Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
kingdom_n government_n king_n monarchy_n 2,238 5 9.5285 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A30774 A letter from Mercvrivs Civicvs to Mercurius Rusticus, or, Londons confession but not repentance shewing that the beginning and the obstinate pursuance of this accursed horrid rebellion is principally to be ascribed to that rebellious city. Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680. 1643 (1643) Wing B6324; ESTC R5573 26,143 35

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

the Cursitors office and Iohn Ha● an Atturney of Guild-Hall both pernicious men which as it evidently shewes their Obstinate aversion from Peace so it is the most desperate divellish slander that ever yet durst looke the World in the Face for first they tell the House of Commons and in them the World That the King without any touch of Conscience and in defiance of God hath raised an Army of Papists Out-lawes and Traitors for the Robbing Burning Murthering and destroying of His Relgiious Honest and well meaning People And then knowing not onely their Interest in but their power over the House of Commons they doe not so much Petition as Co●●and them to accept of their assistance for the raysing a new Army and in expresse Termes prescribe unto them and limit them to a Committee of their owne nomination for the seizing and receiving of such Summes as the willing shall thinke fit to offer or they shall thinke fit to extort from the ●●willing for this service And that you may Judge of the whole Bunch by some they name Pennington the pretended Lord Major Strode one of the five Members Harry Marti● Plunder-master-Generall and Dennis Bend Burgesse of Dorchester and P●●riarch Whites owne disciple a man of a double Capacity to be a Rebell and finding themselves more alone in these undertakings then they did imagine like desperate Traitors they call on the whole Kingdome a● one man according to the intent of the late Covenant to joyne with them in this Rebellion And having thus taken a course to raise new forces on Saturday the 29 of Iuly at a Common Hall they voted Sir William Waller Generall of their new intended Army whom to indeare the more they interest him in the Governement of the City hoping that being as mad as his Lady he will hold up the Rebellion as long as he can and then be one of the last to runne away I meane not from Battell for in that hee shewed himselfe as forward as the foremost but from Iustice and the due reward of his disloyalty By all which it is most evident that this Languishing Rebellion had before this day gasp'd its last and given up the Ghost had not this Rebellious City by its wealth and Multitudes fomented it and given it life If therefore Posterity shall aske who broke downe the bounds to those streames of blood that have stained this earth if they aske who made Liberty captive Truth criminall Rapine just Tyranny and Oppression Lawfull who blanched Rebellion with the specious pretence of defence of Lawes and Liberties Warre with the desire of an established Peace Sacriledge and Prophanation with the shew of Zeale and Reformation Lastly if they aske who would have pulled the crown from the Kings head taken the government off the hinges dissolved Monarchy inslaved the Lawes and ruined their Countrey say 'T was the proud unthankefull Schismaticall Rebellious Bloody City of London so that what they wanted of devouring this Kingdome by cheating and couzening they meane to finish by the Sword That therefore these dangerous defluxions and continuall not small distillations but floods of Men Money Ammunition and Armes descending from the Head City and Metropolis of the Kingdome may not for ever dissolve the nerves and luxate the Sinewes of this admirably composed Government it will highly concerne this Nation to looke about them to undeceive themselves and to consult their owne peace and safety by joyning with their Gracious Soveraigne in chastizing these rebellious insolences reducing this Stubborne City either to Obedience or Ashes Yet that the World may not thinke that this inundation of wickednesse wherein the Divels of Rebellion rage in the Children of disobedience hath involved all of us in the same disoyalty let not good Brother the name Rusticus neither deterre you as if it were a Solecisme to tell the Murthers Robberies Plunderings and other Ou●rages committed in the City nor deprive us a handfull of faithfull Subjects in comparison of the Rebells the Puritans Brownists and Anabaptists of so great an Opportunity to justifie our Innocence Let the Country know that we have been at the charges to undoe not onely them but our selves too the Collosse which we have built is fallen on the builders the Fire which we have kindled devoures the bellowes which first blowed it up some of us repent of our fond credulity to be deceived and fooled by the empty name of a Parliament God grant it be not too late yet how ever let Posterity know this too that the King hath his Martyrs in London all are not in the Country And to make this good secretly as much as the close obstructions of the wayes of conveyance will permit you shall not faile of Intelligence from Your affectionate Brother MERCURIUS CIVICUS London Aug. 5. 1643 1641. The French Hist. p. ● 805.