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A91207	A legal vindication of the liberties of England, against illegal taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament, lately enforced on the people: or, Reasons assigned by William Prynne of Swainswick in the county of Sommerset, esquire, why he can neither in conscience, law, nor prudence, submit to the new illegal tax or contribution of ninety thousand pounds the month; imposed on the kingdom by a pretended Act of some Commons in (or rather out of) Parliament, April 7 1649. (when this was first penned and printed,) nor to the one hundred thousand pound per mensem, newly laid upon England, Scotland and Ireland, Jan. 26. 1659 by a fragment of the old Commons House, ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P3998; Thomason E772_4; ESTC R207282	74,956	90

of the precious redeemed lambs of Christ are ready to starve for want of bread I cannot but wonder with my self whether they have any conscience at all within them or no and what they think of that saying of the spirit of God That who so hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him which he absolutely doth that any wayes takes a little of his little from him how dwelleth the love of God in him 1 John 3. 17. These actions and practises are so far from being like the true and real children of the most High that they are the highest oppression theft and murther in the world to rob the poor in the day of their great distress by Excise Taxations c. to maintain their pomp superfluities and debauchery when many of those from whom they take it do perish and starve with want and hunger in the mean time and be deaf and Ad mant-hearted to all their TEARS CRYES LAMENTATIONS MOURNFUL HOWLINGS GROANES Without all doubt these pretended Godly Religious Men have got a degree beyond those Atheists or Fools that say in their hearts there is no God Psal. 14. 1. and 13. 1 3. In quite destroying the peoples essential Liberties Laws and and Freedomes and in leaving them no Law at all as M. Peters their grand Teacher averred lately to my face we had none but their meer will and pleasures saving Fellons Laws or Martial Law where new Butchers are both Informers Parties Jury men and Judges who have had their hands imbrewed in blood for above these seven years together having served an Apprentiship to the killing of men for nothing but many and so are more bloody than Butchers that kill ●●eep and calves for their own livelyhood who yet by the Law of England are not permitted to be of any jury for life and death because they are conversant in the shedding of blood of beasts and thereby through a habit of it may not be so tender of the blood of men as the Law of England Reason and Justice would have them to be Yea do not these men by their swords being but servants give what Laws they please to their Masters the pretended Law-makers of your House now constituted by as good and legal a power as he that robs and kills a man upon the high way And if this be the Verdict of their own Complices and Partizans concerning them and their proceedings especially touching their exhausting our Estates by Taxes and sharing them among themselves in the time of famine and penury as the great Officers of the Army and Treasurers who are Members now do who both impose what Taxes they please and dispose of them and all power honour profit to themselves and their creatures as they please without rendering any Accompt to the Kingdoms contrary to the practise of all former ages and the rules of reason and justice too are not all others in the three Nations especially the secluded Lords and Members bound by all bonds of conscience Law and Prudence to withstand their impositions and Edicts unto death rather than yield the least submission to them Sixthly He there avers proves and offers legally to make good before any indifferent Tribunal that the h h Pag. 2. 15 27 29. 33. 34. 35. 41. 53. 57 58 59 64 65. 75. Grandees and over-ruling Members of the House and Army are not onely a pack of dissembling Jugling Knaves and Machevillians amongst whom in consulation hereafter he would ever scorn to come for that there was neither faith truth nor common honesty amonst them but likewise Murtherers who had shed mens blood against Law as well as the King whom they beheaded and therefore by the same Texts and arguments they used against the King their blood ought to be shed by man and they to be surely put to death without any satisfaction for their lives as Traytors Enemies Rebels to and i i See Pag. 39. 52. conspirators against the late King whom they absolutely resolved to destroy though they did it by martial Law Parliament Kingdome and the peoples Majesty and Soveraignty That the pretended House and Army are guilty of all the same crimes in kind though under a new Name and notion of which they charge the King in their Declaration of the 17. of March 1648. That some of them more legally deserve death than ever the King did and considering their many Oathes Covenants Promises Declarations and Remonstrances to the contrary with the highest promises and pretences of good for the people and their declared Liberties that ever were made by men the most perjured pernicious false Faith and Trust-breakers and Tyrants that ever lived in the world and ought as many of you have been and now are by all rational honest men to be most detested and abhorred of all men that ever breathed by how much more under the pretence of friendship and brotherly kindnesse they have done all the mischief they have done in destroying our Laws liberties there being no treason like Judas his Treason who betrayed his Lord and Master with a kisse c. And shall we then submit to their Taxes and new Acts or trust them with our estates lives liberties and the supreme power or acknowledge them for our legal Parliament and soveraign Lords of the three Kingdomes if such now in their own late adorers eyes Seventhly He there asserts k k P. 57. 34. That whosoever stoops to their new change of Government and Tyrany and supports it is as absolute a Traytor both by Law and Reason as ever was in the world If not against the King PRINCE CHARLES heir apparent of his Fathers Crown and Throne yet against the peoples Majesty and Soveraignty And if this be true as it is that this purg'd Parliament IS NO PARLIAMENT AT ALL then there is neither legal Judges nor Justices of peace in England And if so then all those that are executed at Tiburn c. by their sentence of condemnation are meerly murthered and the * * Let our Gownmen sitting at Westminster and other places in high courts of Justice too there condemning and executing men consider it Judges and Justices that condemned them are liable in time to be hanged and that justly therefore for acting without a just and legal Commission either from TRUE REGAL OR TRUE PARLIAMENTARY POWER except in corporations only where they proceed by ancient Charters in the An●ient Legal form And if this be Law and l l Luk. 19. 14. 27. c. 12. 13. 14. Gospel too as no doubt it is then by the same reason not onely all legal proceedings Indictments Judgements Verdicts Writs Tryals Fines Recoveries Recognisances and the like before any Judges and Justices since the Kings beheading in any Courts at Westminster or in their Circuits Assises or quarter Sessions held by new Commissions with all Commissions and Proceedings of Sheriffs are not only meerly void illegall coram non

offensive and defensive war against the King and Kingship but to oppose the Kings interest and Title to that Kingdom * setled on Him his Heirs and Successors for ever by an express Act of Parliament made in Ireland 23 H. 8. c. 1. and by the Statute of 1 Jac. c. 1. made in England yet unrepealed and the Protestant remaining party there adhering to and proclaiming acknowledging him for their Soveraign lest his gaining of Ireland should prove fatal to their usurped Soveraigntie in England or conduce to his enthroning here And by what Authority those now sitting can impose or with what Conscience any loyal Subject who hath taken the Oaths of Supremacy Allegiance and Covenant can voluntarily pay any Contributions to deprive the King of his hereditary right and undoubted Title to the Kingdoms and Crowns of England and Ireland and alter the frame of the antient Government and Parliaments of our Kingdoms * Remonstrated so often against by both Houses and adjudged High Treason in Canterburies and Straffirds cases for which they were beheaded and by themselves in the Kings own case whom they decolled likewise without incurring the guilt of perjury and danger of high Treason to the loss of his life and estate by the very laws and Statutes yet in force transcends my understanding to conceive Wherefore I neither can nor dare in conscience law or prudence submit to this Contribution The 3d. end of this Tax and more particularly of this new Tax of Jan 26. 1659. of one hundred thousand pound the Month for 6 months space after a former Tax levied before hand for the self-same Months is the maintenance of the Armies and Navyes raised and continued for the defence of the twice dissipated Anti-Parliamentarie Conventicle and their Utopian Common-wealth and the necessary and urgent occasions thereof now propounded and insisted on by the sitting Members as the only means of Peace and Settlement both in Church and State when as in truth it hath been is and will be the onlie means of Unsettlement and new divisions wars oppressions confusions in both to their utter ruine and desolation if pursued Which I shall evidence beyond contradiction 1. This project to metamorphoze our antient Hereditary famous flourishing Kingdom into an Helvetian and Vtopian Common-wealth by popular Tumults Rebellion and a prevalent party in Parliament was originally contrived by Father Parsons and other Jesuites in Spain in the year of our Lord 1590. recommended by them to the King of Spain to pursue and was principally to be effected by Jesuites to destroy and subvert our Protestant Monarchs Kingdoms and subject them to the Tyranny and Vassallage of the Jesuites and Spaniards as you may read at large in William Watson his Quodlibets printed 1602. p. 92 94 25 286 389 310 330 332 333 334 322 323 in his Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay Gentleman printed at Rhemes 1601. and in William Clarke both Secular Priests his Answer to Father Parsons Libel p. 75 76 c. 2ly After this it was particularly and by name recommended by Thomas Campanella an Italian Monk and Arch-Machivilian to the King of Spain in the year 1600. as the principal means to sow the seeds of Divisions and Dissentions amongst the English themselves and to engage England Scotland and Ireland in inextricable wars against each other to divert the English from the Indies and his Plate Fleet and reduce them under his universal Temporal and the Popes Spiritual Monarchy at last as you may read at large in his Book De Monarchia Hispanica c. 25. now translated into English 3ly It was again set on foot and vigorously prosecuted by the Jesuites and Cardinal Richelien of France in the years 1639 1640. as you may read in my Romes Master-piece and Epistle to A Seasonable Legal and Historical Vindication c. of the good old fundamental Liberties Laws c. of all English Freemen printed 1655. And specially recommended to the French King and Cardinal Mazarin his Successor at his death Anno 1642. vigorously to pursue and accomplish by the Civil Wars raised between Scotland and England and the late King and Parliament as a Historia Conte de Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato part 3. Venotiis 1648. p. 175 176. and was accordingly prosecuted by the Spanish and French Agents and the Jesuites and Popish Priests and their seduced Proselytes of the Juncto and Army as I evidenced at large in my Speech Dee 4. 1648. and the Appendix to it my soresaid Epistle and True and Perfect Narrative May 1659. by evidences past all contradiction 4ly It is evident That the Jesuites and Jesuited Papists in England Scotland and Ireland with all the b Sectarian Party of Anabaptists Quakers Enthisiasts and Sectaries of all sorts headed by disguised Jesuites Monks Fryers and Popish Priests have been the chiefest Sticklers of all others for this New projected Commonwealth against the King and Monarchy and the only means to extirpate our established Protestant Ministry with their Maintenance Tithes Glebes and embroyl us in endless confusions and revolutions of Governments Wars Distractions till we be beggered destroyed and made a prey to our forein Enemies 5ly The King of Spain was the first of all forein Kings and States who owned cou●ted and ent●ed into a League of Amity with our new Common-wealth after the Kings beheading as a Creature of his own in opposition to our King and Kingship and engaged us in a war against the Dutch to make himself Monarch over us both according to Campanella his advice De Monarchia Hisp. c. 25 27. which our Republicans punctuallie pursued from 1649 till 1653. almost to the ruine of us both by the Spaniards Gold and policie 6ly That the French Cardinal Mazarin and other Popish Kings and States complyed and confederated with our Republicans and late Protectors in opposition to our Hereditary Protestant King and Kingship purposely to ruine us and our Religion at home and the Protestant Churches abroad engaged by their policies in unchristian wars against each other 7ly That we have all visibly seen and sensibly felt by twelve years wofull experiment that this Jesuitical project and chymera of a Free-state and Common-wealth was propounded by the c Army-Officers and the sitting Juncto as the only means of our present and future peace and settlement both in Nov. 1647 1648 1649. and yet it hath proved as I then predicted in my Speech and Memento a perpetual Seminarie of new Wars Tumults Combustions Changes Revolutions of Government and Governours Anti-parliamentarie Conventicles Factions Schisms Sects Heresies Confusions and endlesse Taxes Oppressions Ataxies ever since both in Church State Court and Camp almost to our inevitable destruction and of necessity it will and must do so still And is it not then a worse than Bedlam follie and frenzie for our Anti-parliamentarie Juncto Swordmen and Republicans to enforce and impose it on us by mere armed violence against our Judgements Reasons Consciences Experiments and