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
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             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
             Prynne, William, 1600-1669.
             Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.
             Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.
             England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.
          
           [2], 48, 226 p.
           
             for M.S.,
             Printed at London :
             1641.
          
           
             A briefe relation of certaine speciall and most materiall passages and speeches in the Starre-chamber occasioned and delivered the 4th of June 1637. Reel 254:E.162, no. 2.
             Dr. Bastwick's answer : 254:E.162, no. 2 p. 17.
             Mr. Burton's answer : 254:E.162, no. 2 p. 25.
             Errata listed at end of 254:E.162, no. 2 p. 227.
             Reproduction of original in Thomason Collection, British Library.
          
        
      
    
     
       
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           Bastwick, John, 1593-1654.
           Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.
           Prynne, William, 1600-1669. -- Summary collection of the principal fundamental rights, liberties, proprieties of all English freemen.
           Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649.
        
      
    
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           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
             sentence
             ,
          
           and
           the
           
             Orders
             ,
             Letters
          
           for
           ,
           and
           
             manner
          
           of
           their
           
             removes
             to
             ,
          
           and
           close
           
             imprisonments
          
           in
           the
           
             Castles
          
           of
           
             Lanceston
             ,
             Lancaster
             ,
             Carnarvan
             ,
          
           and
           Isles
           of
           
             Sylly
             ,
             Garnsey
          
           and
           
             Jersy
             ;
          
           The
           proceeddings
           against
           the
           
             Chestermen
             ,
          
           and
           others
           before
           the
           
             Lords
          
           and
           
             High
             Commissioners
          
           at
           
             Yorke
          
           for
           visiting
           Mr.
           
             Pryane
             ;
          
           The
           Bishop
           of
           
             Chesters
             order
             ,
          
           for
           
             Ministers
          
           to
           preach
           against
           M.
           
             Prynne
             ,
          
           and
           the
           
             Yorke
             Commissioners
          
           decree
           to
           deface
           ,
           and
           burne
           his
           pictures
           at
           
             Chester
          
           high-Crosse
           .
           The
           
             House
             of
             Commons
             Order
          
           for
           ,
           and
           manner
           of
           their
           
             returnes
          
           from
           
             Exile
             ;
          
           their
           
             petitions
             to
             the
             Parliament
             ;
          
           the
           
             Votes
             of
             the
             Commons
             house
             upon
             the
             report
             of
             their
             Cases
             ,
             declaring
             the
             proceedings
             and
             censures
             against
             them
             illegall
             ,
             groundlesse
             ,
             and
             against
             the
             Subjects
             liberty
             ,
          
           with
           M.
           
             Prynnes
          
           Argument
           ,
           proving
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           his
           
             censures
             ,
          
           with
           the
           
             proceedings
          
           against
           
             him
             ,
          
           and
           his
           
             Chester
          
           friends
           
             at
             York
             ,
             to
             be
             against
             Law
             ;
          
           are
           truly
           related
           ;
           for
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           present
           age
           ,
           and
           of
           posterity
           .
        
         
           Seneca
           ,
           Medea
           .
        
         
           Qui
           aliquid
           statuerit
           parte
           inaudita
           altera
           ;
           licet
           rectè
           statuerit
           ,
           haud
           aequus
           est
           Iudex
           .
        
         
           PSAL
           94
           20
           ,
           21
           ,
           22
           ,
           23.
           
        
         
           Shall
           the
           throne
           of
           iniquity
           have
           fellowship
           with
           thee
           ,
           which
           frameth
           mischiefe
           by
           a
           
             Law
             ?
          
           They
           
             gather
             themselves
             together
          
           against
           the
           
             soule
             of
             the
             Righteous
             ,
          
           and
           
             condemne
             the
             Innocent
             blood
             :
          
           But
           the
           Lord
           is
           my
           defence
           ,
           and
           my
           God
           is
           the
           Rock
           of
           my
           Refuge
           ;
           And
           
             he
             shall
             bring
             upon
             them
             their
             owne
             Iniquity
             ▪
             and
             shall
             cut
             them
             off
             in
             their
             owne
             wickednesse
             ;
          
           yea
           ,
           
             the
             Lord
             our
             God
             shall
             cut
             them
             off
             .
          
        
         
           Printed
           at
           
             London
          
           for
           
             M.
             S.
          
           1641.
           
        
      
       
       
       
         
           To
           the
           Courteous
           Reader
           .
        
         
           KInde
           Reader
           ,
           I
           here
           present
           thee
           with
           a
           late
           
             tragicall
             History
             ,
          
           or
           
             new
             Discovery
             of
             the
             Prelates
             tyranny
             ,
          
           in
           their
           
             unjust
             Prosecutions
             ,
          
           and
           
             bloody
             Persecutions
          
           of
           three
           eminent
           persons
           of
           the
           three
           
             most
             noble
             Professions
          
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           
             Divinity
             ,
             Law
             ,
             Physick
             ;
          
           all
           suffering
           together
           on
           the
           
             Pillory
          
           (
           much
           honoured
           by
           them
           ,
           and
           they
           by
           it
           )
           &
           losing
           all
           their
           
             Eares
          
           at
           once
           ,
           to
           make
           themselves
           
             heare
             better
             ,
          
           and
           the
           Prelates
           
             *
          
           
             worse
             .
          
           Such
           a
           
             spectacle
             both
             to
             men
             ,
             and
             Angels
             ,
          
           no
           age
           ever
           saw
           before
           ;
           and
           posterity
           is
           never
           like
           to
           behold
           hereafter
           .
           To
           heare
           of
           
             Lord
             Bishops
             metamorphosed
             into
          
           
             *
          
           
             ravenous
             Wolves
             ,
          
           is
           no
           
             Noveltie
             ;
          
           they
           have
           been
           thus
           in
           every
           age
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           so
           ,
           whiles
           they
           have
           continuance
           :
           But
           to
           see
           them
           mounted
           to
           such
           an
           
             Altitude
          
           
           Altitude
           of
           
             Authoritie
             ,
          
           and
           
             Tyranny
             ,
          
           as
           to
           crucify
           
             Divinity
             ,
             Law
             ,
             Physick
          
           on
           the
           Pillorie
           together
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           
             Judges
             ,
             Peeres
             ,
             and
             Courts
             of
             Justice
             ,
          
           if
           not
           
             Soveraignitie
          
           it selfe
           ,
           the
           
             *
          
           
             executioners
          
           of
           their
           
             Malice
             ,
             cruelty
             ,
             and
             private
             revenge
             ,
          
           by
           such
           extravagant
           and
           untroden
           courses
           as
           were
           unknown
           to
           our
           Ancestors
           ,
           is
           such
           a
           
             prodigious
             Innovation
             ,
          
           as
           neither
           
             Affrica
          
           nor
           England
           ever
           beheld
           the
           like
           ;
           and
           never
           had
           beene
           brought
           forth
           into
           the
           World
           ,
           had
           not
           a
           
             venomous
             Archprelate
          
           proved
           a
           
             Father
          
           to
           engender
           ,
           a
           
             Mother
          
           to
           foster
           ,
           a
           
             Midwife
          
           to
           produce
           and
           bring
           it
           to
           its
           birth
           .
        
         
           But
           alas
           poore
           silly
           
             Politician
             !
          
           whiles
           he
           sought
           these
           
             innocents
             ruine
          
           by
           those
           unwarrantable
           practises
           ,
           he
           laid
           but
           the
           foundation
           of
           
             his
             own
             overthrow
             ;
          
           in
           the
           
             *
          
           
             snare
             that
             he
             layd
             for
             them
             ,
             is
             his
             own
             foote
             taken
             ,
             into
             the
             pit
             that
             he
             digged
             for
             them
             ,
             he
             is
             fallen
             himselfe
             ;
             his
             snares
             are
             broken
             ,
             they
             are
             escaped
             ,
          
           and
           he
           now
           lies
           intangled
           in
           them
           ;
           
             he
             is
          
           
             *
          
           
             cast
             down
             and
             fallen
             ,
             but
             they
             are
             risen
             &
             stand
             upright
             ;
             his
             mischiefe
          
           
           
             now
             returnes
             on
             his
             owne
             head
             ,
             and
             his
             violent
             dealing
             comes
             downe
             upon
             his
             own
             pate
             ;
             evill
             now
             hunts
             this
             man
             of
             violence
             to
             overthrow
             him
             ,
             and
             the
             mischiefe
             of
             his
             owne
             lips
             doth
             cover
             him
             .
          
           
             *
          
           
             As
             hee
             hath
             done
             ,
             so
             God
             hath
             requited
             him
             .
          
           
             *
          
           
             Whiles
             he
             made
             hast
             to
             shed
             their
             blood
             ,
             he
             did
             butlie
             in
             waite
             for
             his
             own
             ;
          
           And
           he
           
             *
          
           
             that
             did
             violence
             to
             the
             blood
             of
             these
             persons
             ,
             now
             fleeth
             to
             the
             pit
             ,
          
           (
           as
           God
           hath
           threatned
           )
           
             let
             no
             man
             stay
             him
             ;
          
           but
           let
           all
           stand
           admiring
           Gods
           Iustice
           upon
           him
           ,
           and
           his
           admirable
           providence
           ,
           and
           mercie
           in
           preserving
           ,
           delivering
           ,
           and
           
             *
          
           
             acquitting
             them
             from
             his
          
           unjust
           censures
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           the
           highest
           Court
           of
           Iustice
           ,
           without
           one
           negative
           voyce
           .
           The
           manifestation
           of
           this
           remarkable
           Iustice
           ,
           Mercy
           and
           Providence
           of
           our
           great
           God
           ,
           (
           
             *
          
           
             glorious
             in
             holinesse
             ,
             fearefull
             in
             prayses
             ,
             working
             wonders
             ;
          
           not
           onely
           of
           old
           ,
           but
           at
           this
           present
           ,
           even
           in
           all
           our
           Eyes
           ,
           
             *
          
           
             doing
             great
             things
          
           for
           these
           Patients
           ,
           for
           the
           whole
           Land
           ,
           
             whereof
             we
             rejoyce
          
           )
           was
           the
           chiefe
           end
           of
           publishing
           this
           
             Discovery
             ,
          
           
           whereby
           to
           daunt
           all
           gracelesse
           Persecutors
           ,
           and
           cheare
           the
           soules
           of
           all
           sincere
           professors
           .
           If
           thou
           reape
           
             Benefit
          
           or
           
             Comfort
          
           from
           it
           ,
           let
           
             God
          
           enjoy
           thy
           
             prayses
             ,
          
           the
           
             Compiler
          
           hereof
           thy
           
             prayers
             .
          
        
         
           
             Farewell
             ,
          
           and
           profit
           by
           what
           thou
           readest
           .
        
      
    
     
       
       
         
           A
           New
           Discovery
           of
           the
           Prelates
           tyranny
           ,
           in
           their
           late
           prosecutions
           of
           Doctor
           
             Bastwick
             ,
          
           Mr.
           
             Burton
             ,
          
           and
           Master
           
             Prynne
             .
          
        
         
           THE
           now
           
             Arch-bishop
             of
             Canterbury
             ,
          
           with
           some
           other
           Prelates
           of
           the
           
             Arminian
             combination
             ,
          
           maligning
           Master
           
             Prynne
             ,
          
           &
           Master
           
             Burton
             ,
          
           for
           some
           bookes
           they
           had
           written
           against
           the
           
             Arminians
          
           and
           D.
           
             Cosens
          
           his
           
             private
             Devotions
             ;
          
           about
           12.
           yeares
           since
           ,
           getting
           the
           raines
           of
           Ecclesiasticall
           authority
           into
           their
           owne
           commands
           ,
           prosecuted
           them
           severall
           times
           and
           tearmes
           in
           the
           
             High
             Commission
             ,
          
           for
           those
           their
           profitable
           ,
           and
           innoxious
           bookes
           :
           whence
           being
           delivered
           by
           
             prohibitions
             ,
          
           granted
           them
           out
           of
           the
           Kings
           temporall
           Courts
           at
           
             Westminster
             ;
          
           these
           Prelates
           grew
           more
           
             *
          
           
             inraged
          
           against
           them
           ,
           watching
           every
           opportunity
           ,
           and
           laying
           hold
           on
           any
           occasion
           to
           worke
           their
           ruine
           .
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           not
           long
           after
           ,
           about
           
             Christide
          
           1632
           ,
           published
           a
           booke
           against
           common
           Enterludes
           ,
           intituled
           ,
           
             Histrio-Mastix
             ,
          
           licensed
           for
           the
           presse
           by
           one
           Master
           
             Buckner
             ,
          
           house-hould
           Chaplin
           to
           the
           then
           Arch-bishop
           of
           
             Canterbury
             ,
             Abbot
             ;
          
           and
           published
           with
           his
           approbation
           ,
           after
           serious
           perusall
           thereof
           ,
           both
           in
           the
           written
           ,
           and
           
           printed
           copy
           .
           It
           came
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           some
           six
           weekes
           after
           the
           publication
           of
           this
           booke
           ,
           the
           
             Queenes
             Majesty
          
           acted
           a
           part
           in
           
             A
             pastorall
          
           at
           
             Somerset-house
             ;
          
           and
           there
           being
           some
           passages
           in
           this
           booke
           against
           
             Women-actors
             ,
          
           among
           the
           ancient
           
             Romans
             ,
             Grecians
             ,
          
           and
           
             Spaniards
             ,
          
           quoted
           out
           of
           Fathers
           and
           forraigne
           authors
           ;
           and
           this
           reference
           to
           them
           in
           the
           
             Table
          
           of
           the
           booke
           ,
           
             Women-actors
             notorious
             whores
             ,
          
           relating
           to
           those
           
             Women-actors
          
           only
           whom
           these
           authors
           thus
           branded
           ;
           Canterbury
           &
           the
           prelates
           by
           their
           instruments
           ,
           the
           next
           day
           after
           this
           pastorall
           acted
           ,
           carrying
           Master
           
             Prynnes
          
           booke
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           
             *
          
           shewed
           him
           some
           of
           those
           passages
           ,
           especially
           that
           in
           the
           Table
           ,
           and
           misinformed
           his
           
             Highness●
          
           and
           the
           
             Queene
             ,
             that
          
           Master
           
             Prynne
             had
             purposly
             written
             this
             booke
             against
             the
             Queene
             ,
             &
             her
             pastorall
             ;
          
           whereas
           it
           was
           licensed
           ,
           and
           most
           of
           those
           passages
           printed
           neere
           two
           yeeres
           before
           ;
           and
           the
           whole
           booke
           finished
           at
           the
           presse
           at
           least
           three
           moneths
           ,
           and
           published
           six
           weekes
           before
           the
           personating
           of
           this
           pastorall
           :
           But
           this
           misinformation
           onely
           exasperating
           the
           King
           and
           Queene
           against
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           for
           the
           present
           ,
           and
           not
           taking
           effect
           to
           worke
           his
           restraint
           ,
           their
           Majesties
           being
           truly
           informed
           by
           others
           ,
           that
           this
           booke
           was
           written
           ▪
           and
           printed
           long
           before
           this
           pastorall
           was
           thought
           of
           ;
           the
           now
           
             Archbishop
          
           thereupon
           caused
           Doctor
           
             Heylin
          
           (
           whom
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           had
           refuted
           in
           
             *
          
           that
           booke
           by
           the
           by
           ▪
           in
           a
           point
           concerning
           Saint
           
             George
             .
          
           )
           to
           collect
           such
           passages
           out
           of
           the
           booke
           ,
           and
           digest
           them
           into
           severall
           heads
           ,
           as
           might
           draw
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           into
           Question
           for
           
             supposed
             scandals
             therein
             of
             the
             King
             ,
             Queene
             ,
             State
             and
             Government
             of
             the
             Realme
             ▪
          
           Hereupon
           the
           Doctor
           drawes
           up
           such
           Collections
           ,
           digested
           into
           seven
           heads
           ,
           with
           his
           owne
           malicious
           Inferences
           upon
           them
           ,
           not
           warranted
           by
           Master
           
             Prynnes
          
           Text
           ,
           and
           delivers
           them
           in
           writing
           to
           Secretary
           
             Co●ke
             ,
          
           and
           the
           
             Arch-bishop
             .
          
           The
           prelate
           thus
           furnished
           by
           his
           
           minion
           ,
           takes
           Mr.
           
             Pryns
          
           booke
           ,
           and
           these
           collections
           ,
           and
           repaireth
           with
           them
           ,
           on
           the
           second
           Lords-Daymorning
           in
           
             Candlemas
             Tearme
          
           1632
           ,
           to
           
             Lincolns
             Inne
             ,
          
           to
           Master
           
             Noy
          
           then
           Kings
           Attourney
           generall
           ;
           and
           keeping
           him
           on
           that
           sacred
           day
           both
           from
           the
           Chappell
           and
           Sacrament
           ,
           (
           which
           he
           then
           purposed
           to
           receive
           )
           shewed
           him
           the
           said
           book
           and
           collections
           of
           some
           passages
           out
           of
           it
           ,
           which
           he
           said
           ,
           
             his
             councell
             informed
             him
             to
             be
             dangerous
             :
             &
             charged
             him
             on
             that
             duty
             he
             owed
             to
             his
             Master
             ,
             the
             King
             ,
             to
             prosecute
          
           Master
           Prynne
           
             for
             the
             same
             .
          
           Master
           
             Noy
          
           before
           this
           ,
           had
           twice
           read
           over
           the
           said
           booke
           very
           seriously
           ,
           and
           protested
           ,
           
             that
             he
             saw
             nothing
             in
             it
             that
             was
             scandalous
             or
             censurable
             in
             Star-Chamber
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             Court
             of
             Iudicature
             ;
          
           and
           had
           thereupon
           commanded
           one
           of
           the
           books
           (
           which
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           delivered
           him
           )
           to
           be
           put
           into
           
             Lincolns
             Inne
          
           library
           for
           the
           use
           of
           the
           house
           ;
           in
           so
           much
           that
           he
           was
           so
           discontented
           at
           this
           command
           of
           the
           Arch-prelate
           ,
           that
           
             he
             wished
             he
             had
             beene
             twenty
             miles
             out
             of
             towne
             that
             morning
             .
          
           But
           being
           commanded
           hee
           must
           obey
           ;
           and
           within
           few
           dayes
           after
           ,
           Master
           
             Prynne
             ,
          
           by
           this
           prelates
           instigation
           ,
           was
           sent
           for
           before
           the
           Lords
           to
           the
           inner
           Star-Chamber
           ,
           and
           by
           them
           sent
           prisoner
           ,
           with
           4.
           of
           the
           Kings
           Guard
           to
           the
           
             Tower
          
           of
           London
           ,
           on
           
             Feb.
          
           the
           first
           1632
           ,
           with
           this
           warrant
           ,
           to
           which
           this
           prelates
           hand
           among
           others
           ,
           was
           subscribed
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   AFter
                   our
                   hearty
                   commendations
                   ;
                   whereas
                   there
                   is
                   cause
                   to
                   restraine
                   
                     William
                     Prynne
                     Esquire
                     ▪
                  
                   and
                   to
                   commit
                   him
                   to
                   your
                   custody
                   ,
                   these
                   are
                   therefore
                   to
                   
                     will
                     and
                     require
                     you
                     to
                     receive
                  
                   into
                   your
                   charge
                   the
                   person
                   of
                   the
                   said
                   
                     William
                     Prynne
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   to
                   keepe
                   him
                   safe
                   prisoner
                   in
                   the
                   Tower
                   ,
                   without
                   giving
                   free
                   accesse
                   to
                   him
                   ,
                   untill
                   you
                   shall
                   receive
                   further
                   
                   Order
                   :
                   for
                   which
                   this
                   shall
                   be
                   your
                   warrant
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     
                       From
                       the
                       Star-Chamber
                    
                     
                       
                         the
                         first
                         of
                      
                       Feb.
                       1632.
                       
                    
                  
                   
                     
                       
                         Thomas
                         Coventry
                         .
                         Archbishop
                         of
                         Yorke
                         .
                      
                       
                         H.
                         Manchestour
                         .
                      
                       
                         Dorset
                         .
                      
                       
                         Faukland
                         .
                      
                       
                         Guil.
                         Lond.
                         now
                         Canter
                         .
                      
                       
                         Edward
                         Nuburgh
                         .
                      
                       
                         Iohn
                         Cooke
                         .
                      
                       
                         Tho.
                         Germine
                         .
                      
                       
                         Francis
                         Windebanke
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                   To
                   our
                   loving
                   friend
                   ,
                   
                     Sir
                     William
                     Balfore
                     ,
                  
                   Knight
                   Lieutenant
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   
                     Tower
                     of
                     London
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           BY
           force
           of
           this
           generall
           warrant
           ,
           against
           Law
           ,
           wherein
           no
           cause
           of
           co●●itment
           is
           specified
           ,
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           was
           kept
           pri●●●●r
           in
           the
           
             Tower
             ,
          
           without
           bayle
           or
           maineprise
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           oft
           petitions
           for
           release
           absolute
           ,
           or
           upon
           bayle
           ,
           till
           Master
           
             Noy
             ,
          
           (
           sending
           for
           the
           said
           
             Heylins
          
           collections
           ,
           )
           exhibited
           an
           
             Information
          
           against
           him
           in
           the
           Star-Chamber
           for
           his
           said
           licensed
           booke
           the
           21
           of
           
             Inne
          
           following
           ,
           and
           prosecuted
           it
           so
           ,
           that
           not
           permitting
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           to
           be
           bayled
           ,
           not
           yet
           so
           much
           as
           to
           repaire
           to
           his
           Counsell
           ,
           with
           his
           keeper
           ;
           on
           the
           17
           of
           
             Feb.
          
           1633.
           he
           procured
           this
           heavy
           sentence
           against
           him
           in
           that
           Court
           :
           That
           Master
           Prynne
           
             should
             be
             committed
             to
             prison
             during
             life
             ,
             pay
             a
             fine
             of
          
           5000
           
             pounds
             to
             the
             King
             ,
             be
             expelled
          
           Lincolns
           Inne
           ▪
           
             disbarred
             ▪
             and
             disabled
             ever
             to
             exercise
             the
             profession
             of
             a
          
           Barrester
           ;
           
             degraded
             by
             the
             University
             of
          
           Oxford
           ,
           
             of
             his
             degree
             there
             tak●●
             ;
             and
             that
             done
             ●e
             set
             in
             the
             Pillory
             at
          
           Westminster
           ,
           
             with
             a
             paper
             on
             his
             head
             declaring
             the
             nature
             of
             his
             offence
             ,
             and
             have
             one
             of
             his
             Eares
             there
             cut
             off
             ,
             and
             at
             another
             time
             be
             set
             in
             the
             pillory
             in
          
           Cheap-side
           ,
           
             with
             a
             paper
             as
             aforesaid
             ;
             and
             there
             have
             his
             other
             Eare
             cut
             off
             ;
             and
             that
             a
             fire
             shall
             be
          
           
           
             made
             before
             the
             said
             pillory
             ,
             and
             the
             hang-man
             being
             there
             ready
             for
             that
             purpose
             ,
             shall
             publikely
             in
             disgracefull
             manner
             ,
             cast
             all
             the
             said
             bookes
             which
             could
             be
             produced
             ,
          
           (
           to
           gather
           up
           which
           ,
           Messengers
           with
           speciall
           warrants
           ,
           were
           sent
           to
           bookesellers
           into
           divers
           Counties
           )
           
             into
             the
             fire
             to
             be
             burnt
             ,
             as
             unfit
             to
             be
             seene
             by
             any
             hereafter
             ;
          
           no
           particular
           passages
           of
           the
           said
           booke
           ,
           on
           which
           their
           unparallelled
           sentence
           was
           grounded
           ,
           being
           so
           much
           as
           mentioned
           in
           the
           
             Information
             ,
             replication
             ,
          
           or
           decree
           as
           by
           Law
           they
           should
           ,
           and
           doubtlesse
           would
           have
           beene
           ,
           had
           they
           beene
           really
           effensive
           ,
           demeriting
           such
           a
           Censure
           .
           But
           the
           innocency
           of
           these
           misconstrued
           and
           perverted
           passages
           (
           being
           for
           the
           most
           part
           the
           words
           of
           other
           approved
           authors
           ,
           )
           was
           the
           cause
           of
           their
           concealement
           and
           not
           recording
           :
           and
           though
           many
           of
           the
           Lords
           never
           dreamed
           of
           any
           execution
           of
           this
           hard
           judgement
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Queene
          
           (
           whom
           it
           most
           concerned
           )
           earnestly
           interceded
           to
           his
           Majesty
           to
           remit
           its
           execution
           ;
           yet
           such
           was
           the
           prelates
           power
           and
           malice
           ,
           that
           on
           the
           seventh
           ,
           and
           tenth
           of
           
             May
          
           following
           ,
           (
           even
           in
           cold
           blood
           )
           it
           was
           fully
           executed
           with
           great
           rigour
           .
           Whiles
           Master
           
             Prynnes
          
           wounds
           were
           yet
           fresh
           and
           bleeding
           ,
           within
           three
           dayes
           after
           his
           execution
           ,
           this
           
             Arch-prelate
          
           of
           
             Canterbury
             ,
          
           to
           adde
           more
           waight
           to
           his
           affliction
           ,
           against
           all
           Law
           and
           equity
           ,
           when
           there
           was
           no
           suite
           pending
           against
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           in
           the
           High
           Commission
           ,
           &
           his
           fine
           in
           Star-chamber
           un●streated
           ,
           granted
           this
           warrant
           out
           of
           the
           High
           Commission
           for
           the
           seisure
           of
           the
           books
           of
           his
           study
           ,
           (
           conveyed
           to
           his
           Taylors
           house
           in
           
             Holborne
          
           )
           of
           which
           his
           spies
           had
           given
           him
           Intelligence
           .
        
         
           
             
               
               
                 
                   VPon
                   speciall
                   consideration
                   ,
                   These
                   are
                   to
                   will
                   and
                   require
                   you
                   in
                   his
                   Majesties
                   name
                   ,
                   by
                   vertue
                   of
                   his
                   Highnesse
                   Commission
                   for
                   causes
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   under
                   the
                   great
                   Seale
                   of
                   England
                   ,
                   to
                   us
                   and
                   others
                   directed
                   ,
                   that
                   forthwith
                   upon
                   the
                   receite
                   hereof
                   ,
                   you
                   (
                   taking
                   a
                   Constable
                   and
                   such
                   other
                   assistance
                   with
                   you
                   which
                   you
                   shall
                   thinke
                   meete
                   )
                   enter
                   into
                   the
                   house
                   of
                   
                     Thomas
                     Edwards
                  
                   dwelling
                   in
                   
                     Holborne
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   therein
                   and
                   in
                   every
                   severall
                   roome
                   or
                   place
                   thereof
                   ,
                   or
                   in
                   any
                   other
                   house
                   or
                   place
                   ,
                   as
                   well
                   in
                   places
                   exempt
                   ,
                   as
                   not
                   exempt
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   thereupon
                   you
                   doe
                   make
                   diligent
                   search
                   for
                   all
                   Pamphlets
                   ,
                   books
                   and
                   writings
                   ,
                   either
                   in
                   hampers
                   or
                   otherwise
                   ,
                   belonging
                   to
                   Master
                   
                     Prynne
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   all
                   such
                   so
                   found
                   to
                   seize
                   and
                   apprehend
                   ,
                   and
                   attach
                   ,
                   or
                   cause
                   to
                   be
                   seized
                   ,
                   apprehended
                   and
                   attached
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   thereupon
                   you
                   detaine
                   them
                   under
                   safe
                   custody
                   ,
                   and
                   bring
                   a
                   true
                   Inventory
                   of
                   them
                   forthwith
                   before
                   us
                   or
                   others
                   our
                   colleagues
                   .
                   His
                   Majesties
                   Commissioners
                   in
                   that
                   behalfe
                   appointed
                   ,
                   that
                   thereupon
                   they
                   may
                   be
                   disposed
                   of
                   according
                   to
                   the
                   
                     *
                  
                   Law
                   ,
                   and
                   as
                   shall
                   be
                   thought
                   meete
                   ,
                   and
                   agreeable
                   to
                   Iustice
                   ▪
                   willing
                   and
                   requiring
                   in
                   his
                   Majesties
                   name
                   ,
                   by
                   authority
                   aforsaid
                   ,
                   al
                   Iustices
                   of
                   peace
                   ,
                   Majors
                   ,
                   Sherifes
                   ,
                   Constables
                   ,
                   Bayliffes
                   ,
                   and
                   all
                   other
                   his
                   Majesties
                   officers
                   ,
                   and
                   loving
                   subjects
                   to
                   be
                   ayding
                   and
                   assisting
                   unto
                   you
                   ,
                   in
                   and
                   about
                   the
                   execution
                   hereof
                   ,
                   as
                   they
                   tender
                   his
                   Majesties
                   service
                   ,
                   and
                   will
                   answer
                   the
                   contrary
                   
                   at
                   their
                   perill
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Given
                     at
                     London
                     ,
                     
                       this
                       thirteenth
                       day
                       of
                       May
                       ,
                       1634.
                       
                    
                  
                   
                     
                       
                         Will.
                         Canter
                         .
                      
                       
                         Na.
                         Brent
                         .
                      
                       
                         Jo.
                         Lambe
                         .
                      
                       
                         Utro
                         .
                         Gwynne
                         .
                      
                       
                         Arth.
                         Ducke
                         .
                      
                       
                         Ro.
                         Aylett
                         .
                      
                       
                         Tho.
                         Mottershed
                         deputatus
                         Geo.
                         Paule
                         mi.
                         Regstrar
                         ,
                         Regij
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                   
                     To
                     Humphry
                     Crosse
                     one
                     of
                     the
                     sworne
                     messengers
                     of
                     his
                     Majesties
                     Chamber
                     ,
                     and
                     also
                     to
                     William
                     ●la●sted
                     his
                     deputy
                     ,
                     and
                     to
                     either
                     of
                     them
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           BY
           vertue
           of
           this
           warrant
           one
           cartlode
           of
           Master
           
             Prynnes
          
           bookes
           were
           there
           seised
           ,
           and
           carried
           away
           by
           
             Crosse
             ;
          
           of
           which
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           complaining
           ,
           the
           Archbishop
           in
           the
           open
           Court
           in
           Star-Chamber
           denyed
           the
           granting
           of
           this
           warrant
           ,
           though
           yet
           extant
           under
           his
           hand
           ,
           and
           promised
           present
           restitution
           of
           the
           bookes
           ;
           and
           yet
           gave
           under
           hand
           order
           for
           detaining
           them
           till
           they
           were
           extended
           ,
           and
           sold
           for
           Master
           
             Prynnes
          
           fine
           in
           Star-Chamber
           ;
           such
           saith
           and
           truth
           is
           there
           in
           Prelates
           words
           and
           actions
           .
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           remained
           sundry
           yeares
           a
           prisoner
           in
           the
           Tower
           by
           force
           of
           the
           former
           censure
           :
           during
           his
           imprisonment
           〈◊〉
           ,
           the
           prelates
           brought
           Doctor
           
             Bastwicke
          
           into
           their
           High
           Commission
           Inquisition
           ,
           for
           his
           
             Elenchus
             papismi
             ,
          
           and
           
             Flagellum
             Episcoporum
             Latialium
             :
          
           and
           there
           ▪
           without
           any
           just
           ground
           or
           cause
           at
           all
           ,
           passed
           a
           heavy
           and
           unjust
           censure
           upon
           him
           ;
           by
           vertue
           whereof
           hee
           remained
           close
           
             prisoner
          
           two
           yeares
           in
           the
           
             Gate-house
             ,
          
           the
           
             limbus
             pat●●m
          
           of
           our
           ghostly
           fathers
           ;
           where
           he
           writ
           a
           latine
           booke
           sti●ed
           ,
           
             Apologeticus
             ad
             praesules
             :
             Anglicanos
             ,
          
           dedicated
           to
           the
           
           Lords
           of
           Councell
           ,
           declaring
           the
           injustice
           of
           the
           proceedings
           and
           censure
           against
           him
           in
           the
           High
           Commission
           ,
           which
           was
           printed
           ,
           and
           a
           
             letany
          
           in
           English
           .
           Not
           long
           after
           Master
           
             Burton
          
           upon
           the
           fifth
           of
           
             November
             ,
          
           1636.
           preached
           two
           Sermons
           in
           his
           owne
           parish-Church
           in
           
             Friday-streete
          
           in
           London
           upon
           
             Prov.
          
           24.
           21.
           22.
           
           
             My
             sonne
             feare
             thou
             the
             Lord
             ,
             and
             the
             King
             ,
             and
             meddle
             not
             with
             those
             that
             are
             given
             to
             change
             ,
             &c.
          
           wherein
           hee
           laid
           open
           the
           Innovations
           in
           doctrine
           ,
           worship
           and
           ceremonies
           ,
           which
           had
           lately
           crept
           into
           our
           Church
           ,
           and
           wished
           the
           people
           to
           beware
           of
           them
           ,
           The
           
             Archbishop
          
           hearing
           of
           it
           ,
           causeth
           Articles
           to
           be
           drawne
           up
           against
           him
           in
           the
           High
           Commission
           ,
           and
           summoned
           him
           to
           answer
           them
           ,
           out
           of
           tearme
           ,
           before
           Doctor
           
             Ducke
             ,
          
           at
           
             Cheswick
             ;
          
           where
           he
           appearing
           ,
           instead
           of
           answering
           ,
           appealed
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           which
           appeale
           was
           formally
           entred
           by
           the
           Register
           :
           yet
           notwithstanding
           ,
           within
           15.
           dayes
           after
           ,
           they
           summoned
           him
           to
           appeare
           before
           a
           private
           Commission
           at
           
             Doctors
             Commons
             ,
          
           by
           direction
           from
           the
           
             Arch-bishop
             ,
          
           and
           there
           suspended
           him
           ,
           
             both
             from
             his
             office
             and
             benefice
             ,
          
           and
           granted
           out
           attachments
           to
           apprehend
           him
           :
           he
           hereupon
           keepes
           his
           house
           ,
           prints
           his
           Sermons
           ,
           with
           an
           
             Apologie
             ,
          
           to
           justifie
           his
           appeale
           ;
           which
           hee
           dedicated
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           with
           Epistles
           to
           the
           Lords
           of
           the
           Counsell
           ,
           to
           whom
           his
           wife
           presenting
           some
           of
           those
           printed
           Sermons
           ,
           by
           his
           direction
           ,
           was
           committed
           by
           the
           Lords
           for
           her
           paines
           .
           The
           High
           Commission
           pursevants
           not
           daring
           to
           breake
           open
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           doores
           to
           apprehend
           him
           ,
           the
           
             Archbishop
             ,
             and
             Bishop
             of
             London
          
           made
           a
           warrant
           to
           one
           
             Dendy
          
           a
           serjeant
           at
           armes
           ,
           to
           apprehend
           him
           ,
           of
           which
           this
           is
           a
           true
           Coppy
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   THese
                   shall
                   be
                   to
                   will
                   and
                   require
                   you
                   to
                   make
                   your
                   immediate
                   repaire
                   to
                   any
                   place
                   where
                   you
                   shall
                   understand
                   of
                   the
                   present
                   being
                   of
                   
                     Henry
                     Burton
                  
                   
                   Clarks
                   ,
                   and
                   having
                   found
                   him
                   ,
                   to
                   take
                   him
                   into
                   your
                   custody
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   bring
                   him
                   forthwith
                   and
                   in
                   your
                   company
                   (
                   all
                   delayes
                   and
                   excuses
                   set
                   a
                   part
                   )
                   before
                   us
                   ,
                   to
                   answer
                   to
                   such
                   matters
                   as
                   shall
                   be
                   objected
                   against
                   him
                   .
                   And
                   you
                   are
                   further
                   by
                   vertue
                   hereof
                   to
                   require
                   and
                   charge
                   all
                   Majors
                   ,
                   Sheriffes
                   ,
                   Iustices
                   of
                   peace
                   ,
                   Bayliffs
                   ,
                   Constables
                   ,
                   Headborughs
                   ,
                   and
                   all
                   other
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Officers
                   and
                   loving
                   Subjects
                   ,
                   to
                   be
                   ayding
                   and
                   assisting
                   unto
                   you
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   full
                   and
                   due
                   execution
                   of
                   this
                   service
                   ,
                   whereof
                   neither
                   they
                   nor
                   you
                   
                     may
                     fayle
                     at
                  
                   your
                   perill●
                   .
                   And
                   this
                   shall
                   be
                   unto
                   you
                   and
                   them
                   a
                   sufficient
                   warrant
                   ,
                
                 
                   
                     Dated
                     at
                     Star-Chamber
                     
                       the
                       first
                       of
                       Feb.
                       1636.
                       
                    
                  
                   
                     
                       
                         
                           *
                        
                         W.
                         Cant.
                         
                      
                       
                         Guil.
                         London
                         .
                      
                       
                         Henry
                         .
                         Vaine
                         .
                      
                       
                         Tho.
                         Coventrey
                         .
                      
                       
                         Arundell
                         and
                         Surrey
                         ▪
                      
                       
                         I.
                         Coke
                         .
                      
                    
                  
                   To
                   
                     Edward
                     Dendy
                  
                   Esquire
                   ,
                   one
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Serjeants
                   at
                   Armes
                   .
                
              
            
          
        
         
           BY
           force
           of
           this
           illegall
           warrant
           (
           expressing
           no
           cause
           of
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           apprehension
           as
           by
           law
           it
           ought
           )
           serjeant
           
             Dendy
          
           came
           to
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           house
           in
           
             Friday-streete
             ,
          
           the
           same
           evening
           betweene
           ten
           and
           eleven
           of
           the
           Clocke
           at
           night
           ,
           accompanied
           with
           Alderman
           
             Abel
             ▪
          
           then
           Sh●●iffe
           of
           London
           ,
           and
           diverse
           armed
           Officers
           and
           Pursevants
           ,
           and
           be●●●ting
           his
           house
           ,
           
             *
          
           violently
           broke
           open
           his
           doores
           with
           Iron
           Crowes
           ,
           and
           attached
           him
           in
           his
           house
           ,
           he
           making
           no
           resistance
           :
           and
           the
           High
           Commission
           Pursevants
           entring
           in
           along
           with
           him
           ,
           by
           warrant
           from
           
           the
           High
           Commission
           under
           
             Canterburies
          
           hand
           and
           others
           searched
           his
           study
           ,
           and
           tooke
           away
           such
           bookes
           ,
           and
           papers
           with
           them
           as
           they
           pleased
           ,
           and
           Master
           
             Burton
          
           that
           night
           was
           lodged
           where
           the
           preachers
           at
           Pauls-Crosse
           were
           entertained
           ,
           and
           there
           kept
           prisoner
           till
           the
           next
           day
           ,
           when
           insteed
           of
           being
           brought
           before
           the
           Lords
           as
           this
           warrant
           required
           ,
           hee
           was
           by
           another
           warrant
           ,
           without
           any
           cause
           expressed
           ,
           committed
           close
           prisoner
           to
           the
           〈◊〉
           ,
           the
           Coppy
           whereof
           (
           to
           which
           
             Canterbury's
          
           〈…〉
           )
           here
           followeth
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   THese
                   〈…〉
                   will
                   and
                   require
                   you
                   to
                   receive
                   into
                   you●●●●tody
                   the
                   person
                   of
                   
                     Henry
                     Burton
                  
                   Clerke
                   ,
                   sent
                   herewith
                   unto
                   you
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   keepe
                   him
                   
                     *
                  
                   close
                   prisoner
                   in
                   the
                   
                     Fleet
                     ,
                  
                   not
                   suffering
                   any
                   one
                   to
                   speake
                   with
                   him
                   untill
                   further
                   Order
                   ,
                   whereof
                   you
                   may
                   not
                   faile
                   at
                   your
                   perils
                   ,
                   and
                   this
                   shall
                   be
                   your
                   warrant
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Dated
                     at
                     
                       White-Hall
                    
                     
                       the
                       second
                       of
                       
                         February
                         .
                         1636.
                         
                      
                    
                  
                   
                     
                       
                         W.
                         Cant.
                         
                      
                       
                         Guil.
                         London
                         .
                      
                       
                         Arundell
                         and
                         Surry
                         .
                      
                       
                         Pemb●ooke
                         and
                         Mountgomery
                         .
                      
                       
                         T.
                         Jermyn
                         .
                      
                       
                         Io
                         ●●oke
                      
                       
                         Fra
                         ▪
                         Windebanke
                         ▪
                      
                    
                  
                   To
                   the
                   Warden
                   of
                   t●●
                   Fleet
                   or
                   his
                   deputy
                   .
                
              
            
          
        
         
           MAster
           
             Burto●●ereupon
          
           was
           shut
           up
           sundry
           weekes
           close
           prisoner
           in
           the
           
             Fleet
             ,
          
           so
           as
           neither
           his
           wife
           nor
           friends
           could
           have
           free
           accesse
           unto
           him
           .
           In
           the
           interim
           ,
           betweene
           his
           Sermon
           preached
           and
           his
           imprisonment
           ,
           two
           bookes
           ,
           the
           one
           intituled
           ,
           
             A
             Divine
             Tragedy
             ,
          
           containing
           a
           
             Catalogue
             of
             Gods
             late
             Iudgements
             upon
          
           
           
             Sabbath-breakers
             ,
          
           the
           other
           
             Newes
             from
             Ipswich
             ,
          
           discovering
           some
           late
           Innovations
           in
           Religion
           brought
           in
           by
           the
           Prelates
           ,
           and
           some
           extravagancies
           of
           Bishop
           
             Wren
          
           in
           his
           late
           Visitation
           ,
           were
           published
           in
           print
           ,
           without
           any
           Authors
           name
           annexed
           to
           them
           ,
           wherewith
           the
           Prelates
           were
           much
           vexed
           and
           perplexed
           .
           And
           consulting
           with
           themselves
           which
           way
           to
           vent
           the
           extremity
           of
           their
           malice
           upon
           Doctor
           
             Bastwick
             ,
          
           Master
           
             Burton
             ,
          
           and
           Master
           
             Prynne
             ,
          
           they
           at
           last
           resolved
           to
           exhibite
           an
           information
           against
           them
           into
           the
           Star-Chamber
           in
           Sir
           
             Iohn
             Banks
          
           his
           Majesties
           Atturnies
           name
           ,
           with
           these
           two
           last
           named
           bookes
           ,
           Doctor
           
             Bastwicks
             Apology
          
           and
           
             Letany
             ,
          
           and
           Master
           
             Burtons
             Apology
          
           of
           his
           appeale
           ,
           and
           two
           
             Sermons
             ,
          
           thereto
           annexed
           ,
           which
           was
           done
           accordingly
           .
           This
           information
           was
           exhibited
           into
           that
           Court
           the
           eleventh
           
             day
          
           of
           
             March
          
           12.
           
           
             Caroli
             ,
          
           in
           the
           Vacation
           time
           ,
           against
           these
           three
           Gentlemen
           ,
           and
           others
           ,
           who
           were
           ordered
           to
           appeare
           and
           put
           in
           their
           answers
           to
           it
           immediately
           .
           They
           ,
           served
           with
           
             Sub-poenas
          
           returnable
           
             immediatè
             ,
          
           contrary
           to
           the
           usuall
           proceedings
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           refused
           to
           appeare
           (
           being
           all
           three
           prisoners
           ,
           and
           two
           of
           them
           close
           prisoners
           ,
           before
           ,
           )
           unlesse
           they
           might
           have
           liberty
           of
           accesse
           to
           counsell
           ,
           to
           advise
           and
           assist
           them
           in
           their
           answers
           ,
           it
           being
           the
           Prelates
           ayme
           to
           deprive
           them
           of
           this
           liberty
           ;
           Of
           which
           the
           Lords
           being
           informed
           ,
           made
           this
           ensuing
           order
           ;
           wherein
           ,
           though
           they
           granted
           them
           accesse
           to
           Councell
           ,
           yet
           they
           denyed
           them
           the
           liberty
           of
           conferring
           together
           at
           Counsell
           ,
           though
           joynt
           defendants
           (
           who
           might
           have
           joyntly
           answered
           )
           contrary
           to
           the
           rules
           of
           Law
           ,
           and
           all
           former
           presidents
           .
           One
           Coppy
           of
           which
           order
           (
           sent
           indifferently
           to
           their
           three
           distinct
           prisons
           )
           I
           shall
           here
           annex
           .
        
         
           
             
               
               
                 
                   At
                   White-Hall
                   the
                   15.
                   of
                   
                     March
                     .
                  
                   1636.
                   
                
                 
                   Present
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Lo.
                     Archbishop
                     of
                     Cant.
                     
                  
                   
                     Lo.
                     Keeper
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lo
                     Treasur
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lo.
                     Privy-Seale
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lo.
                     High
                     Chamberlaine
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ea.
                     Marshall
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lo.
                     Chamberlaine
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ea.
                     of
                     Northumberland
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ea.
                     of
                     Dorset
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ea.
                     of
                     Salisbury
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ea.
                     of
                     Holland
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lo.
                     Cottington
                     .
                  
                   
                     Lo.
                     Nuburgh
                     .
                  
                   
                     Mr.
                     Tresur
                     .
                  
                   
                     Mr.
                     Comptroller
                     .
                  
                   
                     Mr.
                     V.
                     Chamberlaine
                     .
                  
                   
                     Mr.
                     Sec.
                     Cooke
                     .
                  
                   
                     M.
                     Sec.
                     Windebanke
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   VVHereas
                   information
                   was
                   this
                   day
                   given
                   to
                   the
                   Boord
                   by
                   
                     Master
                  
                   Atturney
                   Generall
                   ,
                   that
                   he
                   had
                   prefe●red
                   a
                   Bill
                   of
                   Complaint
                   in
                   the
                   Star-Chamber
                   against
                   
                     Henry
                     Burton
                  
                   Clerke
                   ,
                   and
                   others
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   the
                   sayd
                   Master
                   
                     Burton
                  
                   doth
                   refuse
                   to
                   make
                   answer
                   to
                   the
                   said
                   complaint
                   ,
                   unlesse
                   he
                   may
                   have
                   liberty
                   to
                   goe
                   abroad
                   to
                   prepare
                   and
                   advise
                   with
                   his
                   Counsell
                   ,
                   though
                   his
                   Counsell
                   had
                   leave
                   to
                   have
                   accesse
                   and
                   to
                   confer
                   with
                   him
                   in
                   the
                   Prison
                   :
                   Yet
                   to
                   take
                   away
                   all
                   allegations
                   or
                   pretence
                   for
                   excuse
                   herein
                   ,
                   their
                   Lordships
                   have
                   thought
                   fit
                   ,
                   and
                   ordered
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   said
                   
                   Master
                   
                     Burton
                  
                   shall
                   have
                   liberty
                   to
                   goe
                   abroad
                   with
                   his
                   Keeper
                   ,
                   to
                   speake
                   and
                   confer
                   with
                   his
                   councell
                   when
                   he
                   desireth
                   the
                   same
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   his
                   sayd
                   Keeper
                   is
                   to
                   have
                   speciall
                   care
                   that
                   the
                   sayd
                   (
                   Master
                   
                     Burton
                  
                   doe
                   not
                   make
                   use
                   of
                   the
                   liberty
                   to
                   )
                   confer
                   with
                   other
                   persons
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   he
                   be
                   permitted
                   to
                   goe
                   to
                   no
                   other
                   
                   place
                   ,
                   but
                   to
                   his
                   sayd
                   Councell
                   .
                   And
                   that
                   the
                   sayd
                   Master
                   
                     Burton
                  
                   shall
                   immediately
                   appeare
                   to
                   the
                   sayd
                   Bill
                   ,
                   and
                   make
                   answer
                   within
                   ten
                   dayes
                   after
                   .
                   And
                   thereupon
                   the
                   Boord
                   will
                   give
                   such
                   further
                   Order
                   as
                   shall
                   be
                   fit
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Ex.
                     Will
                     :
                     Becher
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           THe
           Prisoners
           upon
           this
           order
           having
           liberty
           to
           goe
           abroad
           with
           their
           Keepers
           ,
           first
           repaired
           to
           the
           Lord
           Keeper
           ,
           and
           petitioned
           for
           counsell
           to
           be
           assigned
           them
           :
           which
           granted
           ,
           they
           repaired
           to
           their
           counsell
           at
           
             Lincolnes
          
           and
           
             Grayes
             Inne
             ,
          
           where
           meeting
           together
           ,
           and
           conferring
           a
           short
           speech
           (
           in
           the
           presence
           of
           their
           keepers
           )
           with
           their
           counsell
           ,
           notice
           thereof
           was
           immediately
           given
           to
           the
           
             Archbishop
             ,
          
           whereupon
           their
           Keepers
           were
           sharply
           checked
           ,
           and
           charged
           not
           to
           permit
           them
           to
           meete
           or
           speake
           together
           any
           more
           ,
           which
           was
           strictly
           observed
           .
        
         
           Master
           
             Prynne
             ,
          
           fearing
           that
           they
           should
           not
           be
           permitted
           to
           make
           a
           full
           answer
           to
           the
           Information
           ,
           drawes
           up
           a
           
             Crosse-Bill
          
           against
           the
           
             Archbishop
          
           and
           others
           ;
           wherein
           he
           charged
           them
           ,
           
             with
             usurping
             upon
             his
             Majesties
             prerogaetive
             royall
             ,
          
           with
           
             Innovations
             in
             Religion
             ,
             Licensing
             of
             popish
             and
             Arminian
             bookes
             ,
             and
             other
          
           particulars
           :
           which
           Bil
           being
           ingrossed
           and
           signed
           with
           all
           their
           three
           hands
           ,
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           tendred
           to
           the
           then
           Lord
           Keeper
           ,
           with
           a
           petition
           ,
           praying
           ;
           
             that
             it
             might
             be
             accepted
             under
             their
             owne
             hands
             ,
             since
             it
             concerned
             his
             Majesty
             and
             Religion
             so
             much
             ,
             and
             counsell
             durst
             not
             signe
             it
             for
             feare
             of
             the
             prelates
             ;
             alleadging
             ,
             in
             the
             petition
             ,
             that
             if
             the
             charges
             of
             the
             Bill
             were
             true
             (
             as
             they
             were
             ready
             to
             make
             good
             with
             their
             lives
             ,
             )
             then
             their
             Lordships
             ,
             as
             they
             hoped
             ,
             would
             thinke
             meete
             they
             should
             be
             examined
             ,
             and
             the
             prelates
             put
             to
             answer
             ,
             and
             punished
             for
             them
             :
             If
             false
             ;
             that
             then
             the
             Bishops
             to
             cleare
             their
          
           
           
             suspected
             Innocency
             to
             the
             World
             ,
             would
             be
             willing
             to
             answer
             it
             ,
             since
             their
             declining
             its
             answer
             ,
             would
             imply
             a
             guiltinesse
             in
             them
             .
          
           The
           Lord
           keeper
           receiving
           this
           
             Petition
          
           and
           
             crosse-Bill
             ,
          
           upon
           reading
           the
           contents
           thereof
           ,
           refused
           to
           admit
           it
           ,
           delivering
           it
           to
           the
           
             Kings
             Atturney
             ,
          
           and
           (
           as
           I
           am
           informed
           )
           the
           
             Archbishop
          
           demanded
           the
           opinion
           of
           the
           Judges
           ;
           
             Whether
             these
             three
             complainants
             might
             not
             be
             punished
             as
          
           
             *
          
           
             libellers
             for
             exhibiting
             this
             Crosse-Bill
             against
             him
             ▪
          
           and
           other
           Prelates
           :
           who
           all
           but
           one
           ,
           resolved
           ;
           
             that
             they
             could
             not
             ,
             because
             the
             Bill
             was
             tendred
             in
             a
             legall
             way
             ,
             and
             might
             not
             in
             point
             of
             law
             be
             refused
             ;
             the
             Kings
             Courts
             of
             Iustice
             being
             open
             indifferently
             to
             all
             his
             Subjects
             ,
             to
             sue
             or
             be
             sued
             .
          
           However
           this
           Bill
           was
           suppressed
           ,
           by
           the
           Prelates
           power
           ,
           and
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           within
           a
           weeke
           after
           his
           appearance
           to
           the
           Information
           ,
           by
           the
           
             Archbishops
          
           procurement
           ,
           had
           his
           Chamber
           in
           the
           
             Tower
          
           searched
           by
           Master
           
             Nicholas
             ,
          
           one
           of
           the
           Clerkes
           of
           the
           Counsell
           ,
           and
           a
           
             *
          
           
             pursevant
          
           of
           the
           
             Bishops
          
           sent
           to
           over-looke
           him
           ;
           part
           of
           his
           instructions
           for
           his
           answer
           they
           s●ised
           ,
           and
           carried
           them
           away
           to
           the
           Archbishop
           his
           servant
           who
           should
           sollicite
           his
           businesse
           ,
           was
           attached
           by
           a
           messenger
           and
           kept
           close
           prisoner
           in
           his
           house
           above
           ten
           weekes
           (
           till
           after
           the
           hearing
           )
           without
           baile
           or
           mainprise
           ;
           which
           was
           utterly
           refused
           ;
           the
           liberty
           of
           Pen
           ,
           Inke
           and
           Paper
           ,
           to
           draw
           up
           his
           answer
           and
           instruct
           his
           counsell
           was
           then
           also
           inhibited
           ;
           himselfe
           shut
           up
           close
           prisoner
           ,
           and
           all
           his
           friends
           debarred
           from
           him
           ;
           by
           a
           verball
           order
           only
           .
           By
           which
           strange
           proceedings
           he
           was
           utterly
           disabled
           to
           put
           in
           his
           answer
           ,
           which
           hee
           earnestly
           desired
           ,
           and
           was
           denied
           accesse
           to
           his
           councell
           contrary
           to
           the
           Lords
           former
           order
           ;
           This
           done
           ,
           on
           the
           28
           of
           
             April
          
           Master
           
             Pryn
             ,
          
           and
           his
           Co-defendants
           by
           an
           order
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           
             were
             injoyned
             to
             put
             in
             their
             answers
             to
             the
             Information
             by
             Munday
             next
             came
             sennight
             ,
             by
             the
             advice
             of
             their
             counsell
             ,
             and
             under
             their
             hands
             ,
             or
             else
             the
          
           
           
             matters
             of
             the
             Information
             should
             be
             taken
             against
             them
          
           pro
           confesso
           .
           He
           (
           having
           no
           liberty
           then
           to
           goe
           to
           his
           councell
           ,
           and
           they
           for
           feare
           of
           the
           Prelates
           being
           unwilling
           to
           repaire
           to
           him
           ,
           or
           to
           medle
           in
           the
           cause
           )
           thereupon
           petitioned
           the
           Court
           ,
           that
           (
           having
           beene
           a
           
             Barrester
             at
             law
             )
          
           hee
           might
           have
           liberty
           to
           put
           in
           his
           answer
           to
           this
           Information
           under
           his
           owne
           hand
           ;
           annexing
           sundry
           reasons
           to
           the
           petition
           ,
           why
           his
           owne
           answer
           ,
           in
           this
           case
           ought
           to
           be
           received
           without
           the
           hands
           of
           his
           counsell
           .
           This
           petition
           (
           together
           with
           an
           
             Affidavit
          
           of
           the
           particulars
           therein
           alleged
           )
           was
           presented
           and
           read
           in
           open
           Court
           the
           fifth
           of
           
             May
          
           13.
           
           
             Caroli
             .
          
           of
           which
           this
           is
           a
           true
           
             Coppy
             .
          
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   Master
                   
                     Prynnes
                  
                   first
                   Petition
                   to
                   the
                   Lords
                   the
                   5.
                   of
                   
                     May
                  
                   13.
                   
                   
                     Caroli
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   To
                   The
                   right
                   Honorable
                   the
                   Lords
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   High
                   Court
                   of
                   Star-Chamber
                   .
                   The
                   humble
                   Petition
                   of
                   
                     William
                     Pryn
                  
                   close
                   prisoner
                   in
                   the
                   Tower
                   of
                   London
                   .
                   Humbly
                   sheweth
                   ,
                
                 
                   THat
                   whereas
                   the
                   petitioner
                   ,
                   on
                   munday
                   last
                   ,
                   received
                   from
                   Master
                   
                     Goad
                     ,
                  
                   an
                   order
                   of
                   this
                   Honorable
                   Court
                   ,
                   Dated
                   the
                   28.
                   of
                   
                     April
                     1637.
                     
                  
                   Whereby
                   he
                   is
                   enjoyned
                   to
                   put
                   in
                   his
                   answer
                   to
                   the
                   Information
                   against
                   him
                   ,
                   by
                   munday
                   next
                   ,
                   under
                   his
                   councells
                   hands
                   ,
                   or
                   else
                   the
                   matters
                   therein
                   contained
                   shall
                   be
                   taken
                   against
                   him
                   
                     Pro
                  
                   
                   
                     confesso
                     ,
                  
                   That
                   the
                   petitioner
                   ,
                   in
                   regard
                   he
                   hath
                   beene
                   debarred
                   all
                   accesse
                   to
                   his
                   councell
                   a
                   weekes
                   space
                   and
                   more
                   ,
                   deprived
                   of
                   the
                   use
                   of
                   his
                   Servant
                   ,
                   who
                   should
                   sollicite
                   his
                   businesse
                   for
                   him
                   ,
                   being
                   detained
                   close
                   prisoner
                   in
                   a
                   Messengers
                   hands
                   ;
                   debarred
                   all
                   acc●sse
                   of
                   friends
                   ,
                   the
                   use
                   of
                   Pen
                   ,
                   and
                   Inke
                   ,
                   and
                   disabled
                   both
                   in
                   respect
                   of
                   the
                   quality
                   of
                   his
                   cause
                   ,
                   the
                   greatnesse
                   of
                   the
                   persons
                   whom
                   it
                   concernes
                   ;
                   the
                   diversity
                   of
                   his
                   councells
                   opinions
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   difficulty
                   of
                   procuring
                   his
                   councell
                   to
                   repaire
                   to
                   him
                   to
                   the
                   
                     Tower
                     ,
                  
                   during
                   the
                   Terme
                   ,
                   to
                   advise
                   him
                   ,
                   he
                   having
                   no
                   meanes
                   to
                   reward
                   them
                   according
                   to
                   their
                   paines
                   ;
                   and
                   for
                   other
                   reasons
                   mentioned
                   in
                   his
                   
                     Affidavit
                     ,
                  
                   is
                   utterly
                   disabled
                   to
                   performe
                   the
                   sayd
                   Order
                   ,
                   to
                   put
                   in
                   any
                   answer
                   without
                   great
                   prejudice
                   both
                   to
                   himselfe
                   and
                   his
                   cause
                   ,
                   which
                   much
                   concernes
                   both
                   the
                   King
                   ,
                   his
                   Crowne
                   and
                   dignity
                   ,
                   the
                   Religion
                   established
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   liberties
                   of
                   the
                   Subject
                   infringed
                   by
                   the
                   Prelates
                   ,
                   and
                   their
                   confederates
                   .
                
                 
                   He
                   humbly
                   therefore
                   beseecheth
                   your
                   Lordships
                   ,
                   not
                   to
                   exact
                   impossibilities
                   at
                   his
                   hands
                   ;
                   but
                   in
                   this
                   case
                   of
                   necessity
                   (
                   according
                   to
                   many
                   late
                   presidents
                   in
                   this
                   Honorable
                   Court
                   )
                   to
                   grant
                   him
                   liberty
                   to
                   put
                   in
                   his
                   answer
                   by
                   the
                   sayd
                   day
                   under
                   his
                   owne
                   hand
                   ,
                   he
                   having
                   beene
                   a
                   Barrester
                   at
                   law
                   ,
                   and
                   not
                   under
                   his
                   councells
                   ,
                   who
                   refuse
                   to
                   doe
                   it
                   out
                   of
                   feare
                   and
                   cowardise
                   (
                   being
                   more
                   fearfull
                   of
                   the
                   Prelates
                   ,
                   then
                   of
                   God
                   ,
                   the
                   King
                   ,
                   his
                   Crowne
                   ,
                   and
                   dignity
                   ;
                   )
                   and
                   also
                   for
                   the
                   causes
                   hereunto
                   annexed
                   ,
                   which
                   he
                   in
                   all
                   humility
                   submits
                   to
                   your
                   Lordships
                   wisdomes
                   and
                   Iustice
                   .
                   And
                   the
                   petitioner
                   for
                   the
                   concession
                   hereof
                   shall
                   ever
                   pray
                   for
                   your
                   Lordships
                   ,
                   &c.
                   
                
                 
                 
                   
                     The
                     reasons
                     why
                     the
                     petitioner
                     (
                     Master
                     
                       Prynne
                    
                     )
                     humbly
                     conceiveth
                     ,
                     that
                     this
                     honorable
                     Court
                     ought
                     in
                     point
                     of
                     law
                     and
                     Justice
                     ,
                     to
                     admit
                     his
                     answer
                     under
                     his
                     own
                     hand
                     ,
                     without
                     his
                     councells
                     ,
                     which
                     he
                     cannot
                     procure
                     .
                  
                   
                     FIrst
                     ,
                     because
                     there
                     are
                     many
                     late
                     presidents
                     in
                     this
                     
                     Court
                     ,
                     wherein
                     divers
                     defendants
                     answers
                     have
                     been
                     admitted
                     without
                     the
                     hands
                     of
                     councell
                     ,
                     in
                     cases
                     where
                     no
                     councell
                     would
                     set
                     their
                     hands
                     to
                     them
                     ,
                     as
                     
                       Close
                       ,
                    
                     and
                     Doctor
                     
                       Laytons
                    
                     cases
                     ,
                     with
                     many
                     others
                     ,
                     and
                     but
                     one
                     president
                     only
                     against
                     it
                     :
                     which
                     being
                     ancient
                     ,
                     singular
                     ,
                     upon
                     a
                     speciall
                     reason
                     ,
                     in
                     case
                     of
                     a
                     Woman
                     ,
                     not
                     of
                     a
                     man
                     ,
                     much
                     lesse
                     of
                     a
                     Lawyer
                     ,
                     and
                     in
                     a
                     farre
                     different
                     case
                     from
                     this
                     defendants
                     ,
                     ought
                     not
                     ,
                     as
                     he
                     humbly
                     conceaveth
                     ,
                     to
                     overballance
                     the
                     presidents
                     for
                     him
                     .
                  
                   
                     Secondly
                     ,
                     because
                     upon
                     an
                     
                       Ore-tenus
                    
                     and
                     Interrogatories
                     
                     in
                     this
                     Court
                     ,
                     in
                     many
                     cases
                     before
                     his
                     Majesty
                     and
                     the
                     Lords
                     at
                     the
                     councell-Table
                     ,
                     in
                     Parliament
                     ,
                     and
                     in
                     the
                     Kings-Bench
                     upon
                     Indictments
                     ,
                     and
                     Informations
                     [
                     especially
                     for
                     Felony
                     or
                     Treason
                     ]
                     the
                     defendants
                     are
                     allowed
                     freely
                     to
                     make
                     their
                     owne
                     answers
                     and
                     defence
                     without
                     counsell
                     ,
                     if
                     they
                     please
                     ,
                     and
                     in
                     some
                     cases
                     are
                     denied
                     Counsell
                     .
                  
                   
                     Thirdly
                     ,
                     because
                     counsell
                     [
                     who
                     were
                     not
                     
                       ab
                       initio
                       ,
                    
                     
                     but
                     came
                     in
                     long
                     after
                     causes
                     ,
                     ]
                     both
                     in
                     this
                     honorable
                     Court
                     ,
                     and
                     elsewhere
                     ,
                     are
                     allowed
                     and
                     assigned
                     ,
                     not
                     out
                     of
                     necessity
                     ,
                     but
                     favour
                     onely
                     ,
                     for
                     the
                     helpe
                     and
                     benefit
                     of
                     defendants
                     ,
                     not
                     to
                     be
                     so
                     strictly
                     tied
                     unto
                     them
                     ,
                     but
                     that
                     
                     they
                     may
                     have
                     liberty
                     to
                     make
                     answer
                     without
                     them
                     in
                     case
                     where
                     they
                     and
                     their
                     councell
                     differ
                     in
                     the
                     substance
                     of
                     their
                     answers
                     ,
                     or
                     where
                     councell
                     advise
                     them
                     to
                     their
                     prejudice
                     ,
                     either
                     out
                     of
                     feare
                     ,
                     ignorance
                     ,
                     or
                     otherwise
                     ,
                     else
                     it
                     would
                     lie
                     in
                     councells
                     power
                     both
                     to
                     prejudice
                     ▪
                     and
                     betray
                     their
                     causes
                     ,
                     and
                     make
                     them
                     lyable
                     to
                     censure
                     though
                     innocent
                     .
                  
                   
                     Fourthly
                     ,
                     because
                     every
                     answer
                     in
                     the
                     eye
                     of
                     the
                     law
                     
                     is
                     the
                     defendants
                     only
                     ,
                     though
                     signed
                     by
                     his
                     councell
                     for
                     formes
                     sake
                     :
                     he
                     onely
                     is
                     summoned
                     to
                     make
                     answer
                     ,
                     he
                     onely
                     is
                     to
                     sweare
                     it
                     ,
                     and
                     he
                     ,
                     not
                     his
                     councell
                     ,
                     is
                     to
                     undergoe
                     the
                     hazard
                     of
                     it
                     :
                     therefore
                     he
                     alone
                     in
                     point
                     of
                     law
                     and
                     Justice
                     is
                     onely
                     bound
                     of
                     necessity
                     to
                     signe
                     it
                     ,
                     not
                     his
                     Councell
                     .
                  
                   
                     Fiftly
                     ,
                     because
                     else
                     there
                     would
                     be
                     a
                     fayler
                     of
                     Justice
                     
                     in
                     many
                     Cases
                     ,
                     through
                     the
                     want
                     ,
                     feare
                     ,
                     neglect
                     ,
                     ignorance
                     ,
                     diversity
                     of
                     opinion
                     ,
                     or
                     treacher
                     of
                     councell
                     :
                     for
                     if
                     one
                     be
                     peremptorily
                     enjoyned
                     to
                     put
                     in
                     an
                     answer
                     by
                     a
                     day
                     ,
                     as
                     this
                     defendant
                     now
                     is
                     ,
                     and
                     counsell
                     neglect
                     ,
                     refuse
                     ,
                     delay
                     or
                     feare
                     to
                     doe
                     it
                     upon
                     any
                     occasion
                     by
                     the
                     time
                     ,
                     (
                     which
                     is
                     this
                     defendants
                     Case
                     )
                     he
                     must
                     (
                     without
                     any
                     default
                     ,
                     contempt
                     ,
                     or
                     neglect
                     in
                     him
                     )
                     suffer
                     thereby
                     as
                     a
                     delinquent
                     ,
                     though
                     innocent
                     ,
                     without
                     any
                     legall
                     conviction
                     ;
                     which
                     were
                     injury
                     and
                     injustice
                     in
                     the
                     highest
                     degree
                     .
                  
                   
                     Sixtly
                     ,
                     because
                     the
                     very
                     law
                     of
                     nature
                     teacheth
                     every
                     
                     Creature
                     ,
                     but
                     man
                     especially
                     ,
                     to
                     defend
                     ,
                     preserve
                     and
                     make
                     answer
                     for
                     himselfe
                     ,
                     either
                     when
                     the
                     party
                     accused
                     cannot
                     procure
                     others
                     to
                     doe
                     it
                     ,
                     or
                     can
                     doe
                     it
                     better
                     then
                     others
                     will
                     ,
                     can
                     ,
                     or
                     dare
                     doe
                     ,
                     himselfe
                     :
                     But
                     in
                     the
                     present
                     Case
                     ,
                     this
                     defendant
                     cannot
                     procure
                     his
                     councell
                     to
                     make
                     such
                     an
                     answer
                     as
                     his
                     cause
                     requireth
                     ,
                     which
                     resting
                     upon
                     bookes
                     ,
                     matters
                     of
                     Divinity
                     ,
                     and
                     on
                     other
                     points
                     ,
                     wherein
                     his
                     counsell
                     have
                     but
                     little
                     skill
                     ,
                     all
                     which
                     he
                     must
                     justify
                     in
                     his
                     answer
                     ,
                     he
                     is
                     better
                     able
                     to
                     make
                     
                     his
                     answer
                     and
                     defence
                     thereto
                     ,
                     then
                     his
                     counsell
                     can
                     ,
                     will
                     ,
                     or
                     dare
                     to
                     doe
                     ,
                     in
                     case
                     they
                     were
                     willing
                     to
                     undertake
                     it
                     ▪
                     (
                     which
                     now
                     they
                     utterly
                     deny
                     and
                     refuse
                     onely
                     out
                     of
                     feare
                     and
                     cowardize
                     ,
                     )
                     as
                     aforesaid
                     ,
                     and
                     therefore
                     ought
                     ,
                     as
                     he
                     humbly
                     conceiveth
                     ,
                     to
                     be
                     permitted
                     to
                     doe
                     it
                     ,
                     both
                     in
                     point
                     of
                     Law
                     and
                     Justice
                     .
                  
                   
                     Seventhly
                     ,
                     because
                     God
                     and
                     Christ
                     ,
                     the
                     supream
                     Judges
                     
                     of
                     the
                     World
                     ,
                     and
                     patternes
                     of
                     all
                     Justice
                     both
                     here
                     on
                     Earth
                     ,
                     have
                     ,
                     and
                     at
                     the
                     generall
                     day
                     of
                     judgement
                     ,
                     when
                     all
                     men
                     shall
                     appeare
                     before
                     their
                     dreadfull
                     tribunalls
                     ,
                     wil
                     allow
                     every
                     man
                     to
                     make
                     his
                     owne
                     personall
                     answer
                     ,
                     and
                     defence
                     ,
                     without
                     counsel
                     or
                     proxie
                     ,
                     much
                     more
                     then
                     should
                     every
                     inferiour
                     Judge
                     ,
                     and
                     Terrene
                     Court
                     of
                     Justice
                     doe
                     it
                     ,
                     if
                     the
                     party
                     desire
                     it
                     ,
                     and
                     others
                     will
                     not
                     ,
                     dare
                     not
                     doe
                     it
                     .
                  
                   
                     Eightly
                     ,
                     because
                     by
                     the
                     judiciall
                     Law
                     among
                     the
                     
                       Iewes
                       ,
                    
                     
                     every
                     man
                     was
                     to
                     make
                     his
                     owne
                     defence
                     ,
                     neither
                     did
                     their
                     Law
                     judge
                     any
                     man
                     ,
                     before
                     it
                     heard
                     him
                     and
                     knew
                     what
                     hee
                     did
                     .
                     
                       Iohn
                    
                     7.
                     51.
                     
                     And
                     by
                     the
                     civill
                     Law
                     ,
                     even
                     among
                     the
                     Pagan
                     
                       Romans
                       ,
                    
                     it
                     was
                     not
                     the
                     manner
                     to
                     condemne
                     any
                     man
                     ,
                     before
                     that
                     hee
                     who
                     was
                     accused
                     had
                     the
                     accusers
                     face
                     to
                     face
                     ,
                     and
                     had
                     Licence
                     to
                     answer
                     for
                     himselfe
                     concerning
                     the
                     crime
                     layd
                     against
                     him
                     ,
                     
                       Acts
                    
                     25.
                     16.
                     
                     If
                     then
                     the
                     Lawes
                     amongst
                     
                       Iewes
                       ,
                    
                     and
                     
                       Pagans
                       ,
                    
                     gave
                     every
                     defendant
                     leave
                     ,
                     thus
                     to
                     make
                     answer
                     for
                     himselfe
                     ,
                     and
                     never
                     condemned
                     any
                     as
                     guilty
                     for
                     not
                     answering
                     by
                     counsell
                     (
                     as
                     appeares
                     by
                     the
                     cases
                     of
                     
                       Naboth
                       ,
                       Susanna
                       ,
                       Christ
                    
                     and
                     others
                     ,
                     though
                     unjustly
                     condemned
                     ,
                     yet
                     not
                     without
                     a
                     full
                     hearing
                     ,
                     and
                     witnesses
                     first
                     produced
                     ,
                     though
                     false
                     ,
                     )
                     this
                     defendant
                     humbly
                     conceiveth
                     ,
                     that
                     by
                     the
                     Lawes
                     and
                     Justice
                     of
                     this
                     Christian
                     Common-Wealth
                     ,
                     and
                     this
                     honorable
                     Court
                     ,
                     hee
                     ought
                     to
                     have
                     like
                     liberty
                     in
                     this
                     cause
                     of
                     so
                     great
                     consequence
                     ,
                     and
                     that
                     the
                     Information
                     against
                     him
                     ought
                     not
                     to
                     be
                     taken
                     ,
                     
                       Pro
                       confesso
                       ,
                    
                     without
                     hearing
                     witnesses
                     ,
                     or
                     defence
                     ,
                     in
                     case
                     
                     he
                     tender
                     an
                     answer
                     under
                     his
                     owne
                     hand
                     ,
                     onely
                     without
                     his
                     counsells
                     who
                     refuse
                     to
                     advise
                     or
                     direct
                     him
                     ,
                     else
                     our
                     Christian
                     Lawes
                     ,
                     and
                     Courts
                     of
                     Justice
                     ,
                     might
                     seeme
                     to
                     be
                     more
                     unreasonable
                     then
                     the
                     
                       Iewes
                       ,
                    
                     or
                     
                       Pagan
                       Roman
                    
                     Lawes
                     and
                     tribunalls
                     ,
                     which
                     God
                     forbid
                     any
                     man
                     should
                     imagine
                     .
                  
                   
                     Ninthly
                     ,
                     because
                     S.
                     
                       Paul
                    
                     when
                     he
                     was
                     slandered
                     &
                     accused
                     
                     by
                     
                       Ananias
                    
                     the
                     
                       Iewes
                    
                     high-Priest
                     ,
                     with
                     the
                     Elders
                     ,
                     and
                     
                       Tertullus
                    
                     their
                     Orator
                     ,
                     to
                     be
                     a
                     pestilent
                     fellow
                     ,
                     a
                     mover
                     of
                     sedition
                     among
                     the
                     
                       Iewes
                       ,
                    
                     throughout
                     the
                     World
                     ,
                     and
                     a
                     ring-leader
                     amongst
                     the
                     Sect
                     of
                     the
                     
                       Nazarens
                       ,
                    
                     and
                     that
                     severall
                     times
                     ,
                     both
                     before
                     
                       Felix
                       ,
                       Festus
                    
                     and
                     King
                     
                       Agrippa
                       ,
                    
                     (
                     three
                     heathen
                     Governors
                     and
                     Magistrates
                     ,
                     )
                     had
                     still
                     free
                     liberty
                     granted
                     him
                     by
                     them
                     all
                     both
                     to
                     answer
                     and
                     speake
                     for
                     himselfe
                     to
                     the
                     full
                     ,
                     to
                     justifie
                     and
                     cleare
                     his
                     innocency
                     ,
                     without
                     any
                     counsell
                     assigned
                     .
                     
                       Act.
                    
                     24
                     ,
                     &
                     25
                     ,
                     26.
                     neither
                     did
                     nor
                     could
                     the
                     
                       Iewish
                       ,
                    
                     high-Priest
                     except
                     against
                     it
                     .
                     This
                     defendant
                     therefore
                     being
                     now
                     accused
                     in
                     this
                     honorable
                     Court
                     of
                     the
                     like
                     crimes
                     ,
                     by
                     some
                     
                       English
                    
                     Prelates
                     and
                     high-Priests
                     instigation
                     ,
                     hopes
                     to
                     enjoy
                     the
                     selfe
                     same
                     priviledge
                     and
                     freedome
                     before
                     so
                     many
                     honorable
                     Lords
                     ,
                     and
                     Christian
                     Judges
                     ,
                     which
                     
                       Paul
                    
                     did
                     before
                     these
                     
                       Pagans
                       .
                    
                     And
                     hee
                     supposeth
                     his
                     said
                     adversaries
                     will
                     not
                     be
                     against
                     it
                     ,
                     unlesse
                     they
                     will
                     be
                     thought
                     to
                     feare
                     ,
                     and
                     decline
                     the
                     defendants
                     answer
                     ,
                     as
                     guilty
                     persons
                     ,
                     who
                     dare
                     not
                     admit
                     their
                     actions
                     to
                     be
                     scanned
                     in
                     so
                     honorable
                     a
                     Court
                     ;
                     or
                     men
                     unwilling
                     to
                     have
                     this
                     defendant
                     cleare
                     his
                     owne
                     Innocency
                     ;
                     or
                     else
                     be
                     deemed
                     more
                     unreasonable
                     then
                     
                       Ananias
                    
                     himselfe
                     ,
                     especially
                     in
                     this
                     defendants
                     particular
                     case
                     ;
                     who
                     having
                     beene
                     a
                     Barrester
                     ,
                     and
                     counseller
                     at
                     the
                     Law
                     formerly
                     admitted
                     ,
                     even
                     in
                     this
                     honorable
                     Court
                     ,
                     to
                     put
                     in
                     answers
                     under
                     his
                     owne
                     hand
                     in
                     other
                     mens
                     cases
                     ,
                     cannot
                     but
                     hope
                     and
                     presume
                     to
                     obtaine
                     the
                     like
                     Justice
                     ,
                     and
                     favour
                     from
                     it
                     now
                     ,
                     in
                     his
                     owne
                     cause
                     ,
                     (
                     being
                     thereto
                     
                     necessitated
                     through
                     his
                     counsels
                     feare
                     and
                     deserting
                     of
                     him
                     )
                     for
                     the
                     premised
                     reasons
                     ,
                     which
                     he
                     in
                     all
                     humility
                     submits
                     to
                     this
                     honorable
                     Court
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           Upon
           the
           reading
           hereof
           in
           open
           Court
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           like
           petition
           from
           Doctor
           
             Bastwick
             ,
          
           to
           put
           in
           his
           answer
           under
           his
           owne
           hand
           ,
           since
           his
           counsell
           refused
           to
           signe
           it
           ;
           the
           Court
           ordered
           the
           same
           day
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           put
           in
           their
           answers
           by
           munday
           next
           under
           counsels
           hand
           ,
           or
           else
           be
           then
           taken
           
             Pro
             confesso
             ;
          
           denying
           them
           liberty
           to
           answer
           under
           their
           owne
           hands
           .
        
         
           Hereupon
           Doctor
           
             Bastwick
             ,
          
           when
           no
           counsell
           would
           signe
           his
           answer
           ,
           tendered
           it
           at
           the
           Star-Chamber
           office
           ,
           under
           his
           owne
           hand
           ,
           and
           there
           left
           it
           :
           and
           Master
           
             Burton
          
           having
           his
           answer
           drawne
           ,
           engrossed
           and
           signed
           by
           his
           assigned
           counsell
           ,
           Master
           
             Holt
             ,
          
           who
           afterwards
           withdrew
           his
           hand
           ,
           because
           his
           other
           counsell
           would
           not
           subscribe
           it
           ,
           out
           of
           feare
           to
           displease
           the
           Prelates
           ,
           tendered
           it
           to
           the
           Court
           ,
           desiring
           it
           might
           be
           accepted
           ,
           or
           Master
           
             Holt
             ,
          
           ordered
           to
           new
           signe
           it
           ;
           upon
           this
           the
           Court
           ,
           the
           10th
           of
           
             May
          
           (
           being
           the
           next
           sitting
           )
           made
           this
           Order
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   In
                   Camera
                   Stellata
                   coram
                   Concilio
                   ibidem
                   ,
                   decimo
                   die
                   
                     Maii
                     ,
                     An.
                     
                     Decimo
                  
                   tertio
                   Car.
                   Reg.
                   
                
                 
                   VVHereas
                   by
                   severall
                   orders
                   of
                   this
                   Court
                   ,
                   
                     Iohn
                     Bastwick
                  
                   Doctor
                   in
                   Physick
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Henry
                     Burton
                  
                   clerke
                   defendants
                   ,
                   at
                   the
                   suite
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Attorney
                   Generall
                   plaintife
                   ,
                   
                     were
                     ordered
                  
                   to
                   put
                   in
                   their
                   answers
                   under
                   counsells
                   hand
                   by
                   Munday
                   last
                   ,
                   or
                   in
                   default
                   the
                   matters
                   of
                   the
                   Information
                   ,
                   to
                   be
                   taken
                   
                   against
                   him
                   
                     pro
                     confesso
                     :
                  
                   forasmuch
                   as
                   the
                   Court
                   was
                   now
                   informed
                   that
                   the
                   said
                   Doctor
                   
                     Bastwick
                     ,
                  
                   hath
                   not
                   yet
                   answered
                   ,
                   nor
                   will
                   bee
                   drawne
                   to
                   put
                   in
                   any
                   answer
                   under
                   the
                   hand
                   of
                   his
                   Counsell
                   ,
                   but
                   hath
                   throwne
                   into
                   Master
                   
                     Goads
                  
                   Chamber
                   ,
                   the
                   deputie
                   Clarke
                   of
                   this
                   Court
                   ,
                   five
                   skins
                   and
                   a
                   halfe
                   of
                   parchment
                   close
                   written
                   ,
                   with
                   his
                   owne
                   hand
                   subscribed
                   therunto
                   ,
                   wherein
                   ,
                   as
                   is
                   alledged
                   ,
                   is
                   contained
                   much
                   scandalous
                   &
                   defamatory
                   matter
                   :
                   It
                   is
                   therefore
                   ordered
                   ,
                   that
                   all
                   the
                   matters
                   of
                   the
                   said
                   information
                   wherewith
                   the
                   said
                   Doctor
                   
                     Bastwick
                  
                   is
                   charged
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   same
                   shal
                   be
                   taken
                   against
                   him
                   
                     Pro
                     confesso
                  
                   And
                   that
                   his
                   Majesties
                   attorney
                   Generall
                   doe
                   take
                   into
                   his
                   custody
                   ,
                   and
                   consideration
                   the
                   said
                   severall
                   skins
                   of
                   parchment
                   ,
                   subsigned
                   as
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   for
                   such
                   farther
                   order
                   to
                   be
                   therein
                   had
                   and
                   taken
                   ,
                   as
                   to
                   Iustice
                   shall
                   appertaine
                   .
                   And
                   for
                   as
                   much
                   as
                   the
                   Court
                   was
                   now
                   informed
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   defendant
                   
                     Burton
                  
                   hath
                   caused
                   his
                   answer
                   to
                   be
                   drawne
                   by
                   counsell
                   ,
                   and
                   ingrossed
                   ,
                   and
                   would
                   have
                   put
                   it
                   in
                   ,
                   if
                   his
                   counsell
                   who
                   drew
                   the
                   same
                   ,
                   or
                   any
                   other
                   of
                   his
                   counsell
                   ,
                   would
                   have
                   set
                   their
                   hands
                   thereunto
                   :
                   The
                   Court
                   therefore
                   did
                   forbeare
                   to
                   take
                   him
                   
                     Pro
                     confesso
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   hath
                   ordered
                   ,
                   that
                   his
                   answer
                   be
                   received
                   under
                   the
                   hand
                   of
                   Master
                   
                     Holt
                  
                   alone
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   after
                   his
                   answer
                   put
                   in
                   ,
                   and
                   interrogatories
                   exhibited
                   ,
                   the
                   examiner
                   shall
                   repaire
                   unto
                   him
                   in
                   person
                   ,
                   where
                   he
                   is
                   to
                   take
                   his
                   examination
                   upon
                   the
                   said
                   Interrogatories
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Jo.
                     Arthur
                     .
                     Dep.
                     
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
         
           DOctor
           
             Bastwick
          
           upon
           this
           Order
           ,
           the
           next
           Court-day
           petitions
           the
           Court
           ,
           that
           his
           answer
           left
           in
           the
           Court
           might
           be
           accepted
           under
           his
           owne
           hand
           ,
           in
           default
           of
           councell
           ;
           and
           Mister
           
             Prynne
             ,
          
           (
           much
           grieved
           that
           he
           could
           neither
           gaine
           liberty
           nor
           possibility
           to
           answer
           the
           
             Information
             ,
          
           for
           his
           just
           defence
           ,
           formerly
           ordered
           to
           be
           taken
           
             pro
             confesso
          
           against
           him
           ,
           )
           the
           same
           day
           petitioned
           the
           Court
           in
           this
           manner
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   To
                   the
                   right
                   Honorable
                   the
                   temporall
                   Lords
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   high
                   Court
                   of
                   Star-Chamber
                   The
                   humble
                   petition
                   of
                   William
                   Prynne
                   ,
                   prisoner
                   in
                   the
                   Tower
                   .
                
                 
                   IN
                   all
                   humblenesse
                   sheweth
                   ,
                   That
                   the
                   petitioner
                   ever
                   
                   since
                   his
                   appearance
                   to
                   the
                   Information
                   exhibited
                   against
                   him
                   ,
                   hath
                   beene
                   denyed
                   the
                   liberty
                   of
                   Pen
                   ,
                   Jnke
                   or
                   Paper
                   at
                   his
                   Chamber
                   ▪
                   to
                   draw
                   up
                   his
                   answer
                   ,
                   or
                   instructions
                   for
                   his
                   counsell
                   :
                   That
                   his
                   servant
                   who
                   should
                   solicit
                   his
                   businesse
                   ,
                   coppy
                   and
                   engrosse
                   his
                   answer
                   ,
                   hath
                   for
                   a
                   moneths
                   space
                   beene
                   kept
                   close
                   prisoner
                   from
                   him
                   in
                   a
                   Messengers
                   hands
                   ,
                   by
                   his
                   chiefe
                   adversaries
                   practise
                   and
                   power
                   ,
                   contrary
                   to
                   Law
                   and
                   Justice
                   ,
                   of
                   purpose
                   
                     to
                     retard
                     his
                     answer
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   disable
                   him
                   in
                   the
                   prosecution
                   of
                   his
                   cause
                   :
                   That
                   his
                   friends
                   have
                   beene
                   restrayned
                   from
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   himselfe
                   ever
                   since
                   the
                   day
                   before
                   the
                   Terme
                   ,
                   prohibited
                   all
                   accesse
                   to
                   his
                   counsell
                   (
                   granted
                   to
                   his
                   Codefendants
                   )
                   who
                   without
                   any
                   neglect
                   or
                   default
                   in
                   the
                   petitioner
                   ,
                   
                   for
                   reasons
                   best
                   knowne
                   to
                   themselves
                   ,
                   refuse
                   to
                   repaire
                   to
                   him
                   ,
                   or
                   to
                   undertake
                   any
                   thing
                   in
                   his
                   cause
                   ,
                   which
                   they
                   have
                   all
                   quite
                   deserted
                   .
                   By
                   meanes
                   whereof
                   the
                   Petitioner
                   (
                   though
                   ever
                   desirous
                   to
                   answer
                   ,
                   and
                   submit
                   to
                   the
                   Orders
                   of
                   this
                   Honorable
                   Court
                   )
                   neither
                   hath
                   nor
                   possibly
                   could
                   put
                   in
                   his
                   answer
                   under
                   his
                   counsells
                   hands
                   according
                   to
                   the
                   last
                   orders
                   :
                   which
                   disabling
                   him
                   to
                   draw
                   up
                   his
                   owne
                   answer
                   ,
                   and
                   requiring
                   meere
                   impossibilities
                   of
                   him
                   beyond
                   his
                   power
                   to
                   effect
                   (
                   his
                   counsells
                   hands
                   and
                   wills
                   being
                   not
                   at
                   his
                   command
                   ,
                   much
                   lesse
                   their
                   consciences
                   and
                   judgements
                   ,
                   )
                   hee
                   hopeth
                   neither
                   shall
                   nor
                   ought
                   in
                   point
                   of
                   Law
                   or
                   equity
                   ,
                   to
                   be
                   so
                   farre
                   obligatory
                   and
                   penall
                   to
                   him
                   ,
                   as
                   to
                   make
                   him
                   culpable
                   of
                   all
                   the
                   charges
                   in
                   the
                   Information
                   ,
                   without
                   any
                   proofe
                   on
                   his
                   Prosecutors
                   part
                   ,
                   or
                   default
                   and
                   contempt
                   on
                   his
                   owne
                   .
                   Since
                   by
                   such
                   away
                   of
                   proceeding
                   (
                   of
                   very
                   dangerous
                   consequence
                   and
                   example
                   scarce
                   parallell'd
                   in
                   any
                   age
                   ,
                   )
                   the
                   most
                   innocent
                   person
                   may
                   be
                   betrayed
                   ,
                   and
                   condemned
                   as
                   nocent
                   of
                   any
                   crimes
                   whatsoever
                   falsly
                   charged
                   against
                   him
                   ,
                   without
                   any
                   neglect
                   or
                   guilt
                   in
                   him
                   ,
                   through
                   the
                   unfaythfullnesse
                   ,
                   wilfullnesse
                   ,
                   feare
                   ,
                   corruption
                   or
                   default
                   of
                   counsell
                   ,
                   and
                   especially
                   in
                   the
                   case
                   of
                   powerfull
                   and
                   malicious
                   opposites
                   .
                
                 
                   He
                   therefore
                   in
                   the
                   midst
                   of
                   these
                   his
                   exigents
                   ,
                   and
                   desertions
                   of
                   his
                   counsell
                   ,
                   most
                   humbly
                   beseecheth
                   your
                   Lordships
                   ,
                   not
                   to
                   require
                   impossibilities
                   at
                   his
                   hands
                   (
                   thus
                   bound
                   )
                   beyond
                   his
                   power
                   to
                   effect
                   ,
                   but
                   so
                   to
                   deale
                   with
                   him
                   in
                   this
                   case
                   of
                   extremity
                   ,
                   and
                   necessity
                   ,
                   as
                   your
                   Lordships
                   would
                   be
                   dealt
                   with
                   your selves
                   ,
                   were
                   you
                   (
                   which
                   God
                   forbid
                   )
                   in
                   his
                   present
                   condition
                   ,
                   
                   and
                   as
                   you
                   would
                   have
                   Christ
                   himselfe
                   to
                   proceede
                   with
                   you
                   at
                   the
                   great
                   day
                   of
                   judgement
                   ,
                   when
                   you
                   shall
                   all
                   appeare
                   before
                   his
                   Tribunall
                   to
                   give
                   accoumpt
                   of
                   all
                   your
                   proceedings
                   in
                   this
                   and
                   all
                   other
                   causes
                   :
                   Or
                   if
                   this
                   be
                   overmuch
                   ,
                   then
                   onely
                   to
                   grant
                   him
                   such
                   common
                   favor
                   ,
                   and
                   justice
                   in
                   this
                   honorable
                   Christian
                   Court
                   ,
                   as
                   Christ
                   himselfe
                   found
                   before
                   
                     Pilate
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Paul
                  
                   before
                   
                     Faelix
                     ,
                     Festus
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                     Agrippa
                     ,
                  
                   meere
                   heathen
                   Iudges
                   ;
                   or
                   as
                   every
                   Traitor
                   or
                   Felon
                   (
                   though
                   never
                   so
                   vile
                   or
                   guilty
                   )
                   usually
                   claimes
                   ,
                   and
                   enjoyes
                   of
                   common
                   right
                   in
                   other
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Courts
                   of
                   Justice
                   ,
                   to
                   wit
                   ,
                   free
                   liberty
                   to
                   answer
                   for
                   himselfe
                   ,
                   when
                   his
                   counsell
                   either
                   will
                   not
                   ,
                   cannot
                   ,
                   or
                   at
                   least
                   wise
                   dare
                   not
                   doe
                   it
                   ;
                   with
                   the
                   use
                   of
                   Pen
                   ,
                   Inke
                   and
                   Paper
                   ,
                   untill
                   friday
                   next
                   ,
                   to
                   draw
                   up
                   an
                   answer
                   under
                   his
                   own
                   hand
                   ,
                   according
                   to
                   the
                   truth
                   and
                   weightinesse
                   of
                   his
                   cause
                   ,
                   since
                   he
                   cannot
                   procure
                   his
                   counsells
                   ;
                   and
                   not
                   to
                   prejudge
                   him
                   as
                   guilty
                   ,
                   before
                   his
                   answer
                   or
                   defence
                   first
                   heard
                   ▪
                   or
                   witnesses
                   produced
                   .
                   A
                   request
                   so
                   just
                   and
                   reasonable
                   (
                   as
                   he
                   humbly
                   conceiveth
                   )
                   that
                   his
                   adversaries
                   themselves
                   whether
                   innocent
                   or
                   guilty
                   ,
                   cannot
                   in
                   point
                   of
                   honour
                   ,
                   justice
                   and
                   conscience
                   ,
                   in
                   regard
                   of
                   their
                   places
                   and
                   professions
                   )
                   but
                   willingly
                   (
                   condescend
                   unto
                   ,
                   much
                   more
                   then
                   this
                   honorable
                   Court
                   ,
                   especially
                   in
                   this
                   waighty
                   cause
                   (
                   not
                   to
                   be
                   precipitated
                   )
                   which
                   highly
                   concernes
                   his
                   Majesties
                   royall
                   prerogative
                   ,
                   the
                   state
                   and
                   safety
                   of
                   Religion
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   weale
                   of
                   the
                   whole
                   Realme
                   ,
                   as
                   he
                   hopeth
                   to
                   make
                   good
                   in
                   his
                   answer
                   ,
                   and
                   by
                   his
                   crosse
                   Bill
                   exhibited
                   to
                   this
                   honorable
                   Court
                   against
                   some
                   great
                   Prelates
                   ,
                   and
                   their
                   confederates
                   ,
                   under
                   his
                   owne
                   and
                   codefendants
                   
                     Bastwicks
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   
                   
                     Burtons
                  
                   hands
                   for
                   want
                   of
                   counsell
                   (
                   who
                   refuse
                   to
                   appeare
                   in
                   this
                   case
                   of
                   God
                   and
                   the
                   King
                   ,
                   against
                   the
                   Prelates
                   ,
                   dreaded
                   much
                   more
                   then
                   both
                   )
                   which
                   bill
                   being
                   for
                   the
                   Petitioners
                   ,
                   and
                   his
                   said
                   Codefendants
                   necessary
                   defence
                   ,
                   and
                   justification
                   ,
                   (
                   who
                   are
                   ready
                   to
                   make
                   it
                   good
                   at
                   their
                   uttermost
                   perill
                   )
                   and
                   tending
                   onely
                   to
                   the
                   maintenance
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Crowne
                   and
                   dignity
                   ,
                   our
                   established
                   Religion
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   subjects
                   liberties
                   ,
                   against
                   the
                   said
                   Prelates
                   late
                   dangerous
                   encrochments
                   ,
                   Innovations
                   ,
                   practises
                   and
                   oppressions
                   ,
                   he
                   now
                   humbly
                   prayeth
                   may
                   be
                   admitted
                   ,
                   it
                   being
                   (
                   as
                   he
                   humbly
                   apprehendeth
                   )
                   a
                   cause
                   of
                   infinite
                   consequence
                   ,
                   and
                   a
                   thing
                   of
                   common
                   right
                   ,
                   which
                   ought
                   not
                   to
                   bee
                   denyed
                   to
                   ,
                   or
                   against
                   any
                   subject
                   in
                   an
                   ordinary
                   way
                   of
                   Justice
                   .
                
                 
                   And
                   your
                   Petitioner
                   (
                   upon
                   the
                   concession
                   of
                   his
                   petition
                   )
                   shall
                   ever
                   pray
                   for
                   your
                   Lordships
                   .
                   &c.
                   
                
              
            
          
        
         
           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
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   In
                   Camera
                   Stellata
                   coram
                   Concilio
                   ibidem
                   ,
                   duodecimo
                   die
                   
                     Maii
                     ,
                  
                   Anno
                   decimo
                   tertio
                   Caroli
                   Regis
                   .
                
                 
                   THis
                   day
                   severall
                   petitions
                   being
                   read
                   in
                   open
                   Court
                   ,
                   presented
                   on
                   the
                   behalfe
                   of
                   
                     Iohn
                     Bastwicke
                  
                   Doctor
                   in
                   Physicke
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     William
                     Prynne
                  
                   Gent.
                   defendants
                   at
                   the
                   suite
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Attorney
                   Generall
                   ;
                   The
                   most
                   reverend
                   Father
                   in
                   God
                   the
                   Lord
                   Archbishop
                   of
                   
                     Canterbury
                  
                   his
                   
                     *
                  
                   Grace
                   Informed
                   the
                   Court
                   that
                   in
                   some
                   of
                   the
                   Libellous
                   Books
                   ,
                   and
                   Pamphlets
                   lately
                   published
                   his
                   Grace
                   and
                   others
                   the
                   reverend
                   Bishops
                   of
                   the
                   Realme
                   are
                   said
                   to
                   have
                   
                     *
                  
                   usurped
                   upon
                   his
                   Majesties
                   prerogative
                   Royall
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   have
                   proceeded
                   in
                   the
                   High
                   Commission
                   ,
                   and
                   other
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   Courts
                   contrary
                   to
                   the
                   Lawes
                   ,
                   and
                   Statutes
                   of
                   the
                   Realme
                   ;
                   about
                   which
                   he
                   prayed
                   the
                   Iudges
                   might
                   be
                   attended
                   ,
                   and
                   they
                   prayed
                   and
                   required
                   by
                   this
                   Court
                   to
                   certifie
                   their
                   opinions
                   therein
                   upon
                   
                   consideration
                   whereof
                   ,
                   the
                   Court
                   hath
                   ordered
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   two
                   Lords
                   cheife
                   Iustices
                   now
                   present
                   in
                   Court
                   ,
                   the
                   Lord
                   cheife
                   Baron
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   rest
                   of
                   the
                   Iudges
                   ,
                   and
                   Barons
                   shall
                   be
                   attended
                   by
                   his
                   Majesties
                   learned
                   
                     *
                  
                   Councell
                   ,
                   touching
                   the
                   Particulars
                   hereafter
                   ensuing
                   ,
                   viz.
                   
                
                 
                   Whether
                   proces
                   may
                   not
                   issue
                   out
                   of
                   the
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   
                   Court
                   in
                   the
                   names
                   of
                   the
                   Bishops
                   ?
                
                 
                   Whether
                   a
                   patent
                   under
                   the
                   great
                   Seale
                   be
                   necessary
                   
                   for
                   the
                   keeping
                   of
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   Courts
                   ,
                   and
                   inabling
                   of
                   citations
                   ,
                   suspensions
                   ,
                   and
                   excommunications
                   ,
                   and
                   other
                   censures
                   of
                   the
                   Church
                   ?
                   and
                   whether
                   the
                   Citations
                   ,
                   ought
                   to
                   be
                   in
                   the
                   Kings
                   name
                   ,
                   and
                   under
                   his
                   Seale
                   of
                   armes
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   like
                   ,
                   for
                   Institutions
                   ,
                   and
                   Inductions
                   to
                   benefices
                   ,
                   and
                   corrections
                   of
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   offences
                   ?
                
                 
                   Whether
                   Bishops
                   ,
                   Arch-deacons
                   ,
                   and
                   other
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   
                   persons
                   may
                   or
                   ought
                   to
                   keepe
                   any
                   Visitation
                   at
                   any
                   time
                   ,
                   unlesse
                   they
                   have
                   expresse
                   Commission
                   ,
                   or
                   Patent
                   under
                   the
                   great
                   Seale
                   of
                   
                     England
                  
                   to
                   doe
                   it
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   as
                   his
                   Majesties
                   visitors
                   onely
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   his
                   name
                   and
                   right
                   alone
                   ?
                
                 
                   
                     Jo.
                     Arthur
                     ,
                     Dep.
                     
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           THese
           three
           questions
           highly
           concerning
           his
           Majesties
           prerogative
           ,
           debated
           ,
           and
           determined
           by
           the
           defendants
           against
           the
           prelates
           for
           the
           King
           ,
           were
           the
           maine
           scandals
           and
           libels
           complained
           of
           in
           this
           new
           Information
           ,
           and
           the
           bookes
           thereto
           annexed
           ;
           to
           prejudge
           which
           before
           the
           hearing
           ,
           without
           the
           defendants
           privity
           (
           never
           summoned
           to
           be
           heard
           what
           they
           could
           say
           
           in
           these
           particulars
           ,
           agaīnst
           the
           prelates
           encrochments
           ,
           in
           defence
           of
           the
           Kings
           right
           and
           of
           themselves
           )
           was
           nothing
           else
           but
           the
           extremity
           of
           injustice
           ,
           and
           a
           forestalling
           of
           the
           cause
           by
           a
           previous
           judgement
           of
           the
           Judges
           (
           then
           at
           
             Canterburies
          
           becke
           )
           before
           it
           was
           heard
           .
        
         
           Upon
           this
           Order
           ,
           all
           the
           Judges
           before
           the
           hearing
           returned
           this
           
             Certificate
          
           for
           the
           prelates
           ,
           whom
           then
           to
           disobay
           or
           contradict
           in
           any
           thing
           had
           beene
           
             fatall
             ,
          
           if
           not
           
             capitall
             ;
          
           whereupon
           this
           following
           order
           was
           made
           ,
           which
           will
           abundantly
           evidence
           the
           Archbishops
           insolency
           ,
           treachery
           and
           injustice
           in
           the
           carriage
           of
           this
           cause
           ,
           and
           the
           unpatternd
           compliency
           both
           of
           the
           Judges
           ,
           and
           Court
           of
           Star-Chamber
           to
           his
           ambitious
           ,
           unreasonable
           ,
           and
           unjust
           desires
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   In
                   Camera
                   Stellata
                   coram
                   Concilio
                   ibidem
                   quarto
                   die
                   
                     Junii
                     ,
                  
                   Anno
                   decimo
                   tertio
                   Caroli
                   Regis
                   .
                
                 
                   THis
                   day
                   was
                   read
                   in
                   Court
                   ,
                   the
                   Certificate
                   of
                   the
                   two
                   Lord
                   chiefe
                   Justices
                   ,
                   the
                   Lord
                   chiefe
                   Baron
                   ,
                   and
                   other
                   the
                   Iustices
                   of
                   the
                   Court
                   of
                   Kings
                   Bench
                   ,
                   and
                   Common
                   Pleas
                   ,
                   and
                   Barons
                   of
                   the
                   Exchequer
                   ,
                   made
                   according
                   to
                   an
                   Order
                   of
                   reference
                   to
                   them
                   granted
                   the
                   12
                   of
                   
                     May
                     ,
                  
                   last
                   past
                   ,
                   upon
                   a
                   motion
                   made
                   in
                   the
                   Court
                   ,
                   wherein
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Attorney
                   Generall
                   ,
                   is
                   plaintife
                   against
                   
                     John
                     Bastwick
                     ,
                  
                   Doctor
                   in
                   Physick
                   ,
                   and
                   others
                   defendants
                   ;
                   In
                   which
                   respect
                   the
                   said
                   Iudges
                   have
                   decla●ed
                   
                   their
                   opinions
                   in
                   point
                   of
                   Law
                   ,
                   touching
                   the
                   severall
                   matters
                   to
                   them
                   referred
                   by
                   the
                   aforesaid
                   Order
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   same
                   being
                   so
                   read
                   in
                   Court
                   ,
                   his
                   
                     *
                  
                   Majesties
                   Attorney
                   Generall
                   humbly
                   prayed
                   that
                   the
                   said
                   Certificate
                   may
                   be
                   
                     *
                  
                   recorded
                   in
                   this
                   Court
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   all
                   other
                   the
                   Courts
                   at
                   
                     Westminster
                     ,
                  
                   and
                   in
                   the
                   high
                   Commission
                   ,
                   and
                   other
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   Courts
                   for
                   the
                   satisfaction
                   of
                   all
                   men
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   proceeding
                   in
                   the
                   High
                   Commission
                   ,
                   and
                   other
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   Courts
                   are
                   agreea●le
                   to
                   the
                   Law
                   and
                   Statutes
                   of
                   the
                   Realme
                   ;
                   which
                   the
                   Court
                   held
                   reasonable
                   ,
                   and
                   hath
                   ordered
                   it
                   shall
                   so
                   be
                   ;
                   and
                   that
                   after
                   the
                   same
                   is
                   enrolled
                   in
                   this
                   Court
                   ,
                   and
                   other
                   the
                   Courts
                   aforesaid
                   ,
                   the
                   originall
                   Certificate
                   of
                   the
                   said
                   Iudges
                   shall
                   be
                   delivered
                   to
                   the
                   most
                   reverend
                   Father
                   in
                   God
                   
                     *
                  
                   the
                   Lord
                   Archbishop
                   of
                   
                     Canterbury
                  
                   his
                   grace
                   to
                   be
                   kept
                   ,
                   and
                   preserved
                   amongst
                   the
                   records
                   of
                   his
                   Court
                   ,
                
                 
                   Which
                   Certificate
                   followeth
                   in
                   these
                   words
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     
                       May
                       it
                       please
                       your
                       Lordships
                       ,
                    
                  
                   
                     ACcording
                     to
                     your
                     Lordships
                     Order
                     ,
                     made
                     in
                     his
                     Majesties
                     Court
                     of
                     Star-Chamber
                     the
                     twelfth
                     of
                     
                       May
                    
                     last
                     ,
                     we
                     have
                     taken
                     consideration
                     of
                     the
                     particulars
                     wherein
                     our
                     Opinions
                     are
                     required
                     by
                     the
                     said
                     Order
                     ,
                     and
                     we
                     have
                     all
                     agreed
                     :
                  
                   
                     That
                     Proces
                     may
                     issue
                     out
                     of
                     the
                     Ecclesiasticall
                     Court
                     in
                     the
                     name
                     of
                     the
                     Bishops
                     ,
                     And
                     that
                     a
                     Patent
                     under
                     the
                     great
                     Seale
                     ,
                     is
                     not
                     necessary
                     for
                     the
                     keeping
                     of
                     the
                     said
                     Ecclesiasticall
                     Court
                     ,
                     or
                     the
                     inabling
                     of
                     Citations
                     ,
                     Suspensions
                     ,
                     Excommunications
                     or
                     other
                     
                     censures
                     of
                     the
                     Church
                     .
                     And
                     that
                     it
                     is
                     not
                     necessary
                     ,
                     that
                     Summons
                     ,
                     Citations
                     ,
                     or
                     other
                     processes
                     Ecclesiasticall
                     in
                     the
                     said
                     Court
                     ,
                     or
                     Institutions
                     or
                     Inductions
                     to
                     benefices
                     ,
                     or
                     Corrections
                     of
                     Ecclesiasticall
                     offences
                     in
                     those
                     Courts
                     ,
                     be
                     in
                     the
                     
                       *
                    
                     Kings
                     name
                     ,
                     or
                     with
                     the
                     Stile
                     of
                     the
                     King
                     ,
                     or
                     under
                     the
                     Kings
                     Seale
                     ,
                     or
                     that
                     their
                     seales
                     of
                     Office
                     ,
                     have
                     in
                     them
                     the
                     Kings
                     Armes
                     ,
                     And
                     that
                     the
                     Statute
                     of
                     
                       primo
                       Edwardi
                       sexti
                       .
                    
                     Ch.
                     2.
                     which
                     enacted
                     contrary
                     ,
                     is
                     not
                     now
                     in
                     force
                     .
                  
                   
                     Wee
                     are
                     also
                     of
                     opinion
                     that
                     the
                     Bishops
                     ,
                     Arch-Deacons
                     ,
                     and
                     other
                     Ecclesiasticall
                     persons
                     may
                     keepe
                     their
                     Visitations
                     ,
                     as
                     usually
                     they
                     have
                     done
                     ,
                     without
                     Commission
                     under
                     the
                     great
                     Seale
                     of
                     
                       England
                    
                     so
                     to
                     doe
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       
                         
                           Primo
                           die
                        
                         Julii
                         1637.
                         
                      
                    
                     
                       
                         
                           Jo.
                           Bramston
                           ,
                        
                         
                           Jo
                           Finch
                           ,
                        
                         
                           Hum.
                           Davenport
                           ,
                        
                         
                           Wm.
                           Jones
                           ,
                        
                         
                           Jo.
                           Denham
                           ,
                        
                         
                           Richard
                           Hutton
                           ,
                        
                         
                           George
                           Crooke
                           ,
                        
                         
                           Thomas
                           Trever
                           ,
                        
                         
                           George
                           Vernon
                           ,
                        
                         
                           Robert
                           Barkley
                           ,
                        
                         
                           Richard
                           Weston
                           .
                        
                         
                           Jo.
                           Arthur
                           Dep.
                           
                        
                      
                    
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           DOctor
           
             Heylin
          
           in
           his
           Briefe
           and
           moderat●
           Aswer
           t●
           Master
           
             Burton
          
           (
           the
           matter
           whereof
           contradicts
           the
           Title
           )
           written
           by
           the
           Archbishop
           of
           
             Canterburies
          
           speciall
           command
           p.
           102.
           avers
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           positively
           delivered
           by
           my
           Lords
           the
           Judges
           ,
           with
           an
           unanimous
           consent
           ,
           and
           so
           declared
           by
           my
           Lords
           chiefe
           Justices
           in
           〈…〉
           last
           past
           (
           before
           
           this
           Certificate
           )
           that
           the
           Act
           of
           Repeal
           the
           first
           of
           Queene
           
             Mary
             ,
             doth
             still
             stand
             in
             force
             ,
             as
             unto
             the
             Statute
             of
             first
          
           Edward
           6
           
             ●
             .
          
           2.
           
             by
             you
             so
             much
             pressed
             ,
             and
             that
             the
             Bishops
             might
             lawfully
             issue
             out
             proces
             in
             their
             names
             ,
             and
             under
             their
             owne
             seales
             .
          
           Which
           if
           true
           ,
           it
           is
           apparant
           that
           the
           Archbishop
           (
           from
           whom
           the
           Doctor
           had
           his
           information
           )
           had
           received
           all
           the
           Judges
           resolutions
           in
           this
           point
           ,
           not
           onely
           before
           the
           hearing
           of
           the
           cause
           ,
           but
           even
           before
           his
           motion
           in
           Court
           ,
           that
           the
           Judges
           might
           be
           attended
           to
           know
           their
           resolution
           in
           these
           points
           .
           Is
           not
           this
           prety
           under-hand
           juggling
           ,
           and
           square
           prelaticall
           proceeding
           ,
           deserving
           extraordinary
           
             Laud
             ?
          
           But
           to
           returne
           to
           the
           defendants
           ,
           where
           I
           last
           left
           them
           .
        
         
           Master
           
             Prynne
             ,
          
           upon
           Master
           
             Holts
          
           resort
           to
           him
           by
           the
           Lords
           command
           ,
           upon
           his
           last
           petition
           ,
           to
           his
           Chamber
           at
           the
           Tower
           where
           he
           was
           shut
           up
           close
           prisoner
           ,
           gave
           him
           both
           a
           fee
           and
           instructions
           to
           draw
           up
           his
           answer
           by
           ,
           with
           all
           possible
           speed
           :
           hereupon
           Master
           
             Helt
          
           drawes
           an
           answer
           according
           to
           his
           owne
           minde
           different
           from
           his
           instructions
           which
           he
           sent
           to
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           to
           peruse
           ;
           who
           disl●king
           the
           generality
           of
           it
           ,
           desired
           him
           to
           conferre
           with
           his
           other
           counsell
           ,
           and
           to
           amend
           it
           in
           some
           particulars
           ;
           whereupon
           Master
           
             Tomlins
          
           another
           of
           his
           counsell
           ,
           and
           Master
           
             Holt
          
           after
           two
           meetings
           agreeing
           upon
           his
           answer
           ,
           Master
           
             Holt
          
           gave
           order
           to
           his
           Clerks
           to
           ingrosse
           it
           ,
           and
           promised
           to
           signe
           it
           the
           next
           morning
           ,
           that
           it
           might
           be
           put
           into
           the
           Court
           .
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           informed
           hereof
           payed
           Master
           
             Holts
          
           Clerks
           for
           ingrossing
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           next
           morning
           by
           his
           keeper
           sent
           another
           fee
           to
           Mr.
           
             Holt
          
           to
           signe
           it
           according
           to
           promise
           ;
           who
           then
           refusing
           both
           the
           fee
           and
           the
           signing
           of
           the
           answer
           ,
           and
           being
           taxed
           for
           it
           by
           Master
           
             Tomlins
          
           (
           who
           had
           signed
           the
           paper
           Coppy
           )
           and
           demanded
           the
           reason
           by
           Master
           
             Prynnes
          
           keeper
           ,
           why
           hee
           refused
           to
           signe
           it
           contrary
           to
           promise
           ;
           answered
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           received
           
           expresse
           order
           not
           to
           signe
           it
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           being
           taxed
           for
           it
           by
           master
           
             Prynne
          
           himselfe
           ,
           who
           demanded
           the
           reason
           of
           this
           deniall
           ;
           he
           told
           him
           ,
           that
           hee
           durst
           not
           subscribe
           it
           for
           an
           100
           pounds
           though
           he
           had
           drawne
           it
           ,
           for
           feare
           of
           being
           put
           from
           the
           Barre
           ,
           he
           having
           received
           a
           command
           to
           the
           contrary
           .
           In
           the
           meane
           time
           Master
           
             Tomlins
          
           who
           was
           willing
           to
           signe
           it
           ,
           departed
           into
           the
           Countrey
           upon
           his
           necessary
           occasions
           ,
           so
           that
           his
           hand
           could
           not
           be
           gotten
           ;
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           thus
           deluded
           ,
           acquaints
           the
           Lieutenant
           of
           the
           Tower
           with
           this
           false
           dealing
           ,
           requesting
           him
           to
           informe
           the
           Lord
           Keeper
           of
           it
           ;
           and
           to
           desire
           his
           Lordship
           in
           his
           behalfe
           ,
           either
           to
           enjoyne
           Master
           
             Holt
          
           to
           signe
           his
           answer
           according
           to
           promise
           as
           hee
           had
           done
           in
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           case
           ;
           or
           to
           accept
           of
           it
           without
           an
           hand
           ;
           or
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           another
           answer
           signed
           with
           his
           owne
           hand
           ,
           since
           he
           had
           done
           his
           utmost
           ,
           and
           had
           no
           meanes
           to
           compell
           his
           counsell
           to
           subscribe
           his
           answer
           against
           their
           wills
           ;
           The
           Lord
           Keeper
           upon
           this
           Information
           ,
           answered
           ,
           that
           hee
           had
           no
           power
           to
           force
           counsell
           to
           signe
           an
           answer
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           was
           not
           his
           use
           to
           doe
           it
           ,
           or
           to
           receive
           any
           answer
           without
           counsells
           hands
           .
        
         
           Upon
           the
           returne
           of
           which
           answer
           ,
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           replied
           ;
           that
           if
           the
           
             Lord
             Keeper
             being
             cheife
             Iudge
             of
             the
             Court
             ,
             the
             greatest
             officer
             in
             the
             Realme
             under
             the
             King
             ,
             and
             a
             freeman
             ,
             had
             no
             power
             to
             enforce
             his
             counsell
             to
             signe
             his
             answer
             according
             to
             duty
             ,
             equity
             and
             promise
             ;
             then
             certainly
             he
             ,
             being
             a
             poore
             close
             prisoner
             had
             farre
             lesse
             power
             to
             doe
             it
             ;
             and
             ought
             not
             to
             suffer
             for
             his
             default
             ,
             which
             he
             could
             not
             remedy
             .
          
           Hereupon
           insteed
           of
           accepting
           his
           answer
           ,
           this
           order
           was
           made
           against
           him
           ,
           and
           Doctor
           
             Bastwick
          
           to
           take
           them
           both
           
             pro
             confesso
          
           for
           their
           contempt
           in
           not
           answering
           ,
           and
           to
           appoint
           a
           day
           for
           hearing
           the
           Cause
           .
        
         
           
             
               
               
                 
                   In
                   Camera
                   Stellata
                   coram
                   Concilio
                   ibidem
                   ,
                   19o
                   .
                   die
                   
                     Maii
                     ,
                     An.
                     
                     Decimo
                  
                   tertio
                   Car.
                   Reg.
                   
                
                 
                   VPon
                   information
                   this
                   day
                   to
                   this
                   honorable
                   Court
                   ,
                   by
                   Sir
                   
                     Iohn
                     Bankes
                  
                   Knight
                   ,
                   his
                   Majesties
                   attorney
                   generall
                   ,
                   that
                   he
                   hath
                   exhibited
                   an
                   information
                   into
                   this
                   Court
                   against
                   
                     Iohn
                     Bastwick
                  
                   Doctor
                   of
                   Physicke
                   ,
                   
                     William
                     Prynne
                  
                   Gentleman
                   ,
                   and
                   others
                   defendants
                   ,
                   for
                   framing
                   ,
                   Printing
                   and
                   publishing
                   severall
                   libellous
                   and
                   seditious
                   Books
                   ;
                   and
                   that
                   upon
                   the
                   said
                   defendants
                   
                     Bastwick
                  
                   and
                   
                     Prynnes
                  
                   
                     *
                  
                   contemptuous
                   refusall
                   to
                   answer
                   the
                   said
                   Information
                   ,
                   severall
                   Orders
                   have
                   beene
                   made
                   to
                   take
                   them
                   
                     Pro
                     confesso
                     :
                  
                   It
                   was
                   humbly
                   prayd
                   ,
                   and
                   accordingly
                   thought
                   fit
                   and
                   ordered
                   by
                   this
                   Court
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   said
                   cause
                   as
                   against
                   them
                   shall
                   be
                   heard
                   ,
                   the
                   first
                   cause
                   the
                   first
                   sitting
                   of
                   the
                   next
                   Terme
                   ,
                   when
                   the
                   Information
                   shall
                   be
                   read
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   matters
                   thereof
                   be
                   taken
                   against
                   them
                   ,
                   
                     Pro
                     confesso
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           VVhere
           you
           see
           ,
           that
           the
           sole
           charge
           against
           them
           ,
           and
           the
           ground
           of
           their
           censures
           was
           a
           supposed
           
             contemptuous
             refusall
             to
             answer
             ,
          
           when
           as
           the
           Offence
           ,
           and
           contempt
           was
           on
           the
           contrary
           side
           ,
           in
           refusing
           to
           accept
           of
           their
           answers
           tendred
           ,
           and
           ordering
           Counsell
           not
           to
           signe
           their
           answers
           .
        
         
         
           In
           the
           meane
           time
           ,
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           answer
           signed
           by
           Master
           
             Holt
             ,
          
           after
           it
           had
           laine
           in
           Court
           neere
           three
           weeks
           ,
           upon
           Master
           
             Atturnies
          
           suggestion
           to
           the
           Court
           ,
           the
           19
           of
           
             May
             ,
          
           that
           it
           was
           scandalous
           ,
           was
           *
           referred
           to
           the
           consideration
           of
           the
           two
           chiefe
           Justices
           ,
           
             Bramston
          
           and
           
             Finch
             :
          
           who
           calling
           Master
           
             Holt
          
           privately
           unto
           a
           Chamber
           ,
           before
           them
           ,
           Judge
           
             Finch
          
           ratled
           and
           reviled
           him
           exceedingly
           for
           putting
           in
           such
           an
           answer
           ,
           which
           he
           said
           ,
           was
           the
           most
           pernicious
           that
           ever
           came
           into
           the
           Court
           ;
           telling
           him
           ,
           that
           hee
           deserved
           to
           have
           his
           Gowne
           pull'd
           over
           his
           eares
           for
           drawing
           it
           .
           To
           whom
           he
           replied
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           beene
           an
           ancient
           practiser
           in
           the
           Star-Chamber
           ,
           and
           had
           drawne
           it
           according
           to
           his
           best
           understanding
           and
           wit
           ;
           that
           all
           of
           it
           was
           onely
           a
           confession
           ,
           or
           explanation
           of
           the
           charge
           in
           the
           Bill
           ,
           and
           a
           recitall
           of
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           how
           this
           could
           be
           scandalous
           or
           impertinent
           ,
           it
           went
           beyond
           his
           capacity
           to
           conceive
           .
           And
           so
           without
           more
           words
           ,
           these
           Judges
           resolved
           the
           answer
           scandalous
           ,
           and
           ordered
           all
           the
           substance
           of
           it
           tending
           to
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           justification
           and
           defence
           ,
           to
           be
           expounded
           ;
           as
           will
           appeare
           by
           this
           their
           certificate
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   The
                   certificate
                   of
                   Sr.
                   
                     Iohn
                     Bramston
                  
                   Knight
                   ,
                   chiefe
                   Justice
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Court
                   of
                   Kings
                   Bench
                   ;
                   and
                   Sir
                   
                     Iohn
                     Finch
                  
                   Lord
                   chiefe
                   Justice
                   of
                   his
                   Majestes
                   Court
                   of
                   common-Plees
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   cause
                   wherein
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Attorney
                   generall
                   is
                   plaintiffe
                   ,
                   and
                   
                     Henry
                     Burton
                  
                   Clerke
                   ,
                   and
                   others
                   ,
                   defendants
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     ACcording
                     to
                     the
                     direction
                     of
                     an
                     Order
                     of
                     this
                     Honorable
                     court
                     ,
                     Dated
                     the
                     Ninteenth
                     day
                     of
                  
                   
                   
                     this
                     instant
                  
                   May
                   ,
                   
                     we
                     have
                     considered
                     of
                     the
                     Impertinent
                     ,
                     and
                     scandalous
                     matter
                     in
                     the
                     said
                     Defendants
                     ,
                  
                   Henry
                   Burtons
                   
                     answer
                     ,
                     And
                     are
                     of
                     opinion
                     ,
                     that
                  
                   
                     *
                  
                   
                     all
                     the
                     said
                     answer
                     is
                     Scandalous
                     or
                     impertinent
                     ,
                     and
                     fit
                     to
                     be
                     expounded
                     ,
                     except
                     these
                     words
                     in
                     the
                     beginning
                     thereof
                     ,
                     viz.
                  
                   The
                   said
                   defendant
                   by
                   protestation
                   ,
                   not
                   confessing
                   ,
                   or
                   acknowledging
                   ,
                   any
                   matter
                   or
                   thing
                   alleaged
                   against
                   him
                   ,
                   in
                   ,
                   or
                   by
                   the
                   said
                   Information
                   to
                   be
                   true
                   ,
                   and
                   saving
                   ever
                   to
                   himselfe
                   all
                   advantage
                   of
                   Exception
                   to
                   all
                   ,
                   &
                   every
                   the
                   uncertainties
                   and
                   imperfections
                   therof
                   :
                   
                     And
                     these
                     words
                     in
                     the
                     end
                     of
                     the
                     said
                     answer
                     ,
                     viz.
                  
                   This
                   defendant
                   to
                   all
                   and
                   every
                   such
                   supposed
                   unlawfull
                   Combination
                   ,
                   Confederacies
                   Disloyalties
                   ,
                   Seditious
                   ,
                   scandalous
                   and
                   factious
                   Libells
                   ,
                   or
                   other
                   unlawfull
                   offences
                   examinable
                   ,
                   or
                   censurable
                   in
                   this
                   Honorable
                   Court
                   ,
                   wherewith
                   he
                   is
                   charged
                   in
                   ,
                   or
                   by
                   the
                   said
                   Information
                   ,
                   answereth
                   and
                   sayth
                   ,
                   That
                   he
                   is
                   not
                   guilty
                   thereof
                   ,
                   or
                   of
                   any
                   part
                   thereof
                   in
                   any
                   such
                   manner
                   and
                   forme
                   as
                   is
                   supposed
                   thereby
                   ;
                   All
                   and
                   every
                   which
                   matters
                   of
                   answer
                   this
                   defendant
                   doth
                   averre
                   ,
                   and
                   is
                   ready
                   to
                   prove
                   ,
                   as
                   this
                   Honorable
                   Court
                   shall
                   award
                   .
                   And
                   humbly
                   prayeth
                   ,
                   that
                   all
                   and
                   every
                   such
                   errors
                   as
                   shall
                   be
                   adjudged
                   by
                   this
                   Honorable
                   Court
                   ,
                   to
                   have
                   beene
                   by
                   any
                   ignorance
                   of
                   his
                   in
                   the
                   common-Lawes
                   ,
                   or
                   Statutes
                   of
                   this
                   Realme
                   ,
                   or
                   by
                   any
                   frailty
                   ,
                   or
                   infirmity
                   of
                   his
                   ,
                   contrary
                   to
                   the
                   loyalty
                   of
                   his
                   Heart
                   ,
                   and
                   integrity
                   and
                   sincerity
                   of
                   his
                   intention
                   ,
                   and
                   profession
                   ,
                   may
                   by
                   his
                   
                   Majesties
                   gracious
                   Interpretation
                   thereof
                   ,
                   and
                   by
                   this
                   Honorable
                   Courts
                   favorable
                   advice
                   ,
                   or
                   mediation
                   to
                   his
                   Majestie
                   therein
                   be
                   remitted
                   ,
                   and
                   pardoned
                   ,
                   and
                   himselfe
                   dismissed
                   by
                   the
                   same
                   Court
                   .
                   
                     All
                     which
                     neverthelesse
                     we
                     humbly
                     submit
                     to
                     the
                  
                   grave
                   judgement
                   
                     of
                     this
                     Honorable
                     Court
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   
                     
                       22
                       May
                       13.
                       
                       Car.
                       Regis
                       .
                    
                  
                   
                     Jo.
                     Arthur
                     Dep.
                     
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           VPon
           this
           strange
           Certificate
           of
           the
           Judges
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           answer
           was
           miserably
           mangled
           ,
           the
           whole
           body
           and
           substance
           of
           it
           being
           quite
           rased
           ,
           and
           nought
           but
           the
           head
           and
           feet
           left
           upon
           record
           ;
           whereby
           he
           was
           made
           to
           deny
           that
           to
           be
           done
           by
           him
           ,
           which
           he
           confessed
           and
           justified
           upon
           oath
           in
           his
           answer
           ,
           as
           it
           stood
           before
           this
           rasure
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           VVhereupon
           the
           examiner
           comming
           to
           Master
           
             Burton
          
           to
           the
           
             Fleet
             ,
          
           where
           he
           was
           close
           prisoner
           ,
           to
           examine
           him
           upon
           Interrogatories
           grounded
           on
           his
           answer
           ,
           he
           hearing
           of
           this
           expungement
           ,
           refused
           to
           be
           examined
           ,
           unlesse
           his
           answer
           might
           be
           admitted
           as
           it
           was
           put
           in
           ;
           or
           he
           permitted
           to
           put
           in
           a
           new
           answer
           ;
           he
           disclaiming
           this
           answer
           to
           be
           his
           ,
           since
           altered
           in
           all
           the
           materiall
           points
           tending
           to
           his
           justification
           and
           defence
           ,
           and
           turned
           from
           a
           
             speciall
             ,
          
           to
           a
           
             generall
             not-guilty
             ,
          
           necessarily
           involving
           him
           in
           the
           danger
           of
           periury
           :
           Of
           which
           the
           Court
           being
           informed
           by
           Mr.
           
             Attorney
             ,
          
           made
           this
           ensuing
           Order
           ,
           to
           take
           the
           Bill
           
             pro
             confesso
          
           against
           him
           ,
           only
           for
           not
           answering
           Interrogatories
           ;
           a
           thing
           never
           heard
           of
           before
           in
           that
           Court
           ,
           when
           there
           was
           an
           answer
           admitted
           .
        
         
           
             
               
               
                 
                   In
                   Camera
                   Stellata
                   coram
                   Concilio
                   Ibidem
                   ,
                   secundo
                   die
                   
                     Iulii
                     .
                  
                   Anno
                   decimo
                   tertio
                   Caroli
                   Regis
                   .
                
                 
                   UPon
                   information
                   this
                   day
                   ,
                   to
                   this
                   Honorable
                   Court
                   ,
                   by
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Attorney
                   Generall
                   ,
                   that
                   
                     Henry
                     Burton
                  
                   Clarke
                   defendant
                   at
                   his
                   suite
                   ,
                   being
                   served
                   with
                   Proces
                   ,
                   stood
                   forth
                   Proces
                   of
                   contempt
                   ,
                   and
                   would
                   not
                   be
                   drawne
                   to
                   answer
                   ,
                   untill
                   severall
                   orders
                   were
                   made
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   matters
                   of
                   the
                   Information
                   should
                   be
                   taken
                   against
                   them
                   as
                   
                     Pro
                     confesso
                     ,
                  
                   Unlesse
                   hee
                   did
                   answer
                   the
                   said
                   information
                   by
                   the
                   times
                   limitted
                   by
                   the
                   said
                   Order
                   ,
                   and
                   at
                   length
                   he
                   did
                   put
                   in
                   an
                   answer
                   stuffed
                   with
                   impertinent
                   ,
                   scandalous
                   matters
                   ,
                   which
                   upon
                   a
                   reference
                   to
                   the
                   two
                   Lords
                   chiefe
                   Justices
                   is
                   since
                   expunged
                   ,
                   and
                   Interrogatories
                   are
                   exhibited
                   into
                   Court
                   for
                   examination
                   of
                   the
                   said
                   defendant
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   examiner
                   ,
                   as
                   appeares
                   by
                   his
                   certificate
                   now
                   read
                   ,
                   hath
                   beene
                   with
                   him
                   to
                   take
                   his
                   examination
                   ,
                   but
                   he
                   refused
                   to
                   be
                   examined
                   ,
                   so
                   that
                   an
                   attachment
                   is
                   awarded
                   against
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   delivered
                   to
                   the
                   Warden
                   of
                   the
                   
                     Fleete
                     ,
                  
                   in
                   whose
                   custody
                   he
                   remaines
                   ,
                   A
                   close
                   pris●er
                   ;
                   It
                   was
                   humbly
                   prayed
                   that
                   the
                   matter
                   of
                   the
                   said
                   Information
                   ,
                   &
                   Interrogatories
                   may
                   be
                   taken
                   against
                   him
                   
                     Pro
                     confesso
                     .
                  
                   Upon
                   consideration
                   
                   whereof
                   the
                   Court
                   hath
                   ordered
                   ,
                   that
                   the
                   examiner
                   doe
                   goe
                   againe
                   unto
                   him
                   ,
                   and
                   if
                   hee
                   shall
                   not
                   thereupon
                   by
                   this
                   day
                   senight
                   answer
                   the
                   said
                   Interrogatories
                   ,
                   they
                   shall
                   be
                   taken
                   against
                   him
                   ,
                   
                     Pro
                     confesso
                     ,
                  
                   as
                   is
                   desired
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Jo.
                     Arthur
                     .
                     Dep.
                     
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           AFter
           this
           Order
           ,
           the
           examiner
           repaired
           againe
           to
           Master
           
             Burton
             ,
          
           who
           upon
           his
           former
           grounds
           ,
           (
           because
           hee
           had
           no
           answer
           in
           Court
           of
           his
           owne
           or
           his
           counsels
           ,
           but
           onely
           of
           the
           Judges
           making
           ,
           which
           he
           disclaimed
           for
           his
           ,
           and
           because
           his
           answer
           to
           the
           Interrogatories
           would
           contradict
           the
           generall
           answer
           of
           Not-guilty
           ,
           which
           the
           Judges
           had
           now
           made
           out
           of
           his
           speciall
           Not-guilty
           ;
           )
           refused
           to
           be
           examined
           ;
           and
           so
           though
           his
           answer
           were
           in
           Court
           as
           the
           Judges
           altered
           it
           ,
           yet
           for
           not
           answering
           to
           Interrogatories
           framed
           on
           it
           as
           it
           stood
           before
           its
           expungement
           ,
           the
           Information
           was
           taken
           against
           him
           
             Pro
             confesso
             ,
          
           and
           this
           order
           made
           at
           a
           prirate
           seale
           out
           of
           Terme
           ,
           to
           bring
           the
           cause
           to
           hearing
           upon
           one
           dayes
           warning
           onely
           given
           to
           the
           Defendants
           ,
           when
           as
           by
           the
           course
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           a
           
             Subpaena
             ad
             audiendum
             judicium
          
           should
           have
           beene
           served
           on
           them
           ,
           and
           15
           dayes
           warning
           at
           least
           given
           them
           before
           the
           day
           of
           hearing
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   Apud
                   Aedes
                   Domini
                   Custodis
                   magni
                   Sigilli
                   Angliae
                   ,
                   de
                   cimo
                   tertio
                   die
                   
                     Junii
                     ,
                  
                   Anno
                   decimo
                   tertio
                   Caroli
                   Regis
                   .
                
                 
                   IT
                   is
                   this
                   day
                   ordered
                   by
                   the
                   right
                   Honorable
                   the
                   Lord
                   Keeper
                   ,
                   that
                   
                     John
                     Bastwick
                     .
                  
                   Doctor
                   in
                   Physick
                   ,
                   
                     Henry
                     Burton
                     ,
                  
                   &c.
                   
                   
                     William
                     Prynne
                  
                   
                   Gentlemen
                   defendants
                   at
                   the
                   suite
                   of
                   his
                   Majesties
                   Atturney
                   Generall
                   ,
                   shall
                   have
                   liberty
                   with
                   their
                   keepers
                   to
                   attend
                   their
                   councell
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   appeare
                   at
                   the
                   Barre
                   of
                   this
                   Court
                   on
                   wednesday
                   the
                   14.
                   of
                   this
                   instant
                   moneth
                   ,
                   when
                   the
                   cause
                   is
                   appointed
                   to
                   be
                   heard
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     Jo.
                     Arthur
                     Dep.
                     
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           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
             .
          
           Whereupon
           Master
           
             Prynne
          
           caries
           it
           signed
           with
           Master
           
             Tomlins
          
           hand
           to
           the
           Star-Chamber
           Office
           ,
           where
           hee
           tendred
           it
           to
           Master
           
             Goad
             ,
          
           together
           with
           another
           longer
           answer
           signed
           with
           his
           owne
           hand
           ,
           and
           an
           
             Affidavit
             ,
          
           that
           hee
           could
           not
           possibly
           procure
           his
           counsells
           hand
           to
           his
           answer
           before
           that
           time
           ;
           But
           Master
           
             Goad
          
           advising
           with
           his
           deputy
           ▪
           refused
           to
           receave
           either
           the
           answers
           or
           
             Affidavit
             ,
          
           though
           earnestly
           pressed
           to
           it
           by
           Master
           
             Prynne
             :
          
           who
           thereupon
           returned
           with
           his
           answers
           to
           the
           Tower
           ;
           and
           prepared
           himselfe
           for
           the
           hearing
           the
           next
           morning
           ,
           resolving
           ,
           that
           since
           he
           was
           thus
           fore
           judged
           ,
           and
           taken
           
             pro
             confesso
             ,
          
           upon
           a
           meere
           false
           pretence
           of
           a
           contempt
           in
           refusing
           to
           answer
           ,
           to
           speake
           nothing
           ,
           but
           what
           
           the
           Court
           should
           give
           him
           occasion
           when
           he
           appeared
           at
           the
           Barre
           ;
           Doctor
           
             Bastwick
             ,
          
           and
           Master
           
             Burton
          
           taking
           up
           the
           like
           resolution
           ;
           because
           they
           were
           certainly
           informed
           ,
           that
           whatever
           they
           spake
           ,
           their
           sentence
           was
           already
           determined
           ,
           and
           set
           downe
           in
           writing
           before
           the
           hearing
           came
           ,
           all
           being
           thus
           taken
           
             pro
             confesso
          
           as
           you
           have
           heard
           and
           seene
           by
           the
           former
           orders
           .
        
         
           Thus
           I
           have
           given
           you
           a
           faithfull
           relation
           of
           the
           proceedings
           in
           this
           cause
           before
           the
           hearing
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           
             Orders
          
           and
           Records
           of
           the
           Star-Chamber
           ,
           the
           legality
           whereof
           you
           shall
           finde
           discussed
           in
           the
           close
           of
           this
           Treatise
           ;
           Now
           before
           I
           come
           to
           the
           day
           of
           hearing
           ,
           give
           me
           leave
           to
           acquaint
           you
           onely
           with
           one
           particular
           touching
           Master
           
             Holt
             ,
          
           hee
           being
           sharply
           checked
           and
           terrified
           for
           drawing
           and
           signing
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           answer
           ,
           and
           charged
           not
           to
           signe
           Master
           
             Prinnes
          
           answer
           when
           hee
           had
           drawne
           it
           ,
           as
           you
           have
           heard
           before
           ,
           was
           much
           troubled
           at
           it
           ;
           and
           being
           in
           Court
           at
           the
           hearing
           the
           next
           day
           ,
           he
           offered
           two
           or
           three
           times
           to
           speake
           something
           in
           defence
           of
           Master
           
             Burtons
          
           cause
           ;
           which
           the
           then
           Lord
           Keeper
           perceiving
           ,
           beckoned
           and
           held
           up
           his
           finger
           to
           him
           to
           hold
           his
           peace
           ,
           whereupon
           hee
           kept
           silence
           .
           And
           comming
           home
           to
           his
           house
           ,
           as
           soone
           as
           the
           sentence
           was
           passed
           ,
           his
           wife
           inquiring
           of
           him
           how
           the
           cause
           went
           ;
           he
           broke
           out
           into
           these
           speeches
           .
           
             O
             wife
             ,
             I
             never
             saw
             a
             just
             cause
             ,
             so
             unjustly
             caried
             ,
             which
             I
             could
             have
             defended
             by
             Scripture
             against
             all
             the
             World
             .
             I
             had
             a
             great
             desire
             to
             speake
             in
             the
             cause
             for
             my
             client
             ,
             but
             my
             Lord
             Keeper
             beckened
             and
             held
             up
             his
             finger
             to
             me
             ▪
             to
             hold
             my
             peace
             :
             And
             the
             poore
             Gentlemen
             have
             received
             the
             most
             unjust
             ,
             and
             hardest
             censure
             ,
             that
             ever
             I
             heard
             in
             that
             Court
             .
             For
             my
             owne
             part
             ,
             I
             gave
             over
             my
             practise
             in
             other
             Courts
             ,
             and
             be
             tooke
             my selfe
             wholy
             to
             this
             Court
             to
             enjoy
             the
             liberty
             of
             my
             conscience
             ,
             thinking
             to
             finde
             nothing
             but
             Iustice
             ,
             and
          
           
           
             just
             proceedings
             there
             :
             But
             now
             alas
             J
             finde
             things
             so
             carried
             there
             ,
             that
             for
             this
             dayes
             worke
             sake
             ,
             I
             desire
             never
             to
             come
             more
             to
             that
             Barre
             ,
             J
             desire
             of
             God
             ,
             that
             this
             may
             be
             the
             last
             cause
             that
             ever
             I
             may
             plead
             in
             that
             Court
             ,
             which
             hath
             partly
             miscarried
             through
             my
             default
             (
             as
             I
             am
             affraid
             most
             will
             judge
             )
             though
             I
             durst
             not
             doe
             otherwise
             ,
             beeing
             so
             checked
             and
             threatned
             .
          
           This
           sayd
           ,
           he
           continued
           sad
           ,
           and
           soone
           after
           falling
           sicke
           for
           conceit
           only
           of
           the
           miscarriage
           of
           this
           cause
           (
           as
           his
           wife
           &
           friends
           beleeved
           )
           hee
           died
           ;
           never
           going
           to
           the
           Star-Chamber
           after
           this
           sentence
           :
           the
           proceedings
           and
           passages
           whereof
           ,
           I
           shall
           next
           relate
           .
        
         
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A70870e-600
           
             *
             Qui
             malè
             facit
             malè
             audit
             .
          
           
             *
             Acts
             20.
             28.
             29.
             
             Matth
             7.
             15.
             
          
           
             *
             See
             
               Fox
            
             Act●●
             Monuments
             v●l
             .
             1.
             p.
             ●26
             .
             Ed●t
             .
             ult.
          
           
             *
             
               Prov.
            
             26
             ,
             27.
             
               c.
            
             28.
             10.
             
             
               Psal.
            
             7.
             15
             ,
             16.
             
             
               Psal.
            
             9.
             15
             ,
             16.
             
             Psal.
             124.
             7.
             
             
               Psal.
            
             140.
             9.
             10
             ,
             11.
             
          
           
             *
             Psal.
             20.
             8.
             
          
           
             *
             Iudges
             1.
             7.
             
          
           
             *
             Pro.
             1.
             16.
             18.
             
          
           
             *
             Prov.
             28.
             17
             
          
           
             *
             Psal.
             3.
             7
             ,
             5
             ,
             6.
             
          
           
             *
             Exodus
             15.
             11.
             
          
           
             *
             Psal.
             126
             2
             ,
             3
             ,
          
        
         
           Notes for div A70870e-1340
           
             *
             This
             Archb.
             at
             the
             delivery
             of
             the
             rule
             for
             Master
             
               Prynnes
            
             prohibitiō
             was
             so
             extreamly
             enraged
             ,
             that
             he
             and
             some
             3.
             or
             4.
             
             Bishops
             more
             rose
             and
             went
             out
             of
             their
             Court
             (
             then
             kept
             in
             the
             Consistory
             at
             Pauls
             )
             in
             a
             Fury
             ,
             saying
             
               they
               would
               immediatly
               repaire
               to
               the
               King
               ,
               &
               make
               a
               bolt
               ,
               or
               a
               shaft
               of
               it
               ;
            
             using
             many
             angry
             words
             ;
             and
             threatning
             to
             lay
             M.
             
               Prynne
            
             by
             the
             heels
             for
             delivering
             the
             Rule
             .
          
           
             *
             Mr.
             
               H.
               I.
            
             that
             first
             presented
             ,
             &
             shewed
             the
             booke
             to
             the
             King
             ,
             was
             a
             few
             moneths
             after
             committed
             prisoner
             to
             the
             Tower
             for
             begetting
             one
             of
             the
             actors
             of
             this
             pastorall
             with
             child
             soone
             after
             it
             was
             acted
             ,
             and
             making
             a
             reall
             commentary
             on
             M.
             
               Prynnes
            
             misapplyed
             text
             ,
             both
             the
             Actresse
             ,
             and
             he
             for
             this
             cause
             be
             ▪
             comming
             M.
             
               Prynnes
            
             fellow
             prisoners
             in
             the
             Tower
             ,
             A
             strange
             providence
             ▪
             and
             worthy
             observation
             
          
           
             *
             Pag.
             671
             to
             ●78
             .
          
           
             *
             What
             Law
             is
             there
             for
             you
             to
             false
             ,
             and
             dispose
             of
             the
             Books
             of
             mens
             studies
             ,
             against
             whom
             nosuites
             are
             péding
             before
             you
             ?
             Or
             with
             what
             face
             can
             you
             pretend
             Law
             ,
             when
             you
             doe
             directly
             against
             law
             ?
          
           
             *
             The
             〈◊〉
             and
             first
             〈◊〉
             in
             all
             the
             warrants
             .
          
           
             *
             Which
             Act
             the
             Parliament
             hath
             resolved
             to
             bee
             against
             Law
             ,
             and
             that
             Serjeants
             at
             Armes
             〈◊〉
             breake
             open
             mens
             hous●●
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Canterbury
            
             himselfe
             and
             
               Str●fford
               ,
            
             though
             accused
             and
             committed
             by
             the
             Parliament
             for
             high
             Treason
             ,
             had
             far
             more
             liberty
             ,
             and
             were
             not
             close
             imprisoned
             ,
             as
             they
             committed
             others
             .
          
           
             *
             God
             forbid
             he
             should
             have
             so
             much
             favour
             ,
             being
             in
             disfavour
             with
             the
             Prelates
             .
          
           
             *
             Yea
             ,
             and
             have
             their
             lives
             taken
             away
             .
          
           
             *
             This
             Pursevant
             was
             ,
             so
             officious
             that
             hee
             searched
             Mr.
             
             
               Prynnes
            
             foule
             close-stoole
             ,
             though
             Master
             
               Nicholas
            
             wished
             him
             to
             forbeare
             ,
             where
             he
             found
             nothing
             but
             a
             fitting
             Nosegay
             to
             recompence
             his
             industry
             .
          
           
             1.
             
          
           
             2.
             
          
           
             3.
             
          
           
             4.
             
          
           
             5.
             
          
           
             6.
             
          
           
             7.
             
          
           
             8.
             
          
           
             9.
             
          
           
             Master
             
               Prynnes
            
             second
             petition
             to
             the
             Lords
             .
          
           
             *
             It
             should
             here
             be
             his
             injustice
             rather
             .
          
           
             *
             The
             Parliament
             hath
             now
             resolved
             this
             for
             a
             truth
             ,
             however
             ,
             the
             Court
             of
             Star-Ch●mber
             or
             Judges
             determined
             contrary
             in
             favour
             of
             the
             prelate●
             .
          
           
             *
             Why
             not
             by
             the
             defendants
             too
             ,
             to
             heare
             what
             they
             could
             say
             .
          
           
             1.
             
          
           
             2.
             
          
           
             3.
             
          
           
             *
             It
             is
             a
             strange
             age
             when
             his
             Majesties
             own
             sworne
             counsell
             ,
             must
             thus
             be
             of
             counsell
             with
             the
             prelates
             against
             the
             King
             contrary
             t●
             their
             o●●h
             ,
             ●nd
             promote
             their
             ●ncroachments
             upon
             his
             prer●g●tive
             Roy
             ●ll
             .
          
           
             *
             A
             strange
             president
             and
             motion
             ,
             I
             think
             no
             age
             can
             sh●w
             the
             like
             .
          
           
             *
             It
             is
             fit
             it
             should
             end
             as
             well
             as
             begin
             with
             him
             .
          
           
             *
             It
             seemes
             then
             they
             are
             no
             one
             of
             the
             Kings
             Courts
             ,
             because
             they
             have
             neither
             his
             name
             nor
             Image
             .
          
           
             *
             Note
             .
          
           
             *
             Master
             
               Holt
            
             the
             ancientest
             practisar
             in
             the
             Court
             then
             living
             ,
             Master
             
               Bartons
            
             assigned
             counsell
             was
             very
             much
             over-seene
             ,
             if
             all
             his
             answer
             but
             this
             (
             consisting
             of
             40.
             sheets
             of
             paper
             at
             least
             )
             was
             scandalous
             and
             impertinent
             .