Canterburies tooles: or, Instruments wherewith he hath effected many rare feats, and egregious exploits

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  The lyar confounded or A briefe refutation of John Lilburnes miserably-mistated-case, : mistaken-law; seditious calumnies, and most malicious lyes against the High Court of Parliament, the Honourable Committee of Examinations, Mr Speaker, with other Members of the Commons House; and Mr William Prynne; wherewith he hath seduced many ignorant overcredulous people. Manifesting the Parliaments extraordinary clemency towards him, their justice in their commitment of, and proceedings against him; for which he so ingratefully and falsely taxeth them, with tyranny and injustice By William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire

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  The time-serving Proteus, and ambidexter divine, uncased to the vvorld: : containing two letters of M. John Dury (the great champion for the new ingagement, faithfully extracted out of the originalls under his own hand.) The first, to Joseph Hall, late Bishop of Exeter; the second, to William Lawd, late Archbishop of Canterbury. Wherein he expresseth the reasons which moved him, not onely to scruple and dislike, but in some sort to renounce his ecclesiasticall orders, and ministeriall function formerly conferred on him in the Reformed Churches beyond the seas; because not given by a dioecesan bishop, but by particular men, whereof none is above the degree of a priest; and in point of conscience to crave and receive a reordination, and new orders from our English bishops; that so he might enter by the door into the sheepfold: whose superiority in degree over other ministers, and sole jurisdiction in conferring orders, he asserts to be jure divino; professing withall, his consicentious o

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  Mr. Prinns charge against the King. : Shewing that the Kings design, purpose, and resolution, his endeavours, practice, and conversation, have alwayes been engaged, byassed, and tended to settle, establish, confirm, popery, tyranny, and slavery, in, among, over his dominions, subjects, people, and in order to that design, end, and purpose, he writ to the Pope of Rome ... engaging himself to the said Pope, to endeavour to settle the popish religion only in his dominions; and since his coming to the crown, hath extented extraordinary favonrs [sic] upon, and protecti- on [sic] of notorious papists, priests & Jesuits, against all prosecution of lawes enacted against them; notwith- standing all his protestations to the contrary, hath raised up a most horrid, unnatural, and bloudy warre, arming his Roman Catholique subjects to massacre, plunder, torture, imprison, ruine, his loyall, faithfull pious Protestant subjects to burn, sack, and spoile their cities, towns and villages, collected from

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