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A38977 An Examination of severall votes of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament concerning such as take up armes against the Parl. of England or assist in such war wherein is declared that all such persons are traitors by the fundementall lawes of this Kingdome and ought to suffer accordingly. 1648 (1648) Wing E3723; ESTC R29796 9,053 10

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Parliament That they hold the Parliament that Deposed this Ric. 2. or any other King were no lawfull Parliaments which must be intended in regard they were unlawfully called or their trayterous Acts and this Parliament of 11 Rich. 2. was assembled by a trayterous and prevailing Faction in Warre as that was and its Authority was onely Force and its Acts dis-loyall and extorted and were the ground-work of the distractions of that KING'S Reigne and of His trayterous Deposition and execrable Murder and these Voters chuse to tread in their steps and no man may doubt if they be not prevented will arrive to the same end and yet so desperate is thein case that it cannot be maintained from this odious example These men having exceeded the worst of Traytors and though they pretend they have not yet killed their KING it wanted not their will as appears by the manner of their proceedings against ROLFE upon the discovery of the practice against His Life That unhappy Prince Rich. the 2. came young to His Crowne and was check'd and over awed by the power of His Uncles and other great Princes of His bloud and imbroyled with the factions of a potent Nobility who made the then assemblies of Parliament to act all their ambitious projects sorced the KING to entrust powers to some of them who thereby became Masters of Him and raised Forces against Him and prevailed over Him killed and destroyed divers of the KING' 's most faithfull Subjects enfonced Him to call this Parliament of 11. and proceeded tumultuously and rebelliously in it and threatned to Depose the KING unlesse he consented to make an Act to atteint and punish divers men that they accused of a Conspiracy to destroy the KING a known untruth but there is no mention that they were accused for assisting the KING making a Warre against the Parliament there being no such case for it were a madnesse to think the KING would make a Warre upon the Parliament understood the Houses that He could Dissolve them with His breath nor any mention of fundamentall Lawes whereby such case was Treason so lewdly false are these Men in their Quotations and in the same Parliament they got likewise a generall Pardon from the KING fot their proceedings upon this reason That it was done for the Weale of the Kingdome that is in their opinions let any honest or knowing man that reads those Records judge where the Treason lies either in these that were thus pardoned or in others that were illegally destroyed And when Henry the 4. being one of the chiefe Conspirators against Him and Deposing Him confirms in his Parliament after he had Imprisoned his lawfull KING the acts of that lawlesse Parliament no man can think it other then a meanes to assure his wicked Usurpation and former Treason and of no more authority but of no use at all in the present question And if we had no clearer demonstrations of those mens corruptions the use they make of this odious example might sufficiently instruct all men of their intentions and the sad story of the successe of that detestable usurpation may warne us to prevent the progresse of these men for from that yeare of the 11 of Richard the second the Kingdome had no rest for almost an hundred yeares constant faction among the Nobility bloudy executions of such persons as the jealousie of the Usurper made him feare of continuall Tumults and civill broyles at home or warre abroad and which ended not but in the finall extirpation of the numerous Male Line of our Kings the destruction of the very Famisies of the greatest part of the Nobility besides the great change that fell on the minds of men the Nation was grown barbarous and the many inhumane cruelties and injustices that daily occurred may strike horrour into any man of Honour Piety or Honesty to thinke on such a condition which these Voters have in a great measure now introduced And for conclusion they agree to the former Votes and think that it is a double testimony as the Stature of 11 Richard the 2. and Henry the 4. and having served themselves of ridiculous complaints of the KING'S intentions rumours of jealousies and feares to begin this Warre upon Him continue the same shamelesse exclamations when they have Imprisoned and Dethroned Him and they may as well be believed if they Vote that the KING is not in prison and that they have made no War against Him as in Voting a Warre against them to deliver the KING is a Warre against the Parliament If they had made conscience of Treason these Votes had never been nor this Warre But they have gotten Force and that 's their Law however it 's to be hoped that their Kingdome gotten by falshood and exercised by tyranny will end suddenly and then they will be as odious to themselves as they have been insolent over others and as they have Cain's curse will wish for his marke lest every one that meets them should prove their Executioner Printed at Paris and re-printed at London 1648. FINIS