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city_n	kingdom_n	york_n	yorkshire_n	20	3	10.7493	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89953	A new-come guest to the tovvne. That is, the descriminant oath which the Earle of Newcastle imposeth upon the countie and citie of Yorke, and all others under his command and power, violently abusing them to the maintaining of this unnaturall warre against the Parliament, to the ruine of the kingdome, and themselves. Written by a Yorke-shire gentleman, for the good (especially) of his countriemen. With a particular list of the names of the most violent papists (men of that qualitie) and others that bare armes, or are ayding and assisting to the Earle of New-castle.	Yorke-shire gentleman.; Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676, attributed name.	1644 (1644)	Wing N600; Thomason E50_14; ESTC R23275	5,406	8

A New-come Guest to the TOWNE That is The Descriminant Oath which the Earle of Newcastle imposeth upon the Countie and Citie of YORKE and all others under his Command and power violently abusing them to the maintaining of this unnaturall Warre against the Parliament to the ruine of the KINGDOME and themselves WRITTEN By a Yorke-Shire GENTLEMAN for the good especially of his COUNTRIE-MEN With a particular List of the Names of rhe most Violent Papists men of that qualitie and others that bare ARMES or are ayding and assisting to the Earle of NEW-CASTLE LONDON Printed for Matthew Walbancke at Graies-Inne Gate Iune the 5th 1644. AN Oath taken by the Gentrie and Inhabitants of the CITIE and Countie of YORKE I A. B. doe hereby testifie and declare that our Soveraigne Lord King Charles is the true and lawfull King of England and of all his other Dominions and that neither the two Houses of Parliament the people nor any part of them have any power or authoritie over him or the Crowne neither ought they or any of his Subjects of this Kingdome of England or his other dominions upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Armes against his Sacred Majestie His person his Crown his Generalls or Souldiers authorized by him nor may they by any authoritie or pretence whatsoever make or levie War within this Kingdome or his other dominions or any way use his Royall authority or name for that purpose without his evidence publike consent before obtained And I do further sweare that I will beare true faith and Allegiance to His Sacred Majestie and his Crowne and to my might and power will assist him his Generalls and all under their command against all such as have taken or shall take up Armes against him or that have or shall take up armes within this Kingdom without his Maiesties evident publike or reall Authoritie and especially against Kobert Earle of Essex Ferdinando Lord Fairfax pretended generalls for the Parliament and all their associates confederates and all others whatsoever that derive not their authority by particular Commissions from His Maiestie and his Generalls And I doe further declare from the bottom of my heart that diverse of the Scottish Nation having presumed to enter into this Kingdome in a warlike manner without his Maiesties evident and publike authority first obtained and published I will readily and to the utmost of mine abilitie with the hazard of my life and fortunes assist his Maiestie his Generalls and all under their Commands in resisting opposing and pursuing such Scotts in a hostile way as rebells and traytors against his Maiesty and enemies to the Crowne of England And I doe further sweare that I will to my power assist and defend all such as shall take this Oath in pursuance of the same and particularly defend this Citie and Garison of Yorke and during my residence there oppose all such as shall make any attempt against it and all such plots and designes as shall come to my knowledge that may bee preiudiciall to His Maiesties service or destructive to the Forces raised by His Maiesties Commissions I will from time to time discover to His Mai●sties Generall or the Commander in Chiefe of this County and in their absence to the Chiefe Officer for the time being of this Garison and all this I do● un●●inedly sweare without any equivocation or mentall reservation so help me God A briefe essay or discourse upon the same I Meane not to spatter or dash inke upon any person of either whose fame or modera●e credit I am neither by nature nor cust●me a man of lower councells and besides born by Religion and the gravitie o● my calling summon me to beware of ●ayl●ng language which is none other thing then Sputum Diaboli the Flegme and Spawling of the Devill Strong … nes never g●i●ed upon any but weake heads Wisest men are erned and won by soft words and strong arguments I am a Yorkeshire man by birth and most by resience and was so long an eye witnesse and spectator of this Tragedy of civill Warre till the S●ag was all on fi●e That which I undertake is no more then to bestow a few pen fulls of Inke and one halfe sheete of paper to shew that the taking of this Oath can hold no proportion with the deliberate and advised actions of a man either religious and fearing God or of a man no more than morally rationall and prudentiall And first I would have him who is concerned herein to observe with what a specious shew the crafts-men of this Oath have laid the first stone of it to wit in the very words of the Oath of Supremacie that our Soveraigne Lord King Charles is the true and lawful King of England and of all other his Dominions Well said but why doe you not goe on and that neither the Pope not any other f om him c hath power to dispose of his Kingdome c. but of the Pope and those Ecclesiasticall pow rs not a word or syllable in this oath You are apprehended in the very act and the case is so plaine that impudence it selfe cannot deny but that it is done to advantage the Papists in their Diana of the Pops Supremacie and jurisdiction over the Crowns and Scepters of all Emperours Kings and Princes Wee all know the two breves of Pope Pius the fifth to the Papists of England and the letter of Cardinall Bellarmine to Blackwell the Arch-Priest the declaring the sinfulnesse and unlawfulnesse of that Oath of Supremacie assuring that it cannot be taken with a good Conscience that it is destructive to one of the maine Articles of the Romish faith the primacie and superintendencie of the Sea of Rome that it is to bee retracted and rep nted by those who have taken it out of weakenesse or feare c. King Iames that learned and notable Prince tooke pen in hand and whe ted his stile masculinely to discover these grand juglings and impostures in a just tractate which is to be red in his workes the more hate and blame will lye upon those who pretending zeale to the service of his sonne will thus expose him and his Crowne to the greatest enemies that ever the Crowne of England had The Sea of Rome Secondly I would have it observed that if this Oath and the purport of it bee bolted to the bran and considered à basso ad altum and the fairest construction allowed unto it that may be in reason pretended unto that thus much will follow by good conclusion that if not only the King whom God blesse whom we will not asperse with suspitions but if the Souldiers and Generalls who have Commission from him many of which without any breach of Charity at all according to the strictest Casuists in point of Conscience I may and ought to be jealous of should strive or have it in designe to introduce Popery Liberty and prophanenesse Tyranie and Slavery Monopolies and Taxes even élotione and the