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england_n	king_n	lord_n	sovereign_a	12,705	5	9.8164	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55954	The proceedings of the Grand-jury of the city of Bristol, upon an indictment against Edward Flower, gentleman, for speaking words in derogation of His Majesty, and the high court of Parliament	Flower, Edward, Gentleman.	1680 (1680)	Wing P3585; ESTC R16107	1,423	2

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND-JURY of the City of Bristol UPON An Indictment against Edward Flower Gentleman for speaking Words in derogation of his MAJESTY and the High Court of PARLIAMENT AT the General Sessions of the Peace held for the City and County of the City of Bristol July 13. 1680. in the 32d year of his now Majesty's Reign before the Right Worshipful the Mayor and Aldermen of the same City in the Guild-Hall there the Grand-Jury following being sworn VIZ. John Hine Richard Coddrington Arthur Grant Richard Taylor Robert Bound Francis Fisher James Fisher William Scot. Richard Washfield John Hiley Edward Bright John Hawkins John Cheshire John Woolvin John Harris William Bath Abraham Weare Henry Combes William Baron George Mason William Lewis Upon full Evidence they found a Bill of Indictment against Edward Flower Gentleman a true Copy whereof is as followeth JUratores c. The Jury for our Sovereign Lord the King do upon their Oaths present That whereas by the Ancient Customs of this Kingdom of England whereof the Memory of Man is not to the contrary and also according to the Laws and Statutes of the same Kingdom of England PARLIAMENTS consisting of the Barons Knights and Burgesses of the said Kingdom within this Kingdom for the necessary common and publick Good as well of the Kings as of the whole People of England by the Ancestors and Predecessors of our most Illustrious Lord King Charles the Second that now is being Kings of this Kingdom and by our said Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second that now is have been respectively and successively summoned assembled had and held Yet nevertheless one Edward Flower of the City of Bristol in the County of the same City Gent. not being ignorant of the Premises but craftily designing and intending not only the Customs Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom to make void and the said Parliaments to villify and for ever hereafter to subvert but also the sublime Wisdom of our said Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second that now is to scandalize and all the People of England in their State and Condition greatly to hurt and prejudice and likewise Seditions and unlawful Insurrections to move and stir up and as well our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is as the Right Reverend Father in Christ the Bishop of Bath and Wells that now is to bring into the Hatred and Ill-will of the Subjects of our said Sovereign Lord the King the 24th day of January in the One and Thirtieth Year of his now Majesty's Reign in the Ward of St. Michael in the County of the City aforesaid he the said Edward Flower then and there having a Discourse of and concerning our said Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second and of a certain Parliament of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is maliciously seditiously and unlawfully in the hearing of very many of the Subjects of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is did then and there openly and publickly speak and with a loud Voice publish these malicious seditious and pernicious English Words following that is to say The King is unwise to govern by a Parliament and that He doth not raise an Army and govern by the Sword There are several Gentlemen in Somersetshire ready to assist Him to my knowledg and the Bishop of Bath and Wells is gone up to acquaint Him with it To the great Scandal of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is to the defaming and villifying of all such PARLIAMENTS and also of the Laws and Statutes of this Kingdom of England to the exciting Breaches of the Peace of our ●●●d Sovereign Lord the King and of Seditions and Insurrections within this Kingdom of England to the pernicious Example of all others in the like Case offending and against the Peace of our said Sovereign Lord the King that now is his Crown and Dignity Reader You may speedily expect a further Account of the Court's Proceedings with this Gentleman as to his Trial for the aforesaid Indictment LONDON Printed for Francis Smith at the Elephant and Castle in Cornhill near the Royal-Exchange 1680.