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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	head_n	member_n	5,319	5	8.1605	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84765	A letter from His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and a Councel of VVar at Vxbridge, June 29. 1647. To be communicated to both Houses of Parliament, and the Lord Major, Aldermen and Common-Councel of the City of London, of the armies drawing farther back from the City of London, and the head-quarters that night at Wickam; in answer to the votes of both Houses. With a perfect copy of the votes; and the names of the Councel of War. By the appointment of His Excellency Sir Tho: Fairfax, and the Councel of War. Uxbridge, June 29. 1647. Signed John Rushworth.	England and Wales. Army. Council.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1647 (1647)	Wing F173; Thomason E396_4; ESTC R201641	6,048	13

Therefore now fellow Commoners who are borne to as large priviledges and immunities as any people on the earth which you may all challenge as your birth-right lest you should be induced through the subtilty of some litigious Lawyers or through the policy and specious pretences of any man whatsoever to judge our action of guarding his Majesty from Holmby to be illegall and contrary to the trust reposed in us assure your selves that action of ours was not a rash precipitant enterprise as some say but challenges the law of Nature Nations this Kingdeme and our Commissioners derived from the Parliament for its foundation The law of Nature vindicates us for as in a naturall body which is composed of sundry members may lawfully seek its owne preservation as from inward distempers or outward dangers that threaten its ruine so likewise may a politicall body do if the head be in danger the foot ought to run and the hand to act for its preservation and in this endeavour every member particularly as well as joyntly is obliged so that if one hand be cut off one foot lame one eye forth the other hand foot and eye are not hereby disingaged but the more firmely bound to put forth their utmost powers for the bodyes fence 2. The Law of Nations warrants us every Nation inviolably maintaining this that every member in the Nation ought to preserve the Nation as much as in him lyes It is a universall principle non nobis solum nati sumus c. We are not borne for our selves alone but the Country in which we live chalenges an interest in us this principle made many rejoyce in dying esteeming it dulce decorum pro patria mori 3. The Law of this Kingdome by which we may expect to stand or fall secures us in this Kingdome wee have this Maxime that salus populi is suprema lex The safety of the people is the supremest law this was the hinge wee moved upon the Kingdomes safety was endangered and without a speedy application of a timely preservative was likely to be consumed the best preservative wee could see was the security of his Majesties person which our act hath effected Whose enemies are so dull and whose understanding is so stupified and sottishly blind but may remember and know what a sad disaster hath befallen the Kingdome in the expence of so much blood and treasure by the surprising of his Majesties Person in the late warres who can but know had they not had his persons their designes had proved abortive We will know there was a designe to seize on his Majestie to raise a new Army and unnaturally to involve this Kingdome in its owne blood and so to render our latter end miserably worse then our beginning but this we thought our selves bound to prevent if possible which we still judge and doubt not to prove it and is yet lawfull for us to doe As the King is by the law of this Kingdome bound to governe and secure us according to the Law so are we engaged to secure his Person against the violaters of the Law which we have through the blessing of God accomplished Our end was not his enthrallment bondag and ruine as by our actions may appeare but his safety an the Kingdomes preservation which otherwise we justly fea had both been endangered suppose the King through ignorance of traitors intention to destroy His Person or His Kingdome should expose himself to the mercy of him that sought his life do you imagine it would be treasonable for any one to remove his Majesty though without his consent frōns the place the traytor sought his life in so to preserve him but the case is yet more fair for us His judgement being sati●fied his will was likewise concurring to his remove we hope this our action will be recented in good part by all the Nation for whose good it was effected Had the King been surprised another army been under his name raised the Nation once more wallowed in its own blood then surely but too late would the people have cryed out oh that some had been stirred up to have stood in this breach 4 The Cōmission from the Parl. whom some say though with more boldnesse then judgement more malice then wisdome and more envy then prudence or honesty we have rebelled against acted contrary to in this action acquits us for by our Cōmission we are bound to seek the preservation of the Kings person whether we have not so done let all the kingdome judge what hurt to his person have we done what hurt to the Kingdome have we done we are not conscious to our selves that we have in this done amisse who hath cause to complain surely none can nor will except those who had thought to have made all men dance after their pipes kisse their hands and resigne up their birthrights liberties and lives to their arbitrary and tyrannicall lawlesse boundles wills these Haman-like are mad to think a poore Mordecay will not standcap in hand bow his knee and bend unto them Now therefore fellow Commoners I dare assure you if you listen to those men that in pulpit and presse sound forth continuall alarmes against us you will involve your selves and us in a bloody abhorred by us ingagement Therefore my advice to you all whom I love and honour for whose peace and native immunities Priviledge I think no task too hard to undertake no labour too great to undergo no danger so fearful as not to venter my self is that you would speedily unanimously addresse your selves to the Parliament whom you have chosen whose servants in truth they are or ought to be that they would no longer protect unjust men through lawlesse pretence of infringing the liberties of Parliament but that they would give free liberty and declare it to all the Kingdom that all and every man shall and may have free liberty to accuse any member of that house and that no man shall sit there against whom the Kingdome shall have ought justly as being an unreasonable thing to think that the oppressors of the subject are fit Reformers of the Kingdome and that the Parliament would speedly without delay hasten this Kingdomes yeare of Jubile that every man may return to his own home sit under his own vine and all our swords may be turned into plow shares that there may no more be the alarm of war sounded in this Kingdome You Oh Country men it lies upon you to remedy that the Parliament are your Stevvards they ought to give a good account of their actions you have set them a work good reason they should tell you what they have done for you have you not parted with much peace much money much blood and are you content to bury all in oblivion never to enquire what is become of all your lost pains and endevours Assure your selves that if you awake not you are undone God hath put an opportunity into your hands will you