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	vote_n	2,193	5	10.2889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83933	A message sent from the Lords of His Majesties most honourable Privie Counsaile, now resident with His Majesty, directed to the citizens of London. Wherein is contained divers remarkable and considerable grounds and motives perswading to peace, which is the desire of all good men.	England and Wales. Privy Council.	1642 (1642)	Wing E2910; Thomason E130_12; ESTC R21250	1,820	7

A MESSAGE SENT FROM THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTIES Most Honourable Privie Counsaile now resident with His Majesty Directed to the Citizens of London Wherein is contained divers remarkable and considerable grounds and motives perswading to peace which is the desire of all good men Pax optima rerum Decemb 13 OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lichfield 1642. A MESSAGE FOR PEACE WE doubt not but that the well affected Citizens of London are sensible of the present and great calamities of the State the Church and Common-wealth and that they doe with a knowing compassion consider the distresses of them all three and how they languish in expectation that some remedy may be provided to binde up the bleeding wounds of this distracted and divided Nation That the head and body of this Common-wealth may submit to an obedient relation and in a peaceable maner come to an uniform perfection that schismes cryed up by popular ignorance may by a loving and juditious agreement be annihilated into that nothing of merit and spirituall ambition from whence they did first arise We doubt not moreover but that the Citizens of London have taken into consideration the bloody effects of war and what a sad character it wil present to after ages where they shall reade or heare of a Land wherein peace and glory had chosen to inherit and quietly in every poore village to dwell together should now be made a prey to the cruelty of a Civil war which word doth include these miseries following The violent plundering of houses and taking away of their goods nay oftentimes there have if they offered to make any resistance the violating of Churches as the blinded rage of some Souldiers lately committed at Worcester Canterbury and other Cathedrals besides the cruell effusion of blood at divers places but most especially at Kenton bartail which the mercie of our gratious Soveraigne would fain have avoided and may instruct all good people that the sword is the cruell executioner of Gods wrath and anger and is a deare and costly way both of life state to obtain peace when it may by gentle and soft meanes bee sooner gotten for if there should bee a constant opposition as there hath been hitherto nothing is to bee expected but the ruine and desolation of this Kingdome that good men should be a weary of living in such a cruel and distracted time wherein Justice Loyalty and Religion can protect them from the violence of domestike fury and cruelty and if this war should continue the husband man who is the best victualler of the City must be forced to forsake and leave off his tillage and then must necessarily follow a great dearth and scarcity throughout the whole Land Besides we understand that you the loyal and wel affected Citizens of London cannot be in any quiet safety within your own houses loe there are a company of giddy heads round about the Citie that had rather see the ruine and overthrow of this Kingdome then to bee conformable to their King in his most merciful desires of peace they desire that the Church and Common-wealth should stil suffer that they may in Conventicles despise all things in themselves who are indeed arrogant and execrable persons valuing their own ungrounded opinions at a higher rate then the peace and happinesse of their own Countrey But as wee desire the conversion of such so wee do not apply this our message unto them but to all Loving Religious Loyall and well affected Citizens we earnestly desire to take into consideration the present distressed estate of this Kingdom as we have set it out in this present Message and since there is no true hearted Subject but doth unfainedly wish and desire that there might be a happy cessation of this civill war that the King and Kingdom might enjoy one another that true Religion hitherto made scandalous and without shade defence or protection but that God and His Majesty have stood for it may to the comfort of all true Protestants flourish again in this Kingdom We doe therefore with intimation of our places of being Privy Counsellours to the Kings sacred Majesty and out of our tender care for the good and prosperity of this City and Kingdom heartily and lovingly desire you to take unto you hearts actively obediently and complying to a happy union and peace between the Kings Majesty and this present Parli not doubting but your forwardnesse therein will be very acceptable unto them and your willingnesse to promote give the first moving to an accommodation of peace so generally desired by the best well affected subjects of this Kingdom wee have justly condescended in a loving way to make known our estates unto you and to move uno you that the generall votes and desires of the City may in a substantiall and judicious Petition with all convenient opportunity bee presented and tendred to the two Houses of Parliament who it may be doe expect by such a brief information to bee certified of your inclinations to desire a firme and setled confirmation of peace throughout the whole Kingdom And as we doe vrge this peaceable motion being thought in our consultations worthy your allowance approbation so we promise to joyne with you in advancing and bringing about a prosperous peace for the generall good of the Kingdome FJNJS