A Brief Memento 3, Title page – Ordinance
A BRIEFE MEMENTO To the present VN-PARLIAMENTARY IUNTO, Touching their present Intentions and Proceedings, to Depose & Execute CHARLES STEWARD, their lawfull KING.
By William Prynne Esquire, a Member of the House of Commons, and Prisoner under the Armies Tyranny; who, it seemes, have Levyed War against the Houses of Parliament, their quandam-Mastersswhose Members they now forcibly take and detaine Captives, during their lawfull Pleasur….
PROV. 24. 21, 23. My Sonne, Feare thou the Lord and the King, and m…ddle not with those who are given to Change: For their calamitie shall Rise Suddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of them both?
GAL. 1. 10. If I yet pleased men, I shou'd not be the Servant of Christ.
LONDON, Printed Anno Dom. 1648.
Die Veneris, 20. August. 1647.
An Ordinance for declaring all Votes, Orders, and Ordinances, passed in one or both Houses, since the force on both Houses, Iuly 26. untill the sixth of this present August, 1647. to be null and voyd.
VVHereas there was a Visible, Horrid, Insolent, and Actuall sorce upon the Houses of Parliament, on Munda… the 26. of July last, wherupon the Speakers, and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were*And yet never Member was then forcibly imprisond orseclused the House as above 200. are now by the Army. forced to absent themselves from the Service of the Parliament; and whereas those Members of the House could not return to sit in safety before Friday the sixt of August: It is therefore declared by the Lords & Commons in Parliament Assembled, That the Ordinance of Munday the said 26. of July, for the repealing and making voyd of the Ordinance of the 23. of the said July, for the setling of the … of the Citie 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 sixt 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. Provided alwayes, and be it Ordained, That no person or persons shall be Impeached or punished for his or their actions by, or upon, or according to the aforesaid Votes, Orders, or Ordinances, unlesse he or they shall be found guiltie of contriving, acting, or abetting the aforefaid visible and actuall force, or being present at, or knowing of the said force, did afterwards act upon the Votes so forced or were guilty of entring into, or promoting the late Ingagement for bringing the King to the Citie, upon the …armes and conditions expressed in his Majesties Letter of the 12. of May last.
John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum: