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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	act_n	parliament_n	peace_n	2,561	5	6.0915	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94414	To His Excellency, the Lord General Cromwel: And all the honest officers and souldiers in the Army, for the Common-wealth of England. The humble remonstrance of many thousands in and about the City of London, on the behalf of all the free-commoners of England.	Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.; Pendred, William.	1653 (1653)	Wing T1354; Thomason E692_4; ESTC R203950	6,689	8

To His EXCELLENCY The LORD GENERAL CROMWEL And all the honest Officers and Souldiers in the Army for the Common-vv*ealth of ENGLAND The Humble Remonstrance of many Thousands in and about the City of London on the behalf of all the Free-Commoners of England SHEWETH THat the 22 of March 1648 the Parliament declared That they were trusted by the people for the Common good and to procure the well-being of those whom hey serve and to remove Oppression and Arbitrary power and all oppositions to the peace and freedome of this Nation and that they intend the common Interest of those whom they serve more then their own particulars And they then promised the due reformation of the Law for the taking away of corruption and abuses delays vexations and unnecessary travel and expences and whatsoever should be found really burthensome to the people that evil might be punished and the good rewarded and the people be eased in their burthens and Taxes and the debts of the Common wealth be justly satisfied But alas with grieved hearts we have long expected some fruit of their promises and that multitude of days should utter knowledge Yet all in vain insomuch that we can no longer forbear but shew our grievances for they are many and intolerable My Lord there was a time when your Excellency and our unparalel'd Army was in a low condition and in your straights you affirmed that you called upon God and he heard you and delivered you in your distress sure God was pleased with you in that for he gave your enemies into your hands and setled the soles of your feet in peace gave you large possessions houses that you built not was all this that you onely might live in peace ease and rest and say you have married Wives have Farms Parks Mannors and Kingly houses to see and forget the vows you then made surely no. Are the people free is perfect liberty wrought for them or are your vows quite forgotten Is not the safety of the people the supreme Law Nay are not you the peoples Army and have they not paid you Are your promises yet performed Why are you so remiss in the work of the Lord why do the people yet complain Is not justice as necessary now as when the Parliament began Our eyes have been upon you but our hope is in God and though we be yet clouded and in the dark yet deliverance will come and we shall not be deceived And though the sons of Zerviah have seemed too strong for you yet if your Excellency now appear all the honest members which have not bowed their knees to Baal will to a man second you and make good every sillable of that Declaration and revive the self denying Ordinance and scorn to sit with a company of mercenary Lawyers who poyson the counsels of the Parliament and turn justice and judgment to gall and wormwood meerly to inrich themselves by the ruine of the people Then your Excellency and those honest Members may forthwith pass an Act to authorize the Justices of peace to keep a Court in their several Counties twice a week in the most convenient place in each County to hear and determine all matters of debt titles of lands and other civill differences the same day they be brought before them and put the people to no more charge but their attendance according to the practise of the Court of Requests London sitting in Guild-Hall by vertue of an Act of Parliament made in the third year of King Iames and the 25 Chapter Then your Excellency and those honest Members may forthwith pass the annexed Act to authorize Commissioners of known fidelity for the speedy examination and redress of all the peoples grievances though the several Committees appointed by Parliament have done little or nothing therein And then we shall see an Act to settle an Annual equal Representative and Indentures drawn between the Representors and the Representative Counties that we may no longer trust in man but have it known to the world that the people are the Legislative power and that all that are entrusted by them must act for them and be accomptable to them Surely then may there be found men of such pure principles that will not forget the self-denying Ordinance nor be seduced by the Clergy to act in Spirituals when their Commission is for Temporals Then shall those faithfull persons who hazarded all for the Parliament and many of them lent more then their whole Estates and now live in prison nay starve for want of it not to be put to uncover Cathedrals and ransack the Monuments of the dead but be honestly paid with thanks and requitals Then should not the Publick Faith be out-pawned and so little care taken to redeem it whilest Millions of Treasure hath been conveyed beyond the seas Then should there be a new little Book of onely usefull Statutes portable that those that should keep them may know them and not a Voluminous Idol the studie of Lawyers their whole life time to teach the people at great cost and with the hazard of their lives Then shall justice be done at the charge of the State as of old the poor fear no bribes and the peoples whole inheritance not spent every hundred year or less in tedious and useless suits in Law without accompt or punishment Then should not poor Souldiers Debenters be sould for a Twentieth part and the benefit of the reft redound to their enemies Nor the honest Souldier pay twice for his quarter whilest your bloudy enemies are forgiven plunder and outrages Was not this the price of their bloud and wo be to him that erecteth a City by bloud c. Nor the honest Souldier that would not do all things laid aside without place or pay and starve for want thereof whilest unworthy persons are imployed both by sea and land in very great trust to the losing the Honor of the Nation gotten by the bloud and treasure of those who are now laid aside Nor should the honest sufferer for the Parliament be left without all provision as if they had no bodies promise for it Nor should there be a five pound Act a meer deceit as it is now used while men of Estates lie in the upper Bench and other prisons and cheat the people and their Lands unsold Nor the poor distressed Protestants of Ireland that lost their Estates and fled hither for their lives starve here and no account rendred of the moneys that was collected for them both in England and elsewhere and many of their bloudy Enemies suffered to be released out of prison Then should the head of no Injustice stand upon any shoulders since for that the late King lost his Then should perjuries forgeries and briberies which are grown to a great head amongst us be punished though the Committee do little or nothing therein Nor should Death be inflicted for a trifle of five shillings a thing called Felony whilest vast sums are taken from the