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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86729	Digitus testium, or A dreadful alarm to the vvhole kingdom, especially the Lord Major, the aldermen, and the Common-Councel of the City of London. Or a short discourse of the excellency of Englands lawes and religion. Together, with the antiquity of both, and the famous Kings that England hath had to defend both the religion and the laws against the heathen Romish emperours, and against the Romish power, under Popes. With the several plots the Popes of Rome have used against the Kings of England, to throwe them down, and how of late he hath prevailed against the magistracy and ministery of England, his new designes, and manner of progress: together, with a serious view of the new oath or ingagement, with 22. queries upon the same. And also objections made against the non-subscribers thereof answered. Let the ingenuous reader take so much pains, as to read that incomparable peece of vindication of a treatise of monarchy by way of discovery of three main points thereof.	Hall, Henry, d. 1680, attributed name.; Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687, attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing H339A; Thomason E621_13; ESTC R206419	34,005	37

Nauntons fegmenta Regalia p. 2. Sec. 1. So that the Stuarts have an unquestionable Title to the Crown of England from the old Christian brittish Kings whose antiquity is beyond all the Kings in the World The Tudors expiring in Queen Elizabeth the mighty Family of the Stuarts succeeded by an unquestionable Title as lineally descended from Margaret the eldest Daughter of Henry the 7. of whom descended James the 1. of England and sixth of Scotland he reigning 22. years died and left the possession of England Scotland and Ireland to Charles the 1. who after he had raigned 24. years was cut off by a violent death Jan. 30. 1648. at his own door So that by this it may appear by what right the Kings of England have for above these 100. years made the first and chief estate in Parliament t is by a right of succession and inheritance always acknowledged and granted by the King The House of Lords make the second Estate because the Nobility of a Kingdom are the main pillers of those political Thea●ors where they live and as they are Clarior et illustri●r pars populi they do claim that priviledge jure geutium in this Kingdom they claim it as their Birth-right never in any age denied them their house being far more ancient then the House of Commons for Henry the 1. was the first that established the House of Commons and the House of Commons make the third estate who are called by the Kings Writ and chosen by the people to be their Trustees in Parl these being chosen and come up to Westminster or the place where the King appoints they are called over in the Kings presence and there they answer for what Shire or Town they are which done by the Kings Commandment they choose them a Speaker who maketh requests to the King that he would be content that they may injoy their liberties to speak their minds freely that they may punish any of their House offending that they may in doubts have the liberty to consult with His Majesty and the House of Lords promising in the Commons names not to abuse but to improve their priviledges as faithful true and loving subjects ought to do for their Princes Honour and advantage The House of Commons have power to impeach any person of Treason except the King for the King is one of their Estates and the Head now neither of these 3. Estates can impeach an other the King Lords cannot impeach the House of Commons because it is the third estate and the King and Commons cannot impeach the House of Lords because it makes the second Estate hereby the community must necessarily dissolve it self if either of the Estates could impeach each other therefore the Lords and Commons be they never so intire and full have no power de jure to impeach the King because he makes the first estate in Parl indeed they have power to curb the exorbitances of each other and for this end their two Estates of Lords and Commons were devised to curb the excess of Monarchs but in no wise to dethrone them The House of Commons never was a Court of Judicature it had a regative voice in the making of new Lawes and the chiefest hand in granting subsidies levying Taxes and imposing Customs on this Kingdom without whom the King and Lords could not proceed The original of the Subjects liberty came first out of Germany where saith Tacitus nec Regibus libera aut infinita potestas erat Kings had not unlimitted power but the weighty matters of the Realm were dispatched by general meetings of all Estates but it can never be found that the House of Commons was a Court of Judicature they are but the Peoples Trustees and this power they have that they have a negative voice in the making of a Law or imposing of any Taxes and herein is the great and vast liberty of the English Subject included that there can be no Law imposed on them but what their Representatives or Trustees in Parl shall agree unto and if after they have agreed unto a Law which proves inconvenient or not so effectual as was intended for the good of the People The next Session saith Fortescue Cancito reformari potest And thus the Laws of England in their framing are the best Laws in the World 3. And as the best in their frame and constitution so they are the best Laws in distribution for as all Estates have a hand in framing a Law so no Estate is exempted from observing of those Laws so that English Laws may truly be called Justice in the abstract for they do suum cuique tribu●re They give the King his due the Nobles their due and the Commons their due to each man from him that welds the Scepter to him that holds the Plough it gives him his right The Law sets the King above imprisonment or attainture by his Subjects by this Rule in Law nemo imprisonetur aut disvisietur nisi per judicium Legale parium Now all other men in the Kingdom may be tryed because there are to be found his Fellow-Subjects equal in all the priviledges of a Subject with him but a King take him either in his personal capacity or publick capacity he is no Subject of the Law indeed he is sworn to maintain and defend the Law The King is bound to maintain the Law by his Oath the form of which Oath runs thus You shall keep the Church of God the Clergy and People intirely in peace and concord in God according to your power The King answers I will keep them you shall cause equal and right justice in all your judgements and discretion in mercy and truth according to your power The King answers I will do it you shall grant just Laws and Customs to be kept and you shall promise that those shall be protected by you and to the lover of God to be strengthened which the common People shall choose according to their power To which the King answers I give and promise it This Oath the King takes at his Coronation viz. Parl. Rol. 1. Hen. 4. but in case he doth not so fully execute the Laws as is meete there can be no Judge legal of the King because he is a Monark and there cannot be Judges of the accesse of Monarchy for none can be found his equals and to judge him otherwise were to deny the Monarch what is granted to the meaner Subject which is to be judged by his equalls But though the Monark cannot be judged yet the instruments of that Monark may for a Commission from the King cannot bear out a Subject beyond Law the exorbitant Commands of such a Monak as our English Monark being politically powerless and if Authority fail in the supreme Power the instrument can have none from thence derived to him but must necessarily fall under the censure of the Law so that though the King is head of the

three Estates cannot be molested yet the instruments that he implies against Law may be tryed This Law is most agreeable to the Law of God and the Law of nature to the Law of God for Kings are the Representatives of God on earth and none can touch them we see this clear in two famous instances in Saul who could crimes have brought him under the censure of men had enough to dethrone him for he was a Tyrant a murtherer and a publick enemy to the Church and State yet David when he could have done justice upon him said God forbid for he is the Lords anointed the declared King of Israel And David that was guilty of murther and adultery both of them deserving death by the Law yet was not questioned by his Subjects because God only hath the power of punishing Kings and not man This is most agreeable to the Law of nature for if Kings should be subject to their Subjects then the order must needs be confounded and the Law of nature utterly rooted up which orders approves no further then the supreme Authority which if judged by any is not the supreme and so produceth confusion and infinition Therefore we conclude that the Laws of England are the best Laws in the World in every respect both for matter form and distribution And as for Laws so for pure Religion it is beyond all other Nations it received the Apostolick faith almost if not all out as soon as Rome that brags of its antiquity Gindas telleth us that England received the Gospel in the Apostles dayes Joseph at Armathea bringing it into the Kingdom and Origen and Turtullian tell us that it received the Gospel as soon as any Natian in Europe This we are sure that it hath retained it in its purity the longest of any Nation it had a great share in the Presevitians under the Heathen Emperours of Rome after that under the Arrian and Entichion Heresies and after that under Popus the bloudiest and cruellest enemy to the Church so that from the Apostles time till this day Christian Religion though sometimes obscured never was obliterate nor extinct in the Kingdom And as this Kingdom hath been famous for Laws and Religion above others so it hath been the famousest in the World for Religious and valiant Kings to protect it and eminent Ministers to divulge it Lucious the Son of Coilus who was King of England was the first Christian King Jesus Christ smiling upon this Nation above all others in blessing it with a righteous King which was a miracle in the World at that time Constantine the 8. King of England after Lucius who was the Son of beautiful Helea King Coil his Daughter of England whom she brought forth at York he becam Emperour of Rome conquering the Heathen Emperours with a Brittish Army and so converted Rome Heathen into Rome Christian the famousest Reformation that ever was wrought in the World so that England is famous for being the first Christian Kingdom and setting up Christian Empire English Kings having been the only great friends to true Religion in the time of Paganisme And as they were the greatest friends to Christs Church against Rome Pagan so they have been the greatest friends to the true Chucrch against Rome Antixfian for about the year 1070. when the Pope was in his full height of soverainty the Normons line succeeding the Saxons in England were the first Kings that contemned the Popes Authority William the Conqueror spit at him and Wilt Rufus who succeeded him openly spake against the Popes usurped power of binding and loosing withstanding and rejecting his intrapped fopperies declaring against the Pope the folly of invocating Saints he plucked proud Arch Bishop Anselmes nose under his Girdle in despight of the Pope and so did the royal Family of the Plantagenets The Tudors and the Stuarts got their several parts in greater degrees against the Pope as they succeeded each other So that the Normans may be said to resist the Pope the Plantagenets to grapple with the Pope the Tudors to unhorse the Pope and the Stuarts to stob the Pope King James being the first King that writ against him proved him to be Antichrist Against the Kings of England the Popes have born an old grudge and indeavoured to destroy those Kings or Queens which resisted their Authority at least 12. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth were discovered and prevented which so frustrated Pope Pius Quintus projects that it broke his heart for malice that he could not with his Bulls which with his own hands he sealed depose and dethrone the Protestant Queen for she took occasion from the Popes wickedness and the Papists treachery to extirpate Priests and Jesuites out of the Kingdom whereupon Pope Gregory 13. erected a Colledge on purpose for English Priests and Jesuites that fled from England to Rome and another at Doway which was much nearer England that they might there both frame their granadoes of Treason against the English Court and receive such persons as were succesless in their Treason and made escapes out of England Against King James besides that Treason of Warson and Clarke the prodigious Gunpowder-plot was contrived by the Papists to destroy the King the Prince the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the twinkling of an eye upon this ground because Pope Clement 8. by a Bull Commanded that the King should not be crowned without a toleration of Popery but God prevented that prodigious blowe Hereupon the King and the Parl framed the Oath of allegiance to be taken by every subject in the Kingdom 't is thus I. A. B do truly and sincerely acknowle●ge profess testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the World that our Soveraign Lord K. James is lawful and rightful King of this Realm and of all other His Maj. Dominions 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 with any other hath any power of Authority to depose the King or dispose any of his Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions or to authorize any forraign Prince to invade or anoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his subjects of the allegiance and obedience to His Majesty or to give license to any of them to bear Arms or offer any violence or hurt to His Maj. person State or Government or to any of His Maj. Subjects I do swear from my hear● that no withstanding any Declaration or excom. against the King his Heirs and Successours or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience I will bear faith and true Religion to His Maj. His Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever and I do detest and abhorre as impious and heretical the damnable Doctrine of the Pope that Princes may be excommunicated and deprived of their Kingdoms deposed and murthered by their