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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	parliament_n	power_n	3,251	5	4.9929	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77284	To the Generall his eccellency Thomas Lord Fairefax a servant to the high and mighty, and most excellent God, and to the nation. Written by Captain VVilliam Bray. From his captivity in VVinsor Castle.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4309; Thomason E552_6; ESTC R205716	4,260	9

TO THE GENERALL His ECCELLENCY THOMAS LORD FAIREFAX A servant to the high and mighty and most Excellent GOD and to the NATION Written By Captain VVILLIAM BRAY. From his Captivity in VVinsor Castle Aprill 27 Printed in the year 1649. TO The Generall his Excellency THOMAS Lord Fairfax a Servant to the high and mighty and most excellent God and to the NATION SIR I need not mention to you nor unto the world that I am a Prisoner for walking in a peaceable lawfull and warrantable way in the claim of justice against you for the good of my Country and for a righteous and just satisfaction for my wrongs and indeed it is a president of dangerous moment to stifle the Soveraigne affections that God kindles in the people to righteousnesse and justice it rases the foundations of natures just liberty and doth in a speciall manner as it were raise a Battery and draws in Battalia against Christian principles Oh Sir let not your greatnesse make you forget before whom you are and shall be though you are so farre above and beyond me as I acknowledge in the earthly glory yet the Lord is not nor will be a respecter of persons in judgement Sir shall a man see an evill and calamitie hang over the Nation after such a deluge of blood and shall he not speak may not you have Hamons and Achitophels about you that may seduce you to unworthy acts worthy repentance would you have a man tormented again and again and if God doth not bestow a miracle upon him to make him patient would you torment him because lie complains Oh Sir what just naturall liberty is here What Christian Liberty is here Where are the fundamental laws of England Is there any thing that is done by you or countenanced by you as done by any power on your behalf that is unnatural that is unchristiā that is contrary to the just fundamentall laws of England the Declarations of Parliament and Army that doth or can conduce to your Fame and Honour Have not you strook at the very Virals of liberty and freedome truly Sir as poore Mordicai said let not the Queen think shee shall escape in the Kings house more then the rest of the Jews so all those that are or ever shall be for the Rights of the People shall not escape the Lust Wrath and Vengeance of Oppressours Sir if the Parliament of England had walked or had power to have walked against you or the whole Army by the same rules and principles you and others walk against me then you and others had been even as I am and in humane probabilitie this Nation had been made a Celdama and Golgatha a field of blood and a place of Dead mens skuls You complained against the injustices of men in Parliament as if you would have brought forth impartiall righteousnesse But Sir whilest my Appeal was in the House a Letter came from your self or some other by one of your Clerks c. This was condemned in the King as is mentioned in King Charles his Case as a way to subvert Justice Moreover I am committed unto your jurisdiction during pleasure and so contrarie to law against whom I have appealed without any judiciall sole supine and impartiall hearing of my Cause would you be delt so with and would you think it just if a man should be set upon in the high way and he should complain unto a Justice of Peace and the Justice of Peace should deliver him over to him that would have injured him And here I am told by my Keeper or Goaler that I neither write to you nor to the Parliament nor to any of my Christian friends but what he must see or the Governour or tyrannicall creature and head Goaler must view who walks beyond the bonds of my commitment and is not this hating the light Oh horrible cruelty contrary to the dealings of the Heathen Governour with Paul Acts 24.23 And the Governour doth commit the Tyrany that so he may be the better accepted by you and the Parliament to perpetuate his honour and Tyrannie Is it for your honour that I am 〈◊〉 prisoner in appealing on the behalf of publike Right and for particular justice and redresse the latter of which was formerly against the late King himself in the publique Courts of Justice in Westminster very common before the blood of War and that I should be overcome by force of your influence and committed without a lawfull hearing of the Cause would it have been just and honourable that David should have imprisoned Nathan because Nathan told him his evils and tyrannies in the sight of the Sun in record to the world to all generations And if my declaring your injustices and arbitrarinesse deserve more then a Prison If a private or a publike Murther let me say as Christ said to Judas what you doe do quickly for I value my life no more then I value a straw in the Cause of righteousnes and publike Justice How many addresses did I make in a Christian private manner unto you before I was publike as my appeal expresses And my former silence incouraged you to go on to deale unnaturally and cruelly with me and so I could not but imagine might incourage you against other Members in the Common-weale And indeed one of my Enemies could say to me that he did finde that you had a disaffection to me because it was thought that I had an influence in the honest Country mens Petitions Sir if you strike in the Nations and my close enemies designes I must needs appeale against you for they themselves are not seen all the while and they can make you beare any unrighteous burthen when they please and indeed you must beare it in the sight of the Lord and Just men if you own their designs they walk in the dark and make you authorize their impieties designes and cruelties and truly Sir if I had not the Image of a man or of your own kinde in Creation but of another creature you might have scarce dealt so with me with reason And truly Sir such men that have had the credit and power to abuse the Common-wealth and Army in and with your Person may subvert the very ends for which this Army was declared to be raised and solemnly engaged to stand to Sir I was fasted out of my right in one of my causes and after 420. miles riding and losses could have no hearing or tryall or Christian reference as my App●ale express●s And secondly after all my labours expenses indebtements and zealous affections to your particular Person and personall Conduct in order and subserviency to the right of Country as t●e Troops and my self did lately subscribe unto which I must confesse I deem supream to any personall honour which is accounted by many of your favourites a dangerous mutinous seducing principle I challenge the greatest Machivilian or enemy to the peoples right to tax me with the contrary Judgement Opinion Practice or