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england_n	allegiance_n	king_n	oath_n	2,942	5	7.6429	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56140	A breife memento to the present vnparliamentary ivnto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute Charles Stewart, their lawful King / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3910; ESTC R33477	13,459	18

him all true obedience subjection and faithfully endeavour to defend his Person Estate from all danger and to the uttermost of their power establish him in all the blessings of a glorious and happy Reign And that they had no intention or desire to hurt or iniure his Maiesty either in his Person or iust power Which they seconded by many subsequent Declarations Since which both Houses and the three Kindomes of England Scotland and Ireland have entred into A solemn League and Covenant For the Honor and happinesse of the Kings Majesty and his posterity among other ends therein specified That they shall sincerely really and constantly endeavour with their estates and lives to preserve and defend the Kings maiesties person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms that the world may beare witnesse with their consciences of their Loyalty and that they have no thoughts nor intention to diminish his maiesties iust power and greatnesse That they will with all faithfulnesse endeavour to discover all evill Instruments and Incendiaries dividing the King from his people that they may be brought to publike tryall and receive condigne punishment And shall never suffer themselves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terrour to be withdrawne from this blessed union c. which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdomes and the honor of the King but shall all the dayes of their lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition And conclude This Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the searcher of all hearts with a true intention to observe the same as we shall answer at the great day when the secrets of all hearts shal be disclosed This Covenant you have all taken your selves some of you often and * imposed it on all three Kingdomes And will it not stare in your faces your consciences and engage God himselfe and all three Kingdoms as one man against you if you should proceed to depose the King destroy his person or disinherit his posterity yea bring certaine ruine upon you and yours as the greatest Covenant-breakers and most perjured Creatures under Heaven O think and think most seriously upon it before you proceed to further perjuries In 24. E 3. William Thrope cheife Iustice of the Kings Bench for taking 80 l. bribes of severall persons was by speciall Commission indited convicted and condemned to be hanged and to forfeit all his Lands Tenements Goods and chattels to the King because thereby Sacramentum Domini Regis quod ergo populum habuit custodiendum fregit maliciose falso rebelliter quantum in ipse fuit which Judgement was affirmed to be just and reasonable in full Parliament where it was openly read by the Kings command as is evident by 25. E 3. Rot. Parl. nul 10. If then this chief Justice for breaking his Oath to the King and his people as a Iudge only in taking two or three small bribes deserved to be hanged and to forfeit all his Lands Goods and Life by the judgement of full Parliament then what will such Members deserve to suffer who shall violate not only their Oaths of Allegiance and Supreamicy to the King and his heires but likewise the several Protestations solemn League Covenant and the multiplied publique faith engagements declarations Remonstrances promises of both houses of Parliament made to God the King the whole Kingdomes people of England Scotland and Ireland the States of the united Provinces and all the world an that maliciously falsely and Rebelliously as much as in them lies and their own private Faith Oaths Vowes and Covenants involved in them in deposing and executing the King disinheriting the Prince violating the priviledges usurping the power of the parliament to themselves when most of the other Members are violently secluded by the army to the subversion of the freedom liberties of all Parliaments this being one article against King Rich. the 2d in 1. H 4. Rot. Parl. 25 66 70. when he was deposed That in the Parliament held at Salop intended to oppresse his people he did subtilly procure and cause to be granted by consent of all the States in the kingdom which you have not that the power of the Parliament should remaine with certain persons * Lords and Commons to determine certaine Petitions then delivered but not dispatched after the Parl. ended by colour whereof the said deputed persons proceeded by the Kings pleasure and wil to other things generally concerning the said Parliament to the great derogation of the State and priviledges of the Parliament and the great inconveniences pernicious example of the whole Realme and to gain some colour and authority to their doings the King caused the Parliament Rolls to be altered and deleated according to his Vote contrary to the effect of the foresaid Confession as you have presumed to nul repeale and unvote divers Votes Orders and Ordinances of both Houses made in pursuance of the foresaid oathes protestations the solemn League Covenant Remonstrances Declarations of both houses the treaty when the houses were full not under the Armies force or violence And if their proceedings the whole Parliament of 21. R were declared null and void and the King worthy to be deposed for such proceedings then let Serjeant Thorp and other Lawyers now acting with you consider and informe you what punishment you deserve for such breach of faith priviledge of Parliament usurpation of a monopoly of parliamentary power to your selves now whiles under the Armies force and most Members forced thence in which case you ought not to sit vote or conclude any thing but only to adjourn till the force removed all Members may freely meet in full Parl. as is clear by that memorable Record of 6 E. 3. Par. apud Ebor n. 1.2 Dor. claus 6. E. 3. m. 4.6 E. 3. apud West parl 2. n. 1.13.3 parl 2. n. 4.15 E. n 5.17 E. 3. n 2.6.18 E. 3. n. 1.2.5 2● E 3. n. 5.21 E. 3. n. 4.22 E 3. n. 1.25 E. 3. n. 1.29 E. 3. n. 4.36 E. 3. n. 1.37 E. 3. n. 1.42 E. 3. n. 1.50 E 3. n. 1.51 E. 3. n. 3.1 R. 2. n. 1.3 R. 2. n. 1.4 R 2 n 1. R. 2. n. 1 4. R. 2. n. 1.5 R 2. parl 1. n. 1. parl 2 n 1.6 R. 2 parl 1. n. 1. parl 2. n. 18. H. 4. n. 28.30.54 9. H. 4. n. 1.13 H. 4 n. 1. and many more rolls where the Par. when any considerable number of the Members of either house were absent was constantly adjourned refused to sit or do any thing though not under any force till the houses were full much more then when under the Armies sword it being against Magna Charta as the Barons declared in Parl Anno Dom. 1257 in the reign of K. H. the third for a few Members to

sit when the rest are absent 6thly Consider that though many of the Kings of Iudah and Israel were extraordinary sinfull and Idelatrous bloody and tyrannicall great oppressours of their people yea shedders of Priests of Prophets and other good mens innocent blood not only in the wars but in peace yet there is not one president in the old Testament of any one King ever juditially impeached arraigned deposed or put to death by the Congregation Shanhedrin or Parliaments of Iudah or Israel That those who slew any of them in a tumultuous or treacherous manner were for the most part slaine themselves either in a tumult or else put to death by their Children who succeeded to the Crown or people of the Land that the Israelites after their revolt from Rehoboham had never any one good King or good day almost among them but were over-run with Idolatry prophanenesse tyranny invaded by enemies involved in perpetuall Wars Civill or Forraign and at last all destroyed and carried away Captives into Babylon as the Books of Kings and Chronicles will informe you That the rule in the Old Testament is not to take any wicked Kings from their Thrones and behead them but Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse And the rule in the New Testament To be subject to Kings and the Higher Powers and to submit unto them even for Conscience and the Lords sake and to make Prayers Supplications and Intercessions for them that under them we may lead a peacable and quiet life in all Godlinesse and honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour not to depose or shed their bloud for which there is no precept And is not this plaine way of God the safest for you and the Army to follow yea the only short cut to Peace and settlement Ruminate upon it and then be wise both for your soules good and the Kingdomes too 7thly Consider that you now meet and sit under the armed force and violence of a mutinous Army who have leavyed Warre against the houses to dissolve them imprison'd many of your Members forcibly secluded more and driven away almost all from the Houses That til the removal of this horrid force reassembling of all your scattered Members with freedome and safety in the Houses al you Vote Act Order or Ordaine by the Armies owne Doctrine in their Remonstrance of August 18 and the Declaration and Ordinance of both Houses made at the Armies instance August 20 1647. is nul and void even at and from the time it was voted acted ordered ordained and so declared by your selves even by this unrepealed Ordinance and by former Parliaments to as 21. R. 2. c 12.1 H 4 c 3.31 H 6 c 1 39 H 6 c 1. And however you may take upon you the name and power of the Houses of Parliament and unvote vote order and ordaine what you please yet take it for an infallible Truth that none of the secluded and absent Members none of the Counties Cities and Burroughs for which they serve not those for whom you serve and represent nor yet the Kingdomes of England Sco●land and Ireland who have as great or greater shares and interest in the person of the King as their lawfull Soveraign and are engaged by Oaths Covenant and all the forecited premises to protect his person and Crown with their lives and estates against all violence danger with Queen Children and Allies in forraigne parts of what Religion soever will never own you in your present condition and constitut●on to be a Parliament but rather a Conventicle or Iuncto nor any thing you vote order or ordain to be vailed And therefore what ever you vote Order or Ordaine concerning the Treaty the deposing or executing the King the Disinheriting or Banishing the Prince dissolving the present Parliament setting up a new confused Representative or new forme of State Goverment only to please the Officers and Army or rather those Jesuits and popish Priests who have overreached instigated them forcibly to prosecute these their treasonable designes and accomplish this their long expected desire work you must do only as private men not as a Parliament and if so what lesser offence then High Treason against the King Parliament and kingdom your present actings and proceedings will prove in the conclusion if you persevere and persist in them I leave to a free Parliament the learned Judges and all Lawyers now sitting and voting among you to consider and resolve Which the Officers and Councell of the Army considering would cast the Odium and danger of all upon you the better to exempt and acquit themselves if after reckonings should come as probably they may and certainely will in Gods due time if you and they repent not give over and crave pardon ere it be over late 8ly Remember That no protestant Kingdome or State ever yet defiled their hands or stained the purity and honour of their Reformed Religion with the deposition or blood of any of their Kings or Princes much lesse of a protestant King o● Prince of a temperate and sober life as the King is who never immediately imbrued his owne hands in any one mans blood in any tyranical or bloody way before or since the wars for ought I can heare but only in a Military And for a Reforming protestant Parl. pretending the most of any to piety religion to stain their profession or honour by the deposition or defile their hands with the blood of a protestant King or for an army of Saints to do it or they to please a Saint-seeming Army and that against so many fore-mentioned oathes protestations declarations Remonstrances Solemn League and covenants one after another to the contrary would be such an unparall'd scandall to the protestant Religion all professors of it who have upbraided the Iesuits and papists with this perfidious treasonable practise of which they have been deeply guilty themselves innocent both in our owne 3 kingdoms and the whole Christian world as would give the greatest occasion advantage and encouragement to the Jesuites papists and all licentious persons to joyne their hands heads purses to suppresse and extirpate it and all the professors of it both at home and abroad that ever yet they had and make Parliaments for ever hereafter execrable and detestable both to Kings and people 9ly Consider that Scotland Ireland are joynt tenants at least wise tenants in Common with us in the King as their lawfull Soveraigne and King as well as ours and that the Scots delivered and left his person to our Commissioners at Newcastle upon this expresse condition That no violence should be offered to his Person c. according to the Covenant How then you can un-king or depose him as to them or take away his life upon pretext of justice without their concurrent assents is worthy your saddest thoughts If