1 WHether their inhuman, uncivil, unchristian, and injurious forcible exclusion of the 22. worthy eminent Mem­bers of the House, who on the 27 of Decemb. last resort­ed thither to claim their own, the other Members, and Peoples Rights, and discharge th [...]ir Trusts for the Peace and Settlement of our Churches and Kingdoms, miserably rent, and almost irrecoverably ruined by their exorbitant Jesuitical Ʋsurpations, Innovations, and Councils; giving express Orders both to their Serjeant, Door­keepers, and Military Gards, to keep all the old secured, or secluded Members, (be­ing above 200. yet living, had they been all present with those 22. repair­ing suddenly thither, upon the rumour of their clandestine sitting, concealed from all but their engaged Confederates:) not only out of the House it self, but th [...] [...]ry Lobby, into which the meanest Commoner, Waterman of England, and all others have, and then had free access; and shutting them out of both, by loc [...]g and bolting the Doors against them, and sending them all thence with highest neglect, after two hours att [...]ndance, without deigning to take the least notice of them (as * they have at large rela [...]ed,) paralle [...]'d with their former seclusions in May 7th▪ and [...]th. last, by force of Arms, and levying war a­gainst [...] elsewhere, as Traytors, only for raising [...] again, by their command [...] [...] [Page 2] all the old Members; be not a more direct, professed levying war against the Parliament, far higher Treason, and more transcendent breach of Privilege and Trust, than ever the late King▪ the Lord Capel, or other Persons beheaded or sequestred by them were guilty of, in levying War against the Parliament and their forces only at a great distance from the House, not at the House doores against their Members: or the Exact Col­lection, P. 37, to 78. Kings comming in Person to the Commons House, with his Gard and Attendants armed only with Halberts, Swords, and Pistols, (not with armed Troops of Horse and Bands of Foot as they) Jan. 4. 1641. and placing them in the Lobby, soly to demand 5. Members impeach­ed by him of High Treason three daies before, without seising or secluding them, or any other Members; expiated by his subsequent acknowledgement and Re­tractation of this his breach of Privilege, only through mistake, by two spe­cial Messages, January the 13th. and 14th. by giving satisfaction for it to both Houses; and promising assurance to the Parliament, and both Houses, to be for the future, as carefull of their Privileges, as of his Life, or his Crown; They having even after this his ingenuous Satisfaction, the Appren­tices transitory unarmed force, July 26. 1647. which they voted Treason; and Cromwels, and Lamberts successive forcible excluding of themselves April 20▪ 1653▪ and October 13. last, which they branded to be Treasonable, and Tyrannical, outstripped them all, by their special Orders to their Guards, and Officers, to exclude all old secluded Members, and avowing it, when acted and complained of by the Members, without the least Retractation, Re­dresse, or Notice taken of this, or any former forcible Exclusion [...], Impri­sonments, and Restraints of above 200▪ Members at once, besides the whole house of Peers, when themselves are not yet above 43▪ in Number, and 7. of those no legal Members of the old Commons House. And whether this doth not render them Enemies to the Commonwealth, and to the Peace and State of this Kingdom, by the House of Commons expresse Declaration, Jan. 5 1641?

2. Whether it be not a most impudent and insolent Presumption in them, to raise the Militia of Westminster, and Middlesex to guard themselves in the House, and yet forcibly to keep out Serjant Glyn, and Mr. Bell, their own two Burgesses for Westmi [...]ster, and Sr. Gilbert Gerard, the sole sur­viving Knight of the S [...]ier for Middlesex, and the Militiaes of 2 of whose 3. Citizens, Sir Thomas Some, and Mr. Vassal are for­cibly▪ seclu­ded, as are both the Knights of He [...]tfordshire, Surry. Gloce­stershire, Northamptonshire, and most other Counti [...] ▪ London, and most other Cities, Boroughs, and Counties of England, to exclude their own Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of the old Parliament out of the House, that they may Tax, Oppresse and Domineer over them, at their Pleasure; And a Treachery, beyond all President, for them to imploy the Army, first Raised, Commissioned, Intrusted, Engaged by their Commissi­ons, Parliament Ordinances, Votes, Declarations, the Protestation [...], League and Covenant, to defend [...]nd protect the Members and Privileges of Parliament, from all force and violence whatsoever, to sit and Act fr [...]ely in the Houses, without disturbance: to keep three Parts of four of their fellow Members out of the Hou [...] and the whole House of Peers, by meer force and will, without any hearing or impeachment; and to impose intollerable uncessant Taxes, both on the Lords, and secluded Members, and all Counties, Cities Boroughs, for which they serve; only to keep themselves in forcible posession within the [Page 3] House; and seclude them forcibly out of it? Whether it be not a most Sottish, Brutish Servility, Baseness, Treachery, Infatuation for these Counties, Cities, Boroughs Militias and Mercinary forces, thus to Guard this Trayterous, (& now Infamous, Odious) Rump, to domineer over themselves, and the Majo­rity of the excluded Members and Lords in the House, and to keep them by their Treasonable armed force, & Void Orders, out of it? Whether it be not both their Duty, Honour, Honesty, Interest, and only means of Ease, Peace, Settle­ment, Revival of Trade, and restoring the lost Honour of our Nation, Reli­gion, and the Rights, Freedom, Privileges, Liberties of our Parliaments, and King­dom; Now to joyn all their Forces and Endeavours, to restore all the seclu­ded Members, Dishouse these Forcible Ʋsurpers, and bring them to publick Justice▪ for their present and past high Treasons, since they obstinately per­severe in them, without the least Shadow of Repentance or Satisfaction to the People, or the secluded Members: witness their new Oath of Abjuration, Jan. 2. And to obey the secluded Lords and Members, Orders, and desires, be­ing the Parliament) rather than their treasonable and illegal Votes?

3. Whether all the secluded Members for this their last forcible contemp­tuous seclusion, without any Answer or Reparations from the sitting Rump, have not a juster cause, and more reason now to adjorn themselves, into the City of London, and to sit there as a Committee or House by the Cities invitation, Garded by their Militia and the Militiaes of Westminster, Middlesex, Herfordshire, Essex, & other Counties, whose Knights and Burgesses, are now forcibly excluded; til this higher force, & breach of their Privileges than in any age be redressed by publick Declarations against it, and exemplary punishments, the fo [...]ce at Westm. quite removed, and they enabled to sit and act there in † Exact col­lection, p. 37▪ 38, &c.Peace and safety; then both Hauses had to adjourn into London by the Cities invitation * Jan. 5. 1641. upon the Kings coming to the Houses to demand the 5. Impeached Mmbers, and Lord Kymbolton, without s [...]izing them, or se­cluding others, a small breach of Privilege in respect of theirs? And whe­ther Sr. Arthur Haslerig (one of the 5. impeached Members then, Ring-leader of the Rump, and their forces now) can in Justice, Honour, or Conscience, op­pose them and Denzil Hollis (another of the impeached and secluded Mem­bers) therein now; it being warranted by the president of both Houses then, as an incumbent duty on them and the City too (who gained much honor and respect from the Parliament and Kingdom thereby;) pointed out unto them by their own Vote December 27. To take into Consideration the case of all absent Members, on the 5 ^th. day of January next, being the very day of the Month both Houses 1641. upon the Kings breach of their Privileges in demanding the Impeached Members, made a Particular Declaraeion against it as a high breach of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament, and Inconsistent with the Freedom and Liberty thereof; and thereupon adjourned themselves into the Guild-Hall in London, to sit and act as a Committee, which they did till both the breach of their Privileges was fully vindicated, their Members repaired, and brought back to the House by the City & Watermen, in Triumph, to sit in Safety, without securing, or secluding afterwards. This their Vote by a Miraculous providence referring to this very day, and occasion, full 18 years after it, and the Remonstrance on it, declaring them Publick Enemies, and to be pro­ceded against as such for this high breach of Privilege.

[Page 4] 4. Whether it be not the extremity of Tyranny, Injustice, and Violation of Parliament Rights and Privileges, for a few guilty Members who have viola­ted all Oaths, Protestations, Covenants, Vows, Declarations, Trusts, Privileges in the superlative degree, by meer armed force & will, to exclude above 3▪ times their number of untainted Members, before the least legal accusation, impeachment, bearing, tryal, evidence, or calling them into the House, or to the Bar there­of, to hear or answer any Charge against them? When as by the Laws of God, Nature, Nations, the Great Charter, the fundamental Laws of the Land, the usual course of Justice in every Judicature whatsoever, and the Law and Custom▪ of Parliament, no person whatsoever, much less any Member of Parliament, least of all the Majority of the Members, may or ought to be tryed, convic­cted, judged, sentenced, disfranchised, or deprived of his persor al, much less his publick Parliamentary Franchise, Liberty and Privilege, without a lawfull Summons, Accusation, Indictment, Impeachment, Tryal, hearing, Convic­tion, by his own confession or evidence, upon his Personal appearance in Court, or at the Bar of the House: It being resolved in the Parliaments of 28 E. 3. rot. Parl. n. 7, &c. & 29 E. 3. n. 29. that the Judgement given against Roger Mortymer in the Parliament of 4 E. 3. n. 1. upon 14. particular Articles of Impeachment of High Treason in murdering King Edward the 2d. after his deposing, forcing the Parliament at Salisbury, driving away some Lords from thence, and other Great Crimes, was erroneous and illegal, and there­upon nulled and reversed; because, though the Articles were true and notori­ous, yet he himself was never brought personally to the Bar to answer them, nor heard before or when they gave judgement against him. Therefore much lesse ought so many innocent, eminent Members to be forcibly secluded, and kept out of the House before any Articles exhibited, hearing, or tryal in the House, by a few guilty Members, thus prejudging and excluding them, and the whole House of Peers, (over whom they have no colour of Jurisdiction) for sear of being legally impeached by them if admitted, for their enormous Crimes?

5. Whether these peccant Members high Treasons, in usurping and ingros­sing to themselves alone the divided and united Supream Authority of the King, Lords, and whole Commons House assembled in Parliament, in vo­ting down, secluding, and engaging against the King, and house of Lords, contrary to the express tenor of the Kings Writs, Indentures, Oaths, and the Act of 17 Car. by which they pretend to sit; and their former and late levying war against the secluded Membets and Lords House, in imprisoning some, and keeping others of them out of the House by armed Gards, against their Rights, Privileges, and the Declaration of the whole House, 5 January 1641. upon the Kings demanding the 5. impeached Members, and their own vo­tes, in the case of their own Seclusions by Cromwell, Harrison and Lambert, be not the highest breach of their Trusts, and all Parliments Privileges, Rights, and Freedom, for which in Law, Justice, Reason, and Conscience too, they have absolutely for feited their Memberships, and future sitting in the House▪ from which they may and ought to be perpetually disfranchised by judgement of the se­cluded Members, it being against the Duty of a Citizen, Burgess, and Mem­ber of Parliament, to the prejudice and subversion of the Parliament, House, (yea Cities and Boroughs too,) whereof they are Members, and to their [Page 5] Oaths, Protestation and Covenant which they took as Members, according to the Resolutions in James Baggs Case, Cook 11. Rep. f. 98, 99. Littleton, Sect. 378, 379. Cooks 1 Instit. f. 233, 234. & 4 Instit. p. 23, 43? Whether some for le [...]ser Treasons and Crimes than these, have not had their Heads and Quarters set upon the top of the Parliament house, instead of sitting as Members in it; and the late King lost his head by their own Judgement for smaller breaches of Privileges, and less dangerous Wars against the Parlia­ment and Members than themselves are guilty of? Whether it will not be juster, equaller, and more beneficial to the People and Army, for the seclu­ded Lords and Members to confiscate and sequester all their real and perso­nal Estates for discharge of all publick Debts and Souldiers Arrears, which they have contracted, only to keep up and maintain their usurped Antipar­liamentary Conventicles, and exclude the greatest part of the Members and Lords out of the Parliament by force: than to confiscate and sequester Sir Geo. Booths, or other Members and Commoners real and personal Estates, for endeavouring to remove the force which keeps them out; and to impose il­legal Taxes, Excises, Militiaes, Oaths, both on the Lords, the secluded Mem­bers, and all Counties, Cities and Boroughs whom they represent▪ to exclude them out of Parliament?

6. Whether the Declaration of August 26. 1647. made upon the Speaker Lenthals, and other Members clandestine departure to the Army, upon the Apprentices unarmed tumult, and his leading up the Army, first of all to the House, to commit a greater force upon it, by driving away, securing, imprisoning and secluding sundry eminent Members, (for which he de­serves to be their present General) Whereas there was a visible, horrid, insolent and actual force upon the Houses of Parliament, on Monday the 26. of July last, whereupon the Speakers, and many Members of both Houses of Parliament, were forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament, and whereas those Members could not return to sit in safety before Friday the 6. of August: It is therefore declared, by the Lords and Commons, in Parliament assembled, that the Ordinance of Monday the said 26. of July, for the repealing and making void the Ordinance of the 23. of the said July, for the setling of the Militia of the City of London, being gained by force and violence: and all Votes, Orders, Ordinances, passed in either, or both Houses of Parliament, since the said Ordinance of the 26. of July, to the said 6 th. of August, are Null and Void, and were so at the making thereof, and are hereby declared so to be; the Parliament being under a force, and not free; Doth not absolutely declare, adjudge and resolve, all the Rumps Votes, Acts, Orders, Ordinances, Proceedings touching the Militia of London, Westminster, and other Counties; Excises, Customs, Monthly Contributions, Indem­nities, Pardons, and all other Matters; or for sec [...]uding or suspending any Member, and whole House of Peers from sitting, their Treasonable perju­rious Ingagement, and Oath of Abjuration▪ to be all Null and Void, at the mak­ing thereof; and so no waies obliging the City, Kingdom, Nation, secluded Peers, or Members in the least degree, since the force upon both Houses, securing, secluding of above 200. Commons, yet living, continued from Dec. [Page 6] 6. 1648. till Apr. 20. 1653. and from May 7. 1659. till Octob. 13. and now again by the Rumps special Order and Command, from Dec. 27. till this instant▪

And that upon t hese Considerations, and parallels of the force then, with the successive forces since upon the House and secluded Members.

1. The Apprentices force July 26. 1647. was without arms: theirs by armed Gards and Souldiers. 2ly. Transitory, but for 2. or 3. hours: theirs permanent for sundry whole Months and years. 3ly. That without the privity or approbation of the House: theirs by the Rumps privity, order and command. 4ly. That upon just provocation, to repeal an Ordinance, to alter the Militia of London, gotten by practice and surprize of some Ar­my Officers, without the Cities privity, to betray and sever it from the Parliament, and reduce both under the Armies power: Theirs upon mere design and will without provocation, to destroy the King, Lords, KIng­dom, Parliament, alter the Government, and usurp the perpetual Parlia­mentary and Supream Legislative, Civil and Military Power of our 3. Kingdoms into their own hands. 5ly. They secluded never a Lord, nor Commoner by force: these not only exclude, but vote down, debar and engage against the whole House of Lords, and three parts of four of the Commons House (above 200. of them still living) against their Protesta­tion, Vow, League, Covenant, former Votes, Orders, Ordinances, the Act of 16 Car. ch. 1. & 17 Car. c. 6. the Writs and Indentures by which they pretend to sit. 6ly. The Members pretended to be forced away by the Apprentices, were not above 25 or 30 who went not away til 3. daies after the force, by an invitation from the Army-Officers, against the House will and privity, the Members forcibly secluded and then secured 300. and now above 200. besides the Peers, are kept out against their wills, both by the Rumps privity and command, from discharging their Duties. 7ly. That force was never reiterated by the Apprentices: this acted six times actu­ally over and over against the secluded Members. 8ly. That was accompani­ed only with a pretended terror in a few Members: this with an actual for­cible seclusion of above 200. an imprisonment of more than 45. Members sundry weeks, months, and close imprisonment of others ofthem in remote Castles without hea [...]ing or tryal divers years: and with subsequent impri­sonments, and close imprisonments since for refusing the Engagement, and a proclaiming others of them Traytors in all Counties, Cities, Corporati­ons, Churches and Chapels, only for raising forces to bring in all the seclu­ded Members, and procure a FREE PARLIAMENT, for which some are now close Prisoners, and their Estates sequestred. 9ly. The Ordinances, Votes, and Orders, declared nul and void by this Ordinance, were made and passed by near three hundred Commoners, without any▪ Gards or Or­der to keep out the Speakers, and those fugitive Members who voluntarily repaired to the Armie: and ratified by the House of Lords then sitting without Gards to seclude any Peer or Member; Their Orders, Votes, Ordinances from Decemb. 26. 1648. till Apr. 20. 1653. and May, 7 til Octob. 13. were seldom made by above 40 or 50 Commoners at most without the House of Peers; and those now sitting under a force to keep [Page 7] out the secluded Members & Peers, when they made their last Votes, Acts, Orders Decem. 26, and 27. were but 43. at most, whereof 7. or 8. were no legal Members. Therfore upon all these considerations both by the Speakers own printed Letter, July 29. and this Ordinance, all Votes, Orders, Ordi­nances▪ and Acts of the Rump▪ (the Parliament being under such a horrid, actual, visible, reiterated, approved, commanded armed force, and so many Members forcibly secluded and restrained) must needs be void and null to all intents at their very making, and no waies to be owned or obeyed (as the secluded House of Lords, and Majority of the secluded Commons House, have oft publickly declare to our 3. Nations, and the world) and nothing is or can be valid or legal which they shall order or impose before all the secluded Members be restored, without any new test or restriction to sit, act, and vote with that ancient freedom and safety, which of right belongs unto them.

7. Whether their present Speaker, now▪a monstrous Plurality, Monopoly, Medly of sundry inconsistent Greatest Offices of Honor, Power and Trust, being both sole Lord▪Keeper of their Great Seal, sole Lord General of the Armies by Land, sole Lord Admiral of the Navie by Sea, sole Lord Warden of the Ports, sole Gardian of the Liberties of England, sole Master of the Rolls, sole Speaker of the Commons House at first, and of the two Rumps since its dissolution, and sole visible Head of their Ʋtopian and Harringtonian projec­ted Commonwealth in his political, and as strange a Compound in his ethical capa­city, though but a single Person in his natural; be not a sutable Speaker for that monstrous Rump now sitting, compacted mostly of Members of the Old Parliament, elected and sitting by vertue of the Kings Writs, for the defence of Him and his Realm of England, and to do and consént to such things as by the common advice and council of the Prelates, Lords, and Great men of the Realm should be ordaiued; and yet destroying, engaging, and now swearing against both King, Kingship, Kingdom, Peerage, and House of Lords, and seclud­ing all Members engaging not with them therein: cre [...]ting and stiling themselves the Supreme Authority of the Common▪wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland too, by what chymistry and Right is yet unknown, being at fir [...] by the Writs, Indentures and Act by which they sit, but Members of the Com­mons house in the Parliament of the King and Realm of England: Next of some new additional Members, by writs in the name and under the Seal of the Gardians of their yet unshaped Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ire­land; who peece together with the former, like the feet and legs of Nebuchad­nezzars Image, which were part of Iron, and part of Clay; and lastly, the rear of this Rump, is made up of the doating old Earl of Salisbury, and lunatick young Earl of Pembrook, who have degraded themselves of their Peerage, and be­come baser than the basest Commoners, to be the Tayl of this strange hetero­general Monster. Whether their continuing obstinate, and incorrigible in their Tyrannies, Treasons, Ʋsurpations, forcible Exclusions of the Lords, & these their fellow Members, notwithstanding all their former and late Dissipations by the Army-Officers, the unsafety of their present Condition, the General dis­pleasure of the whole Kingdom, secluded Lords, Commons, and most part of the Officers and Souldiers against them; the wonderful Providences and [Page 8] Rebukes of God himself from Heaven; the Admonitions, Intreaties, desires of their friends; the secluded Members, City, Country, and our 3. Nati­ons, and their adding drunkenness to thirst, in voting a New Oath of Abjuration Jan. 2. to keep out all the secluded Members, and aggravate their former for­cible seclusion in the highest extremity, instead of repairing, or repenting it, and deprive them of all possibility of re-admission to sit and vote together with them in freedom and safety, Be not a certain symptom that they are now ripe for another total and final ejection, by some wonderfull Divine Providence or other, to the deserved ruine of their usurped Anti-Parliamentary power, Persons, Families, Estates, if not of their very souls; seeing God himself hath spoken, Nay sworn, and will most certainly perform it; That those who fear not God, nor the King, and are given to Change, and being often reproved, harden their necks and hearts too, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without re­medy: and shall never enter into his rest, Prov. 24. 21, 22. ch. 29. 1. Psal. 98. 8, 11.