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A91269	The second part of A seasonable legal and historical vindication, and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, lawes, government of all English freemen; their best inheritance and onely security against all arbitrary tyranny and Ægyptian taxes. Wherein the extraordinary zeal, courage, care, vigilancy, civill, military and Parliamentary consultations, contests, to preserve, establish, perpetuate them to posterity, against all tyrants, usurpers, enemies, invaders, both under the ancient pagan and Christian Britons, Romans, Saxons. The laws and Parliamentall great councils of the Britons, Saxons. With some generall presidents, concerning the limited powers and prerogatives of our British and first Saxon kings; ... are chronologically epitomized, ... By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4072; Thomason E820_11; ESTC R203292	115,608	151

destroyed those of Northumberland and Lindesfa●ne horribly destroying the Churches of Christ with the Inhabitants at which time Duke Sigga who unworthily betrayed and slew his Soveraign King Alfwold of Northumberland worthily perished the whole Nation being first almost quite consumed with civill Warres and by these Pagan invaders whose Plague was farre more outragious and cruell than that of the Romans Picts Scots or Saxons Invasions and Depredations in former ages they most frequently invading and assailing the land on every side desiring not so much to obtain and rule over it as to spoile and destroy it with all things therein burning their houses carrying away their goods tossing their little children and murthering them on the top of their pikes ravishing their wives and daughters then carrying them away captives and putting all the men to the Sword which sad and frequent rumours from all parts struck such terrour into the hearts of King and people that their very hearts and hands failed and languished so that when they obtained any victory they had no joy nor hope of safety by it being presently encountred by new and greater swarmes of these Pagan Destroyers The cause of which sore Plague and Judgement he together with Mathew Westminster thus expresse In the Primitive Church of England Religion most brightly shined but in processe of time all vertue so withered and decayed in them VT GENTEM NVLLAM PRODITIONE ET NEQVITIA PAREM ESSE PERMITTERENT that they permitted no Nation to be equall to them IN TREASON AND WICKEDNESSE which most of all appeares in the History of the forecited Kings of Northumberland For men of every Order and Office DOLO ET PRODITIONE INSISTEBANT addicted themselves TO FRAUD AND TREASON in such sort as their impiety is formerly described in the Acts of their Kings Neither was any thing held disgraceful but Truth and Justice Nec honor nisi BELLA PLVS QVAM CIVILIA ET SANGVINIS INNOCENCIVM EFFVSIO causa dignissima caedis Innocentia Nor any thing reputed honourable but more than civill Warres and effusion of the bloud of Innocents and Innocency reputed a cause most worthy of death THEREFORE the Lord Almighty sent a most cruell Nation like swarmes of Bees who spared neither age nor sex to wit the Danes with the Gothes the Norwegians and the Sweeds the Vandals with the Prisons who from the beginning of King Edelwolfe to the coming of the Normans under King William wasted and made the fruitfull Land desolate for 230. yeares destroying it from Sea to Sea and from man to beast Which sore and dreadful long continued Judgement of God upon the Land for those crying sinnes now abounding amongst us as much almost as amongst the Northumberlanders and other Saxons then may cause us justly to fear the self same punishments or the like as they then incurred and the Britons before that under the bloudy Usurper Vortigenne unlesse we seriously repent and speedily reform them From these unparalleld prodigious Treasons Insurrections Regicides Rebellions of these Northumberlanders I conceive that infamous Proverb used by Maximilian the Emperor and frequent in Forraigne and other Writers first arose touching the English That the King of England was REX DIABOLORVM a King of Devils not of men or Saints SVBDICOS ENIM REGES EJICERE TRVCIDARE because the English especially the Northumberlanders so oft rebelled against expelled deposed and murdered their Kings beyond the Spaniards French and other Nations Which Proverb the late extravagant Proceedings of some Jesuitized pretended English Saints have now again revived out of the ashes of oblivion But I hope these sad recited old domestick Presidents will hereafter instruct both Kings Magistrates Parliaments and people to keep within those due bounds of Justice Righteousnesse Law Equity Loyalty Piety Conscience Prudence and Christian Moderation which the Lawes of God and the Land prescribe to both and the Council of Calchuth forecited long since prefixed them That the ancient English Saxon Kings at and from their primitive Establishment in this Realm had no power nor prerogative in them to impose any publike Taxes Imposts Tributes or Payments whatsoever on their people without their Common Consents and Grants in their Great Councils of the Realm for any spiritual or temporal use I shall evidence by the four first General publick Taxes that I meet with in the Histories of their times which I shall recite in Order according to their Antiquity though I shall therein somewhat swarve from my former Chronological Method in reciting some subsequent Lawes and confirmations relating to every of them for brevity sake out of their due order of time and coupling them with the original Lawes for and Grants of these general Charges and Taxes to which they have relation and then pursue my former method Henry Huntindon in the Prologue to his fifth Book of Histories p. 347. writes thus of those Saxons who first seised upon Britain by the Sword Saxones autem pro viribus paulatim terram Britanniae bello capiscentes captam obtinebant obtentam adificabant adificatam LEGIBVS REGEBANT not by arbitrary Regal power without or against all Law The first Taxes and Impositions ever laid under the Saxon Kings Government after they turned Christians upon the people of England were for the maintenance of Religion Learning Ministers Schollers long before we read of any Taxes imposed on them for the publick Defence of the Nation by Land or Sea all and every of which were granted imposed onely by common consent in their Great Councils before the Name of Parliament was used in this Island which being a French word came in after the Normans about Henry the third his reign without which Councils grant they could neither be justly charged nor levied on all or any Free-men of this Island by any civill or legall Right by those to whom they were granted and thereupon grew due by Law 1. The first General Tax or Imposition laid on and paid by the Saxon Subjects of this Land appearing in our Histories was that of Caericsceatae id est CENSVS ECCLESIAE in plain English Churchets or Church-Fees in nature of First-Fruits and Tythes The first Law whereby these Churchets Church-Fees or First-Fruits were imposed on the people and setled as an annuall duty on the Ministers paid onely before that time as voluntary Free-will Offrings to the Ministers of the Gospel by devout and liberal Christians was enacted by Ive King of the west Saxons in a Great Councill held under him Anno Dom. 692. Wherein by the exhortation advice and assent of Cenred his Father Heddes and Erkenwold his Bishops AND OF ALL THE ALDERMEN ELDERS AND WISE-MEN OF HIS REALM and a great Congregation of the Servants of God he established this Law among sundry others which none might abolish Cap. 4. De Censu Ecclesiae Cericsccata i.e. Vectigal or Census Ecclesiae reddita sint in Festo Sancti Ma●●tini Si quis hoc non compleat reus sit IX sol du●

THE SECOND PART OF A SEASONABLE LEGAL and HISTORICAL VINDICATION and CHRONOLOGICAL COLLECTION Of the Good old Fundamental Liberties Franchises Rights Lawes Government of all English Freemen their best Inheritance and onely Security against all Arbitrary Tyranny and Aegyptian Taxes Wherein the extraordinary Zeal Courage Care Vigilancy Civill Military and Parliamentary Consultations Contests to preserve establish perpetuate them to Posterity against all Tyrants Vsurpers Enemies Invaders both under the ancient Pagan and Christian Britons Romans Saxons The Laws and Parliamentall Great Councils of the Britons Saxons With some Generall Presidents concerning the limited Powers and Prerogatives of our British and first Saxon Kings the Fundamental Rights Liberties Franchises Laws of their Subjects the severe punishments of their Tyrannicall Princes on the one side and of unrighteous Vsurpers Traytors Regicides Treason Perfidiousnesse and Disloyalty on the other recorded in our Historians are Chronologically Epitomized and presented to publick View for the benefit of the whole English Nation By WILLIAM PRYNNE of Swainswick Esquire Prov. 22. 28. Remove not the Ancient Land-markes which thy Fathers have set 2 Sam. 10. 12. Be of GOOD COURAGE AND LET US PLAY THE MEN FOR OUR PEOPLE and for the Cities of our God and the Lord do that which seemeth him good Dan. 7. 25 26. And he shall think TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of times But the Judgement shall sit and they shall take away his Dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the end London Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Edward Thomas dwelling in Green Arbour 1655. ERRATA IN the Epistle p. 2 l 38. r. 1540. p. 5. l. 10. r. secure p. 9. l. 2. 5. r. s. p. 10. l 37. r. Kings Queenes p. 16. l 3. dele they p. 19. l. 2. 1502. r. 1602. p. 22. l. 1. proceeding p. 24. l. 20. Oath of Supremacy p. 25. l 24. for this p 27. l 4. r. 1653. p. 35. l. 20. r. and our religion from c. p 47 l 18 Constantius l 26 for if p 51 l 2 p 52 l 37 twenty four r. fourty two Margin p. 20. l. 1. whether In the Book p. 2. l. 19 20. r. each single p. 39. l. 19. Dubricius p. 41. l. 11. quod p. 47. l. 13. Christianismum p. 53. l. 29. reservations p. 62. l. 9. by r. of p. 64 l. 20. Subditos p 67 l 23 dat r eat p. 71. l. 31. r. Schoole p. 72. l. 27. dele a. Margin p. 55. l. 29. r. Eventibus To all truely Christian Free-men of England Patrons of Religion Freedom Parliaments who shall peruse this Treatise Christian Reader IT hath been one of the most detestable Crimes and highest Impeachments against the Antichristian Popes of Rome that under a Saint-like Religious Pretext of advancing the Church Cause Kingdom of Jesus Christ they have for some hundred yeers by-past usurped to themselves as sole Monarchs of the world in the Right of Christ whose Vicars they pretend themselves to be both by Doctrinal Positions and Treasonable Practises an absolute Soveraign Tyrannical Power over all Christian Emperours Kings Princes of the World who must derive and hold their Crowns from them alone upon their good behaviours at their pleasures not onely to Excommunicate Censure Judge Depose Murder Destroy their sacred Persons but likewise to dispose of their Crowns Scepters Kingdom● and translate them to whom they please In pursuance whereof they have most traiterously wickedly seditiously atheistically presumed to absolve their Subjects from all their sacred Oaths Homages natural Allegiance and due Obedience to them instigated encouraged yea expresly enjoyned under pain of interdiction excommunication and other censures their own Subjects yea own sons sometimes both by their Bulls and Agents to revolt from rebel war against depose dethrone murder stab poyson destroy them by open force or secret conspiracies and stirred up one Christian King Realm State to invade infest destroy usurp upon another onely to advance their own antichristian Soveraignties Usurpations Ambition Rapines worldly Pompe and Ends as you may read at leisure in the Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 28 H. 8. c. 10. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 13 Eliz. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 1. 35 Eliz. c. 2. 3 Jacob. c. 1 2 4 5. 7 Jacob. c. 6. the Emperour Frederick his Epistles against Pope Gregory the 9. and Innocent the 4. recorded in Matthew Paris and others Aventinus Annalium Boiorum Mr. Tyndal's Practice of Popish Prelates the second Homily upon Whitsunday the Homilies against Disobedience and wilful Rebellion Bishop Jewels view of a seditious Bull John Bale in his lives of the Roman Pontiffs Doctor Thomas Bilson in his true difference between Christian subjection and unchristian Rebellion Doctor John White his Sermon at Paul's Cross March 24. 1625. and Defence of the Way c. 6 10. Doctor Crakenthorpe of the Popes temporal Monarchy Bishop Morton's Protestants Apology Doctor Beard 's Theater of Gods Judgements l. 1. c. 27 28. Doctor Squire of Antichrist John Bodin his Common-wealth l. 1. c. 9. The learned Morney Lord du Plessy his Mystery of Iniquity and History of the Papacy The Grimston's Imperial History Matthew Paris Holinshed Speed Cambden and others in the lives of Henry the 3. Queen Elizabeth and other of our Kings and hundreds of printed Sermons on the 5 of November The principal Instruments the Popes imployed of late years in these their unchristian Treasonable Designes have been pragmatical furious active Jesuites whose Society was first erected by Ignatius Loyola a Spaniard by Birth but A SOULDIER by Profession and confirmed by Pope Paul the 3. Anno 1640 which Order consisting onely of ten persons at first and confined onely to sixty by this Pope hath so monstrously increased by the Popes and Spaniards favours and assistance whose chief Janizaries Factors Intelligencers they are that in the year 1626. they caused the picture of Ignatius their Founder to be cut in Brass with a goodly Olive Tree growing like Jesses root out of his side spreading its branches into all Kingdoms and Provinces of the World where the Jesuites have any Colledges and Seminaries with the name of the Province at the foot of the branch which hath as many leaves as they have Colledges and Residencies in that Province in which leaves are the names of the Towns and Villages where these Colledges are situated round about the Tree are the Pictures of all the illustrious Persons of their Order and in Ignatius his right hand there is a Paper wherein these words are ingraven Ego sicut Oliva fructifera in domo Dei taken out of Ps 52. 8. which pourtraictures they then printed and published to the World wherein they set forth the number of their Colledges and Seminaries to be no less then 777. increased to 155 more by the year 1640. in all 932. as they published in like Pictures Pageants printed at

Representative body of the whole Kingdome since dissolved by the Army is a Faction of Malignant Schismaticall ambitious Persons whose DESIGNE IS AND ALWAYES HATH BEEN TO ALTER THE WHOLE FRAME OF GOVERNMENT BOTH OF CHURCH AND STATE AND TO SUBJECT BOTH KING AND PEOPLE TO THEIR OWN LAW●ESSE ●●BITRARY POWER AND GOVERNMENT and that they DESIGNE THE RUINE OF HIS MAJESTIES PERSON and OF MONARCHY IT SELF and consequently that they are TRAITORS ●nd all the Kingdome with them for 〈◊〉 act is the act of the whole Kingdome And whether their punishment and ruine may not also INVOLVE THE WHOLE KINGDOME IN CONCLUSION AND REDU●●● INTO THE CONDITION OF A CONQUERED NATION as some ARMY-OFFICERS and SOULDIERS openly averred we are now reduced to by and under them NO MAN CAN TELL BVT EXPERIENCE SHEWETH V● and now we finde it most true in the ARMY-OFFICERS COUNCELL SOULDIERS THAT SVCCESSE OFTEN DRAWS MEN NOT ONELY BEYOND THEIR PROFESSION but also many times beyond their first intentions Surely as the Armies and their Confederates late proceedings in relation to themselves though not unto the forced dismembred dissolved Parliament and secured Members have fully verified this charge in every particular then reputed most false and scandalous which I thus press upon their consciences at this time and so largely insist on not to defame or asperse them to the world but to vindicate the Innocency Integrity of the Majority and secluded Members of both Houses against the scandalous printed aspersions of Militiere and other Papists to preserve and justifie the Honour of our Reformed Religion and of the most zealous Professors thereof to restore re-establish if possible the Priviledges the Freedom of all Future Parliaments much impaired endangered by their heady violent Proceedings to convince them by what Jesuitical Popish old Court-Principles Counsels Practises they have hitherto been mis-guided and to reclaim them as much as in me lieth for the future from the like destructive Practises for the publick Safety Peace Settlement of our distracted Kingdoms and do most earnestly beseech them as they are English men Souldiers Christians seriously to repent of and lay to heart lest they perish eternally for them at last So the Army-Officers Souldiers Great Successes in all their Wars Designs and forcible Proceedings against the King Parliament Kingdom Government Laws and Liberties as it hath caused them not onely beyond their Professions but also beyond their first Intentions Commissions Protestations to forget that Gospel-Precept given to Souldiers Luke 3. 14. to advance themselves to a more absolute Soveraign arbitrary Power over them then ever any Kings of England claimed or pretended to as their late Proceedings Remonstrances and transcendent Instrument of the Government of the three Kingdoms manifest so it hath been the principal Ground whereby they have justified all their unpresidented forementioned Exho●bitances as lawful commendable Christian and that which hath struck such a stupyfying pannick fear such a stupendious cowardize baseness sottishness into the Generality of the Nobility Gentry Ministery and Commons of our late most heroick English Nation that there is scarce a man to be found throughout the Realm of any Eminency though we should seek after him like Diogenes with a Candle that dares freely open his mouth against the most irregular illegal violent destructive arbitrary Proceedings Usurpations Innovations Oppressions Taxes Projects to the shaking and utter subverting of our ancient Fundamental Laws Liberties Rights Properties Parliaments Parliamentary Priviledges Government and taking away of the very Lives of some and thereby endangering the Lives of all other English Freemen of all Degrees in mischristened High Courts of Justice Such a strange Charm is there in Success alone to metamorphise Men into meer temporizing slavish sordid sotts and beasts yea to cause not onely persons truly honourable but the very Devil himself and the worst of beasts to be wondred after applauded adored not onely as Saints but Gods We read Rev. 13. of a Monstrous deformed BEAST to whom the Dragon the Devil gave his Power Seat and Great Authority whereupon all the world wondred after the Beast and worshipped not onely the Dragon that gave him power but the Beast likewise saying Who is like unto the Beast WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM And there was given unto him a Mouth speaking Great things and blasphemies and power was given him to continue and make war forty and two months And power was given unto him to make war with the SAINTS AND TO OVERCOME THEM and power was given him over all Kindreds and Tongues and Nations And HEREUPON IT FOLLOWS all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Lambes Book of Life And another Beast under him caused the earth and all that dwell therein to set up the Image of this Beast and to worship it and he caused all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive the mark of the Beast in their right hand and in their foreheads and none might buy or sell but he that had this mark and as many as would not worship this Beasts Image were ordered to be killed Yet this Blasphemous Beasts reign and power continued but twenty four Months Rev. 13. 5. This Beast in the height of his Power and Victories was by God himself threatned to go into captivity and be killed with the Sword as he had led others into captivity and killed them with the Sword ver 10. All his followers and worshippers shall soon after drink of the wine of Gods wrath and be tormented with fire and brimstone c. Rev. 14 9 10 11. The Saints at last shall get this victory over the Beast Rev. 15. 2. And the Beast himself notwithstanding all his former Victories Friends and great Armies was at last taken and his false Prophet with him and were both cast alive into a lake burning with fire and brimstone and all his Forces were slain with the Sword and the fowls were filled with their flesh Rev. 19. 19 20 21. From which Texts I have frequently silenced confounded some of our conquering Army-Officers and Souldiers whiles prisoner under them when they were vapouring of their Great Victories Successes and concluding from thence both their Saintship and the Goodness of their Actions saying oft-times like the Beasts followers here Who is able to make war with us And that with these genuine deductions from these Texts which they could not reply against worthy all Souldiers their saddest meditations 1. That God may nay oft-times doth give great power to the very worst and most blasphemous of all Men and Beasts that not only over one or two but many Tongues Nations as in this Text and Dan. 7. 3 to 29. c. 8. 4. to 27. 2. That such Beasts many times may and do not onely make war with but even overcome the very Saints themselves in battel as the Babylonians Assyrians and other ungodly Beasts did the Israelites Gods own Saints and People Psa

14. John 10. 4 5. Dan. 3. 4 to 30. 1 King 19. 18. 2 Chron. 11. 13. to 18. Which serious seasonable considerations as they should daunt the hearts and allay the high Presumptious Spirits of the most Successful Conquerours Powerful Usurpers over and violent Invaders of the Liberties Lives Estates Rights Properties of their Lawful Superiors or Christian Brethren and all Subverters of the Laws Priviledges Parliaments Government of their Native Country especially against their Oathes and Trusts So the Meditation on them together with the contemplation of the infinite Power Wisdom Faithfulness Justice Holiness Presence and gracious Promises of God have at all times and seasons hitherto invincibly animated steeled fortified my Sonl in the midst of all my sufferings both under the domineering Prelates Parliament-assaulting Army-Officers the late Tyrannical cashiered Republicans and all other self-created oppressing Powers which if not already dead and buried in the dust with all their thoughts and high aspiring Projects yet shall certainly die ere long like men and become as dung yea they have enabled me by Faith and Patience to be more then a co●quering triumpher over them and to sing aloud with magnanimous David a man after Gods own heart long before their down-fall Psal 27. 1 2 3. The Lord is my Light and my Salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell Though an Host should encampe against me as they did at Westminster at my House and in sundry Garrisons where I was a Prisoner under Souldiers my heart shall not fear though war should rise against me in this I will be confident I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about And to cry out in Pauls words of defiance against all Enemies and Perils in the cause of my God and Country uttered in his own and all true Elected Saints names Rom. 8. 35 c. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ or my Native Country as well actively as passively considered Shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or peril or SWORD of an whole Army or other Powers Nay in all these things we are more then Conquerors through him that loved us For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor Angels nor PRINCIPALITIES NOR POWERS nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And to say with him in all threatned Dangers for my sincere consciencious publick Services Act. 20. 22 24. And now I go bound to Jerusalem not knowing the things that shall there befall me save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every City saying that Bonds and Afflictions wait for me But none of these things move me neither count I my life dear unto me so as I may finish my course with joy and the Ministery which I have received of the Lord Jesus c. And verily methinks the serious contemplation thereof and of all the premises with that of 2 Sam. 10. 12. Isai 51. 12. Jer. 1. 8. Ezech. 2. 2 to 6. Matth. 10. 26 28. Isai 1. 12 13. coupled with Psal 11. 2. If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do Prov. 24. 22 23. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King AND MEDDLE NOT WITH THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE For their calamitie shall rise suddenly which we have seen verified in many late Changers Mock-Parliaments and self-created new Powers and who knoweth the ruine of them both should now at last banish all base carnal fears out of all timerous hearts rouse up the lan●uishing fearful dead stuped Spirits of our degenerated English Nation and engage them all unanimously undauntedly to claim vindicate regain re-establish those ancient undoubted Hereditary Fundamental Rights Liberties Priviledges Franchises Laws Government purchased with their Ancestors and their own dearest Blood Treasures which belong to the whole Kingdom to all true English Parliaments Freemen in general and to every of them in particular whereof they have of late yeers been forcibly disseised or hypocritically cheated by pretended Patrons Preservers and Propugners of them the substance whereof I have here set before their eyes in ten brief Propositions and by Records Statutes Presidents Histories Contests Resolutions in all ages undauntedly as their Common Advocate asserted fortified to my power for their Encouragement and president in this publick work And if they will now but couragiously second me herein with their joynt bold rightfull Claims Votes Declarations and Resolute Demands of all and every of their enjoyments and future inviolable Establishments according to their Oaths Vows Protestations Duties manifold late Declarations Remonstrances Solemn League Covenant and the encouraging memorable Presidents of their Ancestors in former ages here recorded I dare assure them by Gods blessing a desired good-Success whereof their Ancestors never failed no mortal Powers nor Armies whatsoever having either Impudency or Ability enough to deny detain them from them if they will but generally unanimously couragiously importunately claim and demand them as their Birth-rights But if they will still basely dis-own betray and cowardly desert both them and their Assertors and leave them to a single combate with their combined Jesuitical enemies whom none take care to discover suppress or banish out of our Realms where they now swarm more then ever and Armed Invaders the Fate of our old English Britons when they improvidently neglected to unite their Counsels Forces against and fought onely singly with the invading united Armies of the Romans is like to be Englands condition now Dum pugnant singuli vincuntur universi the single Champions of our Liberties Laws Rights will be easily over-powered destroyed for the pesent and all others by their unworthy Treachery and Basenes● in not adhering to but abandoning their present Patrons discouraged disabled to propugne regain them for the future the whole Kingdom vanquished enslaved to them for eternity in all humane probability to those who have broken your former yokes of wood but instead thereof have made for and put upon you yokes of Iron and by the Jesuites Machiavilian Plots and Policies will reduce you by degrees under a meer Papal yoke at last having deeply leavened many in power and arms with their forementioned most desperate Jesuitical Positions Practises and Politicks which will soon usher in the whole body of Popery and all damnable Heresies whatsoever to the ruine of our Religion as well as Laws and Liberties Wherefore seeing it neither is nor can be reputed Treason Felony Sedition Faction nor any Crime at all but a commendable bounden Duty to which our Protestations Oaths Leagues Covenants Reason Law Conscience our own private and the publick Interest Safety of the Nation engage us

for all and every Freeborn Englishman joyntly and severally to claim maintain preserve by all just honourable publick and private wayes they may their unquestionable Hereditary Birth-rights Laws Liberties Parliamentary Priviledges c. here asserted presented to them after so much Blood Treasure Labour spent to rescue them out of the hands of old and late oppressing Tyrants nor any Offence at all but a praise-worthy fervice now in me or any other publickly to encourage them to this duty and the strenuous defence of our endangered undermined Protestant Religion subverted with our Laws and Liberties and living or dying together with them at this present as I have done heretofore upon all occasions And seeing none can justly censure them or me for discharging our Oathes Consciences Covenants Protestations Duties in this kinde but such as shall thereby declare themselves Publick Enemies and Traytors to the whole Nation Laws Government Parliaments of England as the Resolutions Presidents herein cited yea their own best friends and our reformed Religion too have already adjudged them I shall therefore exhort the whole English Nation and all real Lovers of their own or their Countries Liberties Peace Laws Ease Safety Religion and future establishment in this common Cause in the words of the Philistines one to another in a time of need when they were greatly affraid 1 Sam. 4. 9. Be strong and quit your selves like men O ye Philistines that ye be not servants to the Hebrews as they have been to you quit your selves like men fight c. That so as the Apostle writes in the like case Phil. 1. 27 28. Whether I come and see you or be absent from you I may hear of your affairs that ye stand fast in one spirit with one minde striving together for the faith of the Gospel and the ancient Fundamental Laws Liberties Rights Priviledges Parliaments Government and Religion of our Realm which the Jesuites and their Instruments make their Master-piece totally to undermine and subvert And in nothing terrified by your Adversaries which is to them an evident token of Perdition but to you of Salvation and that of God If the Presidents of your renowned Ancestors here recorded the Paterns of many Gallant Pagan Romans Graeoians who have spent their Lives for their Countries Laws Liberties Or if my example and these my Lucubrations shall provoke you hereunto I shall think my labour well bestowed and you and your Posterities worthy to live like English Free-men But if you will now neither manfully demand speak or contend for them any more out of a slavish fear of a prevailing Army raised onely for their just defence or any other humane Powers whatsoever nor once adventure with united Spirits now at last so much as confidently and boldly to ask these unquestionable Birthrights at the Thrones of any mortal Grandees your Fellow-Subjects when God Almighty himself commands you to come with boldness to his coelestial Throne of Grace that you may obtain not meer right as here but Mercy it self and Grace to help in time of need Heb. 4. 16. Qui timide rogat docet negare you can neither hope for nor ever obtain them for the future but deserve eternally to forfeit them and you and yours to be made slaves for ever However I though these Collections prove successless shall carry this as a comfortable Cordial with me to my grave That I have faithfully discharged my Conscience and b●unden Duty to my degenerous Native Country by endeavouring all I could both to make and preserve it free indeed to detect and prevent all Jesuitical Plots and Practises to undermine embroyle divide subvert ruine it and used my utmost sincerest constant endeavours in my place calling herein But if through the Malice Tyranny or Injustice of any prevailing Enemies of publick Freedom or Jesuitical Agents I shall chance to suffer for it in any kinde as I have formerly done for most of my publick services of this nature be it close-imprisonments Fines Pillories Stigmatizings or Death it self I shall onely say beforehand as Gregory the Great did heretofore Indict 2. Epist 78. In causa qua Deo placere cupio homines non formido and as noble Heroick Esther did in a like publick case for her endangered captivated Nation If I perish I perish and this my unrighteous suffering shall be a new Glorious Crown of Martyrdom to my head both in earth and in heaven it self when the Crowns Names Fames of all my causeless malicious Enemies Adversaries Persecutors and all Enemies to our Laws Liberties Priviledges Parliaments Kingdoms Church Religion shall fade stink perish like dung and be had in perpetual execration in all our three Kingdoms yea my Bonds Blood Books shall I hope through Gods own blessing on them prove SEMEN ECCLESIAE REIPUBLICAE REGNI LEGUM LIBERTATUM AC PALIAMENTORUM ANGLIAE in future ages when their carcasses who are publick Enemies to and subverters of them shall lie rotting in their Graves and their Souls without sincere repentance be scorching roaring in infernal flames if not rise up in Judgment against and condemn them before all the Tribunals in Earth and Heaven both now and hereafter at that Great Judgment-day when I they and all mankind shall and must appear naked upon equal terms stript quite of all armed Guards and earthly Greatness to secure them from being brought to Judgement before the Tribunal of Jesus Christ himself in the view of all the Holy Angels and Mankinde to give an account of the things done in the body in this world according to that I and they have done whether it be good or evil When all Hypocritical Maskes Disguises Carnal State-policies of pretended Necessity Publick Safety Danger Justice with all other Machiavilian unrighteous Practises to guild over the most unrighteous impious oppressing bloody Treasonable Perfidious publick Actions will prove but so many Aggravations of Politicians Crying Sins and of their Eternal Punishments for them To draw towards a conclusion I shall recommend to the whole English Nation and all cordial well-wishers to the Prosperity Peace Settlement of our distracted Kingdoms Churches and endangered Religion either in or out of power these five Considerations more which have deeply affected my Spirit and particularly engaged me in this undertaking for their better information and our common preservation from total and final impendent ruine 1. That Father Parsons the trayterous English Jesuite and his Jesuitical society some yeers since prophesied That they have it by revelation that by special commandment from God their ORDER AND SOCIETY was miraculously instituted for this end to work a DISMAL CHANGE amongst us that the time is come WHEREIN ALL LAWS CUSTOMS AND ORDERS MUST BE ALTERED AND ALL THINGS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN and that they being the onely men that have the name office and authority of Jesus BY THEM IT IS THAT THIS MARVELLOUS CHANGE ALTERATION SHALL BE WROUGHT in such sort AS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD

expelling the Barbarians to dispose of it at his pleasure and restore his Country to it pristine estate which had formerly subdued to it Kingdomes far remote To which the King answered I formerly would have accepted of this offer of the Kingdome of Britain but in respect of its present misfortunes it is made more contemptible to me and odious to my Princes But above all other evils the Roman power hath so much prejudiced it that no man can enjoy a stable dignity within it but be must lose his liberty and be burdened with a yoake of servitude and who would not possesse lesse elsewhere with liberty then enjoy the wealth of Britain under a yoak of bondage Notwithstanding because my Grandfather and great Grandfather have enjoyed that Island I will deliver to you my Brother Constantine with 2000. Souldiers which by Gods permission will free the Country from enemies and being there crowned King shall possesse the Kingdome with glory and honour Whereupon Constantine undertaking the expedition the Archbishop used these words to him Christ hath conqueted Christ reigneth Christ commandeth let the grace of Christ be therefore present with our King of Britain who is our defence our hope our joy that he may restore the miserable Island to its pristine liberty Constantine taking shipping arrived at Totnes with 2000. Souldiers to whom the dispersed Britons creeping forth of their holes and dens where they hid themselves repaired from all parts and fighting with their enemies obtained a great victory over them by the diligence and valour of their new King After which facta in Cicestria concione calling an assembly at Chichester they made Constantine King and gave him a wife extracted out of the linage of the noble Romans educated by Guithelin Anno 445. King Constantine being slain by a Pict suborned by Vortigerne as he was hunting there arose a dissension among the Nobles which of them should be made King for Aurelius Ambrosius and Vther the Kings Sons were sent over into little Britain to be educated and if they had been present they could not reign by reason of their childhood Whereupon Vortigerne Consull of the Gewis●i who aspired after the Crown with all his endevour going to Winchester and taking Constans a Monk Son of Constantine out of his Cloister brought him to London and there made him King the people scarce consenting to it because he was a Mo●k and acting the part of a Bishop Guithelin being dead he set the Crown on the Kings head with his own hands The King thus crowned referred the managing of all affaires to Vortigerne alone who craftily committed all the Castles and Forts of the Realm to his own Souldiers and having gotten all the Forts and Power of the Realm into his own hands he cunningly devised how he might destroy the King and get the Crown for himself Whereupon he seised upon the Kings treasures augmented the number of his Soldiers and servants and perswaded the King to intertain a Guard of one hundred Picts who were at his own command and ready to execute any Treason and treachery he should prescribe them to guard his person day and night from enemies The King at his perswasion entertaining these Picts Vortigerne so inriched them with stipends and feasted them with most delicate meats that they did in a manner adore him and aryed openly through the streets that he was worthy to Reign When he had thus highly ingratiated himself in the favour of them all he made them all drunk on a certain day and then told them with tears that he would depart out of Britain seeing he had not enough of his own to maintain 50. Souldiers After which departing as it were sorrowfull to his lodging he left them drinking in the hall which the Picts hearing of murmured one to another saying Why do not we slay the Monke that Vortigerne may enjoy the throne of the Kingdome Rising up therefore being drunke they made an assault upon the King and slew him and brought the Kings head to Vortigerne Which when Vortigerne understood he feigning himself to be very sorrowfull brake forth into a weeping that he might palliate the treason committed under the vaile of tears Then calling the Citizens of London together he acquainted them what had hapned and commanded those Picts to be slain and beheaded that he might render his own fraud exeused from this wicked act At last when he saw no man equall to himself he set the Crown of Britain on his own head and overwent al the Princes He being thus advanced the contagion of all wickednesse began to increase scurrilous wickednesse hatred of truth contempt of God wrangling contention riot villany grew outragious so as Vortigerne alone might seem to be a vessell of all wickednesse and that which is most contrary to royall honesty Nobiles Deprimens depressing the Nobles and advancing ignoble persons both for manners and bloud he became odious to God and Men. Anno 447. When the iniquity and levity of minde of King Vortigerne was divulged to all Nations round about the Scots and the Picts one hundred of whose fellow Citizens Vortigerne had slain for that Treason which he suborned them to act that he might get the Crown rose up against him and most grievously infested him and impunged the Realm of Britain for consuming all things with the sword fire preyes and rapines they ground to powder the sinfull Nation because it favored this Vsurpers royall estate and thus the common people contaminated together with the King communi percellitur ultione is pierced through with a common revenge And as the sword devoured many on the one hand so the Pestilence did more on the other so as the living were not sufficient to bury the dead The King therefore with the desolated people tyred out with warlike incursions not knowing what he might do against the irruptions of their enemies inclined to desolation for Vortigerne hereupon awaked with the cryes of the people assembled a Councell or Parliament to consult what they should do in this publick distresse requiring the advice of his Nobles therein Which our Historians thus relate Super statu publico in medium consulit sententias magnatum suorum explorans So William of Malmesbury Britanni injerunt consiium quid agendum so Henry Huntington and Ethelwerdus placuit omnibus cum rege suo Vortigermo or as Ethelwardus records it Concessit tota Nobilitas c. At last they all agreed and all the Nobility together with King Vortigerne granted and resolved that they should call in the Saxons and English out of Germany to their aid being valiant in armes and then fixed in no setled place by which they conceived they should reape a double benefit for being invincible in armes they would easily repulse their enemies and being unsetled they would reckon it for a very great benefit if they might receive some barren squalid soile and cliffs to inhabit and that they would never attempt