Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	power_n	3,921	5	4.7466	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31823	The Kings answer to the propositions for peace as was pretended in the club-mens petition to His Majesty with the copie of a letter from Sir Lewis Dives, and another from Colonell Butler, governour of Wareham, sent to them and read in their quarters : also a copie of articles and directions, and divers other passages of their proceedings and intentions, and a list of their chiefe leaders names and which of them are taken and who not : with other papers brought by our scouts from the army.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1645 (1645)	Wing C2141; ESTC R200206	10,924	17

to extirpate Popery Schism 〈…〉 Errors and Superstition Why will you plead for Baal will you●o to keepe up that which God hath promised and hee will have downe or is it because you feare wee will take away the Kings Crowne and Dignitie Looke upon the Parliaments Declarations to the contrary sent to all Princes and States Looke upon our solemne Vow and Covenant to the contrary and doe not thinke us a people gréedie of periurie and of hatred and infamie from all posterity or is it because we endeavour for Reformation in Church and State I desire you to consider whether it bee not 〈…〉 e to endeavour to be better when God is punishing us because we are so bad Whether the Reformation aymed at will not make us walke more pleasing before God and make us more conformable to all other reformed Protestant Churches who have long looked and prayed for such a Reformation amongst us whither this be not to thwart and oppose what God will have brought to passe If you canot apprehend the great necessities of it yet I advise you at least to stand still and not to lift up your hand against it for if it be of God it will stand if it bee not of him it will fall of it selfe to the ground Take heede then good Neighbours and fellow Protestants of ioyning and associating your 〈◊〉 with bloodie Papists and Irish Rebbels lest you partake of their 〈…〉 ments for God will shortly bring them to an account of all the innocent blood shed here and in Ireland Take heed of setting your selves against them that earnestly pray and endeavour for the true good of your soules bodies and estates and the Lord give you a right understauding in all things and guide you into those wayes and counsels which will most conduce to his glorie and your true good Pardon mee for being so tedious I have not troubled you often I should be glad to heare from you what your resolutions are and shall rest Warham Iune 30. 1645. Your truly wel-wishing friend and Neighbour Robert Butler 4. For His Majesties promise of a Cessation of Armes and nomination of a Treaty the late printed Letters between the King and Queen it is hoped have given full satisfaction to every rationall man and yet such is the Parliaments desire of Peace if it may be that the Lords and Commons have both agreed to send Propositions to the King for Peace and that without any Treaty but forthwith by Bill to require a positive answer to which if it shall please His Majesty to give his Royall Assent an end will bee of the Wars and the kingdom setled in peace and he received with joy and honoured with the love and loyalty of all his Subjects 5. The reading of the malignant booke printed at Oxford about the Treaty hath giv●n little satisfaction to reasonable men who will without doubt be fully satisfied in the Declartion which the Parliament are putting out concerning the same 6. What faithfull Protestant can be so blinded as not to understand and in his conscience confesse that the sins of the Kings Army are exceeding great both in drinking swearying whoring robbing plundering killing and idolatry and all manner of wickednesse and barbarous cruelties daily exercised in all parts where they come And what redresse is here promised for the reliefe of His Majesties Subjects herein To the third you may see the answer is that Taxes and Free-quarter shall be done with moderation and severe justice is promised for plunder but should that be fulfilled the King would soone hang up all his souldiers 7. For the trusting of any to keepe the Garrisons for the King it is notoriously knowne that the Queen must approve of them and none but Papists must bee entrusted there with is it not so in all parts of the kings quarters 8. For the want of Iustice the kingdome is very sensible that that very thing hath beene a great cause of these Wars which Papists Iesuits and Delinquents were the fomenters of to be a Protection for them from the power of the Parliament Now because the very Club-men themselves are sufficiently sensible how they have suffered under the kings forces therefore they have framed directions for the security of their estates the Copies whereof follow The desires and Resolutions of the Inhabitants of Dorset WE the miserable Jnhabitants of the said Countie being too too deeply touched with the apprehension and sense of our past and present sufferings occasioned onely by these Civill and vnaturall warrs within this Kingdome and finding by sad experience that by meanes thereof the true worship of almighty God and our religion are almost forgotten and that our ancient Lawes and liberties are alltogether swallowed up in the arbitrarie power of the sword and foreseeing that famine and utter Desolation will imediatly fall upon us our wives and children unlesse God of his in finit mercy shall looke upon our true humilation be graciously pleasd spedily to put a period to these sad distractions are unanimously resolved to joyne in Petitioning His Majestie and the two Houses of Parliament for a happie peace and accommodatin of the present differences without future effusion of Christian bloud without which accommodation we cannot expect the enjoyment either of our Religion Liberties or proprieties meane while that we whose names are under written Resolve and doe here Declare 1. To defend and maintain with our lives and fortunes the true reformed Protestant Religion 2. To joyne with and assist one another in the mutuall defence of our Lawes liberties and properties against all plunderers all other unlawful violence whatsoever 3. Wee doe faithfully promise each to other that the damage or losse which in the execution hereof shall happen to any one be accounted as the losse of the generality and that reparation be made to such party or parties by the whole County and in case of losse of life provision be made for his wife and children by the County 4. To declare all such unworthy of the generall assistance as shall refuse or delay to joyne with us in the prosecution of these our just intentions Some directions for present behaviour made and agreed on at a meeting of the Inhabitants of the Counties of Dorset and Wilts at Gorhead corner the 28th of May 1645. VVHereas by the Articles of our Association wee challenge unto our selues no other freedome for the present from the burthen of the Warres then to preserue our selues from plder and all other unlawfull violence It is therefore advised by the generality that untill such time as we receiue answer to our petitions from his Maiesty and the two Houses of parliament 1. Euery Towne Tything-parish great Hamlet make present choice of thrée or more or the ablest men for Wisedome Valour and estate Inhabitants in the same unto whom at all times they may repayre for assistance and direction 2. That the Constable Tything-man or other officer of the Tawne Tything-parish or liberty

Parliaments party both to the Club-men A Copie of Sir Lewis Dives Letters to the Club men Gentlemen and Friends THat I have not hitherto required any accompts of former Assemblies the reason is because I deemed your professed desires and resolutions tending to the preservation of the true reformed Protestant Religion established by law and of your selves from Plunder and such like unlawfull violence no way derogatory to His Majesties service wherein I am throughout this Countie intrusted but rather such as the same trust bi●●des mee and you shall ever finde mee most ready to assist you in But perceiving of late a backwardnesse in some of your parts of the Countie and a denyall from others in the payments of Contribution after the late moderate proportion which in consideration of the present poverty of the Countrie hath beene by mee required of them and by with-holding whereof His Maiesties service must necessarily faile it being the onely means His Maiesty hath left him to supply his Forces here and by the Gentlemen and Freeholders agreed and promised to bee paied unto him and never promised or agreed to be paied to those that are in Rebell on against him His Maiesties one Revenues Customes and Rents being for the most part seized and against all the rules of Law taken and disposed of by the Rebells for payment of those that serve them in this un-naturall Warre I am therefore forced to put you to the question whether it be your generall resolution over and above your published resolutions to deny His Maiestie these necessary supplies to the end I may consider what course to steere and withall out of my care of your safety and preservation which may otherwaies bee endangered to admonish you that you be not seduced to must or rely on those who have brought this Even and destruction on you remember by what degrees they have effected it how they first Fortified severall Townes in this County then dis-armed you then sent out Tickets and Papers requiring upon paine of Plundering great summes of Mony to the full yearly value of your Estates from all Gentlemen Freeholders and Yeomen of any abilitie and forced the paiment thereof by Imprisonment of their persons and Plundering of ther goods they not onely required but where they have power have enforced the twentieth part of your Estates and the 5th part of your yearly Revenue besides the Contribution and yet not contented herewith have fired the houses of divers Gentlemen of this Countie where no Garison or force did oppose them Remember how they have banished your Orthodox and loyall Clergie consider how they have Plundered almost all men of qualitie in this Countie from some 2000 sheap at a time from others more from others 1500 from some 1000 40 for Oxen from another to the undoing of many both Gentlemen and Farmours the particulars whereof are so infinite and many and the parties who have suffered these losses so well known to your selves that I forbeare to make any farther mention thereof Also that after all these sufferings how they set an Excise upon your Bread and Meat you eate in all places where they have power and which is worst of all they have abused our Churches by making flables thereof and by robbing and defacing the same and now abolished the Common-Prayer and Litturgie of the Church so long publickly used amongst us and confirmed by Law and instead thereof have introduced so many religions as men shall fancie of themselves Remember how wee and our Ancestours have happy lived under the government of many godly and pious kings and Queenes and see where we have not suffered more in 3 years under them And lastly thinke upon it seriously whither ever you can or probably may expect such happie daies again if you joyne not with the King and His Forces to advance His Throne and Regall Dignitie who hath so often sought and desired your peace and safety I remaine Tyranny of these men who now usurpe Regall Authoritie unto themselves then one 200 years before under the Government of those Religious Kings and Queenes Gent. your very affectionate friend Lewes Dives In answer to this Letter there shall need to bee said no more onely to referre the Reader to Colonel Butlers Letter following which is the true Copie of that which he sent to the Club-men Gentlemen and Neighbours YOu have had many meetings but few salutations from me not that I love you lesse than other Governours but that I knew not how to shape a discourse to you till I saw which way you did encline I have seene some of your Articles and find you pretend chiefly to stand up in your owne defence and the preservation of that little which is left to maintain and preserve you and yours If that onely be your intent I know not how or why it should be withstood by any one that loves his Countrey but then I would wish you would manifest it by your yeelding no assistance to the aduerse partie and we will endeavour to require none from you otherwise we must look on you as not what you professe your own friend onelie but our professed enmie Put us in a way by your assistance to get the Kings party to quit their holds and we I assure you will speedily relinquish our land Garrisons If your intentions are according to your expressions then I desire you would manifest it First by your prohibiting Papists and such as are notorious enemies to the Parliament Secondly by warily declining the counsell and the wily practises of some eminent men now in Armes against us who plott and contrive to abuse and seduce your honest and innocent intentions Thirdly wee intreat you likewise not to suffer scandalous nor drunken ministers to have any great power with you nor influence upon you because we know such are our professed enmies for they know the Parliament intends to call them to a stric●● account Fourthly we shall desire that you may give us no 〈◊〉 cause of exception that no man that is knowne to have beene our enemies may be neither a Clerke or Reader or any other kinde of officer among you Fiftly that our Letters be read and our messengers safely returned aswell as any others Sixthly that our Souldiers and Troopers may have free egresse and regresse amongst you that if they behave themselues amisse and fall into your hands you would acquaint us with their offences that wee might punish them These things if you will performe we shall wish you well and that you may be prosperous to the end you pretend to undertake it for otherwise whatsoever your pretences are we know that you are abused by those that are our enemies and that would make you so too and we desire to know how can you be Parliaments enemies Is it because they endeavour with the hazard of their liues to preserue your Liberties when the tyrannie and oppression of the Court was at highest or is it because they Vow and Covenant