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A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

kingdom so soon as he lost his life 5ly The end of summoning this Parliament was only this for the King himself to have a conference and Treaty with the Prelates and Nobles and for them to be personally present with Vs not our heirs or successors to give Vs their Counsel c. not our heirs and successors All frustrate made impossible and absolutely ceasing by his death because when once dead they can neither parlie conferr nor treat with the King himself nor the King with them nor be personally present with Him for that purpose unlesse they will averr that a meer dead headlesse King can really confer treat parly consult advise with his living Prelats Lords Parliament and they with him be Parliamentally present with each other in the Lords House neither of which they dare admit into it for fear the King if living and Lords too should afright them out of it as the Kings ghost yea the memorial of it though dead might justly do 6ly The mandatory part being in the Kings name alone to summon them to treat with and give their Counsel unto Vs concerning the foresaid businesses relating to Vs and the defence of Our Realm Our Businesses aforesaid not our heirs and successors He and his businesses all ending when he expires the Parliament must of necessity determine 7ly The Parliament ceasing to be the Common counsel of the King and his kingdom and nothing possible to be ordained BY US the King not his heirs and successors Prelates Nobles in Parliament without his concurrent Vote or when he is dead unless a dead King can give counsel make Ordinances give his royal assent to Bills when deceased It must inevitably follow that all the Authority causes grounds ends for which the Members of this Parliament were all summoned to treat consult and give their advice to the King himself determining and becoming impossible to be performed by his death the Parliament must of necessity expire and be dissolved even as the natural body ceaseth to be and remain a living man when the Head is quite cut off If then those now sitting who cut off the Kings Head the Head of the Parliament and thereby destroyed that temporary body politick will have their Conventicle revived by this Act they must set on his head again raise him alive out of his Grave and bring him back into the House to impeach condemn decapitate them in this true High Court of Justice for this their beheading him in their Court of Highest Injustice Which Mr. Prynne presumes they dare not doe least his revived Ghost should scare them thence or justly retaliate their transcendent Treachery 4ly If any man by his will deed the King by his Commissions the Parliament by a special Act or Order shall authorize impower any 3. persons joyntly to sell lands give livery and seisin execute any Commission as Judges Justices Commissioners Auditors or Committees of Parliament if any one of them die both the survivors joyntly or severally can doe nothing because their authority trust was joynt not several and joyntly nor seperately to be exercised If there be not 40 Commoners in the House they cannot sit or act as an House nor dispatch the least affair no more can any Committee of either House unless their Number be sufficient to make up a Committee as the orders and custom of Parliament appoint Therfore the Parliament of England being a Corporation compacted joyntly of the King Lords and Commons House and three estates The death of the King necessarily dissolves the Parliament notwithstanding this Act which did not alter the Parliaments Old constitution but establish it The Kings personal absence from his Parliament heretofore and of late was reputed very prejudicial to it and his calling away some Lords Great Officers and other Members from it a high way to its present dissolution in his life Therefore it must much more be dissolved by his death and the Lords and Commons forcible seclusion both before and since it by the Army and sitting Members they having Vocem locum in quolibet Parliamento Angliae as our Law-books Statutes and their Patents resolve 5ly The principal end of calling Parliaments is to enact new and necessary Laws and alter repeal such as are ill or inconvenient as the Prologues of our printed Statutes our writs of Summons Law-books attest and all accord But no new Act of Parliament can be made nor no former Acts altered repealed but by the Kings royal assent who hath a Negative voice to deny as well as Affirmative to assent to them as well as the Lords and Commons as all our Parliaments Judges Law-books Parliament Records Treatises of Parliaments the printed Statutes in each Kings reign more particularly the Statutes of 33 H. 8. c. 21. 1 Jac. c. 1. in the close resolve Yea both Houses acknowledged it in all contests with the late King our Kings Coronation Oaths and all our antient Saxon Kings Lawes attest it Therefore his death must needs dissolve the Parliament notwithstanding this Act because it could make no Act for its dissolution nor declare alter repeal any other Law without his royal assent There are but 2. Objections made by any sitting or secluded Members against these Reasons that his death should not dissolve the Parliament The 1. is this which the Republicans themselves formerly and now insist on That the King doth never die in judgement of Law and that there is no Interregnum because the Crown immediately descends to his right heir who by Law is forthwith King de jure and de facto before his actual Proclamation or Coronation as the Statute of 1 Jacobi ch 1. Cooks 7 Rep. f. 10 11. Calvins case and other Books resolve To which Mr. Prynne Answers 1. That this argument is but an Axe to chop off their own heads and supremacy as they did the Kings and the Objectors now sitting must either renounce their sitting acting Knacks Declarations against the late King Kingship and the House of Lords or quite disclaim the Objection For if the King never dies Then by their own confession and our Lawes we are still a Kingdom not a Republike yea Charles Steward as heir to his beheaded Father was and is still de Jure de facto the lawfull King of England and supreme Lord and Governour of our Church Kingdom there being no Interregnum ever since his Fathers death and then what becomes of all their absurd illegal Knacks against his Regality and Kingship it self of which they are forced now to pray in ayd to make themselvs a Parliament of their Mock-Parliament without King and House of Lords of their perfidious treacherous Engagements against both and Supreme Authority of the Nation which they have tyrannically usurped 2ly Though the King in genere or rather Kingship it self never dies yet the King in Individuo may and doth oft times die and if the successive deaths of all our Kings since we were a

Frauds and indirect practises in others 3ly That old House of Commons had a special care of providing for the Kings Armie his urgent and present occasions professed themselves his loyal Subjects and him to be their King and Soveraign Lord humblie besought his most Excellent Majesty that it might be declared and enacted by him that this Parliament might not be dissolved prorogued or adjourned but by Act of Parliament acknowledging they could make no such Act without his Majesties Royal assent and that both the King and Lords House were essential Members of the Parliament within this Act. But those sitting since 1648. till 1653. and now again thus entring the House by pretext of this Act have renounced abjured and professedlie engaged against all this to which they are direct Antipodes Therefore no Commons House within this Act. 4ly The Commons House within this Act was that House which was then in being when this Act passed dulie elected by the people by the Kings Writs not the Armie-Officers and pursued the self-same ends recited in the preamble for which this Act was made and assented to by the King and Lords But this New House was created constituted not by the Kings writs or peoples election but the Armies swords and conspiracie 7 years after this Act first passed then disowned and turned out of Doors above 6 years by the Army and now re-inducted into it by their armed Votes and force to serve their ends not to pursue those mentioned in the Act accomplished many years since and now becoming impossible Therefore they are not so much as an House of Commons within this Act and the Armie-Officers and Souldiers who formerly thrust them out now recall them may do well to consider that Gospel-Text Gal. 2.18 If I build again the thing I destroyed I make my self a Transgressor even against this very Law as well as the law of God and other laws of the Land XI If they are not so much as a Commons House of Parliament much less then are they the lawfull Parliament of England in anie sense within the letter or meaning of this Act no more than so manie of the old Gunpowder Popish-Traitors had their Treason taken so good effect in blowing up King Iames the Lords whole House and majoritie of the Commons House there assembled as their late new Powder-plot hath done had been the onlie lawfull Parliament of 3 Iac. they destroyed in case they had entred then into the Commons House with the Mace before them and created stiled themselves alone the Parliament of England as a right devolved unto them by Conquest or Succession which had they presumed to do no doubt the whole English Nation would have risen up against them as one man and never have so far dishonored themselves their Religion or Countrie as to own and submit to those Jesuitical Romish-Traitors only for destroying of their lawfull King Lords House and English Parliament it self as the onlie true old English Parliament then re-assembled The Reasons are unanswerable 1. Because the whole House of Commons then sitting in its primitive splendor fullnesse freedome was by its own quadruple acknowledgement in it no more but the Commons House and one Member of this Parliament not the Parliament it self never owning owning but professedlie disclaiming it self to be the Parliament or present Parliament within this Act. 2 ly Because this Act was made not by the Commons alone without the King or Lords concurrence but by the King as their Soveraign Lord declaring and enacting and the Lords and Commons as jointlie assenting thereunto 3 ly Because it is most absurd to conceive that the King and Lords by passing this Act to continue this Parliament as then constituted till dissolved by Act of Parliament did ever intend to seclude themselves quite out of it or to make the Commons House alone an absolute independent Parliament without both or either of them though five times speciallie providing by name for their Parliamentarie interests Or that they or the Commons intended to make each of themselves a distinct Parliament without the other and so to erect three New Parliaments at once by providing against the untimelie proroguing adjourning or dissolving of one The King and Lords both jointlie and severallie having the self-same Arguments from this Act to prove each of them a several or joint Parliament without the Commons by the Commons own intention in passing this law as the Commons have to justifie themselves to be a Parliament now they have secluded and engaged against them both and will admit of neither as Members of their Parliament when as this verie Act preciselie prohibits the King to dissolve prorogue or adjourn the Parliament or either House therof or the Lords to prorogue or adjourn much less dissolve the Commons House or the Commons to prorogue or adjourn much lesse dissolve the Lords House declaring and enacting That at any time or times during the continuance of this Parliament the Lords House shall not be adjourned nor yet the Commons House but onlie by their own respective Orders and by themselves alone declaring enacting everie thing and things whatsoever done or to be done to the contrarie to be utterly void and of none effect 4 ly Because this Act both in the Title prologue and body prevents onlie the untimely proroguing adjourning and dissolving of this present Parliament at any time or times during the continuance of it but by Act of Parliament or themselves stiling it 8. several times this present Parliament and giving it no other Title yea it preciselie describes it to be a Parliament onlie of King Lords and Commons as it was when this Act was made and so to continue till its dissolution But the Parliament now sitting was not this present Parliament being not then known heard of nor imagined ever to start up in After-ages by any who made or consented to this Law it being created onlie by the Armie 7 years after this Act and now revived full 18 years after it without anie King or House of Lords and protesting engaging against them both as no Members of it Neither can they pursue any one of those ends for which this Parliament was continued Therefore they are doubtlesse beyond dispute no Parliament at all within the words or intention thereof their own Consciences Reason being Judges whatever they pretend nor yet by their own Republican principles a free and equal Representative of the people 6 ly By the Law and Custom of all Nations Nature Reason Justice Equitie the laws of England and of all publick or private Ecclesiastical Civil or Militarie Councils or Corporations the Majority of persons Members Voyces Votes are alwayes reputed the Parliament Council Synod Corporation and do yea ought of right to bind the lesser part as well in making Laws Ordinances as Elections and all else that concerns the publick Yea the General and General Counsel of the Army-Officers in their Petition to those and others now

the Lord thy God loved Israel to establish them for ever therefore made he thee King over them to do Iustice and Iudgement And the Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel and bestowed su●h royal Majestie Honor and such riches on him and his people too as had not been bestowed on anie King or people before him 1 Chron 29.25 28 30. 2 Chron 1.9 to the end Chap. 9.9 to 30. Neh. 13.26 7ly God himself records by King Solomon Prov. 20.8.26 A King that sateth in the Throne of Judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes and bringeth the wheel over the wicked Prov 29.4.14 The King by Judgement stablisheh the Land Yea the King that faithfully judgeth the Land his throne shall be established for ever And he resolve definitively against all Opponents Eccles 10.17 Blessed art thou o Land when thy King is the son of Nobles 8ly God himself doth specially promise the Succession and Continuance of Hereditarie Kings and Princes as a blessing reward to his people for their obedience to his Commandements and chief means of their perpetual continuance in honour peace and prosperity Jer. 17.24 25 26. c. 22.4 And it shall come to passe if ye diligently hearken unto me saith the Lord to hallow the Sabbath day and do no work thereon then shall there enter into the Gates of this City mark it Kings and Princes sitting upon the Throne of David riding in Chariots on Horses they and their Princes the men of Iudah and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem and this City shall remain and flourish for ever 9ly It is very remarkable that though divers of the hereditarie Kings of Davids posterity were verie wicked and idolatrous yet God himself though King of Kings who setteth up Kings and pulleth them down and disposeth of the Kingdoms of the earth to whom soever he pleaseth by reason of his Oath and Covenant made to David would neither remove nor disinherit them though he did very sorely afflict and punish them for their iniquities Ps 89 3 4 20. to 38 2 Sam. 7.11 to 18. 1 King 11 12 13 39. Of this we have a memorable Scripture-Presidents 1 King 15. 3 4 5. Abijam King of Iudah walked in all the sins of his Father which he had done before him and his heart was not perfect before the Lord his God as the heart of David his Father Neverthelesse for Davids sake did the Lord give him a lamp in Jerusalem to set up his Son after him and to establish Ierusalem Because David did that which was right in the sight of the Lord So 2 Chron. 21.5 6 7. Jehoram reigned 8 years in Jerusalem and he walked in the way of the Kings of Israel like as did the House of Ahab for he had taken the Daughter of Ahab to wife and he wrought that which was evil in the sight of the Lord. Howbeit the Lord would not destroy the House of David because of the Covenant he had made with David and as he promised to give a light to him and to his Sons for ever Which Texts compared with Psal 132.1 12 13 14. infablibly ratifie these thtee conclusions 1. That as Gods Covenant and Oath made to David and his Royal Posteritie did not determine by Davids death but extended to all his Posterity after him so our Oaths of Fealty Supremacy Allegiance and Solemn League and Covenant made to the late King his Heirs Successors in precise terms determined not by his death but remain to his Royal Posterity and are perpetually to be performed to them under pain of highest perjury guilt punishment as is most apparent if compared with Gen. 50.25 Exod. 13.19 Josh 24.32 Josh 9.15 18 19 20 21. 1 Sam. 20.16 17 23 42. c. 24.21 22 2 Sam. 9.1 3 c. c. 21.1 to 10. 2ly That the Sinnes and wickednesses of Davids posteritie did not cause God himself to break his Oath and Covenant with them or judicially to deprive or disinherit them of their Crowns and Kingdom contrary to his Oath and Covenant which he held inviolable and immutable Ps 89.3 4.34 Psal 132 11 12. Heb. 6.17 18. Much lesse then may we or any other Subjects who are but men infringe our Oaths Covenants to our sacred hereditarie Kings and their posteritie for their sinnes or wickednesse nor disinherit thē of their Crowns Scepters Lives Realm Ps 15.4 Ec. 8 2. 3ly That a hereditarie succession of Kings in the Royal Line though many of them be wicked is yet a special means ordained by God for the establishment peace perpetuity of their kingdoms and people which else would be unsetled distracted consumed destroyed by civil wars distractions and Usurpers of the Crown destroying murdering one another as the kindom of Israel was after the revolt of the ten Tribes from the house of David whose hereditarie kingdom continued at least 134 years after the total destruction captivity of the Kingdom of Israel whose revolt from the House of David produced nought else but a Succession of very wicked idolatrous Kings and Usurpers endlesse wars miseries publick Idolatry Apostacie from God all sorts of Sins rapines and perpetual Captivity as the books of Kings and Chronicles resolve especially 2 Kings ch 17. In which revolt and rebellion it is observable that all the Priests and Levites and all the Godly men throughout the revolting Tribes of Israel who set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel left their possessions and went to Ierusalem and strengthened the kingdom of Rheboboam the Son of Solomon against the Vsurper Jeroboam as the Scripture records for their honour 2 Chron. 11.13 14 15 16. 10ly Upon this verie reason God himself records that when Athaliah had slain all the seed Royal but Ioash and usurped the Royal Throne for six years space Ioash being but an Infant Iehojadah the High Priest hid him from this Usurper till he was seven years old and then entring into a Covenant with the Captains of Hundreds Rulers and Levites they all assembled at Ierusalem entred into an Oath and Covenant That the Kings Son should reign as the Lord hath said of the House of David Upon which they presently brought out the Kings Son Crowned and anointed him their King and said God save the King Which Athaliah the Vsurper hearing run out to the people and cryed Treason treason upon which Iehojadah the Priest commanded the Captains of the Host presently to seize upon her and cary her out of the Temple and slay all that should follow her whereupon they laid hands on her and carried her forth and slew her After which Iehojadah made a Covenant between the King and the people that they should be the Lords people and all the Captains Governors Nobles and people of the Land brought down the Kings Son from the House of the Lord to the Kings House and set the King upon the Throne of the kingdom And all the people of the Land rejoyced and the City was quiet

since predicted projected by Father Parsons and the Iesuites Yea being further assured by an eminent Divine and others more than once from the mouth of a Noble English Lord returning from Rome about 4 years since That the Provincial of the English Jesuites when he went to see their College in Rome assured him they had then above fifteen hundred of their Society of Iesuites in England able to work in several Professions and Trades which they had there taken upon them the better to support and secure themselves from being discovered and infuse their Principles into the vulgar People That the Great Anabaptist styled The Administrator of Hexam near Newcastle in the North since removed to Colchester was lately a Papist if not a Priest or Iesuite that Ramsey the Scotish Jesuite was purposely sent ouer into England by the Pope Iesuites An. 1653. under the notion of a Iew to infuse new Notions into the Anabaptists side with them who therupon addressed himself to Paul Hobson the Anabaptist a Grand Army-preacher and this Administrators Congregation where he made a publick profession That he was a Iew by birth but was now thorowly converted to the Christian Religion by their instruction with a publick Confession of his Faith which they printed whereupon he was publickly dipped by this Administrator at Hexam and received as a Member into their Anabaptistical Church who much gloried in it till within few weeks after he was by the Maior and Ministers of Newcastle clearly discovered to be a grosse Impostor yea a Scotish Iesuite and sent up by them to London where after some restraint he was enlarged without any punishment and not long since twice boldly entred into the University Schools at Cambridge desiring conference with Mr. Smith the Hebrew Lecturer there with whom he discoursed in Hebrew professing himself to be Soul and Body for the Catholick Church of Rome That Eleazer Ben-Isaiah and his Brother Joseph 2. Grand Jesuitical Impostors at the self-same time under the Notion of converted Iews were dipped by the Anabaptists maintaining Dipping not Sprinkling to be the only Baptisme of Iesus Christ and the Anabaptists to be the only strong and glorious Christians in their printed Book dedicated unto our new Republican Parliament Counsel of State 1653 Which Mr. Pr. soon after his inlargement frō Pendennys Catile meeting with discovered them to be gross Impostors one of them a Trooper in P. Ruports Army who after a Collection made for him as a Converted Iew at Dursty in Glostershire by Mr. Woodward on the Lords day drank five jugges of Bear with sundry pipes or Tobacco whereby to digest his Lords day Supper and disgorge his Sermons then locking his Chamber Door in the Inne he ran to the Maid he had sent to warm his Bed and attempted to ravish her whereupon she crying out the Boy of the House being about 11 a clock at night endevouring to raise the Neighbors he therupon fled from thence since which Mr. Prynne heard no more tydings of him And having since that most clearly discovered to the whole Nation in his Books intituled The Quakers Vnmasked and New Discovery of Romish Emissaries printed 1655. and 1656. That the Franciscan Freers and Iesuites were the first Erectors of our new Sect of Quakers Ignatius Loyola the Jesuites Founder being first a Souldier then a Quakers next a Speaker last of all a professed Jesuit as his Disciples now are first Iesuites then Quakers Speakers Souldiers before or after That Maurice Conry an Irish Franciscan late Provincial of the English Franciscan Fryers having 15 extraordinary faculties granted him to exercise here in England as to absolve all Hereticks in England of what Nation soever to admit men into his Order To dispence with Oaths with saying Canonical Hours the Ceremonies of the Mass for keeping Heritical Books and other particulars which might discover any of them to be Freers or Papists to authorize print what Books he allowed concealing both the Name of the Author Printer place Non obstante Consilio Tridentino came over into England under the disguise of a Spanish Captain having sundry Pasports from the King of Spains Officers in the Low Countries to raise men for his service in England and Ireland where he continued during the Regency of our Republicans After which in the year 1653. he procured a pass and protection to all Officers by Sea and Land under Ol. Cromwels own hand and Seal to pass and repass about his occasions to and from Ireland all which were taken about him in Bristol 20 November 1655. and the very Originals under Seal brought to Mr. Prynne who published some of them in print yet after near two years imprisonment at Bristol upon a Habeas Corpus brought by Conry he was turned over Prisoner to Newgate to be tryed as a Popish Priest and let go thence by direction as was conceived before the Sessions and never enquired after since Mr. Prynne discovering all this and much more and being most fully assured that all the Rebellions in the Army since 1646. against the King Parliament Members and all the late Changes Revolutions of our Government ever since proceeded originally from the Jesuites and Romish Agents powerfull influences upon the seduced Army-Officers Souldiers Sectaries and Republican Members And long since taking special notice that during the Armies Republicans proceedings against the King in hammering out their new Common-wealth all the most eminent zealous religious Members of the Commons House most opposite to Jesuites Papists Popery were totally secluded secured by the Army and their Votes Protestations Advices with the Addresses Disswasions of all the Godly Ministers of London and other parts yea VVilliam Sedgwicks their own Chaplains totally rejected with highest contempt and the Counsels of the most desperate Jesuites and popish Agents flocking to London from all forein parts and walking freely in the Streets whiles the Members were under strictest restraints vigorously pursued So all their subsequent Actions demonstrated to him and all considerate Protestants whose Creature their New Republick originally was and for whose service it was created as these memorable particulars evidence 1. They did quite set aside all those 5. strict excellent Bills against Iesuites Seminary Priests Popish Recusants and the exercise of any their Romish Superstitions in any place within our Realms which the secluded Members and Army-Officers too at first eagerly pursued and the King in the Treaty of the Isle of VVight assented to at the first without any scruple For which the Iesuites in France at general Meeting there presently resolved to bring him to Iustice and take off his Head by the power of their Friends in the Army as the King himself was certified by an express from thence and wished to provide against it but two dayes before his removal by the Army from the Isle of VVight in order to his execution 2ly They totally set aside and repealed by express Votes and printed Knacks the very