Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	county_n	justice_n	sheriff_n	3,558	5	9.5482	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58484	Remarkeable passages, first a prayer for the Parliament as also the Arch-bishop of Canterburies letter to the Arch-bishop of York and the Lord keeper to put in practice the Kings desires : with a petition to His Majestie, by divers noblemen and gentlemen estated in Ireland and now residing in London : also a new declaration from both Houses of Parliament.	Abbot, George, 1562-1633.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing R922; ESTC R13940	4,686	8

of the exhibite and so wishing but withall in his Majesties name requiring your Lordship to have a speciall and extraordinary c●●e of the premisses I leave you to the Almmighty From Croyden Sept. 4. 1622. Your Lordships very loving Brother G. Cant. The Lord Arch-Bishops Letter to the Lord Keeper BY this you see his Majesties Princely care that none should preach Christ crucified obedience to the Higher Powers and honest and Christian conversation of life but in a Religious forme and not that every young man shall take upon himselfe an exorbitant liberty to teach what hee listeth to the offence of his Majesty and the disturbance and disquiet of the Church and Common-wealth I can give your Lordship no better directions for the pursuance hereof then are prescribed to you in his Majesties Letter and the Schedule herewith sent unto you whereof I pray your Lordship to be very carefull since it is the Princely pleasure of his Highnesse to require an accompt both of you and mee for the same And so not doubting but by your Register or otherwise you will cause these instructions to bee communicated to your Clergy I leave you to the Almighty and remaine Your loving Brother CANT. To the Kings most Excellent Maiestie The humble Petition of divers Noblemen and Gentlemen Estated in Ireland now at London Humbly sheweth THat most of Your Petitioners and many thousands of Your Maiesties most faithfull Subjects and late Inhabitants of Your Kingdom of Ireland being robed and spoyled of all their substance and thereby many of them reduced to a most miserable condition who formerly faithfully served Your Majestie are now enforced to flee into this Kingdom by occasion of the unexampled bloudy and unhuman cruelties of the Rebels of that Kingdom who through the instigation of Papist Priests Friers and Iesuits and other malignant persons have risen in Armes in that Kingdom against Your Majesties Crowne and Dignity and destroyed or banished almost all your Majesties loyall and dutifull Subjects the Protestants there for no other cause but for that they doe not worship God after their Idolatrous and superstitious manner which is manyfest by their publike Declarations Speeches Oathes and Confederacies albeit some few other fond pretences are added to glosse their most barbarous actions That these four moneths past the expectation of powerfull Supplies Treasure and Ammenition from England and Scotland hath supported the drooping and languishing Spirits of your Peti●ioners and others the Protestants interessed in that Kingdom who finding but small succours hitherto sent thither notwithstanding the severall orders of both Houses of Parliament do now with unspeakable grief of heart apprehend nothing but despaire of ever being restored to their habitations if your Majesty be not graciously pleased to give life and power to the painfull endeavours of both Houses of parliament the prosecution of that War necessarily requiring a great summe of money to be presently raised And in all humility The Petitioners conceive the act lately passed by Your Majesties Royall Grace and Goodnesse upon the propositions made by those who shall adventure their moneys to bee the onely way left for raising present Money for that work And they finde that the removall of your sacred Majesty to places so remote and distant from the Parliament doth much discourage the Adventurers in advancing Moneys for effectuall proceeding in the work and consequently will be a meanes unavoidably to retard the long expected supplies contrary to Your Majesties Royall intentions often expressed and will much encourage the Rebels and their adherents in that Kingdom and may in the opinion of some as they fain gain a belief of those false reports which divers of the Rebels have taken the boldnesse to raise even very lately since the publishing of your Majesties Proclamation for suppressing the Rebels that they are your Majesties Souldiers and that the supplies that arrived here were but the Parliaments supplies And your further Petitioners humbly shew That if strong Forces be not presently raised and transported thither the season of the yeare now serving the Brittish and Protestants in that Kingdom cannot long subsist but will bee extirpated and Papists and the idolatrous Masse thereby established which is already publikely used in most of the Churches of that Kingdom May it therefore please Your most sacred Majesty to reflect upon the desprate and miserable condition of that poor Kingdom and waying the Premisses and other the consequences of delaying the effectuall setting forward of the War against the Rebels in Ireland of Your Princely goodnesse and wisedome to vouchsafe Your Maiesties presexce unto Your Parliament for the incouragement of the Adventurers and all other your Maiesties good Subiects in this pious work for the discouragement of the Rebels and for expediting such further Acts Commissions and Warrants to issue as shall be requisite for the preservation of the remnant of Your good Subiects the Protestants yet left in Ireland or driven for the present thereout And Your Suppliants will pray c. A NEW DECLARATION FROM BOTH Houses of PARLIAMENT THe Lords and Commons in Parliament do declare That it is against the Lawes and Liberties of the Kindom that any of the Subjects thereof should be commanded by the King to attend him at his pleasure but such as are bound thereto by speciall Service and that whosoever upon pretence of his Maiesties command shall take Armes and gather together with others in a warlike manner to the terror of the Kings people shall bee esteemed disturbers of the publick peace and to do that which may introduce a president of very dangerous consequence for the future and produce most mischievous effects for the present considering the great distempers of the Kingdom and what pernicious Councellors and Incendiaries are now about the King and how desperate and ill affected divers persons attending upon his Majesty have shewed themselves to the Parliament and to his other good Subiects threatning and reproaching them publikely even in His Maiesties presence and for preventing and avoiding such great mischiefes as may thereupon ensue It is Ordered and Ordained by both Houses of Parliament That if the Trained-band or any other his Majesties Subjects shall upon pretence of any such command be drawn together and put into a posture of war the Sheriffe of that County where there shall be such raising or drawing together of armed men Doe forthwith raise the power of the County to suppresse them and to keep his Majesties peace according to the Law And that the Lord Lieutenants Iustices of the Peace and all other his Majesties Subjects bee aiding and assisting to the severall and respective Sheriffs in performance hereof as they will answer the contrary at their perill Hen. Elisyng Cler. Parl. D. Com. FINIS