he oft declared in print yet since the Army-Officers and those now sitting with sundry others pretend it still in being and under that pretext alone have acted all their publick Tragedies and Innovations he conceived himself bound in Conscience upon their Concessions to endeavour to prevent these mischiefs and do all Publick good he might with better warrant and reason than most Ministers Lawyers Justices Magistrates Members of late Parliaments as they style them have prayed for complyed with acted in under those late Governors Governments mock Parliaments as he is confident some now sitting among them in this new Convention believe it dissolved and yet go in only to prevent and allay those mischiefs which others violently pursue which their own Consciences and our laws resolve them without scruple to be utterly illegal whereas this old Parliament whereof he was a Member was most legallie summoned and convened beyond dispute and hath the colour of a legal Act or Parliament for its continuance which those since have wanted of which Act the greatest part of those now sitting taking advantage notwithstanding their new Instruments Declarations Petitions Advises Addresses and Sessions in other new Parliaments since and it being a great dispute now among most secluded Members whether that Parliament was not yet alive though the King be dead the majority of their Voyces over-ruling his private Judgement as in all other Parliamentary Votes and proceedings gave a present sufficient call warrant to him and others to enter the House to debate it and act what and as they did which will satisfie all those who censure it as unwarrantable or contradictory to his judgement especially when they shall hear what he really intended to propose to the sitting Members when he got into the House had they not gone out to prevent it 1. He intended to inform them of those destructive Jesuitical ends and designs forementioned which they were now purposely called in to accomplish carrying along Thomas Campanella Richilieus Instructions with other Books papers of theirs and some printed Copies of the Republicans and others Good Old Cause truly and fully anatamised now put out and published to dis-engage them from its pursute at the first before they

Frauds and indirect practises in others 3ly That old House of Commons had a special care of providing for the Kings Armie his urgent and present occasions professed themselves his loyal Subjects and him to be their King and Soveraign Lord humblie besought his most Excellent Majesty that it might be declared and enacted by him that this Parliament might not be dissolved prorogued or adjourned but by Act of Parliament acknowledging they could make no such Act without his Majesties Royal assent and that both the King and Lords House were essential Members of the Parliament within this Act. But those sitting since 1648. till 1653. and now again thus entring the House by pretext of this Act have renounced abjured and professedlie engaged against all this to which they are direct Antipodes Therefore no Commons House within this Act. 4ly The Commons House within this Act was that House which was then in being when this Act passed dulie elected by the people by the Kings Writs not the Armie-Officers and pursued the self-same ends recited in the preamble for which this Act was made and assented to by the King and Lords But this New House was created constituted not by the Kings writs or peoples election but the Armies swords and conspiracie 7 years after this Act first passed then disowned and turned out of Doors above 6 years by the Army and now re-inducted into it by their armed Votes and force to serve their ends not to pursue those mentioned in the Act accomplished many years since and now becoming impossible Therefore they are not so much as an House of Commons within this Act and the Armie-Officers and Souldiers who formerly thrust them out now recall them may do well to consider that Gospel-Text Gal. 2.18 If I build again the thing I destroyed I make my self a Transgressor even against this very Law as well as the law of God and other laws of the Land XI If they are not so much as a Commons House of Parliament much less then are they the lawfull Parliament of England in anie sense within the letter or meaning of this Act no more than so manie of the old Gunpowder Popish-Traitors had their Treason taken so good effect in blowing up King Iames the Lords whole House and majoritie of the Commons House there assembled as their late new Powder-plot hath done had been the onlie lawfull Parliament of 3 Iac. they destroyed in case they had entred then into the Commons House with the Mace before them and created stiled themselves alone the Parliament of England as a right devolved unto them by Conquest or Succession which had they presumed to do no doubt the whole English Nation would have risen up against them as one man and never have so far dishonored themselves their Religion or Countrie as to own and submit to those Jesuitical Romish-Traitors only for destroying of their lawfull King Lords House and English Parliament it self as the onlie true old English Parliament then re-assembled The Reasons are unanswerable 1. Because the whole House of Commons then sitting in its primitive splendor fullnesse freedome was by its own quadruple acknowledgement in it no more but the Commons House and one Member of this Parliament not the Parliament it self never owning owning but professedlie disclaiming it self to be the Parliament or present Parliament within this Act. 2 ly Because this Act was made not by the Commons alone without the King or Lords concurrence but by the King as their Soveraign Lord declaring and enacting and the Lords and Commons as jointlie assenting thereunto 3 ly Because it is most absurd to conceive that the King and Lords by passing this Act to continue this Parliament as then constituted till dissolved by Act of Parliament did ever intend to seclude themselves quite out of it or to make the Commons House alone an absolute independent Parliament without both or either of them though five times speciallie providing by name for their Parliamentarie interests Or that they or the Commons intended to make each of themselves a distinct Parliament without the other and so to erect three New Parliaments at once by providing against the untimelie proroguing adjourning or dissolving of one The King and Lords both jointlie and severallie having the self-same Arguments from this Act to prove each of them a several or joint Parliament without the Commons by the Commons own intention in passing this law as the Commons have to justifie themselves to be a Parliament now they have secluded and engaged against them both and will admit of neither as Members of their Parliament when as this verie Act preciselie prohibits the King to dissolve prorogue or adjourn the Parliament or either House therof or the Lords to prorogue or adjourn much less dissolve the Commons House or the Commons to prorogue or adjourn much lesse dissolve the Lords House declaring and enacting That at any time or times during the continuance of this Parliament the Lords House shall not be adjourned nor yet the Commons House but onlie by their own respective Orders and by themselves alone declaring enacting everie thing and things whatsoever done or to be done to the contrarie to be utterly void and of none effect 4 ly Because this Act both in the Title prologue and body prevents onlie the untimely proroguing adjourning and dissolving of this present Parliament at any time or times during the continuance of it but by Act of Parliament or themselves stiling it 8. several times this present Parliament and giving it no other Title yea it preciselie describes it to be a Parliament onlie of King Lords and Commons as it was when this Act was made and so to continue till its dissolution But the Parliament now sitting was not this present Parliament being not then known heard of nor imagined ever to start up in After-ages by any who made or consented to this Law it being created onlie by the Armie 7 years after this Act and now revived full 18 years after it without anie King or House of Lords and protesting engaging against them both as no Members of it Neither can they pursue any one of those ends for which this Parliament was continued Therefore they are doubtlesse beyond dispute no Parliament at all within the words or intention thereof their own Consciences Reason being Judges whatever they pretend nor yet by their own Republican principles a free and equal Representative of the people 6 ly By the Law and Custom of all Nations Nature Reason Justice Equitie the laws of England and of all publick or private Ecclesiastical Civil or Militarie Councils or Corporations the Majority of persons Members Voyces Votes are alwayes reputed the Parliament Council Synod Corporation and do yea ought of right to bind the lesser part as well in making Laws Ordinances as Elections and all else that concerns the publick Yea the General and General Counsel of the Army-Officers in their Petition to those and others now

sitting in Parliament and draught of an Agreement of the people for a secure and present peace framed prepared and presented to them to be established and subscribed by the people January 20. 1649. not onlie subscribed thereto but proposed That 150 Members at least be alwayes present in each sitting of the Representative at the passing of any Law or doing of any Act whereby the People are to be bound saving that the Number of sixty may make the House for Debate or Resolutions that are preparatory thereunto Therefore the 42 Members secretlie skipping into the House secluding the rest May 7 9 being not the 10th part of the Members of the old Parl. now surviving by all Nations Laws Consents can be no Parliament nor House of Commons within this Act nor pass anie thing to bind the Majoritie of the Members or people in anie kind whatsoever what ever anie imprudent illiterate shameless namelesse Scriblers or themselves against their own Reasons Consciences Iudgements principles resolutions pretend to the contrarie but dare not once affirm in good earnest It being a received Maxime in all Ages Populi minor pars Populum non obligit 6 ly It is a rule in our Lawbooks That all Statutes ought to be interpreted according to Reason and the true mind meaning intention of those that made them but it is most certain That it is against all reason and the true intents minds meaning of the Makers of this law to make a Parliament without a King or House of Lords or Majoritie of the Commons-House Or that all or anie of them when they made this Act did ever dream of such a Juncto as this now sitting Or to seclude themselves and resign up their own interests freedoms privileges right of sitting in Parliament with them to constitute them the onlie Parliament of England as everie line syllable throughout the Act demonstrates Therefore they neither are nor can be a Parliament within it neither can the Bedlam Turkish Bruitish unreasonable Argument of the longest Sword or Armie-logick nor the petitions addresses of any Crack-brain'd Sectaries and vulgar Rabble of inconsiderable illiterate people nor the presence of anie Lawyers sitting with or acting under them as a Parliament to their own and their Professions dishonour make them so in their own or any Wisemens or Judicious honest Lawyers Judgement whatsoever And therefore out of Conscience shame justice prudence and real Christianitie have they anie left they must needs disclaim themselves to be a Parliament and no longer abuse the Nation or others under their disguise All with Mr. Prynne if admitted would viva Voce have pressed home upon them but being forcibly secluded by their Gards because unable to answer or contradict his Law or Reason he now tenders to their view and the Judgement Resolution of the whole English Nation to whom he appeals with this publick Protestation That if they will freely call in all the surviving Members of the Lords and Commons House sitting till December 1648. without secluding anie by force or new unparliamentarie Impositions or seclusive Engagements which they have no power to impose If they upon a free and full debate shall resolve the old parliament to be still in being and not actually dissolved by the Kings beheading notwithstanding his premised Reasons to the contrarie He will then submit his private Iudgement to their Majority of Voyces in this as well as in all other Parliamentary debates and contribute his best assistance and advice as a Fellow-Member to heal the manifold breaches prevent the approaching ruines of our indangered Church Realms Parliaments Laws Liberties Peace and establish them upon better foundations than those now sitting to promote their own and the Armies interests rather than the peoples or Nations are ever likely to lay Who if they can prove themselves a true and lawfull English Parliament within this Act without either King or House of Lords or this their clandestine forcible entry into and seclusion of their Fellow-Members out of the House and Actings in it to be lawfull equitable righteous honorable parliamentarie Christian and such as well becomes either Saints Members or true good Englishmen by anie Records Parliament Rolls Acts Presidents of like kind in former Ages Law-books Customes Common or Civil-law Scripture Divinitie Reason Ethicks Policks except Machiavils and the sole Argument of the longest Sword the most bruitish unjust unchristian Turkish of all others Mr. Prynne will then publicklie declare them to be that in truth which as yet he neither can nor dares to acknowledge them to be so much as in appellation either as a Member of the Old Parliament a Covenanter a Protester a Lawyer a Scholar a Man an Englishman or a Christian And hopes that upon the perusal hereof they will as much disown themselves to be the Parliament within this Act or anie lawfull Parliament of England even in their Judgments consciences much more in actings for the premised Reasons as he or anie other secluded Members do not out of anie spirit of contradiction but Conscience and common dutie to themselves and their native Country That which principallie elevated yea inflamed Mr. Prynnes zeal both now and heretofore with all his might to oppose all late publick Innovations changes of our antient Government Parliaments Laws was this sad and serious consideration which he shall with all earnest importunitie intreat advise all Army-Officers Souldiers sitting or secluded Members of the Lords or Commons House with all well-affected persons to the safetie settlement of our Religion Church State throughout our three Nations most seriouslie to lay to heart and engrave upon their Spirits not to read it as they do News-broks only to talk of them for a day or two but as they read the evidences of their Inheritances whereby they hold all their earthlie yea heavenly possessions that they may remember act according to it all their lives That William Watson a secular Priest of Rome in his Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay Gentleman printed at Rhemes 1601. in his Quodlibets printed 1602. and William Clerk a Secular Priest in his Answer to Father Parsons Libel 1604. p. 75. c. then best acquainted with the Iesuites designs against England of all others did in precise terms publish to the English Nation in these their printed Books a That Father Parsons the English Jesuite the most active professed enemie to our English Kingship Kings Realm Church Religion his Consederate Iesuitical Society did so long since give out and prophesied That they have it by Revelation and special command from God that their order and Society was miraculously instituted for this end to work a dismal change amongst us wherein all Laws Customes and Orders must be altered and all things turned upside down and that they being the only men who have the name Title and authority of Jesus by them it is that this marvelous change and alteration shall be wrought in such sort as

from the beginning of the world was the like never heard of before to this present That this Jesuite Father Parsons in his Book Of the Reformation of all the States of England as he prescribes a Reformation of the Prince Court Counsellors Noblemen Bishops Prelates Pastors Universities Lawyers and Laws in all which he will have strange Metamorphoses so he will have the Court of Parliament it self brought to better order to effect all these dismal changes That the way whereby he they intended to bring about all these changes was to bring all England into an uprore for common Souldiers to examine their Soveraigns what Titles they hold by and by infusing this their Jesuitical principle into the Souldiers and people That every Pecope or Tartarian multitude getting once the title and stile of a publick State or Helvetian Common wealth may alter change innovate the Course Inheritance and Succession of the Crown and Lands under them to make the Island a Iaponian Island of Iesuites and infeoff themselves by hook or crook in the whole imperial dominion of Great Britain putting all the whole Blood Royal of England to the Formidon as but Heirs general in one Predicament For their better accomplishment whereof this William Watson subjoyns his own opinion in these words I verilie think that all the Puritans and Anabaptists will joyn with the Iesuites to effect the●e changes at length how far soever they seem to be and yet are in external profession of Religion there being at least half an hundred principles and odde Tricks concerning Government Authority Tyranny Popularity Conspiracy c. wherein they jump as just together as if both were made of one mould But when they shall thus joyn together he predicts That the Iesuites having more singular fine wits amongst them and manie learned men on their side whereas the Puritans and Anabaptists have none but grossum Caputs the Iesuites manie Gentiles Nobles and some Princes to side with them the Puritans but few of the first rare to have anie of the second and none of the last on their side By consequence if matters come to hammering between the Iesuites and Puritans the latter are sure to be ridden like Fools and come to wrack He superaddes to this That Father Parsons and his Companie have laid a plot as most consonant and fitting for their other Designments That the Common law of the Realm of England must be forsooth utterly abolished or else bear no greater sway in the Realm than the Civil law doth And the chief Reason is for that the State of the Crown and Kingdome by the Common laws is so strongly setled as whilst they continue the Iesuites see not how they can work their wills Secondly the said good Father hath set down a Course how every man may shake off all Authority at their pleasures as if he would become a new Anabaptist or Iohn of Leydon to draw all the World into a Mutiny Rebellion and Combustion And the Stratagem is how the common People and Souldiers must be inveigled and seduced to conceit to themselves such a Liberty or Prerogative as that it may be lawfull for them when they think fit to place and displace Kings and Princes as men do their Tenants at will Hirelings or ordinary Servants Which Anabaptistical and abominable Doctrine proceeding from a turbulent Tribe of trayterous Puritans and other Hereticks this treacherous Iesuite would now foist into the Chatholick Church as a ground of his corrupt Divinitie Mr. Prynne having some year since diligently observed all these passages with sundrie others of this nature in those Secular Priest-books and comparing them with Campanella de Monarchia Hyspanica c. 25.27 Cardinal Richlieues Instructions forecited having likewise read in the Jesuites own printed Books That they had no lesse than 931 Colleges and Seminaries of Iesuites erected in several parts of the World within the space of 120 years and no fewer than 15 Colleges and Seminaries in Provincia Anglicana in the English Province in the year 1640. wherein they had 267. Socii Societatis Fellows of their own Societie besides Novices and 4 Colleges more of English Iesuites beyond the Seas and no less than eight Colleges of Irish and several Residenciaries of Scotish Iesuites in Ireland Scotland and other places And being assured by the publick Speeches of Oliver Cromwell himself first to an Assemblie of Divines and others at Whitehall 1653. and after to his new modelled Parliament at Westminster September 4. 1654. published in print p. 16 17. That he knew verie well that Emissaries of the Iesuites never came over in such swarms as they have done since our late wars and changes were on foot and that divers Gentlemen can bear Witness with him That they have a Consistory and Counsel that rules all the Affairs of the things of England and had fixed in England in the Circuit of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the particular Instrument an Episcopal power with Archdeacons and other persons to pervert and seduce the people And being most certainlie informed That the Arch-Jesuite Sir Toby Mathew though banished by both Houses Sir Kenelme Digby a Jesuited papist whose Father had a chief hand in the old Gunpowder Treason and was himself particularlie imployed to Rome by the Queen to procure men and monies from the Pope against the Parliament where he expected to receive a Cardinals Cap Sir Iohn Winter a person excepted from pardon Mr Walter Mountague two notorious Jesuited Papists who conspired with the Popes Nuncio and College of Jesuites in Longacre to destroy the King and alter the Government of the Kingdome if he refused to turn Roman Catholick and repeal all Laws against Romish Priests Jesuites Papists and for that very end raised the first Scotish wars and which is most observable that Orelly the Popes own Nuncio in Ireland who promoted the late horrid Irish Rebellion and massacre of the Protestants sate President in the General Counsel of the Popish Rebels there for several years to carry on that Rebellion came all over into England walked openly in the Streets and VVestminster Hall when the King was brought to his Tryal and executed by their and other Iesuites instigation and our Old Kingdom metamorphosed into a new Common-wealth That Owen Ro Oneal and all the Irish Rebels under him by Orellies perswasion ent●ed into an offensive and defensive League with the New-Republicans against Marquesse Ormond the Lord Inchequin and Protestant party in Ireland who declared for Monarchy the Kings Title against their Republick And being withall assured by sundry persons of credit That there were many Iesuites under the habit of Souldiers listed in the Army and others of them under the disguise of Physicians Apothecaries Travellers Captains Merchants Factors Tradesmen Anabaptists Ranters Seekers Quakers and other Sectaries dispersed throughout all places to carry on and accomplish those dismal changes so long

whole Parliament of 1 Jacobi ch 2. expresly declared long since in the Prologue of that Act the late long Parliament in sundry Declarations Yea King Charls himself in his Declaration by advice of his Council to all his Subjects Dec. 15. 1641. Exact Collect p. 28 29. his Answer to the Lords and Commons Petition April 9. 1642. Ibid. p. 140. to their Declaration May 4. 1642. p. 163 164. and elswhere the Defence whereof against invasion subversion he made the ground of raising Forces against an Anabaptistical party faction in the Parliament intending to subvert and extirpate them root and branch as you may read at large Ib. p. 326 443 451 514 515 555 556 561 562 579 619. A Collection of Ordinances p. 28 38 39 116 117. Yet notwithstanding all these Parliament Declarations and Commissions in pursuance of them the Army-Officers Souldiers by the Jesuits suggestions have been so farr intoxicated as to attempt the utter subversion and extirpation both of our Laws and Lawyers too for whose defence they were principally raised in pursute of Father Parsons forementioned design under pretext of reforming them though the bare indirect attempt to subvert them in a farr inferiour degree was adjudged HIGH TREASON in Straffords and Canterburies cases for which they both lost their Heads AS TRAYTORS and in the Case of the Ship-mony Judges in the long Parliament That they have prosecuted this design in England to subvert our Fundamental Common Lawes and Great Charter of our Liberties is most apparent by their proceedings in their Mock Parliament and printed Vote 20 August 1653. Ordered there should be a Committee selected To consider of a New Body of the Law and the Government of this Commonwealth Compared with A True state of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland c. printed 1654. p. 15 16 17 18. which assures us That there was a strong prevailing party in that Assembly whom nothing would satisfie But a total eradication of the whole Body of the Good Old Laws of England the Gardians of our Lives and Fortunes to the utter subversion of Civil Right and Propriety c. And our two Jesuitical Prognosticators were so confident of it as if the Stars in heaven had concurred herein with the Jesuites and Anabaptistical Conventicle then on earth that in their scurrillous Prognostications they predicted the downfall not only of all our Ministers and their Tithes but of our Laws and Lawyers Prognosticating in the moneths of January February September October and December 1654. That the Lawes Lawyers of the Nation should be pulled down to the ground That the Great Charter it self should be called into question with other Liberties as not suting with English mens brains at this time That the Crabtree of the Law should be plucked up by the roots to hinder the future growth thereof There being no reason are should now be governed by the Norman Law since the Norman Race is taken away by the same instrument the sword of Conquest which brought it in They are the very words of these false Prognosticators who have many such like passages in them both before and since Which compared with the late speeches of many Common Souldiers That there should be no more Terms in Westminster Hall That they hoped very speedily to see not only the Lawyers gowns but the Lawyers themselves hanged vp over the Courts in Westminster Hall where the decayed Scots coulours hung to supply their vacant places That it would be a goodly sight to see all the Trees in St. James's Park hung with Lawyers and their gownes with sundry such like speeches since May 6. 1659. All these compared together with what Mr. Prynne hath frequently heard the Soldiers say during his neer 3. years close Imprisonment under them and their New Republike in Dunster Taunton and Pendennys Castles That they hoped ere long to see and leave neither one Lawyer nor Parish Priest throughout England Nor yet steeple steeple-house or Bells which they would sell or cast into Ordinance to fight against the Dutch c. with some Petitions and Pamphlets now on foot to the like tune and the Army-Officers fresh Proposal to those now sitting and their Votes thereon for the reformation of our Laws c. Are an infallible evidence to him that all our former late and present changes of this Nature for which this formerly eiected Repvblican Conventicle is now reassembled are the meer proiections of the All-swaying Jesuits to work our Laws speedy ruine It being their professed practice even in other forein Popish kingdoms to subvert their fundamental Lawes especially those which concern the inheritance succession of the Crown and Liberties of the Subjects for which take these two Testimonies even from forein Papists themselves The 1. in that memorable Peece Consilium de recuperanda et in posterum stu●ilienda Pace Regni P●loniae per Iesuitarum ejectionem presented to the Parl. of Poland An. 1607. out of which they were soon after banished Hic autem vos notare velim ejusdem pestis Iesuitici non minorem efficatiam esse in oppugnanda et expugnanda Republica e●terendis Legibus quoties nempe sentiunt se ab his in instituta sua venatione impediri Et quod ad Leges attinet hae politicae tineae Illas praecipue arrodere consue verunt et exedere quibus jus successionis in regno continetur Libertasque et Pax publica firmatur Which he proves by several prefidents of their shaking abolishing the very fundamental Laws of this Nature in France Hungary Styria Austria Carinthia and elsewhere and that with such success ut obtritis Legibus quibus praedictarum Nationum libertas nitebatur partem earum penitus appresserint partem ad extremam desperationem adigererint In praedictis Provinciis alicubi Illustribus et Antiquissimas Nobilitatis Familiis publice diem dictum esse intra quem se aut coram Iesuitarum Tribunali sistant aut relictis patriis sedibus alio migrent And is not this the sad desperate condition of many antient Noble Protestant Families Knights Gentlemen and others both in England Ireland Scotland and of the Royal Protestant Family since our late Warrs Changes of Government Parliaments and extirpation of all our Fundamental Laws Liberties Properties by the Jesuits and their Instruments O let our whole Nation and Republican Members too once shamefully ejected by those now calling them in consider consider consider this over and over and lay it close to heart least closing with the Jesuites now again in this New Convention as they assuredly did in the Old since December 1648. till April 1653. they incurr that sad fate of King Henry the 4th of France who after the execution of some and banishment of all Jesuites out of France upon John Castles one of their disciples stabbing him in the cheek with an intent to murder him and afterwards recalling favouring flattering them by building a stately College for them entertaining