item: #1 of 153 id: A10177 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A briefe suruay and censure of Mr Cozens his couzening deuotions Prouing both the forme and matter of Mr Cozens his booke of priuate deuotions, or the houres of prayer, lately published, to be meerely popish: to differ from the priuate prayers authorized by Queene Elizabeth 1560. to be transcribed out of popish authors, with which they are here paralelled: and to be scandalous and preiudiciall to our Church, and aduantagious onely to the Church of Rome. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis. date: 1628.0 words: 48616 flesch: 71 summary: yet this one clause , and passage , if there were no other ; were * sufficient to bewray his pestilent , dangerous , and Popish Designes : and to proclaime vnto the World ; that hee endeauours nothing more , * but to root out all true Protestant Pi●tie , and Deuotion● and to bring in all prophannesse , vnder the very name● and vizard of Deuotion , which his Booke● and Title seeme to praise and magnifie . RIght honorable , thrice worthy , a●d true Christian Senators , your pious z●ale , and zealous pietie , in questioning some Popish and Arminian Bookes , which haue beene lately published ( and I would I could not say authorized and patronized : ) by some spurious and Romanized , if not Apostalized Sonnes , and Pastors of our Church , to the inquietation of o●r State , the h●zzard of our Church , the propagation of Pop●ry and Arminianisme , the be●r●ying of the truth , the encouragement of our Enemies , and the inexpiable blemish of our orthodox and Apostolicall Religion ; hath , as at first inuited me to pen , so now emboldened mee to p●blish , and dedicate , this BRIEFE SVRVAY and Censure of Maste● Cozens his cozening Deuotions to your Honours : if not to animate , helpe , or further , yet at least to ease you in the Anatomie and cleare Discouery of that virulent and popish poyson , which is couched in the veines , and cloaked vnder the Coule , and Saint-like habit of those new Deuotions , which now expect , nay neede , your doome and censure . keywords: angels; author; authoritie; bee; body; booke; canonicall; cap; cause; christ; christian; church; common; dayes; dead; deuotions; doctrine; doe; doeth; elizabeth; est; fasting; forme; ghost; giue; god; good; hath; haue; hee; himselfe; holy; howers; lent; lord; m ●; matter; men; neuer; new; owne; pag; papists; persons; popery; popish; practise; prayer; prayer booke; priuate; protestant; publike; queene; religion; rome; sacraments; saint; second; sect; seuen; sinnes; spirit; state; themselues; thy; times; title; vnder; vnto; vpon; vse; wee; words; workes; yea; ● d; ● e; ● n; ● r; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A10177.xml plain text: A10177.txt item: #2 of 153 id: A10179 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Certaine quæres propounded to the bowers at the name of Iesvs and to the patrons thereof. Wherein the authorities, and reasons alleadged by Bishop Andrewes and his followers, in defence of this ceremony, are briefly examined and refuted; the mistranslation of Phil. 2.10.11. cleared, and that tet, with others acquitted both from commanding or authorizing this novell ceremony, here gived to be unlawfull in sundry respects. date: 1636.0 words: 21408 flesch: 79 summary: Since the Kinge himselfe , with all the greate Officers of the State , the Prelates and Ministers of the Church , are better , more honorable , and more to be respected , ( as they are publicke persons and Officers ) then as they are private men ; And since it will hereupon necessarily ensue , That the very essence of the D●itie and name of God , ( which are common to each of the Three persons in the Trinitie , as we learne in Athanasius Creede ) should be worser then , inferior to the personall subsistence and names of each person in the Trinity , which are proper and incommunicable one to the other , where as the essence and name of the Deitie are common to each three persons : Which were heresie and Blasphemy to affirme , yea the (k) very heresie of Nestorious condemned in the Councell of Ephesus : Whether it be not (l) heresie to say , that Christ is not God , nor the name Christ the name of God ? it beeing directly contrary to Rom. 9.5 . Doctor Will●t , say , no man is , or ought to be forced or enjoyned to use , ) in the selfsame , yea in a farr more earnest manner then ever the Papists urged it upon any , by Fyninge , imprisoninge , suspendinge , deprivinge such Ministers and others who refuse to use it , against all Law , all Iustice , the (m) Statute of Magna Charta & Petittion of Right , tendes not only to the erectinge of Popery , and bringinge in of bowinge to Altars , Images , the Hoste , Transu●●stantiation and Masse , as late experience and the turning of Communion Tables to Altars or Altaringe , every where manifests ? Whether bowinge at the name of Iesus , be not divine worship and adoration , given immediately , either to the person or name of Iesus , or to both ? keywords: andrewes; bishop; bow; bowing; ceremony; christ; church; divine; doe; father; god; hee; holy; honour; iesus; iesus christ; knee; lord; men; names; person; phil; reverence; saviour; sonne; text; tom; wee; ● ● cache: A10179.xml plain text: A10179.txt item: #3 of 153 id: A10180 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The Church of Englands old antithesis to new Arminianisme VVhere in 7. anti-Arminian orthodox tenents, are euidently proued; their 7. opposite Arminian (once popish and Pelagian) errors are manifestly disproued, to be the ancient, established, and vndoubted doctrine of the Church of England; by the concurrent testimony of the seuerall records and writers of our Church, from the beginning of her reformation, to this present. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis. date: 1629.0 words: 72406 flesch: 75 summary: * They were vndoubtedly of their opinion in these points now controuersed * Therefore of their op●nion in our present Tenents * Allegauit dictas posi●●onessa●sas , erroneas , & repugnantesesse religioni in regno Angliae publica & leg●tima authoritate receptae & stabilitae . * Quicquid vel omnes , vel plures v●o ●odemque sensu , manifeste , frequenter , perseueranter velut quodam sibi con 〈◊〉 Magistrorum Concilio , acci●●●ndo , tenēd● tradēdo firmauerint ; id pr● indubitato , certo , ratoque habeatur . keywords: anti; arminian; arminianisme; articles; bee; beleeue; bishop; booke; c. 2; cambridge; cap; cause; christ; christian; church; col; conclusions; cor; death; diuines; doctor; doctrine; doe; doth; edward; elect; election; england; english; epistle; errors; est; euerlasting; euery; exposition; faith; father; fol; giue; god; godly; gods; good; grace; hath; haue; hearts; hee; himselfe; holy; iames; iesus; iohn; ireland; isay; king; lambheth; late; lib; life; london; lord; man; mans; martyr; master; master iohn; mat; men; mercy; neuer; non; onely; orthodox; owne; page; peter; point; popish; power; praedestination; prayer; present; psal; queene; qui; raigne; receiued; reformation; religion; reuerend; rom; saluation; sect; sed; sermon; seuerall; sinne; spirit; state; tenents; themselues; thomas; thy; time; tom; treatise; truth; ver; vnto; vpon; wee; william; workes; world; writers; yea; ● ● cache: A10180.xml plain text: A10180.txt item: #4 of 153 id: A10181 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: God, no impostor nor deluder, or, An answer to a popish and Arminian cauill, in the defence of free-will, and vniuersall grace wherein God's tender of grace by the outward ministry of the gospel, to reprobates who neither doe, nor can receiue it, is vindicated from those aspersions of equiuocation, falsitie, and collusion, which some by way of obiection, cast vpon it / by William Prynne ... date: 1629.0 words: 7912 flesch: 75 summary: Secondly , the Gospell is thus generally propounded to all that will imbrace it , and not to the elect alone ; because the ministers of the Gospell being but fraile and silly men as others are , and not able to discerne into the secret counsell and decree or God , cannot distinguish betweene the elect and reprobates : Fourthly , the Gospell must be thus propounded , that so no man whiles he liueth here might haue cause to despaire of Gods d mercy : If God should cull out his elect from among the reprobates , and make an open diuision and seperation of them here , preaching the Gospell vnto them alone , then all these reprobates must needes despaire of his grace , and runne into some desperate course , knowing that they are designed and marked out for hell : but now when as the Gospell is thus generally propounded vnto all , it alwaies nourisheth some hope in reprobates , and keepes them from despaire . keywords: christ; doe; doth; elect; god; gods; gospell; grace; haue; men; reprobates; vnto cache: A10181.xml plain text: A10181.txt item: #5 of 153 id: A10184 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Healthes: sicknesse. Or A compendious and briefe discourse; prouing, the drinking and pledging of healthes, to be sinfull, and vtterly vnlawfull vnto Christians by arguments, Scriptures, fathers, moderne diuines, Christian authors, historians, councels; imperiall lawes and constitutions; and by the voyce and verdict of prophane and heathen writers: wherein all those ordinary obiections, excuses, or pretences which are made to iustifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or pledging of healthes, are likewise cleared and answered. By William Prynne Gent. Hospitii Lincolniensis. date: 1628.0 words: 47372 flesch: 75 summary: ●●●dicenum . R●●u . keywords: ambr; bee; begin; cap; cause; christians; condemne; cor; cup; dei; doe; doeth; draw; drinke; drinking; drinking healthes; drunkards; drunkennesse; elia; epist; est; euen; euery; euill; excesse; excuse; farre; fathers; feare; force; friendes; god; gods; good; grace; hath; haue; healthes; heathenish; hee; himselfe; holy; honour; iudgements; kings; l. 1; l. 2; lib; lord; man; men; mens; nay; needes; non; oft; owne; pagans; persons; pet; pledge; pledging; practise; prophane; psal; quam; qui; rom; sed; sinfull; sinne; soules; thee; themselues; things; thou; times; tom; vnder; vnlawfull; vnto; vpon; vse; wee; wicked; wine; world; yea; ● ● cache: A10184.xml plain text: A10184.txt item: #6 of 153 id: A10188 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Lame Giles his haultings. Or, A briefe survey of Giles Widdovves his confutation of an appendix, concerning bowing at the name of Iesus Together with a short relation of the popish originall and progresse of this groundlesse novell ceremony: wherein Mr. Widdovves his manifold forgeries, oversights, and absurdities are in part detected; and the point, of bowing at the name of Iesus, together with that, of cringing to altars and communion-tables, is now more largely discussed. By VVilliam Prynne, an vtter-barrester of Lincolnes Inne. date: 1630.0 words: 29763 flesch: 73 summary: What Fathers or ancient Records doe testifie , that bowing at the name of Iesus was used in the primitive Church ; and what are their words ? VVhat ancient Authorities there are before Zanchius , Whitguift , or H●●ker , which testifie , that bowing at the name of Iesus was used in the time of Arrius ? VVhether there be any one Father , who speakes directly and punctually of bowing at the name of Iesus ; and who he is if any such there be ? VVhether Popes , or Popish Councels and Authours were not the first broachers , and chiefe propagatours of this Ceremony ? What difference is there betweene Papists and Protestants bowing at the name of Iesus , since Protestants condemne them for this Ceremony , and yet doe use it ? VVhat reasons are there , that men should bow onely at the name of Iesus , more than at the name of Saviour , which is the same with Iesus ; or at the name of Emmanuel , God , or the like ? That if we be reproached for the name of Christ , [ not Iesus ] happy are w● , inasmuch as we are partakers of christs sufferings . keywords: acts; altars; appendix; bowing; cap; ceremony; christ; church; col; communion; cor; doe; doth; duty; fathers; god; hath; hee; ibid; iesus; iesus christ; iohn; knee; lib; lord; mat; men; owne; page; phil; place; popish; saviour; scripture; sonne; text; things; time; tom; widdowes; writes; ● ● cache: A10188.xml plain text: A10188.txt item: #7 of 153 id: A10189 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A looking-glasse for all lordly prelates Wherein they may cleerely behold the true divine originall and laudable pedigree, whence they are descended; together with their holy lives and actions laid open in a double parallel, the first, betweene the Divell; the second, betweene the Iewish high-priests, and lordly prelates; and by their double dissimilitude from Christ, and his Apostles. date: 1636.0 words: 37058 flesch: 67 summary: Thus , either by violence ye raven , orelse by ambition , subtillie ye pi●…ter away and wrongfully wrest , and by false title possesse those goods which for the sustentation of the poore members of Christ ( whom from our first ●…all we have hated ) were bestowed and given , consuming them as ye yourselves list , and wherewith ye cherish and maintaine an innumerable sort of whores , strump●…ts , and 〈◊〉 with whom ye ride pompous●…ie like mightie princes , farre otherwise going , then those poore beggerlie Preists of the primitive Church . ●…heeue , & others . keywords: acts; apostles; bee; bishops; booke; ceremonies; christ; church; contrary; day; divell; doe; experience; farre; gods; good; hath; hee; himselfe; iohn; kings; lawes; lord; lordly; lordships; man; math; men; ministers; new; owne; people; popish; power; preach; preaching; prelates; present; priests; saviour; sermons; set; state; things; world; yea cache: A10189.xml plain text: A10189.txt item: #8 of 153 id: A10190 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Lord bishops, none of the Lords bishops. Or A short discourse, wherin is proved that prelaticall jurisdiction, is not of divine institution, but forbidden by Christ himselfe, as heathenish, and branded by his apostles for antichristian wherin also sundry notable passages of the Arch-Prelate of Canterbury in his late booke, intituled, A relation of a conference, &c. are by the way met withall. date: 1640.0 words: 38531 flesch: 68 summary: But as the Poet said , Dic mibi , si fi●l tis L●● , qualis eris● Tell me , if thou thy selfe wert a Lion , what manner of man wouldst thou be ? First , their Hierarch●e is 〈◊〉 at all , nor in any thing ( as neither g●o●●ded ; so ) regulated by the Law of God , and of C●●ist , but meerly by their own Lawlesse Canons , which are the Laws of their Lawlesse Kingdome . keywords: antichrist; apostles; authority; bishops; ceremonies; christ; church; doe; doth; england; god; gods; good; hath; himselfe; holy; iesus; jure; kingdome; law; lord; man; men; ministers; peace; people; pope; prelates; prelaticall; said; saith; scripture; set; spirit; thou; thy; way; word; yea; ● ● cache: A10190.xml plain text: A10190.txt item: #9 of 153 id: A10191 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Newes from Ipswich discovering certaine late detestable practises of some domineering lordly prelates, to undermine the established doctrine and discipline of our church, extirpate all orthodox sincere preachers and preaching of Gods word, usher in popery, superstition and idolatry : with their late notorious purgations of the new fastbooke, contrary to His Majesties proclamation, and their intolerable affront therein offred to the most illustrious Lady Elizabeth, the Kinge onely sister, and her children, (even vvhiles they are novv royally entertained at court) [i]n blotting them out of the collect, and to His Majesty, His Queene, and their royall progeny, in blotting them out of the number of Gods elect. date: 1636.0 words: 5145 flesch: 66 summary: If these Prelats then be thus desperatly wicked and popish , as to take advantage of Gods judgements to suppresse the preaching and Preachers of his Word when it is most necessary and usefull , and to countenance , justifie , and set up Popery , superstition , idolatry , error and disorder ( the chiefe causes of our plagues ) even in these dayes of pestilence , & that in the very Fastbooke to abuse and h mock God to his face , to dishonor his Majesty , and grieve his peoples soules ; how transcendently impious & popish wil they prove , when God shal stay this plague , if they bee not now deservedly punished for these their notorious impieties ? And is it not high time then for his Majesty to hang up such Archtraytors to our faith , Church , religion , & such truebred sons to the Roman Antichrist , ( from whom i Dr. Pocklington bosts they are lineally descended ) & to execute judgement on them for these strange purgations , & other their Romish Innovations , whereat the whole Kingdom crie shame ; which breed a general feare of a sudden alteration of our religiō ? Certainly til his Majesty shal see these purgations rectified , superstition & idolatry removed , Gods Sabbaths duly sanctified , the suppressed Preachers & * preaching of Gods word restored , and hang up some of these Romish Prelates & Inquisitors before the Lord , as the k Gibeonites once did the 7. sons of Saul , we can never hope to abate any of Gods plagues , or draw down any of his blessings on us by l such a fast , and Fastbook as this , but augment his plagu●s and judgements more and more , which have strangely increased since this fast begun , contrary to al human reason and probability , whereas it much decreased before ; the total number dying of the plague the week before the fast , being but 458. & 58 parishes infected , and the very first weeke of the fast 838 ( treble the number the 2. last greatest plagues ) & 67 parishes infected , m Cambridge , Norwich , Hampton , Bath , & other eminent places cleare before , being likewise visited since this fast begun ; a cleare evidence , that God is much offended with these purgations & the restraint of preaching on the fastday , against which some Prelats are so mad , that they have silenced & persecuted divers Ministers since the fast proclaimed , there being now so many suspended in our Norwich Diocesse , only for not yeelding to popish innovations , that in sundry Churches they have neither prayers , preaching , nor fasting : which hath brought the plague among them , and made the people at their wits ends , many Ministers & people there having left the Kingdome , and thousands more being ready to depart the Land , there being never such a persecution or havock made among Gods Ministers since Q Maries daies , as a lecherous proud insolent Prelate hath there lately made against all Lawes of God and man , to the astonishment of the whole Realme . O our most pious King Charles as thou hast in two severall p Declarations , protested before God to all thy loving Sub●ects , that thou wilt never give way to the licensing or authorizing of any thing , whereby ANY INNOVATION IN THE LEAST DEGREE may creepe into our Church ; nor ever connive at ANY BACKSLIDING TO POPERY ; and that it is thy hearts desire to be found worthy of that title which thou esteemest the most glorious in all thy Crowne , Defender of the faith ; to now behold these desperate innovations , purgations , and Romish practises of thy Prelates , in open affront of these thy Declarations ; & now or never shew thy selfe ( as we all hope , beleeve , and pray thou wilt ) a Prince more worthy of this glorious Title , than any of thy royal progenitors , by rooting all Popery , superstition , idolatry , errors , innovations , out of this Church and & Kingdom , by restoring the preaching , the Preachers of Gods word and purity of his worship , and q taking vengeance on these perfidious Prelates , who have thus gelded thy fastbook , ( and intend to make an Index expurgatorius upon all other ancient English Writers ere they be reprinted , a thing considerable , ) thus openly abused thy onely sister , and her children , now present with thee ; oppressed and grieved thy faithfull subjects , dishonored thy God , betrayed thy religion , increased the plague among thy people , & as much as in them lyeth , robbed thee both of thy Gods and peoples loves , & pulled thy Crowne off thy Royal head , to set it on their own trayterous ambitious pates , by exercising all ecclesiastical power , yea Papal jurisdiction over thy subjects in their own names and rights alone ; and by trampling all thy lawes and Subjects liberties like Cobwebs , thy subjects like Dogs and dirt , under their tyrannical Papal feet . keywords: church; fast; gods; preaching; tcp; text; thy; word cache: A10191.xml plain text: A10191.txt item: #10 of 153 id: A10198 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: XVI. New quæres proposed to our Lord Prælates. date: 1637.0 words: 7722 flesch: 61 summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Can our Arch-Bishops , Bishops , and their Officialls graunt Lycenses , for money , to any of his Majesties Subjects to marry without asking Banes , it being directly contrary to the Statutes of 2. & 3. Ed. 6. c. 21. keywords: bishops; church; churches; law; lordships; majesties; ministers; new; people; subjects; tcp; temporall cache: A10198.xml plain text: A10198.txt item: #11 of 153 id: A10199 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The vnlouelinesse, of loue-lockes. Or, A summarie discourse, proouing: the wearing, and nourishing of a locke, or loue-locke, to be altogether vnseemely, and vnlawfull vnto Christians In which there are likewise some passages collected out of fathers, councells, and sundry authors, and historians, against face-painting; the wearing of supposititious, poudred, frizled, or extraordinary long haire; the inordinate affectation of corporall beautie: and womens mannish, vnnaturall, imprudent, and vnchristian cutting of their haire; the epidemicall vanities, and vices of our age. By William Prynne, Gent. Hospitij Lincolniensis. date: 1628.0 words: 39802 flesch: 78 summary: u Cu● 〈◊〉 tuam p●●ci●fi● reb●● i●pi●gu●● & a●●●n●● , quam p●st pauc●s dies ve●mes d●uoraturi sun● i● sepulc●●o : anim●● ver● t●am no● ad●●nas , b●ni●●p●rib●● , qua De● & A●geli● 〈◊〉 praesenta●da est in c●li● ? Quare 〈◊〉 tuam vil●p●●dis , & ●i c●●nem praponi●● Domi●am aucillari , & aucillam d●minari , Per●●ns C●s●s o● Conscien●e l. ● . keywords: al ●; alex; beautie; bee; cap; cause; christians; co ●; contrary; cor; countrey; custome; cut; d ●; doe; doeth; effeminate; epist; est; euen; euery; euill; ex ●; f ●; fashions; glory; god; gods; good; h ●; haire; hath; haue; heads; hearts; hee; himselfe; hist; l. 1; l. 2; l. 3; lib; lockes; lord; loue; man; men; naturall; nature; needes; non; nourishing; owne; p ●; persons; pet; pr ●; pride; qu ●; quam; qui; quid; quod; rom; sect; sed; set; si ●; sinfull; sinne; soules; tertul; th ●; themselues; times; tom; v ●; vaine; vanitie; vnlawfull; vnto; vpon; vse; weare; wearing; wee; women; world; yea; ● e; ● es; ● g; ● m; ● n; ● o; ● r; ● s; ● sse; ● st; ● t; ● u; ● y; ● ● cache: A10199.xml plain text: A10199.txt item: #12 of 153 id: A25647 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Practicall law, controlling and countermanding the common law, and the sword of vvarre the sword of iustice against all the late declarations and publications of the army, that they fight for the peoples liberties and lawes. date: 1648.0 words: 2413 flesch: 56 summary: That for this cause only the said Perryn hath commenced a Suit at Law against your Petitioner , which will come to triall this Assizes to the Petitioners utter ruine , the Articles of Exeter ( in which your Petitioner is comprehended ) being not pleadable at Law , unlesse your Excellencies accustomed goodnesse be extended for his reliefe herein , which is according to your Excellencies engagement upon the rendering the said Garrison . That the said Captaine Yroman is comprized within the Articles of Exon , as appeareth by your Excellencies Certificate annexed , and hath made his Composition at Goldsmiths-hall , for his said Delinquency , within the eour moneths mentioned in the said Articles , as appeareth by Certificate readie to bee produced . If this Petition be true , I desire the Iudge to take care that the Articles of Exon be made good to the Petitioner , and that the parties complained of de forbear further proceedings at Law , or b shew cause to the Court Marshall to the contrary . keywords: articles; law; said; sir; sword; text cache: A25647.xml plain text: A25647.txt item: #13 of 153 id: A25937 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Articles of impeachment and accusation, exhibited in Parliament against Colonell Nathaniel Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the city and castle of Bristoll, by Clement Walker and William Prynne, Esquires : together with a letter from Mr. Prynne to Colonell Fiennes. date: 1643.0 words: 3695 flesch: 33 summary: Articles of impeachment and accusation, exhibited in Parliament against Colonell Nathaniel Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the city and castle of Bristoll, by Clement Walker and William Prynne, Esquires : together with a letter from Mr. Prynne to Colonell Fiennes. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 241:E78, no 3) Articles of impeachment and accusation, exhibited in Parliament against Colonell Nathaniel Fiennes touching his dishonorable surrender of the city and castle of Bristoll, by Clement Walker and William Prynne, Esquires : together with a letter from Mr. Prynne to Colonell Fiennes. keywords: articles; castle; city; colonell; enemies; enemy; fiennes cache: A25937.xml plain text: A25937.txt item: #14 of 153 id: A45227 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A seasonable vindication of the supream authority and jurisdiction of Christian kings, lords, parliaments, as well over the possessions as persons of delinquent prelates and churchmen, or, An antient disputation of the famous Bohemian martyr John Hus, in justification of John Wickliffs 17 article proving by 43 arguments taken out of fathers, canonists, school-men, the supream authority and jurisidiction of princes, parliaments, temporal lords, and other lay-men, who have endowed the church with temporalities, to take away and alien the temporal lands and possessions of delinquent bishops, abbots and church-men, by way of medicine or punishment, without any sacrilege, impiety or injustice : transcribed out of the printed works of Iohn Hus, and Mr. Iohn Fox his acts and monuments printed London 1641, vol. I, p. 585, &c : with an additional appendix thereunto of proofs and domestick presidents in all ages, usefull for present and future times / by William Prynne ... date: 1660.0 words: 48093 flesch: 68 summary: 84 , 111 , 112 , 114 , 119 See Malmesbury de Ges●● , P●tisi●●● , 〈◊〉 Radu●s de Di●eto , Chron. * Catalogue of Bishop● , p● 137. (g) Beda , Ingulphi Historia , Malmesbury de Gestis Regum & Pontisicum Angliae , keywords: abbots; acts; almes; angl; anno; archbishop; authority; b ●; bishop; bishoprick; brit; canterbury; case; christ; church; churches; clergy; col; commons; death; doth; eccles; edward; england; followeth; fox; g ●; god; godwin; goods; h ●; hath; henry; hist; holinshed; iohn; king; king henry; kingdom; lands; law; lawfull; laws; london; lords; man; mat; men; monuments; non; paris; parliament; people; persons; pope; possessions; power; prelates; priests; queen; realm; reason; richard; s ●; sacrilege; saith; speed; sundry; t ●; taking; temporalties; things; thomas; thou; time; vel; vvilliam; westm; years; ● d; ● e; ● m; ● n; ● o; ● ● cache: A45227.xml plain text: A45227.txt item: #15 of 153 id: A51058 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A moderate and most proper reply to a declaration, printed and published under His Maiesties name, December 8 intended against an ordinance of Parliament for assessing, but indeed animating and encouraging the malignants, and delinquents, in their violent courses, for the maintenance of themselves, and their malignant army. date: 1642.0 words: 5109 flesch: 59 summary: How many substantiall Citizens of London have beene seduced to set hands to petitions of dangerous consequence , and to withdraw their hands from assisting the defence of Parliament and Kingdome ? How many papists , blasphemers , and men of dersperate fortunes , are met in the Armies that fight against the Parliament , yea : how many papists in these times of Warre , are authorized against Law by his Majesties Commission to buy , and take up Armes , when as the Protestants in divers Counties have beene totally disarmed , and their Armes taken away , notwithstanding their property in them ? How many godly , pious and painfull Divines , are now robbed , and plundered , their bookes and writings spoyl'd and defac'd , and themselves driven to London , as to a City of refuge ? And withall how many of those Ministers that preach against the Parliament are found to be the same that were heretofore questioned by the Parliament , for scandalous , vitious , and abominable lives ? And ( not to put from London over hastily ) is there not a cause to secure dangerous persons in London , and that those of London should be forced to defend London , when as neare as London was to Branford , so neare ( in cleare probabilities ) was London to the state of Brainford ? But certainly the Parliament wisheth His absence from the Army , wherelies the danger , and his presence in Parliament , where is His assured safety . keywords: army; commons; declaration; house; king; london; parliament; property; text cache: A51058.xml plain text: A51058.txt item: #16 of 153 id: A54194 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: One sheet, or, If you will a winding sheet for the good old cause in order to a decent funerall, in case of a second death / by W.P., philopolites. date: 1659.0 words: 2781 flesch: 47 summary: O' P. was as much for this Good old Cause as our new Pretenders , till he saw an opportunity of setling himself in the Saddle , and then the Keepers of the Liberty of E●gland might lead his horse , but Death dismounting this Champion , his Son according to the Humble Petition and Advice assumed his Fathers Room , to whom ( as is obvious enough ) Addresses were made from most Counties and Corporations in England ; looking upon him as their lawfull and supreame Govenour ( the family of the Stewarts being extirpated by these continuall new Modellers , ) But Astra regunt homines , and M●● being most predominant , at that very time when the signe was in the stomack , down goes Richard without an aspect of Opposition . This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A54194 of text R32207 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P134). keywords: cause; death; english; good; nation; sheet; text cache: A54194.xml plain text: A54194.txt item: #17 of 153 id: A56125 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: An additional appendix to Aurum reginæ making some further discoveries of the antiquity, legality, quiddity, quantity, quality of this royal duty, of the oblations, fines from which it ariseth, as well in Ireland as England, the process by, the lands, chattels out of which it is levyed, and that the unlevyed arears thereof at the Queen-consorts death, of right accrue to the king and none other, by his royal prerogative, and ought to be levyed for his use by the laws of the realm / collected by William Prynne, Esq. ... date: 1668.0 words: 26357 flesch: 73 summary: In like manner● our ancient Kings before and since the Conquest , did not only honor their Queen Consorts with * ROYAL DIADEMS of GOLD , rich Robes , and other O●●●ment● , ) a●d assign ●●em sundry ●●●ge Mannors , Rents , Pensions for their Dowries , to maintain their Pomp , Courts , Officers , Attendants in Magnifice●t splendor , but li●ewise reserved certain● Ounce● of Gold , out of so●e of thei● ancient ●emes●● Lands and Man●ors to ●e annually paid to their Queens , with other sums of money , and portions of Wool , for their Ornaments , Apparell , Lamps , and Furniture o● their Wardrobes . For Fines , Compositions , Ransoms for , and Pardons of all sorts of Trespasses and Offences ; As , alienations or purchases of Lands held of the King in Capite : or granting , purchasing , receiving Lands , Houses , Rents in mortmain , or marrying the Kings Wards , Widdows , or Women holding Lands in Capit● , without the Kings preceding special licenses ; for and of all ●orts of Trespasses in Forests , punishable by Forest Lawes , all kinds of Extorsions , Oppressions , Maintenances , ●onsp●racies , Frauds , Deceits , selling Corrupt Wines mixed with Lees , or with old , or decayed Wines , or other mixtures● or Wines ungauged , or not according to the Legal measure , assise or p●ice ; and for and of all other Trespasses , Grievances , Misdemeanors punished by the Kings Justices in any Court , Country , Forest , Eyre , submitted to by the parti●s fined , and estreated into the Kings Exchequer . keywords: ad alium; alium de; anno; auro reginae; auro suo; balliva; breve; brevia; c. de; c. et; catallis; continetur; crastino; d. de; dat; de 4; de auro; de bonis; de debito; de fine; de jure; de onerando; de quodam; de reman; de termino; de terris; de vic; de ●; defunctae de; denar; die; est; et ad; et de; et non; et quia; et ●; faceret; fieri; fine; fuit; fuit vic; habend; hoc; hujus; ibidem; idem; illos; inter; iohannis de; ita quod; l. de; mandavit; manum; manum regis; marc; non ad; nunc; nuper reginae; praeceptum; praedicti; praedicti ad; praefatae; praetextu; pro; quod cepit; quod de; quos; regem de; regem et; reginae de; regis de; regis nunc; rot; s. de; sancti; sicut; solvend; sua; suo; suo de; terris et; versus; vic; ● ad; ● t; ● ● cache: A56125.xml plain text: A56125.txt item: #18 of 153 id: A56129 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The arraignment, conviction and condemnation of the Westminsterian-Juncto's engagement with a cautionarie exhortation to all honest English spirits to avoid the danger of perjurie by taking of it. date: 1649.0 words: 5992 flesch: 68 summary: 5. It will lose our Interest , honour and reputation in and withall other Kingdomes or States , who will refuse to owne or treat with us a State , thus forcibly and treasonably erected ; o● else treat with us , as the puniest and meanest State in the World , whose Agents and publique Ministers must give place to those of all Kings , Princes and other States ●hatsoeve● which are ancient●● then it , ●ver by the [v] Law of Nations and resolution of all Heraulds ; which the generosity of the English Nation ( the ancientst and first Christian Kingdome in the Christian World [e] 25 H. 8 c. 22. & all Act● of the Subsi●ies granted by the ●●aity or Clergy in their reignes [f] Exact . keywords: bee; engagement; english; king; kingdome; lawes; lords; oath; text; ● ● cache: A56129.xml plain text: A56129.txt item: #19 of 153 id: A56130 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Aurum reginæ, or, A compendious tractate and chronological collection of records in the Tower and Court of Exchequer concerning queen-gold evidencing the quiddity, quantity, quality, antiquity, legality of this golden prerogative, duty, and revenue of the queen-consorts of England ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ... date: 1668.0 words: 79427 flesch: 69 summary: per ipsos seu eorum aliquem de et in Manerio de Sturminstre Mareschall voca● . The next I meet with is this of the 9th year of King John. REX , &c. Baronibus , &c. Sciatis , quod volumus , ut de caetero , reddatur Aurum Reginae ad Scaccarium nostrum , quod inde audiatis Compotum , sicut de aliis Debitis nostris ; et quod fidelis noster ( 5 ) keywords: 100; 4 l.; ad diem; ad manum; ad praedictum; ad quem; adam de; alium de; angliae de; anno; annum; apud; armigeri; auri; auro et; auro reginae; auro suo; aurum; aurum de; avro; balliva; baronibus; baronibus de; barons; bonis et; breve de; brevia de; c. ad; c. de; c. et; c. fieri; c. ideo; c. ita; c. postea; c. quod; c. t.; c. teste; c. tunc; catallis; com; communia de; compotum de; consorti; continetur; coram; court; cum; curia; custodia; d. de; d. quos; de 4; de aliis; de amerc; de asthorp; de auro; de banco; de bello; de bonis; de caetero; de com; de consimili; de contemptu; de crastino; de debito; de dicto; de diversis; de eisdem; de elvedon; de eodem; de exit; de exitibus; de fieri; de fine; de finibus; de holt; de johanne; de jure; de kyngeston; de london; de magno; de nobis; de notton; de onerando; de parte; de praedictis; de privato; de quibus; de quindena; de quodam; de recept; de reman; de roberto; de sponte; de stanton; de termino; de terris; de uno; de weston; de ●; debent; debet de; denar; dicto; die; domini; duty; eadem; edward; ejusdem; england; est; et ad; et aliis; et catallis; et concedere; et de; et non; et pro; et quod; et successoribus; et tenementis; exchequer; fac; facto; fieri fac; fine; fuerunt; fuit; gold; h. de; habend; hanaperio; henry; hoc; ibidem; idem; ideo; illos; imperpetuum; inde; inter; ipse; ipsius; ipsius reginae; ipsum; ita quod; item de; johannis; king; l. de; l. pro; lands; licentia; loveday de; manerio de; manum; marc; mariae de; maritagio; michaelis; necnon de; nobis; nobis et; nobiscum; non; non ad; norff; nostrae de; nostro; nostro pro; nunc; nuper; nuper de; nuper reginae; offic; omnibus; paschae; pertinentiis; philippae; possint et; praedictum; praefatae reginae; prioris de; pro; pro auro; pro regina; prout; quae ad; quae de; quam; quas; queen; quod ad; quod cum; quod de; quod non; quodam fine; quos; records; rege de; reginae angliae; reginae de; regis de; regis nunc; regni; reign; return; rex; richardi; roberti; rotulo; rotulum de; s. de; s. et; s. pro; s. quos; sancti; scac; scaccario; seu; sibi; sibi et; sicut; solut; solvend; sua; sub; suff; suis; suis de; suo de; suum de; svo; tam de; terris et; thomae; thomas de; time; tua; tua fieri; tunc; vel; vic; villae de; w. de; walterus de; warr; westm; willielmi de; writs; year; ● ● cache: A56130.xml plain text: A56130.txt item: #20 of 153 id: A56131 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Bathonia rediviva to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, the humble address of the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of Your Majesties city of Bath in the county of Somersett. date: 1660.0 words: 1178 flesch: 59 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A56131 of text R21157 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3899). 178 F The rate of 178 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. keywords: bath; citizens; majesties; majesty; text cache: A56131.xml plain text: A56131.txt item: #21 of 153 id: A56135 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A breviate of the life of VVilliam Laud, Arch-bishop of Canterbury extracted (for the most part) verbatim, out of his owne diary, and other writings, under his owne hand : collected and published at the speciall instance of sundry honourable persons, as a necessary prologue to the history of his tryall, for which the criminall part of his life, is specially reserved / by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier [sic]. date: 1644.0 words: 28110 flesch: 75 summary: The King died that day of a Tertian Ague at Theobalds , Prince Charles that day was proclaimed King , Aprill 3. I delivered into the hands of the Duke of Buckingham briefe Annotations upon the life and death of most renouned King Iames , which he Commanded me to describe ; The Copy whereof found in the Bishops Study under his owne hand is here inserted . And for my selfe O Lord , though the sorrowes of my heart are inlarged in that thou gavest this most honourable freind into my bosome , and hast taken him againe from me , yet blessed be thy name , O Lord , that hast given me patience . keywords: anno; aprill; archbishop; august; bishop; buckingham; chamber; charles; church; commons; court; day; doctor; duke; friday; god; good; hand; hee; house; iune; july; june; king; letters; life; london; lord; march; master; mee; night; note; order; owne; oxford; parliament; saint; saturday; selfe; sir; sunday; things; thursday; time; tower; tuesday; wednesday cache: A56135.xml plain text: A56135.txt item: #22 of 153 id: A56136 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A brief apologie for all nonsubscribers, and looking-glasse for all apostate perjured prescribers & subscribers of the new engagement wherein they may clearly behold their presidents, sin, horrour, punishment. date: 1649.0 words: 5602 flesch: 52 summary: At last● by Gods grace , and good counsel , coming to some quietness of conscience , he fully resolved to give over his life for the confession of that Faith which he had formerly abjured and subscribed against : and thereupon preaching and maintaining it publikely , was app●ehended , burnt , and undauntedly sealed it with his blood , to make amends for his former cowardly and unworthy subscription , having no p●ace of conscience till then . * In the fourth yeer of King Richard the second , Walter Tyler , Iack Straw , and their rebellious rout of the Peasantry , made a great Insurrection and Rebelli●●against the King and his Counsel ; and marching up to London in ● numerous body , by the favour of the meane● sort of Citizens , who confederated with them , entred both the C●ty and Tower , beheaded the Archbishop of Canterbury , with divers others , affronted , commanded and insulted over the King and Nobles at their pleasures , as the onely Kings of England ; tendring the King very high and insolent Propositions to signe , and notwithstanding his present condescention to them , conspired to seize upon his Person , and keep him alive amongst them for a time , that people might the more boldly repair to them , and think whatever they did was done by the Kings authority , till they had gotte● power enough , that they needed not ●o fear any force which should be made against them ; And then they resolved to slay all the Nobles that might give any counsel , or make any resistance against them , together with all Lawyers , with the Knights of S. Johns and the Rhodes : And lastly , they would have killed the King himself , with all men of possessions , Bishops , Canons , Parsons of Churches , and Monks , except Friers Mendicants ; and have burnt and plundered the City of London it self , and then have created Wat Tyler King in Kent , and others of the Chief leading Rebels Kings in other Counties . keywords: conscience; engagement; fear; god; hand; king; life; lord; subscribers; text; ● ● cache: A56136.xml plain text: A56136.txt item: #23 of 153 id: A56138 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A briefe memento to the present un-parliamentary junto touching their present intentions and proceedings, to depose & execute Charles Steward, their lawfull King. By William Prynne Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons, and prisoner under the Armies tyranny; who, it seemes, have levyed war against the Houses of Parliament, their quandam-masters whose Members they now forcibly take and detaine captives, during their lawfull pleasures. date: None words: 7553 flesch: 70 summary: And that you did make this Recognition and acknowledgement heartily , willingly , & truly , upón the true faith of a Christian Now whether your present actings , & intentions against the King ●…e not diametrically repugnant to this so●…emn Oath ( which most of you have taken 〈◊〉 ●…hese warrs , & som of you since the Treaty , when 〈◊〉 Serjea●…ts at 〈◊〉 , &c. ) let God and the World before whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 owne Consciences in which you then swore , determine you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Popes & 〈◊〉 desigues . That both Houses are resolved to 〈◊〉 their lives and 〈◊〉 , ●…or the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the true Religion . keywords: army; houses; king; members; parliament; person; present; text cache: A56138.xml plain text: A56138.txt item: #24 of 153 id: A56140 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A breife memento to the present vnparliamentary ivnto touching their present intentions and proceedings to depose and execute Charles Stewart, their lawful King / by William Prynne ... date: 1649.0 words: 7467 flesch: 61 summary: And seeing I ( and above two hundred Members more ) being forcibly secluded from you by the Officers of the Armies unparaleld violence upon our Persons and the House , cannot speak my mind freely to you in , or as the House of Commons , I held it my duty freely to write my thoughts unto you , only as private Persons under the force , consulting in a House , without your Fellow-Members advice or concurrence , about the speedy deposing and executing of KING CHARLES , your lawfull Soveraigne , to please the Generall , Officers and Grand Councel of the Army ( who have unjustly usurped to them the supream Authority both of King and Parliament ) or rather the Iesuits and Popish Priests among or neare them , by whose Councels they and you are now wholly swayed , and whose trayterous designes you really execute , in most of your late Votes and Actings . That your selves among other Members , have in above one hundred Remonstrances , Declarations , Petitions , Ordinances and printed papers published in the name , and by the authority of one or both Houses of Parliament , professed , both to the King himselfe , Kingdome , World , and forraign States , that you never intended the least hurt , injury , or violence to the Kings Person , Crown , Dignity , or Posterity : but intended to him and his Royall Posterity , more honour happinesse Glory and Greatnesse , then ever was yet enjoyed by any of his Royall Predecessours : That you will ever make good to the uttermost with your lives and fortunes , the faith and allegiance , which in truth and sinceritie you have alwayes horne to his Majesty , that you have proposed no other ends to your selves , but the performance of all duty and loyalty to his Majesties Person . keywords: army; force; houses; king; members; parliament; person; present; text cache: A56140.xml plain text: A56140.txt item: #25 of 153 id: A56142 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A brief necessary vindication of the old and new secluded members, from the false malicious calvmnies and of the fundamental rights, liberties, privileges, government, interest of the freemen, Parliaments, people of England, from the late avowed subversions 1. of John Rogers ... 2. of M. Nedham ... / by William Prynne ... date: 1659.0 words: 24628 flesch: 51 summary: The first , most furiously chargeth me ; and my secluded companions in the Van , the later in the Rear : The one with whole Vollies of fired squibs , more like a Whiffler , than a M●skateer ; shooting nothing but wild-fire , and i bitter words , without bullets . ( wherein his Interest doth nought else , But Lie ; ) as the basis whereon his pre●eve● Parliament , and Rep● blike are bottomed ; which fast or stand upon the truth or falshood of it : wherein he is so peremptory , as not only to proclame us 〈◊〉 ( to the present and succeeding Generations ) in the Highest Degree ▪ without hea●ing or ●●ial , but to pronounce this peremptory Sentence against us ; a That not only by the Law of Necessity ( which they pleaded that acted it but ) 〈◊〉 by the * Law of the Land , they might have been called to account for their lives in a Capital manner : But were Favourably , as well as Iustly dealt with , in being depri●ed only of their Interest in the House , when as their 〈◊〉 might have been required . keywords: army; cause; commons; crown; death; england; god; government; house; interest; king; kingdom; law; lords; members; nedham; officers; parliament; people; power; protestant; publike; religion; right; rogers; sitting; true cache: A56142.xml plain text: A56142.txt item: #26 of 153 id: A56143 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A brief, pithy discourse upon I Corinthians 14. 40. Let all things be done decently and in order. Tending to search out the truth in question: Whether it be lawfull for church-governours to command and impose indifferent decent things (not absolutely necessary) in the administration of Gods worship? Written some years past by a judicious divine, and seasonable for our present times date: 1661.0 words: 6345 flesch: 72 summary: 2. That true Christian Liberty , consisteth principally in the free Actual use of things lawful and indifferent in themselves , and the Prohibition or their free Actual use to Christians is expresly censured as Anti-evangelical , a badge of false Apostles , of Apostlates from the faith , Hypocrites , men of seared Conscienc●s , Anti-christian Usurpers , 1 Tim. 4. 1. 3. 4 Now the Spirit speaketh expresly , that in the later times some shall depart from the faith , giving heed to seducing Spirits , and Doctrines of divels ; Speaking Lyes in Hypocrisy , having their , Consciences seared with an hot Iron , forbidding to Marry , and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath Created to be received with Thanksgiving : Tending to search out the truth in question: Whether it be lawfull for church-governours to command and impose indifferent decent things (not absolutely necessary) in the administration of Gods worship? keywords: answer; ceremonies; church; command; cor; governours; liberty; things cache: A56143.xml plain text: A56143.txt item: #27 of 153 id: A56145 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Canterburies tooles, or, Instruments wherewith he hath effected many rare feats, and egregarious exploits ... date: 1641.0 words: 2174 flesch: 48 summary: 6. A most rare and super excellent thing called the oath Ex Officio or the Beneficiall oath , for never was auricular confession so usefull and gainfull to the iugling priests of Rome as this hath bin to Prelates , for that did but onely make woman and people to confesse their relapses and maids their backslidings : and onely touched deeds done and the Priests would pardon them but this Oath makes men to confesse their thoughts , for which sometimes the Bishop will make them pay deare , and if at any time either the Bishop or any of his shavelings have not their bags crammed by Church Wardens presentments or Parrators information , then they send for some minister of honest man whom they know to be not so desperatly wicked , as their iniurious maintainers , & tender him this oath , wch if he refuse , to prison he goes if he were as good as George a Greene , and if he take it , he must either forswear and damme himself as the Bishop doth , or else betray himself and confesse his most private matters , words , & the very thoughts of his heart which he poore man chooseth rather to do , and so puts himself in the mouth of the wolfe , than to periure and damme himself , and to go to hell with Bishops , where upon he cōfessing , the Bishop suspends , excōmunicates , deprives , degrades , imprisons or punisheth the poor man at his pleasure , then he being in this wofull case will be very glad to speake with some of the Bishops Officers , who will shew him so much friendly honesty as to take a great bribe to speak a small word for him , and so perhaps meets with the man who for that purpose first caused him to be questioned and so he seeing his friend , and the Bishop feeling his mans pulses , gives the poore man some releasement , though he will not quite discharge him , but that his servants may at other times have some feeling of him , and thus this Oath Ex Officio hath formerly been wondrous beneficiall though now it grow something old and rotten , and begins to stink and putrefie , yet it will passe currant in some countreys , as Italy and Spain , and some part of France , but by all meanes carry it not into Scotland , for they be such resolute fellows they will put it in a poke mantle and hang it on blind Balaams Nagge and send it packing to Rome where is no neede of it because there is already great plenty of this and many such like . Canterburies tooles, or, Instruments wherewith he hath effected many rare feats, and egregarious exploits ... keywords: bishops; hath; man; oath; prelates; text cache: A56145.xml plain text: A56145.txt item: #28 of 153 id: A56146 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The case of the impeached lords, commons, and citizens; truely stated date: 1648.0 words: 8197 flesch: 41 summary: But neither God nor man will be long thus mocked or deluded by them : and this present Age and all future Generations , will conclude at last in despite of all opposite Powers and Evasions ; That the Generalls and Armies refusing to disband upon the Votes and Ordinances of both Houses ; seizing the King , and rescuing him from the Commissioners of both Houses with an armed party , marching up forcibly to London against the Houses expresse commands , surprizing the Block-houses at Gravesend by force , with the slaughter of some of the Garison there settled by the Houses ; falling violently upon Sir Robert Pyes men in their quarters , and wounding some of them neer Greenwich where they were billetted by the Houses Order , without any provocation , impeaching and seizing on some Members of the Houses , and carrying them Prisoners to the Head-quarters , against their wills ; enforcing the Houses to null and repeal their owne just Votes and Ordinances , recruiting the Army with many thousands of new Souldiers , raising the Train-bands of the Countries , marching up to London in a body , seizing the Forts in Southwarke and Westminster , coming in arms to the very Houses with the fugitive Speakers and Members , putting a Guard of Horse and Foot of the Army upon both Houses , threatning by force to keep divers Members out of the House , and pull them out by head and shoulders if they presumed to intrude into them , forcing away most of the Members from the Houses ; marching through the City in triumph throwing , downe their lines and works , seizing upon the Tower of London , and the Isle of Wight , beleagring the City and both Houses of Parliament of purpose to enforce them at their pleasure sending strange and treasonable Remonstrances and Papers to the Houses to passe contrary to their Votes and judgements , and utterly ruining the Countrey with Taxes , Free-quartering upon them against the Peoples wills , and listing twice the number allowed by the Establishment , when there is no apparent Enemy in the Kingdome , nor Order of the House for such strange recruits , their violent impeaching of these innocent Lords , Members , and Citizens , and saying publikely in the Army and Houses , That the longest sword must carry it , and the Army will have this or that , whether the Houses will or not ; and that we are all but their conquered Slaves , and Vassalls , and all we have is theirs , having wonne it by the sword : and the Speakers and Engaged Members Confederacy , and Engagement to live and die with the Army in these their Treasonable proceedings , is no lesse then High Treason in good earnest in them all , and an actuall Levying of Warre against King , Kingdome , Parliament , and City ; for which God and men will one day bring them to exemplary punishment , if they unfainedly repent not of it , and give some Honourable publike reparation to those Innocent Faithfull Lords , Members , and Citizens , they have most falsly and injuriously impeached , and imprisoned for those very Treasons and practises of which themselves are only culpable . The next day being the monthly fast the Speakers and Members met at Margarets Church in Westminster , and there kept the solemn Fast without disturbance : Where Mr Speaker in the Church complained Publikely to Sr Ralph Ashton , and other Members setting near him , to this effect ; That there was a great scandal raised on him in the City , which did much trouble him , as that he had left the House , and was run away privatly to the Army , or intended to do it : keywords: army; city; commons; force; houses; london; lords; members; militia; ordinance; parliament; votes cache: A56146.xml plain text: A56146.txt item: #29 of 153 id: A56148 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A catalogue of such testimonies in all ages as plainly evidence bishops and presbyters to be both one, equall and the same ... with a briefe answer to the objections out of antiquity, that seeme to the contrary. date: 1641.0 words: 24149 flesch: 75 summary: The Patents of 31 H , 8 , pars 4. to enable Bishops to consecrate Churches , Chappels , and Church-yards with the Kings License first obtained of 36 H. 8 pars 13. to Robert Holga●e Arch-Bishop of Yorke , to enable and authorize him to keep a Metropolicall visitation , the Patents for the creation of the Bisho●rick● of Oxford , Glocester , Bristol , Peter●●roug● , and VVestminster , An. 34 , & 35 , H , ● , the Patents of Miles Goverdake , Bishop of Exeter , Iohn Povet once Bishop of VVinchester , and Iohn Story Bishop of Rochester , 5 , E. 6 , pars Prima , and of all the other Bishops made in his Raigne , by vertue of the Statute , of 1 E. 6 , c , 2. wiih all the High-Commission Patents grounded on 1 Eliz , c. 1. all which expresly resolves , That all manner of Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction , wherby Bishops are extinguished from , and elivated above ordinary Ministers , is wholy vested in , and for ever , inseperably united and annexed to the imperiall Crowne of this Realme : that our Arch-Bishops , Bishops , Arch-Deacons● and other ●cclesi●sticall Persons have no manner of jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall , but only by , under , and from the Kings Majesty , that they ought to have the jurisdiction delegated and devided to thē by speciall Letters Patents and Commissions under the Kings great Seale to execute the same , not in their owne names and right , but only Nomin● vice , Authoritate nostris Regijs ( as King Edwards , Patents run ) in the Kings owne name right and Authority , as his Officers and subs●itutes , making out all their Proces , Citations , Excommunications , Commissions o● Administration , Probate of wills , and writs of Iur● Patron●●us &c : in the Kings name only , and under his Seale of Armes , not their owne under paine of imprisonment and a premunire ; for the neglect and wilfull contempt whereof all our Bishops and their Officers have encurred severall Premunires to the forfiture of all their temporalities , goods , estates , and liberties to his Majesty , who may much enrich his Exchequer thereby . Tit. 2. de Ordinie c : 4 5. * See C●●su●●a u●ta●tis Pa●●●ien●is 〈◊〉 16.31 . keywords: acts; anno; apostles; arch; b ●; bi ●; bishops; c ●; christ; christian; church; col; con ●; death; divine; doctor; england; epist; g ●; god; gods; h ●; institution; iohn; king; ma ●; ministers; o ●; p ●; pa ●; parliament; phil; pope; prelates; presbyters; thomas; tim; tit; tom; u ●; william; ye ●; yea ●; yeares; ● d; ● e; ● er; ● es; ● l; ● m; ● n; ● r; ● s; ● st; ● t; ● ter; ● y; ● ● cache: A56148.xml plain text: A56148.txt item: #30 of 153 id: A56151 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its members... by William Prynne ... date: 1660.0 words: 21887 flesch: 49 summary: after about 6. year● dissolu●●on , ●nd 4. intervenient Vnparliamentary Conventicle● , ( wherein many of them sat as Members , and acted as in Parliament● ) by pretext of their old Wri●● and Elections as M●mber● of the long Parliament , ●ctually and legally dissolved by their traiterou● beheading of the King near 11. years before , as I have * elsewhere proved ; without any new Writs of Summon● , Resum●ons , Electio●s , or the privitie of their ●or●er ele●tors or fellow Members : Their forcible s Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the King● hands into their own ; as their only security to sit in safety ; and perjurious engaging all Officer● , Soldiers of the Armie in England , Scotland , and Ireland , to be true , faithful and constant is them without a King , or House of Lords ( by subscription● in parchmen● Roll● r●turned to them under all their hand● ) contrary to their former Votes , Declarati●ns● Remonstrances , Protestations , Oath● , Vows , Covenants , Trust● , yea the very writs , returns which made them Members , their own Souldier● , Army-Officers first Commission● , Declaration● , R●monstrance● , Propos●l● ; and depending on thi● g arme of fles● , or broken h reed of Aegypt , as a most sure invine●ble Gu●rd , security , from all forces , and enemies wha●soever that might assault , dishouse , dethrone them from their usurped supreme Regal and Parliamental Authority over the three Nations , and their Hereditary King● , * whom they would not have to reign over them ; hath not been most ●xemplarily and eminently requited by God● avenging providence , in making the very self-same Army most treacherou● and perfidious to themselves , to rise up , rebel against them several times , and turn them out of Hous● , power on a sudden when they deemed them●elves most secur● ; to make themselves more than Kings and Lord● over th●m and our whole 3 Kingdom● ; and i An host of the High ones that are on high upon the earth : reviving that Att●xie , which Solomon complained of as a great error in Government , and a divine judgement upon the Author● of State Innovation● . keywords: army; col; england; english; god; good; h ●; house; john; juncto; king; kingdom; l ●; law; laws; london; lord; m ●; man; members; nation; officers; parliament; peace; people; power; protestant; publike; r ●; secluded; self; sir; text; thomas; thou; william; yea; ● d; ● e; ● o; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A56151.xml plain text: A56151.txt item: #31 of 153 id: A56152 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The curtaine drawne, or, The Parliament exposed to view the names of the members yet living of both houses of Parliament forceably secluded by the army in 1648, or since excluded by a few of their fellow members, confirming that force which they formerly disowned. date: 1659.0 words: 2594 flesch: 84 summary: Buckinghamshire 2 0 5 Berkshire 1 0 3 Cornwall 0 0 4 Cam●ri●g 0 0 1 Cheshire 1 0 0 Derby 0 0 1 Devonshire 0 0 2 Dorse●shire 0 0 4 Essex Sir Henry Mildmay●lone 1 Gloucester 0 2 0 Huntingtonshire 1 0 0 Kent 1 0 3 Lincolnshire 0 0 2 Leicestershire 1 0 1 London 0 1 0 Northamptonshire 0 1 0 Nottinghamshire 2 2 0 Norfolk Norwich 0 0 1 Northumberland 0 0 1 Oxfordshire 0 0 1 Ru●landshire 2 2 0 Surrey 0 0 3 Staffordshire 1 1 2 Sou●●ampton 0 0 5 Suffolke 0 0 2 Sumersetshire 0 0 4 Sussex 0 0 6 Wiltshire , Salsbury 1 2 2 VVorcestershire 1 0 0 Yorkshire 0 0 8 Cinqu● Ports 0 0 2 Wales Marioneth 1 0 0 Cardigan 0 0 1 Glamorgan 0 0 1 So that th●●● are dead , or excluded , or vvithdravvn , by reason of the Secl●sion . Har●●ordshire . keywords: burg; earle; edward; esquire; henry; iohn; knight; lord; parliament; robert; sir; thomas; william cache: A56152.xml plain text: A56152.txt item: #32 of 153 id: A56153 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Mr. Prynnes demand of his liberty to the Generall, Decemb. 26, 1648 with his answer thereto, and his declaration and protestation thereupon. date: 1648.0 words: 1659 flesch: 57 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A56153 of text R35131 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P3941). The rate of 14 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: generall; house; prynne; text; william cache: A56153.xml plain text: A56153.txt item: #33 of 153 id: A56154 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Demophilos, or, The assertor of the peoples liberty plainly demonstrating by the principles even of nature itself, and by the primitive constitutions of all governments since the creation of the world that the very essence and the fundamentals of all governments and laws was meerly the safety of the people, and the advancement of their rights and liberties, to which is added the general consent of all Parliaments in the nation, and the concurrence of threescore and two kings since first this island was visible in earnest, and by commerce with other nations, hath been refined from fable and neglect / by William Prynne ... date: 1658.0 words: 24056 flesch: 52 summary: Sir Edward Co●…k at large inform us ) Do not these our New Military Reforming Soveraigns ( as if they were more than Kings ) without any free gift , grant , or Act of Parliament in a full and free Parliamentary Assembly , by their own New usurped Power , ( without any thanks at all to the People , or confirmation of their violated Laws , Liberties , Privilges , or general Pardons ) against all former Acts , and Parliamentary Votes , impose both on the Clergy and Laity , against their Wills , ( beyond all Presidents of former ages ) what excessive heavy monthly Taxe , s Excises , impo●…s , tunnage , poundage , and other payments they please upon the whole N●…tion , without intermission ( which their new-modelled Parliaments themselves must , nor alter nor controll by the 27 , 28 , 29 Articles of their Instrument ) and levy them by armed Souldiers , Violence , imprisonments , quartering , and other great penalties , fines inflicted on the Refusers of them , and dispose of them at their pleasùres when levied , without giving any account thereof to the Nation ? yea force them to pay their contributions some months before they grow due ; when no L●…nd lord can receive his Rents , nor Creditor his debts to pay these Taxes , till at , or after the time they become due ? To prevent which danger , I could heartily wish , that a free Legal English Parliament might be duly summoned , either by the Peers of the Realm , or by the Freeholders , Freemen , and Burgesses of every County , City , and Borough , in their default , a●…ording to the late Act for tri●…nial Parliaments , yet in force ( to which many●… in present power were assenting ) to redress all high violations of our Parliaments just Rights and Privileges , and prevent the like for the future , reform all publick Grievances , remove all unrighteous oppressions , compose our manifold sad Divisions , Schismes , Fractions both in Church and State , and settle our three distracted Kingdoms in such unity , peace , prosperity , after all our destructive wars , as all good men long , pray for , and none but Traytors , or professed Enemies to our Tranquillity and Welfare , can or dare oppose . keywords: act; commons; english; house; king; laws; liberties; liberty; lords; majesty; members; new; parliament; people; persons; petition; power; realm; right; souldiers; statutes; time cache: A56154.xml plain text: A56154.txt item: #34 of 153 id: A56155 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Diotrephes catechised, or, Sixteen important questions touching the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and censures (contradistinct to civill) now eagerly pretended to and challenged by a divine right, by some over-rigid Presbyterians and Independents propounded to both these dissenting parties for the further discovery of truth, the preservation of the civil Christian magistrates interest, and speedier comprimising [sic] of our present unhappy controversies touching church-government ... / proposed, published by W. Prynne ... date: 1646.0 words: 9209 flesch: 62 summary: Church and state -- Presbyterian Church. THe serious consideration of the importunate Claimes of a new kinde of Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction , by a pretended Divine Right , by those very men who of late so eagerly declaymed against the Old , as Antichristian and Papall , when challenged by our Prelats upon the selfe-same grounds and Title , hath induced me to propound these few Important Questions to the over-●…asger prosecutors of this supposed Divine Authority , at leastwise to moderate , if not extomgio●… those unseasonable deplorable late kindled flames of Contention , which if not timely prevented may prove more fatall to our Churches Kingdomes , then all the former Dissentions , and break forth into a new Civill Warre , betweene our selves , when we have totally vanquished the Common Enemy . keywords: censures; church; civill; congregations; divine; ecclesiasticall; god; jurisdiction; law; presbyteries; text cache: A56155.xml plain text: A56155.txt item: #35 of 153 id: A56157 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The doome of cowardisze [sic] and treachery or, A looking-glasse for cowardly or corrupt governours, and souldiers, who through pusillanimity or bribery, betray their trusts, to the publick prejudice Containing certaine domestick lawes, heretofore, lately made, and judgements given against such timorous and treacherous persons; fit to be known in these unhappy times of warre. By William Prynne, utter barrester of Lincolnes-Inne. Imprimatur Iohn White, Octob. 23. 1643. date: 1643.0 words: 14249 flesch: 53 summary: I finde this notable record , which I shall transcribe at large . Item , whereas it was praied by the Comm●ns , that all those who have rendred or lost Castles or Townes through the verie default of the Captaines , might be put to answer it to thi● Parliament , and severely punished according ●o their desert , by award of the Lords and Barronage , to eschew the evill examples which they have given to other● , who are Governours of Townes and Castles , it was commaunded to Sir Alexander de Buxhall Constable of the Tower of London , that he should cause to come before the Lords in Parliament at Westminster on Friday the 27 day of November in the yeere afor●said , Sir Iohn de Gomineys , and William de Weston , apprehended and detained in the said Tower by the command of our Lord the King , because they had lost and rendered such Castles and Townes to the Enemies of our Lord the King , to answer thereunto upon the Articles which shall be surmised against them for the said cause , on the behalfe of our Lord the King . 〈◊〉 of the P●●●s of the Real● , who had taken upon him safely to keepe to the aforesaid Grandfather the 〈◊〉 of B●rwicke : The said Baron perceiving afterward , that the s●id Grandfather addressed himselfe to ride into the Realme of France , the said Baron ( without co●mand of the said Grandfather ) committed the said Towne of Berwicke to a valiant Esquire Robert de Ogle , as Lieutenant to the said Baron , for to keepe safe the said Towne of Berwicke to the said Grandfather , and the said Baron went as 〈…〉 to the said parts of France to the said Grandfather● and there remained in his company . keywords: castle; day; enemies; enemy; england; grandfather; hath; himselfe; iohn; king; lord; manner; parliament; people; sir; souldiers; time; towne; victuals; william; ● ● cache: A56157.xml plain text: A56157.txt item: #36 of 153 id: A56158 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Eight military aphorismes demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness and prodigall expensiveness of all standing English forts and garrisons ... by William Prynne of Swanswick, Esquire ... date: 1658.0 words: 13980 flesch: 30 summary: 2. That all Garrisons , Castles , Forts & Block-houses throughout England if their works and fortifications were demolish'd , would be nothing else but meer despicable , worthless , barren Hills , or Clods of Earth , scarce worth two hundred pounds a yeer at their best improved value ; which no wise Statesman or enemy , upon due consideration , would either value , look after , or go about to fortifie , more then those many thousand unfortified Rocks , Hills upon the Sea-coast or in inland Counties , which any forraign or Domestick Enemies might , with as much advantage to themselves , and prejudice to the Nation , soon fortifie and Garrison with ease and advantage , if they would bestow so much charge & pains , as on those now fortified & furnished to their hands at the peoples cost , if once but Masters of the Field w●●h forts would stand the Enemies in no more stead , if now sleighted , then any other unfortified Hills , Rocks , or those Garrison'd Hills and Rocks would do before they were fortified and Garrison'd , being altogether as unuseful , unable to defend or secure the Nation and People near them from the Invasions , Plunders , Conquests of any Potent Enemy or Party stronger then these petty Garrisons , as any other unfortified , ungarrisond Hills or Rocks throughout the Island of like , or as strong a situation , and really serving only to defend the bare mercenary Garrison-Soldiers in them ; and the barren Rocks , Hills alone whereon they stand , not the whole Nation or Counties adjoining , in time of such Invasion , Danger , till they be either taken by , or surrendred to the prevailing Party & Enemy . [ in these or other times of Inland Peace ] to keep up Land-Forces and Garrisons throughout the Nation at the Peoples intolerable costs , now there is no Enemie at all in Arms amongst us , to protect the Peoples Persons and Estates from spoil and danger , when as our very Peace it self and want of armed Enemies , doth and will absolutely secure them both , without any charge at all , or either of these costly Lordly Superfluous Guardians ; which could not secure the greatest part of the Nation from the late Kings Forces , Power and Plunder in times of War , nor yet the Kings Forts , his Friends or Quar●●●● from the Parliaments Forces . keywords: blockhouses; castles; enemies; enemy; field; forts; garrisons; houses; inhabitants; men; nation; officers; pay; peace; people; persons; ships; soldiers; times; war; wars cache: A56158.xml plain text: A56158.txt item: #37 of 153 id: A56159 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: An exact catalogue of all printed books and papers of various subjects written upon sundry occasions by William Prynne ... ; before, during, since his imprisonments. date: 1660.0 words: 4684 flesch: 65 summary: 7. Lame G●les his Haultings , together with An Appendix , concerning the Popish Original and Progresse of bowing at the Name of I●sus , London 1631. 8. Histriom●stix , The Players Scourge , &c. against the intoller●b●e mischi●f● , and abuses of Common Playes and Play-houses , London 1633. keywords: anno; books; edward; england; london; members; prynne; quaeres; text; vindication; william cache: A56159.xml plain text: A56159.txt item: #38 of 153 id: A56162 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The first and second part of A seasonable, legal, and historicall vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ... wherein is irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary records, proofs, presidents, that we have such fundamentall liberties, franchises, rights, laws ... : collected, recommended to the whole English nation, as the best legacy he can leave them / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire. date: 1655.0 words: 77594 flesch: 55 summary: 2. 2. c Paterculus , Pluta●●h , Su●tomus , Antonni Chronica , Grimston , and others , in hi● Life . Q●●aest . keywords: ages; army; c. 1; c. 2; c. p.; case; church; commons; consent; contrary; councel; crown; declaration; defence; england; english; exact; force; future; general; god; good; government; hath; house; ireland; jesuites; john; judges; justice; king; kingdome; late; laws; liberties; like; london; lords; majesty; man; members; nation; new; officers; order; ought; parliament; peace; people; persons; popish; power; present; priviledges; publick; publike; realm; religion; right; self; set; souldiers; state; statutes; subjects; taxes; things; time; treason; war; wars; whatsoever; world; years; ● ● cache: A56162.xml plain text: A56162.txt item: #39 of 153 id: A56165 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament propounded to the Reverend Assembly and all moderate Christians to prevent schismes, and settle unity among us in these divided times / by a lover both of peace and truth. date: 1644.0 words: 2502 flesch: 61 summary: Foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament propounded to the Reverend Assembly and all moderate Christians to prevent schismes, and settle unity among us in these divided times / by a lover both of peace and truth. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 222:23 or 2176:13) Foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspension from the Sacrament propounded to the Reverend Assembly and all moderate Christians to prevent schismes, and settle unity among us in these divided times / by a lover both of peace and truth. keywords: cor; excommunication; hee; ministers; sacrament; text cache: A56165.xml plain text: A56165.txt item: #40 of 153 id: A56167 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A fvll reply to Certaine briefe observations and anti-queries on Master Prynnes twelve questions about church-government wherein the frivolousnesse, falseness, and grosse mistakes of this anonymous answerer (ashamed of his name) and his weak grounds for independency, and separation, are modestly discovered, reselled : together with certaine briefe animadversions on Mr. Iohn Goodwins Theomachia, in justification of independency examined, and of the ecclesisticall jurisdiction and rights of Parliament, which he fights against / by William Prynne ... date: 1644.0 words: 17244 flesch: 59 summary: Will any Parliament , State , or Nation , ( think you ) suffer such a Government to take root among them , which will un-King , un-Parliament , un-church , un-Nation them altogether , and make each severall congregation an absolute Monarchy , Church , Republick , Nation , within it selfe , depending on , subordinate wholly to it selfe , as if it and they were no part or members of the publike ? 1. To the first Question the Respondent gives no Answer at all to the things demanded , but only misrecites the Question , without my limitations ; and then seemes to refute , what himselfe propounds , not I : He should have demonstrated by direct Scriptures , That Christ hath prescribed one set immutable forme of Government to all Christian Nations , Churches in the World , from which none must vary in the least degree , without sinne , schisme , or being no true Churches of Christ , with whom good Christians may with safe conscience communicat ; and that nothing herein is , or can be left free to humane prudence , ( though themselves most stifly plead , that Christ hath prescribed no * set form of praying or preaching to Ministers , people , but left all men free to use their liberty and severall gifts in both ; on which grounds they condemne all set forms of publike ( if not private ) prayers , ( and some of them the use of the Lords owne prayer ) together with there ading of set Homilies ; upon which very grounds they must also deny all set formes of church-government , as well as of Prayer and Preaching : ) And then have positively delineated , exactly proved the modell of this pretended Government , Discipline , in every particle thereof , by Gospel-Texts , so far as to satisfie mens erronious judgments , consciences herein , that so they might either submit thereto without dispute , or propound their objections against the same . keywords: christ; christian; church; churches; god; government; hath; independent; law; new; parliament; power; text; way; word; yea cache: A56167.xml plain text: A56167.txt item: #41 of 153 id: A56169 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The good old cause rightly stated, and the false un-cased date: 1659.0 words: 4562 flesch: 52 summary: The command of the Parliaments forces and Army , being afterwards translated from the Earl of Ess●x to Sir Thomas Fairfax , by an (l) Ordinance of the Lords and ●ommons in Parliament , 15 Febr. 1644. for raysing and maintaining the sorces under his command : both Houses ordained , That there be forthwith raysed and armed for the d●fence of the King and Parliament , the true Protestant Religion , and the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom , an Army consisting of 6600 Horse , 4000 Dragooners , and 14400 Foot , under the immediate command of Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight , who is hereby constituted Commander in chief of all the forces raysed by this Ordinance , and shall from time to time be subject to such Orders and Directions as be shall receive from time to time from both Houses of Parliament , or from the Committee of both Kingdoms . keywords: army; cause; houses; kingdom; old; parliament; religion; text cache: A56169.xml plain text: A56169.txt item: #42 of 153 id: A56174 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The humble petition of Mr. Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the isle of Iersey presented to the Honorable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, of the Commons House of Parliament. date: 1641.0 words: 2585 flesch: 29 summary: The humble petition of Mr. Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the isle of Iersey presented to the Honorable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, of the Commons House of Parliament. The humble petition of Mr. Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the isle of Iersey presented to the Honorable, the knights, citizens and burgesses, of the Commons House of Parliament. keywords: arch; bookes; petitioner; prisoner; prynne; text cache: A56174.xml plain text: A56174.txt item: #43 of 153 id: A56175 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The hypocrites vnmasking, or, A cleare discovery of the grosse hypocrisy of the officers and agitators in the army concerning their pretended forwardnesse and reall syncere desires to relieve Ireland ... : by a letter of the agitators to Lieutenant Generall Crumwell, March 30, 1647 : and Colonell Robert Hammmond his unreasonable propositions to the Parliaments and some briefe observations concerning Sir Hardresse Waller, and the Lord Lisle, late governour of Ireland. date: 1647.0 words: 3552 flesch: 61 summary: 2002-03 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-05 Aptara Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-06 Sara Gothard Sampled and proofread 2002-06 Sara Gothard Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-07 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE HYPOCRITES VNMASKING ; OR A Cleare Discovery of the grosse Hypocrisy of the Officers and Agitators in the Army , concerning their pretended forwardnesse , and reall syncere desires to relieve Ireland , with the obstruction whereof they falsely charge some of the 11 impeached Members , ( who cordialy advanced it ) in the 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 13. , 11 , 12 , & 14. Articles of their mostfalse and scandalous Charge . Can this Irish Expedition be any thing else but a designe to ruine and 5 break this Army in peeces ? Certainly Reason tells us , it can be nothing else , otherwise why are not those who have been made Instruments in our countries deliverance , again thought 6 worthy to be imployed ? or why , are such [ who for their miscarriage have been cast out of the Army ] thought fit to be intrusted , and those Members of the Army incouraged and preferred to that service , when they are for the most part such , as ( had they considered their just demerrits ) might rather have expected an 7 ejection then imployment ? We are sensible , Yea , 8 farre more sensible of the bleeding condition of Ireland crying aloud for a brotherly assistance , then those forward undertakers in this present designe manifest them selves to bee , and shall willingly contribute the utmost of our abilities toward their releife , when we shall see this to be the onely thing sought after and endeavoured : keywords: agitators; army; forces; ireland; pay; service; text; time cache: A56175.xml plain text: A56175.txt item: #44 of 153 id: A56177 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A legal resolution of two important quæres of general present concernment Clearly demonstrating from our statute, common and canon laws, the bounden duty of ministers, & vicars of parish-churches, to administer the sacraments, as well as preach to their parishioners; with the legal remedies to reclaim them from, or punish and remove them for their wilfull obstinacy in denying the sacraments to them. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne; to whom these quæres were newly propounded by some clients. date: 1656.0 words: 12689 flesch: 64 summary: ●● 34. c. 4. 1 , 2. when God calleth you , be you not ashamed to say , I will not come ? &c. I for my part am here pesent , and according to mine office , I bid you in the name of God , I call you in Christs behalf , I exhort you as you love your own Salvation , that ye will be partakers of this holy communion , &c. And whereas you offend God so sore in refusing this holy banquet , I admonish , exhort , and beseech you , that unto this unkindnesse you will not adde any more , which thing ye shall do , if ye stand by as Gazers and Lookers on them that do communicate , and be not partake●s of the same your self , &c. How many Ministers now a days preach direct dehortations from the Sacrament , pointblank against this Exhortation and their t●●s , prescribed by God and Christ himself , 1 Cor. 11. keywords: case; church; claus; duties; duty; england; law; lords; ministers; office; parishioners; people; sacraments; statutes; vicar; writs cache: A56177.xml plain text: A56177.txt item: #45 of 153 id: A56178 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A legall vindication of the liberties of England, against illegall taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament lately enforced on the people: or, Reasons assigned by William Prynne of Swainswick in the county of Sommerset, Esquire, why he can neither in conscience, law, nor prudence submit to the new illegall tax or contribution of ninety thousand pounds the month; lately imposed on the kingdom, by a pretended Act of some commons in (or rather out of) Parliament date: 1649.0 words: 23786 flesch: 52 summary: Secondly , That this Parliament ( so unduly constituted and packed by power of an Army combining with them ) hath a just and lawful Authority to violate the Priviledges , Rights , Freedomes , Customs , and alter the constitution of our Parliaments themselves ; imprison , seclude , expel most of their fellow-members for voting according to their consciences ; to repeal what Votes , Ordinances and Acts of Parliament they please , ere●…t new Arbitrury Courts of war and Justice 〈◊〉 a●…aign , condemn , execute the King himself , with the Peers & Commons of this Realm by a new kind of Martial law contrary to Magna Charta , the Petition of Right , and Law of the Land : dis-inherit the Kings poste●…ty of the crown , extirpat Monarchy , & the whole house of Peers , change and subvert the ancient Government , Seals , Law●… , Writs ; legal proceedings , Courts , and coin of the Kingdom ; ●…ell and dispose of all the Lands , Revenues , Jewels , goods of the Crowne , with the Lands of Deans and Chapters , as they think meet ; absolve themselves ( like so many antichristian Popes ) with all the Subjects of England and Ireland , from all the Oaths and engagements they have made TO THE KINGS MAJESTY , HIS HEIRS AND SUCCESSORS : yea , from their very Oath of Allegiance , notwithstanding this express clause in it ( which I de●…ire may be ●…riously and conscienciously considered by all who have sworne it ) I do ●…eleeve and in Conscien●… am r●…olved , that neither the Pope . 〈◊〉 , for the Trienniall Parliament ; and against the proroguing or di●…olving this Parliament , 17. Caroli : with all our printed Statutes , (f) Parliament-Rolls , and (g) Law-Books : ) they neither having nor challenging the sole Legislative power in any age ; and being not so much as summoned to , nor constituting m●…mbers of our (h) ancient Parliaments , ( which co●…sisted of the King and Spirituall and Temporall Lords , without any Knights , Citizens or Burgesses , as all our Histories and Records attest ) till 49 H. 3. at soonest ; they having not so much as a Speaker or Commons House , til after the beginning of King Ed. keywords: act; army; authority; commons; death; england; house; king; kingdom; law; laws; liberties; lords; members; parliament; pay; people; power; present; quarter; tax; taxes cache: A56178.xml plain text: A56178.txt item: #46 of 153 id: A56184 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A moderate, seasonable apology for indulging just Christian liberty to truly tender consciences, conforming to the publike liturgy in not bowing at, or to the name of Jesus, and not kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper, according to His Majesties most gracious declaration to all his loving subjects concerning ecclesiastical affairs ... / by William Prynne, Esquire ... date: 1662.0 words: 67524 flesch: 73 summary: Also this Holy Synod decreeth and declareth upon this matter , that processe shall be directed to all the most Reverend Fathers in Chr●st , Lords Patria●ch● , Primates , Archbishops , Bishop● , and their Vicars in Spi●ituals , wherever constituted , in which it shall be committed and commanded to them , by Authority of this Council , under pain of Excomm●nication , that they effectually punish those offending against this Decree , who communicate the people under both species of Bread and Wine , or that exhort or teach them that it ought to be done . Nam ●i Iesus Christus Dominus obt●li● , & hoc fieri in sui comm●morationem p●aecepit : U●ique ille Sacerdos vice Christi vere f●ngitur , qui Id quod Christus ●●cit imitatur ; & Sacrificium unum & plenum tunc offert in Ecclesia Deo Pat●i , ●i ●ic incipiat offerre , secundum quod ipsum Christum videat obtulisse . keywords: act; angels; anno; b ●; bishop; bowing; ceremony; ch ●; christ; christian; church; churches; co ●; con ●; cor; cum; day; de ●; deus; divine; duty; earth; end; english; est; f ●; father; fi ●; fl ●; g ●; genu; ghost; glory; god; great; h ●; hath; heaven; hi ●; holy; honour; iesus; iesus christ; iohn; king; knee; kneeling; lord; lord god; lord iesus; ma ●; man; mat; men; nam ●; names; nomen; nomine; non; o ●; omne; ought; p ●; pa ●; people; person; phil; place; popish; power; prayer; psal; qui; quod; reason; receiving; reverence; s ●; saviour; se ●; self; si ●; sitting; supper; text; th ●; things; thy; time; tom; unto; use; words; worship; yea; ● ae; ● d; ● e; ● ed; ● ing; ● l; ● ly; ● m; ● n; ● nd; ● r; ● rum; ● st; ● sus; ● t; ● y; ● ● cache: A56184.xml plain text: A56184.txt item: #47 of 153 id: A56186 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Part of the famous speech of William Prynn esq, Decemb. 48, touching K. Charles I date: 1648.0 words: 4033 flesch: 49 summary: And for a Protestant Parliament ( to please an army only , acted by Traytors in this particular ; to render both Parliament , army , and our Religion too , for ever execrable throughout the World , and set all Mens Pens and Hands against them to their ruine , to begin such a bloody president as this , upon a most false pretext , of settling Peace ; contrary to the express Command of God himself , who Commands Christians , To Pray for Kings , and all in authority , that they may live a quiet and peaceable life under them in all Godliness and Honesty , ( not to Depose or cut off their Heads ) as the only way to Peace and Settlement ; will not only be Scandalous but Monstrous . eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649. keywords: army; god; king; peace; people; person; text; way cache: A56186.xml plain text: A56186.txt item: #48 of 153 id: A56188 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity. date: 1663.0 words: 13885 flesch: 65 summary: so that under you by the influence of that Religion we might lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and honesty : but alas ! temporal Princes saith Suarez must meddle with temporal matters : they must let men be of what principles they please though never so dangerous , they must look on their Subjects divided with different religions which lead to different conversation and to confusion and every evil work : for why should they saith Costerus the Jesuit meddle with the affaires of the Church of God. 2. We your Loyal Protestant Subjects were really perswaded that there was none above you , to whom you should give account of your selves but God : and that there were no Christians that durst say that any men or estates of men were above you in your Dominion , ha poor we ! keywords: church; england; god; good; hath; king; man; men; papists; pope; power; religion; rome; saith; tcp; things; truth; way; world; yea cache: A56188.xml plain text: A56188.txt item: #49 of 153 id: A56191 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A pleasant purge for a Roman Catholike to evacuate his evill humours consisting of a century of polemicall epigrams, wherein divers grosse errors and corruptions of the Church of Rome are discovered, censured, refuted, in a facetious yet serious manner / by William Prynne ... date: 1642.0 words: 62570 flesch: 90 summary: Jean C●●spin Lesta● , d● L●●glise . S●●s . keywords: act; adore; altar; ave; aves; blood; body; bow; bread; c. 1; c. 2; cause; christ; chron; church; cor; crosse; cup; day; des; doe; doth; doubt; drinke; earth; eate; faith; fall; feare; god; gods; good; grace; great; hath; heav'n; host; joh; keepe; kings; luk; mary; masse; mat; men; nay; new; oft; ought; owne; papists; place; popes; popish; pray; prayers; present; priests; psal; reason; right; rome; sacrament; saints; sayd; scripture; sense; shew; text; thee; thou; thy; times; tit; tom; use; wine; word; worship; yea; ● ● cache: A56191.xml plain text: A56191.txt item: #50 of 153 id: A56192 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The Popish royall favourite: or, a full discovery of His Majesties extraordinary favours to, and protections of notorious papists, priestes, Jesuites, against all prosecutions and penalties of the laws enacted against them notwithstanding his many royall proclamations, declarations, and protestations to the contrary: as likewise of a most desperate long prosecuted designe to set up popery, and extirpate the Protestant religion by degrees, in this our kealme [sic] of England, and all His Majesties dominions. Manifested by sundry letters of grace, warrants, writings under the Kings own signe-manuall, privy-signet, his privy-councels, and Secretary Windebanks hands and seals, by divers orders and proceedings in open sessions at Newgate, in the Kings Bench, and elsewhere ... Collected and published by authority of Parliament: by William Prynne, of Lincolns Inne, Esquire. date: 1643.0 words: 48207 flesch: 50 summary: ●priests , Sacrifices of the Altar &c. with other points of popery , out of divers bookes lately licensed for the Presse . An● Ioh● the son of Hanani the Seer went out to meet him , and said to King keywords: articles; assize; authority; bishop; catholike; charles; church; command; contrary; county; court; day; doe; doth; england; english; favour; french; god; good; grace; hath; house; iames; indictment; iohn; ireland; irish; keeper; king; lawes; letters; lord; majesties; majesty; newton; officers; owne; papists; parliament; party; peace; pleasure; popery; popish; present; priests; prince; printed; prison; proceedings; protestant; que; recusancy; recusants; religion; roman; rome; romish; royall; secretary; signifie; sir; spaine; speciall; subjects; time; warrant; whatsoever; windebanke; yeare; ● ● cache: A56192.xml plain text: A56192.txt item: #51 of 153 id: A56193 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The privileges of Parliament which the members, army, and this kingdom have taken the protestation and covenant to maintain reprinted for consideration and confirmation on the 5th of January 1659, the day appointed to remember them. date: 1660.0 words: 4463 flesch: 49 summary: VVHereas the Chambers , Studies and Trunks of Mr. Denzill Hollis , Sir Arthur Has●rigge , Mr. Iohn Pym , Mr. Iohn Hampden , and Mr. Will. Strode Esq Members of the House of Commons , upon Monday the third of this instant Ianuary , by colour of his Majesties warrant , have been sealed up by Sir William Killigrew , and Sir William Flemen , and others , which is not only against the Privilege of Parliament , but the common Liberty of every Subject ; which said Members afterwards the same day were under the same colour by Serjeant Frances , one of his Majesties Serjeants at Arms , contrary to all former Presidents , demanded of the Speaker sitting in the House of Commons , to be delivered unto him , that he might arrest them of High Treason : and whereas afterwards the next day His Majesty in his Royal Person came into the said House , attended with a great multitude of men armed in warlike manner with Halberts , Swords and Pistols , who came up to the very door of the House and placed themselves there , and in other places and passages near to the said House , to the great terror and disturbance of the Members then sitting , and according to their Duty in a peaceable and orderly manner treating of the great affairs of England and Ireland ; And His Majesty having placed himself in the Speakers Chair , demanded of them the Persons of the said Members to be delivered unto him , which is a High Breach of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament , and inconsistent with the Liberties and Freedom thereof ; And whereas afterwards his Majesty did issue forth several Warrants to divers Officers under his own hand for the apprehension of the Persons of the said Members which by Law he cannot do , there being not all this time any legal Charge or Accusation , or due process of Law issued against them , nor any pretence of Charge made known to that House : all which are against the fundamental Liberties of the Subject , and the right of Parliament ; whereupon we are necessitated according to our Duty to declare , And we do hereby declare , that if any Person shall arrest Mr. Hollis , Sir Arthur Haslerigge , Mr. Pym , Mr. Hampden , and Mr. Strode , or any of them , or any other Member of Parliament , by pretence or colour of any Warrant issuing out from the King only , is guilty of the breach of the Liberties of the Subject , and of the Privilege of Parliament , and a publick Enemy to the Commonwealth . And that the arresting of the said Members , or any of them , or any other Member of Parliament by any Warrant whatsoever without a Legal Proceeding against them , and without consent of that House whereof such Person is a Member , is against the Liberty of the Subject , and a breach of Privilege of Parliament ; And the Person which shall arrest any of these Persons , or any other Member of the Pa●liament is declared a Publique Enemie of the Common-wealth . keywords: commons; house; members; parliament; persons; privileges; sir cache: A56193.xml plain text: A56193.txt item: #52 of 153 id: A56194 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The Quakers unmasked, and clearly detected to be but the spawn of Romish frogs, Jesuites, and Franciscan fryers, sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy-headed English nation by an information taken upon oath in the city of Bristol, January 22, and some evident demonstrations / by William Prynne ... date: 1664.0 words: 14823 flesch: 63 summary: But there were also false Prophers among the people , even As there shall be false Teachers among you , who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them , and bring upon themselves swift destruction , And many shall follow their pernicious wayes , by reason of whom , the way of Truth shall be evill spoken of , and through covetousnesse shall they with seigned words make Merchandise of you ; whose judgement now of a long time lingreth not , and their damnation sl●mbreth not , &c. Is both a Prophesie of our times , and liuely Character of our Nation , who had never more cause to minde and practise that caution of our blessed Sav our , Math. 7. 15 , 16 , 17. Beware of false Prophets which come to you in sheeps cloathing , but inwardly they are Ravening Wo'ves , ye shall know them by their fruits , then they have at this day ; when such multitudes of Romish Wolues , Locusts , Caterpillers , of all Sects , Orders ; ( as Jesuites , Franciscans , Benedictines , Dominicans , and the like come freely over in whole Troops from foreign Seminaries and Cels , act their several parts and Pageants on the Theatre of our distracted English Church and State , to bring both of them to 〈◊〉 under all sorts of disguises , without any watches or searches at all to seclude , detect , eject , correct , their persons discover their pernicious Impostures , or prevent their designes against us . And so much the rather because many of their Doctrines , Positions , Practises are not only meer Monkish and Popish , but also directly contrary and destructive to the two great Ordinances of God in the world , Magistracy and Ministry , so much commended by Gods Spirit in the Gospel ; Yea some of them most Atheistical , Irreligious , Blasphemous , Diabolical , Vnchristians , Vn-evangelical , diametrically contrary to the Scripture and Fundamental Principals of the Gospel , dictated by Gods Spirit ; as you may read at large , in The perfect Pharise under Monkish Holinesse , &c. in the Generation of men called QUAKERS ; To which I shall refer the Reader , where in the Blasphemies , Heresies , Popish Tenents of John Autland , George Fox , and James Nayler ( three of the principle Quakers sent to Bristol ) are so fully detected and solidly refuted , that it made them ashamed to continue in their former Quarters , and to pretend a New divine Mission from God , to spread their Heresies & blasphemies in the West ( though not so fit for Quakers as that Northern colder Climate of England and Scotland , where many Shake and Quake for cold alone , without the Spirits motion ) whether they deserve to be sent packing again , or , into some sorraign Franciscan Cells , or Jesuites Semenaries , from whence their Sect was immediately propagated , by Jesuites and Fryers sent from thence , to act the parts of Independants and Sectaries , to blow up differences and contentions amongst us ; as you may read at large in Mr. Edwards his Gangrena ; part third . keywords: bristol; church; devil; disciples; english; fryers; god; gospel; jesuites; john; lord; men; ministers; new; people; persons; popish; quakers; religion; romish; text; time cache: A56194.xml plain text: A56194.txt item: #53 of 153 id: A56195 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A rational account why some of His Majesties Protestant subjects do not conform to some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer published for the instruction of the ignorant, satisfaction of all contenders, and the churches union in Gods publick worship. date: 1673.0 words: 51882 flesch: 63 summary: Hinc ad Dei cultum alba p●●●imum in●umen●a , omnium penè nationum consensu adhiberi solent : semperque albus color sacris accomodatur . 4. That the prescription or use of set-forms of publick Prayers ought not to suppresse , discontinue , interrupt , or disparage the exercise of the gift or grace of conceived , extemporary Prayers or Thanksgivings by Ministers and other Christians in publick or private upon ordinary or extraordinary occasions ; nor yet to hinder or disturb the constant preaching of the Word in season , and out of season ; as is evident by the whole Book of Psalmes the g special Prayers and Thanksgivings of Moses , David , Solomon , Nehemiah , Ezra , Hezekiah , ●a●iel , Jeremiah , in the old , and of h Christ and his Apostles , recorded in the new Testament ; being all compiled and used upon extraordinary occasions ; the i publick Prayers in the Primitive Church never secluded or diminished the use of private conceived prayers or preaching ; Therefore they should not do it now . keywords: 2ly; aaron; acts; alba; albis; anno; answer; apostles; apparel; apud; archbishops; atque; aut; autem; beginning; bishops; black; blood; bochellus; book; c. 1; c. 2; candida; canons; cap; cathedral; cent; ceremonies; christ; christians; church; churches; clergy; coats; col; contrary; cor; council; cum; day; deacons; decree; dei; domine; durantus; earth; eccles; ecclesiae; ejus; end; england; english; enim; ergo; esse; est; etiam; father; form; fuisse; fuit; gal; garments; gloria; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; haec; hath; hoc; holy; honour; ille; illud; induti; inquit; jesus; john; king; l. 1; l. 2; law; lib; linnen; long; lord; masse; mat; ministers; missals; nec; new; nisi; non; omnes; original; ought; patri; people; persons; pet; pontifical; popes; popish; prayer; preaching; prelates; priests; pro; publick; quae; quam; qui; quia; quibus; quod; quoque; reading; reason; rev; robes; rochets; rom; roman; romanum; sacerdos; sacraments; sacris; saints; scripture; secundum; sed; self; service; set; seu; sic; sint; sit; sive; standing; sub; suis; sundry; sunt; surplisses; text; things; throne; time; tit; toga; tom; unde; use; vel; vestes; vestibus; vestments; wearing; white; word; worship; yea; year; ● ● cache: A56195.xml plain text: A56195.txt item: #54 of 153 id: A56196 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Reasons assigned by William Prynne, &c. date: 1649.0 words: 22357 flesch: 51 summary: And if this be Law and l Gospel ( as no doubt it is ) then by the same reason , not only all legal proceedings , Indictments , Judgments , Verdicts , writs Trials , Fines , Recoveries , Recognisances , and the like before any of our new created Judges and Justices since the Kings be heading in any Courts at Westminster , or in their Circuits , Assisses , or quarter Sessions , held by new Commissions , with all Commissions and Proceedings of Sheriffs , ate not only meerly void , illegal , & coram non judice to all intents , with all Bills , Decrees , and Proceedings in Chancery , or the Rolls ; and all Judges , Justices , Sheriffs , now acting , and Lawyers practising before them in apparent danger of High-Treason both against King , Kingdom , they neithver taking the Oathes of Judges , Supremacy or Allegiance as they ought by Law ; but only to be true and faithfull to the new erected State ; but likewise all votes and proceedings before the pretended House or any of their Committees , or Sub-Committees in the Country , with all their grants and Offices , Moneys , Salaries , Sequestrations , Sales of Lands or goods Compositions &c. meer Nullities and illegal acts , and the proceedings of all active Commissioners , Assessors , Collectors , Treasurers , &c. and all other Officers imployed to leavy and to collect this illegal tax to support that usurped Parliamentary Authority and Army , which have beheaded the late King , dis-inherited his undoubted Heire , levyed war against and dissolved the late Houses of Parliament , subverted the ancient Government of this Realm , the Constitution and Liberties of our Parliaments , the Lawes of the Kingdom , with the liberty and property of the people of England , no less then High Treason in all these respects as is fully proved by Sir Edward Cook in his 3. Institutes , ch. 1.2 . and by Mr. St. John in his Argument at Law at the attainder of the Earl of Strafford , both published by the late Commons House Order ; which I desire all who are thus imployed , to consider , especially such Commissioners who take upon them to administer a new unlawful Ex Officio Oath to any to survey their Neighbours and their own estates in every parish and return the true values thereof to them upon the new prov'd rate for the 3 last months contribution , and to fine those who refuse to do it ( a meer diabolical invention to multiply perjuries to damne mens souls invented by Cardinal Woolsy , much inveighed against by Father Latymer in his Sermons , condemned by the expresse words of the Petition of Right providing against such Oahes ; and a snare to enthrall the wealthier sort of people by discovering their estates to subject them to what future Taxes they think fit ) when as the whole House of Commons in no age had any power to administer an Oath in any case whatsoever , much less then to conferr any authority on others to give such illegal Oathes , and fine those who refuse them , the highest kinde of Arbitrary Tyranny both over mens Consciences , Properties , Liberties ; to which those who voluntarily submit deserve not only the name of Traytors to their Country , but to be m boared through the ear , and they and their posterities to be made Slaves for ever to these new Tax-masters and their Successors ; and those who are any ways active in imposing or administring such Oathes , and levying illegal Taxes by distress or otherwise , may and will undoubtedly smart for it at last ; not only by Actions of Trespasse , false imprisonment Accompt &c. brought against them at the Common Law , when there wil be no Committee of Indemnity to protect them from such suits , but likewise by inditements of High Treason , to the deserved loss of their Estates , Lives , and ruin of their families when there will be no Parliament of purged Commoners , nor Army to secure , nor legal plea to acquit them from the guilt and punishment of Traytors both to their King and Country ; pretended present sordid fears of loss of Liberty , Estate , or the like being no n excuse in such a case and time , as this , but an higher aggravation of their crime : the o FEARFUL being the first in that dismall List of Malefactors who shall have part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone , which is the second death ; even by Christs own sentence . BEing on the 7 of this instant June 1649 informed by the Assessors of the Parish of Swainswicke , that I was assessed at 2 l. 5 s. for three months Contribution , by vertue of a ( pretended ) , Act of the Commons assembled in Parliament , bearing date the 7 of April last , assessing the Kingdom at ninty thousand-pounds monthly , beginning from the 25 of March last , and continuing for six months next ensuing , towards the maintenance of the forces to be continued in England and Ireland , and the paying of such as are thought fit to be disbanded , that so Free-quarter may be taken off ; whereof 3075 l. 17 s. 1 d. ob . is monthly imposed on the County , and 2 l. 5 s. 3 d. on the small poor Parish where I live ; and being since on the 15 of June required to pay in 2 l. 5 s. for my proportion : I returned the Collector this Answer , That I could neither in Conscience , Law , nor Prudence in the least measure submit to the voluntary payment of this illegall Tax , and unreasonable Contribution , ( after all my unrepaired losses and sufferings for the publick Liberty ) amounting to six times more then Ship-money , ( the times considered ) or any other illegall Tax of the late beheaded King , so much declaimed against in our three last Parliaments by some of those who imposed this . keywords: act; army; commons; death; england; house; king; kingdom; law; laws; liberties; lords; members; new; parliament; people; power; present; quarter; tax; taxes cache: A56196.xml plain text: A56196.txt item: #55 of 153 id: A56199 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Romes master-peece, or, The grand conspiracy of the Pope and his iesuited instruments, to extirpate the Protestant religion, re-establish popery, subvert lawes, liberties, peace, parliaments, by kindling a civill war in Scotland, and all His Majesties realmes, and to poyson the King himselfe in case hee comply not with them in these their execrable designes revealed out of conscience to Andreas ab Habernfeld, by an agent sent from Rome into England, by Cardinall Barbarino, as an assistant to con the Popes late nuncio, to prosecute this most execrable plot, (in which he persisted a principall actor severall yeares) who discovered it to Sir William Boswell His Majesties agent at the Hague, 6 Sept. 1640. he, under an oath of secrecie, to the Arch-bishop of Canterbury (among whose papers it was casually found by Master Pyrnne, May, 31. 1643) who communicated it to the King, as the greatest businesse that ever was put to him / published by authority of Parliament by William Prynne ... date: 1644.0 words: 22563 flesch: 52 summary: Revealed out of Con●cience to Andreas ab Habernfeld , by an Agent sent from Rome into England , by Cardinall Barbarino , as an Assistant to Con the Popes late Nuncio , to prosecute this most Execrable Plot , ( in which he persisted a principall Actor severall yeares ) who discovered it to Sir William Boswell his Majesties Agent at the Hague , 6 Sept. 1640. Right Honourable , YOur eminent zealous Sincerity , and incomparable Activity both by Sea and Land in defence of our undermined , endangered Protestant Religion , Lawes , Liberties , Parliament , Nation , against the many late secret Plots , and open Hostilities of Antichristian Romish Vipers , who for sundry yeares together , have desperately conspired , and most vigorously prosecuted their utter extirpation , and now almost accomplished this their infernall Designe , unlesse Gods infinite mercy ( which hath never hitherto beene wanting to us in times of greatest extremity ) miraculously disappoint it ; hath induced me to dedicate this Master-p●ece of the Romanists , and Jesuites Iniquity , to your most Noble Patronage . keywords: archbishop; authority; boswell; businesse; cardinall; church; conscience; conspiracy; conspirators; court; cum; cuneus; designe; england; english; enim; etiam; god; good; grace; hand; hath; hee; himselfe; house; instruments; ireland; jesuites; king; legat; letters; london; lord; majesties; majesty; man; master; non; oath; owne; papers; papists; parliament; party; plot; popes; popish; present; protestant; quae; qui; quibus; quo; rebels; religion; rome; sept; sir; society; sunt; tcp; text; things; time; william; ● ● cache: A56199.xml plain text: A56199.txt item: #56 of 153 id: A56200 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Sad and serious politicall considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Protestant brethren in Scotland, their late great overthrow, and the probable dangerous consequences thereof to both nations and the Prorestant [sic] religion which may serve as a satisfactory apology for such ministers and people, who out of conscience did not observe the publike thanksgiving against their covenant, for the great slaughter of those their brethren in covenant. date: 1650.0 words: 32932 flesch: 60 summary: Illis autem temporibus revolutis , Cauda Virginis Leonem intrabit , & Sagittarii dorsum Scorpius ascendet . Borcalia Regna à Messoribus obterentur , Australes Principatus in statum pulvereum d●●ine●t , & insulanarum Monarchiarum potestates sine fraeno aut milite ephippiabuntur ; bella atrocia ventis dissipabúntur , & pessum ibunt judiciali grandine , quae per baculum ortum habuerunt , per spuri●s juventutem . Sol ipse tympanizabit miniato clamyde indutus , & Luna cineritiis cothur●is ad nundinas tolutabit . From Euphrates to the red Sea , all the Coasts on the West to the great Mediterranean Sea , with Tyrus and Sydon , on the North Hemath and Cel●syria , even in length from L●banon to Egypt , was to be the confines of this sacred Commonwealth . keywords: anno; anno mundi; army; bloud; brethren; christ; christians; church; conversion; covenant; day; destruction; earth; empire; end; enemies; england; english; europe; fire; germany; glory; god; gospel; government; hath; heaven; holy; house; jews; king; kingdoms; men; monarchy; mundi; nations; new; party; people; popish; power; presbyterian; present; publike; religion; revel; roman; rome; ruine; scotland; sea; second; self; states; temple; things; thou; thy; time; turks; warre; wars; world; years; ● ● cache: A56200.xml plain text: A56200.txt item: #57 of 153 id: A56204 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The second part of a brief register and survey of the several kinds and forms of parliamentary writs comprising the several varieties and forms of writs for electing knights, citizens and burgesses for Parliaments and Great Council ... : wherein the original of the commons house, and elections of knights, citizens, burgesses and barons of ports to sit in Parliament, is infallibly evidenced to be no entienter than 40 H. 3. the presidents and objections to the contrarie answered ... / by William Prynne ... date: 1660.0 words: 60158 flesch: 65 summary: Cum Praelati , Comites & Barones dicti regni nostri quibus nuper per literas nostras Patentes commissimus potestatem , ordinandi de statu Hospitii nostri et Regni praedicti , inter * caeteras Ordinationes quas super praemissis fecerant , et quas acceptavimus , et per totum regnum fecimus publicari , ordinaverint ; Quod omnimodo Custumae & Maletot levatae post Coronationem Domini E. quondam Regis Angliae patris nostri , integrè amoveantur , et penitus extinguantur ; * Salvis Custumis lanarum , coriorum , & pellium lanatorum ult . per quod ad praemissa facienda in Com. tuo prout erat electus , nequit intendere quoquo modo : Tibi praecipimus , quod loco ipfius Philippi de assensu Coronatorum et Communitatis Comitatus tui praedicti ; eligi facias unum alium de probioribus , legalioribus et discretioribus ejusdem Comitatus , qui ad hoc in eodem Com. tuo una cum ipsis ad hoc ibidem electis , et coram nobis juratis intendat , juxta formam potestatis ipsis electis , et sibi per Nos tradendae . keywords: ad diem; ad parliamentum; angliae; anno; apud; aut; ballivis; ballivis de; barons; boroughs; brevi; burgensem de; burgensium; burgesses; burgo; burgorum; c. de; c. et; cities; citizens; cives; civibus; civitate; civitatis; civium; claus; colloquium; commons; communitate; consilio; coram; council; counties; county; cum; de com; de communi; de consilio; de praemuniendo; de qualibet; dictum; die; diem; diem et; discretioribus; domini; dors; duos; duos milites; e. 1; e. 2; e. 3; ebor; ejusdem; elections; electus; eligi; england; eodem; eorum; eos; est; et ad; et cum; et de; et locum; et quod; extant; facias; faciend; firmiter; form; habent; hoc; house; hujusmodi; ibidem; injungentes; inter; ita quod; johan; king; knights; lincoln; locum; london; lords; magis; magnates; magnatibus; majori; mandatum; manucaptors; mat; members; miles; milites; milites de; militibus; militum; modo; nec; negotiis; new; nobis; nomina; non; nos et; nostri; nostrum; omnes; paris; parliament; parte; people; persons; plenam; ports; potestatem; praecipimus; praedicti; praedictorum; present; pro; propter; prout; prox; quae; quam; qui; quia; quod ad; quod de; quod pro; quolibet; realm; records; rege; regis; regni; returns; rex; roi; salutem; sancti; secundum; sheriffs; sine; singulis; son; sufficientem; summons; sunt; super; supra; teste; tibi; times; tractatum; tunc; tunc de; tuo; usque; vel; venire; vic; villae; westm; writs; year cache: A56204.xml plain text: A56204.txt item: #58 of 153 id: A56207 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A short, legal, medicinal, useful, safe, easie prescription to recover our kingdom, church, nation from their present dangerous, distractive, destructive confusion and worse than Bedlam madnesse seriously recommended to all English freemen who desire peace, safety, liberty, settlement. By William Prynne, Esq; a bencher of Lincolns-Inne. date: 1659.0 words: 3816 flesch: 64 summary: 1. on the third Monday of Nov●mber next , under 12 or more of their hands and Seals , for a free and legall Election of Knights , Citizens , Burgesses , Barons , in every City , County , Borough , Port , according to former usage , to appear at the Parl●ament-house in Westminster , the third Monday in January next ●●●suing , at a Parliament then and there to be held , in such manner and form as this Act prescribes ; wherein such Proposalls and Counsells may by common consent be pursued , as may through Gods blessing , soon restore our pristine Peace , Trade , Honour , Wealth , Prosperity , And if this will not satisfi●… , let them b●…ware , lest the earth cleave osunde●… that is under them ; and 〈◊〉 swallow them up 〈◊〉 , with their houses , men , goods , and all appertaining to them , and they perish from among the 〈◊〉 , as Korah , 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 , with their families and adherents ●…id , by this or some other exemplary Judgments , and a universal Insurrection of our three whole discontented , oppressed , rained Nations against them , which they may justly fear and expect , if they believe there is a righteous God that judgeth in the earth , a Lord of hosts able to scatter , puni●…h , execute vengeance on them here , and cast them into hell for ever hereafter , for their manifold unlamented , reiterated , transcendent Reb●…llions : or repute these Texts Canonical , which I shall recommend to their saddest Meditations . keywords: army; county; king; nation; officers; parliament; peace; sheriffs; text; ● ● cache: A56207.xml plain text: A56207.txt item: #59 of 153 id: A56208 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A short sober pacific examination of some exuberances in, and ceremonial appurtenances to the Common prayer especially of the use and frequent repetitions of Glory be to the Father, &c., standing up at it, at Gospels, creeds, and wearing white rochets, surplises, with other canonical vestments in the celebration of divine service and sacraments, whose originals, grounds of institution and prescription, are here truly related and modestly discussed ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ... date: 1661.0 words: 52162 flesch: 63 summary: It is very observable , that albeit the a Popes Rome , and their Flatterers , hold themselves infall● in their Chair , and their Church , Councils inerrab● yet they all accord , that their Publike Missals , ●turgies ; though made , confirmed by their joynt a● vice with greatest care and diligence , are amendab●●●● alterable upon just occasion : Witness their la●● Council of b Trents Decree for the correction , ame●●ment of their formerly established Catechism , Miss●●●● Breviary ; and the subsequent emendations of the●● and institution of A NEW MASSE BOOK , ●Pope Pius the 5. with the advice of learned m● expressed in his Bull dated at Rome July 1557. By the Grace and admirable Providence of GOD , of Great Britain , France and Ireland KING , Defender of the Faith ; and all syncere Professors of it , within His Dominions . HAving had the Honour on last Easter-Eve , to present Your Majesty with a Brief Account of my Service that week in the almost-accomplished Great-good-work of Paying and Dis●●●●ding Your Majesties Army and Navy ( which for 〈◊〉 Moneths space ingrossed all my time from Mor●●ng till Night , and oft till Midnight ) to Your Majesties great content , and your Peoples ease from future ●●cessant heavy Monthly Taxes ; I humbly crave ●●ave to prostrate at Your Royal feet my Easter-holy-dayes studies , to exonerate the Backs of hundreds , 〈◊〉 truly tender Consciences of thousands of Your ●●yal , pious , sober-minded Protestant Subjects of all Degrees , from some Exuberances in the Commo●●● prayer Book , and superfluous Ceremonies , Vestments ●● tending it , ( which give them offence , and may w● be laid aside , if your Majesty and your approachi●● Parliament shall judge convenient ) for our Ch●● ches future peace , union in Gods publick worship , pursuance of Your Majesties late most Gratious , ●●ous , Prudent , elegant Declaration to all Your Lovi●● Subjects of Your Kingdom of England and Dominion Wales , concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs , which ga●● Life and Birth to this Publication . keywords: 2ly; aaron; acts; alba; albis; anno; answer; apostles; apparel; apud; archbishops; atque; autem; beginning; bishops; black; blood; bochellus; book; c. 1; c. 2; c. c.; candida; candidati; canons; cap; celebration; cent; ceremonies; christ; christians; church; churches; clergy; col; contrary; cor; council; cum; d ●; day; deacons; dei; divinis; durantus; earth; eccles; ecclesiae; end; english; enim; ergo; esse; est; etiam; father; fit; form; fuisse; fuit; gal; garments; gloria; glory; god; gods; good; gospel; haec; hath; heaven; hoc; holy; honour; iesus; ille; illud; inquit; iohn; kings; l. 1; l. 2; law; lib; linnen; long; lord; masse; mat; ministers; missals; nec; new; nisi; non; omnes; original; ought; parish; patri; people; persons; pet; pontifical; popes; popish; prayer; preaching; prelates; priests; pro; publick; quae; quam; qui; quia; quibus; quod; quoque; reading; reason; rev; robes; rochets; roman; romanum; sacerdos; sacraments; sacris; saints; scripture; secundum; sed; self; service; set; seu; sic; sicut; sint; sit; sive; sober; standing; sub; suis; sundry; sunt; super; surplisses; text; things; throne; time; tit; toga; tom; unde; use; vel; vestes; vestibus; vestments; wearing; white; word; work; worship; year; ● e; ● m; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A56208.xml plain text: A56208.txt item: #60 of 153 id: A56209 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Six important quæres propounded to the re-sitting Rump of the long Parliament, fit to be satisfactorily resolved by them upon the question, before they presume to act any further, or expect the least obedience from the free-born English nation, after so manie years wars and contests for the privileges, rights, and freedom of Parliaments, and their own liberties. date: 1659.0 words: 2468 flesch: 45 summary: 13. without any new Summons or notice of their sitting given to any of their Fellow-Members , in the City , or people of the Nation ; was not a work of Darkness , rather than of Light , better beseeming Theeves than Freemen , a Guy Faux with his dark Lanthorn to blow up a Parliament , than the Honour and Dignity of Members of a real English Parliament , and a bad Omen of some dark D●signs against their Fellow-Members , and Liberties both of the City and English Nation ? 2. To take the business of their absent Members into debate on the 5. of Ianuary next ; instead of giving admittance , or any answer to the 22. secluded Members waiting for an answer in the Lobby above 2. hours , be not a meer dilatory Cheat put upon the secluded Members , the City of London , and whole Nation ; to delay their admission till they have put new Gards on , and drawn up all their forces to London , to over-awe the City , and hinder their long-delayed Militia for their own security ; and setled the Militia of every County under their own commands , to enslave the whole City and Nation to their Tyranny and usurped Parliamentary Power ; and then they will not only forcibly keep out all the Members , but absolutely eject them , unlesse they will take their new Oath and Ingagement : As is evident by their Speakers prohibiting the Lord Maior and Common Council on Saturday last to set up their Chains and settle their Militia ; and their Order and Vote on Munday night against all forces raised without their Order , to hinder the M●litia in the City , when they commanded the Militia in the Suburbs and Westminster to meet and Act that day : And by some of their discourses to two seeluded Members ; That there was no hopes of their admission , unlesse they were for a Commonwealth , would take the Ingagement , and confirm what they had done : and thereby become as guilty , treacherous , perfidious , disloyal , and hurtfull to the publike as themselves ) which those Members assured them , they would never submit to , being against the Privilege of Parliament , their Judgements , Consciences , Protestation , Covenant , former Oathes upon their first admission as Members . keywords: act; english; house; members; parliament; text cache: A56209.xml plain text: A56209.txt item: #61 of 153 id: A56210 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced and pursued by our anticommunion ministers wherein is discovered the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper ... : with a new discovery of some Romish emmissaries, Quakers / by William Prynne of Swainswicke, Esquire ... date: 1658.0 words: 19404 flesch: 60 summary: Monentes te , ut cum omni studio , vigilan●ia , zelo , alacritate ac fidei fiducia , nec minus P●etate , ac cum proximis Evangelica conversatione , quam doctrina , instanter ad hoc eximium , Deoque , That is ●amed to th●● which us th●● fellow 〈◊〉 if all builders , ever disliking their own doings , that thou still pullest down that thou art still setting up . keywords: bishop; bochellus; books; christian; church; churches; councils; cum; discovery; eccles; england; english; excommunication; faculties; faith; friers; hath; ireland; law; letters; lords; ministers; non; officers; parishioners; people; persons; popish; priests; pro; publike; quakers; quod; religion; sacrament; seal; self; sundry; supper; text; thou; tit; writ; years; ● ● cache: A56210.xml plain text: A56210.txt item: #62 of 153 id: A56213 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: 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. date: 1649.0 words: 63507 flesch: 48 summary: 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 . And is not this a blessed new invention of Jesuites and Saints to settle peace ? Thirdly , It blows up all our Oaths of Supremacy and Allegeance ; Protestations , solemn Leagues and Covenants , all former numerous Declarations , Remonstrances , Votes and Resolutions of one or both Houses of Parliament , * not to alter the present form of Government by King , Lords , Commons and other ordinary Magistrates and ministers of publick Iustice ; or●●e● loose the golden reins of government to Blasphemies , Heresies , Errors , Libertinisme , Pr●phanenesse , Schisme , & all sorts of Religions . keywords: act; answer; armies; army; bishops; cause; church; commons; conscience; england; force; future; generall; god; good; government; hath; houses; ireland; justice; king; kingdome; lands; law; lives; lords; man; members; necessity; new; officers; parliament; party; peace; people; persons; popish; power; present; propositions; religion; remonstrance; ruine; safety; satisfactory; security; settlement; state; time; treaty; violence; vote; way; world; years; ● ● cache: A56213.xml plain text: A56213.txt item: #63 of 153 id: A56217 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Ten quæres upon the ten new commandements of the general council of the officers of the armies, Decemb. 22, 1659 ... date: 1659.0 words: 2916 flesch: 46 summary: The rate of 31 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A56217 of text R19378 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P4101). keywords: army; council; lords; nations; officers; text cache: A56217.xml plain text: A56217.txt item: #64 of 153 id: A56218 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The time-serving Proteus, and ambidexter divine, uncased to the vvorld containing two letters of M. John Dury (the great champion for the new ingagement, faithfully extracted out of the originalls under his own hand) : the first, to Joseph Hall, late Bishop of Exeter : the second, to William Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterbury : wherein he expresseth the reasons which moved him, not onely to scruple and dislike, but in some sort to renounce his ecclesiasticall orders and ministeriall function, formerly conferred on him in the reformed churches beyond the seas, because not given by a diœcesan bishop ... date: 1650.0 words: 3370 flesch: 58 summary: But now finding my selfe called in another Church , otherwise ordered , to a particular cure , and finding the r nature of this cure agreeable to the Word of God , and my self disposed in due time to discharge it , I think that , seeing the former Ordination hath been heretofore troubled with doubts , and interrupted ; to the end I may go about this charge to which I am now called with a s full resolution , and a faithfull assurance of a blessing from God , I ought to enter by the door , and crave such inabling as the Church can give me by Gods Ordinance , not neglecting the t Power which God hath bestowed upon the Rulers thereof , whereby they can give Orders unto their subordinate Ministers , whereof I am appointed to be one ; And therefore to quench , and prevent all further doubts , of my calling to the Ministry , I find my self u bound in conscience to crave and receive Orders in this Church of England , which for these , besides other causes , right Reverend Father in God , I humbly desire your Lordship to confer upon me , if I shall be found capable of them , after tryall and examination : This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A56218 of text R19645 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P4106). keywords: church; conscience; dury; god; orders; text cache: A56218.xml plain text: A56218.txt item: #65 of 153 id: A56219 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A true and perfect narrative of what was acted, spoken by Mr. Prynne, other formerly and freshly secluded members, the army-officers, and some now sitting in the lobby, house, elsewhere, the 7th. and 9th. of May last ... by William Prynne, Esq. ... date: 1659.0 words: 52670 flesch: 59 summary: They found not about 9. of 10. of those who sate , within the House , who courteously saluted them : After some short discourses , Mr. Annesly , and Mr. Hungerford leaving Mr. Prynne in the House , ( out of which he resolved not to stir upon any occasion , for fear of a new forcible seclusion ) went back into the Hall to acquaint the Members in it , they might freely enter if they pleas●d : Mr. Annesly returning , was forcibly kept out from re-entring by some Soldiers , sent thither ( as he conceited ) for that purpose . Upon which Sir Henry Vane coming in , and stepping up to them , said in a menacing manner : Mr. Prynne , what make you here ? you ought not to come into this House being formerly vo●ed out , I wish you as a friend quietly to depart hence , else some course will be presently taken with you for your presumption : which Sir Arthur seconded , telling him , If he refused , that there would be a speedy course taken , and a charge put in against him , for his meetings on Saturday , and actings against the House . keywords: act; army; books; cause; christ; church; commons; crown; day; death; england; english; father; god; good; government; great; hath; house; iesuites; king; kingdom; late; laws; liberties; lords; mat; members; nation; new; officers; parliament; peace; people; persons; power; present; prynne; psal; publick; religion; royal; saints; secluded; self; set; sitting; souldiers; state; things; time; way; wealth; yea; years; ● ● cache: A56219.xml plain text: A56219.txt item: #66 of 153 id: A56220 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ... date: 1659.0 words: 52831 flesch: 60 summary: * First 〈…〉 I●●●●●tor . subegii A●●ci●●● , Soaem 〈◊〉 , ●orati●● , 〈◊〉 , ●ungarum , P●lati●●tam ut : ●● que , v●tisqu● Hae 〈…〉 , Huli●●● , & RE●BILIONUM PA●ES CALVINISTAS , expolit & pe●●lig●vi , A● to princip●● gr●●tod , pergit● 〈…〉 , op●eloe ●cibos ●d eo auspici ●caeptom confi●ire , pitidos ●●di . though soon after forcibly secluded , secured , & now twice re-secluded in like manner by the Army-Officers ) Of his sincere Endevors to the uttermost of his power ; to preserve OUR RELIGION , LAWS , LIBERTIES , the Essential Rights , Privileges Fre●dom of Parliament , and all we yet enjoy , according to his Oaths , Covenant , Trust , as a Parliament Member , against the utter Subverters of them ; by meer armed force , arbitrary will and tyrannical power , through the apparent Plots , Seductions of our professed foreign Popish Adversaries and their Instruments . keywords: act; acts; army; books; cause; christ; church; col; commons; crown; david; day; death; england; english; father; god; good; government; great; hath; house; jesuites; king; kingdom; laws; liberties; lords; mat; members; nation; new; officers; parliament; peace; people; persons; power; present; prynne; psal; publick; religion; royal; saints; secluded; self; sitting; souldiers; state; sundry; things; time; way; wealth; yea; years; ● ● cache: A56220.xml plain text: A56220.txt item: #67 of 153 id: A56221 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Twelve considerable serious questions touching chvrch government sadly propounded (out of a reall desire of vnitie and tranquillity in church and state) to all sober-minded Christians, cordially affecting a speedy setled reformation, and brotherly Christian vnion in all our churches and denominations, now miserably wasted with civill unnatuall warres, and deplorably lacerated with ecclesiasticall dissentions / by William Prynne ... date: 1644.0 words: 5343 flesch: 68 summary: Whether the National League & Covenant we have taken doth not in sundry respects strongly ingage us against Independency ? and whether the root from which it originally springs ( if really searched to the very bottom & stript of all disguised pretences ) be not a Pharesaical (a) dangerous spiritual Prid , vainglorious Singularitie , or selfe-conceitednes of mens owne superlative holines ( as they deeme it ) which makes them , contrary to the Apostles rule (b) to est●●●● others better then themselves : to deeme themselvs so transendently holy , sanctified , and Religious above others , that they esteeme them altogether unworthy of yea wholy exclude them from their Communion & Church-society , as (c) Publicans , Hethens , or prophane persons ( though perchance as good , or better Christians then themselves ) unlesse they will submitt to their Church-covenants , & Goverment , refusing all true brotherly familiarity , society with them , & passing oft times most uncharitable censures on their very hearts and spirituall estates ( of which God never made them Judges & (d) Forbids them for to judge , because he (e) only knowes mens hearts : Which hath lately ingendred an extraordinary strangnes unsociablenesse and coldnesse of brotherly affection , if not great disunion , disaffection , and many dissentions among Professors themselves , yea , carelesnesse and neglect of one anothers wel●●●●●● Our mutuall Christian dependency on and Relations one to another as Christian Brethren . Whether the concession of one Catholike Church throughout the world , denied by none : the (k) Nationall Assembly , and Church of the Israelites under the Law , ( who had yet their distinct Synagogues and Parochiall Assemblies ) Instituted , approved by God himselfe ; the Synodall Assemblie of the Apostles , Elders , and Brethren at Ierusalem , Acts 15. who (l) made and sent binding De●rees to the Churches of the Gentiles in Antioch , Syria , Cylicia , and other Churches ; compared with the severall generall (m) Injunctions of Paul in his Epistles to Timothy , Titus , the Corinthians , and other Churches hee wrote to , touching Church discipline , Order , Government ; seconded with all Oecumenicall , Nationall , Provinciall , Councells , Synods , and the Church Government exercised throughout the world , in all Christian Realmes , States , from their first generall reception of the Gospell till this present ; compared with Acts 7.38 . keywords: christian; church; churches; cor; government; nationall; nations; text; ● ● cache: A56221.xml plain text: A56221.txt item: #68 of 153 id: A56225 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The Vniversity of Oxfords plea refuted, or, A full answer to a late printed paper intituled, The priviledges of the University of Oxford in point of visitation together with the universities answer to the summons of the visitors ... / by William Prynne, Esq. ... date: 1647.0 words: 22044 flesch: 36 summary: 3. in Dorso , for visiting the University of Cambridg ; wherein Sir William Paget , Contributor of the Kings houshold , Thomas Smith the Kings Secretary , Iohn Cheek the Kings Tutor●William Mayor Doctor of Law ; one of the Master of Requests , and Dean of Pauls , and Thomas W●●die the Kings Physitian , or any 7. 6. To the fifth I answer ; First , that if these Objections were of moment , they might all be made against all proceedings of Justices of Ass●● , Justices of Peace , and Juries , at Assi●es and Sessions ; yea , against Magna Chart● , and the fundamental Laws of the Realm , which enact ; That no man shal be condemned or proceeded against , but by the Lawfull Iudgment of his PEERS , not of Kings and Nobles , of his Superior● ; And against all proceedings in the University it self , either in Congregation , Convocation or the Vice-Chancellors Court , where Schollars and others are judged and ordered by fellow-subjects , and the whole University , by some particular Members of it , without any guilt of perjury or violence offered , either to nature or common justice . keywords: act; aliis; anno; answer; archbishop; archiepiscopum; aut; authority; bishop; brit; buls; cambridge; cancellarius; canterbury; chancellour; colledges; collegii; commission; coram; cum; delegates; die; domino; ejusdem; exemption; foundation; founders; henry; houses; hujusmodi; jure; jurisdiction; king; law; lincoln; lord; non; oxford; parliament; persons; plea; popes; power; praedictae; present; priviledges; pro; queen; quod; regis; richard; right; schollers; seal; seu; sibi; sole; statutes; successores; suos; super; time; tunc; university; vel; visitation; visitors; vniversitatis; vniversities; william; words; yeer; ● ● cache: A56225.xml plain text: A56225.txt item: #69 of 153 id: A56227 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A seasonable, historical, legal vindication and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen ... date: 1654.0 words: 23066 flesch: 50 summary: Each of these I intend to prosecute in distinct Chapters in their order For the first of these : That the Kingdome and Free-men of England , have some Ancient Hereditary Right , Liberties , Priviledges , Franchises , Laws and Customs , properly called FVNDAMENTAL ; and likewise a FVNDAMENTAL GOVERNMENT , no wayes to be alt●red , undermined , subvert●d , directly or indirectly , under pain of High●treason in those who shall attempt it , especially by fraud , force , or armed power . So as that which Paul once taxed in the slavish besotted Corinthians , 2 Epist. 11. 20. may be most truly averred of our degenerated , infatuated , English Nation : Ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage , if a man devour you , if a man take of you , if a man exalt himself , ( above your Laws , Liberties , Franchises , Parliaments , Kings , Nobles , Properties , Lives , Conscience , and a all that is called God , or worshipped ) if a man smite you on the face ; notwithstanding all their manifold late b Protestations , Vows , Covenants , Remonstrances , Declarations , and Publike Engagements , to the contrary . And withal , after diligent enquiry , discovering scarce one man of Eminencie or Power in the Nation , nor so much as one of my degenerated temporizing Profession of the Law , ( even when the c whole Body of our Laws , and all its Professors , are violently assaulted , and devoted unto sudden ruine , by many lawlesse spirits ) who hath so much Courage , magnanimity , Honesty , Zeal , or cordial Love to his native Country , remaining in his brest , as manfully to appear in publike , for the strenuous necessary defence of these our Hereditary , Fundamental Laws , Liberties , Rights , Franchises , ( though their own , and every other English Freeman's best Inheritance and Security ) for fear of being persecuted , imprisoned , close imprisoned , exiled , condemned , destroyed , as a Traytor , Rebell , Seditious person , Enemy to the publike , or disturber of the Kingdoms Peace , by those who are truly such : I thereupon conceived I could not undertake or perform a more necessary , seasonable , beneficial Service for my Country , ( and not to be like those , who are ashamed , afraid , for the most part , to own , visit , or be seen in the company of those Gallant men , much lesse to assist , defend , and stick close unto them in their dangers , according to the sixth Article of their late Solemn League and Covenant , who have suffered , acted , and stood up most for their Common Liberties , Rights , Freedoms , Religion , against all invading Tyrants , to their great discouragement and betraying ) nor pitch upon any Subject more proper for me , either as a common Lawyer , or as a constant Advocate and Sufferer for the Publike Cause , and Liberties of the Nation , as well under our late extravagant Free-State , as former Regal and Episcopal arbitrary Tyranny , then in this juncture of our publike affairs , to present our whole distracted unsetled Kingdome , with An Historical and Legal Vindication , and Chronological Collection , in all Ages , of these Ancient Hereditary Liberties , Franchises , Rights , Contests , Laws , Charters , Records , Monuments of former and late times , for their Confirmation , and keywords: commons; england; fundamentall; good; government; hath; high; house; judges; justice; king; kingdome; late; laws; liberties; lords; majesty; nation; parliament; people; power; realm; right; subjects; treason cache: A56227.xml plain text: A56227.txt item: #70 of 153 id: A56228 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A vindication of Psalme 105.15. (touch not mine anointed, and doe my prophets no harme) from some false glosses lately obtruded on it by Royalists Proving, that this divine inhibition was given to kings, not subjects; to restraine them from injuring and oppressing Gods servants, and their subjects; who are Gods anoynted, as well as kings: and that it is more unlawfull for kings to plunder and make war upon their subjects, by way of offence, then for subjects to take up armes against kings in such cases by way of defence. With a briefe exhortation to peace and unity. date: 1642.0 words: 7232 flesch: 77 summary: If any Court-Chaplaine here demand ; how I prove beleeving Subjects fearing God , to be his anoynted , as wel as Kings or P●iests ? I answer : first , the Scripture resolves expresl● : ●hat all true Christians are really ( in a spirituall sence ) both Kings and Pri●sts to God the Father , though they be but subj●cts in a politicke sence : yea , God hath prepare● a heavenly kingdome● ( with an eternal Crown of glory ) for them , where they shall raigne with C●rist for ever and ever . Secondly , Consider to whom these words were spoken ; not to Subjects , but to Kings them●elves ; a● the Psalmist resolves in expresse terms , Vers. keywords: god; gods; kings; lord; people; prophets; servants; subjects; text; thou; touch; violence cache: A56228.xml plain text: A56228.txt item: #71 of 153 id: A56231 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The vvhole triall of Connor Lord Macguire with the perfect copies of the indictment, and all the evidences against him : also the copie of Sir Philome Oneales commission, the Popes bull to the confederate Catholikes in Ireland, with many remarkable passages of the grand rebellion there, from the first rise thereof to this present : his plea of peerage, and severall answers : with the severall replies made to him / by the King's Sergeant at Law and Sergeant Roll. William Prynne, Esquire, and M. Nudigate ; and the copies of the severall testimonies brought in against him at his triall at the Kings Bench Barre ... date: 1645.0 words: 16207 flesch: 70 summary: We that are of Counsell for the King , have consulted together with the Clarke of the Crow●… , and 〈◊〉 Secretary , we have ●…drawne our selves , and 〈◊〉 severall presidents , and we doe finde by sever●…ll pres●…dents , that whereas a pe●…emptory challenge shall be , it is in the power of the Court to order the course of T●…l , and the course is this : T●●●● g●…es a Writ to the Sher●…ffe , that he shall distrame ●…ll ●…hem that make default , and that he shall amove those that are challenged by the Prisoner ; and further , that he ●●●ll ret●…rn so many more for the Triall : this we conceive to be the con●●ant course of this Court ; and in this case my Lord Magu●…re having challenged 23. of the 24. Here lies n●… s●…ch app●…le here , you are out of the Eccl●…all Co●…t , there is no such Plea here ; you ar●… n●…w up●…n ●…he middle ●…f yo●…r T●… , we desire you may go on , you h●…ve challenged 23. of the Ju●…y al●…eady . keywords: armes; barre; castle; court; day; desire; dublin; esquire; examinate; hath; house; ireland; iudge; jury; kingdome; kings; law; lord; macguire; parliament; rebellion; sir; t ●; time; triall; william; witnesses; ● ● cache: A56231.xml plain text: A56231.txt item: #72 of 153 id: A57609 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Rome for Canterbury, or, A true relation of the birth and life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury together with the whole manner of his proceeding, both in the star-chamber, high-commission court, in his owne house, and some observations of him in the tower : with his carriage at the fight of the deputyes going to the place of execution, &c. : dedicated to all the Arminian tribe or Canterburian faction, in the yeare of grace, 1641 : whereunto is added all the articles by which he stands charged of high treason, &c. date: 1641.0 words: 4231 flesch: 48 summary: It is observed by some , that in all the time of his Pontificall Prelacy , he never promoted any to Church preferment that favoured not of the Arminian ●●et , and still when Benefices fell , that were either in his gift , or where his power was to have them bestowed , hee hath caused such men to be instituted , and inducted , as either were dunces in learning , or debaucht in their lives : such men being most apt ( for their tempo●ising or ignorance ) to imbrace any Innovation that should bée brought into the Church : nay , when places have not béene voyd , but supplyed by pious Pastors , and devout Ministers , that were constant professors of the Protestant faith , yet by spies , and intelligencers , such Cavills have béene made at their Doctrines and Disciplines , that notwith●tanding their charge of wife and children , and that their utter undoings impended upon the taking away of their meanes , yet they have béene supplanted , that the other might subsist in their places ; the first turn'd out , the latter took in ; but that which farre transcends the former , that he hath laboured to suppresse the French and Dutch Protestant Churches here in London , who for their Conscience and Religions sake have abandoned their Countries , to aveyd persecution , and have made this famous Citie their Asilum and Sanctuary for themselves and families . GReatnesse● and Goodnesse are two severall blessed attributes co●ferred upon man , but seldome méete in one pe●son : Greatnesse ma● bee stiled a gift in●erd by fort●ne : but Goodnesse , a grace i●fused by God . keywords: arch; bishop; canterbury; good; grace; hath; hee; men; text; william; ● ● cache: A57609.xml plain text: A57609.txt item: #73 of 153 id: A58516 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A remonstrance and declaration of severall counties, cities, and burroughs against the unfaithfulness, and late unwarrantable proceedings of some of their knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament with their dissents thereunto, and revocation and resumption of their power therein. date: 1648.0 words: 1877 flesch: 35 summary: A remonstrance and declaration of severall counties, cities, and burroughs against the unfaithfulness, and late unwarrantable proceedings of some of their knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament with their dissents thereunto, and revocation and resumption of their power therein. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 38:10) A remonstrance and declaration of severall counties, cities, and burroughs against the unfaithfulness, and late unwarrantable proceedings of some of their knights, citizens, and burgesses in Parliament with their dissents thereunto, and revocation and resumption of their power therein. keywords: burgesses; cities; citizens; counties; iohn; parliament; text; william cache: A58516.xml plain text: A58516.txt item: #74 of 153 id: A67243 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A terrible out-cry against the loytering exalted prelates shewing the danger, and unfitnesse of conferring them in any temporall office or dignity : wherein the Devill is proved to be a more diligent prelate, then any of our English bishops are, leaving them to the consideration of the Kings Majestie, and the high court of Parliament / by Mr. Prinne, a faithful witnesse of Jesus Christ, and a sufferer under them. date: 1641.0 words: 1869 flesch: 72 summary: and in his Apologie he saith : It is both against Gods Laws , and mans , that Bishops and Clergie should be Judges over any Subjects within this Realm , for it is no part of their office . eng Church of England -- Bishops -- Temporal power. keywords: bishops; english; office; prelates; text cache: A67243.xml plain text: A67243.txt item: #75 of 153 id: A67878 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A true narrative of the Popish-plot against King Charles I and the Protestant religion as it was discovered by Andreas ab Habernfeld to Sir William Boswel Ambassador at the Hague, and by him transmitted to Archbishop Laud, who communicated it to the King : the whole discoovery being found amongst the Archbishops papers, when a prisoner in the Tower, by Mr. Prynn (who was ordered to search them by a committee of the then Parliament) on Wednesday, May 31, 1643 : with some historical remarks on the Jesuits, and A vindication of the Protestant dissenters from disloyalty : also, A compleat history of the Papists late Presbyterian plot discovered by Mr. Dangerfield, wherein an account is given of some late transactions of Sir Robert Peyton. date: 1680.0 words: 20034 flesch: 58 summary: eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649. First then it is a Maxim most true and undoubted , That a Vacuum in Nature may be as soon allow'd , as that there is any Court of King of Prince where these Jesuits do not swarm and abound , if they can but creep in at the least Creviss . keywords: arch; bishop; business; cellier; dangerfield; design; grace; hand; house; jesuits; king; kingdom; lady; letters; lord; majesty; mrs; papists; plot; popish; powis; religion; sir; things; time; william cache: A67878.xml plain text: A67878.txt item: #76 of 153 id: A68614 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The unbishoping of Timothy and Titus. Or A briefe elaborate discourse, prooving Timothy to be no bishop (much lesse any sole, or diocæsan bishop) of Ephesus, nor Titus of Crete and that the power of ordination, or imposition of hands, belongs jure divino to presbyters, as well as to bishops, and not to bishops onely. Wherein all objections and pretences to the contrary are fully answered; and the pretended superiority of bishops over other ministers and presbyters jure divino, (now much contended for) utterly subverted in a most perspicuous maner. By a wellwisher to Gods truth and people. date: 1636.0 words: 66045 flesch: 74 summary: Secondly , that he was Bishop of Rome ? of which this Doctor is so impatient , that he breakes out unto h these passionate words well worthy your Episcopall Censure : Whereby † their vanity may appeare , that upon idle ghesses against all antiquity , makes fooles beleeve , that S. Peter w as k never at Rome ; mking the Succession of Bishops and truth of the Latine Churches , as questionable as the Centurists orders . Adam Bishop of Morini in Flaunders , Christianus the second Bishop of Marcte , Sebotho Bishop of Augusta , Everhardus Bishop of Reformes , Vlricus Bishop of Saltsburg , Conradus Bishop of Hildesheim , Conradus Bishop of Halberstat , Ludolphus Bishop of the same See , Gunterus Bishop of Magdeburge ? Iosia Odolpleus , Archbishop of Vpsal 〈…〉 in S 〈…〉 hland , with sundry other Patriarkes , Archbishops and Bishops , many of them by reason of age or sicknesse , others out of discontent , others out of a desire of peace , quietnesse , and case from unnecessary cares , and troubles , others of them meerly out of conscience of the unlawfulnesse , danger , hurt , and sinnes accompanying the very office of Bishops as then it is , and yet is used ▪ ) have voluntarily renounced , revived , relinquished , their Patriarkships , Archbishoprikes , and Bishoprikes , and betooke themselves to a more retired , religious , quiet , private , godly life , wherein they might serve God better and showe those manifold occasions of evill and temptations unto which their Episcopall function would expresse them both a hazard of their Soules . keywords: acts; apostles; archbishops; authority; bishops; c. 1; c. 2; christ; christian; church; churches; col; cor; councell; day; degree; diocaesan; divine; doctor; doctrine; doe; elders; england; ephesus; episcopall; epistle; god; gods; good; great; hands; hath; hee; himselfe; hist; holy; imposition; institution; iurisdiction; king; l. 1; l. 2; l. 3; law; lord; man; ministers; office; ordaine; order; ordination; owne; paul; people; place; plague; postscript; power; preaching; prelates; presbyters; present; proove; right; rome; scripture; second; sole; text; things; time; timothy; titus; word; yea cache: A68614.xml plain text: A68614.txt item: #77 of 153 id: A70863 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Comfortable cordials against discomfortable feares of imprisonment, and other sufferings in good causes containing some Latine verses, sentences, and texts of Scripture / written by Mr. William Prynne on his chamber walles in the Tower of London during his imprisonment there ; since translated by him into English verse. date: 1641.0 words: 3996 flesch: 74 summary: God is a * Tower in the Tower . 2 CORINTHIANS 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11. Blessed be God , even the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ , the Father of mercies , and the God of all comfort ; who comforteth us in all our tribulation , that wee may bee able to comfort them which are in any troubles by the comfort wherewith we our selves are comforted of God . keywords: bee; christ; english; god; hee; imprisonment; lord; prynne; psal; qui; sufferings; text; things; tower; william cache: A70863.xml plain text: A70863.txt item: #78 of 153 id: A70864 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Concordia discors, or, The dissonant harmony of sacred publique oathes, protestations, leagues, covenants, ingagements, lately taken by many time-serving saints, officers, without scruple of conscience ... by William Prynne, Esq. ... date: 1659.0 words: 19014 flesch: 66 summary: So God you help , &c. c. 7 tending only to the Declaration of such Duty as every true and well-affected Subject , not only by Bond of Allegiance , but also by the Commandement of Almighty God ought to bear to his Majesty , his Heirs and Successors ; which Oath such as are infected with Popish Superstition do oppugn with many false and unsound Arguments , the just defence whereof , his Majesty ( King James ) hath heretofore undertaken & worthily performed , to the great contentment , of all his loving Subjects notwithstanding the gainsayings of all contentious Adversaries . keywords: c. 1; c. c.; covenant; england; gibeonites; god; heirs; house; king; kingdoms; league; lord; new; oath; officers; parliament; people; posterity; power; protestations; successors cache: A70864.xml plain text: A70864.txt item: #79 of 153 id: A70865 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Faces about, or, A recrimination charged upon Mr. John Goodvvin in the point of fighting against God, and opposing the way of Christ and a justification of the Presbyterian way in the particulars by him unjustly charged upon it : vvith other short animadversions upon his late book called [Theomachia] or, The grand imprudence of men running the hazard of fighting against God, &c. date: 1644.0 words: 3376 flesch: 65 summary: 18 , he wisheth it may be the first-born of religious Advertisements and Cautions to us , That no man , or rank of men whatsoever , do appear , especially in any high handed Opposition or Contestation , nor so much as lift up an hard thought against Doctrine or Way , claiming Origination and Descent from God , till we have Security upon Security , Proof upon Proof , Demonstration upon Demonstration , Evidence upon Evidence , that such Ways or Doctrines onely pretend unto God , as the Authors of them ; and that in truth they are not at all from him . Faces about, or, A recrimination charged upon Mr. John Goodvvin in the point of fighting against God, and opposing the way of Christ and a justification of the Presbyterian way in the particulars by him unjustly charged upon it : vvith other short animadversions upon his late book called [Theomachia] or, The grand imprudence of men running the hazard of fighting against God, &c. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. keywords: fighting; god; men; pag; reformation; text; way cache: A70865.xml plain text: A70865.txt item: #80 of 153 id: A70870 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A new discovery of the prelates tyranny in their late prosecutions of Mr. William Pryn, an eminent Lawyer, Dr. Iohn Bastwick, a learned physitian and Mr. Henry Burton, a reverent divine wherein the separate and joynt proceedings against them in the high commission and Star Chamber their petitions, speeches, cariages at the hearing and execution of their last sentences date: 1641.0 words: 12869 flesch: 49 summary: THese prisoners having this liberty granted them just the day before the hearing , Master Prynne thereupon repaired with his answer ( formerly drawne up and engrossed by Master Holt ) to Master Tomlins another of his counsell , newly returned out of the Country the evening before ; and having got him to signe this engrossed answer , he goeth therewith to Master Holt , desiring him likewise to subscribe it according to promise ; who refused to doe it now as hee had done before , protesting , that he durst not for an 100 peeces signe it , because he had received an expresse command to the contrary . THis petition being reade in open Court the 12. of May ; the Court commanded Master Holt , one of Master Prynnes counsel forth with to repaire to him to the Tower to take instructions for his answer ; and in the afternoone the Lieutenant of the Tower , was sent for by the Prelates instigation , and checked by the Lords for suffering Master Prynne to dictate such a petition , and one Gardiner , ( a Clerke belonging to the Tower , who writ it from his mouth by the Lieutenants license ) was for this capitall offence by a warrant from the Arch-Bishop , and others , the same evening apprehended by a Pursevant , and kept prisoner by him some 14 dayes , and not released , till he had put in bond to appeare before the Lords when ever he should be called ; after which he was hunted after by the Archbishops pursevants out of the high Commission : Who upon the reading of this petition , and Doctor Bastwicks , made a motion in Court of purpose to prejudge the cause before it came to hearing , tending highly to affront his Majesties prerogative , and thereupon procured this forejudging order , wherein his insolent motion is recited . keywords: answer; burton; cause; chamber; counsell; court; day; hand; hee; information; law; lords; majesties; master; master prynne; order; owne; prelates; prynne; said; star cache: A70870.xml plain text: A70870.txt item: #81 of 153 id: A70871 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The remainder, or second part of a Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulness & continuance of the antient setled maintenance and tithes of the ministers of the Gospel wherein the divine right of our ministers tithes is further asserted ... / by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq. ... date: 1659.0 words: 72913 flesch: 58 summary: FOR THE LAWFULNESS & CONTINUANCE Of the Antient Setled MAINTENANCE and TITHES Of the Ministers of the Gospel : WHEREIN The DIVINE RIGHT OF OUR MINISTERS TITHES is further asserted : The Magistrates Inforcement of the DUE PAYMENT OF THEM BY COERCIVE PENAL LAWS , when substracted or detained , vindicated : That they are no REAL BURDEN , or GRIEVANCE to the People ; the abolishing them no Ease , Benefit to Farmers , Tenants or Poor-People ; but a Prejudice rather ; and a gain to None but Rich Land-Lords , cleared : That the present Opposition against them , proceeds not from any true Grounds of Conscience , or Real Inconveniences in Tithes themselves , but only from base Covetousness , carnal Policy , want of Christian Love , Charity to , and professed Enmity against the Ministers of the Gospel ; Yea , from a JESUITICAL and ANABAPTISTICAL DESIGN to subvert , ruine our Church , Ministry , Religion ; and bring a Perpetual Infamie on our Nation , and the Reformed Religion here professed . That Abraham then gave him TITHES OF ALL , as perceiving under that visible form an invisible Deity and everlasting Priesthood to subsist , to whom Tithes ( originally ) are only due & eternally due ; because he is and continues for ever an everlasting Priest . That our Saviours own words , John. 8. 58. Abraham rejoyced to see my day , and he saw it , ( as well with the eyes of his body , by this special apparition of Christ then meeting and blessing him , as a Priest of the most high God , at that time , as with the eye of his faith ) and was glad : do warrant this their opinion , That Melchisedec was no other than Jesus Christ himself : which they sortify with 7. strong , unanswerable Arguments in the opinions of many ; from whence ( if granted ) it will inevitably follow ; That TITHES are more truly and properly Evangelical , than Ceremonial or Judaical , because thus originally given and paid to Christ himself , ( the h everlasting Head , King , High Priest of the Church ) by Abraham i the Common Head and Father of all the Faithfull ( as well Gentiles as Jewes ) out of the prevision of his Incarnation , in reference to his Everlasting Priesthood , as an honorary Portion , Tribute , Salary , k of right belonging and annexed to his Priesthood : Hebr. 7. 1. to 15. Gen. 14. 18 , 19 , 20. which Priestly office was l principally to be executed , compleated upon Earth , and in Heaven , by Christs subsequent Incarnation , Passion , Sacrifice of himself upon the Crosse , Resurrection , Ascension into Heaven , and perpetual Intercession at Gods right hand for all his elect , both as God and Man ; especially in relation to the Gentiles , m not generally called , converted to the faith , till after his Incarnation and Ascension . keywords: 2ly; acts; alms; anabaptists; antichristian; antient; army; canne; christian; church; churches; conscience; council; decimas; defence; divine; dues; england; estates; faith; general; glebes; god; gods; good; gospel; government; hath; history; house; jesuites; john; king; kingdom; lands; late; laws; lesse; like; london; lord; maintenance; man; men; ministers tithes; ministry; nation; new; non; officers; ought; parliament; pay; payment; people; persons; petition; places; poor; pope; popish; power; present; priests; publick; read; reason; rectories; religion; revenues; right; ruine; seldens; self; souldiers; taxes; tenth; things; thou; time; tithes; war; way; words; world; worship; year; ● ● cache: A70871.xml plain text: A70871.txt item: #82 of 153 id: A70872 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Rockes improved comprising certaine poeticall meditations extracted from the contemplation of the nature and quality of rockes, a barren and harsh soyle, yet a fruitfull and delightfull subject of meditation / by VVilliam Prynne ... date: 1641.0 words: 17383 flesch: 105 summary: Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 223:9) Rockes improved comprising certaine poeticall meditations extracted from the contemplation of the nature and quality of rockes, a barren and harsh soyle, yet a fruitfull and delightfull subject of meditation / by VVilliam Prynne ... Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Rockes are to Men the r strongest , safest Fence , F●rt , R●fuge in all Dangers : and from hence Most Castles , Townes , Forts on them setled ar , Which guard whole Kingdomes , both in Peace and war ; To these men in all places us● to flye F●r ayde and shelter in extremitie , And is not Christ our Rocke , the strongest Mound , The safest s refuge of his Saints ? who found Their Forts , strength , fafty upon Him , and flye To him alone in all their Miserie ? Where they in safty live , and dare defie Both Men and Devils with securitie . keywords: christ; cor; doe; ezech; god; gods; hearts; heb; isa; jer; joh; luk; mat; men; psal; rev; rockes; rom; sinnes; ● ● cache: A70872.xml plain text: A70872.txt item: #83 of 153 id: A70874 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The title of kings proved to be jure devino and also that our royall soveraign, King Charles the II, is the right and lawful heir to the crown of England, and that the life of his father, Charles the First, was taken away unjustly, contrary to the common law, statute law, and all other lawes of England ; wherein is laid down several proofs both of Scripture and law, clearly and plainly discovering that there can be no full and free Parliament without a king and House of Lords / by W.P., Esq. date: 1660.0 words: 2363 flesch: 80 summary: The title of kings proved to be jure devino and also that our royall soveraign, King Charles the II, is the right and lawful heir to the crown of England, and that the life of his father, Charles the First, was taken away unjustly, contrary to the common law, statute law, and all other lawes of England ; wherein is laid down several proofs both of Scripture and law, clearly and plainly discovering that there can be no full and free Parliament without a king and House of Lords / by W.P., Esq. The title of kings proved to be jure devino and also that our royall soveraign, King Charles the II, is the right and lawful heir to the crown of England, and that the life of his father, Charles the First, was taken away unjustly, contrary to the common law, statute law, and all other lawes of England ; wherein is laid down several proofs both of Scripture and law, clearly and plainly discovering that there can be no full and free Parliament without a king and House of Lords / by W.P., Esq. Prynne, William, 1600-1669. keywords: charles; england; god; king; law; text cache: A70874.xml plain text: A70874.txt item: #84 of 153 id: A74790 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A new Magna Charta: enacted and confirmed by the high and mighty states, the remainder of the Lords and Commons, now sitting at Westminster, in empty Parliament, under the command and wardship of Sir Thomas Fairfax, Lievtenant Generall Cromwell, (our present soveraigne lord the King, now residing at his royall pallace at White-Hall) and Prince Ireton his sonne, and the Army under their command. Containing the many new, large and ample liberties, customes and franchises, of late freely granted and confirmed to our soveraigne lord King Charles, his heires and successors; the Church and state of England and Ireland, and all the freemen, and free-borne people of the same. date: 1648.0 words: 3653 flesch: 33 summary: Containing the many new, large and ample liberties, customes and franchises, of late freely granted and confirmed to our soveraigne lord King Charles, his heires and successors; the Church and state of England and Ireland, and all the freemen, and free-borne people of the same. Containing the many new, large and ample liberties, customes and franchises, of late freely granted and confirmed to our soveraigne lord King Charles, his heires and successors; the Church and state of England and Ireland, and all the freemen, and free-borne people of the same. keywords: army; commons; england; item; king; liberties; lord; new; text cache: A74790.xml plain text: A74790.txt item: #85 of 153 id: A78250 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The Case of the Jevves stated: Or, The Jewes synagogue opened. With their preparations in the morning before they go thither, and their doings at night when they come home: Their practices in their synagogues and some select actings of theirs in England, upon record. date: 1656.0 words: 2830 flesch: 75 summary: Then they fall to singing again , and after that to prayer again turning their heads to the four corners and winds of the world , because the letter Daleth signifieth four , in their repeating the Lord is One , and Echad containing in numeral letters 245. whereunto they add three , God our Lord is true , in all 248. , they go to the Synagogue and there they pray , and then the chief Chorester or chanter , sings a prayer , and they all sing the prayer of eighteen parts used in the morning aforesaid , and coming out of his Pulpit , he kneels down upon the steps before the Ark , and all the people fall down with their faces on their left hand confessing their sins , and praying for mercy and pardon , and conclude with prayer , and return home again . keywords: god; jews; morning; prayer; synagogue; text; words cache: A78250.xml plain text: A78250.txt item: #86 of 153 id: A91135 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: An account of the Kings late revenues and debts. Or A true copie of some papers found in the late Archbishop of Canterburies studie, (one of the Commissioners for the Exchequer, An. 1634. and 1635.) Relating to the Kings revenue, debts, and the late Lord Treasurer Portlands gaines by suits, and sale of offices: necessary to be knowne for the common good. date: 1647.0 words: 1860 flesch: 85 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91135 of text R201500 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E388_3). 49 D The rate of 49 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: anno; kings; sir; text cache: A91135.xml plain text: A91135.txt item: #87 of 153 id: A91136 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: An ansvver to a proposition in order to the proposing of a Commonwealth or democracy. Proposed by friends to the Commonwealth by Mr. Harringtons consent; who is over-wise in his own conceit, that he propounds a Committee of Parliament, with above one hundred earls, nobles, members, gentlemen, and divines (named in his list) may dance attendance twice a week on his utopian excellency in the banquetting house at Whitehall or Painted Chamber, to hear and see his puppet-play of a new commonwealth: the very first view whereof he presumes will infatuate alldissenting [sic] parties, spectators, and our divided nations by their example into a Popish blinde obedience thereunto, upon his ipse dixit. date: 1659.0 words: 2353 flesch: 70 summary: Proposed by friends to the Commonwealth by Mr. Harringtons consent; who is over-wise in his own conceit, that he propounds a Committee of Parliament, with above one hundred earls, nobles, members, gentlemen, and divines (named in his list) may dance attendance twice a week on his utopian excellency in the banquetting house at Whitehall or Painted Chamber, to hear and see his puppet-play of a new commonwealth: the very first view whereof he presumes will infatuate alldissenting [sic] parties, spectators, and our divided nations by their example into a Popish blinde obedience thereunto, upon his ipse dixit. Proposed by friends to the Commonwealth by Mr. Harringtons consent; who is over-wise in his own conceit, that he propounds a Committee of Parliament, with above one hundred earls, nobles, members, gentlemen, and divines (named in his list) may dance attendance twice a week on his utopian excellency in the banquetting house at Whitehall or Painted Chamber, to hear and see his puppet-play of a new commonwealth: the very first view whereof he presumes will infatuate alldissenting [sic] parties, spectators, and our divided nations by their example into a Popish blinde obedience thereunto, upon his ipse dixit. keywords: colonel; committee; commonwealth; friends; harringtons; sir; text; william cache: A91136.xml plain text: A91136.txt item: #88 of 153 id: A91138 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The antidote animadverted, by P. date: 1645.0 words: 952 flesch: 73 summary: Next the Answerer concludes , ( I professe ) like himselfe , as w●nt , he bestows , on his adversary , Antagonist , Pride ; Antechristianisme d●●g●●ous opposition &c. Which I thus understand , Christ shall not make himselfe known , he sh●ll not strive , neither like a champion with a shout rush on , and overco●…e vide I●…sh . keywords: antidote; text cache: A91138.xml plain text: A91138.txt item: #89 of 153 id: A91143 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: An appendix to A seasonable vindication of free-admission, to, and frequent administration of the Lords Holy Communion, to all visible church-members, regenerate or unregenerate. By William Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne. date: 1657.0 words: 3603 flesch: 60 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91143 of text R203362 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E916_1). By William Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne. keywords: chapel; church; communion; house; inne; lincolns; lords; society; text cache: A91143.xml plain text: A91143.txt item: #90 of 153 id: A91152 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A brief narrative of the manner how divers Members of the House of Commons, that were illegally and unjustly imprisoned or secluded by the Armies force, in December, 1648. and May 7. 1659. coming upon Tuesday the 27th of December 1659. ... to discharge their trusts for the several counties and places for which they serve, were again forcibly shut out by (pretended) orders of the Members now sitting at Westminster, who had formerly charged the Army with the guilt of the said force, and professed a desire to remove it, that all the Members might sit with freedom and safety. Published by some of the said Members, in discharge of their trust, and to prevent the peoples being deceived of their liberties and birthright ... date: None words: 4173 flesch: 68 summary: Our next attempt was , to go into the House ; but then the said Collonels desired us to forbear : We asked , by what warrant they kept us out whom they knew to be Members , they having sworn obedience to the Parliament ? they replyed , they had orders for what they did ; we desired a sight of them , and we would retire , and trouble them no further ; Col. Alured said , that their Order was not about them : but some others , and one Hage by name said they had verbal Orders to keep us out ; at length Col. Alured told us , if we would rest our selves in the inner Lobby , he would by the Serjant acquaint the House of our coming , and demand of admitance ; and accordingly he went presently to the House door , and knocking , the Serjant came to the door to him , but at the opening of it , seeing some of us there , offering to come in , held the door almost shut ; Whereupon Col. Alured told him , that the Members were come , and endeavoured to get into the House , desiring him to acquaint the Speaker , and house so much , ( as some of the Members did also ) which he promised , and immediately did , returning to the door , to tell us , that he had done so , and that the House had thereupon taken up the debate of that businesse , and the Turn-key presently took the key out of the door , to prevent any further attempt of going in . Col. Ingolsby , whilst we were at the first door came in , who was the only sitting Member that we saw , ( for none came out whilst we were there ; ) him we desired to acquaint the House with our attendance , and the force upon us , which he promised to do , and we believe did . Having attended above an hour , with more distance and strangenesse , than ever we were used to , when we went on Messages to the Lords house , who usually came many of them out , and discoursed very familiarly with us ; And therefore we made Col. Alured acquainted , that we were resolved to stay no longer , unless the House declared they desired we should ; Whereupon he went again to the House door , which upon his knock being opened , he acquainted the Serjant so much , willing him , to give notice thereof to the Speaker , and Members sitting : which he presently did , and within a short time after , the Serjant came out to us , and having made a preamble , that he had no direction to come and tell us any thing , he told us of his own civility , that the House had possed a vote in our business , which in effect was , the appointing the fifth of January , to take it into consideration : Which we looked upon as their confirming , and owning this forcible exclusion of us , and so departed . keywords: col; door; force; house; members; parliament; text cache: A91152.xml plain text: A91152.txt item: #91 of 153 id: A91153 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A brief necessary vindication of the old and new secluded Members, from the false malicious calumnies; and of the fundamental rights, liberties, privileges, government, interest of the freemen, parliaments, people of England, from the late avowed subversions 1. Of John Rogers, in his un-christian concertation with Mr. Prynne, and others. 2. Of M: Nedham, in his Interest will not lie. Wherein the true good old cause is asserted, the false routed; ... / By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns-Inne. date: 1659.0 words: 24358 flesch: 52 summary: Whether the Defence , maintenance of the true Protestant Religion ; the Kings royal person , authority , government , posterity , the privileges and rights of Parliament , consisting of King , Lords and Commons , the Laws , Statutes of the Land , the Liberty , Property of the Subject , and peace , safety of the Kingdom , were the only True and Good Old Cause , for which the long Parliament , and their Armies , first took up Arms in 1642. and continued them till the Treaty with the King , 1648. Yet in this particular case , by reason of the warr between King and Parliament , he will by no means yeeld the Parliament to be dissolved by the Kings death , but to remain intirely in the Members sitting at his death ; and that it is now again revived in them , after above 6. years interruption : to prove which strange Chymaera , by stronger Mediums , he * spends some pages , to convince and satisfie all Contradictors . keywords: army; cause; commons; crown; death; england; god; government; house; interest; king; kingdom; law; lords; members; nedham; officers; parliament; power; protestant; prynne; publike; religion; rogers; sitting; true cache: A91153.xml plain text: A91153.txt item: #92 of 153 id: A91155 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A briefe polemicall dissertation, concerning the true time of the inchoation and determination of the Lordsday-Sabbath. Wherein is clearly and irrefragably manifested by Scripture, reason, authorities, in all ages till this present: that the Lordsday begins and ends at evening; and ought to be solemnized from evening to evening: against the novel errours, mistakes of such, who groundlesly assert; that it begins and ends at midnight, or day-breaking; and ought to be sanctified from midnight to midnight, or morning to morning: whose arguments are here examined, refuted as unsound, absurd, frivolous. Compiled in the Tower of London, and now published, for the information, reformation of all contrary judgment or practise. By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq;. date: 1655.0 words: 42544 flesch: 72 summary: Luke 23. 43 , 44. F●x●d 12. 6. Num. 9. 6 c. 3. All Lawes and Canons touching Lords-days , Holy-dayes , Feast-dayes , and Thanksgiving dayes , and the Canonists Tit Feri● , & dies F●sti . keywords: acts; anno; apostles; beginning; cause; christians; christs; christs resurrection; church; conclusion; creation; day; day doth; day light; day sabbath; day whereon; dayes; dies; end; ends; evening; exod; following; gen; god; gods; hath; holy; john; limits; lords day; lordsday; luke; man; men; midnight; morning; night; proof; reason; rest; resurrection; resurrection day; saturday; scripture; second; text; time; tom; vespera; week; work; ● st; ● ● cache: A91155.xml plain text: A91155.txt item: #93 of 153 id: A91157 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The case of the old secured, secluded, and now excluded Members, briefly and truly stated; for their own vindication, and their electors and the kingdoms satisfaction. / By William Prynne of Lincolns Inne Esq; one of those Members. date: 1660.0 words: 4858 flesch: 56 summary: Whether it be not a far greater breach of Privilege , Treason , and levying War against the Parliament , in the Army-Officers , and sitting Members at their request , thus forcibly to secure , seclude and eject above 200 Members , 3. or 4. times one after another , only for voting freely according to their mindes , consciences ; and refusing to retract and protest against their own and Majorities Votes ; than for Cromwel , Lambert , & others , to exclude but 50. 60. or 70. of them , sitting as an House and Parliament , being encouraged and justified by their own votes , presidents and Commands to seclude and exclude the Majority of their fellow Members , for voting contrary to the Army Officers desires and designs , who excluded them upon the same account ? 4. Whether it be Parliamental , Rational , Just Equitable ( admitting the Common , House have power in themselves alone , to vote out any Member for misdemeanours or breach of Trust , without the Lords , which some deny , upon very good * Presidents and grounds ) that the far lesser part of the Commons House , may forcibly seclude and vote out the greatest part of their fellow Members , only for over-voting , & dissenting from them in their Judgements ? And not more just and reasonable , that the Major part , being the House it self in Law and Conscience , should judge & vote out this Minor part , for their Antiparliamentary Protestation , & such an unjust forcible seclusion & ejection , as ours by the premises now appears to be to themselves , and all the Kingdom ; being the highest breach both of their Trust , the Privileges & Rights of Parl. & Peoples Liberties that ever any Members were guilty of since Parliaments began ? 5. Whether their secluding , and * voting out all the secluded Members , in the grosse 1648. 1649. and Jan. 5. 1659. without impeachment , summonning , hearing , or nominating any one of them in particular in their Votes or O●ders , be not a most unjust , unpresidented , unparliamentary Judgement and Proceeding , contrary to all rules of Justice in all other cases and Judicatures whatsoever , & in this and former Parliaments ; yea meerly null and void to all intents for its Generality and Incertainty ; it being the Privilege of every Member , to be first , accused ; 2ly . summoned to answer his accusation if absent ; 3ly . Whether the major part of the Commons and Lords House then forcibly secluded , might not by vertue of this Ordinance , as well as their Speaker Lenthal by his Letter , and both Houses by that Ordinance , declare all Proceedings , Votes and Ordinances in the respective Houses , whereof they were Members , void and nul to all intents , during their forcible seclusion , and the force then put upon the Houses , without any offence or crime at all deserving seclusion ; and were not bound by their Protestation , League and Covenant , to do it , to preserve their own , and the Houses privileges , being the far greater number of Members , 5. times more than those who voted them out ? keywords: army; house; lords; members; officers; parliament; text; votes cache: A91157.xml plain text: A91157.txt item: #94 of 153 id: A91160 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Mr. Prinns charge against the King. Shewing that the Kings design, purpose, and resolution, his endeavours, practice, and conversation, have alwayes been engaged, byassed, and tended to settle, establish, confirm, popery, tyranny, and slavery, in, among, over his dominions, subjects, people, and in order to that design, end, and purpose, he writ to the Pope of Rome ... engaging himself to the said Pope, to endeavour to settle the popish religion only in his dominions; and since his coming to the crown, hath extented extraordinary favonrs [sic] upon, and protecti- on [sic] of notorious papists, priests & Jesuits, against all prosecution of lawes enacted against them; notwith- standing all his protestations to the contrary, hath raised up a most horrid, unnatural, and bloudy warre, arming his Roman Catholique subjects to massacre, plunder, torture, imprison, ruine, his loyall, faithfull pious Protestant subjects to burn, sack, and spoile their cities, towns and villages, collected from the bookes written. / By William Prinne of Lincolns Inne, Esquire. Being but a very small tast from that main ocean of that which he hath written concerning the King, ... date: 1648.0 words: 3847 flesch: 64 summary: Shewing that the Kings design, purpose, and resolution, his endeavours, practice, and conversation, have alwayes been engaged, byassed, and tended to settle, establish, confirm, popery, tyranny, and slavery, in, among, over his dominions, subjects, people, and in order to that design, end, and purpose, he writ to the Pope of Rome ... engaging himself to the said Pope, to endeavour to settle the popish religion only in his dominions; and since his coming to the crown, hath extented extraordinary favonrs [sic] upon, and protecti- on [sic] of notorious papists, priests & Jesuits, against all prosecution of lawes enacted against them; notwith- standing all his protestations to the contrary, hath raised up a most horrid, unnatural, and bloudy warre, arming his Roman Catholique subjects to massacre, plunder, torture, imprison, ruine, his loyall, faithfull pious Protestant subjects to burn, sack, and spoile their cities, towns and villages, collected from the bookes written. Shewing that the Kings design, purpose, and resolution, his endeavours, practice, and conversation, have alwayes been engaged, byassed, and tended to settle, establish, confirm, popery, tyranny, and slavery, in, among, over his dominions, subjects, people, and in order to that design, end, and purpose, he writ to the Pope of Rome ... engaging himself to the said Pope, to endeavour to settle the popish religion only in his dominions; and since his coming to the crown, hath extented extraordinary favonrs [sic] upon, and protecti- on [sic] of notorious papists, priests & Jesuits, against all prosecution of lawes enacted against them; notwith- standing all his protestations to the contrary, hath raised up a most horrid, unnatural, and bloudy warre, arming his Roman Catholique subjects to massacre, plunder, torture, imprison, ruine, his loyall, faithfull pious Protestant subjects to burn, sack, and spoile their cities, towns and villages, collected from the bookes written. keywords: god; hath; ibid; king; pag; parliament; power; subjects; text cache: A91160.xml plain text: A91160.txt item: #95 of 153 id: A91161 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A checke to Brittanicus, for his palpable flattery and prevarication, in justifying condemned Nat: Fiennes. Published for the present necessary vindication of his traduced iudges, prosecutors, and of truth and publique iustice, till an exact relation of all the proceedings in that triall bee set forth by the councell of warre, and his antagonists for their further justification, and satisfaction of the world, so miserably abused with mis-reports of that action, for which he was condemned. date: 1644.0 words: 3503 flesch: 42 summary: WEE are informed that Brittannicus during his last weekes silence , hath beene visiting Nath : Fiennes late Governour of Bristoll since his condemnation , at the Lord Cottingtons Country House ; who now not daring to shew his head in London for feare of losing it , and despairing of his owne credit , after so many false Relations wherewith he hath deluded the world ; instead of giving in an Account of his Receits at Bristoll , and craving pardon of the Parliament and Kingdome in a penitent Recantation , and acknowledgement of his former grand disservices to the State , hath bribed Brittannicus , to trumpet forth his unknowne eminent deserts , and publicke vertues to the people ; to acquit him from the least imputation of Treachery or Cowardize , in his ignoble surrender of the famous strong City and Castle of Bristoll , in lesse then three dayes Seige , to the Enemy , upon very dishonourable conditions , without the least necessitie , ( there being not one Out-Fort taken , nor one shot made against the City or Castle walls ) upon the entry onely of 150. Enemies within the line , who might have been easily cut off ; notwithstanding his many promises , to dispute every inch of ground , to hold out the City , and the Castle to the utmost , and when he could no longer keepe it , then to lay his bones therin . If he conceit , the Noblenes of his blood may apologize for his impunity ; though he hath forfeited it in this ignoble action : all understanding men will conclude , that as it aggravates his guilt , and heightens his offence ; so it pleads most effectually for his execution : since an exemplary President of justice upon an eminent offender of Noble extraction , will strike more terror into , and doe more good upon other Governors , then twenty Lawes , or a thousand executions of inferiour persons , for sleighter offences ; And seeing he hath given the Parliament and Kingdome incomparably the most fatall blow , and the enemy the richest booty they ever yet received , in the losse of Bristoll ; there is little reason or justice , that hee should escape after such a publique triall , and judgement of his owne seeking ; the best service he can now doe for the Common wealth , being this ▪ to become a spectacle and Monument of publike Iustice to Posterity in a military way , as Strafford was in a Politick . keywords: bristoll; castle; councell; fiennes; head; justice; parliament; text; william cache: A91161.xml plain text: A91161.txt item: #96 of 153 id: A91165 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its Members. To convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent treasons, rebellions, perjuries, violences, oppressive illegal taxes, excises, militiaes, imposts; destructive councils, proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow-Members, the counties, cities, boroughs, freemen, commons, Church, clergie of England, their Protestant brethren, allies; contrary to all their oathes, protestations, vowes, leagues, covenants, allegiance, remonstrances, declarations, ordinances, promises, obligations to them, the fundamental laws, liberties of the land; and principles of the true Protestant religion; and to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike unitie, safetie, peace, settlement, and their own salvation. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne. date: 1660.0 words: 18601 flesch: 46 summary: upon the Armie-Officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them , Jan. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them , contrarie to their Protestation , Covenant , the Privileges , Rights of Parliament , the Great Charter , the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of the Nation ; And not content therewith , by their own Anti-Parliamentarie , antichristian Usurpers , to out-act the old Gunpowder Traytors many degrees , by the Armies assistance , and e opposing , advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshipped , they most traiterously set aside , voted down , suppressed the whole House of Lords , as dangerous , uselesse , tyrannical , unnecessary ; usurped , engrossed the stile , power of the Parliament of England , and Supreme Authority of the Nation , to themselves alone , without King , Lords , or Majoritie of their fellow secluded Members ; created a new Monstrous High Court of Justice , ( destructive to all our fundamental Laws , Liberties and Justice it self ) c. 15. 12. 17. Or not rather a shuting up their bowels of compassion towards them ; a grieving , offending , persecuting , murdering of their bodies and souls too ; and an infallible evidence , that they are yet no real Saints or children of God , but the very children of the Devil , abiding in death , having no true love of God , nor eternal life abiding in them , by Christs own resolution , John 8. 44 , 45. 1 John 2. 10. to 18 ? keywords: army; brethren; col; england; god; good; henry; house; john; juncto; king; kingdom; law; laws; london; lord; man; members; nation; officers; parliament; people; power; publike; self; sir; thomas; thou; william; yea cache: A91165.xml plain text: A91165.txt item: #97 of 153 id: A91167 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The county of Somerset divided into several classes, for the present setling of the Presbyterial government. date: 1648.0 words: 2472 flesch: 50 summary: Henry Corges de Batcombe in Chedd , Esq Tho. Hippesley de Camerton , Esq Tobias Venner de Bath , Doctor of Physick John Burges de Stanton Drewe Peter Lock de Chew Magnum William Hall de Brackley Ben. Pitt de Sanderwick James Rowsell de Comchey John Collins de Priston John Curle de Freshford John Wood de Bath Thomas Wornall de Wraxhall John Amery de Wrington Richard Arthur de Backwell Thomas Baynard senior , de Blayden Richard Grimston de Yatton Henry Plomley de Easthartrey James Wrenckmore de Axbridge Herculer Comer de Chedder James Nash de Compton Martin John Salmont de Easton Katharine Henry Hurle de St. George Edmond Keene de Wrington . Safford of Bicknaller Elders Iohn Palmer of Taunton Esq George Searle of Taunton Esq Sir Tho. Worth of Northpedderton Knight Robert Blake of Bridgwater Esq John Pyne of Curry Mallet Esq Thomas Nicholas of Taunton John Gardiner of Rinton Thomas Gatchell of Anglesby Thomas Coombe of Petmister Roger Hill of Ponsford Esq William Andrewes of Bridgwater Richard Newton of Northpedderton Robert Good of Perriton Thomas Summers of Andrey Hill of Weston Thomas Musgrave of Rinton Edward Warre of Chipley Esq Tho. keywords: alias; bath; classis; combe; compton; east; easton; esq; george; james; john; ministers; north; richard; somerset; taunton; text; thomas; wells; weston; william cache: A91167.xml plain text: A91167.txt item: #98 of 153 id: A91168 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A declaration and protestation against the illegal, detestable, oft-condemned, new tax and extortion of excise in general; and for hops (a native incertain commodity) in particular. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq; date: 1654.0 words: 11873 flesch: 54 summary: In * A Declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament , for bringing to condign punishment those that have raised false and scandalous rumours against the House , how THAT THEY INTEND to assesse every mans Pewter , and LAY EXCIZE UPON EVERY COMMODITY . For , although I was a Lawyer and knew what Duties were by Law to be paid by my self and others , yet I neither knew nor understood that EXCISE in generall , much less for Hops in speciall , was a duty ; and seeing I had many Judgements and Declarations of Parliament against it , as an illegall , execrable innovation , and damning it for ever as such , I could neither in prudence nor conscience pay it as a DVTY , till hee could make it appear to mee by some true reall Act of Parliament to be so : desiring him to shew me what Legall or other Authority he had to claim it as a Duty from mee . keywords: commons; excise; god; hath; hops; house; king; law; lords; man; parliament; people; power cache: A91168.xml plain text: A91168.txt item: #99 of 153 id: A91170 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A declaration and protestation of VVill: Prynne and Cle: VValker, Esquires, Members of the House of Commons against the present actings and proceedings of the Generall, and Generall Councell of the army, and their faction now remaining and sitting in the said House. date: 1649.0 words: 1314 flesch: 62 summary: Prynne and Cle: VValker, Esquires, Members of the House of Commons against the present actings and proceedings of the Generall, and Generall Councell of the army, and their faction now remaining and sitting in the said House. Prynne and Cle: VValker, Esquires, Members of the House of Commons against the present actings and proceedings of the Generall, and Generall Councell of the army, and their faction now remaining and sitting in the said House. keywords: commons; house; prynne; text cache: A91170.xml plain text: A91170.txt item: #100 of 153 id: A91171 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A declaration of the officers and armies, illegall, injurious, proceedings and practises against the XI. impeached members: (not to be parallel'd in any age) and tending to the utter subversion of free Parliaments, rights, priviledges, freedome, and all common justice. And to introduce a meer arbitrary power in the very highest court of iustice. date: 1647.0 words: 3342 flesch: 52 summary: Members at once , all men of approved integrity , fidelity and abilities , who have acted and suffered much for the Parliaments and peoples liberties : Mr Denzel Holles , the first of them , was long imprisoned in the Tower by the King for his faithfulness and activity in the Parliament , 3. Caroli : for which good service , some of his Accusers & the whole House of Commons lately voted him , a large recompence , ( against those who wronged him ) as a person of eminent desert : Besides , he was one of the fiv●●●mbers impeached , demanded by the King , and justified by the whole House , for his faithful service to his Country , soon after the beginning of this Parliament ; yea , his and his Regiments valor and gaslantry were the principal instruments under God ( of all the Foot ) that gained the field at Edg-hil battel ; and after that made good Brainford , against the Kings whole Army , and thereby preserved the Artillery , Magazine and City it self ( at that time ) from surprizal : 4. By their violence to have them suspended the House before any real particular Charge or proofs produced against them ; threatning by their Remonstrance of June 23. in case the House would not suspend them ( against all Law and Iustice upon their illegal impeachment ) that they should be enforced to take such courses extraordinary ( for their suspention and apprehention , if not assassination ) as God ( who certainly wil give them no directions in such an unjust prosecution but only to repent of it ) should enable and direct them unto , wherein they far exceeded the Kings proceedings against the 5. Members ; who in five days after retracted all his Charge and proceedings against them , and never prosecuted their suspention from the House , which the Army press and reiterate again and again . keywords: army; charge; house; members; parliament; proceedings; proofs; text cache: A91171.xml plain text: A91171.txt item: #101 of 153 id: A91172 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Mr. Prynnes demand of his liberty to the Generall, Decemb. 26. 1648 with his answer thereto; and his declaration and protestation thereupon. date: 1648.0 words: 1716 flesch: 56 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91172 of text R35131 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.13[63]). with his answer thereto; and his declaration and protestation thereupon Prynne, William 1648 1420 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 B The rate of 7 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: generall; house; prynne; text; william cache: A91172.xml plain text: A91172.txt item: #102 of 153 id: A91182 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The falsities and forgeries of the anonymous author of a late pamphlet, (supposed to be printed at Oxford but in truth at London) 1644. intituled The fallacies of Mr. William Prynne, discovered and confuted, in a short view of his books intituled; The soveraignty of parliaments, The opening of the great seale. &c. Wherein the calumnies, and forgeries of this unknowne author in charging Mr. Prynne with false quotations, calumniating falshoods, wresting of the scriptures, points of popery, grosse absurdityes, meere contradictions hainous treasons & plain betraying of the cause, (not one of which is in the least degree made good by the calumniator) are succinctly answered, refuted. / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire. date: 1644.0 words: 3103 flesch: 65 summary: intituled The fallacies of Mr. William Prynne, discovered and confuted, in a short view of his books intituled; The soveraignty of parliaments, The opening of the great seale. &c. Wherein the calumnies, and forgeries of this unknowne author in charging Mr. Prynne with false quotations, calumniating falshoods, wresting of the scriptures, points of popery, grosse absurdityes, meere contradictions hainous treasons & plain betraying of the cause, (not one of which is in the least degree made good by the calumniator) are succinctly answered, refuted. / intituled The fallacies of Mr. William Prynne, discovered and confuted, in a short view of his books intituled; The soveraignty of parliaments, The opening of the great seale. &c. Wherein the calumnies, and forgeries of this unknowne author in charging Mr. Prynne with false quotations, calumniating falshoods, wresting of the scriptures, points of popery, grosse absurdityes, meere contradictions hainous treasons & plain betraying of the cause, (not one of which is in the least degree made good by the calumniator) are succinctly answered, refuted. / keywords: prynne; text; william cache: A91182.xml plain text: A91182.txt item: #103 of 153 id: A91187 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring-blasing-stars, & firebrands, stiling themselves nevv-lights, firing our church and state into new combustions. Divided into ten sections, comprising severall most libellous, scandalous, seditious, insolent, uncharitable, (and some blasphemous) passages; published in late unlicensed printed pamphlets, against the ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and power of parliaments, councels, synods, Christian kings and magistrates, in generall; the ordinances and proceedings of this present Parliament, in speciall: the national covenant, assembly, directory, our brethren of Scotland, Presbyterian government; the Church of England, with her ministers, worship; the opposers of independent novelties; ... Whereunto some letters and papers lately sent from the Sommer-Islands, are subjoyned, relating the schismaticall, illegal, tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there, in gathering their new-churches, to the great distraction and prejudice of that plantation. / Published for the common good by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire. date: 1645.0 words: 48991 flesch: 45 summary: But since their Session , the case is quite altered , nothing but Iesuiticall and Machivillian pollicy hath bin on foote , thousands of Petitions of poore Widdowes , Orphanes and all manner of distressed oppressed persons , who cry daiely and cannot be heard ; and these fat Preists can have Ordinance upon Ordinance for their ends ; they can have the sweat of other mens browes confirmed upon them by an Ordinance , whiles others e cannot have their just requests , for their owne rights Answered : though their Wives and Children perish ; our f Presbyterians wives must go like Ladyes , with their silke & Taffety , some with their fanns and silver watches forsooth hunging by their girdles , to please the pretty sweet faced , lovely Mopphet withall pretty things , t is pitty there 's not an Ordinance all this while , for them to weare Rattle● ; Consider this with your selves , & for what your estates and blood have beene engaged , The liberties of the subject , and the Protestant Religion , now how much after this vast expence , this sea of blood , of the subjects Liberties , have you attain'd ? even thus much , He that shall open his mouth freely for the Vindication of your Native Liberties , cannot doe it without the hazard of his own , yea of his life ; I know that the Priests thirst after my blood , but I call the God of heaven to witnesse , would it quench their thirst , and be a ransome for our posterity , I would freely offer it to the Common good● and as for the P●●testant Religion hath it not beene lock'd up in the breasts , of the Assembly ? hath not your faith beene pin'd upon their sleeve ? your estates spent , and your blood shed for the result of their mindes , right or wrong , and so have fough● for you know not what ? ●o that if this Libeller were not past all shame , he might have blush● to Print and ●●print so notorious a falshood , without retractation . keywords: answer; assembly; authority; children; christ; church; churches; clergy; conscience; covenant; discipline; divines; doe; ecclesiasticall; england; god; gods; good; government; great; hath; holy; independents; kingdome; lord; man; martin; master; ministers; new; ordinance; owne; pag; parliament; party; people; persecution; power; present; proceedings; religion; reverend; set; sir; spirit; state; synod; things; time; truth; tythes; way; word; yea; ● ● cache: A91187.xml plain text: A91187.txt item: #104 of 153 id: A91189 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A full declaration of the true state of the secluded members case. In vindication of themselves, and their privileges, and of the respective counties, cities and boroughs for which they were elected to serve in Parliament, against the vote of their discharge, published in print, Jan. 5. 1659. by their fellow members. Compiled and published by some of the secluded members, who could meet with safety and conveniencie, without danger of a forcible surprize by Red-coats. date: 1660.0 words: 22563 flesch: 66 summary: So that by this Vote made but by the 43. who had entred their dissents , all others must be presumed to be yet Con●●nters to the Vote . After this Antiparliamentary Order , ( destructive to the Privileges , Freedom , Vote● , and Members of the House ) some few Members dissented or disapproved the said Vote , upon several daies , as they were inclined or prevailed with thereunto , before the first of March , the time limited by the said Order . keywords: answer; army; col; commons; day; decemb; declaration; exact; force; general; god; house; john; judgement; kingdom; law; laws; members; officers; order; parliament; sir; sitting; thomas; vote; william; ● ● cache: A91189.xml plain text: A91189.txt item: #105 of 153 id: A91190 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A full reply to certaine briefe observations and anti-queries on Master Prynnes twelve questions about church-government: vvherein the frivolousnesse, falsenesse, and grosse mistakes of this anonymous answerer (ashamed of his name) and his weak grounds for independency, and separation, are modestly discovered, refelled. / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire. date: 1644.0 words: 16043 flesch: 60 summary: To the fifth , he grants that Independency will overthrow all Nationall Churches and Synods ; and the two Independent Brethren assure us in their Reply to A. S p. 111 that in time it cannot but overthrow all other sorts of Ecclesiasticall governments : Is it not then a turbulent , dangerous , schismaticall , unquiet ( that I say not insufferable ) Government , by your owne confessions , which will admit no equall nor corrivall ; nor yet any Nationall Church , Synod , Parliament , Prince , or temporall Magistrate , to exercise any , Ecclesiasticall , Legislative , or Magisteriall authority over any of their Conventicles , members , persons , liberties , estates , much lesse their consciences , as they are Christians ? Will any Parliament , State , or Nation , ( thinke you ) suffer such a Government to take root among them , which will un-King , un-Parliament , un-church , un-Nation them altogether , and make each severall congregation an absolute Monarchy , Church , Republick , Nation , within it selfe , depending on , subordinate wholly to it selfe , as if it and they were no part or members of the publike ? Fourthly , Because contrary to the h Policy practise of most Godly Magistrates , Princes Ministers , Churches in all Ages , Nations , which never indulged such liberty to opinions , new wayes , practises , especially to new Church-governments , Schismes , and Conventicles , ( which he here pleads for ) set up only by private spirits in opposition to the publick established Church-regelment . keywords: answer; christ; christian; church; churches; god; government; hath; independent; members; new; parliament; power; way; word; yea cache: A91190.xml plain text: A91190.txt item: #106 of 153 id: A91192 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A Gospel plea (interwoven with a rational and legal) for the lawfulnes & continuance of the ancient setled maintenance and tenthes of the ministers of the Gospel: proving, that there is a just, competent, comfortable maintenance due to all lawfull painfull preachers and ministers of the Gospel, by divine right, institution, and expresse texts and precepts of the Gospel: that glebes and tithes are such a maintenance, & due to ministers by divine right, law and Gospel: that if subtracted or detained, they may lawfully be inforced by coercive laws and penalties: that tithes are no reall burden nor grievance to the people; the abolishing them, no ease or benefit to farmers, husband-men, or poor people, but a prejudice and losse. That the present opposition against tithes, proceeds not from any reall grounds of conscience, but base covetousnesse, carnall policy, &c. and a Jesuiticall and Anabaptisticall designe, to subvert and ruin our ministers, Church, religion. With a satisfactory answer to all cavils and materiall objections to the contrary. By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esq; date: 1653.0 words: 66960 flesch: 67 summary: After which this pretended Conquerer e in the f●urth year of his reigne by the Councell of his Barons , through all the Counties of England caused 12. men of the most Noble , wise and skilfullest in the Law , to be sunm●ned out of every Shire , that he might learn th●ir Lawes and Customes from them ; and gave them this Oath , That proceeding in a right path , without deel●ning to the right hand or the left , to the best of their power , they should make known to him the Customes and Sanctions of their Lawes , pretermitting nothing , adding nothing , and altering n●thing in them by prevarication : which they accordingly performing ; a●d King William intending to alter the Law only in one particul●● according to the Lawes of Norway , from wh●nce he and his N●●●●ans desee●ded ; all the Barons and Grand English Enquest w●o presented him their Lawes on Oath being much grieved at it , unanimosly besought him , that he would permit them to enjoy their pr●pe● Lawes and ancient Customes under which their Fathers lived , and themselves had been borne and educated , because they deened it very hard for them to receive unknown Lawes , and to judge of those things they knew not , importunately beseeching him for the sou● of King Edward ( WHO HAD GRANTED TO HIM THE CROWNE and KINGDOME AFTER HIS DEATH , and whose Lawes they were ) that he would not compell them to persevere under the Lawes of any Forainers , but their owne Country Lawes alone . Thou hast rescued me from more then 4. Quaternions of Souldiers , who most strictly garded me day and night , as they did thyimprisoned Apostle x Peter , ( and more narrowly then any formerly under the Prelats greatest Tyranny ) and delivered him out of the hand of Herod , and from all the expectation of the People of the Je●s ; the Jesuits and Popish Priests , who marched freely abroad , not only preaching , but printing and dispersing no lesse then y 19. grosse Popish Books in defence of their Religion , and condemning ours for Heresie , whiles I ( their chief oppugner ) was shut up so close in three remote Castles , that I could neither write against , nor discover their Plots against our Church , State , Religion , nor yet send Letters to mine Imprisoners to demand my liberty , unless I would first give Copies of them to my Gardians , and then trust them to send them when and by whom they pleased , nor have admission to thy publick Ordinances for above two years space . keywords: abraham; apostles; canne; chap; christ; christians; church; churches; cities; cor; day; faithfull; glebes; god; gods; good; gospel; hath; heb; holy; house; israel; john; justice; king; land; law; lawes; levites; leviticall; like; lord; maintenance; man; men; ministers; ministers maintenance; ministers tithes; ministry; new; officers; ought; pay; people; power; priests; publick; right; saints; self; souldiers; spirituall; spoyles; temple; tenth; text; things; thy; time; tithes; wages; ● ● cache: A91192.xml plain text: A91192.txt item: #107 of 153 id: A91195 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: An humble remonstrance to his His Maiesty, against the tax of ship-money imposed, laying open the illegalitie, abuse, and inconvenience thereof. date: 1641.0 words: 16166 flesch: 71 summary: Eleventhly , they conceive , that every Subject that is not a Sea-man , is bound by the Law to provide Horse and other Armes for Land service , at their owne proper Costs , according to their estates and abilities , and therefore ought not by Law to be double charged with Sea and Land service too . First , in regard of the greatnesse and excessivenesse of these Charges and Taxes ; the first to the Port Townes only for twenty seaven Anno 1634. came in most Townes to fifteene Subsidies a man , and that the last yeare for forty seaven Ships to all Counties of England and Wales , amounting to three or foure Subsidies in every Countie or more , this present yeare for forty seaven Ships to as much , all these payable at once , the highest Tax that ever was imposed on Subjects in this Realme , for ought wee reade in our Stories , and that in times of generall peace , when the Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage , of purpose to guard the Sea , by treble , if not six times greater than in Queene Elizabeths , or any other Princes dayes before hers ; and halfe of the Tax or lesse , as we shall be able to prove and make good , will furnish out the Ships set forth . keywords: anno; cap; dangelt; doe; england; king; land; law; lawes; majesties; majesty; money; officers; owne; parliament; peace; poundage; realme; royall; sea; seas; shall; ships; subjects; tax; taxes; time; yeare cache: A91195.xml plain text: A91195.txt item: #108 of 153 id: A91196 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Independency examined, vnmasked, refuted, by twelve new particular interrogatories: detecting both the manifold absurdities, inconveniences that must necessarily attend it, to the great disturbance of church, state, the diminution, subversion of the lawfull undoubted power of all christian magistrates, parliaments, synods: and shaking the chiefe pillars, wherwith its patrons would support it. / By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier. date: 1644.0 words: 7829 flesch: 53 summary: If the people alone without the Minister , or both conjoyned , then you invest every Independent Conventicle , consisting of never so few inconsiderable ignorant members , with a greater legislative power , and ecclesiasticall authority , then you allow to whole Nationall Parliaments , Councels , consisting of most eminent , learned , pious persons of all sorts ; who by your New doctrine have no jurisdiction at all to make or enjoyne any forme of church-government , covenant , ecclesiasticall lawes or canons , to any particular churches : as if the eminentest Ministers and members of churches , by becomming members of Parliaments or Councels , did thereby forfeit and lose the right or exercise of that power , in those great representative bodies of the whole Kingdome and church of England , which you readily allow both them and others in every private church or Conventicle : A most strange and senselesse whimsie . Independent churches -- England -- Early works to 1800. keywords: christian; church; churches; government; members; owne; parliament; power; text; yea cache: A91196.xml plain text: A91196.txt item: #109 of 153 id: A91198 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Irenarches redivivus. Or, A briefe collection of sundry usefull and necessary statutes and petitions in Parliament (not hitherto published in print, but extant onely in the Parliament rolls) concerning the necessity, utility, institution, qualification, jurisdiction, office, commission, oath, and against the causlesse, clandestine dis-commissioning of justices of peace; fit to be publikely known and observed in these reforming times. With some short deductions from them; and a touch of the antiquity and institution of assertors and justices of peace in other forraign kingdomes. Together with a full refutation of Sir Edward Cooks assertion, and the commonly received erronious opinion, of a difference between ordinances and Acts of Parliament in former ages; here cleerly manifested to be then but one and the same in all respects, and in point of the threefold assent. Published for the common good, by William Prynne of Lincolns-Inne, Esq. date: 1648.0 words: 19272 flesch: 65 summary: The said King of Denmark against the a Ordinance , &c. c. 3. The said Ordinance ; By Ordinance shall have power to do , ordain and execute the Statutes , Ordinances , &c. c. 4. Statutes and Ordinances ( six times ) and then , The contrary of the said Ordinances , &c. Against the form of the said Statutes , c. 5. It was ordained , &c. This Ordinance shall stand in force till the next Parliament , &c. Which Statute by decease of the said King , by opinion of some , is expired , &c. That the said Ordinance shall be and abide an effectuall and avaylable Statute and Ordinance in Law , perpetually to endure : c. 14 This Ordinance ( thrice ) c. 15. keywords: acts; c. 1; c. 2; c. 3; c. 4; c. 5; c. 7; c. c.; commons; county; e. 3; good; item; justices; king; law; lord; ordinance; parliament; peace; people; statutes; times; twice cache: A91198.xml plain text: A91198.txt item: #110 of 153 id: A91199 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Jus patronatus, or A briefe legal and rational plea for advowsons, or patrons ancient, lawfull, just and equitable rights, and titles to present incumbents to parish churches or vicaridges, upon vacancies. Wherein the true original of advowsons and patronages, together with their justice, legality, equity, are demonstrated; and a full jury of legal writs and remedies (provided by our municipal lawes for defence and recovery of patrons rights, against all usurpations or encroachments on them) produced; as a seasonable antidote, against the late anomolus vote passed to their prejudice, without any hearing of patrons by their councel, or lawful tryal by their peers. Whose duty is here declared; and our fundamental laws defended. Compiled for the present and future benefit of our churches, ministers, and all true patrons of them. By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq; date: 1654.0 words: 22126 flesch: 69 summary: 〈◊〉 rb●rs N●●ura Brevium & B●●d●m . 1. A Jesuitical and a Anabaptistical plot , to suppresse subvert all our Parochial Ministers , together with their Ministry , throughout the Nation at once ; which will n●c●ssa●r●ly , easily and speedily be effected , when deprived of the legal Patronage , countenance , assistance of their Patrons , and exposed to the arbitrary Injustice of these new Projectors and their Agents . keywords: advowsons; bishop; brook; c. c.; chap; churches; cook; england; founders; god; gods; incumbents; kings; lands; laws; lord; ministers; parliament; patrons; people; prejudice; present; presentation; psal; publick; realm; right; statute; tithes; title; writ; ● ● cache: A91199.xml plain text: A91199.txt item: #111 of 153 id: A91200 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A just and solemn protestation and remonstrance of the lord mayor, aldermen, sheriffs, common-councell-men, and other citizens and freemen of London against two late ordinances of the Lords and Commons that now sit, for the choosing of common-councell-men and other officers within the city and liberties thereof ... which ordinances bear date the 18, and 20 of December, 1648. date: 1648.0 words: 2848 flesch: 34 summary: A just and solemn protestation and remonstrance of the lord mayor, aldermen, sheriffs, common-councell-men, and other citizens and freemen of London against two late ordinances of the Lords and Commons that now sit, for the choosing of common-councell-men and other officers within the city and liberties thereof ... which ordinances bear date the 18, and 20 of December, 1648. A just and solemn protestation and remonstrance of the lord mayor, aldermen, sheriffs, common-councell-men, and other citizens and freemen of London against two late ordinances of the Lords and Commons that now sit, for the choosing of common-councell-men and other officers within the city and liberties thereof ... which ordinances bear date the 18, and 20 of December, 1648. keywords: city; houses; london; men; ordinances; text cache: A91200.xml plain text: A91200.txt item: #112 of 153 id: A91202 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: King Richard the Third revived. Containing a memorable petition and declaration contrived by himself and his instruments, whiles Protector, in the name of the three estates of England, to importune and perswade him to accept of the kingship, and crown of England, by their joynt election, (as if he were unwilling to undertake, or accept, though he most ambitiously aspired after them, by the bloudy murthers of K. Henry 6. Edward 5. and sundry others) before his coronation; presented afterwards to, and confirmed by the three estates and himself, in his first Parliament, to give him a colourable title both by inheritance, and their election to the crown. Transcribed out of the Parliament roll of 1.R.3. (printed in Speeds History of Great Britain: where his other additionall policies to engage the City of London, lawyers, divines and people, to elect, and make him their king, are at large recorded.) date: 1657.0 words: 4278 flesch: 60 summary: eng Richard -- III, -- King of England, 1452-1485. Over this , we consider , that you be the undoubted heir of Richard Duke of York , very inheritor of the said Crown , and dignity royal , and as in right King of England by way of Inheritance ; And that at this time the premises duly considered , there is none other person living but you only , that may claim the said Crown and Dignity royal , by way of Inheritance , and how that you be born within this Land , by reason whereof , as we deem in our minds , you be more naturally inclined to the prosperity and common weal of the same , And all the three Estates of the Land have , and may have more certain knowledge of your birth , and filiation aforesaid . keywords: crown; election; england; estates; king; land; lord; parliament; realm; text cache: A91202.xml plain text: A91202.txt item: #113 of 153 id: A91204 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Mr. Pryn's last and finall declaration to the Commons of England, concerning the King, Parliament, and Army. And his remonstrance and proposals to the kingdome, shewing, that it is high treason, to compasse or imagine the deposition or death of our Soveraign Lord King Charles. With the oath of allegiance to His Majesty, taken by the Parliament men, before their admission into the House as members. / By William Pryn, of Lincolns-Inne, Esq. date: None words: 2290 flesch: 61 summary: eng Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649 -- Early works to 1800. England and Wales. Secondly , That in the Oath of Allegiance whlch you have all taken , immediatly before your admission into the house as Members ; You do truly and sincerely acknowledge , professe , testifie and declare in your consciences , before God & the World , That our Soveraign Lord King Charles , is lawfull and rightfull King of this Realme , and of all other his Maj. Dominions and Countries . keywords: army; england; king; parliament; pryn; text cache: A91204.xml plain text: A91204.txt item: #114 of 153 id: A91207 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A legal vindication of the liberties of England, against illegal taxes and pretended Acts of Parliament, lately enforced on the people: or, Reasons assigned by William Prynne of Swainswick in the county of Sommerset, esquire, why he can neither in conscience, law, nor prudence, submit to the new illegal tax or contribution of ninety thousand pounds the month; imposed on the kingdom by a pretended Act of some Commons in (or rather out of) Parliament, April 7 1649. (when this was first penned and printed,) nor to the one hundred thousand pound per mensem, newly laid upon England, Scotland and Ireland, Jan. 26. 1659 by a fragment of the old Commons House, ... date: 1660.0 words: 36887 flesch: 49 summary: And whereas in the said Declaration , it is desired , that we as persons upon whom 7 their publick trust still remaineth , ( though for the present we cannot exercise the same in a Parliamentory way ) would advise his Excellency and his Councel os Wa● in such things as may be for the good of the Kingdome ; and for the attaining the ends aforesaid ; We do declare , that we shall be ●ver ready to do it upon all occasions , in such a capacity as we may , 8 till we shall be enabled to discharge our trust in a free Parliament , which we conceive we can never do , until the Houses of Parliament may be absolute Judges , and Masters of their own securities , and such 9 Trayterous , audacious offenders , as have endevoured with so high a hand to destroy the highest Authority ( as by the particulars so fully & clearly expressed in the Declaration of the army may appear ) shal receive condigne punishment , or at least the Parliament put in such a condition , as that they may be able to bring them thereunto : And 10 we trust in God , through his accustomed blessing up●n this Army and their Assistants , in their honest and just undertakings , the Parliament shall speedily be put into a condition to sit like a Parl. of England ; and we hope , that 11 every true hearted Englishman will put his helping hand to so necessary , so publick , and so honourable a work , as is the vindicating the freedom and honour of Parliament , wherein the freedome and honour of all the free born people of this Nation are involved . They ( 1 ) blockt up their doors , swearing , they would keep them in , till they had passed what Votes they pleased ; they threatned the Houses , if they granted not their desires , knocking , whooting , and hallowing so at the Parliament-doors , that many times the Members could not be heard to speak or debate , not suffering the House of Commons to divide for determining such Questions , as w●●e put , crying out , 2 That those that gave their Votes against them , should be sent out to them ; very often and loudly saying . keywords: act; acts; army; authority; commons; death; england; english; force; good; high; house; ireland; king; kingdom; law; laws; liberties; lords; members; parliament; people; power; present; quarter; secluded; sitting; tax; taxes; votes cache: A91207.xml plain text: A91207.txt item: #115 of 153 id: A91208 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Mr. Pryns letter and proposals to our gracious lord and soveraign King Charles: and His Majesties gracious resolves to all his loving subjects, of what degree or quality soever. Published for general satisfaction. date: 1660.0 words: 1392 flesch: 58 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91208 of text R203356 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E1040_4). all his loving subjec Prynne, William 1660 1053 2 0 0 0 0 0 19 C The rate of 19 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: charles; healths; majesties; text cache: A91208.xml plain text: A91208.txt item: #116 of 153 id: A91216 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Loyalty banished: or England in mourning· Being a perfect narrative of the present affairs and proceedings, between divers Members of Parliament, and M. Wil. Prynne ... With the several speeches made in the House, by Sir Arthur Haslerigge, Sir Henry Vane, Master Hungerford, and Mr. Ansley; and the answer and reply of the said Mr. Prynne thereunto ... together with his proposals to the people; and the names of the secluded Members cast into hell, by the power of the sword; and what proceeded thereupon. As also Mr. Prynnes demands to the Parliament, in the name of all the commons of England. date: 1659.0 words: 4397 flesch: 50 summary: An abridgment of the first 17 pages and a translation of the last paragraph of: A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the Army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere; on Saturday and Monday last (the 7. and 9. of this instant May). Loyalty banished: or England in mourning· Being a perfect narrative of the present affairs and proceedings, between divers Members of Parliament, and M. Wil. keywords: house; members; parliament; prynne; sitting cache: A91216.xml plain text: A91216.txt item: #117 of 153 id: A91217 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The Machavilian Cromwellist and hypocritical perfidious new statist discovering the most detestable falshood, dissimulation and Machavilian practices of L. G. Cromvvel and his confederates, whereby they have a long time abused and cheated both the houses, city and country; and the wicked and treasonable things they have done, and unwarrantable means they have used, to carry on their own ambitious designs. date: 1648.0 words: 4106 flesch: 30 summary: 5. With forcing the Houses to pass an Ordinance , on the 20. of August last , for declaring all Votes , Orders and Ordinances , passed in one or both Houses , since the force on both Houses , Iuly the 26. until the 6. of August , to be null and voyd ; by reason of a force upon the House of Commons , by a company of unarmed boys and apprentice● , only on Iuly 26. towards the Evening ; who vanished that night and never appeared after : notwithstanding the Speaker and Commons House met and sate the very n●xt morning without any disturbance , met securely a● the F●st the n●x● day in Margarets Church , where the Speaker protested , against the honor of his going to the Army under pretext of this forc● , as a most dishonorable and unworthy act , which he would rather dye in the House , then be guilty of , to Sir Ralph Ashton and other● ; and the Friday following most of the Memb●rs met , elected a new Speaker , and voted and sate without the least violence or disturb●nce from the City ; til the sixth of August , and passed all Votes , O●ders and Ordinances , freely without any colour of force ; upon which grounds this Ordinance of repeal , after long debate ▪ was by the major voyce of the Commons House passed four or five times in the Negative , and layd aside , and so ought not by the Rules of Parliament or Justic● to be revived . Parliament and Kingdom : When as he and his Confederates only were truly guilty of it , both in seising upon the Kings own person and rescu●ng him from the Commissioners of both Houses by a strong party of the Army ; in causing the whole Army to march up to London in a warlike and assailing posture against the Houses express Orders , and forcing them to repeal their Votes , Ordinances , and yeeld up their Members to their fury ; and after that , in marching up with the Army it self to the Houses doors , and City , in triumph , against the Houses express Letters and Orders , with the fugitive Members whom they engaged to live and dye with them in that quarrel , and in possessing themselves of all the Works and Forts about Westminster and of the Tower of London , removing the City Guards , and setting new of their own upon the H●uses ; marching through the City with their whole Army , like Conquerors , and then throwing down their Line and Forts , fi●st raised for the Houses defence , in a most scornful manner , and bele●guring the dis●rmed King , City and Houses ever since , with the whole body of the Army ( which they have doubly rec●uited to the peoples infinite oppression ) to captivate them all to their tyrannical pleasures : Which is a treasonable levying of War , and High Treason in good earnest , uncapable of excuse , transcending that of the impeached Members and Cit●zens . keywords: army; city; country; houses; king; members; parliament; text cache: A91217.xml plain text: A91217.txt item: #118 of 153 id: A91218 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Minors no senators. Or A briefe discourse, proving, that infants under the age of 21. yeares, are uncapable, in point of law, of being members of Parliament, and that the elections of any such are meere nullities; yea, injurious, prejuditiall, dishonourable to the whole Parliament and Kingdome, in sundry respects. / Written by a common-lawyer (a true lover of his country, and honourer of the Parliament) to a friend and client of his, for his private satisfaction, and published for the common-good. date: 1646.0 words: 10610 flesch: 69 summary: Whether an Infant under the age of one and twenty ye●●es be Capable of being a Member of Parliament ? And Infants certainly are uncapab●e ( for want of Judgment experience wisdome , Learning ) to debate , and determine such arduous , urgent , grand affaires , concerning the safety , the defence both of the Rea●me and Church of England , since in Judgment of Law , they are uncapable to mannage their owne private Estates , as I shall more ful●y prove herea●ter : Therefore not capable to be elected Members of this supreamest Councell of the Realme . keywords: age; councell; court; elections; house; infants; kingdome; law; members; parliament; persons; yeares; ● ● cache: A91218.xml plain text: A91218.txt item: #119 of 153 id: A91224 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Mount-Orgueil: or Divine and profitable meditations raised from the contemplation of these three leaves of natures volume, 1. Rockes, 2. Seas, 3. Gardens, digested into three distinct poems. To which is prefixed, a poeticall description, of Mount-Orgueil Castle in the Isle of Jersy. By VVilliam Prynne, late exile, and close prisoner in the sayd Castle. A poem of The soules complaint against the body; and Comfortable cordialls against the discomforts of imprisonment, &c. are hereto annexed. date: 1641.0 words: 59161 flesch: 102 summary: 24. Not all the Men on Earth , with all their Art Can make one Rock , or Stone ; much lesse an Heart ; But onely t God himselfe : yet Men alone Are the v Creators of all Hearts of Stone , Not God : O wonder , that Men should create Nought but Hard Rockie Hearts which God doth hate : Such Hearts can none else but Men , Fathers call , Which sinke still downewards , till to Hell they fall . Those wanton Females then that take delight , Their z Naked Breasts , Neckes , Armes , ( like some strange sight ) To shew to others , without Blush or shame , In spight of God , Men , who them taxe and blame : Are rather shamelesse Rockes than Adams Race ; And for the most part voyd of Sence , shame , Grace ; If not of Honour , and true a Chastitie , Sith most is common which doth open lye . keywords: act; christ; church; cor; day; doe; doth; earth; fall; gardens; gen; god; gods; good; grace; great; grow; hearts; heb; isa; jer; job; joh; king; let; lord; love; luk; lye; mat; men; oft; pet; place; psal; rev; rockes; rom; saints; sea; seas; sinnes; soules; spring; sweete; things; thy; tim; world; yea cache: A91224.xml plain text: A91224.txt item: #120 of 153 id: A91225 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: New-Babels confusion. Or, Severall votes of the Commons assembled in Parliament; against certain papers, entituled, The agreement of the people for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right. Delivered to them in the name of all the freeborn people of England. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that these votes be forthwith printed and published. H. Elsynge, Cler' Parl' D. Com'. date: 1649.0 words: 1530 flesch: 63 summary: House of Commons. House of Commons. keywords: agreement; commons; parliament; people cache: A91225.xml plain text: A91225.txt item: #121 of 153 id: A91226 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The new cheaters forgeries, detected, disclaimed; by Will. Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne. date: 1659.0 words: 1043 flesch: 68 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91226 of text R203301 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[42]). Printing my name thus at large not only in the Title , but in the Contexture it self , insinuating it to be penned by me , on purpose to cheat the people of their monies ; and make me the Father of these BASTARDS , ( through the Stationers Knavery ) which the true Fathers need not be ashamed to own publickly by name , being Ingenuous well-penned Pieces . keywords: prynne; sheet; text cache: A91226.xml plain text: A91226.txt item: #122 of 153 id: A91227 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A new discovery of free-state tyranny: containing, four letters, together with a subsequent remonstrance of several grievances and demand of common right, by William Prynne Esquire; written and sent by him to Mr. John Bradshaw and his associates at White-Hall (stiling themselves, the Councel of State) after their two years and three months close imprisonment of him, under soldiers, in the remote castles of Dunster and Taunton (in Somersetshire) and Pendennis in Cornwall; before, yea without any legal accusation, examination, inditement, triall, conviction, or objection of any particular crime against him; or since declared to him; notwithstanding his many former and late demands made to them, to know his offence and accusers. Published by the author, for his own vindication; the peoples common liberty and information; and his imprisoners just conviction of their tyranny, cruelty, iniquity, towards him, under their misnamed free-state. date: 1655.0 words: 55863 flesch: 58 summary: Yet he who out of pure love , zeal to his God , true Religion , Country , Parliaments , hath constantly stuck unto , and written most of any man in times of greatest need and danger , in defence of the just g Power , Rights , Privileges of our true English Parliaments and Nation against all Opponents ; against all late introduced h Arminian , i Popish , Iesuitical Errours , Doctrines , Ceremonies , Innovations , Books , and made the first , the fullest discoveries of and Oppositions in print of any man ( with no little pains ▪ cost , losse , danger ) against their manifold dangerous Books , Practices , Plots , Conspiracies to undermine our Religion , Parliaments , Laws , Liberties , Government , and involve all Protestant Kingdoms , States , Churches , in bloody intestine wars , to their own mutual destruction , but these Iesuites insultation , exul●ation , and that by approbation , authority of Parliament , and most of your applauses ; And hath particularly informed some of you by Letters , since his restraints , of admired indulgences towards Priests , ●esuites ; of one particular noted Iesuite ( who for a fortnights space together disputed with a friend of his at St. Omers , with 5 other Iesuites more , about August 1649 , since listed a Trooper ) in your Guards , and of this late printed Iesuites folio Book , without any reformation or suppression of either , upon his complaints thereof ; during this their licentious Liberty and Freedom ( to their grand Rejoycing Advantage , and the great Grief , Offence , of most really affected to our Religion , or the publike weal ) without any cause , hearing , or release , must be shut up and continued close Prisoner by you , year after year , and sent from one remote Castle to another ▪ remoter and worser than it , and there kept under strictest Guards , Centinels Restraints , and most injurious Duresses , as aforesaid , without any hopes of release ; notwithstanding his manifold Letters and Addresses to you joyntly and severally ( in such a way as becomes him , though not by unworthy complyances in submission to the self-created new Powers and Titles ) complaining of these fore-remonstrated Proceedings , Searches , Imprisonments , Translations and Restraints in forraign Counties , Castles , under Souldiers , without any precedent Indictment , Tryal and Crime yet specified , and undeniably manifesting them to you , to be co●trary to all Laws of God , Nature , Nations , the Common L●w and Great Charter of England , and other forecited known Statute● , Iudgement● , Declarations , Resolutions , R●monstrances , of all our late Parliaments , the expresse k Votes and Resolves of both Houses of Parliament , in his own late particular case and others ; the indubitable Birthright , Franchises of eve y English Freeman ; of very dangerous President , Conseq●ence to Posterity , and in sundry respects far more exorbitantly unrighteous than his former Grievances and Imprisonments under the worst of your discarded , condemned , decapitated Predecessors at Whitehall ; as your own Judgements , Consciences , upon perus●l hereof , cannot but acknowledge , before all Tribunals of God and Man. l. 6. Verba Innocenti reper●●e facile est , modum verborum misero tenere difficile . keywords: acts; answer; books; c. 1; c. 2; castle; cause; chamber; christian; close; collection; commons; contrary; day; dunster; england; english; exact; friends; god; gods; good; hath; hearing; high; house; illegall; imprisonment; justice; king; late; law; laws; letters; liberties; liberty; lords; man; meer; members; nation; new; officers; order; ordinances; papers; parliament; person; petition; power; present; prisoner; proceedings; prynne; publick; publike; religion; restraints; right; self; sir; souldiers; state; time; tyranny; warrant; whitehall; world; writings; yea; ● d; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A91227.xml plain text: A91227.txt item: #123 of 153 id: A91228 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A new discovery of some Romish emissaries, Quakers; as likewise of some popish errors, unadvisedly embraced, pursued by our anticommunion ministers. Discovering the dangerous effects of their discontinuing the frequent publick administration of the Lords Supper; the popish errors whereon it is bottomed; perswading the frequent celebration of it, to all visible church-members, with their free-admission thereunto; and prescribing some legal regal remedies to redress the new sacrilegious detaining of it from the people, where their ministers are obstinate. / By William Prynne of Swainswicke Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns Inne. date: 1656.0 words: 19848 flesch: 60 summary: A New Discovery of some Romish Emissaries , Quakers and others ; as likewise of Popish Errors , Practices lately embraced , pursued , avowed by some Zealots , and Grand Deformers , in secluding their Parishioners sundry years from the Holy Communion of the Lords Supper , &c. THe sad Complaint of old , to and of Consta●tius the Arrian Emperour , ( who a made his exorbitant Will , the only Law , and used this Papal Speech to Paulinuis , and other Orthodox Bishops convented before him for refusing to communicate with the Arrians upon his command , as being against the Ecclesiastical Canons : At quod ego volo pro Canone sit : Ita me loqu●nter 〈…〉 sustin●nt ; aut ergo obtemperate , Aut vos quoque exules estote ) made by St. Hilari● concerning the s●●…quent changes of the Christian Faith , and multiudes of Religions under his arbitrary Tyrannical Government , viz. Our St●●●… is dangerous and ●●● serable ; that we have now as many faiths as wils , and as many Doctrines as manners , whiles F●●●●… are so written as we list , or so understood as we will . keywords: bishop; bochellus; books; christian; church; churches; councils; cum; discovery; eccles; england; english; excommunication; faculties; faith; friers; hath; ireland; justice; law; letters; lords; ministers; non; officers; parishioners; people; persons; popish; priests; pro; publike; quakers; qui; quod; religion; sacrament; seal; self; sundry; supper; text; thou; tit; writ; years; ● e; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A91228.xml plain text: A91228.txt item: #124 of 153 id: A91232 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: New Presbyterian light springing out of Independent darkness. or VI. important new queries proposed to the Army, and their friends and party of the Houses; concerning the late ordinance for repeal of the new militia of London, setled by an ordinance of both Houses, when full and free, for an whole year, (not yet one quarter expired;) and other late repeals of ordinances and votes; and the high declaration against the intended petition and engagement of the Londoners and others, for the speedy settlement of the kingdomes peace: occasioned by the debates thereof in the Common Councel in the Guildhal on Saturday last, the 24 of this instant Iuly. Discovering the dangerous consequences of repealing ordinances and votes, and the Independents, sectaries, and Armies plots, to blast the honour, justice, and reputation of this Parliament, thereby to dissolve it and all others in it; their false pretences of peace, when they intend nought lesse; and their strange injustice and malice against Presbyterians, which will end in their own dishonour and downfal. date: 1647.0 words: 4626 flesch: 33 summary: important new queries proposed to the Army, and their friends and party of the Houses; concerning the late ordinance for repeal of the new militia of London, setled by an ordinance of both Houses, when full and free, for an whole year, (not yet one quarter expired;) and other late repeals of ordinances and votes; and the high declaration against the intended petition and engagement of the Londoners and others, for the speedy settlement of the kingdomes peace: occasioned by the debates thereof in the Common Councel in the Guildhal on Saturday last, the 24 of this instant Iuly. important new queries proposed to the Army, and their friends and party of the Houses; concerning the late ordinance for repeal of the new militia of London, setled by an ordinance of both Houses, when full and free, for an whole year, (not yet one quarter expired;) and other late repeals of ordinances and votes; and the high declaration against the intended petition and engagement of the Londoners and others, for the speedy settlement of the kingdomes peace: occasioned by the debates thereof in the Common Councel in the Guildhal on Saturday last, the 24 of this instant Iuly. keywords: armies; army; houses; independent; king; ordinances; parliament; text; votes cache: A91232.xml plain text: A91232.txt item: #125 of 153 id: A91234 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: IX proposals by way of interrogation, to the generall, officers, and souldiers in the army, concerning the justness of their late proceedings in law or conscience against, and contrary to the Parliament, tending to reduce them to their former loyalty and obedience; by discovering the injustice, unreasonableness, and dangerousness of their proceedings and demands, wherein they still persist, onely to pick a quarrell with the Parliament, without any reall cause. date: 1647.0 words: 4229 flesch: 32 summary: If then the Army desire to have the Parliament pass any Votes , Ordinances or Acts for their own Indempnity , or for any thing else they pretend for the publick good , which may be valid or effectual in law , they must of necessity retreat , disband , and retract all their former Remonstrances , Menaces , Impeachments and Proceedings savouring of Menace or force ; and leave the Houses and Members to their full freedom ; that so their Acts and Ordinances may be valid and irrevocable , being passed in a free and fair Parliamentary Course ; otherwise if they continue mutinous and rebellious ; what ever Votes , Acts or Ordinances they shal wrest from them by Duress , Menaces , Force , Tumults , suspending of Members before any just or legal impeachment demeriting it ; ( the highest infringement of the freedom of Parliaments , and a ready way to subvert and pervert them , and to make a private faction , backed by an Army a Parliament , todo what they list , and over-awe the greater number against their judgments and Consciences ) or marching up to over-aw them , wil be no security for the present , * and a meer snare and nullity for the future , most certain to be revoked and adnulled when the force and fear is over . Which consideration , besides those mentioned in other late Impressions ; and in the Examination of the lawfulness of the Passages of the Armies Declaration and grounds of justification , June 14. ) should now induce all really conscientious or judicious Officers and Soldiers in the Army ( especially such who are Members of the House ) to disband , and give over all forcible tumultuous courses and addresses to the Houses ; that so a sweet unity and correspondency may be setled ; a new War prevented , the Parliament , City , Kingdom preserved from imminent ruine , Ireland relieved ; and the hopes and designes of all Malignants disappointed : which the Lord in his infinite mercy and wisdom effectually accomplish , to the infallible joy of all Gods Churches and people : The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips , and the tongue that speaketh proud things : who have said , we will prevail , who is Lord over Vs ? Amos 7. 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6. LONDON 〈…〉 Nine Proposals by way of Interrogations to the Generall , Officers , and Souldiers in the Army , concerning the justness of their late proceedings in Law or Conscience against , and contrary to the Parliament ; tending to reduce them to their former loyalty and obedience , &c. keywords: army; house; members; officers; parliament; text; war cache: A91234.xml plain text: A91234.txt item: #126 of 153 id: A91237 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The opening of the great seale of England. Containing certain brief historicall and legall observations, touching the originall, antiquity, progresse, vse, necessity of the great seal of the kings and kingdoms, of England, in respect of charters, patents, writs, commissions, and other processe. Together with the kings, kingdoms, Parliaments severall interests in, and power over the same, and over the Lord Chancellour, and the lords and keepers of it, both in regard of its new-making, custody, admi nistration [sic] for the better execution of publike justice, the republique necessary safety, and vtility. Occasioned by the over-rash censures of such who inveigh against the Parliament, for ordering a new great seale to be engraven, to supply the wilfull absence, defects, abuses of the old, unduely withdrawne and detained from them. / By William Prynne, Utter-Barrester of Lincolns Inne. ... date: 1643.0 words: 21780 flesch: 71 summary: COurteous Reader , having copiously answered , refuted all Royalilists , Malignants , Papists , clamorous Objections and Primitive Exceptions , against the Proceedings of this present Parliament , in FOUR severall Treatises , lately published , concerning The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms ; which have given good satisfaction to many , and silenced the Penns , the Tongues of most Anti-Parliamenteers , who have bin so ingenuous as seriously to peruse them : I yet finde a New grand Objection lately started up , and much insisted on among these Opposites , by reason of the Commons late Order for making a New Great Seal ( now almost finished ) to supply the wilfull absence , defects , abuses of the old , to the extraordinary prejudice , dammage , danger , of the Houses , Kingdom , and delay of publike Justice ; which , though sufficiently answered in the generall by sundry passages and Histories scattered in the former Treatises ; yet because not so particularly or fully debated , as the consequence of this extraordinary weighty Act , and the querelousnesse of the clamorous Opposites require ; I have therefore ( upon the motion of some friends ) to stop up this New-Breach and Clamour , speedily collected and published by Authority , these ensuing Historicall and Legall Observations , concerning the Originall , Antiquitie , Progresse , Use , Necessity of the Great Seal of the Kings and Kingdome of England ; with reference to Sealing of Charters , Patents , Writs , Commissions , other Processe ; and given thee a summary account of the Kings , Kingdoms , Parliaments , severall Interests in , and Power over the Great Seal , ( and the Lords Keepers of it too ) both in respect of its New-making , Custody , Administration , for the better execution of publike Iustice , the Republike necessary safety and utility , clearing all contrary Objections of moment ; which I here submit to thy charitable Censure and Acceptation ; imploring thy Pardon and Direction , in case I have casually erred , out of Ignorance or Humane Frailty , in tracing this Untrodden dangerous narrow Path , wherein I finde no Footsteps , or onely very obscure ones , to direct my course . King Henry the third , comming to the Crown ( by the Lords and Commons u election , rather then by discent ) when he was but nine yeeres and some odde moneths old , in the ninth yeere of his raigne , ratified x Magna Charta , and the Charter of the Forest in Parliament , under His hand and Seale , with Witnesses thereunto subscribed ; and commanding as many Charters to be engrossed as there were Counties in England , ET REGIO SIGILLO MUNITIS , and ratified WITH THE ROYALL SEALE , he sent one of the great Charters into every Shire , and one Charter of the Forest into every County where there were Forests , to be there reserved . keywords: abbey; absence; act; acts; anno; c. 2; cap; chancellour; charters; common; court; edward; england; henry; hist; hoveden; justice; keeper; kingdome; kings; kings seale; law; lord; making; parliament; patents; power; publike; reigne; seale; speed; treason; use; writs cache: A91237.xml plain text: A91237.txt item: #127 of 153 id: A91238 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled: or, Eight military aphorismes, demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness, and prodigall expensivenes of all standing English forts and garrisons, to the people of England: their inability to protect them from invasions, depredations of enemies or pyrates by sea or land: the great mischiefs, pressures, inconveniences they draw upon the inhabitants, country, and adjacent places in times of open wars, when pretended most usefull: and the grand oversight, mistake, injury in continuing them for the present or furure [sic] reall defence of the peoples lives, liberties, estates, the only ends pretended for them. / Penned by William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire, during his close imprisonment in Pendennis Castle. And now published for the common benefit, ease, information of the whole nation. date: None words: 15201 flesch: 39 summary: ( as if we had stil too much mony in our dry-dra●n●d-Purses ) and to continue them at this grand charge , only because the Island and places near them , might be endangered , if slighted , & their ruins supprised regarrison d by an enemy ( who wil never certainly be so mad or sottish , as to fortifie any slighted Garrisons , unlesse able to defend them against the whole Nation ) is as grosse an absurdity , as to argue ; we must forthwith fortifie , Garrison , all other advantagious Sea-●oasts , Rocks , Hills , ●asses in England , because else any Enemy might master , seise and fortifie them to the Nations , Peoples danger , damage ; and repair , fortifie all old late demolished Castles , Forts , Block-houses , upon the same reason and accompt , ( which all the Indian Mines would not suffice to Garrison ) 3. That England being subject to the Forraign Invasions , Depredation● of Enemies or Pirates , only by Sea with Ships , which no fixed Land-Garrisons can incounter , assault , board , take , sink , or pursue from place to place , nor hinder from landing under their Noses , if stronger then they ; muchlesse in any other place out of their command ▪ ( as is undeniable by our ancient seising of Cadez and sundry Townes , Garrisons in the Indies by Sir Francis Drak , & others , and our late invading and taking in of the Isles of Silly , Gersey , Ga●nsey , the Barbadoes and Scottish Island● , without the losse of any one Ship , and of very few men , notwithstanding all their Bl●ckhouses , Forts , Garrisons , for to secure them they are altogether useless Prodigalities ; our victorious puissant Navy being the sole , best , sufficient defence against them , and only able to resist , take , sink and surprise them : That England ( as Mr. Cambden and † others write ) being 1836. Yea , our own Garrisons were the principal seats , theaters of all our former and late Wars , epsecially when besieged by either party : Whence a Siege is usually termed Le-Guerre , from the F●ench , that is to say , THE WAR ; because there is no War to speak of , till then : Battels in the Field being fought and ended usually in half a day or lesse , and oft within one hour or two at most ; when as Sieges ( accompanied alwaies with frequent Skirmishes , constant Batteries , sundry Assaults , Sallies , Stormings on all hands , or in some quarter or other ) continue many dayes , weeks , months and yeers , sometimes with far greater danger and losse of men on both sides ; and are usually seconded with many Skirmishes , bloody Battels and incounters of Armies or Parties sent to victual , relieve the besieged , or raise the Siege , occasioning more and greater slaughters then a pitched battel in the Field alone , as all Histories and experience manifest . keywords: blockhouses; castles; enemies; enemy; estates; field; forts; garrisons; houses; inhabitants; men; nation; officers; pay; peace; people; persons; places; ships; shot; soldiers; times; wars; ● ● cache: A91238.xml plain text: A91238.txt item: #128 of 153 id: A91239 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The petition of right of the free-holders and free-men of the kingdom of England: humbly presented to the Lords and Commons (their representatives and substitutes) from whom they expect a speedy and satisfactory answer, as their undoubted liberty and birth-right. date: 1648.0 words: 7925 flesch: 20 summary: These undoubted Rights , Franchises and Liberties , and that our Knights and Burgesses ought to enioy their ancient Priviledges and Freedom , and to be present at all binding Votes and Ordinances , we do here claim and challenge as our Birth-right and Inheritance , not only from his Maiesty , but from both the Houses of Parliament now sitting , who have in sundry printed Remonstrances , Declarations and Protestations , and in the Solemn League and Covenant , oft times promised and seriously vowed and covenanted , in the presence of Almighty God , inviolably to maintain and preserve the same , and to bring the Infringers of them to condign and exemplary punishment , and have engaged all the wel-affected Free-born people of England , by like solemn Protestations , Leagues and Covenants , to maintain and defend the same with their lives and estates : And therefore we at this present not only humbly desire but also require both the said Houses and every Member of them , even in point of Justice , Besides we cannot but with deepest grief of soul and spirit complain , that contrary to these our undoubted Rights and Priviledges , many of our faithfullest Knights and Burgesses , whom we duly chose to consult and vote for us in Parliament , have through the malice , practise and violence of divers mutinous and Rebellious Souldiers in the Army ; and some of their Confederates in the House , without our privity or consents , or without any just or legal cause , for their very fidelity to their Country , for things spoken , done and voted in the Houses , maintaining the Priviledges of Parliaments and opposing the Armies late mutinous , Rebellious , Treasonable and Seditious Practises , been most falsly aspersed , slandered , impeached , and forced to desert the House and Kingdom too ; others of them arrested and stayed by the Army , and their Officers , without any warrant or Authority : others of them suspended the House before any Charge and Proofs against them ; others expelled the House , and imprisoned in an Arbitrary and Illegal manner , when most of the Members were forced thence by the Armies violence , without any just cause at all , or any witnesses legally examined face to face , and without admitting them to make their just defence as they desired : And that divers Lords and Members of the House of Peers have likewise been impeached of High Treason , sequestred that House , and committed to Custody , only for residing constantly in the House , and acting in , and as an House of Parliament , ( for which to impeach them of Treason , is no lesse then Treason , and so resolved in the Parliaments of 11. R. 2. & 1. H. 1. in the case of Tresilian and his Companions ) when others who dis-honorably deserted the House , and retired to the mutinous Army , then in professed disobedience to , and opposition against both Houses , are not so much as questioned ; and all this by meer design and confederacy , to weaken the Presbyterians and honest party in both Houses , which were far the greatest number , and enable the Independent Faction , to vote and carry what they pleased in both Houses ; who by this Machivilian Policy and power of the Army ( under whose Guard and power , the King , both Houses , City , Tower , Country have been in bondage for some moneths last past ) have extraordinarily advanced their designs , and done what they pleased without any publike opposition , to the endangering of all our Liberties and Estates . keywords: army; city; divers; houses; kingdom; law; members; parliament; right; text; votes cache: A91239.xml plain text: A91239.txt item: #129 of 153 id: A91241 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A plain, short, and probable expedient, to settle the present distractions of both kingdomes. date: 1647.0 words: 1858 flesch: 56 summary: These varieties of Opinions multiplying our Divisions have occasioned the Proposall of this short and cleer Expedient , ( not hitherto thought on ) humbly submitted ( as a probationer ) to the test of more exquisite Judgements , as the most advantagious , honorable and secure for both , Kingdomes to fasten upon , being warranted by divers Presidents of like nature in both Realms , and most consonant to the Solemn League and Covenant , by which they are mutually engaged and uni●●● each to other . It is evident by sundry Presidents in Histories and Records that the Parliaments of England and S 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ( as well as of most other Kingdomes ) have during the Minority , absence , sickness , frenzie , dotage , or other ●●●●rall , accidentall , or criminall disabilities of their Kings to discharge their Royall Office , and Dutie usually constituted a Viceroy , Regent , Protector , or Custos Regni ( being commonly a P●●●e of greatest Wisdome , Power , and Honour , and of Royall extraction ) to guard both their Persons and Realms , and execute all Regal Acts belonging to the King himself ; but more particularly , to summon and hold Parliaments , and to give the Royall Assent to Laws and Statutes , and issue out all Commissions under the great Seal , in the Kings Name and stead : The Reigns of King Richard the 1. & ●Henry 3. 5. & 6. keywords: kingdoms; parliaments; realms; text; ● ● cache: A91241.xml plain text: A91241.txt item: #130 of 153 id: A91242 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A plea for Sr George Booth, and the Cheshire gentlemen Briefly stated in a letter to Sir Arthur Hesillrigge. / By an unbiassed friend of truth and peace. date: 1660.0 words: 1824 flesch: 58 summary: Sr George Booth = George Booth, Baron Delamer. A plea for Sr George Booth, and the Cheshire gentlemen Briefly stated in a letter to Sir Arthur Hesillrigge. / keywords: booth; george; parliament; sir; text cache: A91242.xml plain text: A91242.txt item: #131 of 153 id: A91251 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A publike declaration and solemne protestation of the free-men of England and Wales, against the illegall, intollerable, undoing grievance of free-quarter. date: 1648.0 words: 3793 flesch: 54 summary: And shall likewise humbly importune the Honourable Houses of Parliament to order and declare according to the Tenor of the Petition of Right that all Officers and Souldiers whatsoever shall be liable to the Jurisdiction , Arrests , Warrants and power of High Sheriffs , Justices of Peace , Mayors , Bayliffs , Constables , Tything-men , and other publike Officers of Justice , for Felonies , Breaches of Peace , and other misdemeanours punishable by the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme , as farre-forth as any other Subjects are and bee ; and that all those may be particularly enjoyned to discharge their duties herein ; and all Officers of the Army ordered to be ayding and assisting to them therein under paine of Fellonie and being casheered ; without which wee shall enjoy neither security nor peace in Country or City , no nor in our owne beds and Houses . -- Army -- Barracks and quarters -- Early works to 1800. keywords: doe; houses; parliament; quarter; souldiers; text cache: A91251.xml plain text: A91251.txt item: #132 of 153 id: A91258 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Scotlands ancient obligation to England and publike acknowledgment thereof, for their brotherly assistance to, and deliverance of them, with the expence of their blood, and hazzard of the state and tranquility of their realm, from the bondage of the French, in the time of their greatest extremity. Anno Dom. 1560. date: 1646.0 words: 2726 flesch: 58 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91258 of text R205602 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E510_5). no Scotlands ancient obligation to England and publike acknowledgment thereof,: for their brotherly assistance to, and deliverance of them, wi Prynne, William 1646 2544 2 0 0 0 0 0 8 B The rate of 8 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: deliverance; england; lord; publike; scotland; text; thy cache: A91258.xml plain text: A91258.txt item: #133 of 153 id: A91260 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Scotlands publick acknowledgement of Gods just judgement upon their nation for their frequent breach of faith, leagues, and solemne oathes made to their neighbours of England, in former ages, to gratifie their treacherous confederates of France. Recorded in their own publick liturgie, printed at Edenborough by Thomas Bassandine, Anno. Dom. 1575, page 54, 57, 58, und this title, Prayers used in the churches of Scotland in the time of their persecution by the Frenchmen (in the year 1560) from whose tyranny and vassalage, they were then delivered by the Free Brotherly Assistance and forces of the English, to whom they had been formerly persidious. Published to prevent the like breach of solemn leagues, oaths, and covenants between both nations now (for fear of incurring the like, or a worse judgement,) by a well-wisher to both kingdomes. date: 1646.0 words: 1298 flesch: 67 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91260 of text R210628 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[90]). 57 D The rate of 57 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: breach; leagues; nation; text cache: A91260.xml plain text: A91260.txt item: #134 of 153 id: A91262 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Seasonable and healing instructions, humbly tendered to the freeholders, citizens and burgesses of the respective counties, cities and boroughs of England and Wales, to be seriously recommended by them to their respective knights, citizens and burgesses, elected and to be elected for the next Parliament. date: 1660.0 words: 1779 flesch: 37 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91262 of text R211738 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing P4061). 46 D The rate of 46 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: burgesses; citizens; england; parliament; text cache: A91262.xml plain text: A91262.txt item: #135 of 153 id: A91267 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A seasonable vindication of free-admission, and frequent administration of the Holy Communion to all visible church-members, regenerate or unregenerate. From the institution, precept, president of Christ himself; the doctrine, practice of the primitive Church, fathers, councils, Christians: the confessions, articles, records, chief writers of our own and other reformed churches: the dangerous consequents, effects, schisms arising from the disusage, infrequency, monopoly of this sacrament, to visible or real saints alone; and suspension of all others from it, till approved worthy upon trial. And that upon meer Anabaptistical, and papistical false principles, practices, (here discovered) unadvisedly embraced, imitated, asserted, exceeded by sundry over-rigid, reforming ministers; to our Saviours dishonour, our Churches great disturbance, their own, their peoples prejudice; and the common enemies, and seducers grand advantage. / By Will: Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne· date: 1656.0 words: 39321 flesch: 68 summary: B●●● . In regard of which joynt desperate Co●federacy against you by these your combined common Adversaries , I shall now exhort and advise you , First of all , To lay aside and abandon all private animosities , factions , feuds , contests , and persecutions against each other ; as not only unbeseeming the d Embassadors , Ministers of the God , Prince , Gospel of Peace ; but as the most probable , unavoidable means of your own speedy destruction ; as these two Gospel Texts will assure you , Mat. 12. 25 , 26. keywords: apostles; bishop; body; bread; christ; christians; church; churches; communion; cor; cup; death; fathers; god; harding; hath; holy; lords; lords supper; man; mat; members; ministers; ordinances; ought; parishioners; people; popish; practice; priests; reply; sacrament; saith; self; supper; table; thou; word; yea; years; ● ● cache: A91267.xml plain text: A91267.txt item: #136 of 153 id: A91269 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: 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. date: 1655.0 words: 57427 flesch: 60 summary: 7. That the l Jesuits by their cursed positions , and machiavillian practises , have made religion it self a meer political and atheal device ; a pragmatical science of Figboys , and but an art of such as live by their wits , and the principles of Machiavel taught by their Robbies ; yea , a very ●o●ch potch of omnium gatherum , religious secular , clergical , laical , ecclesiastical , spiritual , temporal , M. ARTIAL , civil , Aecomenical , political , liberal , mechannical municipal , irregular , and ALL W●THOVT ORDER ; so that they are not worthy to be called religious , ecclesiasticks catholicks , nor temporal mechannical christians ; but rather Machiavillians , Athiests , Apostates ; their course of life shewing what their study is ; and that howsoever they boast of their perfections , holiness , meditations and exercises , as if they were all Superlatives , all M●●●physicians , all entia transcendentia ) Can : 3. * Spelm ▪ Concil : p , 563 Chron : Iohann : Brompton col : 920. * See Spelm : Glossarium & Guli : Sonmeri Glossaerium Title : Cyricscea●●am . keywords: advice; anno; army; bishops; britain; britons; caesar; christian; church; col; commons; consent; councils; country; crown; death; defence; enemies; england; english; force; france; generall; god; gods; good; government; hath; henry; hist; history; house; jesuites; jesuitical; justice; king; kingdome; lands; late; laws; liberties; life; like; lives; london; lord; math; members; nation; new; nobles; officers; parliament; peace; people; persons; power; practises; present; princes; priviledges; proposit; publick; realm; religion; right; romans; rome; saxons; self; set; slain; souldiers; state; subjects; sword; taxes; things; thou; time; treason; tribute; violence; vortigerne; william; world; year; yeers; ● ● cache: A91269.xml plain text: A91269.txt item: #137 of 153 id: A91270 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The second part of a Short demurrer to the Ievves long discontinued remitter into England. Containing a brief chronological collection of the most material records in the reigns of King John, Henry 3. and Edward 1. relating the history, affaires, state, condition, priviledges, obligations, debts, legal proceedings, justices, taxes, misdemeanors, forfeitures, restraints, transactions, of the Jews in, and final banishment out of England, never formerly published in print: with some short usefull observations upon them. Worthy the knowledge of all lawyers, scholars, statists, and of such Jews who desire re-admission into England. / By VVilliam Prynne Esquire, a bencher of Lincolns-Inne. date: 1656.0 words: 73152 flesch: 65 summary: Iudaei vero aurifabri , & mercatores forinici emant moneta ista victum et vestitum suum tantum , sed non debent prestitum vel Merchandizas facere , nisi de grossa et forti moneta quae sit de lege & pondere denariorum sterlingorum . quantum singuli habeant in auro et argento , vadiis , jocalibus , terris , redditibus , et omnibus rebus aliis , & in quorum manibus vel custodiis fuerint et devenerint , tam in Civitatibus , Villis , domibus religiosis , quam ab omnibus locis aliis ; ut de predict . keywords: aaron; aaron de; abraham; ad custodiam; ad festum; ad opus; ad scac; aliis; aliquo; angliae; anno; apud; apud westm; assignatis; aut; banishment; bona et; bonis; bristol; c. et; c. quod; c. salutem; c. t.; catallis; charters; christians; claus; com; concessimus; conversorum; converts; coram; cum; custody; de consilio; de debitis; de ebor; de judaeis; de london; de middleton; de praedict; de scac; de tallagio; debita; debitum; debts; demurrer; die; dilatione; dilecto; domus; donec; dors; ebor; edward; eidem; eis; ejusdem; england; english; eorundem; eos; esse; est; estates; et ad; et aliis; et baronibus; et catalla; et consuetudinem; et cum; et de; et debitis; et etiam; et haeredibus; et ideo; et mandatum; et non; et omnes; et omnia; et omnibus; et quae; et quia; et quod; et si; et sociis; etiam; exchequer; faciant; facias; faciatis; fecit; festum; fieri; fil; fine; forma; fuerit; fuerunt; fuit; goods; grant; habere; henry; hereford; hoc; houses; hujusmodi; ibidem; iews; illa; illis; illud; inde; infra; inter; iohn; ipse; ipsi; ipsius; ipsos; ipsum; isaac; ita quod; iudaei; iudaeos; iudeorum; iustic; jews; judaeis; judaeorum; judaismi; judeo; judeus; justices; justiciariis; king; lands; legem et; letters; lincoln; london; london et; maii; mandamus; mandamus quod; manum; marc; marks; modo; nec; new; nisi; nobis et; non; nostrae; nostri; nostris ad; nostrorum; nostrum; occasione; omnes; omnibus; oxon; pars; parte; pat; patent; persons; post; praecipimus; praedict; pro; prout; prox; quae; quae ad; quam; quas; quem; qui; quia; quibus; quod ad; quod cum; quod de; quod eidem; quod ipsum; quod non; quod nullus; quod omnes; quod praedict; quod pro; quod rex; quod si; quod sicut; quos; r. apud; records; rege; rege apud; regis; regis de; regni; reign; rex; rex omnibus; rolls; salutem; sancti; scac; sciatis quod; secundum; seu; sibi; sicut; sine; sit; sua; suam; suas; sub; suis; suis ad; suis de; sunt; suo; super; supra; suum; t. r.; tallagium; tam; taxes; tempore; terras; teste; tibi; time; tunc; una; usque; usque ad; vel; vic; vobis; vobis quod; volumus; vos; westm; winton; writ; year; ● ● cache: A91270.xml plain text: A91270.txt item: #138 of 153 id: A91272 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The second part of the narrative concerning the Armies force and violence upon the Commons House, and Members. date: 1648.0 words: 2701 flesch: 52 summary: The second part of the narrative concerning the Armies force and violence upon the Commons House, and Members. The second part of the narrative concerning the Armies force and violence upon the Commons House, and Members. keywords: army; commons; generall; house; members; parliament; text cache: A91272.xml plain text: A91272.txt item: #139 of 153 id: A91274 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Seven additional quæres in behalf of the secluded Members, propounded to the twice-broken Rump now sitting, the cities of Westminster, London, county of Middlesex, all other counties, cities, boroughs, in England Wales, and all English freemen, whose members are secluded: and also to Scotland and Ireland. date: 1660.0 words: 4509 flesch: 43 summary: Whether it be not a most impudent and insolent Presumption in them , to raise the Militia of Westminster , and Middlesex to guard themselves in the House , and yet forcibly to keep out Serjant Glyn , and Mr. Bell , their own two Burgesses for Westmi●ster , and Sr. Gilbert Gerard , the sole surviving Knight of the S●ier for Middlesex , and the Militiaes of * London , and most other Cities , Boroughs , and Counties of England , to exclude their own Knights , Citizens , and Burgesses of the old Parliament out of the House , that they may Tax , Oppresse and Domineer over them , at their Pleasure ; And a Treachery , beyond all President , for them to imploy the Army , first Raised , Commissioned , Intrusted , Engaged by their Commissions , Parliament Ordinances , Votes , Declarations , the Protestation● , League and Covenant , to defend ●nd protect the Members and Privileges of Parliament , from all force and violence whatsoever , to sit and Act fr●ely in the Houses , without disturbance : to keep three Parts of four of their fellow Members out of the Hou●● and the whole House of Peers , by meer force and will , without any hearing or impeachment ; and to impose intollerable uncessant Taxes , both on the Lords , and secluded Members , and all Counties , Cities Boroughs , for which they serve ; only to keep themselves in forcible posession within the House ; and seclude them forcibly out of it ? Whether it be not a most Sottish , Brutish Servility , Baseness , Treachery , Infatuation for these Counties , Cities , Boroughs Militias and Mercinary forces , thus to Guard this Trayterous , ( & now Infamous , Odious ) Rump , to domineer over themselves , and the Majority of the excluded Members and Lords in the House , and to keep them by their Treasonable armed force , & Void Orders , out of it ? Whether it be not both their Duty , Honour , Honesty , Interest , and only means of Ease , Peace , Settlement , Revival of Trade , and restoring the lost Honour of our Nation , Religion , and the Rights , Freedom , Privileges , Liberties of our Parliaments , and Kingdom ; Now to joyn all their Forces and Endeavours , to restore all the secluded Members , Dishouse these Forcible Vsurpers , and bring them to publick Justice ▪ for their present and past high Treasons , since they obstinately persevere in them , without the least Shadow of Repentance or Satisfaction to the People , or the secluded Members : witness their new Oath of Abjuration , Jan. 2. And to obey the secluded Lords and Members , Orders , and desires , being the Parliament ) rather than their treasonable and illegal Votes ? 3. Whereas there was a visible , horrid , insolent and actual force upon the Houses of Parliament , on Monday the 26. of July last , whereupon the Speakers , and many Members of both Houses of Parliament , were forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament , and whereas those Members could not return to sit in safety before Friday the 6. of August : It is therefore declared , by the Lords and Commons , in Parliament assembled , that the Ordinance of Monday the said 26. of July , for the repealing and making void the Ordinance of the 23. of the said July , for the setling of the Militia of the City of London , being gained by force and violence : and all Votes , Orders , Ordinances , passed in either , or both Houses of Parliament , since the said Ordinance of the 26. of July , to the said 6th . of August , are Null and Void , and were so at the making thereof , and are hereby declared so to be ; the Parliament being under a force , and not free ; Doth not absolutely declare , adjudge and resolve , all the Rumps Votes , Acts , Orders , Ordinances , Proceedings touching the Militia of London , Westminster , and other Counties ; Excises , Customs , Monthly Contributions , Indemnities , Pardons , and all other Matters ; or for sec●uding or suspending any Member , and whole House of Peers from sitting , their Treasonable perjurious Ingagement , and Oath of Abjuration ▪ to be all Null and Void , at the making thereof ; and so no waies obliging the City , Kingdom , Nation , secluded Peers , or Members in the least degree , since the force upon both Houses , securing , secluding of above 200. Commons , yet living , continued from Dec. 6. 1648. keywords: cities; force; house; lords; members; parliament; secluded; text cache: A91274.xml plain text: A91274.txt item: #140 of 153 id: A91275 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne. date: 1656.0 words: 45560 flesch: 73 summary: Calamities , Dispersons , D●v●s●ations , Captivities , Desolations , Curses , P ▪ ●gues of all kinds , for their sins , rebellions , imponnencies , and to their Nation , Kingdom , Countrie ● Cities , than to any 〈…〉 Nations , Kingdomes , People ; and that more frequently th●n against any other ▪ S 〈…〉 against them in his wrath , that they should never 〈◊〉 into his r●st , Psal . In the mean while there was a great rumor spred throughout the City of London upon this occasion , That the King desired , and had commanded , that all the Jews should be banished and destroyed ; Whereupon an infinite number of People , as well out of the City , as most Counties of England then coming to the Coronation , inflamed with the desire of booty , betaking themselves to their arms , fell pell-mell upon the Jews , and slew and pillaged them both in the streets and in their houses ; and those who defended themselves for a time in such strong houses which they could not enter , were there soon after burnt and consumed , together with their houses , by the furious multitude , who put fire to their houses , and burnt down most of them , Synagogae dat● dedec●ri , and likewise defaced their Synagogues , as Radulphus de Diceto records . keywords: acts; anno; banishment; c. 1; c. 2; c. c.; cent; child; christian; chron; church; city; col; conversion; day; death; england; english; faith; france; god; goods; hath; hist; historians; houses; iews; jesus; jews; john; king; laws; london; lord; man; mat; money; nation; new; paris; parliament; people; places; realm; religion; synagogues; thee; things; time; year; ● ● cache: A91275.xml plain text: A91275.txt item: #141 of 153 id: A91280 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Six important quæres, propounded to the re-sitting Rump of the long Parliament, fit to be satisfactorily resolved by them upon the question, before they presume to act any further, or expect the least obedience from the free-born English nation, after so manie years wars and contests for the privileges, rights, and freedom of Parliaments, and their own liberties. date: 1659.0 words: 2459 flesch: 44 summary: 13. without any new Summons or notice of their sitting given to any of their Fellow-Members , in the City , or people of the Nation ; was not a work of Darkness , rather than of Light , better beseeming Theeves than Freemen , a Guy Faux with his dark Lanthorn to blow up a Parliament , than the Honour and Dignity of Members of a real English Parliament , and a bad Omen of some dark D●signs against their Fellow-Members , and Liberties both of the City and English Nation ? 2. To take the business of their absent Members into debate on the 5. of January next ; instead of giving admittance , or any answer to the 22. secluded Members waiting for an answer in the Lobby above 2. hours , be not a meer dilatory Cheat put upon the secluded Members , the City of London , and whole Nation ; to delay their admission till they have put new Gards on , and drawn up all their forces to London , to over-awe the City , and hinder their long-delayed Militia for their own security ; and setled the Militia of every County under their own commands , to enslave the whole City and Nation to their Tyranny and usurped Parliamentary Power ; and then they will not only forcibly keep out all the Members , but absolutely eject them , unlesse they will take their new Oath and Ingagement : As is evident by their Speakers prohibiting the Lord Maior and Common Council on Saturday last to set up their Chains and settle their Militia ; and their Order and Vote on Munday night against all forces raised without their Order , to hinder the Militia in the City , when they commanded the Militia in the Suburbs and Westminster to meet and Act that day : And by some of their discourses 〈◊〉 secluded Members ; That there was no hopes of their admission , unlesse they were for a Commonwealth , would take the Ingagement , and confirm what they had done : and thereby become as guilty , treacherous , perfidious , disloyal , and hurtfull to the publike as themselves ) which those Members assured them , they would never submit to , being against the Privilege of Parliament , their Judgements , Consciences , Protestation , Covenant , former Oathes upon their first admission as Members . keywords: act; english; house; members; parliament; text cache: A91280.xml plain text: A91280.txt item: #142 of 153 id: A91283 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A soveraign antidote to prevent, appease, and determine our unnaturall and destructive civill warres and dissentions. Wherein divers serious considerations tending to this purpose are propounded both to the King and subjects, the Parliaments and Sir Iohn Hothams proceedings at Hull and in the militia justified, Sr Iohn Hothams actions proved to be neither treason, felony, nor trespas, by the laws of the land, nor any just ground or cause at all for his Majestie to rayse an army, or a most unnaturall civill warre in his kingdome. With a most serious exhortation both to the King and subjects to embrace and preserve peace and abandon civill warres, with other matters worthy of consideration. date: 1642.0 words: 13803 flesch: 64 summary: Cre●●o . P●●lip the French King though his enemy , declared this Act void . keywords: act; civill; god; hath; hotham; hull; iohn; king; kingdome; law; majestie; parliament; peace; people; realme; sir; subjects; treason; warre; ● ● cache: A91283.xml plain text: A91283.txt item: #143 of 153 id: A91287 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The subjection of all traytors, rebels, as well peers, as commons in Ireland, to the laws, statutes, and trials by juries of good and lawfull men of England, in the Kings Bench at Westminster, for treasons perpetuated by them in Ireland, or any foreign country out of the realm of England. Being an argument at law made in the Court of Kings Bench, Hil. 20 Caroli Regis, in the case of Connor Magwire, an Irish baron ... fully proving; that Irish peers, as well as commons may be lawfully tried in this court in England, by the statute of 35 H.8.c.2. for treasons committed by them in Ireland, by a Middlesex jury, and outed of a trial by Irish peers: which was accordingly adjudged, and he thereupon tried, condemned, executed as a traytor ... By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes Inne. date: 1658.0 words: 33724 flesch: 61 summary: With that of p Sy●vester●●a●●us , who ●●●●●ing the Constitutions made at the Council of Cassils in Ireland under this King Henry for the Government of the Church , and ●eformation of the manners of the Irish , there recorded at large , concludes thus . year of his Raign at Dublin in Ireland , did create Brian Magwire , Father of the said Connor Magwire , Baron of Iniskellin in the County of Farmanagh in the said Realm ; and granted to him and the Hei●●males of his body , the title , honor and dignity of the said Barony , and to have a place and voice among the Peers and Nobles of Ireland in the Parliaments of that Realm ; By virtue whereof the said Brian was seised in his demesn as of Fee tayl of the said Barony , and dyed seised thereof at Dublin 1 Feb. 12 Caroli . keywords: act; acts; bench; c. 1; c. 2; c. 3; case; charta; commons; cooks; court; eliz; england; english; forein; good; hath; high; instit; ireland; irish; jury; justice; kings; law; lawfull; laws; lord; magna; manner; parliament; peers; persons; quod; realm; statute; treasons; tryal; tryed; words; ● ● cache: A91287.xml plain text: A91287.txt item: #144 of 153 id: A91291 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, proprieties of all English freemen; both in their persons, estates, and elections; and of the memorable votes, resolutions, and Acts of Parliament, for their vindication and corroboration, in the late Parliaments of 3 & 17 of King Charles; collected out of their Journals, and printed Ordinances. Most necessary to be known, considered, re-established (in this present juncture of publick affairs) with all possible old and new securities; against past, present, and future publick violations, under-minings, by force or fraud, for the much-desired healing of the manifold large mortal wounds in these chief vital parts, and repairing the various destructive subversive breaches in these prime foundations of our English state fabrick; without which no effectual present or future healing, union, peace, or settlement can possibly be expected, or established in our distracted nations. / By William Prynne of Swainswick Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne. date: 1656.0 words: 23717 flesch: 48 summary: And of the several memorable Votes , Resolutions , Declarations , and Acts of Parliament , for their Vindication and Corroboration , in the happy Parliament of 3 Caroli ; ( remembred and ratified likewise , in the last Parliament of King Charles ) as the most soveraign Balm , the most effectual materials prepared , applyed by the learnedest , skilfullest , wisest State-Physicians and Builders in those Parliaments , to heal and close up the mortal wounds , the perilous Breaches , our late Kings * Jesuitical , arbitrary , tyrannical , ill-counsellors , and other Viperous self-seeking projectors had sormerly made in them , to the impoverishing , oppressing , enslaving of the People , and endangering the utter subversion both of our Fundamental Laws , Liberties , Properties , Government , Parliaments , Kingdomes , Religion ; now in a more desperate deplorable condition than ever , unless speedily revived , by the fresh application of these healing Cordials , reunited , repaired , supported with● these sementing Ingredients by some expert , active Chirurgians , and Master-builders , to whom I humbly recommend them ; as a brief Corollary to the first and second part of my seasonable , legal and Historical Vindication and Collection of the good old fundamental Liberties , Franchises , Rights , Laws of all English Freemen ; till God shall enable me to compleat the remaining parts thereof , in their Chronological series of time ; the best Legacy I can leave behind me to my Native Country , and the whole English Nation , whose real Liberty , VVeal , Tranquillity , Prosperity , ( next to Gods glory and the safety of our endangered Church and Religion ) hath been the sole scope , end , of this , and all other his publications ; who , though ingratefully , despitefully requited for most of them , would repute it his greatest infelicity to be enforced ( or hear other Cordial State-Physicians compelled ) now at last to say of England , as Gods people once did of Babylon , Jer. 51. 8 , 9 , 10. It was frequently averred , declared k by the Commons in this Parliament ; That the old custome and use of our Parliaments constantly hath been , and ought to be , to debate , redress all publick grievances , and re-establish , secure their violated * Great Charter , Laws , Rights , and Liberties , in the first place of all , before they debated , or granted any aides , or subsidies demanded of them , ( though never so pressing , or necessary ) it being both dangerous , imprudent , and a breach of their trusts towards the people who elected them , to play an After-game for their Liberties , Laws , and Grievances , which would never be effectually redressed after subsidies once granted . , VVhereupon they refused to pass the Bill of Subsidies then granted till the Petition of Right was fi●st assented unto , enrolled , and their Grievances , redr●ssed by the King . keywords: commons; english; house; king; laws; liberties; lords; majesty; members; parliament; people; persons; petition; present; realm; right; souldiers; statutes; time cache: A91291.xml plain text: A91291.txt item: #145 of 153 id: A91301 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: To the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London in Common-Council assembled; the humble petition and address of the sea-men, and watermen, in and about the said city of London. date: 1659.0 words: 1093 flesch: 57 summary: Watermen's Company (London, England) City of London (England). City of London (England). keywords: city; london; lord; text cache: A91301.xml plain text: A91301.txt item: #146 of 153 id: A91302 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: The totall and finall demands already made by, and to be expected from, the agitators and army: vpon the concession whereof they will rest fully satisfied; and disband when they shall think seasonable, but not before in all probability. date: 1647.0 words: 2307 flesch: 56 summary: When all this is effected , and the Kingdom utterly exhausted with taxes and free-quarter to keep up this unmercinary and most meritorious Army , who have such glorious designs in hand for the Kingdoms ease , and peoples Liberties and enfranchisement from their ancient Vassallage to the King , Parliament , -- Army -- Early works to 1800. keywords: agitators; army; demands; house; king; parliament; text cache: A91302.xml plain text: A91302.txt item: #147 of 153 id: A91305 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A true and ful relation of the officers and Armies forcible seising of divers eminent Members of the Commons House, Decemb. 6. & 7. 1648. As also, a true copy of a letter / lately written by an agent for the Army in Paris, dated 28 of Novemb. 1648, to a Member of the said House, a great creature and patriot of the Army; clearly discovering, that their late remonstrance and proceedings do drive on and promote the Jesuits and Papists designes, to the subversion of religion, Parliament, monarchy, and the fundamental laws and government of the kingdom. date: 1648.0 words: 4552 flesch: 59 summary: voting in the affirmative , and 28. or 30. in the negative , that they should not ; who presently left the House , most of them resolving to come no more till the House and Members were righted ; this done , to abuse and mock as well God as men , they appointed Friday for a solemne Humiliation , to be kept in that House , not to expiate the Armies open violation of their Priviledges , force and breach of Faith , both to God and the Parliament , which had been commendable , but to procure a blessing on the forcible and unparliamentall proceedings , for the subversion of Monarchy , Religion , Lawes , Liberties , and three Kingdomes in a moment : dethroning and beheading the King , and desinheriting his Posterity , and introducing a popular Anarchy and Tyranny under the power of a perfidious Army , worse then any slavery under the great Turk : The Lord humble them in good earnest for these crying sins and treasons , and either convert their hearts , or confound all their treasonable destructive devices of this kind , which will render them infamous to the present and all future Generations , and bring them unto speedy ruine , notwithstanding all their present usurped power . Gen. Cromwel entered the Commons House , and received thanks for his great services , which had been more Honourable for him to receive in a full and free House , then in an empty and forced ; the House ( by reason of the restrained and excluded Members , with others driven away by this horrid violence ) being not above 80. in Number , having formerly resolved not to proceed till their Members were restored , and the force upon them removed ; after some debate and opposition , the House was divided upon this Question , whether they should now proceed or not ? which was carryed in the affirmative , 50. keywords: army; commons; house; members; officers; parliament; prisoners; sir; text cache: A91305.xml plain text: A91305.txt item: #148 of 153 id: A91311 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: Twelve queries of publick concernment humbly submitted to the serious consideration of the Great Councell of the Kingdome. By a cordiall well-wisher to its proceedings. date: 1647.0 words: 2376 flesch: 37 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91311 of text R205647 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E514_2). By a cordiall w Prynne, William 1647 2163 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 B The rate of 5 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: houses; ireland; kingdome; parliament; pay; souldiers; text cache: A91311.xml plain text: A91311.txt item: #149 of 153 id: A91314 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A vindication of foure serious questions of grand importance, concerning excommunication and suspention from the sacrament of the Lords Supper, from some misprisions and unjust exceptions lately taken against them; both in the pulpit, by a reverend brother of Scotland, in a sermon at Margarets Church in Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at a publike fast there held for Scotland, on the 5th of September last: and in the presse, by three new-printed pamphlets, by way of answer to, and censure of them. Wherein some scripture texts, (commonly reproduced for excommunication, and bare suspention from the Lords Supper onely,) are cleared from false glosses, inferences, conclusions wrested from them; ... / By William Prynne of Lincolns Inne, Esquire. date: 1645.0 words: 41741 flesch: 53 summary: First , there is an externall conversion of men from Pag●●is●e or Gentilisme , to the externall profession of the P●ith of Christ ; which is ordinarily wrought by the preaching of the Word ; or extraordinarily , by miracles without the Word preached , in reference to those without the Church ; but ordinarily effected by the Sacrament of Baptisme , in reference to infants of Christian Parents borne within the Church , which Sacrament both admits and makes them members of the visible Church ( without the preaching of the Word of which infants are not capable , ) I plead not this as a meer Lawyer , for any private ends or l●cre ( as some scandalously report ) since I value not my calling ( to which true Church-discipline will be no prejudice ) nor any thing in the world in comparison of Gods glory and the truth ; Nor yet as an Advocate for licentio●● , scandalous sinners , to extenuate their offences , punishment , or any way to encourage them in their impentiency & prophanations ; nor out of any disaffectiō to the Presbyterian Government , for which I have earnestly pleaded , and suffered much reproach from Sectari●s and Independents , and in which I may expect as great a share of Presbyteriall power and honour as any other ; but meerly out of consci●nce , of love unto the truth , and tender compassions to ▪ the souls of other● , from whom without any punctuall Scripture warrant , I would have no meanes of grace , or ordinances of Christ with-held , wherein they have ● right , a property , which may conduce to their reformation or conversion . keywords: answer; body; chap; christ; christian; church; conscience; converting; cor; cum; deny; discipline; divine; doe; excommunication; god; gods; good; hath; himselfe; john; judas; lords; luke; man; mat; mens; ministers; non; ordinances; owne; p ●; persons; power; preaching; present; publike; reason; receiving; right; sacrament; satan; scripture; sinnes; supper; suspension; table; text; word; yea; ▪ ●; ● d; ● e; ● n; ● o; ● r; ● s; ● t; ● ● cache: A91314.xml plain text: A91314.txt item: #150 of 153 id: A91316 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A vindication of Sir VVilliam Lewis from one part of his particular charge by an undeniable evidence of ancient date. date: 1647.0 words: 1057 flesch: 71 summary: A vindication of Sir VVilliam Lewis from one part of his particular charge by an undeniable evidence of ancient date. A vindication of Sir VVilliam Lewis from one part of his particular charge by an undeniable evidence of ancient date. keywords: lewis; sir; text; william cache: A91316.xml plain text: A91316.txt item: #151 of 153 id: A91317 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A vindication of the imprisoned and secluded Members of the House of Commons, from the aspersions cast upon them, and the majority of the House, in a paper lately printed and published: intituled, An humble answer of the Generall Councel of the officers of the Army under his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, to the demands of the Honourable Commons of England in Parliament assembled: concerning the late securing or secluding some Members thereof. date: 1649.0 words: 12368 flesch: 49 summary: The King of England is King of Scotland , and they are under Allegiance and Covenants for the preservation of the Kings Person and his Posterity as well as We : What diff●rences are l●ke to ensue betwixt the Kingdomes , by Government against Gov●rnment , perhaps Title against Title , and one Kingdom against the other ? Then when the King was seized upon by a party of the Army , without Order from the House , and the Army advanced against the Parliament , they say in their Letter to the House July the 8 , 1647 , There have been severall Officers of the Armie , upon severall occasions sent to his Majestie : The first , to present to him a Copy of the Representations ; and after that , some others to tender him a Copie of the Remonstrance : upon b●th which the Officers sent were appointed to ●leer the sense and intentions of any thing in either paper whereupon his Majestie might make any question . keywords: answer; army; government; house; john; king; kingdome; majesty; members; necessity; paper; parliament; peace; power; sir; thomas; wee; william; ● ● cache: A91317.xml plain text: A91317.txt item: #152 of 153 id: A91319 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: A vindication of VViliam Prynne Esquire from some scandalous papers and imputations, nevvly printed and published, to traduce and defame him in his reputation. date: 1649.0 words: 1242 flesch: 62 summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A91319 of text R211134 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.13[67]). 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. keywords: answer; prynne; text cache: A91319.xml plain text: A91319.txt item: #153 of 153 id: A96850 author: Prynne, William, 1600-1669. title: To the honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses in this present Parliament assembled The humble petition of Clement VValker, and William Prynne, Esquires. date: 1644.0 words: 1513 flesch: 50 summary: Yet notwithstanding some friends of his , to blemish your Petitioners , and that Honourable Councels just proceedings , have confidently reported in London , Westminster , and elsewhere : that your Petitoners did retract all , and could not prove any of their Articles ; that they cried peccavi , asked the Colonel forgivenes ; who made such a brave defence , and came of with such Honour as never any man did before him ; that he was absolutely acquitted from all cowardize and treachery , and condemned onely for not firing that famous City , which his conscience would not permit , nor the Parliament in honour could not have suffered him to doe ; That his guard continued upon him but two daies after sentence , that he is already set at liberty , pardoned , ( though we humbly conceive no person can * pardon his judgement in this common case , without speciall order of both Houses , ) and shall shortly sit in the House againe . By reason of which false reports your Petitioners , for their cost and paines in this publique prosecution , have been much defamed ; his Excellencies , and the Honourable Councell of Warres proceedings insufferably traduced , truth disguised , the well affected party discontented , malignants mouthes opened to complaine of partiality , the Honour and Justice of the high Court of Parliament principally interressed in this tryall ( directed by severall Orders of this House ) blemished , and a high way prepared in these perilous times ( which daily produce new monstrous Plots to undermine Us ) to betray all Forts , and Cities yet remaining in Your power , through Treachery or Cowardize , if this signall leading president of grandest publique concernment , shall be thus openly traduced , and the execution of it so suddenly , so sleightly passed over as is reported ; especially since the condemned Delinquent , hath both in speeches and printed Relations justified this his unworthy action to the utmost before this Honourable House , the Councell of War , World , not yet making the least acknowledgement of , submission or satisfaction for the same , and denied at the tryall that Colonel Essex was ever Governour of Bristol , or that he did apprehend or remove him , or that himselfe was ever Governour of this City or Castle , or undertooke to defend the same , or had any Commission to keepe it , but onely to keepe his souldiers in order ; the contrary to all which appeared by his owne evidence , and that he hath twice sent for , received , accepted an independent Commission by all possible waies and meanes to provide for the defence and security of the same City against all enemies and opposition whatsoever . keywords: clement; parliament; text; william cache: A96850.xml plain text: A96850.txt