Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02058	His Majesties declaration to all his loving subjects, concerning the treasonable conspiracy against his sacred person and government lately discovered. Appointed to be read in all churches and chappels within this kingdom. By his Majesties special command.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1683 (1683)	Wing C2998A; ESTC R173754	5,452	12

His Majesties DECLARATION TO All His Loving Subjects Concerning the TREASONABLE CONSPIRACY Against His Sacred Person and Government Lately Discovered Appointed to be Read in all Churches and Chappels within this Kingdom By His Majesties Special Command CR EDINBUGH Re-Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to his most Sacred Majesty 1683. At the Court at Whitehall This 27th of July 1683. By the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council IT is this day Ordered by His Majesty in Council That this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published PHIL. LLOYD Haly-rud-house the seventh day of August 1683. THe Lords of His Majesties Privy Council Do give Order and Warrand that this under-written Declaration from His Sacred Majestie be forthwith Re-printed and Published WIL. PATERSON Cls. Sti. Concilij HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION To all His Loving Subjects concerning the Treasonable Conspiracy against His Sacred Person and Government lately Discovered Appointed to be Read in all Churches and Chappels within this Kingdom CHARLES R. IT hath been Our Observation That for several Years last past a Malevolent Party hath made it their Business to Promote Sedition by False News Libellous Pamphlets and other wicked Arts whereby they Endevoured not only to Render Our Government Odious and Our most Faithful Subjects Suspected to the People but even to Incite them to a Dislike and Hatred of Our Royal Person Whereupon it was evident to Us That the Heads of this Party could have no other Aim but the Ruine of Us and Our Government And whilst by Our utmost Care We manifested to all Our Subjects Our Zeal for the Maintenance of the Protestant Religion and Our Resolutions to Govern according to Law It was a great Trouble to Us to find That Evil Persons by Misrepresenting Our Actions to the People should so far Insinuate themselves into the Affections of the weaker Sort as that they looked upon Them as the only Patriots and Assertors of their Religion and Liberties and gave themselves up entirely to their Conduct As their Numbers increased so did their Boldnesse to that height That by often shewing themselves in Tumults and Ryots and Unlawful and Seditious Conventicles They not only Engaged but Proclaimed an Impunity to their own Party who thought themselves already too strong for the Laws and they seemed to believe That in a short time they should gain upon the People so as to perswade them to a total Defection from the Government But it pleased God by these their violent Ways to Open the Eyes of Our good Subjects who easily Foresaw what Troubles these Methods would Produce And thereupon with great Courage as well as Duty and Affection towards Us upon all Occasions did Manifest their Resolution and Readinesse in Defence of Our Person and Support of Our Government and the Religion Established And did likewise Convince the Common People of the Villanous Designs of their Factious Leaders and the Miseries that would befal them in pursuing such Courses By these means the Factious Party lost Ground dayly and finding that it was impossible to keep up the Spirits of their Followers against the Religion Established and the Laws whilst We were Steady in the Maintenance and Execution of them became Desperate and Resolved not to Trust any longer to the slow Methods of Sedition but to betake themselves to Arms not doubting but that they remained still strong enough by Force to Overturn the Government which they could not Undermine It is hard to imagine how men of so many different Interests and Opinions could joyn in any Enterprize but it is certain They readily Concurred in the Resolution of taking Arms to Destroy the Government even before they had Agreed what to set up in the place of it To which purpose they took several Ways For whilst some were Contriving a General Insurrection in this Kingdom and likewise in Scotland Others were Conspiring to Assassinate Our Royal Person and Our Dearest Brother and to Massacre the Magistrates of Our City of London and Our Officers of State That there might be no Appearance of Government nor any Means for Our Subjects to Vnite for their Defence In case it had pleased God to permit these wicked Designs to have taken Effect There could have been nothing in Prospect but Confusion For instead of the Reformation they pretended their Success would have produced Divisions and Wars among themselves untill the Predominant Party could have Enslaved the rest and the whole Kingdom But the Divine Providence which hath preserved Vs through the whole Course of Our Life hath at this time in an Extraordinary manner shewed it self in the Wonderful and Gracious Deliverance of Vs and Our Dearest Brother and all Our Loyal Subject from this Horrid and Damnable Conspiracy As it is therefore Our desire that all Our Loving Subjects should joyn with Vs in giving Thanks to Almighty God for this Mercy so We thought it necessary they should be now in some measure Informed of the Fact as it hath been Discovered to Vs by undoubted Proof and the Confession of divers of the Accomplices in this Conspiracy whereof though We have not as yet perfectly Traced all the Particulars the Principal and main Designs of it neverthelesse have appeared to be as followeth About the beginning of October last when the Heads of the Faction saw the Magistracy of Our City of London Settled in Persons of Loyal Principles they became impatient and fell immediately to Consult of Rising in Arms for which some thought their Party so well prepared that they could not fail of attaining their Ends whenever they should break out into open Force Whereupon there was a Meeting of some of the Principal Conspirators to Agree about the best means to Master Our Guards and to Seize Our Person but upon Consideration they found it necessary to prepare their Friends in the several Counties as also the Disaffected Party in Scotland to joyn with them without which any Attempt in Our said City or upon Our Guards appeared too rash to be undertaken so that they laid aside the thoughts of a present Rising and disposed themselves to find by a Correspondence with Scotland and with several parts of this Our Kingdom how far they might be Assisted by a General Insurrection so that they might not in Humane probability fail of Success Whilst this first Design was Forming some Villains were likewise carrying on that Horrid and Execrable Plot of Assassinating Our Royal Person and Our Dearest Brother in Our coming from Newmarket and Mony was deposited for that purpose But by the shortness of the time We being then immediatly upon our Return and for want of necessary Preparations they were forced to defer the Execution of it till further Opportunity It was then proposed among them Whether they should Attempt the same at Our next going to Newmarket in March last But some objected That Our Guards which usually remain here some time after Our Departure would be capable of making