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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44762	Two discourses lately revievv'd and enrich'd by the author one, The pre-eminence and pedegree [sic] of Parlement, whereunto is added a vindication of some passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royall favorit, penn'd and published by Master Prynne ..., with a clearing of some occurrences in Spayne at His Majesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the Vocall forrest ... : the second, Englands teares / by James Howell ...; Pre-eminence and pedigree of Parlement	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666. Englands teares for the present wars.	1644 (1644)	Wing H3124; ESTC R16765	26,500	31

Two Discourses Lately Revievv'd and enrich'd by the Author One The Pre-eminence and Pedegree of PARLEMENT Whereunto is added A Vindication of some passages reflecting upon the Author in a Book call'd the Popish Royall Favorit penn'd and published by Master Prynne wherein he styles him No Friend to Parlements and a Malignant pag. 42. With a clearing of some Occurrences in Spayne at His MAjESTIES being there cited by the said Master Prynne out of the Vocall Forrest whereunto the collaterall Landskippe refers The second ENGLANDS TEARES By Iames Howell Esq r one of the Clerks of His Majesties most Hon ble Privy-Councell Printed at London according to Order by Richard Heron. 1644. The Printer to the Reader REader These two Discourses one the Pre-eminence and pedegree of Parlement the other Englands Teares I present again to your view They went abroad singly before but I have conjoyn'd them now in one peece for your better accommodation They have bin surreptitiously printed in Oxford and els where but mistaken in divers places They come forth now not only corrected but enrich'd by the Authour himselfe When they were expos'd first to the world they found extraordinary good acceptance and have been very much sought for since as well for the richnesse of the stile and matter as for the gallant worth of the Author which is so well known at home and abroad R. H. To my worthily honored Friend 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 something you may see I have done though in a poore pamphleting way to cleare my selfe of those aspersions that are cast upon me therein But truly Sir I was never so unfit for such a task all my Papers Manuscripts and Notes having been long since seized upon and kept from me Adde hereunto that besides this long pressure and languishment of twenty three Moneths close restraint the sense wherof I find hath much stupified my spirits it pleased God to visit me lately with a dangerous fit of sicknes a high burning feaver with the new disease whereof my Body as well as my Mind is yet somewhat crazie so that take all afflictions together I may truly say I have passed the Ordeal the fiery Tryall But it hath pleased God to reprieve me to see better dayes I hope for out of this fatall black Cloud which now oresets this poore Island I hope there will breake a glorious Sun-shine of peace and firme happinesse 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 Your faithfull though afflicted Servant Iames Howell From the Prison of the Fleet. The Pre-eminence OF PARLEMENT Sectio Prima I Am a Free-born Subject of the Realm of England whereby 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 Nationall Court of Parlement and in the power the priviledges and jurisdiction thereof which I put in equall ballance with the Laws in regard it is the fountain whence they spring and this I hold also to be a principall part of my Birth-right which great Councell I honor respect value and love in as high a degree as can be as being the Bulwark of our liberties the main boundary and banke which keeps us from slavery from the inundations of tyrannicall Rule and unbounded Will-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 civill common capitall criminall martiall maritime municipall or any other of all which the transcendent and uncontrollable 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 terme 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 endows the subject with such Liberties and infranchisements that bear up his naturall 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 wisedome of this High Court of Parlement wherein there is such a rare co-ordination of power though the Soveraignty remain still entire and untransferrable in the person of the Prince there is such a wholsome 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 cooperation and unanimity they make but one Body Politick like that sheafe of arrows in the Emblem one entire concentricall peece and the results of their deliberations but as so many harmonious diapasons arising from different strings And what greater immunity and happinesse can there 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 Politick Body there 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 Soveraign Surintendent Councell an Epitome of this Kingdom only but it m●y be said to have a representation of the whole Universe as I heard a fluent well-worded Knight deliver the last Parliament who compared the beautifull composure of that High Court to the great work of God the World it self The King is as the Sun the Nobles the fixed Stars the Itinerant Judges and other Officers that go upon Messages 'twixt both Houses to the Planets 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 some admirable effects in the Elementary World So when these three States convene and assemble in one solemne great Iunta some notable and extraordinary things are brought forth tending to the welfare of the whole Kingdom