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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	friday_n	lord_n	thursday_n	4,699	5	13.2887	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97273	A brief view of the late troubles and confusions in England, begun and occasioned by a prevailing faction in the Long Parliament: deduced to the auspicious [sic] coming in of General Monck, and the most glorious and happy restitution of King Charles the Second. / By William Younger.	Younger, William, 1605-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing Y198; Thomason E1873_2; ESTC R204143	45,037	159

should make any disturbance but brought him a more private way to his own house at Newmarket There he rested some while and the Gentry and people of all sorts from severtl parts had access to him and many came and were cured of the Kings Evil by him The Souldiers were highly magnified by the people for their civilitie and specious pretences to the King From Newmarket the Army removed to Saint Albones and the King with them his Majestie being lodged at Hatfield house there they pretended great matters for him and Cromwel especially in private gave him great hope of his Restitution From thence June 23. the publish a Remonstrance of their good intentions towards the Kingdom and to the King especiallie Amongst other passages in that Declaration this is one They professe they do not see how there can be any peace to the Kingdom firm and lasting without a due consideration of and provision for the rights quiet and immunity of his Majesties Royal Family and his late partakers And herein say they me think that tender and equitable dealing as supposing their cases had been ours and a spirit of common love and justice diffusing it self to the good and preservation of all will make up the most glorious conquest over their hearts if God in mercy see it good to make them and the whole people of the Land lasting friends These are the verie words in that Declaration and I have noted them the rather to see how quite contrary to these specious professions their after-Actings within a short while were The Armie removes to several quarters and the King along with them They treat him honourably in respect of what the Parliament had done they allow him the attendance of his Chaplains and the use of the Common-Prayer denyed him by the Parliament some Noblemen and Gentlemen of his party are permitted to come to him The General obtains of the Parliament that he may see his children t●en under the custody of the Earl of Northumberland upon promise of the General that they shall return again Proposals are made to him by the Army far more moderate than the Propositions lately tendred to him at Newcastle All things are carried by the Army as if they really ment his Restitution upon very reasonable terms And most certain it is that Cromwell gave his Majesty very faithful promises of restoring him upon more moderate terms than either the Parliament or Army proposed But ye must know while these things vvere in agitation about the later end of July there fell a great difference between the Parliament and Army insomuch as the Army were jealous that the Parliament and City would have brought the King to London upon his own terms The occasion was thus The Militia of the City of London had been setled by an Ordinance of May 4. 1647. in the hands of such of the City as the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council had nominated and approved The Army about the 20 of July require of the Parliament that Ordinance may be repealed and the Militia of the City settled in other hands such as the Army might confide in and accordingly in a thin house the Militia was changed without any Objections against the persons formerly intrusted or acquainting the Mayor or Common Council with it to hear what they could alledge in their own behalf The City startled at this sudden and unexpect change of their Militia calling a Common Council they resolve to petition the Parliament for restoring their Militia as formerly settled in a full house and accordingly July 26. the Sheriffs and some Common Council men present their Petition which Petition the same day within a few hours after was seconded by another other of the Apprentices to the same effect and wherein they claimed that the ordering of the Cities Militia was the Birth-right of the City belonging to them by several Charters confirmed by Parliament and about one thousand Apprentices yet without any armes came down with this Petition The House of Lords upon presenting these Petitions were pleased to grant their desires revoking the Ordinance of the 23 of July and reviving that of the fourth of May. The debate stuck longer in the House of Commons but about three of the clock in the Afternoon they passed it The Apprentices staying in and about Westminster-hall and the Parliament door till the Vote was passed and then all or the most part withdrew and went to their homes The Apprentices being departed some disorderly persons instigated thereunto as was probably thought by divers Sectaries and Adherents to the Army to make the business more odious and to give the Army occasion to quarrel with the City flock'd again to the Parliament door and the Speaker having adjourned the House they compelled him again to return to the chaire and there kept both him and the Members in the House till they had passed a Vote that the King should come to London to treat The Mayor and Common Council still assembled hearing of this disorder sent down the Sheriffs immediately with such strength as they could for the present get and pacified the tumult sending the Speaker safe to his house and published Edicts to prevent the like This tumult happened July 26. being Monday The House met again next day being Tuesday sate again and Acted quietly and because the Fast was the next day after they adjourned the House till the Friday following the Lords having formerly adjourned to that day On the Thursday following the day before they were to meet upon the adjournment the Speaker with about fourty of the Members secretly withdrew to the Army then at Windsor complaining of an horrid force put upon the House The rest of the Members at least 140 meeting on the Friday morning according to adjournment finding neither Speaker nor Mace and understanding upon inquiry whither he was gone they chose a New Speaker and get another Mace and set againe and the like did the Lords whose Speaker also was fled upon the same account both as it was conceived either inveigled or threatened by the Army that they might have the better pretence of quarrel against the City and Parliament I have related this passage the more particularly that it may be compared with the force afterward put upon the Parliament by the Army themselves upon the King Tryal These things thus passed as London between the Parliament and City highly incensed the Army who now take upon them to be Supream Umpires over the Nation they entertain and countenance the fugitive Speakers and Members and they and the Council of the Army set together in consultation engaging to support one another in this quarrel against the members as they termed them at Westminister and the City Mean time the Parliament call in the eleven impeached Members secluded hitherto upon the Armies accusation they revive the Committee of Safety they give power to the City by several Orders and Ordinances to list and raise Forces to appoint Officers and