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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	great_a	parliament_n	3,586	5	6.2777	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94479	To the honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the knights, esquires, gentry, and commons, inhabitants of the county of Cambridge. Also, His Majesties message to both houses of Parliament upon His removall to the citie of Yorke.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing T1444; Thomason 669.f.4[83]; ESTC R210311	2,117	1

To the Honourable the House of Commons assembled in Parliament The humble Petition of the Knights Esquires Gentry and Commons Inhabitants of the County of Cambridge ALSO His Majesties Message to both Houses of Parliament upon His Removall to the Citie of Yorke SHEWETH THat your Petitioners most thankfully acknowledgeing the wonderfull mercy of Almighty God the wisdome and goodnesse of his Majesty the constant endevours of your Honourable Assembly and the inestimable benefits which we have already received by your unwearied paines in the enacting those many wholsome Lawes for the maintaining of truth and peace amongst us notwithstanding the daring insolencies and desperate plots of the malignant party from which being by your vigilancies delivered we and the age to come are no lesse in thankfulnesse obliged to our mercifull God than for those former deliverances whose memories wee yearely celebrate Are by those maine pledges of your undaunted pious resolutions for a through Reformation in the Church and State now at length imboldened to present to your gracious acceptance This as a testimony of our readinesse to lay downe what you have redeemed our lives and livelihoods in your ayde towards the perfecting so pious and blessed a worke And humbly to beseech you to believe us in our particular grievances But above all to goe on in your wonted zeale for the generall especially for the advancement of Gods glory in settling his worship according to his Word That able and painfull Ministers may bee incouraged and placed in the roomes of scandalous and insufficient All their unwarranted Orders and dignities taken away The smaller Livings comfortably augmented with a strict meanes for the recovery of their dues The Universities throughly purged from Popery and Arminianisme with their incroaching priviledges And that their government may be ordered acording to the Lawes and that Orthodoxall and prudent Governours be there in placed to provide that purer Authours may be read to Students and severer courses taken to prevent their future insolencies towards the Countrey which at the last Assizes did violently breake forth upon their discontents as we conceive and some of them did then expresse because the Doctors and Heads of the University were by the late Act left out of the Commission That there may be a Synod of the most pious zealous and learned Divines That Papists may be confined their subtill conveyed estates to avoid forfeiture may be prevented and they speedily disarmed That Wills and Testaments be proved and Legacies recovered in temperall Courts That the Bish●p of Ely's vast Jurisdiction may be limited and his prejudiciall government taken away That our County and Huntingtonshire may be reunited under one Sheriffe as formerly That sale of honour and office be prevented Ill Counsellours removed Delinquents presently and deservedly punished Ireland speedily and powerfully relieved and for the timely prevention of many eminent dangers from thence and otherwise That the Militia of the Kingdome be forthwith put in a warlike posture of defence In all which and other your future indevours herein for the good of the publicke the safetie and honour of our King and the glory of the King of Kings according to the late Protestation hereby signified to have been most cheerefully taken by us we shall be alwayes ready willing to ayde and assist you And continually pray c. HIs Majesty being now in his Remove to His City of York where He intends to make His Residence for some time thinks fit to send this Message to both Houses of Parliament That He doth very earnestly desire That they will use all possible industry in expediting the businesse of Ireland in which they shall find so cheerfull a Concurrence by His Majestry that no inconvenience shall happen to that Service by His absence He having all that Passion for the reducing of that Kingdome which He hath expressed in His former Messages and being unable by words to manifest more affection to it then He hath endevoured to do by those Messages having likewise done all such Acts as he hath been moved unto by His Parliament Therefore if the Mis●fortunes and Calamities of His poore Protestant Subjects there shall grow upon them though His Majestie shall be deeply concerned in and sensible of their sufferings He shall wash his hands before all the World from the least imputation of slacknesse in that most necessary and pious Work And that His Majestry may leave no way unattempted which may beget a good understanding between Him and his Parliament He thinks it necessary to Declare That as He hath been so tender of the Privileges of Parliment that He hath been ready and forward to retract any Act of His own which Hee hath been Informed hath Trencht upon their Privileges so He expects an equall tendernesse in them of His Majesties knowne and unquestionable Privileges which are the Privileges of the Kingdome amongst which He is assured it is a fundamentall One that His Subjects cannot be Obliged to Obey any Act Order or Injunction to which His Majesty hath not given His consent And therefore He thinks it necessary to publish That He expects and hereby Requires Obedience from all His loving Subjects to the Laws established and that they presume not upon any pretence of Order or Command to which his Majesty is no party concerning the Militia or any other thing to do or execute what is not warranted by those Laws His Majestie being resolved to keep the Laws himselfe and to require Obedience to them from all His Subjects And His Majesty once more recommends to His Parliament the substance of His Message of the twentieth of January last that they compose and digest with all speed such Acts as they shall think fit for the present and future establishment of their Privileges The free and quiet enjoying their Estates and Fortunes The Liberties of their Persons The Securitie of the true Religion now professed in the Church of England The mayntaining His Majesties Regall and just Authority and setling his Revenue His Majestry being most desirous to take all fitting and just wayes which may beget a happy understanding between Him and His Parliament in which He conceives his greatest power and riches doth consist London Printed for Iohn Franke 1641.