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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91283	A soveraign antidote to prevent, appease, and determine our unnaturall and destructive civill warres and dissentions. Wherein divers serious considerations tending to this purpose are propounded both to the King and subjects, the Parliaments and Sir Iohn Hothams proceedings at Hull and in the militia justified, Sr Iohn Hothams actions proved to be neither treason, felony, nor trespas, by the laws of the land, nor any just ground or cause at all for his Majestie to rayse an army, or a most unnaturall civill warre in his kingdome. With a most serious exhortation both to the King and subjects to embrace and preserve peace and abandon civill warres, with other matters worthy of consideration.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1642 (1642)	Wing P4086A; Thomason E239_6; ESTC R19412	26,708	37

of this Towne and Magazine is no Treason no nor yet so much as a Trespasse or offence in point of Law I have sufficiently demonstrated in the r premises Whether his denying his Majestie to enter Hull and his keeping possession of it be high Treason will there be the sole question which before I shall determine I shall truly state the case ſ Sir Iohn Hotham by Order of both Houses of Parliament was enjoyned to keep possession of the Towne and Magazine at Hull for the prevention of Civill-warres and preservation of the peace and safety of the Realme which some malignant Spirits advised his Majestie to seize on and turne against the Kingdome and not to deliver them up to any whatsoever without their speciall Order The King on the 23 of Aprill rode to Hull attended with about 400. Horse the Duke of Yorke and Prince Elector being at that instant royally entertained by Sir Iohn Hotham in the Towne who came thither the day before and required Sir John Hotham to deliver up the Town into his hands Who perceiving his Majestie to be accompanied with such force as might have mastered the Garison of the Towne and having received Intelligence of an intention to deprive him of his life if the King were admitted informed his Majestie of that trust reposed in him by both Houses that he could not admit him into the Town without breach of that trust and therefore humbly beseeched his Majestie to give him leave to send to the Parliament to acquaint them with his Majesties commands and to receive their directions thereupon which hee would do with all expedition His Majestie rejecting this Answer presently caused him and his Officers to be proclaimed Traytors before the Towne Walls and dispatched a Message to both Houses charging Sir Iohn Hotham with high Treason aggravating his offence and demanding Justice against him The Parliament upon true Information and stating of the case the 28. of Aprill 1642. resolved upon the Question That Sir Iohn Hotham according to his Relation had done nothing but in obedience to both houses of Parliament That this declaring Sir John Hotham Traytor being a Member of the house of Commons is an high Breach of Priviledge and being done without processe of Law is against the liberty of the subiect and the Law of the Land This being the true state of the case I shall clearely manifest by the Law of the Land this Act of Sir Iohn Hothams to be no Treason and he no Traytor It is irrefragably evident by the Statutes of 1 E. 6. c. 12. and 1 Mariae 1. Session Rastall Treason 20. that there is no Treason at this day but what is within the very Letter of 25 E. 3. c. 3. all other Treasons being repealed by these Acts or expired The Question then will be Whether this case be within the very Letter of 25. E. 3 Certainely there is not one syllable in this Act which concernes this case The King pretends it is within these words If any man do levy Warre against our Soveraign Lord the King in his Realme that it is Treason by the Letter of this Act. But here there is no levying of war no act of hostility or war was exercised by Sir Io. Hotham against the K Sir to Hotham was onely passive defensive not active he only denyed his Majestie the possession of the Town by order from Parliament to prevent warre and preserve peace and if he be a Traytor the whole Parliament must be much more Traytors who put him upon this service Qui●… plus peccat Author quam Actor as our Law determines Therefore this neither is nor can be any leavying of Warre against the King or Treason within this clause This is most apparant by the Statute of 5. and 6. Ed. 6. c. 11. Which because the detaining of the Kings Forts from him was not within the words or intention of 25. Ed. 3. did specially enact That of any person or persons after the first of Iune Rebelliously marke the word do detaine keepe or with-hold from our Soveraign Lord his heires and successors any of his or their Castles Fortresses or holds within this Realme or any other the Kings Dominions or Marches Or Rebelliously keepe detaine or with-hold from his said highnesse his he●res or successors any of his or their Ships Ordinances Artillery or other Ammunitions or Fortifications of Warre and do not obediently render and give up unto our said Soveraign Lord his heires or successors or such persons as shall bee deputed by them such Castles Fortresses Fortilesses Holds Ships Ordinances Artillery or other Munitions or Fortifications of Warre rebelliously kept or detained within six dayes nex after they shall be commanded by our said Soveraigne Lord his ●eires or Successors by open Proclamation under the great Seale the same Proclamation to be made in such place and order so as the party and parties to be charged by this Act may conventently have notice or knowledge thereof that then every such person or persons so offending in any the Premises their Abbettors c. Being lawfully convicted of the Rebelliously keeping or detaining thereof according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme shall be adjudged Traytors and shall suffer paines of death and lose and forfeit all their goods and chattles Lands and Tenements unto the King as in cases of high Treason This Act makes the detaining of any of the Kings Castles Forts c. Treason But yet with these three Limitations First that they must be Rebelliously kept and with-held which Hull was not but onely by Order of Parliament for the Kingdomes peace and safety Secondly that they must be ●etained six dayes at least after command to surrender them But the King proclamed Sir Iohn Hotham a Traytour for not delivering up Hull the same day and houre he demanded it without giving him any respite which is contrary to this Act Thirdly There must be a Proclamation under the great Seale to demand the Forts and Castles and the same Proclamatio must be so made that those who detain them may have notice of it But in this case there was no such Proclamation made against Sir Iohn Hotham but by an herald by word of mouth and so no Treason within the Law admit it were in force But this Law and clause which if in force might have given some colour to his Majestie as all Judges and Lawyers resolve was totally repealed by the statute of 1 Mariae R●stall Treason 20. which expresly repeales all other Treasons but those within the very Letter of 25. E. 3. and so the detaining of any Forts or Castles at this day from the King is no Treason because not within the words of 25. E. 3. chap 3. the onely Standard and surviving Law to judge Treasons by This Statute of 5. Ed. 6. c. 11. being repealed and this case being not within the Act of 25. ● 3. the Parliament in 14. Eliz. was enforced to make a speciall Law which