Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	authority_n	king_n	power_n	9,670	5	4.9996	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37710	The declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled Concerning his Majesties severall messages about the militia. Jovis, 5. Maij, 1642. Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, that this declaration shall bee forthwith printed and published. John Browne, cleric. Parlament.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Browne, John, ca. 1581-1659.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1377A; ESTC R217870	2,258	7

THE DECLARATION OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS in PARLIAMENT assembled Concerning his MAIESTIES severall Messages about the MILITIA Iovis 5. Maij 1642. Ordered by the LORDS and COMMONS assembled in PARLIAMENT that this Declaration shall bee forthwith printed and published JOHN BROWNE Cleric Parlament LONDON Imprinted for Math. Rhodes in the Yeare 1642. Die Iovis 5. Maii 1641. THE Lords and Commons holding it necessary for the peace and safety of this Kingdome to settle the Militia thereof did for that purpose prepare an Ordinance of Parliament and with all humility did present the same to His Majestie for His Royall assent Who notwithstanding the faithfull advice of His Parliament and the severall reasons offered by them of the necessity thereof for the securing of His Majesties Person and the peace and safety of his people did refuse to give his consent and thereupon they were necessitated in discharge of the trust reposed in them as the representative body of the Kingdome to make an Ordinance by Authority of both Houses to settle the Militia warranted therunto by the fundamentall Lawes of the Land his Majesty taking notice thereof did by severall Messages invite them to settle the same by Act of Parliament affirming in His Majesties Message sent in Answer to the Petition of both Houses presented to His Majesty at Yorke March 26. That he alwaies thought it necessary the same should be setled and that he never denyed the thing only denyed the way and for the matter of it took exceptions only to the Preface as a thing not standing with His honour to consent to and that Himselfe was excluded in the execution and for a time unlimited Whereupon the Lords and Commons being desirous to give His Majestie all satisfaction that might be even to the least tittle of forme and circumstance and when His Majesty was pleased to offer them a Bill ready drawne did for no other cause then to manifest their hearty affection to comply with His Majesties desires and obtaine his consent entertaine the same and in the meane time no way declining their Ordinance and to expresse their earnest zeale to correspond with His Majesties desire in all things that might consist with the peace and safety of the Kingdome and the trust reposed in them did passe that Bill and therein omitted the preamble inserted before the Ordinance limitted the time to lesse then two yeeres and confined the authority of the Lievtenants to these three particulars namely Rebellion Insurrection and forraigne Invasion and returned the same to his Majesty for His royall assent But all these expressions of affection and loyalty all those desires and earnest endeavours to comply with His Majesty hath to their great griefe and sorrow produced no better effect then an absolute denyall even of that which His Majesty by His former Messages as we conceive had Promised the advice of evill and wicked Counsels receiving still more credit with Him then that of His great Counsell of Parliament in a matter of so high importance that the safety of His Kingdome and the peace of his people depends upon it But now what must be the exceptions to this Bill not any sure that was to the Ordinance for a care was taken to give satisfaction in all these particulars Then the exception was because that the disposing and execution thereof was referred to both Houses of Parliament and His Majesty excluded and now that by the Bill the Power and execution is assertained and reduced to particulars and the Law of the Realme made the Rule thereof His Majestie will not trust the Persons The power is too great too unlimited to trust them with But what is that power Is it any other but in expresse termes to suppresse Rebellion Insurrection and forraigne invasion And who are those Persons are they not such as were nominated by the great Counsel of the Kingdome and assented to by his Majesty And is it too great a power to trust those persons with the suppression of Rebellion Insurrection and forraigne Invasion surely the most wicked of them that advised his Majesty to this Answer cannot suggest but that it is necessary for the safety of his Majesties Royall Person and the peace of the Kingdome such a power should bee put in some hands And there is no pretence of exception to the persons His Majesty for the space of above fifteene yeares together thought not a power farre exceeding this to be too great to intrust particular persons with to whose will the Lives and Liberties of his people by Martiall Lawes were made subject for such was the power given to Lord Lievtenants and Deputie Lievtenants in every Countie of this Kingdome and that without the consent of his people or authority of Law But now in case of extreame necessity upon the advice of both Houses of Parliament for no longer space then two yeares a lesser power and that for the safety of King and people is thought too great to trust particular persons with though named by both Houses of Parliament and approved of by his Majestie himselfe And surely if there bee a necessity to settle the Militia which his Majesty was pleased to confesse the persons cannot bee intrusted with lesse power then this to have it all effectuall And the Presidents of former Ages when there hapened a necessity to rais such a power never straitned that power to a narrower compasse witnesse the Commissions of Array in severall Kings Raignes and often issued out by the consent and the authority of Parliament The Lords and Commons therefore intrusted with the safety of the Kingdome and peace of the People which they call God to witnesse is their onely aime finding themselves denied these their so necessary and just demands and that they can never be discharged before God or Man if they should suffer the safety of the Kingdome and peace of the people to bee exposed to the malice of the malignant party at home or the fury of enemies from abroad And knowing no other way to encounter the imminent approaching danger but by putting the people into a sit posture of defence doe resolve to put their said Ordinance in present execution and doe require all persons in authority by vertue of the said Ordinance forthwith to put the same in execution and all others to obey it according to the fundamentall lawes of the Kingdome in such cases as they tender the upholding of the true Protestant Religion the safety of his Majesties Person and his Royall Posterity the peace of the Kingdome and the being of this Common-wealth FINIS