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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	law_n	work_n	2,920	5	6.2264	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44962	The humble addresse of the Lord Maior, Aldermen and Common-Council of the city of London, on Tuesday last, being the 9th of this instant August to the Council of State together with the Lord Whitlock's speech in answer thereunto : wherein is discovered the state of the affairs in Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Kent, Suffex and Surrey, and several other parts of the nation.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.; Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 6.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3380B; ESTC R6803	3,811	9

business though there are divers of your Apprentis●s gone forth to assist those persons that intend ruine upon this City Gentlemen you that are Commissioners of the Militia of this City you have taken a great deal for care for the forming of a Militia for your own preservation you have raised some Horse and some Foot The Parliament hope you will go on for your own sakes for your own protection as well as the Publick It is the duty of the Parliament to take care of all their Forces in a special and peculiar manner for the preservation of this City and of your Safeties and of the safety of your Wives and Children And therefore they thought good to let you know the state of things and designs abroad They have testified their intention of advancing of the Trade of this Nation and their putting an end to all their Troubles It is their Duty It is their Trust but you cannot but be sensible of their Interruption Gentlemen we are all envolved in one and the same cause it is a Righteous cause a Just cause it is a settlement of peace a setling of you and your posterity that you may not be under the Yoak of Tyrany and made Vassal● but that you may be a free people and your Freedome advanced your Peace preserved and your Rights and Liberties continued so that if we be united together in the cause it self we shall not need to fear the Enemy it self but hope that that God that hath appeared hitherto will still appear for us in a cause so just and which we ought to maintain And therefore Gentlemen being the minor of the Parliament they have been pleased to pass a Proclamation which I shall read to you WHereas the old and Implacable Enemy having for some time before the restoring of this Parliament formed a Design for the bringing in of Charls Stewart to the Destruction of all the faithful and constant Asserrors of the Parliaments most Iust and Righteous cause and had brought it to such ripenesse that by the Confession of divers Engaged the day was prefixed the first of this instant August for their Rising in Arms but through the good Providence of the Lord were so timely discovered that their Design was in a great measure disappointed Nevertheless it hath pleased the only wise God to suffer the said Design so far to break forth that Randolph Egerton a Major General and Robert Werden a Colonel with divers others Officers and Commanders in the War under the late King together with Sir Tho. Middleton Sir George Booth and other Apostates in prosecution of the same Design have proclaimed Charls Stewart to be King Levied Actual War and possest themselves of Chester The Parliament doth therefore Declare and Proclaim the said Randolph Egerton Robert Werden Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton and their Adherents in this War to be Rebels and Traytors And because it is not probable that the said persons should upon what specions pretences soever undertake so wicked a Design without expecting Assistance from others The Parliament to the end that no more of the people of this Common-wealth be seduced into any Compliance with them do also Declare That whosoever shall from henceforth any ways Assist Abet or Conceal the carrying on of their said Design be Deemed and adjudged Rebels and Traytors and shall be proceeded against accordingly This Proclamation the Parliament having past thought it seasonable to communicate to you Thus briefly you have heard the particulars of their present Affairs The Parliament desires yout Care and expects your utmost Assistance and best Affections for the carrying on of this work being a Righteous and Good cause and to do what lyes in you That your peace and comfort may be brought home to you and you shall find them and their best Assistance to go along with you in the carrying on of this work advancing the Trade of your flourishing City and preserving your just Rights Liberties Laws and Priviledges The End