Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2, Title page – Errata
The firſt and Second Part of A SEASONABLE, LEGAL, AND HISTORICALL VINDICATION, AND Chronological COLLECTION of the Good, Old, Fundamentall Liberties, Franchiſes, Rights, Laws of all Engliſh Freemen their beſt Inheritance, Birthright, Security, againſt all Arbitrary Tyranny, and Aegyptian Burdens) and of their ſtrenuous Defence in all former Ages; of late years moſt dangerouſly undermined, and almoſt totally ſubverted, under the ſpecious Diſguiſe of their Defence and future Establiſhment, upon a ſure Baſis, by their pretended, Greatest Propugners.
WHEREIN IS, Irrefragably evinced by Parliamentary Records, Proofs, Preſidents, That we have ſuch Fundamentall Liberties, Franchiſes, Rights, Laws. That to attempt or effect the Subverſion of all or any of them, (or of our Fundamentall Government) by Fraud or Force, is High Treaſon. The principal of them ſummed up in X. Propoſitions; The chief printed Treatiſes aſſerting them, ſpecified: A Chronological Hiſtory of our Anceſtors, zeal, vigilancy, courage, prudence, in gaining, regaining, enlarging, defending, oft confirming and perpetuating them to Poſterity, by Great Charters, Statutes, New Confirmations, Excommunications, Speciall Conſervators, Conſultations, Petitions, Declarations, Remonſtrances, Oaths, Proteſtations, Vows, Leagues, Covenants, and likewiſe by their Arms, when neceſſitated, during all the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, Normans and Engliſh Kings Reigns, till this preſent; collected for preſent and future publique benefit: with a Brief Touch of their late unparalelled Infringments and ſubverſions in every particular: The Triall of all Maleſactors by their Peers and Juries, juſtified, as the onelyonly legall, best, moſt indifferent, and all other late arbitrary Judicatories, erected for their Triall, exploded, as deſtructive both to our Fundamentall Laws and Liberties.
Collected, recommended to the whole Engliſh Nation, as the beſt Legacy he can leave them, By William Prynne of Swainſwick, Eſquire.
The Second Edition Corrected and much Enlarged.
Pſal. 11. 3.
If the Fundations be deſtroyed, what can the righteous do?
Pſal. 82. 5.
They know not, neither will they underſtand, they walk on in darkneſſe: all the Foundations of the earth are out of courſe.
London, Printed for the Author, and are to be ſold by Edward Thomas in Green Arbour, 1655.
Errata.
IN the Epiſtle, letter C. page 8. l. 6. read effect, D. p. 2. l. 9. … Teſmond, H. p. 5. l. 19. Cenſurers, I. p. 5. l. 13 of r. our K. p. 7. l. 28. r. Heirs, L. p. 4. l. 20. r. exercerunt. In the Margin H. p. 3. l. 42. aliquem, I. p. 6. l. 27. pacti L. p. 8. 13. r. 23.
In the Book p. 4. l. 25. r. as of, p. 13. l. 36. r. were reſolved. p. 19. l. 14. r. Vote of p. 24. l. 16. of p. 26. l. 15. of and p. 29. l. 33. Statutes. p. 32. l. 26. r. E. 6. c. 5. p. 35. l. 6. to ſedition p. 38. l. 19. r. parts.
Margin, p. 27. l. 13. ther r. other, p. 64. l. 3, 4, 5. r. 10. R. 2. cap. 1. 1 H. 5. c. 1. 28 H. 6. n. 51. l. 11. r. 4. E. 4.