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judgement_n	according_a	judge_n	law_n	4,882	5	5.2868	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80281	A complaint to the House of Commons, and resolution taken up by the free Protestant subjects of the cities of London and Westminster, and the counties adjacent.		1643 (1643)	Wing C5623; Thomason E245_5; ESTC R18737	11,598	15

his most faithfull Councell and Highest Court And Who are they that set up other rules for themselves to walk by then such as are according to Law but they that will make other Judges of the Law then the Law hath appointed and so dispence with their obedience to that which the Law calleth authority and to their determinations and resolutions to whom the judgement doth appertain by Law for when private persons shall make the Law to be their rule according to their own understandings contrary to the judgement of those that are the competent Judges thereof they set up to themselves other ●●les then the law doth acknowledge Surely if the Priests Jesuits and the power of papists were removed from amongst us one great part of the work were done towards an happy peace a religious peace a godly peace Oh down with them most noble Senatours doe not let them domineere as they doe you shall have our hands our purses our hearts our lives to assist you they are too bold nay even those in prison have their Confessions Absolutions weare their Beads and their Crucifixes Sing and roare and dance day and night at the Tavern with their company and doe very evill offices in the hinderance of peace nay there are some of their Priests will openly affront protestant prisoners and quarrell with them for their religion How backward are the Monopolists to this day to doe any good for the Kingdome And how do the Prelates labour to keep back all the means of an happy peace Oh how hath your Clemency appeared Right Honourable towards these incendiaries of mischief who would ruin both you and us the City and the whole Kingdome forgetting that old counsell which one of them D. Hall by name gave to Canterbury before they came to be Prelates If you love Peace without truth saith he keep peace to your self Let us have truth if it may be Peace too How many still are there who are as mad after Innovation as ever they were when the Popes Nuntio put his Arch grace in hopes either of a Cardinalls Har or a Patriarkes place And as for those desperate fortunes who long to fish in troubled waters because they have no better hopes to rest upon We doubt not but your Honours will find out a way to pievent the bloudy Tragedie of their desires Do damned Cavaliers sweare and d●ma● themselves with all the fearfull oaths that can be imagined nay there was one of them not long since offer●d to give 3 l. to any one that could invert a new oath and shall such as these be suffered to revile a Parliament We have great complaint about the City some cry out of these wars would we had peace again as we had before not considering the miserable condition of bleeding Ireland intended first to have been performed against us nay to come to our own doors as it were in our own Land what is the condition of all the Country places where the Cavaliers come the Battell at Worster Keynton Brainford if these murmurers had seen the blood that was shed at the sight at Edge-hill c. What would they then have said they would it seems have peace with the enemies of God and Religion the enemies of the PARLIAMENT of the City of the Gospell alas what good will such peace do us Oh Noble Senators have not we cause to complaine against these men as against madmen that do so desperately seek to move you to betray your honours us and them yea Religion Lives Estates wives lands goods and all that we have into the hands of those that continue wars against us in hopes to plunder our houses ravish our wives spoile our goods and bring the City to ruine then say they shall the Borough of Southwark be our stables Others complain for want of trading but how would such complaine if their living was out of the Coales at Newcastle or if they had a shipp there to fraught therewith hither to be under tax of 30.40 or 50. pounds as it is imposed on them there before they can passe what a case are they like to be in about twelve thousand people that live only upon Coales there how are they like to be deprived of their trade alas the want of trade in the City is nothing to that it is in the Country in many places Oh Right Honorable what cause have we to complaine of the poor ignorant people that do not know what freedom they enjoy by being protected by you to enjoy a quiet and peaceable Trade though little Some there are again that cry our of the Sectaries amongst us and the many opinions that are between man and man But they do not consider the armies of Papists that are raised against us and the Standard sent the Earl of Newcastle from the Queen for their army to which army is brought over armes for ten thousand men by Colonell Goring Oh what cause have we to complain against those that would have an agreement with these cruell Papists that were ever bloody and treacherous to Protestants that they might the more freely chide with those that do not meddle with them at home I pray God reconcile all the differences both in Church and State but certainly a Papist army cannot but be expected a dangerous reconcild enemy to all true hearted Protestants and we have a just cause to complaine against them that desire it Others are agreed to pay any thing as they are taxed for the assisting of the Parliament in their defence of Religion and the Laws of the Land one complaines he is taxt 20. s. another 40. s. c. Look downe to the rigorous manner whereby the Earl of Newcastle doth tax men in Yorkshire 1000. l. a man 2000. l. and 3000. pounds a man Mr. Savill of Medbor by name 3000 pounds c. You will say you are forced to pay this mony and that the gatherers have power to sell your goods for it if you will not pay it Oh But how cruell did the Earl of Newcastle use Mr. Wentworth sent for him and after he was condemned to be shot to death for not coming to pay the mony he was unreasonably seas'd and was brought to the stake the place of execution and had he not payed what they would have he had bin shot to death How many Religious Ministers have been plundered and all that they have taken from them our Briefs we have so often read in Churches can testifie and yet many foolish drones amongst us would have us to beleeve a covenant of peace with such desperate Cavaliers to betray our own power and give our enemies leave to cut our throats oh noble Senators we must needs complain of these that are unwilling to help you by Loan upon the publike Faith according to their power yea and beyond their ability in such an extremity surely they that deny this it must needs be granted either that they are old enemies to the Parliament and never took the