There is also a paper of arguments in defence of taking up arms in maintenance of the true reformed religion:—From the law of nature. From Divine authority out of God's word. From human authority; Citations from fathers, &c. From reason. From practice of Reformed kirks, France, Holland, Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, Hungary, and Sweden, which had all taken up arms for defence of religion against authority. From the custom of Kings in Reformed kirks—Elizabeth against Spain—James, in his Basilicon, approves reforming of Scotland—Charles sent a naval force to help French Protestants.
[291] I may add the following sentence from Hook's Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, iii. 291:—"The first lawyer whose writings we possess, Bracton, asserts, 'Lex omnium Rex.' A king not less than a subject may be a traitor."
[292] Parl. Hist., ii. 1168.
[293] These papers are given in full by Rushworth, iv. 624, 722. They are also to be found in Neal, ii. 553, 556, 563, as extracts from Rushworth, though much condensed.
[294] Rushworth, iv. 733.
[295] In the Weekly Intelligencer, October 18, 1642, mention is made of a woman called Moll Cutpurse, who wore both, saying she was for King and Parliament, too.
[296] "Powers to be resisted, or a dialogue arguing the Parliament's lawful resistance of the powers now in arms against them, and that archbishops, bishops, curates, neuters, all these are to be cut off by the law of God, therefore to be cast out by the law of the land, etc."—London, 1643. p. 13.
See also John Goodwin's Anti-cavalierisme.
That the people have a right to resist their rulers when they do wrong was a common opinion amongst Reformers in Mary's reign. See Maitland's Essays on Reformation in England, vi.
[297] All these particulars are mentioned in pamphlets of the King's collection.—British Museum, years 1642, 1643. Marvels and Monsters were rife at the time of the Reformation.—Maitland's Essays, 184.