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	part_n	people_n	5,808	4	4.2401	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43543	A letter from an officer in His Majesties army, to a gentleman in Glocester-shire upon occasion of certain quære's [sic] scattered about that countrey.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing H1724A; ESTC R12301	12,613	16

your selves How many men chosen and sent by their Countries have you turned out of the House or not concurring with you in opinion How monstrous is it that the King may not commit a Member who attempts to kill him without your leave and you may commit another for but desiring to kisse His hand And whilest you would not suffer His Maiestie without breach of Priviledge to commit Traytors and Fellons because they are Members of either House you are content that Alderman Pennington or any of the City Captaines commit those who sit amongst you and you have not the courage to reprehend them Do you think the people of England can look long upon sixscore or sevenscore men for both Houses doe not containe a greater number as upon the high Court of of Parliament when a great part of those two are Persons of such desperate fortunes and contemptible undertakings as off from those Benches were never thought fit for sober and honest Counsels You may break what Iests you please upon the King and the Cavaliers and say that if He were in His owne Power He would quickly returne to His Parliament but truely the Court here hath so much Charity to beleeve if both Houses were at liberty to doe according to their Consciences this publique fire would be quickly quenched Beleeve it no sober man looks upon you under any other Notion then as men besieged by the desperate common Councell of London and their Adherents who awe and fright you to their wicked and damnable conclusions Nay the close Committee it selfe is a greater breach of the Priviledge of Parliament then the Kings comming to the House and the taking the five Members from thence could have beene I am as little pleased with the perpetuity of this Parliament as I have beene with the untimely breaking of others and let me tell you all the dissolutions of Parliament from the beginning of them to this time hath not done halfe that mischiefe as the continuance of this hath done and yet since it hath the countenance of a Law I wish it may never be dissolved but by a Law What Designes have these men even upon Parliaments themselves is too evident whereas if the King prevailes Parliaments are againe restored to their full lustre You have read his Protestations solemnly made in the presence of God for defence of the Priviledges of Parliaments He is too iust and too pious a Prince to break those promises and to reproach himselfe with His owne Declarations but if He should enquire whether the Persons about Him even the Officers of his Army are like to concurre with him in those ends I am perswaded it would be more in his power to imploy his Army to the destruction of the Law then you once thought it was to raise one for His preservation In a word as you esteeme and reverence reall Parliaments abhorre these men who would use the word Parliament onely as a stalking Horse to destroy all Acts of Parliament there cannot be a more irreverent mention of Parliaments then to call the fanatique actions of a few desperate seditious Persons the Proceedings of Parliament A Parliament is the great Councell of the Kingdome graciously called by his Maiesties Writ confidently to present the grievances of the People and humlby to offer their advice and Councels so Reformation if they come unsent for irregularly call that a grievance that the Law allowes and insolently command in stead of modestly advising the Royall Power by whose Authority they come together they doe as much as in them lies dissolve the Parliament by proceeding against the nature of Parliaments The next scandall this wise Gentleman takes is at the protecting Delinquents Does this trouble you to Call your memory to an account I think I have heard you say you have been of eight Parliaments How many Delinquents have you 〈…〉 seven of them and what were they were not 〈◊〉 o● them 〈◊〉 such as had presumed to sue or arrest priviledged Persons How many men in your time have you knowne committed by the House of Commons before this Parliament doe you think it reasonable t●at they who c●nno● examine should have power to iudge you had need take the course you doe to slight and underva●ue all Oaths that they may not be thought necessary to legall and regular proceedings and yet why doe you then at all intimate your owne incompetencie by sometimes desiring the Lords to help you examine men by Oath How comes it that you confesse Oathes at some time to be necessary for finding out the truth and passe it over as impertinent at other When you have evidence you think it a popular thing to use it if you have none you can iudge as well without it You have a trick to be satisfied in your owne Consciences that can commit Treason Felony Rapes and Sacriledge in the feare of God then all formes and essences of proceedings which can only distinguish right from wrong must be dispensed with If a Treason were committed how comes the Lord Chief Iustice to be left out in the enquiry and no other Minister imployed but your Sergeant why should not the Common-wealth heare of Treason and Misprision of Treason in Westminster Hall where the termes are understood but onely in the House of Commons If a man should come to the House of Commons Barre and desire the Sergeant of that House should be sent for a man as Delinquent who took his purse from him upon Black-Heath or picked his pocket in Smithfield if the Theife were not a Member of either House God forbid they should have the priviledge to Iudge one another would you not think the fellow mad and wish him to go to the next minister of Iustice How come you to be so subtile to be able to Iudge and define Treasons about which your Ancesters have been so carefull to leave it in the view of any man what it is Tell your selfe without blushing who you thinke are meant by Delinquents is it not visible to all the world that you intend all such who are not or will not be Traitors to the knowne Lawes to be Delinquents to both Houses and 't is a notable breach of priviledge that his Maiesty will protect these Delinquents from you looke over your owne votes and see if all men who do not assist you in your pious work of murthering the King and destroying the Common-wealth for you have faithfully requited the lazy Gentlemen who desired to be lookers on are not comprehended in the number of Delinquents What was Sir Iohn Hotham for denying His Maiestie admittance into his owne Towne of Hull A priviledged Person and an upright Patriot what were they who attended His Maiesty when he presumed desperatly and rebelliously to offer to go thither Delinquents And yet his Maiesty will not suffer those who kept Him out to iudge those who should have gon in with him wonderfull breach of Priviledge and protecting of Delinquents If we cannot recover