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A91216	Loyalty banished: or England in mourning· Being a perfect narrative of the present affairs and proceedings, between divers Members of Parliament, and M. Wil. Prynne ... With the several speeches made in the House, by Sir Arthur Haslerigge, Sir Henry Vane, Master Hungerford, and Mr. Ansley; and the answer and reply of the said Mr. Prynne thereunto ... together with his proposals to the people; and the names of the secluded Members cast into hell, by the power of the sword; and what proceeded thereupon. As also Mr. Prynnes demands to the Parliament, in the name of all the commons of England.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4007; Thomason E986_20; ESTC R203254	7,351	8

Loyalty Banished OR ENGLAND IN MOURNING BEING A perfect Narrative of the present Affairs and Proceedings between divers Members of Parliament and M. WIL PRYNNE neer the Lobby at WESTMINSTER With the several Speeches made in the House by Sir Arthur Haslerigge Sir Henry Vane Master Hungerford and Mr. Ansley and the Answer and Reply of the said Mr. Prynne thereunto by virtue of the power and Summons derived from King CHARLES Together with his Proposals to the People and the Names of the secluded Members cast into HELL by the power of the SWORD and what proceeded thereupon As also Mr. Prynnes demands to the Parliament in the Name of all the Commons of ENGLAND Printed in the Year 1659. ON the seventh of this instant May Mr. Prynne walking to Westminster-Hall where he had not been six daies before meeting with some old secured and secluded Members of Parliament summoned by King Charles his Writ and Authority for these onely ends expressed in all Writs of Summons to the Lords and of elections issued to Sheriffs of Counties for electing Knights Citizens and Burgesses of Parliament and in the Indentures themselves by which they were returned members To confer and treat of certain great and arduous affairs concerning the defence of the King Kingdome and Church of England and to do and consent to those things which shall happen to be therein ordained by Common counsel of the King Lords and Commons touching the aforesaid businesses which Parliament began at Westminster the third day of November 1640. They shewed him a Declaration of the Officers and Counsel of the Army made in such hast and confusion that they mistook the month wherein they made it dating April 6. instead of May 6. published by them that morning which declaration the day before was presented to the speaker of the said Parliament at the Rolls by divers Officers of the Army in the name of Coll Fleetwood and the Counsel of Officers of the Army in presence of many Members of said the Parliament containing their earn●st desire That those Members who continued to sit since the year 1648. untill the twentieth of April 1653. would return to the exercise and discharge of their trust Upon which Mr. PRYN if he could enter the House intended to send for the rest of the Members walking in the Hall to come in unto them and to move that all surviving Members of this Parliament might by joynt consent particularly be sent to and invited to meet and sit in the House at a convenient day before any Vote or Order passed by them then sitting thus suddainly convened without any notice which would be interpreted rather a surprize and un-Parliamentary practise both by the absent Members and the whole Nation than any obliging Parliamentary Vote or Order of the house and more discontent then invite or unite the absent unsummoned Members of that Parliament making the rent greater then before Upon these resolutions alone and none other which Mr. P intended to propose to those then sitting he went to the Lobby door of the Commons House accompanied with Sir George Booth Mr. Arthur Annesley Sir Iohn Evelyn Mr. Th. Gewen Mr. Charles Rich Mr. Mountague Mr. Rich. Knightly Mr. Hungerford and one or two more which being shut to keep out the people crowding on the stairs to get in through whom they could hardly pass Mr. P. knocked twice or thrice but could get no admittance till the door being opened to let out Mr. Nye and some other Ministers Mr P. with Sir George Booth and Mr. Annesley being formost pressed into the Lobby and then the door being shut and bolted again Mr. P. unbolted and held it open till the rest came in where they finding Mr. John and Mr. James Herbert standing in the Lobby accquainted them with their intentions to go then into the House who resolved to go in with them Coming all up to the House door which was shut and kept Guarded as it presently appeared by some Officers of the army Mr. P. required them to open the door to let them in being all Members of the old Parliament who thereupon demanded Whether they had continued sitting in it since 1648. to 1653 M. P. and the rest all answered That being Members of the old Parliament they would give no account to them or any others of their sitting but onely to the House it self whereof they were Members being contrary to the priviledge of Parliament which they and others were obliged inviolably to maintain Upon which demanding their names they said that if they would send in a Note of their names to the house and they ordered them to come in they should be admitted Whereto Mr. P. replyed We yet knew not who were within the House nor whether they were yet sitting nor upon what account they sate nor was it agreeable with the custome or priviledge of Parliament for one Member to send tickets to his fellow-Members for free admission into the House being all equals and having an equal right freely to enter into it at all times as well as they nor was it their duty thus to capitulate with Members but obey their just commands in opening the door Which they still refusing Mr. P. demanded Who and what they were being all strangers to them and by whose authority or order they thus forcibly kept them out They answered they were Officers of the Army and had sufficint authority to keep them out if they had not sate since 1640. till 1653. Mr. P. demanded From whom they had their warrant since they could have none from those within being but newly entred and none else could give them such a warrant nor they within before they heard them and gave good reason for it demanding them to produce their Order if they had any in writing that they mght know by whose authority they were thus forcibly kept out demanding their several names twice or thrice wherewith they refused to acquaint them Upon this M P. told them They doubted of their Authority or Orders thus to seclude them because they were either ashamed or afraid to tell them their names when as th●y told them theirs That they knew not whether they were Officers of the Army or not unless they knew their names so that they might inquire the truth of it or saw their Commissions and if they were Army Officers indeed they had published a printed D●cl in all their names that morning inviting as they conceiv'd all Members they formerly secluded to return sit again in the House to discharge their trusts wherein they professed their former force upon and seclusion of them to be a backsliding and wandring into Unrighteous Paths w●ich they seemingly repented of promising to yield their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety and praying for the presence and blessing of God upon their endeavours And if now within few hours after this Remonstrance published they thus highly and publikely violated it in the view of all there present by returning

who said they were glad to see him in health and meet him there again The House being thin Mr. P. turned to the statute of 17 Caroli C. 7. reading it to himself and after that to two other Members telling them it was a doubt whether the old Parliament was not determined by the Kings death notwithstanding that act which was fit to be first freely debated in a full House before ought else was done Upon which they demanded why he came amongst them if he made a scruple or thought it to be dissolved who answered to have it fully debated and resolved in a full and free House After which Sir Arthur Haslerigge coming in Mr. P. saluted and told him He was glad to meet him again in this place who presently answered He had nothing to do to sit there as a Member being formerly secluded Whereto he replyed He had as good right to sit there as himself or any other Member whatsoever upon the account of the old Parliament if in being having acted written suffered more in defence of the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament than himself or any sitting with him Upon which Sir Henry Vane coming in and stepping up to them said in a menacing manner Mr. Prynne What make you here you ought not to come into this House being formerly voted out I wish you as a friend quietly to depart hence else some course will be presently taken with you for your presumption which Sir Arthur seconded telling him if he refused that there would be a speedy course taken and a charge put in against him for his meetings on Saturday and actings against the House To which he replyed He had as good if not a better right to sit than either of them That he knew of no Vote to seclude nor of any there who had right or power to vote him out being equally intrusted with themselves for the whole Nation and those he represented That he was never convicted of any breach of his Parliamentary trust and hoped they would have both the justice and patience to hear before they voted him out And then he doubted not to make it appear themselves were greater Infringers of their trusts and more worthy to be voted out than himself As for their Charge and menaces he was no way affrighted with them it being as free and lawful for him and other Members to meet and advise together both as Members and Freemen of England for preservation of themselves the peoples Rights and Parliaments Priviledges when forcibly secluded as they did on Saturd●y as for themselves or the Army Officers to meet privately and publickly both in and out of the House to deprive them of their priviledges as they had oft times done of late That these high menacing words where a very ill performance of their new published Declaration delivered him at the door viz. That they were resolved by the gracious assistance of Almighty God to apply themselves to the faithfull discharge of their legal Trust to assert establish and secure the property and Liberty of the people in reference unto all both as Men and as Christians which if they should publikely violate and null by any uniust Charge or proceedings against him who had suffered so much both as an English Freemen Christian and Member too by their three years close imprisonment of him without cause or hearing under their new Free-state when first erected and now again upon their very first reviving of it though a Member only for coming into the House and meeting with other Members to claim their rights It would highly reflect upon their intended new Free-state and make all out of love with it Mr. P. having acquainted some secluded Members in the Hall with these passages in the House who agreeing to send a Letter to the Speaker touching their forcible seclusion on Saturday he returned to Lincolns Inne where he dined in the Hall immediately after dinner he repaired to Westminster with a resolution to go into the House if admitted or protest against the force if secluded by the Army Guards there placed he found an whole Troop of Horse in the Palace-yard and a Company of Foot on the Stairs and Court of Requests drawn thither to keep him and other Members out whereupon he walked in the Hall till past three a clock expecting the Speakers coming with whom he intended to enter At last being informed that he went the back way without the Mace and was gone into the House Mr. P. to avoid tumult a company of unknown persons in the Hall going after to see the issue went purposely forth towards the Abby till all were gone from the steps and then going up only with one of his acquaintance no Member he found the door and stairs before the Lobby strictly guarded with Red-coats who with their Halberts crossed the door and steps so thick that none could pass whereupon Mr. P. demanded entrance saying he was a Member and they being ignorant who he was permitted him to pass through their pikes into the Lobby but secluded his friend from going up with him When he came at the House door to enter several Officers of the Army there placed one of them sitting in a Chair told him That he must not enter and that they had special Order to keep him out of the House Whereupon he protested against this their forcible double seclusion as an high contempt and breach of priviledge contrary to their own and the sitting Members Declaration published that day demanding in the name of all the Commons of England and those for whom he was Elected free admission for himself and other Members they kept out by a visible force of Horse and Foot which was a worse and more real levying of war against the Parliament then the beheaded King or his Party were guilty of After which one of the Army-Officers told Mr. Prynne he had deserted the Good Old Cause To which he replied that the true good Cause for which they were first raised was only to defend the Kings person Kingdom Parliament all its Members Priviledges and secure them against all force and violence whatsoever which cause they had not only deserted but betrayed and fought against contrary to all former Engagements To which cause he adhered and desired admission to maintain it To which he answered That indeed was once their Good Old Cause but now it was not so for since they had pursued another Cause Mr. P. replied that then they were real Back-sliders therein and their cause neither old nor good but bad new and destructive to the former old one IN SUMME THomas Campanella in his Spanish Universal Monarchy Chap. 30. speaks thus All Heresies when centred in Atheisme are by the wise mannagement of the Church reduced into the way of truth for Heresies have their periods as well as Commonwealths that first from lawful Monarchy are changed into a Tyranny from thence to an Aristocracy thence to a Councel of State and at length to the confusions of Democracy and at last as the final rest of all tumultuous and otherwise ceaseless distempers return again into Kingship FINIS