Selected quad for the lemma: peace_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
peace_n	justice_n	quarter_n	session_n	5,031	5	10.5854	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87750	A discovery of the arbitrary, tyrannicall, and illegall actions of some of the committee of the county of Lincoln, occasioned by a charge given to the grand jury at the Quarter Sessions of the peace held at Folkingham in the county aforesaid, upon the 5 of Octob. 1646. / By Edvvard King, of Marton in the county aforesaid Esquire, Justice of the Peace for that part of the county: wherein is set forth the exorbitancy of the said committee men, who transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances, and broak the solemn vow, League and covenant; with severall warrants under their hands for the cleer and evident proof of the same.	King, Edward, of Marton, Lincolnshire.	1647 (1647)	Wing K492; Thomason E373_3; ESTC R201324	20,581	34

A DISCOVERY of the Arbitrary Tyrannicall and illegall Actions of some of the Committee of the County of Lincoln Occasioned by a charge given to the grand Jury at the Quarter Sessions of the peace held at FOLKINGHAM in the County aforesaid upon the 5 of Octob. 1646. BY EDVVARD KING of Marton in the County aforesaid Esquire Justice of the Peace for that part of the County Wherein is set forth the exorbitancy of the said Committee men who transgressed the Laws changed the Ordinances and broak the Solemn Vow League and Covenant with severall Warrants under their hands for the cleer and evident proof of the same ISAIAH 3. 14 15. The Lord will enter into Judgement with the Ancients of his people and the Princes thereof for ye have eaten up the Vineyard the spoil of the poor is in your houses What mean ye that ye beat my people to peeces and grind the faces of the poor saith the Lord God of Hosts London Printed 1647. To the Honourable the House of COMMONS the humble Petition of EDVVARD KING of Grays Inn in the County of Middlesex Esquire Sheweth THat having according to his Oath and Duty being a Justice of the Peace given a charge to the Jury at Folkingham Sessions in the County of Lincoln the Sectaries and some of the Committees of that County have unjustly and unduly prosecuted your Petitioner for the same pretending that the Excise was obstructed Whereupon Master Corbet a Member of this Honourable House sent a Warrant for Your Petitioner to attend the Committee of Lords and Commons for regulating the Excise where Your Petitioner was examined upon intergatories without the knowledge or Order of this Honourable House and grievously vexed and troubled by the indicted Delinquents being Ordered by that very Committee to prove and make good by testimony the indictment taken before him and other Justices of the Peace at the quarter Sessions and found by the Grand Jury upon Oath a ready way as he humbly conceives to subvert all Legall proceedings of Iustice and discourage all Iustices of the peace for doing their duty Your petitioner having done nothing but his Duty giving in charge to the Iury that Your Ordinances ought to be obeyed and that such as by colour of them oppressed and poled the people to Your dishonour as the Excise men had done ought to be presented That not long after Mr Scawen a Member of Your Honourable House upon the false and malicious complaint of some of the Committee of Lincolnshire who indeavoured to bring a double evil upon him at once without the hearing of Your petitioners just defence or any notice thereof given unto him presented a Letter to Your Honourable House and two papers signed under Your petitioners hand representing great obstructions in the Assessments for Sir Thomas Fairfax his Army occasioned by Your petitioner together with false and unperfect notes stiled the notes of a charge delivered by Col. Edward King at the last quarter Sessions since which time according to Order of Your House dated the fourth of December Your petitioner hath tendred his humble Answer hereunto annexed for his just defence the which the Committee of the Army to whom it was referred to examine the whole business have rejected and examine such persons who prosecute the complaint against Your petioner as witnesses against him the which as Your petitioner humbly conceives is against the fundamentall Laws of this Kingdome and distructive to the liberty of the Subject all which he refers to the Iustice wisdome and piety of this honourable house And prayeth that he may be protected by authority of Parliament according to the Law and that his accusers may receive condigne punishment for their Offences and likewise that Your Petitioner may bee dismist from further attendance with honourable satisfaction and reparations against his false accusers who have wrongfully and maliciously prosecuted complaints against him almost this three years last past before severall Committees against whose faithfulness they have not been neither are they able to prove any thing materiall And Your Petitioner c. To the honourable the Committee of LORDS and COMMONS for Regulating the Army The humble Answer of EDWARD KINGE of Grays Inn in the County of Middlesex Esquire to the false scandalous and malicious information of William Bury Norrice Cave Thomas Lister John Archer and William Savill Committee-men for the County of Lincolne occasioned by a charge given to the Iury at the quarter Sessions of the peace held at Folkingham in the parts of Kestiven in the County of Lincolne upon the fifth of October 1646. By the said EDWARD KINGE THis Defendant saith That he hath been always active diligent and forward to put in execution all the Ordinances and Orders of Parliament and to possesse the Subjects of this Realm with a right understanding of the Declarations Protestations Oaths and Covenants set forth by both Houses of Parliament and of their loyalty and fidelity to his Majesty and their justice zeal to maintain the Rights Liberties of the Subject against al Arbitrary proceedings unjust oppressions by any instruments whatsoever And hath ever been much agrieved and doth think it strange that after so many Declarations and solemn Protestations made to God and the people by both Houses of Parliament of their said resolutions That some of the Committee for Lincolnshire should hope to receive incouragement to issue out the Warrants hereafter expressed so contrary to the Laws of the Land the Ordinances Orders Declarations and Votes of Parliament and so full of danger and inconveniences to all the Subjects of that County which if admitted will be a heavier yoke of bondage upon the people then that of Ship mony the high Commission or any other illegall charge which hath been taken away this Parliament as intollerable grievances And for that it is pretended that the said Warrants and arbitrary proceedings of the Committee are warranted by the Ordinances of Parliament by which they act This defendant saith that for the clear manifestation of the untruth thereof he humbly prays the Judgement of this honourable Committee the said Warrants being in these words Many of them concerning personall differences between party and party the which by severall Votes of the House of Commons they are prohibited to intermedle with To Thomas Boxolme of Fulletby 1. WHereas Iohn Gell of Houghton in the Moore was ordered by us to pay unto you a debt upon a Bond of twelve pounds which he paid accordingly and you refuse to deliver unto him the said Bond which is in your custody This is therefore to will and require you upon notice hereof to deliver unto the said John Gell the said Bill or Bond Ma. Whichcott Iohn Barnard Tho. Nethercotts or otherwise to appear before us upon December 6. next to shew cause to the contrary And hereof fail you not in any wise Given at Lincolne November the 16. 1644. To the Mayor Bayliffs Constables and the Inhabitants of