Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	esquire_n	john_n	thomas_n	20,115	5	10.2328	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91299	Three seasonable quæres, proposed to all those cities, counties and boroughs, whose respective citizens, knights and burgesses have been forcibly excluded, uniustly eiected, and disabled to sit in the Commons house, by those now acting at Westminster.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing P4105; Thomason 669.f.23[3]; ESTC R211480	2,794	1

Three Seasonable Quaeres PROPOSED To all those Cities Counties and Boroughs whose respective Citizens Knights and Burgesses have been forcibly excluded uniustly eiected and disabled to sit in the Commons house by those now acting at WESTMINSTER IT being the indubitable birthright privilege and franchise of all Citizens Freeholders and Burgesses of every City County and Borough of the Realm of England freely to elect 2. Citizens Knights and Burgesses by vertue of the Kings Writs and to give them full and sufficient power by their Indentures under their Seals both for themselves and the respective Commonalties of the said Cities Counties and Boroughs to do and consent to all Lawes Aydes Taxes and things which shall be ordained or imposed on them by common Counsel and consent in every Parliament of this Realm which Citizens Knights and Burgesses ought freely to fit and vote in the Commons House in their behalf as their Trustees and Representatives from the beginning to the end of every Parliament for which they are elected without interruption or exclusion and not to be ejected or voted out of the House but for some notable Misdemeanour or breach of their Parliamentary Trust by judgement of Parliament upon a particular impeachment or charge against them after a deliberate hearing trial and judgment pronounced against them at the bar according to the rules of Justice and course of Parliament All which is evident by the known Laws and Statutes of this Realm the Writs of Summons to and Records Presidents of Parliament the Resolutions of Judges Law-books and all Writers of the Parliaments of England of late and former times 1. Whether all the Burgesses of the City of Westminster where the Fragment of the long Parliament now sits in state garded with their Militia and other armed forces whose two Burgesses John Glyn now Serjeant at Law and William Bell Gentleman still living the Lord Maior Aldermen Common Council and Citizens of London 2. of whose 3. remaining Citizens Sir Thomas Soam Knight and Samuel Vassal Merchant all the Freeholders in the County of Middlesex within which they are assembled whose only surviving Knight of the Shire Gilbert Gerrard Baronet all Freeholders of the Countie of Hartford whose 2. Knights of the Shire Sir William Litton and Sir Thomas Dacres Knights of Surry whose 2. Knights Sir Richard Ownslow Knight and Sir Ambrose Brown Baronet all adjoyning All Freeholders within the remoter Counties of Gloucester whose 2. Knights Nathaniel Stephens Esquire and Sir John Seymer Knight of Oxfordshire whose 2. Knights Thomas Viscount Wenman and James Fiennes Esq all yet living and of all other Counties Cities and Boroughs throughout England and Wales one or both of whose Knights Citizens or Burgesses yet in life have been heretofore forcibly secured or excluded by armed Gards from fitting and voting freely in the House of Commons in Decemb. 1648. or in May and Decemb. 1659. by the confederacy practice order or commands of the Membersthen or now fitting and by their new-printed Vote of the 5th of this instant January instead of admitting them for a New-years Gift have voted them quite out of the House and Parliament and adjudged them to stand duly discharged by Judgement of Parliament from sitting as Members of Parliament during this Parliament and that new Writs do issue forth for electing New Members in their places before any legal impeachment against or hearing tryal conviction of all or any of them and without rendering any Ground or Reason at all in their Vote or any other Declaration to these worthy ejected Knights Citizens or Burgesses themselves or to the respective Counties Cities Boroughs whose Trustees and Representatives they are of this their forcible Seclusion Ejection and Non-ability to fit or vote according to the Power and trust reposed in them by the Counties and Commonalties who elected returned and impowred them under their respective sealed Indentures Bee not all in Justice Honour Duty and Conscienee severally obliged both by the Laws of the Land their Protestation and Solemn National League and Covenant and the late President of the Inhabitants and Freeholders of the County of Buckingham Jan. 13. 1641. in the Case of Mr. John Hampden chosen one of the Knights of that Shire when impeached and demanded by the King to be delivered up to him by the House both for the vindication of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament the Innocency and Integrity of these their dis-membered untainted Trustees in whom they had good cause to confide and of their own Judgements Integrities Care and Prudence in their Elections as the discreetest and ablest Persons to serve them the whole Kingdom in and during the continuance of this Parliament and for the Preservation of their own Freedom in their Elections before they proceed to elect any New Members in their places unanimously magnanimously and personally at the House bar to demand of their bold Ejectors thus keeping and casting them out by armed forces raised only for their protection to sit and vote with freedom and safety the true Grounds and Reasons of this their unwarrantable Ejectment and in case they cannot or shall not give them a satisfactory account of the Legality and Iustice of this their Exclusion for some particular Misdemeanours or Breaches of their publick Trusts and of the manner of their Proceeding theirin without hearing or impeachment then to require speedy and full Reparations from them for the Injury Indignity and Injustice done thereby both to their Trustees and themselves and not to submit to any thing they vote or impose as binding to them in any kind till this be effected since their assents in their names and steads is the only reason in Law that makes their Acts and Impositions binding to them 2. Whether the sitting Members may not and will not in all probability with as much Justice and Reason by meer force and will Exclude and eject all Members which shall be newly elected by those Counties Cities or Boroughs in place of the old secluded and ejected Members in case they suspect or conceit they will not comply with or will overvote them in their Innovations and Designs as they have excluded and ejected those old Members and put them upon successive Elections of other Members till they have compleated their Projections without them or packed a House of their own Creatures and Confederates to carry on their private Interests not the publick Peace wealth and settlement of these Nations 3. Whether their new intended Qualifications of Electors and Persons to be Elected to fill up the House and high new Engagement to be imposed on all new Members before their admission be not a more arbitrary and Tyrannical violation and subversion of the peoples Rights and Liberties in the freedom of their Elections and of the Rights and Privileges of Parliament than ever beheaded King Charles or any of his Predecessors were guilty of an apparent Breach and repeal of the Great Charter of England ch 9. 29. of 25 E. 1. c. 1. 28 E. 1. c. 1. 25 E. 3. c. 4. The Petition of Right 3 Caroli the Statutes of 3 E. 1. c. 5. 9 E. 2. c. 13. That all Elections ought to be free and freely made and of the special Acts of 5 R. 2. c. 4. 7 H. 4. c. 15. 1 H. 5. c. 1. 8 H. 6. c. 7. 10 H. 1. c. 2. 23 H. 6. c. 15. 35 H. 8. c. 11. 16 Caroli c. 1. for Electing of Knights Citizens and Burgesses to serve in Parliaments and Claus 11. R. 2. dors 23 24 yea a new Machiavelian Policy to seclude out of the House all Persons of Honour and Piety who make conscience of their former Oaths of Supremacy Allegiance Protestation Vow Covenant and abhor all Perjury and Treachery since themselves account all their former Oaths Protestations Vows Covenants and Engagements unobligatory to themselves or the Nation violating them at their pleasure that themselves may still fit act and rule alone as formerly Or else a meer Engin to recruit the House with such New Members who will swallow down any Abjurations Oathes and Engagements themselves shall impose upon them of their own party and Confederacy against the publick Interest by disabling whom they please to Elect or be Elected to fit together with them LONDON Printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660.