Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	army_n	king_n	scot_n	6,426	5	9.5683	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91595	Querees, to find out who it is that holds out in armes against the State of England.		1646 (1646)	Wing Q176; Thomason 669.f.10[71]; ESTC R210561	1,471	1

Querees to find out who it is that holds out in Armes against the State of England SEing the King is our prisoner as in the Scottish Army who by contract are our servants and our Army and therefore not to do what they list but what we command them seeing they receive pay from us as meer mercinaries and serve not freely as brethren therefore if our State representative the chosen Commons of England assembled in Parliament shall give Order to the State of Scotland for the King presently to disband all his Forces in England Ireland or else-where and to deliver up all Townes and Garrisons unto our States hand Quere I say if it be not done thereupon if wee may not conclude that it is the Scots hold up Armes against out State for the King being our Prisoner and in their power our servants hath no power but must do as they will and they will do as they list for him For if they of themselves can prostrate their owne opposite armes of Montrosse c. and put his name thereto for a cullour as if done by him or inforce him to doe it to cullour their doing why not the same forme upon order from our State aforesaid Why oh English States is not this assayd to discover who it is that holds up armes against you for what power hath one man that is in the power of others And if our State will not give order for the same what may we not conclude there of must the lives and estates of multitudes of men be sacrificed to the wilfulnesse of any But our State performing their parts we shall apparantly see where it rests for how can the King hinder what they please to doe Do not these that are called the French and Spanish States what them please put or their King must put their names thereto to culour it that the State may not bee seene in it but it may passe as if their Kings act not theirs Can any be so simple to think their Kings may or can rule a State which is as much as the wisest State can doe In short it is the States doe all and so doe the Scot and so ought our State and not let the weale safety happinesse prosperitie and being of a Kingdome or Kingdomes and Millions of lives therein lye at the will or the wilfulnesse folly or madnesse of one man whom they call their King though the Parliament of England in their late letter to him when hee was at Oxford doe tell him plainly that he is guilty of all the innocent blood which hath beene now shed in all the three Kingdomes Oh therefore let not the world jeer us that our prisoner can use his keepers as his prisoners c. Who hath stood it out in open Hostility as long as possible he could against his Earthly Soveraigne Lord King and Creator the state Vniversall Whose legall and formall representative the Parliament he hath unnaturally wickedly unjustly and irrationally proclaimed Traytors and Rebels for doing their duty in endeavouring the preservation of those that trusted them from the ruine and distruction endeavoured and intended to them by him their rebellious servant How can it be properly said that the English Creator the State of England can commit Treason against it's own meere creature the King If it be treason to assist the King with men monies armes and horses in this his unnaturall Warre and Rebellion against the Parliament and people of England as the Parliament hath often declared then is it not the height of Treason for any of the Parliaments Armies privately to treat with him and to receive him into their Army and there protect him from those who requite him and have right to him and to dispose of him yea and afford him elbow room and libertie to send Messages and Embassages to Denmark Holland France Spain and Ireland or whether he pleaseth that so he may lay new designes for the utter subversion and destruction of the State and Kingdome Oh the hght of c. no longer to be put up borne or suffered by trustees that desire to approve themselves faithfull to their trusters FINIS London August 1646.