Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	parliament_n	peer_n	2,127	5	10.3888	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88878	King Charles vindicated, or The grand cheats of the nation discovered. With an abstract of 1 The Rumps extraordinary exactions, 2 Their large distributions of other mens estates. By W.L. a lover of his country·	W. L., a lover of his country.	1660 (1660)	Wing L89; Thomason E1017_19; ESTC R202782	6,233	15

KING CHARLES VINDICATED OR The grand Cheats OF THE NATION discovered With an abstract of 1 The Rumps extraordinary exactions 2 Their large distributions of other mens Estates By W. L. a lover of his Country Printed for Theodorus Microcosmus 1660. KING CHARLES vindicated OR The Grand Cheats OF THE NATION discovered IT is not unknown but too notoriously known to the whole world the abuse of this our once happy Kingdome of England by a mercinary Souldiery and some few mercinary mens wills whose wills are their Lawes and what they will and nothing else shall be adjudged Law or reason when indeed all they doe is beyond Law and Reason the fundamentals of all Government the breach of Liberty and restraint of Conscience forcing men to swear to forswear themselves or else unjustly to forfeit an Estate And if the question be asked in whom the legislative power of the Nation at this time resides no other can properly be so called but the Souldiery who assume to themselves the Government of all things doing that they know not what it well meanes or they pretend to mean that they intend not to do they seem to act and not onely seemingly but actually do act that which the most High is said to do that is to set up Kings or Rulers and pull them down at pleasure First a King then a thing called The Keepers of the Liberty of England and indeed in one sense they are justly so called for they keep our Liberties from us After that a Protector and after him another with loud acclamations of joy and congratulations of the people to Crown his inaugeration yet the Souldiery at this is not well pleased they quickly forget the gifts of mourning their red coats given them at their Mr. Olivers Funeral and like the Weather Cock turn with the next wind and depose him who I verily believe since our unworthiness called the other I mean the late King Charles of famous memory away to receive a reward beyond an earthly Crown that would have setled with that so free chosen Parliament the Nation in Peace and Happinesse But this pleased not their humors neither he must out or they must down and he no sooner out but an assumption of Government is taken to themselves but not fineding an expedient convenient to their purpose knowing better how to weild a Sword than a Scepter after a little playing with the Government they resigne it into the hands of those blood-hounds the Rump who have been the undoing of the Nation who must not rule neither long for they are called in May and dissolved again by the Souldiery in October following after them comes a pittiful Committee of Safety amongst whom and of whom it may be said rake Hell and skim the Divel you could not find such a pack of R two of the chiefest I will not forget to name Ireton and Tichbourn alias Tyburn the last deserving for a hasty sentence by him and others not many years past pronounced to be hanged at Tyburn and the first named to receive the same punishment at the same place His name and the name of that fruitful Tree differen●ing onely in two letters so that I humbly conceive it his destiny which is not so much improbable but a little time may effect two fellows perfidious never true to any trust two that any man may lead to perpetrate any villanies two of the chiefest Actors in undoing the City two constant revealors of the City Counsels two who for a little gain are ready to sell their own souls to the Divel but I believe they are not now to sell but rather sold long agoe two whose actions never agreed with their pretentions and last of all two who accounted themselves Saints from whom and all such other pretended Saints good Lord deliver me and every honest man Next after this Committee of Safety who sate not long in came the Rump once more fellows whose actions are without parrallel in any Nation Now under and by what spetious pretence this Rump Acted as a Parliament take in generall Termes which is That the late King Charles together with the House of Peers and themselves did Enact that they should not be adjourned Prorogued or otherwise Dissolved unless it were by an Act of their own making well grant this they were called by the Kings Writt and certainly if all Writts in his name cease at his Decease they must likewise needs cease to be a Parliament or if they claime a Power to sit by vertue of that Act why the House of Peers secluded or any of the Members of the House of Commons the Act extended as well to one nay all as to this Rump besides there is not one tittle mentioned in that Act to the purpose they Act by that is that the King gave them power by vertue of that Act to take upon them the Government of the Kingdoms after his Decease to take away his own life seclude the House of Peers or any of their fellow Members for the King being Caput principium ad sinem no man cannot but conclude that upon his departing this life the Parliament determined But they are pleased still to sit as a Parliament contrary to all Law for let any man shew me where ever a Parliament being Dissolved as this legally was by the death of the King that ever had the impudence to sit and do what they listed I must confess adjourned of themselves or by the King that called them prorogued untill a further time at which time of meeting the King as he pleases dissolves them But if they will not acknowledge this a Dissolution you may find one in 1653 for when they understood that Oliver the late Protector was resolved to turn them out of Doors the which he did with a Title befitting them Rogues and Whore masters they put it to the Vote whether they should suffer themselves to be turned out or Dissolve themselves it past in the affirmative to Dissolve themselves upon which a Dissolution was recorded not interruption as they call it the which if Mr. Scobell their then Clerk durst he can if he please justifie or the Records themselves if search't would make it evident if these fellows I mean the Rump have not alter'd the rolle the which no doubt they would not stick to do or make a scruple of more then their often for-swearing themselves Next to bring Oliver and their Power into Competition they stick and call it as I said before an interruption to which I put this Query whether Oliver that dissolved them or they that Acted as a Parliament when none had the most best power to which I answer their power was equall alike though the Rump may urge Oliver receiving his Commission from them ought to have been obedient to their Commands to which then I answer they being called by the Kings Writt and chosen by the people for their Representatives in Parliament was the Kings Servants by the Oath