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A New Magna Charta: Enacted and confirmed By the High and Mighty States, the Re|mainder of the LORDS and COMMONS, now &s;itting at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> in Empty Parliament, under the Command and Ward&s;hip of Sir <HI>Thomas Fairfax,</HI> Lievtenant Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> (our pre&s;ent Soveraigne Lord the King, now re&s;iding at his Royall Pallace at <HI>White-Hall)</HI> and Prince <HI>Ireton</HI> his &s;onne, and the Army under their Command.</P>
<P>Containing the many new, large and ample Li|berties, Cu&s;tomes and Franchi&s;es, of late freely granted and confirmed to our Soveraigne Lord King <HI>Charles,</HI> his Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors; the Church and State of England and Ireland, and all the Freemen, and Free-borne People of the &s;ame.</P>
<Q><BIBL>New Magna Charta, Cap. 29.</BIBL>
<P><HI>Omni vendemus, omni negabimus, aut differemus Iu&s;titiam, vel recium.</HI></P></Q>
<P>Printed in the Yeere 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>A new Magna Charta.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t for the honour of Almighty God, and in pur&s;uance of the &s;olemne League and Covenant which we made in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God for the Reformation and defence of Religion, the honour and happine&s;&s;e of the King, and the peace and &s;afety of the three Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, we have granted, and by this our pre&s;ent Charter have con&s;irmed, That the Church of Eng|land &s;hall be free to deny the perpetuall Ordinances of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, to countenance &s;preading here&s;ies, cur&s;ed bla&s;phemies, and generall loo&s;ene&s;&s;e and prophanene&s;&s;e, and that all Lawes and Statutes formerly made again&s;t the afore&s;aid offences for the puni&s;hment and re&s;training thereof &s;hall be utterly repea|led, that &s;o all men may freely enjoy and profe&s;&s;e what Religi|on &s;oever they plea&s;e without re&s;traint: And we will that all Archbi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, and their dependents &s;hall be eternally &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, and all their Mannours, Lands and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions &s;old to defray and advance the Publique Faith. That all Mini&s;ters &s;hall be plundered and thru&s;t out of their livings and free|holds by our Committee of plundering Mini&s;ters without Oath or legall tryall, upon bare informations of &s;uch of their Pari&s;hioners who are indebted to them for Tythes, or have any Kin&s;man to preferre to their livings. And to &s;upply the want of Mini&s;ters, That all Officers, Souldiers, Coblers, Tinkers, and gifted Brethren and Si&s;ters, &s;hall freely preach, and propa|gate the Go&s;pell to the people, and new dip and rebaptize them without puni&s;hment.</P>
<P><HI>Item.</HI> We will that the Kings Maje&s;ties per&s;on be maintain|ed, and his Authority pre&s;erved, by &s;eizing his Per&s;on at Hol|denby with a party of hor&s;e, and impri&s;oning him in the Ar|my, indangering his life at Hampton Court, and by colour thereof conveighing him &s;ecretly into the I&s;le of Wight, re|moving from him all his Attendants, di&s;po&s;ing of his Revenue,
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Children, Forts, Ships, Ca&s;tles, and Kingdomes, and by this putting in execution the&s;e our Votes, <HI>That no more addre&s;&s;es be made from the Parliament to the King, nor any Letters or Me&s;|&s;age received from him: That it &s;hall be Trea&s;on for any per&s;ons what&s;oever to deliver any Me&s;&s;age to the King, or receive any Me&s;&s;ages or Letters from him, without leave from both Hou&s;es of Parliament: That a Committee draw up a Declaration to be publi&s;hed, to &s;atisfie the Kingdome of the rea&s;on of pa&s;&s;ing the&s;e Votes,</HI> That &s;o the world may beare witne&s;&s;e with our con&s;cien|ces of our Loyalty, and that we have no thoughts or intentions to dimini&s;h His Maje&s;ties ju&s;t power and greatne&s;&s;e, according to the words of the &s;olemne League and Covenant.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We give and grant to the Freemen of the Realm the&s;e Liberties under written.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that no Sheriffes &s;hall make due returnes of the Ci|tizens and Burge&s;&s;es elected to &s;erve in Parliament, nor make due Elections of Knights, nor in convenient time, nor the able&s;t wi&s;e&s;t, nor di&s;creete&s;t &s;hall be returned, but all fraud and de|ceit &s;hall be u&s;ed in Elections, and per&s;ons not duly elected, nor elegible by Law &s;hall be Members of the Hou&s;e of Com|mons, and tho&s;e to be our &s;onnes, kindred, &s;ervants, officers and &s;uch as will comply with us.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> No Member &s;hall &s;it in the Hou&s;e of Commons with freedome and &s;afety that endeavours to &s;ettle Religion in the purity thereof, according to the Covenant, to mantaine the an|cient and fundamentall Government of the Kingdome, or to pre&s;erve the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, or that layes hold on the fir&s;t oportunity of procuring a &s;afe and well-grounded peace in the three Kingdoms, or that keeps a good under&s;tanding between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland, according to the grounds expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;olemne League and Covenant.</P>
<P>And whoever offends again&s;t this Article, we will that &s;uch Members be impeached of High Trea&s;on by the Army, &s;u&s;pen|ded the Hou&s;e before any particular impeachment, forced to accu&s;e them&s;elves by &s;tating their ca&s;es for want of an accu&s;er, and witne&s;&s;es to prove them criminall, and at the la&s;t ca&s;t out of the Hou&s;e without an&s;wer, hearing the evidence, or privity
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of tho&s;e that elected them who&s;e per&s;ons they repre&s;ent.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We grant, that neither we nor any by colour of Au|thority derived from us &s;hall interrupt the ordinary cour&s;e of Ju&s;tice in the &s;everall Courts and Judicatures of the Kingdome, nor intermeddle in cau&s;es of private intere&s;t otherwhere de|terminable, <HI>&s;ave onely our Committees of Indempnities, plun|dered Mini&s;ters, Complaints, Seque&s;trations, Excize and the Army,</HI> who &s;hall judge and contradict the Lawes and Statutes of the Realme, vacate and repeale all Indict|ments, Verdicts, and Judgements given in Courts of Ju|&s;tice, impri&s;on all manner of per&s;ons, and turne them out of their Freeholds, E&s;tates, Goods, and Chattels with|out the lawfull judgement of their Peers, and again&s;t the fun|damentall Lawes of the Land.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> we will and ordaine that the great and unu&s;uall pay|ments impo&s;ed upon the people, and the extraordinary wayes that were taken for procuring moneyes, &s;hall (contrary to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in us) be &s;till burthen&s;ome, and daily increa&s;ed more and more upon the people by our bare Votes and Ordi|nances, <HI>without the common con&s;ent by Act of Parliament;</HI> and in ca&s;e of refu&s;all, forcibly levyed by Troops of hor&s;e and &s;oul|diers, according to the law of decolled <HI>Strafford, of all which moneyes our &s;elves and Members will be &s;ole trea&s;urers and di&s;|po&s;ers:</HI> Free-Quarter &s;hall be &s;till tolerated, and countenance given by us to the exactions and extortions of the &s;ouldiers, to whom we have granted an <HI>Ordinance of Indempnity</HI> for all mur|ders, fellonies, rapes, robberies, injuries and tre&s;pa&s;&s;es commit|ted by them, and all &s;uch offences as they &s;hall commit, to the end they may protect us again&s;t the clamours and complaints of the oppre&s;&s;ed people either by Sea or Land: and we ordaine, that all Free-men &s;hall henceforth be tryed onely by <HI>Martiall and Committee Law,</HI> and impeached of new high Trea&s;on at our plea&s;ure, to con&s;i&s;cate their e&s;tates to our Exchequer.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We will that &s;uch per&s;ons as have done valiantly, and dealt faithfully in the Parliaments cau&s;e according to <HI>the Declaration of England and Scotland,</HI> &s;hall be publikely di&s;gra|ced and di&s;honoured, and without cau&s;e thru&s;t from their com|mands and imployments both Civill and Martiall without pay,
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hearing conviction or reparation for their lo&s;&s;es, and that the &s;everall and re&s;pective Lievtenants, Governours, and old Gar|ri&s;on Souldiers of the <HI>Tower of London, Newca&s;tle, Yorke, Bri|&s;toll, Plymouth, Gloce&s;ter, Exeter, Che&s;ter, Pendennis Ca&s;tle and the I&s;le of Wight</HI> be removed with di&s;grace by our new <HI>Genera|li&s;&s;imoes</HI> meere arbitrary power, notwith&s;tanding our former Votes and Ordinances for their particular &s;ettlement, and new mean &s;editious Sectaries of our confederacy put into their places.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We will that a ju&s;t difference be made between &s;uch per&s;ons as never departed from their Covenant and duty, and &s;uch as were dete&s;table Newtrali&s;ts and oppre&s;&s;ours of the peo|ple, and to that end we will, that the <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion of the Peace</HI> be renewed at the plea&s;ure of our flying Speakers, who are to pro|vide, that &s;uch be omitted as agree not with the frame and temper of the Army and us their Lords and Commons &s;itting at We&s;tmin&s;ter, and others be added in their places who have complied with the enemy, and oppre&s;&s;ed the people, and to that end we agree, that the Earle of <HI>Suffolke,</HI> Earle of <HI>Middle|&s;ex, William</HI> Lord <HI>Maynard, William Hicks,</HI> Knight and Baro|net, <HI>John Par&s;ons</HI> Knight, <HI>Richard Pigott</HI> Knight, <HI>Edward King</HI> E&s;quire, <HI>Thomas Welcome</HI> E&s;quire, and divers others be omitted, and that <HI>John Lockey, Thomas Welby, VVilliam Godfrey, Richard Brian,</HI> Sir <HI>Richard Earle</HI> Baronet, and others of that &s;tamp be added, of who&s;e integrity and faithfulne&s;&s;e Quere.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We will that for the perpetuall honour of the Lords and Barons of this Realme, who&s;e Ance&s;tors purcha&s;ed for us with the expence of their lives and bloods from <HI>King John and Henry the third,</HI> the great Charter, that they &s;hall from hence|forth be impeached of High Trea&s;on, committed, impri&s;oned, and put out of the Hou&s;e of Peers, and forfeit their lives and e&s;tates to our di&s;po&s;ing, if they defend that great Charter, the lives and Liberties of the Subjects and Parliament again&s;t a perfidious and rebellious Army, and us the fugitive Lords and Commons, who fled from our Hou&s;es to the Army without cau&s;e, and there entred into a trayterous Covenant and In|gagement, <HI>to live and die with the Army,</HI> and to de&s;troy the faithfull Members that &s;tayed behind at We&s;tmin&s;ter, and all
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the freedome of this and future Parliaments. And we will that henceforth there &s;hall be no Hou&s;e of Peers, di&s;tinct from Commons, but that all Peers and Peerage be for ever aboli&s;h|ed, and all great and rich mens e&s;tates levelled and made equall to their poore&s;t neighbours, for the better reliefe and encou|ragement of the poor Saints.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We will that the <HI>City of London</HI> &s;hall have all her an|cient Liberties and Cu&s;tomes in as full and ample manner as her Predece&s;&s;ors ever had, and for that end we will that the Army &s;hall march in a Warlike manner towards that City, and pa&s;&s;e like Conquerours in tryumph through the &s;ame. That all the Fortifications and Line about it &s;hall be &s;lighted and thrown downe, the Tower taken out of their hands, and put into our Generalls, and fortified to over-awe them; the <HI>Militia</HI> of the City changed and divided from that of We&s;tmin&s;ter, and Southwarke, the Lord Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and &s;ome leading men of the Common Coun&s;ell, by crafty, &s;ini&s;ter, and feigned informations, impeached of high Trea&s;on, and other great Mi&s;demeanours impri&s;oned and di&s;abled, and others by our appointment and nomination put into their places, and the Citizens and Common Coun&s;ell-men &s;hall henceforth make no free Elections of Governours and Officers: That White-Hall, the Mu&s;e, Minories, Ely-hou&s;e and other places &s;hall be made Citadells, that the Po&s;ts and Chaines in the City and Suburbs be taken away, their Gates and Purcullices pul|led downe, their Armes delivered into a common Magazine by our appointment, to di&s;able them from all future po&s;&s;ibility of &s;elfe-defence, or di&s;obedience to our imperiall commands, that &s;o they may willingly deliver us up the remainder of their exhau&s;ted trea&s;ures and e&s;tates, when we &s;ee cau&s;e to require the &s;ame, and made as ab&s;olute Freemen for all their expence of trea&s;ure and blood in our defence, as our Engli&s;h Gally-&s;laves now are in Algier.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We will that the command of the Navy and all &s;hips at Sea, for the honour of this Nation and our owne, be committed into the hands and government of a Vice-Admirall, (without and again&s;t the con&s;ent of the Lords) of late but a Skippers Boy, a common Souldier in Hull, a I eveller in the Ar|my,
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impeached by the Generall for endeavouring to rai&s;e a mutiny at the late Rendevouz, and &s;ince that taken with a Whore in a Bawdy hou&s;e, who rode downe in triumph to the Downes to take po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his place in a Coach and foure hor&s;es, with a Trumpeter and &s;ome Troopers riding before and after it, &s;ounding the Trumpet in every Towne and Village as they pa&s;&s;ed, to give notice of his new Excellencies arrivall, and make the common people <HI>vaile Bonnet,</HI> and &s;trike &s;ale to his Coach, and at his late returne from the I&s;le of Wight to the Downes was rowed from the &s;hip to the Towne of Deale with the En&s;igne in the &s;terne, the Boat&s;waine and all the Rowers bare headed, like &s;o many Gally-&s;laves, (a new kind of &s;tate which never any Lord-Admirall in England, though the grea|te&s;t Peer, yet tooke upon him, but the King onely:) and to maintaine this new pompe and &s;tate of his we will and ordain, that all Merchants, as well Natives as Forraigners, &s;hall pay &s;uch new Cu&s;tomes, Impo&s;itions, and Excize for all manner of goods and Merchandize what&s;oever imported, or exported, as we in our arbitrary wi&s;domes &s;hall judge meet, under paine of for|feiture of all their &s;aid goods and Merchandize, and &s;uch other penalties as we &s;hall impo&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We will and ordaine for the ea&s;e and reliefe of the almo&s;t fami&s;hed poore in the&s;e times of dearth and decay of Trade, that Excize &s;hall &s;till be paid by them, and every of them for every drop of &s;mall beer they drinke, and for all oyles, dying &s;tuffes, and Mercers wares they &s;hall have occa&s;ion to u&s;e about their Trades and Manufactures, and that the lu&s;ty young &s;ouldiers, who are able to worke and get their livings by the &s;weat of their browes, &s;hall ramble abroad through all the Kingdome, and like &s;o many &s;turdy rogues, take Free-quar|ter for them&s;elves, hor&s;es and companions from place to place, refu&s;ing to work, &s;hall eat up all the provi&s;ions in Gentlemens, Yeomens, Clothyers, and other rich mens hou&s;es, who former|ly relieved the impotent poore with their Almes, and the able with work.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We will that <HI>William Lenthall</HI> our Speaker for the time being, &s;hall have a Monopoly and plurality of all kind of Officers, for the maintenance of his &s;tate and dignity, and
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recompence of his infidelity, in the de&s;erting the true Hou&s;e of Commons, notwith&s;tanding the &s;elfe-denying Ordinance to the contrary, and to this end we ordaine, that he &s;hall be our perpetuall Speaker, and eternally take five pounds for every Ordinance that pa&s;&s;eth the Commons Hou&s;e, with all other in|cident (new exacted) fees and gratuities; that he &s;hall with this his office enjoy the cu&s;tody and profits of the great Seale of England, the Dutchy of Lanca&s;ter, together with the Ma&s;ter|&s;hip of the Rolls, and as many other places as we &s;hall be able to conferre upon him or his &s;onne; and that his honoured bro|ther <HI>Sir John Lenthall</HI> for his great affection to and care of the Subjects Liberties committed to his cu&s;tody, &s;hall have free li|cence to &s;uffer what pri&s;oners he plea&s;eth to e&s;cape out of pri|&s;on, and Sir <HI>Lewis Dives</HI> though Voted by us to be arraigned and tryed for high Trea&s;on this Terme, and all per&s;ons lying in execution for debts to goe and lie abroad at their owne hou&s;es, and make e&s;capes at plea&s;ure to the defrauding of Creditors, without being pro&s;ecuted, or put out of his office for the &s;ame, provided they alwayes give him a good gratuity for this their liberty of e&s;cape.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We will that our di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Brethren in Ireland may enjoy the benefit of this our new <HI>great Charter,</HI> and all the li|berties therein comprized, and that by vertue thereof the &s;up|plies, reliefs, men, moneyes, and the monethly Tax of &s;ixty thou&s;and pounds de&s;igned for them, &s;hall be totally interrup|ted, mi&s;imployed, and diverted by <HI>King Crumwell</HI> and <HI>Prince Jreton</HI> his &s;on-in-law, to maintaine, pay and recruit their Super|numeraries and the Army here: That the noble and valiant Lord <HI>Inchequin</HI> who hath done &s;uch gallant &s;ervice again&s;t the Rebells, &s;hall be accu&s;ed and bla&s;ted in both our Hou&s;es and Pamphlets, and mercenary Diurnall men for a Traytor, and Confederate with the Rebells, by the Lord <HI>Li&s;le</HI> and his con|federates, who wears much of Irelands imbezelled trea&s;ure on his back, and hath much more of it in his pur&s;e, taking no le&s;&s;e then 10. l. or 15. l. a day, as Lord Deputy of that Realme, onely for riding about London &s;treets in his Coach in &s;tate, and victo|rious hone&s;t Col. <HI>Jones</HI> di&s;countenanced, di&s;couraged, and both of them removed this Spring from their commands, to advance
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the Independent cau&s;e, and godly party in that Realme.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, all the&s;e new Cu&s;tomes and Liberties afore&s;aid, which we have granted to be holden in our Realmes of England and Ireland, as much as appertaineth to us we &s;hall ob&s;erve: and all men of the&s;e Realmes, as well Nobles as Commons, &s;hall en|joy and ob&s;erve the &s;ame again&s;t all per&s;ons in likewi&s;e. And for this our Gift and Grant of the&s;e Liberties, the Nobles and Commons are become our men from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly wor&s;hip, and unto us &s;hall be &s;laves and va&s;&s;alls for ever; and we have granted further, that neither we nor any of us &s;hall procure or do any thing, whereby all or any the Liberties in this Charter contained, &s;hall be ever here|after infringed or broken: and further we ordaine, that our Po&s;tma&s;ter <HI>Edmund Prideaux,</HI> one of our fugitive &amp; Army-inga|ged Members, who byfraud got into that office, and keeps it by force again&s;t common right, do &s;end Po&s;ts with Copies of this our Charter into all Counties, Cities and Places of our Domi|nions, for recompence of which &s;ervice he &s;hall &s;till conciou&s;ly enjoy that office, and that our Sheriffs, Committees, and new|made Ju&s;tices cau&s;e the &s;ame to be &s;peedily publi&s;hed accor|dingly in all our Countrey-Courts, the&s;e being our witne&s;&s;es to this Charter.</P>
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<ITEM><HI>William Lawd</HI> L. Archbi&s;hop of Canterbury,</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas</HI> Earl of <HI>Strafford,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> Knight, Governour of Hull,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lievtenant-Generall <HI>John Hotham,</HI></ITEM>
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<P>All foure beheaded by our command at the Tower Hill for the breach of old <HI>Magna Charta</HI> and trecherie.</P>
<P><HI>Nathanael Fines,</HI> condemned to lo&s;e his head by a Councell of War for delivering up Bri&s;toll to our enemies, by us to be one of the Grand Committee forthe &s;afety of this and yet &s;pared Kingdome and Ireland, in&s;tead of the explo|ded Scotch Commi&s;&s;ioners.</P>
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