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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	parliament_n	traitor_n	1,870	5	9.9264	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76638	A back-blow to Major Huntington, for his treacherous accusation of Lieutenant Generall Cromwell, and Commissary Gen. Ireton. Published for generall satisfaction of all, who have unadvisedly received the malicious accusation against those active gentlemen.		1648 (1648)	Wing B264; Thomason E461_34; ESTC R205205	11,783	16

themselves in their cases they might easily have judged with what safety to themselves they could have consented to the disbanding of the Army when no sooner it had been done but their much sought for lives had lyen at the cruell mercy of their most wicked and malicious adversaries one of them having been more then threatned by a chiefe of the faction Neverthelesse to entangle them throughly and either necessitate them to disobey the Parliament or destroy themselves and all that any wise adhered to them who but the Lieut. Generall and Commissary Generall are appointed by Order of Parliament to disband the Army In this case now if they gave heed to the dictats of their own consciences rather then to that destructive Order of Parliament have they not the Law of nature the proceedings of this Parliament against the King and the Scots first coming into this Kingdom to justifie the preservation of themselvs the whole Army and their friends had they not been Traytors to all these and to justice it selfe if they had obeyed Commands so destructive And it must in conclusion be a received truth by all that if any authority yea if Parliaments shall turn tyrants even Parliaments themselves must and ought to be resisted otherwise what tye is there upon the supream authority But this subject is so rationally and fully cleared in the Armies Declaration of the 14. of Iune 1647 that it is needles here to infist upon nor was Major Huntington a protester against that Declaration then it seems he was well pleased to see the Army and Parliament at so great a difference as hoping in time by that meanes to make some faire advantage for the King his Master And what now doth all this large accusation amount to but that those who so cunningly sought to entangle these Gentlemen that which way soever they took they should be ruined was by their wisdom circumvented and the evill intended fell on their own heads as doubtles this evill will fall upon this Majors head one time or other and had he been but as wise as he is officious their ill successe in their unjust attempts might have sufficed for a fair warning to him As for his singling out these two Gentlemen about removing the King or any thing else in his accusation his malicious end may be easily perceived these having prevailed most against the King when he was at strongest and through them it is no lesse discernable that he strickes at the Generall himself though in the narrative of this accusation he would seem to exclude him every man knowing it as unexcusable to hold as to remove without or against Order they being all from head to foote even the whole Army alike engaged And it had been an extream weaknesse in them to have hazarded the King out of their own custody perceiving the earnest desirs of their numerous and malicious adversaries to make use of him to the Armies ruin all this wind shakes not the Major might have spared his unsavory breath in blowing this coale a fresh all that he hath said hitherto being far better known to be owned by the whole Army then he can expresse whereof he thought himself no small one putting himself forward that so he might have opportunity to lead to his own and the King his Masters ends In the next place the Lieut. Generall is charged to make it his busines to Court his Majesty both by Members of the Army whereof this officious Major was one and severall Gentlemen formerly in the Kings service into a good opinion of the proceedings of the Army which then were really good and justifiable as also into a disaffection to and dislike of the proceedings of Parliament which then were really evill and destructive though not to the Kings designs which caused him so often to alledge as this Major sayes that the power by which they fought was the power of Parliament it seems that power was then used more for the Kings ends then every one knew though well known to the King and now seasonablie remembered by this his Major though to little purpose For what followeth why that the Lieut. Generall promised that the Army would be for the King in what In doing injury to any No but in the settlement of his whole businesse What was that Read but their Declaration of the 14. of Iune 1647. and it will appear to be a work so heedfully proposed as to the freedom and security of the people that the Lieut. Generall and his sonne Ireton need never to be ashamed for that And for what did he so work the King Major and so promise him Upon what condition but that the King and his party would sit still and not declare against the Aymy but give them leave only to manage the present busines in hand Now what is it that troubles this Major in all this Is it because these gentlemen were so kinde to the King No but that they have not been soe carelesse of themselves as to give him opportunity to destroy them for they soone found that the King could better disgest any principles then those of Independencie and that they had good reason to awaite upon his wings and to keep good guards upon him as perceiveing well where he had a minde to be though the Major be pleased to make this a peece of a charge against them yet had it been his owne case and he honestly minded he would have done no lesse nor would he have been diverted from so necessary a care with the bigg words or high looks of any But then he sayes the Parliament complyed with the Army after which the King inclined to hearken unto the Armies desires and not before so it appeares as then the Parliament was his pilot though as to the people it had steered a very dangerous course but neither King nor Parliament can erre in this Majors divinitie his part it seemes is to charge only the Lieutenant Gen. and Commissary Gen. and he is resolved to be true as long as he can or gets by it against them or till the King put him upon some other part or designe Then he chargeth them that at Caversham the King was continually solicited by Messengers from Lieutenant Gen. Cromwell and Commissary Gen. Ireton proferring any thing his Majestie should desire as Revennes how much he sayes not and such might be meant as might not be prejudiciall to any next Chaplaines and if the state were wise what hurt could they do Then wife Children Servants of his own visitation of friends accesse of letters all these were not evills essentially were profered only upon condition of the quietnesse of himself and his party which doubtlesse they resolved to see performed But then which troubles the Major most of all the King he sayes was further promised by Commissary Gen. Ireton that his negative voice should not be medled withall and believe it this is matter for any honest true hearted Englishman to be