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	kingdom_n	part_n	5,398	4	4.2683	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58915	A seasonable caution to all loyal subjects, against antimonarchical principles in an answer to a pretended petition of the Common Hall, in London, assembled on Midsummer Day last, to the Honourable House of Commons : which is designed for a vindication of the Common Hall, as innocent of the affront and indignity thereby offered, by some ill-minded persons in their name, to the supreme authority.		1690 (1690)	Wing S2218; ESTC R13157	5,776	4

A Seasonable Caution to all LOYAL SUBJECTS AGAINST Antimonarchical Principles In an Answer to a pretended Petition of the Common Hall in London assembled on Midsummer-Day last to the Honourable House of Commons which is designed for a Vindication of the Common Hall as innocent of the Affront and Indignity thereby offered by some ill-minded Persons in their Name to the Supreme Authority WHereas the said printed Paper which verbatim follows in the last part of this sheet was soon after Midsummer last published under the Title of An Account of the Proceedings of the Common-Hall on Midsummer-day last thereby pretending it to be done to prevent Misrepresentation and asserting a Petition therein set forth to be unanimously approved of and agreed upon by that publick Assembly of the Livery representing the whole City of London to be presented to the High Court of Parliament To which this Answer was then immediately printed with Allowance and some thousands put into the Hawkers Hands which were so industriously bought up or stifled that very few Copyes came to light But now the same Paper having been as we are informed secretly spread abroad amongst their Majesties Subjects as well in the City as also into most Corporations and other parts of the Kingdom for what design let sober and thinking Men judge to the great reproach of this City and dissatisfaction of many honest and well-meaning Persons who from thence and from the restless Endeavours of some Men who by the same unusual Methods which they condemned as Crimes in others do now create and set up instruments to serve their own Turns though to the disturbance and hazard of the Publick We are under a necessity by this Answer again to countermine such dangerous and pernicious Engineers We cannot imagine it was so Printed and Published with any colour of Authority but must rather conclude it was done by some ill minded Persons to cast an Odium on this great City and to create Misunderstandings between their Majesties Subjects under a disguise of Opposition to Popery though principally designed to serve their own Turn 'T is true and cannot be denyed than a small number of Citizens when so duly assembled make a Common-Hall and the Petition in that sense may not improperly be so styled But it doth not from thence follow that the Matters contained therein were assented unto so as to be approved of and desired by more Persons than were so assembled together and personally present approving of the same when it was read and proposed to them And therefore we do judge it a duty highly incumbent on us as we are Members of that great Body and were the same Day present in Common Hall but heard not one Word of that Petition to publish this Apology on behalf of our selves and the whole City as a Vindication of that great Body humbly offered to their Sacred Majesties and both Houses of Parliament as also to the whole Kingdom for which we have this to say That the Authors and Managers of that Imposture are either affraid or ashamed to own it and this we do also to prevent as much as in us lies the evil Influence that Paper may have on the Minds of easie and credulous Persons To the end Truth it self which needs no little arts or tricks to support it may by its own sinews at last prevail to undeceive such as have been already mis-informed thereby We pass by the Matter of the Petition and what entertainment it met withal from the House of Commons as more fit for consideration of our Superiours And only take notice how vehement and earnest some Men were in that great Assembly to put the Commoners in Nomination before the sitting Aldermen which greatly surprized many of the Electors and it was manifest scarce one in twenty understood the Question when it was put in regard of the Noise and Opposition which was made by those that did apprehend it And it could not but be matter of trouble to such as soberly desire and consult the publick Peace and Tranquillity of this City to observe what earnest endeavours were used to invert Order and Decency therein as it were shifting Feet and Face by postponing such as are already advanced to the Dignity of Senators to their Inferiours in Nomination And to behold such a zeal for particular Persons as if they had combin'd and determin'd before they came there as one Man to carry on a D●sign rather for a particular Interest than the whole and with so much Heat and Passion as if they would proclaim a prejudice towards all that opposed These things we briefly touch upon as matters deeply to be resented by every good Citizen so as to endeavour they may be laid aside for the future to promote that peaceable Temper and publick Spirit that should govern in every Breast in order to prevent caballing and private Clubs to serve a Turn to the hazard of our Publick Weal And we shall now plainly declare what followed the publick Election for Truth whereof we appeal to those many Hundreds then present who are all ready to attest the same When the choice of the Sheriffs Chamberlain Bridge Masters and Ale-Conners were made we concluded the Work of that Day was over not dreaming in the least of this Petition or any other to be set up But the Livery as in a Congregation when Sermon is ended made all towards the door crowding to get out as we our selves did when many hundreds were gone before before and others pressing after but never heard one Word of this Petition till from the Votes of the House of Commons which puts us upon enquiry of our Brethren concerning it And at length we were informed by those that happened to be in the reer that when most part of the Members were gone or going away this Petition was proposed to be read and that they with the rest remaining out of curiosity to know the Contents held up their Hand for the reading of it but solemnly affirmed That most of those so remaining who so held up their Hands for reading it did not hold up their Hands for presenting it We shall close with our hearty Prayer to Almighty God to make us every one sensible how far we have all even the best of us come short of our Duty that we may search our Hearts and try our Ways and see what cause we have all to humble our selves under the mighty hand of God both for our Hypocrisie and Profaneness And that we may all of us endeavour to lay aside Pride Passion and Self-love on the one hand and Debauchery and Immorality on the other and labour more sincerely to discharge our Duty to God our Neighbour and our Selves as the only Means to make us good Christians and then we shall be sure to be good Subjects and good Citizens so as no longer to envy despise and rail at or prosecute each other but to love as Brethren and to make Truth the badge of our