Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	parliament_n	repeal_v	4,000	5	12.1621	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91200	A just and solemn protestation and remonstrance of the lord mayor, aldermen, sheriffs, common-councell-men, and other citizens and freemen of London against two late ordinances of the Lords and Commons that now sit, for the choosing of common-councell-men and other officers within the city and liberties thereof ... which ordinances bear date the 18, and 20 of December, 1648.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3989; ESTC R42518	4,575	8

A Just and Solemn PROTESTATION AND REMONSTRANCE OF THE Lord Mayor Aldermen Sheriffs Common-Councell-men and other Citizens and Freemen of LONDON AGAINST Two late Ordinances of the Lords and Commons that now sit For the Choosing of COMMON-COUNCELL-MEN and other Officers within the City and Liberties thereof for the YEAR ensuing in the generall And against some Clauses in them in particular Which ORDINANCES bear date the 18 and 20 of DECEMBER 1648. Imprinted at London 1648. A just and Solemn Protestation and Remonstrance OF THE Lord Major Aldermen Sheriffs Common-Councel-men and other Citizens and Freemen of London against two late Ordinances of the Lords and Commons that now sit WE the Lord Major Aldermen Sheriffs Common-councel-men and other Citizens and Freemen of the City of London who have exhausted our estates adventured our lives lost our blood and for eight years space together day and night upon all occasions indefatigably contributed our utmost labors treasures travails counsels prayers endevors to maintain the honor freedom and safety of both houses of Parliament stood by them in their greatest straits assisting them with our purses and forces when few else would own or stand by them and hazarded the loss of all that is dear and precious to us for their defence who else had been swallowed up and destroyed by their Prelaticall Popish Malignant enemies sundry times ere this and brought to utter desolation For all which faithfull Services and real testimonies of our most cordiall affections towards them which they have frequently and gratefully acknowledged both in the Houses and City upon sundry occasions and remonstrated to the world in divers printed Ordinances and Delarations We did at least expect a free and full enjoyment if not a confirmation and enlargement of all Our ancient Hereditary freedoms priviledges rights Franchises and Customs ever constantly enjoyed by us and our Predecessors from before the Conquest till the last year confirmed by Magna Charta it self Chap. 9. which enacts That the City of London shall have all the old Liberties and Customs which it hath been u●ed to have and entayled to us and our Successors for ever by many successive Charters and Acts of Parliament of most of the noble Kings of England as well before as since which neither one nor both Houses of Parliament in their fullest and freest condition have or can pretend to have any just or lawfull power to repeal or diminish in the least degree without our own consents or desires and the Kings concurrence thereunto by an Act of Repeal much less whiles under the actuall force and power of disobedient mutinous Army who have forcibly imprisoned excluded and driven away most of their Members But in stead thereof we finde to our deepest grief and astonishment a most ingratefull and dishonorable requitall of all our former faithfulness love bounty and services not by the generality of the Members of both Houses whose favors and sincere affections towards us in studying to preserve and enlarge our Priviledges Franchises and Charters upon all occasions and Treaties with his Majesty we shall ever gratefully acknowledg but only of a small inconsiderate party in the Houses wholly acted and swayed by a Jesuitical and Anabaptistical powerfull party in the Army who have a long time made it their principall study and Master-piece to rend and disengage the City and Houses from and dash them in pieces one against another and divide them into factions and fractions among themselves whereby to enslave and ruine them both and by their slavery and ruines to make way for their own ambitious designs and intended Greatness and Tyranny far more intolerable and grievous then any we or our Ancestors formerly sustained under the worst of all our kings which they have no hopes to accomplish whiles the Houses and City enjoy their ancient Priviledges Freedoms and continue cordially united and therefore have at this present most perfidiously and trayterously endevored to captivate and enslave not only the King but both Houses of Parliament and the City together and in them the whole Kingdom and English Nation For which end and purpose having brought up the whole Army to London and Westminster contrary to the Houses Order and quartered many of them in and about the City in the principall places of strength and advantage beyond our expectation and contrary to their own Engagement to us seised upon our Treasuries and Halls imprisoned one of our Sheriffs though a Member and carried him caprive out of our liberties and by armed power and a horrid force upon both Houses most injuriously imprisoned and forceably kept out and driven away all or most of their faithfull Members admiting none to sit but only such who are confederate with them in these their Treasonable designs and that under their force and imposed Guards to over-awe them They have on the 18 and 20 of December last caused these their Confederates who usurp and take upon them the Name and Authority of the two Houses of Parliament when as in truth they are and have been neither and no Houses at all ever since their being under such a visible force and violent restraint and seclusion of the greatest Number of their Members from thence by the Officers Armies armed power contrary to the undoubted known Rights Priviledges and freedom of Parliament which they we and the whole kingdom and Army are engaged by Covenant inviolably to preserve to make and publish two Printed Papers The first whereof they style An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for the choosing of Common Councel-men and other officers within the City of London and liberties thereof for the year ensuing The second an Ordinance of the Lords Commons assembled in Parliament concerning the Election of Common Councel-men and other Officers in the City of London Wherein among other things they do Declare and Ordaine That no person whatsoever that hath been imprisoned or that did subscribe or abet to the Treasonable engagement as they tearm it in 1647 or that did aid assist or abet the late Tumult within the Cities of London and Westminster or the Counties of Kent Essex Middelsex or Surrey shall be elected chosen or put into the Office and place of Lord Major Alderman Aldermans Deputy Common Councel-men or into any Office or place of trust within the City for space of one whole year or be capable to give his voyce for the chosing any person to any the Offices aforesaid And it is thereby further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid though null and void That if any person or persons comprehended under the aforesaid exceptions being chosen shall presume to sit in the court of Aldermen Common-Councell c. or to execute any of the aforesaid Offices contrary to the true intent of this Ordinance shall forfeit the sum of two hundred pounds the one halfe whereof shall be within twenty dayes paid unto him or them that shall make proof thereof and the other Moyety to