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cause_n	according_a	justice_n	law_n	1,616	5	4.3920	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38204	Articles of impeachment by the Commons assembled in Parliament, in the name of themselves and all the commons in England against Sir Thomas Gardiner, recorder of the citie of London, for severall great crimes and misdemeanours committed by him : as also the votes concerning Generall Major Skipton : with an order for the disposing of the magazine of the counties of England and Wales.	Gardiner, Thomas, Sir, 1591-1652.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1642 (1642)	Wing E2524A; ESTC R8759	3,858	8

disturbers of the peace saying that the putting of their hands to a Petition was the way to put all together by the eares and being then answered by some of the said Petitioners that they sought nothing but peace he replied in these or the like words Is this your way to peace no it tends to sedition and blood and to cutting of throats and if it come to that you may thanke your selves your bloods be upon your owne heads he used other threatning speeches to discourage and terrifie the Petitioners from further proceeding in their said petition which Petition was afterwards presented to the Lords and Commons in Parliament and well approved by them and doth not containe any dangerous matter as was maliciously by him pretended as may appeare by the Copy of a Petition hereunto annexed VII That in January last at a Court of Common-Councell in London an Order of the House of Commons was sent and delivered to the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-Councell of the said City appointing them to make choice of meet persons to have the ordering of the Militia Whereat the said Sir Thomas Gardiner was present and tooke notice of the said Order and declared his opinion That the persons of the Committee formerly chosen for the safety of the said City were the fittest men to take that service upon them Whereupon the Lord Major and Sheriffe desiring to be excused the persons of the said Committee were chosen by a cleere Vote and their names sent to the House of Commons and by them and the House of Peeres allowed and approved of Yet afterwards he the said Sir Thomas Gardiner endeavoring and plotting to hinder the proceedings in Parliament the peace and safety of this Kingdome did most maliciously and wickedly advise and direct the making and framing of two false and seditious petitions And he the said Sir Thomas Gardiner upon perusall of them affirmed the matters contained in them to be agreeable to Law and to the custome of the said City thereby encouraging divers of the said City to subscribe the same and to send the one of them to be presented to His Majesty and the other unto the Lords and Commons in Parliament which petitions do contain in them divers false scandalous and seditious matters And in particular that petition annexed hereunto a Copy whereof was afterwards subscribed by divers Citizens and presented to the House of Commons containeth false matter That the Ordering of the Arms of the said City of London had beene time out of minde annexed to the Majoralty for the time being and insinu●ting that if the same should be conferred upon others it would reflect upon the Government and Custome of the said City which every Freeman of the said City was by his Oath of Freedome bound to mayntain to the uttermost of his power Which Petitions were so contrived framed and published on purpose to divert his Majesty from assenting to the said Ordinance and to worke a distraction in the said City and to bring the Parliament City and whole Kingdome into disorder and confusion All which matters committed and done by the said Sir Thomas Gardiner were and are high crimes and misdemeanours contrary to the Laws of this Realme and in subversion of them and contrary to the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament the liberty and propriety of the subject tending to sedition and to the disturbance of the publike peace of this Realme And the said Commons by Protestation to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Accusation or Impeachment against the said Sir Thomas Gardiner and also of replying to the answers that the said Sir Thomas Gardiner shall make unto the said Articles or to any of them and of offering further proof of the premisses or any of them or of any other Impeachment or Accusation that shall bee exhibited by them as the cause shall according to the course of Parliament require Doe pray that the said Sir Thomas Gardiner may bee put to answer all and every the premisses And that such proceedings Exactions Tryals and Judgements may be upon every of them had and used as is agreeable to Law and Justice FINIS