Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	england_n	king_n	subvert_v	1,928	5	12.7754	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32105	His Maiesties royall declaration and protestation to all his loving subjects in England being a full satisfaction to all the whole world against all aspersions which have lately been cast upon His Majesty, that he is popishly affected, to the great dishonour of His Majesty and the withdrawing his loving subjects from him : together with his gracious resolution for the maintenance of the true Protestant religion the laws and liberties of the subject with the just priviledges of Parliament.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2763; ESTC R26009	4,490	10

HIS MAIESTIES ROYALL DECLARATION AND PROTEST●TION TO all his loving Subjects in England BEING A full satisfaction to all the whole world against all aspersions which have lately been cast upon His Majesty that he is Popishly affected to the great dishonour of his Majesty and the withdrawing His loving Subjects from him TOGETHER With His Gracious Resolution for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion the Laws and Liberties of the Subject with the just Priviledges of Parliament Published by His Majesties speciall Command OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the famous University His Majestyes Royall Declaration and Protestation to all his Loving Subjects in England IT is a wonder that We so just so pious and mercicifull in our words and intentions should not be believed in all our Declarations and Protestations certainly it is impiety to be so full of infidelity towards the words of a King some whereof we have here drawne out of our own severall writings that all the world may see Our faire expressions of our self and the just end of all Our actions and how unjustly both have been interpreted First concerning Our being affected to Popery We protest in the word of a King and call the searcher of all hearts to record that We intend not the alteration of the true professed and established Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Kingdome the know●e libertie of the Subject the right and just Priviledges of Parliament Of the Lawes his Majesty saith thus A new power hath been assumed to interpret and declare Lawes without Us by extemporary votes tending to a pure arbitrary power Ordinances and Orders were pressed upon the people as Lawes and their obedience required to them His Majesty saith further We doe beleeve and accordingly professe to all the world that the malignity of this designe as dangerous to the Lawes of this Kingdome the power of the same and the Liberties of all Our good Subjects as to Our self and Our just Prerogative hath proceeded from the subtill informations and evill Counsells of ambitious turbulent Spirits disaffected to Gods true Religion and the unity of the Professours thereof Our Honour and safety and the publick peace and prosperity of our people His Majesty addeth further But how fautly soever others are we shall with Gods assistance endeavour to discharge Our duty in the uprightnesse of heart The King goes on further in declaring his own candor and uprightnesse together with affronts offered unto Him saying thus they endeavour to turn this government into a new Eutopia of Religion and therefore We are resolved to change none of Our trusty Officers till they appear to have behaved themselves otherwise then they ought to have done and bee evicted by legall proceedings to have done so We were ever willing that Our Parliament should debate resolve and transact such matters as are now proper for them and we heartily wish that the course of Law be no wayes diverted much lesse disturbed Moreover we call God to witnesse that as for our Subjects sakes all rights are vested in Us so for their sakes as well as for Our own we are resolved not to quit them nor to subvert though in a Parliamentary way the ancient just constitution of the Government of this Kingdome nor to make Our self of a King of England a Duke of Venice and this of a Kingdome a Republick Besides the Kings Majesty saith further Nolumus leges Angliae mutari We promise that We will be as carefull of preserving the Lawes in what doth concern Our subjects as in what most concerns our self for We professe to believe that the preservation of every Law concerns Us We have by many of Our messages to you by Our voluntary promise to you so solemnly made never to pardon any popish Priest by Our strict Proclamation which lately published in this point sufficiently expressed Our zeal herein We wil also with constancy maintain while We live The Protestant Religion in its purity and glory not onely against all invasions of Popery but also from the irreverence of Schismaticks and Separatists wherewith this Kingdome of late and Our City of London abounds to the great dishonour and hazzard both of Church and State To conclude We conjure you and all men to rest satisfied with the truth of Our professions and the reality of Our intentions And then We shall receive much more in the hope of a full constant happines of our people in the true Religion and under the protection of the same by a blessed union between Us and Our Parliament so much desired by Us then in any increase of Our own Revenue which beyond former grants of Our Subjects when most wealthy could by our Parliament be settled upon Us Thus We in all our Protestations and Messages desire the good of the Kingdome before Our own private interest His Majesty saith further We professe before and declare to all the world that we alwayes have and did abhorre all such designes but that all Our endeavous according to Our many Professions did and shall ever tend to the firm and constant settlement of the true Protestant Religion the just Priviledges of Parliament the Liberty of the Subject the Lawes Peace and prosperity of this Kingdome In a Letter from His Majesty to both Houses of Parliament the conclusion you may reade thus If all these present distractions which so apparently threaten the ruine of this Kingdome do not by the blessing of almighty God end in a happy and blessed accommodation his Majesty will then be ready to call heaven and earth God and man to witnesse that it hath not failed on his part I am confident that you expect not I should give a speedy answer to this strange and unexpected Declaration that in the distraction of this Kingdome you should think this way of addresse more convenient then that proposed by my message the 20 of January last to both houses as concerning the grounds of your feares and jealousies I will take time to answer particularly and doubt not but I shall do it to the satisfaction of the whole world God in his good time will discover the secrets and bottomes of all plots and treasons and then I shall stand right in the eyes of my people God so deale with me and mine as all my thoughts and intentions are upright for the maintenance of the true Protestant profession and for the observation and preservation of the Lawes of this Land and I hope God will blesse and assist those Lawes for my preservation When we duly weigh the dishonour which will perpetually lie upon this Kingdome if full and speedy relief be not dispatched We could not nor cannot think of a better way to discharge Our duty to Almighty God for the defence of the true Protestant Profession or to manifest Our affection to Our three Kingdomes then by ingaging Our Person in this Expedition as many of Our royall Progenitours have done even in Forraigne parts upon causes of lesse