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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	great_a	king_n	wales_n	5,053	5	10.0183	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82202	A declaration of the officers and company of sea-men abord His Majfsties [sic] ships, the Constant Reformation, the Convertine, the Swallow, the Antelope, the Satisfaction, the Hynd, the Roe-buck, the Crescent, the Pellican, the Black-more Lady lately rescued for His Majesties service with an invitation to the rest of the fleet, and their brethren on land to joyne with them in their just undertakings.		1648 (1648)	Wing D727; Thomason 669.f.12[69]; ESTC R210939	1,703	1

A DECLARATION Of the Officers and Company of Sea-men abord His MAJFSTIES Ships The Constant Reformation the Convertine the Swallow the Antelope the Satisfaction the Hynd the Roe-buck the Crescent the Pellican the Blackmore Lady lately rescued for His MAJESTIES service with an Invitation to the rest of the Fleet and their Brethren on Land to joyne with them in their just undertakings WE have long expected with great impatience an happy end of our wasting divisions by meanes of a Personall Treaty so often pressed by our Brethren of Scotland and earnestly desired by the Generality of the Kingdome as appeareth by the late severall Petitions of the respective Counties to that purpose But we find by sad experience that the Independent party instead of applying themselves to the settlement and composure of differences according to their faith publiquely given to the whole Kingdome But most shamefully violated in their proposals of the Army have seized into their hands and Garrisoned all the strong places of the Kingdome overrunning disarming and plundering the Country as if it were a Conquered Nation And all this for no other cause But that they in an humble way had manifested their desires of Peace and to have an end of those heavy pressures which lay upon them by the arbitrary power of Committees and the unjust continuation of the Accise and Land-taxes after the utter defeat of the Kings party from whose fines and Compositions they drew money enough to have satisfied most part of the debtes of the Kingdome And seeing likewise that the Power and affaires of the Navy were put into such hands as were not onely enemies to the King and Kingdome but even to Monarchy it selfe that the stile of Commissions at Sea were lately altered leaving out the Kings name and mentioning onely the Parliament and Army which we understood to be a disinherison of His Majesty and His Children that we had no setled forme of Divine worship no Communions little or no Preaching on board but by illitterate and mechanique persons that there was a designe of introducing Land Souldiers into every Ship to master and over-awe the Sea men things so contrary to the ancient Customes and orders of the Sea that we thought our selves bound in Conscience to doe something for the recovery of our owne right re-stablishment of Religion according to the word of God and the Covenant solemnly taken the Honor preservation and freedome of His Majesty the Priviledge of Parliament and the Liberty of the Subject and not be made any longer the unhappy Instrument of the misery of King and Kingdome at which time God put it into our mindes and incouraged our hearts and strengthened our hands to remove Collonel Rainsburrow from the command of the Fleet a man of most destructive Principles both in Religion and Policy and a knowne enemy to the Peace and Antient Government of this Kingdom which we have sworne to uphold and maintaine with our lives and fortunes desiring all honest Sea-men not to be deluded any longer with words but one and all to joyne with us and to put too their hands to so honest a worke the glory whereof next under God will be imputed to them and the reward no question will be proportionable both in this world and the world to come we have been long pressed in the Kings Name though against His will and Interest let us now do Him some reall service in this time of His great affliction which God hath wonderfully enabled Him to bear and will doubtlesse in his good time restore Him to us and us to our known Laws and Liberties looke upon the Prince of Wales heir apparent of the three Crownes and Generalissimo under His Royall Father of all Forces by Sea and Land Looke upon the Duke of Yorke Lord high Admirall of England Princes of so much hope and forwardnesse that the world not the like extracting from the highest blood in Christendome allied to and befriended by all forraigne Potentates invited by the Scottish Nation and by the best part of ours to the recovering of their owne who have had no hand in the miseries of this Kingdome and consider with your selves by what Law of God or man they can be thrust out of their just Possessions into exile there to live as it were upon the almes of strangers Come in and joyne with us and you shall want nothing we have good Ships good hearts good hands and which is worth all God and the Law on our side And the Almighty searcher of all hearts so prosper us in our undertakings as we intend the advancement of his glory in the settlement of the true Protestant Religion according to his holy word the Honour freedome and just rights of His Majesty the confirmation of the Priviledges of Parliament and the Liberty of the Subject by an equall and well grounded Peace Printed at Holland and re-printed at London 1648.