Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	king_n	people_n	tyranny_n	2,786	5	9.5807	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82204	A declaration of the officers belonging to the brigade of Col. Iohn Lambert, commander in cheif [sic] in the northern parts, now lying leaguer before Pontefract Castle, at a general meeting of them, to advise upon (and declare their sence of) the present condition of affairs of the kingdom, to his Excellency the Lord General Fairfax and his General Councel. As also Col. Lambert's letter to the General concerning the same. By the appointment of the officers at a general meeting. Pontefract, Decemb. 12. Signed, Tho. Margetts.		1648 (1648)	Wing D729; Thomason E477_10; ESTC R205538	5,222	8

had engaged altogether without Cause and gained nothing by all our losses hazards and sufferings but to be thrown at last into the cruel hands of our most implacable enemies And therefore conclude that all Members of Parliament or other publique persons acting such designs are betrayers of their trust and perverters of the very end and essence of the power committed to them charging upon them the cause of the Kingdoms present unsetledness distraction oppression and of all our and their fears and miseries So that We cannot longer be silent Spectators of the Kingdoms impending ruin nor upholders of those that seek it least thereby we should be involved in their guilt and make defection from our first principles but humbly conceive that we are still bound in duty and conscience to prosecute and pursue to the utmost of our powers with our lives and fortunes those principles of Freedom and Justice that by the Parliaments Declarations Remonstrances c. we were at first called forth to act upon in opposition the Kings unjust unlimited will for the recovery and defence of the common Rights and Freedoms of the people greatly rejoycing to see so generall a sympathy in all your Forces and the wel-affected by their several Addresses to you and cannot but take special notice of Gods great goodness to this poor Nation in preparing and providentially disposing a people in the several corners thereof to stand up for Truth and Justice in a time of such woful corruption and apostacy wherein many men in publike trusts and places perverting the true end of the power they are entrusted with study nothing more then the advancing of their own ends and interests Neither will the same Ground and Principle which led us forth at the beginning of the Wars to oppose Tyranny and Oppression in the King and his Adherents now give us leave to sit down quietly as long as we see the Authority and Power of the Kingdom setting up the same Tyranny and Oppression in their own or any other Interest whatsoever or the Parliament taking away that due and just Liberty of the Peoples chosing their own Representatives by making themselves perpetual and thereby in a short time the little finger of this latter heavyer then the loyns of the former Oppression All which having seriously considered and that all ordinary means by the Petitions and cries of the well-affected have been tryed in vain when nothing was expected by us and them but sudden destruction we received and perused a Copy of your late Remonstrance presented to the Parliament wherein we find the grand Case of the Kingdom very faithfully and discerningly stated and laid open together with a wise and full discovery of the chief Maladies Distempers with sutable Prescriptions for its cure and recovery We could not but express one full approbation of and free concurrence in the said Remonstrance what cause we have to bless God who hath raised in you such a Spirit of discerning Wisdom and Justice which we hope proceed from Principles of Common Right for the publique Good and Interest of the Kingdom together with our humble Opinions that the matters therein contained are most necessary to be prosecuted and obtained as the most visible and probable means for releeving and setling the Nation And though they may seem as civil things not so properly to come from the Army yet seeing deliverance no other way and providence calling in a necessary and extraordinary Case to walk in an extraordinary Way We know that God by whom you are called who hath so often so eminently so experimentally appeared both to you and us in our faithful endeavors and great hazards for the Kingdoms Rights will as●uredly upon your walking after him in the way of his Providence and humble waiting on him in the way of his Judgments without impatiency and distemper of spirit make your way plain before you carry you through and honor you with being the happy Instruments of Redemption and Deliverance to a poor dying Kingdom Our great desire therefore is That the said Remonstrance may be speedily and effectually acted upon with such Wisdom Caution Self-Denial Care and Consideration as that both the common and bosom Enemy may be prevented in their present or future obstructing opposing Designs may not have time and advantage to raise new divisions troubles and these good conceptions which God hath thus begotten in you and through you Remonstrated to the Kingdom in which all the well-affected free ingenious spirits will most readily close and freely act with you may not become an untimely birth as heretofore but prosecuted to the life so as the whole Kingdom may reap the fruit of all our labors and its own sufferings Though we shall not take upon us to advise or direct your Councel in the prosecution thereof yet we take the boldness to offer our sense and thoughts desiring That as on the one hand your actings may be full and effectual so on the other care may be taken that they may be with as much satisfaction as can to all such tender spirits as do agree with you in the justness and goodness of the things proposed but notwithstanding are not so clear in using of that means that you may be forced to take for that end That the same care may be had for the taking away of all present and future objections of wilful and unnecessary force and that all impartial men may be satisfied that your actings proceed not from your Wills or Interest nor shal extend further then singly and clearly to the redeeming of the just Liberty of this Nation and the setling of it in peace and quietness To all which we we shall humbly and briefly offer That only such things may be insisted on as may put a reasonable and certain period to this present Parliament and may for the future establish free successive Parliaments duly elected according to the Provision in the Remonstrance That there may be a sure provision made for the more equal distributions of Elections through the whole Kingdom That no persons engaged in this War against the Parliament may either elect or be elected to be members of Parliament That some certain Provision may be made that no persons that may be elected Members of Parliament contrary to the Provision in the Remonstrance may be admitted thereto before they are tryed whether duly elected accordingly and approved by some faithful men to be carefully chosen appointed and authorized to judg thereof All which being setled the Army provided for so as no free Quarter may be taken and such other common and ordinary things as concern the administration of common Justice the present quiet of the Kingdom and all other things whatsoever may be left to the power and disposal of the next free and duly elected Parliament which we conceive may be the most proper instrument in the hand of God for setting the Kingdom These Ends and Principles so long as you are carried forth to pursue which we hope you never will forsake you may be assured of our concurrence and assistance to the utmost of our powers Pontefract Decem. 12. 1648. By the Appointment of the Officers at a general Meeting Signed THO. MARGETTS May it please your Excellency THis day according to former appointment there was a general Meeting of Officers here who resolved upon a Declaration to be presented to your Lordship and your general Councel and appointed Captain Bayns with Captain Bradford to wait on your Excellency therewith and to give you an account of their proceedings They have desired me to acquaint your Excellency that they have appointed a standing Councel of Officers to meet on Friday every week to receive consult and advise upon such publique affairs as your Excellency or your general Councel shall think fit from time to time to communicate to them for keeping a right understanding and mutual correspondency between the Forces that there may be a joynt acting in this publique Service They also desire those Officers may be admitted to sit with your general Councel to the end they may receive the better information and have account of such publique affairs wherein they may be concerned And this is all at the present from Pontefract Dec. 12. 1648. My Lord Your Excellencies humble and faithful Servant J. LAMBERT

A DECLARATION OF THE Officers belonging to the Brigade OF Col. Iohn Lambert Commander in cheif in the Northern Parts now lying Leaguer before Pontefract Castle At a General Meeting of them to advise upon and declare their sence of the present condition of Affairs of the Kingdom To his Excellency the Lord General FAIRFAX and his General Councel As also Col. LAMBERT'S Letter to the General concerning the same BY the Apointment of the Officers at a General Meeting Pontefract Decemb. 12. Signed THO. MARGETTS LONDON Printed by John Macock for JOHN PARTRIDGE 1648. A Declaration of the Officers of Colonel Lamberts Brigade c. May it please your Excellency DIvers of us at a late meeting did make a short address by Letter unto your Lordship and your General Councel of what was thought fit at that present until a more general meeting and consideration might be had of those things we both before and then had in our thoughts to present unto you And being now convened at a full meeting deeply sensible and clearly satisfied in our judgments of the present dangerous posture and sad condition of the Kingdom in relation to the Treaty and other publike affairs We have agreed on the behalf of our selves and the rest of the Officers and Souldiers under our Commands to express unto you that sence and those humble desires which God hath been pleased to put into our hearts thereupon as followeth At the beginning of these late differences the Parliament having acquainted the Kingdom with the Kings Intentions to draw the Sword of War against them for the maintaining of His Own Arbitrary Power and by their several Declarations Remonstran●●s c. given clear satisfaction to all the well affected of the justness of a defensive War and thereby inciting and incouraging all as they tendred their Native Rights and Freedoms to rise in Arms for their defence We were induced out of judgment and conscience to appear accordingly and have ever since imployed and used our utmost endeavors to the great hazard of our lives estates and all that was dear unto us in that just and necessary work In prosecution whereof this poor Kingdom hath long lain under most heavy burthens and oppressions vast sums of money have been raised by the Parliament upon Excise Sequestrations Compositions of Delinquents Assessments Bishops Lands King and Queens Revenues c. besides the great debts of the Kingdom unsatisfied many Towns and Countreys much depopulated and destroyed thousands of our dear friends and fellow-laborers have lost their lives and perished in this great service their wives and children been undone and many of us yet alive lost much of our dearest blood All which would yet not seem so grievous to us the common enemies being by the blessing of God upon the Armies twice vanquished brought under and capital offenders apprehended if after all this when no visible power hath appeared or been left to oppose or hinder the Parliament from setling the Kingdom in Peace and Freedom redeeming it from injustice slavery unnecessary taxes oppressions and executing Justice upon Offenders we could once have seen a right use made of those opportunities which God hath several times put into their hands for doing thereof But to the great grief of our souls we see not any probable means by them used to bring about this necessary work On the contrary it is apparent that private designes are carried on by pretended even Parliament friends with common enemies depriving the Nation of reaping the fruit of all the eight yeers labors and services to introduce that very Tyranny and Oppression which we were by them invited to oppose and establish by Treaty and Act of Parliament a stronger foundation for and clearer way to advancing the Kings destructive designe and tyrannical vill then formerly he had thereby to subject the whole Kingdom to a mass of perpetual oppression and injustice and betray all the well affected in the Kingdom especially those who had been most actively engaged against the same to sudden destruction without remedy For proof whereof omitting many particulars we need but take a revie● of the several former Treaties especially this last most dangerous Personal Treaty having all been gained by the apparent treachery of the said pretended friends and the cunning policy of the common enemies upon the loss or weakness of their power in the field and so pursued upon the plausible pretence of Peace-making truly intending nothing but slavery and destruction To bring about this great unparaleld design these treacherous designers did not only raise several great Armies Forces in all parts almost of the Kingdom to the great hazard of the ruine thereof but also invited and procured a numerous and powerful army out of Scotland that they might the more plausibly and upon fairer pretences carry on their destructive designe suggesting to the Kingdom that there was no other way for prevention of War and setling of Peace then by this Personal Treaty when they themselves were the causers of the War and the Kingdoms unsettlement To this purpose they endeavored the Lords especially who refused to joyn with the Commons in declaring the Scotish Army invading the Kingdom under the Conduct of Duke Hamilton to be Enemies all they could to procure a Cessation of Arms with that and the English Malignant Army when they were in the bowels of the Kingdom and we were ready to engage with them that they might thereby get to themselves the greater advantage to carry on their work Which had they effected and the good providence of God not prevented would in all probability have brought to pass that their intended Compliance with the King upon his own terms and their interest only which now after the defeate and absolute breaking of those Forces and Armies they still labor all they can to bring about contrary to the earnest desires and frequent Petitions presented to the Parliament from the well-affected in all parts of the Kingdom and strugling to the utmost to put the Kings partee and all the Malignant disaffected people into a better condition after their last Rebellion then they were at the beginning and all the well-affected that have done and suffered so much into a ready way of ruine And notwithstanding your Excellency and your general Councel had most clearly represented to the Parliament the dangers and evils of this personal Treaty your Remonstrance Desires were neglected and refused so much as to be taken into consideration But on the contrary as we have been informed the Kings Answers upon the whole Treaty were voted by the Lords to be satisfactory and by the House of Commons to be sufficient for a safe Peace to be grounded upon Which gives us just cause to beleeve that this Treaty is a clear design to betray the Kingdoms just Cause which God hath twice pleaded and judged for them in the sight of all men into their enemies power again leaving the unlimited supremacy where it was as if we