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A56211	The soveraigne povver of parliaments and kingdomes divided into foure parts· Together with an appendix: wherein the superiority of our owne, and most other foraine parliaments, states, kingdomes, magistrates, (collectively considered,) over and above their lawfull emperours, kings, princes, is abundantly evidenced, confirmed by pregnant reasons, resolutions, precedents, histories, authorities of all sorts; the contrary objections re-felled: the treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his counsell, royallists, malignants, delinquents, papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings supremacy, and subjects liberty) satisfactorily answered, refuted, dissipated in all particulars. By William Prynne, utter-barrester, of Lincolnes Inne. It is on this second day of August, 1643. ordered ... that this booke ... be printed by Michael Sparke ...; Soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing P4087A; ESTC R203193	824,021	610

against his well-liking caused him to ratifie them with his Seale and to take his corporall Oath to observe them Which done the Arch-bishop of Canterbury with his Suffragans solemnely denounced a sentence of excommunication against al who should contradict these Articles which they caused to be openly read in Pauls Church London in the presence of the Prelates Lords and Commons of the whole kingdom the King being present Among which Articles they demanded That Magna Charta with other provisions necessary to the Church and Realme should be observed that the King as his Father had commanded should thrust al Strangers out of his Court and kingdome and remove ill Counsellours from him That he would thenceforth order all the affaires of the kingdome by the Counsel of the Clergy and Lords and begin no war nor depart any where out of the kingdome without common consent The King consented to the Articles and banished Piers into Ireland No sooner was the Parliament dissolved but the King neglecting his Fathers solemne adjurations together with his owne Oath never to reduce Piers sends for him back to his Court marrieth him to the Countesse of Glocester his owne sisters daughter sheweth him more favour then ever Resolving with himselfe to retaine this Gaveston mangre all his Earles Barons and for the love of him to put his Crowne and life in perill when time should serve In which whether the King or his Favourite shewed lesse discretion it is not at the first easily determined it being as unsafe for the one with so offensive behavior to affect immoderate shew and use of grace as for the other to the injury of his name and Realme to bestow the same But upon the Queenes complaint to the King of France her Brother of Piers his insolence and prodigality and on the Barons message to the King by common consent That he should banish Piers from his company and observe the effect of the foresaid Articles or else they would certainly rise up against him as a perjured person by a like vow which speech seemed hard to the King because he knew not how to want Piers but yet discerned that more danger would spring up if he obeyed not the Lords Petition Piers rather by the Kings permission then good liking did the third time abjure the Realme with this proviso that if at any time afterward he were taken in England he should be forthwith put to death as a perilous enemy to the Kingdome yet he returning in Christmas to the King at Yorke the Lords spirituall and temporall to preserve the Liberties of the Church the kingdom and remove this Viper elected Tho. Earle of Lancaster for their Generall and sent honorable messengers to the King requesting him to deliver Piersinto their hands or drive him from his company out of England as being perswaded while that King-bane breathed peace could never be maintained in the Realme nor the King abound intreasure nor the Queene enjoy his love But the wilfull King would not condescend Whereupon the Lords thus contemned and deluded presently raise an Army and march with all speed towards Newcastle not to offer injury or molestation to the King writes Walsingham the case and purpose of the pre●ent Parliaments Army but that they might apprehend Piers himselfe and judge him according to the Laws enacted Which when the King heard he fled together with Piers to Tynemouth and from thence to Scarborough Castle Where Piers was forced to yeeld himselfe upon condition to speake but once more with the king And then carried to Warwick Castle where he had his head strucke off at the command and in the presence of the Earles of Lancaster Warwicke and Hereford as one who had beene a subverter of the Lawes and an open Traytor to the kingdome and that without any judiciall proceedings or triall of his Peeres though an Earle and so deare a Favorite of the Kings Which bred a lasting hatred betweene the King and his Nobles Who being afterwards charged by the King in Parliament with their contempt against him in the spoiles committed by them at Newcastle and wickedly killing Piers they stoutly answered That they had not offended in any point but deserved his royall favour for that they had not gathered force against him but against the publike enemy of the Realme And then obtained an Act of Pardon that no man should be questioned for Gavestons returne or death printed in old Magna Charta Not long after this unfortunate King doting upon the two Spencers as much as ever he did on Gaves●on to whom they succeeded not onely in pride rapine oppression and intolerable in●olencies but even in height of familiarity and power with the King So as they ruled and lead the King as they pleased in so much that no Earle Baron or Bishop was able to dispatch any thing in Court without their advise and favour which made them generally envied of all because they domineered over all The Lords and Barons hereupon confederated together to live and die for justice and to their power to destroy the Traytors of the Realme especially the two Spencers And meeting together with their forces at Shirborne Thomas of Lancaster being their Captaine they tooke an oath to prosecute their designe to the division of soule and body Then they spoyled these Spencers and their friends goods take their Castles by violence waste their Manors through malice slay their servants utterly omitting the usuall wayes of Law and equity and following the impetuousnesse of their minds they march on to Saint Albons with Ensignes displayed and sent solemne messengers to the King then at London commanding him not onely to rid his Court but kingdome too of the Traytors of the Realme the Spencers condemned in many Articles which they had framed against them by the Commonalty of the Realme if he loved the peace of the Kingdome And they further required the King to grant letters Patents of indempnity to themselves and all such as had bore armes in their company that they should not be punished by the King or any other for their forepast or present transgressions The King denyed both these demands at first as unjust and illegall swearing that he would not violate his Coronation Oath in granting such a pardon to contemptuous Delinquents Whereupon running to their armes they marched up to London entred the City and to avoyd danger the King through the Queenes and others mediation condescended to their desires passing an Act for the Spencers banishment and the Barons indemnities which you may reade in ancient Magna Chartaes Upon this the Barons departed neither merry nor secure despairing of the Kings Benevolence which made them goe alwayes armed and to retire to safe places The King soone after recalling the Spencers reversed the sentence against them as erroneous gathers an Army encounters and defeates the Barons and puts many of them to death by these Spencers procurements who not content with their bloud procured also

Spensers and other ill Counsellors about this king in the last yeare of his raigne though the King himself were in their Company and taken prisoner by the Forces raised against them for the necessary preservation reliefe and safety of the Queene Prince Nobles Kingdome to be no high Treason nor offence at all namely the statute of 1. E. 3. c. 1. 2. 3. which I shall recite at large Whereas Hugh Spenser the Father and Hugh Spenser the Sonne late at the suite of Thomas then Earle of Lancaster and Leycester and Steward of England by the common assent and vote of the Peers and Commons of the Realme and by the assent of King Edward Father to our Soveraigne Lord the King that now is AS TRAITORS ENEMIES OF THE KING OF THE REALME were Exled disinherited and banished out of the Realme for ever And afterward the same Hugh by evill Councell which the king had about him without the assent of the Peeres and Commons of the Realme came againe into the Realme and they with other pro●●cured the said king to pursue the said Earle of Lancaster and other great men and people of the Realme in which pursuite the said Earle of Lancaster and other great men and people of the Realme were willingly dead and disinherited and some outlawed banished and disinherited and some disinherited and imprisoned and some ransommed and disherited and after such mischiefe the said Hugh and Hugh Master Rob●rt Baldocke and Edmo●d Earle of Arundell usurped to them the Royall power so that the king nothing did nor would doe but as the said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmond Earle of Arundell did councell him were it never so great wrong during which usurpation by duresse and force against the Will of the Commons they purchased Lands as well by fines levied in the Court of the said Edward as otherwise and whereas after the death of the said Earle of Lancaster and other great men our Soveraigne Lord the King that now is and Dame Isabel Queene of England his Mother by the Kings will and Common Councell of the Realme went over to Franc● to treate of peace betweene the two Realmes of England and France upon certaine debates then moved The said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmond Earle of Arundell continuing in their mischiefe encouraged the king against our Soveraigne Lord the king that now is his sonne and the said Queene his wife and by royall power which they had to them encroached as afore is said procured so much grievance by the assent of the said King Edward to our Soveraigne Lord the King that now is and the Queene his mother being in so great jeopardy of themselves in a strange Country and seeing the Destruction Dammage Oppressions and Distractions which were notoriously done in the Realme of England upon holy Church Prelates Earles Barons and other great men and the Commonalty by the said Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmond Earle of Arundell by the encroaching of the said royall power to them to take as good Councell therein as they might And seeing they might not remedie the same unlesse they came into England with an Army of men of warre and by the Grace of God with such puissance and with the helpe of great men and Commons of the Realme they have vanquished and destroyed the sayd Hugh and Hugh Robert and Edmond Wherefore our Soveraigne Lord King Edward that now is at his Parliament holden at Westminster at the time of his Coronation the morrow after Candlemas in the first yeare of his reigne upon certaine Petitions and requests made unto him in the said Parliament upon such Articles above rehearsed by the common councell of the Prelates Earles Barons and other great men and by the Commonalty of the Realme there being by his Commandment hath provided ordained and stablished in forme following First that no great man or other of what estate dignity or condition he be that came with the said king that now is and with the Queene his mother into the Realme of England and none other dwelling in England who came with the said king that now is and with the Queene In ayde of them to pursue their said enemies in which pursuite the King his Fat●er was taken and put in ward and yet remaineth in ward shall not be molested impeached or g●ieved in person or goods in the kings Court or other Court for the pu●suite of the said king taking and with holding of his body nor pursu●te of any other nor taking of their persons goods nor death of any man or any other things perpetrate or committed in the said pursuite from the day the said king and Queene did arme till the day of the Coronation of the same king and it is not the kings minde that such offenders that committed my trespasse or other offence out of the pursuites should goe quit or have advantage of this statute but they shall be at their answere for the same at the Law Item that the repeale of the said Exile which was made by Dures and force be adnulled for evermore and the said Exile made by award of the Peeres and Commons by the kings assent as before is said shall stand in his strength in all points after the tenure of every particular therein contained Item that the Executors of the Testament of all those that were of the same quarrell dead shall have actions and recover the Goods and Chattels of them being of the said quarrell whose executors they be as they of the same quarrell should c. Certainely here was an higher pursuite and levying warre against the King and his evill Councellors then any yet attempted by this Parliament and a warre rather offensive then defensive in which the king himself was both taken and d●t●ined Priso●●r and then forced to resigne his Crowne to his sonne yet this is here justified as a necessary just and lawfull warre by an Act of Parliament never yet repealed and all that bare Armes against the king and his ill Councellors yea they who pursued apprehended and imprisoned the king himselfe are as to this particular discharged by the king and whole Parliament from all manner of guilt or punishment or prosecution whatsoever against them Which consideration mak●s me somewhat confident that this King and the Parliament held in the 25. yeare of his Raigne ch 2. Which declares it high Treason to levie warre against the King in his Realm● did never intend it of a necessary defensive warre against a seduced King and his evill Councellors especially by the Votes of both Houses of Parliament who doubtlesse would never passe any Act to make themselves or their Posteritie in succeeding Parliaments Traytors for taking up meere necessary defensive Armes for their owne and the Kingdomes preservation for that had beene diametra●ly contrary to this statute made in the very first yeare and Parliament of this King and would have l●yd an aspertion of High Treason upon the king himself the Queene his

a seigned Proclamation which he caused to be proclaimed throughout the Realme that these Lords were apprehended only for new Treasons committed against him for which he would prosecute them in the next Parliament and not for the old trespasses After which he proclaimes those Lords Traytors Which done he summoned a Parliament at Westminster to this Parliament the King commanded to come all such as he had best confidence in omitting the rest and the Knights were not elected by the Commons as custome required they should be but by the Kings pleasure yea he put out divers persons elected and put in other in their places to serve his turne which was one Article objected against him when he was deposed Against the time of this Parliament the King received a guard of 4000. Archers all Cheshire men as if he would have gone in battle against enemies so that divers came armed to the Parliament out of feare These Cheshire men were rude and beastly people and so proud of the Kings favour that they accounted the King to be their fellow and set the Lords at nought though few of them were Gentlemen but taken from the Plough and other Trades After these rusticall people had a while Courted they grew so bold that they would not let neither within the Court nor without to beat and slay the Kings good Subject as the Cavaliers doe now and to take from them their victuals at their pleasure paying little or nothing for them and to ravish their wives and daughters And if any man presumed to complaine to the King of them he was soone rid out of the way no man knew why nor by whom so that in effect they did what they listed In this Parliament the King having made the Speaker and a great part of mercinary proud ambitious men of the Commons House to be of his side to act what he required them he then prevailed likewise with the Upper House first with the Prelates then with the Lords more out of feare of him then any reason by meanes whereof the Commission Charters of pardon and Acts made in Parliament in the 10. and 11. yeares of his Reigne were quite revoked and declared voyd in Law as being done without authority and against the will and liberty of the King and of his Crowne And withall they declared the Iudges opinions for which they were condemned in that Parliament to be good and lawfull and attainted the said imprisoned Lords of high Treason and confiscated their lands The two Earles hereupon were beheaded and the Duke by reason of his popularity sent over to Callice and there by Hall and others smot●ered onely for their former actions which done the King adjourned the Parliament to Shrewsbury where he subtilly procured an Act to passe by common consent that the power of the Parliament should remaine in seven or eight persons who after the Parliament dissolved should determine certaine petitions delivered that Parliament and not dispatched By colour whereof Those Committees proceeded to other things generally touching the Parliament and that by the Kings appointment in derogation of the state of the Parliament the discommodity and pernicious example of the whole Realme And by colour and authority hereof the King caused the Parliament Rols to be altered and defaced against the effect of the foresaid grant After which he much vexed and oppressed his people with divers forced Loanes Oathes Impositions and oppressing Projects to raise money seeking to trample them under his feet and destroy the Realme and tooke all the Jewels of the Crown with him into Ireland without the kingdomes consent Which rendered him so odious to his people that Henry Duke of Lancaster landing in England the whole kingdome came flocking to his ayde so that he had an Army of 60000. men in a short time who vowed to prosecute the Kings ill Counsellours Whereupon King Richard returning out of Ireland hearing of the Dukes great Army assembled against him and knowing that they would rather dye than yeeld out of their hatred and feare of him he dismissed his Courtiers hiding obsurely in corners till he was apprehended and by a Parliament summoned in his name though against his will judicially deposed for his misgovernment Among the Articles exhibited against him in Parliament for his evill government for which he was by sentence dethroned these are remarkable First That hee wastfully spent the Treasure of the Realme and had given the possessions of the Crowne to men unworthy by reason whereof daily new charges more and more were laid on the neckes of the poore Commonalty And when divers Lords were appointed by the high Court of Parliament to commune and treate of divers matters concerning the Common-wealth of the same which being busie about those Commissions he with other of his affinity went about to impeach them of high Treason and by force and threatning compelled the Iustices of the Realme at Shrewesbury to condescend to his opinion for the destruction of the said Lords In somuch that hee began to raise warre against John Duke of Lancaster Thomas Earle of Arundell Richard Earle of Warwicke and other Lords contrary to his honour and promise Item He assembled certaine Lancashire and Cheshire men to the intent to make warre on the foresaid Lords and suffered them to rob and pillage without correction or reproofe Item Although the King ftatteringly and with great dissimulation made Proclamation throughout the Realme that the Lords before named were not attached for any crime of Treason but onely for extortions and oppressions done in the Realme yet he laid to them in the Parliament rebellion and manifest Treason Item He hath compelled divers of the said Lords servants and friends by menace and extreame paines to make great fines to their utter undoing And notwithstanding his pardon to them granted yet he made them fine of new Item That he put out divers Sheriffes lawfully elected and put in their roomes divers of his owne Minions subverting the Law contrary to his Oath and Honour Item For to serve his purpose he would suffer the Sheriffes of the Shire to remaine above one yeare or two Item He borrowed great sums of money and bound him under his Letters Patents for repayment of the same and yet not one penny paid Item He taxed men at the Will of him and his unhappy Counsell and the same Treasure spent in folly not paying poore men for their victuall and viand Item He said That the Lawes of the Realme were in his head and sometime in his brest by reason of which phantasticall opinion he destroyed Noble men and impoverished the Commons Item The Parliament setling and exacting divers notable Statutes for the profit and advancement of the Commonwealth he by his private friends and solicitors caused to be enacted That no Act then enacted should be more prejudi●iall to him than it was to any of his Predecessors though with proviso he did often as he listed and not

of Yorke to shew and make report unto the Lords of the Parliament of his voluntary Resignation and also of his intent and good minde that he bare toward his Cousin the Duke of Lancaster to have him his Successour and King after him And this done every man took their leave and returned to their own Upon the morrow following being Tuesday and the last day of September all the Lords Spirituall and Temporall with also the Commons of the said Parliament assembled at Westminster where in the presence of them the Archbishop of Yorke according to the Kings desire shewed unto them seriously the voluntary Renouncing of the King with also the favour which he ought unto his Cousin the Duke of Lancaster for to have him his Successour And over that shewed unto them the Scedule or Bill of Renouncement signed with King Richards hand After which things in order by him finished the question was asked first of the Lords If they would admit and allow that Renouncement The which when it was of the Lords granted and confirmed the like question was asked of the Commons and of them in like manner affirmed After which admission it was then declared That notwithstanding the foresaid renouncing so by the Lords and Commons adm●tted it were needfull unto the Realme in avoiding of all suspicions and surmises of evill disposed persons to have in writing and registred the manifold crimes and defaults before done by the said Richard late King of England to the end that they might be first openly shewed to the people and after to remain of Record among the Kings Records The which were drawn and compiled as before is said in 38. Articles and there shewed readie to be read but for other causes then more needfull to be preferred the reading of the said Articles at that season were deferred and put off Then forsomuch as the Lords of the Parliament had well considered this voluntary Renouncement of King Richard and that it was behovefull and necessary for the weale of the Realme to proceed unto the sentence of his deposall they there appointed by authority of the States of the said Parliament the Bishop of Saint Asse the Abbot of Glastenbury the Earle of Glocester the Lord of Barkley William Thyrning Justice and Thomas Erpingham and Thomas Gray Knights that they should give and beare open sentence to the Kings deposition whereupon the said Commissioners laying there their heads together by good deliberation good counsell and advisement and of one assent agreed among them that the Bishop of Saint Asse should publish the sentence for them and in their names as followeth In the Name of God Amen We John Bishop of Saint Asse or Assenence John Abbot of Glastenbury Richard Earle of Glocester Thomas Lord of Barkley William Thyrning Iustice Thomas Erpingham and Thomas Gray Knights chosen and deputed speciall Commissaries by the three Estates of this present Parliament representing the whole body of the Realme for all such matters by the said Estates to us committed We understanding and considering the manifold crimes hurts and harmes done by Richard King of England and misgovernance of the same by a long time to the great decay of the said Land and utter ruine of the same shortly to have been ne had the speciall grace of our Lord God thereunto put the sooner remedie and also furthermore adverting the said King Kichard knowing his own insufficiency hath of his own meere voluntarie and free will renounced and given up the rule and government of this Land with all Rights and Honours unto the same belonging and utterly for his merits hath judged himselfe NOT UNWORTHY TO BE DEPOSED OF ALL KINGLY MAJESTY AND ESTATE ROYALL We the Premisses well considering by good and diligent deliberation by the POWER NAME AND AUTHORITIE TO US AS ABOUE IS SAID COMMITTED PRONOUNCE DISCERNE AND DECLARE the same King Richard before this to have beene and to be unprofitable unable unsufficient and unworthy to the rule and governance of the foresaid Realms Lordships and all other App●rtenances to the same belonging and FOR THE SAME CAUSES WE DEPRIUE HIM OF ALL KINGLY DIGNITIE AND WORSHIP AND OF ANY KINGLY WORSHIP IN HIMSELFE AND WE DEPOSE HIM BY OUR SENTENCE DEFINITIUE forbiding expresly to all Archbishops Bishops and all other Prelates Dukes Marquesses Earles Barons and Knights and to all other men of the aforesaid Kingdom and Lordships or of other places belonging to the same Realmes and Lordships Subjects and Lieges whatsoever they be that none of them from this time forward to the foresaid Richard as King and Lord of the foresaid Realmes and Lordships be neither obedient nor attendant After which sentence thus openly declared the said Estates admitted forthwith the same persons for their Procurators to resigne and yeeld up to King Richard all their homage and fealty which they have made and ought unto him before times and for to shew unto him if need were all things before done that concerned his deposing The which resignation a● that time was spared and put in respite till the morrow next following And anon as this sentence was in this wise passed and that by reason thereof the Realme stood void without Head or Governour for the time the said Duke of Lancaster rising from the place where he before sate and standing where all might behold him he meekly making the signe of the Crosse upon his forehead and upon his breast after silence by an Officer was commanded said unto the people there being these words following In the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost I Henry of Lancaster claime the Realme of England and the Crowne with all the appurtenances as I that am descended by right line of the blood comming from that good Lord King Henry the third and through the right that God of his grace hath sent to me with the helpe of my ki●●e and of my friends to recover the same which was in point to be undone for default of good Governance and due Iustice. After which words thus by him uttered he returned set him down in the place where he before had sitten Then the Lords perceiving and hearing this claim thus made by this noble man either of them frained of other what he thought and after a distance or pause of time the Archbishop of Canterbury having notice of the Lords minde stood up and asked the Commons if they would ASSENT TO THE LORDS WHICH in their mindes thought the claime by the Duke more to BE RIGHTFULL AND NECESSARY FOR THE WEALTH of the Realm and of them all Whereunto they cryed with one voice YEA YEA YEA After which answer the said Archbishop going to the Duke and setting him upon his knee had unto him a few words the which ended he rose and taking the Duke by the right hand led him unto the Kings seat and with great reverence set him therein after a certaine Kneeling and Orison made by the said Duke e●e he were therein set And when the King

or quarrell may lawfully resist assault wound apprehend imprison slay depose iudge censure forraigne kings even to death as is apparent by S●hon King of the Amorites and Og the k●ng of Bashan slain the King of Ai hanged by Ioshua the five kings of Canaan that besieged Gibeon on whose ne-ks Ioshua made his men of war to put their feet then smote slew and hanged them upon five trees Who also assaulted resisted imprisoned condemned slew executed divers other kings of Canaan to the number of thirty one in all by king Adonibezek Eglon Agag with other Heathen Kings imprisoned stabbed hewen in pieces by the I●raelites If any obiect These kings were not actually annoynted which they cannot prove since Cyrus an Heathen King is stiled Gods annoynted no doubt Saul was an annoynted King if not the first in the world 1 Sam. 10. 1. yet he was justly resisted wounded pursued by the Philistines 1 Sam. 31. 3. Iosiah an annoynted good King was slain by Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt whom he rashly encountred King Ahab was slain by an Archer of the King of Assyria King Ioram and Ahaziah were both slain by Iehu by Gods command Iehoaaz was deposed by the King of Egypt Iehoiakim and Iehoiakin both deposed fettered and kept prisoners by the King of Babylon who also apprehended deposed judicially condemned King Zedechiah put out his eyes and sent him prisoner to Babylon bound with fetters of brasse So Manasses was deposed bound with fetters of brasse and carryed captive by the Captaines of the King of Assyria Amaziah King of Iudah was taken prisoner by Iehoash King of Israel Infinite are the presidents in stories where kings of one Nation in just warrs have been assaulted invaded imprisoned deposed slain by Princes and Subjects of another Nation and that justly as all grant without exception neither their annointing nor Kingship being any exemption or priviledge to them at all in respect of forraigners in cases of hostility to whom they are no Soveraigns no more then to any of their Subjects Whereas if this royall annointing did make their persons absolutly sacred and inviolable no forraign Princes or Subjects could justly apprehend imprison smite wound slay depose or execute them Secondly Kings who are suborordinate Homagers and Subjects to other Kings or Emperours though annointed may for Treasons and Rebellions against them be lawfully resisted assaulted imprisoned deposed judged to death and executed because as to them they are but Subjects notwithstanding their annointing as appears by sundry presidents in our own and forraign Histories and is generally confessed by the learned Thirdly the Roman Greek and German Emperours though annointed the ancient Kings of France Spain Arragon Britain Hungary Poland Denmarke Bohemia India Sparta and other places who were not absolute Monarchs have in former ages been lawfully resisted imprisoned deposed and some of them judicially adjudged to death and executed by their owne Senates Parliaments Di●ts States for their oppression mal-administration tyranny and that justly as Bodin Grotius with others affirm notwithstanding any pretence that they were annointed Soveraigns Fourthly Popes Bishops and Priests anciently were and at this present in the Romish Churches are actually annointed as well as Kings and we know the Popish Clergy and Canonists have frequently alledged this Text Touch not mine annointed and doe my Prophets no harme in Councels Decretalls and solemn debates in Parliament to prove their exemption from the arrests judgements capitall censures and proceedings of Kings and secular Iudges for any crimes whatsoever because forsooth they were Gods annointed intended in this Text not Kings therefore Kings and Seculars must not touch nor offer any the least violence to their persons no not in a way of justice By colour of this Text they exceedingly deluded the world in this particular for hundreds of yeeres But in the seventh yeer of Hen. the 8. in Dr. Standish his case debated before a Committee of both Houses of Parliament and all the Iudges of England this Text being chiefly insisted on to prove the Clergies exemption Jure Divino was wholly exploded in England and since that in Germany France other Realms and notwithstanding its protection many Popes Bishops and Clergy-men in all Kingdomes ages for all their annointing have for their misdemeanors not only been resisted apprehended imprisoned but deprived degraded hanged quartered burned as well as other men Yea Abiathar the High Priest was deposed by Salomon for his Treason against him notwithstanding his Annointing their annointing giving them not the smallest immunity to doe ill or not to suffer all kinds of corporall capitall punishments for their misdemeanors If this actuall annointing then cannot lawfully exempt or secure Priests and Prelates persons nor the Pope himselfe from the premises how then can it justly priviledge the persons of Kings Fif●hly among the Papists all infants either in their baptisme or confirmation are actually annointed with their consecrated Chrisme and with extream unction to boot at last cast which they make a Sacrament and so a thing of more divine soveraign Nature then the very annointing of Kings at their inauguration which they repute no Sacrament as being no where commanded by God But neither of these actuall unctions exempt all or any of those annointed with it from resistance or any corporall punishments or just censures of any kind therefore the very annointing of Kings cannot doe it Sixthly the Ceremony of annointing kings as Cassanaeus with others write is peculiar onely to the German Emperor the King of Ierusalem the King of France the King of England and the King of Sicily but to no other kings else who are neither annointed nor crowned as he affirmes so that it cannot give any priviledge at all to any but onely to these 4. not other kings who are not anointed Now seeing only these 4. kings are actually anointed yea lawfull Kings and their persons sacred even before they are annointed or crowned and other kings persons as of Spain Hungary Denmark Sweden Poland c. who are not annointed are as sacred as exempt from danger as those who are enoyled And seeing the annointing of kings is at this day a meer arbitrary humane Ceremony not injoyned by divine authority nor common to all Kings who are Kings before their Coronations it is most certain and infallible that this enoyling in and of it selfe derives no personall Prerogatives or Immunities at all to kings much lesse an absolute exemption from all actuall resistance in cases of unjust invasions on their Subjects or from the censures of their Parliaments for publike distructive exorbitances as most have hitherto blindly beleeved Neither will the frequent next objected speeches of David concerning Saul impeach the premises 1 Sam. 24. 6. 10. c. 26. 9. 11. 23. 2 Sam. 1. 12. 16. The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lords Annointed