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A88244	Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent. Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2172; Thomason E370_12; ESTC R201291	90,580	119

obtained saith Martin fol. 29. The Empresse with many honourable tryumphs and solemnities was received into the Cities of Circester Oxford Winchester and London but the Londoners desiring the restitution of King Edwards Lawes which she refused which proved her ruine and the restitution of King Stephen out of prison and to the Crown again and after some fresh bouts betwixt King Stephen and Duke Henry Mauds eldest Son a Peace was concluded betwixt them in a Parliament at Westminster and that Duke Henry should enjoy the Crown after King Stephen At the receiving of which he took the usuall oath and being like to have much work in France c. being held in thereby from all exorbitant courses he was therefore Wary to observe at first all meanes to get and retain the love and good opinion of this Kingdom by a regular and easie government and at Waldingford in Parliament saith Daniel fol. 80. made an act that both served his own turn and much eased the stomackes of his people which was the expulsion of strangers wherewith the Land was much pestered but afterwards was more with Becket the traytorly Arch-bishop of Canterbury And after him succeeds his Son Richard the first At the beginning of this mans Reigne a miserable massacre was of the Jewes in this Kingdom who went to the holy wars and was taken prisone by the Emperour as he came home of whom Daniel saith fol. 126. that he reigned 9 years and 9 moneths Wherein he exacted and consumed more of this Kingdome then all his Predecessours from the Norman had done before him and yet lesse deserved then any His brother Duke John being then beyond Seas with his Army was by the then Archbishop of Canterburies meanes endeavoured to be made King Who undertooke for him that he should restore unto them their Rights and govern the Kingdome as he ought with moderation and was thereupon after taking three oathes which were to love holy Church and preserve it from all Oppressours The Kings Oath to govern the State in justice and abolish bad Lawes not to assume this Royall honour but with full purpose to rerform that he had sworn Speed 534. crowned King And because the title was doubtfull in regard of Arthur the Posthumus Son of Geffery Duke of Brittain King Iohns eldest brother Speed fol. 532 he receives the Crown and Kingdome by way of election Daniel fol. 127. the Archbishop that crowned him in his Oration professing before the whole Assembly of the State That by all reason Divine and Humane none ought to succeed in the Kingdome but who should bee for the worthinesse of his vertues universally chosen by the State as was this man And yet notwithstanding all this he assumed power by his will and prerogative to impose three shillings upon every plough-land and also exacted great Fines of Offenders in his Forrests And afterwards summons the Farles and Barons of England to be presently ready with Horse and Arms to passe the Seas with him But they holding a conference together at Lecester by a generall consent send him word That unlesse he would render them their rights and liberties they would not attend him out of the Kingdome Which put him into a mighty rage but yet he went into France and there took his Nephew Arthur prisoner and put him to death by reason of which the Nobility of Britaigne Anjou and Poictou took Armes against him and summon him to answer at the Court of Justice of the King of France to whom they appeale Which he refusing is condemn●d to lose the Dutchy of Normandy which his Ancestors had held 300. yeares and all other his Provinces in France which he was accordingly the next yeare deposed of And in this disastrous estate ●aith Daniel fol. 130. he returnes into England ●nd charges the Earles and Barons with the reproaches of his l●sses in France and fines them by his Prerogative to pay the seventh part of all their goods for refusing his aid And after this going over into France to wras●le another fall was forced to a peace for two years and returnes into England for more supplies where by his will iust and prerogative he layes an imposition of the thirteenth part of all moveables and other goods both of the Clergie and Laitie who now saith Daniel seeing their substances consume and likely ever to be made liabl● to the Kings desperate courses began to cast about for the recovery of their ancient immunities which upon their former sufferance had been usurped by their late Kings And hence grew the beginning of a miserable breach between the King his people Which saith he folio 131. cost more adoe and more Noble blood then all the warres for raigne had done since the Conquest For this contention ceased not though it often had fair intermissions till the GREAT CHARTER made to keep the Beame right betwixt SOVERAIGNTY and SVBJECTION first obtained of this King JOHN in his 15. and 16. yeares of his yeares of his reigne and after of his sonne Henry the 3. in the 3. 8. 21. 36. 42. yeares of his reigne though observed truly of neither was in the maturity of a judiciall Prince Edward the first freely ratified Anno regni 27. 28. But I am confident that whosoever seriously and impartially readeth over the lives of King John and his sonne Henry the third will judge them Monsters rather then men Roaring Lions Ravening Wolves and salvadge Boares studying how to destroy and ruine the people rather then Magistrates to govern the people with justice and equity For as for King John he made nothing to take his Oath and immediatly to break it the common practice of Kings to grant Charters and Freedomes and when his turn was Consider compare and conclude served to annihilate them again and thereby and by his tyrannicall oppressions to embroyle the Kingdo●e in Warres Blood and all kind of miseries In selling and basely delivering up the Kingdome that was none of his own but the peoples as was decreed in the next Parliament Speed fol. 565. by laying down his CROWN Scepter Mantle Sword and Ring the Ensignes of his Royalty at the feet of Randulphus the Popes Agent delivering up therewithall the Kingdome of England to the Pope And hearing of the death of Geffery Fitz Peter one of the Patrons of the people rejoyced much and swore by the Feet of God That now at length he was King and Lord of England having a fre●r power to untie himselfe of those knots which his Oath had made to this great man against his will and to break all the Bonds of the late concluded peace with the people unto which he repented to have ever condescended And as Daniel folio 140. saith to shew the desperate malice this King and Tyrant who rather then not to have an absolute domination over his people to doe what he listed would be any thing himself● under any other that would but support him in his violences There is recorded an

of pag. 706 707 714. In the Records of 1 R. 2. Num 44. and R. 2. Num 34. and 40. Again it will clearly appear that there is a contract betwixt the King his People yea and such a one as ties up all his public official actions to be according unto Law and not according to the rule of his own Wi●l if we seriously weigh but the Lawes made and past this present Parliament but especially that for abolishing the Star-Chamber and regulating the Councell-Table the Act for abolishing the high Commission Court two Acts for the levying and pressing Souldiers and Marriners and an Act declaring unlawfull and void the late proceedings touching Ship-money And an Act for preventing vexatious proceedings touching the order of Knight-hood And an Act for the free bringing in and free making of Gun-powder But if all this will not serve let us a little further consider what the Parliament saith who are the States representative of all the individuals of the State universall of England Book Declar. pag. 171. 264. 336. 508 613. 628. 654. 655. 703. 705. 711. 724. 725. 726 728. 729 730. And therefore are the highest supreamest and greatest Court Counncel and Judge of this Kingdome pag. 141 143 197 207 213 271 272 278 280 281 303 457 693 703 704 711 718 725. And who may justly be called the legall Conservators of Englands Liberties 281 277 282 264 496 587 588 617 693 698. Yea the legall and publike eyes and heart of Englands Politike Body pag. 213 278 340 690. Of whom a dishonourable thing ought not to be conceived of them pag 281 654. much lesle to be acted or done by them pag. 150. And they say pag. 266. That the King hath not that right to the Towns and Forts in England which the people in generall have to their estates the Towns being no more the Kings own then the Kingdome is his own And his Kingdome is no more his own then his people are his own And if the King had a propriety in all his Towns what would become of the Subjects propriety in their houses therein And if he had a propriety in his Kingdom what would become of the Subjects propriety in their Lands throughout the Kingdom or of their Liberties if his Majestie had the same right in their persons that every Subject hath in their Lands or Goods and what should become of all the Subjects Interests in the Towns and Forts in the Kingdome and in the Kingdom it self if his Majestie might sell them or give them away or dispose of them at pleasure as a particular man may do with his Lands and his Goods This erroneous Maxime being infused in●o Princes that their Kingdoms are their owne and that they may do with them what they will as if their Kingdoms were for them and not they for their Kingdoms is the ●oot of all the Subjects misery and of the invading of their just Righ●s and Liberties whereas indeed they are only intrusted with their Kingdomes and with their Towns and with their People and with the publike Treasure of the Common-wealth and whatsoever is bought therewith And by the known Law of this Kingdom the very Jewels of the Crown are not the Kings proper Goods but are only intrusted to him for the use and ornament thereof As the Towns Forts Treasure Magazine Offices and the People of the Kingdome and the whole Kingdome it self is intrusted unto him for the good and safety and best advantage thereof And as this Trust is for the use of the Kingdom so ought it to be managed by the advice of the Houses of Parliament whom the Kingdom hath trusted for that purpose it being their duty to see it discharged according to the condition and true intent thereof and as much as in them lies by all possible meanes to hinder the contrary and therefore say they pag. 276. by the Statute of 25. Ed. 3. It is a levying of warre against the King when it is against his Lawes and Authority though it be not immediatly against his Person And the levying of Force against his Personall Commands though accompanied with his presence if it be not against his Lawes and Authority but in the maintainance thereof is no levying of warre against the King but for him for th●re is a great difference betwixt the King as King and the King as Charles Stuart And therefore say the Parliament pag. 279. That Treason which is against the Kingdome is more against the King then that which is against his Person because he is King for that very Treasor is not Treason as it is against him as a man but as a man that is a King and as he hath relation to the Kingdome and stands as a Person intrusted with the Kingdome discharging that Trust And therefore page 722. that Alexander Archbishop of Yorke Rob. Delleer Duke of Ireland Trisiilian L. chief Justice the rest in the time of Richard the 2. were guilty of Treason and so adjudged by two Acts of Parliament viz. 11. R. 2. 1. 2. and 1. H. 4. 3. and 4. which to this day are both in force for levying Forces against the Authority of Parliament and to put to death divers principall members of both Houses although they had the Kings expresse Command to do it and the promise of his presence to accompany them which yet for all that neither would nor did save their lives in regard as they say page 723. It is a known rule in Law that the Kings illegall Commands though accompanied with his presence do not excuse these that obey him therfore if the Kingdom be in danger and the King wil not hearken to the Parliament in those things that are necessary for the preservation of the peace and safety of the Kingdome Shall they stand and look on whilest the Kingdome runs to evident ruine and destruction No page 726 for safety and preservation is just in every individuall or particular page 44. 150. 207. 382. 466. 496. 637. 690. 722. much more in the Parliament who are the great and supream legall Councell from whom there is no legall appeale as is before declared Yea and in their Declaration of the 19. of May 1642. page ● 7. they tell us that this Law is as old as the Kingdome viz. That the Kingdom must not be without a meanes to preserve it selfe which that it might be done without confusion say they this Nation hath entrusted certain hands with a power to provide in an orderly and regular way for the good and safety of the whole which power by the constitution of this Kingdome is in his Majesty and in his Parliament together Yet since the Prince being but one person is more subject to accidents of nature and chance whereby the Common-wealth may be deprived of the fruit of that Trust which was in part reposed in him in cases of such necessity that the Kingdome may not be inforced presently to return to its first principall and every man

the Dutely of Normandy and doe him homage for the same And then to make all sure with Pope Alexander whose thu●der-bolts of Excommunication were then of extraordinary dread and terror he promised him to hold it of the Apostolick See if hee prevailed in his enterprize Whereupon the Pope sent him a Banner of the Church with an Agnus of gold and one of the hai●es of St. Peter which was no small cause of prevailing the ●ase Clergy being then at the Popes beck and more minding their own particular self-interest then the welfare of their own native Countrey or the lives liberties estates of their brethren according to the slesh thereupon were the principall instrumentall cause that William the Bastard commonly called William the Conqueror had so easie an entrance to the possession of this kingdome Speed fol. 403 404. 405. 406. 413. 417. Daniel fol. 28 29 35 36. By means of which the Clergy beeraied their native Countrey to Robbers and Pirats and left the poore Commons to the mercilesse fury of mercilesse men And I wish they doe not now again the same with poore England now in her great distraction● for their interest is visible not to be the publickes but their pride covetousnesse and greatnesse Therefore O yee Commons of England beware of them and take heed you trust them not too much lest you be so deluded by them to your ruine and destruction And when William by their means principally as Daniel saith fo 36. had got possession of the Kingdom as you may partly before read p. 14 15 16 17 how extraordinary tyrannically he dealt with the poor natives and inhabitants By changing their laws and robbing them of their goods and lands at his will and pleasure and gave them away to his Norman Robbers And the poor Englishmen having all their livelihoods taken from them became slaves and vassals unto those Lords to whom the possessions were given And if by their diligence afterwards they could attain any portion of ground they held it but onely so long as it pleased their Lords without having any estates for themselves or their children and were oftentimes violently cast out upon any small displeasure contrary to all right Daniel fo 47. Speed 421 423 425. Insomuch that in those days it was a shame even among Englishmen to be an Englishman Speed fol. 422. 429. By means of all which he bestowd great rewards upō all those great men that came along with him and made them by h●s will the great men of England to help him to hold the people in subjection bondage and slavery for he made William Fitz-Auber the Norman the principall man under him to help for his designe Earle of Hartford who singly of himselfe took upon him meerly by the power of his own will to make Lawes in his own Earldome And unto Allayn another of his Comrades or trusty and well-beloved Consins he gave all the lands of Earle Edwin where on he built a Castle and whereof he made the Earldome of Richmond And unto William of Warren another of his Norman Robbers Marder ers he gave the Earldome of Surrey Speed fol. 437. And unto Walter Bishop of Durham another of his Comrades he sold the Earldome of Northumber land who there by the law of his owne will maintained Murderers and Rogues and there was murdered himselfe And unto his Brothers who came of his mother Arlet the Whore who after William the Bastard was borne was married to Harlain a Norman a Gentleman but of mean substance Odo and Robert he gave the Earldome of Ewe and Mortaigne Speed 417. Daniel 32. And afterwards Odo Earle of Kent and after that in his absence Vice-Roy of England And how this Beggar now set on Horse-back governed this poore distressed kingdome let the Conquerors own speech declare recorded by Speed fol. 431. At the time when William came out of Normandy found his brother Odo a Bishop as well as an Earle at the Isle of Wight with divers Noble men and Knights his attendants then going to Rome with an expectation there to be Pope being grown extraordinary rich with his polling of this poore Kingdome Vpon which the King in presence of his Nobles thus spake Excellent Peeres I beseech you hearken to my words and give me your counsell At my sailing into Normandy I lest England to the government of ODO MY BROTHER who a little further in his speech hee saith hath greatly oppressed England spoyling the Churches of land and rents hath made them naked of Ornaments given by our predecessors and hath seduced my Knights with purpose to train them over the Alps who ought to defend the land against the Nations of Scots Danes Irish and other enemies over-strong for me And a little below that my brother saith he to whom I committed the whole kingdom violently plucketh away their goods cruelly grindeth the poore and with a vain hope stealeth away my Knights from me and by oppression hath exasperated the whole land with unjust taxations Consider therefore most NOBLE LORDS and give mee I pray you your advice what is herein to be done And in conclusion the King adjudged him to prison yet not as a Bishop who then it seemes had large exemptions but as an Earl subject to the lawes and censure of his King Which accordingly saith Speed was done upon seizure of estate this Prelate was whose found so well lined in purse that his ●eaps of yellow mettle did moveadmiration to the beholders So that here you have the true story of the subversion of the ancient manner of Parliaments the ancient Lawes and Liberties of Government of this Kingdome and a Law innovated and introduced flowing meerly frō the will of a Bastard Thief Robber tirant You have here also a true Declaration of the original rise of the pretended legislative power of Earles Lords and Barons the Peers Competitors and trusty and wel-beloved Cousins and Hereditary Counsellors of our Kings which was meerly and only from the wills and pleasures of this cruell and bloudy Tyrant and his Successors And no better claime have our present house of Peers either for their legislative power or judicative power then this as is cleerly manifest by their own fore-mentioned Declaration cited pag. 45. and therefore say I are no legall Judicature at all nor have no true legislative or law-making power at all in them having never in the least derived it from the people the true legislaters and fountain of power from whom only and alone must be fetched all derivative power that either will or can be esteemed just And therfore the Lords challenging all the power they have by their bloud and deriving it from no other fountain but the Kings Letters-Pattents flowing meerly from his will pleasure I groundedly conclude they have thereby no judicative power no nor legislative power at all in them for the King cannot give more to them then he himself hath and he hath neither of these powers viz. a