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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	majesty_n	york_n	yorkshire_n	39	3	11.1793	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20928	The declaration of the Right Honourable Henry Earle of Cvmberland lord lievtenant generall of His Majesties forces in York-shire and of the nobility, gentry and others His Majesties subjects now assembled at Yorke for His Majesties service and the defence of this city and county.	Cumberland, Henry Clifford, Earl of, 1591-1643.	1642 (1642)	Wing C7579	5,405	8

THE DECLARATION Of the Right Honourable HENRY EARLE OF CVMBERLAND LORD Lievtenant Generall of His MAjESTIES Forcs in York-shire And of the Nobility Gentry and others His Majesties Subjects now assembled at Yorke for His Majesties Service and the Defence of This City and County First Printed at Yorke and now re-printed at London By speciall Command 1642. THE DECLARATION Of the Right Honorable HENRY Earle of CUMBERLAND c. FRom the deep sence of the growing miseries which have formerly afflicted this distressed Country and out of the grievous apprehension of those inevitable ruines and desolations with a reall Warre fomented hatched and brought forth by our continuall distractions must infallibly bring upon us We thought it the least of our duty to our God our King and our Countrey to endeavour all means possible to discharge our selves before God and Man and to leave nothing unattempted which might avert and prevent those fearfull calamities which as it must be consequently the most bloudy and ruinous Warre of all others and therefore in pursuance of that due affection to our Native Countrey We first prevailed with our most gracious Soveraigne whose Royall Inclination met our humble desires in the most ready wayes and apparent meanes which we could devise and finde out the peace and safety thereof and set aside all other respects though never so much conducing to the main of His owne affaires for our security and therefore carried away the fatall Cloud of Warre which in a hideous form hung over our heads to disburden it selfe in another Climate so as wee conceived wee had no further worke of labour but to pay the duties of praise and thankfulnesse to our God and King whose grace and goodnesse had freed us from the visible consequences of a great and terrible tempest but since it hath pleased the unsearchable Wisedome of Almighty God so to order it That another storme hath broken and powred a great part of it upon this Countrey when we least feared and by those means which we least suspected and that contrary to all expectation work our misery there appeared those out of our owne Bowels which have begun a War and kindled a flame which doth hazard the ruine and destruction of their Native Country which we take as a Punishment due to our manifold sins and offences and leave the particuler executioners thereof to His owne wisedome and Justice hereafter yet we have not been a wanting to the safety and protection of this People so long and in so many wayes afflicted but have appolyed our selves to all such wayes and means which in Humane reason we could hope might procure a timely remedy to those bleeding wounds And therefore in a Treaty at Rodwell with some Gentlemen of this County of whose affection to peace and Unity though differing in Opinion from us we were most confident Sundry Articles were a greed and Concluded upon all wholly tending to those ends and conducing to reall settlement which was sought after by us with so much candor plaine dealing and earnestnesse that we willingly let passe the manifest advantages which we then had over the opposers of the setled Peace of this County and judging the affections of others by our own desires and inclinations declined and quitted all other considerations but such as might purchase a good correspondence and amity with those Gentlemen and others whom at that time it lay in our Power to have forced or destroyed and that nothing might be a wanting to oblige them set at Liberty sundry Prisoners some of good quality upon their word and Faith to returne them againe if the Treaty were not performed and condescended to all the World knows that we aymed at the Publique safety and assurance Yet notwithstanding all this without the least breach on our behalf particuler passions and interests hath so far prevailed That as soone as they were freed of the danger wherein they were then engaged contrary to their Hands Faith and protestations they have wholly broken that Agreement so solemnly concluded without rendring the least reason which indeed is impossible and of which they can never excuse themselves have with indirect intentions and by a specious offer of Peace which it seems was the least of their thoughts strengthned and prepared themselves for War by pretence of safety to the County disveloped themselves from danger and procured security to their own persons and by a seeming desire to stop the deluge of War began by them alone opened a breach to all the miseries calamities which must now most invitable overwhelm this distressed Country wherby before the utmost extremity hath appeared we have already suffered what can befall any people setting aside firing Townes and Villages by the Hand of a cruell and Forr●igne enemy Strangers brought into oppresse us our houses plundred good destroyed and taken away our housholds dispersed Wives and children banished the persons of divers of us seized and Imprisoned our lives endangered and sought after by Sword or Famine and what is beyond all beliefe those who are unquestionably innocent and in no capacity to be involved in our pretended offences if we be guilty of any our Children even those whose Infant yeares admit no colour of objection our Servants employed only in domestick commands sought after and indangered in the same measure and degree of cruelty violence and oppression And that no aggravation may be a wanting to enerease our sufferings all those exorbitances executed under the glorious pretences of safety of Religion and preservation of State and done by Authority and command of Parliament which we acknowledge and believe to be the Guardian of Publique liberty and who we are confident being chosen by us for assertors of our Freedoms will not enthrale us being trusted with the property of our goods wil not take them from us being selected for the preservation of our Laws will not violate or infringe them and that in so high a measure as more could not be perpetrated if we were conquered and subdued by the most barbarous and violent Enemy We have heard and do believe That both the Houses have commanded the Militia to be setled and that they thinke it necessary for some reasons best knowne to themselves that the power wch untill this time hath bin unquestionably in the Kings of this land should now be setled in thēselves yet these admitted we cannot be perswaded That it is the intention or meaning of the Parliament that all who are not convinced of the necessity or who cannot dispence with their Oathes which tyes them to the knowne Lawes of the Land till they be repealed and to obey His Majesties command in those things wherein it appeares He hath manifest Right untill He hath given away and parted with that Right by His owne assent or who are yet Newters and conscionably expect a legall Rule whereby to be directed should presently with out due processe of Law be devested from all property of Goods Liberty of