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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56138	A briefe memento to the present un-parliamentary junto touching their present intentions and proceedings, to depose & execute Charles Steward, their lawfull King. By William Prynne Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons, and prisoner under the Armies tyranny; who, it seemes, have levyed war against the Houses of Parliament, their quandam-masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine captives, during their lawfull pleasures.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3909A; ESTC R203360	14,504	18

A BRIEFE MEMENTO To the present VN-PARLIAMENTARY IUNTO Touching their present Intentions and Proceedings to Depose Execute CHARLES STEWARD their lawfull KING By William Prynne Esquire a Member of the House of Commons and Prisoner under the Armies Tyranny who it seemes have Levyed War against the Houses of Parliament their quandam-Mastersswhose Members they now forcibly take and detaine Captives during their lawfull Pleasur●… PROV. 24. 21 23. My Sonne Feare thou the Lord and the King and m●…ddle not with those who are given to Change For their calamitie shall Rise Suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both GAL. 1. 10. If I yet pleased men I shou'd not be the Servant of Christ LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1648. Die Veneris 20. August 1647. An Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both Houses since the force on both Houses Iuly 26. untill the sixth of this present August 1647. to be null and voyd VVHereas there was a Visible Horrid Insolent and Actuall sorce upon the Houses of Parliament on Munda●… the 26. of July last wherupon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were * forced to absent themselves from the Service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could not return to sit in safety before Friday the sixt of August It is therefore declared by the Lords Commons in Parliament Assembled That the Ordinance of Munday the said 26. of July for the repealing and making voyd of the Ordinance of the 23. of the said July for the setling of the 〈◊〉 of the Citie of London being gained by force and violence And all Votes Orders Ordinances passed in either or both Houses of Parliament since the said Ordinance of the 26. of July to the said sixt of August are null and void and were so at the making thereof and are hereby declared so to be the Parliament being under a force and not free Provided alwayes and be it Ordained That no person or persons shall be Impeached or punished for his or their actions by or upon or according to the aforesaid Votes Orders or Ordinances unlesse he or they shall be found guiltie of contriving acting or abetting the aforefaid visible and actuall force or being present at or knowing of the said force did afterwards act upon the Votes so forced or were guilty of entring into or promoting the late Ingagement for bringing the King to the Citie upon the ●…armes and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A breif Memento to the present Vnparliamentary Iunto touching their present intentions and proceedings to Depose and Execute CHARLES STEWARD their law●…ull King of ENGLAND c. Gentlem●… IT is the observation of King Solomon Pro. 25. 11. That a word spoken in due season is like Apples of Gold and Pictures of Silver And seeing I and above two hundred Members more being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparale●…d violence upon our Persons and the House cannot speake my mind ●…reely to you in or as the House of Commons I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you only as private P●…rsons under a force consulting in the House without your Fellow-Members advice or concurrence about the speedy deposing and execu●…ing of KING CHARLES your lawfull Soveraigne to please the Generall Officers and Grand Councell of the Army●… who have unjustly usurped to them the supreame authority both of King and Parliament or rather the ●…suits and Popish Priests among or neare them by whose Councells they and you are now wholly swayed and whose trayterous designes you really execute in most of your late Votes and Actings I have onely a few words of consideration to impart unto you Dictum sapienti s●…t est First I shall minde you that by the Common Law of the Realme the Statute of 25. E. 3. and all other Act●… concerning Treason it is no lesse then High Treason fór any Man by over-Act to compasse or imagine the depositio●… or death of the King or of his eldest Son and Heire though it be never executed much more if actuasly accomplished That many have bin arraigned conde●…ned executed for such intended Treasons in former ages as the Earle of Arundell and others by Iudgement in Parliament 21. R. 2. Plac. Coronae N. 46. 7. and the Gunpowder Traytors 3. Iacobi to omit others whose Examples should be others admo●…ions the Heads and Quarters of some of them yet hanging on the Houses where now you meete and si●… 2ly That in the Oath of Allegiance which you have all taken immediatly before your admission into the House as Members You doe truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in your consciences before God and the World That our Soveraigne Lord King Charl●…s Is lawfull an●… rightfull 〈◊〉 of this 〈◊〉 and of all other His Majesties Dominions and Countries And hat the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any Other meanes Nor any other hath any power or ●…thority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to discharge any of His Subjects of H●…s Allegiance and obedience to His 〈◊〉 or to give leave to any of them to offer any violence to His 〈◊〉 Person State or Gover●…ent And that notwithstandiug any sentence or Declaration of Depri●…ation made by the Pope c. or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience you will beare true Allegiance to His Majestie his Heires and Successors and him and them w●…ll defend to the utmost of your power Against all attempts and 〈◊〉 whatsoever which shall be made against his or their P●…rsons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise And doe thereby further sweare that you doe from your hearts abhor detest and abjure as impious and Herericall that damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by tht Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And that you doe ●…lieve and in conscience are resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whats●…ever hath power to 〈◊〉 you of this D●…th or any part thereof and that all these things you did plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words and their plain and common sence without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And that you did make this Recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly truly upón the true faith of a Christian Now whether your present actings intentions against the King ●…e not diametrically repugnant to this so●…emn Oath which most of you have taken 〈◊〉 ●…hese warrs som of you since the Treaty when 〈◊〉 Serjea●…ts at 〈◊〉 c. let God and the World before whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 owne Consciences in which you then