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A56162	The first and second part of A seasonable, legal, and historicall vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ... wherein is irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary records, proofs, presidents, that we have such fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws ... : collected, recommended to the whole English nation, as the best legacy he can leave them / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen. Part 1-2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3954; ESTC R19429	161,045	206

or inheritance because in his and the Jesuites Opinion onely not in Truth he was both an Heretick and A TYRANT Asserting That it was lawful for Castle or any other private man TO DESTROY AN HERETICK OR TYRANT much more then him that was both And John Guignardus a Jesuite Fellow of the Jesuites Colledge of Claremount in his Papers then seised by and reported to the Parliament of Paris Anno 1595. not onely compared Henry the third and fourth to Nero and Herod and justified Clements murder of the one and Castles attempt upon the other as most Heroical and praise-worthy Actions but likewise added That if we in the year 1572. on Saint Bartholmews day in the General Massacre of the French Protestants had CVT OFF THE BASILICON VEINE Henry King of Navarre we had not fallen out of a Feavour into that Plague which now we finde Sed quicquid delirant Reges plectunctur Achivi SANGVINI PARCENDO That King Henry should be but over-mildly dealt with if he were thrust from the Crown of France into a Monastery and there had his crown shaven That if he could not be deposed without a war then a war was to be raised against him but if a war could not be levied against him the cause being dead CLAM E MEDIO TOLLATVR he should then be privily murdered and taken out of the way For which the Parliament of Paris adjudged and executed him for a Traytor Yea so desperately were the Jesuites after this bent to destroy this King that Alexander Hay a Scottish Jesuite of Claremont privy to Castles villany used to say That if King Henry the fourth should pass by their Colledge the first there built for them he would willingly cast himself out of his window headlong upon him so as he might break the Kings neck though thereby he brake his own Yet was he punished but with perpetual Banishment After which Jesuitical conspiracies detected and prevented notwithstanding this King Henry before these two attempts to murder him had by their sollicitations renounced the Protestant Religion professed himself a zealous Romanist recalled the Jesuites formerly banished for the murther of Henry the third against his Parliaments and Counsels advice reversed all the decrees of Parliament against them razed the publick Pillar set up in Paris as a lasting Monument of their Treasons and Conspiracies built them a magnificent Colledge in Paris indowed them with a very large Revenue entertained Pere Cotten one of their Society for his Confessor who revealed all his Secrets to the King of Spain bequeathed a large Legacy of Plate and Lands to their Society by his will and was extraordinary bountiful and favourable towards them yet these bloody ingrateful Villains animated that desperate wretch Ravilliac to stab him to death in the open street in Paris Anno 1610. Albigni the Jesuite being privy to this murder before it was perpetrated Yea Francis de Verona in his Apology for John Castle p. 258. thus predicted his second mortal stab in these words Though this Prince of Orange scaped the first blow given him in his cheek yet the next hit whereof this was a presage as the blow given by Castle SHALL BE THE FORE-RVNNER OF ANOTHER BLOW Such implacable Regicides are the Jesuites 4. By their suborning instigating sundry bloody instruments one after another to murder William Prince of Orange prevented in their attempts by God's providence till at last they procured one Balthasar Gerard to shoot him to death with a Pistol charged with three Bullets An. 1584. the Jesuites promising him no less then HEAVEN it self AND A CANONIZATION AMONG THE SAINTS AND MARTYRS for this bloody Treason as they did to James Clement before for murdering the French King And it is very remarkable That after this murder of his Thomas Campanella a Jesuited Italian Frier prescribed this as a principal means to the King of Spain of reducing the Netherlands under his Monarchy again to sow emulation and discords amongst their Nobles States and to murder Prince Maurice his son and successor which he expresseth in these direct termes Maxime opus est ut Serpens seditionis Comes Scilicet Mauritius Interimatur non vero per bellum diuturnum copia illi danda est magis magisque succrescendi which they twice likwise attempted to affect An. 1594 and 1598. No wonder that they so much endeavour by all means instruments to suppress that noble family now to whom the Netherlands principally owe their infranchisement from the Spanish yoak of bondage 5. By their poysoning Stephen Botzkay Prince of Transylvania for opposing their bloody persecution 6. By their manifold bloody Plots and Attempts from time to time to murder depose stab poyson destroy our famous Protestant Queen Elizabeth by open Insurrections Rebellions Invasions Wars raised against her both in England and Ireland and by intestine clandestine Conjurations from which Gods ever-waking providence did preserve her Amongst other Conspiracies that of Patrick Cullen an Irish Frier hired by the Jesuites and their Agents to kill the Queen is observable Holt the Jesuite who perswaded him to undertake the murdering of her told him that it was not onely lawful by the Laws but that he should merit Gods Favour and Heaven by it and thereupon gave him remission of all his sins the Eucharist to encourage him in this Treason the chief ground whereof and of all their other Treasons against this Queen was thus openly expressed by Iaquis Francis for Cullens further encouragement That the Realm of England then was and would be so well setled that unless Mistras Elizabeth so he termed his Dread Soveraign though but a base Landressson were suddenly taken away All the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail to shake and overturn it Which then it seems they principally endeavoured and oft-times since attempted and have now at last effected by those who conceit they demerit the Title of Saints though not in a Romish Kalender and no less then Heaven for shaking overturning and making it No Kingdom 7. By their Conspiracy against King James to dep●ive him of his Right to the Crown of England imprison or destroy his person raise Rebellion alter Religion and Subvert the Stat● and Government by vertue of Pope Clement the eighth his Bull directed to Henry Garnet Superiour of the Iesuites in England whereby he commanded all the Archpriests Priests Popish Clergy Peers Nobles and Catholicks of England That after the death of Queen Elizabeth by the course of Nature or otherwise whosoever shall lay claim or title to the Crown of England though never so directly or neerly interessed by descent should not be admitted unto the Throne unless he would first tolerate the Rom●sh Religion and by his best endeavours promote the Catholick cause unto which by his Solemn and Sacred Oath he should religiously subscribe after the death of that miserable woman as he stilled Queen Elizabeth By vertue of which

King was Ingaged in the wars against the Scots with certain prayers added For their good success in that Designe against the Scots For the more effectuall carrying on whereof the Popes Nuncio with the Colledge of Jesuites then in Queen-street secretly summoned a kind of Parliament of Roman Catholicks and Jesuites in London out of every County of England and Wales in which Conne the Popes Nuncio sate President by the Queens commission and direction in April 1639. Who granted and collected an extraordinary large Contribution by way of Subsidy from the Papists to carry on this war against our Protestant Brethren of Scotland and raise forces to joyne with the Spainards whom they then expected to cut the English Protestants throats The Jesuitical and Prelatical Popish party much displeased with the defeat of this their Plot by the unexpected Pacification with the Scots 1639. induced the King soon after to break and revoke it Anno 1640. the very year of the Jesuites Jubilee which they solemnized in all places being the 100. yeer from the first Erection of their Order by Ignatius Anno 1540. they caused a new Army to be raised and sent into the North against the Protestants of Scotland to subdue destroy them At the same time they secretly listed an Army of no less then 7000. Romish Catholickes kept in private pay of purpose To cut the Protestants throats who should resist them and to Conquer the Protestants in England first and then in Ireland which Designe they were to put in execution when the Pope or his Legat with the Spanish French and Venetian Ambassadours should appoint who designed them to begin to execute it When the King went into Scotland against the Scots as O Conner the Queen-Mothers Priest confessed to Anne Hussey who justified it to the Lords of the Councel then and afterwards before the Lords in Parliament upon her Oath The Jesuites were so confident of the good success of their designes amongst us and compleat Victory over all the Protestants throughout the world this yeare of their Jubilee making Triumph over their Enemies one of their Notes of the true Church that they appointed a solemne Enterlude to be acted by their Society in the publique Hall at Aquisgran in Germany in honour of their Jubilee wherein they signified to the people by printed Tickets and Pageants that the Popish Church of Rome should be brought in upon the Stage happily fighting against triumphing and reigning over all her enemies every where throughout the world in all ages till that present day and especially of later times by their meanes The beginning of this Enterlude being happily acted and succeeding according to their mindes at last there were two Armies of soldiers brought by them upon the Stage ready to encounter each other the one of Jesuites and Papists fighting for the Church of Rome the other representing the Protestants warring against her Before their fight a Jesuitical actor clad in black personating a Popish Masse-Priest divineth good success to the Popish Army praying for it with an affected devotion and solemne invocation or rather profanation of Gods name after which the Popish Army of actors as being certain of the instant victory uttered these words to their Captain as their parts directed them with a loud reiterated voyce and shout Pereat Pereat Quisquis est hostis Ecclesiae Let him perish let him perish whoever is an enemy of the Church whereupon a great part of the Stage on which they acted together with the whole Popish Army not one Souldier or Captain excepted at the repeating of these words and wishes fell to the ground immediately with so great celerity that many of them felt they were fallen down before they discerned themselves to fall their feigned enemies of the Church representing the Protestants standing all fast at least in place if not in mind on the other part of the Stage which fell not at all With this sudden fall many of the Popish Army were bruised in peeces with the beames of the Stage falling upon them who through pain and horror needed Monitors to silence their outcries others having their bones broken and Limbes put out of joynt were carried to the Chirugions to be dressed and all the rest confounded with shame crept away secretly under the Veile to their Lodging And so this Jesuitical Enterlude by divine justice ended in a real unexpected bloody Tragedy and real rout of the whole pretended victorious Popish Army of Jesuites and the Scotish Wars that yeer which they so much depended on through Gods mercy concluded in a blessed Peace and Union between both Nations Whereupon the Irish Popish Rebels by the Jesuites Plots and instigations seconded with secret encouragements and promises of assistance with Arms and Moneys from Cardinal Richliou the King of Spain Pope and other forraign Popish Princes undertook the late horrid bloody Massacre of all the Protestants in Ireland and surprisal of all the Forts Castles Arms and Ammunition therein on the 23 of October 1641. being Ignatius day the Founder and New Canonized Saint of the Jesuited Society for the greater Honour of their Patron Order they being the chief Plotters of this horrid bloody Treason Which horrid Conspiracie though happily discovered the night before its execution at Dublin and some few places else yet it took effect in most other parts of Ireland to the slaughter of neer two hundred thousand Protestants there in few months space seconded with a bloody Warre for sundry years to the losse of many thousands more lives To this Plot all the Papists in England were privy who intended the like Massacre in England and soon after by the Popes and Jesuits instigations by the assistance of sorragin Popish Princes they eugaged the King and Parliament in a long-lasting bloody uncivill unchristian war against each other concluding in the Kings and Parliaments joynt ruines by an Army raised for their mutual defence seduced thereunto through the Jesuits instigations and policies After which they engaged the Protestants of England and Scotland formerly united by the strictest B●nds and Covenants against them to war upon invade and destroy each other by land and soon after that by the Spanish Agents Assistance raised a most dangerous bloody Warre between our Protestant old Allies of the Neitherlands and the English by Sea to the infinite dammage prejudice of both and the effusions of whole Oceans of the Gallantest Christian Protestant blood that ever yet was shed the expence of more treasure and men in these intest●●e Wars than would have conquered all Spain Italy and the Indies had they been imployed upon such a designe and to the entailing of a perpetuall Army on us and our Posterities more ready as we have of late years found by sad experiments to hearken to the Jesuits clandestine suggestions ●eductions and execute their fore-plotted Designes to ruine our Kingdomes Parliaments Laws Liberties Monarchy

greatest pretenders to publike Liberty Law and the ●heifest inveighers against Arbitrary Regal Tyranny and Power which never publikely established such arbitrary illegal Tryals and new Butcheries of Christian English Freemen by any law and may fall to imitate them in future Ages by their example Each of these I intend to prosecute in distinct Chapters in their order CHAP. 1. 1. For the first of these That the Kingdome and Freemen of England have some ancient Hereditary Rights Liberties Priviledges Franchises Laws and Customs properly called FVNDAMENTAL and likewise a FVNDAMENTALL GOVERNMENT no wayes to be altered undermined subverted directly or indirectly under pain of High Treason in those who shall attempt it especially by fraud force or armed power I Shall confirm the first part of it by these ensuing punctual Authorities of moment against those traiterous late published Pamphlets which professedly deny it and endeavour a totall abrogation of all former Lawes to set up a New modell and Body of the law to rule us for the future according to their pleasures The first is the expresse words of the great Charters of the Liberties of England granted by King John Anno 1215. in the 16 year of his Reign Regranted and confirmed by King Henry the third in the 9 year of his Reign and sundry times afterwards and by King Edward the first in the 25 and 28 years of his reign Wherein these three Kings successively by their several grand Charters under their great Seals did grant give and confirm to all the Nobility is and ever shall be far from the thoughts and intents of all good Kings Governours and Parliament who bear a sincere care and affection to the Subjects of England to alter or innovate them 3. That by these ancient good Laws Priviledges and customs not only the Kings Regall Authority but the peoples Security of lands livings and priviledges both in general and particular are preserved and maintained 4. That by the abolishing or altering of them it is impossible but that present confusion will fall upon the whol state and frame of this Kingdom Which I wish all Innovators and New Modellers of our Lawes and Government would now at last lay seriously to heart and the whole Kingdome and English Nation sadly consider who have found it an experimental truth of late years and no imaginary seigned speculation 3. The third is The Remon●trance of the whole House of Commons in Parliament delivered in Writing to King James in the Parliament of 7. Jacobi Anno 1610. which begins thus To the Kings most Excellent Majesty Most Gracious Soveraign Whereas we your Majesties most humble Subjects the Commons assembled in Parliament having received first by Message and since by speech from your Majesty a Command of restraint from debating in Parliament your Majesties Right of imposing upon your Subjects Goods exported out of or imported into this Realm yet allowing us to examine the grievance of these Impositions in regard of quantity time and other circumstances of disproportion thereto incident We your humble Subjects nothing doubting but that your Majesty had no intent by that command to infring the ancient and fundamentall Rights of the Liberty of PARLIAMENT in point of exact discussing of all matters concerning them and their Possessions Goods and Rights whatsoever Which yet we cannot but conceive to be done in effect by this Command Do with all humble Duty make this Remonstr●nce to your Majesty First we hold it an Ancient general and undoubted Right of Parliament to debate freely all matters which do properly concern the Subject and his Right or Estate which freedome of debate being once fore-closed the essence of the Liberty of Parliament is withall dissolved c. Here the whole House of Commons in a speciall Remonstrance to King James printed and published by Order of a Committee of the House of Commons for licensing of Books dated 20 Maii 17. Caroli 1641. Declare resolve vindicate and maintain one principal ancient fundamentall general undoubed right of the Liberty of Parliament against the Kings intrenchment on it Of which should they be but once fore closed the Essence of the Liberty of Parliament is withall dissolved And peradventure it may not be unworthy the most serious disquisition of the next ensuing nominal or real Parliament to examine whether some clauses and restrictions in the 9. 12. 14. 16 17. 21. 22. 24 25. 27. 30. 32 33. 36 37 38 39 40. Articles or strings of the New Instrument intituled The Government of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging as it was publikely declared at Westminster the 16. day of December 1653 c. do not as much nay far more intrench upon the ancient Fundamental General undoubted Rights and Liberty of Parliament and parliamentary free debates to the dissolution of the Essential liberty of all future Parliaments as this Command of King James did or as the Bishops late Canons imposed on the Clergy in and by the Convocation Anno 1640. ever did and this clause in their c. Oath then made now imitated by others who condemned it I. A. B. do swear that I will never give my consent to alter the Government of this Church by Arch-bishops Bishops Deans and Arch-Deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand Which clause and Oath imposed onely on the Clergy-men Resolved by the whole House of Commons and Peers too in Parliament without one dissenting voice December 16. 1640. to be a most dangerous illegal Oath contrary to the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and to the Fundamental Laws and Statutes of the Realu● c. and of dangerous consequence the contriving whereof was objected to the late Archbishop of Caterbury in his original Articles of High Treason for which amongst other things he lost his head The fourth is the notable Petition of Grievances of the whole House of Commons in Parliament presented to King James in the seventh year of his Reign after their Vote against his Right to levy Impositions on goods imported or exported without assent and grant of Parliament in these ensuing words The Policy of this your Majesties Kingdomes appropriates unto the Kings of this Realm with assent of Parliament as well the Soveraign power of making Laws as that of taxing or imposing upon the Subjects Goods or Merchandises wherein they have justly such a property as may not without their consent be altered or changed this is the cause that the people of this Kingdome as they have ever shewed themselves faithfull and loving to their Kings and ready to aid them in all just occasions with voluntary contributions so have they been ever careful to preserve their own Liberties and Rights when any thing hath been done to prejudice or impeach the same And therefore when their Princes either occasioned by war or by their own bounty or by any other necessity have without consent of

cloak their intentions from the people they took an Oath of all they met Quod Regi Communibus fidelitatem servarent that they should keep Allegiance and Faith to the King Commons Yea Wat Tyler demanded a Commission from the King to behead all Lawyers Escheaters and others whatsoever that were learned in the laws or communicated with the law by reason of their Office conceiving in his minde that this being brought to passe all things afterwards would be ordered according to his own and the common peoples fancy And he made his vaunt putting his hand to his own lips That before scure dayes came to an end ALL THE LAWS OF ENGLAND SHOULD PROCEED FROM HIS MOUTH Which some of late times seem to speak not only in words but deeds by their manifold new laws and Edicts repealing or contradicting our old This their resolution and attempt thus to alter and subvert the Laws and Government upon full debate in the Parliament of 5. R. 2. n. 30. 31. was declared to be High-Treason against the King and the Law for which divers of the chief Actors in this Treasonable Designe were condemned and executed as Traitors in severall places and the rest enforced to a publike submission then pardoned Let these imitators now remember this old President 2. In the Parliament of 11. R. 2. as appears by the Parliament Rols and printed Statutes at large three Privy Councellours the Archbishop of York the Duke of Ireland and the Earl of Suffolk the Bishop of Exeter the Kings Confessor five Knights six Judges whereof Sir Robert Tresylian Chief Justice was one Blake of the Kings Councel at Law Vsk and others were impeached and condemned of High Treason some of them executed as Traitors the rest banished their lands and goods forfeited and none to endeavour to procure their pardon under pain of Felony for their endeavouring to overthrow a Commission for the good of the Kingdome contrary to an Act of Parliament by force of Arms and opinions in Law delivered by these temporizing Judges and Lawyers to the King through threats and terrour at Nottingham Castle tending to subvert the Laws and Statutes of the Realm overthrow the Power Priviledges and proceedings of Parliament and betray not all the House of Lords but only some of the Lords of Parliament Which Judgement being afterwards reversed in the forced and packed Parliament of 21. R. 2. was reconfirmed in the Parliament of 1 H. 4. c. 3 4 5. and the Parliament of 21. R. 2. totally repealed and adnulled for ever and hath so continued Read Statut. at large 3. In the Parliament of 17 R. 2. n. 20. and Pas 17 R. 2. B. Regis Rot. 16. Sir Thomas Talbot was accused and found guilty of High Treason for conspiring the death of the Dukes of Glocester Lancaster and other Peers who maintained the Commission confirmed by Act of Parliament 10. R. 2 and assembling people in a warlike manner in the County of Chester for effecting of it in destruction of the estates of the Realm and the Laws of the Kingdome 4. In the 29. year of King Henry the sixth Jack Cade under a pretence to REFORM alter and abrogate some laws Purveyances and Extortions importable to the Commons whereupon he was called JOHN AMEND ALL drew a great multitude of Kentish people to Black-heath in a warlike manner to effect it In the Parliament of 29 H. 6. c. 1 this was adjudged High Treason in him and his Complices by Act of Parliament and the Parliament of 31. H. 6. c. 1. made this memorable Act against him and his Imitators in succeding ages worthy serious perusal and consideration by all who tread in his footsteps and over-act him in his Treasons Whereas the most abominable Tyrant horrible odious and errant FALSE TRAYTOR John Cade calling himself sometimes Mortimer sometime Captain of Kent which Name Fame Acts and Feats be to be removed out of the speech and minde of every faithfull Christian man perpetually falsly and traiterously purposing and imagining the perpetuall destruction of the KINGS PERSON and FINAL SVBVERSION OF THIS REALM taking upon him ROYALL POWER and gathering to him the Kings People in great number BY FALSE SVBTIL IMAGINED LANGVAGE and seditiously made a stirring Rebellion and insurrection VNDER COLOVR OF JVSTICE FOR REFORMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE SAID KING robbing slaying spoiling a great part of his faithfull people Our said Soveraign Lord the King considering the premises with many other which were more odious to remember by advice and assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and at THE REQUEST OF THE COMMONS and by Authority aforesaid Hath ordained and established that the said John Cade shall be had named and declared A FALSE TRAYTOR to our said Soveraign Lord the King and that all his Tyranny Acts Feats false Opinions shall be voided abated adnulled destroyed and put out of remembrance for ever And that all Indictments and things depending thereof had and made under the power of Tyranny shall likewise be void adnulled abated repealed and holden for none and that the blood of none of them be defiled nor corrupted but by the Authority of the said Parliament clearly declared for ever And that all Indictments in time coming in like case under power of Tyranny Rebellion and stirring had shall be of no regard or effect but void in Law And all the Petitions delivered to the said King in his last Parliament holden at Westminster the sixth day of November the 29. of his Reign against his minde by him not agreed shall be taken and put in Oblivion out of Remembrance undone voided adnulled and destroyed for ever as a thing purposed against God and his Conscience and against his Royal estate and preheminence and also DISHONORABLE and UNREASONABLE 5. In the 8 year of King Henry the 8. William Bell and Thomas Lacy in the County of Kent conspired with Thomas Cheney the Hermite of the Queen of Fairies TO OVER THROW THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE REALM for effecting whereof they with 200 more met together and concluded upon a course of raising greater forces in Kent and the adjacent Shires This was judged High Treason and some of them executed as Traitors Moreover it was resolved by all the Judges of England in the reign of Henry 8. that an Insurrection against the Statute of Laborers or for the inhansing of Salaries and wages or against any Statute or to remove Councellors or to any other end pretending Reformation of their own heads was TREASON and a levying war against the King BECAVSE IT WAS GENERALLY AGAINST THE KINGS LAW and the Offenders took upon them THE REFORMATION THEREOF which Subjects by gathering of power ought not to do 6. On December 1. in the 21. year of King Henry the 8. Sr. Thomas Moore Lord Chancellour of England with fourteen more Lords of the Privy Councel John Fitz-James Chief Justice of England and Sir Anthony Fitz-Herbert Herbert

exported or imported except the same be due by Grant IN PARLIAMENT shall incur the penalties and forfeitures OF A PREMVNIRE to the which the King gave his Royal Assent And to prevent any future prescription thereunto by the King they discontinued it for some time and then granted it specially from Month to Month or some short space with sundry limitations and the penalty of A PREMVNIRE if otherwise received by several New Acts of Parliament to which the King gave his assent These Acts the King himself in his Proclamation of the sixteenth of December in the eighteenth year of his reign stiles THE FENCES OF THE SVBJECTS PROPERTY received from Vs and understood by Vs as one of THE GREATEST GRACES THE CROWN EVER CONFERRED ON THE SVBJECT And by that Proclamation he prohibited all his Subjects both the paiment and receipt of any Monies for Customs or other Maritine Duties contrary to this Act by any Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament under pain of a PREMUNIRE and of being likewise proceeded against as ill-affected persons to the Peace of the Kingdome Whereupon the Lords and Commons in their answer to this Proclamation though they declared that the intent and meaning of that penall Clause of a PRAEMVNIRE and other Forfeitures in these new statutes which likewise disable every person Customer Officers who should take or receive or cause to be taken or received any such subsidy or imposition upon any Merchandize during his life to sue or implead any persons in any action reall mixt or personal in any Court whatsoever was only to restrain the Crown from imposing any duty or payment on the Subjects without their consent in Parliament and that it was not intended to extend to any case whereunto the LORDS and COMMONS GIVE THEIR ASSENT IN PARLIAMENT which they never did to this New White-hall Ordinance nor the pretended Act recited in it therefore the imposers and receivers of it by vertue thereof without such assent in Parliament are within the penalties of the aforesaid Statutes Yet to avoid the danger of a Praemunire in their Officers by exacting it only by an Ordinance of both Houses without a speciall Act of Parliament they did by their first Ordinances impose and demand Customes Tonnage Poundage and new Imposts not as a Legal Duty but only BY WAY OF LOANE til the Act of Parliament for their future continuance should be assented to by the King as their Declaration of 31 December 1642. and their Ordinance of the same date concerning the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage attest By what coulor of Law Iustice Right this antient birth-right of all English Subjects so lately declared by three Acts of Parliament to which most of our late and present White-hall Grandees were parties comes to bee lost and forfeited by our contests to preserve it or how the Customes Imposts of Tonnage and Poundage can bee now imposed continued on or exacted from the Subjects by any Powers Officers or persons Whatsoever and levied by severest penalties Forfeitures Imprisonments Seisures by pretext of this White-hal Ordinance though no waies granted by common consent and Act of Parliament without incurring a Praemunire and forementioned penalties disabilities or without subverting the Fundamental Liberty Property Franchises Laws Statutes of the whole English Nation in a farre higher degree then ever in former ages I cannot yet discern and all our New Governours Merchants Customers Officers and other persons who have any Cordial affection Love Zeal to their own or the peoples hereditary Rights and Priviledges may do well to demurre in Law upon it till they can satisfy their own and other mens consciences therein to prevent the dangerous consequences of such an ill president to posterity In the Parliament of 1 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 32 33 34 36. These were the principall Articles of impreachment exhibited against King Richard the Second for which hee was forced to depose himself as unfit to Govern and resign up his Crown to King Henry the Fourth That whereas the King of England out of the profits of the Realm and the Patrimony belonging to his Crown might live honestly without oppression of his people so as the Kingdome were not burdened with the extraordinary expences of warre that this King during the Truces between the Realm and the Adversaries thereof gave and squandered away a great part of the Crown-Lands to unworthy persons and thereupon exacted almost every year so many Taxes and Grants of Ayde from his Subjects of the Realm that hee thereby GREATLY and TOO EXCESSIVELY OPPRESSED HIS PEOPLE TO THE IMPOVERISHING OF HIS REALM That the same King being unwilling to keep and defend the just Laws and Customes of his Realm and to do according to his pleasure whatsoever should suite with his desires frequently when the Laws of his Realm were expounded and declared to him by the Justices and others of his Council who requested him to administer Justice according to those Laws said expresly with an austere and frownning Countenance THAT THE LAWS WERE HIS more suo AFTER his own MANER and sometimes THAT THEY WERE IN HIS OWN BREAST and THAT HEE ALONE COULD ALTER and MAKE THE LAWS OF HIS REALM And being seduced with this opinion he permitted not Justice to be done to very many of his Leige people but compelled very many to cease from the prosecution of common Justice That when as afterwards in his Parliament certain Statutes were made which might always bind till they were specially repealed by another Parliament the same King desiring to enjoy so great Liberty that none of these Statutes might so binde him but that he might execute and do according to the pleasure of his own Will which hee could not do of right subtilly procured such a Petition to be presented to him in his Parliament in the behalf of the Commons of his Realm and to be granted to him in the general THAT HE MIGHT BE SO FREE AS ANY OF HIS PROGENITORS WERE BEFORE HIM By colour of which Petition and Grant he frequently did and commanded to bee done MANY THINGS CONTRARY TO THE SAID STATVTES NOT REPEALED GOING AGAINST THEM EXPRESLY and WITTINGLY AGAINST HIS OATH AT HIS CORONATION That although by the Statutes and Customs of his Realm in the summoning of every Parliament his people in every County of the Realm ought to be free to elect and depute Knights for the said Counties to sit 〈◊〉 Parliament both TO RECEIVE their GRIEVANCES and TO PROSECVTE REMEDIES THEREUPON AS IT SHALL SEEM EXPEDIENT TO THEM yet the said King that he might in his Parliament be able to obtain the effect of his rash Will frequently directed his Mandates to his Sheriffs that they should cause to come to his Parliament CERTAIN PERSONS NAMED BY THE KING HIMSELF AS KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE Which Knights verily favouring the said King he might easily enduce as he frequently did sometimes by divers threats and terrors and sometimes by gifts TO CONSENT TO THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE VERY

PREJVDICIAL TO THE REALM and VERY BVRDENSOME TO THE PEOPLE and specially TO GRANT TO THE SAID KING A SUBSIDY FOR CERTAIN YEARS TO THE OPPRESSING OF His People overmuch That although the Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels of every Freeman by the Laws of the Realm used in all former ages past ought not to be seized unless they had forfeited Yet notwithstanding the said King purposing endeavouring to enervate these Laws in the presence of very many of the Lords and Commons of this Realm frequently said and affirmed That the Life Lands Tenements Goods and Chattles of every one of his Subjects are at his will and pleasure without any Forfeiture by the known Laws which is altogether contrary to the Laws customs of the Realm aforesaid Whether all these high Misdemeanors charged against King Richard have not been revived and acted over and over both by words and deeds in a farre higher degree than ever he was guilty of them by some late present Whitehall Grandees Army-Officers New Instrument-makers Legitors and Imposers of Excises Customs Imposts Tonnage Poundage Contributions for many years yet to come and of that constant Annual Revenue projected intended by them in their 27 Article I remit to their own judgements consciences and our whole Kingdom to resolve and what they demerit for such extravagant high offences for which he lost Crown and Regal power let others determine The 3. particular is their late incumbent Imposition of 6. Moneths new Contribution by a meer Self-enacted Whitchall Jurisdiction without any consent grant in or by the People in Parliament by that they intitle An Ordinance of the 8. of ●une 1654. beginning thus in a most imperial Stile transcending all former Acts of Parliament granting or imposing any Subsidies without any Prologue to sweeten it or court the people to its ready payment Be it Ordained and Enacted by his Highness the Lord Protector with the consent of his Council and it is hereby Ordained That towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth An Assessement of one Hundred and Twenty Thousand Pounds per Mensem for Three Monethe commencing the 24 of Iune 1654 and ending the 29 of Sept. following shall be Taxed Levied Collected and Paid in England and Wales in such sort as is hereafter expressed The full sum of the said Three Months Assessment of One hundred and twenty thousand pounds by the Month to be at once wholly collected and paid in to the Receivers Generall at or before the tenth day of October next c. The Levying thereof upon the refusers hath been by distress of Goods by Souldiers Troopers and quartering them on the refusers till payment and double the value many times paid to and exacted by the Souldiers for their pains adjudged even by some of our New Grandees Votes who prescribe such Taxes and wayes of levying them to be No less then High Treason and levying Warre in Straffords case for which principally he was condemned and lost his head on Tower Hill as a Traytor In this New Whitehall Tax without a Parliament intended as a leading President to bind the whole Nation in perpetuity if now submitted to as the 27 Article intimates there is a double violation subversion of the Fundamental Laws and Properties of the Nation in the Highest degree The first is by the reviving imposing of Ship-mony on the whole Realm and all Inland Counties as well as Maritine for the Maintenance of the Navies by Sea which should be maintained only by the Customs and that in a farre higher proportion than the Shipmony imposed by Writs by our late beheaded King amounting to no less than Forty thousand pounds per Mensem at last by way of Contribution alone besides the Customs Tonnage Poundage and Excise paid towards it This Imposition of Shipmony by the late King though ratified with the advise and consent of his Council many colourable Presidents Records in all former ages and the precedent Resolution of all his Iudges under their hands as just and legally imposed in case of Necessity and Publike danger only without consent in Parliament together with the Iudgement and Proceedings of the Iudges in the Eschequer Chamber in justification thereof were in the last Parliament after solemne debate by the Votes and Iudgements of both Houses on the 20. Ian. and 26 February resolved Nemine contradicent● To be contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm contrary to the Rights and Properties of the Subjects of this Realm contrary to former Iudgements in Parliament contrary to the great Charter and to the Petition of Right and voted to be so declared by the Iudges at the Assizes in the severall Counties the same to be entred and inrolled in the severall Counties by the Clerks of the Assises After which it was for ever damned by a special Act of Parliament to which the King himself gave his Royal assent afterwards cited and enforced by both Houses Exact Collection p. 886. 887. in the case of the Array And those Iudges who argued That the King might lawfully impose Shipmony on the Subjects without a Parliament in cases of Danger and Necessity of which they affirmed him to be the sole Iudge were by all impeached by the House of Commons of High Treason for these Opinions of theirs whereby they trayterously and wickedly endeavoured to subvert The Fundamental Laws and established Government of the Realm of England and instead thereof to set up an Arbitrary and Tyrannical Government against Law of which at large before How any present Powers or Persons then can either impose justify levy enforce it upon any Pretext of Necessity or publique Danger on the whole Nation after all these late Resolutions Iudgements Votes Impeachments and a special Act of Parliament so fresh in memory especially such who were parties to them without incurring the self-same Impeachments and guilt as these Ship-mony Iudges did or a severer Censure then they sustained let their own Conscsences and those who may on● day prove their Iudges resolve them at leasure being past my skill to doe it The 2. is By the imposing of a direct heavy Tax Tallage and Monthly contr●bution and that only for the Maintenance of such a Land Army which hath offered force unto the Members of both Houses subverted destroyed that Parliament Government Laws Libertie for whose preservation they were specially raised Commissioned engaged without yea against the Peoples assent in Parliament which no King of England with the advice and consent of his Council had ever any Right or Power to doe or audacity enough to attempt no not William the Conqueror C●nute Henry the 4th Edward the 4th or Henry the 7th who came principally by power of the Sword to their Soveraign Regall Authorities By what Justice Power Legal Right any other person or persons whatsoever who are neither rightfull Kings nor Parliaments of England in their own or others repute can either impose levy exact such

The first and Second Part of A SEASONABLE LEGAL AND HISTORICALL VINDICATION AND Chronological COLLECTION of the Good Old Fundamentall Liberties Franchises Rights Laws of all English Freemen their best Inheritance Birthright Security against all Arbitrary Tyranny and Aegyptian Burdens and of their strenuous Defence in all former Ages of late years most dangerously undermined and almost totally subverted under the specious Disguise of their Defence and future Establishment upon a sure Basis by their pretended Greatest Propugners WHEREIN IS Irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary Records Proofs Presidents That we have such Fundamentall Liberties Franchises Rights Laws That to attempt or effect the Subversion of all or any of them or of our Fundamentall Government by Fraud or Force is High Treason The principal of them summed up in X. Propositions The chief printed Treatises asserting them specified A Chronological History of our Ancestors zeal vigilancy courage prudence in gaining regaining enlarging defending oft confirming and perpetuating them to Posterity by Great Charters Statutes New Confirmations Excommunications Speciall Conservators Consultations Petitions Declarations Remonstrances Oaths Protestations Vows Leagues Covenants and likewise by their Arms when necessitated during all the Britons Romans Saxons Danes Normans and English Kings Reigns till this present collected for present and future publique benefit with a Brief Touch of their late unparalelled Infringments and subversions in every particular The Triall of all Malesactors by their Peers and Juries justified as the onely legall best most indifferent and all other late arbitrary Judicatories erected for their Triall exploded as destructive both to our Fundamentall Laws and Liberties Collected recommended to the whole English Nation as the best Legacy he can leave them By William Prynne of Swainswick Esquire The Second Edition Corrected and much Enlarged Psal 11. 3. If the Fundations be destroyed what can the righteous do Psal 82. 5. They know not neither will they understand they walk on in darknesse all the Foundations of the earth are out of course London Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green Arbour 1655. Errata IN the Epistle letter C. page 8. l. 6. read effect D. p. 2. l. 9. 〈◊〉 Tesmond H. p. 5. l. 19. Censurers I. p. 5. l. 13 of r. our K. p. 7. l. 28. r. Heirs L. p. 4. l. 20. r. exercerunt In the Margin H. p. 3. l. 42. aliquem I. p. 6. l. 27. pacti L. p. 8. 13. r. 23. In the Book p. 4. l. 25. r. as of p. 13. l. 36. r. were resolved p. 19. l. 14. r. Vote of p. 24. l. 16. of p. 26. l. 15. of and p. 29. l. 33. Statutes p. 32. l. 26. r. E. 6. c. 5. p. 35. l. 6. to sedition p. 38. l. 19. r. parts Margin p. 27. l. 13. ther r. other p. 64. l. 3 4 5. r. 10. R. 2. cap. 1. 1 H. 5. c. 1. 28 H. 6. n. 51. l. 11. r. 4. E. 4. To all truely Christian Free men of England Patrons of Religion Freedom Lawes Parliaments who shall peruse this Treatise Christian READER IT hath been one of the most detestable Crimes and highest Impeachments against the Antichristian Popes of Rome that under a Saint-like Religious pretext of advancing the Church Cause Kingdom of Jesus Christ they have for some hundred yeers by-past usurped to themselves as fole Monarchs of the World in the Right of Christ whose Vicars they pretend themselves to be both by Doctrinal Positions and Treasonable Practises an absolute Soveraign Tyrannical Power over all Christian Emperours Kings Princes of the World who must derive and hold their Crowns from them alone upon their good behaviours at their pleasures not onely to Excommunicate Censure Judge Depose Murder Destroy their sacred Persons but likewise to dispose of their Crowns Scepters Kingdoms and translate them to whom they please In pursuance whereof they have most traiterously wickedly seditiously atheistically presumed to absolve their Subjects from all their sacred Oaths Homages natural Allegiance and due Obedience to them instigated encouraged yea expresly enjoyned under pain of interdiction excommunication and other censures their own Subjects yea own sons sometimes both by their Bulls and Agents to revolt from rebel war against depose dethrone murder stab poyson destroy them by open force or secret conspiracies and stirred up one Christian King Realm State to invade infest destroy usurp upon another onely to advance their own Antichristian Soveraignties Usurpations Ambition Rapines worldly Pompe and Ends as you may read at leisure in the Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 28 H. 8. c. 10. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 13 Eliz. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 1. 35 Eliz. c. 2. 3 Jacob. c. 1 2 4 5. 7 Jacob. c. 6. The Emperour Frederick his Epistles against Pope Gregory the 9. and Innocent the 4. recorded in Matthew Paris and others Aventinus Annalium Boiorum Mr. William Tyndal's Practice of Popish Prelates the second Homily upon Witsunday the Homilies against disobedience and wilful Rebellion Bishop Jewels view of a seditious Bull Iohn Bale in his lives of the Roman Pontifs Doctor Thomas Bilson in his True difference between Christian subjection and unchristian Rebellion Doctor John White his Sermon at Paul s Cross March 24. 1625. and Defence of the Way c. 6 10. Doctor Crakenthorpe of the Popes temporal Monarchy Bishop Morton's Protestant Apology Doctor Beard 's Theater of God's Judgements l. 1. c 27 28. Doctor Squire of Antichrist John Bodin his Commonwealth l. 1. c. 9. The learned Morney Lord du Plessy his Mystery of Iniquity and History of the Papacy The General History of France Grimston's Imperial History Matthew Paris Speed Holinshed Cambden and others in the lives of King John Henry the 3. Queen Elizabeth and other of our Kings with hundreds of printed Sermons on the 5 of November The principal Instruments the Popes imployed of late yeers in these their unchristian Treasonable Designes have been pragmatical furious active Jesuites whose Society was first erected by Ignatius Loyola a Spaniard by Birth but A SOULDIER by Profession and confirmed by Pope Paul the 3. Anno 1540● which Order consisting onely of ten persons at first and confined onely to sixty by this Pope hath so monstrously increased by the Popes and Spaniards favours and assistance whose chief Janizaries Factors Intelligencers they are that in the yeer 1626. they caused the picture of Ign●tius their Founder to be cut in Brass with a goodly Olive Tree growing like Jessees root out of his side spreading its branches into all kingdoms and Provinces of the World where the Jesuites have any Colledges and Seminaries with the name of the Province at the foot of the branch which hath as many leaves as they have Colledges and Residencies in that Province in which leaves are the names of the Towns and Villages where these Colledges are situated Round about the Tree are the Pictures of all the illustrious Persons of their Order and in Ignvtius his right hand

there is a Paper wherein these words are engraven Ego sicut Oliva fructifera in domo Dei taken out of Ps 52. 8. which pourtraictures they then printed and published to the world wherein they set forth the number of their Colledges and Seminaries to be no less then 777. increased to 155 more by the yeer 1640. in all 932. as they published in like Pictures Pageants printed at Antwerp 1640. Besides sundry New Colledges and Seminaries erected since In these Colledges and Seminaries of theirs they had then as they print 15591 Fellews of their Society of Jesus besides the Novices Scholars and Lay-brethren of their Order amounting to neer ten times that number So infinitely did this evil weed grow and spread it self within one hundred yeers after its first planting And which is most observable of these Colledges and Seminaries they reckoned then no less then 15 secret ones IN PROVINCIA ANGLICANA in the Province of ENGLAND where were 267 SOCII or Fellows of that Society besides 4 COLLEDGES OF ENGLISH JESUITES ELSEWHERE In IRELAND and elsewhere 8 Colledges of IRISH JESUITES and in SCOTLAND and otherwhere 2 Residencies of SCOTTISH JESUITES What the chief imployments of Ignatius and his numerous swarms of Disciples are in the World his own Society at the time of his Canonization for a Romish Saint sufficiently discovered in their painted Pageants then shewed to the people wherein they pourtraied this new Saint holding the whole world in his hand and fire streaming out forth of his heart rather to set the whole world on fire by Combustions Wars Treasons Powder-plots Schismes new State and old Church-Heresies then to enlighten it with this Motto VENI IGNEM MITTFRE I came to send fire into the World which the University of Cracow in Poland objected amongst other Articles against them Anno 1622. and Alphonsus de Vargas more largly insisteth on in his Relatio de Stratagematis Sophismatis Politicis Jesuitarum c. An. 1641. c. 7 8 24. Their number being so infinite and the Pope and Spaniard too having long since by Campanella's advice erected many Colledges in Rome Italy Spain the Netherlands and elsewhere for English Scottish Irish Jesuites as well as for such secular Priests Friers Nuns of purpose to promote their designs against the Protestant Princes Realms Churches Parliaments of England Scotland Ireland to reduce them under their long prosecuted UNIVERSAL MONARCHY over them by Fraud Policy Treason intestine Divisions and Wars being unable to effect it by their own Power no doubt of late yeers many hundreds if not thousands of this Society have crept into England Scotland and Ireland lurking under several disguises yea an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel in or neer Westminster some few yeers since under Conne the Popes Nuntio on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars therby to endanger shake subvert these Realms and destroy the late King as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece published by the Commons special Order An. 1643. who occasioned excited fom●nted the first and second intended but happily prevented wars between England and Scotland and after that the unhappy Differences Wars between the King Parliament and our three Protestant Kingdoms to bring them to utter desolation and extirpate our reformed Religion The Kings Forces in which many of them were Souldiers after some yeers wars being defeated thereupon their Father Ignatius being a SOULDIER and they his Military sons not a few of them secretly insinuated themselves as Souldiers into the Parliaments Army and Forces as they had formerly done into the Kings where they so cunningly acted their parts as extraordinary illuminates gifted brethren and grand States-men that they soon leavened many of the Officers Troopers and common Souldiers with their dangerous Jesuitical State-politicks and Practises put them upon sundry strange designs to new-mould the old Monarchical Government Parliaments Church Ministers Laws of England erecting a New General Councel of Army-Officers and Agitators for that purpose acting more like a Parliament and Supream Dictators then Souldiers And at last instigated the Army by open force against their Commissions Duties Oaths Protestations and Solemn League Covenant to Impeach imprison seclude first elevē Commoners then some six or seven Lords after that to secure seclude the Majority of the Commons House suppress the whole House of Lords destroy the King Parliament Government Priviledges Liberties of the Kingdom Nation for whose defence they were first raised which by no other adverse power they could effect This produced new bloody divisions animosities wars in and between our three Protestant Realms and Nations after with our Protestant Allies of the Netherlands Campanella's express old projected Plots to subject us both to the Popes and Spaniards Monarchies effected by the Spaniards Gold and Agents with sundry heavy Monthly Taxes Excises Oppressions Sales of the Churches Crowns and of many Nobles and Gentlemens Lands and Estates to their undoing our whole Nations impoverishing and discontent an infinite profuse expence of Treasure of Protestant blood both by Land and Sea decay of Trade with other sad effects in all our three Kingdoms yea sundry successive New changes of our publick Government made by the Army-Officers who are still ringing the changes according to Campanela's and Parsons Platforms So that if Fire may be certainly discerned by the smoke or the Tree commonly known by its Fruits as the Truth it self resolves Matth. 12. 33. we may truly cry out to all our Rulers as the Jews did once to the Rulers of Thessalonica in another case Act. 17. 6. THOSE Jesuites WHO HAVE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN ARE COME HITHER ALSO and have turned our Kingdoms Kings Peers Monarchy Parliaments Government Laws Liberties yea our very Church and Religion too in a great measure UPSIDE DOWNE even by those very Persons who were purposely raised commissiond waged engaged by Protestations Covenanes Vows Oathes Laws Allegiance and Duty to protect them from these Jesuitical Innovations and subversions And those Jesuites Spanish Romish Agents who have so far seduced so deeply engaged them contrary to all these Obligations and to their own former printed Engagements Remonstrances Representations Proposals Desires and RESOLUTIONS for setling this Nation in its just Rights the Parliament in their just Priviledges and the Subjects in their Liberties and Freedoms published to all the World in the name of Sir Thomas Fairfax THE ARMY AND THE GENERAL COUNCEL OF THE ARMY none Volume London 1647. which they may do well to peruse yea against the Votes Intreaties Desires Advices of both Houses of Parliament the Generality of the good Ministers people of the three whole Kingdoms and their wisest best affected Protestant Friends who commissioned raised paid assisted them for far other ends O whether may they will they not in all humane probability rashly blindly suriously henceforth lead drive precipitate them to our whole three Kingdoms Churches Parliaments

extravagant Heavy Taxes Contributions from the exhausted Free-born People of England especially being now pretended new Free State against all our Fundamental Lawes Statutes Franchises Charters Properties Liberties Records Parliamentary Iudgements their own late Remonstrances Declarations Votes the Presidents of all former ages yea of all our Kings coming in by the Sword to their Thrones let the Imposers of them seriously advise as they will answer it at their utmost peril to God Men and the whole English Nation who expected better things from them even a total final exemption from all such illegal Burthens after all their late Wars Agonies Expences to redeem and preserve their Lawes Liberties Estates Properties Posterities from such exorbitant Oppressions diametrically contrary to all the forecited Iudgements Resolutions Remonstrances Statutes Votes Presidents and sundry others which I shall hereafter insist on in the third Chapter of this Treatise to which I must refer you And shall we not then adventure a distresse a Prison quartering upon or any other Duresse yea Death it self rather than volutarily submit our selves and Posterities backs thereto when as we spend our Bloods Lives Treasures against lesser easier Royal Impositions How shall we answer it to God Men or our enslaved Posterities if we now most safely unworthily submit thereto in perpe●uity without the least legal strenuous publick oppression or debate of its legality If any here allege as some men do in Iustification of these three or rather four forecited kinds of illegal universal Taxes imposed levied on the whole Nation without consent of Parliament That they are all warranted by the Instrument of the new Gevernment Article 27 28 29. That a constant yearly revenue shall be raised setled and established for maintaining Ten Thousand Horse and Dragoons and Twenty Thousand Foot in England Scotland and Ireland for the Defence and security thereof and also for a convenient number of Ships for guarding the Seas besides two hundred thousand pounds per annum for defraying other necessary charges for Administration of Iustice and other expences of the Government which Revenue shall be raised by the Customes and such other ways and means which shall be agreed u●o● By the Lord Protector and Council and shall not be taken away or diminished nor the way agreed upon for the raising of the same altered but by consent of the Lord Protector and the Parliament That the said yearly Revenue shall be paid into the publick Treasury and issued out for the uses aforesaid That in case there shall not because hereafter to keep up so great a Defence at Land or Sea but that there be an abatement made thereof The Mony which shall be saved thereby shall remain in banke for the Publick service c. All which they in the True state of the Case of the Common-wealth p. 43 44 commend for a most excellent Provision A co●stant Revenue A Publike Bank or Treasury upon all occasions c. which they intend to perpetuate on the whole Kingdom without end or abatement as well in times of peace safety as of war and danger Therefore the Protector and his Counsell at Whitehall in pursuance hereof may lawfully impose by vertue of these Articles both Excise Customs Tonnage Poundage Ship-money and contributions for these ends upon our three whole Kingdoms and all the Freeborn English by printed Ordinances of their own in what Proportions and for what time they please yea and for perpetuity without consent or grant in Parliaments and restrain all future Parliaments both from taking away or diminishing them or altering the way agreed on for their raising without their Protectors consent thereto as the expresse words run and their practise yet expounds them notwithstanding all former Laws Statutes Charters Resolutions Iudgements Remonstrances Oathes Vowes Declarations Presidents either in or out of Parliament to the contrary To this I answer first that I cannot but stand amazed to hear any Army-Officers Souldiers Lawyers or persons in present trust or power who bear the name or hearts of English Freemen Saints Christians Lovers Patriots or Protectors of their Native Country of England its Parliaments Laws and Liberties to make such a stupendious irrational objection as this which justifies all the exorbitant Opinions Proceedings Taxes Oppressions Impositions of our late beheaded King Strafford Canterbury the Ship-money Iudges old Whitehall Council Table yea all our other former Kings and their evil Counsellors most irregular Exaction of mony in all ages from Brute till now and will render the very worst of all our Kings if compared with our late and present Tax-masters and pretended Assertors of our Liberties rather good gracious just righteous Princes Benefactors than Tyrants or Oppressors for the future seeing they never out of Parliament imposed enforced on their subjects any such heavy various perpetual Taxes Imposts Excises Ordinances or new Articles of the Government● as these forecited 2ly This Objection if admitted just or solid gives a private Cabinet ●uncto of obscure persons yet unknown by name unto our Nation a Superlative Super-Parliamentall Authority to contrive and set on foot a new devised Instrument to undermine and blow up all our former fundamental Laws Customs great Charters Liberties Franchises Properties Parliaments former frame of Government at one crake after all our late bloody costly contestations for their preservation both in the Supream Courts of Publick Iustice and fields of War without our privities or consents thereto either in or out of Parliament contrary to all their and our Protestations Oathes Covenants Commissions Trusts Promises Pretences And instead of English Freemen as we were before these contests and wars to strip us quite naked of all our former Freedoms Liberties Properties Customs Rights derived to us from our Noble Ancestors as the purchas of their dearest blood render us our Posterities for the future the most absolute Issachars Vassals slaves under Heaven inthralled to all sorts of intollerable illegal unpresidented incessant endlesse Taxes of all kinds without hopes of alteration or mitigation by any future Parliaments without their Protectors or his Successors voluntary consents which they cannot expect and to a constant standing Mercenary Army of Horse and Foot by Land and Navies of Hirelings by Sea to keep us and ours in perpetual Bondage under such New irregular Successive Tax-Masters who must elect their successors like themselves 3ly All our former antient Laws Statutes Parliaments till now in all changes Revolutions of State or Government ever constantly asserted maintained provided That no Tax Tallage Custom Contribution Impost Subsidy Charge Excise Loan or Payment whatsoever should be imposed on the Freemen of England without their common consent and grant in full free lawfull English Parliaments and if any were imposed otherwise by any Power or Pretext whatsoever out of Parliament that it was Null and void to all intents to bind the people But these Monstrous Articles quite turn the scales impowring a few private persons neither elected nor intru●ted by the people