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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	king_n	say_a	wales_n	2,220	5	10.3565	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82061	The declaration and resolution of the citizens of London concerning the Kings Majesty, and the army; and their message, proposals, and desires, to the Lord Generall Fairfax, concerning their dread Soveraign the King, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York. With a declaration of the Lord Major, aldermen, and Common-councell of the said city, on Saturday last at Guild-Hall, touching the Lord Generall, and his forces. Also, the further demands of the army, and their summons and proposals to the House of Commons.		1648 (1648)	Wing D553; Thomason E475_6; ESTC R205382	3,047	8

THE DECLARATION AND RESOLUTION Of the Citizens of LONDON CONCERNING The KINGS MAJESTY and the ARMY AND Their Message Proposals and Desires to the Lord Generall Fairfax concerning their Dread Soveraign the King the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York With a Declaration of the Lord Major Aldermen and Common-councell of the said City on Saturday last at Guild-Hall touching the Lord Generall and His Forces Also the further Demands of the Army and their Summons and Proposals to the House of Commons LONDON Printed for GEORGE HORTON 1648. A MESSAGE From the Citizens of LONDON TO The Lord Generall Fairfax concerning the Kings Majesty the Prince of Wales and the Duke of YORK May it please your Excellency UPpon mature and serious consultation of your late Remonstrance and Declaration for the setling of this bleeding Kingdom in a more safe and mutual posture the executing of Justice upon his Majesty and all other person or persons who have acted contrary to the knowne Lawes of the Realm the summoning in the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York and the setting of a period for the ending and dissolving of this present Parliament c In reference whereunto we do desire That there may bee a mitigation and favourable construction of the precedent actions and proceedings of his Majesty and their Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York in relation to the late VVar and that there may bee a more equall dispensing of Justice and Mercy in relation to things done or suffered in the said wars and for all other particulars therein specified we do unanimously declare that we shall most willingly and freely concur with your Excellency and the Councell of the Army therein protesting to sacrifice lives and fortunes and all that is near and dear unto us in pursuance of the same Signed by many thousand well affected Citizens within the Cities of London and Westminster and paats adiacent who subscribes themselves Your Excellencies most humble and obedient serants c. A new Remonstrance from the Army to the City and Kingdome BEing full of sad apprehensions concerning the danger and evill of the Treaty with the King and of any accommodation with him or restitution of him thereupon We did by our late Remonstrance upon the Reasons and Grounds therein expressed make our application thereby unto the present House of Commons that the dangerous evill of that way might be avoided and the peace of the Kingdome setled upon more righteous safe and hopefull grounds viz. a more equall d●spensing of Justice and Mercy in relation to things done or suffered in the late wars and the establishing of the future Government of this Kingdom upon a safe succession and equall Constitution of Parliaments and that for the ending of present and avoiding of future Differences to be Ratified by an Agreement and Subscription of the people therunto Which things we pressed in the way of Reason and Perswasion onely that they might be duely and timely considered But to our griefe we find in stead of any Satisfacton or a reasonable answer thereto they are wholly rejected without any consideration of what ever Reason or Justice might be in the things set forth or propounded therein for what lesse can be understood when the things propounded were mainly for the avoidance of evils appearing in the Treaty with the King And feeing the prevailing part of those to whom we did apply to have as it were their eyes wilfully shut and eares stopt against any thing of Light or Reason offered to them we find no place left for our former charitable or hopefull apprehensions concerning their errour in such evill ways but remaining fully assured of the danger and destructivenesse thereof as to all those publique ends for which they were intrusted and also of the just advantage and necessity which lie in the things we have propounded and insist on we now see nothing left to which their engaging and persisting in such waies and rejection of these better things propounded can rationally be attributed lesse then a treacherous or corrupt neglect of and Apostacy from the Publique Trust reposed in them although we could wish from our soules we might yet find the contrary Therefore it is our hearts desire and shall be our endeavour that so much both of the matter and form of the present Parliamentory Authority may be preserved as can be safe or will be usefull to these ends untill a just and full Constitution thereof both for matter and form sutable to the publique ends it serves for can be entroduced And therefore first it should be great rejoycing if God saw it good that the majority of the present House of Commons were become sensible of the evil and distructivenesse of their late way and would resolvedly and vigorously apply themselves to the speedy execution of justice with the righting and easing of the oppressed people and to a just settlement of the Kingdome upon such foundations as have been propounded by us and others for that purpose and would for the speedier and surer prosecution of these things exclude from Communication in their Councels all such corrupt and Apostarized Members as have appeared hitherto but to obstruct and hinder such matter of Justice Safety and publique interest and to pervert their Councels a contrary way and have therein so shamefully both falsified and forftied their Trust But however of God shal not see it good to vouchsafe that mercy to tem and the Kingdome we shall secondly desire That so many of them as God hath kept upright and shal touch with a just sence of those things would by protestation or otherwise acquit themselves from such breach of Trust and approve their faithfulnesse by withdrawing from those that persist in the guilt therof take such a posture wherby they may speedily effectually prosecute those necessary and publique ends without such inteeruptions Diversions or depravations of their Councell from the rest to their endlesse trouble and hazard of the Kingdom as formerly and for so many of them whose hearts God shall stir up thus to do We shall therein in this case of extremity looke upon them as persons having materially the chief Trust of the Kingdom remaining in them and though not a formall standing power to be continued in them or drawn into ordinary Presidents yet the best and most rightfull that can be had as the present state and exigence of affairs now stand And we shal accordingly owne them adhere to them and be guided by them in their faithful prosecution of that trust in order vnto and until the introducing of a more full and formal power in a just Representative to be speedy endeavoured Now yet further to take away all jealousies in relation to our selves which might with-hold or discourse any honest members from this courage as we have the witnesse of God in our hearts that in these proceedings we do not seek but even resolve we wil not take advantages to our selves either in point of profit or power and that if God did open to us a way wherin with honesty and faithfulnesse to the publique Interest good people ingaged for us we might presently be dischargeed so as we might nor in our present Employments look on and be acessary to yea supporters of the Parliament in the present corrupt oppressive and destructive proceedings wee should with rejoycing and without more ado embrace such a discharge rather then interpose in these things to our owne vast trouble and hazzard so if we could but obtain a rational assurance for the effectuall prosecuting of these things we shall give any proportionable assurance on our parts concerning our laying down of arms when and as we should be required But for the present as the case stands we apprehend our selves oblieged in duty to God this Kingdome and good men therein to approve our utmost abilities in all honest wayes for the avoiding of these great evils which we have remonstrated and for prosecution of the good things we have propounded and also that such persons who were the inviters of the late invasion from Scotland the Instigaters and incouragers of the late insurrections within this Kingdome and those forcible wayes failing have still pursued those wicked designes by treacherous and corrupt councels may be brought to publike justice according to their severall demerits For all these ends we are now drawing up with the Army to London there to follow providence as God shall clear our way Signed John Rushworth Secr. On Saturday Decemb. 2. Upon further debate of the Desires of the Army The Lord Major Aldermen and Common-councel declared That all meanes possible should be used for keeping a right understanding and mutual correspondence between the City and Army and that no means should be left unassayed on their parts for the establishing of a firm and lasting peace throughout all His Majesties Realms and Dominions FINIS