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kingdom_n	england_n	king_n	rebellion_n	2,837	5	9.3314	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87772	The kingdomes case: or, The question resolved, whether the Kings subjects of this realm of England may or ought to ayd and assist each other, in repressing the persons now assembled together under the name of the Kings Army. Pro lege rege grege ad ill. propugnandam. informandum conservandam. By him that prayeth studieth the peace of the King. kingdome. April, 24. 1643. It is this day ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament, concerning printing, that this booke, entituled (the Kingdomes case) be printed by John Wright. Iohn White.	He that prayeth/studieth the peace of the King/kingdome.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1649 (1649)	Wing K584; Thomason E475_38; ESTC R202670	6,939	14

THE KINGDOMES CASE OR The Question resolved Whether the Kings Subjects of this Realm of England may or ought to ayd and assist each other in repressing the persons now assembled together under the name of the KINGS Army Pro Lege Rege Grege ad ill propugnandam informandum conservandam By him that prayeth studieth the peace of the King Kingdome April 24. 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing that this booke entituled the Kingdomes Case be printed by John Wright Iohn White LONDON Printed for John VVright at the Kings head in the Old-bayley 1649. The Case FIve or ten thousand or more Persons aggregate and assemble themselves together in a Warlike manner with Officers and all provisions of Warre and goe from Nottingham towards London kill divers of the Kings Subiects rob steale and take away the Goods of others breake into Towns and Honses by force and imprson divers Upon this Case there are divers Quaeres Quaere VVHether others of the Kings Subjects may not by the Lawes of this Kingdome of England by all meanes whatsoever whether by raising of Armes or otherwise endeanour to their uttermost to apprehend oppose quell and vanquish the aforesaid persons Answer IT is not onely lawfull but commanded by the lawes of this Kingdome that all persons able should by all or any meanes whatsoever endeavour to apprehend oppose quell and vanquish the said persons and if any present at the aforesaid outrages doe not without command or absent doe not upon command endeavour to apprehend oppose quell and vanquish the said persons they are punish able by the Lawes of this Kingdome The Proofe First for that this assembling and demeaning themselves in this manner as the case is put is a breach of the Peace and that in the highest degree now every man may cake up Armes to preserve the Peace nay ought if otherwise it cannot be preserved though it be onely in danger to be broken in particular private Towns and by a small number of persons and therefore if two fall out and fight and the one killeth the other and a third man stand by and doe not endeavour to part them or prevent the breach of the Peace this third man is to be amerced 3 Edward 3. Itinere Northampton Corone 293. But by M. Lambert hee is to be fined and imprisoned Lamb. Justice of P. pag. 133.134.135 c. Much more and a Fortiori where the peace is broken with a high hand and in such transcendent manner as the present case is put and every publike Officer as Sheriffs Constable c. May and might to raise and leavie the power of the County Hundred or Towne to repressed or for the apprehending of Traytors Felons c. 3. Hen. 7.10 Dalton Office of Sheriffes 136. And if they faile in performance of their duties therin they are to be fined and imprisoned and if any refuse to ayd them therein they are in like manner to be punished Secondly for that this assembling and demeaning themselves as aforesaid is in terrorem populi Domini Regis in amazement of the Kings Liege-People and so a riot rout and unlawfull assembly Now if the number of three or more persons assemble themselves together to do an unlawfull Act all persons in the County where the same assembly is being able to travell are to ayd and assist the Iustices of the Peace and Sheriffs to resist repell and take such offenders and that under paine of imprisonment fine and pansome by the statute 2 Hen. 5. cap. 8. a fortiori where unlawfull Acts are done as in the case put Thirdly for that this assembling and demeaning of themselves as aforesaid is by the Common Lawes of this Kingdome high Treason every Rebellion is high Treason and so was it resolved and adiudged by all the Judges of England pasch 39 of Eliz. of that multitude then assembled in warlike manner to pull down Inclosures in those places where they had no colour to claim Common and so was adiudged by the whole Parliament 29 Hen. 6. cap. 2 In Cades Rebellion that he was a Traytor and the leavying of Armes within this Kingdome in warlike manner without lawfull cause is Rebellion and so Treason and so it is resolded A bridgement of Dier 13. Eliz. 298. Now by the Lawes of this Land all are bound to apprehend and take all Felons and Traitors under the penalties beforementioned yea I conceive under greater For if A commit Treason and B know it and conceale it it is misprision of Treason and he shall forefeit therefore all his goods and the profit of his Lands during his lite much more where he doth ret use toasst in apprehending and punishing the offenders If the assemblers to pull downe Inclosures aforementioned were adiudged Traytors much more these Rebels assembled to pull downe the Inclosures namely the fence of our Religion Lawes and Liberties viz. the Parliament which is the onely Fence and Guard we have in this Kingdome against ruine of Religion Lawes and Liberties the generall medicine to cure all our grievances the life of our lives and lively hoods And that this is the maine intention of this Rebellion appeareth not onely by their own speeches but also for that First they perswaded the King to absent himselfe from the Parliament thereby or nullifie as much as in them lay the benefit and profit that the Kingdom might receive thereby Secondly to detaine divers Members of both Houses from returning to the Houses whereof they were Members Thirdly to withhold divers Delinquenes from being brought to answer their crimes Fourthly to go to the House of Commons to demand the five Members with such an attendance as might have been the ruine and death of all that had apposed The principall Case and all the other Cases in answer thereunto ate put as supposing the King not commanding and then the conclusions thereupon are so apparent that all men that have their right sences will agree the same to be the Common Lawes of this Kingdome therefore the Case is further put Admit that this Assembly is by the Kings command and that others are prohibited by the King to oppose them Quaere 2. VVHat alterations are thereby made of the Conclusions aforesaid Answer NOne at all First it is not to be beleeved that they have the Kings command for that His Maiesty hath oft promised by divers Declarations and also protested by his solmne Protestations that he will rule and governe his Subiects by and according to the knowne Lawes of this Kingdome both which Promises and Protestations were broken if his Maiesty should command the assemqling of the foresaid persons in manner as aforesaid or to doe or commit the outrages aforesaid being both unlawfull and contrary to the knowne Lawes of this Kingdome as before is apparently manifested And therefore His Maiesties command by word is not sufficient but it must be in all Cases to iustiste the party