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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	assistance_n	contrary_a	great_a	47	3	2.1250	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91261	Seasonable and healing instructions, humbly tendered to the freeholders, citizens and burgesses, of the respective counties, cities and boroughs of England and Wales, to be seriously recommended by them, to their respective knights, citizens and burgesses, elected and to be elected for the next Parliament.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing P4061; Thomason 669.f.24[34]	2,498	1

Seasonable and Healing Instructions Humbly tendered to the Freeholders Citizens and Burgesses of the respective Counties Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales to be seriously recommended by them to their respective Knights Citizens and Burgesses Elected and to be elected for the next Parliament WE the Freeholders Citizens Burgesses Commons and Freemen of the respective Counties Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales taking into our serious Considerations the many late various Forms and Revolutions of our publick Government with the miserable Distractions and Oppressions of our ruinated Churches and Realms since the violent changes of our antient established Kingly Government and Constitution of Parliaments consisting of King Lords and Commons by whose united Counsels and Interests we were happily secured against all treacherous Plots and Conspiracies of forein Enemies and pernicious Domestick Vipers and advanced to the highest degree of worldly Peace Prosperity and Felicity And finding by above eleven years sad Experience that there is neither Hope nor Probability of restoring our 3. shipwrack'd Nations to their Pristine Tranquillity Unity Wealth Honour Traffick Security but by a speedy Restitution of our antient Form of Parliaments and hereditary Regal Government and with all observing that in the Writs of Summons now issued for a Parliament to be held at Westminster on the 25th day of April next there is no-known single Chief Governour nor yet any real Commissioners nominated but only Fictitious Utopian Keepers of the Liberties of England with whom the Members appearing in Parliament can neither conferr nor consult concerning the difficult and urgent Affairs either of the Realm or Church of England And that all the Lords and Great Men of the Realm the antientest hereditary Members of Parliament the Grand Councellors of the Kingdom and Chiefest Assertors of our Liberties in all precedent times are totally omitted out of these new Forms of Writs and all Clauses in them contrary to all former Presidents without whose concurrent Advice and Assistance with the Commons House in this approaching Parliament no firm Peace or Settlement can probably be expected a full and free English Parliament from which no legal Members much lesse the whole English Peerage and Nobility ought to be excluded being the principal thing the Generality of this Nation lately petitioned and declared for as the only Instrument under God to compose all Differences and dissenting Parties and put a happy period to our manifold long-lasting Distractions and Confusions Have thereupon app●ehended it our bounden Duty seriously to recommend these ensuing INSTRUCTIONS to our respective Knights Citizens and Burgesses elected and to be elected and returned by us for our Representatives and Trustees in this approaching Parliament who receiving full and sufficient Power for themselves and the respective Commonalties of the said Counties Cities and Boroughs from the said Commonalties alone who elect them to do and consent to all such things as shall be ordained by Common Council of the Realm in the said Parliament in their Rights and Behalfs are thereby obliged in point of Duty and Conscience as their publick Servants and Proxies vigorously to pursue all such just Prescriptions for the Common welfare and Establishment of our Native Country as they shall present unto them We therefore earnestly desire and require them in pursuance of the Trust reposed by us in them to improve their uttermost Endeavours and Counsels there being no particulars prescribed to them in the Writs themselves as heretofore to effect these few Individuals 1. To restore the antient Constitution Rights Privileges and Freedom of our English Parliaments their respective Houses and Members and to preserve them from all future Mutulations and Violations by armed Force or otherwise that so they may by free uninterrupted and combined Counsels proceed to the speedy Settlement of our distracted Churches and Nations without any Diversions or Obstructions by Souldiers or popular Tumults 2. To re-establish the antient Fundamental Regal Government of this Kingdom and the Dominions thereunto belonging under which we and our Ancestors in former Ages have flourished in great Peace and Prosperity according to our known Laws Oaths Protestations Covenants and multiplyed Declarations and secure it against all future Underminings and Powder-plots of Jesuitical and Fanatick Conspirators 3. To revive and ratifie the miserably subverted and violated Great Charters Fundamental Laws and Statutes of the Land made for the preservation of the Persons Lives Liberties Free-holds Estates and Properties of all English Freemen against all Arbitrary and Tyrannycal Judicatures High Courts of Iustice Proceedings Tryals Executions Iudgements Banishments Imprisonments Confinements Confiscations Forfeitures Attainders Outlawries Sequestrations illegal Taxes Impositions Excises and publick Charges whatsoever not granted by Common consent in Parliament and to prevent all future Subversions Contempts and Violations of them after so vast expences of Treasure and Bloud for their just defence 4. To establish an able learned Orthodox Ministry and just and righteous Magistracy throughout our Dominions and to take special care that the Gospel of Christ may be duly and sincerely preached propagated the Sacraments and publike justice freely and rightly administred in all places without neglect or obstruction to the consolation protection of all good Christians and well-doers and the terror and suppression of all Malefactors 5. To advance all sorts of Trade Merchandize and Navigation by diminishing all excessive Customs Excises Imposts at home by making Peace and holding good correspondence with all forein Kings and Nations abroad and using all other good means conducing thereunto 6. To redresse all publick Grievances Oppressions Frauds Misdemeanours to retrench and regulate all exorbitant Taxes Excises Imposts Fees Extortions Salaries superfluous Forces Garrisons Officers Civil or Military by Land and Sea for the peoples ease 7. To procure a speedy honorable safe Christian Treaty and accord with our long Exiled Protestant King and Royal posterity upon moderate just righteous terms and Propositions on either side whereby the bleeding Protestant cause and Religion much endangered in all places may be promoted and secured the Plots of Popish Enemies to extirpate them prevented the Peace Government Laws and Liberties of our Kingdoms restored preserved and perpetuated to posterity the just publick Debts of the Nation and Souldiers arrears discharged a general Act of Indempnity Pardon and Oblivion for all sorts of persons justly capable thereof procured all former Injuries Feuds Animosities totally extinguished and all just sales of duly confiscated Estates made without Fraud Covin practice or Duresse for valuable considerations confirmed or recompenced that so all parties and interests being perfectly reconciled may henceforth studiously endeavour to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace and to live peaceable and quiet Lives under their lawfull King and Governors in all Godlinesse and Honesty being all Members of one and the same Mystical politick Body having all one Spiritual and Temporal Lord one Faith one Baptism and one God and Father which should both perswade and oblige them to put away all bitternesse wrath anger clamour evil speaking with all malice and to be kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven them for bearing one another in love But if we still proceed to bite and devour one another as we have done for many years by-past we shall sodenly be consumed one of another and made a prey to our common Enemies which the accomplishment of these Instructions by Gods blessing and the Parliaments wisedom will prevent and make us once more THE GLORY AND LADY OF ALL CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS as we are now their reproach FINIS