Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	council_n	parliament_n	privy_a	2,717	5	9.7040	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82127	A declaration of the citizens and inhabitants of the City of Chester whose names are svbscribed, summoned to appear before His Majesties commissioners for the array at the Roodey, within the liberties of the said city, for their cleer manifestation of their allegiance to His Majestie, and duty to his Parliament.		1642 (1642)	Wing D646; Thomason 669.f.6[55]; ESTC R212421	740	1

A DECLARATION OF THE Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of Chester WHOSE NAMES ARE SVBSCRIBED Summoned to appear before His Majesties Commissioners for the Array at the Roodey within the Liberties of the said City for their cleer manifestation of their Allegiance to His Majestie and duty to His Parliament Do Declare THat as it is a Sacred truth that a Kingdom divided cannot stand so it is a legall principle that His most Sacred Majestie is the head and the Parliament the representative body of His Kingdom and that in the Cordiall union of His Majestie and His Parliament consists the safety glory and the happinesse thereof And They for their parts heartily wish they may be accursed as Corah and his Accomplices that do or shall purposely occasion or foment any difference betweene His Majestie and His Parliament And therefore they further declare their readinesse with their Lives and Fortunes to obey His Majestie as their most Deare and Dread Soveraigne according to their due Allegiance and the resolution to defend the just Priviledges of Parliament according to their free and just Protestation and that as God and the Fundamentall Laws of this Kingdom hath joyned His Majestie and the Parliament together So they cannot agree unto a disjoynted obedience but do Declare themselves Enemies to all such as shall go about to put His Majestie and the Parliament asunder And for this Resolution they have great encouragement from His Maiesties own Declaration attested with forty of the Nobility and Privie Councell whereby He hath most graciously assured them and all other His People that He hath no more thoughts of making war against His Parliament then against His own Children that He will defend the iust Privileges of Parliament and maintaine and observe the Acts assented to by His Gracious Maiestie this present Parliament without violation for which as for other His Maiesties severall gracious Protestations for the defence of the Protestant Religion and the Laws of the Land they returne most humble thanks to His Majestie This Declaration w●●delivered by the Citizens of Chester to His Majesties Commissioners for the Writ of Array London Printed for Edward Husbands and Iohn Frank July 20 1642.