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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	appear_v	great_a	king_n	1,466	5	3.5285	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89176	A mis-led King, and a memorable Parliament.		1643 (1643)	Wing M2251; Thomason E90_1; ESTC R16635	15,308	17

keep the passages undiscovered upon pain of death and so they had licence to depart And that which is worse they caused the King to sweare That in his proper person with his whole power he should take revenge of the Duke of Glocester of the two Earles and their adherents by causing them to bee put to death But God inspired into the hearts of the aforesaid Duke of Glocester the Earles of Arundel and Warwicke the spirit of valour and magnanimity who seeing the heap of ills that daily did arise by the practices of those cospirators they set almost in every part of the Kingdome intelligencers who should apprehend all Messengers and intercept all letters of the Kings or that went under the Kings name and should send them to the Commissioners And thus did they come to have intelligence of the whole plot of the conspirators all their Letters being indorced with Glory bee to God on high on earth peace and good will towards men and by comming to the knowledge of each circumstance they found that the Kingdome was at the point of destruction according to that Evangelicall saying Every Kingdome divided against it selfe shall be dissolved Wherefore they sought for a remedy every man according to his ability levied a power for the preservation of the King and Kingdome all which forces being united amounting to the number of 20000. fighting men and couragiously resolving to frustrate all the intended designes of the conspirators and to open the nut by cracking the shell they divided their Army committing part of it to the Earle of Arundel who by night marched away with his Forces and pitched his tents neer to London there fortifying himself in the Forrest adjoyning till such time as he had gained more convenient time and greater force by the comming of his consorts On the other side the conspirators intending to prevent their purposes by power of a certaine Spirituall Commission and by vertue of certaine Letters Patents in the hands of the Conspirators though nothing to the purpose yet to blind the people they caused to be proclaimed throughout the whole Citie of London that none upon paine of the forfeiture of all their goods should neither sell give or communicate privatly or publickly victual armour or any other necessaries to the Army of the Earle of Arundel but should barre them of sustentation comfort or help as Rebels to the King and countrey But on the other side they began to feare when they were denied their hoped-for aid by the Major and Communalty of the Citie of London And againe they were troubled at the rising of the Commoners to invade them Wherefore they counselled the King to absent himsent from the Parliament which was to begin at Candlemas next according as the King and Commissioners had appointed it and not consult of the affaires of the Kingdome nor of his owne Estate commodity or discommodity unlesse the Duke of Glocester the two Earles of Arundel and Warwicke with the rest of the Commissioners would sweare That neither they nor any in their name should accuse them or urge any accusation against them Not long after it happened that the King with the aforesaid five Conspirators came from his Mannor at Sheeve to Westminster to Saint Edmonds Tombe for the solemnizing of a Pilgrimage The Major and Aldermen of the Citie of London met him on horseback sumptuously attired honoring him very much And when they came to the Mewes they descended from their horses and went bare-foot to the Tombe of S. Edmond where as the Chaplaine of the Commissioners with the Abbot and Covent met them with a stately Procession In the mean time the three Noble-men viz. the Duke of Glocester and the Earles of Arundel and Warwicke having mustered their Troopes on the fourteenth of November in the same yeare at Waltham Crosse in the County of Hertford and from thence sent for the Commissioners that were there at Westminster in Parliament with the King sending an accusation in writing to the King against the aforesaid Conspirators viz. the Archbishop of Yorke Duke of Ireland Earle of Suffolke Robert Trisilian and Nicholas Brambre wherein they accused them of high treason which their appellation they did offer to maintain and that they were willing to prosecute the same and to prove it to be true they caused also the rest of the Commissioners to subscribe as parties to their appellation When these things came to the eares of the King he sent unto them requiring to know what their request was and what they wished to have been done They returned answer thus That they did desire that the Traytors which were alwayes about him filling his eares with false reports and did daily commit insufferable crimes and injuries might be rewarded with condigne punishment And likewise craved that they might have safe liberty of going and comming to his grace When the King heard their request he gave them is Royall consent and commanded them to appeare at Westminster and the King sitting on his Throne in the great Hall the three aforesaid Peeres Appellants with a great troop of Gentlemen entred making three lowly obeysances on their bended knees they reverenced the King and drawing neere the cause of their comming being alledged they there againe appealed the Archbishop Duke of Ireland Earle Treasurer and Brambre of hightreason according as they had done before at Waltham Crosse but they betaking themselves to the private corners of the Palace even as Adam and Eve from the presence of God not having the heart to appeare to justifie themselves The King called forth the Appellants to prove and prosecute the Appellation prescribing them a day and place for the triall which was to be on the day after Candlemas day and in the mean time the King commanded them upon their Honours not any party to molest the other untill the next Parliament The Duke of Ireland under the guide of his grand Captaine the Divell marching into Cheshire Lancashire and Wales raised a new power amounting to the number of 6000 fighting men from thence marched towards London with his Army with a furious intent and resolution to performe his bloody designe And whilst these plots were laid the Appellants being suddenly advertised thereof raised a great power and joyning with them the Earle of Derby and the Earle of Nottingham and other Commissioners marched with long and wearied marches into a field neere a village called Whitney at a place called Lockeford Bridge In which field the Duke of Ireland was with his Army having a river on the one side of them whereas they stood ready prepared to give an overthrow to the Appellants and displaying the Kings Standard contrary to the Lawes of the land When they saw the Army of the Appellants march down from the mountaines like a Hive of Bees and with such a violent fury fear benummed them and they were so amazed that when they should give the assault God not suffering the effusion of blood they stood