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A77256	The Oxonian antippodes, or, The Oxford anty-Parliament. First, setting forth who it is that calls that Parliament. Secondly, who they are that sit in that Parliament. Thirdly, what Parliament it is, when the members of it are in one body. Fourthly, to what end this Parliament is called. Fifthly, what they are for their religion, their lives and conversations, that beare armes in defence of that Parliament. Sixthly, that the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawfull Parliament. Seventhly, that whatsoever is done against this lawfull Parliament, is against God, the Protestant religion, the lawes of the land, and the liberty of the subjects. By I.B. Gent.	J. B. (John Brandon)	1644 (1644)	Wing B4248; Thomason E31_8; ESTC R6818	11,624	39

beene the cause of their downfall The Stage-players they will fight against the Reforming parliament for they reforme Church and people they will not suffer more Stage-playes and by this consequence their trading is quite put downe but yet if there could be but a putting downe of this parliament the King would set their Trade in as great estimation as ever it was and therefore they will joyne also with the rest and try if they can beate this Reforming parliament out of all The High-way men they will fight in this cause for that the King alloweth his Souldiers good store of plunder and then they shall not need to feare hanging for robbing their neighbours The ignorant Welchmen they will fight too but it is for no reason at all but because hur King is in the field tell not hur of Religions nor Lawes nor of a Parliament for hur fight for hur King against them all All this while there is no questioning what Religion they fight for only by the profest Papists and all the rest fight for their owne by ends and yet all against the Protestant Religion and a lawfull Parliament and the Lawes and Liberties of English Subjects Here you see plainly what sorts of men they are that are in this Army and as they are drawne up in Battalia they seeme to bee a great many and who but the profest Papists have more care of foules well-fare then the seeming Protestant in regard they fight for the advancement of their owne Religion and the other for the exhausting their owne by-ends and respects never thinking of the advancement of the Religion they professe but fight against it Now the next thing is to prove this Parliament the lawfull Parliament Question 6. That the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawfull Parliament Answer TO prove that this Parliament is a lawfull Parliament I shall not need much to dispute For that Parliament that is lawfully called is a lawfull parliament To prove that this Parliament was lawfully called is onely thus His Majestie sending forth His Writs to the Sheriffes of every City Burrough County and Corporation in the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales giving them full power Authority to summon the Freeholders of their severall Cities Burroughs Counties and Corporations to meet at their usuall places of meetings There freely to Elect and choose by voyce or pole such men for Knights and Burgesses for their severall Cities Boroughs Counties and Corporations as the major part of them shall choose and these Knights and Burgesses are to meet at such time and place as shall be expressed in His Majesties Warrant Thus was this parliament called and if thus lawfully called then no question it is a lawfull parliament If this be not sufficient to prove it so you have ●is Majesties own Act. For it is enacted by the King the Lords and Commons in this present parliament that it shall not be dissolved without a generall consent of both the said Houses Thus is this parliament proved to be the absolute lawfull parliament of England Hence it is that this must be lawfully dissolved before there can be another lawfully called in England For it is as possible for two Suns to bee in one Horizon as two lawfull parliaments at one instant of time in the Kingdome of England but it is with them of this Anti-party in this case as in all the rest hitherto alwayes labouring against this Parliament that if once they could get it downe it should never rise againe And seeing they could not prevaile they will now have some colour for their rebellious actions They will have an Anti-Parliament to fight for So by this thinke to m●ke good all their actions by having Acts made that what ever they have done was lawfull why because it was done in defence of the King and their Parliament as it was in defence of those who now are called to sit in that parliament Sithence it is so that His Majesty and his Queen band themselves together with popish Rebells and Traitors with other Incendiaries to this State and Kingdome against God the Protestant Religion the lawfull parliament of England the Lawes of the Land the Liberty of the Subject let us breake their bonds and cast their cordes from us and now stand up for the Gospell of Iesus Christ by standing against those who labour to disinherit us of a faithfull parliament and of the pure worship of God and so consequently of God himselfe this must be done by uniteing our selves together in that faithfull Covenant set forth by order of parliament covenanting with our selves that we will stand in defence of our lawfull and just reforming parliament to the losse of Lives and Estates against all that ever shall oppose it withall blessing God that ever he sent us such a parliament to stand soe faithfully for the honour of God for the advancement of his Gospell and for their owne priviledges and for the Lawes of the Land and the Subjects Liberty as this parliament has done let them not want your prayers let them not want your persons to incorage them nor your Estates to advance that cause they have undertaken for Gods glory and for your future comforts and without all doubt the God of Heaven will stand for you if you will stand for the advancing of his Gospell and you shall find that the Conspiracies of papists and Traitors nor the murmuring of malignants and the power of Kings shall not prevaile against the Cause of Christ For God is a light to comfort his people and a fire to burne his Enemies This is licensed and Entered into the Hall-booke according to Order FINIS

the King expresly the 17 Deut. 18.19.20 verses That when he shall sit upon the Throne of his Kingdome then shall he write him this Law and in the next verse And it shall bee with him and he shall read them therein all dayes of his life that he may learne to feare the Lord his God to keepe all the words of this Law and these ordinances for to doe them that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren whereby is meant that Kings ought to love their Subjects as nature bindeth one brother to love another and Kings are to rule by Law and the Law is to be grounded upon the word of God that so it be what the Law commands God commands And what King soever he be that commands any thing contrary to Law the Subject may refuse to obey Hence it is that the lawes of England being grounded upon the law of God the King having already called a Parliament to sit at Westminster according to the Customes the Law doth allow of and as yet not lawfully dissolved Bee it to that Subjects conscience that shall now obey the Kings Command to sit in his anti-Anti-Parliament and to disert his lawfull Parliament before such time as the worke be finisht to which end they were summoned As to roote out popery out of this Kingdome to redeem the Subjects out of oppressions Courts and out of the hands of oppressions Monopolists and to bring Offenders and Delinquents to condigne punishment But if this had been done there would be no anti-Anti-Parliament at all unlesse his Majestie would sit by himselfe there would bee no Inscendiaries left to sit with him which brings me to the second thing Question 2 Who they are that are summoned to sit in this Anty-Parliament Answer PArliament said I the name of a Parliament is the greatest comfort English Subjects have Lawfull Parliaments reforme Kings and their Lawes if they be not grounded upon the Law of God they have power to repeal them and choose such Lawes as shall be rules whereby the King shall rule his people according to the revealed will of God we cannot expect these comfortable effects from this Anty-Parliament as might be expected by faithfull and religious Subjects from a faithfull and religious Parliamentary Councell perhaps you will say the King himselfe sits here It s true he does the presencement of a gracious Prince does animate a lawfull Parliament to goe on couragiously for the advancing Religion Lawes and Liberties for the throwing downe of Antichrist and Antichristian government but this must not be expected here although the King be there in person for by this you may see of what value his Protestations and Declarations have bin all along from the first time he left his Parliament he protested alwayes he aimed at no other then to maintain the Protestant Religion the Priviledges of that Parliament which at that time and now sitteth at Westminster the Lawes of the land and the Liberty of the Subject he hath called God to witnesse to these his protestations and yet used all the meanes possible by blood thursting instruments to kill and stay all his faithfull and loyall Subjects to fire their houses plunder their estates when all this would not doe hath summoned all those together who were his advisers to forsake his Parliament to sit in Councell with him in his Anty-Parliament where he will be furnisht with Councells of all sorts there will be Counsellors to advise him how to punish Fomenters of Religion and subverters of the lawes of the Kingdome and in fringers of the Subjects Liberty such as will advise him how to thrust out the Spanish and French factions such as will advise him how to punish such as shall betray the trust that the faithfull Subjects of England have intrusted them with such as Subjects will advise his Majesty how to bring to condigne punishment all such as have had Articles of high Treason drawn against them such as shall advise his Majesty how to gaine the love of his Subjects and to secure his owne Crown and dignity As for example the Arch-prelates of Armagh and Yorke and Doctor Fearn they will advise his Majesty how to punish Fomenters of Religion by Inacting this present Parliament that Episcopacy with Iuredivino may stand in full force vertue with the triple Crowne Justice Bankes and Justice Heath and Holborn will advise his Majesty how to punish Subverters of the Lawes of the Land by Inacting this their present Parliament that all such causes which have been tried and adjudged at Westminster sithence his Majesties Proclamation for the adjurning the Terme to Oxford the Judgements are of no force nor virtue but are contrary to the fundamentall lawes of the Kingdome Sir Ralph Dutton and Sir Henry Poole will advise his Majesty to punish Infringers of the Subjects Liberty by Inacting that Parliament that no Clothier in Glocestershire shall make any cloath without paying to his Majesty one shilling per peece and to themselves two shillings The Earle of Bristoll and the Lord Cottington will advise his Majesty how to thrust out of his Kingdom the French and spanish factions by making an Act this present Parliament for the establishing the Inquisition the high Commission I would have said in this Kingdome and to keepe an Army one foote to keepe his Subjects in subiection to the Commission of Aray Sir Faithlesse Foscu and the Lord Littelton will advise his Majesty how to punish all such as betray the trust that the Subjects of England intrust them withall by making an Act that it was lawfull for the one after so many Protestations as he did make to be faithfull unto the imployment which he had undertaken yet afterwards to betray the lives of divers men into the hands of their cruell Enemies and for the other to betray the Kingdomes Seale from the body of the Kingdome to be a colour for mercilesse actions The Lord Digby the pretended Lord Germin will advise his Majesty how to bring to condigne punishment all those who have had Articles of high Treason drawne against them by making an Act that it is lawfull for any such person if he make an escape before such time as he hath bintryed upon the said Articles of high Treason to betake himselfe to his Majesties Court for Sanctuary and there to be received into his Majesties grace and favour and to be of his Counsell this present Parliament Prince Rupert and the pretended Lord Byron will advise his Majesty how to gaine the love of all his faithfull Subjects and for the securing of his owne Crowne and dignity by making an Act that it is lawfull for any Commanders and Souldiers that are now in Armes for the defence of the King and this Parliament to take plunder and fire all such Townes in the Kingom of England or Scotland or Ireland as the inhabitants thereof shall oppose the Aray government Thus having shewed you who they are that are called to sit in this

THE OXONIAN ANTIPPODES OR The OXFORD Anty-Parliament First Setting forth who it is that calls that Parliament Secondly Who they are that sit in that Parliament Thirdly What Parliament it is when the Members of it are in one body Fourthly To what end this Parliament is called Fifthly What they are for their Religion their lives and conversations that beare Armes in defence of that Parliament Sixthly That the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawfull Parliament Seventhly That whatsoever is done against this Lawfull Parliament is against God the Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land and the Liberty of the Subjects By I.B. Gent. LONDON Printed for Richard Lounds and are to be sold at his shop neere Ludgate 1644. To the Reader CURTEOUS READER THe inexhausted Treasures of the never-dying vertues of this faithfull Parliament hath incouraged my quaking Pen to salute you by presenting unto your view the weake indeavours of a Souldiers Quill And the rather to give satisfaction to the world that I girt not sword to my thigh till such time I well weighed the reasons that moved me to it which were these To defend the Protestant Religion this lawfull Parliament the Lawes of the Land and my owne liberty from the violence and oppression of proffessed Papists Traitours and Rebels And now having some leisure being in my Winter quarters after a sad contemplation of my Countries misery I thought fit to spend some houres in compiling this undigested fragment for the better satisfaction of some various conceipts that are amongst us and for the stopping the mouthes of malignant spirits who with their stupidity flatter themselves with the bare name of a King never arguing to themselves how farre a King may command or what commands of the King the Subject may not obey Now here is discovered how farre the Kings power doth extend to Command his subjects And what Commands of the King the Subject may not obey Here is set forth what the Ruler is by his Counsell and that a good King will not suffer wicked Counsellours to be about him All I shall adde is one by his request courteously to accept my weake labours And how ever you please to censure I wish you a contented life and an honourable death Yours faithfully affected JO. BRANDON Gent. The Oxonian Antippodes or the Oxford Anty-Parliament KIngs are appointed by God to govern the people committed to their charge with wisdome and knowledge like Solomon who desired of the Lord to give him wisdome and knowledge 2 Chron. the 7.10 that he might go out and in before the Lords people for saith he who can judge this thy people as if he should have said that I may govern this thy people with wisdome and knowledge by establishing to them a saveing Religion and wholsome Lawes both which include a comfortable Libertie as King Iehoshaphat 2 Chron. the 17 the 7 8 9. verses in the third yeare of his Reigne he sent his Princes with divers of his Priests and Levites to Iudah and with them the booke of the Law of the Lord to teach the people of Iudah the Lawes that were written in that booke Now the Law of God exprest in holy Scripture is a Law that is written in the conscience of every man in the conscience of the King so wel as in the conscience of a Subject which Law the Philosophers call the Law of Nature and the Lawyers call it the Law of Nations whereof the Law of Moses is a plaine exposition hence it is that the fundamentall Lawes are grounded upon these Lawes and the King is sworne at his Coronation to maintaine them to the Subjects with such Religion and Liberties as the same Lawes do alow of It remains then that there is a Religion Lawes and Liberties belonging to the Subjects of England and they are to be maintained unto them by the King whence is it then that our Religion Lawes and Liberties had long ere this been taken from us by him that is sworn to maintain them to us had not God of his great mercy stird up the hearts of a Parliament to stand for us by reason his Majestie gave himselfe over to evill Counsellers he did choose rather to come in a hostile manner to the House of Parliament to accuse five of his faithfullest Counsellers of high treason then suffer to be brought to condigne punishment Digby or Germin or Windibancke who are known Traytors to this State and Kingdome such Counsellours they are ro him as Ahab was and Ahaziahs mother was to him she counselled him to do wickedly wherefore he did evill in the sight of the Lord Chron. 2.22 Chap. 3.4 like the house of Ahab for they were His Counsellours to his destruction it must needs follow that the Rulers are such as their Counsellours be that there cannot be a good King that suffereth wicked Counsellours if Kings be intrusted with Subjects Lawes and Liberties to the end they should maintain them by the best meanes they can to the losse of life and inheritance and yet labour to circumvent them of their Religion Laws and Liberties and this being done in a Kingdome which is governed by a Parliamentary government and their Priviledges lying ingaged with the Subjects Lawes and Liberties its time then for that Parliament to be stir themselves and by all the means they can defend themselves their Religion their Priviledges with all the faithfull subjects with their Lawes and Liberties from violence and oppression and from being delivered into the over ruling power of papists and Rebels and Violaters of Lawes and Liberties but now the word Liberty has taken that possession in the harts of English Subjects that all the Monarchicall Prerogatives in Oxford or elsewhere cannot tell how either by declaring against it at common Law by the advice of Bankes and Heath or by preferring a Bill in Chancery against it with the advice of Littelton or by thundering sentencies out of the high Commission and Starre chamber by the Arch-Prelates to put it out of possession when these would not do to bring their designe to perfection they have thundred forth Proclamations to terrifie the hearts of His Majesties loyall and faithfull Subjects by proclaiming them Traytours and Rebels for no other cause then for standing in defence of their Religion Lawes and Lyberties And have raised an Army to suppresse their lawfull Parliament and now they have perswaded His Majestie to call a Parliament to sit at Oxford there to sit in councell as I conceive against God himselfe for the rooting out of the Protestant Religion for the destruction of his lawfull Parliament and the Lawes and Lyberties of the faithfull Protestants in England Scotland and Ireland You may see to what end they call this great Councell if we doe but looke backe for seven yeares before the sitting of this Parliament of blessed memorie who seeing what action they have continually beene in as by private wayes and meanes under pretence of Religion still bringing in