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A84034 The English tyrants. Or, A brief historie of the lives and actions of the high and mighty states, the lords of Westminster, and now (by usurpation) kings of England. Containing all their rebellious and traiterous proceedings and transactions in Parliament. With their levying of war, and bloudy practices against their soveraign, their sinister and military designs to alter and subvert the fundamentall government in church and commonwealth, by destroying monarchy, and making themselves free-states, by the power of the sword. Continued from the first convention of this Parliament, 1640. untill the Kings death, Jan. 30. 1648. 1649 (1649) Wing E3122; Thomason E569_4; ESTC R201943 8,872 17

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and unjustly refused to admit of His Majesties just Reasons and exceptions against their usurped Jurisdiction and without any lawfull Authority or proof against Him or legall Triall presumed most traiterously and impiously to condemn and murder Him And since that have arraigned and put to death some Peers and other free Subjects of this Realm contrary to Magna Charta the Petition of Right Duke Hamilton Holland and Capell the Laws of the Land and the Liberties of the Subjects to the great enslaving and endangering of the lives and liberties of all the free-people of England And whereas the said confederated Commons have likewise tyrannically Acts of Parliament made by the Committee and contrary to their Oaths and Engagements aforesaid to take upon them to make Acts of Parliament as they tearm them without the joint consent of the King and House of Lords contrary to the use and priviledges of Parliament and known Laws of the Land And by pretext thereof have traiterously and wickedly endeavoured to disinherit the Illustrious CHARLS Prince of Wales next Heir to the Crown Treason to proclaim Charls II. King and Actuall King of England Scotland France and Ireland immediatly after His said Royall Father barbarous murther by right of Descent and proclaimed it Treason for any person to proclaim Him King whereas it is high Treason in them thus to prohibite His proclaiming and have likewise traiterously and impudently encroached a Tyrannicall and lawlesse power to themselves to vote down our Ancient Kingly and Monarchicall Government and the House of Peers Change of Government and to make a New Great Seal of England without the Kings Pourtraicture or Stile and to alter the Ancient Regall and Legall Stile of Writs and proceedings in the Courts of Justice and to create New Judges and Commissioners of the Great Seal and to dispense with the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and to prescribe new Oaths unto them contrary to Law Statute or Custome to administer And have traiterously attempted to change and alter the Fundamentall Laws and Government of this Kingdom and to subvert the being freedom and priviledges of Parliaments For which Treasons Strafford and Canterbury though lesse criminall lost their heads this Parliament States and Lords of the Land To conclude you are become by Rebellion Treason Tyrannie Bloud and Murder Lords of the Land Kings of a poor distressed and miserable Kingdom And you are pleased in your greatnesse to stile your selves The Free Estates of the Kingdom you have violently forcibly and unjustly got the riches treasure and wealth of the Land into your hands by the power of the Sword under which the poor people of England are ruinated and destroyed Yet consider this you that forget God the vengeance of Heaven hangs over your heads for oppression and bloud your reprieve is not your salvation you are grown to a height of confidence and presumption upon your successes your necks are as iron and your brows brasse and you walk uncontroulable in your way triumphing as the only Princes of the Earth as fit to sway the Scepter of England and all Nations as the only righteous and honourable people in the world the great Lords of the Land Yet Remember for all these things you shall come to Judgment you shall give an accompt for all the treasonable and bloudy actions you have perpetrated against the King and Kingdom Thus far have I traced your footsteps the space of eight years not without admiration from the time His Majestie sate on His Throne to His unfortunate Death by His Subjects before His own Palace where you may observe the most Virtuous and Wisest Prince in the Christian world murder'd and put to death by the most villanous barbarous and bloudy people upon the Face of the Earth FINIS I shall shortly recommend to you the second part of this Historie which as yet is not finished containing all their Actions from His Majesties Death to this present