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A88231	The peoples prerogative and priviledges, asserted and vindicated, (against all tyranny whatsoever.) By law and reason. Being a collection of the marrow and soule of Magna Charta, and of all the most principall statutes made ever since to this present yeare, 1647. For the preservation of the peoples liberties and properties. With cleare proofs and demonstrations, that now their lawes and liberties are nigher subvertion, then they were when they first began to fight for them, by a present swaying powerfull faction, amongst the Lords, Commons, and Army, ... so that perfect vassalage and slavery (by force of armes) in the nature of Turkish janisaries, or the regiments of the guards of France, is likely (to perpetuitie) to be setled, if the people doe not speedily look about them, and act vigorusly for the preventing of it. / Compiled by Lievt. Col. John Lilburne, prerogative prisoner in the Tower of London, and published by him for the instruction, information and benefit of all true hearted English-men.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1648 (1648)	Wing L2153; Thomason E427_4; ESTC R202741	121,715	88

them and the said agreement or opinion of the greater part of the said Iustices and Barons and the said Iudgement given against the said IOHN HAMPDEN were and are contrary to and against the Lawes and Statutes of this Realm the right of property the liberty of the Subiects former resolutions in Parliament and the PETITION OF RIGHT made in the third yeare of the Reign of his Maiestie that now is And it is further declared and enacted by the authority aforesaid That all and every the Particulars prayed or desired in the said PETITION OF RIGHT shall from henceforth be put in execution accordingly and shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as in the same PETITION THEY ARE PRAYED AND EXPRESSED and that all and every the Records and Remembrances of all and every the Iudgement Inrolements Entry and proceedings as aforesaid and all and every the proceedings whatsoever upon or by pretixt or colour of any of the said Writs commonly called Shipwrits and all and every the Dependents on any of them shall be deemed and adiudged to all intents constructions and purposes to be utterly void and disannulled and that all and every the said Iudgement Inrolments Entryes Proceedings and Dependents of what kind soever shall be vacated and cancelled in such manner and forme as Records use to be that are vacated Anno XVII Caroli Regis An Act for the prevention of vexatious proceedings touching the Order of Knighthood VVHereas upon pretext of an antient custome or usage of this Realm of England That men of full age being not Knights and being seised of Lands or Rents of the yearly value of forty pounds or more especially if their seising had so continued by the space of three years next past might be compelled by the Kings writ to receive or take upon them the order or dignity of Knighthood or else to make Fine for the discharge or respite of the same Severall Writs about the beginning of his Majesties reign issued out of the Court of Chancery for Proclamations to be made in every County to that purpose and for certifying the names of all such persons and for summoning them personally to appeare in the Kings presence before a certain day to be there ready to receive the said Order or Dignity Vpon returne of which writs and transmitting the same with their Returns into the Court of Exchequer and upon other Writs for further inquiry of the names of such persons issuing out of the said Court of Exchequer Processe by Distringas was thence made against a very great number of persons many of which were altogether unfit in regard either of estate or quality to receive the said Order or Dignity and very many were put to grievous Fines and other vexations for the same although in truth it were not sufficiently known how or in what sort or where they or any of them should or might have addressed themselves for the receiving the said Order or Dignity and for saving themselves thereby from the said Fines Processe and vexations And whereas its most apparent that all and every such proceedings in regard of the matter therein pretended is altogether uselesse and unreasonable May it therefore please your most Excellent Maiestie that it be by authority of Parliament declared and enacted And be it declared and enacted by the Kings most excellent Maiestie and the Lords and Commons in this Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same That from henceforth no person or persons of what condition quality estate or degree so ever shall at any time be distrained or otherwise compelled by any writ or processe of the Court of Chancery or Court of Exchequer or otherwise by any meanes whatsoever to receive or take upon him or them respectively the Order or Dignity of KNIGHTHOOD nor shall suffer or undergoe any fine trouble or molestation whatsoever by reason or colour of his or their having not received or not taken upon him or them the said order or dignity And that all and every Writ or Processe whatsoever and all and every proceeding which shall hereafter be had or made contrary to the intent of this Act shall be deemed and adiudged to be utterly void and that all and every Processe proceeding and Charge now depending by reason or colour of the said pretended custome or writs aforesaid or of any the dependants thereof shall from henceforth cease and stand be and remain discharged and utterly void Any former Law or Custome or any pretence of any former Law or Custome or any other matter whatsoever to the Contrary in any wise notwithstanding I shall conclude this collection at present with the Bill of Attainder past against Thomas Earl of Strafford this present Parliament as I find it printed in the 303. pag. of a book printed for Will. Cook at Furnifalls Inne gate in Holbourne 1641. called Speeches and Passages of this Parliament from the 3. Novemb. 1640. to this instant Inne 1641. which thus followeth The Bill of Atainder that passed against Thomas Earle of STRAFFORD WHereas the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in this present Parliament assembled have in the name of themselves and of all the Commons of England impeached Thomas Earle of Strafford of high Treason for endeavouring to subvert the Antient and Fundamentall Lawes and Government of his Maiesties Realms of England and Ireland and to introduce an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government against Law in the said Kingdoms and for exercising a tyrannous and exhorbitant power over and against the Lawes of the said Kingdomes over the Liberties Estates and Lives of his Maiesties Subiects and likewise for having by his own authority commanded the laying and asseising of Soldiers upon his Subiects in Ireland against their consents to compell them to obey his unlawfull commands and orders made upon paper Petitions in causes between party and party which accordingly was executed upon divers of his Maiesties Subiects in a warlike manner within the said Realm of Ireland and in so doing did LEVIE WARRE against the Kings Maiestie and his liege people in that Kingdome And also for that he upon the unhappie Dissolution of the last Parliament did slander the House of Commons to his Maiestie and did councell and advise his Maiestie that he was loose and absolved from the rules of Government and that he had an Army in Ireland by which he might reduce this Kingdome for which he deserves to undergoe the pains and forfeitures of high Treason And the said Earl hath been also an Incendiary of the wars between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland all which offences have been sufficiently proved against the said Earle upon his impeachment Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty and by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament and by authority of the same that the said Earl of Strafford for the hainous crimes and offences aforesaid stand and be adiudged and attainted of high Treason and shall suffer such pain of

resident within the Shire where they shall be chosen the day of the date of the Writ of the summons of the Parliament And that the Kni●hts and Esquires and other which shall be choosers of those Knights of the Shires be also resident within the same Shires in manner and forme as is aforesaid Rast pl. fo 446. And moreover it is ordained and established that the Citizens and Burgesses of the Cities and Boroughs be chosen men Citizens and Burgesses resiant dwelling and free of the same cities and boroughs and no other in any wise 7. H. 4. 15. 8 H. 6. 7. 10. H. 6. 2. 23. H. ● 15. The 2. of Henry 5. Chap. 1. and 3. fol. 282. What sort of men shall be Iustices of the Peace FIrst that the Iustices of the peace from henceforth to be made within the Counties of England shall be made of most sufficient persons dwelling in the same counties by the advice of the Chancellor and of the Kings Councell without taking other persons dwelling in forain Counties to execute such office except the Lords and Iustices of Assises now named and to be named by the King and his Councell 1. Ed. 3. 16. 34. Ed. 3. 1. And except all the Kings chiefe Stewarde of the Land and Seigniories of the Duchie of Lancaster in the North parts and in the South for the time being 13. R. 2. 7. Chap. 3. Of what estate those Iurors must be which are to passe touching the life of man plea reall to forty markes damages ITem the King considering the great mischiefes and disherisons which daily happen through all the realm of England as well in case of death of a man as in case of freehold and in other cases by them which passe in enquests in the said cases which be common Iurors and other that have for little to live upon but by such inquests and which have nothing to loose because of their false oaths whereby they offend their conscience the more largely and willing thereof to have correction and amendment 2. H. 7. fo 13. 10. H. 7. fo 14. 9. H. 5. fo 5. 10. H. 6. fo 7. 8. 18. 7. H. 6. fo 44. Dyer fo 144 Cook Inst part 1. 272. a. Rast pl. fo 117. hath ordained and established by assent of the Lords and Commons aforesaid that no person shall be admitted to passe in any enquest upon tryall of the death of a man nor in any enquest betwixt party and party in plea reall nor in plea personall whereof the debt or the damage declared amount to forty marks if the same person have not Land or Tenements of the yearly value of forty shillings above all charges of the same so that it be challenged by the party that any such person so impanelled in the same cases hath not Lands or tenements of the yearly value of forty shillings above the charges as afore is said 28. Ed. 3. 13. 8. H. 6 29. The 8. of Henry the 6. Chap. 7. fol. 304. What sort of men shall be choosers and who shall be chosen Knights of the Parliament ITem Whereas the election of Knights of Shires to come to the Parliament of our Lord the King in many Counties of the Realm of England have now of late been made by very great outragious and excessive number of people dwelling within the same Counties of the Realm of England of the which most part was of people of small substance * * This is a Statute of bondage and lesse of liberty 1. H. 5. 1. 10. H. 6. 2. 6. H. 6. 4. 11. H. 4. 1. 23. H. 6. 15. Rast pla fo 440. and of no value whereof every of them pretended a voice equivalent as to such elections to be made with the most worthy Knights and Esquires dwelling within the same Counties whereby manslaughters riots batteries and divisions among the Gentlemen and other peoples of the same Counties shall very likely rise and be unlesse convenient and due remedy be provided in this behalf Our Lord the King considering the premisses hath provided ordained and established by authority of this present Parliament that the Knights of the Shires to be chosen within the same Realm of England to come to the Parliaments of our Lord the King hereafter to be holden shall be chosen in every County of the Realm of England by people dwelling and resident in the same Counties whereof every one of them shall have land or tenement to the value of forty shillings by the year at least above all charges and that they which shall be chosen shall be dwelling and resident within the same Counties And such as have the greatest number of them that may EXPEND FORTY SHILLINGS by yeare and above as afore is said shall be returned by the Sheriffes of every County Knights for Parliament by Indentures sealed betwixt the said Sheriffes and the said choosers so to be made And every Sheriffe of the Realm of England shall have power by the said authority to examine upon the Evangelists every such choos●● how much he may expend by the yeare And if any Sheriffes re●urn Knights to come to the Parliament contrary to the said Ordinance the Iustices of Assises in their Seasions of Assises shall have power by the authority aforesaid thereof to enquire And if by enquest the same he found before the Iustices and the Sheriffes thereof be duly attainted that then the said Sheriffe shall incura●● pain of an hundred pound to be paid to our Lord the King and also that he have imprisonment by a yeare without being le● to mainprise or baile And that the Knights for the Parliament returned contrary to the said Ordinance shall loose their wages 10. H. 6. 2. Provided alwayes that he which cannot expend forty shillings by yeare as afore is said shall in no wise be chooser of the Knights for the Parliament And that in every writ that shall hereafter goe forth to the Sheriffes to choose Knights for the Parliament mention be made of the said Ordinances The 18. of Henry the 6. Chap. 11. fol. 332. Of what yearely value in lands a Iustice of Peace ought to be ITem whereas by Statutes made in the time of the Kings noble Progenitors it was ordained that in every County of England Justices should be assigned of the most worthy of the same counties to keep the peace and to doe other things as in the same Statutes fully is contained 1. Ed. 3. 16 18. Ed. 3. 2. 13. R. 2. 7. 17. R. 2. 10. which Statutes notwithstanding now of late in many Counties of England the greatest number have been deputed and assigned which before this were not wont to be whereof some be of small behaviour by whom the people will not be governed nor ruled and some for their necessity doe great extortion and oppression upon the people whereof great inconveniences be likely to rise daily if the King therefore doe not provide remedy The King willing against such inconveniences to provide