Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	house_n	parliament_n	3,356	5	6.7800	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88179	The Engagement vindicated & explained, or The reasons upon which Leiut. [sic] Col. John Lilburne, tooke the Engagement. Published by a well-wisher to the present authority, on purpose to satisfie scrupulous minds in the lawfulnesse of taking the said Engagement. January 22. 1650. Licensed according to order, and entered into the register book at Stationers Hall.	Lilburne, John, 1614?-1657.	1650 (1650)	Wing L2101; Thomason E590_4; ESTC R202793	4,198	8

THE ENGAGEMENT Vindicated Explained OR THE REASONS Upon which Leiut Col. John Lilburne tooke the Engagement Published by a Well-wisher to the present Authority on purpose to satisfie scrupulous minds in the lawfulnesse of taking the said Engagement January 22. 1650. Licensed according to Order and entered into the Register Book at Stationers Hall LONDON Printed by John Clowes and are to be sold at the Blew-Anchor in Corne-hill and at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1650. The Publisher to the Reader Courteous Reader UNderstanding that this following Epistle was pened hy Mr. Lilburne to be sent to Alderman Tichburn the speedy ejection of whom out of the Office of a Common-Counsel-man by the means of the said Alderman prevented it seemeth the seeing of it but a Copy of it accidentally coming to my hand J thought good for the publick benefit to present it to the publike view that so Scrupulous minds may receive satisfaction by it to take the said Engagement CERTAINE REASONS Wherefore Lieut. Col. JOHN LILBVRNE tooke the present ENGAGEMENT SIR BEing a Freeman of London of about tenne yeares standing and having for some time Resolved upon Fryday last of late to live within the City in order to which I really took such a lodging as by the possession of which till I can get one more convenient for my family as both in the Eye of Law Reason and Custome may intitle and denominate me to be an Inhabitant in that Ward where and for which at present you are particularly Alderman and having eaten and drank and lodged in my new habitation I was upon Fryday morning last by your publique Beadle warned as an Inhabitant of your Ward to be at Blew-coats Hall in Christs Church at the Ward-mote where by the affection of diverse Inhabitants I was put in nomination for the year ensuing to be one of their Common Counsell and when the question was put for me according to your custome I withdrew and afterwards found that my election by majority of hands was clear without all manner of dispute whereupon according to the Act you tendered me the New Engagement in these words I doe Declare and promise that I will be true and faithfull to the Common-wealth of England as the same is now established without a King or House of Lords Sir You may please to remember that I told you I could easily and freely subscribe it provided in regard I had formerly been very scrupulous in taking any Engagements at all made by the Parliament and had formerly very much opposed their Engagements and Covenants and therefore to avoid that scandal that might redound to my reputation by signing the present Engagement without declaring before all the people there present the grounds of my so doing and therefore I intreated you to let me speak a few words to them promising you to be very faire and moderate but you answered me it was not the business of the day but the people crying out heare him hear him you were pleased to let me go on a little but being not well pleased with what I said you finally stopt me whereupon I was necessitated to tell you that seeing you would not let me speak my mind I must be necessitated to write it to you which thus followeth Sir I am an Englishman by Birth Breeding therefore have inherent in me an affection an obligation or tye of respect unto it the Land of my nativity but by signing this Engagement I become solemnly and seriously ingaged and bound by a speciall tye to performe that which before was a duty at large or at randome upon me for by the Common-wealth of England in the Engagement mentioned I can understand nothing else to be meant but one of these two things or else both of them conjoyned First By the Common-wealth I understand all the good legall People of England to be meant And this I do conceive the rather because the Engagement-makers have voted declared them to be the Soveraign or true Fountain of all just power amongst men and to them by Gods Assistance I will be true and faithfull Or secondly By the Common-wealth of England I understand the essentiall and fundamental Government of England as it is now established which I conceive principally to consist in 3. particulars The first of which is annuall and successive Parliaments which is the Peoples essential right to in joy as is declared by 3. severall Acts of Parliament now in force and unrepealed viz. 4. Eliz. chap. 14. and 36. Eliz. chap. 10. Both which are confirmed by the Act of the 16. of the late King intituled an Act for the preventing of inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliaments which Acts are strongly backt to be the Peoples undubitable Right by severall Parliament-Declarations as particularly the Parliaments grand and first Remonstrance of the 15. of Decemb. 1641. 1 part book decler pag. 17. and there declared of the 2. of Novemb. 1642. 1 part book declar pag. 702. 709. See also the 4. part Cooks instit fol. 9. 11. 42. published by the Parliament yea and in the Charge against the late King in the first branch thereof the said frequent and successive Parliaments is owned and declared to be the foundation of the Government of this Nation and of all the peoples Liberties the violation of which is agravated to the King against him by his prosecuter Mr. John Cook in his case stated pag. 7. 11. 14. 17. 18. 20. And also by the President of the High Court of Justice in his last Speech against the King the 27. of Jan. 1648. pag. 11. And in the very beginning of both the Acts of Treason upon which I my self was lately Arraigned which bears date the 14. of May and the 17. of July 1648 the substance of all fore-going is confirmed for it is there declared that the people shall for the future be governed by its own Representatives or Nationall meetings in Counsel chosen and intrusted by them for that purpose so that annuall successive Parliaments or Representatives is fully owned and Declared to be the prime or chief foundation of the Government of this Nation unto which by the strength of God I will be true The second main essentiall of the Government of this Nation is Tryall by Juries of good and Legall men of the Neighbourhood which manner of Tryall being far more ancient then the conquest I Love and Honour and by Gods blessing will be true to it The third main esenciall of the Government of this Nation is that no man shall be dispossed of his life limb liberty or estate but by due processe of Law as it is more at large with that just and equitable Tryall by Juries contained in the ch 29. of Magna Charta and the Petition of Right both of which are every branch of them fully confirmed by the Act that abolisheth the Star-Chamber and the Act that nuls Ship-mony both of them made in the