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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91243	A plea for the Lords: or, A short, yet full and necessary vindication of the judiciary and legislative power of the House of Peeres, and the hereditary just right of the lords and barons of this realme, to sit, vote and judge in the high Court of Parliament. Against the late seditious anti-Parliamentary printed petitions, libells and pamphlets of Anabaptists, Levellers, agitators, Lilburne, Overton, and their dangerous confederates, who endeavour the utter subversion both of parliaments, King and peers, to set up an arbitrary polarchy and anarchy of their own new-modelling. / By William Prynne Esquire, a well-wisher to both Houses of Parliament, and the republike; now exceedingly shaken and indangered in their very foundations.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P4032; Thomason E430_8; ESTC R204735	72,921	83

A PLEA for the LORDS OR A short yet full and necessary Vindication of the Judiciary and Legislative Power of the House of Peeres And the Hereditary just Right of the LORDS and BARONS of this Realme to sit vote and judge in the high Court of PARLIAMENT Against the late seditious Anti-Parliamentary printed Petitions Libells and Pamphlets of Anabaptists Levellers Agitators Lilburne Overton and their dangerous Confederates who endeavour the utter subversion both of Parliaments King and Peers to set up an Arbitrary Polarchy and Anarchy of their own new-modelling By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esquire a Well-wisher to both Houses of Parliament and the Republike now exceedingly shaken and indangered in their very Foundations Prov. 22. 28. Remove-not the ancient land-mark which thy fathers have set Prov. 22. 21. My sonne feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those who are given to change for their calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both LONDON Printed for Michael Spark at the blue Bible in Green-Arbor 164● To all truly Honourable and Heroick Lords and Peeres of the Realme of England who are reall Patriots of Religion and their Countrey Right Honourable THough true Nobility alwayes founded in a Omnes pari forte nascimur solâ virtute distinguimur Minucius Feli● Octo● p. 123. Nobilitas sola est ac unica virtus Iuvenal Satyr 8. vertue and reall piety needs no other tutelar Deity or Apologie but it selfe amongst those b Omnes boni semper Nobilitati favemus q●ia utile est reipub Nobiles Homines esse dignos Majoribus suis quia valet apud nos clarorum Hominum bene derepub meritorum memoria otiam mortuorum Ci●ero Orat. pro P. Sex ingenious Spirits who are able to discerne or estimate its worth yet the iniquity of our degenerated Age and the frenzie of the intoxicated ignorant vulgar is such that it now requires the assistance of the ablest Advocates to plead its cause and vindicate the just Rights and Priviledges of the House of Peeres against the c Li●burne Overton and others licentious Quills and Tongues of lawlesse sordid Sectaries and Mechanick Levellers who having got the Sword and reines into their hands plant all their batteries and force against them crying out like those Babylonian Levellers of old d Psal 137. 7. against the House of Peeres Rase it Rase it even to the foundation thereof and lay it for ever levell with the very dust beholding all true Honor worth and Noblenesse shining forth in your Honors heroick Spirits with a malignant aspect because they despaire of ever enjoying the least spark thereof in themselves and prosecuting you with a deadly hatred because better and greater then ever they have hopes to be unlesse they can through trechery and violence make themselves the onely Grandees by debasing your highest Dignity to the lowest Peasantry and making the meanest Commoners your Compeers This dangerous seditious Designe hath ingaged me the unablest of many out of my great affection to reall Nobility and to the present tot●ering condition of our Kingdome and Parliament the very pillars and foundations whereof are now not onely shaken but almost quite subverted without any Fee at all to become your Honors Advocate and voluntarily to plead your Cause and vindicate your undoubted right of sitting voting and judging in our Parliaments of which they strenuously endeavour to plunder both you and your posterities and to publish these subitane indigested Collections to the world to still the * Psal 65. 7. madnesse of the seduced vulgar whom Ignoramus Lilburne Overton Walwin and their Confederates have laboured to mutinie against your Parliamentary Iurisdiction * Isa 4 1. 25. treading upon Princes as upon mortar and as the Potter treadeth the clay in their illiterate seditious Pamphlets which I have here refuted by Scripture Histories Antiquities and Parliament-Rolls the ignorance whereof joyned with their malice is the principall occasion of their error in this kinde And truly were all our Parliament-Rolls Pleas Iournals faithfully transcribed and published in print to the eye of the world as most of our Statutes are by authority of both Houses of Parliament a work as worthy their undertaking as beneficiall for the Publike as any I can recommend unto their care it would not only preserve them from imbezelling and the hazards of fire and war to which they are now subject but likewise eternally silence refute the Sectaries and Levellers ignorant false Allegations against your Honors Parliamentary Iurisdict●on and Iudicature resolve and cleare all or most doubts that can arise concerning the power jurisdiction and priviledges of both or either House keepe both of them within due bounds the exceeding whereof is dangerous and grievous to the People except in cases of absolute necessity for the saving of a Kingdome whiles that necessity continues and no longer chalke out the ancient regular way of proceedings in all Parliamentary affaires whatsoever whether of warre or peace civill or criminall concerning King or Subject Natives or Forraigners over-rule and reconcile most of the present differences between the King and Parliament House and House Members and Members cleare many doubts and rectifie some grosse mistakes in printed Statutes Law-Books and our ordinary Historians add much light lustre and ornament to our English Annals and the Common Law and make all Lawyers and the Members of both Houses farre more able then now they are to mannage and carry on all businesses in Parliament when they shall upon every occasion almost have former presidents ready at hand to direct them there being now very few Members in either House well read or versed in ancient Parliament Rolls Pleas or Journalls the ignorance whereof is a great Remora to their proceedings and oft times a cause of dangerous incroachments of new Iurisdiction over the Subjects persons and estates not usuall in former Parliaments and of some great mistakes and deviations from the ancient methodicall Rules and Tracts of Parliament now almost quite forgotten and laid aside by raw unexperienced Parliament-men to the publike prejudice and injury of posterity Your Lordships helping hand to the speedy furthering of such a necessary publike worke will be a great accession to your Honor the best vindication of your Parliamentary Jurisdiction Right Power and Judicature against all Opposites till the accomplishment whereof I shall humbly recommend this short Plea in your Honors defence to your Noble Patronage who can pitch upon no better or readier meanes to support your Honor and Authority and to indeare your selves in the Peoples affections then in these distracted dangerous stormy times to ingage all your interest power and activity speedily to settle and secure Gods Glory Truth Worship and the publike Safety of the Kingdome against all open Opposers and secret Underminers of them to unburthen the People of their heavy Taxes the Souldiers insolencies and free quarter to redresse all pressing grievances all oppressing arbitrary