Legal Vindication of the Liberties of England Against Illegal Taxes 2, Title page
A Legall Uindication Of the Liberties of England, AGAINST ILLEGALL TAXES And pretended Acts of Parliament Lately enforced on the PEOPLE: OR, Reasons assigned by WILLIAM PRYNNE of Swainswick in the County of Sommerset, Esquire, why he can neither in Conscience, Law, nor Prudence submit to the New illegall Tax or Contribution of Ninety Thousand pounds the MONTH; Lately imposed on the Kingdom, by a pretended Act of some Commons in (or rather out of) Pa…liament.
ESAY 1. 7.
He looked for Judgment, but behold Oppression; for Righteousness, but behold a Cry.
PSAL. 12. 5.
For the Oppression of the poor, for the Sighing of the needy; now will I arise (saith the Lord) and will set him in safety from him that would ensnare him.
EXOD. 6. 5, 6.
I have also heard the groaing of the children of Israel, whom the Aegyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembred my Covenant. Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the Burdens of the Aegyptians; and I will rid you out of their Bondage: and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great Judgments.
ECCLES. 4. 1, 2.
So I returned and considered all the Oppressions that are done under the Sun, and beheld the te…rs of such as were oppressed, and they had no Comforter; and in the hand of their Oppressors there was power, but they had no Comforter: Wherfore I praised the dead which are already dead, more then the living which are yet alive.
London, Printed for Robert Hodges, and are to be sold by him. 1649.