Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	house_n	king_n	parliament_n	4,083	5	6.9002	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85157	Peace and safety for the vvhole kingdom or, An expedient for a safe and well-grounded peace between the King and his people. As also for the speedy settlement of all interests. Studyed and published for the honor of the Kings Majesty, his royal posterity, the present and future happiness of the whole kingdom. By Richard Farrar, Esq; This expedient was read by the author himself at the bar of the House of Peers, the sixth day of July, 1648.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F522; Thomason E451_19; ESTC R202098	7,659	15

beginning of this Parliament and if they might be secure from all future violences in their lives estates and fortunes both themselves and their posterities for ever for transacting such things as his Majesty doth apprehend they ought not to have done against Himself his Crown and Dignity the Laws of the Land and their fellow-subjects That then such a security if the People could understand it and that it could be made plain unto them would prove an open door for a safe Treaty at least if not for a safe and well-grounded Peace to enter in at And I presume I am not much mistaken in this so now I proceed to the Propositions which I have framed and which I doubt not but that his Majesty will freely offer at the Altar of the Peace of this Kingdom THE Piety of the Prince NOT THE Policy of the People Must make a safe and well-grounded PEACE The King to grant First AN Act of Oblivion as strong as can be devised for the Preservation of the Lives Estates and Fortunes of themselves and their Posterities that have any way offended the King or their Fellow-subjects from Anno 1640. until the passing of this Act. Secondly The King to confirm that Act by a solemn Oath drawn in the most strict manner that may be and this to be done in publick for the better satisfaction of the people and a short Covenant without any ambiguities to be understood ad literam to be contained in a few lines for the King to take and the People also reciprocally and this will make both Prince and People happy And this Oath and Covenant to be confirmed in Publick by the Sacrament and declared to all the People in Print And thus doing he will be a glorious King beloved both of God and man The Queen to take the like Oath the Sacrament must be given by her own Priests and this done in the presence of persons of the greatest honour and published in print by her self and then God forbid but she should have the excercise of her Religion by her self and family fully The Prince and Duke of York to do the like in all things the King their Father did 3 That an Act of Parliament be made in the most strong manner that can be Viz. That it shall be High Treason by the King unpardonable for any Member of either House in any succeeding Parliament for ever hereafter so much as to motion or cause to be motioned or by writing or otherwise to act or speak directly or indirectly any thing that may tend to the calling in question of the Act of Oblivion or dispute the fitnesse or unfitnesse the lawfulnesse or unlawfulnesse of it much more for offering at the repealing of the Act of Oblivion or of this present Act but the person so offending which will be no hard thing to be proved to be executed in 24. hours after as a Traytor in the highest degree against both King and Kingdom The Execution to be at Westminster 4 An Act for a general Pardon and who shall require it for a particular one from the King for anything contained in the Act of Oblivion 5 An Act that no Knight of the Shire or Burgesse shall ever hereafter be chosen but that in a few dayes after the Choice he shall in publick at his own Parish Church in the presence of Three persons besides the Minister take the Oath for the keeping of the Covenant and the Act of Oblivion and for the faithful observing of the Third Act viz. That it shall be High Treason c. and confirme it by the Sacrament and to bring the Certificate under the hands of Three honest men present and the Minister and to deliver it to the Speaker of the House of Commons before he speak to any publick businesse of the Common-wealth And every Lord of the House of Peers to do the like at their Parish Church and bring the Certificate to the Speaker of the House of Lords 6 An Act that no King or Queen hereafter but shall at their Coronation unlesse they be under age take the same Oath the King now doth and the same Covenant and confirme it by the Sacrament for the true keeping of the Act of Oblivion and the never consenting to the repealing of the Third Act. 7 An Act that all the Lords and Commons of England and all those that are out of the Kingdom when they shall come in in a word every person in the Kingdom none excepted of either Sex from 17 to 100 years of what calling soever they be I say that every person in a convenient time as short as may be to take the same Oath and Covenant and confirme it by the Sacrament every one to take it without equivocation or mental reservation ad literam and to their uttermost of power to keep it and likewise to take the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy here care must be had of Papists and to this Act some addition that whatsoever Native shall passe out of the Land or come in shall take the Oath and Covenant the Sacrament cannot then with convenience 8 An Act that no Preacher or Minister Preach or Print or any other person whatsoever any thing that may in the least infringe the Act of Oblivion and the Covenant or the lawfulnesse of it or of the Third Act Viz. That it shall be High Treason c. a severe punishment 9 An Act prohibiting of all Pamphlets Books or Papers printed or written which have done or do any way asperse his Majesty the Queen or Royal Issue the Parliament or the Kingdom of Scotland or Ireland ever since the beginning of 1640 to the day of the passing of the Act and this Act to obliterate and deface out in all Books of Records whatsoever or whersoever any thing that is publickly entered tending this way A severe punishment for the party so offending selling ordivulging of them with an Act for the time to come against all that shall offend in that kind a severe punishment 10 A severe Act against all Duels and Quarrels concerning the late differences either in word or deed included in the Act of Oblivion and the party severely punished though no harme done for who draws his Sword or any weapon in this kind would if he could that all the Kingdom should do the like which were a horrid thing a high punishment 11 An Act against any that shall send a challenge or deliver a challenge by word or writing and for any that shall call Cavalier or Roundhead or any such nick-name which may infringe the Act of Oblivion and no man to be esteemed a coward but on the contrary a truly valiant man that shall refuse the challenge or puts up any affront in that kind for the preservation of the Peace and love of the Kingdome and complaining of it to the Judge or Justice he shall be esteemed the better and the Party offending highly punished 12 An Act that no suit shall be admitted