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A56211	The soveraigne povver of parliaments and kingdomes divided into foure parts· Together with an appendix: wherein the superiority of our owne, and most other foraine parliaments, states, kingdomes, magistrates, (collectively considered,) over and above their lawfull emperours, kings, princes, is abundantly evidenced, confirmed by pregnant reasons, resolutions, precedents, histories, authorities of all sorts; the contrary objections re-felled: the treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, with their present plots to extirpate the Protestant religion demonstrated; and all materiall objections, calumnies, of the King, his counsell, royallists, malignants, delinquents, papists, against the present Parliaments proceedings, (pretended to be exceeding derogatory to the Kings supremacy, and subjects liberty) satisfactorily answered, refuted, dissipated in all particulars. By William Prynne, utter-barrester, of Lincolnes Inne. It is on this second day of August, 1643. ordered ... that this booke ... be printed by Michael Sparke ...; Soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1643 (1643)	Wing P4087A; ESTC R203193	824,021	610

and flee from when as they want power meanes or convenience to resist it they may no doubt lawfully resist even with force of Armes when they have sufficient meanes and conveniences to resist and cannot flee or submit thereto without the publicke ruine since the same justice and equity which enables them by flight or stratagem to decline unjust assaults of a superior power or its judgements doth likewise enable them to escape and prevent it with resistance when they cannot doe it by flight or other polici● If then they may lawfully with a safe conscience hide flee or use lawfull policies to prevent the open injust violence of their kings and their Officers when not guilty of any capitall crime deserving censures because by the very light of nature and Law of Charity they are obliged to preserve themselves from unjust tyrannie and are no wayes bound to subject themselves to the cruelty the unjust assaults or oppressions of others then by the selfesame reason they may lawfully with force of Armes defend themselves against such violent unjust attempts which they are no way obliged to submit unto when as they cannot conveniently secure themselves and the publicke but by such resistance and should both betray their owne the publicke safety and Religion as the Subjects and Parliament should now do in case they did not resist by force of Armes to the utmost of their power and become worse than Infidels who have even thus oft provided for their owne and the Republickes securitie Fif●ly God himselfe the founta●ne of justice the God of Order the preserver of humane society who detests of all tyranny cruelty oppression injustice out of his Philanthropie which brought the Sonne of his bosome from heaven to earth would never certainely in point of policy or conscience prohibit that which is the onely probable meanes and apparent remedy to prevent suppresse disorder tyranny cruelty oppression injustice yea confusion in the world and to preserve good order and humane society a truth so apparent that no rationall man can contradict it Therefore questionesse he never prohibited forcible necessary resistance of the highest powers and their instruments in cases of open unjust violence and hostile invasion made upon their people to ruine them or subvert their established government Laws Liberties Iustice Religion There being no other probable ordinary meanes left to any Kingdome Nation People to preserve their government lives Lawes Liberties Religion and to prevent suppresse or redresse tyrannie cruelty disorder confusion yea utter ruine when their Kings and Governors degenerate into Tyrants invading them with open force but onely defensive Armes prayers and teares alone without military opposition by force of Armes being no more able to defend a person City or Kingdome against Oppr●ssing Princes and their Armies then against theeves Pyrates or common enemies whom they must and ought to resist as well with Armes as Orisons with Speares as well as Teares else they should but tempt the Lord and destroy themselves like those Iewes and Gothes who would not fight upon the Sabbath and so were slaine by their enemies without resistance yea wilfully suffer the Common-weale to be subverted Religion ex●irpated Lawes trampled under feete their own posterities to be enslaved ruined without any opposition even in a moment For were it utterly unlawfull and no lesse then Treason or Rebellion in point of conscience for any subjects to take up Defensive Armes to resist the Kings army or forces consisting for the most part of Papists Delinquents deboist Athesticall persons of broken fortunes seared consciences and most irreligious lives I appeale to every mans conscience how soone these unresisted Instruments of cruelty would utterly extirpate our protestant Religion and common faith for which we are enjoyned earnestly to contend and strive 〈◊〉 3. Phil. 1. 27. 28. And shall we then yeeld it up and betray it to our adversaries without strife or resistance how sodainely would they ruin our Parliament Lawes Liberties subvert all civill order government erect an arbitrary Lawlesse tyrannicall Regency regulated by no lawes but will and lust how soone would they murther imprison execute our Noblest Lords Knights Burgesses best Ministers and Commonwealths-men for their fidelity to God their King and Country how many Noble families would they disinherite how many wives widdowes Virgins would they force and ravish what Cities what Countries would they not totally pillage plunder sack ruine consume with fire and sword how soone would our whole Kingdome become an Acheldama a wildernesse a desolation and the surviving inhabitants either slaves or beasts if not devils incarnate Yea how speedy might any private Officers Captaines Commanders by colour of illegall Com●issions and commands from the King or of their Offices and all the notorious rogues and theeves of England under colour of being listed in the Kings Army if the people might not in point of Law or Conscience resist them with Armes who came armed for to act their villanies maliciously rob spoyle plunder murther all the Kings leige people without any remedy or prevention and by this pretext that they are the Kings Souldiers sodainely seise and gaine all the armes treasure forts ammunition power of the Realme into their possessions in a moment and having thus strengthned themselves and slaine the Kings faithfull subjects usurpe the crown it selfe if they be ambitious as many private Captaines and Commanders have anciently slaine divers Roman and Grecian Emperours yea sundry Spanish Gothish and Moorish Kings in Spain by such practises and aspired to their Crowns of which there are sundry such like presidents in most other Realmes to prevent redres which severall destructive mischiefes to People Kingdome Kings themselves God himselfe hath left us no other certaine proper sufficient remedy but a forcible resistance which all Kingdomes Nations throughout the world haue constantly used in such cases as I shall manifest more largely in the Appendix Therefore certainely it must needs bee lawfull being Gods and Natures speciall Ordinance to secure innocent persons Cities Nations Kingdomes Lawes Liberties Lives Estates Religion and mankinde it selfe against the hurtfull Lusts of unnaturall Tyrants and their accursed instruments against ambitious treacherous male-contented Spirits maliciously bent against the publicke weale and peace There are two things onely which usually restraine inferiour persons from murthering robbing disseising injuring one another the one is feare of punishment by the Magistrate the other feare and danger of being resisted repulsed with shame and losse of limbe or life by those they violently assault injure and were this once beleeved received for Law or Divinity in the world that it were unlawful to resist repulse a theefe murtherer riotor or disseisor comming in the Kings name long enjoy his life goods liberty lands but some or other would deprive him of them notwithstanding all restraints of Lawes of penalties and maintaine suites against him with his owne estate violently seised on the right of lawfull defence being every

in your Nostrils and God forbid but that I and all other true Members of our State and Church should cordially concurre with you in this Heroicall Covenant which the desperate Confederacies of our Romish Adversaries long prosecuted among us and now almost promoted to perfection have necessarily engaged Your Honors and the whole Kingdom to enter into for their Preservation Now the God of Peace and Lord of Hoasts be ever mightily present with and in Your Honourable Assembly to counsell direct protect prosper all your sincere endevours to promote his Gospell Truth Honour the publike welfare liberty tranquillity security of our endangered lacerated Church and Realmes Till the Lord shall looke mercifully upon Zion the City of our solemnities and till our eyes shall see our English Jerusalem a quiet habitation a tabernacle that shall not be taken downe not one of the stakes whereof shall ever be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken notwithstanding all the mighty oppositions against it And till you shall have built up the old waste places raised up the Foundations of many generations yea erected the very Top-stone of an exact universall Ecclesiasticall and civill Reformation in Church and State with shoutings crying Grace grace unto it That so all future Generations may really blesse and call you The Repairers of our manifold breaches the Restorers of Pathes to dwel lin Which is and shall be the dayly prayer of Your Honours most affectionately devoted Servant to live and die with You in the Common Cause of God Religion and our Native Country WILLIAM PRYNNE THE TREACHERY and DISLOYALTY OF PAPISTS TO THEIR SOVERAIGNES IN DOCTRINE AND PRACTISE Together with The first part of the SOVERAIGNE POWER OF PARLIAMENTS and KINGDOMES Wherein the Traiterous Antimonarchicall Doctrines Practises and Attempts of Papists upon the Persons Crownes Prerogatives of their Soveraignes with the dangerous designes effects and consequences of their present illegall Arming and accesse to the Kings Person Court Army by meanes of evill Counsellours are briefely discovered related The Iurisdiction Power Priviledges claimed exercised by our Popish Parliaments Prelates Lords and Commons in former ages exactly paralleld with those now claimed by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament which are manifested to be farre more loyall dutifull moderate more consistent with lesse invasive on and destructive to the pretended Soveraigne Power and Prerogative of the King then those of former ages And the high Court of Parliament proved by pregnant Reasons and Authorities To be the most Soveraigne Power of all other in this Kingdome in severall respects And superiour to the King himselfe who is not above but subject to the Lawes Together with a punctuall Answer to the chiefe Calumnies and grandest Objections of Royallists Papists Malignants Delinquents against the Parliaments Power and Proceedings with other Particulars worthy Observation The Second Edition Enlarged By WILLIAM PRYNNE Utter-Barrester of Lincolnes Inne Isai 24. 16 17. Woe unto me the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously yea the Treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously Feare and the pit and a snare are upon thee O Inhabitant of the Earth Psalme 120. 5 6. My soule hath long dwelt with them that are enemies unto peace I labour for peace but when I speake unto them thereof they make them ready to Battle It is this second day of May 1643. Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament for Printing that this Booke Intituled The Treachery and Disloyalty of Papists to their Soveraignes c. with the Additions be re-printed by Michael Sparke senior Iohn White Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior 1643. To the Reader Courteous Reader THE importunity of some Members of Parliament hath induced me to enlarge the first Part of this Discourse with sundry pertinent Additions and to Re-print it in a greater Character then before yet distinct from the following part for the ease the benefit both of Stationer and Buyer When I first entred upon this necessary publike Theame my Primitive Intention was to have Collected the chiefe Heads Reasons Authorities of this and the ensuing Members into one compendious Summulary and so to publish them all together in an intire Briefe But afterwards considering the extraordinary weight and consequence of that Grand common Cause both of Parliament and Kingdome which I was to plead the Novelty and Rarity of the Subject matter the extraordinary Prejudice of the ignorant long-deluded world against it the Potency Policy Multitude of learned Advocates as well Divines as Lawyers of the opposite Royall and Malignant party the insufficiency and unsatisfactorinesse of all late Printed Pleas for the Parliaments Interest through defect of punctuall Precedents and Authorities to backe their rationall Discourses and that a Summary slight debate of these important publicke differences would give but small satisfaction to the Adversary and rather prejudice than advance the Parliaments Kingdomes Native Rights and Priviledges I did thereupon enlarge my Meditations my Collections so farre forth as straites of Time with other avocating Imployments would permit seconding all my Arguments fortifying all my Reasons with such Domesticke Foraine Precedents and Authorities of all sorts as well Divine as Humane Politicall Historicall as Legall as through Gods concurrence with and blessing on my impotent endevours may effectually convince the obstinate wils abundantly satisfie the most seduced prejudicated Judgement finally resolve the most scrupulous Consciences and eternally silence the ignorant the most malicious Tongues and Pennes of all Royallists c. Anti-parliamentary Malignants who are not wilfully wedded to their long-espoused Errors or more enamored with sordid Court flattery for private selfe-ends then fairest though hated ungainfull verity which aimes at nothing but the Publicke good For my part I seriously protest before the great Judge of Heaven and Earth that I have herein wittingly maintained nothing at all but what my Judgement and Conscience both byassed with no sinister ends no private respects ayming at nought else but the Glory of God the settled weale and Tranquillity of our distracted bleeding dying Church and State the onely Motives engaging me in this Service informe me to be a well-grounded ancient pregnant though lately over-clouded undiscovered neglected much-oppugned Truth and albeit most particulars therein debated have for many yeares hitherto beene deposed that I say not stigmatized for seditious dangerous Antimonarchicall Paradoxes if not worse by the generall Torrent of Court-Parasites Lawyers Religion Nature Law Policy the various Precedents and Authorities of former ages and throughly digested without prejudice or partiality they will appeare yea shine forth as most necessary profitable loyall State-securing Peace-procuring verities yea as the very Nerves and sinewes to unite the Pillars to support the Bulwarkes to protect both Church and State against all invasions of heresie or tyranny and to keepe all the Potent Members of them within their Legall bounds Peruse it therefore with an upright heart a dis-ingaged Judgement an unbiassed affection and when

against his well-liking caused him to ratifie them with his Seale and to take his corporall Oath to observe them Which done the Arch-bishop of Canterbury with his Suffragans solemnely denounced a sentence of excommunication against al who should contradict these Articles which they caused to be openly read in Pauls Church London in the presence of the Prelates Lords and Commons of the whole kingdom the King being present Among which Articles they demanded That Magna Charta with other provisions necessary to the Church and Realme should be observed that the King as his Father had commanded should thrust al Strangers out of his Court and kingdome and remove ill Counsellours from him That he would thenceforth order all the affaires of the kingdome by the Counsel of the Clergy and Lords and begin no war nor depart any where out of the kingdome without common consent The King consented to the Articles and banished Piers into Ireland No sooner was the Parliament dissolved but the King neglecting his Fathers solemne adjurations together with his owne Oath never to reduce Piers sends for him back to his Court marrieth him to the Countesse of Glocester his owne sisters daughter sheweth him more favour then ever Resolving with himselfe to retaine this Gaveston mangre all his Earles Barons and for the love of him to put his Crowne and life in perill when time should serve In which whether the King or his Favourite shewed lesse discretion it is not at the first easily determined it being as unsafe for the one with so offensive behavior to affect immoderate shew and use of grace as for the other to the injury of his name and Realme to bestow the same But upon the Queenes complaint to the King of France her Brother of Piers his insolence and prodigality and on the Barons message to the King by common consent That he should banish Piers from his company and observe the effect of the foresaid Articles or else they would certainly rise up against him as a perjured person by a like vow which speech seemed hard to the King because he knew not how to want Piers but yet discerned that more danger would spring up if he obeyed not the Lords Petition Piers rather by the Kings permission then good liking did the third time abjure the Realme with this proviso that if at any time afterward he were taken in England he should be forthwith put to death as a perilous enemy to the Kingdome yet he returning in Christmas to the King at Yorke the Lords spirituall and temporall to preserve the Liberties of the Church the kingdom and remove this Viper elected Tho. Earle of Lancaster for their Generall and sent honorable messengers to the King requesting him to deliver Piersinto their hands or drive him from his company out of England as being perswaded while that King-bane breathed peace could never be maintained in the Realme nor the King abound intreasure nor the Queene enjoy his love But the wilfull King would not condescend Whereupon the Lords thus contemned and deluded presently raise an Army and march with all speed towards Newcastle not to offer injury or molestation to the King writes Walsingham the case and purpose of the pre●ent Parliaments Army but that they might apprehend Piers himselfe and judge him according to the Laws enacted Which when the King heard he fled together with Piers to Tynemouth and from thence to Scarborough Castle Where Piers was forced to yeeld himselfe upon condition to speake but once more with the king And then carried to Warwick Castle where he had his head strucke off at the command and in the presence of the Earles of Lancaster Warwicke and Hereford as one who had beene a subverter of the Lawes and an open Traytor to the kingdome and that without any judiciall proceedings or triall of his Peeres though an Earle and so deare a Favorite of the Kings Which bred a lasting hatred betweene the King and his Nobles Who being afterwards charged by the King in Parliament with their contempt against him in the spoiles committed by them at Newcastle and wickedly killing Piers they stoutly answered That they had not offended in any point but deserved his royall favour for that they had not gathered force against him but against the publike enemy of the Realme And then obtained an Act of Pardon that no man should be questioned for Gavestons returne or death printed in old Magna Charta Not long after this unfortunate King doting upon the two Spencers as much as ever he did on Gaves●on to whom they succeeded not onely in pride rapine oppression and intolerable in●olencies but even in height of familiarity and power with the King So as they ruled and lead the King as they pleased in so much that no Earle Baron or Bishop was able to dispatch any thing in Court without their advise and favour which made them generally envied of all because they domineered over all The Lords and Barons hereupon confederated together to live and die for justice and to their power to destroy the Traytors of the Realme especially the two Spencers And meeting together with their forces at Shirborne Thomas of Lancaster being their Captaine they tooke an oath to prosecute their designe to the division of soule and body Then they spoyled these Spencers and their friends goods take their Castles by violence waste their Manors through malice slay their servants utterly omitting the usuall wayes of Law and equity and following the impetuousnesse of their minds they march on to Saint Albons with Ensignes displayed and sent solemne messengers to the King then at London commanding him not onely to rid his Court but kingdome too of the Traytors of the Realme the Spencers condemned in many Articles which they had framed against them by the Commonalty of the Realme if he loved the peace of the Kingdome And they further required the King to grant letters Patents of indempnity to themselves and all such as had bore armes in their company that they should not be punished by the King or any other for their forepast or present transgressions The King denyed both these demands at first as unjust and illegall swearing that he would not violate his Coronation Oath in granting such a pardon to contemptuous Delinquents Whereupon running to their armes they marched up to London entred the City and to avoyd danger the King through the Queenes and others mediation condescended to their desires passing an Act for the Spencers banishment and the Barons indemnities which you may reade in ancient Magna Chartaes Upon this the Barons departed neither merry nor secure despairing of the Kings Benevolence which made them goe alwayes armed and to retire to safe places The King soone after recalling the Spencers reversed the sentence against them as erroneous gathers an Army encounters and defeates the Barons and puts many of them to death by these Spencers procurements who not content with their bloud procured also

their destruction attended in ambush The King sweares his innocency promising safe conduct to the Lords if they would come who thereupon came strongly guarded and would trust no longer The King sitting in Royall State in Westminster Hall the Lords present themselves upon their knees before him and being required by the Lord Chancellor Why they were in warlike manner assembled at Haring gye Parke contrary to the Lawes their joynt answer was That they were assembled for the good of the King and kingdome and to weed from about him such Traytors as he continually held with him The Traytors they named to be Robert de Vere Duke of Ireland Alexander Nevill Arch-bishop of Yorke Michael de la Pole Earle of Suffolke Sir Robert Tr●silian that false Justiciar Sir Nicholas Brambre that false knight of London with others To prove them such They threw downe their Gloves as gages of challenge for a triall by the Sword The King hereupon replyed as knowing they were all hidden out of the way This shall not be done so but at the n●xt Parliament which shall be the morrow after Candlemas all parties shall receive according as they deserve And now to you my Lords How or by what authority durst you presume to levy Forces against me in this Land did you thinke to have terrified mee by such your presumption Have not I men and armes who if it pleased me could environ and kill you like sheepe Certainely in this respect I esteeme of you all no more than of the basest Scullions in my kitchins Having used these and many like high words he tooke up his Unckle the Duke from the ground where he kneeled and bade all the other rise The rest of the conference was calme and the whole deferred till the next Parliament then shortly to be holden at Westminster In the meane time that the world might see how little able the King was to equall his words with deeds a Proclamation was set forth in which the King before any tryall cleareth the Lords of Treason names tho●e persons for unjust accusers whom the Lords had before nominated The Lords neverthelesse thought not good to sever themselves but kept together for feare of the worst which fell out for their advantage For the Duke of Ireland with the Kings privity such was his false dissimulation had gathered a power in Wales and Cheshire which they intercepting neare Burford and Bablecke slew Sir William Molineux leader of the Cheshire men and made the Duke to flye in great feare Among the Dukes carriages was found as the devill or rather God would have it certaine Letters of the Kings to the said Duke by which their Counsels were plainely discovered The Lords hereupon march with speed up to London having an Army of forty thousand men the Lord Mayor and City doubtfull whether to displease the King or Lords upon consultation receive the Lords into the City and supply their Army with provisions in the Suburbs Which the King hearing of seemed to slight them saying Let them lye here till they have spent all their goods and then they will returne poore and empty to their houses and then I shall speake with and judge them one after another The Lords hearing this were exceedingly moved and swore They would never remove thence till they had spoken with him face to face And forthwith sent some to guard the Thames lest the King should slip out of their hands and then scoffe at them The King being then in the Tower and seeing himselfe every way encompassed sent a message to the Lords that he would treat with them who thereupon desired him That he would come the next day to Westminster where they would declare their desire to him The King replyed That he would not treat with them at Westminster but in the Tower To which the Lords answered That it was a suspicious place because traines might there be laid for them and dangers prepared to destroy them Whereupon the King sent word They should send thither two hundred men or more to search and view all places lest any fraud should lye hid Upon which the Lords repaired to the Tower and in the Kings Bed-chamber laid open to him briefly all his conspiracy in causing them indirectly to be indicted They object to him his mutability and underhand working producing his owne Letters to the Duke of Ireland to raise an Army to destroy them together with the French packets they had intercepted whereby it appeared he had secretly practised to flye with the Duke of Ireland into France to deliver up Callice to the French Kings possession and such pieces as the Crowne of England held in those parts whereby his honour might diminish his strength decay and his fame perish The King seeing this knew not what to doe especially because he knew himselfe notably depressed At last craving leave they left him confounded and shedding teares yet upon condition that he should come to Westminster the next day where hee should heare more and treate of the necessary affaires of the kingdome Which he promised to doe retaining the Earle of Darby to sup with him But before he went to bed O the ficklenesse of weake Princes and faithlessenesse of their royall words and Protestations some whisperers telling him that it was not decent safe nor honourable for the King to goe thither he changed his resolution The Nobles hearing this were very sad and discontented and thereupon sent him word That if he came not quickely according to appointment they would chuse them another King who both would and should obey the Counsell of his Peeres The King strucke with this dart came the next day to Westminster there attending his Nobles pleasures To whom after few discourses the Nobles said That for his honour and the benefit of his kingdome all Traytors whisperers flatterers evill instruments slanderers and unprofitable persons should be banished out of his Court and company and others substituted in their places who both knew how and would serve him more honourably and faithfully Which when the King had granted though with sorrow they thought fit that Alexander Nevill Archbishop of Yorke Iohn Fordham Bishop of Durham with sundry other Lords knights and Clergy men should be removed and kept in strait prison to answer such accusations as should be objected against them the next Parliament Whereupon they were apprehended forthwith and removed from the Court After the feast of Purification the Parliament much against the Kings will who would have shifted it off at that time began at London The first day of the Session Fulthorpe and all the rest of the Judges were arrested as they sate in judgement on the Bench and most of them sent to the Tower for that having first over-ruled the Lords with their Counsels and direction which they assured them to be according to Law they afterward at Nottingham gave contrary judgement to what themselves had determined formerly Tresilian the chiefe Justice prevented them by flight

frequently disposed of the Crowne of that Kingdome determined the controversies of the right and titles pretended to it and elected Protectors or Regents of the Realme during their Kings minorities or distractions of which I shall cite divers precedents in the Appendix to which I shall referre you Nor yet to trouble you with Spanish Precedents of this nature where the severall claimes and titles of the pretenders to the Crownes have beene oft referred to debated in and finally resolved by their Parliaments and generall assemblies of the States the proper Iudges of such controversies as Ioannes Mariana Euardus Nonius and other Spanish writers determined as Philip the second the 18. King of Portugall his title to that Crowne and his competitors together with the rights and claimes of Alfonso the 1. 3. 5. Iohn the 1. Emanuel and other Kings of Portugall and their Corivals were solemnly debated and determined in the assembly of the States of that Realme and of divers Kings and Queenes of Arragon Castile Navarre A pregnant argument that their assemblies of States are the soveraigne Tribunall since they have power and right to determine and settle the descent right and succession of the Crowne betweene those who pretend titles thereunto I shall confine my selfe to domesticke precedents Not to repeate the forementioned precedents how the Lords and commons when the Title to the Crowne hath been in dispute have transferred it from the rightfull Heires to others I shall give you some other pregnant evidences where the Parliament hath finally determined the Title to the Crowne when it hath beene in competition and setled it in a legall manner to avoid debates by way of Appeale to them by competitors or reference from the Kings themselves as the onely proper Judges of such a superlative controversie Not to mention any stories of our British Kings to this purpose where the Kingdome Lords and Commons then disposed of the Crowne in cases of minority want of Heires misgovernment and controversies about the Title to the Crowne Canutus after the death of King Edmund Anno 1017. clayming the whole Realme against Edmunds Brethren and Sonnes referred his Title upon the agreement made betweene Edmund and him for this purpose to the Parliament who resolved for Canutus Title and thereupon tooke an Oath of fealty to him Offering to defend his right with their swords against all others claimes After his decease the Title to the Crowne being controverted betweene Hardicanute the right Heire and Harold his elder but base Brother it was referred to a Parliament at Oxford who gave their voyces to Harold there present and presently proclaymed and consecrated him King Anno 1036. After whose death the States of England sent and adjudged the Crowne to Hardicanute then in Denmarke He dying Edward the Confessor by a generall consent of the Nobles Clergy and People who presently upon Harold● death enacted by Parliament That none of the Danish blood should any more Reigne over them was elected King and declared right Heire to the Crowne Anno 1126. King Henry the first having no issue male but onely one Daughter Maude to succeed him summoned a Parliament in the presence of himselfe and David King of Scotland wherein the Crowne was setled upon Maude after his decease being of the ancient Royall English blood whereupon Stephen his Sisters Sonne and all the Nobles presently swore fealty to her As much as in them lay after King Henries death if hee died without issue male to establish her Queene of the Monarchy of great Britaine But Stephen after his decease usurped the Crowne against his Oath By the unanimous consent and election of the Lords and Commons And after seventeene yeares civill wars to the devastation of the Realme King Stephen and Henry the Sonne of Maude came to a Treaty at Wallingford where by the advise of the Lords they made this accord That Stephen if he would should peaceably hold the kingdome during his life and that Henry should be his adopted Sonne and Successor enjoy the Crowne as right Heire to it after his death and that the King and all the Bishops and Nobles should sweare that Henry after the Kings death if he survived him should possesse the Kingdome without any contradiction Which done the civill warres ceased and a blessed peace ensued and then comming to Oxford in a Parliament all the Nobles did fealty to Henry who was made chiefe Justiciar of England and determined all the affaires of the kingdome In the 8. and 25. of E. 3. there was a doubt moved in Parliament whether the children of the King or others borne beyond the Seas within his Allegiance should inherit lands in England The King to cleare all doubts and ambiguities in this case and to have the Law herein reduced to certainty charged the Prelates Earles Barons and other wise men of his Councell assembled in Parliament in the 25. yeare of his Raigne to deliberate of this point who with one assent resolved That the Law of the Realme of England is and alwayes hath beene such that the children of the Kings of England in whatsoever parts they be borne in England or elsewhere be able and owe to beare inheritance after the death of their Ancestors Which when they had declared the King Lords and Commons by a speciall Act did approve and affirme this Law for ever the onely Act passed in that Parliament And in a Parliament 1● E. 3. this Kings eldest sonne was created Duke of Cornewall by Parliament which then also entailed the Dutchy of Cornewall upon the eldest sonnes 〈…〉 of England So 21. R. 2. c. 9. the Principality of Chester 〈…〉 on the Prince by Act of Parliament King Henry the 〈…〉 the inheritance of the Crownes and 〈…〉 his posterity caused them by a speciall 〈…〉 his raigne to be entailed and setled on 〈…〉 and Prince Henry his eldest sonne to be established 〈…〉 heire apparant to him and to succeed him in the said 〈◊〉 and Realmes to have them with their appurtenances after the Kings death to him and the heire● of his body begotten And if hee should die without heire of his body begotten 〈…〉 remaine to the Lord Thomas the Kings second sonne with successive remainders to Lord John the third and Lord Humfry the Kings fourth sonne and the heires of their bodies begotten After which Act passed for the avoyding of all claimes titles and ambiguities to be made unto the Crowne he thought never by any of his Subjects to be molested or troubled the rather because in this Parliament it was first concluded that deposed King Richard should continue in a large prison and be plenteously served of all things necessary both for viande and apparell and if any persons should presume to reare warre or congregate a multitude to deliver him out of prison that then he should be the first that should die for that seditious commotion Which King Richard as Sir Iohn Bagot

people in the due subjection To th●s the Pope answered and wrote back to Pipin that he was best worthy and most profitable for the Realme to be admitted for King that ruled well the Commonalty by justice and prudence and the enemies thereof defended and subdued by his policie and manhood Aventine relates his answer more largely in these words I finde saith Zachary in the Story of Divine Scripture that the people fell away from their wretchlesse and lascivious king that despised the counsell of the wise men of the Realme and created a sufficient man one of themselves King God himselfe allowing their doings All Power and Rule belongs to God Princes are his Ministers in their Kingdomes And Rulers are therefore chosen for the people that they should follow the will of God the chiefe Ruler in all thing● and not do what they life● He is a true King that guideth the people committed to his charge according to the Prescript and Line of Gods Law all that he hath as power glory riches favour and dignitie HE RECEIVETH OF THE PEOPLE and the people MAY WHEN THE CAVSE REQVIRETH FORSAKE THEIR KING It is therefore LAVFVLL for the Franks and Germanes refusing this unkindly Monster Childericke to chuse some such as shall be able in warre and peace by his wisdome to protect and keep in safetie their Wives Children Parents Goods and Lives Which answer of the Pope recited and approved in our owne King Edward the Confessors Lawes and Childerickes deposition likewise Chap. 17. being declared to the Lords Barons and Commons of the Realme whom this Pope likewise wholly absolved from their allegiance to Childericke soone after they of one assent and minde proceeded and deposed and put downe their King and Governour Childericke being a Sott a foole abeast and one unfit to governe and closed him in a Monastery after he had reigned ten yeares in the Kings room by name onely which done they unanimously elected and crowned Pipin for their King By meanes whereof the Royall Line of Moroveus after 17 discents ended and the Crown was translated to Pipins blood Which act in point of policie is determined lawfull by Polybius who Writes That the reason why some Kingdomes became hereditary was onely this because their first Kings being vertuous and worthy men they were perswaded their Children would prove like them but if at any time they degenerat and prove otherwise and the posteritie of the first Kings displease the subjects they thenceforth make the Kingdome elective chusing Kings not according to their strength of body and mindes attempting great things but according to the difference of their will and reason manifested by their actions And by Aristotle who informes us That in Kingdomes confirmed in succession of blood this is to be numbred among the causes of their ruine that the Kingdomes descend to many contemptible and slothfull persons who although they obtaine no tyrannicall but Royall dignitie yet they live lustfully and proudly and so the Kingdome easily falls to ground and becomes a tyrannie the people being unwilling that such should rule over them and so either wholly alter the forme of government or make choice of a fitter King for the necessary preservation of the State yea this election in poi●t of Policie and Divinity too is justified and proved lawfull by Buchanan in his Book de Iure Regni apud Scotos by Iohn Mariana de Rege Regis Instit. l. 1. c. 3 5. by Pope Zachary in his forecited Epistle by King Edward the Confessor in his Laws c. 17. by a generall Councell of all the Peers and Prelates of France Convocato enim Principum et Senatorum Concilio de COMMVNI SENSV ET VOLVNTATE OMNIVN Childericum solo nomine Regem à regni fastigio deponunt c. ac OMNIBVS GAVDEN●IBVS ET VOLENTIBVS Pipinum super Francos REGNARE FACIVNT writes Antoninus and in a word our Bishop Bilson himselfe an Anti-Puritane and great Royalist affirmes That if the King be a naturall foole distracted and altogether unable to governe as Childericke was any Realme by publicke consent and advice may choose another to govern them of which more before Pipin deceasing Charlemain and Charles the great his sons reigned joyntly over the Frenchmen by their joyous admittance Having now two Kings instead of one Lewes sirnamed the godly sonne of Charles the great a pious yet unfortunate Prince by meanes of his sonne Lothair was first imprisoned and then by a Councell and Parliament held at Compaygne by authority of the spirituall and temporall Lords and of that Parliament discharged of all rule and dominion as well of the Empire as of the Realme of France after that shorne a Monke and thrust into the Monastery of Saint Marke where he was strictly guarded and when some of the Nobles and people afterwards desired Lothair to release and restore him to his former dignity he answered them That the deposing of him was done by the whole Authority of the Land wherefore if he should be againe restored it must be by the same Authority and not by him onely After which by the Lords assents hee was restored Lewes and Charles after Lewes Balbus their fathers death were joynt Kings of France and being very young by a Parliament held at Meaux Lewes the Emperour their Vncle was declared to be more apt to rule the Kingdome of France then these Infants or Barnard their Guardian and these Children held by some illegitimate Whereupon by the greater number of voyces an Ambassadour was sent to the Emperour to come and take upon him the Rule of middle France which he comming to doe his Nephewes friends compounded with him and then caused these Infants to be c●owned and proclaimed Kings Charles the simple at his Fathers death Anno 895. being too yong to take upon him the charge of the Realme the Lords of France put him under good and convenient guiding and of assent they chose Eudo a man of great fame and worth to be King of the Land for the terme of his life and to guide the Land till Charles should come to his lawfull age whom they put under Eudo his tuition making him King in his stead who was crowned of Walter then Archbishop of Senys After which when Eudo knew he should dye he called before him the Lords and Nobles of France charging them by solemne Oath that after his death they should immediately crowne Charles for their King whom he had brought up with diligence in learning and all Princely vertues being then of age to governe Charles comming to the Crowne the Danes miserably wasted ●is Kingdomes Whereupon his Nobles and people assembled themselves in sundry companies and w●nt to the King shewing their misery and blaming his fearfulnesse and negligence that he no more for him resisted the Danes cruelty Whereupon he out of feare belike lest they should chuse another King to protect them compounded with Rollo chiefe Commander of the Danes giving him all Normandy

to the warre with what reasons were they urged unlesse these that the Church was one that Christ called all whatsoever from all quarters to this service that common dangers were to be repulsed with common armes all which likewise doe plainely suite with this our cause Now and if this were lawfull for them against Mahomet yea not onely lawfull but likewise as a reward was appointed to the industrious so a punishment both to the sloathfull and delayers why not also against the enemy of Christ If I say against the Graecians be●ieging our Troy why not also against Sinon the incendiary Finally if it be a pious act to free Christians from bodily servitude for the Turkes compell no man to it is it not much more so to manumit the soules of miserable men and to restore them to liberty And verily these so many examples of pious Princes may be insteed of a Law But now heare what God himselfe by the mouth of his Prophets doth every where threaten against those who promote not the instauration of the Church or neglect its affliction The Gadites Reubenites and halfe Tribe of Manasses desire of Moses that their portion might be given to them and their families on this side Iordan and Moses truly gave it them but with this Law and condition that they should not onely helpe their brethren the other Israelites in conquering the Land of Canaan but because they had first obtained their portion that they should goe before them and be placed in the forefront of them Which if they should not doe he accurseth them smites them with anathema and compares them to those who had beene judged Rebels at Cadesbernea For what saith he shall your brethren goe to warre and you in the meane time sit still here But rather you shall passe over Iordan neither shall you returne againe hither to your houses before that God hath expelled his enemies from before his face and given rest to your brethren as he hath given unto you Then verily you shall be innocent before the Lord of Israel verily those on whom the great and good God hath bestowed so great a benefit unlesse they assisted their Brethren unlesse they were companions of their labours unlesse they went before them should without doubt receive most grievous punishments Likewise when under the conduct of Deborah those of Nephthali and Zebulon had taken up armes against the Tyrant Iabin and in the meane time the Tribe of Reuben which ought to be first in Armes delighted themselves with the Pipes among the Pastures of the flockes Dan boasted of the Empire of the Sea Asher finally trusted in the asperity of Mountaines all of them are most expresly condemned by the Spirit of God speaking by the Prophetesse Curse ye Meroz saith the Angel of the Lord curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the helpe of the Lord against the mighty But blessed above women shall Iael the Wife of Heber the Kenite be who although she might have pleaded a truce with the heathens yet notwithstanding shee slew Sisera the Captaine of the enemies Hoast Therefore piously spake Vriah The Arke and Israel and Iudah abide in tents and oft times passe the night without sleepe in the open fields shall I then feast with my Wife eate drinke and follow my pleasures As the Lord liveth I will never doe this Contrarily the Princes of Israel did impiously who trusting in the difficulty of the mountaines of Samaria and in the munition of Sion flowed with luxury feasted dranke slept on beds of Ivory anoynted their heads but in the meane time wonderfully despised contrite cruciated afflicted Ioseph neither were any way moved with his affliction Therefore saith the Lord of Hoasts I abhorre the excellency of Iacob and hate his palaces I have sworne by my soule that I will deliver up the City and all that is therein yea these who so greatly rioted shall soone goe with the first into captivity Impiously also did the Ephramites who did not onely not gratulate Gideon and Iephtha attaining the victory and triumphing but likewise envyed them though yet they deserted them when they were in danger Likewise the Israelites who when David reigned cryed out saying Behold we are thy flesh and thy bones when he was reduced into straites said We have no part in David nor in the Sonne of Iesse Impiously doe all those Christians onely in name who will communicate in the sacred feasts of the Church and yet will not so much as taste the cup of bitternesse with their Brethren who seeke salvation in the Church and yet take no care for the salvation and safety of the Church and of its Members Finally they acknowledge one Father God one Family the Church professe themselves to be one body in Christ yet neither yeeld any aide to Christ afflicted in his Members or bestow their wealth on him being poore What thinke we shall be the future punishment of their impiety Moses compares the deserters of their Brethren to the Rebels at Kadesbarnea now none of those by Gods owne decree entred into Canaan Therefore they can seeke no place for themselves in the co●lestiall Canaan who assist not Christ most miserably crucified and dying a thousand times every day and implores as it were their helpe from doore to doore Christ himselfe condemnes those to eternall fire who harboured him not when he was a stranger who fostered him notwhen he was a cold who cloathed him not when he was naked who relieved him not when he was poore who freed him not when he was captive Therefore they ought to know that eternall fire is prepared for them who passe him by with a deafe eare daily suffering such things although in the meane time they may seeme to worke great miracles and therefore verily it shall be easier for certaine insidels than for them For what doe the Jewes the Scribes and Pharisees properly cruci●ie Christ Doe the Ethnickes Turkes ●inally some Christians persecute crucifie vex Christ in his Members The Jewes professe and beleeve him an Imposter the Ethnickes a malefactor the Turkes an In●idell others an Heretique Therefore if they consider the minde of them all from whom we commonly measure the crime they all seeme to persecute noxious impious men deserving punishment not properly to slay Christ But they onely doe truely persecute truely slay him who willingly suffer him whom they professe their Messiah Redeemer God to be tortured and crucified in his Members when they might hinder it In summe he who delivers him not from death when he may is equally guilty with him that slayes him For because he would not helpe him he willed he should be slaine Now in a crime the will it selfe ought to be regarded But certainly the murther especially of Christian Princes who helpe not those who are persecuted for Religion is so much the more grievous by how much the more they slay whom they might set free and by how much it is more wicked

Liberties Countrey Parliament yea your very selves your soules bodies estates posterities Consider with your selves the bitter curse denounced by God himselfe against Meroz Iudg. 5. 23. Consider the fatall dismall end of treacherous Iud●s Matth. 27. 3. 4 5. Acts 1. 18. 19 20. Consider that dreadfull speech of our Saviour Christ Marke 8. 35. 36 37 38. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the Gospels shall save it For what shall it profit a man if he shall gaine the whole world and lose his owne soule or what shall a man give in exchange for his soule Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my word in this adulterous and sinfull generation of him also shall the sonne of man be ashamed when he commeth in the glory of his Father with the holy Angels * If we suffer with him we shall also reigne with him if we deny him he will also deny us If we be but fearfull in the cause of Christ we shall be sure to have our part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone Rev. 21. 8. O what then will be our portion if we be unzealous negligent perfidious to it or professed enemies especially in open armes against it when it cries out to us for our necessary assistance every where If Iesus Christ will render tribulation to them which doe but trouble his people yea and shall be very shortly revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on all them that onely know not God and that obey not the Gospel of Iesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thes. 1. 6. to 10. O where shall all those ungodly sinners Rebels and Traytors appeare who now every where murther plunder persecute extirpare Gods dearest Saints and not onely refuse to owne but even desert betray the cause of God and their Countrey who refuse not onely cordially to maintaine the very truth of God the Gospel of Christ which themselves in shew not onely pretend to know but professe but also joyn with Papists and Malignants openly to fight against and totally to suppresse it Certainly if judgement shall beginne at the house of God it selfe as now it doth and if the righteous who defend the cause of God and the Kingdome shall scarcely be saved what these mens dreadfull end and judgement at last shall be transcends my thoughts to conceive my expressions to relate all I can say is this it will be so superlatively miserable and grievous that an eternity of incomprehensible torments will onely be able to demonstrate the infinity and execrablenesse of their sinne O then let all of all sorts consider seriously of this and all the premises and the Lord give them understanding and grace to keepe a good conscience and discharge their severall trusts and bounden duties faithfully cheerefully to their God Religion King Countrey and the Parliament in all things that so they may enjoy the honour comfort benefit of all their faithfull endeavours to defend promote propagate our Religion Lawes liberties and the publike welfare here and the Crowne the full guerdon of them hereafter and poore bleeding dying England and Ireland may now at last attaine that speedy holy lasting honourable blessed peace and unity which all good men cordially pray for and endeavour which doubtlesse had beene easily effected long ere this had we all beene faithfull true reall to the publike cause of God and our Countrey in our severall places and not faithlessely betrayed but sincerely discharged the severall trusts reposed in us to the uttermost of our powers the readiest meane to re-establish and perpetuate our pristine tranquillity which I humbly beseech the God and Prince of peace effectually to accomplish in his owne due season before our whole three Realmes become a desolate Wildernesse an Accheldama a Golgatha as many places of them are already and more like to be if the extraordinary mercy of our ever-gracious God prevent not the mischievous long plotted conspiracies malice rage treachery of unnaturall and deceitfull men FINIS This Oath should have come in the Appendix page 73. line 17. The Oath of CHARLES King of Navarre at his Coronation An. 1390. recorded in the generall History of Spaine l. 17. p. 625. 626. VVED CHARLES by the grace of God King of Navarre c. doe sweare unto our people of Navarre upon the holy Evangelists toucht by us and to the Prelates and rich men of the Cities and good Townes and to all the people of Navarre for all your Rights Lawes Customes Freedomes Liberties and Priviledges that every one of them as they are shall be maintained and kept to you and your successors all the time of Our life without corrupting them bettering and not impairing them in all or in part and that the violence and force which hath beene done to your Predecessors whom God pardon and to you by Vs or Our Officers We shall hereafter command it to cease and satisfaction to be made according unto right as they shall be made manifest by good men of credit After which the Deputies of the State swore in their owne names and for all the Realme faithfully to guard and defend the Kings person and their Countrey and to aide him to keepe defend and maintaine the Lawes and Customes with all their power Errata and Omissions in some Copies Part. 4. p. 1. l. 26. it is p. 9. l. 39. c. 33. p. 27. l. 13. private publike p. 28. l. 7 other 31. pugnae Appendix p. 2. l. 3 parallel p. 4. l. 14. them the people l. 34 p. 5. l. 29. Maximus p. 8. l. 1. Polieuctus p. 39. l. 26. dele in the p. 41. l. 41. other p. 44. l. 40 retired p. 50. l. 44. the hand p. 54. l. 1. Cara Lara p. 55. l. 41. Pacensis p. 59. l. 27 dele the p. 66. l. 34. yeares p. 79. l 12 dele 〈◊〉 l. 3. Mariana p. 129. l. 2. adde 2 Chron. 22. 1. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Aliaziah his youngest sonne King in his stead l. 18. confirmed p. 145. l. 2. not from it to p. 147. l. 20. in some sence in private cases p. 150. l. 23. pem patu p. 153. l. 14. Cauarvius p. 162. l. 7. received renued p. 162. l. 28. Hotomani Francogal 38. Vindiciae p. 163. ● 2. revocable l. 3. Historicall l. 19. Cuiacius l. 23. usufrvctuary l. 35 dele the p. 166. l. 14. to doe l. 19. dele to l. 21. foundations p. 167. l. 7. is an p. 169. l. 26. Caracalla p. 170. l. 41. 2. secun qu. p. 171. l. 22. in Law p. 172. l. 27. fealty to p. 173. l. 8. adjuvante l. 15. rapacitates p. 174 l. 4. if it p. 177. l. 15. preserve l. 32. and. l. 35. goods p. 186. l. 15. 16. forcibly resist p. 187. l. 2. so to p. 190. l. 31. 206. p.