THE 
 
 falsities 
 
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 FORGERIES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ANONYMOUS AU- 
 
 thorof alare Pamphlet,0uppofedtobe 
 Printed at Oxford but in truth 
 
 at London ) i 4. 
 
 intituled 
 
 The Fallacies of Mr. William r P?ynne > difcovered and 
 
 confuted, in afliort View of his Books intituled ; The So- 
 verMignt'f of Turliemintifne Opening of the great Seak.&c. 
 
 "Wherein the Calumn'es,and Forgeries of this un1< novvne Au- 
 
 thor in charging M r « Prynne with falfe Quotations , Calumniating 
 Talfhoodsfvreftwg of the Scriptures , points of P opery , greffe ab- 
 Jurdityes metre contra dtttions Jo ainous T re afonsy&plai* be- 
 traying of the Cdufe^not one of which is in the lea ft de- 
 gree made good by the Calumniator) a’ e iuc- 
 
 cindly anfwercd 3 refuted. 
 
 By William Trynne of Lincolnes I line, SJ quire. 
 
 P R OV E R B S, II. 1 9« 
 
 The Lip of truth [hall he efiaili/hed for ever, hut aljingtongutU hut for a 
 moment . 
 
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 THE FALSITYES AND 
 
 FORGERIES of a n 
 
 Anonymus Author. 
 
 | T is an cafy matter for any perfbn of a brazenfaced fea- 
 red Conference to be a (, landerer , and by a fallacious mifre- 
 citt ingj perverting, difmembring, other mens works, to 
 become a Teeming Refute r ofthem. The faireft natural 
 or artificiall Bodies, may foon be metamorphozed into 
 themoft mijjhapen Mongers ‘\f torne into confufed frag- 
 ments and then patched up together into a diforderly Chaos , where all the 
 parrs and members fhall be d/fiocatcd, difunited, confounded and put into 
 Hotch-Potch. Thiscoblingkinde of Artifice hath that Botcher ufed, who 
 compofedthe Pamphlet intituled ,The Fallacies of Mr. William Pry me df- 
 covered and refuted : who inftead of dilcovering and refuting any Fallacies , 
 or Falfities of Mr. Prjnnes, inzn orderly or Sco!afticallmanner,hath taken 
 much unneceflary pames, to cull out here and there a word or line, out of 
 his wrightings on feverall fubjedts, and then patched them up together in- 
 to inferences and arguments of his owne forging 5 fighting onely with his 
 owne fhaddow,and mangling, mifveporting, perverting all the paftageshc 
 recites, (as the Reader may at firft view dilcerne) inftead of anfwering, or 
 refuting any thing which he hath written. 
 
 Wherefore I fhall defire the ingenious Reader, only ferioufly toperufe 
 the feverall Quotations this Cohler hath botched together, in my Bookes 
 themfelves, as they are there urged , applyed, connedted with the prece- 
 dent and fubfequent dilcoutfes to which they have relation, and then the 
 Fallacies, Falfities, and Calumnies of this Anonymous Patcher,( who is fo 
 penurious of matter,fubftance,thathe produ e h not one text or Author of 
 his ownc)will befo apparently difcovered,as they will need no further Re- 
 futation. . . , ... - , . 
 
 This is not mine owne folitary opinion, but the judgement of other in- 
 telligent men, who have read this Pamphlet, to which I was minded to give 
 
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 The F alftyes and Forgeries of an Anonymous Author. 
 
 noanfwer,as unworthy any thing butc ontempr. Yet being defired by Tome 
 friends to reply fome-what to it , leaft this Champion (hould deeme his 
 Patched Fardle n re frag able, and.overmach abufe the Reader and my felfe 
 with his fianderousfalihoods, I (hall returne no other anfwer to his charge 
 of C alumni it ing faljhoods , i vrcjling of the feriptures, Points of Popery, groffe 
 abfurdities, rneere contradictions, hainous Treafons, and plaine betraying oftbe 
 Caufe, hue onely this, that the Pamphletter is moftgroily miftaken,and hath 
 molt fatflyafperfed me in alkhefe particulers, as the mangled pages of my 
 books, which he recites by fragments, will manifefttoall who fhalldoe me 
 fo much juilice as to appeafe unto, and ferioufly perufe thcm y without di- 
 minution or prejudice. 
 
 There are onely two or three more confiderable Calumnies he would 
 fix upon me, that need feme anfwer, and in anfwering them alone, you may 
 ciearely difeover, both the palpable F alfittes, Forgeries , Fallacies of this 
 Slanderer, who is afhamed to fet his name to his fhamefull vvorke. 
 
 The firlt and principal! charge againft me is , fAfe Quotations , witneftc 
 the title page; Wherein ss laid open his falfe quotations, &c. &p.2. top. he 
 do: h- deliver in an heavy imputation in the plurall nuber; of falfe quotations. 
 Y et wht n he brings in his Catalogue of them, among thofe thonfand quotatid's 
 I have produced in my wrightings, he can charge me but wit h one, no more 
 p. 3. / will not( faith h (^undertake to examine his falfe Quotations . being de- 
 terred by their magnitude and multitude. I will produce but One Quotation, A 
 f range kind of Calumny, to charge mein the Title and Book witha*»4m- 
 tude and multitude of falfe quotations, and yet to be able to instance but in 
 m alone. 
 
 c But this one is, at Leonem .* a rare one. Ex ungue Leonem, Guefeat the 
 Author bp his example, It is out ofQ odine, that ( as he (f ileth him ) Learned 
 Vv.Vryn. ‘ French Lawyer, and Statcfman , De Repub. 1 . 2 .c. i.p.222. Eodine faith>it 
 append. 4 alwayes hath and fall be lavfull for fib] eels totake wicked Princes out of the 
 *• l% ' ■ Can a fentence be quoted more plaine ai*d full againft ourcaufe and 
 
 ‘ for their caufe, then this otBodine'. But if Bodine fpeakes no fuchthW 
 * but m ore plainly and / ul ly for our caufe, againft their caufe, what may wee 
 ‘ thinke of Mr. Prynne the quoter,&c. Firfi, In the place quoted U.c. j 
 
 there are nofnch words, &c. So he p.. 3 Here is a 3 great cry indeed, but little 
 wool, for in the very fame page, we' have confitentem reum, in thefe mod 
 pofitive termts . Secondly, I(writes he)confe{[e the words quoted art-m the fifth 
 chapter of the 1 book ( and that in page. 222. which I qnoted:) where then 
 is the falfe quotation'' The words are there but not in the firft but fifi' 
 Chapter oithefecond Book : whatthen? they areinthe fame Booker, 
 Page I quoted, but the Printer printed the firfbehapter inftead ofth 
 fifth in fome. Coppies , Contrary to my Written Ooppic , and 
 Quotations in Print in, other., Coppies and places; Ergo my’Quo 
 
 tatio) 
 
The Fa/fttyes and Forgeries of an Anonymous ^Author. 3 
 
 quotation is falfe 5 Grant this, yet it is not falfe, neitherin the matter, page, 
 booke, but Chapter onely, which the Printer,not I miftooke' Surely a ve- 
 ry grand offence if reduced into a Logicall Argument.The Printer mifprin- 
 ted the chapter in fome coppies; But Mr. Pry me mifquoted not the words, 
 booke, page,nor chapter of Bodine in any kind : Ergo he is guilty of a multi - 
 tude of fafe quotations, at leaf of one,at Leonem f>\ii a rare one. So hedifputes. 
 
 A rare wcindeed, fuch as was never heard of in the world before, a true 
 Quotation in every particle, yet flandered for a falfe one : which gives me 
 juft occafion to repay him with his owae coyne. p. 3. Ex ungue Leonem , 
 gueffe at the (truth of this) Author by this example, the foie mifq notation he 
 chargeth me with. 
 
 * Yea but he fubjoynes p. 3. Note what afaire inference Mr. Prynne here 
 ( maketh. Thefe Regulior little Kings of the Cities of the Gaules, might be put to 
 
 * death by theNobihty to which they were fubjecl. nppe. p.17 .So Bodine, by whofe 
 « words it is clearer that the Ancient Kings of France woe infer tour injurifdi- 
 « ft ion to their whole Kingdomer and Parliaments yea cenj:, ruble by them to de~ 
 
 * po fit ion or death , This indeed isrtiy inference, which he neither doth nor 
 ‘candifprove , fincethe Ancient Gaules had no other Kings but thefe their 
 Reguli who might be put to death: and no univerfall abfolute Monarches r . 
 as Bodine and all French Hi (l or tans acknowledge. 
 
 Yethisgreareft quarrell with meisbehinde p.4. for leaving, out part of 
 Bodtnes words with an, 8 cc. Appendix^. i8viz. But if the Prince be an ab- 
 foluie Soveraineys are the true Monarches of France, &c. Where the Kings 
 themfelves have the Soveraignty, without all doubte or quejli n not devided 
 with their fubjetfs. In which &c. I omit ed thefe words, of Spaine, Eng- 
 land, Scotland, Turkie, Mofcovy ,T art ary, Perfa, Mthicpia , India, and of al- 
 moH all the Kingdomes ofAfrick and A(ia, which interveene between,n?//mr 
 the Kings themfehes have the [over a nty, an djhc true Monarches of France^ 
 and for this omiflion though wi<han,&c. he crytsoutthus, Fyt r, fye, holy 
 ‘ Mr. Prynne, can your fanttifiedpenne , Volens videnfquegwit tingly, and vail- 
 e hngly, abnfe fo perverfly a learned French Lawyer , and fo pernitioufly our ' 
 
 * gracious K ing of England ? 
 
 But I pray you .Sir, what caufe is there of fuch an exclamation fo this o- 
 milfion, with an, &c^In that place of my Appendix! had nothmgtodoe 
 with theKingsof England, Spaine, or any other Kingdomes there named by 
 Bodine, but with the Kings of France alone, whom from p. 17. to 51. I 
 prove by undeniable hiftoriesapd Authorities, to have been inferior to 
 their Kingdomes, and "Parliaments. To recteall thefe other Kinges thereup- 
 on this occafion,w'he I difeourfed ofthe Fench kings alonc,had been mim- 
 ptrtinency, aTautologie, fince I diftin&ly handled thefeverail jurifdidi- iuthei.i 
 ons of the Kings of Englad, Spaine ,Scot land, Ikc.'m their proper places & re- |i 4 t hf A r 
 futedthe.errorofs^/»f(though I truly, cite his wards), that neither theKings pendi*. 
 
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 The F a/fit tes and Forgeries of an Anonymous & Author . 
 
 of Spainejior France /tor E r gland, nor S cotland^arc fuch abfolute Sovet aignes 
 as ne would make them. Tiie omillion therefore of Spatne, England, and 
 Scotland, with an&c, which pointed to, not concealed them, can no 
 wayes be charged on me as a falfe quotation, or as a witting or willing abufe 
 of Bodines words, as will appear by turning this accufation into arg ments. 
 
 M after Frynne in reciting Bodines words, concerning the Kings of France 
 alone, omus his mentioning of the Kings o i'Spaiue, England, Scot land, See. 
 with an,&c.(as this very Momus hitnfelfe in his Cenfure omits T urkic.Mof- 
 eovy, Tartan, Perfa, 8 cc . rather to be ranked among abfolute T y rants than 
 Kings ,)Ergo he hath falfly quoted, and wilfully perverted Bodine. 
 
 M after Prynne recites and refutes Bcdines opinion, ofthe abfolute So- 
 vereignty of thofe Kings, in the obje&ed and other places. Ergohemihe- 
 cites Bodine. Ifthefebe not moll abfurd Arguments , and calumniating 
 fallhoodSjlctthe world judge. 
 
 In fin e,Mr. Prynne hath*frc quently quoted Bodine, and this very Chapter 
 I9*<n’n- f u °dry pages of his Bookes, but mifquoted him in no place what- 
 
 104. ioy.foever:£r^othis Botcher hath mifquoted, mifreported Mr. Prynne , and 
 Part.i.p.9 mu ^ cry peccavi for it. And for his odious fubinfcrence p. 4. it is his owne 
 xo.ii.ij. alone, not mine. 
 
 4i’ 2 j 4 c This Champion having thus manfully played the flandcrerin thisone 
 41 45 4 Quotation, which he in vaine labours to prove /i/^, would willingly pro- 
 
 47. 
 
 Pan. p. 3. ct-cd t o others, p. 7. but he there ingenioufly confefleth,^ wants his tooles 
 1 30.1 \\] to doe his worke. and I have ##(quoth h c)the bookes citcdhy him. Certainely 
 144- 4 if he wants his Books , and the Books I cite, to examine my quotations by, it 
 
 Priori . m uftneedsbean impudent apparent flanderin him, to tax me of mi [quo- 
 i}.%9.xoctations of thofe Authors he ccnfefteth,he never faw nor read: the rather ,be- 
 caufe he writes in the fame page,f^tf my Quotation out of Speed feemeth fom- 
 rv hat amiffe ; yet prcfently confeffeth of him f elf m the fame page -,1 never faw 
 it, nor hear d it , till 1 read it in Ovtr. Prynnes Book, and that he never read 
 Mr, Speed, How dares he then termc it, a feeming Mif notation ? 
 
 /sthisman (thinkeyou) likely to refute or convince me of falfe Quo- 
 tations, who thus confeffeth, that he neither hath, nor hath read, nor hear a of 
 the Books and Paf ages whichlcite ?* Si ]udicas, cognofce, was the Ancient 
 rule : I pray therefore get and read my quoted Authors hereafter, be- 
 fore you prefume to charge me with mifquotations, elfe all muft cenfure 
 you for the groffeftflanderer that ever put pen to paper. 
 
 For the pretended Faljhcods, Paradoxes , Abfurdities and Abfurd opinions 
 he would fatten on me, p. 8. to 14. they are mott ofthem his owne mifre- 
 citals , not my afftrtions; and fo farre z s anv of them are really mine, my 
 Pages whence they are tranferibed , will fufficiently manifcfl: them to be 
 neither Faljhcds, Paradoxes, Ah fur dities, nor abfurd opinions. 
 
 The Popery he would afperfe me with page I4.i5.iseafily wiped of. 
 
 For 
 
 * Seneca 
 Medea. 
 
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 an Anonymous a Author . 
 
 For fir'll , both the text and Comment oi Roomes-majler peece, is nei- 
 ther a Ettfion. nor fia fraus , unlcfie he will make it fo in the Arch-Bifbopof 
 Canterbury, Sir William Bo [well, H ahem field, and the King himfdfe , under 
 whb.e hands it is extant, and hath been reprefentedto the Parliament. If 
 this futfice not, the Preface to the fecond Edition of Roomes-majler peece, will 
 either fatis fie or filence this Father of falfhoods* 
 
 Secondly, the vilionsartd Revelations of King Edwardthe Confeffor, ci- 
 ted my i'emonf ranee againft S hip money p- 1 2 .& ofone ot th eMonks of’Cler- 
 vaulx, Opening of the great Seale , p, 5.6. arc not recited by M r. Pry nne,zs re- 
 all ver'ityes,or convincing argumets againft Shipmoney,& Lordl y Bijhepsfrut 
 or.ely, de bene efe , to manifeft what opinion the Monks and Hiftorians 
 who record them, had of Danegeld and Prelacy. And Mr. Prynnes other 
 Arguments, Authorityes againtt Shipment cited in that Remonftrance , 
 andagainft Lordly Prelates and Prelacy, regiftred in his V nbifhoping of Timo- 
 thy and Tit ns, his Breviate , Catalogue of Aut hours of all ages , and intypathy 
 oft he Englijh Lordly Prelacy, to Vnity and Monarchy ,are fo follid and Copi 
 ous, that no man hath hitherto attempted to returne the leaft anfwer to them, 
 nor 'indeed can doe ir,fo that he needed not thehelpe of Vifms, Revelations, . 
 or popilh pious Frauds , to fatisfy or delude his Readers in thefe points 
 
 debated by him. . 
 
 For the other pretended points of Popery , perverting of the Scripture 9 , 
 of Lawes, Treafot$s,2ind betraying of the Caufe, they are fo abundantly anfwe- 
 red, refuted in my Books at large, m the pages quoted by this Authour,that 
 1 ft til wholly appeale to them,& the indifferent perufers of them; both for 
 my Purgation and Juft/fication,\n all particularsjwhich books having both 
 tVcfbectalt licenced Approbation of the high Court of Parliament, and of 
 thoiifands of ali forts both at home and beyond the Seas,(vvho have highly 
 approved them, and recievedgood fatisfa&ion by them, in the prefent un- 
 happy controverted differences that di ft raft us,) need no further Apology ? 
 agai nft this Namel e fa Slanderer and Depraver, to whoml onely wifh more 
 verity, honejlyjngenuity, for the future, then he hath here difeovered for the . 
 prefent. . 
 
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 The Fal/ittes and Forgeries o\ 
 
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L Earned Gfbertus Voetius profeffour of Vtrechet his tcfti- 
 mony of Mr. 'Prynncs Bookcs Of the foveraigne Po'ifer of 
 Parliaments in this letter to Mr. Walter Strtckjand, (the Parlaments 
 Agent inthe ^Netherlands) dated VltraieUt Non. Febr, 1644. 
 
 tAccepi nuperrime commodato hbrum Gulielmi VvynnCytdm dtumthi 
 depderatum\ &r at tones ornnts cumKefponfiontbus tarn foltde et crundt- 
 te pro Parlameteis contra Adnuerfavios injlruSlas atejue expltcatas de~ 
 prehendt, ut non <videam quid ultra deftderartpojfit. Debebat^ Trafia- 
 tus tile Latirie et Galltce exjlare,ut a Reformats Thcoligis^f Po- 
 liticis in Europe legi pojfit . 
 
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