Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	charles_n	king_n	stuart_n	2,711	5	13.1708	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95079	A true narration of the title, government, and cause of the death of the late Charls Stuart King of England. VVritten for the satisfaction of all those that are not wilfully obstinate for a regal government, and neglecters or contemners of their own just liberties. Published by authority.		1649 (1649)	Wing T2765; Thomason E541_14; ESTC R2083	3,066	11

A true NARRATION OF THE Title Government and Cause OF THE DEATH Of the late CHARLS STVART King of ENGLAND VVritten for the satisfaction of all those that are not wilfully obstinate for a Regal Government and neglecters or contemners of their own Just Liberties Published by Authority London Printed for R. W. 1649. A True Narration of the Title Government and Cause of the death of the late Charls Stuart King of England THe Title of William the Conqueror by some sirnamed the Bastard who first compelled our English Necks to bear his Norman Yoke whatever others may pretend was by his sword only by power whereof his successors even to this Charls Stuart late King of England have as it were forced the suffrage of the people to their several Elections and Coronations and by the same power have maintained all their Actions howsoever Injust Tyrannous and Illegal contrary to that ancient known and received opinion in Law that the King is Singulis major universis minor by which unjust usurped and Tyrannous power of Kings they are become indeed instead of shepherds careful to defend their flocks most ravenous Wolves whose panches are never longer full then they are devouring the silly sheep as may most plainly appear in the late Bloody and Tyrannous raign of this Charls Stuart whose boundlesse prerogative had his sword prevailed had like a general inundation at once swallowed up both the Laws of the Land the Liberties of the Subject the Priviledges of Parliament and turned the sweet and pleasant streams of the Gospel into that sea of Antichrist into popish superstition In the times of Peace he was the most Covetous P. that ever raigned in England not caring how his Subjects were impoverished or abused so his private Coffers were inriched He never cared to maintain the Laws Witnesse the Monopolies and Ship-money Witnesse the long vacancy of Parliaments and the Illegal proceedings against the Earl of Castle haven the overawing the Judges about ship-money and the Tyrannical proceedings of the Star-Chamber except such as conduced to his own particular profit or to the augmenting his Prerogative to that unlimited Power that his Will like the great Turks might-command the lives and fortunes of all his subjects In point of Religion his intents may be easily discerned by intruding the new liturgy on the Kirk of Scotland and that too immediately after his Coronation there he well knowing that it could be no way consistent with the Covenant by them taken and maintained for some ages before as also by enjoyning and compelling the Communion Tables in England to be removed and set Altar wise with Altar-worship thereby making way for the introducing of Popery it being contrary to the known Laws of this Kingdom We let slip his ambition of rule though by common fame sealed in his fathers blood And fall to the point of that unparaleld piece of Tyrannie begun against the Scots and since prosecuted against us his late subjects of England To begin therefore with the Scots who after many humble Petitions and fruitlesse answers were forced for their own safeties to take arms yet with all submission upon a Treaty taking the Kings solemn engagement laid them down notwithstanding the great charge they had been put to and their unability to bear the same after which peace the end of war being then expected the conditions of the Treaty were so well kept that the Spring following they were again forced for their refuge to take Arms in which then successe is so notorious to all men that the King not able to raise or maintain an Army able to oppose them was by necessity compelled to call a Parliament only as by the issue it appeared to borrow moneys without any intent to satisfie the Subiect which when he found he could not accomplish he not only suddenly dissolved and imprisoned the Members but by power of his own royal prerogative as he cals it without consent of Parliament endeavored to impose on the free people of England the heavy tax of Tunnage and Poundage which when he found that he could not wade through The Scots ly still lyable to be questioned for their first coming into England not being authorized by King nor Parliament the Scots at that time being come into the Kingdom necessity once more compelled him to call another Parliament who in their wisdoms Contracted with the Scots for a great sum of money to depart the Kingdom and willingly condiscended that the King should go into Scotland to compose and settle businesses there which was no sooner effected and he well rid of the Scots and received into the City of London with Joy and Triumph but he had presently his design on foot how to be rid of this Parliament also which by reason of the Act of Continuation could not be otherwise effected then by bringing up his Northern Army not then disbanded which sailing he resolved to render his Act of Continuation of Grace he called it as fruitlesse as possible might be whereupon he first makes way to send the Queen beyond Seas with the chief Jewels of the Crown endeavoring through her means to move forraign Princes to send him aids to make war upon his Rebellious Parliament as he called them after whose departure contrary to all Laws or the president of any his predecessors he associated with a company of rude and uncivil fellows armed came to the house of Commons to demand the five Members and notwithstanding he received the assurance of the house for their forth-coming never so much as brought in any Charge against them but finding himself frustrated in that his Tyrannous design immediately left the Parliament and repaired to Windsor where he mustered together many deboysed persons and Cavaliers with promise of great preferments and moneys if they would attend him at York which they accordingly did he in the mean while trifling out the time under the pretence of a Treaty about setling the Militia with the Parliament first at Tyballs after at Newmarket at last at York in the mean time demanding the Town of Hull and providing Arms Money and Men to make an Army the Parliament not yet dreaming of any such matter which he soon after performed by setting up his Standard at Nottingham And as this Army was trecherously raised under the cunning pretence of a Treaty so he hath proceeded with them Witness the falling on at Brainchford on Col. Hollis his Regiment to destroy the good people under the same colour ever since so long as he had an Army in which time on both sides above an hundred thousand of the good people of England have been murthered and destroyed And since the said Armies by him raised have been routed and dispersed and he himself as a prisoner at the dispose of Parliament and Army how many new commotions in Wales Scotland Kent Essex Surrey and the West he hath contrived as much as in him lay to the utter destruction of this whole Nation is sufficiently manifest to all men who are not more blinded in affection to the name of King then in love with their own just liberties And in the last Treaty in the Isle of Wight it did most evidently appear to the High Court of Justice upon the examination of sufficient witnesses That Charls Stuart what pretences so ever he made or what assurances soever he pretended to give never did nor ever would decline the late murther of his Subjects but would ever approve it as an act most just Yet notwithstanding all these tyrannies so unwilling were the Parliament to depose him much more to take his long since forfeited life that had he not sent his two sons beyond Seas with Commission to invade this Nation and to rob and murther his good Subjects both by Sea and Land and at this very instant time of Treaty plotted and endevored a new disturbance by all means laboring to engage the City of London to joyn with him in the same bloody designe he might have yet remained unquestioned Thus having given the Reasons that forced on the Kings ruine and in him the disabling the Norman Line for the future All those that are true lovers of Liberty the Laws Religion and the Kingdoms welfare may both feel and see themselves unloosed from the Norman Yoke under which our forefathers have suffered for the space of five hundred sixty and two yeers for which let all true Englishmen rejoyce and with the Author cry Vivat Lex Exercitus vera Religo Senatus populusque Angliae FINIS