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A56213	The substance of a speech made in the House of Commons by Wil. Prynn of Lincolns-Inn, Esquire, on Munday the fourth of December, 1648 touching the Kings answer to the propositions of both Houses upon the whole treaty, whether they were satisfactory, or not satisfactory : wherein the satisfactorinesse of the Kings answers to the propositions for settlement of a firm lasting peace, and future security of the subjects against all feared regall invasions and encroachments whatsoever is clearly demonstrated ... and that the armies remonstrance, Nov. 20, is a way to speedy and certain ruine ... / put into writing, and published by him at the importunate request of divers members, for the satisfaction of the whole kingdome, touching the Houses vote upon his debate.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P4093; ESTC R38011	126,097	147

heads they were scarce ever free from civill warres One Army set up one Emperour another Army another the Senate a third who alwayes warred till they had cut off one anothers heads Most of those Emperours had very short reigns few of them above a year or two and some of them scarce two months but most of them untimely deaths In Sclavonia and Norway where they had a Law that he that slew a Tyrant King should suceed him in the Throne They had almost every year a new King perpetuall wars and discords and not one of all their Kings for above one hundred years together ever came to a natural death but was murthered as a Tyrant and succeeded by a worse and greater tyrant as Saxo grammaticus and Nubrigensis testifie And in the sacred story it selfe it is very observable that after the ten Tribes revolted from Rehoboam though by Gods Iustice and approbation for Solomons sinnes they had never any peace or settlement but perpetuall Wars with one Kingdome or another or between themselves Their Kings or most of them were all Tyrants and Idolaters and by the just hand of God for the most part tumultuously slaine and murthered one of and by another who succeeded them he that murthered his Predecessor being usually slain by his Successor or his Predecessors Sons Servants or by the People of the Land in a tumltuous way In the 2 Kings 15. We read in that one Chapter of no lesse then 4 of those Kings slain one by another and as for the people under these Kings they had never any rest peace settlement or freedome but lived under the greatest misery and oppression that ever any Subjects under Heaven did as the sacred History records This King-killing certainly can be then no probable way at all to peace safety settlement freedome but the Jesuits pollicy to deprive us eternally of all these and of God and Religion to boot as it did the ten Tribes heretofore Fourthly this way to peace and settlement is directly contrary to all the former Engagements Oaths and severall Petitions Declarations Remonstrances Protestations and professions of both Houses of Parliament to the King Kingdome● people wherein were have alwaies protested and held forth unto them both before and since the Wars That we will preserve and protect the Kings person from danger support his Royall estate with honour and plenty at home with power and reputation abroad and by our loyall affections actions and advice lay a sure and lasting foundation of the greatnesse and prosperity of his Majesty and his Royall posterity in future times That we are still resolved to keep our selves within we bounds of faithfulnesse and allegiance to His sacred Person and Crown That we will with our lives fortunes estates and with the last drop of our blood endeavour to support His Majesty and his just Soveraignty and power over us● and to prevent all dangers to His Majesties Person That wee tooke up armes as well for Defence of His Majesty to protect● His Person as the Kingdome and Parliament without any intent to burt or injure His Majesties person or power professing in the presence of Almighty God That we would receive Him with all honour yeeld him all due obedience and subjection and faithfully endeavour to secure His person and estate from all danger and to uttermost of our power to procure and establish to Him and His People all the blessings of a glorious and happy reign which both Houses severall times profest and remonstrated to the world That the allegation that the Army raised by the Parliament was TO MURDER and DEPOSE THE KING was such a scandall as any that professed the name of a Christian could not have so little charity as to raise it especially when they must needs know the Protestation taken by every Member of both Houses whereby they promise in the presence of Almighty God to defend His Majesties person and all their addresses and Petitions to him expressing the contrary That they never suffered it to enter into their thoughts to depose the KING abhorring the very thought of it much more the intent That they never suffered the word DEPOSING the King to goe out of their mouthes nor the thing to enter into their thoughts That they rest assured both God and Man will abominate that monstrous and most injurious Charge layed upon the Representative Body of this whole Kingdome by the Malignant party against the KING● as designing not onely the ruine of His MAIESTIES person but of MONARCHY it selfe The Authors of which malicious horrid scandall they professe to make the Instances of their Exemplary Iustice so soon as they shall be discovered Now for Us after all these multiplyed reiterated Protestations Promises Engagements Declarations Remonstrances to all the World from the beginning of the differences and wars till now to think or talk of deposing and destroying of the King and altering the Government as the only safe and speedy way to peace and settlement as the Army-Remonstrants prescribe would be such a most detestable breach of Publike Faith such a most perfidious treacherous unrighteous and wicked act as not only God Angels and good men but the very worst of Turks and Devils would abhor and therefore it s a miracle to me that these precious Saints should thus impudently before all the World propose to the House and force you to pursue it to staine your reputation and make you exerable to God and Men. Fifthly the very Oath of Allegiance which every one of us hath taken upon our first admission to be Members engageth us in positive terms Not to offer any violence or hurt-to His MAIESTIES Royall Person State or Government to beare faith and true Allegiance to His MAIESTY His Heirs and Successors and Him and Them to defend to the uttermost of our power against all Conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against His or Their PERSONS CROWNE or DIGNITY And from our hearts to abhorre detest and abjure as impious and hereticall this Jesuiticall and Popish Doctrine That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope as it seems the KINGS is now for extirpating Episcopacy Popery Mass and Prelacy out of His Dominions by His present Concessions without any possibility or hopes of replanting may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever Which Jesuiticall contrivance and practise as our whole State and Parliament in the Statutes of 3● Ia● cap. 1● 4 5 35. Eliz. cap. 1. and other Acts resolve is the only way to unsettle ruine and subvert not to settle and establish the Peace and government of our Realme And both Houses since this Parliament have by a Solemne Protestation first and by a Solemne League and Covenant since with Hands listed up to the most High God engaged both themselves and the three kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland by a most sacred and serious vow and protestation purposely made and prescribed by them For the

Parliament and affront to the house and desired the standers by to bear witnesse of this violence and his Protestation against it and that they being more and stronger then he and all armd and he unarmed they might forcibly carry him whether they pleased but stirre he would not thence of his own accord whereupon they forcibly pushed him into the Queens Court where some other Members a little before seized were kept Prisoners by them The house bein informed by Mr. Dodridge a member who came along with Mr. Prynne of this violence upon him and high breach of priviledge in seizing him and other Members sent the Serjeant of the House to demand them of the Captain that guarded them and to command their present attendance in the House which message though delivered by him and the prisoners thereupon requiring obedience that they might accordingly attend the House was yet slighted and disobeyed whereupon the House ordered the Serjeant the second time to go with his mace and demand the Members and bring them unto the house forthwith the house refusing to do any businesse till their Members were restored but Pride and his confederates stayed the Serj●ent in the lobby and would not suffer him to go to the members whereupon he returning into the House acquainted them with the contempt which was entred into the Journall Thereupon the House concluded not to proceed till their Members were restored and sent a Committee to the General to demand them Mr. Edward Stephens and Colonell Birch being in the house were sent for to the doore by some of the Officers by false tickets and pulled out from the house doores by violence Col. Birch putting his head within the doore and crying out to the Speaker whether they would suffer their members to be pulled out thus violently before their faces and yet sit still When night approached St. Peters who now keeps the prison door keyes of hell and Purgatory released two of the imprisoned Members Sir Benjamin Ruddiard and Mr. Nath. Fiennes by the same power of the Sword as he said that had taken and held them captive belike they were all prisoners of War and so their marching up to Westminster was a leavying open warre against the Parliament and so Treason by their own Declarations and Remonstrance in as high or higher degree as that for which they demand the King to be brought to speedy justice and execution Soon after he and some other other Officers promised the imprisoned Members that they should be removed to Wallingford house where the Generall and Lieutenant Generall would come and conferre with them and they should have all sitting accommodations there provided for them and that Coaches were provided to carry them thither whereupon they all took Coach to go thither but coming to Hell back gate the Coaches were all there stayed and the Members thrust all prisoners into Hell where they were kept all that cold night without either bedding or other needful accommodations though some of them aged infirm there enforced to lye upon the bare flower and Benches instead of Beds few of them taking any rest at all that night The next morning a little before Dinner they were all carried fasting to White Hall by the Generalls order garded with foot and horse before and behind and on every side like so many Traytors to attend the General and his Councell who desired presently to speak with them as the Marshall informed them under whose custody they were put But when they came there they waited on their more then Royall new Excellencies till six a clock at night without eating or drinking and then received this cold Message without being admitted to the Generalls or Councells presence That the Generall and Officers were now so busie in consultation about other important affaires that they could not speak with them that night but had given order for their accommodation at the Kings Head and Swan in the Strand whither they should be carried that night and the next morning some Officers would wait on them with Propositions Which done they were guarded every man with his musqueteer at his back and others by his side and horse and foot before and behind their persons like so many Rogues or felons and so sent on foot through the dirty street except six who were lame who got a Coach to these two Inns and there kept prisoners severall daies till some were after by degrees without any condition or cause assigned of their commitment and others not released removed elswhere The next day after those Members were thus violently seised Mr. Gewen was seised at the House and Mr. Vahghan at his Lodging and sent Prisoners to the other Members Sir William Litten was likewise seized that day and kept Prisoner in White Hall but after released by Sir William Constables Order That day and five or six dayes following above one hundred and sixty Members more whose names were listed by the officers and souldiers that stood at the house Doors who kept back every one that was so listed were forcibly secluded and driven away from the House which could hardly get above 45. or 50. most confederates with the army to carry on their designes and Vote their Counsells Imperiall Dictates as the houses votes not above 3. or 4. Lords at most attended and made up that Honorable house all of them still sitting under the armies armed violence over-awing terror These 45. or 50. only whiles under this horrid force during the restraint and forcible seclusion of above 200 members by the army and so all their Votes Orders proceedings meerely null and void by their own Ordinance of August 20. 1647. which declared all Votes Ordinances and proceedings during the members absence in the army though not above 40. at most to be nul void from Iuly 26. to August six though the houses were then almost treble the number they are now and no one member secluded or actually forced away from either house have assumed to themselves the name power of the house and presumed to repeal all Votes concerning the Treaty as dishonorable and destructive among others the Vote made upon this solemne and long debate when there were 244 Members present at the Question and above 340 at the debate when fullest through age infirmity could not hold out all night til the question put some members contrary to the course of all former Parliam after these Votes passed have presumed to draw up enter particular protestations against it for which other members in former times have bin suspended the house sent prisoners to the tower The list of those who have entred their dissents protests against it follow because the secluded Members those who concurred in that Vote being above three times their number expect they will give the Kingdom and world some solid and satisfactory reasons of this their dissent against which there is so great reason in the premisses dissents

inslave the City to our vassalage This is their present practise The Land-lord● Rich men in the Country are too potent for their Tenant● the poor Ergo we must by force of Armes out of extraordinary necessity now abate the Tenants Rents alter their Tenures and Customes share their Lands and wealth amongst our selves and the poore and if any poore man by forging an Act of Parliament or otherwise pretend a Title to any rich mans Lands turne the rich man out of possession and put the poore into it as some Levellers and Souldiers have lately done in Essex in the case between Sir Adam Littleton and one Pointz against all rules of righteousnesse● Law and conscience Such a Monster is this plea of necessity for publick good already grown unto through the Armies power and how soon it will proceed to draw the blood of many gallant Gentlemen Lords and Members now secluded for fear they should prove the stronger as well as the major number and therefore must lose their heads to prevent al future dangers revenge God only knows The second ground for the necessity of our seisure and seclusion is this that the pretended corrupt majority of the House would have closed with the King setled the Kingdomes peace before this time had they not been secured Erg● the Officers and Army were necessitated to secure them as Apostates from and infringers of their trusts I answer This is very ill Logick and worse Divinity For first is not the end of all just wars whatsoever nought else but peace 2. Is it not Gods command and every Saints and Christians duty to pray for peace to follow peace with al men● to seek peace and pursue it to study to be quiet and live in peace to live peaceably with all men as much as in us ●yeth And is not our God a God of Peace our Saviour Jesus Christ the Prince of peace the holy Ghost a Spirit of Peace the Gaspell it selfe a Gospell of peace and can or dare● any Saints then pretend a necessity to levy warre even against the Parliament and Members themselves which is high Treason onely upon this pretended necessity that they desire and indeavour to settle peace in our Kingdome Thirdly Is not peace the greatest Earthly blessing that God can bestow upon us and hath promised out of his love to give us as a most SIGNALL favour is it not the thing we have all payed for fasted for fought for paid for longed for and earnestly desirid for many yeares doe not all Counties Cities Villages Families yea every sort except those who make a trade of Warre to enrich themselves by the Kingdomes ruines but more especially distressed Ireland cry all out unto us with one unanimous cordiall and continuall clamar Peace Peace for the Lords sake No more Warres no more blood shed no more plundering no more free quarter no more taxes but Peace Peace or else we perish And if so the generality of the people and Kingdome being by the Armies principles the originall and fountaine of all just power there is an absolute necessity lyes upon us who are their trustees to make and setlle Peace but no necessity for the army to hinder or secure us from effecting it yes a necessity for them to assist us in it and release us to accomplish it which by Gods blessing we had done ere this Object All that they can object is That we would have made an unsafe and dishonourable peace with the King upon his owne termes to the peoples prejudice and enstaving Answ. To which I answer 1. It is the foulest falsest and most malicious scandall that ever man could invent which the ensuing Speech will abundantly refute to the shame of those who dare to aver it in print 2. Admit it true yet an unjust and unequall peace is better safer and more honourable for us now we are quite exhausted and can manage warre no longer and Ireland so neere its ruine then the justest Warre which ought not to be undertaken at first without absolute necessity and nes to continue one houre longer then that necessity endures especially if it be a Civill Warre between those of the same Nation blood Religion or a defensive Warre as our Warre is who have now no armed Enemies to encounter and so there can be no pretence of necessity to continue a Warre or so great a recruited Army unlesse it be to enslave us to martiall Law and Tyranny in stead of peace and Liberty 3. Neither God nor the Kingdome nor Majority of the people ever made the Army Iudges of the goodnesse or badnesse of the intended peace but the Parliament onely the onely proper Iudges likewise of the necessity of peace or Warre And therefore for them thus forcibly to wrest this Iudicatory out of the Houses bands without a lawfull calling to it and to imprison those who are Iudges of it is neither Christian nor warrantable but the highest insolency and Rebellion ever offered to any Parliament in any age And upon this account every Souldier who hath a cause depending in Parliament or in any Court of Iustice may by as good Iustice and reason pull all the Members out of the Houses and Iudges from the Benches that would not give Iudgement for him be his cause never so unjust and make himselfe or the Generall Councell of the Army his onely Iudges who may proceed to Iudgement on his side before any hearing or appearance before them by his adversary in such sort as they have proceeded against us But admit there were an extraordinary necessity for publick good as is pretended yet to make necessity a plea for to justifie any m●rall sinne or evill is monstrous in an Army of Saints Nulla est necessitas delinquendi quibus una est necessitas non delinquendi was the Primitive Christians Maxime who chose rather to die the cruellest deaths then commit the smallest sinne Had Hugh Peters John Goodwin and these Army-Counsellors lived in our Saviours dayes they could have taught St. Peter how to have denyed his Lord and Master thrice together with Oathes and curses as the Army have denyed and imprisoned their Lords and Masters and cast them into bell with Oathes and curses too and to have justified it in stead of going forth and weeping bitterly for it as he did because be did it onely out of necessity to save his life when he was in danger If these Army-Saints had lived in Iulian the Apostate's dayes they could have instructed his Souldiers how to have sacrificed to his Idols by throwing but a branch into the Fire out of necessity to sare many precious Souldiers lives rather then to be mariyred for refusing it And had Catesby Faux Winter and Piercy wanted an advocate or Ghostly father to encourage them to blow up the Parliament-House King Nobles and Commons at once and justifie it when they had done it the Generall

more now in this then they have demanded heretofore And therefore having granted more then what would have fully satisfied them in former Treaties his Concessions in this may be fully satisfactory to us so far as to close with him to settle a firm peace in the Kingdome now at the brink of ruine though they fall short in somethings which we now propounded which do not much concern our security as I shall prove anon The true state then and sense of this Question must be this and no other Whether the Kings finall Answers to the Propositions of both Houses in this Treaty considered and weighed all together be not so full and satisfactory in themselves that this House may and ought to accept of and proceed upon them for the speedy settlement of a safe and wel-grounded Peace both in Church and Common-wealth rather then reject them as unsatisfactorie and so hazard the life of all and the perpetuating of our wars and miseries In this sense I humbly conceive and hope to evidence them so clearly fully satisfactory that we can neither in point of duty prudence justice honor or conscience reject them as unsatisfactory but ought to imbrace them as the only safe ready way to our peace and settlement though they come not up so fully to some of our Propositions as I could have heartily desired for the avoiding of this hazardous debate For my clearer progresse in this grand debate I shall observe this method First I shal clearly manifest that the King in this Treaty hath granted us whatsoever we can wel desire for the present settlement future security of the Common-wealth or state when ratified by Acts a regal oath as is intended yea far more then ever our Ancestors or any Subjects in the christian world enjoyed or desired of their Ks. for their security preservation against their armed power or legal prerogatives Secondly That the King hath granted as much in this Treaty as will settle and secure the Peace and Government of our Church and Religion against Popery and prelacy on the one hand and prophanenesse on the other hand and more then we or any Protestant Churches ever enjoyed or demanded heretofore for their security and settlement When I have made good these particulars and answered the Objections made against them I hope every one of us who have any ingenuity reason or conscience in their brests and are not transported with passion or private engagements to the contrary will and must of necessity vote these Answers satisfactory in the sense forestated I shall begin with the first of these namely the Kings Answers to all these Propositions which concern the present settlement and future security of the State and Republike against any armed force or invasions of the Regall Prerogative to the enslaving or prejudicing of the Subject which in my poor judgement are so full and satisfactory that little or nothing can be added to them and if we well consider them we have cause to say O fortunati nimium bona si sua norin● I shall give you a full view of them all because many of them have not been so much as once remembred in this debate and apply them to our present settlement and future safety as I mention them The first Proposition for the settlement of a safe and wel-grounded Peace is that which concerns the justification of the Parliaments War declaring it by an Act of Parliament to be passed to be in their just and lawfull defence justifying the Solemn League and Covenant in prosecution thereof and repealing all Oaths Declarations and Proclamations heretofore had or hereafter to bee had against both or either Houses of Parliament their Ordinances or proceedings or against any for adhering unto or executing any Office Place or Charge under them and all Judgements Indictments Outlawries Attainders Inquisitions in any of the said causes and all Grants thereupon made had or to be made or had to be declared null suppressed forbidden and never put into execution And this to be published within all Parish Churches and all other places needfull within his Majesties Dominions To this proemiall and advantagious proposition the King hath fully and readily condescended at first in every tittle as was desired By this concession the Parliament hath gained sundry considerable advantages tending to their present honour and future security First a full publick acknowledgment of the justnesse of their Warre and Cause to be ratified and perpetuated to posterity by the highest record that can be an Act of Parliament and that to be read in all Parish Churches throughout England Ireland and other the Kings Dominions and proclaimed in all Counties Cities Corporations and at Assizes and Sessions of the peace that so all men may take publick notice of it Which is such an honour to and justification of them and their Cause as was never condescended to by any King that took up arms against his Subjects since the creation to this present and so low a humiliation and Legall disclaimer in the King of his Warre against the Parliament and disavowing of his Cause and Party as could possibly be imagined or expected Secondly It secures the Lives Liberties and Estates of all the Members of both Houses engaged in these Wars and of all persons whatsoever that have adhered to or acted for them against all former present and future Impeachments Prosecutions and Judgments whatsoever and makes void and nul what ever hath been is or may be objected against them Which coupled with the Act of Indempnity and Oblivion proposed by the King and agreed to by the Houses wil extraordinarily secure pacifie content all wel-affected Members and persons who have adhered to them in this Cause and preserve them from the danger of 25 E. 3. and other Laws concerning Treasons which otherwise upon any revolution of times and affairs might by corrupt Judges and Instruments be extended and rested to their prejudice aud undoing Thirdly it laies a foundation for the lawfulnesse of a defensive War by Authority of both Houses upon the like occasion in all future ages without incurring the guilt of Treason or Rebellion which will be a great encouragement and security to the Subjects and engagement to them to adhere to the Parliament in after-times Fourthly It wil very much discourage and deter all kind of men from taking up Arms in the Kings His Heirs and Successors behalfe against the Houses of Parliament when they shal cast their eyes upon this Act and behold the King himselfe passing such a censure upon all his own proceedings and retracting his own Oaths Proclamations Commissions Inditements Grants against such Members all others who have now taken up arms against him for the Houses Kingdoms defence So as this very first Proposition only if well weighed without any others added thereunto being so fully and freely consented unto by the King tends very far towards our present settlement and future safety

certain destructions and desolation to this poor Kingdome and more especially to the Army and their adherents in this desperate advice who must stand or fall upon their own bottome without the least aid or contribution from any other I desire them and all others who have either eyes or brains in their heads most seriously to consider But that which makes me most of all detest this desperate advice is this That it is the only way that can be thought upon to accomplish the Popes and Jesuites designs to set up Popery and subvert the Protestant Religion and professors of it in all our three Kingdoms and in all forraign Realms beyond the Seas For if this reforming Parliament which hath pretended so much to the extirpation of Popery shall so far play the Popes and Jesuites the undoubted contrivers of this Armys New-model of our peace and settlement as to depose and behead the King his father and forever disinherit him of the Crown bring him as a Traitor to die without mercy if he come hither It wil so far provoke and exasperate him the Duke being both young and of generous spirits not throughly grounded in our Religion and under the Queens tuition and in the power of this popish party abroad who will aggravate these high affronts and injuries put upon them to the utmost and on whose protection they will be in this case necessitated to cast themselves that there is great fear and probability they will immediately renounce such a bloody and detestable Religion as shall ins●igate us to such horrid actions and Councels and abominate all the professors of it so as totally to abandon them and turn Roman Catholicks in good earnest and then match themselves to great potent popish Alliances and by their purses forces and assistance and of the Popes and all his Catholick sonnes in Forraigne parts for the advancement of the Catholick cause and of the popish Malignants and discontented parties in England Scotland and Ireland which will questionlesse receive and assist the Prince as their Soveraign Lord and King invade our poore impoverished divided and distressed kingdom with such a power as in all humane probability would speedily over-runne and destroy this mutinous Army and the Houses too put them with their adherents to the Sword without mercy or quarter and disinherit them and their heirs for ever to revenge their Fathers blood and their dis-inherison of the Crown c. And then Popery and Prelacy will both return with greater authority power approbation then ever over-spread our whole three kingdoms and extirpate our Religion the professors of it as the most anti-Monarchical treacherous and perfidious bloody Miscreants under heaven excite all other forraign States and kingdoms to do the like to prevent the springing up of a new generation of treacherous King-killing State-subverting Agitators and Hypocritical perfidious Army-Saints and engage all Protestant kingdoms Churches and States for their own security and vindication to disclaim and declare against us This questionlesse will be the sad inevitable issue of this Jesuiticall advice if ever the Houses or Army shall put it into actuall execution and not speedily prevent it it being long since fore-plotted by the Jesuites as I shall prove anon at the beginning of the late Warre against the Scots But if the Prince and Duke be set aside I would gladly learn of these Statists who and what King they would set up Not any of the Kings posterity certainly since they dis-inherit two at a blow and the blood being corrupted by the Kings and their attainders no other heir can inherit it by descent it must escheat to the Houses or Armies disposal and become no kingdom at all but an Elective one if any And is this the next way to peace and settlement If so I have certainly lost my reason and senses too No it will be a seminary of lasting Wars of which few elective Kingdoms are long free every new election producing commonly a new Warre where there is no pretence of an hereditary succession much more where a right heir is forcibly and unjustly dis-inherited I shall give you but one instance though I could name you divers and that is a memorable one at home in our owne kingdom King Henry the first having one onely daughter Maud to reserve the Crown unto her after his death caused her to be crowned and made all the Prelates and Nobles swear to receive her as their Queen and Princesse after his decease But she marrying afterwards to the Emperour and being out of the Realme when King Henry died The Archbishop of Canterbury with the rest of the Prelates and Nobles contrary to their Oath and agreement elected Stephen Earle of Bloyes for their King and put by Maud the right heir Stephen taking an Oath to grant and confirm those Laws and Liberties for the kingdoms peace and settlement as they propounded to him before his Coronation A very likely means to settle Peace and prosperity as they imagined But was the event answerable No verily this cursed perjury and pollicy brought all the chiefe contrivers of it to great calamity and miserable ends and engendred a bloody civill Warre in the bowels of this kingdom which continued no lesse then seventeene years together with interchangeable successes till the whole kingdom was laid waste and desolate most Houses Towns and Villages burned to the ground their Gardens and Orchards quite destroyed their monies and estates exhausted and plundered their Cattle and flocks consumed and eaten up their Fields over grown with weeds in stead of Corne most of the people devoured by the Sword Famine and Pestilence and eleven hundred Castles Holds and Garrisons erected which were no other but dens of Theeves and Plunderers This was the peace and settlement this policy produced At last both Parties weary of the Wars out of pure necessity came to a Personall Treaty and in conclusion made this agreement That Stephen having no issue of his body should enjoy the Crowne during his life and Henry son and heir to Maud and next heir also to Stephen should succeed him after his death and in some sort officiate with him in the kingdoms Govenment during his life And so these long lasting Warres concluded after which there were at least eleven hundred Castles demolished by order of Parliament crected during these wars to the Countreys utter undoing But if we dis-inherit the Prince and Duke for ought I discern if they suddainly recover not their possession of the Crown of England after one seven years of Warre already elapsed we may have seventeen years more and seventeen after that again and be reduced to a more miserable condition then our Ancestors were in King Stephens dayes And that upon these two grounds First the contest then was onely between two Competitors for this one kingdom who had no other kingdoms of their own to side with them But the Prince and Duke being successively heirs as well to

observable ushered it in with this Iesuiticall preface and these disloyall popish demands That the Capitall and grand Author of our troubles the person of the King by whse commission commands or procurement and in whose behalfe and for whose interest onely of will and power all our warres and troubles have been with all the miseries attending them may be speedily brought to Iustice for the Treason blood and mischiefe he is therein guilty of That a timely and peremptory day may beset for the Prince of Wales and Duke of York to come in and render themselves or else immediatly made uncapable of any Government or trust in this Kingdome or the Dominions thereof or of any right within the same and thenceforth to stand exiled for ever as Enemies and Traytors and to dye without mercy if ever hereafter found therein or if they render themselves then to be proceeded against for their Capitall Deli●quency in justice or remitted upon satisfaction given But however the land and revenue of the Crowne to be presently sequestred c. Then followes this Agreement of the People for setting some reasonable and certain period to this Parliament to be assigned as short as may be with safety to the Kingdome and publike interest thereof and for feeling the new Representative c. And because it was twice voted down in November 1648. by the house it is twice repeated and insisted on in this long-winded Iemonstrance page 14 15 16. and page 65 66 67. so much are they in love with the Iesuits Dalila that so it might now be twice confirmed and setled by the house in approving this Remonstrance Now compare this third gunpowder plot with the two former in November last to blow up King Prince Duke Lords Commons this present and all future Parliaments at one attempt to destroy the King and Parliament disinherit his royall posterity unpeer all the Lords levell them with the dust to root up them all Parliaments root and branch at once against all our Oathes our Covenats our Remonstrances our Declarations our Lawos our Protestant Religion all here devoted to ruine together as the onely safe and speedy way to settell peace and safety in Church and State to omit the horrid equivocations dispensations with oathes Covenants and Ieuiticall distinctions in that Remonstrance they are such clear visible Characters of a Jesuites pensill hand and head in this Remonstrance so abounding with their bloody disloyall Tenents parctises of killing and deposing Christian Kings who wil not do homage to their Roman Pontif blowing up Protestant Stats Kingdoms Parliaments so abhorent to al Protestant Principals Professions practises who never yet embrued their hands in nor stained their religiō with the blood of any King or actual deposition of any Protestant or Popish Pr. who was their lawful King or disinheriting of his lawful heirs or puling downe a Protestant Reforming Parliament that none but Jesuits and Jesuited Papists could possibly invent or spur on the Generall Officers and Army so violently and madly to prosecute them as they do by a subsequent high Declaration discovering a very Jesuitical spirit in the pen-man distinguishing the Memb. of the house dissenting from them in these Treasonable practises into a treasonable brach of trust usurping to themselves a power ro judge censure and exclude them and make those Members who shall confedrate with them herein though never so few materially a Parliment though formerly and essentially no Parliament at all and mooving them to depart the house and joyn with them in these Jesuiticall designes Which they have since agravated and backed by their disobedyent march to Westminster and London against our commands by force and open violence to over-awe us by our votes in Parliament to put all their treasonable Romish demands in present execution to justifie these very traiterous doctrines and practises of theirs which our Parliaments have in direct terms in sundry Acts condemned and every one of us solemnly abjured in the oath of allegiance w ch he must take immediatly before his sitting in the house without taking wherof he neither is nor can be enabled to sit as a Member I shall further offer this to your consideration that as soon as ever this Agreement of the people was suppressed in Novem. 1647. and the king perswaded to reject the propositions tendred him by both Houses by some officers in the army of purpose to treat on their proposals The agitators Jesuits in the army opposed these Proposals and threating to offer some violence to the Kings person caused him secretly to withdraw himself from Hampton Court into the Isle of Wight where they shut him up close prisoner without the Houses privity which done they caused their confederates when most of the Members were sent into the Country to disband the supernume●aries to passe a vote in the Commons house to make no more addresses to the King not to set him aside as they then professed to many dissenting members but only to induce the K. to seck first to them without which protestation they had never caried this vote which passed most of the Membrs departing the 2. ensuing Votes were set on foot passed at an unseasonable hour gotten by surprize The very next morning there came a Declaration from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Gen Councell of the Army Ian. 11. 1647. signifying their resolutions to adhere to the Houses for settling and securing the parliament and kingdom without the King and against him or any other that shall hereafter pertake with him But the Lgrds sticking at these Votes there was a regement or two of foot sent from the Army to garrison White hall and a regiment of horse bilited in the Mues to fright and force the Lords to a Concurrence And some few dayes after a Book written by Dolman alyas Parsons the Jesuite against King Iames his Title to the Crown and concerning the lawfulnesse of Subjects Parliaments deposing chastising of their Kings for their misgouernment the good prosperous secceesse that God commonly hath given to the same printed out of Dolmans own printed Copy verbatim except the word Parliament added to it now and then was published to the world with this Title Severall Speeches delivered at a conference concerning the power of Parliaments to procéed against their King for misgovernment which Book with this false new title published at this season intemated to the world that this discourse of a lesuite for which he was condemned of high treason was nothing else but speeches mad by some Members of the Commons house at a conference with the Lords The highest dishonour affront ever put upon a protestant Parliament to have the book and doctrine of a lesuit thus falsly fathered on them of which though I may self and others complained there was nothing done to vindicate the houses from this grosse imputation And about the same time there was another book