Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	constable_n	justice_n	warrant_n	3,871	5	9.8211	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34782	A most true and exact relation of that as honourable as unfortunate expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester by M.C., a loyall actor in that engagement, Anno Dom. 1648.	Carter, Matthew, fl. 1660.	1650 (1650)	Wing C662; ESTC R18227	90,623	268

little began to take heart againe as thinking themselves secure from any opposition or Inconveniencie being amongst our professed Friends When our condition gave another reverse and was like to change for the worse then ever before For after he had run through so many difficulties and wearied out with so tedious marches our Soldiers ready almost to fall downe in the Street for want of foode to sustaine them we were like to fall into another encounter with adverse fortune The Generall notwithstanding his great age which might easily have dis-inabled him from such toyle yet as if he had beene absolutely Indefatigable or else miraculously nourisht not receiving almost any rest or sleepe for the space of foure daies and three nights and yet not seeming to want any posted immediately away againe to Chelmsford where the Gentry of the Country were met giving order for the Quartering that shattered Army in Stratford till further orders from him But when Quarter-master Generall Carter had sent for the Constable and given him Orders accordingly The Constable seeming to goe about in obedience to his Warrant whilst by some other Gentlemen he was civilly and honourably treated as a stranger makes no long stay ere he returned againe accompanied with three or four burly Gentlemen as I conceive Justices of Peace of that part of the Country who making it their businesse began to question the Quarter-master Generall of his Authority of Quartering an Army in that Country intimating that they were all quiet before and at peace amongst themselves and with the Parliament and that the Parliament had granted them what they desired and had sent them an Act of Indempnity But we bringing an Army into their County should draw down the Parliaments Army upon them and make it a Seat of Warre and they could not any way condescend that we should fix a Quarter there it being no way for their safety but like to prove the readiest way to their destruction Cheerfull expressions to men that had run through so many hazards and confused difficulties Having let our own Country to the Cruelty of a most barbarous and mercilesse Enemy to come as by an abolute associated engagement to their assistance whereby we hoped to be strong enough to break the bonds and tear off the shackles from our most inhumanly imprisoned Soveraign and unnaturally enslaved Country-men and now no sooner entred the Confines of their County from whence so many publick Declarations of their Loyall and sincere Intentions had flowne abroad throughout the Kingdom and so late checked the Insolence of the proud Enemy and beaten them off from forcing a violent incursion upon it and to have such an unexpected welcome was too harsh and severe and might have proved very mischievous if resented by the inferiour sort of the Army whose fury knowes little or no more when enflamed with so just a discontent But the Quarter-master Generall returned them this Answer in short That for the power by which he Quartered that Army it was by Commission from the Generall and that he quartered them in that place by immediate Command also from him But for our comming into that Country it concerned him not to dispute it neither could he give any other account then the Engagement between both Counties and the Generall the Earl of Norwich But if they should desire any further satisfaction to their desires they must receive it from the Lord Generall himselfe But the Generall being gone to Chelmsford Sir Will Compton being Major Generall hearing of this dispute came also to them and gave the like satisfaction but would not long dispute the businesse with them knowing nothing at all of them nor by what Authority they were empowred to make those interrogatories And now our Blouds being hardly coole since the last Affront when heated again by this new and the consideration of the sad successe of our so just and honourable Designes almost boyling to fury resolved to Quarter there till we should againe receive Orders from the Generall and then in case the businesse of the Country should prove so contrary to our hopes and the expectations of the whole Kingdome as to answer the expressions of those men of Beliall to March on forcing our way through all obstructions till we should find a party to joyne with or be destroyed in the Field that we might thereby win an Honourable Liberty or Tombe Here we Quartered till Wednesday in the afternoon it being Sunday morning when we came thither still keeping the Enemy in some play who lay with their Guards within half a mile of us and their Scouts still pekiering with us at Bow Townes end All which time the Earl of Norwich continued at Chelmsford agitating the businesse with the Gentlemen of the County and minding to what it would turne there who had not long before put forth this declaratory Engagement The Engagement or Declaration of the Grand Jury Free holders and other Inhabitants of the County of Essex in prosecution of their late Petition presented to both Houses WE the Grand Jury Free-holders and other the Inhabitants of the said County in the prosecution of the said Petition doe Engage our selves one to another and Declare 1. That we will not pay any more Exoise or other Taxes till all the desires expressed in our said Petition be obtained by us 2. That we will admit of no Souldiers to come into our County but such as agree with us in our said Petition and in this Engagement 3. That we will imploy our utmost endeavours to preserve and defend our Royall King Charles His Kingly Government the Subjects Liberty and the known Lawes of this Kingdome That is to say the Common and Statute Lawes and will never submit our selves to any other kind of Lawes much lesse to any Arbitrary power whatsoever 4. That we will protect and defend one another and all that shall adhere to us in the pursuance performance and keeping of this Engagement And that if any Inhabitant of our County shall refuse to joyne with us herein we shall esteeme him a person dis-affected to the Peace and welfare of the same But notwithstanding this Engagement they were yet backward enough in prosecuting any thing to the purpose in answer to their Petition or Association here When his Excellency came he found the greatest part of the Gentry of the County met but all business so dis-joyn'd and so strangely confused as there seemed almost an impossibility of any good to proceed from that so high Engagement and mountainous Conception And our party consequently left as inconsiderable to be cut in pieces by a most cruell Enemy who had already possessed themselves of our whole Country ruin'd our Friends made lavish havock of our Estates and having proclaimed us Traytors for comming thither for their assistance would prove as undoubtedly prodigall of our lives if ever we should fall under their power The distraction indeed was so great that the Gentlemen and Commoners who came there with