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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56189	A plea for the Lords, and House of Peers, or, A full, necessary, seasonable enlarged vindication of the just, antient hereditary right of the earls, lords, peers, and barons of this realm to sit, vote, judge, in all the parliaments of England wherein their right of session, and sole power of judicature without the Commons as peers ... / by William Prynne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4035; ESTC R33925	413,000	574

in electing Members both in antient Boroughs and Counties by subjecting them to new imprisonments forfeiteres of Estate life and trials by Marshal Law in sundry particulars against this Charter instead of easing them of their long-continued illegal Taxes Excises Imposts Imprisonments Confinements c. confirming their former Liberties Franchises Properties Parliamentary privileges punishing the manifold high violations of them with those ill Councellers Projectors who were the chief contrivers of these intollerable grievances and resuming the antitient dissipated Lands Revenues of the Crown which should defray al publik ordinary expences yea how instrumental some of them have been to promote the desperate designs Practises Conspiracies of the Pope and Jesuits themselves now swarming amongst us under sundry disguises to ruine both our Kings Parliaments Church and State is so experimentally visible and well known to them all that I hope the consideration thereof compared with the forecited Presidents of our noble Ancestors and Parliamen●s will strike such a confusion of face such a compunction of heart into them for this their degeneracy Apostacy and breach of publike trust that they will now at last to regain their own lost reputations publikely renounce and abhor their former Exorbitances and study to equalize out act those their heroick predecesors by regaining re-establishing our lost Great Charters Laws Properties Liberties Parliaments privileges Peerage and make us once more a free thereby a happy and united Kingdom Church Nation that so they may be deemed worthy to sit vote in our future Parliaments It is storied of our renowned victorious warlike King Edward the 1. that in a Parliament held at Westminster in July 1297. he ascended upon a wooden scaffold before the great hall there with his Son Prince Edward the Archbishop of Canterbury and Earl of Warwick and there before all the people standing by erumpentibus lach ymis veniam de commissis humiliter postulavit dicens se minus bene tranquilliter quam Regem deceret ipsos rexisse portiunculas facultatum suarum quas sibi dederaut seu quas ministri ejus ipso inscio extorserant ideo acceptasse ut in ●ur●osos hostium conatus sitientium sanguinem Anglicanum sumpta Rei publicae particula massa quietius possidendo potentius expugnaret Et addens ecce expositurus meipsum discrimini propter vos peto si rediero suscipiatis me velut in presentia habetis ABLATA OMNIA REDDAM VOBIS c. If our late or present all-swaying Governors Officers Swordmen will now make but the self same ingenuous acknowledgement as he before all the people that they have not governed them so well and peaceably as they should have done and became them to do that they and their Officers have much oppressed extorted from them not small but great sums of Money by undue and exorbitant means against their wills though with a publike intention to conquer those Enemies more effectually who thirsted after English blood for whose safety they are still ready to adventure their lives That they have sought their own wealth advantage honour preferment more than the publike or peoples welfare thereupon shall with weeping eyes humbly beg pardon of the whole Nation and those particular persons they have any ways ruined or oppressed and promise them full reparation of their injuries and what ever they have unjustly taken from them as this noble King Edw. did and confirm and enlarge all their Great Charters Laws Liberties as fully as freely as he then did upon his Nobles importunity they may then expect that reciprocal Love and dutifull respect to them as the Archbishop with the people then promised to King Edward and his Son with stretched out hands and be deemed worthy to sit and vote in Parliament notwithstanding their former miscarriages exorbitant arbitrary Ordinances and Provisions of which if they repent not I fear in conclusion what Matthew Westminster records of the Barons provisions at Oxon. Lewes and London will be recorded of them to Posterity Haec de provisionibus imo DE PRODITIONIBUS Oxon Lewens Londini dicta sufficiant quae variis aequitatis justitiae fictionibus dealbatae intus autem plenae Versutiae Provisores suos pessime prodiderunt which some of our late swaying republican Legislators have already found true by sad experience Fourthly our Nobles are persons of greater Estates Families Fortunes than others contribute most to all publike Taxes charges and have more to keep and lose than other ordinary Commoners and therefore in respect of themselves their families kinred tenants reretainers allies have greater interest in the Common-wealth and State affairs than they We see by Common experience in all kingdoms Nations and our own Realm that mens great estates innoble and inable them to bear publike Titles Places of Honour Dignity Trust Power as to be Lords Knights Esq Privy Counsellors Justices Sherifs Mayors Aldermen and the like which persons of mean fortunes unable to support these Dignities Offices places of trust and expence likewise are uncapable or unable to bear or manage Wherefore our Ancestors thought it meet just equal that they should have this privilege among others above ordinary Commoners to be present in all our Parliaments by Patent and Tenure only and that of right ex debito justitiae not by election as Knights Citizens and Burgesses are being persons of meaner estate quality and present in Parliament only in the right of others who elect them not in their own rights as the Lords are whose estates antiently were and still are far more worth yea their publike payment greater than many whole Burroughs put together and their families retainers followers far more in number And so their engagements to maintain the Laws Liberties properties of the Subject farr greater than inferiour mens Upon which ground all Barons and Peers of the Realm in cases of debt and executions are free from arrests of their bodres because by reason of their estates and Dignities the Law intends they have lands and assets to satisfie all their debts Fifthly It is one principal property of Members of Parliament to be constant stout inflexible and not to be bowed or turned from the right the publike good or liberties by fear favour promises rewards Now Peers of noble birth education and more generous heroick spirits than the vulgar sort of men are not so apt to be over-awed with regal threats terrified with menaces tempted with honours preferments wealth which they already injoy in a higher proportion than others nor seduced with rewards and privat ends from the common good and interest wherein their honour wealth safety are imbarqued as ordinary Commoners and men of meaner rank and fortunes are which experience of former ages and this present manifests Therefore it was thought just and reasonable by our Ancestors that the Nobles in this regard should sit in all our Parliaments in their own rights without the peoples election and to leave the people to