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A91291	A summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, proprieties of all English freemen; both in their persons, estates, and elections; and of the memorable votes, resolutions, and Acts of Parliament, for their vindication and corroboration, in the late Parliaments of 3 & 17 of King Charles; collected out of their Journals, and printed Ordinances. Most necessary to be known, considered, re-established (in this present juncture of publick affairs) with all possible old and new securities; against past, present, and future publick violations, under-minings, by force or fraud, for the much-desired healing of the manifold large mortal wounds in these chief vital parts, and repairing the various destructive subversive breaches in these prime foundations of our English state fabrick; without which no effectual present or future healing, union, peace, or settlement can possibly be expected, or established in our distracted nations. / By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing P4095; Thomason E892_3; ESTC R206517	46,699	73

whatsoever as well Supreme as subordinate all Members of Parliament Barresters Attornies Graduates in our Universities Steward of Leets and Court-Barons throughout our Dominions should from time to time upon and at their investitures into their several Offices Trusts or taking their Degrees be corporally sworn To defend and maintain the Great Charter of England the Petition of Right and other Fundamental Lawes of this Land together with the antient undoubted Rights and Liberties of our English Parliaments according to their late Protestation and Solemn League and Covenant And that all Justices of Assize Judges and Justices of the Peace should specially be sworn at every Assizes and Sessions of the Peace in their respective Circuits Counties Corporations and the Justices of the Kings Bench every Term amongst other Articles to the Grand Iury to give them in charge upon their Oaths diligently to inquire of and present all Offences Exactions Oppressions Taxes Imposts and Grievances whatsoever against the Great Charter the Petition of Right and other Good Lawes for the preservation of the Liberty Right and Property of the Subject by any person or persons to the end that they may be exemplarily punished according to Law by Fines Imprisonments or otherwise as the quantity and quality of the Offences deserve It being the * Advice Desire Proposition and Petition of the whole Commons house first and after of the Lords and Commons house joyntly to King Charles in his last Parliament to which he readily assented though never since put into actual execution which is now most necessary to be effectually accomplished for the future having been so long neglected After these Votes and the Petition of Right passed several Impositions upon Wines Currans Tobacco Beer and the taking of Tonnage and Poundage without Act of Parliament being complained of it was by special Votes and Declarations of the Commons House resolved and declared in the same Parliament 8. e That the receiving of Tunnage and Poundage and other Impositions not granted by Parliament is * a breach of the fundamental Libberties of this Kingdom and contrary to his Majesties Regal answer to the Petition of Right And those declared Publick Enemies who should thenceforth collect or pay any Customes Tunnage Poundage or Imposts not granted by act of Parliament which was since enacted and declared for Law in the f two fi●st acts for Tunnage and Poundage in the last Parliament of King Charles and all those in a Premunire and disable● to sue in any Court of Justice who shall presume to levy the same without Act of Parliament The case of all Customers Excisemen and their Instruments at this present fit to be made presidents in this kind for the terror of others 9. A Commission from the King under the Great Seal of England directed to 33 Lords and privy Counsellors dated the last of Febr. 3 Caroli stiled g a Commission of Excise was complained of and brought into the Commons House and there read which commanded them to raise monies by Impositions or otherwise as they in their wisdoms should find convenient for the safety and defence of the King Kingdom and People the Kings Pro●estant Friends and Allies which without hazard of all could admit no delay the necessity being so inevitable that form and circumstances must rather be dispensed with than substance lost Injoyning the Commissioners to be diligent in the service as they tendred the safety of his Majesty and of his People Dominions and Allies This Commission of Excise by the unanimous Vote and judgement of the Lords and Commons was resolved to be against Law and contrary to the Petition of Right And thereupon was cancelled as such in his Majesties presence by his own command and was brought cancelled to the Lords House by the Lord Keeper and by them afterwards sent to the Commons and the Warrant with all Inrollments of it were cancelled and ordered by the Commons that the Projector of it should be found out and punished Which judgement h was thrice recited confirmed and insisted on by the Lords and Commons and some in greatest present power the last Parliament of King Charls in printed Speeches and Declarations And if this intended Commission of Excise though never executed was thus frequently damned as an intollerable and monstrous Grievance against our Laws Properties and the Petition of Right How much more are all present Orders Commissions Warrants for the actual imposing and levying all sorts of Excises on such without any act of Parliament X. The Commons House in that Parliament upon solemn Argument and Debate concluded That by the Laws of this Realm none of his Majesties Subjects ought to be impressed or compelled to goe forth of his County to serve as a Souldier in the Wars * except in case of necessity of the sudden comming in of strange Enemies into the Kingdom or except they be otherwaies bound by the Tenures of their Lands or possessions Nor yet sent out of the Realm against his Will upon any forein imployment by way of an honorable banishment Which Resolution in the last Parliament of King Charles was enacted and declared to be the Law of the Land and fundamental Liberty of the Subject by the i Act for impressing Souldiers for Ireland by two Declarations of the Lords and Commons against the Commission of array and assented to by the King in his answer thereunto All which unanimous Votes Resolutions of both Houses having been successively ratified in two several Parliaments in King Charles his Reign whereof some in present Power were Members and enacted by several Statutes assented to by King Charles himself it must needs be the extremity of Impudency Tyranny Treachery Impiety Perjury Barbarism for any who have formerly contested with him in our Parliaments or in the open field for all or any of these premised Fundamental Rights and Liberties of all English Freemen and who vowed protested covenanted remonstrated again and again before God and all the World inviolably faithfully constantly to defend them with their Lives and Fortunes all their daies in their several places and callings and who beheaded him as the Greatest Tyrant together with Strafford and Canterbury for infringing them to oppose contradict violate or infringe them all in a more transcendent publike manner than he or his worst Ministers formerly have done and now not really chearfully to corroborate defend transmit them to posterity in full vigor by all good wayes and corroborations that possibly can be devised without the least opposition and dispute to make the Nation free and their own posterity together with it XI After the Petition of Right had passed the Commons House and was transmitted to the Lords the House of Lords desired that this Clause might be added to the close thereof We humbly present this Petition to your Majesty not only with a Care of Preservation of our own Liberties but with a due regard to leave intire that Soveraign Power

both by the Parliament and Army and so many years bloudy Wars for defence of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament I shall therefore close up this particular with the memorable words of Lords and Commons forenamed Remonstrances which I desire all Swordmen the whole Nation and those especially who were then Members to take special notice of l This Privilege of the Members se●●usion from the House and arrests fore mentioned is so clear and essential a Privilege of Parliament that the whole Freedome of Parliament depends upon it For who sees not that by this means under false pretences of Crimes and Accusations such and so many Members of both or either House may be taken out of it at any time by any persons to serve a torn and to make a major part of whom they will at pleasure And therefore as the Freedom of the Parliament dependeth in a great part upon this Privilege and the Freedome of this Nation upon the Freedome of Parliaments We have good cause to believe that the People of England knowing that their Lives and Fortunes are bound up in this Bundle will venture their Lives and Fortunes in this Quarrel Accursed and for ever execrated then let all those Sword-men and Innovators be who by any Matchiavilian Policies Engines or Instruments whatsoever shall endeavour to deprive the Parliaments and People of England of this their antient essential Privilege and Freedoms or necessitate them once again to venture their Lives or Fortunes in this quarrel to maintain or regain the same by a New war or insurrection against the Imprisoners or Secluders of any of their duly elected and best respected publick Trustees out of our Parliaments in time to come as they have oft times done for some years by-past to the subversion of Parliaments and Peoples general affront and discontent To prevent which danger I could heartily wish that a free Legal English Parliament might be duly summoned either by the Peers of the Realm or by the Freeholders Freemen and Burgesses of every County City and Borough in their default according to the late Act for triennial Parliaments yet in force to which many in present power were assenting to redress all high violations of our Parliaments just Rights and Privileges and prevent the like for the future reform all publick Grievances remove all unrighteous oppressions compose our manifold sad Divisions Schismes Fractions both in Church and State and settle our three distracted Kingdoms in such unity peace prosperity after all our destructive wars as all good men long pray for and none but Traytors or professed Enemies to our Tranquillity and Welfare can or dare oppose 15. The whole House of Commons m impeached and the Lords House judicially sentenced D● Manwaring then a Member of the Convocation for preaching before the King and publishing in print in two Sermons intituled Religion and Allegiance contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm and propriety of the Subject 1. That the King is not bouud to keep and observe the good Laws and customes of the Realm concerning the Rights and Liberties of the Subject who undoubtedly inherit this Right and Liberty not to be compelled to contribute any tax tallage aid or to make any loans not set or imposed by common consent by Act of Parliament And that his Royal will and command in imposing Loans Taxes and other Aids without Common consent in Parliament doth so far bind the conscience of the Subje●● of this Realm that they cannot refuse the same without peril of damnation 2. That those his Majesties Subjects who refused the Loan imposed on them did therein offend against the Law of God against his Majesties supream Authority and by so doing became guilty of impiety disloyalty rebellion disobedience and lyable to many other Taxes and censures 3. That authority of Parliament is not necessary for raising of Aids and Subsidies That the slow proceedings of such Assemblies are not fit for the supply of the urgent necessities of the State but rather apt to produce sundry Impediments to the just designs of Princes and to give them occasion of displeasure or discontent For which Sermons and positions the Lords House adjudged 1. That this Dr. Manwaring notwithstanding his humble Petitions and craving pardon for these offences shall be imprisoned during the pleasure of the House 2. That he be fined 1000 l. to the King 3. That he shall make such a submission and acknowledgement of his offences as shall be set down by a Committe in writing both at the Lords Bar and in the House of Commons which he accordingly made 4. That he shall be suspended for the time of three years from the exercise of the Ministry 5. That he shall be for ever disabled to preach at the Court hereafter 6. That he shall be disabled hereafter to have any Ecclesiastical dignity or secular Office 7. That the same Book is worthy to be burnt and that for the better effecting thereof his Majesty may be moved to grant a Proclamation to call in the said Books that they may be burnt accordingly in London and both Universities and for inhibiting the printing hereof upon a great penal●y Which was done accordingly Whether some late Court-Chaplaint or Parasites have not incurred the like offences and demerit not as severe a censure as he for some Sermons and printed Pamphlets * Instruments of like nature is worthy the consideration of the next publike Assembly and future English Parliaments XV The n House of Commons sent for and committed Mr. Laughton and Mr John Trelawny to the Tower and Sir William Wray and Mr. Edward Trelawny to the Sergeant at Arms during the Houses pleasure and ordered them to make a Recognition of their offences at the Assises in Cornwal for interrupting the freedomes of Elections in that County For that some of them being Deputy Lieutenants and others of them Justices of Peace of the County of Cornwal writ Letters to this effect Whereas the safety of the Realm depends upon the Parliament we the Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices to whose care the County is committed finding A. and B. fit persons have desired them to stand to be Knights whereof we give you notice and advising Sir John Eliot and Mr. Cariton to desist that they wished them not to be chosen and menacing them in this manner but if you go on we will oppose you by all means lest his Majesty suspect our fidelity since you know how gracious you are to his Majesty and how many waies he hath expressed his displeasure against you And his Majesty will conceive your Election to be an affront to his service and so we shall draw the displeasure of the King on us Our hope is that you out of conscience and loyalty will not seek this place and we let you know that if you do we will oppose you all we can c. And writing Letters to others of the County to this effect Whereas unquiet Spirits seek their own ends

Oath not warranted by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm administred unto them and have been constrained to become bound to make appearance and to give attendance before your Privy Counsel at London and in other places and others of them have been therefore imprisoned confined and certain otherways molested and disquieted And divers other charges have been laid and levied upon your people in several Counties by Lord Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants Commissioners for Musters Justices of Peace and others by command or direction from your Majesty or your Privy Counsel against the Laws and free Customs of the Realm And whereas also by the Statute called the Great Charter of the Liberties of England it is declared and enacted That no Free-man may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his Freehold or Liberties or free Customs or be outlawed or exiled or in any manner destroyed nor passed upon nor condemned but by the lawfull Iudgement of his Peers or by the Law of the Land And in the 28 year of King Edward the 3. it was enacted and declared by an Authority of Parliament that no man of what State or condition soever shall be put out of his Lands or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoued nor disinherited nor put to death without being brought to answer by due process of Law Neverthelesse against the Tenor of the said Statutes and other the good Laws and Statutes of your Realm to that end provided divers of your Subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause shewed and when for their deliverance they were brought before your Justices by your Majesties writs of Habeas Corpus there to undergo and receive as the Court should order and the Keepers commanded to certifie the causes of their deteiner no cause was certified but that they were deteined by your Majesties special command signified by the Lords of your Privy Council And yet were returned back to several Prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to Law And whereas of late great companies of Souldiers and Mariners have been dispersed into divers Counties of the Realm and the Inhabitants against their Wills have been compelled to receive them into their Houses and there to suffer them to sojourn against the Laws and Customes of this Realm to the great Grievance and Vexation of the people And whereas also by authority of Parliament in the 25 year of King Edward the third it was declared and enacted That no man should be forejudged of life or limbs against the form of the Great Charer And by other the Laws and Statutes of this Realm No man ought to be adjudged to death but by the Laws established in this your Realm either by the Customes of the same Realm or by Act of Parliament And whereas no Offender of what kind soever is exempted from the proceedings to to be used and punishments to be infflicted by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm Neverthelesse of late time divers Commissions under your Majesties Great Seal have issued forth by which certain Persons have been assigned and appointed Commissioners with Power and Authority to proceed within the Land according to the custome of Martial Law against such Souldiers or Sea-men or other dissolute Persons joining with them as should commit any Murther Robbery Felony Mutiny or other Outrage or misdemeanour whatsoever and by such Summary Caurse and Orders as is agreeable to Martial Law and as is used in Armies in time of Wars to proceed to the Trials and condemnation of such Offenders and them to cause to be executed and put to death according to the Law Martial By pretext whereof some of your Majesties Subjects have been by some of your Majesties Commissioners put to death when and where if by the Laws and Statutes of the Land they had deserved death by the same Laws and Statutes also they might and by no other ought to be judged and executed And also sundry grievous Offenders by colour thereof claiming an exemption have escaped the punishments due to them by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm by reason that divers of your Officers and Ministers of Justice have unjustly refused or forborn to proceed against such Offenders according to the same Laws and Statutes upon pretence that the said Offenders were punishable only by Martial Law and by Authority of such Commissions as aforesaid Which Commissions and all other of like nature extended to any except Souldiers or Mariners or to be executed in time of Peace or when or where your Majesties Army is not on foot are wholly and directly contrary to the said Laws and Statutes of this your Realm They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent Majesty that none hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift Loan Benevolence Tax or such like charge without common consent by Act of Parliament And that none be called to make answer or take such Oath or to give attendance or be confined or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for resusal thereof And that no Freeman in any such manner as is before mentioned be imprisoned or deteined And that your Majesty would be pleased to remove the said Souldiers and Mariners and that your People may not be so burthened in time to come And that the aforesaid Commission for proceeding by Martial Law may be revoked and ●nulled And that hereafter no Commission of like nature may issue forth to any Person or Persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid lest by colour of them any of your Majesties Subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the Laws and franchises of the Land All which they humbly pray of your most excellent Majesty as their Rights of Liberties according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm And that your Majesty would also vouchsafe to declare that the awards doings and proceedings to the prejudice of your People in any of the premises shall not be drawn hereafter in consequence or example And that your Majesty would also be graciously pleased for the futher comfort and safety of your People to declare your Royal Will and pleasure That in the things aforesaid all your Officers and Ministers shall serve you according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as they tender the honor of your Majesty and the Prosperitie of this Kingdome To which Petition King Charles at last gave this full and satisfactory Answer Soit droit fait come il est desire par le Petition that is Let All Right be done as it is desired by the Petition To the unspekaable joy of this Parliament and all his Subjects Adding withall thereunto I assure you my Maxim is That the Peoples Liberties strengthen the Kings Prerogative and that the Kings Prerogative is to defend the Peoples Liberties The benefit of which most excellent Law Petition and of all the precedent Parliamentary Votes Lawes with the present repealing and vacating all Acts Votes Orders Ordinances Declarations Resolutions

levying them by Souldiers on such as refused to pay them by quartering Souldiers upon them till paid or imprisoning or vexing the Refusers For which these Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants and Officers of the Souldiers were sent for as Delinquents and their New power and proceedings voted to be contrary to Law and the Subjects Liberties Pernicious to the Country and dishonorable to the King And whether the late erected New Powers of our Major Generals and their Deputies throughout England be not such in imitation of o Wil. Longchamp the first Protector in the Reign of Richard the first who placed in every County armed Troops of Mercinary Souldiers under New Governors of their own Creatures to over-awe and enslave the People and impose what Taxes and exactions he pleased under pretext of preserving the publick Peace and suppressing theevs and Tumults yet was shamefully stript of all his Authority and forced to flye over Sea disgnised in womens apparel within one year after notwithstanding all his Guards or Garrisons or of the p Turkish Bashawes and Beglerbegs as most Patriots of their Countries Freedome and the ordinary people mutter and their exorbitant Tyrannical proceedings in apprehending taxing decimating dis-officing dis-franchising and sequestring all sorts of men in Counties and Corporations at their pleasure in controuling all Officers and Ministers of Justice in intermedling with all mens sutes and causes upon any informations or Petitions after Judgements Verdicts Decrees and whiles pending or ended in any Courts of Law or equity in summoning the parties to appear before them and committing menacing them for not appearing in usurping all the Civil as well as Military Power and Jurisdiction into their own hands in levying illegal Taxes by Souldiers and quartering them upon Refusers adjudged High Treason in Straffords Case for which he lost his Head sequestring Ministers at their pleasures and taking upon them to nominate all Iurymen and New Parliament men to the Sheriff as some of them have done and commit men to Prison upon civil causes or sutes I leave to all such who have taken the Protestation the solemn League and Covenant to all Lovers Patronss of English Liberties and Declamers Engagers against arbitrary Tyranny yea to the Consciences of all those army Officers Souldiers and Major Generals themselves to resolve who were p●nners subscribers approvers applauders of or assenters to the printed Engagements Remonstrances Representations Proposals Desires Letters and Resolutions for se●ling this Nation in its just Rights the Parliament in their just Privileges and the Subjects n their just Liberties and Freedoms publi●hea in the name of the General and General Councel of the Army and of all officers and Souldiers of the Army in one Volume London 1647. Which how sincerely they have since for the most part of them performed let God their own consciences and our whole Nation determine To expiate which former guilt let them now at last upon second and sober thoughts effectually make them all good to avoid the perpetual infamy of the most detestable Perjury Treachery Hypocrisy Fraud Impiety Apostacy Tyranny Atheism that ever any Christian Saint-like Army and Officers were guilty of in the eyes of God or men which else they will incurre and for the present settlement of our three Nations in their Liberty Peace and Christian Unity without more effusion of English Scotish or Irish bloud to regain those just fundamental old Rights Liberties Privileges Freedoms Laws for which they first took up Arms in reality or pretence at least against the beheaded King transmitted to them by their Ancestors and their richest Birth-right and best Inheritance as therefore most unfit to be all betray'd surrendred lost subverted now without any further dispute after so many years conflicts for their preservation I shall close up all with this memorable Petition of the whole House of Commons to the late King by the Speaker and whole House at Whitehall concerning the intolerable Grievance of billetting and keeping of Souldiers amongst them but for a few months only in that Parliament of 3 Caroli April 24. 1628. which the King then granted and provided against for the future in the Petition of Right though since condemned q as the worst and greatest of Tyrants by some who succeeed him at Whitehall And therefore is much more just and reasonable to be granted by them now for the Peoples ease after so many years of incessant Contributions quartering and continuing of armed Mercinary Souldiers amongst them Winter and Summer without any actual imployment for them but to terifie seize imprison Guard oppresse enthrall impoverish dis-inherit of all hereditary Liberties rights privileges our English Freemen at their pleasures and to over-awe force dissolve even Parliaments themselves and secure seclude their Members for whose Protection they were first raised VVhen as the Parliament of 5 R. 2. rot Parl. n. 1. was adjorned for 3 days space because great force of armed men and others arayed in Warlike manner came to the Parliament by reason of the great debate between the Duke of Lancaster and the Earl of Northumberland And the Parliament of 11 R. 2. 21 R. 2. were both repealed because they were held with many armed men and Archers who over-awed enforced them to consent to bills against their wills as the printed Statute of 21 R. 2. c. 12. 1 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 20 21 22 38 70. at large inform us so inconsistent are force and arms with the freedome and essence of a true English Parliament as the armies Confederates in their own Ordinance of 20 August 1647. the Speakers own printed Letter July 29. 1647. with the Solemn Protestation of the prisoned and secluded Members December 11 and Febr. 13. 1648. will further resolve the Nation and Souldiers against whose billetting and scatering abroad in companies here and there in the heart and bowels of the Kingdome to inthrall and oppresse it the whole Commons House then thus petitioned To the Kings most excellent Majesty IN all humblenesse complaining sheweth unto your most Excellent Majesty your loyal and dutiful Commons now in Parliament Assembled That whereas by the Fundamental Laws of this your Realm every Freeman hath and of Right ought to have a full and absolute propriety in his goods and estate and that therefore the billetting or placing of Souldiers in the House of any such Freeman against his VVill is directly contrary to the Laws under which we and our Ancestors have been so long and happily Governed Yet in apparent violation of the said antient and undoubtted Rights of your Majesties Loyal Subjects of this your Kingdome in Generall and to the grievous and insupportable vexation and detriment of many Counties and persons in partcicular A new and almost unheard of way hath been invented and put in practice to lay Souldiers upon them scattered in companies here and there even in the heart and bowels of this Kingdome and to compell many of your Majesties Subjects to receive and lodge them in their