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A91263	A seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen (their best inheritance, birthright, security, against arbitrary, tyrannicall, and Egyptian burdens) and of their strenuous defence in all former ages; of late years most dangerously undermined, and almost totally subverted, under the specious disguise of their defence and future establishment, upon a sure basis, their pretended, greatest propugners. Wherein is irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary records, proofs, presidents, that we have such fundamentall liberties, ... that to attempt or effect the subversion of all or any of them, ... is high treason: ... / By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 1	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing P4062; Thomason E812_10; ESTC R207634	45,225	63

the death of the Dukes of Glocester Lancaster and other Peers who maintained the Commission confirmed by act of Parliament X. R. 2. and assembling people in a warlike manner in the County of Chester for the effecting of it in destruction of the Estates of the Realm and OF THE LAWES OF THE KINGDOME 4. In the 29. year of King Henry the sixth Jack Cade under a pretence to REFORM alter and abrogate some Laws Purveyances and extortions importable to the Commons wherupon he was called JOHN AMEND ALL drew a great multitude of Kentish people to Black Heath in a warlike manner to effect it in the Parliament of 29. H. 6. c. 1. this was adjudged High Treason in him and his Complices by act of Parliament and the Parliament of 31. H. 6. c. 1. made this memorable Act against him and his Imitators insucceeding ages worth serious perusall and consideration by all who tread in his footsteps and over-act him in his Treasons Whereas the most abominable Tyrant horrible odious and errant FALSE TRAITOR John Cade calling himself sometimes Mortimer sometime Captain of Kent which Name Fame Acts and Feats to be removed out of the speech and mind of every faithfull Christian man perpetually falsly and trayterously purposing and imagining the perpetual destruction of the KINGS PERSON and FINALL SVBVERSION OF THIS REALM taking upon him * And have not others of late assumed to themselves more Royal power than he resolved to be Treason by 21. E. 3. Rot. Parl. n. 15. ROYALL POWER and gathering to him the Kings people in great number BY FALSE SUBTIL IMAGINED LANGUAGE and seditiously made a stirring Rebellion and insurrection VNDER COLOVR OF JVSTICE FOR REFORMATION OF THE LAWS OF THE SAID KING robbing slaying spoiling a great part of his faithfull people Our said Soveraign Lord the King considering the premises with many other which were more odious to remember by advice and assent of the Lords spirituall and Temporall and at THE REQUEST OF THE COMMONS and by authority aforesaid hath ordained and established that the said John Cade shall be had named and declared A FALSE TRAYTOR to our said Soveraign Lord the King Nota. and that all His Tyranny Acts Facts false Opinions shall be voyded abated adnulled destroyed and put out of remembrance for ever And that all indictments in time coming in like case under power of Tyranny Rebellion and stirring had shall be of no regard nor effect but void in Law and all the Petitions * To wit by Cade and his confederates for the alteration of the Laws c. delivered to the said King in his last Parliament holden at Westminster the sixth day of November the 29. of his Reign against his mind by him not agreed shall be taken and put in oblivion out of remembrance undone voided adnulled and destroyed for ever as a thing purposed against God and his Conscience and against his Royall estate and preheminence and also DISHONOVRABLE andVNREASONABLE 5. In the a See Mr. St. Iohns Argument against Strafford p. 178. Halls Chronicle and Hollinshed 8 year of King Henry the 8. William Bell and Thomas Lacy in the County of Kent conspired with Thomas Cheyney the Hermite of the Queen of Fairies TO OVERTHROW THE LAWS AND CVSTOMES OF THE REALM for effecting whereof they with 200. more met together and concluded upon a cause or raising greater forces in Kent and the adjacent Shires this was adjudged high Treason and some of them executed as Traytors Moreover it b Cooks 3. institutes p. 9. 10. was resolved by all the Judges of in the reign of Henry 8. that an Insurrection against the Statute of Labourers or for the inhansing of Salaries and wages was TREASON a levying war against the King BECAUSE IT WAS GENERALLY AGAINST THE KINGS LAW and the offendors took upon them THe REFORMATION THEREOF which Subjects by gathering of power ought not to do a Cooks 4. Institutes ch 8. p. 89. to 96. 6. On December 1. in the 21. year of King Henry the 8. Sir Thomas Moore Lord Chancellour of England with 14. more Lords of the Privy Councel John fitz-Fitz-James Chief Justice of England and Sir Anthony Fitzherhert one of the Judges of the Common Pleas exhibited sundry Articles of impeachment to King Henry the 8. against Cardinall Wolsy That he had by divers and many sundry wayes and fashions committed High treason and NOTABLE GRIEVOUS OFFENCES misusing Altering and subverting the order of his Graces Lawes and otherwise contrary to his high Honour Prerogative Crown Estate and Dignity Royall to the inestimable great hinderance diminution and decay of the uniuersall Wealth of this his Graces Realm The Articles are 43. in number The 20 21 26 30 35 37 42 43. contain his illegall arbitrary practices and proceedings to the subversion of the due course and order of his Graces Lawes to the undoing of a great number of his loving people Whereupon they pray Please therefore your most excellent Majesty of your excellent goodnesse towards the Weal of this your Realm and Subjects of the same to see such order and direction upon the said Lord Cardinall As may be to terrible example of other to beware to offend your Grace and your Lawes hereafter And that he be so provided for that he never have any Power Jurisdiction or Authority hereafter to trouble vex or impoverish the Common wealth of this your Realm as he hoth done heretofore to the great hurt and dammage of every man almost High and low * See Speed Holished Grafton Stow Antiquitates Ecclesiae Brit. p. 378. 379. and Goodwin in his life time His poysoning himself prevented his judgement for these his Practises b M. St. Iohns Argument against Strafford 7. The Statute of 1. Marie c. 12. Enacts that if 12. or more shall endeavour By force to alter any of the Laws or Statutes of the Kingdome the offender shall from the time therein limited be adjudged ONELY AS A FELON whereas it was Treason before but this Act continuing but till the next Parliament and then expiring the offence remains Treason as before a Cook 3 Inst c. 1. 9 10. and M. St. Iohns Argument at Law against Strafford p. 15 16. 8. In the 39. of Queen Elisabeth divers in the County of Oxford consulted together to go from House to House in that County and from thence to London and other parts to excite them to take arms for the throwing down of inclosures throughout the Realm nothing more was prosecuted nor Assemblies made yet in Easter Term 39. Elisabeth it was resolved by all the judges of England who met about the case That this was High Treason and a levying Warre against the Queen because it was to throw down all inclosures throughout the Kingdome to which they could pretend no right and that the end of it was to OVERTHROW THE LAWS AND STATUTES for Inclosures Whereupon BRADSHAW and BURTON two of the principall offenders were condemned and executed