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
A96030	Vox populi: or The peoples humble discovery, of their own loyaltie, and His Maiesties ungrounded iealousie	Prynne, William, 1600-1669,	1642 (1642)	Wing V731; Thomason E239_5; ESTC R19411	4,153	7

VOX POPULI OR THE PEOPLES Humble Discovery OF Their own LOYALTIE AND His MAIESTIES ungrounded IEALOUSIE LONDON Printed Anno 1642. VOX POPULI THE PEOPLES HUMBLE DISCOVERY Of their own Loyalty and His Majesties ungrounded Iealousie ALthough the Charms of Rhetorick have stained your Majesties Declarations Answers Proclamations Speeches and Messages with all the gall and opposition that possibly could be infused to exasperate us into the Nature of bad Subjects yet are we resolved to depart from nothing that may oblige and court your Majesty to continue our gracious King Your evill Councellours have tempted your Majesty in all they could to divide your individuall Person from your Regall Authority and we have vowed in the presence of God with all the power and industry we have to keep them unseperable which being inconsistent with the Malignity of that Counsell which daily joynes it selfe closer to your Majestie and divides us we are necessitated to imploy that power for the separating that malignity from your Majesty which else wil be the ruine of us all both King and People That there is Malignity The strong siding for the Lord Straford and for the Votes of Popish Lords in Parliament The difficult yeelding to such good Acts as began to establish our Peace and adventuring to question the same at your Majesties return from the North by a Quaere of the freedome of this Parliament The many Attempts for dissolving us The late and slow disarming of the Papists The enticing many worthie men of quality to Petition against established Votes to the great disturbance and dishonour of both the Houses and then incensing them to sacrifice the Peace and Liberty if not the Lives of themselves and the whole Kingdome to their inconsiderate Revenge and lastly the uniting all those into one Army by an Illegall Commission of Array doe aboundantly testifie to all mens Consciences but such whom passion and not malice hath carried from us we hope Wisdome and Religion will restore unto us Besides what Malignity hath been wanting in shamefull Reproaches provoking Scoffes false Constructions prejudicate Censures scandalous Libells treacherous Plots both at home and abroad in slugging all proceedings that tend to the safety of England or Ireland in making cheape the repute of Parliaments and lastly both in the invitation and consent of deserting the Houses to attend and countenance your Majesties strange distance from your Parliament and taking up of Armes against it We would not accuse your Majesty our hearts abhorre it nor will our Lawes suffer it unlesse they speak and proceed to extremities although your Majesty endeavour much to be thought the sole Agent But as our Laws instruct us we accuse such Counsellors and instruments of Regall commands without which the Regall Office cannot stand though we doe not instance in all the particular Authors the causes of all things being found but with difficulty for such as dare do ill will not want so much selfe-love as to conceale it having the lives and livelyhood of them and theirs at stake to bribe their secrecie untill such time as they grow bold in wickednesse and discover themselves or that He that seeth in secret brings them forth to be rewarded openly And in this loyall care of your sacred person and tender respect of your Princely honour finding that besides the daily discourse of successive dangers which seemed to be countenanced by your Majesty and of unsupportable Grievances past and present both in Church and State with the slowe and difficult reparations of either the People had also strengthened a Jealousie from the intercourse of Letters between the Pope and your Majestie then Prince in Spaine from your preferring the imbraces of a Catholicke before a Protestant to be the Consort of your Royall bed and bosome from thé increase of Papists Priests Jesuites and a Papisticall Clergy and Ceremonies throughout the Land and the generall decrease and severall persecutions of Protestants and faithfull Preachers from the common boast even of Papists themselves that you were of their Religion and all your Majesties most secret Counsels were first known to them from the sharp eagre proceedings against Scottish Protestants and slow proceedings against Irish Papists and Rebells And lastly from the earnest Reprieve of Priests or Jesuites at first and afterwards of 6. Priests Jesuites and high Accusation desperately prosecuted against 6. Members of our Houses of Parliament that your Majesty had certainly given up your Faith unto the Sea of Rome So that being also inflamed by the Rebellious and prodigious Massacres of Ireland there remaining no Oths nor Execrations sufficient to satisfie jealous people from Princes that once give up their Beliefe unto that Sea which allowes no Oaths nor Faith to be kept to such whom they shall pronounce Hereticks as they doe us and imposeth a Conscientious obedience secrecie and assistance to all their dismall Stratagems We resolved without publishing the disease as a sovereigne Remedy to settle the Militia and thereto councelled your Majesty But what is Councell if not followed And what are your Majesties Acts without Councell Surely if your Majesties Acts out of Parliament are guided and are not authenticke but by advice of your Majesties Attourney Judges or Privie Councellors and they have power to Declare so shall the Great Councell of Parliament goe lesse that gives to all them being and includes them Or shall the Orders of any of their Courts be Legall and shall not those of the Parliament be much more In this advise therfore and resolution of the Militia which your Majestie used when there was no need we yet most humbly and earnestly in this extreame need and necessity of the Subject persist untill your Majestie remove the just occasions of feares and accord to a sufficient cure of Jealousies by putting the Peoples safety into the Peoples own hands whose Jealousies are no whit abated by your Majesties absence from Parliament and raising of contrary Forces and sending of severall Menaces and returning to your old Councells and the Papists cheerfull interessing themselves in and rejoycing at all your proceedings they all appearing like so many severall Omens of the peoples returne to their old Ceremonies and to their old Grievances or worse Nor can we suffer those who by the Councell of the Nation have done faithfull service to the Nation to perish for their faithfull service The Acts of Sir Iohn Hotham and the rest employed for the Militia and for the Navie had generall commands and instructions to authorize them and have had particular approbations to confirme them they must not suffer and we live nor shall so great a sinne make our Nation odious to God and man if we can help it It is not the allegation of a minor part of Parliament can abuse the wiser and more Religious sort of your Subjects since all men know that each mans Vote is of equall power and freedome in Parliament and the voyces of a few cannot out eccho a great many