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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

a seigned Proclamation which he caused to be proclaimed throughout the Realme that these Lords were apprehended only for new Treasons committed against him for which he would prosecute them in the next Parliament and not for the old trespasses After which he proclaimes those Lords Traytors Which done he summoned a Parliament at Westminster to this Parliament the King commanded to come all such as he had best confidence in omitting the rest and the Knights were not elected by the Commons as custome required they should be but by the Kings pleasure yea he put out divers persons elected and put in other in their places to serve his turne which was one Article objected against him when he was deposed Against the time of this Parliament the King received a guard of 4000. Archers all Cheshire men as if he would have gone in battle against enemies so that divers came armed to the Parliament out of feare These Cheshire men were rude and beastly people and so proud of the Kings favour that they accounted the King to be their fellow and set the Lords at nought though few of them were Gentlemen but taken from the Plough and other Trades After these rusticall people had a while Courted they grew so bold that they would not let neither within the Court nor without to beat and slay the Kings good Subject as the Cavaliers doe now and to take from them their victuals at their pleasure paying little or nothing for them and to ravish their wives and daughters And if any man presumed to complaine to the King of them he was soone rid out of the way no man knew why nor by whom so that in effect they did what they listed In this Parliament the King having made the Speaker and a great part of mercinary proud ambitious men of the Commons House to be of his side to act what he required them he then prevailed likewise with the Upper House first with the Prelates then with the Lords more out of feare of him then any reason by meanes whereof the Commission Charters of pardon and Acts made in Parliament in the 10. and 11. yeares of his Reigne were quite revoked and declared voyd in Law as being done without authority and against the will and liberty of the King and of his Crowne And withall they declared the Iudges opinions for which they were condemned in that Parliament to be good and lawfull and attainted the said imprisoned Lords of high Treason and confiscated their lands The two Earles hereupon were beheaded and the Duke by reason of his popularity sent over to Callice and there by Hall and others smot●ered onely for their former actions which done the King adjourned the Parliament to Shrewsbury where he subtilly procured an Act to passe by common consent that the power of the Parliament should remaine in seven or eight persons who after the Parliament dissolved should determine certaine petitions delivered that Parliament and not dispatched By colour whereof Those Committees proceeded to other things generally touching the Parliament and that by the Kings appointment in derogation of the state of the Parliament the discommodity and pernicious example of the whole Realme And by colour and authority hereof the King caused the Parliament Rols to be altered and defaced against the effect of the foresaid grant After which he much vexed and oppressed his people with divers forced Loanes Oathes Impositions and oppressing Projects to raise money seeking to trample them under his feet and destroy the Realme and tooke all the Jewels of the Crown with him into Ireland without the kingdomes consent Which rendered him so odious to his people that Henry Duke of Lancaster landing in England the whole kingdome came flocking to his ayde so that he had an Army of 60000. men in a short time who vowed to prosecute the Kings ill Counsellours Whereupon King Richard returning out of Ireland hearing of the Dukes great Army assembled against him and knowing that they would rather dye than yeeld out of their hatred and feare of him he dismissed his Courtiers hiding obsurely in corners till he was apprehended and by a Parliament summoned in his name though against his will judicially deposed for his misgovernment Among the Articles exhibited against him in Parliament for his evill government for which he was by sentence dethroned these are remarkable First That hee wastfully spent the Treasure of the Realme and had given the possessions of the Crowne to men unworthy by reason whereof daily new charges more and more were laid on the neckes of the poore Commonalty And when divers Lords were appointed by the high Court of Parliament to commune and treate of divers matters concerning the Common-wealth of the same which being busie about those Commissions he with other of his affinity went about to impeach them of high Treason and by force and threatning compelled the Iustices of the Realme at Shrewesbury to condescend to his opinion for the destruction of the said Lords In somuch that hee began to raise warre against John Duke of Lancaster Thomas Earle of Arundell Richard Earle of Warwicke and other Lords contrary to his honour and promise Item He assembled certaine Lancashire and Cheshire men to the intent to make warre on the foresaid Lords and suffered them to rob and pillage without correction or reproofe Item Although the King ftatteringly and with great dissimulation made Proclamation throughout the Realme that the Lords before named were not attached for any crime of Treason but onely for extortions and oppressions done in the Realme yet he laid to them in the Parliament rebellion and manifest Treason Item He hath compelled divers of the said Lords servants and friends by menace and extreame paines to make great fines to their utter undoing And notwithstanding his pardon to them granted yet he made them fine of new Item That he put out divers Sheriffes lawfully elected and put in their roomes divers of his owne Minions subverting the Law contrary to his Oath and Honour Item For to serve his purpose he would suffer the Sheriffes of the Shire to remaine above one yeare or two Item He borrowed great sums of money and bound him under his Letters Patents for repayment of the same and yet not one penny paid Item He taxed men at the Will of him and his unhappy Counsell and the same Treasure spent in folly not paying poore men for their victuall and viand Item He said That the Lawes of the Realme were in his head and sometime in his brest by reason of which phantasticall opinion he destroyed Noble men and impoverished the Commons Item The Parliament setling and exacting divers notable Statutes for the profit and advancement of the Commonwealth he by his private friends and solicitors caused to be enacted That no Act then enacted should be more prejudi●iall to him than it was to any of his Predecessors though with proviso he did often as he listed and not

in the Kings name spake thus to them My Lords our Lord the King hearing that you were lately assembled at Harenggye Parke in an unusuall manner would not rush upon you as he m●ght have easily done had he not had care of you and those who were with you because no man can doubt if he had raised an Army he would have had many more men than you and perchance much ● lood of men had beene spilt which the King doth most of all abhorre and therefore assuming to himselfe patience and mildnesse he hath made choyce to convent you peaceably and to tell him the reason why you have ass●mbled so many men To which the Lords answered That THEY HAD MET TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF THE KING AND KINGDOME AND THAT THEY MIGHT PVLL AWAY THOSE TRAITORS FROM HIM WHICH HE CONTINVALLY DET AINED WITH HIM T●e Traytors they appealed were the foresaid ill Councellors and Nicholas Brambre the false London Knight and to prove this appeale of them true casting down their gloves they said they would prosecute it by Duell The King answered This shall not be done now but in the next Parliament which we appoint to be the morrow after the Purification of the blessed Virgin to which as well you as they comming shall receive satisfaction in all things according to Law The Lords for their owne safety kept together till the Parliament and in the meane time d●feated the Forces of the Duke of Ireland raised privately by the Kings Command to surprise them The Parliament comming on in the 11. yeare of Richard the second these ill councellors were therein by speciall Acts attainted condemned of High Treason and some of them executed and these defensive Armes of the Lords for their owne and the Kingdomes safety adjudged and declared to be no Treason but a thing done to the honour of God and Salvation of the King and his Realme witnesse the expresse words of the Printed Act of 11 R. 2. c. 1. which I shall transcribe Our Soveraigne Lord the King amongst other Petitions and requests to him made by the Commons of his said Realme in the said Parliament hath received one Petition in the forme following The Commons prayed that whereas the last Parliament for cause of the great and horrible mischiefes and perills which another time were fallen BY EVILL GOVERNANCE WHICH WAS ABOVT THE KINGS PERSON by all his time before by Alexander late Archbishop of Yorke Robert de Veere late Duke of Ireland Michael de la Pole late Earle of Suffolk Rober Trisilian late Iustice and Nicholas Brambre Knight with other their adherents and others Whereby the King and all his Realme were very nigh to have beene wholly undone and destroyed and for this cause and to eschew such perils and mischiefes for the time to come a certaine statute was made in the same Parliament with a Commission to diverse Lords for the weale honour and safeguard of the King his regalty and of all the Realme the tenour of which Commission hereafter followeth Richard c. as in the Act. And thereupon the said Alexander Robert Mighill Robert and Nicholas and their said adherents seeing that their said evill governance should be perceived and they by the same cause more likely to be punished by good justice to be done and also their evill deedes and purposes before used to be disturbed by the sayd Lords assigned by commission as afore made conspired purposed divers horrible Treasons and evils against the King and the said Lords so assigned and against all the other Lords and Commons which were assenting to the making of the said Ordinance and Commission in destruction of the king his Regalty and all his Realme Whereupon Thomas Duke of Glocester the kings Vncle Richard Earle of Arundle and Thomas Earle of Warwicke perceiving the evill purpose of the sayd Traytors did assemble themselves in forcible manner for the safety of their persons to shew and declare the said Treasons and evill purposes and thereof to set remedie as God would and came to the Kings presence affirming against the said 5. Traytors appealed of High Treason by them done to the King and to his Realme upon which appeale the king our Soveraigne Lord adjourned the said parties till this present Parliament and did take them into his safe protection as in the record made upon the same appeale fully appeareth And afterwards in gre●t Rebellion and against the said protection the said Traytors with their said adherents and others aforesaid continuing their evill purpose some of them assembled a great power by letters and Commission from the King himselfe as Walsingham and others write to have destroyed the said Duke and Earles appellants and other the kings lawfull leige people and to accomplish their Treasons and evill purposes aforesaid Whereupon the said Duke of Glocester Henry Earle of Darby the sayd Earles of Arundell and Warwicke and Thomas Earle Marshall Seeing the open Destruction of the King and all his Realme if the said evill purposed Traitors and their adherents were not disturbed which might not otherwise have beene done but with strong hand for the weale and safeguard of the King our Soveraigne Lord and of all his Realme did assemble them forcibly and rode and pursued till they had disturbed the said power gathered by the said Traytors and their adherents aforesaid which five Traytors be attainted this present Parliament of the Treasons and evills aforesaid at the suite and appeale of the said Duke of Glocester Earles of Darby Arundle Warwicke and Marshall That it would please our redoubled Soveraigne Lord the King to accept approve and affirme in this present Parliament all that was done in the last as afore and as much as hath beene done since the last Parliament by force of the statute Ordinance or Commission aforesaid and also All that the said Duke of Gloc●ster Earles of Arun●ell and Warwicke did and that the same Duke and Earles and the said Earles of Derby and Marshall or any of them did Or any other of their company or of their ayde or of their adherents or of any of them or touching the Assemblies Ridings Appeales and Pursuites aforesaid ● As a thing made to the Honour of God Salvation of the King maintenance of his Crowne and also of the Salvation of all his Realme therefore doubtlesse no Treason Rebellion nor any offence in point of Law and also to Or 〈◊〉 and St●bl●sh that ' the said Duke of Gl●c●ster Earles of Darby Arundell W●rwicke and Marshall nor none of them nor none of such as have beene of their returne or company force ayde or councell or any of them in the things aforesaid nor none other person for any thing aforesaid shall be impeached molested or grieved at the suite of the king nor of the party nor in other manner because of any assembly riding beating levying of Penons or of Banners discomfiture death of a man imprisonment of any person taking leading away or detinue of any horses

their destruction attended in ambush The King sweares his innocency promising safe conduct to the Lords if they would come who thereupon came strongly guarded and would trust no longer The King sitting in Royall State in Westminster Hall the Lords present themselves upon their knees before him and being required by the Lord Chancellor Why they were in warlike manner assembled at Haring gye Parke contrary to the Lawes their joynt answer was That they were assembled for the good of the King and kingdome and to weed from about him such Traytors as he continually held with him The Traytors they named to be Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland Alexander Nevill Arch-bishop of Yorke Michael de la Pole Earle of Suffolke Sir Robert Tr●silian that false Justiciar Sir Nicholas Brambre that false knight of London with others To prove them such They threw downe their Gloves as gages of challenge for a triall by the Sword The King hereupon replyed as knowing they were all hidden out of the way This shall not be done so but at the n●xt Parliament which shall be the morrow after Candlemas all parties shall receive according as they deserve And now to you my Lords How or by what authority durst you presume to levy Forces against me in this Land did you thinke to have terrified mee by such your presumption Have not I men and armes who if it pleased me could environ and kill you like sheepe Certainely in this respect I esteeme of you all no more than of the basest Scullions in my kitchins Having used these and many like high words he tooke up his Unckle the Duke from the ground where he kneeled and bade all the other rise The rest of the conference was calme and the whole deferred till the next Parliament then shortly to be holden at Westminster In the meane time that the world might see how little able the King was to equall his words with deeds a Proclamation was set forth in which the King before any tryall cleareth the Lords of Treason names tho●e persons for unjust accusers whom the Lords had before nominated The Lords neverthelesse thought not good to sever themselves but kept together for feare of the worst which fell out for their advantage For the Duke of Ireland with the Kings privity such was his false dissimulation had gathered a power in Wales and Cheshire which they intercepting neare Burford and Bablecke slew Sir William Molineux leader of the Cheshire men and made the Duke to flye in great feare Among the Dukes carriages was found as the devill or rather God would have it certaine Letters of the Kings to the said Duke by which their Counsels were plainely discovered The Lords hereupon march with speed up to London having an Army of forty thousand men the Lord Mayor and City doubtfull whether to displease the King or Lords upon consultation receive the Lords into the City and supply their Army with provisions in the Suburbs Which the King hearing of seemed to slight them saying Let them lye here till they have spent all their goods and then they will returne poore and empty to their houses and then I shall speake with and judge them one after another The Lords hearing this were exceedingly moved and swore They would never remove thence till they had spoken with him face to face And forthwith sent some to guard the Thames lest the King should slip out of their hands and then scoffe at them The King being then in the Tower and seeing himselfe every way encompassed sent a message to the Lords that he would treat with them who thereupon desired him That he would come the next day to Westminster where they would declare their desire to him The King replyed That he would not treat with them at Westminster but in the Tower To which the Lords answered That it was a suspicious place because traines might there be laid for them and dangers prepared to destroy them Whereupon the King sent word They should send thither two hundred men or more to search and view all places lest any fraud should lye hid Upon which the Lords repaired to the Tower and in the Kings Bed-chamber laid open to him briefly all his conspiracy in causing them indirectly to be indicted They object to him his mutability and underhand working producing his owne Letters to the Duke of Ireland to raise an Army to destroy them together with the French packets they had intercepted whereby it appeared he had secretly practised to flye with the Duke of Ireland into France to deliver up Callice to the French Kings possession and such pieces as the Crowne of England held in those parts whereby his honour might diminish his strength decay and his fame perish The King seeing this knew not what to doe especially because he knew himselfe notably depressed At last craving leave they left him confounded and shedding teares yet upon condition that he should come to Westminster the next day where hee should heare more and treate of the necessary affaires of the kingdome Which he promised to doe retaining the Earle of Darby to sup with him But before he went to bed O the ficklenesse of weake Princes and faithlessenesse of their royall words and Protestations some whisperers telling him that it was not decent safe nor honourable for the King to goe thither he changed his resolution The Nobles hearing this were very sad and discontented and thereupon sent him word That if he came not quickely according to appointment they would chuse them another King who both would and should obey the Counsell of his Peeres The King strucke with this dart came the next day to Westminster there attending his Nobles pleasures To whom after few discourses the Nobles said That for his honour and the benefit of his kingdome all Traytors whisperers flatterers evill instruments slanderers and unprofitable persons should be banished out of his Court and company and others substituted in their places who both knew how and would serve him more honourably and faithfully Which when the King had granted though with sorrow they thought fit that Alexander Nevill Archbishop of Yorke Iohn Fordham Bishop of Durham with sundry other Lords knights and Clergy men should be removed and kept in strait prison to answer such accusations as should be objected against them the next Parliament Whereupon they were apprehended forthwith and removed from the Court After the feast of Purification the Parliament much against the Kings will who would have shifted it off at that time began at London The first day of the Session Fulthorpe and all the rest of the Judges were arrested as they sate in judgement on the Bench and most of them sent to the Tower for that having first over-ruled the Lords with their Counsels and direction which they assured them to be according to Law they afterward at Nottingham gave contrary judgement to what themselves had determined formerly Tresilian the chiefe Justice prevented them by flight

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

the Statutes at large in 11. 21. R. 2. and our Historian● in those yeares more copiously manifest In 12. R. 2. c. 2. There was this notable Law enacted which Sir Edward Cooke affirmes is worthy to be writ in Letters of gold and worthier to be put in due execution For the Universall wealth of all the Realme it is enacted that the Chauncellor Treasurer Keeper of the Privie Seale Steward of the Kings house the Kings Chamberlaine Clarke of the Rolls the Iustices of the one Bench and other Barons of the Exchequor and all other that shall be called to ordaine name or make Iustices of peace which whether the Lord Keeper alone can make or unmake without consent of all these or put out of Commission without just cause and conviction now commonly practised is a considerable Question upon this and other statutes Sheriffes Escheators Customers Controllers OR ANY OTHER OFFICER or Minister of the King shall be firmely sworne that they shall not ordaine name or make Iustices of peace Sheriffe Escheator Customer Controller or other Officer or Minister of the King for any gift or brocage favour or affection nor that none which pu●sueth by him or by other privily or apertly to be in any manner Office shall be put in the same Office or in any other But that they make ALL SVCH OFFICERS and Ministers OF THE BEST MOST LAWFVLL MEN SVFFICIENT to their estimation and knowledge Which most excellent Law with others of like nature still in force were it duly executed there would not be so many corrupt Officers of all these sorts in the kingdome as now swarme in every place From which Act I shall onely make these 2. Inferences First that if so great a care ought to be had in the choyce of these under-Officers then certainely farre more of the grand Officers and Iudges of the kingdome Secondly that if it be no disparagement to the Kings honour or prerogative for these gre●t Officers of the Realm to ordain name and make Iustices of peace Sheriffes and other under Officers of the King wi●hout the kings privitie as oft times they doe then by the same or greater reason it can be no diminotion of his honour or prerogative Royall for the Parliament which is best able to judge of mens abilities and honesties to have power onely to nominate or recommend to the King such as they know to be the best most lawfull and sufficient men for the highest state Offices and places of Iudicature when they becomevoyd Not to trouble you with any more Presidents in this Kings Raigne recorded in Story I shall close them up with one or two more upon record In the Parliament of 3. R. 2. The C●ancellor having declared the causes of Summons and among others the great st●aights the King was in for want of money so that he had at that time nothing in his Treasury but was grea●ly endebted c. He p●ayed the Parliament ●o advise how and after what manner he m●ght be relieved not onely for his owne safety but for the safetie of them all and of the R●alme To which the Commons after they were advised of the●r said Charge returned this Answer to the King in Parliament by their Speaker in name of the whole Commons That the said Commons are of opinion that if their Liege Soveraigne had beene well and 〈◊〉 governed in his Expences spent 〈◊〉 the Realme and elsewhere he now had had no neede of their aid by charging the 〈…〉 whom they imagined to be now more poore and indigent then ever they were before Wherefore they pray That the Prelates and other Lords of the Kings continuall Councell who have a long time travelled in the said affaires BE VTTERLY DISCHARGED to their great ease and in disc●arge of the King from their custodies and that No such Counsellors should be retained about ●he King in rega●d that our Lord the King is now of good discretion and ●f a goodly Stature having respect to his Age which is now neare the age of his noble Grandfather at the time of his Coronation who had no other Counsellors at the beginning of his raigne but ONELY the Five accustomed Principall Officers of HIS REALME They further pray that In this Parliament these Five Principall Officers may bee Elected and Chosen out of the most Sufficient Men within the Realme who may be tractable and who may best know and execute their Offices that is to say The Chancellor Treasurer Keeper of the Privie Seale Chiefe Chamberlaine and Steward of the Kings House and that these so chosen of whose Names and persons the Commons will be asc●rtained this Parliament for their greater comfort and aide to execute the businesse of the King shall have it therein declared that they Shall not be Removed before the next Parliament unl●sse it be by reason of Death Sicknesse or other necessary cause And they likewise pray for remedy of default ●f the sa●d Government if there be any on that party that a sufficient and generall Commission may be made the best that may be devised to certaine Prelates Lords and others of the most sufficient lawfull and wise men of the Realme of England diligently to Survey and examine in all the Courts and places of the King as well within his owne house as elsewhere the estate of the said House and al expences and receits whatsoever made by any of the Ministers or any Officers of th● Realme and of oth●r his Seignori●s and Lands as well on this side as ●eyond the S● as from the Kings Coron●tion till this pr●s●nt so th●t if there be a●y default bee found by the said Examination in any m●nner by negligence of Officers or oth●rwise ●he said Commissioners shall certifie them to our L●r● the King to have them amended and corrected to the end● that our Lo●d the King may be honourably governed within his Realm as b●longe●h to a King to be governed and may be able with his owne r●veneues to support the charge of his Expences and to defend the Realme on every part and defray the other charges above named Which Petition and Commission the King accordingly granted In the Parliament of 13. R 2. An. 1389. Ioh● Duke of Lancaster By ASSENT of all the Estates of Parliament was created Duke of Aquitaine for his life by King Richard his Nephew the words of whose Patent Printed at large in Master Seldens Titles of Honour runne thus De ASSENSU Praelatorum Ducum Mag●●tum alio●um Pro●erum Communitatis Regni nostri Angliae in instanti Parliamento nostro apud West monasterium conv●cato existentiu● te● praedelectissimum Patrium no strumin DVCEM AQVITANIAE cum Titu●o Stilo ac nomin● honore eidem debitis praefi●im●● ac inde praesentiali er per ●ppositio 〈◊〉 Cappae 〈◊〉 capi●i ac traditionem Virgae aureae i●vestimus c. toto tempo●e vi●ae tuae possid●ndum c. Giving him power thereby To Coine what Gold

and PRINCIPALL COVNSELLOR of our said Lord the King and that the said Duke shall be and be called PROTECTOR and DEFENDOR OF THE SAID REALM AND CHVRCH OF ENGLAND and that letters patents of the Lord the King shall be made in this forme following Henrious Dei gracia c. Scitatis quod in adeotenera aetate constituti sumus quod circa Protectionem Defensionem Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae personaliter attendere non possumus in presenti Nos de circumspectione industria charissime avunculi nostri Johannis Ducis Bedfordiae plenam fiduciam reportantes DE ASSENSV ET AVISAMENTO TAM DOMINORVM QVAM DE ASSENSV COMMVNIT ATIS DICTI REGNI ANGLIAE IN INSTANTI PARLIAMENTO existentium ordinavimus constituimus ipsum avuneulum nostrum dicti regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae PROTECTOREM ET DEFENSOREM AC CONSILIARIVM NOSTRVM PRINCIPALEM quod ipse dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Protector Defensor ac principalis consiliarius noster sit nominetur in juxta vim formam effectum cujusdam articuli IN DICTO PARLIAMENTO die datus pr●sentium habiti ET CONCORDATI Proviso semper quod praefatus Avunculus noster nullum habeat aut gerat vigore praesentium potestatem nec sicut praefatur nominotur nisi pro tempore quo praesens hic in regno nostro Angliae fuerit PROVT IN PRAEDICTO ACTO CONTINETVR Quodque carissimus Avnculus noster Dux Glocestriae nobis in agendis dicti Regni negotiis post ipsum Avunculnm no strum Ducem Bedfordiae PRINCIPALIS CONSILIARIVS EXISTAT ET NOMINETVR quotiens quando praefatum Avunculum nostrum Ducem Bedfordiae infra Regnum mostrum Angliae mor aricontingat Confidentes insuper ad plenum de circumspectione industria praedicti Avunculi nostri Ducis Glocestriae DE ASSENSV ET AVISAMENTO PRAEDICTIS ordinavimus constituimus ipsum Avunculum nostrum Ducem Glocestriae dicto Regno nostro Angliae jam praesentem dicti Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae PROTECTOREM ET DEFENSOREM necnon CONSILIARIVM NOSTRVM PRICIPALEM quociens quando dictum avunculum nostrum Ducem Bedfordiae extra Regnum nostrum Angliae morari abesse centingat Et quod ipse avunculus noster Dux Glocestriae Protector Defensor Regni nostri Angliae Ecclesiae Anglicanae Principalis Consiliarius noster SIT ET NOMINETVR IVXTA VIM FORMAM EFFECTVM ARTICVLI PRAEDICTI Proviso semper quod praefatus avuneulus Dux Glocest nullum gerat aut habeat vigore praesentium potestatem vel ut praefertur nominetur nisi pro tempore quo praesens hic in Regno nostro Angliae fuerit in absentia dicti avunculi nostri Ducis Bedford prout in predictio articulo continetur Damus autem universis singulis Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibus Prioribus Ducibus Comitibus Baronibus Militibus omnibus aliis fidelibus nostris dicti Regni nostri Angliae quorum interest tenore praesentium firmiter in mandatis quod tam praefato avunculo nostro Duci Bedford● quociens quand● protectionem defensionem hujusmodi sic habuerit occupaverit quam praefato avunculo nostro Duci Glocestriae quociens quando ipse consimiles Protectionem Defensionem habuerit occupaverit in premissis faciendis pareant obediant intendant prout decet In cujus reitestimonium c. which Act and Commission thus made and the tenour of them being recited before the said Duke of Gloster and spirituall and temporall Lords the said Duke having deliberated thereupon undertook at the request of the said Lords the burthen and exercise of his occupation to the honour of God and profit of the King and Kingdome Protesting notwithstanding that this his assumption or consent in this part should not any wayes prejudice his foresaid Brother but that his said Brother at his pleasure might assume his burthen of this kinde and deliberate and advise himselfe Numb 25. It is ordered by this Parliament what under Offices and Benifices the Lords Protectors should conferre and in what manner Numb 26. After the Lords and Commons in Parliament had setled and ordained the Protectors in forme aforesaid AT THE REQVEST OF THE SAID COMMONS there were BY ADVISE AND ASSENT OF ALL THE LORD' 's certaine persons of estate as well spirituall as temporall NAMED AND ELECTED TO COUNSELL AND ASSIST THE GOVERNANCE whose names written in a small scedule and read openly were these the Duke of Glocester the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishops of London Winchester Norwich Worcester the Duke of Excester the Earles of March Warwick Marshall Northumberland Westmerland the Lord Fitz-hugh Mr. H●gh Crumbwell Mr. Walter Hungerford Mr. Iohn Tiptof● Mr. Walter Beauchamp Numb 25. These persons thus NAMED and CHOSEN COVNSELLORS and ASSISTANTS after this nomination and election condiscended to take such assistance to the governme●t in manner and forme contained in a paper scedule written in English with their names thereto containing five speciall articles delivered in Parliament by the said persons chosen Counsellors assistants of which scedule this is the tenure The Lords abovesaid been condiscended to take it upon them in manner and forme that sueth First for as much as execution of Law and keeping of peace start much in Iustice of peace Sheriffs and Escheators the profits of the King and revenues of the Realme been yearly encreased and augmented by Customers Controllers prisers seachers and all such other Offices therefore the same Lordswoll and desireth that such Officers and all other be made by advise and denomination of the said Lords saved alwayes and reserved to my Lords of Bedford and of Glocester all that longeth unto them by a speciall Act made in Parliament and to the Bishop of Winchester that hee hath granted him by our soveraigne Lord that last was and by authority of Parliament confirmed Numb 29. Item that all manner Wards Mariages Farmes and other casualties that longeth to the Crown when they fall be letten sold and disposed by the said Lords of the Counsell and that indifferently at dearest without favour or any manner partiality or fraud Numb 30. Item that if any thing should be enact done by Counsell that six o● foure at the least without Officers of the said Counsell bee present and in all great matters that shall passe by Counsell that all be present or else the more party And if it bee such matter as the King hath be accustomed to be counselled of that then the said Lords proceed not therein without the advice of my ●ord of Bedford or of Glocester Numb 31. Item for as much as the two Chamberlaines of the Exchequer bee ordained of old time to controule the receipts and payments in any manner wise maed the Lordys desireth that the Treasurer of England being for the time and either of the Chamberlaines have a key of that that should come into the recepit and

our God and the Lord doe what seemeth him good Esther 9. 1 2. 5 10. In the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to have power over them the Iewes gathered themselves together into their Cities throughout all the Provinces of King Ahashuerus to lay hand on those that sought their lives and no man could withstand them for the feare of them fell upon all people Thus the Iewes smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and slaughter and destruction and did what they would with those that hated them but on the spoile laid they not their hand It is this eighth day of May 1643. Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament for Printing that this Booke Intituled The third Part of the Soveraign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes be Printed by Michael Sparke senior Iohn White Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior 1643. TO HIS EVER-HONOVRED NOBLE KINDE FRIENDS THE Right Honourable Lord Ferdinando Fairfax the Right Worshipfull Sir William Waller and Sir William Bruerton Knights Commanders in Chiefe of the Parliaments Forces in severall Counties Deservedly Renowned Worthies YOVR Incomparable Valour Zeale Activity Industry for the preservation of Your Dearest Country Religion Lawes Liberties and the very being of Parliaments all now endangered by an unnaturall generation of Popish and Malignant Vipers lately risen up in Armes against them in diverse parts of this Realme and those many miraculous Victories with which God hath beene lately pleased to Crowne your cordiall endeavours to promote his glory and the Publicke safety as they have justly demerited some gratefull generall Acknowledgements from the whole Representative Body of the State so they may in some sort challenge a private gratulatory Retribution from Me who have formerly had the happinesse to participate in your Christian Affections and now reape much Consolation by your Heroick Actions Having therefore seasonably finished this Third part Of the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms copiously Vindicating the Lawfulnesse Iustnesse of the Parliaments present Necessary Defensive Warre in which you have had the Honour to be imployed not onely as Chiefe but which is more as most successefull Commanders in your severall Countries in point both of Law and Conscience and fully wiping off those blacke Aspersions of TREASON and REBELLION which the opposite party really guilty of these crimes against both King and Kingdome as I have elsewhere manifested and here lightly touched have out of Malice Ignorance or both conjoyned most injuriously cast upon your Loyall honourable proceedings which rejoyce the soules of all true Philopa●ers who cordially affect their Country or Religion I could not without much ingratitude yea injustice have published it to the world but under the Patronage of your ever-honored res●lendent names who have so valorously so successefully pleaded this Cause already in the Field that it needs the lesse assistance from the Presse My many inevitable interruptions and straites of time in its contexture which may happily detract something from its perfection shall I hope derogate nothing from your Honourable Friendly acceptation whom I have thus conjoyned in the Dedication because the Parliament hath united you in their present Warlike employments and God himselfe joyntly honoured you with successe even to admiration among the Good indignation amidst Malignants envy with the Malicious and I trust to an active sedulous em●lation in all your Fellow Commanders imployed in other Quarters in the selfesame Cause Your present busie publike and mine owne private Imployments prohibite me to expatiate Wherefore earnestly beseeching the Glorious Lord of Hosts to be ever mightily present with your severall Noble Persons Forces and to make you alwayes eminently active Valorous Victorious as hitherto he hath done till Peace and Truth Tranquillity and Piety by your severall triumphant Proceedings shall once more lovingly embrace and kisse each other in our divided unreformed sinfull Kingdome And till the effect of these just warres You manage shall be quietnesse and assurance to us and our Posterities after us for ever I humbly recommend your Persons Proceedings to his protection who can secure you in and from all dangers of warre and rest Your Honours Worships most affectionate Friend and Servant WILLIAM PRYNNE To the Reader Christian Reader I Who have beene alwayes hitherto a Cordiall Desirer endeavourer of Peace am here necessitated to present Thee with a Discourse of Warre to justifie The Lawfulnesse of the Parliaments present taking up of necessary Defensive Armes Which neither their Ende●vours nor my with many others Prayers could with any safety to our Priviledges Persons Religion Liberty Realmes now forcibly invaded by his Majesties Popish and Malignant Cavallieres hitherto prevent or conjure downe To plead the Justnesse of a Warre of an unnaturall Civill warre the worst of any of a Warre betweene the Head and Members may seeme not onely a Paradox but a Prodigie in a Land heretofore blessed with an aged uninterrupted Peace And Lucans Bella per Aemathios plusquam civilia Campos c. now most unhappily revived among us being but Historicall and Poeticall may passe the world with lesse admiration and censure than this harsh Peece which is both Legally Theol●gically like the Subject matter Polemicall But as the ayme the end of all just War is and ought to be onely future setled Peace so is the whole drift of this Military Dissertation not to foment or protract but end our bloody Warrs which nothing hath more excited animated lengthened in the Adverse party than a strong conceite if not serious beliefe that The Parliaments Forces neither would nor lawfully might in point of Law or Conscience forcibly resist or repulse their invasive Armes without danger of High Treason and Rebellion which Bug-beare I have here refuted removed and the In-activity the much admired slownesse of many of our Forces in resisting in preventing their vigorous Proceedings which a little timely vigilance and diligence had easily controlled It is a more than Barbarous Inhumanity for any person not to put to his uttermost strength speedily to close up the mortall wounds of his bleeding dying Native Country but to protract its cure to enlarge encrease its deadly Ulcers Stabs Sores and make a lasting trade of Warre out of a sordid sinfull desire of Gaine of Plunder to raise a private fortune by the Republicks ruines a sinne of which some perchance are guilty is an unparalleld most unnaturall prodigious Impiety It was thought a great dishonour heretofore for men of Honour and Estates not to serve and defend their Country gratis as our own Lawbooks Histories plentifully manifest and shall such Persons now turne sordid Mercenaries stirre neither hand nor foot without their Pay and be more diligent to get their wages than discharge their Service God forbid It is Recorded of the Children of Gad and Reuben after they had recovered their inheritance on this side Iordan that they went all up armed before the Lord over Iordan

the yeare 1566. exhibit certain admonitions by way of a Petition beseeching him that for the pacifying of the Commons and to avoid all tumults and seditions it would please his Majesty shewing the love and affection which as a mild and mercifull Prince he bare unto his Subjects to moderate the said points and especially those which concerned the rigorous Inquisition and punishment for matters of Religion And to informe the King more particularly thereof and with more authority and to let him understand how necessary it was for the good and prosperity of the Countrey and for the maintenance of peace and tranquility to abolish and disannull those innovations and to moderate the rigour of publike Edicts for matter of Religion the said Marquesse of Berges and Baron of Montigny at the request of the said Lady Regent the Councell of Estate and the Generall Estates of all the Countries went into Spain as Embassadors whereas the King instead of giving them audience and to prevent the inconveniences delivered by them the which for that they were not redressed in time as urgent necessity required began in effect to discover themselves throughout the whole Countrey by the perswasion and advice of the Councell of Spain hee hath caused all them to be proclaimed Rebels and guilty of high Treason and to have forfeited body and goods that presented the said Petition And moreover thinking himselfe to be fully assured of the Countrey by the Forces of the Duke of Alva and to have reduced them under his full power and subiection he had afterwards against the Lawes of Nations the which have been in all ages inviolably observed yea among the most barbarous and cruell Nations and most tyrannous Princes imprisoned and caused the said Noblemen Embassadors to be put to death confiscating all their goods And although that all this alteration which had hapned in the yeare 1566. upon the foresaid occasion was in a manner pacified by the Regent and her councell and that the greatest part of them which had presented themselves unto her for the Liberty of the Countrey were retired or chased away and the rest brought under obedience yet not to lose the opportunity which the Councell of Spain had long expected as it appeared plainly the same yeere 1566. by Letters intercepted which were written by the Embassador Alana to the Duchesse of Parma to have meanes under some pretext to overthrow all the priviledges of the Country and to govern them tyrannously by the Spaniards as they did the Indies and other Countries which had been newly conquered by them he by the advice and councell of the said Spaniards shewing therein the small affection which he bare unto his Subiects of these countries contrary unto that whereunto he was bound as their Prince protector and good Shepheard sent into these countries the Duke of Alva very famous for his rigour and cruelty and one of the chiefe enemies of these countries with a councell of the same Humour and disposition And although that the said Duke of Alva entred with his Army into this countrey without any let or opposition and was received of the poore Inhabitants with all reverence and Honour expecting all mildnesse and clemencie according unto that which the King had so often promised by His Letters fainedly written yea that He was resolved to come himselfe in person into the Countrey and to order all things to every mans content the said King having besides all this at the very instant of the Duke of Alva his departure caused a fleet of ships to be armed in Spaine to bring him hither and another in Zeeland to goe and meet him as the bruite was to the great charge of the Countrey the better to abuse his poore subjects and to draw them more easily into his snares notwithstanding the said Duke of Alva presently after his arrivall although he were a stranger and not any way of the blood Royall gave it out that hee had a Commission from the King of Governour Generall of the Countrey the which was quite contrary to the priviledges and antient Customes thereof and discovering his designes plainly he suddenly put garrisons into the chiefe Townes and Forts of the Countrey and then he built Citadels in the richest and strongest Townes to keep them in subjection And by commandement from the King as they said he friendly called unto him as well by letters or otherwise the chiefe Noblemen of the Countrey pretending that he had need of their councell and assistance for the service of the King and the good of the Countrey who having given credit to his letters were come unto him whom contrary to the priviledges hee caused to bee carried prisoners out of Brabant where they had been apprehended causing their processe to bee informed before him and his Councell although they were no competent Iudges and before any due proofes were made and the Noblemen that were accused fully heard in their defences they were condemned to have committed Rebellion causing them to be publikely and ignomiously put to death Others who for that they were better acquainted with the Spaniards dissembling were retired and kept out of the Countrey were declared Rebels and guilty of high treason and to have forfeited bodies and goods All which was done to the end the poor inhabitants should not aide themselves in the just defence of their liberty against the oppression of the Spaniards and their forces by the help and assistance of these Noblemen Princes Besides an infinite number of Gentlemen rich bourgers whereof some he hath put to death others he hath chased away forfeited their goods oppressing the rest of the good inhabitants as well by the insolence of the souldiers as by other outrages in their wives children and goods as also by divers exactions and taxes forcing them to contribute for the building of new Citadels and fortifications of towns which he made to oppresse them also to pay the hundreth and the twintieth peny for the payment of souldiers wherof some were brought by him and others newly levied to employ them against their Countreymen and themselves who with the hazard of their lives sought to defend the liberties of their Countrey to the end that the subjects being thus impoverished there should be no meanes to frustrate his designes for the better effecting of the instructions which had been given him in Spain which was to use the Countrey as newly conquered To which end in some places and chiefe Townes he changed their forme of government and of justice and erected new Consuls after the Spanish manner directly contrary to the priviledges of the Countrey And in the end thinking himselfe free from all feare he sought to bring in by force a certaine imposition of the tenth peny upon all marchandise and handi-works to the absolute ruine of the Commons whose good and prosperity consists chiefly in traffique and handi-works notwithstanding many admonitions and perswasions made to the contrary as well by every one

secular standing by in great number called and requested to the things above written And I Nicholas Berchtoldi Fridberg Clerke publike Notary of the Diocesse of Mentz by Episcopall and Emperiall authority and sworne Scribe of my foresaid most gracious Lord Lord John Archbishop of Mentz because at that time I was personally present when this sentence which we have fore-writ was given and pronounced together with the publike Notaries and witnesses commemorated and saw and heard all these things to be done therefore at the command and request of my foresaid most gracious Lord of Mentz have reduced this publike instrument faithfully put in writing into publike forme and have subsigned and ratified it with my accustomed signe of Notariship having likewise annexed the great Seale of my foresaid Lord of Mentz in assurance and testimony of all the premises The names of the Notaries are Nicholaus Berchtoldi Fridburgensis Ioannes Meier junior Gasterveidensis Conradus a Leiborn Clerious Padebornensis diaecesis Henricus S●alberg Rotenbergensis Tilmannus a Honberg Conradus Coler Zus●ensis Coloniensis diaecesis Finally it is evident that the Nobles Magistrates Parliament and representative body of the people or some part of them in default of the rest may lawfully take up defensive armes to resist their Princes endeavouring to abrogate the Law of God to waste the Church and exti●pate the true Religion setled among them by the Lawes and usher in Idolatry And that in such a case as this neighbour Princes and States lawfully may yea and ought in point of conscience to aide the Subjects of other Princes afflicted for the cause of pure Religion professed by them or oppressed by open Tyranny These propositions are largely and professedly debated by Iunius Brutus in his Vindiciae contra Tyrannos quaest 1. 2. 4. throughout in the Treatise intituled De Iure Magistratus in Subditos spent wholly in this Theame Georgius Obrectus Disput. Iurid de Principiis Belli Num. 125. to 199. by Vasquius Contr. Illustr 36. n. 30. and elsewhere by Alhericus Gentilis and sundry others forecited I shall onely fortifie the later part thereof with the observation of the Duke of Rhoan who acquaints us that it is and hath beene of later yeares the very true interest honour and greatnesse of the Kings and Queenes of England both in point of policy and Religion to protect and assist with armes all Princes of the Reformed Protestant Religion in France Germany and other parts as it is the true interest of the Kings of Spaine to protect and releeve all oppressed or grieved Roman Catholicks under the Dominion of other Princes and that their honour safety and greatnesse principally consists in the observation and maintenance of this their interest and with the words of Iunius Brutus who thus states and debates the Question An Iure possint aut debeant Vicini Principes auxilium ferre aliorum principum subditis religionts causa afflictis aut manifesta ty●annide oppressis In defining this question saith he there is more need of conscience then science which would be altogether idle if charity obtained its place in this world But because as the manners of the times are now there is nothing more deare or rare among men then charity it selfe we thinke meete briefely to discusse it The Tyrants as well of soules as bodies as well of the Church as Common-wealth or Realme may be restrained expelled and punished by the people Both these we have already proved by reasons But because such is the fraud of Tyrants or such the simplicity of subjects for the most part that they are scarce known before that they have spoyled or these scarce thinke of their safety till they have almost perished and are reduced into those straits out of which they cannot get out with their owne forces so as they are compelled to implore the aide of other it is questioned Whether they defending the cause of Religion or of the Common-wealth of the Kingdome of Christ or of their owne Kingdome other Christian Princes may lawfully assist them And truly many whiles they have hoped to increase their wealth by ayding the afflicted have presently judged it to be lawfull For thus the Romans Alexander the great and many others under pretext of suppressing Tyrants have frequently enlarged their Dominions and not long since we have seene Henry the second King of France to have made warre with the Emperour Charles the fifth and that under pretext of succouring and defending the Princes of the Empire and of the Protestants too as also Henry the eighth King of England was ready to aide the Protestants in Germany to make worke for Charles the fifth But if any danger may be feared from thence or little gaine may be expected then verily they must heare most Princes disputing whether it be lawfull or no And as those under a pretext of piety did cover either ambition or gaine so these pretend justice for their sloathfulnesse when as verily neither did piety exhort them which seekes onely the good of others nor yet justice ought to dehort these which looks wholly abroad and is as it were cast out of its owne doores Therefore discharging both these let us see first in the cause of Religion what true piety and what true justice may perswade First let it be agreed that there is but one Church whose head is Christ and whose members so cohere and agree among themselves that none of them even the smallest can suffer violence or hurt but the rest are hurt and suffer griefe as the whole Scripture teacheth Therefore the Church is compared to a body Now the body is oft-times affected not onely with the hurt of the arme or legge but even of the very least finger or perisheth with its wound Therefore in vaine may any one boast that he is cordially affected with the safety of the body who when he may defend the whole yet suffers it to be torne and mangled limb after limb It is compared to a buildings Now where mines are made against any part of the building the whole building oft-times fals downe to the ground and the flame which invades any part thereof en●●●gers gers the whole Therefore he should be ridiculous who because he 〈◊〉 in the calla● perchance should delay to drive the flame from the top of the house He should be scarce in his wits who would not prevent mines with countermines because they are made against this wall not against that It is also compared to a Ship Now the whole Ship is endangered together the whole perisheth together Therefore those are equally safe who are in the fore part as those who are in the puppe those who are in keel as safe as those in the shro●ds if the storme rage whence verily even in the common proverb those who are conversant in the same danger are said to be in the same Ship These things laid downe verily he who is not moved with its griefe burning to ssing is not of that body is