Vindication of Old Fundamental Liberties 2, Title page
A SEASONABLE, LEGALL, AND HISTORICALL VINDICATION AND Chronologicall COLLECTION of the Good, Old, Fundamentall, Liberties, Franchiſes, Rights, Laws of all Engliſh Freemen (their beſt Inheritance, Birthright, Security, againſt Arbitrary, Tyrannicall, and Egyptian 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, 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 principall of them ſummed up in 9 Propoſitions: The chief printed Treatiſes aſſerting them, ſpecified: A Chronologicall 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, Saxons, Danes, Normans and Engliſh Kings Reigns, till this preſent; collected for preſent and future publick benefit: With a Brief Touch of their late unparalelled Infringements and Subverſions in every particular: The Triall of all Malefactors by their Peers, and Juries, juſtified, as the onelyonly legal, beſt, moſt indifferent; and all other late arbitrary Judicatories, erected for their Triall, exploded, 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.
Pſalm 11. 3.
If the Foundations be deſtroyed, what can the righteous do?
Pſalm 82 5.
They know not, neither will they underſtand, they walk on, &c.
Dan. 7. 24 25, 26.
And another ſhall ariſe after the Kings, &c.
London Printed for the Authour, and are to be ſold by Edward Thomas in Green Arbour, 1654.