Selected quad for the lemma: king_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	lord_n	say_a	sovereign_a	23,553	5	9.9850	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64341	Ten matters worthy of note I. The declaration or resolution of the officers in the county of Essex, to the Earle of VVarwick, L. Lievtenant of that county. II. The Lord Willoughby of Parham his letter to an honorable Member of the Parliament. III. His Maiesties letter to the Lord VVilloughby of Parham. IIII. The Lord VVilloughby of Parham his letter, in answer to His Maiestie. V. With the message of the Lords to the House of Commons upon the said letrers [sic]. VI. Also the Lord of Warwicks, letter to his brother the Earle of Holland; VII. With the approbation of both Houses concerning the same. Die Iovis, 9. Iunii, 1642. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament, that these severall letters and resolutions shall be forthwith printed and pulished [sic]. Ioh. Brown, Cler. Parliament. VIII. And also a proclamation by the King, proclaimed in London the ninth of Iune, 1642. concerning Sir Iohn Hotham, and the militia. IX. And a declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament concerning the said proclamation. X With the	Willoughby of Parham, Francis Willoughby, Baron, 1613?-1666. aut; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649. aut	1642 (1642)	Wing T672A; ESTC R220816	9,075	8

of our County of Lincoln under pretence of an ordinance of Parliament whereto We have not given Our consent Which is not only contrary to Law but to Our Command and Pleasure signified by Our Proclamation sent to the high Sheriff of that Our County Wherefore That you may not hereafter plead Ignorance of such our prohibition We do by these Our Letters Command and charge you upon your Allegiance to desist and forbear to Raise Muster Train Exercise or Assemble together any part of the Trained Bands of that Our County either by your selfe or by any others imployed under you or by Warrant from you And because you may for what you have already done concerning the Militia of that Our County plead that you had not so particular a Command We shall passe by what you have already done therein So as presently upon your receipt hereof you shall desist and give over medling any further with any thing belonging to the Militia of that Our County But if you shall not presently desist and forbear medling therewith We are resolved to call you to a strict Accompt for your Disobedience therein after so many particular and legall Commands given you upon your Allegiance to the contrary and shall esteem and proceed against you as a disturber of the peace of Our Kingdom Given at our Court at York the fourth of Iune 1642. SIR AS there can be nothing of greater unhappinesse to me then to receive a Command from your Majestie whereunto my endeavours cannot give so ready an obedience as my affections so I must confesse the difficulty at this time not a little how to expresse that duty which I owe to your Majesties late Commands and not falsifie that Trust reposed in me by your high Court of Parliament through whose particular directions I am now come into this Countey to settle the Militia according to the Ordinance of Parliament which by the Votes of my Lord Littleton and others in the House of Peeres better versed in the Laws then my self passed as a Legall thing and hath since been confirmed if I mistake not by his example and your Majesties Chief Justice Sir Iohn Banks both in accepting their Ordinance and nominating their Deputy Lieutenants how much farther they proceeded I know not But Sir if the opinions of those great Lawyers drew me into an act unsuitable to your Majesties liking I hope the want of years will excuse my want of judgement And since the Command of the Parliament I am now so far ingaged in their service as the sending out Warrants to summon the County to meet me this day at Lincoln and afterwards in other places I do most humbly beseech your Majesty not to impose that Command on me which must needs render me false to those that relie on me so make me more unhappier then any other misery can fall upon me These things Sir I once more humbly beseech your Majestie may be taken into your gracious consideration that you would never be pleased to harbour any misconceit of me or of this action since nothing hath yet passed by my Commands here or ever shall but what shall tend to the honour and safety of your Kingdom and to the content I hope of all your Majesties Subjects in these parts amongst which I remain Your Majesties Most humble and dutifull Subiect and Servant F. WILLOVGHBY The Approbation of both Houses THe Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled being advertised by the Lord Leivtenant and Deputy Leiutenants of the County of ESSEX of their ready full and forward meeting of the Trayn-Bands of that County and of a cheerefull accesse of a very considerable number of Volunteers at their first appearing Have thought fitt to expresse unto them the good sence they hould of their proceedings so much conducing to the Generall safty of this Kingdome And having likewise received from them a Declaration full of affections and good inclinations to maintaine our Religion Lawes Liberties and priveledges of Parliament Which they observe to be invaded by pernicious Councell as in deed they have beene of late in a more dangerous and high manner then any age can parrallell And having very prudently observed in a right understanding That the Kingdome and the Kings authority and Person can be no wayes maintained but by the upholding the power and privisedges of Parliament as by the late Protestation they acknowledge themselves bound unto against all contrary Councells Power and force of Armes whatsoever This iust and faithfull resolution of theirs to the publique good The Lords and Commone do not only approve but commend assuring them that as their endeavors have been for the peace and happinesse of the King and Kingdome So they will persist in discharge of the great and publique trust which lies upon them to goe through all difficulties which may oppose the publique peace and welfare of this Kingdome And will upon all occasions bee ready to expresse particularly to those persons from whom they have receaved such assurance of their affections and fidelities ❧ By the King A Proclamation proclaimed in London the ninth of Iune 1642. concerning Sir Iohn Hotham and the Maiitia WHereas by the Statute made in the seventh yeere of King Edward the first The Prelates Earles Barons and Commonalty of the Realme affirmed in Parliament That to the King it belongeth and his part it is by his Royall Segniority straitly to defend wearing of Armour and all other Force against the Peace and all times when it shall please Him and to punish them which shall doe contrary according to the Lawes and usages of the Realme and hereunto all Subjects are bound to aide the King as their Soveraigne Lord at all seasons when neede shall be And whereas We understand That expresly contrary to the said Statute and other good Lawes of this our Kingdome under colour and pretence of an Ordinance of Parliament without Our consent or any Commission or warrant from Us. The Trained Bands and the Militia of this Kingdome have beene lately and are intended to be put in Armes drawne into Companies in a War-like manner whereby the Peace and Quiet of Our Subjects is or may be disturbed Wee being desirous by all gratious and faire admonitions to prevent That some malignant Persons in this Our Kingdome doe not by degrees seduce Our good subjects from their due obedience to Us and the Lawes of this our Kingdome subtilly indeavoring by a generall Combustion or Confusion to hide their mischievous designes and intentions against the Peace of this our Kingdome and under a spetious pretence of putting Our Trained Bands into a Posture draw engage Our good Subjects in a Warlike Opposition against Us as Our Towne of Hull is already by the Treason of Sir Sir Iohn Hotham who at first pretended to put a Garison into the same onely for Our security and service We doe therefore by this Our Proclamation expresly charge and Command all Our Sheriffes and all Colonels Lievtenant-Colonels

TEN MATTERS WORTHY OF NOTE I. The Declaration or Resolution of the Officers in the County of Essex to the Earle of Warwick L. Lievtenant of that County II. The Lord Willoughby of Parham his Letter to an Honorable Member of the PARLIAMENT III. His Maiesties Letter to the Lord VVilloughby of Parham IIII. The Lord VVilloughby of Parham his Letter in answer to His Maiestie V. With the Message of the Lords to the House of Commons upon the said Letters VI. Also the Lord of Warwicks Letter to his Brother the Earle of Holland VII With the Approbation of both Houses concerning the same Die Iovis 9. Iunii 1642. Ordered by the Lords in Parliament That these severall Letters and Resolutions shall be forthwith Printed and Pulished Ioh. Brown Gler Parliament VIII And also a Proclamation by the King proclaimed in London the Ninth of Iune 1642. concerning Sir Iohn Hotham and the Militia IX And a Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament concerning the said Proclamation X. With the Statute of the 7. Edward 1. LONDON Printed by F. L. for Tho Bankes 1642. The Declaration or Resolution of the Officers in the County of Essex to the Earle of Warwick Lord Lieutenant of that County VVE the Captaines and Lieutenants with the full consent of the trained bands and Volunteers of the said County now assembled having before the accesse or this present Parliament seene our Religion our Lawes our liberties and estates brought to the brinke of ruine anr subversion by the results of most desperate and wicked Counsels could not but with exceeding joy behold the assembling and continuance of so great and faithfull a Councell he representative body of this Kingdome and with most certaine confidence commilt thereto all that was deere unto us And having also seene the late hellish designes and actings of a Malignant partie of this kingdome and the bloody rebellion in Ireland all working to retard the progresse or subvert the being of this worthy Parliament and therein to bereave us of all our hopes of Reformation or future peace or happinesse to this Church or Kingdome Wee cannot but ascribe all glory and praise unto the Lord of Lords and expresse most hearty thankefullnesse unto his blessed Instruments that great assembly for their undanted resolutions unparalleld endeavours and happy proceedings for the common good And herein as not the least meanes of our safety for the most necessary and seasonable Ordinance of theirs touching the ordering of the Melitia whereby we art put under the command and guidance of so Noble a Lord and such worthy Gentlemen whereunto we humbly desire this present day and meeting may bee an evidence and pledge of our free and willing obedience And in having trusted our religion and lawes and all into the hands of that great and most faithfull Councell the Parliament whose care and fidelitie wee have so abundantly found we even bleed to see the heart and actions of our Royall King contrary to his owne Royall expressions declining from the Councels of His Parliament and caried after other Councels whom as the Lawes and constitutions of this land have not knowne nor reposed upon so we for our owne parts neither will nor dare intrust with our Keligion or Lawes And whom we verily beleeve could they prevaile against that highest Court under God our chiefest Bulwarke and defence would soone deprive us both of Religion and Law and notwithstanding all their specious pretences reduce us to a condition no lesse miserable then slavish From the deepe apprehensions of all which we doe freely and heartily promise and tender our persons and estates to assist and defend to the uttermost the high Court of Parliament now assembled the members power and priviledges thereof and therein His Maiesties person and authority and the kingdomes peace according to our late Protestation against all contrary counsels power and force of Armes whatsoever which shall bee reard up or attempted against them And this our humble acknowledgement and resolution which wee doubt not will bee accorded unto by all good subiects wee humbly desire your Honour and Worships to tender on our behalfe unto that most Honorable Assembly of Parliament For whose happy progresse and successe we shall daily pray The Lord Willoughby of parham his Letter to an Honourable Member of the house of Parliament My Lord I Received a Letter from your Lordship in which the House is pleased to do me a very great Honour farre above any desert of mine and little expected by me for my Lord I well know my obedience tyes me to fulfill their Commands and in that I have done but my duty and that which every honest man ought to doe and oweth of right to the Parliament and whosoever hath that principle in him it will dictate to him as much and keep him from other by-waies And for my owne part my heart ever was and shall ever he both forward and ready to obey their Lordships command in all things both with Integrity and industry and Gods curse light upon him and his that carries any other heart about him My Lord it is too mean a way for me to expresse my acknowledgement in paper to the House for this high favour which I have received by your Lordships Letter I hope to make it appear by my actions that their Lorships see I am not an ungratefull servant It is a great incouragement to these parts their Lordships Resolutions in giving their Commands to have the rest of the Militia put in present execution and truly my Lord. it was out of that regard that I did intimate it to my Lord of Essex as holding it a thing much conducing to the publicke good and the only remedy to cure these distractions which the Kingdom is in not out of any regard to my selfe for I know if I suffer in executing their Lordships commands it must be against their wills and when that day comes I will not give a straw for all I have were I but a looker on My Lord as I was this day at Lincoln where I appointed to begin to Muster there came a Messenger from his Majesty with this Letter which I held it my duty to acquaint the House with and likewise my answer and am for Lincolne where as in all other places I shall be ready to serve your Lordship As your most humble servant F. WILLOUGHBY MY Lord ere my Letter was sealed up I could not but give your Lordship an accompt in how good a Posture I found the trained Band of Lincoln which was farre beyond my expectation considering the unhappinesse in the sicknesse being dispersed in the Town which hindred the appearance of some But truly my Lord that was fully supplyed by a Company of Volunteers equall in number and goodnesse of Arms to the Trained Bands Lincoln 6. Iune 1642. CHARLES REX RIght trusty and welbeloved We greet you well Whereas We understand That you have begun to assemble Train and Muster the Trained Bands

to discharge that Duty and Trust whether there is not a power in the two Houses to provide for the safety of the Parliament and peace of the Kingdome which is the end for which the Ordinance concerning the Militia was made and being agreeable to the scope and purpose of the Law cannot in reason be adjudged to be contrary to it For although the Law doe affirme it to be in the King yet it doth not exclude those in whom the Law hath placed a power for that purpose as in the Courts of Justice the Sheriffs and other officers and Ministers of those courts And as their power is derived from the King by his Patents yet cannot it be restrained by his Majesties command by his great Seale or otherwise much lesse can the power of Parliament be concluded by his Majesties command because the Authority thereof is of a higher and more eminent nature then any of those Courts It is acknowledged That the King is the Fountaine of Justice and Protection But the Acts of Justice and Protection are not exercised in His own Person nor depend upon His pleasure but by His Courts and by His Ministers who must do their Duty therein though the King in his owne Person should forbid them And therefore if Judgements should be given by them against the Kings Will and Personall Command yet are they the Kings Judgements The High Court of Parliament is not onely a Court of Judicature enabled by the Lawes to judge and determine the Rights and Liberties of the Kingdome against such Patents and Grants of His Majesty as are prejudiciall thereunto although strengthened both by His Personall Command and by His Proclamation under the great Seale But it is likewise a Councell to provide for the necessities prevent the imminent dangers and preserve the publike peace and safety of the Kingdome and to declare the Kings pleasure in those things as are requisite thereunto and what they doe herein hath the Stamp of Royall Authority although His Majesty seduced by evill Counsell doe in His owne Person oppose or interrupt the same For the Kings Supreame Power and Royall Pleasure is exercised and declared in this High Court of Law and Councell after a more eminent and obligatory manner then it can be by any personall Act or Resolution of His Own Seeing therefore the Lords Commons which are His Majesties great Highest Councell have ordained That for the present and necessary Defence of the Realme the Trained Bands and Militia of this Kingdome should be ordered according to that Ordinance And that the Towne of Hull should be committed to the custody of Sir Iohn Hotham to be preserved from the attempts of Papists and other malignant persons who thereby might put the Kingdome into a combustion which is so farre from being a Force against the Kings peace that it is necessary for the keeping and securing thereof and for that end alone is intended And all his Majesties loving Subjects as well by that Law as by other Lawes are bound to be obedient thereunto and what they do therein is according to that Law to be interpreted to be done in ayd of the King in discharge of that trust which he is tyed to performe And it is so far from being lyable to punishment that if they should refuse to doe it or be perswaded by any Commission or Command of his Majestie to doe the contrary they might justly be punished for the same according to the Lawes and usages of the Realme for the King by his Soveraigntie is not enabled to destroy his people but to protect and defend them And the High Court of Parliament and all other his Majesties Officers and Ministers ought to be subservient to that power and authority which the Law hath placed in his Majestie to that purpose though he himself in his own person should neglect the same Wherefore the Lords and Commons doe declare the said Proclamation to be voyd in Law and of none effect For that by the constitution and Policy of this Kingdome the King by his Proclamation cannot declare the Law contrary to the Judgement and Resolution of any of the inferiour Courts of Justice much lesse against the High Court of Parliament for if it were admitted that the King by his Proclamation may declare a Law thereby his Proclamations will in effect become Lawes which would turne to the subverting of the Law and the Rights and Liberties of the Subjects And the Lords and Commons doe require and command all Constables Petty-Constables and all other his Maiesties Officers and subjects whatsoever to muster Levie Raise March and Exercise or to Summon or Warne any upon Warrant from the Lievtenants Deputy-Lievtenants Captains or other Officers of the Trained badns and all others according to the said Ordinance of both Houses and shall not presume to Muster Levie Raise March Exercise by vertue of any Commission or other Authority whatsoever as they will answer the contrary at their perills and in their so doing they doe further declare That they shall bee protected by the power and Authority of both Houses of Paliament And that whosoever shall oppose question or hinder them in the execution of the said Ordinance shall bee proceeded against as violaters of the Laws and disturbers of the peace of the Kingdome FINIS