Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	act_n	parliament_n	power_n	1,452	5	5.0027	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46518	A proclamation ... since our accession to the throne of our royal ancestors, our chiefest care has been to procure the security, peace and happiness of our subjects James R.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II); James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1688 (1688)	Wing J255; ESTC R4538	3,829	1

By the KING A PROCLAMATION JAMES R. IAMES the Seventh by the Grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c To all and sundry Our good Subjects whom these Presents do or may Concern Greeting Since Accession to the Throne of Our Royal Ancestors Our chiefest Care has been to procure the Security Peace and Happiness of Our Subjects by all the ways Our Paternal Care of Our People could suggest to Us especially by removing the Pressures of Penal Laws in matters of meer Religion and forbidding all differencing Oaths and Tests whose unreasonable Weight hung heavy on Us and Our People Precluding both from Our Native-freedom and Birth-right And this We did by Our Royal Declaration of the date the 1● of February 168● In which Declaration We were pleased for the great and weighty Causes and Considerations therein mentioned and by vertue of Our Sovereign 〈◊〉 Prerogative Royal and Absolute Power so plainly Acknowledged by several Acts of Parliament and especially by the 2d Act of Our first Parliament To Give and Grant Our Royal Tolleration to all the Professors of the Christian Religion therein named and with and under certain Conditions Restrictions and Limitations judged by Us for the Time to be necessary Requiring and expecting that all Our good Subject would give their Assistance and Concourse thereunto on all Occasions in their respective Capacities Suspending Disabling and Stopping all Penal Laws Acts of Parliament Customs or Constitutions made or executed against Dissenters for matters of meer Religion And further We did Cass Annul and Discharge all Oaths whatsoever by which any were Disabled from holding Places or Offices or enjoying their Hereditary Rights and Priviledges Discharging the same to be thence forward given or taken without Our special Warrand Stopping Disabling and Dispensing as well with all Laws enjoyning the said Oaths and Tests as with the other Penal Laws therein mentioned and Declaring that it never was Our Principle nor would We suffer Violence to be offered to any mans Conscience or Force to be used against any man on the account of his Perswasion And that We would employ indifferently all Our Subjects of all Perswasions so as none should meet with any Discouragement on the account of his Religion but be Advanced and Esteemed by Us according to their several Capacities and Qualifications so long as We should find Charity and Unity maintained And if any Animosities should arise that then We would show the severest Effects of Our Royal Displeasure against the Beginners or Fomenters thereof seing thereby Our Subjects might be deprived of that general Ease and Satisfaction that We did intend to all of them whose Happiness Prosperity Wealth and Safety were so much in Our Royal Care that We would leave nothing undone that might procure these Blessings for them We did likewise Declare that We were resolved to maintain Our Arch-Bishops of the Protestant Religion with all the inferior Clergy in the full and free Possession of their Rights and Priviledges as they now enjoy them and all Our Protestant Subjects in the free Exercise of their Religion As likewise the Possessors of Church or Abbay-Lands in their Full Right of their Possessions according to Law in that Case already provided Likewise Granting Our Indemnity with such Exceptions as in the forsaid Proclamation is more fully expressed Thereafter We thought fit to Explain and Enlarge the same by Our second Declaration bearing date at Windsor the 28 day of June last by-past of which the Tenor follows JAMES the Seventh by the Grace of GOD King of Scotland England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To all and sundry Our good Subjects whom these Presents do or may concern Greeting Whereas by Our Royal Proclamation of the date the 12 day of February 1686 / 7 We were graciously pleased for the Causes and on the Terms therein mentioned to grant our Royal Tolleration to the Professors of the Christian Religion therein named With and under certain Restrictions and Limitations All which are in the said Proclamation more at length expressed We now taking into Our Royal Consideration the sinistruous Interpretations which either have or may be made of some Restrictions therein mentioned Have thought fit by this Our Royal Proclamation further to Declare that We will Protect Our Arch-Bishops and Bishops and all our Subjects of the Protestant Religion in the free Extercise of their Protestant Religion as it is by Law Established and in the Quiet and Full Enjoyment of all their Possessions without any Molestation or Disturbance whatsoever And We do likewise by Our Sovereign Authority Prerogative-Royal and Absolute Power Suspend Stop and Disable all Penal and Sanguinary Laws made against any for Non-conformity to the Religion Established by Law in that Our Ancient Kingdom or for Exercising their respective Worships Religions Rites and Ceremonies All which Laws are hereby Stopt Suspended and Disabled so all Intents and Purposes And to the end that by the Liberty thereby granted the Peace and Security of Our Government in the Practice thereof may not be Endangered We have thought fit and We do hereby straitly Charge and Command all our Loving Subjects that as We do freely give them leave to Meet and Serve God after their own Way and Manner be it in privat Houses Chappels or Places purposely Hired or Built for that use so that they take care that nothing be Preached or Taught among them which may any ways tend to Alienat the Hearts of Our People from Us or our Government and that their Meetings be peaceably openly and publickly held and all Persons freely admitted to them and that they do signifie and make known to some one or more of the next Privy Counsellors Sheriffs Stewards Baillies Justices of the Peace or Magistrats of Burghs-Royal what Place or Places they set a-part for these uses with the Names of the Preachers And that all our Subjects may enjoy such their Religious Assemblies with greater Assurance and Protection We have thought fit and do hereby Command that no Disturbance of any kind be made or given unto them under pain of Our Royal Displeasure and to be further proceeded against with the outmost Severity Provided always that their Meetings be in Houses or Places provided for the purpose and not in the open Fields for which now after this Our Royal Grace and Favour shown which surpasses Hopes and equals the very Wishes of the most zealously concerned there is not the least shadow of Excuse lefts Which Meetings in Fields We do hereby strictly Prohibite and Forbid against all which We do leave Our Laws an Acts of Parliament in full force and vigour notwithstanding the Premisses And do further Command all Our Judges Magistrats and Officers of Our Forces to prosecute such as shall be guilty of the saids Field-Conventicles or Assemblies with the outmost Rigour as they would avoid Our Highest Displeasure for We are confident none will after these Liberties and Freedoms