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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	good_a	let_v	1,459	5	4.0417	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76367	Bellamius enervatus: or, A full answer to a book entitled A plea for the commonalty of London. Which is as the authour Mr. Bellamy cals it; a vindication of their rights (which have been long withholden from them) in the choyce of sundry city officers. As also a iustification of the powerent the Court of Common-Counsell in the making of acts, or by-laws, for the good and profit of the citizens, notwithstanding the negative voyces of the Lord Major, and aldermen. / Refuted by Irenæus Lysimachus:.	Lysimachus, Irenaeus.	1645 (1645)	Wing B1819; Thomason E281_8; ESTC R200040	31,464	46

judge it as thou find'st it I am not the City Advocate to plead their Rights rather their Champion to defend them from wrong I take not upon mee to argue their Cause but to answer Arguments already made against them Vnder that Notion consider mee compare mee and censure mee only shut not thy Eyes against any cleare light that shall appeare in mee since to bee wilfully ignorant ought to bee reckoned among sins of knowledge Farewell Bellamius Enervatus OR An Answer to a Plea for the Commonalty of LONDON And first to the Proem THe discontent that breeds in some kinde of spirits because they cannot doe what they would makes them next to doe they cannot tell what The occasion of this Mr. Bellamies speech first spoken since published to throw up all enclosures of Order in the City of London by shuffling the Cards and taking away all notes of distinction between the Head and Members thereof did not principally arise from any just claime that hee could make to the Priviledges which he pleades for but as himself confesseth hee was put upon this motion because hee had been crost by the Lord Major and Aldermen a little before in a former motion Hee tels you that upon the 16th of January last he made a motion that a certain obstruction in the Court of Common-Counsell might be removed which was caused by the Lord Majors using his Priviledge of taking up the Sword and so dissolving the Court for the present when hee saw good without their consents The redresse whereof hee tels you he prest with much earnestnesse and Prometheus-like stole fire from heaven to quicken this creature of his own making for he us'd the Arguments of the Lords and Commons in Parliament made to the King for the continuance of their sitting as long as they saw good in Parliament to the Lord Major for the continuance of his sitting as long as they saw good in Common-Counsell But this not taking such offect as hee hoped for was yet the Spur that prickt him forward upon another designe that since hee could not court them out of their Priviledges hee would labour to force them And * Read his own Proem at the latter end thereupon it was that he indevoured 1. By the Charters of the City 2. By Records witnessing their power in the practise of them 3. By Equity and Reason to extend the Commoners Rights a little further and since it could not bee yeelded that the Lord Major in Common-Counsell must sit still as long as they list they will now both make him sit when they list and which is worse Act what they list Throughout which passage give mee leave to make these Observations First what Equity there was in his first motion upon the sixteenth of January Secondly What were the Arguments that hee backt it with Thirdly What reason there was that upon the deniall of that first motion hee should now fall upon this For his first motion upon the sixteenth of Janary it first argues a great deale of weaknesse in the Lord Major that he doth not know when to sit still and when to rise for the Cities good unlesse Mr. Bellamy tell him Secondly it much asperseth the Lord Majors integrity that hee would not of himself sit as long to do the City or Kingdom service as Mr. Bellamy would have him Thirdly it wrests the Sword it self out of the Lord Majors hand it being given him to dispose according to Law in his own best judgement which notwithstanding must now during the time that a Common-Counsell will sit though it bee all day and all night and never so much occasion to use it in the City bee surrendred as it were into the hands of Mr. Bellamy till hee please that the Lord Major shall take it up againe As touching the Arguments brought by Mr. Bellamy to back this motion there are two things in them considerable 1. whos 's they are 2. what they are First Whose they are hee tels you they are the same which the Lords and Commons used to his Majesty for the continuance of this present Parliament all that is his in them is the Application to fit those Arguments which were made by them for the Kingdom to serve his turn for the City For Answer to which if I dare trust my memory I shall acquaint you with an old story of a certain Recorder of your own City who had a Malefactor indicted and convicted of murder before him the Malefactor was called Skillman the Recorder being somewhat facetious hearing such a name thus quibbled upon it Thy name saith hee to the Prisoner is Skillman take away S and it is Killman take away K and it is Illman thou hast an ill name which may half hang thee and an ill cause which will quite hang thee This sudden flash being favourably smiled upon by the Court a certain Magistrate of the Countrey took speciall notice of put it up in his Table-book and the next time hee sate upon the Bench made this use of it There was a malefactor brought before him and convicted for stealing a horse his name was Johnson Hee presently asks him his name the other answers his name was Johnson Johnson saith hee take away S and it is Killman take away K and it is Illman thou hast an ill name which may half hang thee and an ill cause which will quite hang thee If this were but a Fable the Morall is good I will make no other Application of it to Mr. Bellamy but thus to let him know that all Arguments will not serve at all turns nor is it any Plea for him that hee hath brought the Arguments of the Lords and Commons unlesse hee can make them as fit for himself as they made them for themselves and therefore we will look no further whose Arguments they are but wee will come in the next place to see what they are And here hee tels you the particulars which hee insisted upon were these three 1. the raising of Monies for the Kingdomes Cities occasions 2. The Repayment of those monies so raised by the Parliament Common-Counsell 3. The redresse of the grievances of the City Kingdome These three hee tels you the Common-Counsell cannot effect as they should doe without the power of continuing together till such time as these be throughly considered upon All which wee easily grant but would faine know how these Arguments back his Motion hee brings us Arguments to prove why the Common-Counsell should sit till the necessary businesse of the City bee effected and therefore makes a motion that they may sit as long as they themselves list whereby they doe not urge for a power to sit while the necessary businesse of the City is effected but while such trouble-Courts as himself shall please to tire out the Lord Major and Aldermen with as impertinent speeches as hee hath done here with one of almost an houre long to no purpose at all unlesse it bee to make divisions