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A88244	Regall tyrannie discovered: or, A discourse, shewing that all lawfull (approbational) instituted power by God amongst men, is by common agreement, and mutual consent. Which power (in the hands of whomsoever) ought alwayes to be exercised for the good, benefit, and welfare of the trusters, and never ought other wise to be administered: ... In which is also punctually declared, the tyrannie of the kings of England, from the dayes of William the invader and robber, and tyrant, alias the Conqueror, to this present King Charles, ... Out of which is drawn a discourse, occasioned by the tyrannie and injustice inflicted by the Lords, upon that stout-faithful-lover of his country, and constant sufferer for the liberties thereof, Lieut. Col. John Lilburn, now prisoner in the Tower. In which these 4. following positions are punctually handled ... Vnto which is annexed a little touch, upon some palbable miscarriages, of some rotten members of the House of Commons: which house, is the absolute sole lawmaking, and law-binding interest of England.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing L2172; Thomason E370_12; ESTC R201291	90,580	119

Knaves Fooles Tyrants or Monopolizers or unjust wretched persons that must of necessity have their Prerogative to rule over all their wickednesses Secondly Observe from hence from what a pure Fountain our inslaving Lawes Judges and Practises in Westminster Hall had their originall namely from the will of a Conqueror and Tyrant for I find no mention in History of such Iudges Westminster Hall Courts and such French u●godly proceedings as these untill his dayes the burthen of which in many particulars to this day lies upon us But in the 21. of this Tyrants reigne After that the captivated Natives had made many struglings for their liberties and he having alwayes suppressed them and made himself absolute He began saith Daniel fol. 43. to govern all by the customes of Normandy whereupon the agrieved Lords and sad People of England tender their humble Petition beseeching him in regard of his Oath made at his Coronation and by the soule of St. Edward from whom he had the Crown and Kingdome under whose Lawes they were born and bred that he would not adde that misery to deliver them up to be judged by a strange Law wh●●h they underst●●d no● A●d saith he so earnestly they w●ought that he was pleased to confirme that by his Charter which he had twice ●ore-prom●●d by ●is Oath And gave commandment unto his I●stitiaries to see those Lawes of St. Edward to be invi●lably observed th●ough u● the Kingdome And yet notwithstanding this co●firmatio● 〈◊〉 the C●●r●ers afterward granted by Henry the secon● ●nd King Iohn to the same effect There followed a great Innovation b●th in Lawes and Government in England so that this seemes rather to h●ve b●en done to acquit the people with a shew of the confi●mation of their antient Customes and liberties then that they enjoyed them inessect For whereas before those Lawes they had were written in their tongue i●telligible unto all Now they are tra●slated into Latine and French And whereas the Causes of the Kingdome were before determined in every Shire And by a Law of King Edward s●nior all matters in question should upon speciall penalty w●tk●ut ●urther deferment be finally decided in their Gemote or Conventions held monethly in every Hundred A MOST GALLAN● LAW But he ●et up his ●udges four times a yeare where he thought good to he●● their Causes Again before his Conquest the inheritances descended not alone but after the Germane manner equally divided to all the children which he also altered And after this King alias Tyrant had a cruell and troublesome raign his own Son Robert rebelling against him yea saith Speed fol. 430. all things degenerated so in his cruell dayes that t●me and domestick● fowles as Hens Geese Peacocks and the like fled into the Forrests and Woods and became very wild in imitation of men But when he was dead his Favourites would not spend their pains to bury him and scarce could there be a grave procured to lay him in See Speed fol. 434. and Daniel fol. 50. and Martin fol. 8. WILLIAM THE SECOND to cheat and cosen his eldest brother Robert of the Crown granted relaxation of tribute with other releevements of their dolencies and restored them to the former freedome of hunting in all his Woods and Forrests Daniel fol. 53. And this was all worth the mentioning which they got in his dayes And then comes his brother Henry the first to the Crown and he also stepping in before Robert the eldest brother and the first actions of his government tended all to bate the people and suger their subjection as his Predecessour upon the like imposition had done but with more moderation and advisednesse for he not only pleaseth them in their releevement but in their passion by punishing the chiefe Ministers of their exactions and expelling from his Courtall dissolute persons and eased the people of their Impositions and restored them to their lights in in the night c. but having got his ends effected just tyrant-like he stands upon his Prerogative that is his will and lust but being full of turmoiles as all such men are his Son the young Prince the only hope of all the Norman race was at Sea with many more great ones drowned after which he is said never to have been seen to laugh and having besides this great losse many troubles abroad and being desirous to settle the Kingdome upon his daughter Maud the Empresse then the wife of Coffery Plantaginet in the 15. year of his reign he begins to call a Parliament being the first after the Conquest for that saith Dan. fol. 66. he would not wrest any thing by an imperiall power from the Kingdome which might breed Ulcers of dangerous nature he took a course to obtain their free consents to observe his occasion in their generall Assemblies of the three Estates of the Land which he convocated at Salisbury and yet notwithstanding by his prerogative resumed the liberty of hunting in his Forrests which took up much faire ground in England and he laid great penalties upon those that should kill his Deere But in this Henry the first ended the Norman race till Henry the second For although Henry the first had in Parliament caused the Lords of this Land to swear to his Daughter Maud and her Heires to acknowledge them as the right Inheritors of the Crown Yet the State elected and invested in the Crown of England within 30. dayes aftter the death of Henry Stephen Earle of Bolloign and Montague Son of Stephen Earl of Blois having no title at all to the Crown but by meer election was advanced to it The Choosers being induced to make choice of him having an opinion that by preferring one whose title was least it would make his obligation the more to them and so they might stand better secured of their liberties then under such a one as might presume of a hereditary succession And being crowned and in possession of his Kingdome hee assembleth a Parliament at Oxford wherein hee restored to the Clergie all their former liberties and freed the Laity from their tributes exactions or whatsoever grievances oppressed them confirming the same by his Charter which faithfully to observe hee took a publike Oath before all the Assembly where likewise the BBs swore fealty to him but with this condition saith Daniel folio 69. SO LONG AS HE OBSERVED THE TENOVR OF THIS CHARTER And Speed in his Chronicle fol. 468. saith that the Lay-Barons made use also of this polici● which I say is justice and honesty as appeareth by Robert Earl of Glocester who swore to be true Liege-man to the King AS LONG AS THE KING WOVLD PRESERVE TO HIM HIS DIGNITIES AND KEEPE ALL COVENANTS But little quiet the Kingdome had for rebellions and troubles dayly arose by the friends of Maud the Empresse who came into England and his Associates pitching a field with him where he fought most stoutly but being there taken hee was sent prisoner to Bristell And after this Victory thus

obtained saith Martin fol. 29. The Empresse with many honourable tryumphs and solemnities was received into the Cities of Circester Oxford Winchester and London but the Londoners desiring the restitution of King Edwards Lawes which she refused which proved her ruine and the restitution of King Stephen out of prison and to the Crown again and after some fresh bouts betwixt King Stephen and Duke Henry Mauds eldest Son a Peace was concluded betwixt them in a Parliament at Westminster and that Duke Henry should enjoy the Crown after King Stephen At the receiving of which he took the usuall oath and being like to have much work in France c. being held in thereby from all exorbitant courses he was therefore Wary to observe at first all meanes to get and retain the love and good opinion of this Kingdom by a regular and easie government and at Waldingford in Parliament saith Daniel fol. 80. made an act that both served his own turn and much eased the stomackes of his people which was the expulsion of strangers wherewith the Land was much pestered but afterwards was more with Becket the traytorly Arch-bishop of Canterbury And after him succeeds his Son Richard the first At the beginning of this mans Reigne a miserable massacre was of the Jewes in this Kingdom who went to the holy wars and was taken prisone by the Emperour as he came home of whom Daniel saith fol. 126. that he reigned 9 years and 9 moneths Wherein he exacted and consumed more of this Kingdome then all his Predecessours from the Norman had done before him and yet lesse deserved then any His brother Duke John being then beyond Seas with his Army was by the then Archbishop of Canterburies meanes endeavoured to be made King Who undertooke for him that he should restore unto them their Rights and govern the Kingdome as he ought with moderation and was thereupon after taking three oathes which were to love holy Church and preserve it from all Oppressours The Kings Oath to govern the State in justice and abolish bad Lawes not to assume this Royall honour but with full purpose to rerform that he had sworn Speed 534. crowned King And because the title was doubtfull in regard of Arthur the Posthumus Son of Geffery Duke of Brittain King Iohns eldest brother Speed fol. 532 he receives the Crown and Kingdome by way of election Daniel fol. 127. the Archbishop that crowned him in his Oration professing before the whole Assembly of the State That by all reason Divine and Humane none ought to succeed in the Kingdome but who should bee for the worthinesse of his vertues universally chosen by the State as was this man And yet notwithstanding all this he assumed power by his will and prerogative to impose three shillings upon every plough-land and also exacted great Fines of Offenders in his Forrests And afterwards summons the Farles and Barons of England to be presently ready with Horse and Arms to passe the Seas with him But they holding a conference together at Lecester by a generall consent send him word That unlesse he would render them their rights and liberties they would not attend him out of the Kingdome Which put him into a mighty rage but yet he went into France and there took his Nephew Arthur prisoner and put him to death by reason of which the Nobility of Britaigne Anjou and Poictou took Armes against him and summon him to answer at the Court of Justice of the King of France to whom they appeale Which he refusing is condemn●d to lose the Dutchy of Normandy which his Ancestors had held 300. yeares and all other his Provinces in France which he was accordingly the next yeare deposed of And in this disastrous estate ●aith Daniel fol. 130. he returnes into England ●nd charges the Earles and Barons with the reproaches of his l●sses in France and fines them by his Prerogative to pay the seventh part of all their goods for refusing his aid And after this going over into France to wras●le another fall was forced to a peace for two years and returnes into England for more supplies where by his will iust and prerogative he layes an imposition of the thirteenth part of all moveables and other goods both of the Clergie and Laitie who now saith Daniel seeing their substances consume and likely ever to be made liabl● to the Kings desperate courses began to cast about for the recovery of their ancient immunities which upon their former sufferance had been usurped by their late Kings And hence grew the beginning of a miserable breach between the King his people Which saith he folio 131. cost more adoe and more Noble blood then all the warres for raigne had done since the Conquest For this contention ceased not though it often had fair intermissions till the GREAT CHARTER made to keep the Beame right betwixt SOVERAIGNTY and SVBJECTION first obtained of this King JOHN in his 15. and 16. yeares of his yeares of his reigne and after of his sonne Henry the 3. in the 3. 8. 21. 36. 42. yeares of his reigne though observed truly of neither was in the maturity of a judiciall Prince Edward the first freely ratified Anno regni 27. 28. But I am confident that whosoever seriously and impartially readeth over the lives of King John and his sonne Henry the third will judge them Monsters rather then men Roaring Lions Ravening Wolves and salvadge Boares studying how to destroy and ruine the people rather then Magistrates to govern the people with justice and equity For as for King John he made nothing to take his Oath and immediatly to break it the common practice of Kings to grant Charters and Freedomes and when his turn was Consider compare and conclude served to annihilate them again and thereby and by his tyrannicall oppressions to embroyle the Kingdo●e in Warres Blood and all kind of miseries In selling and basely delivering up the Kingdome that was none of his own but the peoples as was decreed in the next Parliament Speed fol. 565. by laying down his CROWN Scepter Mantle Sword and Ring the Ensignes of his Royalty at the feet of Randulphus the Popes Agent delivering up therewithall the Kingdome of England to the Pope And hearing of the death of Geffery Fitz Peter one of the Patrons of the people rejoyced much and swore by the Feet of God That now at length he was King and Lord of England having a fre●r power to untie himselfe of those knots which his Oath had made to this great man against his will and to break all the Bonds of the late concluded peace with the people unto which he repented to have ever condescended And as Daniel folio 140. saith to shew the desperate malice this King and Tyrant who rather then not to have an absolute domination over his people to doe what he listed would be any thing himself● under any other that would but support him in his violences There is recorded an

in or about the year 1214. The Prelates Lords and Commons severally and joyntly enacted That forsomuch as neither King John nor any other King could bring his Realme and People to such thraldome but by common consent of Parliament which was never done and that in so doing he did against his Oath at his Coronation besides many other causes of just exception If therefore the Pope thence forwards should attempt any thing therein the King with all his Subjects should with all their forces and powers resist the same and rather hazzard all their lives and livelihood then endure his usu● pation● But if any man should so dote upon those Pagean●s Tyrants Kings the supposed and pretended a●nointed of the Lord as yet not to think it sufficient to prove that not onely the present King Charles his own acknowledgment and confession will be of force sufficient to pull all Scales of blindnesse from their eyes and all hardnesse and unbelievingnesse of heart from their hearts His own words in his answer to the House of Commons first Remonstrance Book Declar. pag. 25. are these We have thought it very suitable to the duty of Our place and pag. 29. and We ●aith he doubt not it will be the most acceptable Declaration a King can make to his Subjects that for Our part We are resolved duly not only to observe the Lawes Our Self but to maintain them agrinst what opposition soever though with the hazard of Our Being and a little below We acknowledge it a high crime saith he against Almighty God and inexcusab●● to Our good Subjects of Our three Kingdomes if We did not to the utmost imploy all Our power and faculties to the speediest and most effectuall assistance and protection of that distressed people of Ireland And in his Message 28 April 1642. page 157. speaking of the Militia he saith We conceive it prejudiciall to Our Self or inconvenient for Our Subjects for whom We are trusted and page 167. Himself saith That if the Prerogative of the King over-whelme the Liberty of the People it will be turned to tyrannie And he himself page 284. defines tyrannie to be nothing else but to admit no rule to govern by a mans own will But above all the rest remarkable is his own confession in his answer to the Parliaments Declaration of the 19. May 1642. where in page 152. He honestly and plainly acknowledgeth that He is to give an account of his Office not only to God but also to his other Kingdoms But as the Parliament saith page 701. This is a strange Paradox that his Majesty by his own Confession owes an ●account to his other Kingdomes of his Office and Dignity of a King in this kingdome itself where he resides and hath his being and subsistence And in page 311. He acknowledgeth God hath entrusted Him with his regallity for the good of his People and if it be for their good then not for their mischief and destruction but God hath entrusted him and how is that The truth is God is no more the Author o● Regall then of Aristocratical power nor of Supreame then of Subordinate Command Nay that Dominion which is usurped and not just whilest it remains Dominion and till it be legally again divested refers to God as its Author and Donor as much as that which is Hereditary and permissively from God and not approbationally instituted or appointed by him And that Law which the King mentioneth is not to be understood to bee any speciall Ordinance sent from Heaven by the Ministry of Angels or Prophets as amongst the Jewes it sometimes was It can be nothing else amongst Christians but the actions and agreements of such and such politike Corporations Power is originally inherent in the People and it is nothing else but that might and vigour which such and such a Society of men contains in it self and when by such and such a Law of common consent and agreement it is derived into such and such hands God confirmes the Law And so man is the free and voluntary author the Law is the instrument and God is the establisher of both as the observator in the first page of the first part of his most excellent observations doth observe And though Kings make a huge matter of that saying of God by me Kings Raigne as though there were some superlative naturall inbred inherent deity or exellency in Kings above other men y●t we may say an● that tru●y That by God all mankind lives moues and have their being yea and raignes and gove●ns as much by God in their inf●rior orbs of Cityes hundreds wa●enta●es and families as well as Kings in their Kingdoms yea though God himselfe in an extraordinary and immediate manner chose a●d appointed Saul David and Solomon to be Kings of Israel Yet so just was the righ●eous God that ●e w●u●d 〈◊〉 imp●se them u●o● the people of Isra●l against their own ●il●● and mind●s 〈◊〉 he● did t●ey rule as K●●g till by t●e c●mmo● c●nsent of t●e people they ch●se ●hem and 〈◊〉 ●he● to raigne ov●r ●hem 1 Sam. 10. 20. 24. 2 Sam. 2. 24. and Ch●p 5. 1. 2. and 3. and 1 Kings 38 39 ●0 So t●at ●h●ir auth●r●ty did originally as inhere●tl● flow from the pe●ple as well as their speciall ●ssig●ation from God a●d t●ey were to rul● and govern them by the Law of God ●nd not by the rule and Law of their own wil● unto which Law ●hey were to be as 〈◊〉 and subject as the meanest of the people yea and as ●ya●le to punishment and to have their tra●sgr●ssi●ns ●ayd to t●●ir charge As Lieu●e●a●t Collon●l Lilburne ●ath 〈◊〉 and fully proved in his late printed Epistle to Judge Reves p●g These things righ●ly considered doth co●demn thos● two maxims for wicked ungodly and tyrannic●●l w●ich are ●ayd downe so in the booke of D●clara●io●s pag 199. 3. 4. viz. That the King can do no wrong The second is that the King is the fountaine of justice But to returne againe to the Kings own word ●e saith pag. 313. We were unwo●●hy the trust repo●ed in us by the Law and of our descent from so many great and famous Ancestors if w● could be brought to abondon that power which onely can enable us to performe what we are sworne to in protecting our people and the Lawes What can be said more plaine then this to prove him an Officer of 〈◊〉 Trust But seeing he speakes of his Ancestors Let me tell him that if he had no better title to his Crown then to claime it his by a kind of Divine Right from his Progenitors and because he is the next Heire to King James It would be by Scripture a very weak title We find in Scripture that Salomon a younger Son c. was made King principally because of his fitnesse to govern when divers of his elder brethren wen● without the Crown And if any in the world might have pleaded the priviledges of being next heire Davids Sons and Sons

vertue of their being the Sons of prerogative Lords Earles Dukes or Barrons Now if you please to reade the Chronicles of this Kingdome you shall find that this thing called prerogative flowes meerly from the wills and pleasures of Robbers Rogues and The●ves by vertue of which they made Dukes Earles Barrons and Lords of their fellow Robbers Rog●es and Theeves the lineall issue and progeny of which the present House of Peers are having no better right nor title to their present pretended judicature then meer and absolute usurpation and the will and pleasures of the potent and enslaving Tyrants alias Kings of this Kingdome for I read in Speeds Chronicle pag. 413. 416. 417. and in Daniel pag. 27. 28. That the Normans in France came antiently of a mixt people from the Norwegians Swedens Danes practising practises upon the Coasts of Belgia Frizia England Ireland and France and proceeded in their hardy and wicked courses even to the Mediterranean Sea● which drove the French to such extremity that King Charles the bald was forced to give unto Hasting a Norman Arch-Pirate the Earldome of Charters to aslwage his fury exercised upon his people and also King Charles the Grosse granted unto Godfrey the Norman part of Newstria with his Daughter in Mariage yet all this sufficed not but that the Normans by force of Armes seated themselves neere unto the mouth of S●in taking all for their own that lay comprised betwixt that River and the River Loyre which Country afterwards took the name of Normandy from those Northern guests at which time King Charles the simple confirmed it unto Rollo their Captaine and gave unto him his Daughter Gilla in Mariage which Rollo with divers misdoers and outlawed men were forced to flye out of their own Country which Rollo of the Danishrace was the first Duke of Normandy whose Son William was the second Duke of Normandy and Richard his Sonne was the third Duke of that Country And his Sonne Richard the second was the fourth Duke thereof And Richard the third his Sonne was the fifth Duke of Normandy And Robert his brother and Sonne to Richard the second was ●he sixth Duke of Normandy who was Father to our William the Conqueror who was the seventh Duke of Normandy whom Duke Robert begat of one Arle● or Arlet●ce a whore and a mean woman of Phalisi● in Normandy who was the Daughter of a Skinner being resolved to go visite the holy Sepulcher having no more Sonnes but William his bastard he calles his Nobility together and tells them In case I dy in my journey as he did I have a little Bastard of whose worthinesse I have great hope and I doubt not but he is of my begetting him will I invest in my Dutchie as mine heire and from thenceforth I pray you take him for your Lord which they did And this Bastard in his youth having many sharp bouts and bickerings with Roger de Tresny and William Earle of Arques brother to Duke Robert and Sonne to Richard the second c. who lay claime to the Dutchie as right and true heires to it but William the Bastard being too hard for them all and by these wars grew to great experience in fea●es of Armes which with his marying of Matild the Daughter of Baldw●n the fifth Earle of Flanders a man of great might and power provoked the French King to fall upon him to abate his greatnesse and curbe his pride but bastard William twice defeating two powerfull Armies of the King● with great overthrowes broke the heart of the King of France which gave the bastard Duke of Normondy joyfull peace in which calme the King makes a journey over into England to visite King Edward the Confessor his kinsman who had had his breeding in Normandy by Duke Richard the second the bastards Grandfather And after his returne back againe St. Edward the King of England dyeth Whereupon William the bastard busieth his thoughts how to obtaine the Crowne and Scepter of England unto which he makes certaine pretended claimes as being granted unto him by King Edward which was but a weake pretence as King Harold in his answer to him informes him Speed 404. telling him that Edward himselfe coming in by election and not by any title of inheritance his promise was of novalidity for how could he give that wherein he was not interessed And though William the bastard urgeth to Harol his Oath given him i● Normandy yet he answered his Embassadour that his Masters demand was unjust for that an Oath extorted in time of extremity cannot binde the maker in Conscience to performe i● for that were to joyne one sin to another and that this O●th was taken for ●eare of death and imprisonment the Duke himselfe well knew but said he admit it was voluntary and without feare could I then a Subject without the allowance of the ●ing and the whole State give away the Crownes Success●● to the prejudice of both Speed fol. 403. 404. But although the bastard Duke had no better claime but this which was worth just nothing at all Reade before pag. 20. 21. 24. 27. 28 3● 60. 61. Yet notwithstanding William the bastard p●rleveres in his proud wicked and bloody intentions and calses an Assembly of the States of Normandy together and with importunate solicitations solicits them to supply him with money the very sinews of war to carry on his intended invasion of England but they unanimously refuse and decline it At length seeing this prottaction and difficulty in general he deals with his deerest and most trusty friends in particular being such as he knew affected the glory of action and would adventure their whole estates with him As William Fitz-Auber Count de Bretteville Gualtaer Gifford Earle Longueville Roger de Beaumont with others especially his own brothers by the mother whom he had made great as Odo Bishop of Baynox and Robert Earle of Mortaign and unto these he shewed his pretended right and hope of England wherein prefe●ment lay even to the meanest amongst them onely money was the want which they might spare neither should that be given nor lent without a plentiful increase With such faire words he drew them so on that they strove who should give most And by this policie he gathered such a masse of money as was sufficient to defray the warre And not onely wan he the people of his own Provinces to undertake this action but drew by his faire perswasions and large promises most of the greatest Princes and Nobles of France to adventure their persons and much of their estates with him as Robert Fitz-Harrays Duke of Orleance the Earles of Brittaigne Ponthieu Botogne Poictcu Maine Nevers Hi●fins Aumal le Signieur de Tours and even his mortall enemy Martel Earle of Anjou became to be as forward as any Besides to amuze the Court of France and dazzle a young Prince then King he promised faithfully if he conquered this Kingdome to hold it of him as he did