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A89755	An additional discourse relating unto a treatise lately published by Capt. Robert Norwood, intituled. A pathway unto Englands perfect settlement. Many things therein are more fully opened, several doubts and objections answered; a brief account given of the ancient laws, customs, and constitutions of this nation, before and since the conquest, so called. With something concerning the Jewish civil constitutions. With a brief answer to Mr. John Spittlehouse, in his book bearing the title, the first addresses to his Excellencie, &c.	Norwood, Robert, Captain.; Norwood, Robert, Captain. Pathway unto England's perfect settlement; and its centre and foundation of rest and peace.	1653 (1653)	Wing N1379; Thomason E708_9; ESTC R207149	39,963	68

not yet done I shall by the Laws Customs and Constitutions thereof briefly and but in part shew you by and by and give you some of those many demonstrations and testimonies thereof and of our constant firm and inviolate keeping maintaining upholding and defending our selves in our native liberties and freedomes in our pristine first primitive original honor glory and dignity for this the defence and maintenance of our selves and ours herein for these many years by-past have we contended and contested against Kings Priests and Parliaments and for this thing even at this day do we yet contest against all whomsoever and whatsoever shall infringe the same O Noble Renowned Glorified and much Dignified Englishmen whose perfect resurrection is at hand and whose glory and renown shall fill and overspread all Lands because of this thing even in England shall arise the glory and the desire of all Nations I have said it and it shall surely come to pass Look therefore unto your selves every man of you and stand fast in the Liberties wherewith God and Nature and the Laws of this Land have made you free nor stoop nor bow nor bend one jot unto any man or men whomsoever but as unto brethren but worship the Lord thy God only honour thy Father and thy Mother and love thy Neighbour as thy self Take heed of Dalilabs for though thou be a Samson yet if thou sufferest thy seven locks to be shaved off the philistines will take thee yea and put out both thine eyes also binde thee in fetters and cause thee to grinde in theprison-house The wise will know this saying and understand this Parable I make haste If we bow and stoop we will bow and stoop unto the weak and feeble the poor and needy we may not we must not we cannot we will not give our glory our honor our dignity and our strength unto any left we be bound in fetters and grinde in the prison-house and we love our eyes too well to lose them Verily we have our Fore-fathers with us and on our side in this matter we have Abraham Isaac and Jacob David Noah and Daniel even all who are not of Nimrods race and generation are now risen and arising up against Nimrod whose Kingdome hangs tottering and shaking being even ready to fall we have Israel against whom there is no divination or Inchantment and the God of Israel on our side who is the God of Gods Lord of Lords and King of Kings we therefore shall certainly overcome and prevail none shall or can stand before us God hath overurned and will yet overturn even seven times until none of Nimrods do appear You have seen that it is against the command and law of God against the command and law of Nature and against the law of the land even the law command of our Fore-fathers made given and continued by from and through them and their blood unto us their children as is at this day Look to it therefore again I say every man of you for he who breaks and violates the same is a traitor unto God unto nature unto himself unto his fore-Fathers and unto the laws of this Land and Nation and hath no right or interest no portion or inheritance in the same but ought according to the laws thereof to be wholly dis-franchised discommuned yea and excommunicated also Vortiger one of the Kings of this land whom Gildas calleth a proud Tyrant and Nennius saith of him that after he was first corrected perhaps as saith my Author of whom anon by the Jewish discipline which was here also untill the time of Henry 2. that in a great Mo●t of Clergy and Laity he was so roughly handled that he rose up in a great rage fled at least sought how to fly but he was banned and afterward deposed by the Parliament And it is there farther said of him that the Earth opened for him and that his family was burnt from Heaven which was much ascribed to his curse or excommunication which as is there said was in use amongst the Britains and that also upon their Kings of which there are many examples as of King Tudur King Clotri and Brochvaile did hardly escape by a great fine it was then by much more heavier as saith the same Author then of late Caesar observeth it among the Druids and in him it is Paena gravissima adding also that such persons were abhorred by all and that they might have no honor or right of law In S. Patricks Canons they are excluded a communions mensa missa pace This as saith my Author seemeth akin to the Jewish Cherem nay to their Shammatha or Pauls Maranatha For proof of what I said and promised before that England had not given its honor its glory and dignity unto any nor ever did nor have we in the least submitted or subjected our selvs unto the rule power government or dominion of any man or men whomsoever in any thing or matter to any end or purpose whatsoever I shall begin with King William whom some though untruely call the Conquerer You shall finde it in Walsing ham Hoveden Matthew Paris and others shewing how free the Norman found our Ancestors which they note also in Caesar to have found the Britons but that I let pass who say that king William before he was crowned and accepted by the people did solemnly swear to observe and keep their old Laws Bonas approbatas antiquas leges quas sancti ac pij Angliae Regis ejus antecesseres maxime Edwardus statuit inviolabiliter obser●●are In the same Kings edition of the confessors laws when he enclined so much to them of Norway all the compatriots of the kingdome came and be sought him not to change the old laws and customs of their Ancestors because they could not judge from laws they understood not In the Laws of St. Edward and king William you may find and read in the very Title and Preface thereof that all the Laws of king Edward came to us through the hands of king William which you will find related and recorded in the Title and Preface thereof That all those Laws were so presented to king William by a sworn Jury out of every County who did also assert that those which they did present as the Laws of St. Edward were the undoubted Laws and Customs of the kingdome that had also been collected into a body by king Edgar and continued though Sopitae through the troubles of succeeding kings till Edward had the leasure to renew or rather confirm what was the Law before And he the said king William although he had so attained his entrance into England and to the Crown by force of Arms at his owne charge onely with so great a hazard and loss also of so many of his owne Countrymen and had thereby obtained in a manner the full and whole possession thereof so that little or no opposition could be made against him yet would not our

either of persons or of things because we know perfectly and fully understand according as it is written That in a just weight and measure is and doth consist the very life and being of all things We have the Law of our God so written and ingraven in our hearts that we cannot do otherwise we do in good earnest love our neighbour as our selves and we do truely honour our Fathers and we must and are commanded by the Lord our God so to do that the days may be long in the land which the Lord our God giveth us it is the onely Command with promise And we know this will and that nothing else without this can give us the enjoyment thereof in peace and rest as we could demonstrate to all the world and we do or at least desire and endeavour to worship the Lord our God with all our heart with all our minde with all our soul and with all our strength and to serve him all our days and him onely even him who brought us out of the land of Egypt and house of bondage And for this cause or for these reasons is the Command and Oath of our Fathers the Command and Oath of our God upon us who never did nor can nor will command or require any thing but that which is just and right true and good for us yea our own Oath manifold is upon us and we do know why for what cause and to what end we entred thereinto And we fear an Oath and it may not nor cannot be revoked for ever for it is just and right faithful and true We must and will God assisting walk within our due and true bounds and limits set ordained and appointed unto us by the Lord our God and by our fore-fathers in their Laws Ordinances Customs and Constitutions and in them for that we certainly know in the breaking of them we break and undo our selves and in them onely we do and can indeed walk safely and securely in peace tranquillity and rest of body and minde They are our strong Tower our invincible Castle and Fortress out of which we cannot be beaten and in which we do not fear any or all the things in heaven and earth Herein is herein will and shall be the joy and delight of our eyes yea and of our souls also and that all our days even in the commands of our God the Laws Ordinances Customs and Constitutions of our fore-fathers in which we will ever and always walk live and continue Our father David did so our fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob did so and from them we may not part nor depart we may not leave them nor forsake them lest we die nor turn either to the right hand or to the left to do either more or less then according thereunto but in all things in all times towards our selves and all men so much and so far as we are able will we walk perfectly upright like men like our selves as we are in or after the image and likeness of God And from henceforth let no man accuse charge reproach or condemn us for disorderly stubborn refractory gainsaying backsliding or rebellious children to God or our Fathers for haters despisers or contemners of our Neighbours for deceitful unkinde or unmerciful for enemies traytors or rebels for verily as you see we are obedient orderly true upright trusty faithful loving respectful worshippers honourers observers doers and performers of the Commands of our God and of our Fathers and hearty real lovers of our Neighbour earnestly praying faithfully and uprightly desiring and endeavouring their good even as our own I have in a very scattered confused manner which I pray excuse shewed you in some measure the footsteps of our Forefathers in part and but in part the way and path the good old way in which our Fathers walked and had peace That which hath enlarged it so much beyond my first intentions is the Reason shewn Grounds given and Foundation layd for men to see by and stand upon my other Treatise carrying much more in the womb of it if it be well weighed and considered in and by which my desire was chiefly to give a stop to the extravagancies exorbitancies and excesses of our present times unto those hastie inconsiderate violent hot and too too eager motions generally possessing and very greatly injuring most mens mindes which hath and doth cause many disorders and distempers in and amongst us all most men much over-shooting or over-running themselves their own desires and endeavours their own peace aims and ends as it is written Whilst seeking freedom and supposing themselves free they indeed become servants and slaves That golden apple of Unlimitedness which Kings and Armies yea Parliaments also are so much taken with and still desirous of that Witch that beautious taking Witch which stripes and strips beats bends and bows disrobes makes naked and unthrones us all I say My desire therein was to give a stop and stand unto these hastie hurrying slippery times and to consider what we are and where we are from what from whence or from whom we came that so like the Prodigal we may bethink our selves of our Fathers house and so begin to make our returns thither And if we finde our selves not Prodigals feeding upon husks with the swine I am very much mistaken And if it be not our work our onely work to return to him from whom and whence we came even to our fathers house my eyes extremely fail me for which you shall finde at large in that Treatise I could heartily wish it might be well looked into and seriously considered of it carries more in it then may perhaps at first be discerned May end and way also I hope therein is peace peace unto all reconciliation with all and a perfect uniting of us all I have in this spoken something more plainly and particularly as to the way and means in reference unto some things as also to our continuance and stablishment therein If it do appear and be found so I will hope all English-men for unto all I speak or desie to speak without exception will begin not onely to look towards it but to walk in it I have shewed you that Justness Rightness or Righteousness and it onely is and that it certainly is the very life and being of all things and that without it nothing possibly can be or exist that in and by the true knowledge of things we shall be able to give a true just and right estimate and valuation of things which being done and continued will keep a right just and true order and so a constant and setled peace which otherwise cannot possibly be I do profess my self enemy to no man or men thing or things whomsoever or whatsoever nor envie I any nor verily know I any cause why for I know not any that is or can be enemy unto me envie hate or hurt me for certainly there is nothing contrary unto me though many both men

proof declaration let it come from whom or what or whence it will but if it be not so let it come from whom or what or whence it will it is none of Gods command minde or will therefore not to be obeyed by me For it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God onely and him onely shalt thou serve Nor would I be mistaken here as if I meant or intended that any who will may assume the rule power government or authority upon that pretence of doing good or having really done so that is deceitful hath and may deceive and doubtless as great a mischief and inconvenience if not greater may arise on this hand as on that He or they or whomsoever shall do the nation real good and they shall judge it so to such I wish and hope the Nation will be thankful and take it also as from God yet pray I also do that no incroachment may be made upon the Peoples rights and laws for that 's not good therefore not from God Names and Titles have much undone us all What are Parliaments Kings or Priests ought or any thing man or men else but as they are just and right and good why nothing and to be esteemed as nothing What 's a Temple what 's a High-priest when God or good 's not there why a lye a nothing This is the true infallible everlasting Character of God That he is right just and good It is admirable to see how names and titles blow puff us up Parliaments what are Parliaments why the Councel of the people and what is that why the people meeting together chuse from all the parts of the land men from amongst themselves of their brethren or neighbours to meet together not to change or alter their laws not to violate or destroy them or any or more man or men of them in their lives liberties or estates not to commit do or execute or to command to be done or executed any unjust and oppressive act or acts upon or against any either besides against or contrary to the Nations laws and customes but to consult about their good or the common good And will or can any man think or imagine that their councels acts and doings are not to be or may not be tryed examined and judged Which is greater he that makes or he that is made they which chuse or he that is chosen the Trusted or the Trustor the Embassador or the King his master who ordained and made him such sent and appointed him to his work and service to his Embassie It 's true he doth in all things to all intents and purposes fully and wholly represent the King his master hath the same power and authority as his master hath can or would have if himself were present in reference to his commission and instruction but no farther to whom and for the management whereof he is againe accountable And it is not neither may must or can it be otherwise with Parliaments and those who chuse them I pray you let us be men and no longer children to be frighted with the name Bugbear with the name Parliament but know and esteem all things as in truth they are keep and preserve all things in their right places to their right uses and ends giving honour to whom honor and then we shall do well like men nay like Englishmen Be not they and all others as is said before that which they be only and alone by and from the people from and by their deputation power and commission and have they it not or is it not in trust onely and that in reference to the peoples good doubtless it is then are their acts and doings and that justly and rightly too triable and to be judged and determined by the people concerning the justness consonancy to and uprightness with the rule and standard Hence formerly were all Acts of Parliament fairely inrolled by the clerk thereof and so sent down to the several Courts of the peoples ordinary or common Judicatories I may truely and rightly call them so where as occasion is are they judged tryed and examined by the people and if not found just and right as before but either besides contrary unto or against the same they cease and must cease so as no man may or must or ought observe and execute the same Thus I say as I have it at large in my other Treatise doth and must all things run in a perfect round or circle as it is in the great world else would all things presently corrupt decay and come to nothing as must the great world it self and when where so much and so far as this orderly circular motion is not kept maintained and secured free and clear from all stops lets hinderances and incumbrances even then and there so much and so far will there be and of necessity must there be a decay corrupting disordering and confounding of the laws customs and constitutions persons officers and offices in appertaining and belonging to the Commonwealth and so of the Commonwealth it self as you see it is in the natural body of every created thing yea the whole Universe is onely kept preserved and maintained whole sound and intire firme stable and lasting in by and through the due and true orderly circular motion thereof which indeed is so the life being subsistence and preservation of the whole creation and every particular individual thing therein as should it but once cease all things would and must even cease to be also All perfect beings whatsoever of necessity must be thus and thus preserved continued and maintained in this due orderly circular motion As verily is the constitution frame rule and government of this Common-wealth by the great high and deep wisdom of our forefathers framed and molded as I could manifest unto all the world and that in such an exactness as is to admiration all things being examined tried judged corrected and amended the several officers and offices ordained and appointed thereunto in this circular quiet and still motion according to the Ordinances Laws customs and constitutions of our forefathers But I must no further Hence and for this end hath every Officer and Minister of the Commonwealth their certain fixed places and offices of trust to keep preserve and maintaine the peace of the Commonwealth inviolate by the keeping preserving and maintaining the laws and constitutions thereof inviolate which preserve and keep this circular motion from all stops and lets to which they are by oath more especially bound and obliged and so ought to perform the same accordingly and that faithfully perfectly and uprightly The Sheriffs who are by their place and office as is said before the keepers protectors and defenders of our laws and Commonwealth and so each and every man therein in peace according to or together with the laws which he who breaks not ought to be protected by it and all and every one who do or visibly and apparently attempt