Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	colonel_n	horse_n	regiment_n	1,920	5	9.9256	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28563	The history of the desertion, or, An account of all the publick affairs in England, from the beginning of September 1688, to the twelfth of February following with an answer to a piece call'd The desertion discussed, in a letter to a country gentleman / by a person of quality.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.; Collier, Jeremy, 1650-1726. Desertion discuss'd.	1689 (1689)	Wing B3456; ESTC R18400	127,063	178

Collector of the Excise at Exeter and committed the Officer to Custody and that not one Person of Quality was yet come in to them This last was again confirm'd by another Express the next day The 13th an Account came from Cirencester That the Lord Lovelace going to the Prince with between 60 and 70 Horse was there seised by the Militia by Order of the Duke of Beaufort with about 13 of the Party one Major Lorege being slain in the Action together with his Son Captain Lee and Leiutenant Williams and six Common Soldiers wounded but notwithstanding this Resistance the Lord Lovelace was at last forced to yield and secured by the Duke of Beaufort and this was very acceptable News at Whitehall but the Joy was short and not well founded The 14th there came an Account from Salisbury That upon the 12th the Lord Cornbury pretending to have received Orders from his Majesty caused the Royal Regiment of Horse the Royal Regiment of Dragoons whereof he was Colonel and the Duke of St. Albans Regiment of Horse commanded by Colonel Langston to march from Salisbury to Dorchester where they refreshed themselves and then they went to Bridport and Axminster Several of the Officers thereupon apprehending some Design asked the Lord Cornbury as was said whither they were going Who answered To beat up the Enemies Quarters at Honiton But he finding the Royal Regiment of Horse and several Officers of the Dragoons did more and more suspect him he marched with those that would follow him towards Honiton Langston going before with the Regiment of St. Albans but the Royal Regiment of Horse and several of the Dragoons return'd to Bridport And the same day the Earl of Feversham came to Salisbury to Command the Forces in Chief The next day these Regiments return'd from Bridport to Salisbury and we were told there was not ten Troopers of the Royal Regiment wanting which sufficiently shews how firm they were in their Fidelity to his Majesty But notwithstanding this Flourish this News caused a great Consternation at Whitehall The 16th there was published a Proclamation to prohibit the keeping of Exeter Fair and other Fairs thereabouts because many on that Pretence went over to the Prince of Orange The same day the Reverend Dr. Lamplu then Bishop of Exeter was Translated to the Archbishoprick of York and Dr. Trelawny from the See of Bristol to that of Exeter And his Majesty also ordered a Publick Collection to be made thorow the City of London the Liberties and Suburbs thereof for the Relief of the poor and distressed Inhabitants of the City who were by the Distractions of the Times and the Interruption of Trade reduced to great Want and Misery The 17th of November the Archbishop of Canterbury the Archbishop of York Elect the Bishop of Ely and the Bishop of Rochester presented this Petition to the King. May it please Your Majesty WE Your Majesties most Loyal Subjects in a deep sense of the Miseries of a War now breaking forth in the Bowels of this Your Kingdom and of the Danger to which Your Majesties Sacred Person is thereby like to be exposed as also of the Distractions of Your People by reason of their present Grievances do think our selves bound in Conscience of the Duty we owe to God and our Holy Religion to Your Majesty and our Country most humbly to offer to Your Majesty That in our Opinion the only visible way to preserve Your Majesty and this Your Kingdom would be the Calling a Parliament Regular and Free in all its Circumstances We therefore most earnestly beseech Your Majesty That You would be graciously pleased with all speed to call such a Parliament wherein we shall be most ready to promote such Counsels and Resolutions of Peace and Settlement in Church and State as may conduce to Your Majesties Honour and Safety and to the quieting of the Minds of Your People We do likewise humbly beseech Your Majesty in the mean time to use such Means for the preventing the Effusion of Christian Blood as to Your Majesty shall seem most meet W. Cant. Grafton Ormond Dorset Clare Clarendon Burlingten Anglesey Rochester Newport Nom. Ebor. W. Asaph F. Ely. Tho. Roffen Tho. Petriburg T. Oxon. Paget Chandois Osulston It was said there was a sharp Answer given to this excellent Petition which was the Sense of all the King's Friends in the Nation except a few desparate Men whose Crimes had rendred them uncapable of the Mercy of a Parliament and some others who designed the Ruine of the English Liberties and Religion with the utmost hazard of the King and Kingdom The same day in the Afternoon the King left the City and with his Royal Highness Prince George of Denmark went to Windsor and the next Morning he went to Salisbury appointing in his absence the Privy-Council to meet for the Dispatch of all Affairs as occasion should require The 19th of November the Lords for their own Vindication published the Petition afore-represented and the next day the King's Answer to it was printed also which was this His Majesties most Gracious Answer My Lords WHat you ask of Me I most passionately desire and I promise you UPON THE FAITH OF A KING That I will have a Parliament and such an one as you ask for as soon as ever the Prince of Orange has quitted this Realm For how is it possible a Parliament should be Free in all its Circumstances as you Petition for whilst an Enemy is in the Kingdom and can make a Return of near an hundred Voices This was sufficiently disobliging considering the State of Affairs and the Temper of the Nation at that time but the Jesuits were so enraged at the printing the Petition that they published a Paper with this Title Some Reflections upon the Humble Petition to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal who subscribed the same presented November 17th 1688. which follows in these words THat the Peace-makers are blessed is a Truth our Saviour hath left recorded in the holy Scriptures and those are truly to be honoured who can contribute any thing to so happy a work But that either this way of Petitioning or the matter in it desired is likely to produce so great a Blessing is a Question worthy thy serious Consideration I shall first therefore take notice of some of the dubious Expressions in the Petition and then lay down some few Reasons why I judge the Petition in it self unseasonable and lastly endeavour to shew how unpracticable the summoning of a Parliament is at this present The Expression That a War is now breaking forth in the Bowels of the Kingdom shews that their Lordships either know or foresee that a Civil War is fomenting and I pray God this Petition do not more than any thing else occasion it or that the Prince of Orange intends to carry on the War through the Bowels of the Kingdom whereas those that wish well to the King hope it will be