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A91269	The second part of A seasonable legal and historical vindication, and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, lawes, government of all English freemen; their best inheritance and onely security against all arbitrary tyranny and Ægyptian taxes. Wherein the extraordinary zeal, courage, care, vigilancy, civill, military and Parliamentary consultations, contests, to preserve, establish, perpetuate them to posterity, against all tyrants, usurpers, enemies, invaders, both under the ancient pagan and Christian Britons, Romans, Saxons. The laws and Parliamentall great councils of the Britons, Saxons. With some generall presidents, concerning the limited powers and prerogatives of our British and first Saxon kings; ... are chronologically epitomized, ... By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4072; Thomason E820_11; ESTC R203292	115,608	151

dissolved late Parliament too proceeded not from the Principles of our reformed Protestant Religion as this Monsieur in his printed pamphlet would make his Reader the young King to whom he dedicates it and all the world believe but from the Popes and Jesuites forecited Treasonable Opinions seconded with their clandestine Sollicitations and Practices and that they with some French Cardinals Jesuites as well as Spanish English then present in England were the chief original Contrivers Promoters of them whoever were the immediate visible Instruments as I have elsewhere more fully demonstrated for the wiping off this scandal from our reformed Religion and the sincere Professors of it who both abominated and protested against it in print 3. That the Jesuites ever since the Establishment of their Military Order under Ignatius their Martial General have been the principal Firebrands Bellows Instruments of kindling fomenting raising continuing all the publick commotions wars seditions and bloody fewdes that have hapened in or between any Kings Kindoms States Princes Soveraigns or Subjects throughout the Christian world and more particularly of all the Civil commotions wars in France Germany Transylvania Bohemia Hungary Russia Poland England Scotland and Ireland to the effusion of whole Oceans of Christian blood which one poetically thus expresseth Quicquid in Orbe mali passim PECCANTE GRADIVO EST Quicquid turbarum tempora nostra vident Cuncta Sodalitio mentito nomine JESU Accepta Historiâ teste referre licet Ite modò vestrae celebrate Encaenia Sectae MILITIS INVENTUM LOIOLANA COHORS Yea it is well worthy observation that Jacobus Crucius a Jesuite Rector of the Jesuites Novices at Landsberge presumed to publish in his Explication of the Rules of the Jesuites Anno 1584. in these words The Father of our Society OUGHT TO BE A SOULDIER because as it is the part of a SOULDIER to rush upon the Enemy with all his Forces and not to desist till he become a Conquerour so it is our duty to run violently upon all who resist the Pope of Rome AND TO DESTROY AND ABOLISH THEM not onely with COUNCELS WRITINGS AND WORDS Sed invocato etiam brachio seculari IGNE ET FERRO TOLLERE ET ABOLERE sicut PONTIFEX ET NOSTRA VOTA contra Lutheranos suscepta VOLUNT ET MANDANT But likewise by calling in to our assistance the secular Arm of an Army to take away and destroy them with FIRE AND SWORD as the POPE AND OUR OATHES taken against the Protestants WILL AND COMMAND And may we not then safely conclude they have been the Original Contrivers Fomentors Continuers of all our late intestine and forraign wars by Land and Sea with our Christian Protestant Brethren and Allyes as sundry Parliamentary Declarations of both Houses aver and attest 4. That they have endeavoured attempted the convulsion concussion subversion not onely of the Empires Realms and ancient setled Governments and States of Germany Russia Bohemia Hungaria France Poland but likewise of England Scotland and Ireland and to new model them into other Forms of Government What mould of Government they intended to cast England into is thus long since described by William Watson a Secular Priest in his Quodlibets Anno 1502. p. 309 310 330 331. England is the main chance of Christendome at this present by seditions factions tampering and aspiring Heads the onely But Mark White the Jesuites aim at as well in intention as execution of their pretended expedition exploit and action I am of opinion that no man on earth can tell what Government it is they intend to establish ratifie and confirm when they come to their preconceited Monarchy no not any of their Plot-casters No question it is but their Government sall be as uncertain as their New-conceited Monarchy their Monarchy as mutable as their Reign and their Reign as variable as the winde or Proteus in his Complements But no question is to be made of it but that the Government they do directly intend at this present is A MOST ABSOLUTE SOVERAIGNTY DOMINION AND STATE CLEARLY EXEMPTED from any Subordination TO ANY LAW or Legifer divine or humane and therefore it is rightly called DESPOTICON in the highest degree of exemplary immunity IMPERIALITY AND ABSOLUTE REIGN RULE AND AUTHORITY as convaining in it three sorts of Government Scil. Monarchical Aristocratical Democratical in matters of Counsel and managing of Commonwealths causes not in point OF REGALITY HONOUR AND INHERITANCE For there shall be neither Title nor Name nor Honour given taken or done to any Prince Duke Marquess Earl Viscount Lord Baron or the like all the Jesuitical Governours being Puritan-like Seniors Elders Provincials c. neither shall there be any succession by Birth or Blood TO ANY HONOUR OFFICE OR MAGISTRACY from the Monarch Pater General to the Minor Pater Minister but ALL SHALL GO BY ELECTION OR CHOICE Whether our late and present variable floating New-Moulded Governments have not been cast by this long since predicted Jesuitical Mould let wise men with all our late and present Governours now sadly consider and determine 5. That as the whole House of Commons in their Remonstrance of 15 December 1641. charge the Jesuites and late Jesuited Court-Counsellors with a Malignant and pernicious designe of SUBVERTING THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWES and Principles of Government upon which the Religion and Justice of the Kingdom are firmly established So William Watson a Secular Priest chargeth Father Parsons the English Jesuite and his Jesuited Companions in their Memorial for Reformation of England when it should be reduced under the power of the Jesuites as Parsons was confident it would be though he should not live to see it written at Sevil in Spain Anno Dom. 1590. that they intended to have Magna Charta with our Common Fundamental Laws and Liberties abrogated and suppressed thus expressed by William Watson in his Quodlibets p. 92 94 95. Father Parsons and the Jesuites in their deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament begun at Styx in Phlegeton have compiled their Acts in a compleat Volume intituled THE HIGH COURT OF REFORMATION FOR ENGLAND And to give you a taste of their intent by that base Court OF A TRIBE OF TRAYTORS sawcily like to Cade Jack Straw and Tom Tiler USURPING THE AUTHORITY OF BOTH STATES ECCLESIASTICAL AND TEMPORAL IN ALL THEIR REBELLIOUS ENTERPRISES these were principal points discussed set down and so decreed by them c. He first mentions three of them relating to Church-men Scholars and Church and Colledge-Lands which were to be put into Feoffees hands and they all to be reduced into arbitrary Pensions c. And then proceeds thus to the fourth The Fouth Statute was there made concerning THE COMMON LAWS OF THIS LAND and that consisted of this one principal point That ALL THE GREAT CHARTERS OF ENGLAND MUST BE BURNT the maner of holding Lands in Fee-simple Fee-tail Kings Service Soccage or Villanage brought into villany scoggery and popularity and in few THE

Antwerp 1640. In these Colledges and Seminaries of theirs they had then as they print 15591 Fellows of their society of Jesus besides the Novices Scholars and Lay-brethren of their Order amounting to neer ten times that number So infinitely did this evil Weed grow and spread it self within one hundred years after its first planting What the chief imployments of Ignatius and his numerous swarms of Disciples are in the World his own Society at the time of his Canonization for a Romish Saint sufficiently discovered in their painted Pageants then shewed to the people wherein they pourtraied this new Saint holding the whole world in his hand and fire streaming out forth of his heart rather to set the whole World on fire by Combustions Wars Treasons Powder-plots Schismes new State and old Church-Heresies then to enlighten it with this Motto VENI IGNEM MITTERE I came to send fire into the world which the University of Cracow in Poland objected amongst other Articles against them Anno 1622. Their number being so infinite and the Pope and Spaniard too having long since by Campanella's advice erected many Colledges in Rome Italy Spain the Netherlands and elsewhere for English Scotish Irish Jesuites as well as for such secular Priests Friers Nuns of purpose to promote their designs against the Protestant Princes Realms Churches Parliaments of England Scotland Ireland and to reduce them under their long prosecuted UNIVERSAL MONARCHY over them by Fraud Policy Treason intestine Divisions and Wars being unable to effect it by their own Power no doubt of late yeers many hundreds if not thousands of this Society have crept into England Scotland and Ireland lurking under several Disguises yea an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel in or neer Westminster some few yeers since under Conne the Popes Nuntio of purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars thereby to endanger shake subvert these Realms and destroy the late King as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece published by the Commons special Order An. 1643. who occasioned excited fomented the first and second intended but happily prevented wars between England and Scotland and after that the unhappy Differences Wars between the King Parliament and our three Protestant Kingdoms to bring them to utter desolation and extirpate our reformed Religion The Kings Forces in which many of them were Souldiers after some yeers Wars being defeated thereupon their Father Ignatius being a SOULDIER and they his Military sons not a few of them secretly insinuated themselves as Souldiers into the Parliaments Army and Forces as they had formerly done into the Kings where they so cunningly acted their parts as extraordinary illuminated gifted brethren and grand States-men that they soon leavened many of the Officers Troopers and common Souldiers with their dangerous Jesuitical State-Politicks and Practises put them upon sundry strange designes to new-mould the old Monarchical Government Parliaments Church Ministers Laws of England erecting a New General Councel of Army-Officers and Agitators for that purpose acting more like a Parliament then Souldidiers And at last instigated the Army by open force against their Commissions Duties Oaths Protestations and Solemne League and Covenant to Impeach Imprison Seclude first eleven Commoners then some six or seven Lords after that to seclude seclude the Majority of the Commons House suppress the whole House of Lords destroy the King Parliament Government Priviledges Liberties of the Kingdom and Nation for whose defence they were first raised which by no other adverse power they could effect This produced new bloody divisions animosities wars in and between our three Protestant Realms and Nations and after with our Protestant Allies of the Netherlands with sundry heavy monthly Taxes Excises Oppressions Sales of the Churches Crownes and of many Nobles and Gentlemens Lands Estates to their undoing our whole Nations impoverishing and discontent an infinite profuse expence of Treasure of Protestant blood both by Land Sea decay of Trade with other sad effects in all our three Kingdoms yea sundry successive New changes of our publique Government made by the Army-Officers who are still ringing the changes according to Campanella's and Parsons Platforms So that if fire may be certainly discerned by the smoke or the tree commonly known by its fruit as the Truth it self resolves Mat●h 12. 33. we may truly cry out to all our Rulers as the Jews did once to the Rulers of Thessa●onica in another case Act. 17. 6. THOSE Jesuites WHO HAVE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN ARE COME HITHER ALSO and have turned our Kingdoms Kings Peers Monarchy Parliaments Government Laws Liberties yea and our Church and Religion too in a great measure UPSIDE DOWNE even by those very Persons who were purposely raised commissioned waged engaged by Protestations Covenants Vows Oathes Laws Allegiance and Duty to protect them from these Jesuitical Innovations and subversions Those who will take the pains to peruse all or any of these several printed Books most of them very well worth their reading written against the Jesuites and their Practises as well by Papists as Protestants as namely Fides Jesu Jesuitarum printed 1573. Doctrinae Jesuiticae praecipua capita Delph 1589. Aphorismi Doctrinae Jesuiticae 1608. Cambitonius De Studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus Anno 1609. Jacobus Thuanus Passages of the Jesuites Hist l. 69 79 83 94 95 96 108 110 114 116 119 121 124 126 129 131 132 134 136 137 138. Emanuel Meteranus his Passages of them Belgicae Hist l. 9 17 18 19 21 23 26 to 34. Willielmus Baudartius Continuation Meterani l. 37 38 39 40. Donatus Wesagus Fides Jesu Jesuitarum 1610. Characteres Jesuiticae in several Tomes Elias Husenmullerus Historia Jesuitici Ordinis Anno 1605. Speculum sive Theoria Doctrinae Jesuiticae necnon Praxis Jesuitaram 1608. Pasquier his Jesuite displayed Petrus de Wangen Physiognomia Jesuitica 1610. Christopherus Pelargus his Novus Jesuitismus Franciscus de Verone his Jesuitismus Sicarius 1611. Narratio de proditione Iesuitarum in Magnae Brit. Regem 1607. Consilium de Jesuitis Regno Poloniae ejiciendis The Acts of the States of Rhetia Anno 1561 and 1612. for banishing the Jesuites wholly out of their Territories NE STATUS POLITICUS TURBARETUR c. mentioned by Fortunatus Sprecherus Palladis Rheticae l. 6. p. 251 273. Melchior Valcius his Furiae Gretzero c. remissae 1611. Censura Jesuitarum Articuli Jesuitarum cum commonefactione illis opposita Anti-Jesuites au Roy par 1611. Variae Doctorum Theologorum Theses adversus quaedam Jesuitica Dogmata The Remonstrance of the Parliament of Paris to Henry the Great against the Re-establishment of the Jesuites And their Censure of Mariana his Book to be publickly burnt printed in French 1610. recited in the General History of France in Lewis 13. his life and Peter Matthew l. 6. par 3. Historia Franciae Variae Facultatis Theologiae Curiae Parisiensis quam aliorum opuscula decreta

detection and prevention of Jesuites and their treasonable forementioned practises against our Church Kingdomes Princes Religion Parliaments and Government by the wisdom and zeal of our best affected vigilant Protestant Parliaments I can neither hear nor read of any effectual means endeavoured or prescribed by any in power for the discovery of these Romish ●anizaries or banishing feretting keeping them out of England where they have wrought so much mischief of late yeers and whose utter ruine they attempt nor any encouragement at all given to the discoverers of their Plots and Persons but many affronts and discouragements put upon them and particularly on my self mewed up Close-Prisoner under strictest Guards in remotest Castles neer three yeers space whiles they all walked abroad at large of purpose to hinder me from any discoveries of their practises by my pen whiles they printed and vended publickly here in England above 30000 Popish books of several kindes during my imprisonment without the least restraint to propagate the Jesuites Plots and antichristian Romish Religion amongst us as you may read at large in the Stationers Beacon fired which seasonable book and Discovery of these Romish Emissaries books and plots some Officers of the Army in their Beacon quenched publickly traduced in print as a New Powder-treason of the Presbyterian Party to blow up the Army and that pretended Parliament of their own erection which themselves soon after blew up and dissolved in good earnest to carry on their designes against our Laws But most certain it is there hath been of late yeers not onely a General councel of Officers of the Army sitting many months together in counsel to alter and new model all our ancient Laws and Statutes in pursuance of Parson's design but likewise two Conventicles of their own selection and election sitting of late in the Parliament-House at Westminster assuming to themselves the Name and far more then the Power of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England together with the transcendent ambitious Title of The Supream Authority of the Nation in derogation of the Army-Officers Supremacy who sufficiently chastised them this strange Usurpation who have made it their chief business not onely to New-model our ancient Fundamental Government Parliaments Ministers Universities much according to Parsons and his Fellow-Jesuites forementioned Plat-formes and Thomas Campanella his Instructions to the King of Spain De Monarchia Hisp c. 25. but likewise to New-mould subvert eradicate the whole body of our Laws and with them the great Charter of our Liberties it self And in their last cashiered unelected Convention as some of their Companions now in greatest Power assure us in their True State of the case of the Commonwealth of England c. London 1654. p. 15 16 17 18. there was a strong prevailing Party whom nothing would satisfie but A TOTAL ERADICATION of the whole body of the good old Laws of England the Guardians of our lives and Fortunes to the utter subversion of civil Right and Propriety who likewise took upon them by vertue of a supposed right of Saintship in themselves to lay the foundation of a New Platform which was to go under the Name of A FIFTH MONARCHY never to have an end but TO WAR WITH ALL OTHER POWERS AND BREAK THEM TO PIECES baptizing all their proselytes into this Principle and Perswasion that the Powers formerly in being were branches of the Fourth Monarchy of England Scotland and Ireland which MUST BE ROOTED UP AND DESTROYED And what other Fifth Monarchy this could be but that projected universal Monarchy of the Jesuites which should bring the whole Monarchy of Great Britain and Ireland together with France Spain and all other Princes States in Christendom under the Jesuites subjection and break all other Powers in peices mentioned by Watson in his Quodlibets p. 306 to 333. or else that Elective New Monarchy of Great Britain and Ireland projected by Campanella and Cardinal Richeleiu which some Grandees now endeavour by their Instrument to erect and perpetuate for èver without Alteration in themselves and their Successors though they thus expresly brand it in others let themselves and wise men resolve it being apparent by the practises and proceedings of all the Propugners of this new Project that this Fifth Monarchy they intend to erect is neither the spiritual Kingdom of Jesus Christ in their own hearts mortifying their ambition covetousness pride self-seeking unrighteousness violence rapines and other worldly lusts nor the personal reign of Christ himself alone in and over our three Kingdoms and all other Realms and Nations for ever which they endeavour to evince from Dan. 2. 44 45. c. 7. 14 27. Micah 4. 1 2 7. Luke 1. 32 33. but a meer supream arbitrary temporal Authority without Bounds or Limits enchroached by and erected in themselves and their confederates without any colour of Right or Title by the Laws of God or the Realm and no wayes intended but refuted by all these sacred Scriptures and others which explain them This design of the Jesuites to alter and subvert the whole body of our Laws was so far promoted by the Jesuitical and Anabaptistical Party in this last Assembly elected onely by the Army-Officers that on August 20. 1643. as our News-books print they Ordered there should be a Committee selected to consider of A NEW BODY OF THE LAW for the Government of this Commonwealth who were to new-mould THE WHOLE BODY OF THE LAW according to Parsons his mould And hereupon our cheating Astrologers especially Lilly Culpeper the Jesuites grand Factors to cry down our Law Tythes and Ministers from the meer visible earthly Conjunctions Motions Influences of these New wandring excentrick Planets at Westminster onely not of any Coelestial Stars as they would make Country-Clowns believe took upon them in their Monthly Prognostications for this yeer 1654. almost in every Month to predict the pulling down of the Laws of the Nation and of Lawyers to the ground the calling of the great Charter it self into question with other Liberties as not suiting with English mens brains at this time The plucking up the Crabtree of the Law BY THE ROOTS to hinder the future growing of it there being no reason we should now be governed by the Norman Laws since the Norman Race is taken away by the same instrument the Sword that brought it in and the like But these Predicters of our Laws and Lawyers downfals could neither foresee nor predict the suddain downfal of these lawless earthly Westminster-planets from the Firmament of their new-created Power who should effect it by their influences Wherefore though I look upon these and all other their Astrological Predictions as meer Figments Cheats and Impostures in relation to the Coelestial Planets as are their twelve Signes and Houses of the Heavens whereon all or most of their artless Art and Predictions are grounded Yet I cannot but take notice of them as clear Discoverie of a strange

Jesuitical and Anabaptistical Combination of a predominant party amongst us to carry on this ancient Plot of the Jesuites related by Watson against the great Charter of our Liberties the whole body of our Laws And truely when I seriously consider the late great Revolutions Changes both of our Government Parliaments Laws and the manifold extravagant publick Innovations changes Proceedings originally contrived by the Jesuites but visibly acted avowed by Anabaptists Independents and some Pseudo-Presbyterians in the Army and elsewhere formerly reputed Puritans it puts me in minde of 3 memorable Prophetical Passages of William Watson in his Quodlibets printed 52 yeers since Anno 1602. which I have frequently thought on of late yeers as now experimentally accomplished I shall beseech our late and present Grandees and New State-Mint-Masters seriously to consider them which I shall here relate in his very printed words 1. I make no question of it if the Jesuites prevail in England THEY INTEND AND WILL TURN ALL THINGS TOPSY-TURVIE UPSIDE DOWN Cinq shall up Size shall under In Parsons High Counsel of Reformation ALL THE WHOLE STATE MUST BE CHANGED and the Lands and Seignories of CLERGY AND NOBILITY Universities Colledges and what not must be ALTERED ABRIDGED AND TAKEN AWAY And is not all this visibly effected already for the most part and the rest projected and ne'er accomplished 2. I verily think that ALL THE PURITANS WILL JOYNE WHOLLY WITH THE JESUITES AT LENGTH how far off soever they seem to be and are yet in external profession of Religion there being at least half an hundred Principles and odd Tricks concerning GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY TYRANNY POPULARITY CONSPIRACY c. which THEY JUMPE AS JUST TOGETHER IN AS IF BOTH WERE MADE OF ONE MOULD And is not this really verified of by sundry Puritan Anabaptists Independents some temporizing Presbyterians and by many Army-Officers Souldiers in late or present Power if they will but compare their last six yeers actions with the Jesuites O let them consider it seriously in the fear of God and lament it with the greatest grief of heart 3. The Jesuites without all question are more dangerous pernicicus and noysome to the Commonwealth of England and Scotland then the Puritans as having more singular fine wits amongst them and many learned men on their side whereas the Puritans have none but Grossum Caputs they many Gentiles Nobles and some Princes to side with them the Puritans but few of the first rare to have any of the second and none at all unless it be one of the last on their side And so by consequent IF MATTERS COME TO HEARING HAMMERING AND HANDLING BETWIXT THE JESUITES AND PURITANS THE LATER ARE SURE TO BE RIDDEN LIKE FOOLS AND COME TO WRACK And whether they have not been ridden outwitted wracked by the Jesuites plots wits wiles instruments both in their late Councels Innovations of Government Forcible dissolutions subversions of Parliaments Laws Liberties Anomalous Proceedings Designs let our late dis-housed dis-mounted Puritan Grandees and Statizers of all sorts determine at their leisure and let those in present Power take heed they be not ridden by them too like fools as well as their Predecessors yea wracked by them at the last when they have served those turns for which they set them up on horse-back for to ride to death our Kings Parliaments Kingdomes and utterly consume devour them with our Ministers Tythes Glebes Universitie Colledge Lands by Monthly endless Taxes Excises and a perpetual Law Tythe-oppugning Army It is worthy observation that Thomas Campanella prescribed the sowing and continual nourishing of Divisions Dissentions Discords Sects and Schismes among us both in State and Church by the Machavilian Plots and Policies he suggests punctually prosecuted among us of late yeers as the principal means to weaken ruine both our Nation and Religion and bring us under the Spanish and Popish yokes at last witness his JAM VERO AD ENERVANDOS ANGLOS NIHIL TAM CONDUCIT ●UAM DISSENTIO ET DISCORDIA INTER ILLOS EXCITATA PERPETUOQUE NUTRITA Quod cito meliores occasiones suppeditabit and that principally by instigating the Nobles and chief Men of the Parliament of England UT ANGLIAM IN FORMAM REIPUBLICAE REDUCANT AD IMITATIONEM HOLLANDORUM which our Reipublicans lately did by the power of the Army Officers or by sowing the seeds of an inexplicable war between England and Scotland BY MAKING IT AN ELECTIVE KINGDOM as some now endeavour under another Notion or by setting up OTHER KINGS of another Race or by dividing us into many Kingdoms or Reipublicks distinct one from another and by sowing the seeds of Schismes and making alterations and innovations in all Arts Sciences and our Religion The old Plots of Campanella Parsons and late designs of Cardinal Richelieu and the Pope Spaniard Jesuites to undo subvert our Churches Kings Kingdoms and Religion as the marginal Authors irrefragably evidence all visibly set on foot yea openly pursued and in a great measure accomplished by some late nay present Grandees and Army-Officers who cry up themselves for our greatest Patrons Preservers Deliverers and Anti-Jesuites when they have rather been but the Jesuites Popes Spaniards and other Forraign enemies instruments and factors in all the late changes new-models of our Government Parliaments pretended reformations of our laws and Religion through inadvertency circumvention or self-ended respects as many wise and godly men justly fear Certainly whoever shall seriously ponder the premises with these passages in William Watsons Quodlibets concerning the Jesuites 1. That some of the Jesuites society have insinuated themselves into all the Princes Courts of Christendom where some of their Intelligencers reside and set up a secret counsel of purpose to receive and give intelligence to their General at Rome of the secrets of their Soveraignes and of all occurrents in those parts of the world which they dispatch to and fro by such cyphers which are to themselves best but commonly onely to themselves known SO THAT NOTHING IS DONE IN ENGLAND BUT IT IS KNOWN AT ROME WITHIN A MONTH AFTER AT LEAST AND REPLY MADE BACK AS OCCASION IS OFFERED to the consequent overthrow of their own natural Country of England and their native Prince and Realms by their unnatural Treasons against them that so the Jesuites might be those long gownes which should reign and govern the Island of Great Brittain 2. That the Jesuites hope and endeavour to have England Scotland and Ireland under them to make these Northern Islands a JAPONIAN ISLAND OF JESUITES and one JESUITICAL MONARCHY and to infeoffe themselves by hook or by crook IN THE WHOLE IMPERIAL DOMIMIONS OF GRAT BRITAIN with the remainder over TO THEIR CORPORATION or puni-Fathers succeeding them as heirs specially in their society by a state of perpetuity PUTTING ALL THE WHOLE BLOOD ROYAL OE ENGLAND TO THE FORMIDON AS BUT HEIRS GENERAL IN ONE PREDICAMENT together 3. That the Jesuites have Magistracy Kings Magistrates Ministers Priesthood

of late here objected against the Kings Jesuiticall and Popish ill Counsellors And whosoever will peruse the severall Speeches and Declarations made upon the breaking up of former Parliaments since the beginning of his Majesties Raign will find the pretences of those unjust and illegall Dissolutions to be grounded upon the exceptions against some particular Members under the name of A few factious and seditious persons so that the aspersing and wounding of the Parliament through the sides of a few Members is no new invention And hath not this been the very Army officers practice since the first year of their reigne till now to wound the last real parliament yea their own lare dissolved Mock parliaments since though the sides of a few corrupt Members or a corrupt Maiority in the House as all their printed Declarations upon their dissolutions attest And is this then no crime or no Jesuiticall practise in them though such in the late King and his ill Counsellors And for the satisfaction of all indifferent men that this war is raised against the parliament wee shall refer them to former Declarations issued out in his Maiesties name being so many invectives and groundless accusations not against particular Members only but against the Vote and proceedings of both Houses And are not many of the Armies Declarations in 1647. and 16●● yea the late pamphlet of some present Grandees 〈◊〉 A True State of the Case of the Commonwealth of England printed 1654. Such let them now then see whence they took their pattern even from the beheaded Kings Iesuited evill Counsellors whose steps they exactly trace in this But if the truth were as that Declaration seems to imply That this Army is raised to force some particular Members of this parliament to be delivered up yet upon that ground would it follow that the same is levied against the Parliament For it cannot be denyed by any ingenious man but that the Parliament by their inherent rights and priviledges hath the power to judge and punish their own Members yet the Army officers took upon them to secure seclude them without charge and their future new minded parliament Members though only elected by the people must be trye à iudged by the new Whitehall Members ere they can be admitted to sit Article 21. of the New Government And we have often declared to his his Majestie and the world That we are alwaies ready to receive any evidence or accusations against any of them and to judge and punish them according to their demerits yet hitherto no evidence produced no Accuser appearing And yet notwithstanding to raise an Army to compel the parliament to expose those Members to the fury of those wicked Counsellors that thirst for nothing more then the ruin of them and the Commonwealth What can be more evident then that the same is levied against the Parliament For did they prevaile in this then by the same reason pray observe it They might demand twenty more and never rest satisfied until their malice and Tyrany did devour all those Members they found cross and opposite to their lewd and wicked designs And was not this the practice of the Army-officers who levied a reall actuall Warre against the parliament They first impeached secluded XI Members of the Commons house and some Lords soon after An 1647. then they secured imprisoned my self with 44. Members more and secluded the greatest part of the Commons House leaving not above 50. or 60. at first sitting who confederated with them in December 1648. within two moneths after this they beheaded the King then suppressed the whole Lords House to carry on their designs since acted At last they dissolved their own Mock Parliaments when they crossed their ambitious aspires What they did in September last since this was first penned to those now sitting is fresh in memory Touching the priviledges of Parliament which the contrivers of that Declaration in his Majesties name and the Contrivers of sundry Declarations since in the armies name who imitated them herein seem to be so tender of and to profess all conformity unto and deny this army to be raised in any degree to violate we shall appeale to the judgment of any indifferent man how little truth is contained in this their assertion or in the Army Officers printed papers to the same effect The Parliament is to be considered in three severall respects First as a Council to advise Secondly As a Court to judg 3. As it is the body representative of the whole kingdome to make repeal or alter lawes whether the Paarliament hath enjoyed its priviledges in any of these respects under the Army Officers and powers as wel as late King let any that hath eyes open judg For the first Wee dare appeal even to the Consciences of the Contrivers themselves and to the consciences of the Army-Officers Souldiers and Whitehall men themselves whether matters of the highest importance witness all the publike proceedings against the late Parliament King Peers Government the warrs with Scotland Holland their new Magna Charta repealing the old entituled The Government of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland wherein they take upon upon them such an Omnipotent Soveraign power as To pass a decree upon the waveting humors of the people and to say to this nation yea to Scotland and Ireland too As the almighty himself said once to the unruly Sea Here shall be thy bounds hitherto shalt thou come and no further as ome most arrogantly if not blasphemously publish in print to all the world in their True State of the Case of the Common-wealth p. 34. Their making of new binding Laws and Ordinances repealing old Laws and Statutes in and by pretext of this Instrument out of Parliament as their manifold VVhit-hal Folio new Edicts amounting to near 700 pages attest have not been agitated and determined in and by the Armie-Officers General-Councel and other unparliamentary Juncto's not onely without but even contrary to their Advice and Votes too and whether Private unknown Councels in the Army VVhite-hall and elswhere have not been hearkned unto approved and followed when the Faithfull and wholsome advice of the great Counsel hath been scorned and neglected by the Army Officers and their Confederates And 〈◊〉 can deny but it is one of the Principle ends why a 〈◊〉 called To Consult the great Affairs of the Church and State And what miserable effects and 〈…〉 neglect of the great Councell and preferring of unknown and private Councels before it hath proved let the present Distractions of this Kingdome bear witnesse with all the bloody unchristian VVars Taxes Oppressions Distractions since the Armies force upon the King Members Houses Anno 1647. and 1648. to this present time Concerning the Second it sufficiently appears by the making the Kings Court by the Force and Power of the Kings Army the Sanctuary and re●uge of All sorts of Delinquents against the Parliament and Kingdome and protecting

WAS THE LIKE NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE TO THIS PRESENT And may we not then justly suspect fear conclude that all our late dismal changes and turning all things upside down in our Church State Kingdoms Parliaments were originally promoted contrived by the Jesuites and effected by the seduced Officers and Souldiers as their del●ded instruments 2. That this Jesuite Parsons in his Books of the Reformation of all the States of England as he prescribed Reformations to the Prince Court Counsellors Noblemen Bishops Prelates Pastors Universities Lawyers Laws in which he will have STRANGE METAMORPHOSES so likewise THE COURT OF PARLIAMENT HE WILL HAVE BROUGHT TO BETTER FORM as W. W. a secnlar Priest in A Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay-Gentleman Printed at Rhemes Anno 1601. Watson in his Quodlibets p. 92. to 96. 320. to 334. William Clark a secular Priest in his Answer to Father Parsons Libel p. 75. c. in direct terms attest And may we not then justly suspect that the late New-models and Reformation of our Kingdoms Parliaments Government Laws c. proceeded primarily from the Jesuites Projections and Plots against them if the Statutes of 23 Eliz. c. 1. 27 Eliz. c. 2. 35 Eliz. c. 2. 1 Jac. 1 2 4 5 7. 7 Jac. c. 6. and the manifold Declarations of both Houses of Parliament Exact Collection p. 491 462 497 498 616 631 666 698 813 to 828. may be judges 3. That the Jesuites drift directly is immediately by means of CONQUEST intended for England to bring it and all Christendom into an uproar FOR COMMON SOULDIERS TO EXAMINE THEIR SOVERAIGNS WHAT TITLE THEY HOLD BY that thereupon themselves by craft money and multitudes gathered together through their Policy may bring England and then Spain and all the rest under their subjection and Monarchy And that principally by this Jesuitical Position That every Precopie or Tartarian multitude getting once the stile and title of a PUBLICK STATE or HELVETIAN COMMONWEALTH may alter change and innovate the course of inheritances and succession TO CROWNS AND KINGDOMS and also to every private Persons heritage holden in Fee-simple as William Watson assures us in these very terms And whether the Jesuites have nor instructed our Army-Officers and Common Souldiers upon this pretext and for this very end to examine their Soveraigns yea our Parliaments Titles Priviledges and Powers too of late and dispose of them at their pleasure let themselves the whole Nation with all in present power in the fear of God most seriously consider without passion or affection before it be over-late 4. That the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance specially made prescribed by our most wise zealous Protestant Parliaments to prevent the Treasonable Plots and designs of Popes Jesuites and Papists against our Protestant Princes Realms Parliaments Religion though confirmed by many Statutes and containing in them onely the Declaration of such a Duty as every true and well-affected Subject not onely by the bond of Allegiance but also by the COMMANDMENT OF GOD ought to bear to the King his Heirs and Successors and none but persons infected with Popish Superstition formerly oppugned as the Prologue of the Statute of 7 Jacobi c. 6. positively resolves have by late State-innovators not onely been discontinued suspended but declaimed against and repealed as much as in them lay as UNLAWFUL OATHS The New Oath for abjuration of Popery with all Bills against Jesuites and Papists presented to the late King by both Houses the last Parliament and by him consented to in the Isle of Wight wholly laid aside and quite buried in oblivion The Solemn Protestation League and Covenant prescribed by the last Parliament and taken by all the well-affected in all the three Kingdoms to prevent the dangerous plots of Papists and Jesuites and our common enemies to destroy our Religion Churches Realms Government Parliaments Laws Liberties quite antiquated decried detested and a New Engagement forcibly imposed under highest penalties and disabilities upon all men diametrically contrary to these Oaths Protestations and Covenants which have been by a new kinde of Papal Power publickly dispenced with and the people absolved from them to become sworn Homagers to other new self-created Lords and Masters And are not all these to considerate zealous Protestants strong Arguments of the Jesuites Predominancy in our late counsels changes of Government 5. That the Notion of THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT in my weak apprehension deriving its original from the Jesuites-late invented PRESENT CHURCH the onely Supream Power and Judge of Controversies which all men must submit unto without dispute by their determination as they must do to that present Republican Government and new Optimacity and Popularity lately set up instead of our Monarchy Which two forms of Government as they were the inventions of Factious Graecians at first which put all their Cities into Combustions fury frenzy and civil wars against each other to their utter overthrow in conclusion witness these verses of Heniochus an ancient Greek Comaedian Tum geminae ad illas accesserunt Mulieres RITAS QUAE CUNCTA CONTURBARUNT OPTIMA Est nomen alieri alteri POPULARITAS RUNT Quarum incitatu PRIDEM EXTERNATAE FUso Parsons Campanella Cardinal Rech●li●u designed to introduce and set them up amongst us in England Scotland and Ireland of purpose to divide and destroy us by civil wars and combustions and bring us under their Jesuitical power at last as the marginal Authorities declare to all the world And if this be undeniable to all having any sence of Religion Peace or publick Safety left within their b●ests is it not more then high time for us to awake out of our former lethargy and sordid selfish stupidity to prevent our ruine by these and other forementioned Jesuitical practises Or can any English man or real Parliament be justly offended with me for this impartial discovery of them And for my endeavours to put all the dislocated Members and broken bones of our old inverted Fundamental body Politick into their due places joynts and postures again without which there is no more possibility of reducing it to its pristine health ease settlement tranquility prosperity or of preserving it from per●ecual pain inquieration consumption and approaching death ther●of a natural body whose principal members continue dis-joynted and bones broken all in peices as all prudent State-Physitians must acknowledge These five Considerations together with the Premises will I presume sufficiently justifie this my undertaking and impartial discovery of Jesuitical Plots to ruine our Church Religion Kingdoms Parliaments Laws Liberties Government against all malicious Enemies Accusers Maligners whatsoever before all the Tribunals of God or Men where I shall be ready to justifie them upon all occasions In perpetual testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and by God's Grace shall ever be ready to seal them and the truth of God with my blood if called out to do it Swainswick Aug. 12. 1654. Will.

and Peace and Lawes concluded and ratified in and by a Parliament of Nobles in this age King Guithelin to whom the Crown lineally descended from Belinus married Martia a Noble woman learned in all arts who invented the Law which the Britons called Martiana which King Alfred approving translated into the Saxon tongue and called it Marchen Leage King Edward the Confessor making use of it in the collection and compiling of his Lawes hereafter mentioned Though this Queen first invented this Law no doubt it was ratified by publick consent of the King her Husband and the Nobles in their generall Councell in that age else it could not have the force of a Law by her bare penning of it Gorbonius grandchild to Guithelin and Martia coming to the Crown by descent governed his people most justly according to these forecited Lawes it being his continuall custome to give due honour to the Gods in the first place and then to administer right justice to the people He encouraged Husbandmen in their tillage and defended them from the injuries of their Lords and he inriched his Souldiers with gold and silver so as none of them had need to do any injury or violence to any other Archigallo his Brother succeeding degenerated from him in all his actions for he endevoured every where Nobiles quosque deprimere to depresse all that were Noble and to advance ignoble persons to take away rich mens goods and mony by violence thereby heaping up infinite treasures which the Nobles of the Realm refusing to endure any longer rose up against and deposed him from his royall Throne creating his brother Elidurus King in his stead He after five years reign meeting his deposed brother in a wood as he was hunting ran to him imbraced kissed and brought him to his own royall Bedchamber privately and then summoned Proceres omnes et principes all the Nobles and Princes of the Realm to come speedily to his City of Alclud who repairing thither he saigning himselfe to be very sick commanded every of them one by one to come into his Bedchamber to visite him which they thus doing he threatned presently to cut off all their heads as they entred singly unlesse they would consent to submit themselves again to Archigallo as their Soveraign which they through fear of death assenting to he made an agreement between them and then carrying him to Yorke took the Crown from his own head and set it on his brothers Archigallo For which memorable self-denying pious act to his brother he was styled Elidurus pius Archigallo upon his restitution corrected his former errors deposed all ignoble persons advanced the Nobility permitted every man to enjoy what was his own and administred right justice to his people Ennianus his Son King after him treating his Subjects ill was deposed by them from the Throne of the Kingdome because he contrarying justice preferred Tyranny Edwallo being made King in his place who instructed by his Predecessors oversights Jus atque rectitudinem colebat followed Law and rectitude as did others of his successors Our Histories record that about 54. years before our Saviours birth Julius Caesar having conquered France espying Britain from thence having learned the name of the I le and Nation sent messengers thence to Cassibelan King of Britain exacting with threats an annuall Tribute from him and the Britons to be paid to the Roman Senate as well as from other Naiions else he should be enforced to transport his Army and shed their bloud Whereupon Cassibelan returned this answer to him in writing Cassibelanus King of the Britons to Cajus Julius Caesar Marvellous O Caesar is the covetuousnes of the Roman people who thirsting after gold and silver in all places cannot suffer us placed beyond the World within the perils of the Ocean to be quiet but presume to affect our Tribute and Revenues which we have hitherto peaceably possessed Neither verily will this suffice unlesse renouncing our Libertie we shall make subjection to him and thereby undergoe perpetuall servitude therefore Caesar thou hast demanded A shamefull thing seeing the vein of common Nobility flowes from Aeneas both to the Britons and Romans and one and the same bond of kindred lives still in both whereby they ought to be knit together in firme amity This therefore should have been required of us not servitude because we have learned rather to give this then to bear the yoake of Servitude For we have been so much accustomed to inioy Liberty that we are altogether ignorant what it is to obey Servitude Which Liberty if the Gods themselves should endeavour to take from us verily we would strive with all our might to resist them that we might retain it Be it known therefore to thee Caesar That we are prepared and resolved to fight for it and for our Realm if as thou hast threatned thou shall begin to come upon the Isle of Britain Hereupon C●sar preparing his Navy and Forces arrived with his army at the mouth of Thames the Britons though at civill warres among themselves before upon this necessity united themselves together to oppose the Romans and communi consilio as Caesar himself and others write by common advice and assent in a Parliament of that age elected Cassibelan for their Generall and committed the managing of the Warres to him who gathering the whole strength of the Britons together consilium querens a Principibue Regni as some and a proceribus suis as others record taking councell with the Princes of the Realme and his Nobles how to re●●e the enemies they resolved to resist their Landing and to assault them in their tents before they had fortified themselves or taken any Towne and so to repell them Which advice they pursuing opposed their landing and forced the Romans that were landed to their ships and compelled Caesar to returne into France as our British Historians assert though Caesar in his Commentaries to cover his dishonour relates the contrary The year following Caesar recruiting his Army landed again in Cornwall and was repulsed by Cassibelan the second time with great losse Whereupon Cassibelan joyfull of his victory returning to Troinovant Edictum fecit ut omnes proceres Britannie Convenirent made an Edict that all the Nobles of Britain should assemble together at Troinovant to offer publick prayses and Sacrifices to his Gods who had made him to triumph over so great an Emperor as Caesar At this assembly Evelin Nephew to Androgeus Duke of Trionovant playing with Herelgas Nephew to Cassibelan upon a sudain quarrell between them cut of Herelgas head at which the King being very angry commanded Evelin to be brought before his presence and to be ready sententiam quam proceres Dictarent or talem sententiam quam proceres Regni judicarent subire to undergoe such a sentence and judgment as the Nobles and Peers of the Realme should pronounce that Herelgas might net remain unrevenged in case he were unjustly slain Androgeus

serpentem odiens CIVILIAQUE BELLA CREBRAS INJUSTE PRAEDAS SITIENS animae tuae caelestes portas pacis ac refrigerii praecludis Quid tu etiam insularis Draco MULTORUM TYRANNORUM DEPULSOR TAM REGNO QUAM ETIAM VITA snpradictorum novissime in nostro stylo prime in malo major multis potentia simulque malitia Largior in dando profusior in peccato robuste armis sed animae forti●r excidiis Maglocune in tam vetusto scelerum a●ramento stolide volutaris Quare tantas peccaminum regiae cervici sponte ut ita dicam ineluctabiles celsorum seu Montium innectis moles Nonne in primis adolescentiae tuae annis avunculum Regem cum fortissimis propemodum militibus acerrime ense hasta igni oppressisti Parum cogitans propheticum dictum Viri inquiens sanguinum doli non dimidiabunt dies suos Quid pro hoc solo retributionis a justo judice sperares si non talia sequerentur quae secuta sunt itidem dicente per prophetam Vae tibi qui praedaris nonne ipse praedaberis qui occidis nonne ipse occideris cum d●siveris praedari tunc cades These sinnes brought the ancient British Kings with their Kingdomes and People to ruine Legitur in Libro Gildoe Sapientissimi Britonum Quod ijdem Britones propter Avaritiam rapinam Principum propter iniquitatem injuriam Judicum propter desidiam praedicationis Episcoporum propter luxuriam malos mores populi Patriam perdiderunt write Alcuinus and Malmesbury The Lord grant they may not bring our Kingdomes and Nations to like ruine and desolation now How many bloudy Warres and battles the Brotons after they were driven out of their Country into the Welsh Mountaines by the Sa●ons fought with them for the defence of their Country Rights Liberties under the conduct of valient Cad●in who after twenty four yeares civill Dissention amongst the Britons and so long an Inter-regnum was by the UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF ALL THE PRINCES and NOBLES OF THE BRITONS ASSEMBLED TOGETHER in a great Parliamentary Councill AT LEGECESTER ELECTED and MADE 〈◊〉 OF THE BRITONS Which Nobles and Counsellor would not permit him to give way that Edwin the Saxon by his permission should be crowned King of Northamberland Aiebant enim CONTRA IVS VETERVMQVE TRADITIONEM ESSE Insulam unius CORONAE DVOBVS CORONATIS SVBMITTI DEBERE And after his decease under Cadwallo his Son who succeeded him in the Crown and under famous Cadwallader succeeding Cadwallo his Father in the Kingly Government by lineall d●scent by whose death both the royall blond with the Government of the Britons and the very name of Britain it self expired you may read at large in Geoffry Monmouth B●da Gildas Maelmesbury Huntindon Mathew Westminster Fabian Holinshed Grafton Speed and others being over tedious to relate The divisions and discords amongst the British Nobility during Cadwalladers sicknesse seconded with eleven yeares sere p●stilence famine and all sorts of miseries whereby the land became desolate enforced them to forsake their native Country and to seek relief in forraign parts Whereupon the Saxons sending for more of their Countrymen into Britain replenished and planted the vacant Country dispossessing the Britons totally of their ancient rightfull Inheritance which they never since regained after they had possessed it from Brute to Cadwallader for two thousand seventy six yeares under one hundred and two Kings as John Brompton records in the beginning of his History col 725. And this shall suffice concerning the Britons Contests and Wars for their Liberties Laws Government Country Religion against the Romans Saxons and touching their Great Parliamentary Councils Proceedings in them from Julius Caesars to the Saxons Conquest and total supplantation of them by Treachery Violence and the Sword of which violent Intrusion Laeland our famous Antiquary and Archbishop Parker in his Antiquit●tes Ecclesiae Britannicae p. 12. give their Censure in point of Conscience who writing of Pope Gregories conversion of the Pagan Saxons who expelled the Britons to the Christian Faith conclude thus Debuerat Gregorius admonuisse Saxones GENTEM PERFIDAM ut si syncere Christia●issim●m admittere vellent BRITANNIAE IMPERIVM QVOD CONTRA SACRAMENTVM MILITIAE PER TYRANNIDEM OCCVPAVERANT IVSTIS DOMINIS AC POSSESSORIBVS RESTITVERENT That is Gregory ought to have admonished the Saxons a PERFIDIOUS NATION that if they would sincerely embrace Christianity they then ought to restore the Kingdome of Britain which they had seised upon by Tyranny against the Oath of their Militia to the just Lords and Possessors thereof a Doctrine fit to be pressed on others now by all our Ministers which because they neglected to doe you may read what a divine retaliation their Postetity received from the Pagan Danes in the insuing Sections CHAP. III. SECT III. Comprising some remarkable Generall Historicall Collections proving the limited Power and Prerogative of the first Saxons Kings of England disabled to make any Lawes Warre Peace alienate their Crown Lands impose any Taxes Tributes in any Necessity or kind whatsoever but in and by common consent in the Generall Parliamentary Councils of their Nobles and Wisemen which they were obliged to summon upon all occasions when there was need and to govern their people justy according to Law The Saxons proceedings against their Tyrannicall oppressing Kings and the severe Judgements of God upon some Saxon Subjects for their Perjury Treachery disloyalty Rebellion against expulsions murders of their lawfull Soveraignes and unrighteous violent disinheriting the Christian Britons by the sword of their Native Country THe British Kings and Britons being for their Tyranny Perjury Treachery Injustice and other sinnes related reprehended by Gildas driven out and dispossessed of their Royalty and Country by the Saxons they about the year of our Lord 576. divided it into seven Kingdomes and set up seven Kings in severall parts of the Island who soon after waged civill Warres and more than civill Warres one with another These Kings all agreed utterly to delete the name of Britain and the memory of the Britons Whereupon they by common consent ordained That the Island should not be called Britain from Brute but England These Kings were at first elected by the Saxon Nobles and People to reign over them to govern the people of God and TO MAINTAIN and DEFEND THEIR PERSONS and GOODS IN PEACE BY THE RULES OF RIGHT And at the beginning so soon as they turned Christians they made their Kings to swear that they should maintain the Christian faith with all their power and GOVERN THEIR PEOPLE BY RIGHT without respect to any person and should be SUBJECT TO SUFFER RIGHT AS WELL AS OTHERS OF THE PEOPLE And although the King ought not to have any Peer in his Land for as much if he did wrong or offended against any of his people he or any of his Commissioners should not be both Judge and party it behoved of RIGHT THAT THE KING SHOULD

destroyed those of Northumberland and Lindesfa●ne horribly destroying the Churches of Christ with the Inhabitants at which time Duke Sigga who unworthily betrayed and slew his Soveraign King Alfwold of Northumberland worthily perished the whole Nation being first almost quite consumed with civill Warres and by these Pagan invaders whose Plague was farre more outragious and cruell than that of the Romans Picts Scots or Saxons Invasions and Depredations in former ages they most frequently invading and assailing the land on every side desiring not so much to obtain and rule over it as to spoile and destroy it with all things therein burning their houses carrying away their goods tossing their little children and murthering them on the top of their pikes ravishing their wives and daughters then carrying them away captives and putting all the men to the Sword which sad and frequent rumours from all parts struck such terrour into the hearts of King and people that their very hearts and hands failed and languished so that when they obtained any victory they had no joy nor hope of safety by it being presently encountred by new and greater swarmes of these Pagan Destroyers The cause of which sore Plague and Judgement he together with Mathew Westminster thus expresse In the Primitive Church of England Religion most brightly shined but in processe of time all vertue so withered and decayed in them VT GENTEM NVLLAM PRODITIONE ET NEQVITIA PAREM ESSE PERMITTERENT that they permitted no Nation to be equall to them IN TREASON AND WICKEDNESSE which most of all appeares in the History of the forecited Kings of Northumberland For men of every Order and Office DOLO ET PRODITIONE INSISTEBANT addicted themselves TO FRAUD AND TREASON in such sort as their impiety is formerly described in the Acts of their Kings Neither was any thing held disgraceful but Truth and Justice Nec honor nisi BELLA PLVS QVAM CIVILIA ET SANGVINIS INNOCENCIVM EFFVSIO causa dignissima caedis Innocentia Nor any thing reputed honourable but more than civill Warres and effusion of the bloud of Innocents and Innocency reputed a cause most worthy of death THEREFORE the Lord Almighty sent a most cruell Nation like swarmes of Bees who spared neither age nor sex to wit the Danes with the Gothes the Norwegians and the Sweeds the Vandals with the Prisons who from the beginning of King Edelwolfe to the coming of the Normans under King William wasted and made the fruitfull Land desolate for 230. yeares destroying it from Sea to Sea and from man to beast Which sore and dreadful long continued Judgement of God upon the Land for those crying sinnes now abounding amongst us as much almost as amongst the Northumberlanders and other Saxons then may cause us justly to fear the self same punishments or the like as they then incurred and the Britons before that under the bloudy Usurper Vortigenne unlesse we seriously repent and speedily reform them From these unparalleld prodigious Treasons Insurrections Regicides Rebellions of these Northumberlanders I conceive that infamous Proverb used by Maximilian the Emperor and frequent in Forraigne and other Writers first arose touching the English That the King of England was REX DIABOLORVM a King of Devils not of men or Saints SVBDICOS ENIM REGES EJICERE TRVCIDARE because the English especially the Northumberlanders so oft rebelled against expelled deposed and murdered their Kings beyond the Spaniards French and other Nations Which Proverb the late extravagant Proceedings of some Jesuitized pretended English Saints have now again revived out of the ashes of oblivion But I hope these sad recited old domestick Presidents will hereafter instruct both Kings Magistrates Parliaments and people to keep within those due bounds of Justice Righteousnesse Law Equity Loyalty Piety Conscience Prudence and Christian Moderation which the Lawes of God and the Land prescribe to both and the Council of Calchuth forecited long since prefixed them That the ancient English Saxon Kings at and from their primitive Establishment in this Realm had no power nor prerogative in them to impose any publike Taxes Imposts Tributes or Payments whatsoever on their people without their Common Consents and Grants in their Great Councils of the Realm for any spiritual or temporal use I shall evidence by the four first General publick Taxes that I meet with in the Histories of their times which I shall recite in Order according to their Antiquity though I shall therein somewhat swarve from my former Chronological Method in reciting some subsequent Lawes and confirmations relating to every of them for brevity sake out of their due order of time and coupling them with the original Lawes for and Grants of these general Charges and Taxes to which they have relation and then pursue my former method Henry Huntindon in the Prologue to his fifth Book of Histories p. 347. writes thus of those Saxons who first seised upon Britain by the Sword Saxones autem pro viribus paulatim terram Britanniae bello capiscentes captam obtinebant obtentam adificabant adificatam LEGIBVS REGEBANT not by arbitrary Regal power without or against all Law The first Taxes and Impositions ever laid under the Saxon Kings Government after they turned Christians upon the people of England were for the maintenance of Religion Learning Ministers Schollers long before we read of any Taxes imposed on them for the publick Defence of the Nation by Land or Sea all and every of which were granted imposed onely by common consent in their Great Councils before the Name of Parliament was used in this Island which being a French word came in after the Normans about Henry the third his reign without which Councils grant they could neither be justly charged nor levied on all or any Free-men of this Island by any civill or legall Right by those to whom they were granted and thereupon grew due by Law 1. The first General Tax or Imposition laid on and paid by the Saxon Subjects of this Land appearing in our Histories was that of Caericsceatae id est CENSVS ECCLESIAE in plain English Churchets or Church-Fees in nature of First-Fruits and Tythes The first Law whereby these Churchets Church-Fees or First-Fruits were imposed on the people and setled as an annuall duty on the Ministers paid onely before that time as voluntary Free-will Offrings to the Ministers of the Gospel by devout and liberal Christians was enacted by Ive King of the west Saxons in a Great Councill held under him Anno Dom. 692. Wherein by the exhortation advice and assent of Cenred his Father Heddes and Erkenwold his Bishops AND OF ALL THE ALDERMEN ELDERS AND WISE-MEN OF HIS REALM and a great Congregation of the Servants of God he established this Law among sundry others which none might abolish Cap. 4. De Censu Ecclesiae Cericsccata i.e. Vectigal or Census Ecclesiae reddita sint in Festo Sancti Ma●●tini Si quis hoc non compleat reus sit IX sol du●