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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	parliament_n	prerogative_n	4,918	5	10.1412	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81518	A Discourse or dialogue between the two now potent enemies: the Lord Generall Militia, and his illegall opposite Commission of Array. The first, pleading the power and lawfulnesse of his authority by the Parliament for the benefit of the subject. The other, claiming the prerogative of the King for the cavaliers.		1642 (1642)	Wing D1615; Thomason E240_28; ESTC R2966	2,875	8

A Discourse or Dialogue between the two now Potent Enemies The Lord Generall Militia and his illegall opposite Commission of Array The first Pleading the Power and lawfulnesse of his Authority by the Parliament for the benefit of the Subject The other Claiming the Prerogative of the King for the Cavaliers C_R HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT Octob 7th LONDON Printed for Thomas Bates 1642. A DIALOGVE between the Militia and Array Militia THere hath been much discourse about you and I that is about the Commission of Array and the Malitia and you have by the Parliament been formerly adjudged illegall and unlawfull Array Can that be unlawfull which is undertaken for the defence of the King to whom should the military strength of the Kingdome be subject if not to the King Mil. I allow all this and my desire as well as yours is to sacrifice my bloud in maintaining the Kings right against all such as would have him invade the priviledges of the Subject and such as seek the dissolution of the Parliament In a word I stand for the King and the Parliament you only for the King as he is carried away by the evill counsell of Malignants Array These Malignants indeed have been sufficiently railed upon and under that title have been comprised many well affected Subjects for if every one led only a loyall subjection did but afar off appeare to encline to the Kings designes he was branded with the marke of a malignant spirit so that many have by vulgar opinion been undeservedly included under that appellation Mil. Though I know Array that you are a thing created by Regall Authority and doe endeavour to affront the Militia I will shew you your first beginning and originall which we spread a blush upon your cheeke or rather conscience if you have any grace or Religion while in a briefe Narration I doe give you an account of your owne Pedigree for you are an upstart peece of the military strength of this Kingdome Array T is false I can derive my antiquity from the raignes of many former Kings wherein I have done very good service and such hath my valour been that I have in many Battels crushed the insolent Commons and brought a glorious victory to the Kings Standard Mil. You brag on wrong grounds It is the end of any action that doth merit honour your confiding in doing service for the King in opposing the Parliament is an argument built on false grounds but you are conformable in your words to your purposes and beginning For when the King through the instigation of the malignant party consisting of Papists prelaticall Clergy Delinquents and part of the Nobility and Gentry who serving the Court had combined to bury the happinesse of this Kingdome in the ruine of this Parliament and to cut up the freedome of Parliaments by the root and to erect in this Kingdome an arbitrary government then you the Commission of Array were presently thought upon and away you were carried into severall Countries by divers Noblemen there by an illegall power to raise an Army for the protection of Delinquents from the hands of Iustice first under colour of a Guard for the King you and your Commission of Array over-running severall Counties compelling the Trained Bands by force to come in and joyne with you or disarming them and putting their Armes into the hands of lewde and desperate persons thereby turned the Armes of the Kingdome against it selfe and this was your intention Array I had no such purpose but was for the safety of the kingdome and the honour of the King For it was alwayes thought fit and requisite that the King should have the ordering and disposing of the Militia of the kingdome but when you were setled and ordered by the Parliament against the Kings desire and put into such hands as they would confide in then the Commission of Array issued out not to disturbe the peace of the kingdome but to defend it as well as you or any other Militia Mil. How comes it then to passe that when the designe which had bin so long carryed on to alter the frame and constitution of this government both in Church and State was now come to ripenesse and the conteiners thereof conceived themselves arrived to that condition of strength that they should be able to put it in present execution they have now made the K. raise a great army this was your doings commission of Aray Array I was sent abroad indeed to use the utmost force I could to compell and summon them in but more came in voluntarily then by vertue of my commission the Gentry and Cavaliers freely engaging themselves in that service and such a great confluence of severall persons flocking unto the King that they needed no compassion Horse Armes and Amunition being daily brought and besides the Royall Standard which had a glorious presence in the field drew more unto it then the commission of Array Mil. If you disdaine the matter already t is likely you knew that your power was illegall standing alwayes in defiance of the Parliament and of the Militia but I hope to make you know your errour in time It is fit that Militia being a faithfull subject to the King and Parliament and standing for both against those malignants wherewith the King is now environed should be better esteemed than nothing of yesterday I meane the commission of Array Array T is false and I will make thee know thou malicious Militia thou leader on of leatherne Coates and City Round-heads that you are but a cracking noise to me what doe boyes but waste powder in the streets and so are you nothing but an invention to make away powder carrying a faire shew of a concealed affection to your King and Countrey but are led on by the instigation of weekly pay and a love you beare to opposition speake no more for Array is accounted with a sword which as I weare by my side so I dare man age for my King and Countrey Mil. I regard not your sword Array nor can your threatening language strike a terrour into me the goodnesse of my designe in defending the King and Parliament doth give me boldnesse to appeare in the field against you and your swaggering Troops of Cavaliers who having engaged themselves against their Countrey would now upon cooler bloud be glad with safety to retire I must tell you that the name of Array is odious to the people and therefore your best refuge is the countrey for here in London you would by the common sort be cut into peeces for they understand you as a direct enemy to the Common-wealth One that would intrench upon the liberty of the subjects so that by the authority of your tyrannicall power all whatsoever they possessed should be subject unto your mercy and upon any present humour if you send for their goods or for money they must deliver them up and be glad to be undone and that this could stand with Iustice was a strange opinion brought up by the malignant party under whose colors you serve Array You are deceived my desire is to save the kingdome from ruine and preserve the king in a free Monarchy for the King is resolved that he will not see Religion the Basis and foundation of a Common-wealth defaced and that he will maintaine the rights and liberties of the subject and the priviledges of Parliament and he doth solely claime this power as being the Defender of the faith and therefore seeing all his actions doe reflect on the good of the Common-wealth whereunto they ought to be directed and while the King doth beare this resolution all true subjects are bound to ayd His Majesty Mil. But if the King may force his Parliament they may bid farwell to all Parliaments and all their Laws wil be cut in sunder with the same sword now drawn for the destruction of the Parl. therefore let the Militia and Array now agree and stand for God our K. Parl. I am not far from you under the command of the E. of Essex but should be glad of this reconcilement Array If the King were so pleased I should be glad also of such an agreement FINIS