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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

but the quite contrary Should Tyrants enjoyne men as some have done to offer sacrifice to Idols to renounce Christianity abjure Iesus Christ and yeeld up their chastity to their unruly lusts Gods Law and conscience in such cases enjoynes them of necessity to disobey and resist those commands even for conscience sake as every man endued with conscience must acknowledge Therefore this Text extends not to resistance of such exorbitant powers in such lawlesse cases Eighthly the Apostle thus proceeds Vers. 6. For this cause also pay you tribute for they are Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing What doe men pay any Tribute to Princes or Magistrates for this cause that they may subvert Religion Lawes Liberties that they may plunder murther warre upon and expose them to the rapine of their ungodly Malignant Cavaliers Or are Magistrates Gods Ministers attending continually upon this very thing to ruine Parliaments Church State people would any men thinke you give Tyrants wages for such a service to cut their throats to devoure and undoe them in soule body estate Or do not they pay tribute to and Magistrates attend continually upon quite contrary imployments If so as none can contradict then the resistance here is onely intended of lawfull Magistrates who continually attend upon their charge to protect the good and punish Malefactors not of Tyrants who doe quite contrary and therefore are to be resisted Ninthly he infers from the premises Vers. 7. Render therefore to every man his due tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whom honour By what Law of God are obedience feare and honour due to Tyrants in their ungodly exorbitant unjust commands to subvert Religion Lawes Liberties Certainly the Apostle hath no where in this Text nor God himselfe in any other Scripture expressed such obedience resistance feare or honour to be due unto them and Elisha his speech to King Iehoram 2 King 3. 13. 14 compared with Ezek. 21. 25. Iob 12. 19. 21. Ch. 34. 19. Nehem. 4. 7. to 20. Ch. 13. 17. Isa. 1. 23. Ch. 41. 25. Lam. 1. 6. Ch. 5. 2 proves directly that they are not their due Therefore this Text extends not to them but onely to lawfull Magistrates Lastly he concludes hence Vers. 8. Owe no man any thing but to love one another for be that loveth another hath fulfilled the Law Now no such Love is owing to Tyrants who subvert Religion Lawes Liberties but we are to hate them with a perfect hatr●d as enemies both to God and man borne for the publike prejudice Psal. 139. 21. 22. Psal. 109. 1. to 21. 28 29. but onely just and upright Magistrates Therefore this Text is intended onely of them By all these premises it is undeniable that the resistance here prohibited is onely of lawfull Magistrates in the due execution of their Offices according to the Lawes of God and the Realmes they live in not of tyrannicall oppressing Princes Rulers or their instruments forcibly indeavouring to ruine Religion Lawes Liberties Parliaments Kingdomes which fully refutes the Doctors fourth Observation of which more anon I now proceed to some farther disquisitions for the finall clearing of this Text and herein I shall examine First what is meant by higher powers whether Kings or the Roman Emperor onely as our objectors pretend or all civill Magistrates whatsoever as well as Kings Secondly whether the Roman Emperour in Pauls time were the highest Soveraign power in that State or the Senate Thirdly whether Tyrants and unjust oppressing Magistrates as they are such be within the intendment of this Text and not to be resisted in any case Fourthly whether Kings and kingdomes be Gods Ordinance or an institution jure divino or a humane ordinance jure humano and how farre divine or humane Fiftly what resistance of the higher powers is here prohibited For the first of these By the higher Powers it is cleare that Kings and Emperours onely are not meant as our opposites dreame but all kinde of civill Rulers and temporall Magistrates whatsoever from the King himselfe to the Constable and Tithingman As is apparent first by the word higher Powers used indefinitely in the plurall number without mentioning any speciall kind of power Secondly by those words There is NO POWER but of God the powers THAT ARE that is all lawfull powers whatsoever now in being are ordained of God which universall Negative and Affirmative must necessarily include all lawfull civill powers Thirdly by the following words For Rulers c. that is all Rulers in the plurall number a Title common to all inferiour Officers witnesse Exod. 18. 21. 22. 25 26. See 1 Chron. 12. 14. And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them HEADS over the people RVLERS of thousands Rulers of hundreds Rulers of fifties and Rulers of tennes such as our Tithingmen are and they judged the people at all seasons So that the Tithingman is a Ruler a higher power within this Text. Fourthly the word Ministers For they are Gods Ministers c. in the plurall too extending generally to all officers Fiftly by v. 6 7 8. Render therefore to ALL their dues that is to all Magistrates whatsoever as these ensuing words evidence tribute to whom tribu●e is due custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whom honour Owe nothing to ANY MAN c. that is to ANY Magistrate or Ruler of what kind soever Sixtly by parallel Texts extending as well to inferiour lawfull Magistrates and Officers as to Kings as ● Tim. 2. 1. I exhort therefore that first of all supplications prayers c. be made for all men for Kings and ALL THAT BE IN AVTHORITIE c. Titus 3. 1. Put them in minde to be subject to principalities and powers to obey Magistrates all in the plurall 1 Pet. 2. 13. 14. Submit your selves to EVERY ORDINANCE of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreame or unto GOVERNORS in the plurall as unto those that are sent by him for the punishment of evill doers and the prayse of them that doe well Compared with Iosh. 1. 16. 17. 18. Ezra 7. 25 26. Ephes. 6. 1. 5. Col. 3. 18. 20. 23. 1 Tim. 6. 1. Heb. 13. 17. Exod. 22. 28. Chap. 18. 21 22. 25 26. 2 Kings 11. 4. Seventhly by all Expositors generally on this Text ancient moderne Protestants Papists who grant that this Text extends to all civill Magistrates as well inferiour and subordinate as superiour and many sticke not to straine it even to Ecclesiasticall ones So Origen Ambrose Hierome Remigius Theodulus Chrysostome Theodoret Primasius Haymo Rabanus Maurus Theophylact O●cumenius Haymo Aquinas Anselm Iyra Bruno Gorran Hugo de Sancto Victore Tostatus Luther Calvin Erasmus Melanchthon Gualther Musculus Bucer Hemingius Ferus Fayus Soto Alexander Alesius Peter Martyr Pareus Beza Piscator Zuinglius Tollet Willet Wilson Nacclantus Snecanus Vignerius Wenerichius Winckelman Estius Faber Cornelius a Lapide Salmeron Catharinus

was thus set in his Throne to the great rejoyceing of the people the Archbishop of Canterbury began there an Oration o● Collation in manner as after followe●h Vir Dominabitur in populo 1 R●gum cap. 9. These be the words of the high and most mighty King speaking to Samuel his Prophet teaching him how he should chuse and ordaine a Governour of his people of Israel when the said people asked of him a King to rule them And not without cause may these words be said here of our Lord the King that is For if they be inwardly conceived they shall give unto us matter of consolation and comfort when it is said that a Man shall have Lordship and rule of the people and not a Childe for God threatneth not us as he sometime threatned the people by Esay 3. Esay I fhall saith our Lord give children to be their Rulers and Princes and weake or fearfull shall have dominion over them But of his great mercy hee hath visited us I tru●t his peculiar people and sent us a Man to have the rule over us and put by Children that before time ruled this land after childish conditions as by the works of them it hath right lately appeared to the great disturbance of all this Realme and for want and lack of a man For as saith the Apostle Paul in 1. Cor. 14. When I was a childe I savoured and spake as a childe but at the time when I came to the state of a man then I put by all my childish conditions The Apostle saith he savoured and spake as a childe in whom is no stedfastnesse or constancy for a childe will lightly promise and lightly he will breake his promise and doe all things that his appetite giveth him unto and forgeteth lightly what he hath done By which reason it followeth that needs great inconvenience must fall to that people that a Childe is ruler and Governour of nor is it possible for that Kingdom to stand in felicity where such conditions reigne in the head and ruler of the same But now wee ought all to rejoyce that all such defaults bee expelled and that a Man and not a Childe shall have Lordship over us to whom it belongeth to have a sure reine upon his tongue that he may be knowne from a Childe or a Man using childish conditions of whom I trust I may say as the wise man saith in his Proverbs Blessed be the man that hath wisdome and that aboundeth in prudence For that man that is ruled by sapience must needs love and dread our Lord God and whoso loveth and dreadeth him it must consequently follow that he must keep his Commandements By force whereof he shall minister true Justice unto his Subjects and do no wrong nor injury to any man so that then shall follow the words of the wise man which he rehearsed in Proverbs 10. The blessing of our Lord God shall alight upon the head of the King being a just and right wise man for the tongue of him worketh not iniquity and injustice but the tongue of the wicked and sinners covereth iniquity And who that worketh or ministreth Justice in due order he not only safe guardeth himselfe but also holdeth the people in a surety of restfulnesse of the which ensueth peace and plenty and therefore it is said of the wise King Solomon Eccles. 10. Blessed and happy is that land of which the King or Ruler is noble and wise and the Princes be blessed that live in his time As who would say They may take example of him to rule and guide their Subjects for by the discretion of a noble and wise man being in authority many evils are sequestred and put apart and all dissemblers put unto silence for the wise man considereth well the great inconveniences which daily now grow of it where the childe or insipient drinketh the ●weet and dilicious words unadvisedly and perceiveth not intoxication which they be mingled or mixt with till he be invironed and wrapped in all danger as lately the experience thereof hath been apparent to all our sights and knowledges and not without the danger of all this Realm and all was for lacke of wisdome in the Ruler which deemed and taught as a childe giving sentence of wilfulnesse and not of reason so that while a childe reigned selfe will and lust reigned and reason with good conscience was outlawed with Justice stedfastnesse and many other vertues But of this perill and danger wee be delivered by the especiall help and grace of God because he that now ruleth is not a childe but perfect in reason for he commeth not to execute his owne will but his will that sent him that is to wit Gods will as a man unto whom God of his abundant grace hath given perfect reason and discretion to discerne and deem as a perfect man wherefore of this man we shall not onely say that he shall dwell in wisdome but as a perfect man and not a childe he shall thinke and deem and have such circumspection with him that hee shall diligently forelooke and see that Gods will be done and not his and therefore now I trust the words of the wise man Eccles. 10. shall be verified in our King saying A wise and discreet Iudge shall now deeme his people and the Dominion or Lordship of a discreet wise man shall stand stedfast whereupon shall then follow the second verse of the same Chapter saying Like as the Head and Soveraigne is replenished with all sapience and vertue in guiding of his people administring to them Law with due and convenient Iustice so shall the Subjects be garnished with awe and loving dread and beare unto him next God all honour truth and allegiance So that then it may bee concluded with the residue of the foresaid verses Such as the Ruler of the City is such then be the inhabitants of the same So that consequently it followeth A good Master maketh a good Disciple And likewise an evill King or Ruler shall lose his people and the Cities of his Kingdome shall be left desolate and uninhabited Wherefore thus I make an end in stead of a childe wilfully doing his lust and pleasure without reason now shall a man be Lord and Ruler that is replenished with sapience and reason and shall governe the people by skilfull doings setting apart all wilfulnesse and pleasure of himselfe so that the word that I began with may be verified in him Ecce quia vir dominabitur in populo the which our Lord grant and that he may prosperously reign unto the pleasure of God and wealth of his Realm Amen The which Oration being thus finished and the people answering with great gladnesse Amen The King standing upon his feet said unto the Lords and Commons present Sirs I thanke you my Lords Spirituall and Temporall and all the States of this Land and doe you to understand that it is not my will that any man think that by the way

of conquest I would disinherit any man of his heritage franchise or other rights that he ought to have of right nor for to put him out of that which he now enjoyeth and hath h●d before time by custome of good Law of this Realm except such private persons as have beene against the good purpose and the common profit of the Realme And this speech thus finished all Sheriffs and other Officers were put in their Authorities which season for the time that the Kings Sea was void and after every man departed And at afternoon were Proclamations made in accustomary places of the City in the name of King Henry the fourth And upon the morrow following being wednesday and the first of October the Procurators abovenamed went unto the Tower of London and there certified Richard of the admission of King Henry And the foresaid Justice William Thyrning in the name of the other and for all the States of the land gave up unto Richard late King all homage and fealty unto him before him due in like manner and forme as before I have shewed to you in the deposition of King Edward the second And thus was this Prince deprived of all Kingly dignity and honour by reason of his evill counsell and such unlawfull wayes and meanes as he by his insolency in his Realme suffered to be used when he had reigned two and twenty yeers three moneths and eight dayes So Fabian and others verbatim Those Parliaments then and Nationall Assemblies which have thus disposed of the Crown and Kings themselves and exercised such jurisdiction over them must certainly be above them and the highest Soveraigne power True it is our Protestant P●eres Commons and Parliaments never challenged nor exercised such jurisdiction and I presume they will not doe it However it is neither honourable nor safe for Kings and the most destructive policy their ill Counsellors can suggest unto them so farre to oppresse their Subjects or exasperate their Parliaments as to provoke them to use the extremity of their Soveraigne power and revive dead sleeping Presidents for their reliefe The consideration whereof when they were fresh made succeeding Kings more just and moderate in their governments and reclaimed many vitious oppressing Princes as Archigallo and others witnesse We know what Solomon saith Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad and if Kings or their evill Instruments shall so far mad their Subjects and Parliaments either by oppressions rapines misgovernment destroying making warre upon them or putting them out of their protections as to make them cry out as they did against King Iohn Iohannes factus est de Rege Tyrannus imo de homine in bestialem prorumpens feritatem Vae tibi Iohanni Regum ultime Anglorum Principum abominatio Nobilitatis Anglicanae confusio Heu Anglia vastata amplius vastanda c. Whereupon presently ens●ed a Nolumus hunc regnare Tandemque decretum est ut aliquem potentem in Regem eligerent per quem possint ad possessiones pristinas revocari eradextes quod nullus Iohanne peier vel durior p●ssit dominari tale miserabile statuentes argumentum Fortuna miserrima tuta est Nam timor eventus deterioris abest Cumque aliquandiu quem eligerent haesitassent demum in hoc pariter consenserunt ut Ludovicum filium Philippi Regis Francorum sibi praeficerent ipsum in Regem Angliae sublimarent Which they did to King Johns their own and the whole Kingdomes great prejudice We know what the ill advise of Rehoboams rough evill Counsellours produced 2 Chron. 10. And the King answered the people roughly after the advice of the young men saying My father made your yoake heavy but I will adde thereto my father chastised you with whips but I will chastise you with scorpions And when all Israel saw that the King would not hearken unto them the people answered the King though some say he came to the Crown by succession saying What portion have we in David and we have none inheritance in the Sonne of Iesse every man to your Tents O Israel and now David see to thine owne house So all Israel went to their Tents and elected Ieroboam for their King and fell away from the house of David to this day being never after united to it but continuing a distinct Kingdome from it This grosse impoliticke maxime of ambitious Princes now so much cryed up and prosecuted Aut Caesar aut Nullus hath utterly unkinged ruined hundreds of Kings and Emperours with their families and deprived them not onely of their Crownes but lives as it did Caesar himselfe with many of his successors whose tragicall ends should deter all other Princes from their destructive aspiring tyrannous counsels courses maximes Wherefore the best policy Kings can use to perpetutate their Thrones to them and their posterity is to treate their subjects so as may win their hearts and affections and not to straine their pretended prerogatives beyond the bounds of Law this being a most certaine experimented rule which Aristotle the Prince of politicians gives That there are two intestine causes most perilous and frequent of all others by which a Kingdome is usually lost and subverted The first is if the Nobles and people dissent from the King himselfe The second if Kings will reigne tyrannically and usurpe a greater domination or prerogative then the Lawes of their Kingdomes give them Then he addes Verily a kingdome is preserved by contrary remedies specially by a moderate kinde and temperate forme of Government For by how much the m●re moderate the King shall be and contented with smaller and fewer prerogatives by somuch the more constant and longer-lasting shall his kingdome necess●rily be For by this meanes it recedes farther from the domination of Tyrants and it comes nearer to the equability of manners and humanity of life and is lesse envyed by His subjects which he proves by the notable speech and example of King Theopompus And indeed this is the principall policy which God himselfe hath prescribed a King to prolong his dayes in his Kingdome he and his children after him to keepe all the words of this Law and those Statutes to doe them that is to governe himselfe and his subiects onely by Law not power to doe justice and judgement avoid oppression not to lift up his heart above his brethren as if they were his vassals and not men not Christians of the same kinde and quality as himselfe is Wherefore I shall close up this with old Bractons resolution Potestas itaque Regis juris est non injuriae Exercere igitur debet Rex potestatem Iuris sicut Dei vicarius Minister in terra quia illa potestas SOLIUS Dei est potestas autem injuriae Diaboli non dei cujus horum operum fecerit Rex ejus Minister erit cujus ope●a fecerit Igitur dum facit justitiam vicarius est Regis aeterni minister autem Diaboli dum

of those who obey or execute them as is clearly resolved not onely by 42. Ass. p. 5. 12. Brooke Commissions 15. 16. Cooke l. 5. f. 50. 51. l. 7. f. 36. 37. l. 8. f. 125. to 129. but likewise expresly adjudged and enacted by the Statutes of 15 E. 3. 81. 1. c. 1. 3. 42. E 3. c. 1. 3. 11 R. 2. c. 1. to 6. 21 Iac. c. 3. the Petition of Right 3 Caroli 28. E. 2. Artic. super Chartas c. 2. 4 E. 3. c. 4. 5 E. 3. c. 2. 25 E. 3. c. 1. 15. 34 E. 3. c. 2. and generally by all Statutes concerning Purveyors by the memorable old Statute of 15 E. 3. Stat. 1 If any Minister of the King or any other person of what condition soever be be do or come against any point of the great Charter or other Statutes or the Laws of the Land he shall answer to the Parliament as well as the SUTE OF THE KING as at the sute of the partie AS FAR FORTH WHERE IT WAS DONE BY COMMISSION OR COMMANDMENT OF THE KING as of his own authority And by that parallel good Law recorded by Fabian made in Parliament in the fi●st yeer of King Henry the fourth That no Lord nor other person of no degree should after that day lay for his excuse as some then did any constraint or coacting of his Prince in executing of any wrong judgement or other criminous or unlawfull deeds saying That for fear they durst not otherwise do for such excuse after this day SHALL STAND HIM IN NO STEAD And in this Parliament Hall was judged to be drawn from the Tower of London unto Tiburne and there to be hanged and quartered which was accordingly executed onely because he was one of those who secretly murthered the Duke of Glocester at Calice illegally attainted of Treason in the Parliament of 21. R. 2. without due processe of the Law by King Richard the second his command for his good service done in Parliament in 10 11. of this King and likewise the Dukes of Aumarl Surrey Exeter with other Noble-men were deprived of their Dukedoms of most of their Lands Castles Honours for having a finger in this Dukes suffocation and death by King Richards instigation and command and had lost their heads too if the common people had been their Judges who murmured against King Henry for sparing their lives as you may read in Walsingham and Speed If these then who murthered but one good Peer of the Realm by the Kings speciall command for his good service done in former Parliaments after an illegall judgement of high Treason given against him were thus hanged quartered degraded as Traytors by a solemn Judgement in Parliament how severe a censure may they expect who without and before any such conviction or sentence have taken up offensive Arms to murther and destroy the Parliament it self and chiefe Members of it as Traitors and caused them or any of them illegally to be proclaimed Traitors the more colourably to wage War against them All which I would advise His Majesties Captains Cavalliers and ill Counsellors to consider The rather because all levying of War either against the King or against the Kingdom and Parliament now made a matter of high Treason on both sides must and ought to be determined and resolved which of them is high Treason and which not and the pa●ties guilty of it must and ought to be tried arraigned judged and condemned for it onely in and by the Parliament and in and by no other Court or Iudges as is punctually resolved by the severall Statutes of 11 R. 2. c. 1. 2. 3. 4. 21 R. 2. c. 2. 3. 4. 12. 20. 8 H. 4. c. 10. and the very words of the Statute of 25 E. 3. c. 2. of Treasons especially being a new case If then the Parliament are and must be the onely judges of this question Which of the two parties now in Arms are Traitors and the onely Court wherein all must be tried on this point they may easily judge who are and must be the Traitors in this case and those who by the Kings meer personall command and presence whom they have treacherously withdrawn from his Parliament fight now both against Parliament and King in his legall and regall capacitie when the time of triall comes will be found reall Traytors both to King and Kingdom what ever their own ignorance temporizing Lawyers or hopes of prevailing may now suggest unto them as the Parliament hath already declared them in sundry Remonstrances In the Parliament of 15 E. 2. the two Spensers were by a speciall Act of Parliament adjudged Traitors banished and their lands and goods confiscated for miscounselling this King and advising him to ride with armed Troops of horses and men into Glocestershire to assault the good people there and to levie war within the Realm to the destruction of the Church and people contrary to the form of the great Charter and breach of the peace of the Realm What severe judgement then may those ill Counsellors and Cavalliers deserve who have actually levied war not onely against the County of Gloc●ster which they have pitifully harrowed and spoiled contrary to all Law sacking Cicester to its utter ruine and leading away the good people thence captives to Oxford in triumph for the most part barefooted through dirt and mire in the cold Winter season chained together in ropes more like to Turkish Gallystaves then English Christian Subjects onely for this new kinde of supposed Treason and Rebellion the defence of their Liberties lives and goods against theeving Cavalliers which they may defend by Law and justifie the killing of all those who shall violently assault them or their houses to rob them of them denying them so much as a draught of cold water to quench their thirst by the way and keeping off all who would give it to them many of them being since dead at Oxford of famine and more then barbarous usage but likewise against most Counties and many Towns of England miserably wasted sacked pillaged and some in cold blood burned by them and the whole Kingdom Parliament yea King himself in his politick Capacitie and raised an Army of Papists against expresse late Acts of Parliament who not onely now set up their long exploded Masse openly in Yorkeshire Reading and other places but which my very soul abhors to think of have lately in a most impious manner Shit upon the English Bible in folio defaced and burnt many Testaments and godly English Books in Iohn Hamonds house a Bookseller in Marleborough when they sacked it in contempt of our Religion setting the chimney on fire with their excessive flames and if reports be credible have since burned divers English Bibles with other good Books in the publike Market place at Reading under the very Gallows in detestation of our Protestant Faith whose utter extirpation is their chief designe Certainly if these ill Councellers or murdering

two years space though his friends very oft petitioned for his liberty and Iohn a Gaunt Duke of Lancaster made Regent of the Realme because of the Kings irrecoverable infirmity summoning a Parliament the yeare following repealed the Statutes made in this good Parliament to the Subjects great discontent who were earnest suiters to the Duke for De la Mare his enlargement and legall tryall which being denied the Londoners upon this and other discontents tooke armes assaulted the Duke spoyled his house at the Savoy and hung up his armes reversed in signe of Treason in all the chiefe streets of London But in the first yeare of Richard the second in a Parliament at London Peter De la Mare and almost all the Knights which plaid their parts so well in the good Parliament for the increase of their Country and benefit of the Realme resuming their Petitions caused Alice Piers who contemning the Act of Parliament and the oaths wherewith she had bound her self presumed to enter the Kings Court to perswade and impetrate from him whatsoever she pleased to be banished and all her movables and immovables to be confiscated to the King notwithstanding she had corrupted with mony divers of the Lords and Lawyers of England to speak not only privately but publikely in her behalfe In the 1. yeare of Richard the 2 d William Courtney Bishop of London Edmond Mortymer Earle of March and many others of whom the Common-people had the best opinion being good wise and famous men were by publike consent appointed Councellours and Regents to the King being but young and this yeare Henry Piercie Earle of Northumberland resigning his Marshalls rod Iohn de Arundel was made Marshall in his place In the third yeare of Richard the second in a Parliament at London the Commons petitioned that one of the Barons who knew how to answer Forraigners wisely and might be mature in manners potent in workes tractable and discreete to be the kings protector Electus est Ergo COMMVNI SENTENTIA c. Hereupon Thomas Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke WAS ELECTED BY COMMON CONSENT IN PARLIAMENT Lord Protector that he migh con●inually abide with the King and recei●e an honorab●e anuall stipend out of the Kings Exchequer for his paines and those Bishops Earles Barons and Iudges assigned to be the Kings Counsell and Gardians the yeare before were upon the Commons petition this Parliament removed because they spent much of the Kings Treasure nullum a●t modicum fructum protulerunt In this Parliament Sir Richard Scrope resigned his Office of Lord Chauncellour and Simon de Sudbu●y Archbishop of Canterbury contrary to his degree and dignity as many then cryed out was substituted in his place In a Parliament at London in the fifth yeare of King Richard the second Sir Richard Sc●ope was againe made Chauncellour PETENTIBVS HOC MAGNATIBVS ET COMMVNIBVS at the REQVEST OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS as being a man who for his eminent knowledge and inflexible justice had not his peere in England and Hugh Segrave Knight was then likewise made lord Treasurer Sed quid juvant 〈◊〉 Parliamentorum c. writes Walsi●gham of the Acts of this Parliament and Speed out of him But to what purpose are Acts of Parliament when after they are past they take no manner of effect for the king with his Privie Counsell was wont to change and abolish all things which by the Commons and Nobility had beene agreed upon in former Parliaments For the very next yeare the king deposed Scrope from his Chauncellourship and tooke the Seale into his owne hands ●●aling divers Grants and Writings with it as he pleased and at last delivered the S●ale to Richard Braybrooke which Walsingha● thus relates Lord Richard Scrope Knight qui PER REGNI COMMVNIT ATEM ET ASSENSVM DOMINORVM ELECTVM IN REGNI CANCELLARIVM was in those dayes put from his Office of Chancellor which he had laudably and prudently administred The cause of his removall was his peremptory resistance of the Kings Will who desired to impoverish himselfe to exalt strangers For certaine Knights and Esquires of inferiour ranke being the kings servants begged of the king certaine lands and the demeasnes of such as dyed during such time as by the custome of the Kingdome they ought to remaine in the Kings hands The King being a child without delay granted their requests and sending them to the Chancellor commanded him to grant them such Charters under the great S●ale as they desired But the Chauncellor who ardently desired the benefit of the Realme and the Kings profit plainely denyed their requests alleaging that King was much endebted and that he had neede retaine such casualties to himselfe to helpe discharge his debts That those who knew in what debts the king was obliged were not faithfull to the King whiles they minded more their owne avarice than the kings profit preferring their private gaine before the publicke necessities Wherefore they should desist from such requests and be content with the Kings former gifts which were sufficient for them And that they should know for certaine that he would neither make nor seale any such Charters of ●●nfirmation to them of such donations of the king who was not yet of full age 〈◊〉 hee should herea●●●r receive ill thankes from him Whereupon these Petitioners returning from the Chancellour inform the king that the Chauncellors minde was obstinate and that he would doe nothing at his Command but rather contemne his Royall m●ndate that the King ought with due severity speedily to curbe such an unbrideled disobedience or else it would quickly come to passe that the kings honour would grow contemptible among his Subjects and his command be of no value The King therefore who understood as a childe more regarding the false machinations of detractors then the faithfull allegations of his Chauncellour in a spirit of furie sends some to demand his seale of him and to bring it to himselfe And when the king had sent againe and againe by solemne messengers that he should send the seale to him the Chauncellour answered thus I am ready to resigne the Seale not to you but to him who gave it me to keepe neither shall there be a middle bearer betweene me and him but I will restore it to his hands who committed it to mine owne hands not to others And so going to the king Here delivered the seale promising that he would as he had hitherto be faithfull to the king yet denyed that he would hereafter be an Officer under him And then the king receiving the Seale did for many dayes what he listed unt●ll Master Robert Braibrooke Bishop of London had undertaken the Office of Chancellour When not onely the Nobility of the kingdome but the Commonalty likewise heard that the king contrary to the Custome of the Kingdome had captiously deposed the Chauncellour whom All the Nobilitie of the Kingdome with the suffrage of all the Commons had chosen