Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	according_a	justice_n	law_n	1,616	5	4.3920	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52665	The nations agrievance, (by way of address from loyal subjects) presented to His Majesty, the King of Great Brittain, for his favour, countenance and regard, relating to the countries election of their representatives in Parliament, and the due execution of justice, how they may be duly promoted according to the regularity of privileges, of both Prince and people.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1679 (1679)	Wing N236; ESTC R11284	7,043	4

upon which account other places and Offices of Trust also have been and are committed to them in the ordering and dispose of your Majesties and the Kingdoms Treasure lest they should be called to astrict account therefore they have found ways and means to evadean impartial and due Representation of things as they are namely the Nations Grievance and to this end do endeavour every one according to that wherein lies and depends his own particular concern and Interest to put a stop to all due Execution of Justice in these cases whereby as the cause by such is augmented both your Majesty and good Subjects are wronged and abused and complaints thereof dayly multiplied and increas'd the Consequences of which must of necessi●y end in a Nations Distruction and Ruine while the dirt of their dishonourable Actions by many disaffected to the present Goverment is so apt to be flung in and upon the Face of your Princely favour 11. That notwithstanding we have made our exceptions upon good Grounds and Reasons beforementioned against some unfit Members for your chief and general Counsel in so great a work especially such as go under the Denomination of Papists yet we neither crave or except in these Cases any limitation to be put upon the Countries Choice other ways than is expressed in your Majesties Writs to them directed which they ought to pursue in obedience to your Princely favours and Command therein but we only offer these things unto your Majesties favour and Countenance and to the Country as matters reasonable and equal and that for such Reason according to Justice we may expect will be heard and pursued by the Voters 12. That as a free people we request in all humble duty and submission to your Majesties Royal Command we may have our free Votes in the Election and choice of a free Parliament for our Representatives and that those your most loyal Subjects shall be no ways over-awed threatned or bribed to pleasure the Wills and humors of such whose Interest though it be to Compliment and flatter your Majesty runs Counter against ●ll true Service to their King and Country and it being contrary to the Constitution of the Goverment under which we live and privileges that a free people may expect to enjoy under so noble a Prince to have any thing unequal or unjust and violently imposed or forc'd on them as to their free choice of a ●i●e Parliament if any such thing be perceive endavoured so as to make another Club of Voters in the House of Commons we think and believe from so wise and just a Prince we may justly expect what we herein humbly pray and beseech These things premised may it please your Majesty we humbly offer by way of supplication and do in all Duty to your Commands Humbly pray 1. That in tender Consideration of the Nations grievances your Majesty will be pleased not only to take notice thereof and of our humble Adress to your Majesties favours for the remeding and redress of these things and all others amiss in State Affairs but in Order thereto you also will be further pleased in your Princely Care of your own and the Kingdoms safety and for the preservation of your Crown and Dignities thereunto belonging in a right line to shew and extend your Princely Favour and Countenance to the grieved at the beforementioned miscarriages by which our Ears are filled with the Cries and dayly Complants of the burthened and oppressed proceeding from Causes of a Nations misery 2. Than your severity towards Incorridgable and obstinate Offenders for whom all just Laws were made and provided unto which in and according to Justice they are appointed together with your Clemency and favour in Mercy shewen towards the penitent may run parallel with the occasions for a due Administration of either justice or mercy and that you would be pleased to extend your mercy and favour towards penitents who under any Remorse of Guilt are to apt to make an ingenious Confession and acknowledgment of their Crimes and Fact acquittable on these very tearms and no other and that then the Evidence and testimony of such may not be discountenansed or made Invalued for any Cause or sake in any of your Majesties Courts of Judicature 3. That in your discountenance of the one by the Countenance of the other your Majesty will be pleased according to such your Princely care by the advice of your chief and great Counsel of Parliament and your loyal Subjects Representatives to appoint how shall be provided the way and mean by which all these things man be speedily remedied and redressed that are amiss and that your favour and countenance for the future may be no ways evil spoken of misapprehended and thus abused your Majesty will be pleased to make a true distinction as between Subjects of your pleasure and favour or displeasure and frown so also between obstinately guilty and penitent Offenders against known Laws upon which the breach hath been made 4. That in your Princely Care to prevent Conspiracies Seditions and seditious plots and plotters Contrivances and Co●trivers to subvert the present Goverment as in these your Dominions established with all other incendiaries to evil and mischief of this kind against a Nation Prince and his Authority your Majesty will please to appoint and make provision of a way and means how your displeasure and discountenance to such persons and practisers may safely be distinguished from your favour and Countenance towards those that cleave close to you in the encounter against the same and that have been and are willing to labour and take pains for making a true discovery of these things as they are 5. That as the only way truly to unite the hearts of your Subjects unto your Majesty for such your Princely favours in Justice to these your Subjects and that in these beforementioned causes of abuse unto the Countries Choice in your princely Wisdom and Care over your peoples Rites and privileges under an equal dependance with your own upon the Royalty of your prerogarive your Majesty will be pleased to take notice thereof so as to check discountenance and put a stop to all growing evils the ill consequenses of this distemper and hence may you expect your Name famous in Generations to come 6. That by taking notice of your Loyal Subjects Grievances to the putting a check and restraint upon the occasion and occasioners thereof and by allowing your Subjects just Rites and privileges as a free people your Majesty will be pleased to manifest your tender care to maintain such the Rites between Prince and people as may so●…mly establish your own Royal prerogative that as one man with one consent the hearty affections of your people and Subjects may be so kni● to you and ready to serve you that like a Bullwork or Citty walled with B●ass nothing that is hurthul may be able to pass or enter you● fortress or make a breach upon so happy a League under