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A56138	A briefe memento to the present un-parliamentary junto touching their present intentions and proceedings, to depose & execute Charles Steward, their lawfull King. By William Prynne Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons, and prisoner under the Armies tyranny; who, it seemes, have levyed war against the Houses of Parliament, their quandam-masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine captives, during their lawfull pleasures.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3909A; ESTC R203360	14,504	18

it being against Magna Charta as the * Barons declared in Parl. Anno Dom. 1257. in the reigne of K. H. the 3d. for a few Members to sit when the rest are absent 6thly Consider that though many of the Kings of Judah and Israel were extraordinary sinfull and Idolators bloody and tyrannicall great oppressors of their people yea shedders of Priests of Prophets and other good mens innocent blood not onely in the wars but in pe●…ce yet there is not one president in the Old Testament of any one King ever juditially impeached arraigned deposed or put to death by the Congregation Sanhedrin or Parliaments of Judah or Israel That those who slew any of them in a tumultuous or treacherous manner were for the most part slaine themselves either in a tumult or * else put to death by their Children who succeded to the Crow●…e or people of the Land and that the Israelites after their revolt from Rehoboam had never any one good King or good day almost among them but were over-run with Idolatry prophanenesse tyranny iuvaded by enemies involved in perpetuall warres Civill or Forraigne and at last all destroyed and carried away Captives into Babylon at the Books of Kings and Chronicles will informe you That the rule in the old Testament is not to take any wicked Kings from their Thrones and behead them but * Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse And the Rule in the New Testament To be subject to Kings and the Higher Powers and to submit unto●… them even for conscience and the Lords sake and to make Prayers Supplications and Intercessions for them that under them we may lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour not to depose or shed their blood for which there is no precept And is not this plaine way of God the safest for you and the Army to follow yea the onely short cut to Peace and settlement Ruminate upon it and then be wise both for your soules good and the Kingdomes too 7thly Consider that you now meet and sit under the armed force and violence of a mutinous Army who have leavied Warre against the Houses to dissolve them imprisoned many of your Members forbly secluded more and driven away almost all from the Houses That till the removall of this horrid force and re-assembling of all your scattered Members with freedom and safety in the Houses all you Vote Act Order or Ordaine by the Armies own Doctrine in their Remonstrance of Aug. 18. and the Declaration and Ordinance of both Houses made at the Armies instance Aug. 20. 1647. is null and void even at and from the time it was voted acted ordered ordained a●…d so declared by your selves even by this unrepealed Ordinance and by former Parliaments to as 21. R. 2. c. 12. 1. H. 4. c. 3. 31 H. 6. c. 1. 39. H. ●… c. 1. And however you may take upon you the name and power of the Houses of Parliament and unvote vote order and ordaine what you please yet take it for an infallible truth that none of the * secluded and absent Members none of the Counties Cities and Borroughs for which they serve nor those for whom you serve and represent nor yet the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland who have as great or greater a share and interest in the person of the King as their lawfull Soveraigne and are engaged by Oaths Covenant and all the forecited premises to protect his person and Crown with their lives and estates against all violence and danger with his Queen Child●…en and Allies in forraigne pa●…ts of what Religion soever will never own you in your present condition and constitution to be a Parliament but rather a Conventicle or Junto ' nor any thing you vote order or ordain to be * valid And therefore whatever you vote order or ordaine concerning the Treaty the deposing or executing the King the dis-heriting or banishing the Prince dissolving the present Parliament setting up a new confused Representative or new forme of State Government only to please the Office●… and Army or rather those Jesuits and popish Priests who have over-reached and instigated them forcibly to prosecute these their treasonable designes and accomplish this their long expected desire and work you must do only as private men not as a Parliament And if so what lesser offence then High Treason against the King Parliament and Kingdom your present actings and proceedings will prove in the conclusion if you persevere and persist in them I leave to a free Parliament the learned Judges and all Lawyers now sitting and voting among you to consider and resolve Which the Officers and Councell of the Army considering would cast the Odium and danger of all upon you the better to exempt and acquit themselves if after reckonings should come as probably they may and certainly will in Gods due time if you and they repent not Give over and crave pardon ere it be over late 8Iy Remember That no Protestant Kingdome or State ever yet defiled their hands or stained the purity and Honour of their Reformed Religion with the deposition or blood of any of their Kings or Princes much lesse of a Protestant King or Prince of a temperate and sober life as the King is who never immediatly imbrued his own hands in any one mans blood in any tyrannical or bloody way before or since the wars for ought I can heare but only in a Military And for a reforming Protest Parl pretending the most of any to piety Religion to stain their profession or honour by the deposition or defile their hands with the blood of a Protest King or for an army of Saints to do it or they to please a Saint●… seeming Army and that against so many forementioned Oaths Protestations Declarations Remonstrances Solemne Leagues Covenants one after another to the contrary would be such an unparalleld scandall to the Protest Religion and all professors of it who have upbraided the Jesuits and Papists with this perfidious and treasonable practise of which they have bin deeply guilty and themselves innocent both in our own 3. Kingdoms the whole Christian world as would give the greatest occasion advantage and encouragement to the Jesuits Papists and all licentious persons to joyne their hands heads purses to suppresse and extirpate it and all the professions of it both at home and abroad that ever yet they had and make Parliaments for ever hereafter execrable and detestable both to Kings and People 9ly Consider that Scotland and Ireland are joyntenants at least wise Tenants in Common with us in the King as their Lawfull Soveraigne King as well as ours that the Scots delivered and left his per●…on to our Commissioners at New●…Wstle upon this expresse condition That no violence should be offered to his Person

A BRIEFE MEMENTO To the present VN-PARLIAMENTARY IUNTO Touching their present Intentions and Proceedings to Depose Execute CHARLES STEWARD their lawfull KING By William Prynne Esquire a Member of the House of Commons and Prisoner under the Armies Tyranny who it seemes have Levyed War against the Houses of Parliament their quandam-Mastersswhose Members they now forcibly take and detaine Captives during their lawfull Pleasur●… PROV. 24. 21 23. My Sonne Feare thou the Lord and the King and m●…ddle not with those who are given to Change For their calamitie shall Rise Suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both GAL. 1. 10. If I yet pleased men I shou'd not be the Servant of Christ LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1648. Die Veneris 20. August 1647. An Ordinance for declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both Houses since the force on both Houses Iuly 26. untill the sixth of this present August 1647. to be null and voyd VVHereas there was a Visible Horrid Insolent and Actuall sorce upon the Houses of Parliament on Munda●… the 26. of July last wherupon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were * forced to absent themselves from the Service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could not return to sit in safety before Friday the sixt of August It is therefore declared by the Lords Commons in Parliament Assembled That the Ordinance of Munday the said 26. of July for the repealing and making voyd of the Ordinance of the 23. of the said July for the setling of the 〈◊〉 of the Citie of London being gained by force and violence And all Votes Orders Ordinances passed in either or both Houses of Parliament since the said Ordinance of the 26. of July to the said sixt of August are null and void and were so at the making thereof and are hereby declared so to be the Parliament being under a force and not free Provided alwayes and be it Ordained That no person or persons shall be Impeached or punished for his or their actions by or upon or according to the aforesaid Votes Orders or Ordinances unlesse he or they shall be found guiltie of contriving acting or abetting the aforefaid visible and actuall force or being present at or knowing of the said force did afterwards act upon the Votes so forced or were guilty of entring into or promoting the late Ingagement for bringing the King to the Citie upon the ●…armes and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum A breif Memento to the present Vnparliamentary Iunto touching their present intentions and proceedings to Depose and Execute CHARLES STEWARD their law●…ull King of ENGLAND c. Gentlem●… IT is the observation of King Solomon Pro. 25. 11. That a word spoken in due season is like Apples of Gold and Pictures of Silver And seeing I and above two hundred Members more being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparale●…d violence upon our Persons and the House cannot speake my mind ●…reely to you in or as the House of Commons I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you only as private P●…rsons under a force consulting in the House without your Fellow-Members advice or concurrence about the speedy deposing and execu●…ing of KING CHARLES your lawfull Soveraigne to please the Generall Officers and Grand Councell of the Army●… who have unjustly usurped to them the supreame authority both of King and Parliament or rather the ●…suits and Popish Priests among or neare them by whose Councells they and you are now wholly swayed and whose trayterous designes you really execute in most of your late Votes and Actings I have onely a few words of consideration to impart unto you Dictum sapienti s●…t est First I shall minde you that by the Common Law of the Realme the Statute of 25. E. 3. and all other Act●… concerning Treason it is no lesse then High Treason fór any Man by over-Act to compasse or imagine the depositio●… or death of the King or of his eldest Son and Heire though it be never executed much more if actuasly accomplished That many have bin arraigned conde●…ned executed for such intended Treasons in former ages as the Earle of Arundell and others by Iudgement in Parliament 21. R. 2. Plac. Coronae N. 46. 7. and the Gunpowder Traytors 3. Iacobi to omit others whose Examples should be others admo●…ions the Heads and Quarters of some of them yet hanging on the Houses where now you meete and si●… 2ly That in the Oath of Allegiance which you have all taken immediatly before your admission into the House as Members You doe truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in your consciences before God and the World That our Soveraigne Lord King Charl●…s Is lawfull an●… rightfull 〈◊〉 of this 〈◊〉 and of all other His Majesties Dominions and Countries And hat the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any Other meanes Nor any other hath any power or ●…thority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to discharge any of His Subjects of H●…s Allegiance and obedience to His 〈◊〉 or to give leave to any of them to offer any violence to His 〈◊〉 Person State or Gover●…ent And that notwithstandiug any sentence or Declaration of Depri●…ation made by the Pope c. or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience you will beare true Allegiance to His Majestie his Heires and Successors and him and them w●…ll defend to the utmost of your power Against all attempts and 〈◊〉 whatsoever which shall be made against his or their P●…rsons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise And doe thereby further sweare that you doe from your hearts abhor detest and abjure as impious and Herericall that damnable doctrine and position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by tht Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And that you doe ●…lieve and in conscience are resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whats●…ever hath power to 〈◊〉 you of this D●…th or any part thereof and that all these things you did plainly and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse words and their plain and common sence without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And that you did make this Recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly truly upón the true faith of a Christian Now whether your present actings intentions against the King ●…e not diametrically repugnant to this so●…emn Oath which most of you have taken 〈◊〉 ●…hese warrs som of you since the Treaty when 〈◊〉 Serjea●…ts at 〈◊〉 c. let God and the World before whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 owne Consciences in which you then

c. according to the Covenant How then you can un-King or depose him as to them or take away his life upon pretext of Justice without their concurrent assents is worthy your saddest thoughts If you do it without asking or receiving their consents you engage both Kingdoms to make a just Warre against you to proclaime and to Crown the Prince of Wales their King though you should lay him aside as being next Heire apparent And no Ordinance you can now make will be any legall barre against him to the Crowne of Engl. where he will finde sen thousand persons for one who 〈◊〉 joyn with Scotland and Ireland to set him upon his Fathers Throne as King of England and avenge his blood upon all who shall be ayding or assisting to its spilling or his death owning And what then will become of you and your army when thus deserted by most opposed by all 3. Kingdoms and all the Kings Qu●…ens and Princes Allies united forces Where will you where will your St. Cromwell St. Ireton St. Pride St. Peters that fast and loose carnall prophet and Arch Jesuited Incendiary in these present tumults with other Grand Saints of the Army who now force you the Generall Army and whole Kingdom upon such dangerous Councels as these by the Jesuits principles and practises then appear to save either themselves or you or your posterities from exemplary justice without mercy or hopes of pardon Consider this then seriously if not as Christians yet as 〈◊〉 and selfe-ended men and then repent and be wise in time Tenthly Remember that you have neither Law nor direct president 〈◊〉 what you are going about * Edward the 2d and Richard the 2d were forced by Mortimer and Henry the 4th to resigne their Crownes in a formall manner the one to his Son the other to his conquering Suceessor neither of them to the Parliament then deposed by a subsequent sente●…ce in Parliament as unfit to Reigne without any formall Iegall tryall or answer and that not in an empty Parliament under a force as now when most Members were forced away and secluded but in a full Parliament wherein the Articles drawen up against them were never so much as rtad and their depositions made upon their owne voluntary concessions only to confirme their precedent Resignation Besides neither of these Kings though very bad and Paptists were ever condemned to loose their heads or lives but were to be well and Honourable treated And those Proceedings were onely by Popish Parliaments in time of ignorance who had no such Oathes Vowes Covenants protestations and other forementioned considerations to tye their hands as you and we all have now Yea this ve●…y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 solemnly and parcularly protested * that they did never suffer these Presidents to enter into their thoughts and they should never he their practise what ever they suffered from the King or his and that for the honour of our Religion and the most 〈◊〉 in it B●…t that which is very observable Roger Mortimer the principle actor in deposing King Edward the 2d and Crowning his Sonne Edward the 3d King in his stead as you must now Crowne the Prince Wales in his Fathers sleed if you depose the King else you pursue not this president as you should do in the Parliament of 1 Ed. 3. in which I finde no record concerning this deposall was in a full Parliament within four yeares after with some other of his Confederates * impeached condemned and executed as a Traytor and Enemy to the King and Kingdome by the Judgement of the Lords and that by King Edward the third his owne assent without any legall hearing or Tryall just as he h●…d there deposed this King without it for murthering King Edward in Berkley Castle after his deposall and Sir Thomas de Berkley in whose Castle he was slaine being indicted of Treason likewise for the same ●…urther before the Lords in Parliament pleaded not guilty thereunto and was tried at the Lords Bar in a legall manner by a Jury of twelve Knights there sworn and impanneled and by them acquitted upon full evidence and tryall when as Sir Simon de Bereford was impeached condemned and executed by a judgement given against him by the Lords alone without any triall for murthering this deposed King and Thomas de Gurney and William Ocle adjudged Traytort by them for the same offence without any evidence appearing to record These presidents then will be of very hard digestion and not paralleld to our times or the Kings case Who having upon the late Treaty granted u●… for the speedy settlement security of our bleeding Kingdomes Churches and Religion what ever we could in honor justice or reason desire and farre greater advantages and security then any of our ancestors or any Kingdome under heaven from the Creation to this present demanded or enjoyed from any of their Princes as I dare make goo●… to you and all the woeld and that which the Commons house after two whole daies one whole nights debate thought and voted a sufficient ground for them to proceed with the King to the speedy setling of the kingdoms peace how you or the A●…my after such large Concessions contrary to the votes of both houses when full and free can in h●…nour justice reason discr●…tion or conscience proceed to depose or decapitate the King as a violater of his faith a Traytor c. without making your selves more perjured treacherous greater Traytors in all kinds then he and incu●…ring the same judgment execution as you shall passe inflict upon him I leave to your safest consultations to advise off I have thus freely faithfully plainly discharged my minde conscience to you without feare or flattery for the Kings Kingdoms Parliaments protestant Religions I am certaine Ireland is almost inrecoverably lost your owne and the Armyes weale and safety too if God in mercy please to give you heads or hearts to make timely use of 〈◊〉 and not suffer your selves to be Jesuit-ridden any longer Cons●…er you have most of you Estates all of you Heads or lives and soules to save or loose both here and hereafter If this and all the precedent considerations will not prevaile with you to take you off from you●… present desperate Councells and proceedings for your owne the Kingdoms Churches Religions Irelands Parliaments your owne posterities and the Armyes safety too ride on triumphantly still in Ignatius Loyola his fiery Chariot like so many young Pha●…tons till you fall and perish It is sufficient for me however you digest this present friendly Memento to you that I can truly say liberavi animam meam whatever becomes of you or me Who doe here solemnly protest to all the world against these your proceedings as altogether null void Vnparliamentary illegall unchristian if not perfidious and Treasonable in these respects I shall close up all with the Golden sentence of God himselfe and the wiseft of men