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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35917	A Dialogue betwixt Sam. the ferriman of Dochet, Will. a waterman of London, and Tom. a bargeman of Oxford upon the Kings calling a parliament to meet at Oxford.		1681 (1681)	Wing D1353; ESTC R29722	21,830	32

by the same Power and do the same things which they do then they call the very same Power flat down-right Tyranny Tom. Do'st not thee remember Will. one day the last Summer when our Barge lay against York Stairs there was a great Noise about the Head Bayliff of Westminster breaking into an Embassenders House to seize upon some Goods which belonged to a Man was condemned to be Hanged at Tyburn and upon Complaint of the Embassender to the King the said Bailiff was taken and clapt into the Tower and every body said he would be hanged at the least for breaking the Common Law of all Nations But the next News we heard was that he had got some sort of a Warrant was made by the Long Parliament that set him at Liberty within three Hours after he was committed Will. I remember the time very well they call those Warrants Habeas Corpuses and they will fetch a Prisoner committed by the King out of any Goal in England but not one Committed by the House of Commons And this they call Priviledge of Parliament Tom. All these Gentlemen that were fetched up by Messengers and Serjeants they might by the Common Law have chosen whether they would have come or not There was a Knight in our County at Oxford that was sent for by a Messenger and he told the Messenger he had something else to do and would not come and said he would justifie it Will. Surely this was just about the time they were Dissolv'd otherwise he durst not have been so bold Tom. He said he had been a Member himself many Years and knew no Law to compell any Man to come before the House of Commons unless they had a mind themselves and therefore they sent to the King to get his Majesty's Proclamation to fetch him before them Will. So then His Majesty's Proclamation issued out at the desire of the Commons is of Force but when sent out by himself is worth nothing at all Sam Why so Will. Because I remember there were several sent for in Custody for obeying the King's Proclamation against Petitions and brought to their Knees If therefore that had been a good Proclamation why should any body have suffer'd for it And for any thing I know if his Majesty should have made a Proclamation to fetch up that Knight or any body disobeyed their Messenger it had deserved as much to have been disobeyed as that about Petitions unless the House of Commons can make a Proclamation contrary to Law a good one as this would have been For what need had they of the King's Proclamation if there had been Law to have fetched those men before them Tom. Now if those Men were fetched up did dare to sue and the Lawyers did dare to do their Office and the Judges did dare to give Judgment I am of Opinion they might bring Actions of false Imprisonment against the Messengers that fetched them up For if they had not full Power to punish those who did not obey them then surely those who were fetched had wrong done them Tom. But I dare assure thee neither Lawyer nor Judge dare meddle with any such matter If any of these Gentlemen would be so ventersome they will find no Law to stand against the Votes of the Commons till they find they are as much brought under as they say Harry the Eighth brought them they durst not prate in his Days as now they do Will. What did he do Tom. I have heard a Fellow of Maudlin Colledge say he tumbled them and made them do what he would himself and not what they had a mind to and not a word of Tyranny or Arbitrary Power Sam. But pray thee Will. some more of their Doings Will. I have told thee it is without end and therefore I will tell thee the last thing they did which was they Voted that if any man advised his Majesty to Prorogue them upon any Account but to disinherit the Duke he was an Enemy to the King and Kingdom Nay he was a Pensioner to the French King Tom. What whether he ever received any Money from the French King or not Will. Ay though he never received Penny of Mony from him or any body else by his means or order Tom. For any thing I know they might as well have said that he had been my Lord Mayor's Bull-rider I have often heard say that a Parliament can make a Man into a Woman and now I see they can make a man into a Pensioner of France tho' he be none Tom. What then was done Will. That very day notwithstanding all this they were Prorogued Tom. Then surely they will say either they were Prorogued by the Advice of some Body who for that Advice are Pensioners or if his Majesty Prorogued them on his ovvn Head then they vvill think tho' they dare not say that he himself is a Pensioner Will. And vvithin fevv days after they vvere Dissolved and ather order'd to be called at your Tovvn of Oxford Tom. Well for all that Sam 's Parson said There vvas a Parliament called at Oxford that vvas called the mad Parliament yet vvill I be hang'd if ever that vvas half so mad as this thou hast told us of For according to thy Tale this Parliament let nothing ' scape them to his Majesty they vvould have given nothing nor let any body lend him any thing but vvould get from him vvhat they could From the Duke they vvould have taken his Birth-right the Church and Religion they vvould have cast in a nevv Mould the Bishops and Clerks they vvould have nevv-fashioned if not utterly laid aside banished many of the Nobles taught the Judges of Westminster-Hall nevv Lavvs and made them pay for practising the Old terrified most of the Loyal Gentry of the Kingdom vvith Serjeants Messengers and Expensive Journeys the same with Mayors Sheriffs and Bayliffs Fault or no Fault taken away Courts and Priviledges from several Shires to their great harm to revenge themselves of particular men not only hinder'd Irish Cattel and other Provisions from the City but Beggar'd many thousands of Families of Silk-Weavers and other poor Handicrafts-men Sam. Nay these very Men were got to that Height they would have abused any Body they met with Gentle or Simple not paid a Farthing for crossing the Ferry but said they were Franke in Parliament-time as their Masters Letters were at the Post-house Tom. Was not this then as mad a Parliament as that Parliament they talk on at our Town If this next prove a madder than the last if it sit at our Town I 'll give any man leave to hang me at the Mast of my Barge Sam. For all this I believe they will not sit at Oxford for they say a many Noblemen have Petitioned the King's Majesty against it Will. And I can tell thee his Majesty said they should Sit at Oxford for all that Tom. Pray thee who were these Noblemen that Petitioned Will. I cannot tell thee who they were