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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	according_a	law_n	person_n	1,451	5	4.8874	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76471	A true and impartial narrative of the most material debates and passages in the late Parliament. Together with the rise and disolution of it, published for the satisfaction of those that desire to know how they spent their time. By a Member of that Parliament, who is none of the present Parliament.	Bethel, Slingsby, 1617-1697.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2077; Thomason E985_25; ESTC R207870	10,858	16

A true and impartial NARRATIVE OF The most material Debates and passages in the late PARLIAMENT TOGETHER With the Rise and Disolution of it published for the satisfaction of those that desire to know how they spent their time By a Member of that Parliament who is none of the present Parliament LONDON Printed for Thomas Brewster and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard 1659. A true and perfect Narrative of the most material Debates and Passages in the late Parliament c. THe over-ruling hand of Providence having upon the third of September a day of signal mercies unto this Nation taken away the late Usurper whilest he was in possession of the Title of Protector of the Commonwealth his Son Richard was the next day by the Councel at White Hall proclaimed his Successor He by the Authority thereof did about three months after issue out Writs for a Parliament to begin the 27th of January following The people who in their diffused condition is capable only of obeying their Superiors and not of disputing the legality or illegality of their commands made choice of Members to serve in Parliament they according to their summons assembled upon the day appointed when they were met the pretended Protector sent the black Rod to let them know that he was in the Other House and desired to speak to them there at which call not above ten or twelve went out of the House though more that was not come in appeared before him Mr. Chute was that day chosen Speaker and after a Bill unpassed left by the precedent Parliament was according to custom read the House Adjurned until the next day Then a Gentleman was complained of for affronting two Members and he ordered to be brought to the Bar of the House by the Serjeant A private Fast in the House and the Ministers to perform the duties of that day was appointed a Committee for Elections and Privileges chosen and so the House Adjurned until the 31. of January it being customary at the beginning of Parliaments to give the Speaker a day or two to settle his own business in that he may the better afterwards attend the service of the House The Gentleman that affronted the Members was brought to the Bar upon his knees and for his offence committed to the Tower but in a few dayes upon his submission and at the intercession of the Gentlemen abused he was released The first of February a Bill was brought in by Mr. Secretary under pretence only of acknowledging the pretended Protector but under such terms as had no less in them than the admittance of the Chief Magistrate and the Persons then sitting in the Other House unto the full power privileges and prerogative of the ancient Kings and ancient House of Lords which the court party designed to have carried undiscovered and so have left the Nation either to have fought the late quarrel over again or else to be content with a bad change of persons where there was none of things The Bill was that day without much difficulty read the first time which encouraged those of the long robe related to the single person to press for the reading of it again the same day to the end that it being the next day read the third time as they designed it it might have passed into an Act but in opposition to that some who were more careful of the Liberties of the people than those of the long Robe ordinarily are moved that according to rule in cases of such weight it might be referred to a grand Committee of the whole House and when that would not be granted that the second reading of it might at least be put off for some dayes and liberty given to the Members to take Copies that considering of the business they might be the more fitting for the debate which was yeilded unto and the seventh of February appointed for the second reading The State of Major General Overtons sad and deplorable condition was given at the door and at the same time the House was Petitioned by his Sister for a hearing of him by them which was granted and two Votes passed in order to it first that his Keeper should with all speed bring him with the cause of his imprisonment before the Parliament and secondly that a Frigot should be sent to fetch him from the Isle of Jersey where he was then prisoner About six weeks after he was brought to the Bar of the House by his Keeper who produced no authority for his detainment but a bare command without any cause expressed from the late Usurper whereupon the Parliament voted his imprisonment illegal and unjust that first because no Chief Magistrate had ever power to commit any person by his own warrant secondly because there was no cause axpressed in the Warrant and thirdly because no man can according to Law be banished but by Act of Parliament and so released him from his imprisonment without paying any fees or charges The fifth of February a person who sate in the House being found to be no Member was for his offence therein committed to Newgate and not to the Tower which is the Parliaments prison chiefly in regard of the present Lieutenants great exactions and oppressions and partly that upon inquiry the offender was found to be under some degree of distraction Upon the day appointed the Bill for recognising the Protector was read the second time and the debate begun The Petition and Advice was pleaded by the Court party as the foundation of his Title but by those that was for the Commonwealth it was denied to be a Law and that not only from the inconsistency lameness and insufficiency of it but also from the corrupt manner of its procurement that Assembly that made it being no Parliament but a Faction in that the members were never suffered to meet but so many of them kept out even by him that called them as he judged would hinder the execution of his will besides that at the creation of that monster there was but of 460. chosen but 104. in the House whereof 51. was against it and carried meerly by the strength of Scotch and Irish members who had no right to sit but were Usurpers in the making Laws for England It was further shewen that if Caesar Burgia Pope Alexander the sixth and Matchivel had all laid their heads together they could not have framed a thing more destructive to the Liberties of the people and for absolute tyranny giving away all that our ancestors have fought for ever since the Conquest Than the Petition and Advice As the Negative Vote The power of dissolving Parliaments The purse of the people and in that all the security they had for their Rights and Liberties For give the Single Person your purse and you give him the Militia and if he have that all bounding of him by Lawes signifies no more than binding of a Lyon