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A87523	An apology for the army, touching the eight quære's upon the late declarations and letters from the army, touching sedition falsly charged upon them. Wherein those quæres are resolved, and thereby the present proceedings of the army are proved to be legall, just & honorable. By David Jenkins, prisoner in the Tower of London.	Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.	1647 (1647)	Wing J582; Thomason E396_18; ESTC R201654	7,036	12

new case without an Act of Parliament and therefore the imposers thereof are very blamable and guiltie of the highest Crime The Writer of these Quaeries seemes to professe the Lawes let him declare what Act of Parliament doth justifie the tendring giving or taking of the said Oath he knoweth there is none he knoweth that all the parts of it are destructive of the Lawes and Government to maintaine which the Law of nature the Law of the Land had obliged them Mag. Chart. cap. 1. Ultimo Articuli cleri and many other statutes 16. Ed. 4.10 The Oath of the Covenant makes the Houses Supreme Governours in causes Ecclesiasticall the Oath of Supremacy makes the King so and yet both taken by the same persons at the same time What credit is to be given to persons who make nothing of Oathes and contradict themselves How doe the Covenant and the Oath of Supremacy agree How doth their Protestation and the Covenant agree How doe their Declarations and Oathes agree The Lord be mercifull to this Land for these Oaths It is a sad thing to consider that so many gentlemen who professe the lawes and so many worthy men in both Houses should be so transported as they are knowing that the Lawes of the Land from time to time and in all times are contrary to all their actions and that yet they should amuse themselves and the people with the word of Parliament without the King and with the Covenant whereas they know they are no Parliament without His Majestie and that English men throughout the Kingdome should sweare a Covenant to preserve the reformed Religion of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government which they no more know than the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of Prester Iohn in Ethiopia if they consider it they cannot but discerne that this is a high desperate and impious madnesse Be wise in time without the King and the Lawes you will never have one houre of safety for your Persons Wives Children or Es●●tes Be good to your selves and to your Posterities apply your selves to be capable of an Act of Oblivion and of a generall Pardon and to be able and willing to pay the Souldiery and to allow a reasonable liberty for mens consciences and God will blesse your endeavours and the people to whom you are now very hatefull will have you in better estimation The third Quaerie is thus answered You resemble the Army to Iacke Cade and his Complices and you cite the Act of Parliament of 31. Hen. 6. cap. 1. and that it may appeare who acts the Part of Iacke Cade you and that Party in the two Houses or the Army I thinke it necessary to set downe the said Act in words at large as followeth First Whereas the most abominable Tyrant horrible odious and arrant false Traytor Iohn Cade calling and naming himself sometime Mortimer sometime Cap. of Kent which name fame acts and feats are to be removed out of the speech and mind of every faithfull Christian man perpetually falsely and traiterously purposing and imagining the perpetuall destruction of the Kings said Person and finall subversion of this Realme taking upon him Royall power and gathering to him the Kings people in great numbers by false subtle imagined Language and seditiously making a stirring Rebellion and Insurrection under colour of justice for reformation of the Lawes of the said King robbing stealing and spoiling great part of his faithfull people Our said Soveraigne Lord the King considering the premises with many other which were more odious to remember by advise and consent of the Lords aforesaid and at the request of the said Commons and by authority aforesaid hath ordained and established that the said Iohn Cade shall be reputed had named and declared a false Traytour to our Soveraigne Lord the King and that all his tyranny acts feats and falie opinions shall be voyded abated annulled destroyed put out of remembrance for ever and that all enditements and all things depending thereof had and made under the power of tyranny shall be likewise void a●●ulled abated repealed and holden for none and that the bloud of none of them be thereof defiled nor corrupted but by the authority of the said Parliament cleerely declared for ever and that all enditements in times comming in like case under power of tyranny rebellion and stirring had shall be of no Record nor effect but void in Law and all the Petitions delivered to the said King in his last Parliament holden at VVestminster Noveb 6. in the 29. of his Raigne against his mind by him not agreed shall be taken and put in oblivion out of remembrance undone voyded annulled and destroyed for ever as a thing purposed against God and conscience and against His Royall Estate and preeminence and also dishonourable and unreasonable Now wee are to examine who hath trod in the steps of Jack Cade you and the present prevailing party of the two Houses tooke upon them and doe take all the Royall Power in all things so did Jack Cade as appeares by the said Act the Army doe not so They who imprison the King purpose to destroy His Person our imprisoned Kings alwayes * Edward 2. Henry 6. Richard 2. fared so Jack Cade did likewise so purpose but the Army doe not so The said party in the two Houses made a stirring under colour of Justice for Reformation of the Lawes so did Jack Cade The Army doe not so but desire that the Lawes should be observed Jack Cade levied Warre against the King the Army preserves Him Jack Cade dyed a Declared Traytor to his Soveraigne Lord the King this Army lives to have the glorious true Honour of being restorers of their King Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury was murtheted by Jack Cade William Laud Archbishop of Canterbury was likewise murthered by that party of the two Houses for that an Ordinance by Law cannot take away any mans life 25 Ed. 3.4 28 Ed. 3.3 Petition of Right 3 ●ar his life was taken away by an Ordinance of the two Houses the Army had no hand in it Many misled by Jack Cade perceiving his Trayterous purposes fell from him and as that was lawfull just and Honourable so it is for this Army to adhere to their naturall King and to indeavour to settle the Kingdome againe in the just Lawes and Liberties thereof London did then right worthily adhere to the King and the Lawes and not to Iack Cade and his specious pretences and i● is hoped they will now so doe By this it appeares that the Gentlemans Discourse touching Iack Cade fastens altogether on his party and cleareth the Army To the IV. which is solved thus The Arreares of the Army howbeit it is the least thing they looke after yet being not paid them it is by the Law of the Land a sufficient cause to leave and desert that party in the Houses A person who serves in any kinde and is not paid his

AN APOLOGY FOR THE ARMY Touching the eight Quaere's upon the late Declarations and Letters from the Army touching sedition falsly charged upon them Wherein those Quaeres are resolved and thereby the present proceedings of the Army are proved to be Legall Just Honorable By DAVID JENKINS Prisoner in the Tower of LONDON Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes Printed in the Yeare 1647. AN APOLOGIE FOR THE ARMY THese Treasonable and insolent Quaeries make the Army the Houses Subjects and not the Kings Bracton fol. 118. Stanford f. 2 None by the Lawes of this Land can in this Kingdome have any Army but His Majesty It appeares the Army doth now evidently perceive that they were mis-led by the specious pretences of Salus Populi the maintenance of the Kings Honour and of the maintenance of the Lawes of the Land and liberties of the Subject to take up Armes against their naturall Liege Lord and Soveraigne the King The People is the Body Mag. Char. c. 1. ultim All the act concerning the King Church and Churchmen 25. E. 1. c. 1. the King is their Head was the Body safe when the Head was distressed and imprisoned For Lawes and Liberties have not the prevailing partie in the two Houses destroyed above 100 Acts of Parliament and in effect Magna Charta Charta de Forestâ which are the common Lawes of the Land Doth Excize Fifth and Twentieth Parts Meale-money and many more burdens which this Land never heard of before maintaine the Liberties of the people You and that partie of the two Houses made the Army by severall Declarations before ingagement believe that you would preserve the Kings Honour and Greatnesse the Lawes and Liberties of the people The Army and the whole Kingdome now facta vident see your actions and have no reason longet to believe your Oaths Vowes and Declarations and since that partie in the two Houses refuse to performe any thing according to their said Oathes Vowes and Declarations The Army and the Kingdome may and ought both by your own principles and the Lawes of the Land pursue the end for which they were raysed And so your first Quaere is resolved whereby it is manifest that specious pretences to carry on ambitious and pernicious designes fix not upon the Army but upon you and the prevailing partie in both Houses The Solution of the second Quaere The Army to their eternall honour have freed the King from imprisonment at Holmby 3. par Instit f. 12.39 Eli. 1. Iacob ibi 2. 3. E. 6. cap. 2. 11. H. 7. c. 1. It was High Treason to imprison His Majestie To free His Majestie from that imprisonment was to deliver Him out of Traiterous hands which was the Armies bounden dutie by the Law of God and the Land That partie refused to suffer His Majestie to have two of His Chaplaines for the exercise of His Conscience who had not taken the Covenant free accesse was not permitted doth the Army use His Majestie so all men see that accesse to Him is free and such Chaplaines as His Majestie desired are now attending on His Grace Who are the guiltie persons the Army who in this action of delivering the King act according to Law or the said partie who acted Treasonably against the Law Who doth observe the Protestation better they who imprison their King or they who free Him from prison That this Army was raysed by the Parliament is utterly false The Army was raysed by the two Houses upon the specious pretences of the Kings Honour common safetie and the preservation of Lawes and Liberties which how made good hath beene shewed before and all the people of the Kingdome doe find by wofull experience The two Houses are no more a Parliament then a Body without a Head a man 14. H. 8.3.36 H. 8. Dier 60.4 par Instit p. 1.3.12.14.16 R. 2. c. 1.5 Eliz. c. 2.17 Carol. The act for the continuance of this Parliament The two Houses can make no Court without the King they are no Body Corporate without the King they all Head and Members make one Corporate Body and this is so cleare a truth that in this Parliament by the Act of 17 Caroli it is declared That the Parliament shall not be dissolved or prorogued but by act of Parliament but the two Houses may respectively adjourne themselves two Houses a Parliament are severall things Cuncta fidem vero faciunt all circumstances agree to prove this truth Before the Norman Conquest and sithence to this day the King is holden Principall Caput sinis that is the beginning Head and chief end of the Parliament as appeareth by the Treatise of the manner of holding of Parliaments made before the Norman Conquest 4. par Instit pag. 12. by the Writ of Sūmons of Parliament whereby the Treaty and Parler in Parliament is to be had with the King onely by the Common Law 4. par Instit pag. 4.9 5. Eli. c. 1.2 by the Statute-Law by the Oath of Supremacy taken at this and every Parliament it doth manifestly appeare that without the King there can be no colour of a Parliament How many Votes have they revoked in one Session yea and Bills Was there ever the like done Nay is not the constant course of Parliaments violated and made nothing thereby They are guarded by Armed-men divide the publique money among themselves and that partie in leavours to bring in a Forreigne to invade this Land againe If they be no Parliament as clearely they are none without His Majestie they have no privileges but doe exercise an Arbitrary Ty●annicall and Treasonable power over the people By the Law of the Land when Treason or Felony is committed 7. E. 4.20 8. E. 4.3 9. E. 4.27 4. H. 7.18 27. H. 8.23 it is lawfull for every Subject who suspects the Offender to apprehend him and to secure him so that Justice may be done upon him according to the Law You say The disobedience of the Army is a sad publique president like to conjure up a spirit of universall disobedience I pray object not that conjuring up to the Army whereof you the prevailing partie in the Houses are guiltie who conjured up the spirit of universall disobedience against His Majestie your and our onely Supreme Governour But you and that partie in the two Houses and even then when the house of Commons were taking and did take the said Oath of Supremacy For the Covenant you mention it is an Oath against the Lawes of the Land against the Petition of Right devised in Scotland wherein the first Article is to maintaine the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland 2. pars Coll. of Ord. pag. 803. Petition of right 3. Car. 2. pars instit 719. And certainly there is no Subject of the English Nation doth know what the Scottish Religion is I believe the Army tooke not the Covenant No man by the Law can give an Oath in a