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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44747	The pre-eminance and pedigree of Parlement whereunto is added a vindication of some passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royall favorite, pen'd and published by Mr. Prynne wherein he stiles him no frend [sic] to Parlements and a malignant, pag. 42 : with a clearing of som occurences in Spain at His Majesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the vocal forest / by J.H., Esq., one of the clerks of His Maiesties most honourable Privy-Councel.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Popish royall favourite.	1649 (1649)	Wing H3107; ESTC R28696	11,947	24

Natus Maij 29. Ano 1630. Aetatis Suae 19. THE PRE-EMINENCE AND PEDIGREE OF PARLEMENT Wherunto is added A Vindication of some Passages reflecting upon the Author In a Booke call'd The Popish Royall Favorite Pen'd and Published by Mr. Prynne wherein he stiles him No Frend to Parlements and a Malignant Pag. 42. With a clearing of som Occurrences in Spain at His MAIESTIES being there cited by the said Master Prynne out of the Vocal Forest By J. H. Esq One of the Clerks of His MAIESTIES most Honorable Privy-Councel Published by speciall Order London Printed by W. W. for Humphrey Moseley 1649. TO My worthily honored Frend Sir W. S. Knight SIR I Have many thanks to give you for the Book you pleased to send me called The Popish Royall Favorite and according to your advice which I value in a high degree I put Pen to Paper and some thing you may see I have don though in a poor Pamphleting way to clear my self of those aspersions that are cast upon me therin But truly Sir I was never so unfit for such a task al my papers Manuscripts and Notes having been long since seized upon and kept from me Add hereunto that besides this long pressure and languishment of twenty three moneths close restraint the sense whereof I find hath much stupified my spirits it pleased God to visit me lately with a dangerous fit of sicknes a high burning Fever with the new Disease wherof my Body as well as my Mind is yet somwhat crazy So that take all afflictions together I may truly say I have passed the Ordeal the fiery Tryal But it hath pleased God to reprieve me to see better days I hope for out of this fatal black Cloud which now oresets this poor Island I hope ther will break a glorious Sun-shine of peace and firm happines To effect which had I a Jury a Grand-Jury of lives I would sacrifice them all and triumph in the oblation So I most affectionately kisse your hands and rest From the Prison of the Fleet Your faithful though afflicted Servant J. H. The Pre-eminence of Parlement Sectio Prima I Am a free-born Subject of the Realm of England wherby I claim as my native Inheritance an undoubted right propriety and portion in the Laws of the Land And this distinguisheth me from a Slave I claim also an interest and common right in the High National Court of Parlement and in the Power the Priviledges and Jurisdiction therof which I put in equal ballance with the Laws in regard it is the Fountain whence they spring And this I hold also to be a principal part of my Birth-right which great Councel I honour respect value and love in as high a degree as can be as being the Bulwark of our Liberties the main boundary and bank which keep us from slavery from the inundations of tyrannical Rule and unbounded Wil-government And I hold my self obliged in a tye of indispensable obedience to conform and submit my self to whatsoever shall be transacted concluded and constituted by its authority in Church or State whether it be by making enlarging altering diminishing disanulling repealing or reviving of any Law Statute Act or Ordinance whatsoever either touching matters Ecclesiasticall Civil Common Capital Criminal Martial Maritine Municipal or any other of all which the transcendent and uncontrolable Jurisdiction of that Court is capable to take cognizance Amongst the three things which the Athenian Captain thank'd the gods for one was That he was born a Grecian and not a Barbarian For such was the vanity of the Greeks and after them of the Romans in the flourish of their Monarchy to arrogate all civility to themselves and to term all the world besides Barbarians So I may say to have cause to rejoyce that I was born a vassall to the Crown of England that I was born under so well moulded and tempered a Government which indows the Subject with such Liberties and Infranchisements that bear up his natural courage and keep him still in heart such Liberties that fence and secure him eternally from the gripes and tallons of Tyranny And all this may be imputed to the Authority and Wisdom of this High Court of Parlement wherin ther is such a rare co ordination of power though the Soverainty remaine still entire and untransferable in the person of the Prince ther is I say such a wholsom mixture 'twixt Monarchy Optimacy and Democracy 'twixt Prince Peers and Communalty during the time of consultation that of so many distinct parts by a rare co-operation and unanimity they make but one Body Politic like that Sheaf of Arrows in the Emblem one entire concentrical peece and the results of their deliberations but as so many harmonious diapasons arising from different strings And what greater immunity and happines can ther be to a people than to be liable to no Laws but what they make themselves To be subject to no Contribution Assessement or any pecuniary levy whatsoever but what they Vote and voluntarily yeeld unto themselves For in this compacted Politic Body ther be all degrees of people represented both the Mechanick Tradesman Merchant and Yeoman have their inclusive Vote as well as the Gentry in the persons of their Trustees their Knights and Burgesses in passing of all things Nor is this Soverain Surintendent Councell an Epitome of this Kingdom onely but it may be said to have a representation of the whole Universe as I heard a fluent well-worded Knight deliver the last Parlement who compared the beautifull composure of that High Court to the great VVorke of God the World it self The King to the Sun the Nobles to the fixed Stars the Itinerant Judges and other Officers that go upon Messages ' twixt both Houses to the Panets the Clergy to the Element of fire the Commons to the solid Body of Earth and the rest of the Elements And to pursue this comparison a little farther as the heavenly Bodies when three of them meet in Conjunction do use to produce som admirable effects in the Elementary World So when these three States convene and assemble in one solemn great Junto some notable and extraordinary things are brought forth tending to the welfare of the whole Kingdom our Microcosm HE that is never so little versed in the Annales of this Isle will find that it hath bin her fate to be sour times conquered I exclude the Scot for the situation of his Countrey and the quality of the Clime hath bin such an advantage and security to him that neither the Roman Eagles would fly thither for fear of Freezing their Wings nor any other Nation attempt the work These so many Conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings many disturbances and changes in Government yet I have observed that notwithstanding these tumblings it retained still the form of a Monarchy and somthing ther was alwaies that had an Analogy with the great Assembly the Parlement The first Conquest I find was made by