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A91303 The treachery and disloyalty of papists to their soveraignes, in doctrine and practise. Together with an exact parallel of the jurisdiction, power, and priviledges claimed and exercised by our popish Parliaments, prelates, Lords and Commons in former times, with those now claimed and practised by the present Parliament, Lords and Commons, which are here manifested to be farre more loyall, dutifull, moderate; more consistent with, lesse invasive on, and destructive to the Kings pretended soveraigne power and prerogative, then those of popish parliaments, and subjects. Wherein likewise the traiterous, antimonarchicall doctrines, practises and attempts of papists upon their soveraignes prerogatives, crownes, persons, with the dangerous consequences, effects, and designes, of their present illegall arming, and accesse to the Kings Army, and person by meanes of evill counsellours, are briefely discovered; ... It is ordered by the Committee for Printing that this treatise be forthwith printed and published, by Michael Sparke, senior. Januar. 13. 1642. John White.; Soveraigne power of parliaments and kingdomes. Part 1 Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; England and Wales. Parliament. 1643 (1643) Wing P4108; Thomason E248_1; ESTC R203188 101,087 43

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Kings eldest sonne was created Duke of Cornwall by Parliament which then also entailed the Dutchy of Cornwall upon the eldest sonnes of the Kings of England See 21 R. 2. c. 9. * 7. H. 4. c. 2. Hals Chronicle 1. H. 4. f. 10. 15. Fabian par● 7. p. 376. Speed p. 763. King Henry the fourth the ●et●er to assure the inheritance of the Crownes and Realmes of England and France to him and his posterity caused them by a speciall Act of Parliament in the first yeare o● his raigne to be entailed and setled on himselfe and the heires of his body begotten and Prince Henry hi● eldest sonne to be established pronounced ordained and decreed heire apparant to him and to succeed hi● in the said Crownes and Realmes to have them with their appurtenances after the Kings death to him an● the heires of his body begotten And if he should die without heire of his body begotten then to remaine to th● Lord Thomas the Kings second sonne with successive remainders to Lord John the third and Lor● Humfry the Kings fourth sonne and the heires of their bodies begotten After which Act passed for t●● avoyding for all claimes titles and ambiguities to be made unto the Crowne he thought never by any of his Subjects to be molested or troubled the rather because in this Parliament it was first concluded that deposed King Richard should continue in a large prison and ●e plenteously served of all things necess●ry both for viande and apparell and if any persons should presume to reare warre or congregate a multitude ●o deliver him out of prison that then he should be the first that should die ●or that sedi●ious comm●tion Which King Richard as * Fabian part 7. p. 373. Sir John B●got by his Bill exhibited to this Parliament averred h●● divers times at sundry Parliaments in his time holden said that he would have his intent and pleasur● concerning his owne matters whatsoever betide of the residue and if any withstood his will or minde b● would by one meanes or other bring him out of his life And further said to him at Lichfield in the one ●● twentieth yeare of his raigne that he desired no longer for to live then to see his Lords and Commons ha●● him in ●s great awe and dread as ever they had of any his Progenitors so that it might be chronicled of him that none passed him of honour and dignity with condition that he were deposed and put ●●rom his said dignity the next morrow after So wilfull was he as to preferre his will before his Crowne or safety n Hall An. 38. 39. H. 6. f. 176. to 183. Fabian An●o 1441. p. 470. Grafton p. 643. to 648. Holins Stow Howes An. 1440 144● In the yeares 1440. and 1441. Edward Duke of Yorke came into the Parliament House an● there in a large Oration laid claime and set forth his Title to the Crowne of England which King He●ry the sixth had long enjoyed desiring the Parliament to determine the right of the Title betweene the● both ●ides submitting to their resolution as the proper Judges of this weighty royall controversie After lon● debate and consideration of the case among the Peers Prelates and Commons of the Realme it w●● finally agreed and resolved by them That in as much as Henry the sixth had beene taken as King for 38. yea●● and more that he sh●uld enjoy the name and title of King and ●ave p●ssessi●n of the Realme during his n●turall life And if he either died or resigned or FOR FAITED THE SAME for breaking ●● part of this concord then t●e said Crowne and authority royall should immediately descend to the Duke ●● Yorke King Edward the 4. his Father if he then live● ●r else to the next heire of his line And that the s● Duke from thenceforth should be Protector and Regent of the Kingdome Provided alway that if the Ki●● did closely or apertly study or goe about to breake or alter this agreement or to compasse or imagine the de●● of the said Duke or his bloud then he TO FORFEIT THE CROWNE and the Duke T● TAKE IT These Articles made by the Parliament betweene them they both subscribed sealed ● swore to and then caused them to be enacted Loe here we have these two Kings submiting their Titles ● the Crowne and Kingdome it selfe to the Resolution of both houses of Parliament as the Soveraig● Judge betwene them who settled the Crowne in this order under paine of ●orfeiting it by Ki●● Henry if he violated their Decree herein and appointing a Lord Protector over the Kingdome in ●● full age as o Historia Angliae p. 458. Parliamentum fuit c●nv●catum in qu● Parliamento ex assensu omnium Statuum idem Dux Defensor seu Protector Angliae fuera● nomina●us ordina●us omniaque Regni off●cia beneficia ejus dispositioni sunt commissa Walsing●am informes us a Parliament c●nstituted Duke Humsry to be protector of hi● and h●s Kingdome of England and the Duke of Bedford to ●e Regent of France during his minority wh● exercised all regall power by vertue of that authority which the Parliament derived to them A●● this in these two Kings reignes p See Grafton p. 691. 692. Speed p. 869. 878. 859. 886. 1. E. 4. c. 1. 17. E. 4. c. 7. the Crown and its descent were variously setled by Parliament as I ha●● formerly manifested yet so as that which one Parliament setled in this kinde continued firme till it ●● akered or reversed by another Parliament King q Speeds Hist p. 928. 931 Richard the third comming to the Crown by usurp●tion to strengthen his Title procured the Lords and Commons to passe an Act of Parliament where in th● declare him to be their lawfull King both by election and fuccession entaile the Crowne upon him and the hei●● ●f his body lawfully begotten create his Sonne Edward Prince of Wales and declare him heire to succeed him in ●he royall Crowne and dignity after his decease In which Act of Parliament recited at large by Speed there is this memorable passage That the Court of Parliament is of such Authority and the people of this land of such a nature and disposition as experience teach●th that manifestation or declaration of any Truth or Right made by the three Estates of this Realme Assembled ●n Parliament and by the Authority of the ●ame makes before all other things most faith and certainty and ●uieting of mens mindes removeth the occasion of all doubts and seditious language r Halls Chro. 1 H. 7. f. 855. Henry the seventh af●erwards slaying this usurping Richard at Boswell-field to avoyd all ambiguities and questions of his Title to the Crowne in his first Parliament procured the Lords and Commons by a speciall Act to set●le the inheritance of ●he Crownes of England and France on him and the heires of his body lawfully begotten perpetually by the grace ●f God so to endure and on none
Historians and Hen●y the fourth elected and created King in his stead In both which depositions the Popish Prelares were chiefe 〈…〉 ctors ſ Speed p. 869. 878. 879. 887. Holingshead Polychronicon Fabian Grafton Hall Stow Caxton in their lives Anno 1462. King Henry the sixt Queen Margaret and Prince Edward their Sonne were by a Popish Parliament disinherited of their right to the Crowne and Edward the fourth made King after which King Henry was by another Parliament recrowned and reestablished in his Kingdome and Edward the fourth declared 〈…〉 Traytor and usurper of the Crowne And not long after Edward taking King Henry prisoner and causing him to be murdered in the Tower another Popish Parliament Anno 1472. abrogated King Henries Lawes and ●eestablished King Edward All this have our Popish Parliaments Prelates Lords and Commons formerly done and that rightly and legally as they then supposed which far transcends the highest st●aines of pretended in●roachments on his Majesties royalties by the present Parliament which detests such presidents Secondly our Popish Parliaments Pecres and Prelates have oft translated the Crowne from the right heires ●nd setled it on others who had no lawfull right or title to it electing and acknowledging them for their one●y Soveraigne Lords in which actions the Popish Prelates and Clergy were commonly the Ring-leaders witnesse their t Speed p. 410. 411. 425 426. 404. to 407. 410. 416. 418. 419. 455 456. 466 467. 548 549. 550. 590. 591. See Matthew Paris Matth. Westminster Malmesbury Hunting don Eadmerus 〈…〉 bian Walsingham Caxton Polychronicon Polydo● Virgil Hall Gr●●t●n Stow How Hollinshead Haywar● M●●tin Daniel and Sir 〈…〉 their severall lives of these Kings electing and crowning of Edward who was illegitimate and putting by Ethelred the right heire after ●dgars decease An. 975. The electing and Crowning Canutus King a meere forrainer in opposition to Edmund ●he right heire to King Ethelred An. 1016. Of Harold and Hardiknute both elected and crowned Kings successive●y without title Edmund and Alfred the right heires being dispossessed and the latter imprisoned and tortu●ed to death An. 1036. and 1040. yet after Hardiknutes decease Edward surnamed the Confessor was chosen King by consent of Parliament And the English Nobilitie upon the death of King Harold enacted That none ●f the Danish blood should any more reigne over them After this Kings death Edgar Etheling who had best title was rejected and Harold elected and crowned King so after William the Conquerors decease Anno 1087. Robert ●he elder brother was pretermitted and William Rufus the younger brother crowned and established in the Throne After whose death Henry the first his younger brother though not next heire was elected King ●y the Clergy Nobles and Commons who refused to admit of any King but with capitulations and caveats to their ●wne liking upon faire promises for resorming bad and rigorous Lawes remission of Taxes exacted on the Subjects and ●unishment of the chiefe causers of them and a solemne oath to frame good Lawes and ratifie Saint Edwards Lawes ●ll which he really performed So after the death of Richard the first John Earle of Morton was elected and crowned King and his Nephew Arthur the right heire disinherited And he dying his sonne Henry the third was ●lected and crowned and Lewis made King in his fathers life by the Barons removed The like we finde in ●he case of King Henry the fourth King Edward the fourth and Richard the third made Kings by Acts of Par●●ament by our Popish Prelates and Nobles with the Commons consent upon unlawfull or doubtfull Titles ●y way of usurpation and the right hereditary line put by Such a transcendent power and ●urisdiction as this 〈…〉 disinherite the right heire and transferre the Crowne to whom they throught meerest neither the present nor ●ny other Protestant Parliament Peeres or Subjects ever claymed or exercised though Popish Parliaments ●relates Lords and Commons have thus frequently done it of which you may reade more in 25. H. 8. c. 22. 26. 〈…〉 8. c. 12. 28. H. 8. c. 7. 35. H. 8. c. 5. Thirdly the Lords and Commons in times of Popery have sent our writs and summoned a Parliament in the Kings name and forced the King to call a Parliament without and against his full consent Thus they summoned and held a Parliament in Ireland Anno 1341 refusing to come to a Parliament there summoned by the Kings officers and authority as the u In Camdens Britania English p. 188. Irish Annalls doe more at large record Thus they x Walsingham Hist. Ang. p. 107. 398. Speed p. 681. 757. summoned and held two Parliaments here in England to depose King Edward the second and King Richard the second without these Kings consents and by two severall Acts of Parliament 4. E 3. c. 4. and 36. E. 3. c. 10. enacted That for the maintenance of the Lawes and Statutes and redresse of divers mischiefes and grievances which daily happe●eth a Parliament shall be holden every yeare once and more often if need be whereas this Parliament was 〈…〉 called but by the Kings owne free consent and hath moderated these former Acts by changing the annuall into 〈…〉 triennuall Parliament by a speciall Bill to which his Majestie gave his full and free assent y Myrror c. 1. sect 3. p. 10. Co. instit on Littleton f. 110. Spelman Concil p. 347. Long before which Acts King Alfred in an assembly of Parliament ordained this for a perpetuall custome that a Parliament should be called together at London twice every yeare or oftner in time of peace to keep the people of God from sinne th 〈…〉 they may live in peace and receive right by certaine usages and holy judgements Fourthly Our Popish Barons Prelates and Commons have refused to meet in Parliament when the King ha 〈…〉 summoned them by his writ z Matth. Paris An. 1233. p. 344 473 c. Speedes Hi. p. 607. to 613. Anno Dom. 1233. King Henry the third summoned his Earles and Barons to appeare at a Parliament at Oxford where the King now resides but they all joyntly sent him an expresse messag 〈…〉 that they would not come upon his summons for that the Kings person went guarded with Poictovines othe 〈…〉 strangers who swayed and miscounselled him as ill Counsellors doe now the King so as they could no 〈…〉 there appeare with safety at which message the King grew very angry resolving that they should bee on 〈…〉 twice and thrice summoned to appeare Whereupon Roger Bacon who usually preached before the King freely told him That if he did not remove from him Peter Bishop of Winchester and Peter de Rivallis his malign 〈…〉 Counsellors he could never be quiet And Roger Bacon a Clergy man also of a pleasant wit seconding Robert advise told the King that Peirae and Rupes were most dangerous things at Sea alluding to the Bishops name Petrus de Rupibus The King hereupon comming a little to himselfe and taking that