Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	honourable_a	lord_n	right_n	5,719	4	7.1392	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95007	The true copy of a petition, delivered to the Right Honorable the Lord Major, aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common-Councell assembled, on Tuesday the 23 of June, 1646. To the Right Honourable the Lord Major, the Right Worshipfull the Aldermen and Commons of the city of London, in Common-Councell assembled.		1646 (1646)	Wing T2629; Thomason 669.f.10[63]; ESTC R210489	1,430	1

The true Copy of a PETITION DELIVERED To the Right Honorable the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common-Councell assembled on Tuesday the 23 of June 1646. To the Right Honourable the Lord MAJOR the Right Worshipfull the ALDERMEN and COMMONS of the City of LONDON in Common-Councell assembled The humble Petition of divers wel-affected Citizens and Freemen of London under the Jurisdiction of the Lord Major Sheweth THat the great care and uncessant paines of this Honourable Court for promoting the Cause of God is so eminently known that your Petitioners conceive they shall bee too much wanting to their owne duty and safety if they should bee backward in the thankfull acknowledgement thereof Wherefore as they give You many humble and hearty Thankes for what You have already done in reference to the Publick Good so being desirous what in them lies yet further to strengthen your hands to so glorious a Work they cannot but let You know their Resolutions to adhere unto You in all your just and legall Proceedings Not doubting but the same good hand of God that hath hitherto been with You will bee still upon You for good while You endeavour in your Places the establishment of Truth and Peace and the removall of those pressing Grievances that lie upon us as You have lately done in that Free and Necessary yet Humble and Dutifull Remonstrance and Petition to the Honourable Houses of Parliament And however there want not those for the present who out of self-respects calumniate your good Intentions therein yet being perswaded that in very faithfulnesse to the Publick You have done it Your Petitioners not onely approve of it but rejoyce in it the rather since they know no other orderly way for obtaining Remedie for their Common Grievances then by Your addresses to the Parliament in their behalfe Your Petitioners therefore humbly Pray That this Honourable Court would be pleased still to persevere and couragiously goe on in and by all Pious and Prudent meanes endeavouring the speedy settlement of Religion the Peace of the Kingdom the Vnion of both Nations the safety and welfare of this City and in a word the performance of that Covenant wherein we are solemnly engaged to God the Righteous Judge of all the World In reference to all which good ends Your Petitioners further pray That you would still continue your humble Addresses to the Parliament not onely for a gracious Answer to your said late Remonstrance but for all such other things as shall necessarily conduce to putting an happy period to our present miserable Distractions And that in the meane time you would put in execution among your selves so many branches there●f as the Power wherewith by the Laws of this Kingdom you are already invested will extend unto And your Petitioners shall ever pray c. THis Petition was subscribed by many Thousands all of them Citizens of the best rank and quality Freemen and Inhabitants within the Jurisdiction of the Lord Major and presented by many grave and eminent Persons of worth and quality in the Names of themselves and all the rest of the Subscribers Further they did declare the reason wherefore they did present the said Petition because they did perceive by divers scandalous Pamphlets published and set forth by some who are no friends to Peace Truth and Government wherein it is declared that the late Remonstrance and Petition presented to the Honourable Houses of Parliament by the Lord Major Aldermen and Commons of the City of London was not the Act of the City but of some few of the Common-Councell To prevent which grosse untruth the said Citizens did present this Petition thus subscribed to shew their concurrence with and approbation of so good a Work and likewise to manifest their good affections and earnest desires of a well grounded Peace and of a setled Government in Church and Common-wealth and of using all good and lawfull meanes for the removall of those pressing Grievances that so heavily are upon them As also to expresse their utter dislike to the proceedings of those who have replyed against the said Remonstrance London Printed by Richard Cotes Printer to the Honorable City of London 1646.