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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
A82701	A declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, setting forth the grounds and reasons, that necessitate them at this time to take up defensive arms for the preservation of His Majesties person, the maintenance of the true religion, the laws and liberties of this kingdom, and the power and priviledge of Parliament. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this declaration be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1450; Thomason E108_42; ESTC R1976	7,194	17

in that Kingdom and so strengthned from thence the better to compasse their intended purpose here At the same time The Rebellion in Ireland an egg likewise of their hatching breaks out But their plot failed in Scotland yet upon hopes of successe there Such preparatives were here and such recourse of ill affected Persons to this Town That the Parliament thought it necessary for their own security to have a guard The King upon His return instantly dismisses that guard and puts another upon us which produced such ill effects as we were glad to dismisse them and rather run any hazard then have such a guard Thus left naked Presently some Members of both Houses are unjustly charged with Treason and the King comes with a Troop of Cavaliers to the House of Commons to fetch those away by force whom be had caused to be so unjustly accused The greatest violation of the priviledges of Parliament that ever was attempted and so manifest a destruction of the right of the Subject which is only preserved by Parliament That the City of London took a pious and generous Resolution to guard the Parliament themselves Which so grieved and enraged those wicked Persons who had engaged the King in that last and all those other designes and practises against the Parliament That they make him forsake Whitehall under pretence that His Person was there in danger A suggestion as false as the Father of lyes can invent Then do they work upon him and upon the Queen perswade her to retire out of the Kingdom and carry him further and further from the Parliament and so possesse him with an hatred of it that they cannot put words bitter enough into his mouth to expresse it upon all occasions They make him crosse oppose inveigh against all the proceedings of Parliament encourage and protect all those who will affront it take away all power and authority from it to make it contemptible and of lesse esteem then the meanest Court draw away the Members commanding them to come to him to York and in stead of discharging their duty in the service of the Parliament to contribute their advice and assistance to the destruction of it endeavour to possesse the people that the Parliament will take away the Law and introduce an Arbitrary Government A thing which every honest Morall man abhors much more the Wisdom Justice and Piety of the two Houses of Parliament and in truth such a charge as no Rationall man can beleeve It being unpossible so many severall persons as the two Houses of Parliament consist of about six hundred and in either House all of equall power should all of them or at least the major part agree in Acts of Will and Tyrannie which make up an Arbitrary Government and most improbable that the Nobility and chief Gentry of this Kingdom should conspire to take away the Law by which they enjoy their Estates are protected from any Act of Violence and Power and differenced from the meaner sort of people with whom otherwise they would be but fellow-servants To make all this good upon the Parliament and either make the Kingdom beleeve it or so awe it as no body shall dare say the contrary force is prepared men are levied and the Malignant party of the Kingdom as was before specified that is Papists the Prelaticall Clergie Delinquents and that part of the Nobility and Gentry which either fear Reformation or seek preferment by betraying their Country to serve the Court have combined to bury the happinesse of this Kingdom in the ruine of this Parliament and by forcing it to cut up the freedom of Parliament by the root and either take all Parliaments away or which is worse make them the instruments of slavery to confirm it by Law and leave the disease incurable That done then come they to crown their work and put that in execution which was first in their intention that is the changing of Religion into Popery and Superstition All this while the two Houses of Parliament have with all duty and loyalty still applyed themselves unto His Majesty and laboured by humble prayers and cleer and convincing Reasons and Arguments in severall Petitions to satisfie him of their intentions the justnesse of their proceedings their desire of the safety of His Royall Person and of the Peace of the Kingdom And only to preserve that Peace and prevent the pernicious practises of these Incendaries such as the Lord Digby who at first perswaded the King to get into some strong place that He might there protect those whom he stiled the Kings Servants but in truth such as do divide Him from His Parliament and Kingdom and might be revenged upon His Parliament where he said Traitors bare that sway And who in the mean time promised hee would do him service abroad which by his own Letters appears to be the procuring of supplies against the Kingdom and Parliament with which hee himself said he would return as since he hath done disguised with store of Arms in the Ship called THE PROVIDENCE And who had attempted upon the Kings first going from White Hall to raise some numbers of horse and foot under the colour of a Guard for His Majestie to be the foundation of an Army against the Parliament which then failing hath since taken effect and shews what was then in their thoughts before Hull or the Militia or any thing else of that nature was in Question the Parliament thought fit to secure Hull least it might be a receptacle of such ill-affected persons and of what aid could be gotten from Forraigne parts the Fleet under the Earl of Warwick to defend the Kingdom and prevent such mischief from abroad the Magazin of Arms that they should not be imployed against Us and the Militia of the Kingdom in such hands as the Parliament might confide in to suppresse commotions within our selves And how necessary all this was to be done the succeeding designes and practises upon them all do sufficiently manifest And great cause hath the whole Kingdom to blesse God who put it into the heads and hearts of the Parliament to take care of these particulars For were these pernicious persons about the King Masters of them how easie would it be for them to master the Parliament and Master the Kingdom And what could we expect but ruine and destruction from such Masters who make the King in this manner revile and detest Us and our Actions such who have embarqued Him in so many designes to overthrow this Parliament such who have so long thirsted to see Religion and Libertie confounded together Let the world now judge what more could be done by Us then we have done to appease His Majestie and regain His Grace and Favour if after the presenting of such a Petition as the last was so full of submisse humble affectionate desires of Peace so full of Duty and Loyalty as we thought malice it self could nor have excepted against it And having received so

A DECLARATION Of the Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT Setting forth the Grounds and Reasons that necessitate them at this time to take up defensive Arms for the Preservation of His Majesties Person The maintenance of the true Religion The Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom And the Power and Priviledge of PARLIAMENT Ordered by the Commons in Parliament That this Declaration be forth with Printed and published Hen. Elsinge Cler. Parl. D. Com. August 3. London Printed for Edward Husbands and Iohn Franck. 1642. A Declaration of the Lords and Commons now Assembled in PARLIAMENT WE the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled Having taken into serious consideration the present State and Condition of imminent danger in which the Kingdom now stands by reason of a malignant Partie prevailing with His Majestie putting Him upon violent and perillous wayes and now in Arms against us to the hazarding of His Majesties Person and for the oppression of the true Religion The Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom and the Power and Priviledge of Parliament all which every honest man is bound to defend especially those who have taken the late Protestation by which they are more particularly tied unto it and the more answerable before God should they neglect it Wherefore we finding our selves ingaged in a necessity to take up Arms likewise for the defence of these which otherwise must suffer and perish And having used all good wayes and means to prevent extremities and preserve the peace of the Kingdom which good indeavours of ours the malignity of our enemies hath rendered altogether successelesse and vain Do now think fit to give this accompt unto the World to be a satisfaction unto all men of the justice of our proceedings and a warning unto those who are involved in the same danger with us to let them see the necessity and duty which lyes upon them to save themselves their Religion and Country For which purpose we set out this ensuing Declaration THat it appears by the Answer which His Majesty hath given to the humble Petition for peace presented unto Him by both Houses of Parliament and those demands which He makes That the designe which hath been so long carried on to alter the frame and constitution of this Government both in Church and State is now come to ripenesse and the Contrivers of it conceive themselves arrived to that Condition of strength That they shall be able to put it in present execution For What else can be signified by the demanding of Hull the Fleet and the Magazine to be immediately delivered up All our preparations of force to cease And the defensive Arms of the Parliament to be laid down And the Parliament to be adiourned to another place then That we should out of the sense of our own inability to make resistance yeild our selves to the cruell Mercy of those who have possessed the King against us and incited Him to violate all the Priviledges and revile the Persons and Proceedings of the Parliament or else if as it cannot be otherwise conceived we do not grant what is so unreasonable and destructive forthwith to bring on that force which is prepared against us by the concurrence and assistance of Papists an ambitious and discontented Clergy Delinquents obnoxious to the justice of Parliament and some ill affected Persons of the Nobility and Gentry who out of their desire of a dissolute liberty apprehend and would keep off the Reformation intended by the Parliament These Persons have conspired together to ruine this Parliament which alone hath set a stop to that violence so long intended and often attempted for the Alteration of Religion and subversion of the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom How farre we were plunged in a miserable expectation of most evill dayes and how fast this growing mischief prevailed upon us before the Parliament needs not now be declared It being so fresh and bleeding in every mans memory Religion was made but forme and outside and those who made conscience to maintain the substance and purity of it whether Clergy or others were discountenanced and oppressed as the great Enemies of the State The Laws were no defence nor protection of any mans right All was subject to will and power which imposed what payments they thought fit to drain the Subjects purse and supply those necessities which their ill Councells had brought upon the King or gratifie such as were instruments in promoting those illegall and oppressive courses They who yeilded and complied were countenanced and advanced all others disgraced and kept under That so mens mindes made poor and base and their Liberties lost and gone they might be ready to let go their Religion whensoever it should be resolved to alter it Which was and still is the great designe and all else made use of but as instrumentary and subservient to it When they conceived the way to be sufficiently prepared They at last resolved to put on their Master-piece in Scotland where the same method had been followed and more boldly to unmask themselves in imposing upon them a Popish service Book for well they knew the same Fate attended both Kingdoms and Religion could not be altered in the one without the other God raised the Spirits of that Nation to oppose it with so much zeal and indignation That it kindled such a flame as no expedient could be found but a Parliament here to quench it This necessity brought on this Parliament and the same necessity gave it in the beginning power to act with more vigour and resolution then former Parliaments had done And to set upon a Reformation of the great disorders both in the Ecclesiasticall and Civill state which drew a more particular envy and odium upon it then was usuall to the generallity of Parliaments and was a cause that those who had swallowed up in their thoughts our Religion and Liberties and now saw themselves defeated by this means bended all their indeavours and raised all their forces to destroy it First Whilest the Scottish Army remained here they indeavoured to incense the two Nations and engage their Armies one against the other that in such a confusion as needs must have followed the Parliament might not be able to sit and those forces destroying one another might open some opportunity for them to gain their ends upon both Kingdoms and that then as their need so the being of the Parliament might cease The wisedome of the Parliament prevented that mischief and composed those great differences betwixt the King and the Kingdom of Scotland That plot failing they endeavoured to turn the English Army against the Parliament This was discovered the chief Actors fled and the danger avoided Then they labour to stir up the Scottish Army against us But such was the faithfulnesse and affection of those our Brethren that they could not effect it After this they carry the King into Scotland to try if a party could be there raised to suppresse first the good party