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The supremacy debated, or, The authority of Parliaments, formerly owned by Romish clergy to be the supreamest power
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W. R., Gent.
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and the Laws broken by him assembled and rose up in Arms against him and deposed him who after died in a Wood where he fled being slain by his Swine Herd So Kenwolfe was made King in his stead Anno 756. Ofred King of Northumberland for his evil Government was expelled by his Subjects and deprived of all Kingly Authority in the Year 789. So Ethelred the Son of Molo his next Successor being revoked from Exile and restored to the Crown of which he was formerly deprived thereupon murthering divers of his Nobles and Subjects to secure his Crown did so offend his Subjects thereby that in the Year 794. they rose up in Arms against him and slew him at Cobre Ceolwolfe King of Merica Anno 820. after one Year's Reign was for his Mis-Government expulsed by his People abandoning his Crown and Country for the safety of his Life The Crown of England hath oftentimes been setled upon those who were not next Heirs to it Witness the Electing and Crowning of Edward who was illegitimate and putting by Ethelred the right Heir after Edgar's Decease Anno 975. The Electing and Crowning of Canutus a meer Foreigner in opposition to Edward the right Heir to King Ethelred Anno 1016. Also the Electing of Harold and Hardiknute both elected and crowned Kings successively without Title Edmond and Alfred the right Heirs being dispossessed the latter imprisoned and tormented to death An. 1036. 1040. yet after Hardiknute's Decease Edward surnamed the Confessor was chosen King by Consent of Parliament and the English Nobility upon the Death of King Harold enacted that none of the Danish Blood should any more reign over them After this King's Death Edgar Etheling who had the best Title was rejected and Harold elected and crowned King. So Kings after the Conquest not successively succeeding after William the Conqueror's Decease Anno 1087. Robert the elder Brother was put aside and William Rufus elected and crowned After whose Death Henry I. his younger Brother though not next Heir was elected King by the Clergy Nobles and Commons who refused to admit of any King but with Capitulations and Caveats to their own liking upon fair Promises for reforming bad and rigorous Laws Remission of Taxes exacted on the Subjects and Punishments of the chief Causers of them and a solemn Oath to frame good Laws and ratifie St. Edward's Laws All which he really performed So after the Death of Richard I. John Earl of Morton was elected and crowned King his Nephew Arthur the right Heir dis-inherited He dying his Son Henry III. was elected and crowned and Lewis made King in his Father's Life by the Barons removed Edward II. King Edw. II. deposed their natural King of England was deposed by Bishops Peers and Commons in Parliament Anno 1327. King Richard II. King Rich. II. deposed for sundry Misdemeanours objected against him in Parliament and for the Breach of his Coronation-Oath was deposed by Parliament and Henry IV. placed in his stead Anno 1392. Henry VI. King Queen and Prince of Wales put aside by Parliament Queen Margaret and Prince Edward their Son were by a Parliament put by and Edward IV. made King After which King Henry was by another Parliament re-crowned and re-established in his Kingdom and Edward IV. declared a Traitor But Edward not long after taking King Henry Prisoner caused him to be murthered in the Tower. Another Parliament Anno 1472. abrogated King Henry's Laws and re-established King Edward All which have Parliaments before the Reformation in this Kingdom done none daring to question their Authority but complying with them By W. R. Gent. With Allowance LONDON Printed for William Miller at the Gilded Acron in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1689. Where Gentlemen and others may be furnished with most sorts of Acts of Parliament and other State-Matters As also Books of Divinity Church-Government and Sermons on most Occasions c.
THE SUPREMACY DEBATED OR The Authority of Parliaments formerly owned by Romish Clergy to be the Supreamest Power IN case the Owning of the Authority of a Parliament to be the supreamest Power in a Kingdom be traiterous or heretical amongst Papists Rome's own Church was the first Founder of this Doctrine and frequently practised the same both before and until the Reformation of Religion within this Realm For Henry de Bracton one of their famous Lawyers of this Nation who flourish'd Anno 1260. in the Reign of King Henry III. resolves thus The King hath a Superior to wit God also the Law by which he is made a King II. Bracton his Words touching the Supream Power likewise his Court namely the Earls and Barons because they are called Comites as being the King's Fellows or Companions And he who hath a Fellow or Associate hath a Master And therefore if the King shall be without a Bridle that is without Law they ought to impose a Bridle on him unless they themselves with the King shall be without Bridle and then the Subject shall cry out and say O Lord Jesus Christ do thou bind their Jaws with Bitt and Bridle c. Here is a true Resolution that the Law with the Earls and Barons assembled in Parliament are above the King and ought to bridle him when he exorbitates from the Law which this famous Lawyer also seconds in some sort lib. 3. cap. 9. fol. 107. This Law was so authentick in those Days and in After-Ages that in their great Council of Basil Anno 1431. when this mighty Question was debated whether a Pope were above a General Council or a Council above him at last it was resolv'd such a Council was above the Pope upon this Reason among others The Pope is in the Church as a King in his Kingdom The Reason that was given at the Council of Basil for a General Council to be above the Pope serveth for a Parliament to be above a King. and for a King to be of more Authority than his Kingdom it were too absurd Ergo Neither ought the Pope to be above the Church In every well order'd Kingdom it ought especially to be desired that the whole Realm should be of more Authority than the King which if it happen'd contrary were not to be called a Kingdom but a Tyranny And like as oftentimes Kings which do wickedly govern the Commonwealth and express Cruelty are deprived of their Kingdoms even so it is not to be doubted but that the Bishop of Rome may be deposed by the Church that is to say by the General Council At the Beginning as Cicero in his Offices saith it is certain there was a Time when as the People lived without Kings But afterwards when Lands and Possessions began to be divided according to the custom of every Nation then were Kings ordained for no other Causes but only to execute Justice for when at the Beginning the Common People were oppressed by rich and mighty Men they ran by and by to some vertuous and good Man which should defend the Poor from Injury and ordain Laws whereby the Rich and Poor might dwell together But when as yet under the Rule of Kings the Poor were oftentimes oppressed Laws were ordained and instituted the which should judge neither for Hatred nor Favour and give like Ear to the Poor as Rich Whereby we understand and know not only the People but also the King to be subject to the Law for if we do see a King to contemn and despise the Laws violently rob and spoil his Subjects destowr Virgins ravish Matrons and do all things licentiously and temeriously do not the Nobles of the Kingdom assemble together deposing him from his Kingdom set up another in his place which shall swear to rule and govern uprightly and be obedient unto the Laws Verily As Reason doth perswade even so doth the Use thereof also teach us It seemeth also agreeable unto Reason that the same should be done in the Church that is in the Council which is done in any Kingdom And so is this sufficiently apparent that the Pope is subject unto the Council Thus the Bishop of Burgen Ambassador of Spain the Abbot of Scotland and Thomas de Carcellis a famous Divine reasoned in this Council which voted with them Here you have a full Resolution of this great Council which the Papists call a General One being approved of by the Grecian and Roman Emperors and most Christian Kings and States and our King amongst others That the Kingdom in Parliament assembled is above the King as a General Council is paramount the Pope which Aeneas Silvius who afterwards became Pope and Surius one of Rome's Jesuits do manifest by these five Reasons First Because Kings were first created and instituted by their Kingdoms and People Five Reasons shewing a Parliament to be above a King. not their Kingdoms and People by them Secondly Because they were ordained only for Kingdoms and People's Service and Welfare not their Kingdoms and People for them Thirdly Because their Kingdoms and People as they at first created so they still limit and confirm their Royal Jurisdiction by Laws to which they are and ought to be subject Fourthly Because they oblige them by solemn Oath to rule accordingly and to be obedient unto the Laws Lastly Because they have power to depose their Kings in case they contemn the Laws and violently rob and spoil their Subjects Now it is to be wonder'd why Papists will blame Protestants to defend their Laws and Liberties this being their own Doctrine concerning the Power Superiority and Privilege of Parliaments Peers and Kingdoms over their Kings they having least ground of all others to tax our Lords and Commons with Usurpation upon the Crown it having been the ancient Course of this Kingdom to examine the Acts of their Kings and Princes whether they ruled according to the Laws established or no. For instance-sake Kings before the Conquest deposed for irregular Government we shall give you a short Touch Anno 454. King Vortigern when he had reigned six Years for his Negligence and evil Government for which Wostine then Archbishop of London told him he had endanger'd both his Soul and Crown was deposed from his Crown by his Subjects the Britains general Consent imprison'd and his Son Vortimer chosen and crowned King in his stead After whose untimely Death being poyson'd by Rovena Vortigern was again restored by them to the Crown yet at last for his notorious Sins by the just revenging Hand of God consumed to Ashes by Fire kindled by Augelius and Vter as Heaven's Ministers to execute its Wrath. Sigibert King of the West-Saxons setting aside all Laws and Rules of true Piety wallowing in all sensual Pleasures using Exactions and Cruelties upon his Subjects and slaying the Earl Cumbra his faithful Counsellor for admonishing him friendly of his vicious Life the Peers and Commons thereupon seeing their State and Lives in danger