Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	chief_a	great_a	place_n	4,421	4	4.0822	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94641	To the Right Honorable the Lords assembled in High Court of Parliament: the humble remonstrance and petition of the Lord Major, aldermen, and commons of the City of London, in Common Councell assembled. Together with their Lordships answer thereunto.	City of London (England). Court of Common Council.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1646 (1646)	Wing T1666; Thomason E339_1; ESTC R200847	4,858	12

that Kingdom wherein besides the publick and common interest we are particularly concerned Lastly we should have much to say for this City if we could imagine that its fidelity constant services and devotion to the Parliament could either be questioned or forgotten that little we shall expresse on the part of the City is not to repeat how zealous we have been in the cause of God and this Parliament how we have spilt our blood and spent and laid out our selves and our Estates in maintenance thereof how many publike acknowledgements we have by us of the favourable acceptance of them and promises to leave Testimonies thereof to all future ages but only to beseech your Lordships to consider how much our hearts may justly bee dejected now that God hath followed your endeavours and our prayers with so many successes and brought the Warre to a probable period as to the sense of Man That the Enemies of our Peace should strive now to sow jealousies between the Parliament and this City as hath been too evident of late and particularly should so far prevaile as to bee able to render the chiefe Magistrate of this City the Lord Major suspected unto whom wee cannot but give this just Testimony that he in his place hath faithfully behaved himself and carefully discharged his Office We could adde much more of the daily invectives against us from the Pulpit and other places where the Boutefew's of these Sectaries are admitted the scurrilous and seditious Pamphlets daily broached in and against the City And the great contempt of and discouragement unto the Ministers of the Gospel who adhere to the Presbyteriall Government But we shall conclude with this briefe and humble representation of our Petitions and desires to your Lordships in the name of the whole City I. That some strict and speedy course may bee taken for the suppressing of all private and separate Congregations II. That all Anabaptists Brownists Hereticks Schismaticks Blasphemers and all such Sectaries as conforme not to the publike Discipline established or to bee established by Parliament may be fully declared against and some effectuall course setled for proceeding against such persons III. That as we are all Subjects of one Kingdom so all may be equally required to yeeld obedience unto the Government set forth or to be set forth by the Parliament IV. That no persons disaffected to the Presbyterial Government set forth or to be set forth by the Parliament may be employed in any place of publike Trust V. That your Lordships will please to hasten Propositions to his Majesty for setling of a safe and well grounded Peace amongst us after so long and unnaturall a Warre VI. That your Lordships according to the Covenant and Treaties will please to study all meanes to preserve the Vnion between the two Nations of England and Scotland and to remove all jealousies which may endanger our mutuall agreement VII That your Lordships will please to consider of some meanes wherby the priviledge which the Members of this Honourable House and their Assistants and the Servants of both and others enjoy by being protected and exempted from being proceeded against for their Debts may be so qualified as that the Subject may be able to recover his owne in some due time VIII That all publike Revenues and Receipts may be employed to publike uses that so the Taxes of the City may bee abated IX That the Estates and Compositions of Delinquents may according to the engagements by Ordinances of Parliament be applyed to discharge the great summes owing to this City and Citizens X. That the Plymouth Duty may be taken off the Trade especially now that the West is reduced XI That the Committee at Haberdâ—shers-hall may be presently dissolved or at least so limited and regulated as that the City may have no cause of complaint XII That the reducing of the Kingdome of Ireland may be taken into consideration before the good party there be too farre wasted and discouraged XIII That the Lord Major of this City may bee fully vindicated XIV And lastly and above all That your Lordships will please not to look upon any expressions of this our Remonstrance Petition as charging any thing upon your Lordships or as intended to intrench upon any priviledge of this Honorable House but favourably to accept thereof and so to interpret the same as from a single and humble heart it is sincerely and without any by-ends or to comply with any Party whatsoever intended and breathed forth from the sad heart of the Petitioners who are overwhelmed with many feares on all sides And who call God the Searcher of all hearts to witnesse that according to their Covenant and duty their zeale devotion and obedience is as fervent and prostrate as ever to serve the Parliament with their Lives and Estates against all the Enemies of our Peace and to conjoyn the City more and more to the Parliament and to maintain the Vnion of both Nations against all Opposers whatsoever All which we humbly submit unto the wisdome of this Honourable House 26 Maii. 1646. THE Answer of the Lords in PARLIAMENT TO THE Remonstrance and Petition of the City of LONDON THE Lords are very sensible of the great fidelity and constant services of the Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councell of the City of London to this present Parliament which they shall never forget They acknowledge their zeale expressed upon all occasions in the Cause of God and this Parliament and how readily they have spilt their blood and spent and laid out themselves and their Estates in the maintenance thereof They are well satisfied with your Expressions and Care to settle the true Reformed Protestant Religion according to the Covenant and with your desires to have all Heresies Schismes and Blasphemies suppressed as also with your respect to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament the Liberties of the Kingdomes and to preserve and defend his Majesties Person and Authority in the preservation of the true Religion and the Liberties of the Kingdomes his Royall Posterity and the Peace of the Kingdomes As also for your desires for the continuance of that union between us and our Brethren of Scotland Of whose Services and sufferings wee shall not only hold a gratefull memory but upon all occasions give a Retaliation Unto all which wee hold our selves equally with you obliged by our Solemn League and Covenant As to the Person of the Lord Major the Lords hold a high esteem of him according to his merit and have commanded mee to let you know that nothing hath passed this House at any time in prejudice of him And when the particulars wherein hee findes himself agrieved shall bee made known unto them they shall bee ready in a Parliamentary way to do him right The Lords will take the other particulars of your Petition into serious and speedy consideration And have commanded mee to give you hearty thanks for the Reall Testimonies of duty and good affections which not oâ—ly by your words but by your Actions you have constantly manifested unto them Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentorum FINIS

Die Martis 26 Maii. 1646. IT is this day Ordered by the Lords in Parliament Assembled That the Remonstrance and Petition of the Lord Major Aldermen and Common Councell of the City of London this day exhibited to the House of Peeres and their Lordships Answer thereunto shall bee forthwith Printed and Published And that the care for the true Printing thereof is hereby specially recommended unto Colonell John Bellamie who is by this Order authorized and required to Print and publish the same accordingly And none else are to presume to Print and publish the same as they will answer the contrary at their perils Jo. Browne Cleric Parliamentorum TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS ASSEMBLED IN HIGH COVRT OF PARLIAMENT The Humble Remonstrance and Petition of the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common Councell Assembled Together with their LORDSHIPS ANSWER thereunto LONDON Printed by Richard Gotes for John Bellamie 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS Assembled in High Court of PARLIAMENT The humble Remonstrance and Petition of the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common Councell assembled OUR duty In the first place doth lead us to begin all our Addresses as wee most heartily and humbly doe these with all due and humble acknowledgement of the great Labours and endeavours which Your Lordships have these many years employed in Reformation both of the Church and Common-wealth and in preservation of both with the humble tender of our constant devotion to serve the Parliament according to our Covenant made before Almighty God In the next place wee most humbly crave pardon although wee doe presume to returne againe unto your Lordships and humbly yet plainly lay open the sorrowes and feares of our hearts even in this season when as God hath blessed your Armies with the greatest successes and that Man might perswade himself that the Warre is almost at an end For first Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdome pag. 19. when wee remember that it hath been long since declared to bee farre from any purpose or desire to let loose the golden Reins of Discipline and Government in the Church or to leave private persons or particular Congregations to take up what form of Divine Service they please when wee look upon what both Houses have resolved against Brownisme and Anabaptisme properly so called when we meditate on our Protestation and Covenant And lastly The Parliaments Declaration upon his Majesties Declaration after the Battaile at Edghill p. 659. when wee peruse the Directory and other Ordinances for Presbyteriall Government and yet finde private and separate Congregations daily erected in divers parts of the City and elsewhere and commonly frequented and Anabaptism Brownism and almost all manner of Heresies Schismes and Blasphemies boldly vented and maintained by such as to the point of Church-Government professe themselves Independent wee cannot but bee astonished at the swarmes of Sectaries which discover themselves every where who if by their endeavours they should get into places of Profit and Trust in Martiall and Civill affaires it may tend much to the disturbance of the Publick Peace both of the Church and Common-wealth Wee also cannot but call to minde what Vowes wee have made to God in the same Covenant as well as our former Protestations to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliament and the Liberties of the Kingdomes and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority in the preservation and Defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes that the world may bear witnesse with our Consciences of our Loyalty and that wee have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just power and greatnesse and doe humbly rest in the assurances wee have received in the many former Declarations of both Houses concerning their intentions towards his Majesty his Royall Posterity and the Peace of this Kingdom which wee doubt not but your Lordships will pursue with all speedy dispatch of Propositions to His Majesty now whilst God doth so mercifully and miraculously goe along with your Armies in all the parts of the Kingdome Wee may not in the next place forget our Brethren of Scotland how first they were invited to engage with this Kingdome in Gods Cause when yet they were at Peace at home in what Covenant this Nation is mutually linked with them at what time in relation both to the weak condition of our Forces then and the season of the year they adventured upon an Enemy warmly lodged and well armed and prepared what they have since suffered for this Cause in their own Kingdom how successefull ever since God hath made our Forces in suppressing the Common Enemies of both Nations and what present hopes wee have of a well-setled Peace while wee continue in this mutuall Amity And then cannot but lament the many jealousies which the Enemies of our Peace Union and good Government doe now strive to beget between both Nations and tremble at the sad effects thereof if not timely prevented by the wisdome of the Parliaments of both Kingdomes Wee cannot also omit humbly to represent unto your Lordships consideration how many Citizens have already suffered and how many more will bee undone if your Lordships shall still make use of that ancient Priviledge to protect your Selves the Assistanâ—â— of this Honourable House and the Servants of both and others from being proceeded against in any course of Law for Debt which now because this Parliament hath already sate so long and is likely by reason of the unsettlednesse of â—ffaires to sit much longer would especially require some expedient for relief of so many as otherwise must daily suffer under this Priviledge And now that the Kingdome is almost reduced by which meaneâ— the Revenues of the Kingdome wil be unburthened and the Customes and Excise increase and the publike charge of the Kingdome decrease now that Delinquents doe daily come in and compound and now that the Enemy hath but few Holds left we hope that the great and extraordinary Taxes and burthens on this City and their Trade shall be in the future abated that the Debts owing to the City and Citizens of London either by particular Assurances of the Parliament or upon the publike faith of the Kingdome be taken care for and discharged as wel as those assigned upon the Excise and may not be diverted from the uses appointed by former Acts and Ordinances And we humbly crave leave to present to the consideration of this Honourable House the Committee of Haberdâ—shers-hall as being one of the greatest grievances of this City and which so long as it is continued doth hinder the concourse of people thereunto and tendeth much to the destruction of the Trade and Inhabitants thereof And now also wee doubt not but God will give the Parliment some better meanes and opportunity for the reliefe of our bleeding Brethren in Ireland and the suppressing of those horrid Rebels and reducing of

Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Text snippets containing the quad