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A74790	A new Magna Charta: enacted and confirmed by the high and mighty states, the remainder of the Lords and Commons, now sitting at Westminster, in empty Parliament, under the command and wardship of Sir Thomas Fairfax, Lievtenant Generall Cromwell, (our present soveraigne lord the King, now residing at his royall pallace at White-Hall) and Prince Ireton his sonne, and the Army under their command. Containing the many new, large and ample liberties, customes and franchises, of late freely granted and confirmed to our soveraigne lord King Charles, his heires and successors; the Church and state of England and Ireland, and all the freemen, and free-borne people of the same.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Thomason E427_15; ESTC R203352	6,004	11

Lievtenants Governours and old Garrison Souldiers of the Tower of London Newcastle Yorke Bristoll Plymouth Glocester Exeter Chester Pendennis Castle and the Isle of Wight be removed with disgrace by our new Generalissimoes meere arbitrary power notwithstanding our former Votes and Ordinances for their particular settlement and new mean seditious Sectaries of our confederacy put into their places Item We will that a just difference be made between such persons as never departed from their Covenant and duty and such as were detestable Newtralists and oppressours of the people and to that end we will that the Commission of the Peace be renewed at the pleasure of our flying Speakers who are to provide that such be omitted as agree not with the frame and temper of the Army and us their Lords and Commons sitting at Westminster and others be added in their places who have complied with the enemy and oppressed the people and to that end we agree that the Earle of Suffolke Earle of Middlesex William Lord Maynard William Hicks Knight and Baronet John Parsons Knight Richard Pigott Knight Edward King Esquire Thomas Welcome Esquire and divers others be omitted and that John Lockey Thomas Welby VVilliam Godfrey Richard Brian Sir Richard Earle Baronet and others of that stamp be added of whose integrity and faithfulnesse Quere Item We will that for the perpetuall honour of the Lords and Barons of this Realme whose Ancestors purchased for us with the expence of their lives and bloods from King John and Henry the third the great Charter that they shall from henceforth be impeached of High Treason committed imprisoned and put out of the House of Peers and forfeit their lives and estates to our disposing if they defend that great Charter the lives and Liberties of the Subjects and Parliament against a perfidious and rebellious Army and us the fugitive Lords and Commons who fled from our Houses to the Army without cause and there entred into a trayterous Covenant and Ingagement to live and die with the Army and to destroy the faithfull Members that stayed behind at Westminster and all the freedome of this and future Parliaments And we will that henceforth there shall be no House of Peers distinct from Commons but that all Peers and Peerage be for ever abolished and all great and rich mens estates levelled and made equall to their poorest neighbours for the better reliefe and encouragement of the poor Saints Item We will that the City of London shall have all her ancient Liberties and Customes in as full and ample manner as her Predecessors ever had and for that end we will that the Army shall march in a Warlike manner towards that City and passe like Conquerours in tryumph through the same That all the Fortifications and Line about it shall be slighted and thrown downe the Tower taken out of their hands and put into our Generalls and fortified to over-awe them the Militia of the City changed and divided from that of Westminster and Southwarke the Lord Mayor Recorder Aldermen and some leading men of the Common Counsell by crafty sinister and feigned informations impeached of high Treason and other great Misdemeanours imprisoned and disabled and others by our appointment and nomination put into their places and the Citizens and Common Counsell-men shall henceforth make no free Elections of Governours and Officers That White-Hall the Muse Minories Ely-house and other places shall be made Citadells that the Posts and Chaines in the City and Suburbs be taken away their Gates and Purcullices pulled downe their Armes delivered into a common Magazine by our appointment to disable them from all future possibility of selfe-defence or disobedience to our imperiall commands that so they may willingly deliver us up the remainder of their exhausted treasures and estates when we see cause to require the same and made as absolute Freemen for all their expence of treasure and blood in our defence as our English Gally-slaves now are in Algier Item We will that the command of the Navy and all ships at Sea for the honour of this Nation and our owne be committed into the hands and government of a Vice-Admirall without and against the consent of the Lords of late but a Skippers Boy a common Souldier in Hull a I eveller in the Army impeached by the Generall for endeavouring to raise a mutiny at the late Rendevouz and since that taken with a Whore in a Bawdy house who rode downe in triumph to the Downes to take possession of his place in a Coach and foure horses with a Trumpeter and some Troopers riding before and after it sounding the Trumpet in every Towne and Village as they passed to give notice of his new Excellencies arrivall and make the common people vaile Bonnet and strike sale to his Coach and at his late returne from the Isle of Wight to the Downes was rowed from the ship to the Towne of Deale with the Ensigne in the sterne the Boatswaine and all the Rowers bare headed like so many Gally-slaves a new kind of state which never any Lord-Admirall in England though the greatest Peer yet tooke upon him but the King onely and to maintaine this new pompe and state of his we will and ordain that all Merchants as well Natives as Forraigners shall pay such new Customes Impositions and Excize for all manner of goods and Merchandize whatsoever imported or exported as we in our arbitrary wisdomes shall judge meet under paine of forfeiture of all their said goods and Merchandize and such other penalties as we shall impose Item We will and ordaine for the ease and reliefe of the almost famished poore in these times of dearth and decay of Trade that Excize shall still be paid by them and every of them for every drop of small beer they drinke and for all oyles dying stuffes and Mercers wares they shall have occasion to use about their Trades and Manufactures and that the lusty young souldiers who are able to worke and get their livings by the sweat of their browes shall ramble abroad through all the Kingdome and like so many sturdy rogues take Free-quarter for themselves horses and companions from place to place refusing to work shall eat up all the provisions in Gentlemens Yeomens Clothyers and other rich mens houses who formerly relieved the impotent poore with their Almes and the able with work Item We will that William Lenthall our Speaker for the time being shall have a Monopoly and plurality of all kind of Officers for the maintenance of his state and dignity and recompence of his infidelity in the deserting the true House of Commons notwithstanding the selfe-denying Ordinance to the contrary and to this end we ordaine that he shall be our perpetuall Speaker and eternally take five pounds for every Ordinance that passeth the Commons House with all other incident new exacted fees and gratuities that he shall with this his office enjoy the custody and profits of the great Seale of England the Dutchy

A New Magna Charta Enacted and confirmed By the High and Mighty States the Remainder of the LORDS and COMMONS now sitting at Westminster in Empty Parliament under the Command and Wardship of Sir Thomas Fairfax Lievtenant Generall Cromwell our present Soveraigne Lord the King now residing at his Royall Pallace at White-Hall and Prince Ireton his sonne and the Army under their Command Containing the many new large and ample Liberties Customes and Franchises of late freely granted and confirmed to our Soveraigne Lord King Charles his Heires and Successors the Church and State of England and Ireland and all the Freemen and Free-borne People of the same New Magna Charta Cap. 29. Omni vendemus omni negabimus aut differemus Iustitiam vel recium Printed in the Yeere 1648. A new Magna Charta FIrst for the honour of Almighty God and in pursuance of the solemne League and Covenant which we made in the presence of Almighty God for the Reformation and defence of Religion the honour and happinesse of the King and the peace and safety of the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland we have granted and by this our present Charter have consirmed That the Church of England shall be free to deny the perpetuall Ordinances of Jesus Christ to countenance spreading heresies cursed blasphemies and generall loosenesse and prophanenesse and that all Lawes and Statutes formerly made against the aforesaid offences for the punishment and restraining thereof shall be utterly repealed that so all men may freely enjoy and professe what Religion soever they please without restraint And we will that all Archbishops Bishops and their dependents shall be eternally suppressed and all their Mannours Lands and possessions sold to defray and advance the Publique Faith That all Ministers shall be plundered and thrust out of their livings and free-holds by our Committee of plundering Ministers without Oath or legall tryall upon bare informations of such of their Parishioners who are indebted to them for Tythes or have any Kinsman to preferre to their livings And to supply the want of Ministers That all Officers Souldiers Coblers Tinkers and gifted Brethren and Sisters shall freely preach and propagate the Gospell to the people and new dip and rebaptize them without punishment Item We will that the Kings Majesties person be maintained and his Authority preserved by seizing his Person at Holdenby with a party of horse and imprisoning him in the Army indangering his life at Hampton Court and by colour thereof conveighing him secretly into the Isle of Wight removing from him all his Attendants disposing of his Revenue Children Forts Ships Castles and Kingdomes and by this putting in execution these our Votes That no more addresses be made from the Parliament to the King nor any Letters or Message received from him That it shall be Treason for any persons whatsoever to deliver any Message to the King or receive any Messages or Letters from him without leave from both Houses of Parliament That a Committee draw up a Declaration to be published to satisfie the Kingdome of the reason of passing these Votes That so the world may beare witnesse with our consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just power and greatnesse according to the words of the solemne League and Covenant Item We give and grant to the Freemen of the Realm these Liberties under written First that no Sheriffes shall make due returnes of the Citizens and Burgesses elected to serve in Parliament nor make due Elections of Knights nor in convenient time nor the ablest wisest nor discreetest shall be returned but all fraud and deceit shall be used in Elections and persons not duly elected nor elegible by Law shall be Members of the House of Commons and those to be our sonnes kindred servants officers and such as will comply with us Item No Member shall sit in the House of Commons with freedome and safety that endeavours to settle Religion in the purity thereof according to the Covenant to mantaine the ancient and fundamentall Government of the Kingdome or to preserve the Rights and Liberties of the Subject or that layes hold on the first oportunity of procuring a safe and well-grounded peace in the three Kingdoms or that keeps a good understanding between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland according to the grounds expressed in the solemne League and Covenant And whoever offends against this Article we will that such Members be impeached of High Treason by the Army suspended the House before any particular impeachment forced to accuse themselves by stating their cases for want of an accuser and witnesses to prove them criminall and at the last cast out of the House without answer hearing the evidence or privity of those that elected them whose persons they represent Item We grant that neither we nor any by colour of Authority derived from us shall interrupt the ordinary course of Justice in the severall Courts and Judicatures of the Kingdome nor intermeddle in causes of private interest otherwhere determinable save onely our Committees of Indempnities plundered Ministers Complaints Sequestrations Excize and the Army who shall judge and contradict the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme vacate and repeale all Indictments Verdicts and Judgements given in Courts of Justice imprison all manner of persons and turne them out of their Freeholds Estates Goods and Chattels without the lawfull judgement of their Peers and against the fundamentall Lawes of the Land Item we will and ordaine that the great and unusuall payments imposed upon the people and the extraordinary wayes that were taken for procuring moneyes shall contrary to the trust reposed in us be still burthensome and daily increased more and more upon the people by our bare Votes and Ordinances without the common consent by Act of Parliament and in case of refusall forcibly levyed by Troops of horse and souldiers according to the law of decolled Strafford of all which moneyes our selves and Members will be sole treasurers and disposers Free-Quarter shall be still tolerated and countenance given by us to the exactions and extortions of the souldiers to whom we have granted an Ordinance of Indempnity for all murders fellonies rapes robberies injuries and trespasses committed by them and all such offences as they shall commit to the end they may protect us against the clamours and complaints of the oppressed people either by Sea or Land and we ordaine that all Free-men shall henceforth be tryed onely by Martiall and Committee Law and impeached of new high Treason at our pleasure to consiscate their estates to our Exchequer Item We will that such persons as have done valiantly and dealt faithfully in the Parliaments cause according to the Declaration of England and Scotland shall be publikely disgraced and dishonoured and without cause thrust from their commands and imployments both Civill and Martiall without pay hearing conviction or reparation for their losses and that the severall and respective