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A88244	Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent. Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2172; Thomason E370_12; ESTC R201291	90,580	119

Knaves Fooles Tyrants or Monopolizers or unjust wretched persons that must of necessity have their Prerogative to rule over all their wickednesses Secondly Observe from hence from what a pure Fountain our inslaving Lawes Judges and Practises in Westminster Hall had their originall namely from the will of a Conqueror and Tyrant for I find no mention in History of such Iudges Westminster Hall Courts and such French u●godly proceedings as these untill his dayes the burthen of which in many particulars to this day lies upon us But in the 21. of this Tyrants reigne After that the captivated Natives had made many struglings for their liberties and he having alwayes suppressed them and made himself absolute He began saith Daniel fol. 43. to govern all by the customes of Normandy whereupon the agrieved Lords and sad People of England tender their humble Petition beseeching him in regard of his Oath made at his Coronation and by the soule of St. Edward from whom he had the Crown and Kingdome under whose Lawes they were born and bred that he would not adde that misery to deliver them up to be judged by a strange Law wh●●h they underst●●d no● A●d saith he so earnestly they w●ought that he was pleased to confirme that by his Charter which he had twice ●ore-prom●●d by ●is Oath And gave commandment unto his I●stitiaries to see those Lawes of St. Edward to be invi●lably observed th●ough u● the Kingdome And yet notwithstanding this co●firmatio● 〈◊〉 the C●●r●ers afterward granted by Henry the secon● ●nd King Iohn to the same effect There followed a great Innovation b●th in Lawes and Government in England so that this seemes rather to h●ve b●en done to acquit the people with a shew of the confi●mation of their antient Customes and liberties then that they enjoyed them inessect For whereas before those Lawes they had were written in their tongue i●telligible unto all Now they are tra●slated into Latine and French And whereas the Causes of the Kingdome were before determined in every Shire And by a Law of King Edward s●nior all matters in question should upon speciall penalty w●tk●ut ●urther deferment be finally decided in their Gemote or Conventions held monethly in every Hundred A MOST GALLAN● LAW But he ●et up his ●udges four times a yeare where he thought good to he●● their Causes Again before his Conquest the inheritances descended not alone but after the Germane manner equally divided to all the children which he also altered And after this King alias Tyrant had a cruell and troublesome raign his own Son Robert rebelling against him yea saith Speed fol. 430. all things degenerated so in his cruell dayes that t●me and domestick● fowles as Hens Geese Peacocks and the like fled into the Forrests and Woods and became very wild in imitation of men But when he was dead his Favourites would not spend their pains to bury him and scarce could there be a grave procured to lay him in See Speed fol. 434. and Daniel fol. 50. and Martin fol. 8. WILLIAM THE SECOND to cheat and cosen his eldest brother Robert of the Crown granted relaxation of tribute with other releevements of their dolencies and restored them to the former freedome of hunting in all his Woods and Forrests Daniel fol. 53. And this was all worth the mentioning which they got in his dayes And then comes his brother Henry the first to the Crown and he also stepping in before Robert the eldest brother and the first actions of his government tended all to bate the people and suger their subjection as his Predecessour upon the like imposition had done but with more moderation and advisednesse for he not only pleaseth them in their releevement but in their passion by punishing the chiefe Ministers of their exactions and expelling from his Courtall dissolute persons and eased the people of their Impositions and restored them to their lights in in the night c. but having got his ends effected just tyrant-like he stands upon his Prerogative that is his will and lust but being full of turmoiles as all such men are his Son the young Prince the only hope of all the Norman race was at Sea with many more great ones drowned after which he is said never to have been seen to laugh and having besides this great losse many troubles abroad and being desirous to settle the Kingdome upon his daughter Maud the Empresse then the wife of Coffery Plantaginet in the 15. year of his reign he begins to call a Parliament being the first after the Conquest for that saith Dan. fol. 66. he would not wrest any thing by an imperiall power from the Kingdome which might breed Ulcers of dangerous nature he took a course to obtain their free consents to observe his occasion in their generall Assemblies of the three Estates of the Land which he convocated at Salisbury and yet notwithstanding by his prerogative resumed the liberty of hunting in his Forrests which took up much faire ground in England and he laid great penalties upon those that should kill his Deere But in this Henry the first ended the Norman race till Henry the second For although Henry the first had in Parliament caused the Lords of this Land to swear to his Daughter Maud and her Heires to acknowledge them as the right Inheritors of the Crown Yet the State elected and invested in the Crown of England within 30. dayes aftter the death of Henry Stephen Earle of Bolloign and Montague Son of Stephen Earl of Blois having no title at all to the Crown but by meer election was advanced to it The Choosers being induced to make choice of him having an opinion that by preferring one whose title was least it would make his obligation the more to them and so they might stand better secured of their liberties then under such a one as might presume of a hereditary succession And being crowned and in possession of his Kingdome hee assembleth a Parliament at Oxford wherein hee restored to the Clergie all their former liberties and freed the Laity from their tributes exactions or whatsoever grievances oppressed them confirming the same by his Charter which faithfully to observe hee took a publike Oath before all the Assembly where likewise the BBs swore fealty to him but with this condition saith Daniel folio 69. SO LONG AS HE OBSERVED THE TENOVR OF THIS CHARTER And Speed in his Chronicle fol. 468. saith that the Lay-Barons made use also of this polici● which I say is justice and honesty as appeareth by Robert Earl of Glocester who swore to be true Liege-man to the King AS LONG AS THE KING WOVLD PRESERVE TO HIM HIS DIGNITIES AND KEEPE ALL COVENANTS But little quiet the Kingdome had for rebellions and troubles dayly arose by the friends of Maud the Empresse who came into England and his Associates pitching a field with him where he fought most stoutly but being there taken hee was sent prisoner to Bristell And after this Victory thus

shed in England Scotland and Ireland since these wars which is the blood of thousands of thousands For which if all the sons of men should be so base and wicked as not to doe their duty in executing justice upon him which Legally may and ought to bee done by those especially who have Power and Authority in their hands Yet undoubtedly the righteous God will and that I am confident in an exemplary manner in despight of all his bloody add wicked protectors and defenders For GOD is a just GOD and will revenge innocent blood even upon Kings Judg. 1 6 7. 1 Kings 21. 19. 22. 38. Isa 30. 33. Ezek. 32. 29. and will repay wicked and ungodly men Isai 59. 18. Therefore I desire those that shall thinke this a harsh saying to lay down the definition of a Tyrant in the highest degree and I am confident their own Consciences will tell them it is scarce possible to commit or doe that act of Tyranny that Charles Stewart is not guilty of and therefore de jure hath absolved all his people from their Allegeance and Obedience to him and which the Parliament are bound in duty and conscience De facto to declare and not to bee unjuster to the Kingdome then their predecessors have been which in part I have already memioned and shall to conclude only cite some particulars of the Parliaments just dealing with Edward the second who was not one quarter so bad as C. R who being called to account by the Parliament for his evill government and being imprisoned at Kenelworth-Castle the Parliament sent Commissioners to acquaint him with their pleasure the Bishops of Winches●●r Hereford and Lincoln two Earls two Abbots foure Barons two Justices three Knights for every County and for London and other principall places chiefly for the five Ports a certain number chosen by the Parliament And when they came to him they told him the Common-wealth had conceived so irreconcileable dislikes of his government the particulars whereof had been opened in the generall Assembly at London that it was resolved never to endure him as King any longer That notwithstanding those dislikes had not extended so far as for his sake to exclude his issue but that with universall applause and joy the Common-wealth had in Parliament elected his eldest sonne the Lord Edward for King They finally told him that unlesse he did of himselfe renounce his Crown and Scepter the people would neither endure him nor any of his children as their Soveraigne but disclaiming all Homage and Fealty would elect some other for King not of the Blood The King seeing it would be no better amongst other things told them That he sorrowed much that the people of the Kingdom were so exasperated against him as that they should utterly abhorre his any longer rule and soveraignty and therefore he besought all there present to forgive him and gave them thanks for chusing his eldest sonne to be their King which was greatly to his good liking that he was so gracious in their sight Whereupon they proceeded to the short Ceremony of his Resignation which principally consisted in the surrender of his Diadem and Ensignes of Majesty to the use of his son the new King Whereupon Sir William Trussel on the behalfe of the whole Realm renounced all homage and allegeance to the Lord Edward of Carnarvan late King The words of the definitive Sentence were these I William Trussel in the name of all men of the Land of England and all the Parliament Procurator resigne to thee Edward the Domage that was made to thee sometime and from this time forward now following I defy thee and deprive shee of all Royall power and I shall neuer be attendant to thee as for ●ing after this time But if any object It is true Subjects and people have de facto done this unto their Kings but they cannot doe it de jure for that Kings are above their people are not punishable by any but God I answer God is the fountain or efficient cause of all punishment But as to man instrumentally he inflicts by man And though he be our supream Lord and Law-Maker hath for bodily and visible transgressions of his Law appointed a visible and bodily punishment in this world for the transgressors thereof and man for his instrumentall executioner and never ordinarily doth it immediatly by himself but when his Instrument Man failes to doe his duty and being a God of order hath appointed a Magistrate or an impowred man as his and their executioner for the doing of justice and never goeth out of this Road but in extraordinary cases as he doth when the Magistrate is extraordinarily corrupted in the executing of his duty and in such cases God hath raised up particular or extraordinary persons to be his executioners And therefore God being no respecter of persons hath by nature created all men alike in power and not any lawlesse and none to bind each other against mutuall agreement and common consent and hath expr●sly commanded Man his rationall creature shall not tyrannize one over another or destroy by any intrusted power each other but that the intrusted Kings as well as others shall improve the utmost of their power and strength for the good and benefit protection and preservation of every individuall Trustee And whosoever he be that shall improve his intrusted power to the destruction of his impowrers forfeits his power And GOD the fountain of Reason and Justice hath endued man with so much reason mercy humanity and compassion to himself and his own Being as by the instinct Nature to improve his utmost power for his own preservation and defence which is a Law above all lawes and compacts in the world Declar. April 17. 1641. And whosoever rejects it and doth not use it hath obliterated the principles of Nature in himselfe degenerated into a habit worse then a beast and becomes felonious to himselfe and guilty of h●s own blood This Israel of old the Lords peculiar people understood as well as the people of England although they had 〈◊〉 expresse posi●ive law no more then we in England have to rebell or withdraw their obedience subjection from those Magistrates or Kings that exercise their power and authority contrary to the nature of their trust which is plain and cleare without dispute in the case of Rehoboam who was the son of Solomon who was the sonne of David who was assigned King by GOD and chosen and made King by the common consent of the people of Juda and Israel 2 Sam. 7. 13. And who by vertve of Gods promise to him and his seed to be Kings over his people had more to say for his Title to his and their Crown I am confident of it then all the Princes in the world have to say for their claim and childrens to their Crown For Rehoboam was not onely the sonne of Solomon who was in a manner intailed by God himselfe unto the Crown

Feb. 12. 1645. in the annihilating his unjust Sentence in the Star-Chamber Reade his printed Relation thereof page 1 2 ● and the last Which forced him to deliver in at their Bar his legall and just Plea and Protestation against their usurping jurisdiction over Commoners which you may reade in The Freemans freedome vindicated page 5. 6. Vpon which they commanded himto withdraw and then pag. 7. make an Order to commit him in these words Die Jovis 11. June 1646. IT is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled That Lieut. Col. John Lilburn shall stand committed to the Prison of Newgate for exhibiting to this House a scandalous and contemptnous Paper it being delivered by himselfe at the Barre this day And that the Keeper of the said Prison shall keepe him safely untill the pleasure of this House be further signified and this to be a sufficient Warrant in that behalfe John Brown Cler. Parl. To the Gentleman-Usher of this House or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of Newgate I cannot hear that he either at this time misbehaved himself either in word or gesture towards them but gave them as much respect at this time as if he had been one of their own Creatures But away to Newgate he goes and Iune 16. 1646. directs his appeale to the Honurable House of Commons which you may read in the fore-mentioned booke pag. 9 10 11. Which appeale the House of Commons read approved of and committed to a sp●ciall Committee which Committee met and examined his businesse and as I am informed from very good hands made a vote to this eff●ct That his proceedings with and protestations against the Lords delivered at their barre and his appeale to the House of Commons was just and legall which they in justice ought to beare him out in which Report Collonel Henry Marti● that couraragious and faithfull Patrio● of his Country as Chairman of that Committee is to report to the House But immediately after the reading of this Appeale to the House out comes the fore-mentioned booke in prynt which it seemes did somthing startle the Lords who had let him lie quietly in Newgate till then without so much as sending him the Copy of any charge But upon this they send a Warran● againe for him which as I finde it in the 4. page of the Just man in Bonds thus followeth Die Lunae 22. Junii 1646 ORdered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that Lieutenant Collonel Iohn Lilburne now a prisoner in Newgate shall be brought before their Lordships in the High Court of Parliament to morrow morning by 10. of the clock and this to be a f●ffici●●● Warrant in that behalfe Iohn Browne Cler. Parl. To the Gentleman Usher of this House or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy And accordingly the next day Lieutenant Collonel Lilbur●● was brought up to their barre and being called into the House was commanded to kneele which he refused to do for what reasons he is best able ●● declare which I hope he will not faile to do assoone as he enjoyes the liberty and priviledge to have pen inke and paper which by law he cannot be debarred of neither can it justly be denyed to the greatest Traytor in England And surely the Lords give a cleere demonstration to the whole Kingdome to judge that their own consciences tell them that he is an honest and a just man and their dealing with him is base wicked illegall and unjust that they dare not suffer him to enjoy pen inke and paper to declare the truth of his cause to the world which they have most unjustly and unrighteously kept from him by speciall Order for above three moneths together So that by the paw a man may judge of the whole body that is to say by their Lordships dealing with him a wise man may easily see what they would do to all the Freemen of England if their power were answerable to their wills which would be to make them as great slaves as the Pesants in France are who enjoy propriety neither in life liberty nor estate if they did not make us as absolute vassals as the poore Turks are to the Grand Seigneour whose lives and estates he takes away from the greatest of them when he pleaseth Therefore O all ye Commons of England marke well and eye with the eye of Jealousie these Lords the sons of pride and tyranny And not onely them but all their associats or Creatures especially in the House of Commons if any such be there for assure your selves enemies they are and will be to your liberties and freedoms what ever their specious pretences are to the contrary it being a Maxim in nature that every like begets its like Therefore trust them not no more then you would do a Fox with a Goose or a devoureing Wolfe with a harmelesse Lambe what ever they say or sweare having so palpably and visibly in the case of Mr. Lilburne broken all their Oathes Protestations Vowes and Declarations to maintaine the Lawes of the Land and the Liberties of ●he People But let us returne to their 2. summoning him to their Barre who being commanded to kneele refused and withou● any more discourse or so much as shewing him any legal charge they Commanded him to withdraw and for this cause alone he behaving himselfe this time also respectively enough saving in the Ceremony of kneeling they commit him close prisoner to Newgate A true Copy of their Warrant thus followeth Die Martis 23. Junii 1646. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that Iohn Lilburne shall stand Committed close prisoner in the Prison of Newgate and that he be not permitted to have pen inke or paper and none shall have accesse unto him in any kinde but onely his Keeper untill this Court do take further Order To the Keeper of Newgate his Deputy or Deputies Iohn Browne Cler. Parl. Exam. per Rad. Brisco● Cler. de Newgate And so from this 23. of June to the 11. of July then ensuing he was locked up close and neither his Wife Children Servants Friends Lawyers or Councellers permitted to have accesse unto him nor they never sent him word what they intended to do And all this while the Lords are picking matter against him having none it seemes when they first summ●ned him to their barre to grownd the least pretence or shaddow of a Charge against him and knowing his resolution to stand to his liberties they lay provocations upon him cōmit one act of injustice with a high hand upon the neck of another to provoke him to let some words fall or do some actions to en●nare himselfe that so they might have some coulor for their fu●ure proceedings with him And divers bookes coming out in his behalfe by some as it seemes who wished him well which to the purpose nettles the Lords for their cruelty towards him Serieant Finch as one of his Majesties Councel preferrs certaine Articles against

as formerly they have done Read the fore-mentioned Discourse of John Vowel printed in Hollinsheds Chronicles of Ireland pag. 123 Sir Edward Cookes 4. part Institutes chap. 1. pag. 2. and the fore-mentioned book called Vox Plebis pag. 39 40. Yea though conditionally they might sit as Peers yet they ought not to do it for this were for the Peoples Trustees the House of Commons to give away their true and legislative power which originally is only inhe●ent in them THE PEOPLE which is the next and the last thing I should prove But in regard the Discourse is swolne so big already and the present time being the season for publishing what I have already said which were impossible to come out this Moneth or sixe Weekes if I should throughly handle this Proposition as by Gods assistance I intend which will take up a Discourse almost half as big as the fore-going For first I must shew and prove That the people in generall are the originall sole legislaters and the true fountain and earthly will spring of all just power And Secondly That all the power which the house of Commons hath is mee●ly derivative and bounded within this tacit Commission to act only for the good of thosothat betrusted them and not for their mischiefe in the least And here I shall propound some Queries Whether or not they have not done and acted some things prejudiciall and mischievous so the generality of the Kingdome and destructive to the fund ment all Lawes and Liberties thereof Which in the affirmative I shall answer Yea and prove it in divers particulars our of their own late published large book being the second part of the Collection of Ordinances Declar. c. where I finde three Ordinances viz. That for the Merchant-Adventurers pag. 361. That for the Turkie-Merchants pag. 439. Thirdly That for the Greenland Merchants pag. 646. Of all three of which I say as Sir Edward Cooke in the second part of his Institutes fol. 51. And the fourth part Institutes fol. 41. saith of the Statute of the 11. of Henry 7. chap. 3. for executing of which Justice Dudley and Empson lost their lives that they are made in the fac● of the ancient and fundamentall Law of the 29. and 30. chapters of Magna Charta c. And that they are unjust and injurious Ordinances which in duty they are bound to abrogate and to punish the procurers of them in regard those very Ordinances if continued will ●ender the Parliament the Commissioners of the people and the great interest of their preservation odious abominable and 〈◊〉 ble in their eyes and do them more mischiefe then an Army of twenty thousand Cavaliers for such palpable injustice as in these very Ordinances is done to the whole Kingdome will in time destroy the Parliament though now they had never a professed enemy in the world and true friends to their professed enemy the King they are who put them upon this work And let them take warning by those that were formerly the setters up of Pattentees and therby destroyers of the peoples legal and just liberties for it was not only that they were set up by an unbinding authority of the Kings which made them illegall but that they were against destructive to the fundamentall Lawes and liberties of the Land And therefore the house of Commons in its first purity before any of them was corrupted with assessing treasuring and disposing of the Common-wealths money in Clandestine Wayes not in the least allowed by the known and just Law of the Land and which to the Common-wealth they are not able to give an account of as indeed and in truth they ought of all the monies they have raised I say the house of Commons at the first beginning of their straights when they would render themselves amiable and lovely in the eyes of their Impowrers the people that trusted them They tell them in their first and most excellent Declaration 1. par Col. Declar. pag. 14. That they have supprest all Monopolies whereof some few did prejudice the Subject above a Million yearly the Soap an hundred thousand pounds the Wine three hundred thousand pounds the Le●ther must needs exceed both and salt could be no lesse then that besides the inferiour Monopolies Was this an excellency in the peoples Commissioners at the beginning And can it be lesse now then the greatest of basenesse in them to do the quite contrary Yea and that after so much bloud hath been shed and so much money spent and so many Oaths and Covenants sworn and taken to preserve the fundamentall Lawes and Liberties of the Kingdom And here I must fall extreamly foule upon Sr. WALTER EARLE GILES GREENE IOHN ROLL GEORGE TOMPSON ALEXANDER BENCE all Parliament men for their unjust and illegall Order made at the Committee of the Navy and Customes Novemb. 12. 1646. which is published in print on purpose to conjure the Officers of the Customs to take care to put the aforesaid patentee M●●op●lizing Ordinance of the GREENLAND COMPANY in d●e execution according to its true intent and meaning and that before they passe any en●ry or other warrant for any F●ns or gills wrought or unwrought or for any sort of W●●le O●le or other Oyle to call to their assistance the Officer or the Officers of the Greenland Company if any such be appointed for the place to view the same thereby to proc●ed according to the Ordinance of Parliame●● which Ordinance is dated the 6. of May 1646. which AVTHORISETH THEM TO CEISE UPON ALL SVCH COMMODITIES that are brought in by any other free Merchants that are not of this Company by m●anes of which they ing●osse all the trade into their own hands and sell their Commodities for double the rate that others if they might be suffered to bring them in would sell them O brave and gallant slavery and bondage The dear but unwelcome purchase of all our blood and money The next querie that will arise will be this Whether some particular Parliament men have not outstript the bounds of their Commission And here I shall answer affirmatively likewise or else as Samuel said to Saul what meanes this bleating of the Sheepe in my eares and the lowing of the Oxen which I heare So say I if all be right what meanes MAJOR GEORGE WITHERS Complaint against Sir Richard Onsley and Sir Poynings Moore and Mr. IOHN MVSGRAVES loud Complaint and impeachment of treason against Mr. Richard Barwis which he hath largely published in severall bookes to the view of the world called A WORD TO THE WISE ANOTHER WORD TO THE WISE YET ANOTHER WORD TO THE WISE In which he also accuseth Mr. Lisle the Chairman of the Committee of great injustice for making a false Report to the House And what meanes the grievous Complaint of divers Gentlemen of the County of Durham against OLD SIR HENRY VANE which is printed in ENGLANDS BIRTHRIGHT pag. 19. 20. 21 And Lieutenant Collonel Lilburne● Complaint against him in