Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	house_n	king_n	5,696	4	3.5408	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78667	A briefe abstract of the Kings letters to the Queene. VVith some observations thereupon. VVherein His Majesties actions are deciphered. / By a person of qualitie.	S. E.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1648 (1648)	Wing C2152; Thomason E428_6; ESTC R204605	6,195	14

against the Parliament I hope the Scots have not considered better of the vertue and merits of those men that fought against the Parliament though their language of late have been very large concerning Prerogative look but back before this Parliament if ever well minded Countreymen that thought their Countryes priviledge and their own birth-right worth the standing for was not called Puritans and of late yeares Round heads and take heed now though you have a faire game to play that you are not cheated of your Religion and Libertie for Antichrist turnes himselfe now into another shape and name now he sees his Kingdome almost destroyed in this Kingdome by taking away the Prelates which were the pillars thereof c. And now are not by him the great Champions of the Army Parliament and Countrey that stand for a good peace liberty and freedome of the free-borne people of England and against a Regall Militia and a negative voyce and against an unlimited power that some of the Clergie desire under the pretence that they and their Elders must be Judges of what is scandalous and what is ignorance a greater power than ever the Bishops had though under a new name called Independents Brownists Sectaries c. whatsoever their opinions be for by this tricke and some other he thinks to gaine the Scots Nation with a considerable party of the Citie to those he hath there already and earnestly endeavoured to make a division in the House by being in the likenesse of a Presbyterian untill such time as wee have gotten the King into our power PLACE = marg The Kings party and then a considerable Army of French and our Catholique brethren of Ireland about him and then we will put the Scots in minde it is no deceit to deceive the deceiver And then we will put the Londoners in minde of their former zeale to the Parliament cause and let them know our good King hath often called them the Rebellious Citie and hath long time since given them us for our arreares And is it not now come to passe that whosoever is an active man for the Parliament whatsoever his judgement be he must be called an Independent or an Anabaptist This Parliament did not begin to lop the branches as former Parliaments did but to hew downe the maine body of the tree as Canterbury and Strafford And have not they broken many an iron yoke for you by taking away Bishops Councell-Table Starre-Chamber Court of Wards High Commission Courts Ship-money Knight-hood Forrests Lawes and multitudes of severall Monopolies even to the marrow-bones and ragges upon the dunghill and freed you from the designe of bringing in the Germaine-Horses and from enslaving you as in France c. And now Reader judge whether a King or a Parliament is most likely to bring in Popery and an arbitrary and tyrannicall government into this Kingdome And are they not chosen by you and had but onely these two things to choose either to give you your posterity up to slavery or ruine or to hazzard the ruining of themselves and families and if you desert them you desert your selves The Wolves desired the Sheepe to put away the Dogs and then they would enter into a League with them and when they had thereby stripped themselves of their best friends and laid themselves open to their fierce foes they were then devoured without pitty And many other particulars might be instanced to make as bloudy a History of this Kings Reigne as ever was since the world began Judge if it be agreeable with divine dispensation that all this stirre and bloud-shed c. should procure now at last but a cold accommodation and God grant the drawing of this Curtaine may be as fatall to Popery and tyranny and all other Antichristian heresies here now as the rending of the vaile was to the Jewish Ceremonies in Judea at the Incarnation of our Saviour FINIS