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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91204	Mr. Pryn's last and finall declaration to the Commons of England, concerning the King, Parliament, and Army. And his remonstrance and proposals to the kingdome, shewing, that it is high treason, to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of our Soveraign Lord King Charles. With the oath of allegiance to His Majesty, taken by the Parliament men, before their admission into the House as members. / By William Pryn, of Lincolns-Inne, Esq.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3992; Thomason E537_12; ESTC R205366	3,382	9

Mr. PRYN'S last and finall DECLARATION To the COMMONS of ENGLAND Concerning the KING PARLIAMENT And ARMY AND His Remonstrance and Proposals to the Kingdome shewing That it is High Treason to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of our Soveraign Lord King CHARLES WITH The Oath of Allegiance to His Majesty taken by the Parliament men before their admission into the House as MEMBERS By WILLIAM PRYN of Lincolns-Inne Esq. Printed in the Yeer 1648. Master PRYNS Declaration to the KINGDOME Concerning The apparent danger of his Majesties Royall person and the present proceedings of the Parliament and Army in order to the deposing of Charles Steward their lawfull King of England c. Gentlemen and Fellow Commoners VVHereas my self and above 200 Members more being forcibly secluded from siting in the house of Commons by the Officers of the Army I therefore held it my duty to impart unto you these ensuing Proposals First That by the common law of the Realm the stat of 25 E. 3. and all other Acts concerning Treason it is no lesse then high treason for any man to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of the King or of his eldest Sonne and heire though it be never executed much more if actually accomplished and that many have been arraigned condemned and executed for such intended treasons in former ages as the E. of Arundell and others by judgment in Parl. Secondly That in the Oath of Allegiance whlch you have all taken immediatly before your admission into the house as Members You do truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in your consciences before God the World That our Soveraign Lord King Charles is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of all other his Maj. Dominions and Countries Thirdly That your selves among other members have in above one hundred Remonstrances and Declarations professed both to the King himself kingdom world forraign States that you never intended the least hurt injury or violence to the Kings person Crown Dignity or Posterity but intended to him and his Royal posterity more honour happinesse gr●atnesse and glory then ever was yet enjoyed by any of his Predecessors that you have proposed no other ends to your selves but the performance of all duty and loyalty to his Maj. person That his personal safety honour greatnesse are much dearer to you then your own lives and fortunes which you do most heartily dedicate and shall most willingly imploy for the maintenance and support thereof That the Parl. will ever have a care to prevent any danger which his Majesty may justly apprehend to his person with many other such like expressions Which whether your present Actings and Councels do not directly oppose contradict and give the lye unto to your eternal infamy and breach of publike faith as much as in you lies let the world and all men judge as they will do in due season The rule in the Old Testament is not to take any wicked Kings from their Thrones ●nd behead them but Rom ●3 1 2 c. Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in Righteousnesse And the rule in the new Testament To be subject to Kings and the higher powers and to submit vnto them even for Conscience and the Lords sake and to make prayers supplications and intercessions for them that under them we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty for this is good and acctptable in the sight of God our Saviour not to depose or shed their bloud for which there is no precept And is not this plain way of God the safest for you and the Army to follow yea the only short cut to peace and settlement Ruminate upon it and then be wise both for your soules good and the welfare of poor England Fourthly Remember that no protestant King or State ever yet defiled their hands or stained the purity and honour of their Reformed Religion with the deposition or bloud of any of their Kings and Princes much lesse of a protestant king or Prince of a temperate and sober life as the King is who never imbrued his own hand in any one mans bloud in any tyrannical or bloudy way before or since the warres for ought I can hear but only in a Military Fifthly Consider that the Scots delivered the King to our Commis. at Newcastle upon this expresse condition That no violence should be offered to his person c. according to the Covenant How then can you un-king depose him or take away his life upon pretext of Justice which if you do you ingage both kingdoms to war against you and to crown the Prince of VVales their King as being next heir apparent WIL PRYN A Declaration touching the King AFter mature deliberation upon the proceedings of the Lord General Fairfax and the General councel of Officers in relation to the establishing of a firm and lasting peace within this bleeding torne and tottering kingdom and the erecting of a pure and sound Government according to the Law of Nature and the fundamental laws of this Realm and after several conferences and disputations in order thereunto divers of the Presbyterian party frequented to Westminster and other places where they had severall disputations and conferences with the Officers and other members of the Army and after some debate upon the Foundation of the grounds and principles of the Agreement of the People the Presbyterians declared a great dislike thereof remonstrating That it was not founded upon a firm Rock to which objections severall answers were made for cleering such scruples and cautions as seemed difficult to many And as for the person of the King they further declared that notwithstanding the present Ordnance of Attainder against his Maj. yet they conceived it requisite and lawfull that the prayers of the Ministery bee still continued in every Congregation throughout his Maj. Realmes and Dominions desiring that he may have a legal tryall and that Hee may not be degraded of his Titles and Honours Concerning which be pleased to peruse this ensuing Letter from Holland touching the degrading of his Majesty Sir We are here in a kind of amazement to hear that your King should be designed for the grave before his time Believe it there 's nothing more characterizes men wise in the opinion of the wisest meer man then that they see a far off not the plague of the body only though that but judgments somtimes for evildoing somtimes for acting indiscreetly in matters that may be done That which may lawfully bee done it may be absurd to do at some time The taking away life which is that prized above all by him that all account wise is not just say some at any time unlesse there be a law that makes the thing done death and death to him that doth it The supream power of England that forbids any to judge of treason in a constructive way but themselvs have retaind in themselvs a power to judge such and such practises and endeavours to amount to treason or death In particular supose there were law or it were in the power of the Lords and Commons to take awoy the life of the present King yet if England Scotland and Ireland shal be made more miserable thereby in reason and the waas renewed to the probable ruine of the Nations and chiefly to those who pretend most to piety and justice therein it were better not That it 's dangerous this may be said If you cut off you must set up vacuities of that nature suddainly introduce confusion If you set up it must either be a new King or a new Government if a new King then the next of kinne and if him then let his ●complyance be what it will his Fathers death cannot bee ●orgot no the danger of his mothers influence who will remain in banishment be easily got over refuse he to come in as it 's most like he hath the afore-named written upon his brest hesides his hereditary claim his marriage which no man that hath a purse but will endowry with a daughter raise an army of 20000 to restore a son in law and make his daughter Queen of 3 kingdoms which by reason of scituation and inherent accommodations may well managed be the ballancing power of Christendom If any other or a new Government the objections are the same all the line that successively are made enemies to boot besides hath the Parl. or army yet got so much love are they so deep in the hearts of the people that they can assure themselves the newtrals or those who have gone farre with them will quiesce But the answer is ready we have an Army that cannot be over come neither by what can rise here or come from abroad So had Alexander but Alexander was poysoned and what then became of his Army ruin approached Some wil boast they fear no colours nor danger for they have the swiftest horse in the Kingdom but what if that horse stumble and throw his Rider where 's the man the horse wandering up and down as the fed Hauk for food comes to the hand of a child Hague 2 Jan. 1648. The Heads of the Armies Deolaration 1 That they were great promoters of the Kings design 2 Of promoting the Kings design in Scotland obstructing the Lord Lisle and promoting the L. Inchequin 3 That they incouraged the force that was set upon the Houses by the London Apprentises hindered and obstructed such things a● tended to the settlement of the Kingdom c. That therefore to the end that there might be a speedy way for setling the same they excluded them the House and intend very speedily to send in the Charge against them FINIS