Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	parliament_n	people_n	10,128	5	5.0293	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82108	The declaration of many thousands of the city of Canterbury, or county of Kent. Concerning the late tumult in the city of Canterbury, provokt by the Mayors violent proceedings against those who desired to continue the celebration of the Feast of Christs Nativity, 1500 yeers and upwards maintained in the Church. Together with their resolutions for the restitution of His Majestie to his Crown and dignity, whereby religion may be restored to its ancient splendour, and the known laws of this Kingdom maintained. As also, their desires to all His Majesties loyall subjects within his Dominions, for their concurrence and assistance in this so good and pious work.		1647 (1647)	Wing D614; Thomason E421_23; ESTC R204766	3,752	7

God That which we so much desired that day was but a Sermon which any other day of the weeke was tollerable by the orders practise of the two Houses and all their adherents but that day because it was Christs birth day we must have none that which is good all the yeer long yet is this day superstitious The Mayor causing some of us to be beaten contrary to his oath and office who ought to preserve the peace and to that purpose chiefly is the sword of Justice put into his hands and wrongfully imprisoned divers of us because we did assemble our selves to hear the word of God which he was pleased to interpret a Ryot yet we were unarmed behaved our selves civilly intended no such tumult as afterwards we were forc'd unto but at last seeing the manifest wrong done to our children servants and neighbours by beating wounding and imprisoning them we were moved to vindicate the wrong done them and to release them that were imprisoned and did call unto our assistance our brethren of the County of Kent who very readily came in to us and have associated themselves to us in this our just and lawfull defence and do concurre with us in this our Remonstrance concerning the Kings Majestie and the settlement of Peace in this Kingdome Forasmuch therefore as the two Houses have exceedingly erred in exalting their priviledges above the Kings Prerogative and outgone all former Presidents in Parliament by exercising an Arbitrary power and government over their fellow subjects have raised an unjust War against our Soveraigne Lord and King and destroyed many of the Nobility Gentrie and Commonaltie of the Land have unjustly murthered though executed as Malefactors many of his Majesties loyall Subjects some of our own County also have suppressed the true Protestant Religion suffered all kinds of Heresies and Errors in the Kingdom have imprisoned or at least silenced and put down all the Orthodox C●ergy taken away the livelihood and being of many thousand Families oppressed and robbed the fatherlesse and widows put grievous burthens upon the people unusuall taxes of Proposition money Excise c. which former Parliaments never dreamed of have imprisoned the Kings Majestie turned away his Chaplains and Servants from him have broken the Union betwixt England and Scotland and have rendre themselves odious to God and all good men We the Inhabitants of the City of Canterbury and County o Kent do protest against these exorbitant and wicked proceedings of the two Hou●es as most injurious to Religion the Kings Majestie and all his loyall Subjects and contrary to Gods holy Word and the known Laws of this Kingdom and also contrary to the trust reposed in them by those Countries and Towns for which they serve And we will endeavour by Gods gracious assistance to restore Religion to its ancient splendour and lustre release the Kings Majestie out of thraldome and miserie and restore him to his just rights and power whereby he may call those men to account for all the blood they have caused to be shed for all the vast sums they have extorted from his subjects and the wrong they have done to him and the whole Kingdom And in this our design we shall endeavour the preservation of the honourable Constitution of Parliament though those men have abused it and all the just priviledges thereof as much as our own lives and fortunes And we desire all his Majesties loyall Subjects within his Dominions readily and cheerfully to concurre with us and assist us in this so good and pions a work if truth in Religion may again flourish the King may be honoured and obeyed every man restored to just rights the oppressed may be eased the distressed releived and a firme and lasting Peace settled within these three Kingdomes to the great joy and contentment of all the people thereof FINIS