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enemy_n	arm_n	force_n	great_a	1,198	5	2.6791	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83680	A declaration of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament, expressing their reasons for the adnulling and vacating of these ensuing votes. 15 Januarii, 1648. / Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this declaration and votes be forthwith printed and published. H: Scobel, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1649 (1649)	Wing E2560; Thomason E538_23; ESTC R206053	8,378	17

of his Standard against it The like never before practised by the worst of our Kings by which means the Regal Power which was intended for the Weal and Defence of the people being hereby turned against them rendring thereby Ireland the purchase of our Ancestors in apparent hazard of being utterly lost our Trade by Sea and Land to be decayed our Estates to be wasted and some hundreds of thousands of our Nation slaughtered and massacred We hereupon despairing of any good return of Justice from the King did appeal unto the great God of Heaven and Earth for the same who after four years Wars did give a clear and apparent sentence on our side by delivering into our hands all the Castles Towns and Persons of our Opposites even of the King himself or forcing them to fly the Land and in Forraign parts to remain as Exiles And whereas it pleased God by these his mercies to put us into such a condition of power that if we did not make England the happiest Nation in the world not onely this present Age but all Posterity would judge that either we wanted wisdom to do it or will to effect it Yet here again we were encountered with unexpected difficulties by the apparent defection of some of our own Members who not regarding the glory of God nor good of the Common-wealth but being carryed away by base avarice and wicked ambition did labor the bringing in of the King again with all his faults without the least repentance or acknowledgment of his former Transgressions either against God or his People And having to that purpose by many subtilties of theirs improved their Party amongst us to a considerable number they endeavored to do that by fraud which by open force of Arms our greatest Enemies had so often failed in To which and finding that nothing but the Army could obstruct their design it whom they had observed more then a bare mercenary Spirit as having by the extraordinary blessing of God finished the War in so short a time after their undertaking of it Manifesting thereby That their affections to the publique exceeded that of their particular employment doing so much service in a few moneths for the Parliament as if they had plotted to have made themselves uncapable of serving them any longer Whereupon they first attempted to send the greatest part of it into Ireland the Scotish Army being at the same time possessed of the four Northern Counties the Person of the King Himself being also in their power the two Keys of this Kingdom Barwick and Carlile in their hands besides the Town of Newcastle being the main and most necessary support of London and the Southern parts for firing wholly at their devotion All which signified nothing else then that we should abandon those of our own Blood and Countrey who had faithfully and religiously served us to cast our selves into the protection of a Forraign Nation who had besides a Forraign Interest But failing in this their first attempt in the second place after the going home of the Scots they labor'd to break this Army by Disbanding it which otherwise as they feared would have broken their Designs But that not succeeding their next work was to raise the City of London in actual arms against it Wherein being likewise disappointed of their expectations some of them for the same being charged by us with High Treason and other High Crimes and Misdemeanors most of them so charged having left the Land and some others for the same being imprisoned The King in the mean time shewing no maner of contrition or giving the least hopes of any good accommodation after seven Addresses made unto him in vain We thereupon judging it not fit that the obstinacy of any one man how great soever should ruine so many thousand good people of this Kingdom did Vote no further Addresses to be made unto Him as being a Person uncapable of any further Trust But did declare That we would settle the present Government in such a way as might best stand with the Peace and Happiness of this Kingdom And which we had long since by Gods assistance happily effected had not a Malignant Party amongst the Seamen the like in the Counties of Essex Surrey Sussex and the City of London many of which have since been in actual Arms against us by their pressing and urgent Petitioning of the Parliament for a Personal Treaty with the King at London and to disband the Army thereby diverted and frustrated our earnest and hearty desires Which Petitions of theirs though most of them delivered in a tumultuous maner and all of them in such a way as if they were resolved to admit of no denial yet were so countenanced by a disaffected number amongst us who in all probability did correspond with them in their Engagements as some of the Petitioners had thanks given them after they had manifestly broken the Priviledges of Parliament Besides the Matter being so repugnant to all Reason that the granting of it as the case then stood Wales being in some measure revolted the Scots hourly expected to come in Kent and Essex in arms and a very considerable part of the Navy abandoning of their Trust had been at one stroke to undo all that ever God had done for the Parliament and to render all his Mercies vain and fruitless And that we might be the more diverted from settling the Peace of this distracted Kingdom the said persons taking advantage of the sundry ingagements the Army was then employed about and that at once in divers remote parts of the Realm and of the absence of sundry well-affected Members acting in their several respective Counties for the quenching of that flame which these persons in all likelihood by their artifices had kindled did by the subtilty of many terrifying Arguments and threatning Petitions making the world believe as if there was an impossibility to settle the Peace of the Kingdom without the King not onely recal those Votes of Non Addresses to the King made upon such and so many Reasons of great weight and high concernment for the good of the people as unto the least of which they never gave any Answer but did likewise recal such Members of this House as stood charged as aforesaid with high Treason and other high Crimes without Answering or giving any satisfaction to the least part of their Charge And notwithstanding that God by the setlement of Wales the miraculous and speedy reducing of Kent the defeat of the Earl of Holland the containing of the major part of the City of London in their due obedience the confusions arising in the Revolted Navy the Rendring of Colchester and lastly the most incomparable Defeat of Duke Hamilton and his Army did manifest to Earth that Heaven was opposite and displeased with those their Councels and that once more God from above had given sentence for the Parliament against the King Yet these Members as if they would resist the will