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A88244	Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent. Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2172; Thomason E370_12; ESTC R201291	90,580	119

vertue of their being the Sons of prerogative Lords Earles Dukes or Barrons Now if you please to reade the Chronicles of this Kingdome you shall find that this thing called prerogative flowes meerly from the wills and pleasures of Robbers Rogues and The●ves by vertue of which they made Dukes Earles Barrons and Lords of their fellow Robbers Rog●es and Theeves the lineall issue and progeny of which the present House of Peers are having no better right nor title to their present pretended judicature then meer and absolute usurpation and the will and pleasures of the potent and enslaving Tyrants alias Kings of this Kingdome for I read in Speeds Chronicle pag. 413. 416. 417. and in Daniel pag. 27. 28. That the Normans in France came antiently of a mixt people from the Norwegians Swedens Danes practising practises upon the Coasts of Belgia Frizia England Ireland and France and proceeded in their hardy and wicked courses even to the Mediterranean Sea● which drove the French to such extremity that King Charles the bald was forced to give unto Hasting a Norman Arch-Pirate the Earldome of Charters to aslwage his fury exercised upon his people and also King Charles the Grosse granted unto Godfrey the Norman part of Newstria with his Daughter in Mariage yet all this sufficed not but that the Normans by force of Armes seated themselves neere unto the mouth of S●in taking all for their own that lay comprised betwixt that River and the River Loyre which Country afterwards took the name of Normandy from those Northern guests at which time King Charles the simple confirmed it unto Rollo their Captaine and gave unto him his Daughter Gilla in Mariage which Rollo with divers misdoers and outlawed men were forced to flye out of their own Country which Rollo of the Danishrace was the first Duke of Normandy whose Son William was the second Duke of Normandy and Richard his Sonne was the third Duke of that Country And his Sonne Richard the second was the fourth Duke thereof And Richard the third his Sonne was the fifth Duke of Normandy And Robert his brother and Sonne to Richard the second was ●he sixth Duke of Normandy who was Father to our William the Conqueror who was the seventh Duke of Normandy whom Duke Robert begat of one Arle● or Arlet●ce a whore and a mean woman of Phalisi● in Normandy who was the Daughter of a Skinner being resolved to go visite the holy Sepulcher having no more Sonnes but William his bastard he calles his Nobility together and tells them In case I dy in my journey as he did I have a little Bastard of whose worthinesse I have great hope and I doubt not but he is of my begetting him will I invest in my Dutchie as mine heire and from thenceforth I pray you take him for your Lord which they did And this Bastard in his youth having many sharp bouts and bickerings with Roger de Tresny and William Earle of Arques brother to Duke Robert and Sonne to Richard the second c. who lay claime to the Dutchie as right and true heires to it but William the Bastard being too hard for them all and by these wars grew to great experience in fea●es of Armes which with his marying of Matild the Daughter of Baldw●n the fifth Earle of Flanders a man of great might and power provoked the French King to fall upon him to abate his greatnesse and curbe his pride but bastard William twice defeating two powerfull Armies of the King● with great overthrowes broke the heart of the King of France which gave the bastard Duke of Normondy joyfull peace in which calme the King makes a journey over into England to visite King Edward the Confessor his kinsman who had had his breeding in Normandy by Duke Richard the second the bastards Grandfather And after his returne back againe St. Edward the King of England dyeth Whereupon William the bastard busieth his thoughts how to obtaine the Crowne and Scepter of England unto which he makes certaine pretended claimes as being granted unto him by King Edward which was but a weake pretence as King Harold in his answer to him informes him Speed 404. telling him that Edward himselfe coming in by election and not by any title of inheritance his promise was of novalidity for how could he give that wherein he was not interessed And though William the bastard urgeth to Harol his Oath given him i● Normandy yet he answered his Embassadour that his Masters demand was unjust for that an Oath extorted in time of extremity cannot binde the maker in Conscience to performe i● for that were to joyne one sin to another and that this O●th was taken for ●eare of death and imprisonment the Duke himselfe well knew but said he admit it was voluntary and without feare could I then a Subject without the allowance of the ●ing and the whole State give away the Crownes Success●● to the prejudice of both Speed fol. 403. 404. But although the bastard Duke had no better claime but this which was worth just nothing at all Reade before pag. 20. 21. 24. 27. 28 3● 60. 61. Yet notwithstanding William the bastard p●rleveres in his proud wicked and bloody intentions and calses an Assembly of the States of Normandy together and with importunate solicitations solicits them to supply him with money the very sinews of war to carry on his intended invasion of England but they unanimously refuse and decline it At length seeing this prottaction and difficulty in general he deals with his deerest and most trusty friends in particular being such as he knew affected the glory of action and would adventure their whole estates with him As William Fitz-Auber Count de Bretteville Gualtaer Gifford Earle Longueville Roger de Beaumont with others especially his own brothers by the mother whom he had made great as Odo Bishop of Baynox and Robert Earle of Mortaign and unto these he shewed his pretended right and hope of England wherein prefe●ment lay even to the meanest amongst them onely money was the want which they might spare neither should that be given nor lent without a plentiful increase With such faire words he drew them so on that they strove who should give most And by this policie he gathered such a masse of money as was sufficient to defray the warre And not onely wan he the people of his own Provinces to undertake this action but drew by his faire perswasions and large promises most of the greatest Princes and Nobles of France to adventure their persons and much of their estates with him as Robert Fitz-Harrays Duke of Orleance the Earles of Brittaigne Ponthieu Botogne Poictcu Maine Nevers Hi●fins Aumal le Signieur de Tours and even his mortall enemy Martel Earle of Anjou became to be as forward as any Besides to amuze the Court of France and dazzle a young Prince then King he promised faithfully if he conquered this Kingdome to hold it of him as he did

shed in England Scotland and Ireland since these wars which is the blood of thousands of thousands For which if all the sons of men should be so base and wicked as not to doe their duty in executing justice upon him which Legally may and ought to bee done by those especially who have Power and Authority in their hands Yet undoubtedly the righteous God will and that I am confident in an exemplary manner in despight of all his bloody add wicked protectors and defenders For GOD is a just GOD and will revenge innocent blood even upon Kings Judg. 1 6 7. 1 Kings 21. 19. 22. 38. Isa 30. 33. Ezek. 32. 29. and will repay wicked and ungodly men Isai 59. 18. Therefore I desire those that shall thinke this a harsh saying to lay down the definition of a Tyrant in the highest degree and I am confident their own Consciences will tell them it is scarce possible to commit or doe that act of Tyranny that Charles Stewart is not guilty of and therefore de jure hath absolved all his people from their Allegeance and Obedience to him and which the Parliament are bound in duty and conscience De facto to declare and not to bee unjuster to the Kingdome then their predecessors have been which in part I have already memioned and shall to conclude only cite some particulars of the Parliaments just dealing with Edward the second who was not one quarter so bad as C. R who being called to account by the Parliament for his evill government and being imprisoned at Kenelworth-Castle the Parliament sent Commissioners to acquaint him with their pleasure the Bishops of Winches●●r Hereford and Lincoln two Earls two Abbots foure Barons two Justices three Knights for every County and for London and other principall places chiefly for the five Ports a certain number chosen by the Parliament And when they came to him they told him the Common-wealth had conceived so irreconcileable dislikes of his government the particulars whereof had been opened in the generall Assembly at London that it was resolved never to endure him as King any longer That notwithstanding those dislikes had not extended so far as for his sake to exclude his issue but that with universall applause and joy the Common-wealth had in Parliament elected his eldest sonne the Lord Edward for King They finally told him that unlesse he did of himselfe renounce his Crown and Scepter the people would neither endure him nor any of his children as their Soveraigne but disclaiming all Homage and Fealty would elect some other for King not of the Blood The King seeing it would be no better amongst other things told them That he sorrowed much that the people of the Kingdom were so exasperated against him as that they should utterly abhorre his any longer rule and soveraignty and therefore he besought all there present to forgive him and gave them thanks for chusing his eldest sonne to be their King which was greatly to his good liking that he was so gracious in their sight Whereupon they proceeded to the short Ceremony of his Resignation which principally consisted in the surrender of his Diadem and Ensignes of Majesty to the use of his son the new King Whereupon Sir William Trussel on the behalfe of the whole Realm renounced all homage and allegeance to the Lord Edward of Carnarvan late King The words of the definitive Sentence were these I William Trussel in the name of all men of the Land of England and all the Parliament Procurator resigne to thee Edward the Domage that was made to thee sometime and from this time forward now following I defy thee and deprive shee of all Royall power and I shall neuer be attendant to thee as for ●ing after this time But if any object It is true Subjects and people have de facto done this unto their Kings but they cannot doe it de jure for that Kings are above their people are not punishable by any but God I answer God is the fountain or efficient cause of all punishment But as to man instrumentally he inflicts by man And though he be our supream Lord and Law-Maker hath for bodily and visible transgressions of his Law appointed a visible and bodily punishment in this world for the transgressors thereof and man for his instrumentall executioner and never ordinarily doth it immediatly by himself but when his Instrument Man failes to doe his duty and being a God of order hath appointed a Magistrate or an impowred man as his and their executioner for the doing of justice and never goeth out of this Road but in extraordinary cases as he doth when the Magistrate is extraordinarily corrupted in the executing of his duty and in such cases God hath raised up particular or extraordinary persons to be his executioners And therefore God being no respecter of persons hath by nature created all men alike in power and not any lawlesse and none to bind each other against mutuall agreement and common consent and hath expr●sly commanded Man his rationall creature shall not tyrannize one over another or destroy by any intrusted power each other but that the intrusted Kings as well as others shall improve the utmost of their power and strength for the good and benefit protection and preservation of every individuall Trustee And whosoever he be that shall improve his intrusted power to the destruction of his impowrers forfeits his power And GOD the fountain of Reason and Justice hath endued man with so much reason mercy humanity and compassion to himself and his own Being as by the instinct Nature to improve his utmost power for his own preservation and defence which is a Law above all lawes and compacts in the world Declar. April 17. 1641. And whosoever rejects it and doth not use it hath obliterated the principles of Nature in himselfe degenerated into a habit worse then a beast and becomes felonious to himselfe and guilty of h●s own blood This Israel of old the Lords peculiar people understood as well as the people of England although they had 〈◊〉 expresse posi●ive law no more then we in England have to rebell or withdraw their obedience subjection from those Magistrates or Kings that exercise their power and authority contrary to the nature of their trust which is plain and cleare without dispute in the case of Rehoboam who was the son of Solomon who was the sonne of David who was assigned King by GOD and chosen and made King by the common consent of the people of Juda and Israel 2 Sam. 7. 13. And who by vertve of Gods promise to him and his seed to be Kings over his people had more to say for his Title to his and their Crown I am confident of it then all the Princes in the world have to say for their claim and childrens to their Crown For Rehoboam was not onely the sonne of Solomon who was in a manner intailed by God himselfe unto the Crown

Feb. 12. 1645. in the annihilating his unjust Sentence in the Star-Chamber Reade his printed Relation thereof page 1 2 ● and the last Which forced him to deliver in at their Bar his legall and just Plea and Protestation against their usurping jurisdiction over Commoners which you may reade in The Freemans freedome vindicated page 5. 6. Vpon which they commanded himto withdraw and then pag. 7. make an Order to commit him in these words Die Jovis 11. June 1646. IT is this day ordered by the Lords in Parliament assembled That Lieut. Col. John Lilburn shall stand committed to the Prison of Newgate for exhibiting to this House a scandalous and contemptnous Paper it being delivered by himselfe at the Barre this day And that the Keeper of the said Prison shall keepe him safely untill the pleasure of this House be further signified and this to be a sufficient Warrant in that behalfe John Brown Cler. Parl. To the Gentleman-Usher of this House or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of Newgate I cannot hear that he either at this time misbehaved himself either in word or gesture towards them but gave them as much respect at this time as if he had been one of their own Creatures But away to Newgate he goes and Iune 16. 1646. directs his appeale to the Honurable House of Commons which you may read in the fore-mentioned booke pag. 9 10 11. Which appeale the House of Commons read approved of and committed to a sp●ciall Committee which Committee met and examined his businesse and as I am informed from very good hands made a vote to this eff●ct That his proceedings with and protestations against the Lords delivered at their barre and his appeale to the House of Commons was just and legall which they in justice ought to beare him out in which Report Collonel Henry Marti● that couraragious and faithfull Patrio● of his Country as Chairman of that Committee is to report to the House But immediately after the reading of this Appeale to the House out comes the fore-mentioned booke in prynt which it seemes did somthing startle the Lords who had let him lie quietly in Newgate till then without so much as sending him the Copy of any charge But upon this they send a Warran● againe for him which as I finde it in the 4. page of the Just man in Bonds thus followeth Die Lunae 22. Junii 1646 ORdered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that Lieutenant Collonel Iohn Lilburne now a prisoner in Newgate shall be brought before their Lordships in the High Court of Parliament to morrow morning by 10. of the clock and this to be a f●ffici●●● Warrant in that behalfe Iohn Browne Cler. Parl. To the Gentleman Usher of this House or his Deputy to be delivered to the Keeper of Newgate or his Deputy And accordingly the next day Lieutenant Collonel Lilbur●● was brought up to their barre and being called into the House was commanded to kneele which he refused to do for what reasons he is best able ●● declare which I hope he will not faile to do assoone as he enjoyes the liberty and priviledge to have pen inke and paper which by law he cannot be debarred of neither can it justly be denyed to the greatest Traytor in England And surely the Lords give a cleere demonstration to the whole Kingdome to judge that their own consciences tell them that he is an honest and a just man and their dealing with him is base wicked illegall and unjust that they dare not suffer him to enjoy pen inke and paper to declare the truth of his cause to the world which they have most unjustly and unrighteously kept from him by speciall Order for above three moneths together So that by the paw a man may judge of the whole body that is to say by their Lordships dealing with him a wise man may easily see what they would do to all the Freemen of England if their power were answerable to their wills which would be to make them as great slaves as the Pesants in France are who enjoy propriety neither in life liberty nor estate if they did not make us as absolute vassals as the poore Turks are to the Grand Seigneour whose lives and estates he takes away from the greatest of them when he pleaseth Therefore O all ye Commons of England marke well and eye with the eye of Jealousie these Lords the sons of pride and tyranny And not onely them but all their associats or Creatures especially in the House of Commons if any such be there for assure your selves enemies they are and will be to your liberties and freedoms what ever their specious pretences are to the contrary it being a Maxim in nature that every like begets its like Therefore trust them not no more then you would do a Fox with a Goose or a devoureing Wolfe with a harmelesse Lambe what ever they say or sweare having so palpably and visibly in the case of Mr. Lilburne broken all their Oathes Protestations Vowes and Declarations to maintaine the Lawes of the Land and the Liberties of ●he People But let us returne to their 2. summoning him to their Barre who being commanded to kneele refused and withou● any more discourse or so much as shewing him any legal charge they Commanded him to withdraw and for this cause alone he behaving himselfe this time also respectively enough saving in the Ceremony of kneeling they commit him close prisoner to Newgate A true Copy of their Warrant thus followeth Die Martis 23. Junii 1646. ORdered by the Lords in Parliament assembled that Iohn Lilburne shall stand Committed close prisoner in the Prison of Newgate and that he be not permitted to have pen inke or paper and none shall have accesse unto him in any kinde but onely his Keeper untill this Court do take further Order To the Keeper of Newgate his Deputy or Deputies Iohn Browne Cler. Parl. Exam. per Rad. Brisco● Cler. de Newgate And so from this 23. of June to the 11. of July then ensuing he was locked up close and neither his Wife Children Servants Friends Lawyers or Councellers permitted to have accesse unto him nor they never sent him word what they intended to do And all this while the Lords are picking matter against him having none it seemes when they first summ●ned him to their barre to grownd the least pretence or shaddow of a Charge against him and knowing his resolution to stand to his liberties they lay provocations upon him cōmit one act of injustice with a high hand upon the neck of another to provoke him to let some words fall or do some actions to en●nare himselfe that so they might have some coulor for their fu●ure proceedings with him And divers bookes coming out in his behalfe by some as it seemes who wished him well which to the purpose nettles the Lords for their cruelty towards him Serieant Finch as one of his Majesties Councel preferrs certaine Articles against