Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	george_n	henry_n	19,741	5	7.7532	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83680	A declaration of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament, expressing their reasons for the adnulling and vacating of these ensuing votes. 15 Januarii, 1648. / Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this declaration and votes be forthwith printed and published. H: Scobel, Cler. Parl. D. Com.	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1649 (1649)	Wing E2560; Thomason E538_23; ESTC R206053	8,378	17

A DECLARATION OF THE COMMONS OF ENGLAND Assembled in PARLIAMENT Expressing their REASONS FOR The Adnulling and Vacating of these ENSUING VOTES 15 Januarii 1648. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Declaration and Votes be forthwith printed and published H Scobel Cler. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons Jan. 18. 1648. A Declaration of the Commons of England assembled in Parliament expressing the Reasons of these ensuing Resolutions viz. Die Martis 12 Decembr 1648. Resolved c. THat the Vote of the 8 of June 1648. for the Revoking of the Orders of the 7 of Sept. the 9 of Sept. and the 27 of Jan. 1647. for disabling Commissary Lionel Copley Denzil Hollis Esq Sir John Clotworthy Col Edward Massey Mr. Walter Long and others from being Members of this House was of a dangerous consequence and tending to the destruction of the Justice and Peace of this Kingdom and is hereby Repealed Resolved c. That the Vote of 30 Junii 1648. whereby this House did concur with the Lords that for opening a way towards a Treaty with his Majesty for a safe Peace That the Votes of the 3 of January 1647. Forbidding all Addresses to be made to or from the King be taken off was highly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliament and apparently destructive to the good of the Kingdom Die Mercurii 13 Decembr 1648. VVHereas the 17 of August 1648. this House did concur with the Lords That for opening a way towards a Treaty with his Majesty for a safe and well-grounded Peace these Votes following should be and were revoked and taken off viz 1. Resolved That the Lords and Commons do Declare That they will make no further Addresses or Application to the King 2. Resolved By the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament That no Application or Address be made to the King by any person whatsoever without the leave of both Houses 3. Resolved By the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament That the person or persons that shall make breach of this Order shall incur the penalty of high Treafon Resolved That the Lords and Commons do Declare That they will receive no more any Message from the King and do enjoyn That no person whatsoever do presume to receive or bring any Message from the King to both or either of the Houses of Parliament or to any other person Resolved c. That that Vote for Revocation of the said Votes was highly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliament and apparently destructive to the good of the Kingdom Resolved c. That the Vote of 28 Julii 1648. That a Treats be had in the Isle of Wight with the King in Person by a Committee appointed by both Houses upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton-Court was highly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliament and apparently destructive to the good of the Kingdom Resolved c. That the several Votes of 10 November 1648. concerning the banishment of George Lord Goring the Earl of Holland the Lord Capel Sir Henry Lingen Henry Hastings Esq now call'd the Lord Loughbrough Major General Rowland Laughorn and Sir John Owen are destructive to the Peace and quiet of the Kingdom and derogatory to the Justice of the Kingdom and are hereby revoked and made Null Resolved c. That the Vote of the 10 of November 1648. That James Earl of Cambridge be fined the sum of 100000 l. and that he be kept close Prisoner until he make payment of the said fine be and is hereby revoked and he left to Justice Resolved c. That the Vote of the 2 of August 1648. That the Commissioners intended to be sent unto his Majesty to Treat with him shall have power to Treat with his Majesty in the Isle of Wight upon such Propositions as shall be offered by him was destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom and is hereby repealed and made Null and void Resolved c. That the Vote of 5 Decembr 1648. That the Answers of the King to the Propositions of both Houses are a ground for the House to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom is highly dishonorable to the Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom and tending to the breach of the Publique Faith of the Kingdom The Declaration upon the precedent Votes THe greatest service which a Parliament can do to a King is to let Him understand the disorders of His State that by wisdom they may be amended For as every disease ends either by death or curing so do disorders which are the diseases of a State either end with the Subversion of that State or else by a Universal Reformation Upon serious consideration whereof and to exonerate the people of this Land from the sundry exorbitant Oppressions daily multiplyed upon them which threatned the ruine of many private Families and the publike desolation of the Kingdom We the Commons of England in this present Parliament assembled Having with much faithfulness and affection to the publike Good of this Realm labored for these eight yeers last past with many great fears and dangers undergone many difficulties and calamities and suppressed many distempers and disorders in opposition to a Malignant Party in this Kingdom who would have unslaved the bodies and souls of the people of this Nation by the bringing in of Popery and seeing up of Tyranny Both which we have so amply manifested to the whole world in our former Declarations as we judg it needless here again to repeat Yet we cannot be so injurious to Truth as not to remember how for the Redress of which Abuses and for bringing the contrivers thereof to condign punishment We did often make our just complaints to the King First by many humble Petitions then by Remonstrances and Declarations Which not taking any effect but justice being still denied us the main obstructions whereof did constantly flow from the Kings immediate Design Which divers ways will most evidently appear if we do but call to remembrance how he did not only require the English Army raised by his Command in opposition of the Scots to march up against the Parliament and the City of London but practised with the same Scotish Army it self to do the same offering to corrupt them by the donation of the four Northern Counties and the Plunder of the City of London In the second place how suddenly and unexpectedly he went into Scotland notwithstanding our earnest Endeavors and Desires to the contary Thirdly how he countenanced if not contrived and authorized that horrid Rebellion in Ireland wherein were murthered in the Province of Ulster onely not to speak of the rest of that Kindgdom and that in the space of eight weeks only above One hundred and forty thousand Protestants by so many varieties of cruel deaths as all the first ten Persecutions against the Primitive Christians could never parallel And lastly his withdrawing from the Parliament and setting up