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A77256 The Oxonian antippodes, or, The Oxford anty-Parliament. First, setting forth who it is that calls that Parliament. Secondly, who they are that sit in that Parliament. Thirdly, what Parliament it is, when the members of it are in one body. Fourthly, to what end this Parliament is called. Fifthly, what they are for their religion, their lives and conversations, that beare armes in defence of that Parliament. Sixthly, that the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawfull Parliament. Seventhly, that whatsoever is done against this lawfull Parliament, is against God, the Protestant religion, the lawes of the land, and the liberty of the subjects. By I.B. Gent. J. B. (John Brandon) 1644 (1644) Wing B4248; Thomason E31_8; ESTC R6818 11,624 39

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the King expresly the 17 Deut. 18.19.20 verses That when he shall sit upon the Throne of his Kingdome then shall he write him this Law and in the next verse And it shall bee with him and he shall read them therein all dayes of his life that he may learne to feare the Lord his God to keepe all the words of this Law and these ordinances for to doe them that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren whereby is meant that Kings ought to love their Subjects as nature bindeth one brother to love another and Kings are to rule by Law and the Law is to be grounded upon the word of God that so it be what the Law commands God commands And what King soever he be that commands any thing contrary to Law the Subject may refuse to obey Hence it is that the lawes of England being grounded upon the law of God the King having already called a Parliament to sit at Westminster according to the Customes the Law doth allow of and as yet not lawfully dissolved Bee it to that Subjects conscience that shall now obey the Kings Command to sit in his Anti-Parliament and to disert his lawfull Parliament before such time as the worke be finisht to which end they were summoned As to roote out popery out of this Kingdome to redeem the Subjects out of oppressions Courts and out of the hands of oppressions Monopolists and to bring Offenders and Delinquents to condigne punishment But if this had been done there would be no Anti-Parliament at all unlesse his Majestie would sit by himselfe there would bee no Inscendiaries left to sit with him which brings me to the second thing Question 2 Who they are that are summoned to sit in this Anty-Parliament Answer PArliament said I the name of a Parliament is the greatest comfort English Subjects have Lawfull Parliaments reforme Kings and their Lawes if they be not grounded upon the Law of God they have power to repeal them and choose such Lawes as shall be rules whereby the King shall rule his people according to the revealed will of God we cannot expect these comfortable effects from this Anty-Parliament as might be expected by faithfull and religious Subjects from a faithfull and religious Parliamentary Councell perhaps you will say the King himselfe sits here It s true he does the presencement of a gracious Prince does animate a lawfull Parliament to goe on couragiously for the advancing Religion Lawes and Liberties for the throwing downe of Antichrist and Antichristian government but this must not be expected here although the King be there in person for by this you may see of what value his Protestations and Declarations have bin all along from the first time he left his Parliament he protested alwayes he aimed at no other then to maintain the Protestant Religion the Priviledges of that Parliament which at that time and now sitteth at Westminster the Lawes of the land and the Liberty of the Subject he hath called God to witnesse to these his protestations and yet used all the meanes possible by blood thursting instruments to kill and stay all his faithfull and loyall Subjects to fire their houses plunder their estates when all this would not doe hath summoned all those together who were his advisers to forsake his Parliament to sit in Councell with him in his Anty-Parliament where he will be furnisht with Councells of all sorts there will be Counsellors to advise him how to punish Fomenters of Religion and subverters of the lawes of the Kingdome and in fringers of the Subjects Liberty such as will advise him how to thrust out the Spanish and French factions such as will advise him how to punish such as shall betray the trust that the faithfull Subjects of England have intrusted them with such as Subjects will advise his Majesty how to bring to condigne punishment all such as have had Articles of high Treason drawn against them such as shall advise his Majesty how to gaine the love of his Subjects and to secure his owne Crown and dignity As for example the Arch-prelates of Armagh and Yorke and Doctor Fearn they will advise his Majesty how to punish Fomenters of Religion by Inacting this present Parliament that Episcopacy with Iuredivino may stand in full force vertue with the triple Crowne Justice Bankes and Justice Heath and Holborn will advise his Majesty how to punish Subverters of the Lawes of the Land by Inacting this their present Parliament that all such causes which have been tried and adjudged at Westminster sithence his Majesties Proclamation for the adjurning the Terme to Oxford the Judgements are of no force nor virtue but are contrary to the fundamentall lawes of the Kingdome Sir Ralph Dutton and Sir Henry Poole will advise his Majesty to punish Infringers of the Subjects Liberty by Inacting that Parliament that no Clothier in Glocestershire shall make any cloath without paying to his Majesty one shilling per peece and to themselves two shillings The Earle of Bristoll and the Lord Cottington will advise his Majesty how to thrust out of his Kingdom the French and spanish factions by making an Act this present Parliament for the establishing the Inquisition the high Commission I would have said in this Kingdome and to keepe an Army one foote to keepe his Subjects in subiection to the Commission of Aray Sir Faithlesse Foscu and the Lord Littelton will advise his Majesty how to punish all such as betray the trust that the Subjects of England intrust them withall by making an Act that it was lawfull for the one after so many Protestations as he did make to be faithfull unto the imployment which he had undertaken yet afterwards to betray the lives of divers men into the hands of their cruell Enemies and for the other to betray the Kingdomes Seale from the body of the Kingdome to be a colour for mercilesse actions The Lord Digby the pretended Lord Germin will advise his Majesty how to bring to condigne punishment all those who have had Articles of high Treason drawne against them by making an Act that it is lawfull for any such person if he make an escape before such time as he hath bintryed upon the said Articles of high Treason to betake himselfe to his Majesties Court for Sanctuary and there to be received into his Majesties grace and favour and to be of his Counsell this present Parliament Prince Rupert and the pretended Lord Byron will advise his Majesty how to gaine the love of all his faithfull Subjects and for the securing of his owne Crowne and dignity by making an Act that it is lawfull for any Commanders and Souldiers that are now in Armes for the defence of the King and this Parliament to take plunder and fire all such Townes in the Kingom of England or Scotland or Ireland as the inhabitants thereof shall oppose the Aray government Thus having shewed you who they are that are called to sit in this
Parliament I come now to the third Question Question 3. What Parliament this is when the Members of it are together in one body Answer IT is an Antippodes or Anty-Parliament the rather called Antippodes in regard of the contrariety of the place where this Councell is held as I shewed you before an Antippodes in regard of the contrariety in their severall Councells as for example instead of punishing Fomenters of the Protestant Religion they get Acts for the setting up of Popery Instead of punishing the Subverters of the Lawes of the Land they subvert the Lawes themselves instead of puntshing Infringers of the Subjects Liberty they Inact Monoppolies to be lawfull and so it is in all the rest of their proceedings Wherefore I conceive it deserves not the name of a Parliament for Parliaments reforme all things that are amisse Inact good and wholsome Lawes and Priviledges whereas on the contrary this Anty-labers all it can to confound wholsome Lawes and Liberties which brings me to the fourth question Question 4. To what end this Parliament is called Answer VVHich I shall answer upon this consideration if you please to consider their severall proceedings from the first beginning of these unhappy differences and who they are that sit in this great Councell you will easily finde to what end this Anty Parliament was called it was called to this very end and purpose that seeing they could not by all the meanes they have used hitherto as by the Kings Majesties deserting his lawfull Parliament by the Arch-popish Prelates protesting against all that ever was done in that Parliament by their insinuating his Majesty to take up Armes against his Parliament as also by his Majesties countenancing so many popish Lords and Delinquents to his palriament in keeping them from being brought to condigne punishment according to the Law of the Land all this being done under pretence of monarchicall power and prerogative when all this would not inforce his parliament absolutely to dissolve and leave themselves and those Subjects who had intrusted them with their lives Estates to the mercy of tyrannicall government but have used all just and lawfull meanes to defend their Religion Lawes and Liberties even at that very time is this Anty-parliament called thinking thereby to root out all at once Religion parliament Law and Liberty Argue but thus and we shall finde by what the Counsellors are what the Counsells as if the Counsell be invected with popery the advice must needs be for popery if the Counsellors be invective with subvertion of Lawes the advice is for to subvert Laws if the Councellours be invective with Spanish and French factions the Counell must needs be for Inquisition and Aray f the Counsellors be invective to Monopoliseing the Counsell must needes be for Monoppolies if the Counsellors be invective to plundering the advise must needs be for plundering and fireing of Townes if the Counsellors be invective to Treason the advice of those Counsellours must needes be Treachery Now heare you may see to what end this Anty-parliament was called Now English faithfull Subjects looke to your selves for if this Anty-Counsell goe on here is treachery a plotting to take away your Religion to subvert your Lawes to Infringe your Liberties and to roote up the being of parliaments all these to be blasted by this Anty-parliament if it hold at one time Thus have I answered the fourth question and now come to the fifth Question 5. Who and what they are in their lives and conversations that take up Armes in defence of this Anti-Parliament Answer AS for their Generall Prince Rupert it is well knowne what hee is both for his life and conversation glorying in nothing but lisentious luxuries and plundering His Majesties loyall and faithfull Subjects all his Ambition is to get himselfe an inheritance by the destruction of our Lawes and Liberties by an over-ruling power with his Majesties assent witnesse so many Towns as Banbury Brummidgham and others which he hath fired and plundered So likewise for the rest of the Commanders that are joyned with him How many knowne Papists are there that have taken up Armes in this unnaturall Warre What else can we expect from such whose Religion is a blood-thirsty Religion It allows them to massacre those that professe the Protestant Religion and can we thinke they will fight for the Protestant Religion Oh! let us not sooth up our selves with such foolish fancies As for those of their Commanders that are not profest Papists as the pretended Lord Byron the Lord Wilmoi and Neale that was their Scout-Master they are worse then those who are profest papists They are like to subtile Woolves who devoure Lambes in sheeps cloathing who pretend they fight for the protestant Religion when indeed they labour all that in them lyeth for to destroy it As for Neale hee hath beene one of the greatest high-way robbers this day in the Kingdome yet now Knighted by his Majestie Is it possible for those men to fight for the Protestant Religion who joyned in Commotion with profest Papists English and Irish Rebels and fight for one and the same cause with them and plot and contrive how they shall destroy such a Parliament as shall be lawfully called for the defence of the protestant Religion The protestant Religion cannot be maintained by such unjust meanes If such are the Commanders what are the inferiour Officers and Souldiers as for them there are a great many profest Papists and Irish Rebels Patentees and Serving-men broken Tradesmen Proctors and Officiates Stage-players Fidlers and Highway men and a great many of ignorant Welchmen The papists and Irish Rebels they will fight in defence of this Anti-parliament against the lawfull Parliament because they know that if the parliament get the day there will be a reformation of the protestant Religion and popery should downe quite and the Irish Rebels would be quailed and therefore they will fight it out to the last for their Religion lyeth at stake as well as their selves The Patentees they will fight they will joyne with the rest they know if the King with his Anti-parliament get the day they shall renew their Patents which if the lawfull parliament get the day their hopes will bee frustrate forever Monopolizing more The Serving-men they will fight too in defence of this Anti-parliament because their Masters doe as if their Masters goe to hell they will goe too for company There are broken Tradesmen in this Army that will fight against the lawfull parliament because they will not alow them Protections whereby they might walke the streetes in despight of their Creditors The Proctors they will fight against this parliament in hope his Majestie and his Anti-parliament will get the day and then there will be Trading enough at Doctors Commons for there would bee more Holy-dayes then ever there was and Etcetera as common as ever it was and therefore they will fight and make as strong a party as they can against that parliament that hath
THE OXONIAN ANTIPPODES OR The OXFORD Anty-Parliament First Setting forth who it is that calls that Parliament Secondly Who they are that sit in that Parliament Thirdly What Parliament it is when the Members of it are in one body Fourthly To what end this Parliament is called Fifthly What they are for their Religion their lives and conversations that beare Armes in defence of that Parliament Sixthly That the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawfull Parliament Seventhly That whatsoever is done against this Lawfull Parliament is against God the Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land and the Liberty of the Subjects By I.B. Gent. LONDON Printed for Richard Lounds and are to be sold at his shop neere Ludgate 1644. To the Reader CURTEOUS READER THe inexhausted Treasures of the never-dying vertues of this faithfull Parliament hath incouraged my quaking Pen to salute you by presenting unto your view the weake indeavours of a Souldiers Quill And the rather to give satisfaction to the world that I girt not sword to my thigh till such time I well weighed the reasons that moved me to it which were these To defend the Protestant Religion this lawfull Parliament the Lawes of the Land and my owne liberty from the violence and oppression of proffessed Papists Traitours and Rebels And now having some leisure being in my Winter quarters after a sad contemplation of my Countries misery I thought fit to spend some houres in compiling this undigested fragment for the better satisfaction of some various conceipts that are amongst us and for the stopping the mouthes of malignant spirits who with their stupidity flatter themselves with the bare name of a King never arguing to themselves how farre a King may command or what commands of the King the Subject may not obey Now here is discovered how farre the Kings power doth extend to Command his subjects And what Commands of the King the Subject may not obey Here is set forth what the Ruler is by his Counsell and that a good King will not suffer wicked Counsellours to be about him All I shall adde is one by his request courteously to accept my weake labours And how ever you please to censure I wish you a contented life and an honourable death Yours faithfully affected JO. BRANDON Gent. The Oxonian Antippodes or the Oxford Anty-Parliament KIngs are appointed by God to govern the people committed to their charge with wisdome and knowledge like Solomon who desired of the Lord to give him wisdome and knowledge 2 Chron. the 7.10 that he might go out and in before the Lords people for saith he who can judge this thy people as if he should have said that I may govern this thy people with wisdome and knowledge by establishing to them a saveing Religion and wholsome Lawes both which include a comfortable Libertie as King Iehoshaphat 2 Chron. the 17 the 7 8 9. verses in the third yeare of his Reigne he sent his Princes with divers of his Priests and Levites to Iudah and with them the booke of the Law of the Lord to teach the people of Iudah the Lawes that were written in that booke Now the Law of God exprest in holy Scripture is a Law that is written in the conscience of every man in the conscience of the King so wel as in the conscience of a Subject which Law the Philosophers call the Law of Nature and the Lawyers call it the Law of Nations whereof the Law of Moses is a plaine exposition hence it is that the fundamentall Lawes are grounded upon these Lawes and the King is sworne at his Coronation to maintaine them to the Subjects with such Religion and Liberties as the same Lawes do alow of It remains then that there is a Religion Lawes and Liberties belonging to the Subjects of England and they are to be maintained unto them by the King whence is it then that our Religion Lawes and Liberties had long ere this been taken from us by him that is sworn to maintain them to us had not God of his great mercy stird up the hearts of a Parliament to stand for us by reason his Majestie gave himselfe over to evill Counsellers he did choose rather to come in a hostile manner to the House of Parliament to accuse five of his faithfullest Counsellers of high treason then suffer to be brought to condigne punishment Digby or Germin or Windibancke who are known Traytors to this State and Kingdome such Counsellours they are ro him as Ahab was and Ahaziahs mother was to him she counselled him to do wickedly wherefore he did evill in the sight of the Lord Chron. 2.22 Chap. 3.4 like the house of Ahab for they were His Counsellours to his destruction it must needs follow that the Rulers are such as their Counsellours be that there cannot be a good King that suffereth wicked Counsellours if Kings be intrusted with Subjects Lawes and Liberties to the end they should maintain them by the best meanes they can to the losse of life and inheritance and yet labour to circumvent them of their Religion Laws and Liberties and this being done in a Kingdome which is governed by a Parliamentary government and their Priviledges lying ingaged with the Subjects Lawes and Liberties its time then for that Parliament to be stir themselves and by all the means they can defend themselves their Religion their Priviledges with all the faithfull subjects with their Lawes and Liberties from violence and oppression and from being delivered into the over ruling power of papists and Rebels and Violaters of Lawes and Liberties but now the word Liberty has taken that possession in the harts of English Subjects that all the Monarchicall Prerogatives in Oxford or elsewhere cannot tell how either by declaring against it at common Law by the advice of Bankes and Heath or by preferring a Bill in Chancery against it with the advice of Littelton or by thundering sentencies out of the high Commission and Starre chamber by the Arch-Prelates to put it out of possession when these would not do to bring their designe to perfection they have thundred forth Proclamations to terrifie the hearts of His Majesties loyall and faithfull Subjects by proclaiming them Traytours and Rebels for no other cause then for standing in defence of their Religion Lawes and Lyberties And have raised an Army to suppresse their lawfull Parliament and now they have perswaded His Majestie to call a Parliament to sit at Oxford there to sit in councell as I conceive against God himselfe for the rooting out of the Protestant Religion for the destruction of his lawfull Parliament and the Lawes and Lyberties of the faithfull Protestants in England Scotland and Ireland You may see to what end they call this great Councell if we doe but looke backe for seven yeares before the sitting of this Parliament of blessed memorie who seeing what action they have continually beene in as by private wayes and meanes under pretence of Religion still bringing in