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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	king_n	parliament_n	prerogative_n	7,334	5	10.0491	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82228	The declaration of the Protestant army in the province of Munster (of the Kingdom of Ireland) under the command of the Right Honourable the Lord Baron of Inchiquine, Lord President of the same.		1648 (1648)	Wing D755; Thomason E452_10; ESTC R204857	6,030	8

persons to deprive us of all hope of relief from the shipping by reprizals taken at Sea upon our Coasts and even in our Harbours mouthes an expedient that hath formerly often preserved us in our greatest exigencies savoureth of no mean indeavours to retard the relief of Ireland And the words of a powerfull Member of the Army to a late servant of the Lord Lisles declaring our starving condition for want of food and rayment That if we in Munster were not poor enough they would make us so have been in a great measure verified But we do the lesse wonder that it should be their indeavour to make us so when we consider the arguments raised by Colonell Lambert and others of the Army against the justice and lawfulnesse of this war on our parts and justifying the actions of the Rebels it having been avouched to some of ourfaces that the English interest were better in the hands of the Rebels then in ours And there have not been wanting those of the Lord Lisles own retinue who have openly professed that they made No destinction betwixt the Rebels and those of the Protestant party which they found upon the place his Lordships domestique Chappellain at the same time diffusing words of the same sence in the Pulpit whiles other Orthodox Divines were not admitted to preach But we shall sum up all their practises to obstruct our relief in this one instance of their late seizure upon the moneys brought in upon the Ordinance of 20000. l. per Mens and taking the same out of the hands of our Treasurers so as that it may be feared that to have the war finished here before the perfection of their designes in England would prove to them the greatest dissatisfaction in the world by means whereof many of our poor Souldiers have been already swept into a miserable Grave for whose lives as these men stand justly accomptable so will it be difficult for them to be freed of the guilt of all that blood which hath been shed in the service which but for their practises had been long ago foreclosed and yet their confidence is remarkable for though these things have been visibly practised in our eyes yet we finde the cry raised aloud against the KING the eleven Members involving the Lord President for obstructing the Warre of Ireland and the INDEPENDANTS putting on as sober countenances as if their hands were innocent of our blood and that it were just that they should passe by plausibly unblameable And for this end they make that Criminall in some that they allow to be commendable in others If we importune Relief declare against Innovations in Government professe a readiness to serve and obey the Parliament we must at least sue forth an Act of Indempnity and it is held for a speciall lenity that two of our Officers were not executed on that score But if the Army in England refuse to disband at the appointment of an Ordinance of Parliament or to obey the major Votes of the Houses and march up to the City of London with Banners displayed it shall not onely be approved but made penall to us or any other that dare mention it with dislike though as being Englishmen and Subjects we esteem our interest and propriety in the Law of The Land and liberty of the Subject proportionably as good as theirs Though these their private practises were sufficiently notorious unto us yet we were resolved to struggle with all difficulties and to maintain the Protestant interest in these parts successively to the last man rather then by any Cessation with the Irish or otherwise to give a jealousie of forfeiting the least trust which was imposed in us by chat authority which imployed us hither while they continued in the Government we would not decline our obedience for the grearest hardships But now at last discovering the resolutions of our adversaries to cast off all obligations both to King and Parliament rather then to fail in their intendments We conceive we are obliged by the Law of God and of the Kingdom not to assent unto their requirement whom Power not Justice hath seated n those places of authority It is and was ever a main principle whereon all our resolutions were grounded to contend for the safety of his Majesties Person and Prerogative for the Freedom Priviledge of Parliament and liberty of the Subject as they were inter woven and had a clear and mutual dependency each upon other it was long before we could entertain any suspition of a design to engage us further untill the practice of the Independents party grew more obnoxious and that we saw his Majestie in effect deposed made prisoner to the closest confinement the freedom of the Parliament highly invaded their inclination assent to a Personal Treaty with his Majestie the onely expedient of a happy Peace made frustrate by the over powring awe of the Army the Liberty of the Subject and propriety of interest totally suppressed and all other the genuine Immunities of that once glorious Nation made arbitrary at the pleasure and determination of the Armies dictations and though while these things were in our eye and observation we had still quiet desires of sitting silent and intent upon our own ingagement here and the prosecution and conduct of our charge in this Kingdom yet we came at last to discern that if we would not be involved and ingaged in the same practises with those who were resolved to trample under foot the subject matter of our Nationall League that we should be made partakers of their ruine whom we had sworn to support of which besides other evidences we had that signall Testimony of the Vice Admirals demand in this Armies absence in the field of certain persons committed to close custody for contriving the Armies ruine of his blocking up our Harbours thereupon and menacing us with a Declaration of being enemies to the State and with the accesse of great Powers to suppress and suddenly swallow us up though nothing considerable in twelve moneths space came to support the War against the Rebels unlesse we did declare those who acted contrary to our and their own ingagements of seducing and incouraging our fugitive and mutinous Souldiers abroad for the accomplishing the most wicked end of necessitating us to submit to Famine or Cessation with the Irish All which we could not imagine he would presume to act without direction authority from that part of the Parliament which is soly guided by the pleasure of the Army for the doing whereof he now avoucheth Authority at the same time that the Committee at Derby house assures us of the houses confidence in our integrity And did therefore esteem it absolutely necessary at a generall Rendezvous upon our return out of the field to declare and manifest our intentions and resolutions to the Souldiery as well to give them clear understanding of our intendments as to confirm them against the practices of seducers against