A BRIEF MEMENTO To the present UNPARLIAMENTARY JUNCTO Touching their present intentions and Proceedings to Depose and Execute CHARLES STUART their lawful KING By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esquire a Member of the House of Commons and Prisoner under the Armies Tyranny who it seems have leavyed Warre against the Houses of Parliament their quondam Masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detain Captives during their lawless Pleasures Proverbs 24.21,22 My Son Fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those who are given to Change for their calamity shall RISE SUDDENLY and who knoweth the ruin of them both Gal. 1.10 If I yet pleased men I should not be the Servant of Christ LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1649. Die Veneris 20. Augusti 1647. An Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both Houses since the force on both Houses July 26. until the sixth of this present August 1647. to be null and void WHereas there was a visible horrid insolent and actual force upon the Houses of Parliament on Monday the 26 of July last whereupon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were * And yet never a Member forcibly imprisoned or secluded the House as above 200. are now by the Army forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could not return to sit in safety before Fryday the sixth of August It is therefore declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled that the Ordinance of Monday the said 26. July for the repealing and making void of the Ordinance of the 23. of the said July for the setling of the Militia of the City of London being gained by force and violence And all Votes Orders Ordinances passed in either or both Houses of Parliament since the said Ordinance of the 26 of July to the said sixt of August are null and void and were so at the making thereof and are hereby declared so to be the Parliament being under a force and not free Provided alwaies and be it Ordained that no person or persons shall be impeached or punished for his or their actions by or upon or according to the aforesaid Votes Orders or Ordinances unless he or they shall be found guilty of contriving acting or abetting the aforesaid visible and actual force or being present at or knowing of the said force did afterwards act upon the Votes so forced or were guilty of entring into or promoting the late Ingagement for bringing the King to the City upon the terms and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A brief Memento to the present Vnparliamentary Juncto touching their present intentions and Proceedings to depose and Execute CHARLS STUART their Lawfull King of ENGLAND c. GENTLEMEN IT is the observation of King Solomon Prov. 25.11 That is word spoken in due season is like Apples of gold in pictures of silver And seeing I and above two hundred Members more being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparalell'd violence upon our Persons and the House cannot speak my mind freely to you in or as a free and legal House of Commons I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you onely as private Persons sitting under an armed horrid visible force consulting in the House without your Fellow Members advice or concurrence about the speedy deposing and executing of KING CHARLS your lawfull Soveraign onely to please the General Officers and Grand Councel of the Army who have unjustly usurped to them the Supreme Authority both over the King and Parliament or rather of the Jesuits and Popish Priests among or near them by whose Counsels they and you are now wholly swayed and whose trayterous designs you really execute in most of your late Votes and Actings I have onely a few words and Considerations to impart unto you Dictum sapienti sat est First I shall mind you that by the a Cook 3. Institut c. 1. p. 5 6. 12 13. 7 Reports Calvius Case 10 11. Stanfords Pleas of the Crown l. â—… c. â—… Common Law of the Realm the Statutes of 25 E. 3. c. 2. 26 H. 8. c. 13. 1 Ed 6. c. 12. 1 El. c. 6. 13. El. c. 2. and all other Acts concerning Treason * See Rastal Tit Treason it is no lesse than High Treason for any man by overs act to compass or imagine the death of the King or of his eldest Son and heir though it be never executed much more if actually accomplished That many have been arraigned condemned executed for such intended Treasons in former ages as the Earl of Arundel and others by Judgement in Parliament 21 R. 2. Plac. Coronae Nu 4.6,7 and the Gunpowder Traytors 3 Jacobi c. 1 2 4. to omit others whose Examples should be your Admonitions the heads and Quarters of some of them yet hanging on the House where now you meet and sit 2ly That in the * 3 Iac. c 4. 7 Iac. c. 6. Oath of Allegiance which you have all taken ought to take Immediately before your admission into the Commons House as Members You do truly and sincerely professe testifie and declare in your Consciences before God and the World That our Soveraign Lord King Charls Is lawfull and rightful King of this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominâ—ons and Countries And that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means * See Prynne the Member reconciled to Prynne the Barrester p. 18 19. Nor with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions or to discharge any of his Subjects of his Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesties Person State or Government And that notwithstanding any sentence or Declaration of Deprivation made by the Pope c. or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience you will bear true Allegiance to His Majesty His heirs Successors and him and them will defend to the uttermost of your power against all attempts and conspiracies whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or Declaration * That is by the Pope or any other Person or persons whatsoever or otherwise And you therein further swear that you do from your hearts abhor detest and abjure as impious and Heretical that damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoevâ—r And that you do believe and in conscience are resolved that neither the Pope * Therefore not the Westminster Juncto nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve you of this Oath or any part thereof and that all these things you did plainly and