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A56162	The first and second part of A seasonable, legal, and historicall vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ... wherein is irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary records, proofs, presidents, that we have such fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws ... : collected, recommended to the whole English nation, as the best legacy he can leave them / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legal, and historical vindication of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, properties, laws, government of all English freemen. Part 1-2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P3954; ESTC R19429	161,045	206

Kingdome are firmly established So William Watson a Secular Priest chargeth Father Parsons the English Jesuite and his Jesuited companions in their Memorial for Reformation of England when it should be reduced under the power of the Jesuites as Parsons was confident it would be though he should not live to see it written at Sevil in Spain Anno Dom. 1590. that they intended to have Magna Charta with our Common Fundamental Laws and Liberties abrogated and suppressed thus expressed by William Watson in his Quodlibets pag. 92 94 95. Father Parsons and the Jesuites in their deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament begun at Styx in Phlegeton have compiled their Acts in a compleat Volume intituled THE HIGH COVRT OF REFORMATION FOR ENGLAND And to give you a taste of their intent by that base Court of A TRIBE of TRAITORS sawcily like to Gade Jack Straw and Tom Tiler VSVRPING the AVTHORITY of both STATES ECCLESIASTICAL and TEMPORALL in all their REBELLIOVS ENTERPRICES these were principall points discussed set down and so decreed by them c. He first mentions three of them relating to Church-men Scholars and Church and Colledge-Lands which were to be put in Fee off●●s hands and they all to be reduced unto Arbitrary Pensions c. And then proceeds thus to the Fourth The fourth Statute was there made concerning the COMMON LAWS of this LAND and that consisted of this one principal point That ALL THE GREAT CHARTERS of ENGLAND MUST BE BURNT the manner of holding Lands in Fee simple Fee tail Kings service Soccage or Villanage brought into villany scogg●●y and popularity and in few the Common Law must be wholy annihillated abolished and troden down under foot and Caesars civill Imperials brought amongst us and sway for a time in their places All whatsoever England yeelds being but base barbarous and void of all sence knowledge or discretion shewed in the first Founders and Legifers and on the other side all whatsoever is or shal be brought in by these out-casts of Moses stain of Solon and refuse of Lycurgus must be reputed for metaphysical seme-divine and of more excellency than the other were Which he thus seconds Quodlibet 9. Article 2. p. 286. First it is plain that Father Parsons and his Company divide it amongst them how they list have laid a plot as being most consonant and fitting for their other Designments That the Common Laws of the Realm of England must be forsooth either abolished utterly or else bear no greater sway in the Realm than the Civil Law doth And the chief reason is for that the State of the Crown and Kingdome by the Common Laws is so strongly settled as whilest they continue the Jesuites see not how they can work their wills And on the other side in the Civil laws they think they have some shreds whereby they may patch a cloak together to cover a bloody shew of their Treasons for the present from the eys of the Vulgar people Secondly the said good Father hath set down a course how every man may shake off all authority at their pleasures as if he would become a new Anabaptist or King John of Leydon to draw all the world into Mutiny ●ebellion and Combustion And the Stratagem is how the Common people may be inveigled seduced to conceit to themselves such a liberty or prerogative as that it may be lawfull for them when they think meet to place and displace Kings and Princes as men do their Tenants at will hirelings or ordinary Servants Which Anabaptistical and abominable Doctrine proceeding from a turbul●nt tribe of Traiterous Puritan●s and other Hereticks this treacherous Jesuite would now foist into the Catholick Church as a ground of his corrupt Divinity And p. 330 332. He intends to alter and change all Laws Customs and Orders of this Noble Isle He hath prejudiced the law of Property in instituting Government Governours and Hereditary Princes to be BENEPLACITVM POPVLI and all other private possessions ad bene-placitum sui c Whether any such new deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament and high Court of Reformation for England to carry on this old Design of the Jesuites against our Laws hath been of late years sitting amongst us in or neer Westminster or elswhere in secret Counsel every week as divers intelligent Protestants have informed me and Hugh Peters reported to divers on his own knowledge being well acquainted with their Persons and practises of late years it concerns others neerer to them and more able then I to examine Sure I am a greater man by far then Hugh Peters in an Assembly of Divines and others for reconciling all dissenting parties not long since averred to them on his own knowledge That during our late innovations distractions subversions in Church State and overturning of Laws and Government the common adversary hath taken many advantages to effect his designes thereby in civill and spiritual respects That he knew very well that Emissaries of the Jesuites never came over in those swarms as they have done since these things were on foot That DIVERS GENTLEMNE CAN BEAR WITNES WITH HIM that they had a CONSISTORY AND COUNCEL ABROAD THAT RULES ALL THE AFFAIRS OF THE THINGS IN ENGLAND That they had fixed in England in the limits of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the PARTICULAR INSTRUMENT an Episcopal power with Archdeacons and other persons to pervert seduce and deceive the people And all this whiles we were in this sad and deplorable distracted condition Yea most certain it is that many hundreds if not some thousands of them within these few years have been sent over from Forraign Seminaries into England under the disguises of converted Jews Physitians Chyrurgions Mechanicks of all sorts Merchants Factors Travellers Souldiers and some of them particularly into the Army as appears by the late printed Examination of Ramsey the Anabaptized New-dipped Jesuite under the mask of a Jewish Convert taken at New Castle in June 1653. and by sundry severall late instances I could name To pretermit all instances of diverse particular Jesuites come over into England not only within these few years but moneths discovered by persons of credit with Sir Kenelm Digby who though the son of one of the executed old popish Gunpowder Traitors a dangerous active seducing Jesuited papist if not a professed Jesuit who in the years 1638 and 1639. conspired with the Popes Nuncio and a Conclave of Jesuites sitting in Council at London to subvert our Religion introduce a universall tolleration of the popish Religion in our kingomes new modle and shake our former established government and to poyson destroy the late King himself in case he consented not to them therein and for this very purpose both plotted raised promoted the first Wars between the Protestants of England and Scotland which he abetted all he could by his letters and secret Collections of moneys from all the Papists throughout England and elswhere who

Bull the Jesuites after her decease disswaded the Romish-minded Subjects from yielding in any wise obedience to King James as their Soveraign and entr●d into a Treasonable Conspiracy with the Lord Cobham Lord Gray and others against him to imprison him for the ends aforesaid or destroy him pretending that King Iames was no King at all before his Coronation and that therefore they might by force of Arms lawfully surprise his person and Prince Henry his Son and imprison them in the Tower of London or Dover-Castle till they inforced them by duress to grant a free toleration of their Catholick Religion to remove some evil Counsellors from about them and to grant them a free Pardon for this violence or else they would put some further project in execution against them to their destruction But this Conspiricy being discovered The Traytors were apprehended arraighned condemned and Watson and Clerk two Jesuited Priests who had drawn them into this Conspiracy upon the aforesaid Pretext with some others executed as Traytors all the Iudges of England resolving that King Iames being right Heir to the Crown by descent was immediately upon the death of Queen Elizabeth actually possessed of the Crown and lawful King of England before any Proclamat●on or Coronation of him which are but Ceremonies as was formerly adjudged in the case of Queen Mary and Queed Iane 1 Mariae there being no Interregnum by the Law of ENGLAND as is adjudged declared by Act of Parliament 1 Iac. c. 1. worthy serious perusal 8. their horrid Gun-powder Treason Plot contrived fomented by Garnet Superiour of the English Jesuites Gerard Tensmod and other Jesuites who by their Apostolical power did not onely commend but absolve from all sin the other Jesuited Popish Conspirators and Faux The Sculdier who were their instruments to effect it Yea the Jesuitical Priests were so Atheistical as that they usually concluded their Masses with Prayers for the good success of this hellish Plot which was suddenly with no less then 36 Barrels of Gunpowder placed in a secret Vault under the House of Lords to have blown up and destroyed at once King James himself the Queen Prince Lords Spirituall and Temporal with the Commons assembled together in the Upper-House of Parliament upon the 5 of November Anno Dom. 1605. and then forcibly to have seised with armed men prepared for that purpose the persons of our late beheaded King then Dake of York and of the Lady Elizabeth his Sister if absent from the Parliament and not there destroyed with the rest that so there might be none of the Royal Line left to inherit the Crown of England Scotland and Ireland to the utter overthrow and subversion of the whole Royal Family Parliament State and Government of this Realm Which unparallel'd inhumane bloody Plot being miraculously discovered prevented the very day before its execution in perpetual detestation of it and of the Jesuites and their traiterous Romish Religion which both contrived and approved it the 5 day of November by the Statute of 3 Jacobi ch 1. was enacted to be had in perpetual Remembrance that all Ages to come might thereon meet together publickly throughout the whole Nation to render publick praises unto God for preventing this infernal Jesuitical Design and keep in memory this joyful Day of Deliverance for which end special forms of publick Prayers and Thankesgivings were then appointed and that Day ever since more or less annually observed till this present And it is worthy special observation that had this Plot taken effect It was agreed by the Jesuites and Popish Conspirators before-hand That the Imputation of this Treason should be cast upon the Puritans to make them more Odious as now they father all the Powder-Plots of this kinde which they have not onely laid but fully accomplished of late yeers against the King Prince Royal Posterity the Lords and Commons House our old English Parliaments and Government upon those Independents and Anabaptistical Sword-men whom they now repute and stile the most reformed PURITANS who were in truth but their meer under Instruments to effect them When as they originally laid the Plots as is clear by Campanella's Book De Monarchia Hisp ch 25. and Cardinal Richelieu his Instructions at his death to the King of France And it is very observable that as Courtney the Jesuite Rector of the English Jesuites Colledge at Rome did in the year 1641. when the name of Independents was scarce heard of in England openly affirm to some English Gentlemen and a Reverend Minister of late in Cornwal from whom I had this Relation then and there feasted by the English Jesuites in their Colledge That now at last after all their former Plots had miscarried they had found out a sure way to subvert and ruine the Church of England which was most formidable to them of all others by the Independents who immediately after by the Jesuites clandestine assistance infinitely encreased supplanted the Presbyterians by degrees got the whole power of the Army and by it of the Kingdom into their hands then subverted both the Presbyterian Government and Church of England in a great measure with the Parliament King and his Posterity as Monsieur Militiere a Jesuited French-Papist observes So some Independent Ministers Sectaries and Anabaptists ever since 1648. have neglected the observation of the fifth of November as I am credibly informed and refused to render publick thanks to God for the deliverance thereon contrary to the Act for this very reason which some of them have rendered That they would not mock God in publick by praising him for delivering the late King Royal Posterity and House of Lords from destruction then by Jesuites and Papists when as themselves have since destroyed and subverted them through Gods providence and repute it a special mercy and deliverance to the Nation from Tyranny and Bondage for which they have cause to bless the Lord Performing that for the Jesuites and Powder-Traytors which themselves could not effect The Lord give them grace and hearts to consider how much they acted the Jesuites and promoted their very worst Designes against us therein what infamy and scandal they have thereby drawn upon all zealous Professors of our Protestant Religion and what will they do in the end thereof 9. To omit all other Forraign instances cited in Speculum Jesuiticum p. 124 to 130. where you may peruse them at leisure By their poysoning King Iames himself in conclusion as some of them have boasted 10. By the Popes Nuntio's and a Conclave of Jesuites Conspiracy at London Anno 1640. to poyson our late King Charles himself as they had poysoned his Father with a poysoned Indian Nut kept by the Jesuites and shewed often by Conne the Popes Nuntio to the Discoverer of that Plot or else to destroy him by the Scotish wars and troubles raised for that very end by the Jesuites in case he refused to grant them a

Foundations of the the vast natural Fabrick of the Earth Heavens and world it self of the Artificial Material Foundations of the Material Temple Wals City of Gods own most famous Jerusalem and of private Houses of the spirituall Foundations of the Spiritual Temple City Jerusalem and whole Church of God even Jesus Christ himself of Doctrinal Foundations and first Principles of Religion Christianity Salvation yea of the Politicall Foundations of Kingdomes Republicks Churches Governments States Which being once shaken undermined subverted razed or d●stroyed bring unavoidable ruine and desolation upon them Psal 11. 3. Psal 82. 5. Jer. 50. 15. 51. 25 26. Micah 1. 6 7 9. Even as we daily see Castles Walls Houses to fall instantly to the ground and become an heap of Confusion when their Foundations are blown up decayed or demolished Upon which consideration those publike Laws which establish fence fortifie support the Fundamental Constitutions Rights Liberties Priviledges of any Nation Kingdome Republike essentiall to their being and subsistence as a free or happy people against the Invasions underminings enchroachments of any Tyrants Vsurpers Oppressors or publike enemies are usually stiled Fundamental Laws and have ever been reputed so sacred inviolable immutable in all ages upon any pretences of necessity or publike safety that most Nations and our own English Ancestors above others have freely chosen to hazard yea lose their estates lives in their just defence against such exorbitant tyrannical Kings and other Powers who by force or policy have endeavoured to violate alter or subvert them rather than out of a Cowardice Sottishnesse Carelesnesse or want of cordial love to the Publike to suffer the least infringment repeal or alteration of them to the inthrawling of themselves or their posterities to the arbitrary wils of such domineering Tyrants and Vsurping Powers Now because after all our Old and New many years bloody costly dangerous Contests and Wars for the maintenance of our good Old Fundamental Liberties Laws ●ights Priviledges against all secret or open underminers of them I clearly behold with grief of heart that there is a strang monstrous generation of new Tyrannical State-Hereticks sprung up amongst us who are grown so desperately impudent as not only to write but publikely to assert in print in Books printed by AUTHORITY even in Capitals in every Title page That the Freemen and People of England have no such unalterable Fundamental Laws and Liberties left them by their forefathers as our Ancestours heretofore contested for both in the Field and Parliament-House with William the Conqueror Henry the first King John Henry the third Edward 1. 2. 3. Richard 2. with other Kings and Princes and our late Parliament● and Armies too with King James and King Charls That neither Magna Charta nor the Petition of Right nor the Laws for trying Malefactors by Juries of their Pears are Fundamental or unalterable but that the State Physitians or rather Mountebanks of our time who are not tied up to them but left free unto themselves may lay them quite aside either in part or whol as they see cause Yea have now attained to such a super-transcendent Authority that they may as they assert lay aside all Parliaments Parliamentary wayes appoint something else as more seasonable and proper to us and as Providence makes way for it if they see it more conducing to the safety and good of the Commonwealth that is to their own privat Interests Honors Profits Securities Designes Oppressions Rapines gilded over with this specious pretext And then peremptorily conclude That to plead for these and other fundamental laws and liberties as unalterable though the only Bulwarks Badges of our Freedome is nothing else but to enslave the Nation for by such a Principle people do not only lose their Liberty but are brought under such a kinde of Tyranny out of which AS BEING WORSE THAN THE AEGYPTIAN BONDAGE there is no hope of deliverance An absurd Tyrannical Paradox transcending any I ever yet met with in any Author stripping us naked of all our long enjoyed Laws Liberties Franchises great Charters at once tending onely to reduce and perpetually inthrall us under such an absolute AEGYPTIAN BONDAGE and Tyranny without any hope of future deliverance from it which some now endeavour to entaile on us and our posterities for ever by an Iron law and Yoke of Steel in stead of restoring to us that glorious Freedome which we have so long expected from them in vain And because I finde the generality of the Nobility Gentry Clergy Commonalty of our Nation after all their late years expensive bloody wars and Parliamentary Disputes for the defence and preservation of these our ancient Hereditary Fundamentall Charters Laws Liberties Priviledges so strangely degenerated both from themselves and their Heroick prudent Ancestors as that they are more readily inclined upon every occasion out of a base unchristian unmanly un-english fear or sottish cowardise and stupidity wittingly to desert betray surrender them al up into the hands of any invading Vs●rpers without the least Publike Claim Dissertation Defence Dspute then diligently or couragiously to cōtend or suffer for them of late they did So as that which Paul once taxed in the ●lavish besotted Corinthians 2 Epist 11. 20. may be most truly averred of our degenerated infatuated English Nation Ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage if a man de●●ur you if a man take of you if a man ex●lt himself above your Laws Liberties Franchises Parliaments Kings Nobles Properties Lives Consciences and all that is called God or warshipped if a man smite you on the face notwithstanding all their manifold late Protestations Vows Covenants Remonstrances Declaration● and Publike Engagements to the contrary And withall after diligent enquiry discovering scarce one man of Eminency or Power in the Nation nor so much as one of my degenerated temporizing Profession of the Law even when the whole body of our laws and all its Professors are violently assault●d and devoted unto suddain ruine by many lawlesse spirits who hath so much courage magnanimity honesty zeal or cordial love to his Native Country remaining in his brest as manfully to appear in publike for the strenuous necessary defence of these our Hereditary fundamentall laws liberties rights franchises though their own and every other English Freemans best inheritance and security for fear of being persecuted imprisoned close imprisoned exiled condemned destroyed as a Traytor Rebell Seditious person enemy to the Publike or disturber of the Kingdomes peace by those who are truly such I thereupon conceived I could not undertake or performe a more necessary seasonable beneficiall service for my Country and ingrate unworthy Nation who are now ashamed afraid for the most part to own visit or be seen in the company of those Gallant men much lesse to assist defend and stick close unto them in their dangers according to the sixth Article of their late Solemn League and Covenant

later times in corrupt cowardly time-serving degenerate Lawyers and Judasses rather than Judges to the disgrace of their Profession now generally spoken against their own dishonour infamy reproach the scandall of Religion which some of them have eminently professed the prejudice and subversion of the Fundamentall Laws Liberties Rights Priviledges of our Nation Peers Parliaments and of the ancient Fundamental Government of this famous Kingdome whereof they are Members and that contrary to some of their own late Judgments sciences Consciences Votes Printed Arguments Speeches Declarations against others even in and out of Parliament and their own first Charges in their Circuits repugnant to their later 4. To instruct those Jesuited Anabaptists Levellers and their Factors especially John Canne and the rest of the Compilers Publishers Abetters of the Pamphlet intituled Leiutenant Colonel John Lilburn tried and east and other forementioned publications who professedly set themselves by Words Writings Counsels and overt Acts to subvert both our old Fundamentall with all other Laws Liberties Customs Parliaments and Government what transcendent Malefactors Traitors and Enemies they are to the publique and what Capital punishments they may incurre as well as d●merit should they be legally prosecuted for the same and thereupon to advise them timely to repent of and d●sist from such high Treasonable attempts 5. To clear both my self and this my seasonable Defence of our Fundamental Laws Liberties Government from the least suspition or shadow of Faction Sedition Treason and Emnity to the publique peace weal settlement of the Nation which those and those onely who are most factious and seditious and the greatest Enemies Traitors to the publique tranquility Weal Laws Liberties Government and establishment of our Kingdome as the premises evidence will be ready maliciously to asperse both me and it with as they have done heretofore some other of my Writings of this Nature with all which they must first brand Mr. St. John Mr. Pym the whole House of Commons the two last with all other Parliaments forecited and themselves too from which they are so much changed and degenerated of late years ere they can accuse traduce or censure me who do but barely relate apply their words and judgments in their purest times without malice or partiality for the whole Kingdomes benefit security and resettlement To these punctual full Juries of Records and Parliament Authorities in point I could accumulate Sr. Edward Cook his 3. Institutes p. 9. printed and authorised by the House of Commons speciall Order the last Parliament The severall Speeches of M. Hide M. Waller M. Pierpoint and M. Hollis July 6. 1641. at the Lords Bar in Parliament by Order of the Commons House at the Impeachment of the Shipmony Judges of High Treason printed in Diurnal Occurrences and Speeches in Parliament London 1641. p. 237 to 264. M. Samuel Browns Argument at law before the Lords and Commons at Canterburies Attainder all manifesting their endeavouring to subvert the Fundamentall Laws and Government of the Realm to be High Treason with sundry other printed Authorities to prove That we have Fundamental Laws Liberties Rights and a Fundamental Government likewise which ought not to be innovated violated or subverted upon any pretences whatsoever by any power or prevailing Faction Which Fundamental Rights Liberties Laws Sr. Thomas Fairfax and the Army under his Command by their Declaration of June 14. 1647. particularly promise and engage to assert vindicate against all arbitray power violence oppression and against all particular parties or Interests whatsoever which they may doe well to remember and make good But to avoid prolixity the double Jury of irrefragable and punctuall authorities already produced being sufficient to satisfie the most obstinate opposites formerly contradicting it I shall onely adde three swaying authorities more wherewith I shall conclude this point The first is a very late one in a Treatise intituled A true State of the Common Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging in Reference to the late established Government by a Lord Protector and a PARLIAMENT It being the Judgement of DIVERSE PERSONS who throughout these late troubles have approved themselves faithfull to the Cause and interest of God and their COUNTRY presented to the publike for the satisfaction of others Printed at London 1654. who relating the miscarriages of the last ASSEMBLY at Westminster elected nominated by the Censurers of them the Army Officers onely not the people use these expressions of them page 13 14 16 17 21 22. But on the contrary it so fell out in a short time that there appeared many in this Assembly of very contrary principles to the interest aforesaid which led them violently on to attempt and promote many things the consequence whereof would have been A subverting of the Fundamentall Laws of the Land the Destruction of Property and an utter extinguishment of the Gospel In truth their Principles led them TO A PULLING DOWN ALL AND ESTABLISING NOTHING So that instead of the expected settlement they were running into FURTHER ANARCHY AND CONFUSION As to the Laws and Civil Rights of the Nation nothing would serve them but a TOTALL ERADICATION OF THE OLD AND INTRODUCTION OF A NEW and so the good Old Laws of England the Guardians of our Laws and Fortunes established with prudence and confirmed by the experience of many Ages and Generations The Preservation whereof was a principall ground of our late quarrell with the King having been once abolished what could we have expected afterwards but an inthroning of Arbitrary power in the Seat of Judicature and an exposing of our Lives our Estates our Liberties and all that is dear unto us as a Sacrifice to the boundlesse appetite of meer Will and Power c. Things being at this passe and the House through these proceedings perfectly disjointed it was in vain to look for a settlement of this Nation from them thus constituted but on the contrary nothing else could be expected But that the Common-wealth should sink under their hands and the great cause hitherto so happily upheld and maintained to be for ever lost through their preposterous management of these affairs wherewith they had been intrusted Whereupon they justifie their dissolution and turning them forcibly out of doores by the Souldiers with shame and infamy to prevent that destruction which thereby was coming on THE WHOLE LAND by this New Powder Treason plot set on foot by the Jesuites and Anabaptists to destroy our Laws Liberties Properties Ministers and Religion it self at one blow and that in the very Parliament House where some destroyed and blowed up Kings Peers and Parliaments themselves as well as Lawes and Parliament Priviledges of late years where they had been constantly defended vindicated preserved established in all former Ages by ALL TRVE ENGLISH PARLIAMENTS The second is The Votes of the House of Commons concerning a Paper presented to them entituled An Agreement of the people for a firm present