Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	guilty_a	lord_n	put_v	1,443	5	9.3023	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96441	No martial law, but advice for the grand inquests of London, and Middlesex, and may serve generally for the whole kingdome written by a London apprentice, on the behalfe of his fellow apprentices, 1648.	Whittington, John.	1648 (1648)	Wing W2045A; ESTC R43949	4,135	9

order these doe not sentence nor destraine they kill their fellow Subjects for while the Ordinance doth direct that such as prophane the Lords day should pay five shillings if above fourteene yeares of age if under their friends twelve pence these shoot and kill without distinction children of nine or ten years of age choose rather to commit murther on the Sabboth then permit children to play at Cat on the Lords day But to finde whether these proceedings by millitary power A breefe and perfect relation of the ans of the Earle of Straff fol. 11. 12. Mr St. Johns Argument be actions of arbitrary and tyrannicall government examine and compare them with the charges against the Lord Strafford where the condemning the Lord Mount Norris by Marshall Law the billiting Souldiers upon Subjects against their will and executing papar Orders by Marshall Law in time of peace is adjudged by this present Parliament a subvertion of our fundamentall Lawes and an introducing of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall government next if ye examine and compare them with the rule and dictate of our setled and knowen Law to which all military proceedings are opposite and distructive and which if ye countenance nay if ye withstand not ye are guilty of their past Facts guilty of breaking the Protestation the Solemn League Covenant with God to maintaine and protect the Kings person his honour and estate the rights priviledges and liberties of the Subject for all these are in the custody of the Law and if the Law be not preserved all these are violated the Law said Mr. Pym puts the difference Mr. Pym speech against the Lord Straf between good and evill just and unjust our honours lives liberties and estates are all in the keeping of the Law without Law all men have a like property to every thing and every man to nothing for us therefore to execute or permit to be executed this Arbitrary this Tyrannicall government of Marshall Law while the Chancery is open the Kings Bench open and others the Courts of justice open we commit treason murder rapine oppression perjury for saith Mr. Pym Arbitrary government comprehends Mr. Pym speech against the Lord Straf all offences Treason by subverting the Lawes suppressing the old and by force introducing a new government nay new Governours Treason inforcing by Millitary Mr. St John Argument of Law against Lord Straff powers the Kings person from Holmby to New Market Treason in detaining by Military power the Kings Person in prison and forcing papers or ought else from his Person much more in assaulting his Person and surely where his Person is thus indangered his Crowne is not safe his Honour nor Estate preserved when by Martiall Law wee condemne and execute any man that may be tryed by Common Law wee mur●her him For although the offence deserves death yet dying by Martiall Law which is illegall wee murther him whom the Law would have hanged All free-quarter is Martiall oppession all plunder all distresse by Souldiers rapine and theft all these against Magna Charta against our Petition of Right against our Protestation against our selemne League and Covenant because against our Rights and Previledges You Gentlemen are the eyes the eares the tongues of the County to search out to heare and to informe the Courts of Iustice of these Treasons these Murders these Rapines these Thefts and Oppressions if yee Gentlemen be silent in these Crimes yee make your selves not onely guilty of the past facts but of the like in the future for the impunity of the first invites the second offence which hath so multiplyed these sins upon our Nation that custome hath almost made them lawfull Let therefore your inquiry be speedy and strict not pitying the poore be he Common Souldier or Apprentise nor sparing the rich be they the great Officers of the Army or Major or the Committee of Militia of the City who deserve chiefely to be indited and executed for the late tumult yours is onely the cognizance and presentment of crimes that done yee saved your owne soules the resolution and judgement of Law is the duty of the bench which if the Iudges neglect sin is at their doore Mercy is the Kings and lodge onely in his bosome and if any Rebel sons follow Ahitophels advice and defile their Fathers Concubine may they want what they pretend to give mercy and in their flight meete with Absalons Oake and Joabs gentle dealing while yee as faithfull servants to your David returne to your owne houses and sit under your owne Vines and your owne Fig-trees Per me John Whittington neere Dowgate FINIS