Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	army_n	force_n	king_n	2,721	5	3.3772	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91170	A declaration and protestation of VVill: Prynne and Cle: VValker, Esquires, Members of the House of Commons against the present actings and proceedings of the Generall, and Generall Councell of the army, and their faction now remaining and sitting in the said House.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.; Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3937A; Thomason 669.f.13[72]; ESTC R211155	1,574	1

A Declaration and Protestation of VVill Prynne and Cle VValker Esquires Members of the House of Commons against the present Actings and Proceedings of the Generall and Generall Councell of the Army and their Faction now remaining and sitting in the said House WHereas long since for ease of the People both Houses in a full and free Parliament Voted the Disbanding of this Army in opposition to which some great Officers of the said Army to continue their rich Commands with some Members of the House of Commons who daily inrich themselves by the troubles of the times secretly mutinied the Army against the Parliament And whereas lately the farre major part of the House of Commons pitying the bleeding condition and teares of the oppressed People Voted and entred into a Personall Treaty with the King without which by the Armies own confession in their Remonstrance at St. Albons pag. 64. there can be no Peace which the Army interrupted by obtruding upon the Commons a Treasonable Remonstrance 20 Novemb. 1648. tending to destroy the King and His Posterity and wholly to subvert all Parliaments Religion Lawes and Liberties for ever whereby the Commons in Parliament found it absolutely necessary to prevent such pernitious innovations by concluding a safe Peace with His Majesty whereupon after mature debate the House of Commons the 5 Decemb. 1648. Voted That the Kings Answer to the Propositions of both Houses upon the Treaty were a ground for the Houses to proceed to the settlement of a safe and well-grounded Peace Upon which the Generall and Councell of Warre Wednesday morning 6 December 1648. Seized and Imprisoned 41 of the Members going to the House of Commons to do their Duty secluded above 160 other Members besides 40 or 50 Members who voluntarily withdrew themselves to avoid their violence leaving only their own engaged party of 40 or 50 Members sitting who now passe Acts of Parliament of the House of Commons as they call them without the Lords and comply with the said Councell of Warre to carry on their said Remonstrance To which purpose this present remnant of the Commons have un-voted in a thinne House under the force of the Army what was deliberately Voted in a full and free House whereas by their own Ordinance passed upon the Tumult of Apprentises 20 August 1647. to null and make void ab initio all Acts Orders Votes c. passed under the said force This remaining Party ought not to sit act nor take upon them the style of a House under so visible actuall and horrid a Force The premisses considered We whose names are hereunto subscribed Members of the House of Commons doe Declare and Protest That the said Generall Commissioned Officers and Genenerall Councell of the Army by the said Act of violence upon the major part of the House which legally and virtually is the whole House have waged Warre and Rebelled against the Parliament their Masters who raised them to defend the Priviledges of Parliament and the Kings Person and Authority in defence of Religion Lawes and Liberties and have thereby forfeited their Commissions and have broken and dis-continued this Parliament so that untill this force be removed punished the Honour of the Parl. and their wronged Members vindicated and all the Members resummoned all the Votes Orders and Actings Passed and to be Passed by this nominall House of Commons are and will be void ab initio and all such as do or shall obey them are and will be punishable both by the Armies own Judgment in their Remonstrance August 18. and by the Houses Declaration and the said Ordinnnce 20 August 1647. We doe farther Declare and protest against this present House of Commons illegall Acts Order or Ordinance for erecting a High Court of Justice and usurping a Power without any Law or president to Try Depose and bring to capitall punishment the King and to dis-inherit His Posterity or any of them and against the said Generall Councell of Officers aiding abetting them therein as highly impious against the Law of God Nations the Protestant Profession Traitors against the Stat. of Treasons 25 Ed. 3. and against all Lawes our Statutes Perjurious and perfidious against the Oaths of Allegeance Supremacy Nationall Covenant and Protestation all the Parliaments Declarations and Remonstrances held forth to the world their treaties and promises made to the Scots when they delivered the Kings person into our hands against our promises made to the Hollanders and other Nations and against all the Professions Declarations Remonstrances and Proposalls made by this Army when they made their Addresses to the King at New-market Hampton Court and other places 19 Janu. 1648. Will Prynne Cle Walker