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book_n	house_n	king_n	lord_n	2,914	5	3.9837	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44838	The Common-wealtsh's [sic] remembrancer for discovery of the disturbers of her peace with a loving reproof to such offendors and a caveat to others to beware of them / by a friend to peace with truth and true liberty, R.H.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3222A; ESTC R6707	26,466	36

such a time in such a manner and only upon their bare words that tithes are due to them that they are the Ministers of Christ or that tithes are ordained by him for their maintenance c. being a task they never could nor now by Scriptures dare take upon them to prove but they can tell you one while that they are due to them by Divine right another while by some authority of man though noe act of man makes them due but supposing them due did order the setting forth thereof that their predecessors received tythes of their parishoners for many generations that tythes are not now to be questioned that several Parliaments have Judged them due ordered payment accordingly that the Israelites paid tythes by special command from God and would you now under the Gospel pay less to Christs ministers that Gleab lands and tythes are their free-holds c. while all is but deceit and covetousness for they have no colour to demand any thing but as Officers or servants for performing service and that from the Persons they serve and during such respective times as allowed and therein continued but as for Christs work or wages they neither know the one nor will be contented with the other 17. Who were they that encouraged the raising of forces in London and the adjacent counties as also in Wales and other parts and that then took and caused Oaths to be taken with him they call'd Lord Capel and other Officers for the King and gave their assistance therewith against the Parliament accordingly and about the same time held correspondency with them of the Kirk or Clergy of Scotland whereupon an Army of Scots were raised and came under command of Duke Hambleton to join with others here and invade this Land hasting so far● towards London as Stafford-shire before the Parliaments Forces could meet with them by the then directions given therein and what or who occasioned the long dispute between the Nobility and said Kirk of Scotland whether should appoint a Commander in chief of that Army some of that sort of men here being not ashamed to say that Duke Hambleton died a Martyr It is is like they meant for that intended service and who were they that deluded the late King by their Sermons and otherwise seem to accomplish but not to consent to severall things proposed to him by the Parliament some telling him it stood not with his honor as a King so to yield to his Parliament asking him whether he would make himself a Subject c. and at other times so craftily acting and advising between both for their own ends untill he was thereby brought to his last gasp and who in like manner lull'd asleep and misled the Parliament severall times untill c And who since have prevailed with and misled their late Great Benefactor and Protector and those with him untill he also fell and so shall all such Builders of Babylon and upholders of her Merchants even they that help and they that are holpen shall speedily fall together 18. Who were they that preached up the aforesaid Covenant in opposition to the Engagement To be true and faithfull to the Common-Wealth as established without a King or house of Lords both in the year 1648. and 1649. c Who sent Letters and books into the English Army when going against the Scots to discourage and divide them and thereby to disable that Army and prevent their Proceedings and all whose charge pains and diligence was that correspondency held between the Presbyters in England and Sco●land in and about the yea 1650 1651 and who so generally then preach'd up the Scots religion Church-government Worship and discipline here in England and likewise in Ireland and all the time the Kirk of Scotland were carrying on their Design with ●harls Stuart whom they afterwards crowned there and then with all their might hasted to bring him into his late Fathers Throne by way of Conquest with that potent Army of Scots and others here prepared to assist therein and how sad and unquiet were this sort of men in all the three Nations upon the defeating and routing of the said Army at Worcester and who were here the chief Actors therein that sent intelligence and timely notice of the fittest season and way of that Armies so coming for which some of the most notorious were called to account and its like one or two suffered but the generality of them remain the same to this day as they can find out opport●nities in like manner to act for their own ends whether by such correspondency with any like men in Holland or else where And who caused the Turkish Alcaron to be Printed in English after the Parliament inhibited the so Printing thereof and to what end and who are the men subject to changes and alter and change those they call Religions in all ages when and as they see it may be most pleasing to Kings Queens or Rulers and profitable to themselves and augment their Authority over the bodies and Estates of others and upon such changes Preach that for the Word of God and true Gospel which seems to lead to their preferments by taking best with such Authority and in Authorities greatest weakness and Distempers to take advantages over and against it as who is able to make mention of the many factious Sermons in the times of your late troubles preached before authority for which they were so cunning therein they rendred thanks seldom reproofs but have they not often thereby hindered businesse of importance because not suitable to their intentions 19 Who were they of the Presbiters Kirk of Scotland that acted and contrived their Intendments so mysteriously during all the time of Englands troubles bookingin all interests with their like Brethren here as also in Ireland Hell and Hagu● and other parts for the carrying on of their designs Their railing accusations and slanders so oft raised against the English Army while here As also when at Glascoe or other parts of Scotland their occasioning the poor people there to hide their goods in the earth and their bodies also by perswading them that the English Army of Sectaries would kill them and take what they had the said sort of men exalting themselves against the Civil Authority there in matters of the greatest moment their raising of Forces giving Comm●ssions in the name of the Kirk and Kingdome their inviting young Charls Stuart to them putting him to take their Covenant upon his own Constructions and then Crowning him to strengthen their Party and Cause their disagreements amongst themselves about him and his and otherwise their seeking assistance from France their treacherery against the English Army by their Kirk Army at Dunbar and other parts c. yet could they not have much harmed or troubled you what ever they intended had not many of their said like Brethren here fomented Differences and assisted them for the more easie accomplishment of their Kirk-Design in a

serve and grief of the persons then scornfully called Puritans and others the sober minded amongst you which then were by that means cruelly mocked contemned scorned despitefully used and abused because they ran not with others into the same excess of riot and those of you that remembers these things consider who the prophane the then irreligious and vicious persons did applaud and rejoice in for publishing encouraging and joining with the said Exercises they then called lawful sports and pastimes 2. From whence and by whose Ordination Concurrence and Agreement in the late Kings reign were the then Altars and by whose Practice Example and Commands the frequent bowings thereto and at such distinct distances and differnt manners with other the Inventions and Actions then and there performed with so great zeal for their new high places Rails Garments and other Innovations And who were they that in those performances and in visiting Crosses Wells and other places in Preambulations singing the Letany c. were adorned with Canonical Coats Girdles Surplices Rockets Tippits Hoods and the like besides the great reverence said to be due to their persons Office and Ministry which their Followers were directed to manifest by distinct Bowings standings up and kneelings down before them when and as they pleased to teach order and command to be performed in their Meeting-Houses and elsewhere 4. Who were they that as the aforesaid services were increased flockt to London Westminster and Lambeth to have their Wages also increased to ten Groats or at least eight Groats out of each pound of every mans Lands Stock and Labours and a part of poor servants Wages not then esteeming Tythes G●ebe-Land and other their Offerings Incombs and several plurallities a competent or sufficient maintenance but they being over hasty therein and the time not judged seasonable failed in that particular and then what frequent Counsels and Consultations held those men in the several Count●es and corners of the Land under colour of Lectures Em●er-Week-●asts and otherwise to consider of consult and find out s●nse other way for Augmentation to their Authority and Maintenance 4. Who were they that began and continued such and so many vexations Suits in Law with their Patrons Parishioners and others wherewith the Courts at Westminster the Great Assizes in Counties and other Inferior Courts were even pestered as Records may manifest besides their frequent Suits and Summons before and in the then Bishope Courts sometimes for small Tythes working upon some Popish Holy Days though but in repairing a Fence to save Corn and preserve peace amongst Neighbours for not g●ving them timely notice when Tythes were to be set forth to them for going from some of them to hear in other Parishes for Meetings by them called Conventicles or for not allowing Servants to join in the before mentioned sports and pastimes and oft times obtaining Excommunications therefore and speedily turning them into Writs and thereby causing mens bodies to be attached and imprisoned whereby many consciencious persons were in a manner necessitated to leave their dwellings and this Land to seek peaceable Habitations elsewhere which divers of the said active persons made use of as an encouragement to their then design some boasting thereof and that they hoped to have another Authority before it were long wherein their labours have not been lacking neither at their then High Commission Court nor other places as hath notably appeared to all that have been willing to see it Who served assisted and encouraged the late Bishops in making the Cannons Liturgy and Service-Book little differing from the Mass-Book to be imposed upon Scotland and preached against the Scots when that Book was refused by them endeavouring to make them their Religion and practise seem odious their own new-invented Altar Worships forms and bown● acceptable services to God thereby then obtaining a Declaration against the Scots whereby with great zeal they proclaimed them Rebels and after that a Form of Prayer against them which divers of the said men as zealously read and seemed to pray in their said meeting-Meeting-houses And who after that preached up an Army of Londoners and others to enforce the said Book upou the Scots and for the maintenance of those Forces did the like to have Ship-Mony paid by you as also concerning Grants to Pattentees and pleading for such and other Monopolies and Arbitrary Inventions all oppressive to tender consciences Besides the many Articles the Bishops and they then set forth so numerous and contradictory that they could not be performed by the Church-Wardens so called whom they caused or rather forced to swear to present men by nor could others find how to escape the Snares thereby laid for them 6. Who or what sort of men continued the Convocation-House ut Westminster about the year 1640. after the then Parliament was dissolved by a Commission obtained of the then King under the Name or Title of a Synod and thereat made new Constitutions Canons c. Armed with Censures Deprivations and Excommunications whereat was the then new Oath made for establishing their usurpations and to justifie their Altar-Worships Inventions and Innovations And who of them there imposed that great Tax upon themselves in general and on divers others for the raising of more Forces as an Additional-army to go against the Scots and procured divers of their Creatures to go and send forth men Horses and Arms to carry on that their Design all contrary to Law and your Rights and Liberries and for the raising of those differences so far prevailed as to obtain the discountenancing and putting out of favour trust and office in the Common-Wealth divers of the most consciencious sober discreet and fit persons for those services and thereupon procuring others that they knew would comply with them to be setled in such Offices and Imployments thereby uniting a sort of the Nobility and Gentry to themselves as also the generality of the prophane ignorant negligent professors but these then call'd Puritans they found themselves unable to seduce Have I need to remember you or ask you concerning the charge of those Forces what or how many hundred thousand pounds was paid the said Scots afterwards or who paid it or of those other Matters of dangerous consequence by the said Convocation or Synod contrived whereof all other sorts of persons besides themselves have sufficiently tasted Or how they so continued acting until the next Parliament call'd them to account and punished some few of them but the generallity escaped and ever since have stood in the way of and endeavoured to prevent all just proceedings tending to your Rights and Liberties Was not your fire hereby kindled unto which the Authors have ever since been adding Fuel of one kind or other to this very day Were they not of this sort of men that made Libels against the Parliament in the year 1642. imputing it as a crime that the King was not then believed and those with him trusted several ways charging