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lord_n	edward_n	king_n	son_n	15,340	5	5.2342	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91202	King Richard the Third revived. Containing a memorable petition and declaration contrived by himself and his instruments, whiles Protector, in the name of the three estates of England, to importune and perswade him to accept of the kingship, and crown of England, by their joynt election, (as if he were unwilling to undertake, or accept, though he most ambitiously aspired after them, by the bloudy murthers of K. Henry 6. Edward 5. and sundry others) before his coronation; presented afterwards to, and confirmed by the three estates and himself, in his first Parliament, to give him a colourable title both by inheritance, and their election to the crown. Transcribed out of the Parliament roll of 1.R.3. (printed in Speeds History of Great Britain: where his other additionall policies to engage the City of London, lawyers, divines and people, to elect, and make him their king, are at large recorded.)	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing P3990; Thomason E896_5*; Thomason E903_9; ESTC R203357	7,970	11

Laws and laudable Customes of this said Realm And also taken and reputed by all such persons as bin * learned in the abovesaid Laws and Custom Yet neverthelesse for as much as it is considered that the most part of the people is not sufficiently learned in the abovesaid Laws and Customs wherby the truth right in this behalf of likelihood may be hid and not clearly known to all the people and thereupon put in doubt and question And over this how that the * Court of Parliament is of such authority and the people of this Land of such a nature and disposition as experience teacheth that manifestation and declaration of any truth or right made by the three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament and by authority of the same maketh before all other things most faith and certain * quieting of mens minds and removeth the occasion of doubts and seditious language Therefore at the request and by the assent of the * Three Estates of this Realm that is to say the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons of this Land assembled in this present Parliament and by authority of the same be it pronounced decreed and declared that our said Soveraign Lord the King was and is the very undoubted King of this Realm of England with all things thereunto within the same Realm and without it united annexed and appertaining as well by right of consanguinity and inheritance as by lawfull election consecration and Coronation And over this that at the request and by the assent and authority abovesaid be it ordained enacted and established that the said Crown and royal dignity of this Realm and the Inheritance of the same and all other things thereunto within this Realm or without it united and annexed and now appertaining rest and bide in the person of our said Soveraign Lord the King during his life and after his decease in his heirs of his body begotten and in especial at the request and by assent and the authority aforesaid be it ordained enacted established pronounced decreed and declared that the high and excellent Prince * Edward Sonne of our said Soveraign Lord the King be heir apparent of the same our Soveraign Lord the King to succeed to him in the abovesaid Crown and royal dignity with all things as is aforesaid thereunto united annexed and appertaining to have them after the decease of our said Soveraign Lord the King to him and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten Quae quidem B●lla Communibus Regni Angliae in dicto Parliamento existentibus transportata fuit cui quidem Billae idem Communes assensum suum praebuerunt sub hiis verbis A ceste Bille les Communs sont assentes quibus quidem Billa assensu coram Domino Rege in Parliamento pradicto lectis auditis plenè intellectis de assensu Dominorum Spiritualium Temporalium in dicto Parliamento similiter existentium et Communitatis praedictae nec non authoritate ejusdem Parliamenti pronunciatum decretum declaratum existit omnia et singula in Billa praedicta contenta fore vera et indubia ac idem * Dominas Rex de assensu dictorum trium Statuum Regni et authoritate praedicta omnia singula praemissa in billa praedicta contenta concedit et ea pro vero et indubio pronunciat decernit et declarat Eccles. 1. 9 10 11 The thing which hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the Sun Is there any thing whereof it may be said this is new it hath been already of old time which was before us There is no remembrance of former things neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after Yet it is both solid Piety Policy Prudence in such an age as this for all considerate conscientious Englishmen advisedly to remember read consider the Tragical ends * as well as the successfull Beginnings Proceedings of this King Richard and his activest Instruments to gain and settle the Kingship on him by such Politick Stratagems FINIS Things done concluded without the 3. estates in Parliament gave little or no satisfaction to the People though in the name of the Parliament 3. Estates * The 3. Estates must concurr to make a Parl. else his Title would neither be valid nor satisfactory but ambiguous as before No one or two of them being a full Parl. but all 3. conjoyned The new device of this Bloudy Usurper to intitle himself to the Crown of England and take upon him the Regal Government Good Counsellors Administration of Justice Merchandise and Trade Merchants Artificers Gains Adulation Avarice III Counsel Laws Confounded Edward the 4 his Mariage blemished Laws perverted Liberties and Laws every Engl●sh mans Inheritance Arbitrary Go-Force It s mischievous Fruits Murders Extortions Oppressions Incettainty of Mens lives Estates Discords Warrs Nobles bloud destroyed Kings Mariage without the Lords assent by sorcery witchcraf● Void Mariage Private Mari●●e in a Chamber Precontract Edward the 4. his ungodly disposition His Children illegitimate Bastards The Duke of Clarence attainted by Parliament His issue therby not inheritable and uncapableto claim the Crown Richard the 3. declared undoubted only heir to the Crown An Englishman by birth His pretended vertues fitness to reign as King without one word of his Murders Treasons Regicides Hypocrisy other Vices His valour in battel His honourable and royal birth * His election by the 3. states this Instrument to be K. of England * They make his hereditary Title the ground of their Choice Their Petition and importunity to him to accept of the Crown though himself most eagerly thirsted after i● His hereditary right thereto seconded by their election Their promise to assist serve obey him upon his acceptance thereof as his Subjects and to live and dye with him Their pretended great Thraldom Bondage Oppressions c. under his Predecessors Extortions New Impositions against Laws and Liberties Nota. Their prayer for him Great Trouble occasioned partly by himself Justice Richard the 3. His hereditary Title to the Crown by the Law of God and Nature * The Lawyers flatter and approve his Title The Common people ignorant in the Laws * The Parl authority with the people when true free and real consisting of the 3. Estates * Its Declaration quieteth all mens minds removeth all doubts seditions yet he that considers 39 H. 6. n. 8. to 33 1 E. 4. n. 8. to 40. will scarce believe this for a truth neither proved it so in his own case * The 3. Estates must all concurr to make a Parliament and valid Election They decree and declare him undoubted King of this Realm by inheritance and their lawful election coupled together The Crown setled entailed on him and the heirs of his body * His Son declared heir apparent * Here he creats ratifies his own Title * Psal. 73. 17 18 19. Ps. 92. 6 7.

that the Land was ruled by self-will and pleasure fear and dread all manner of Equity and Law laid apart and despised whereof ensued many inconveniencies and mischiefs as Murders Extortions and Oppressions namely of poor and impotent people so that no man was sure of his life land or livelyhood ne of his wife daughter or servant every good maiden and woman standing in fear to be ravished and deflowred And besides this what discorts inward battels effusion of Christian mens blouds and namely by the destrnction of the Nobles blood of this land was had and committed within the same it is evident and notorious through all this Realm unto the great sorrow and heavinesse of all true English men And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage betwixt the above-named King Edward and Elizabeth Gray was made of great presumption without the knowing and assent of the Lords of this land and also by Sorcery and Witchcraft committed by the said Elizabeth and her Mother Iaquet Dutchesse of Bedford as the common opinion of the people and the publique voice and fame is throughout all this land and hereafter if the cause shall require shall be proved sufficiently in time and place convenient And here also we consider how that the said pretended Mariage was made privily and secretly without edition of banes in a private Chamber a prophane place and not openly in the face of the Church after the Law of Gods Church but contrary thereunto and the laudable custom of the Church of England and how also at the time of contract of the same pretended Mariage and before and long time after the said King Edward was and stood maried and troth-plight to one Dame Elinor Butler daughter to the Earl of Shrewsbury with whom the said King Edward had made a Precontract of Matrimony long time before he made the said pretended Mariage with the said Elizabeth Gray in manner and form aforesaid Which premisses being true as in very truth they be true it appeareth and followeth evidently that the said King Edward during his life and the said Elizabeth lived together sinfully and damnably in adultery against the Law of God and of his Church and therefore no marvel that the Soveraign Lord and head of the land being of such ungodly disposition and provoking the ire and indignation of our Lord God such heynous mischief and Inconveniences as are above remembred were used and committed in the Realm amongst the Subjects Also it appeareth evidently and followeth that all the issue and children of the said King Edward be Bastards and unable to inherit or claim any thing by inheritance by the Law and custom of England Moreover we consider how that afterwards by the three Estates of this Realm assembled in Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 17. of the reign of the said King Edward the 4th he then being in possession of the Crown and royal Estate by Act made in the same Parliament George Duke of Clarence brother to the King Edward now deceased was convicted and attainted of High Treason as in the said Act is contained more at large because and by reason whereof all the issue of the said George was and is disabled and barred of all right and claim that in any case they might have or challenge by inheritance to the Crown and Dignity royal of this Realm by the antient Laws and Customs of this same Realm Over this we consider that you be the undoubted heir of Richard Duke of York very inheritor of the said Crown and dignity royal and as in right King of England by way of Inheritance And that at this time the premises duly considered there is none other person living but you only that may claim the said Crown and Dignity royal by way of Inheritance and how that you be born within this Land by reason whereof as we deem in our minds you be more naturally inclined to the prosperity and common weal of the same And all the three Estates of the Land have and may have more certain knowledge of your birth and filiation aforesaid We consider also the great wit prudence Justice Princely courage and the memorable and laudable acts in divers battels which as we by experience know you heretofore have done for the defence salvation of this Realm and also the great noblenesse and excellency of your birth and bloud as of him that is descended of the three most royal houses of Christendom that is to say England France and Spain Wherefore these premises duly by us considered we desiring effectually the peace tranquillity and weal publique of this Land and the reduction of the same to the antient honourable estate and prosperity And having in your great prudent Justice Princely courage and excellent vertue singular confidence * have chosen in all that in us is and by that our Writing choose you high and mighty Prince our King and Soveraign Lord c. to whom we know of * certain it appertaineth of Inheritance so to be chosen And hereupon we humbly desire pray and require your most Noble grace that according this election of us the three estates of your Land as by inheritance you will accept and take upon you the said Crown and royal dignity with all things thereunto annexed and appertaining as to you of right belonging as well by inheritance as by lawfull election and in case you so do we promise to assist and serve your Highnesse as true and faithfull Subjects and Liegemen and to live and dye with you in this matter and in every other just quarrel for certainly we be determined rather to adventure and commit us to the peril of our lives and jeopardy of death than to live in such thraldom and bondage as we have done long time heretofore oppressed and injured by Extortions and new Impositions against the Law of God and Man and the liberties and old policy and Laws of this Land wherein every Englishman is Inherited Our Lord God King of all Kings by whose infinite goodnesse and eternal providence all things bin principally governed in this world lighten your Soul and grant you grace to doe as well in this matter as in all other that which may be according to his will and pleasure and to the common and publique weal of this Land So that after great clouds troubles storms and tempests the Sun of Iustice and of Grace may shine upon us to the joy and comfort of all true-hearted Englishmen Albeit that the right title and estate which our Soveraign Lord King Richard the Third hath to and in the Crown and Royal dignity of this Realm of England with all things thereunto within the same Realm and without it annexed and appertaining bin just and lawfull as grounded upon the Laws of God Nature and also upon the antient