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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	army_n	king_n	prince_n	764	5	5.4125	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84007	Englands troublers troubled, or the just resolutions of the plaine-men of England, against the rich and mightie: by whose pride treachery and wilfulnes, they are brought into extream necessity and misery.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3067; Thomason E459_11; ESTC R201939	9,703	17

Law will put men upon further and higer matters then either ye would be willing to heare or we desirous to utter for we desire only such competency of meane● whereby to live quietly that we be not cha●gable but rather helpfull to the Common-wealth and no wise to disturbe you either in your wealth or honours if ye would desist from doing us wrong and suffer us to enjoy what is due unto us by proper right Therefore as ye love your wealth honour and greatnes study and endeavour by all good meanes to put an end to these long lasting troubles and as ye ought referre the Government in every part of this destressed Nation to those who are chosen from all Cities and Counties thereof and thinke not because ye are happily more wealthy then they to trample them under your feet which is such a presumption as will never be indured in England And as it hath beene so may i● ever be the certaine downfall of you and all that attempt so pernirious and distructive an enterprize Nor can we but wonder why the Parliament having so great a number of true friends should suffer themselvs to be thus continually vexed and affronted as they have been and are by your destuctive fire-brand Remonstrances and Petitions wherein from politique hypocrites long time pretending zeal and conscience ye are grown impudent professed malignants and traytors to the Common-wealth as hath manifestly appeared in your Petition of the 8 of August last and your persisting to list horses without authority and against command of Parliament For what else importeth that ye deeme the King in a sad miserable and deplorable condition as in your Petition is expressed Is not his condition too good for him considering so many thousands and ten thousands honest people that have been seduced and destroyed by his obstinat tyrannous disposition and by whom this long and bloudy war hath been contrived continued Could such language proceed from you in his behalf but that ye and he are of one mind and are confederated together with the house of Lords your gracious answerers to destroy the House of Commons the only obstacle of your tyranny If you would not be so esteemed why call you those Scots your brethren that by your owne acknowledgement are come into this Nation in an hostile manner ye know sufficiently the house of Commons have voted all those Traytors that had any hand in bringing them in or shall any wise assist them and if these be still your brethren God blesse us from such Common-Councell Petitioners And why is it that ye beare your selves so respectfully towards him who hath now made himselfe Prince of those Rebells in the revolted Ships as to fawne upon him in these corrupt expressions His Hignesse the Prince of Wales Commanding at Sea a considerablle part of the Navy and other Ships as if ye thought him justly there but that ye desire to honour him before the people and thereby increase his party Were ye otherwise minded ye would have layd all those evils ye there mention upon him whether it be the destruction of Navigation the deserting of Seamen obstruction in the trade of Merchandize clothing manufactures wooll and the like for who is the cause of these and the rest ye mention but he And had ye not been of his faction ye would have stiled him the Grand enemy of England and destroyer of this City and would have tendered your utmost assistance to the Parliament to have brought him to justice and which if ye would ye could as easily yet do as ye could have stopt Gorings passage to Colckester But we see ye will never leave ploting till ye have brought this City into as grrat misery as that Town is now in ye have wealth at will and can it seems outlast these times of destruction and poverty Trade ye thought was over-wrought before Tradesmen and Marchants were so numerous that your wealth came in too slowly and it seems ye hope this will cure your disease and weed out all inferiour traders and then ye think ye and your gallant Sonnes shall soone recover with the Princes favour all that ye disburse underhand or are willingly robb'd off by him So that it is only we of the meaner sort that must be robb'd begger'd and undone in good earnest and so it shall be if we cannot help it but we hope you will find your selves mistaken ti 's not your dissembled care of us in your Petition that will now blind our eyes when wee want work and bread we shall neither run to disturbe our friends at Westminster nor into forraign parts but our innumerable number as ye call us shall find a nearer way to food and rayment till as ye have begun them ye put an end to these distempers Nor is it your Bishop-like out-cries against the unsetlement of the Church or the increase of blasphemy Heresie Schisme and prophanenes that will any longer keepe us from discerning you to be our worst of enemies and those whom thereby yee intend to reproach to be our best of friends for we know ye mean therby to asperce principally the Grand enemy of your Scot●s brethren the Army commonly called by them their King and Prince the Army of Sectaries But when ye have spett all your venome ye must find more honest expedients to prevent the apparent ruine ye indeede intend then so speedy a freeing of his Majesty from the unjust restraint wherein he now remains by a Personall Treaty Your meaning is ye would have Him to your City and put Him in the head of a new Army that so He might restore Himself to His unjust power which ye call His just Rights because thereby only ye expect to be protected in all your oppressions and dominations over us The Parliament is now sufficiently acquainted with your delusions of this nature and how carefull ye will be to preserve their undoubted Priviledges whereof ye and the King would be competent Judges and soone put them out of all question as also of our native Liberties would they but once be so cruell to themselves and us as to grant your Petitions or a Cessation of all acts of hostility untill the Scoss have increased and your Prince grow more absolute Master at Sea or his Father get loose againe then we should soone lye at your mercy and in stead of this Army which ye so eagerly seeke to have disbanded we should in all probability have such a wretched one as was led by Rupert and Maurice to robb and spoyle us at land as now your new Prince Pyrat doth at Sea But we trust God will preserve both Parliament and people from all your malitious stratagems and intended mischeifs and give you to drink deep of the cup of your owne so recries and abominations FJNJS