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A56140 A breife memento to the present vnparliamentary ivnto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute Charles Stewart, their lawful King / by William Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. 1649 (1649) Wing P3910; ESTC R33477 13,459 18

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A BREIFE MEMENTO To the present VNPARLIAMENTARY IVNTO Touching their present intentions and Proceedings to Depose and Exeute CHARLES STEWART their lawfull KING By William Prynne Esquire a Member of the House of Commons and PRISONER under the Armyes Tyrany who it seemes have leavyed Warre against the Houses of Parliament their quondam Masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine Captives during their lawlesse Pleasures Proverb 24. 21 22. My Son Feare thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with those who are given to Change for their calamity shall RISE SVDDENLY and who knoweth the ruine of them both Gal. 1.10 If I yet pleased men I should not be the Servant of Christ LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1649. Die Veneris 20. Aug. 1647. An Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both houses since the force on both Houses July 26. until the sixth of this present August 1647. to be nul and void VVHereas there was a visible horrid insolent and actual force upon the Houses of Parliament on Munday the 26 of July last where upon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could not returne to sit in safety before Fryday the sixth of August It is therefore declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled that the Ordinance of Munday the said 26 Iuly for the repealing making voyd of the Ordinance of the 23 of the said Iuly for the setling of the Militia of the City of London being gained by force and violence And all Votes Orders Ordinances passed in either or both Houses of Parliament since the said Ordinance of the 26 of Iuly to the said sixt of August are nul and void and were so at the making thereof and are hereby declared so to be the Parliament being under a force and not free Provided alwayes and be it ordained that no person or persons shall be impeached or punished for his or their actions by or upon or according to the aforesaid Votes Orders or Ordinances unlesse he or they shall be found guilty of contriving acting or abetting the aforesaid visible and actual force or being present at or knowing of the said force did afterwards act upon the Votes so forced or were guilty of entring into or promoting the late Ingagement for bringing the King to the City upon the tearmes and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last Iohn Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A breif Memento to the present Vnparliamentary Iunto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and Execute CHARLES STEVVARD their lawfull King of ENGLAND c. GENTLEMEN IT is the observation of King Solomon Prov 25.11 That a word spoken in due season is like Apples of Gold in pictures of silver And seeing I and above two hundred Members more being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparaleld violence upon our Persons and the House cannot speak my mind freely to you in or as the House of Commons I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you only as private Persons under the force consulting in a House without your Fellow-Members advice or concurrence about the speedy deposing and executing of KING CHARLES your lawfull Soveraigne to please the Generall Officers and Grand Councel of the Army who have unjustly usurped to them the supream Authority both of King and Parliament or rather the Iesuits and Popish Priests among or neare them by whose Councels they and you are now wholly swayed and whose trayterous designes you really execute in most of your late Votes and Actings I have only a few words and considerations to impart unto you Dictum sapienti sat est First I shall minde you that by the Common Law of the Realme the Statute of 25 E. 3. and all other Acts concerning Treason it is no lesse then High Treason for any Man by overt act to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of the King or of his eldest Son and Heire though it be never executed much more if actually accomplished That many have been arraigned condemned executed for such intended Treasons in former ages as the Earle of Arundell and others by judgement in Parliament 21. R. 2. Plac Coronae N. 4.6.7 and the Gunpouder Traytors 3. Jacobi to omit others whose Examples should be others admonitions the Heads and Quarters of some of them yet hanging on the Houses where you now meet and sit 2dly That in the Oath of Allegiance which you have all taken immediately before your admission into the House as Members You doe truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in your consciences before God and the World That our Soveraigne Lord King Charles Is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries And that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any Other meanes Nor any other hath any power or authority to Depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to discharge any of his Subiects of his Allegiance and Obedience to his Maiesty or to give leave to any of them to offer any violence to His Maiesties Person State or Government And that notwithstanding any sentence or Declaration of Deprivation made by the Pope c. or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience you will beare true allegiance to His Majestie His heires and successors and him and them wil defend to the uttermost of your power Against all attempts and conspiracies whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or Declaration or otherwise And do thereby further swear that you do from your harts abhor detest and abiure as impious and Hereticall that damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their Subiects or any other whatsoever And that you doe belive and in conscience are resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve you of this Oath or any part thereof and that all these things you did plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words and their plain and common sence without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secrèt reservation whatsoever And that you did make this Rècognition acknowledgement heartily willingly truly upon thè true faith òf a Christian Now whether your present actings intentions against the King be not diametrically repugnant to this solemn Oath which most of you have taken sithence these wars some of you since the Treaty when sworn Sejeants at Law c. let God and the world before whom you sware and your own consciences in which you then swore determine
you doe it without asking or receiving their consents you engage both Kingdomes to make a just Warre against you to proclaime and to Crowne the Prince of Wales their King though you should lay him aside as being next heire apparent And no Ordinance you can now make will be any legal barre against him to the Crown of Eng. where he will find ten thousand persons for one who will joyn with Scotland and Ireland to set him upon his Fathers Throne as king of England and avenge his blood upon all who shall be aiding or assisting to its spillings or his dethroning And what then will become of you and your army when thus deserted by most opposed by all 3 kingdomes all the Kings Queens Princes Allies united forces where will you where will your St. Cromwell St. Ireton St. Pride Saint Peters that fast and loose carnall prophet and Arch Jesuited Incendiary in these present tumults with other Grand Saints of the Army who now force you the Generall Army and whole kingdome upon such dangerous councels as these by the Jesuites principles and practises then appeer to save either themselves or you or your posterities from exemplary justice without mercy or hopes of pardon Consider this then seriously if not as Christians yet as Polititians and selfe ended men and then repent and be wise in time Tenthly Remember that you have neither Law nor direct president for what you are going about Edward the 2d and Richard the 2d were forced by Mortimer and Henry the 4th to resign their Crowns in a formall manner the one to his Son the other to his conquering successor neither of them to the parliament then deposed by a subsequent sentence in Parliament as unfit to reign without any formall legall tryall or answer and that not in an empty Parliament under a force as now when most Members were forced away and secluded but in a full Parliament wherein the articles drawen up against them were never so much as read and their depositions made upon their own voluntary concessions only to confirme their precedent Resignations Besides neither of these Kings though very bad and Papists were ever condemned to loose their heads or lives but were to be well and honourably Treated And those proceedings were only by Popish parliaments in time of ignorance who had no such Oaths Vowes Covenants Protestations and other forementioned considerations to tye their hands as you and we all have now Yea this very Parl. hath solemnly particularly protected that they did never suffer these Presidents to enter into their thoughts and they should never be their practise what ever they suffered from the King or hi● and that for the honor of our Religion and the most zealous in it But that which is very observable Roger Mortimer the principle actor in deposing King Edward the 2. Crowning his Son Edward the 3. King in his stead as you must now Crown the Prince of Wales in his Fathers stead if you depose the King else you pursue not this president as you should do in the Parliament of E. 3. In which I find no record concerning this deposall was in a full Parliament within four years after with some other of his Confederates impeached condemned and executed as a Traytor and Enemy to the King and Kingdom by the Iudgement of the Lords and that by King Edward the third his owne assent without any legall hearing or tryall just as he had there deposed this King without it for murthering King Edward in Berkeley Castle after his deposall and Sir Thomas de Berkeley in whose Castle he was slain being indicted of Treason likewise for the same murther before the Lords in Parliament pleaded not guilty thereunto was tried at the Lords Bar in a legall manner by a Iury of 12 Knights there sworn and impannelled and by them acquitted upon ful evidence and tryal when as Sir Simon de Bereford was impeached condemned and executed by a judgement given against him by the Lords alone without any tryall for murthering this deposed King and Thomas de Gourney William Ocle adjudged Traytors by them for the same offence without any evidence appearing on record These Presidents then will be of very hard digestion and not parall'd to our times or the Kings case Who having upon the late Treaty granted us for the speedy sett●ement and security of our bleeding Kingdoms Churches and Religion what ever we could in honor justice or reason desire and farre greater advantages and security then any of our ancestors or any Kingdom under heaven from the creation to this present demanded or enjoyed from any of their Princes as I dare make good to you and all the world and that which the Commons House after two whole dayes and one whole nights debate thought and voted a sufficient ground for them to proceed with the King to the speedy se●ling of the Kingdoms peace now you or the army after such large concessions contrary to the votes of both houses when full and free can in honor justice reason discretion or conscience proceed to depose or decapitate the King as a violater of his faith a Traitor c. Without making your selves more perjured treacherous and greater Traytors in all kinds then he incurring the same judgement execution as you shall passe inflict upon him I leave to your saddest consultations to advise of I have thus freely faithfully and plainly discharged my mind and conscience to you without fear or flattery for the Kings Kingdomes Parliaments protestant Religions I am certaine Irelands almost irrecoverably lost your own and the Armies weale and safety too if God in mercy please to give you heads or hearts to make timely use of it and not suffer your selves to be Jesuit-ridden any longer Consider you have most of you Estates all of you Heads or lives and soules to save or loose both here and hereafter If this and all the precedent considerations will not prevaile with you to take you off from your present desperate Councels and proceedings for your own the Kingdoms Churches Religions Irelands Parliaments your owne posterities and the Armies safety too Ride on triumphantly still in Ignatius Loyola his fiery chariot like so many young Phaitons till you fall and perish It is sufficient for me hower you digest this present friendly Memento to you and I can truly say liberavi animam meam what ever becomes of you or me Who doe here solemnely protest to all the world against these your proceedings as altogether nul void unparliamentary illegall unchristian if not perfidious and Treasonable in these respects I shall close up all with that Golden sentance of God himselfe and the wisest of men King Solomon which is twice repeated verbatim that it might be the better remembred and considered by you and all others in such Exigences of publique affaires as we are now fallen into Prov. 22.3 27 12. A prudent man