Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	lord_n	parliament_n	7,771	5	7.1941	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87539	A short, sure, and conscientious expedient for agreement & peace. Tendred to the two Houses of Parliament: with an appeale to the Assembly of Divines; and an application to the people, and the Ministery of the Kingdome. / VVritten by D.J.	Jenkins, David, 1582-1663.	1648 (1648)	Wing J609; Thomason E456_3; ESTC R205038	3,926	8

and allegiance to God and the King and the better to carry on their designes have they framed an Ingagement for us to adhere to the Authority of the two Houses of Parliament i. To renounce the King his protection and Government and to submit to the usurpation and Government of the two Houses of Parliament And this Ingagement is pressed at this day in the severall Counties and Corporations but I would have the people of the Kingdome generally to consult their respective Ministers How the people should consult their Ministers about the Ingagement Whether considering their Oaths aforesaid they can ingage with the Houses and the Army in their designe against Monarchie without high disloyalty and manifest perjury Or whether considering their Obligations by their Protestation and Covenant they ought not rather to oppose and fight against them for the defence and maintenance of the King and Crownes and the established Government of the Kingdome Numb 30.1 Jf a man vow a Vow unto the Lord or sweare an Oath to bind his soule with a Bond he shall not break his word he shall doe according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth The Statutes of 11. R. 2. and of 2. H. 4. repealed 11. R. 2. The Duke of Glocester E. of Derby afterwards H. 4. with Arundell Warwick and Nottingham inforced the King to call a Parliament compell him to be there els send him word they would chuse another having brought 40000. men to London and placed them there c. and at this Parliament they accuse divers Lords and others of the Kings Party that withstood them of high Treason for assembling and conspiring by force to destroy the King Realme and Lords who thereupon were attainted in Parliament See Speed fol. 747 748 749. the Duke of Ireland routed by the Lords 21. R. 2. The King having gotten the better of those rebellious Lords they for their old offence though new matters were pretended are in Parliament attainted of Treason and all those attainted by their power in 11. R. 2. restored 1. Hen. 4. this King being by one of those five Lords viz. Derby heire to the D. of Lancaster that procured and inforced the Act of 11. R. 2. which was to that Kings prejudice revives that Act and repeales the other of 21. R. 2. made to the disadvantage of him and his parry reciting also that there were so many paines of Treason ordained by Statutes that none knew how to doe speak or carry themselves for feare of such paines therefore the better to draw on his maine end in the other causes it to be enacted that nothing shall be Treason but according to 25. E. 3. which notwithstanding divers shifts and evasions were afterwards used to multiplied Treasons as formerly which so continued till 1. E. 6. c. 12. Enacted that all Treasons and Declarations thereof be referred to 25. E. 3. except some Treasons in that Act mentioned as denying the Kings Supremacy interrupting the succession of the Crown c. by which addition the former mischief was revived and therefore by 1. Ma. c. 1. All treasons are limited to 25. E. 3. notwithstanding any Act made before or after So that the Treasons of 11. R. 2. not being expressed in 25. E. 3. are no Treasons now unlesse they be so declared by force of 25. E. 3.2 the words whereof are And because many other like cases of Treason which are not expressed in that Statute may happen in time to come it is accorded that if any other case supposed Treason which is not above specified doth happen before any Justices the Justices shall tarry without any going to Iudgement of the Treason till the cause be shewed and declared before the King and his Parliament whether it ought to be judged Treason or other Felony which Declaration ought to be by the whole Parliament and not by the King and Lords or King and Commons or Lords and Commons Cooke Inst 3. part fol. 22. FINIS