Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	act_n	house_n	king_n	3,092	5	4.1401	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78940	His Maiesties most gracious message, May the 12th. from Holdenby, to the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England, assembled at Westminster, and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland; with his answer to the propositions.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1647 (1647)	Wing C2511; Thomason E388_19; ESTC R201514	3,848	12

and hopes that herein he is not mistaken his Majestie will give aboundant satisfaction to which end he is willing by Act of Parliament That the whole power of the Militia both by Sea and Land for the space of tenne yeares bee in the hands of such persons as the two Houses shall nominate giving them power during the said terme to change the said persons and substitute others in their places at pleasure and afterwards to returne to the proper channell againe as it was in the times of Queene Elizabeth and King Iames of blessed memory And now his Majestie conjures his two Houses of Parliament as they are Englishmen and lovers of Peace by the dutie they owe to his Majestie their King and by the bowells of compassion they have to their fellow Subjects that they will accept of this his Majesties offer whereby the joyfull newes of Peace maybe restored to this languishing Kingdome his Majestie will grant the like to the Kingdome of Scotland if it be desired and to agree to all things that are propounded touching the conserving of peace betwixt the two Kingdomes Touching Ireland other things being agreed His Majestie will give satisfaction therein As to the mutuall Declarations proposed to be established in both Kingdomes by Act of Parliament And the Modifications Qualifications and Branches which follow in the Propositions His Majesty onely professes that He doth not sufficiently understand nor is able to reconcile many things contained in them but this He well knoweth That a general Act of Oblivion is the best Bond of Peace and that after intestine Troubles the wisdome of this and other Kingdomes hath usually and happily in all ages granted generall Pardons whereby the numerous discontentments of many Persons and Families otherwise exposed to ruine might not become fewell to new disorders or feedes to future troubles His Majesty therefore desires that his two Houses of Parliament would seriously descend into these considerations and likewise tenderly look upon his Condition herein and the perpetual dishonour that must cleave to him if He shall thus abandon so many persons of Condition and Fortune that have ingaged themselves with and for Him out of a sense of Duty and propounds as a very acceptable testimony of their affection to him That a generall Act of Oblivion and free Pardon be forthwith passed by Act of Parliament Touching the now great Seal His Majesty is very willing to confirme both it and all the Acts done by vertue thereof untill this present time so that it be not thereby pressed to make voyd those Acts of his done by vertue of his great Seale which in honour and justice he is obliged to maintaine And that the future Government thereof may be in his Majesty according to the due course of Law Concerning the Officers mentioned in the 19. Article His Majesty when he shall come to Westminster will gratifie his Parliament all that possibly he may without destroying the alterations which are necessary for the Crown His Majesty will willingly consent to the Act for the confirmation of the Priviledges and Customes of the City of London and all that is mentioned in the Propositions for their particuler advantage And now that His Majesty hath thus far indeavoured to comply with the desires of his two Houses of Parliament to the end that this agreement may be firme and lasting without the least face or question of restraint to blemish the same his Majesty earnestly desires presently to bee admitted to his Parliament at Westminster with that Honour which is due to their Soveraigne there solemnly to confirme the same and legally to passe the Acts before mentioned and to give and receive as well satisfaction in all the remaining particulars as likewise such other pledges of mutuall love trust and confidence as shall most concerne the good of him and his people upon which happy agreement his Majesty will dispatch his Directions to the Prince his Son to returne immediately to him and will undertake for his ready obedience thereunto For the Speaker of the Lords House pro tempore to be communicated to the Lords and Commons in the Parliament of England at Westminster and the Commissioners of the Parliament of Scotland FINIS