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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	citizen_n	london_n	mayor_n	9,097	5	11.2140	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91239	The petition of right of the free-holders and free-men of the kingdom of England: humbly presented to the Lords and Commons (their representatives and substitutes) from whom they expect a speedy and satisfactory answer, as their undoubted liberty and birth-right.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P4029; Thomason E422_9	14,940	23

practises we declare to be against our Rights Freedom and Liberties and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and of our Members there who represent us and to his Majesties honor and safety in whom we have all a common interest And we do likewise further complain and Remonstrate that the Officers and Agitators in the Army and their confederates in the Houses have contrary to our foresaid Rights and Liberties many ways invaded and infringed the Rights and Priviledges of the City of London the Parliaments chiefest Strength and Magazine and Metropolis of the whole Kingdom which extreamly suffers in and by its sufferings and that by altering and repealing their New Militia established by Ordinances of both Houses when ful and free without any cause assigned against the whole Cities desire in marching up twice against the City in an hostile manner not only without but against the Votes and Commands of both Houses in dividing and exempting the Militia of Westminster and Southwark from their Jurisdiction and Command in seising upon and throwing down their Line and Works raised for the Cities and both Houses securities at a vast expence in a disgraceful and despiteful manner in marching through the City with their whole Army and Train of Artillery in triumph in wresting the Tower of London out of their power and putting it into the Armies and Generals Custody in removing the Cities Lieutenant of it without any reason alledged and placing in a New one of the Armies choyce in committing the Lord Mayor Recorder Aldermen and divers Colonel Captains and Common Councel men and other Citizens of London who have shewed themselves most active and cordial for the Parliament and impeaching them of such grand Misdemeanors and Treasons which all the City and Kingdom and their accusers own consciences inform them they were more guilty of without ever bringing them to a legal Tryal only for doing their du●ies in obeying the Parliament in their just Commands and standing up for their just defence according to their duty and Covenant of purpose to bring in others of their own Faction into their places to inslave the City and commanding two Regiments of Foot to come and quarter in the City and levy some pretended arrears t●●●ein by open force which many by reason of poverty for want of trade and former loans and taxes to the Parliament are ●●●●rly unable to satisfie And when such affronts and violence is offered to London it self by the Army by whose contributions and loans they were first ●●●sed and have been since maintained and that under the Parliaments Notes who are those engaged to them for then supplies and preservation and constant affections since their first ●●tting to this present the Free-holders and Free-subiects in the Country and more remote Counties must necessarily expect Free-quarter affronts pressures and violations of our just Rights and Liberties from them The rather because the Garrison Soldiers of the City of Bristol who not long since refused to receive the Governor appointed them by both Houses of Parliament have lately seised upon one of the wel affected Aldermen of that City as he was sitting on the Bench with his companions and carried him away per force refusing to enlarge or admit any person to see or speak with him or bring any provisions to him til they receive some moneths Arrears in ready money and good security for al their remaining pay and an act of Indempnity for this their insolency and injurious action in particular and all other offences in general from both Houses Of which unparaleld oppression and injustice from Soldiers who pretend themselves the only Saints and Protectors of our Rights and Liberties we cannot but be deeply sensible and crave your speedy redress in our Liberties Rights and Properties But that which most neerly concerns us and which we can no longer endure is this wherin we expect your present redress That this degenerated disobedient and mutinous Army contrary to the Votes and Ordinances for their disbanding and securing their Arrears in March and May last past have traiterously and rebelliously refused to disband and kept themselves together in a body ever since offering such affronts and violence to the Kings own royal person both Houses of Parliament and their Members and the City of London as no age can paralel and yet have forced the Houses when they had impeached and driven away most of their Members and marched up in a body against them and the City in a menacing manner not only to own them for their Army but to pass a new Establishment of sixty thousand pounds a moneth for their future pay to be levyed on the Kingdom who now expect ease from all such Taxes besides the Excise and all other publick payments which now they importune the Houses may be augmented to one hundred thousand pounds each moneth and that they themselves may have the levying thereof which insupportable Tax being procured by force and menaces when the Houses were neither full nor free against former Votes and Ordinances for the Kingdoms ease and not consented to by most of our Knights and Burgesses then driven away by the Army and dissenting thereto when present and being only to maintain a mutinous and seditious Army of Sectaries Antitrinitarians Antiscripturists Seekers Expectants Anabaptists recruited Cavaliers and seditious mutinous Agitators who have offered such insufferable violence and Indignities both to the King whose person and life was indangered among them as he and they confess the Parliament City Country and so earnestly endeavored to subvert all Magistracy Monarchy Ministry all civil Ecclesiastical and Military Government Parliaments Religion and our ancient Laws and Liberties as their late printed Papers evidence that they cannot without apparant danger to the Parliament King and Kingdom be any longer continued together being now so head-strong that their own Officers cannot rule but complain publickly against them And therefore we can neither in point of duty conscience law or prudence subject to pay the said monethly Tax so unduly procured by their violence were we able to do it being contrary to our Solemn League and Covenant for the maintenance of such a mutinous and rebellious Army who endeavor to enslave and destroy both King Parliament City Kingdom and monopolize all their power wealth and treasure into their own Trayterous hands which they have wel nigh effected having gotten the Kings person the Tower of London all Garisons and Forces in the Kingdom by Land and the command of the Navy by Sea into their power and put the City and both Houses under the Wardship of their armed guards attending at their doors and quartering round about them and forced the run-a-way Speakers and Members not only to enter into and subscribe the solemn Engagement to live and dye with them in this cause but likewise to give them a ful moneths pay by way of gratuity for guarding them back to the Houses where they might and ought to have continued without any

first seised and those Agitators who lately intended violence to his Royall Person and Life may be apprehended and proceeded against 6. That the imprisoned Aldermen and Citizens of London may be forthwith enlarged restored and repayred and the repealed Ordinance for their new Militia revived the Tower of London put into the Citizens hands as formerly and firm Reconciliation made between the City and both Houses 7. That the Isle of Wight and all Garrisons by Land and the Navy by Sea may be put into the command and custody of those who enjoyed them by Votes and Orders of both Houses before the 26 of July last past unless just exemptions can be taken to any of them by the Houses 8. That all Votes and Ordinances formerly made and repealed only by the menaces and over-awing power of the Army may be revived and all new Votes and Ordinances made by their threats and violence when divers Members were driven away by their terror repealed and made voyd especially that Ordinance for nulling all Proceedings in Parliament during the Speakers wilful absence at least five times layd aside by Vote of the House Commons and forced to pass by a particular menacing Remonstrance from Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Army and a party of a thousand Horse drawn up in Hide-Parke to over-awe the Houses besides an armed Guard then standing at their doors 9. That the true grounds of the Speakers and other Members deserting the Houses and repairing to the Army and their entering into an Engagement to the Army may be fully examined and what Members subscribed their names thereto and who of them that sate in the Houses at any time during the Speakers absence in the Army 10. That all recruited Soldiers in the Army entertained since the taking in of Oxford may be presently disbanded without pay the residue reduced only to five or six thousand and none to be continued but such who have taken the Solemn League and Covenant and shal be sworn to be obedient to both Houses commands 11. That no Free-quarter shal from henceforth be taken by any Officer or Soldier in any Gentlemans Husbandmans Ministers Merchants or Tradesmans House without his free consent and pay duly for the same under pain of death unless in a March for one night or two upon special service when no other quarters can be procured but only in Inns Alehouses and common Victualing Houses And that no Troopers Horses may be allowed Oats or Provender whiles they lie stil and are out of actual service 12. That all Commissions for Martial Law may be revoked and all Soldiers for all Misdemeanors and offences punishable by Law made and declared to be subject to the Jurisdiction and power of the Judges of Assise Justices of Peace and chief Officers in any County and City and liable to arrests and executions for their just debts and other Actions at the common Law 13. That the Tax for sixty thousand pound a moneth for the Armies pay may be wholy remitted and taken off us and a moderate Assessment only laid on the Kingdom for the necessary relief of Ireland and pay of such few Soldiers as shal be necessary to continue til the wel-affected in each County be put into a posture to defend it self and the Kingdom 14. That Lieut. General Cromwel Commissary Ireton and other Members of the House of Commons residing in the Army and the Councel of War and Agitators who compiled and drew up the late insolent and Treasonable Remonstrances and Representations to both Houses especially that of the fifth of this instant December may be forthwith apprehended and impeached of High Treason of which they are far more guilty then any Members or Citizens formerly accused or impeached by their means out of the ruines of whose estates they desire the satisfaction of their own pretended Arrears 15. That the General and Army together with the Councel of War Officers and Soldiers of the Army may be presently sent to and give an answer to both Houses whether they continue together as an Army by vertue of any Commission and Authority derived from the Houses only and if so to take an Oath to be obedient to all their just Commands or else keep together in a body only by their own private Engagement and Authority as a pretended cal from the people as John Lilburn in late printed Papers affirmes they do which if really true we can repute them no other but a most riotous Assembly of Rebels and Traitors against King Kingdom and Parliament and their taking of free quarter on us against our wils no better then Burglary and Felony for which they ought to suffer death 16. That the extraordinary dammages the Kingdom City and Country have sustained by free quarter and loss of trade through the Armies refusal to disband and late recruits contrary to the Votes of both Houses for their disbanding which dammages amount to above twenty times their pretended Arrears may be satisfied out of their Arrears as far as they wil go to be totally struck off for that purpose and the residue out of the estates of such Officers and others who have been the chief instruments of continuing and recruiting the Army and free quartering them neer the City and consequently the original causes of these damages The rather because it is Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Councel of the Armies own Law and Justice in their Arrogant Representation to the Houses Decem. 7. 1647. p. 21. where they thus declare their desires Yet now IN JUSTICE we cannot but desire that besides the levying of the Cities Arrears at last for which we have been put to stay so long there may now likewise be SOME REPARATION thought on from the City to the parts adjacent for abeve one hundred thousand pounds damage through the ARMIES attendance here on the Cities defaults and delays which reparation we if necessitated thereunto or called upon by the Country must in their behalf demand from the City to the ful and now also the rather in order to that we must earnestly desire that the proceedings against those Citizens and others lately impeached may be hastned and out of their fines or confiscations SOME PART OF REPARATION MAY BE MADE TO THE COUNTRIES ADJACENT FOR THE AFORES AID DAMAGES which the crimes of those persons they should have said the Rebellion and Disobedience of the Officers and Army to both Houses did first bring upon them c. And what reparation of Damages they thus prey from others who are innocent and no causes of them is just they should first make themselves being the real Authors thereof by their own confession All which we humbly pray as our just Rights and Liberties in our own and the whole Kingdoms behalf who shal by Gods assistance with our Lives and Fortunes resolutely maintain and defend his Majesties Person and lawful Power the Ancient Priviledges and Freedom of Parliament and our own unquestionable Rights Properties and Franchises according to our Solemn Vow and Covenant against all Encroachments Powers and private Factions whosover for the honor benefit and safety of us and our posterities and wil no longer suffer the King Parliament City Country and Kingdom to be enslaved and trambled upon by a dangerous and perfidious Combination of self-ended men who endeavor nothing but to advance themselves by our publick ruines and confusions FINIS a So they term them b To wit the fug●tive Members who withdrew unto engaged with the Army and by their engagement are made parties incompetent Iudges c No it was only for their own just defence against the Armys force rebellious reproaches against them * They ran away before they were driven might have set on the said day as wel as others without disturbance as they did the very next morning after the tumult d A detestable Parenthesis and horrid scandal * This is their maintenance of the Parliaments Priviledges freedom the Liberty of Conscience the Army contends for e This disables all your fugitive Members f Those who treacherously fled to you brought you up against the City and signed your Engagement are no such Members but ingaged Parties