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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44745	The pre-eminence and pedigree of Parlement whereunto is added a vindication of som passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royal favorite, pen'd and published by Mr. Prynne wherein he stiles him no frend [sic] to Parlements, and a malignant, pag. 42 : with a clearing of som occurrences in Spain at His Maiesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the vocal forest / by J.H. ...	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Popish royall favourite.	1645 (1645)	Wing H3106B; ESTC R41000	11,924	24

Ensignes and the Standard of Christ came in together It is well known what Laws the Roman had He had his Comitia which bore a resemblance with our Convention in Parlement the place of their meeting was called Praetorium and the Laws which they enacted Plebescita The Saxon Conquest succeeded next which were the English ther being no name in Welsh or Irish for an Englishman but Saxon to this day They governed by Parlement though it were under other names as Michel Sinoth Michel Gemote and Witenage Mote There are Records above a thousand yeers old of these Parlements in the Raigns of King Ina Offa Ethelbert and the rest of the seven Kings during the Heptarchy The British Kings also who retain'd a great while som part of the Isle unconquered governed and made Laws by a kind of Parlementary way witnes the famous Laws of Prince Howel called Howel Dha the good Prince Howel wherof ther are yet extant som Welsh Records Parlements were also used after the Heptarchy by King Kenulphus Alphred and others witnes that renowned Parlement held at Grately by King Athelstan The third Conquest was by the Danes and they govern'd also by such general Assemblies as they do to this day witnes that great and so much celebrated Parlement held by that mighty Monarch Canutus who was King of England Denmark Norway and Mher Regions 150 yeers before the compiling of otagna Charta and this the learned in the Laws do hold to be one of the special'st and most authentic peeces of Antiquity we have extant Edward the Consessor made all his Laws thus and he was a great Legis-lator which the Norman Conquerour who liking none of his sons made God Almighty his heir bequeathing unto him this Island for a Legacy did ratifie and establish and digested them into one entire methodical Systeme which being violated by Rusus who came to such a disastrous end as to be shot to death in lieu of a Buck for his sacriledges were restor'd by Henry the first and so they continued in force till King John whose raign is renowned for first confirming Magna Charta the foundation of our Liberties ever since Which may be compar'd to divers Outlandish Graffs set upon one English stock or to a Posie of sundry fragrant Flowers for the choicest of the British the Roman Saxon Danish and Norman Laws being cull'd and pick'd out and gathered as it were into one bundle out of them the foresaid grand Charter was extracted And the establishment of this great Charter was the work of a Parlement Nor are the Laws of this Island onely and the freedom of the Subject conserved by Parlement but all the best policed Countreys of Europ have the like The Germanes have their Diets the Danes and Swedes the Riicks Dachs the Spaniard calls his Parlement Las Cortes and the French have or should have at least their Assembly of three States though it be grown now in a manner obsolete because the Authority therof was by accident devolv'd to the King And very remarkable it is how this hapned for when the English had taken such large footing in most parts of France having advanced as far as Orleans and driven their then King Charls the seventh to Bourges in Berry the Assembly of the three States in these pressures being not able to meet after the usual manner in full Parlement because the Countrey was unpassable the enemy having made such firm invasions up and down through the very bowels of the Kingdom that power which formerly was inherent in the Parlementary Assembly of making Laws of assessing the Subject with Taxes subsidiary levies and other impositions was transmitted to the King during the War which continuing many yeers that intrusted power by length of time grew as it were habitual in him and could never after be re-assumed and taken from him so that ever since his Edicts countervail Acts of Parlement And that which made the busines more feasable for the King was that the burthen fell most upon the Communalty the Clergy and Nobility not feeling the weight of it who were willing to see the Peasan pull'd down a little because not many yeers before in that notable Rebellion call'd La Jaquerie de Beauvoisin which was suppressed by Charls the wise the common peeple put themselves boldly in Arms against the Nobility and Gentry to lessen their power Add hereunto as an advantage to the work that the next succeeding King Lewis the eleventh was a close cunning Prince and could well tell how to play his game and draw water to his own Mill For amongst all the rest he was said to be the first that put the Kings of France Hors de page out of their minority or from being Pages any more though thereby he brought the poor Peasans to be worse then Lacquays With the fall or at least the discontinuance of that usual Parliamentary Assembly of the three States the liberty of the French Nation utterly fell the poor Roturier and Vineyard-man with the rest of the Yeomanry being reduced ever since to such an abject ●●●nin condition that they serve but as sponges for the King to squeeze when he list Neverthelesse as that King hath an advantage hereby one way to monarchize more absolutely and never to want money but to ballast his Purse when he will so ther is another mighty inconvenience ariseth to him and his whole Kingdom another way for this illegal peeling of the poor Peasan hath so dejected him and cowed his native courage so much by the sense of poverty which brings along with it a narrownes of soul that he is little useful for the War which puts the French King to make other Nations mercenary to him to fill up his Infantry Insomuch that the Kingdom of France may be not unfitly compared to a body that hath all its blood drawn up into the Arms Brest and Back and scarce any left from the Girdle downwards to cherish and bear up the lower parts and keep them from starving All this seriously considered ther cannot be a more proper and pregnant example then this of our next Neighbours to prove how infinitely necessary the Parlement is to assert to prop up and preserve the Publike Liberty and National Rights of a peeple with the incolumity and welfare of a Countrey Nor doth the Subject onely reap benefit thus by Parlement but the Prince if it be well consider'd hath equal advantage thereby It rendereth him a King of free and able men which is far more glorious then to be a King of Slaves Beggars and Bankrupts Men that by their freedom and competency of wealth are kept still in heart to do him service against any forrain force And it is a true maxime in all States that 't is lesse danger and dishonour for the Prince to be poor then his peeple Rich Subjects can make their King rich when they please if he gain their hearts he will quickly get their purses Parlement encreaseth love and good

for it to forgive all the world and not to harbour or let roost in my bosom the least malignant thought yet none can deny but the aspersions which this my Accuser casts upon me were enough to make me a malignant towards him yet it could never have the power to do it For I have prevail'd with my self to forgive him this his wrong censure of me issuing rather from his notknowledge of me then from malice for we never mingled speech or saw one another in our lives to my remembrance which makes me wonder the more that a Professor of the Law as he is should pronounce such a positive sentence against me so slightly But me thinks I over-hear him say That the precedent discourse of Parlement is involv'd in generals and the Tropique Axiome tels us that Dolus versatur in universalibus there is double dealing in universals His meaning is that I am no friend to this present Parlement though he speaks in the plural number Parlements and consequently he concludes me a Malignant Therin I must tell him also that I am traduc'd and I am confident it will be never prov'd against me from any actions words or letters though divers of mine have bin intercepted or any other misdemeanor though som things are father'd upon me which never drop'd from my Quill Alas how unworthy and uncapable am I to censure the proceedings of that great Senate that high Synedrion wherin the wisdom of the whole State is epitomized It were a presumption in me of the highest nature that could be It is enough for me to pray for the prosperous successe of their consultations And as I hold it my duty so I have good reason so to do in regard I am to have my share in the happines And could the utmost of my poor endeavours by any ministerial humble office and somtimes the meanest Boat-swain may help to preserve the Ship from sinking be so happy as to contribute any thing to advance that great work which I am in despair to do while I am thus under hatches in this Fleet I would esteem it the greatest honour that possibly could befal me as I hold it now to be my greatest disaster to have faln so heavily under an affliction of this nature and to be made a sacrifice to publike fame then which ther is no other proof nor that yet urg'd against me or any thing else produc'd after so long so long captivity which hath brought me to such a low ebbe and put me so far behind in the course of my poor fortunes and indeed more then half undon me For although my whole life since I was left to my self to swim as they say without bladders has bin nothing else but a continued succession of crosses and that there are but few red letters found God wot in the Almanack of my Age for which I account not my self a whit the less happy yet this crosse has carried with it a greater weight it hath bin of a larger extent longer continuance and lighted heavier upon me then any other and as I have present parience to bear it so I hope for subsequent grace to make use of it accordingly that my old Motto may be still confirmed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} HE produceth my attestation for som passages in Spain at His Majesties being there and he quotes me right which obligeth me to him And I hope all his quotations wherin he is so extraordinarily copious and elaborate in all his works are so yet I must tell him that those interchangeable Letters which passed between His Majesty and the Pope which were originally couch'd in Latine the language wherin all Nations treat with Rome and the Empire with all the Prinees therof those Letters I say are adulterated in many places which I impute not to him but to the French Chronicler from whom he took them in trust The truth of that busines is this The world knows ther was a tedious treaty of an Alliance 'twixt the Infanta Dona Maria who now is Empresse and His Mijesty which in regard of the slow affected pace of the Spaniard lasted about ten yeers as that in Henry the sevenths time 'twixt Prince Arthur and afterwards Queen Katherine was spun out above seven To quicken or rather to consummate the work His Majesty made that adventurous journey through the whole Continent of France into Spain which voyage though ther was a great deal of gallantry in it whereof all posterity will ring until it turn at last to a Romance yet it prov'd the bane of the busines which 't is not the arrand of so poor a Pamphlet as this to unfold His Majesty being ther arriv'd the ignorant common peeple cryed out the Prince of Wales came thither to make himself a Christian The Pope writ to the Inquisitor General and others to use all industry they could to reduce him to the Roman Religion And one of Olivares first complements to him was That he doubted not but that His Highnes came thither to change His Religion Wherunto he made a short answer That He came not thither for a Religion but for a Wife Ther were extraordinary processions made and other artifices us'd by protraction of things to make him stay ther of purpose till the Spring following to work upon him the better And the Infanta her self desir'd him which was esteem'd the greatest favour he received from her all the while to visit the Nun of Carion hoping that the said Nun who was so much cryed up for miracles might have wrought one upon him but her art failed her nor was His Highnesse so weak a subject to work upon according to His late Majesties speech to Doctor Mawe and Wren who when they came to kisse his hands before they went to Spain to attend the Prince their Master He wished them to have a care of Buckingham as touching his Son Charls he apprehended no fear at all of him for he knew him to be so well grounded a Protestant that nothing could shake him in his Religion The Arabian Proverb is That the Sun never soiles in his passage though his Beams reverberate never so strongly and dwell never so long upon the Myry lake of Maeotis the black Turf'd Moors of Holland the Aguish Woose of Kent and Essex or any other place be it never so dirty Though Spain be a hot Country yet one may passe and repasse through the very Center of it and never be Sun-burnt if he carry with him a Bongrace and such a one His Majesty had Well after His Majesties arrival to Madrid the treaty of Marriage went on still though he told them at his first coming that he came not thither like an Ambassadour to treat of Marriage but as a Prince to fetch home a Wife and in regard they were of different Religions it could not be done without a dispensation from the Pope and the Pope would grant none unless som Capitulations were stipulated in favour of the