Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	knight_n	lord_n	sir_n	5,529	4	6.2506	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04536	An addresse to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common-Council of the honourable city of London, and in particular the representatives thereof in the Parliament now assembled. / By Sir Francis Nethersole of Nethersole, in the county of Kent, knight.	Nethersole, Francis, Sir, 1587-1659.; City of London (England). Lord Mayor's Court.; City of London (England). Court of Common Council.	1659 (1659)	Wing N493; ESTC R218486	5,212	12

AN ADDRESSE TO THE Lord Mayor ALDERMEN AND COMMON-COUNCEL Of the Honourable City of LONDON And in particular to the Representatives thereof in the Parliament now Assembled By Sir Francis Nethersole of Nethersole in the County of Kent Knight Except the Lord build the House they labour in vaine that build it Except the Lord keep the City the Watchman waketh but in vain Psal 127.1 He that loveth Father or mother more then me is not worthy of me Matth. 10.37 London Printed Anno Dom. 1659. My Lord and Gentlemen SOone after the beginning of the late unnatural Warre between the King and his Parliament the issue whereof hath proved destructive to them both as I foretold the one of them that it would prove before they or some of them had destroy'd the other I was bold to dedicate certaine considerations thereupon to the then Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City together with a project for a Petition tending to a speedy accommodation of these unhappy differences which some wise men have thought might have been of as good use as any other of the three then in agitation in the City if it had found entertainment with them who then were in authority therein And in the year 1648. when the said Warre was near to an end with us and the then King and Parliament yet in being I presumed to addresse certaine Problems to the then Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councel which I thought necessary to be determined by all that either had or had not taken part on either side in the said Warre for the making of their peace with God and the disposing of them to an hearty peace one with another which I hope was no evil designe though for good reason I disguised my self in the making of that as I had concealed my self in the former addresse I shall now with open face make a third Addresse to your Lordship the Aldermen and Common-Councel and in particular to the now chosen Members of Parliament for the City when I shall first have given your Lordship and them a short account of my being as dis-interessed a person in the sad divisions of the times as any other which I cannot do more briefly or more fully any other way then by referring you to the annexed relations of my comportment in the late Warre towards both sides written at the date of them upon the occasion of my having then been a Petitioner to the Committee of Coventry for liberty to have gone up to London there to have compounded for a part of the estate of a Nephew of mine a little before slaine on the Kings side to which I was his heir at Law but could not then obtaine that favour nor the year after neither but upon the termes you may finde in the addition to what hath passed between me and the said Committee By which relations your Lordship and the rest may see what my opinion of the said Warre was from the beginning to the end thereof and that my behaviour was ever conformable to my opinion the grounds whereof I have discovered in my said Problems To which relations I have but this to adde that in many extraordinary occasions I have had since to examine my conscience I never yet found cause to repent me either of my opinion or of my behaviour in reference to the said Warre and that my daily private prayers have been and to this day constantly are agreeable unto them In which among many other relating to this Church and State I do ever make one Petition to this purpose That God would be pleased to forgive all the National and personal sinnes of the people of this Kingdome but more especially those sins certainly known to his Divine Majesty onely for which he did first dash the late King and his Parliament one against another then raised up weak means by his Almighty power to destroy them both and for which he hath already sorely shaken and now threatneth utterly to ruine this Church and State And how near they now are to utter ruine by our divisions at home and Warre and feare of more Warres from abroad I would it were not too visible to every one that hath but half an eye For the prevention whereof I humbly beseech your Lordship and the rest to give me leave to propound these few things to your mature consideration and deliberate resolution First because it is impossible that we should ever be brought to any good and perfect agreement among our selves which if we once were againe we need be in no more feare of all the world besides then heretofore we were until we have all made our peace with God whether it may not be fit for your Lordship and the rest speedily to petition his Highnesse and his Parliament who this very day are keeping a Fast in their respective Houses to joyne together in the proclaiming not of such a Fast as we have already kept too many but such a one as was proclaimed in Niniveh by the decree of the King and his Nobles and observed by the people thereof when perhaps that great Citie was not in greater danger then yours now is And that as a necessarie preparative thereunto there may be a convenient number of godly wise persons chosen and commissioned by them to make a prudent and diligent enquirie after all the most crying sins of this Kingdome and those in special which may have been committed by the late King and his Parliaments and for which it may most probablie be collected that God permitted the devil and his instruments to stirre them up to the making of such a Warre one against another as I think is without president till they were both destroyed To which Commissioners if by them commanded I shall by letter for I am now too old for travels freely declare the apprehensions which have been now a long time fixed in my profoundest thoughts Secondly whether it may not be not only fit but necessarie for your Lordship and the rest in the same Petition humblie to move the Lord Protector and his Parliament that by their Authority an Act may speedilie be passed for the re-assembling of all the Members of both Houses who constantlie adhered to that Parliament of this Kingdome which was latelie in Warre with their King and which certainlie was intended by the contrivers and authorizers of the Solemn League and Covenant For I humblie pray your Lordship and the rest to weigh the force of this Dilemma in the balance of your most serious thoughts That either that Parliament was dissolv'd by the late Kings death or it was not If it were then all the Acts and Ordinances of that piece of Parliament which called it selfe a Parliament and continued to sit after that time are Nullities the many infallible consequences whereof I will not deduce If it were not then though it have been discontinued now a great while yet is it not dissolv'd this having been the peculiar right and priviledge of