Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	king_n	law_n	people_n	8,247	5	5.1348	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94422	To His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax: general of all the forces raised by the Parliament, for the Common Wealth of England. The humble representation of the desires of the officers and souldiers in the regiment of horse, for the county of Northumberland.	Wetwang, Joshua.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1648 (1648)	Wing T1360; Thomason E475_13; ESTC R203821	5,371	8

times to the undoing of the comunalty in those parts and utterly dis-inabling them from all good Nurture in Learning or Trades and forcing them from Generation to Generation to be hinds half hinds quarter hinds shepherds and herdsmen be now enquired into and if no better that the ancient right of the old rents for the good of those counties and common-wealth be restored again 8. That all destitute Widdows and poor Orphans which have lost their husbands and parents and all Souldiers that have lost their limbs in the service of the Parliament against the King be comfortably provided for by way of constant stipend and education of the children to Trades 9. That publike work-houses be erected for prevention of beggars vagabonds and idle persons 10. That till the time of more easie provision of payment for the Souldiery that no monies for the Army be paid to the Parliament their Committees or Deputies but to such Treasurers of the Army as your Excellency shall appoint and to be collected by the Souldiery 11. That a trade of Fishing upon the English coasts be setled by the State for the good of the common-wealth 12. That the câ—pital delinquents and incendiaries of the people be brought to speedy justice and in the first place that the King insteed of a Treaty be brought to a fair tryal to make answer for all the innocent bloud that hath bin spilt in the land and for other things whereof he stands charged by the Parliaments own Declaration which sheweth the reasons of making no farther Address unto him 13. That the charge of the Army against the eleven impeached members be made good and all the members that sare in the Iuncto when the Parliament fled to the Army for refuge be expelled the House 14. That encouragement and protection be given to such as shall prosecute any lawful charge or impeachment of treason or other crime against any member in Parliament and that the members in Parliament without respect of persons be disrobed of their protection and left open and lyable to the Law 15. That Inquisition be made after the bloud of colonel Rainsborough 16. That all Iudges and other ministers of the State be severely interdicted from receiving any inditement or charge against any person for any thing done in relation to the first or second war against the King and that all such so imprisoned be discharged with reparations out of their prosecuters estates and in case of in ability the said prosecuters to be answerably imprisoned 17. That a period be set to this Parliament 18. That an equal proportion throughout the several counties for the Representatives in Parliament be assigned 19. That a constant succession of Parliaments be setled to be called and chosen of course by the people at a fixed day every yeer or two yeers as shall be judged most safe and needful and the same to end of course 20. That our Parliaments for the future be secured and cleered from the Negative Voice of any single person or persons whatsoever 21. That no man henceforth presume to fit in this or any other Parliament by patent or prerogative or that is not elected by the free choise of the people 22. That all Statutes Laws and Acts of Parliament be made and ruâ— onely in the Name of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament 23. That no persons whatsoever that are Law-makers be Law-executioners but that a cleer distinction be preserved and kept inviolable betwixt these two principles and pillars of the Common-wealth for ever that they be not confounded together in the same persons for fear of mine to the freedom of the people 24. That all Officers of the Common wealth be made to enjoy their places but at a certain limited time at the expiration whereof themselves to give an accompt of their Stewardship and continue no longer in their places except by a new election 25. That no Parliament Magistrate or other person whatsoever have power to make any compulsive Law or execute any Mulct or punishment touching matters of Conscience and Religion but that all civil people subject to the Laws of the common wealth though of several opinions and practices not being destructive to the State be protected and saved from all violence and injury in good Name person and estate 26. That all Warrants and Commitments by vertue of any pretended Priviledge or Prerogative of during pleasure not shewing the particular fact or crime be with the greatest severity intirdicted and declared void for ever with provision for future securitie from such Arbitrary violence upon the people That all such ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ are so imprisoned be with Reparations released and that Lient Col. Iohn Lilburn and many others that have long suffered in that nature by the House of Lords may have ample and full Reparations out of their Lordships Estates 27. That the cruelties and extortions of Goalers be severely provided against and that for future no Fees be exacted from prisoners but that fitting accomodation both for lodging and dyet for them and a sufficient competency of livelyhood for Goalers at the publick cost be provided 28. That no man be kept in prison above a month but in that space to be brought to a tryal by a lawful Iury of his equals or else to be discharged of course 29. That no man be impressed to serve in the Wars 30. That our Laws be few and plain free from all ambiguous meanings and all in the English Tongue and to be digested and printed in a Vollume and one to be provided to be kept in every Church throughout the land and to be read over at several seasons in open Congregation 31. That all persons stand alike liable to the Laws of the Land in all cases both criminal and civil and that all protections by any pretended priviledge or prerogative whatsoever be declared Void 32. That no more trudging up to Westminster from all parts of the Land for the tryal of suits of Law be had but that as of old all suits both criminal and civil be ended in the several Hundreds 33. That no person whatsoever that hath Lorn Arms for or assisted the King in his Rebellion against the Parliament and people or that otherwise is found an enemy to this foundation of Iustice and Freedom be neither chosen nor have Voice in the choice of any Parliament Members or other Officers or Ministers of State whatsoever 34. That a solemne Contract upon there and the like Principles of Common Right and Freedom be drawn betwixt the People and their Representors to be unalterable for ever 35. That the respective Regiments of the Army in order to their solemne Engagement made at New market Heath do with all possible expedition chuse two or more Deputies or Trustees persons of known approved fidelitie for the freedom of the Common wealth and each County also to do the like joyntly to sit consult and act in the behalf of themselves the people and Army and that the removal of our oppressions and obtainment of our Freedom according to the premises abovesaid be the only work of their Agitation 36. That the said Deputies or Trustees be limitted in their Session to the space of two months at the expiration whereof their Session to terminate except continued by a new Election and twelve daies before the said Term be expired a new choice successively and of course to be made till the accomplishment of the Work and that the former Deputies be made accountable to the succeeding 37. That this Councel be a free Councel no Member thereof to be awed or discountenanced in his Vote by threats and frowns from any superior Officer and that no person whatsoever therein have a Negative Voice 38. That till the accomplishment of this Work in behalf of the Army and People that no disbanding of any part of the Souldiery be except of persons ill affected and dissentors from this Expedition For these things we declare and with our Swords in our hands as we are Souldiers we challenge them as the price and purchase of our Blood to live and dy for them against all opposers whatsoever and as we are English men we do claim them as our own Inheritance and Birth-right And humbly beg of your Excellency That you will be pleased to give us and the Souldiery encouragement therein and so to appear before us for the happy accomplishment of these things that both we and all the people and the Generations that are yet unborn may have just cause to blesse God for your righteous conduct Signed in behalf of the Regiment Joshua Wetwang Edw. Hawnby Edward Leake John Moores John Grice Francis Bartholmew Edmund Badger William Farrow John Pain Tho. Baxter John Baynes John Griffin Richard Leake John Harison

To His EXCELLENCY Thomas Lord Fairfax GENERAL of all the Forces raised by the Parliament for the Common Wealth of England The Humble Representation of the Desires of the Officers and Souldiers in the Regiment of Horse for the County of Northumberland Printed in the Year 1648. To his Excellency THOMAS LORD FAIRFAX General of all the Forces raised by the Parliament for the Common-wealth of England The humble Representation of the Desires of the Officers and Souldiers in the Regiment of Horse for the County of Northumberland Sheweth THat the people of this Nation both by Nature and as they are Englishmen are a Free-born Generation but by conquest and captivity under William the sixt Duke of Nomandies Bastard they were made slaves the property of their Lands removed from the Brittish Natives to the Norman Invaders the lands which were vouchsafed to their occupation translated from their own Free-Simples into strange Tennours by Knight Homage Villain and other services to the conqueror and his Norman Earls Lords and Knights which of his Commanders he made in every County their free customs abrogated their Laws subverred and shut up from the English understandings into the French Tongue and all Writs Processes and Proceedings in Law entred and issued forth in Latin and the poor Commons that were used to have all their suits ended in their several Hundreds once or twice a moneth were forced then to trudge up to London from all parts of the Land to the new made Norman courts and none suffered in any Office either in Church or Common-wealth but those Forraign Invaders And to infatuate and bewitch the people with an adoration and sacred Reverence of this Bastards Person and his Succession his Clergy the better to settle his crown then preacht him up to be Gods Vicegerent the Lords Anointed ascribing a certain Deity to his person that in process of time the people through ignorance fell down and worshipped the Bastard and his Successors making the place of his usual presence as holy ground to be reverenced even in his absence also preaching up the power the Bastard had thus got over the land to be the power of God and he that did resist to resist to his own damnation And then utterly to prevent the English of all recovery and relief by their Parliaments in future he created Lords by his Patent and Prerogative to sit by succession in Parliament as Representers of his conquest and tyrannie over us and not by election of the people as Representers and Patrons of the Common-wealth And to add unto this to make his usurpation firm and inviolable he subdued the Law-giving power of the free people of England in their Parliaments to the Negative voice of Himself and Posterity and nothing to be had or held neither Law Land or Liberty but by Grace by Royal Grant or the like as if our selves were naturally their born slaves and nothing our own of Right And under the yoke of this Norman captivity and villanage in every of the Premisses with the most miserable effects and fruits thereof we have bin held by that succession even to this Day And this King to uphold the constitution and settlement of those principles and forms of Tyrannie and in them hâ—s Dominion over us brought a cruel and bloudy war upon the Nation against whom with your Excellency under the Authority of Parliament we have freely engaged to the end we might rescue the Legislative powers of our English Parliaments our free customs and Native Rights from the bondage of that captivity and so free our selves and all the people from the common oppressions of the Land by a settlement of a just and equal Government of Right and Freedom And now it hath pleased God to bless our Engagement with an happy conquest over the capâ—tal enemy of the people and to subdue him and his party under the power of the Parliament we have eâ—pected that the Parliament being fully enabled should set this Common-wealth at Freedom remove our Oppressions and bring the capital Offenders and Destroyers of the People to justice without respect of Persons But insteed of this discharge of their Trust we find that they encrease and multiply our oppressions countenance our enemies reject and slight the just Directions and Petitions of the People for common Right and Freedom Discourage and somtime Imprison and otherwise persecute the Promoters and Presenters and burn their Petitions by the hand of the common Hangman an Act so abhorred as never to be forgotten and betake themselves to a complyance and Treaty with our conquered enemy courting his pleasure and allowing him a Negative Voyce in the pasting of all Acts of Parliament whereby our Indempnity our Laws and Liberties are all subjected to his concession his Will advanced above all Law above the Parliament and People and himself put out of the reach of Iustice and made accomptâ—ble to none Unto which yoke of Norman captivity after all the bloud that hath bin spilt against it we are loth to be subjected again as we see both we and all the People must needs be except the Army interpose betwixt the people and their destroyers and make good their Engagement at New-Market-Heath with all their Remonstrances Declarations and Promises to the people May it therefore please your Excellency to take these premisses into your timous and serious thoughts and before it be too late to improve that opportunity of strength and power which God hath now put into your hands for the relief and release of this oppressed long captivated Nation that both we and all the people may thereby be made safe and free And in Order thereunto we humbly crave leave to propose these our subsequent desâ—res in the behalf of our selves and the Common-wealth 1. That all Monopolies relating either to Sea or Land yet remaining be forthwith abolished 2. That the exaction of Tythes and all manner of Impropriations be removed and that the publike Ministry be otherwise provided for 3. That Excise upon all In-land commodities be taken off and that no Taxes or Cesments be levied upon the People but by the old way of Subsidies 4. That a sufficient competency out of the Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands Kings Revenues and Delinquents Estates be ordered and set apart for the discharge of the whole Arrears of the Souldiery and constant payment of the Army whereby the people may be wholy eased of all free quarter and taxes for the Army and the Souldiery also satisfied 5. That all Parliament-members Committees Excise-men Sequestrators c. be called to an impartial accompt for the monies of the State 6. That all inclosed Commons and other ancient donations and rights belonging to the poor in the several Counties and Parishes of the Land be restored to their ancient and proper use for the good of the comunalty 7. That the ancient Tenures of Lands in the county of Northumberland Cumberland c. which have bin destroyed by several Earls and Lords of late

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