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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	government_n	king_n	monarchy_n	2,757	5	9.5091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76984	VVhat kinde of Parliament vvill please the King; and hovv vvell he is affected to this present Parliament· Gathered out of his owne papers, by A.J.B.	A. J. B.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing B35; Thomason E155_12; ESTC R13834	2,951	7

VVhat kinde of PARLIAMENT Will please THE KING AND HOW WELL HE Is affected to this present PARLIAMENT Gathered out of his owne Papers By A. J. B. London Printed 1642. THE KINDE OF Parliament which the King likes SUch as consists of such persons in the House of Peers as he shall thinke good to honour wherein Answ to the 19. Prop. p. 24. the Votes of Popish Lords shall be of force though they be absent for their ease and security some such Lords may have their Votes as they shall chuse Who it may be will doe more with them then if they themselves should give them Such as may not interpret or declare Lawes Pag. 2. without himselfe which yet the Judges and inferiour Courts may doe whose Orders and Ordinances binde not to obedience Who may not command the people to defend themselves and Kingdome But hee himselfe may raise extraordinary Pag. 16. forces though there be neither actuall rebellion nor invasion Such a one wherein hee hath a negative Pag. 3. voice to grant or deny They must not meddle with matters of other Answ to the Petit. June 17. Pag. 7. 11. Courts Not place Preachers unlesse the Bishops will nay every Parson They must not nominate fit Councellors to Him when they sit not though they leave Him to choose such a Councell as he pleaseth for his owne private affaires They may not retaine the Members of their Pag. 3 Houses who are his Household servants or employed or sent for by him Though if they doe not then because the Houses will be but thin and not numerous they are not to be esteemed as Parliament but a faction and Answ to the Decla May 2● Pag. ● those with him are to be listned to rather then They. They must punish such as meete together to Pag. 11. Petition Them for such a meeting is a Riot as those are called who met in Southwarke and would not let the Constable take away their Petition but must not punish those who either force the people through feare or suppresse them by cunning as it was in London Cornewall c. or gather together tumultuously to seeke the abolition of what Lawes are newly made and to bring this to his owne desire as in Kent Such a one as may not though a Constable Sheriffe c. may raise any forces to put their Orders or Decrees in execution and subdue Answ to the D●c● May 26. Pag. 20. those that resist them for in his Proclamation that 's Treason Or whom he hath Authority to call them together so to tell them what they are to doe Answ to the Declar. May 19. pag. 4. to May 26. Pag 3. They are but Usurpers of the name of Parliament in their Votes and resolutions unlesse the King consent Who can imagine the King will raise Armes against such a Parliament The Kings Judgement of those who sit in both Houses of Parliament REmovers of the Law as a rub in their way Answ to 19. Prop. pag. 2. Underminers of the very Foundations of the Law Assumers of a new Power to Themselves Tending to a pure Arbitrary Power Erecters of an upstart Authority They have wrested from Us our Magazine and Towne of Hull and bestrid Sir John Hotham in his boldfaced Treason VVeakeners of our just Authority and due esteeme of strange shamelesnesse Pag. 3. Such to whom our good Subjects dare not offer to pre 〈…〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 ne just grievances our Sufferings and then ●●nse of the violation of the Law VVho have seized on the money the King had borrowed to buy him bread The Actions of both Houses have a strong Pag. 5. influence from the subtill Informations mischievous practises and evill Councells of Ambitious turbulent spirits disaffected to Gods true Religion Our Honour and safety the publike peace and prosperity of the people VVho would have Us divert Our selves of Pag. 6. Our Power and assume them unto it VVho take care to dishonour Us in other Pag. 7. Nations They endeavour to transforme this Kingdome Pag. 8. into a new Utopia of Religion and Government Indeavourers to fetch downe to the ground Pag. 9. our just ancient Regall power Who demand in effect at once to depose our Pag. 10. Selfe and our Power Disturbers of the course of Law countenancers Pag. 11. of Riots discountenancers of Law They meane Us no more power then one of Pag. 15. Our Councellors Who neither take care for Our Right Honour Pag. 16. Safety as a Prince nor as a private person That we may not only be in a more despicable way then any of Our Predecessors but in a meaner and viler condition then the lowest of Our Subjects Incouraged and inabled by a Malignant party Pag. 20. to countenance injustice and indignities offered to Us. Beginners of a War against Us. Pag. 30. Desirers of a generall combustion The now Major part of both Houses are infected Answ to the Decla May 19. Pag. 1. by a few Malignant spirits Blasters of his Declaration with a bold and senselesse imputation Pag. 10. Their Petitions bold threatning reprochfull Pag. 11. Before whose eyes a strange mist of error is cast by a few impudent malicious men to give them no worse tearme Their odious Votes and the greatest violation Pag. 12. Answ to the Decla May 26. Pag. 3. of our Priviledges the Law of the Land Liberty of the Subject and the Right of Parliament One of which is such as there needs no other to destroy King and People and that Vote is That when the Lords and Commons declare what the Law of the Land is it must be assented to and obeyed Who have not dispatched one Act which Pag. 15. hath given the least evidence of their particular affection and kindnesse to Us but have discountenanced and hindered other Mens Their Declaration the contrivance of a few factious seditious persons a Malignant party who would sacrifice the Common-wealth to their owne fury and ambition They endeavour by all possible meanes to Answ to the Decla May 26. Pag. 1. Pag. 2. render Us odious to our good Subjects and contemptible to all forreigne Princes Whose designe is and alwaies hath been to alter the government of Church and State and to subject King and People to their own lawlesse arbitrary power and government Though they Pag. 5. have no minde to be Slaves they are not unwilling to be Tyrants Ungratefull men without modesty and duty Pag. 6. We are in a miserable condition in their security as all persons will be who depend on them Alterers of the government of Church and Pag. 11. State They make themselves perpetuall Dictators over the King and People They have endeavoured to render Us odious Pag. 19. to Our Subjects and Them disloyall to Us. The fury and malice of these men will bring misery and burthen upon the people From whom we expect the worst Actions Pag. 29. these men have power to commit against Us. worse words they cannot give They designe the ruine of Our Person and of Monarchy Their position is They may depose Us Pag. 28. when they will and are not to be blamed for doing so Concerning those The King will never and he hopes the people Answ to the Decl. May 19. Pag. 15. will never account their contrivance the wisedome of a Parliament nor justifie and defend them Hee doubts not but that all our good Answ to the Decla May 26. Pag. 2. Subjects doe discerne through the Maske and Vizard of their hypocrisie and will looke no more on the Framers and Contrivers of that Declaration as Houses of Parliament but as a Faction of Malignant Schismaticall and Ambitious Spirits Hee beleeves good Subjects will finde some Pag. 29. way to let them and the world know how sutable their demands are to the Affection of loving Subjects Who can but think that he will seeke the subduing and subversion of these