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war_n	death_n	king_n	treason_n	2,761	5	9.5559	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56197	The re-publicans and others spurious good old cause, briefly and truly anatomized. To preserve our native country, kingdom, legal government, Church, parliaments, laws, liberties, privileges of Parliament, and Protestant religion from ruine, scandal, and perpetual infamy; to reform, reclaim all Jesuit-ridden seduced republicans, officers, soldiers, sectaries, heretofore, or now engaged in the prosecution of this misintituled good old cause, from any future pursute thereof, and engage them for ever to abominate it, as apparently tending to publike ruin, their own temporal and eternal condemnation, infamy, our religions reproach, in present and succeeding ages. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4052; ESTC R234922	18,673	20

their old plot hath brought actual destruction on them all and endlesse miseries distractions ever since to our Three whole Nations Churches and God only knows not man what sodain and final ruine it may bring upon them all And is it then a good old cause as they now proclaim it to all the world afresh May 7. 1659 8ly The Gunpowder Traytors engaged in their pretended Good old Cause never passed any solemn Iudgement and condemnation against it before or after its undertaking which those who espoused this new misnamed Good old cause have often done against it themselves and all such who appeared in it Not to press or insist upon the antient Resolutions Statutes of 4 E. 3. rot parl n. 1. 25 E. 3. c. 2.21 R. 2. c. 22. 1 H. 4. c. 10.31 H. 6. c 1. i E. 6. c. 12. 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5. positively declaring resolving the levying of war against the King or Parliament the plotting compassing the death or destruction of either of them by any open Acts to be high-High-Treason The Republican Members of the long Parliament and Army did together with the rest of the members in sundry Ordinances resolve declare particularly in the o Exact Coll. p. 576. Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament printed and published by their special Order August 8. 1642. to the end that no man might be misled through ignorance That all such persons who shall upon any pretence whatsoever assist the King in making war against the Parliament with Horse arms plate or money are Traytors to His Maiesty the Parliament and the Kingdom and shall be brought to condign punishment for so high an Offence Upon which ground alone the Lords and Commons by their Ordinance of Apr. 1.1643 sequestred the estates of all such persons Ecclesiastical or Temporal as Traytors and Notorious Delinquents who have raised or shall raise Armes against the Parliament p A Collection of Ordinances p. 13. 219 220. or have been are or shall be in actual Arms against the same or have contributed or shall contribute voluntarily any money plate horse arms ammunition or other ayde or assistance for or towards the maintenance of any forces raised against the Parliament and of all such as have joyned or shall joyn in any Oath or Act of Association against the Parliament or have imposed or shall impose any Tax or Assessment upon his Majesties subjects For or towards the maintenance of any forces against the Parliament Upon this only ground they afterwards condemned executed Mr. Tomkins and Mr. Chaloner in the year 1643. as Traitors for receiving a Commission from the late King dated h A Collection p. 199 200 201. March 16. An. 18 Caroli to raise forces in about London to force the Parliament and seise upon some of the principal Members of it though they never put it in actual execution nor offered the least force to the Parliament to either of the houses or their Members Since which sundry others were elsewhere condemned and executed as Traitors upon the same account of levying war against the Parliament Yea both i A Collection p. 905 906 907 908. Houses in their last Propositions to the King exempted some particular persons frō any pardon for their lives or estates perpetually banished and confiscated the estates of others and put all the rest to great Fines only for levying warr against the Parliament See the 2. part of the History of Independency which they declared to be High Treason Yea the Republican members sitting after the others seclusion and Army-Officers themselves in their late High courts of Justice impeached condemned beheaded our late King * Charls himself the Head of the Parliament the Marquess of Hamilton the Earl of Holland the Lord Capel others of the Lords House and divers Commoners and condemned executed Sir Charles Lucas with others in and by a bare Councel of War at Colchester confiscating most of their real and personal estates as Rebells Traytors and publike Enemies only for levying war and taking up Arms against both Houses of Parliament Since which the Army-Officers and those in late yea present power in and by their Instrument of Government 1653. and contradictory Humble Petition and Advice 1657. disabled all persons who had formerly taken up arms and levied any war against the Parliament at any time since the year 1641. and given no signal testimony of their good affection to the Parliament in taking up Arms for its defence to be disabled to be chosen Members of Parliament or to give their voice in the election of any such Members Yet neither the King himself nor any of all these beheaded execcuted excepted sequestred disabled Lords Citizens Souldiers Gentlemen ever actually assaulted the Parliament it self or either of the Houses of Parliament or any Member or Members thereof sitting in entring into or returning from the Houses nor secured secluded them by any Gards put upon the Houses only for speaking their Consciences or discharging their duties in the Parliament as they did but only waged war against the Parliament and Members thereof at a great distance by levying war against the forces raised by them neither did the King or his Forces in any of their Proclamations or Declarations ever affirm that they took up arms against the Parliament it self or its Members to dissolve secure seclude force or interrupt their proceeding k An Exact Coll. p. 349 350 351 to 357. 451 455 470 472 620 621. which they utterly disclaimed but only to defend the Kings person his just Royal authority and those adhering to him against the Parliament Army to preserve and maintain the just Power Rights privileges of Parliament and the loyal Members therein the Laws of the Land the Liberty and Property of the Subjects against the usurpations of a prevailing Faction who had as they affirmed raisod Forces to destroy the King Mo●●rchy it self the very Freedom Rights and Privileges of Parliament and the Liberty Property of the Subjects which they constantly asserted in all their printed Papers to the very end of the War If they then not withstanding all this were thus capitally and criminally proceeded against sentenced executed sequestred disabled by the Votes Resolutions Judgements Instrument Declarations of the Republicā Members Officers Soldiers themselves now crying up this Good old cause as Traytors and publike Enemies for levying war against the Parliament only thus mediately indirectly consequentially and secundarily because they waged war against the forces raised for the Parliaments defence and safeguard and if the unarmed London Apprentices and other disorderly persons coming unarmed to the Commons House dores and there in a tumultuous manner pressing some Members to pass a Petition and some Votes they desired without seising securing or secluding any one Member of either House though an unarmed force was presently so resented by the General and Officers of the Army that they immediaty declared it to be a l The Generals