A Brief Memento 2, Title page – Ordinance
A BRIEF MEMENTO To the preſent UNPARLIAMENTARY JUNCTO, Touching their preſent intentions and Proceedings to Depoſe and Execute, CHARLES STUART their lawful KING.
By WILLIAM PRYNNE Eſquire: a Member of the Houſe of Commons, and Priſoner under the Armies Tyranny: who it ſeems, have leavyed Warre againſt the Houſes of Parliament, their quondam Maſters; whoſe Members they now forcibly take and detain Captives, during their lawleſs Pleaſures
Proverbs 24.21,22.
My Son, Fear thou the Lord and the King, and meddle not with thoſe who are given to Change: for their calamity ſhall RISE SUDDENLY, and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
Gal. 1.10.
If I yet pleaſed men, I ſhould not be the Servant of Chriſt.
LONDON, Printed Anno Dom. 1649.
Die Veneris 20. Auguſti, 1647.
An Ordinance for declaring all Votes, Orders, and Ordinances paſſed in one or both Houſes, ſince the force on both Houſes, July 26. until the ſixth of this preſent Auguſt, 1647. to be null and void.
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 *And yet never a Member forcibly impriſoned or ſecluded 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 Fryday the ſixth of Auguſt: It is therefore declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament aſſembled, that the Ordinance of Monday the ſaid 26. July, for the repealing and making void of 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 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 alwaies, 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, unleſs he or they ſhall be found guilty of contriving, acting, or abetting the aforeſaid viſible and actual 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 City, upon the terms and conditions expreſſed in his Majeſties Letter of the 12. of May laſt.
John Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.