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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	great_a	king_n	year_n	22,347	5	4.8500	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79017	By the King. A proclamation forbidding all levies of forces without His Majesties expresse pleasure, signified under his great seal, and all contributions or assistance to any such levies.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing C2651; Thomason 669.f.5[45]; ESTC R29202	4,352	3

❧ By the King ❧ A Proclamation forbidding all Levies of Forces without His Majesties expresse pleasure signified under His Great Seal and all Contributions or Assistance to any such Levies WHereas under pretence that VVe intend to make VVar against the Parliament the contrary whereof is notoriously known to all that are here and as we hope by this time apparent to all other Our Subjects as well by Our Declaration of the sixteenth of Iune as by the Testimonie of all Our Nobility and Councell who are here upon the place And by colour of the Authoritie of both Houses of Parliament a major part whereof are now absent from London by the contrivance of some few evill persons disguising and colouring their pernicious Designes and hostile Preparations under the plausible names of The preservation of publike Peace and defence of us and both Houses of Parliament from Force and and Violence it hath been endeavoured to raise Troopes of Horse and other Forces And for that purpose they have prevailed not onely to prohibit Our own Moneys to be paid to Vs or to Our use but by the Name and Authoritie of Parliament to excite Our Subjects to contribute their Assistance to them by bringing in Moneys Plate or underwriting to furnish and maintain Horses Horsmen and Arms And to that purpose certain Propositions or Orders as they are styled by them have been Printed whereby they have endeavoured to engage the Power and Authoritie of Parliament as if the two Houses without Vs had that Power and Authoritie to save harmlesse all those that shall so contribute from all Prejudice and Inconvenience that may befall them by occasionthereof And although we well hope that these Malignant persons whose Actions do now sufficiently declare their former Intentions will be able to prevail with few of Our good people to contribute their Power or Assistance unto them Yet lest any of Our Subjects taking upon trust what those Men affirm without weighing the grounds of it or the danger to Vs themselves and the Common-wealth which would ensue thereupon should indeed beleeve what these persons would insinuate and have them to beleeve That such their Contribution and Assistance would tend to the preservation of the publike Peace and the Defence of Vs and both Houses of Parliament and that thereby they should not incur any danger We that we might not be wanting as much as in Vs lieth to foreshew and to prevent the danger which may fall thereupon Have hereby thought good to declare and publish unto all Our loving Subjects That by the Laws of the Land the power of raising of Forces or Arms or leavying of war for the defence of the Kingdom or otherwise hath always belonged to Vs and and to Vs onely and that by no Power of either or both Houses of Parliament or otherwise contrary to Our personall Commands any Forces can be raised or any war 〈…〉 And therefore by the Statute of the seventh yeer of Our famous Progenitour King Edward the first whereas there had been then some variances betwixt him and some great Lords of the Realm and upon Treaty thereupon it was agreed that in the next Parliament after provision should be made That in all Parliaments and all other Assemblies which should be in the Kingdom for ever that every man should come without Force and Armour well and peaceably Yet at the next Parliament when they met together to take advice of this Businesse though it concerned the Parliament it self the Lords and Commons would not take it upon them but answered That it belonged to the King to defend Force of Armour and all other Force against the Peace at all times when it pleased Him and to punish them which should do contrary according to the Laws and Vsages of the Realm and that they were bound to aid Him as their Soveraign Lord at all seasons when need should be And accordingly in Parliament in after times the King alone did issue His Proclamations prohibiting bearing of Arms by any person in or neer the Citie where the Parliament was excepting such of the Kings Servants as He should depute or should be deputed by His Commandment and also excepting the Kings Ministers And by the Statute of Northampton made in the second yeer of King Edward the third it is Enacted That no man of what condition soever he be except the Kings Servants in His presence and His Ministers in executing the Kings Precepts or of their Office and such as be in their company assisting them go nor ride Armed by night or day in Fairs Markets nor in the presence of the Iustices or other Ministers nor in no part elsewhere And this power of raising Forces to be solely in the King is so known and inseparable a right to the Crown That when in the reign of King Henry the eight there being a sudden Rebellion the Earl of Shrewsbury without Warrant from the King did raise Arms for the suppression thereof and happily suppressed it yet was he forced to obtain his Pardon And whereas the Duke of Gloucester and other great Lords in the eleventh yeer of King Richard the second upon pretence of the good of the King and Kingdom the King being then not of age and led away as they alleadged by evil Counsellours did raise Forces and by them mastered their Adversaries In that Parliament such as it was for it was held and kept with Force how good use soever hath been made of the Presidents therein they procured a speciall Act of Pardon for their raising of Men and that those Assemblies should not be drawn into example for the time to come And as no man can leavie War or raise Forces without the King so much lesse against the personall Commands of the King opposed thereunto For by the Statute of the 25. yeer of King Edward the third which is but Declaratory of the old Law in that point it is Treason to leavie war against the King in His Realm within the construction of which Statute it is true which was said in the late Declaration under the name of both Houses of Parliament of the 26. of May last leavying War in some sense against the Kings Authority though not intended against His Person is leavying war against the King And therefore the raising of Forces though upon pretence of removing of some evil Counsellors from about the Queen hath been adjudged Treason in the Case of the late Earle of Essex in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and in divers other Cases And we wish all Our Subjects to consider Whether if men shall be raised contrary to Our Proclamation and against Our Will it be not against Our Authority But it is as true and was never denied but in that Declaration That the raising of Forces against the Kings personall Command being no Ideot nor Infant uncapable of understanding to Command being accompanied with His presence is and is most properly leavying of War against the King For if it be a