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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 his owne Daughter in Marriage to purchase peace Charles being afterwards slaine by Hebert Earl of Vermendoyes Algina his wife mistrusting the Frenchmen fled secretly with her young sonne Lewes Heire to the Crowne to Edward the Elder into England Whereupon that the Land might not be without a Ruler the Lords of France assembled at Paris and there tooke Councell to elect a new King where after long debate they named and crowned Raulfe sonne to Richard Duke of Burgundy King as next Heire to the Crown but young Lewes Raulfe dying after he had reigned 12 yeares the Nobles hearing that Lewes was alive in England sent for him into France and crowned him their King Lewes the 6. dying without issue being the last King of Pipens blood who enjoyed the Crowne 10. discents Hugh Capet usurped the Crowne putting by Charles Duke of Loraigne Vncle and next heire to Lewes whom by the Treason of the Bishop of Lao● he took prisoner After which the Crowne continued in this Hugh and his Heires Philip the 2. of France by a counsell of his Prelates was excommunicated for refusing to take Ingebert his wife whom he unlawfully put from him and to renounce Mary whom he had married in her stead And calling a Parliament they concluded that King Iohn of England should be summoned to appeare as the French Kings Liege-man at another Parliament to be holden at Paris within 15. dayes after Easter to answer to such questions as there should be proposed to him for the Dutchy of Normandy and the County of Angeou and Poytiers who not appearing at the day Philip hereupon invaded and seized them After which Lewes the 9. and Henry the 3. of England in a parliament at Paris made a finall composition for these Lands Lewes the 10. being under age was thought of many unsufficient to governe the Realm and when he had a mind to goe to the holy Warre as it was then deemed he did not undertake it but by the advice of his great Councell of Spirituall and Temporall Lords and persons who assisted him therein Philip the 4. in the 27. yeare of his Raigne raised a great Taxe throughout France which before that time was never heard nor spoken of by his absolute Prerogative without consent of his Estates in Parliament which had the sole power of imposing Taxes Which Taxe all Normandy Picardy and Champaigne allying themselves together utterly refused to pay which other Countries hearing of tooke the same opinion so that a great rumour and murmur was raised throughout the Realme of France in such wayes that the King for pacifying the people was faine to repeale the said Taxe Lewes 11. of France dying without issue male left his Queen great with child whereupon Philip his Brother reigned as Regent of France till the childe was borne which proved a male named Iohn who dying soone after Philip was crowned King at Paris albeit that the Duke of Burgoyn and others withstood his Coronation and would have preferred the Daughter of King Lewes But other of the Lords and Nobles of France would not agree that a woman should inherit so great a Kingdome it being contrary to the Salique law This Philip by advise of evill counsell set a great Taxe upon his Commons to the Fifth part of their movable goods at which they murmured and grudged wondrous sore and before it was levied hee fell into a Feever Quartan and great Flixe whereof hee dyed which Sickenesse fell upon him by prayer of the Commons for laying on them the said grievous Taxes Charles the fifth of France having a purpose to drive all the English ●u● of Aquitaine and other parts of his Kingdome and being provided of all things which he thought needfull for the doing of it yet would not undertake the warre without the counsell and good liking of the Nobility and people whose helpe he was to use therein Wherefore he commanded them all to be assembled to a Parliament at Paris to have their advice and by their wisdome to amend what had by himselfe not altogether so wisely been done and considered of And this warre being at last decreed by the Councell prospered in his hand and tooke good successe Whe●eas when the Subjects see things done either without counsell or contrary to the wills and decrees of the Senate or Co●ncell then they contemne and set them at naught or elfe fearfully and negligently do the command of their Princes of which contempt of Lawes Magistrates and sedditious speeches ensue among the people and so at length most dangerous rebellion or else open conspiracy against the Prince as Bodin observes This Charles dying without Issue Male leav●ng his Wife great with Childe Philip Earle of Valoyes his Nephew was by the Barons and Lords made Protector and Regent of the Realme of France untill such time as the Queene was delivered who being brought to bed of a Daughter onely hereupon Philip was crowned King Betweene him and King Edward the third of England and their Councells arose great disputations for the Right and Title to the Crowne of France for it was thought and strongly argued by the Councell of England for so much as King Edward was sonne and sole Heire to his Mother Queene Isabel daughter to King Philip le Beaw that he should rather be King of France then Philip de Valoyes that was but Cousin German to Philip le Beaw Of which disputations the finall resolution of the Lords and Parliament was That for an old Decree and Law by Authority of Parliament long before made which the English much oppugned that no woman should inherite the Crowne of France therefore the Title of Edward by might of the Frenchmen was put by and Philip by an Act of the whole French State by which his right was acknowledged admitted to the Government of the same After which one Simon Poylet was hanged in Chaines Headed and Quartered at Paris for saying in open audience that the right of the Crowne of France belonged more rightfully unto King Edward then to King Philip who had long warres about these their Titles to the Crowne King Iohn of France in the fifth year of his reig●● had by authority of the three estates of his Realme assembled in ●arliament to wit of the spirituall Lords and Nobles and Heads of Cities and good Townes of his Kingdome 3000 men waged for a yeare granted to him to defend him and his Realme aga●n●t Edward the third King of England who the next yeer following took King Iohn prisoner in the field Whereupon Charles Duke of Normandy his eldest sonne and Heire apparent assembled the 3 Estates at Paris in a Parliament there held craving aid of them to redeem their captivated King who promised their uttermost help herein desiring convenient time to consult thereof Which granted the three Estates holding their Councell at the Gray Fryers in Paris appointed fifty person among them to take view and make search of the grieyances and evill guidance of the Realme

193. l. 1. converseth p. 196. l. 33. lesse In the Marg● p. 42. l. 2. Daubeny p. 60. l. 4. Leges l. 9. Aimoin l. 12. Iure p. 85. l. 2. 850. p. 152. l. 1. A●nales Gil. p. 168. l. 19. Rex part 1. p. 12. l 15. third read second p. 29. l. 44. through p. 45. l. 24. l. 3. p. 48. l. 15. Britanniae l. 26. privatave p. 56. l. 16. reputing them p. 75. l. 25 responsum p. 93. l. 38. Duardus p. 100. l. 33. Raynerius l. 3. 8 Albericus Part 2. p. 59. l. 3. perfidum Part 3. p. 143. l. 25. naturall nationall 2 Pet 2. 12 14 15. Exod. 32. 32. Rom 9. 4. See Romes Masterpeece Isay 33. 20. Isay 58. 12. Zach. 4 7. * Psal. 85. 8 9 10. * Isa. 32. 17 18 * Micah 4. 3 4. Isay 2. 4. Joel 3. 10. * Apud Ambros. Epist. l 2. Ep. 2. Tom. 5. p. 97. * Jer. 45. 5. * Dated Ianu. 10. 1606. and Febr. 22. 1603. * Note this a Who confesseth justifieth it in his Speech in Star-chamber Iune 14. 1637. b See the Parliaments late Declaration c See King Iames his Apology against Bellarmin Laurentius Byerlink Opus Chro. p. 319. Deus Rex The Lord William Howards Sonnes la●e Booke in Defence of Papists taking the Oath of Allegiance * 3 Iac. c. 4. d See Dr. Iones his Book of Examinations e Dedicated to King Iames printed at London 1621. e Dedicated to King Iames and printed at London 1624. f In his Sermon there Mar. 24. 1615. p. 43. 44. g See Plaine English Object Crimination 1. Object 2. Answ. h The observations a ●uller answer to Dr. Ferne with others The Remonstrance of the Lords and Commons Novem. 2. 1642. * 1 Eliz. ch 1. Answ. i Rex habet superiorem Deum c. Item legem per quam factus est Rex Item Curiam suam viz. Comites Barones quia Comites dicuntur quasi s●cii Regis qui habet socium habet magistrum Et ideo si Rex fuerit sine fraeno i. sine lege DEBENTEI FRAENVM IMPONERE c. k Fox Acts Mon. Edi. 1641 Vol. 2 p. 879 880. Aeneas Sylvius de gestis concilii Basiliensis Surius conci Tom. 4. * Lib. 2. l Surius concil to● 4. p. 1. c And Aeneas Sylvius hist. Concil Basiliensis m Spe. hist. p. 207 266 267. Mat. West Ann● 445. 454 c. See Hunt hist. l. 2. p. 320 Pol. l. 5. c. 1. Fab. p. 73. Dan p. 8. H●l Graft Vin. Speed hist l 20 c. 11. others n Spee hist. p. 229 Huntin Mat. West An. 756. Hol. Graf in his life o Spee hist. p. 245 246. Hunt Mat. West an 792 See Holin Graft others n Matth. West An. 158. p. 275 o Matth. West An. 821. Speed hist p. 255. p Mat. West Hunt Poly. Fab. Holin Graf An. 9●7 q Fabian part 2. c. 49. 40. 41. p. 30. 31. with Matth Westin Huntingdon Polychronicon Geoffry Mommoth Hollinsh Graf●on Speed and others in his life r Fabian part 2. c. 46. p. 34. Geoffry Mommoth Huntingdon Matthew Westm. Polychron Hollinsh Grafton Speed in his life s Matth. Paris hist. Angl. p. 264. to 280. Speed p. 585. c. Hollinshead Grafton Stow Daniel Walsingham t Walsingham hist. Angl. p. 398. c. Fabian part 7. p. 345. Polychron l. ult c. 9. Hollinshead Grafton Speed p. 758 to 766. u Walsingham Hol. Fab. Speed p. 680. to 697. x Speed p. 869. 878. 879. 887. Hollinsh Polychronicon Fabian Grafton Hall Stow Cax●on in their lives y Speed p. 410 411 425 426 404. to 407. 410. 416. 418 419. 455 456. 466 467. 548 549 550 590 591. 762. See Matthew Paris Matth. West Malmsbu Hunt Eadmerus Fabian Walsing Caxton Polych Polydor Virgil. Hall Graf●on Stow How Hol. Hayward Martin Daniel and Sir Rich. Baker in their severall lives of these King● z Mat. Paris hist. p. 243. to 255. Daniel p. 142 143 144. a Matth. Paris p 96 97. Daniel p. 85. b Matth. Paris p. 324. 325. Daniel p. 151. 152. c Matth. Paris p. 420. 421. 430. 451. 452. See Matth. West Polychronicon Fabian Holling Graf●on Dan. p. 157. 158. d Matth. Paris p. 938 940 941. 942. Dan. p. 177. 179. e Walsingh Hist p. 70 71. See Fabian Hollinshead Graft Speed Daniel in 3. 4. E. 2. f Walsingham Hist. p. 90. 91 92 93. Exilium Hugonis le Despenser in Magn● Charta part 2. f. 50. to 57. See Hollin Fabian Speed Grafton Daniel in 14. 15. E. 2. g Hist. p. 107. 108. Ypodigm Neustr. p. 109. 110. h In Cambd. Britan. the last English edition p. 188. i Grafton Trysse● H●l●inshead Speed Walshingham in 10 11 21. 2. k Walsin Fab. Holinsh. Speed Hall Graf Trussel How 's in 23 R. 2. 1 H. 4. Fox Acts and Mon. vol. 1. edit ult p. 67 1 677 l Hornes Myrrour of Iustices c. 1. sect 3. p. 10. Cookes Instit. on Lit. f. 110. and 9. Report in the Preface Spelm. Concil Tom. ● p. 347. m Surius tom 1. Concil p. 342. n Surius tom 1. p. 407. o Surius tom 3. p. 488. 574 575. 732. Tom 2 p. 203. 675 728. 754. 603. 605 641 642. 643. 892 695. 713. 1042. 715 685. Gratian Distirct 18. luo Carnot Decret pars 4. c. 241 243 244 Spel. Concil tom 1. p. 153. p Surius tom 3. p. 24. 4● 42 406 q Surius tom 4. p. 44. r See H. Spel. Cencil tom 1 p. 529. Sigibert An. 528. Eadm hist. Nonor l. 3. p. 67. Con. Tole 8. 12 and others Aquisgra Conc. sub Ludovico Pio. s Commonw l. 3. c. 1. t Hieronymus Blanca Aragonensium Rerum comment p. 764 c. 688 689. 723 724. u Nichol. Isth. de Rebus Vng. hist. l. 6. f. 84. 85 * Arago Rerum Comment p. 762 763. * Andrew Favine his Theatre of Honour l. 2. c. 12. p. 175. 176. x See Orimston Aventinus Naucl. Munster Sabelli Vsperg Otho Frisingen Herm. Schedel Anton. Opinco● Mat. Par. Mat. West Walsing others in their lives and histories y See their 35 Articles made at their general Assembly at Kilkenny 1642 z Mat. Paris an 1233. p. 344 473. c. Speed hist. p. 607. to 613 Daniel p. 154 155. * Who now give the King no such good advice * Note The Parliaments present case * Speed lbid * Walsing Hist. p. 84. 44. Ypod. Neust. p. 101. a Mat. Pa. An. 1214 1215. p. 240 to 256. 〈◊〉 Matth. West Walsingh Ypod. Neust An. 1214 1215. Fabian Caxton Hollin Grafton Daniel in the life of K. John Hen. 3. Speed Hist p. 578. to 637. b Matth. Par. p 252. Sp. Hol. accordingly c Matth. Per. An. 1258. p. 9. 940 941. Mat. Westmin 1258. Walsingh Ypod. Neustr. p. 61. Sp. p 635. Hol. Grafton Daniel Polychron d Matth. Par. p. 952 953. Speed p. 636. e Histor. Angliae p. 953. f Walsingh Ypod. Neust. An. 1309

of Saint Michael in the yeere of our Lord God 1389. and the 23. yeere of King Richard the second witnesseth that where by the Authority of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall of this present Parliament and Commons of the same the right honourable and discreet persons hereunder named were by the said Authority assigned to goe unto the Tower of London there to heare and testifie such Questions and Answers as then and there should be by the said honourable and discreet persons heard Know all men to whom these present Letters shall come That we Sir Richard Scroop Archbishop of York Iohn Bishop of Hereford Henry Earle of Northamberland Ralfe Earle of Westmerland Thomas Lord of Barkly William Abbot of Westminster Iohn Prior of Canterbury William Thirning and Hugh Burnell Knights and Iohn Markham Justice Thomas Stowe and Iohn Burbage Doctors of the Law civill Thomas Fereby and Denis Lopham Notaries publike the day and yeer abovesaid betweene the houres of eight and nine of the clock before noone were present in the chiefe Chamber of the Kings lodging within the said place of the Tower where was rehearsed to the King by the mouth of the foresaid E. of Northumb. that before time at Conway in north Wales the King being there at his pleasure and liberty promised unto the Archbishop of Canterbury then Thomas Arundell and unto the said Earle of Northumberland that for insufficiency which he knew himselfe to be of to occupie so great a charge as to governe this Realm of England he would gladly leave off and renounce the right and title as well of that as of his title to the Crowne of France and his Majestie unto Henry Duke of Hertford and that to doe in such convenient wise as by the learned men of this Landit should most sufficiently be by them devised and ordained To the which rehearsall the King in our said presences answered benignly and said That such promise he made and so to the same he was at that houre in full purpose to perform and fulfill saving that he desired first to have personall speech with the said Duke and with the Archbishop of Canterbury his Couzens And furthermore he desired to have a Bill drawn of the said Resignation that he might be made perfect in the rehearsall thereof After which Copy by me the said Earle delivered we the said Lords and others departed And upon the same afternoone the King desired much of the comming of the Duke of Lancaster at the last the said Duke with the Archbishop of Canterbury entred the foresaid Chamber bringing with them the Lord Ros the Lord Burgeiney the Lord Willoughbie with divers others where after due obeysance done by them unto the King he familiarly and with a glad countenance to us appearing talked with the said Archbishop and Duke a good season And that Communication finished the King with a glad countenance in presence o● us and the other above rehearsed said openly That he was ready to renounce and resigne all his Kingly Majestie in manner and forme as he before seasons had promised And although he had and might sufficiently have declared his renouncement by the reading of another meane person yet he for the more surety of the matter and for the said resignation should have his full force and strength he therefore read the Scroll of resignation himselfe in manner and forme as followeth In the Name of God Amen I Richard by the grace of God King of England and of France and Lord of Ireland acquit and assoile all Archbishops Bishops and other Prelates secular or religious of what dignity degree state or condition that they be of and also all Dukes Marquesses Earles Barons Lords and all mine other liege men both spirituall and secular of what manner of name or degree they be from their Oath of fealty and homage and all other Deeds and Priviledges made unto me and from all manner of Bonds of Allegeance and Regality or Lordship in the which they were or be bound to me or in any otherwise constrained and them their heires and successours for evermore from the same Bonds and Oaths I release deliver acquit and let them for ever be free dissolved and acquit and to be harmlesse for so much as belongeth to my person by any manner way or title of right that to me might follow of the foresaid things or any of them And also I resigne all my Kingly Dignity Majesty and Crowne with all the Lordships Power and Priviledges to the foresaid Kingly Dignity and Crown belonging and all other Lordships and Possessions to me in any manner of wise pertaining what name or condition they be of out take the Lands and Possessions for me and mine obite purchased and bought And I renounce all right and colour of right and all manner of title of possession and Lordship which I ever had or have in the same Lordships and possessions or any of them or to them with any manner of rights belonging or appertaining unto any part of them And also the rule and governance of the same Kingdome and Lordships with all ministrations of the same and all things and every of them that so the whole Empire and Iurisdictions of the same belongeth of right or in any wise may belong And also I renounce the name worship and r●gality and kingly highnesse cleerly freely singularly and wholly in the most best manner and forme that I may and with deed and word I leave off and resigne them and go from them for evermore saving alway to my successors Kings of England all the Rights Priviledges and appurtenances to the said Kingdome and Lordships abovesaid belonging and appertaining For well I wote and acknowledge and deem my selfe to be and have bin unsufficient and unable and also unprofitable and for mine open deserts not unworthy to be put down And I sweare upon the holy Evangelists here presently with my hands touched that I shall never repugne to this resignation dimission or yeelding up nor never impugne them in any manner by word or by deed by my selfe nor by none other nor I shall not suffer it to be impugned in as much as in me is privily nor apart but I shall have hold and keep this renouncing dimission and leaving up for firme and stable for evermore in all and in every part thereof so God me helpe and all Saints and by this holy Evangelist by me bodily touched and kissed And for more record of the same here openly I subscribe and signe this present Resignation with mine owne hand And forthwith in our presences and other subscribed the same and after delivered it to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying That if it were in his power or at his assignment he would that the Duke of Lancaster there present should be Successour and King after him And in token thereof he took a Ring of gold from his finger being his Signet and put it upon the said Dukes finger desiring and requiring the Archbishop

of Yorke to shew and make report unto the Lords of the Parliament of his voluntary Resignation and also of his intent and good minde that he bare toward his Cousin the Duke of Lancaster to have him his Successour and King after him And this done every man took their leave and returned to their own Upon the morrow following being Tuesday and the last day of September all the Lords Spirituall and Temporall with also the Commons of the said Parliament assembled at Westminster where in the presence of them the Archbishop of Yorke according to the Kings desire shewed unto them seriously the voluntary Renouncing of the King with also the favour which he ought unto his Cousin the Duke of Lancaster for to have him his Successour And over that shewed unto them the Scedule or Bill of Renouncement signed with King Richards hand After which things in order by him finished the question was asked first of the Lords If they would admit and allow that Renouncement The which when it was of the Lords granted and confirmed the like question was asked of the Commons and of them in like manner affirmed After which admission it was then declared That notwithstanding the foresaid renouncing so by the Lords and Commons adm●tted it were needfull unto the Realme in avoiding of all suspicions and surmises of evill disposed persons to have in writing and registred the manifold crimes and defaults before done by the said Richard late King of England to the end that they might be first openly shewed to the people and after to remain of Record among the Kings Records The which were drawn and compiled as before is said in 38. Articles and there shewed readie to be read but for other causes then more needfull to be preferred the reading of the said Articles at that season were deferred and put off Then forsomuch as the Lords of the Parliament had well considered this voluntary Renouncement of King Richard and that it was behovefull and necessary for the weale of the Realme to proceed unto the sentence of his deposall they there appointed by authority of the States of the said Parliament the Bishop of Saint Asse the Abbot of Glastenbury the Earle of Glocester the Lord of Barkley William Thyrning Justice and Thomas Erpingham and Thomas Gray Knights that they should give and beare open sentence to the Kings deposition whereupon the said Commissioners laying there their heads together by good deliberation good counsell and advisement and of one assent agreed among them that the Bishop of Saint Asse should publish the sentence for them and in their names as followeth In the Name of God Amen We John Bishop of Saint Asse or Assenence John Abbot of Glastenbury Richard Earle of Glocester Thomas Lord of Barkley William Thyrning Iustice Thomas Erpingham and Thomas Gray Knights chosen and deputed speciall Commissaries by the three Estates of this present Parliament representing the whole body of the Realme for all such matters by the said Estates to us committed We understanding and considering the manifold crimes hurts and harmes done by Richard King of England and misgovernance of the same by a long time to the great decay of the said Land and utter ruine of the same shortly to have been ne had the speciall grace of our Lord God thereunto put the sooner remedie and also furthermore adverting the said King Kichard knowing his own insufficiency hath of his own meere voluntarie and free will renounced and given up the rule and government of this Land with all Rights and Honours unto the same belonging and utterly for his merits hath judged himselfe NOT UNWORTHY TO BE DEPOSED OF ALL KINGLY MAJESTY AND ESTATE ROYALL We the Premisses well considering by good and diligent deliberation by the POWER NAME AND AUTHORITIE TO US AS ABOUE IS SAID COMMITTED PRONOUNCE DISCERNE AND DECLARE the same King Richard before this to have beene and to be unprofitable unable unsufficient and unworthy to the rule and governance of the foresaid Realms Lordships and all other App●rtenances to the same belonging and FOR THE SAME CAUSES WE DEPRIUE HIM OF ALL KINGLY DIGNITIE AND WORSHIP AND OF ANY KINGLY WORSHIP IN HIMSELFE AND WE DEPOSE HIM BY OUR SENTENCE DEFINITIUE forbiding expresly to all Archbishops Bishops and all other Prelates Dukes Marquesses Earles Barons and Knights and to all other men of the aforesaid Kingdom and Lordships or of other places belonging to the same Realmes and Lordships Subjects and Lieges whatsoever they be that none of them from this time forward to the foresaid Richard as King and Lord of the foresaid Realmes and Lordships be neither obedient nor attendant After which sentence thus openly declared the said Estates admitted forthwith the same persons for their Procurators to resigne and yeeld up to King Richard all their homage and fealty which they have made and ought unto him before times and for to shew unto him if need were all things before done that concerned his deposing The which resignation a● that time was spared and put in respite till the morrow next following And anon as this sentence was in this wise passed and that by reason thereof the Realme stood void without Head or Governour for the time the said Duke of Lancaster rising from the place where he before sate and standing where all might behold him he meekly making the signe of the Crosse upon his forehead and upon his breast after silence by an Officer was commanded said unto the people there being these words following In the name of the Father Sonne and holy Ghost I Henry of Lancaster claime the Realme of England and the Crowne with all the appurtenances as I that am descended by right line of the blood comming from that good Lord King Henry the third and through the right that God of his grace hath sent to me with the helpe of my ki●●e and of my friends to recover the same which was in point to be undone for default of good Governance and due Iustice. After which words thus by him uttered he returned set him down in the place where he before had sitten Then the Lords perceiving and hearing this claim thus made by this noble man either of them frained of other what he thought and after a distance or pause of time the Archbishop of Canterbury having notice of the Lords minde stood up and asked the Commons if they would ASSENT TO THE LORDS WHICH in their mindes thought the claime by the Duke more to BE RIGHTFULL AND NECESSARY FOR THE WEALTH of the Realm and of them all Whereunto they cryed with one voice YEA YEA YEA After which answer the said Archbishop going to the Duke and setting him upon his knee had unto him a few words the which ended he rose and taking the Duke by the right hand led him unto the Kings seat and with great reverence set him therein after a certaine Kneeling and Orison made by the said Duke e●e he were therein set And when the King

judicature as both King and Kingdome may confide in which will be so far from depressing that it will infinitely advance both the Kings Honour Justice profit and the Kingdomes too Seventhly It is undeniable that the Counsellours Judges and Officers of the Kingdome are as well the Kingdoms Councellours Officers and Iudges as the Kings yea more the Kingdoms than the Kings because the King is but for the Kingdoms service and benefit This is evident by the Statute of 14 E. 3. c. 5. which enacts that as well the Chancellour Treasurer Keeper of the Privie Seale the Iustices of the one Bench and of the other the Chancellour and Barons of the Exchequer as Iustices assigned and all they that doe meddle in the said places under them shall make an Oath well and lawfully to SERVE the King and HIS PEOPLE in THEIR OFFICES which Oath was afterward enlarged by 15 E. 3. c. 3. 18 E. 3. Stat. 3. 20 E. 3. c. 1 2 3. 1 Rich. 2. c. 2. swearing and injoyning them To doe even Law and execution of right to all the Subjects rich and poore without having respect to any person c. And if any of them doe or come against any point of the great Charter or other Statutes or the Lawes of the Land by the Statute of 15 E. 3 c. 3. he shall answer to the Parliament as well at the Kings suite as at the suite of the party Seeing then they are as well the Kingdomes Councellours Officers Iudges as the Kings and accountable responsible for their misdemeanours in their places as well to the Parliament and Kingdom as to the King great reason is there that the Parliament Kingdome especially when they see just cause should have a voice in their elections as well as the King The rather because when our Kings have been negligent in punishing evill Councellours Officers Iudges our Parliaments out of their care of the publike good have in most Kings reignes both justly questioned arraigned displaced and sometimes adjudged to death the Kings greatest Counsellours Officers and Iudges for their misdemeanours witnesse the displacing and banishing of William Longcham Bishop of Ely Lord Chauncellour chiefe Iustice and Regent of the Realme in Richard the 1. his Reigne Of Sir Thomas Wayland chiefe Iustice of the Common pleas attainted of Felony and banished for bribery by the Parliament 18 Ed. 1. the severall banishments of Piers Gaveston and the ● Spensers the Kings greatest favourites Officers Counsellors for seducing miscounselling King Edward the second oppressing the Subjects and wasting the Kings revenues the removall and condemnation of Sir William Thorpe Chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench for Bribery 25. E. 3. The fining and displacing of Michael de 〈◊〉 Pole Lord Chauncellour Alexander Nevell and divers other great Officers and Privie Counsellours with the condemning executing and banishing of Tresilian 〈◊〉 and other Judges in 10 11 Rich 2. by Parliament for ill Councell and giving their opinions at Nottingham against Law Of Empson Dudley and that grand Cardinall Wolsey Lord Chancellour and the Kings chiefest Favourite and Counsellour in Henry the eight his Reigne Of the Duke of Sommerset Lord Protector and his Brother Lord Admirall for supposed Treasons in Edward the 6 th his Reigne Of Sir Francis Bacon Lord Keeper and Cranfield Lord Treasurer in King Iames his latter dayes with infinite other presidents of former and latter ages and one more remarkable then all the rest In the Yeare 1371. the 45. of King Edward the third his Reigne and somewhat before the Prelates and Clergy-men had ingrossed most of the Temporall Offices into their hands Simon Langham Arch-bishop of Canterbury being Lord Chancellour of England Iohn Bishop of Bath Lord Treasurer William Wickam Archdeacon of Lincolne Keeper of the Privie Seale David Wolley Master of the Rolles Iohn Troy Treasurer of Ireland Robert Caldwell Clerke of the Kings Houshold William Bugbrig generall Receiver of the Dutchy of Lancaster William Ashby Chancellour of the Exchequer Iohn Newneham and William de Mulso Chamberlaines of the Exchequer and keepers of the Kings Treasury and Iewels Iohn Roxceby Clerke and Comptroller of the Kings works and Buildings Roger Barnburgh and 7 Priests more Clerkes of the Kings Chancery Richard Chesterfield the Kings under-Treasurer Thomas Brantingham Treasurer of Guives Merke and Calis All these Clergie-men who abounded with pluralities of rich Spirituall Livings though they Monopolized all these temporall Offices in the Parliament of 45 Edward the 3d. by a Petition and complaint of the Lords were displaced at once from these Offices no wayes suitable with their functions and Lay-men substituted in their places And a like president I find about 3 Hen. 3d. where the Clergy Lord Chancellour Treasurer with other Officers were removed upon a Petition against them and their Offices committed to Temporall-men whom they better beseemed If then the Parliament in all Ages hath thus displaced and Censured the greatest Councellours State-Officers Iudges for their misdemeanours ill Counsell insufficiency and unfitnesse for these places contrary to that twice condemned false opinion of the over-awed Iudges at Nottingham in 11 R 2. That the Lords and Commons might not without the Kings will impeach the Kings Officers and Iustices upon their Offences in Parliament and he that did contrary was to be punished as a Traitour and that upon this very ground that they are the Kingdoms Counsellours Officers and Iustices as well as the Kings and so responsible to the Parliament and Kingdome for their faults I see no cause why they may not by like reason and authority nominate and place better Officers Counsellours Iudges in their steeds or recommend such to the King when and where they see just cause Eightly Iohn Bodin a grand Polititian truely determines and proves at large That it is not the right of election of great Officers which declareth the right of Soveraignty because this oft is and may be in the Subjects but the Princes approbation and confirmation of them when they are chosen without which they have no power at all It can then be no usurpation at all in the Parliament upon the Kings Prerogative to nominate or elect his Councellours great Officers and Iudges or recommend meet persons to him which is all they require so long as they leave him a Power to approve and ratifie them by Writs or speciall Patents in case he cannot justly except against them Of which power they never attempted to divest his Majesty though he be no absolute but only a politick King as Fortescue demonstrates Ninthly It hath beene and yet is usuall in most Forraigne Kingdomes for the Senate and people to elect their publike Offi●ers and Magistrates without any diminution to their Kings Prerogative In the Roman State the people and Senate not only constantly elected their Kings and Emperours but all their other grand publike Officers and Magistrates as Consuls Tribunes Dictators Senators Decemviri and the like

two years space though his friends very oft petitioned for his liberty and Iohn a Gaunt Duke of Lancaster made Regent of the Realme because of the Kings irrecoverable infirmity summoning a Parliament the yeare following repealed the Statutes made in this good Parliament to the Subjects great discontent who were earnest suiters to the Duke for De la Mare his enlargement and legall tryall which being denied the Londoners upon this and other discontents tooke armes assaulted the Duke spoyled his house at the Savoy and hung up his armes reversed in signe of Treason in all the chiefe streets of London But in the first yeare of Richard the second in a Parliament at London Peter De la Mare and almost all the Knights which plaid their parts so well in the good Parliament for the increase of their Country and benefit of the Realme resuming their Petitions caused Alice Piers who contemning the Act of Parliament and the oaths wherewith she had bound her self presumed to enter the Kings Court to perswade and impetrate from him whatsoever she pleased to be banished and all her movables and immovables to be confiscated to the King notwithstanding she had corrupted with mony divers of the Lords and Lawyers of England to speak not only privately but publikely in her behalfe In the 1. yeare of Richard the 2 d William Courtney Bishop of London Edmond Mortymer Earle of March and many others of whom the Common-people had the best opinion being good wise and famous men were by publike consent appointed Councellours and Regents to the King being but young and this yeare Henry Piercie Earle of Northumberland resigning his Marshalls rod Iohn de Arundel was made Marshall in his place In the third yeare of Richard the second in a Parliament at London the Commons petitioned that one of the Barons who knew how to answer Forraigners wisely and might be mature in manners potent in workes tractable and discreete to be the kings protector Electus est Ergo COMMVNI SENTENTIA c. Hereupon Thomas Beauchamp Earle of Warwicke WAS ELECTED BY COMMON CONSENT IN PARLIAMENT Lord Protector that he migh con●inually abide with the King and recei●e an honorab●e anuall stipend out of the Kings Exchequer for his paines and those Bishops Earles Barons and Iudges assigned to be the Kings Counsell and Gardians the yeare before were upon the Commons petition this Parliament removed because they spent much of the Kings Treasure nullum a●t modicum fructum protulerunt In this Parliament Sir Richard Scrope resigned his Office of Lord Chauncellour and Simon de Sudbu●y Archbishop of Canterbury contrary to his degree and dignity as many then cryed out was substituted in his place In a Parliament at London in the fifth yeare of King Richard the second Sir Richard Sc●ope was againe made Chauncellour PETENTIBVS HOC MAGNATIBVS ET COMMVNIBVS at the REQVEST OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS as being a man who for his eminent knowledge and inflexible justice had not his peere in England and Hugh Segrave Knight was then likewise made lord Treasurer Sed quid juvant 〈◊〉 Parliamentorum c. writes Walsi●gham of the Acts of this Parliament and Speed out of him But to what purpose are Acts of Parliament when after they are past they take no manner of effect for the king with his Privie Counsell was wont to change and abolish all things which by the Commons and Nobility had beene agreed upon in former Parliaments For the very next yeare the king deposed Scrope from his Chauncellourship and tooke the Seale into his owne hands ●●aling divers Grants and Writings with it as he pleased and at last delivered the S●ale to Richard Braybrooke which Walsingha● thus relates Lord Richard Scrope Knight qui PER REGNI COMMVNIT ATEM ET ASSENSVM DOMINORVM ELECTVM IN REGNI CANCELLARIVM was in those dayes put from his Office of Chancellor which he had laudably and prudently administred The cause of his removall was his peremptory resistance of the Kings Will who desired to impoverish himselfe to exalt strangers For certaine Knights and Esquires of inferiour ranke being the kings servants begged of the king certaine lands and the demeasnes of such as dyed during such time as by the custome of the Kingdome they ought to remaine in the Kings hands The King being a child without delay granted their requests and sending them to the Chancellor commanded him to grant them such Charters under the great S●ale as they desired But the Chauncellor who ardently desired the benefit of the Realme and the Kings profit plainely denyed their requests alleaging that King was much endebted and that he had neede retaine such casualties to himselfe to helpe discharge his debts That those who knew in what debts the king was obliged were not faithfull to the King whiles they minded more their owne avarice than the kings profit preferring their private gaine before the publicke necessities Wherefore they should desist from such requests and be content with the Kings former gifts which were sufficient for them And that they should know for certaine that he would neither make nor seale any such Charters of ●●nfirmation to them of such donations of the king who was not yet of full age 〈◊〉 hee should herea●●●r receive ill thankes from him Whereupon these Petitioners returning from the Chancellour inform the king that the Chauncellors minde was obstinate and that he would doe nothing at his Command but rather contemne his Royall m●ndate that the King ought with due severity speedily to curbe such an unbrideled disobedience or else it would quickly come to passe that the kings honour would grow contemptible among his Subjects and his command be of no value The King therefore who understood as a childe more regarding the false machinations of detractors then the faithfull allegations of his Chauncellour in a spirit of furie sends some to demand his seale of him and to bring it to himselfe And when the king had sent againe and againe by solemne messengers that he should send the seale to him the Chauncellour answered thus I am ready to resigne the Seale not to you but to him who gave it me to keepe neither shall there be a middle bearer betweene me and him but I will restore it to his hands who committed it to mine owne hands not to others And so going to the king Here delivered the seale promising that he would as he had hitherto be faithfull to the king yet denyed that he would hereafter be an Officer under him And then the king receiving the Seale did for many dayes what he listed unt●ll Master Robert Braibrooke Bishop of London had undertaken the Office of Chancellour When not onely the Nobility of the kingdome but the Commonalty likewise heard that the king contrary to the Custome of the Kingdome had captiously deposed the Chauncellour whom All the Nobilitie of the Kingdome with the suffrage of all the Commons had chosen

and 14. The Bishop of Durham late Chancellour of England to Henry the 5. deceased and the Bishop of London Chancellour of the Dutchy of Normandy severally shew that upon King Henry the 5. his decease they delivered up their severall Seales after their homage and fealty first made to King Henry 6. in the presence of divers honourable persons whom they name particularly desiring the Lords to attest their surrender of the said Seales at the time and place specified which they did and thereupon they pray that a speciall act and entry thereof may be made in the Parliament Rolls for their indemnity which is granted and entred accordingly Numb 15. It was enacted and provided by the said Lord Commissioner Lords and Commons that in as much as the Inheritance of the Kingdomes and crownes of France England and Ireland were now lawfully descended to the King which title was not expressed in the Inscriptions of the Kings Seales whereby great perill might accrue to the King if the said inscriptions were not reformed according to his Title of Inheritance that therfore in all the Kings Seales as well in England as in Ireland Guyen and Wales this new stile should be engraven Henricus Dei Gratia Rex Franciae Angliae Dominus Hiberniae according to the effect of his inheritances blotting out of them whatever was before in them superfluous or contrary to the said stile and that command should be given to all the keepers of the said Seales of the King to reforme them without delay according to the forme and effect of the new Seale aforesaid Numb 16 Duke Humfrey the Kings Commissary and the other spirituall and temporall Lords being sate in Parliament certaine Knights sent by the Speaker and whole House of Commons came before them and in the name and behalfe of the said Commonalty requested the said Duke that by the advise of the said Spirituall and Temporall Lords for the good government of the Realme of England he would be pleased to certifie the said Commons to their greater consolation what persons it would please the King to cause to be ordained for the Offices of Chancellor and Treasure of England and Keeper of his Privie Seale Vpon which request so made due consideration being had and full advise taken and the sufficiency of those persons considered which deceased King Henry the Kings Father now had in his descretion assigned to those Offices as fitting enough the King following his Fathers example and advise by the assent of the said Lord Duke his Commissary and of all and every one of the Lords spirituall and temporall hath nominated and ordained anew the Reverend Father Thomas Bishop of Durham to the Office of his Chancellour of England William Kinwolma●sh Clerk to the Office of Treasurer of England and Mr. Iohn Stafford to the Office of the Keeper of the Privie Seale And hereupon the King our Lord willeth By THE ASSENT AND ADVISE aforesaid that 〈◊〉 well to the said Chancellor of England as to the said Treasurer of England and to the said Keeper of his Privie Seale for the exercise of the said Offices severall letters patents should be made in this forme Hen●icus Dei gratia Rex Angliae Franciae Dominus H●berniae omnibus ad quos presentes lite●ae pervenerint 〈◊〉 Sciatis quod De AVISAMENTO ET ASSENSV TOTIVS CONSILII NOSTRI IN PRAESENTI PARLIAMENTO NOSTRO EXISTENTES constituimus venerabilem patrem Thomam Episcopum Dunelmensem CANCELLARIVM nostrum ANGLIAE dant●s concedentes DE AVISAMENTO ET ASSENSV PRAEDICTIS eidem Cancellario nostro omnes omnimodas auctoritatem potestatem adomnia ea fingula quae ad officium cancellarii Angliae de jure sive consuetudine pertinent seu quovis tempore pertinere consueverunt c. The like Patents verbatim are in the same role mutatis mutandis made to the said Treasurer of England and Keeper of the Privy Seale After which the said Duke by advice and assent of the Lords spirituall and temporall sent the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishops of Winchester and Wor●ester the Duke of Excester the Earle of Warwicke the Lords of Ferrers and Talbot to the Commons then being in the Commons House and notified to the Commonalty by the said Lords these Officers to be nominated and ordained to the foresaid offices in forme aforesaid Vpon which notice so given THE SAID COMMONS WERE WEL CONTENTED with the nomination and ordination of the foresaid Officers so made rendring many thanks for this cause to our Lord the King and all the said Lords as was reported by the said Lords in the behalfe of the Commons in the said Parliament Numb 17. The liberties Annuities and Offices granted by King Henry the 5. and his Ancestors to Souldiers in forraigne parts are confirmed by Parliament and their grants ordered to be sealed with the Kings new Seales without paying any Fine Numb 18. Henry the 5. his last Will and the legacies therein given are confirmed by the Kings Letters Patents with the assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Numb 19. A subsidy is granted to be imployed for the defence of the Realme of England to which end the Lord Protectour promiseth it shall be diligently imployed Numb 22. and 23. The King by assent of all the Lords spiritual and temporall wills and grants that his deare Vncle the Duke of Gloucester shall have and enjoy the Office of the Chamberlaine of England and of the Constableship of the Castle of Gloucester from the death of the Kings father so long as it shall please the King with all the fees profits and wages thereunto belonging in the same manner as they were granted to him by his Father Numb 24. The 27. day of this Parliament the tender age of the King being considered that he could not personally attend in these dayes the defence and protection of his Kingdome of England and the English Church the same King fully confident of the circumspection and industry of his most deare Vncles John Duke of Bedford and Humfrey Duke of Gloucester By ASSENT AND ADVICE OF THE LORDS as well Spirituall as Temporall and LIKEWISE OF THE COMMONS in this present parliament hath ordained and constituted his said Vncle Duke of Bedford now being in forraigne parts PROTECTOR and DEFENDER OF HIS KINGDOME and of the Church of England and PRINCIPALL COVNSELLOR of our Lord the King and that he shall both be and called Protector and Defendor of the Kingdome and the Principall Councellor of the King himselfe after he shall come into England and repaire into the Kings presence from thenceforth as long as he shall stay in the Kingdome and it shall please the King And further our Lord the King BY THE FORES AID ASSENT and ADVICE hath ordained and appointed in the absence of his said Vncle the Duke of Bedford his foresaid Vncle the Duke of Gloucester now being in the Realme of England PROTECTOR of his said Realme and Church of England

our God and the Lord doe what seemeth him good Esther 9. 1 2. 5 10. In the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to have power over them the Iewes gathered themselves together into their Cities throughout all the Provinces of King Ahashuerus to lay hand on those that sought their lives and no man could withstand them for the feare of them fell upon all people Thus the Iewes smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and slaughter and destruction and did what they would with those that hated them but on the spoile laid they not their hand It is this eighth day of May 1643. Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament for Printing that this Booke Intituled The third Part of the Soveraign Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes be Printed by Michael Sparke senior Iohn White Printed at London for Michael Sparke Senior 1643. TO HIS EVER-HONOVRED NOBLE KINDE FRIENDS THE Right Honourable Lord Ferdinando Fairfax the Right Worshipfull Sir William Waller and Sir William Bruerton Knights Commanders in Chiefe of the Parliaments Forces in severall Counties Deservedly Renowned Worthies YOVR Incomparable Valour Zeale Activity Industry for the preservation of Your Dearest Country Religion Lawes Liberties and the very being of Parliaments all now endangered by an unnaturall generation of Popish and Malignant Vipers lately risen up in Armes against them in diverse parts of this Realme and those many miraculous Victories with which God hath beene lately pleased to Crowne your cordiall endeavours to promote his glory and the Publicke safety as they have justly demerited some gratefull generall Acknowledgements from the whole Representative Body of the State so they may in some sort challenge a private gratulatory Retribution from Me who have formerly had the happinesse to participate in your Christian Affections and now reape much Consolation by your Heroick Actions Having therefore seasonably finished this Third part Of the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms copiously Vindicating the Lawfulnesse Iustnesse of the Parliaments present Necessary Defensive Warre in which you have had the Honour to be imployed not onely as Chiefe but which is more as most successefull Commanders in your severall Countries in point both of Law and Conscience and fully wiping off those blacke Aspersions of TREASON and REBELLION which the opposite party really guilty of these crimes against both King and Kingdome as I have elsewhere manifested and here lightly touched have out of Malice Ignorance or both conjoyned most injuriously cast upon your Loyall honourable proceedings which rejoyce the soules of all true Philopa●ers who cordially affect their Country or Religion I could not without much ingratitude yea injustice have published it to the world but under the Patronage of your ever-honored res●lendent names who have so valorously so successefully pleaded this Cause already in the Field that it needs the lesse assistance from the Presse My many inevitable interruptions and straites of time in its contexture which may happily detract something from its perfection shall I hope derogate nothing from your Honourable Friendly acceptation whom I have thus conjoyned in the Dedication because the Parliament hath united you in their present Warlike employments and God himselfe joyntly honoured you with successe even to admiration among the Good indignation amidst Malignants envy with the Malicious and I trust to an active sedulous em●lation in all your Fellow Commanders imployed in other Quarters in the selfesame Cause Your present busie publike and mine owne private Imployments prohibite me to expatiate Wherefore earnestly beseeching the Glorious Lord of Hosts to be ever mightily present with your severall Noble Persons Forces and to make you alwayes eminently active Valorous Victorious as hitherto he hath done till Peace and Truth Tranquillity and Piety by your severall triumphant Proceedings shall once more lovingly embrace and kisse each other in our divided unreformed sinfull Kingdome And till the effect of these just warres You manage shall be quietnesse and assurance to us and our Posterities after us for ever I humbly recommend your Persons Proceedings to his protection who can secure you in and from all dangers of warre and rest Your Honours Worships most affectionate Friend and Servant WILLIAM PRYNNE To the Reader Christian Reader I Who have beene alwayes hitherto a Cordiall Desirer endeavourer of Peace am here necessitated to present Thee with a Discourse of Warre to justifie The Lawfulnesse of the Parliaments present taking up of necessary Defensive Armes Which neither their Ende●vours nor my with many others Prayers could with any safety to our Priviledges Persons Religion Liberty Realmes now forcibly invaded by his Majesties Popish and Malignant Cavallieres hitherto prevent or conjure downe To plead the Justnesse of a Warre of an unnaturall Civill warre the worst of any of a Warre betweene the Head and Members may seeme not onely a Paradox but a Prodigie in a Land heretofore blessed with an aged uninterrupted Peace And Lucans Bella per Aemathios plusquam civilia Campos c. now most unhappily revived among us being but Historicall and Poeticall may passe the world with lesse admiration and censure than this harsh Peece which is both Legally Theol●gically like the Subject matter Polemicall But as the ayme the end of all just War is and ought to be onely future setled Peace so is the whole drift of this Military Dissertation not to foment or protract but end our bloody Warrs which nothing hath more excited animated lengthened in the Adverse party than a strong conceite if not serious beliefe that The Parliaments Forces neither would nor lawfully might in point of Law or Conscience forcibly resist or repulse their invasive Armes without danger of High Treason and Rebellion which Bug-beare I have here refuted removed and the In-activity the much admired slownesse of many of our Forces in resisting in preventing their vigorous Proceedings which a little timely vigilance and diligence had easily controlled It is a more than Barbarous Inhumanity for any person not to put to his uttermost strength speedily to close up the mortall wounds of his bleeding dying Native Country but to protract its cure to enlarge encrease its deadly Ulcers Stabs Sores and make a lasting trade of Warre out of a sordid sinfull desire of Gaine of Plunder to raise a private fortune by the Republicks ruines a sinne of which some perchance are guilty is an unparalleld most unnaturall prodigious Impiety It was thought a great dishonour heretofore for men of Honour and Estates not to serve and defend their Country gratis as our own Lawbooks Histories plentifully manifest and shall such Persons now turne sordid Mercenaries stirre neither hand nor foot without their Pay and be more diligent to get their wages than discharge their Service God forbid It is Recorded of the Children of Gad and Reuben after they had recovered their inheritance on this side Iordan that they went all up armed before the Lord over Iordan

at their owne free cost untill they had driven out all the enemies in it before them subdued the Land and setled their brethren of the other Tribes peaceably in it And shall not Englishmen of Estates doe the like for their Brethren now in these times of need when money the sinewes of Warre is almost quite shrunke up by reason of former Disbursements and want of Trade We read That the very Heathen Kings of Canaan when they came and fought in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo against the Israelites THEY TOOKE NO GAINE OF MONEY for their paines Such was their Noble generosity which Deborah registers in her Song for their eternall Glory And we heare of divers Lords and Gentlemen in the Kings Army which serve against their Country gratis yea furnish out sundry Horse and Foote of their proper cost of few or none such there who receive any Pay And shall these be more free generous active in serving fighting against God Religion Lawes Liberties Parliament and their Country than those of like Ranke and quality on the Parliaments party are in warring for them O let not such an ignoble unchristian Report be ever once justly told in Gath or published in the streets of Askelon lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoyce lest the sonnes and daughters of the uncircumcised triumph I know there are some Heroicke Worthies in the Parliaments Armies of whom I may truely sing with Deborah My heart is toward the Governours of Israel that offered themselves willingly among the people and who like Zebulon and Nepthali have freely jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field Blessed be their Endeavours and their Names for ever Honourable I shall now onely wish that others would imitate their laudable examples that so our long-lingring warres may be speedily and happily determined in a blessed pure pious secure honourable lasting Peace They are Tormentors not Chirurgions Executioners not true Souldiers who desire endeavour not speedily to close up and heale their dearest Countries bleeding festring wounds for which I have prepared this Treatise as a Soveraigne Balme to incarne and cicatrize them not ulcerate or inflame them It was the Prophets Patheticke expostulation The harvest is past the Summer is ended and we are not healed Is there no balme in Gilead Is there no Physitian there why then is not the health of the Daughter of my people recovered It may be Englands and Irelands expostulation now The Lord put it into the hearts of our great Physitians the King Parliament and Grandees of both Armies that they may now at last with bleeding melting hearts and spirits speedily poure forth such effectuall healing Balmes into these two dying Kingdomes deadly wounds as may effectually cure and restore them to more perfect health and vigor than they ever formerly enjoyed that so they may lose nothing but their putrid blood their proud dead flesh their filthy sanies and corrupt humours by their unnaturall stabs already received Towards the advancement of which much desired cure if these my undigested rude Collections interrupted with sundry inevitable interloping Distractions which may justly excuse their many defects may adde any contribution or satisfie any seduced or scrupulous Consciences touching this present Warre I shall deeme my labours highly recompensed And so recommending them to Gods blessing and thy charitable acceptation I shall detaine thee with no further Prologue Farewell THE SOVERAIGNE POWER OF PARLIAMENTS KINGDOMES PROVING 1 st That the Parliaments present necessary Defensive Warre is Iust and Lawfull both in point of Law and Conscience and no Treason nor Rebellion HAving in the two former Parts of this Discourse dissipated foure chiefe Complaints against the Parliaments proceedings I come now in order in point of time and sequell to the 5 th Grand Objection of the King Royalists and Papists against the Parliament To wit That they have traiterously taken up Armes and levied warre against the King himselfe in his Kingdome and would have taken away his life at Keinton battell which is no lesse than Rebellion and High Treason by the Statute of 25. E. 3. c. 2. with other obsolete Acts and by the Common Law Which Objection though last in time is yet of greatest weight and difficulty now most cryed up and insisted on of all the rest in many of his Majesties late Proclamations Declarations and in Anti-Parliamentary Pamphlets To give a punctuall Answere to this capitall Complaint not out of any desire to foment but cease this most unnaturall bloody warre which threatens utter desolation to us if proceeded in or not determined with a just honourable secure lasting peace now lately rejected by his Majesties party I say First that it is apparent to all the world who are not willfully or maliciously blinded That this Majesty first began this warre not onely by his endeavors to bring up the Northerne Army to force the Parliament confessed by the flight l●tters examinations of those who were chiefe Actors in it but by raising sundry forces under colour of a guard before the Parliament levied any Secondly that the Parliament in raising their forces had no intention at all to offer the least violence to his Majesties person Crowne dignity nor to draw any English blood but onely to defend themselves and the Kingdome against his Majesties Malignant invasive plundring Forces to rescue his Majestie out of the hands the power of those ill Councellers and Malignants who withdrew him from his Parliament to bring him backe with honour peace safety to his great Councell their Generall and Army Marching with a Petition to this purpose and to bring those Delinquents to condigne punishment who most contemptuously deserted the Houses contrary to Order Law the Priviledges of Parliament their owne Protestation taken in both Houses sheltring themselves under the power of his Majesties presence and Forces from the justice of the Houses and apprehension of their Officers contrary to all presidents in former ages in High affront of the priviledges honour power of the Parliament and Fundamentall knowne Lawe of the Realme Since which time his Majestie having contrary to his former Proclamations and frequent Printed solemne Declarations entertained not onely divers Irish Popish Rebels but likewise English and Outlandish Papists in his Army and given Commissions to sundry Arch-Popish Recusants to A●me themselves and raise Forces against the Parliament and Kingdom now in the field in all the Northerne parts Wales and other places and that under the Popes owne consecrated Banner as many report in defiance of our Protestant Religion designed by the Popish Party both at home and abroad to no lesse then utter extirpation in England as well as in Ireland if not in Scotland too as some of them openly professe the Parliament are hereupon necessitated to augment and recrute their forces as for the precedent ends at first so now more especially for the necessary defence of the Protestant

King for the two next yeares so as the custome of Mal-tolt newly imposed on Woolls should be released and this grant not drawne hereafter into custome as a precedent to their prejudice Who acquainting the Commons therewith they after deliberation As to the Kings supply returned this Answer Num. 8 9. That they thought it meet the King should be supplyed and were ready to ayde him as they had alwayes formerly beene but yet as the ayde was granted in this case they durst not assent to it untill they had consulted and advised with the Commons in the Country for which end they craved time to goe into their Counties and that Writs might issue to summon another Parliament on the Octaves of Saint Hillary of the richest Knights in every Shire at a short day to come which was condescended to After which Num. 9 10 11. they gave this answer in writing concerning the three Articles propounded to them First As to the keeping of the peace of the Realme that the Justices of the Peace had sufficient power already to that purpose onely they adde that disturbers of the peace should not be let out of Prison but upon sufficient Bayle and that no Charters of pardon should be granted to Felons but by common consent in Parliament and all other pardons held as voyd To the second they answered That the King before his going beyond the Seas had taken so good order and appointed such sufficient Guardians to defend the Marches of Scotland who were best able to guard those parts that the enforcement of them by the Kings Councell would be sufficient without any charge to the Commons Only they ordered that every man who had Lands in the Marches of Scotland of what condition soever they were should reside upon them to defend them as it had beene formerly ordained without charge to the Commons To the third concerning the guard of the Seas The Commons prayed that they might not be charged to give Counsell in things of which they had no conisance or charge and that they were advised that the Barons of the Ports which at all times have honours before all the Commons of the Land and are so enfranchized to guard the Sea betweene us and strangers if so be it fals out that they will enter and assaile our Land that they contribute to no aydes nor charges on the said Land but receive profits without number arising by the Sea for the Guard aforesaid Wherefore the Commons are advised that they ought to maintaine a guard upon the Sea as the Commons do upon the Land without taking or demanding wages Likewise there are other great Townes and Havens which have a Navy that are in the same case and are bound to guard the Sea And as for the safeguard of the Watch-houses upon the Sea by Land let the guard of them be made by the advice of the Knights of the Shire where the said Guardians are assigned in the safest manner that may be without charge of the Commons And that the people of the Land of what condition soever which have lands on the Coast shall keepe residence upon those Lands the better to repulse the enemies from the Land so that for their abiding there they shall be discharged to give any aide toward the same guard elsewhere Num. 13. The Commons frame and demand a generall pardon upon grant whereof they promise to aide the King with monies Num. 14. They make an Ordinance for increase of monies in the Realme Num. 15. Because the ships of England went not out together in Fleetes to trade but severally out of desire of gaine and covetousnesse and so many of them were taken by the Enemies of the King and the men slaine and murthered to the dishonour of the King and the whole Realme it was agreed and assented in full Parliament that all the Navy should stay and be arrested till further order were given to the contrary Num. 16. It was accorded and assented in Parliament that the Bishops and Lords in the Parliament should send Letters to the Archbishop of Yorke and the Clergy of his Province under their Seales to excite them to grant a convenient ayd for the guard of the Marches of Scotland for the defence of the Church the Realme and themselves as the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury had done Num. 17. It is accorded that Master Robert de Scardeburgh shall be put into the Commission which shall be sent into the County of Yorke to survey the Array of the people which shall be chosen for the defence of the Realme in lieu of Sir Thomas de Blaston That Sir Richard Chastell shall be put in the Commission to survey the Array in the Counties of Notingham and Derby and Iohn Feriby in the County of Lancaster Num. 18. It is assented that the people of Holdernes shall be Arrayed taxed and make ayde for the guarding of the Marches of Scotland and other businesses of the King in those parts notwithstanding the Commission made to them to guard the Sea Num. 21. The Lords who have Lands towards the Marches of Scotland are commanded and prayed by writs and Letters to repaire thither for defence thereof namely the Lords of Ros Wake Mowbray Clifford and Master William Daubeny Steward of the Earle of Richmond and that those who could not in this case goe in proper person should send their people to the Lords in the Marches In the second Parliament held this yeare by appointment of the first Octabis Hilarii 13. Ed. 3. Num. 2. 5. Edward Duke of Cornwall Guardian of England in the Kings absence being hindered by other businesses to be present in this Parliament by Letters Patents under the Kings great Seale appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury and others to supply his place and hold the Parliament Num. 6 7 8 9. The Commons for the defence of the Realme Sea and Marches of Scotland granted the King thirty thousand sackes of Wooll and the Earles and Barons the ninth sheafe Fleece and Lambe within their Demesne Lands and agreed to raise a great summe of money presently to set out a fleet of Ships to Sea fraught with men of armes and archers for defence of the Realme Num. 10. All the Merchants of England were summoned by writ to appeare at Westminster in proper person to conferre upon great businesses concerning the Kings honour the salvation of the Realme and of themselves Num. 11. The Mariners of the Cinque-ports upon their departure promised to make their ships ready by Mid-Lent and were to receive a summe of money to helpe defray their charges herein and the men of the Cinque-ports promised to defray the moity of the costs and the Kings Counsell the other moity but not in name of wages but out of speciall grace and the Cinque-ports were to finde 21 ships of their owne and nine ships of the River of Thames Num. 12. The Mariners towards the West promised to finde 70. ships of an hundred Tunne

divers destructions by them moved and for certaine Articles appointed by the Lords upon the charges given to them by our Lord the King in Parliament and by the said Lords it was specially accorded That four persons to wit the Kings Confessor the Abbot of Done Master Richard Derham and Crosseby of the Chamber shall be quite ousted and voided out of the Kings house whereupon the ninth of February the said Confessor Master Richard and Crosseby came before the King and Lords in Parliament and there the King in excusing the said four persons said openly that he knew not by them any cause or occasion in speciall for which they ought to bee removed from his houshold notwithstanding our said Lord the King well considered that what the said Lords and Commons shall do or ordaine was for the good of him and of his Realme and therefore he would conforme himselfe to their intentions and did well agree to the said Ordinance which charged the said Confessor Master Richard and Crosseby to avoid his said Court and like charge should have beene given to the said Abbot had he been present And our Lord the King said further That he would doe the like with any other which was about his royall Person if he was in hatred or indignation with his people And Numb 37. To the end that good and just government and remedy may bee made of divers complaints grievances and mischiefs shewed to our Lord the King in this Parliament our Lord the King to the honour of God and upon the great instances and requests to him divers times made in this Parliament by the Commons of his Realm for the ease and comfort of all his Realme hath ordained certain Lords and others underwritten to be of his great and continuall Councell to wit the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishop of Lincolne Chancellour of England the Bishops of Rochester Winchester Bath and Ba●gor the Duke of Yorke the Earles of Sommerset and Westmerland the Lord Roos Treasurer of England the Keeper of the Great Seale the Lord Berkley the Lord Willoughby the Lord Furnevall the Lord Lovell Mounsier Pierce Courtney Master Hugh Waterton Master Iohn Cheyne Master Arnald Savage Iohn Northbury Iohn Doreward Iohn Cawsou In the Parliament of 7. 8. Henry 4. Numb 31. The 22. day of May the Commons came before the King and his Lords in Parliament and then Iohn Tibetot their Speaker reheased how they had prayed the King in the beginning of the Parliament and after to increase the number of his Councell for the better government of the Realme and prayed the King to put it in execution and further rehearsed how that the Archbishop of Canterbury had reported to them That the King would be counselled by the most sage Lords of the Realme the which ought to have the survey of all that which shall be done for the good government of this Realme which thing the King agreed to doe and rehearsed with his own mouth That it was his entire will And thereupon a Bill made by the King himselfe by his own will was delivered containing the names of the Lords which shall be of his Councell the tenour of which Bill ensueth It is to bee remembred that our Lord the King considering the great labours occupations and diligence which he ought necessarily to imploy about the good government of his Realme and other his possessions as well on this side the Sea as beyond it First of all for the preservation of our Lord the King and of his Crowne and that the revenues of the same may be the better collected to his profit and increase as much as a man may j●●rly doe to the end that he may the better sustaine his honourable estate And secondly for the confirmation of the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme to the end that equall right may be done to every one as well poor as rich Our Lord the King of his proper and good will desirous to be supported in the foresaid causes because that he cannot attend thereunto in proper person so much as he would for the great love and good affiance which he hath among others in the most reve●end Fathers in God the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishops of Winchester and Excester the Duke of Yorke the Earle of Somerset the Lord Roos the Lord Burnet the Lord Lovell the Lord Willoughbie the Chancellour Treasurer and Keeper of the privie Seale the Steward and Chamberlaiue Master Hugh Waterton Master Iohn Cheyney and Master Arnald Savage hath chosen and charged them to be of his counsell praying and commanding them that in all the foresaid causes they will put to their intire diligences for the profit of our said Lord the King and likewise for the confirmation of the Laws and Statutes aforesaid In the Parliament of 2. Henry 6. num 15. After divers speciall requests of the Commons of the Realme being in the present Parliament made to my Lord of Glocester Commissary of the King and to other Lords Spirituall and Temporall there for to have notice and conusance of the persons assigned and elected to be of the Kings Councell to their great ease and consolation By advice and assent of all the Lords Spirituall and Temporall aforesaid were elected and named certaine persons as well spirituall and temporall to be Councellours assistant to the governance of the Realm whose names here ensue The Duke of Glocester the Archbishop of Canterbury the Bishops of London Winchester Norwich Worce●●er the Chancellour Treasurer and Keeper of the privie Seale the Duke of Excester the Earle of March the Earle of Warwick the Earle Marshall the Earle of Northumberl●nd the Earle of Westmerland the Lord Cromwell the Lord Fitz H●gh the Lord Bourchier the Lord Scroop Master Walter Hungerford Master John Tiptoff ●homas Chaucer William Allington In the Parliament of 29. Henry 6. num 6. Vpon the Petition of the Commons against divers Lords Bishops Knights Esquires and others to the number of 29. who mis-behaved themselves about the royall Person of the King and in other places by whose only meanes it was suggested the Kings possessions had been greatly diminished his Laws not executed the peace of the Realm not observed to the great hurt and trouble of the liege people of the Realm and likely subversion of the same of which misbehaviour universall noise and clamour was openly received thorowout all the Realme upon the same persons specified in the Petition all of them except the Lords and some few others without further evidence against them were by the King now removed from his presence and Court for a whole yeeres space within which time any man that could and would object against any of them should be patiently heard and intended to Those few fresh Presidents added to the precedent and to such forraign examples of this nature cited in the Appendix will abundantly cleare the Parliaments right and Kingdoms interest in nominating placing and displacing the great Officers of the Kingdom and