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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	king_n	law_n	levy_v	3,963	5	11.2983	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91251	A publike declaration and solemne protestation of the free-men of England and Wales, against the illegall, intollerable, undoing grievance of free-quarter.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P4044; Thomason E426_3; ESTC R203278	6,769	12

A PVBLIKE DECLARATION AND SOLEMNE Protestation OF The Free-men of England and Wales against the illegall Intollerable undoing Grievance of Free-quarter Printed in the yeare 1648. A Publike Declaration and Solemne Protestation of the Freemen of England and Wales against the illegall intollerable undoing Grievance of Free-quarter WE the Knights Esquires Gentlemen Freeholders Citizens Burgesses and Freemen of the Realme of England and Domion of Wales do hereby publikely declare remonstrate and protest to the Honourable Houses of Parliament the Army and Souldiery and all the world that the keeping up of an overnumerous burthensome Army since the Warres determined and their forcible entring into our Houses taking and eating up our provisions for horse and men and free-quartering upon us against our wills to our ineffable vexation oppression and undoing especially in these times of extraordinary dearth samine and decay of trade is an expresse high violation of our fundamentall Lawes Rights Properties and Liberties in the late just defence whereof against the King and his Malignant party we have spent our estates blood and hazarded our dearest lives in the field a direct breach of Magna Charta c. 22. and 29. purchased with so much Noble blood of our Ancestors prohibited by the a Satutes of 3. E. 1. c. 7. 28. E. 1. c. 2. 1. E. 3. c. 7. 4. E. 3. c. 3. 5. E. 3. c. 1. 14. E. 3. c. 19. 25. E. 3. c. 1. 36. E. 3. c. 2. 6. 9. 7. R. 2. c. 8. 2. H. 4. c. 14. 20. H. 6. c. 8. 21. H. 6. c. 2. 14. 28. H. 6. c. 2. which declare and enact the taking away of our provisions and goods of any sorts without our consents agreeing with and paying us for them even by Purveyours authorized by Law and Commission to be no lesse then felony much more then when taken by Officers and Souldiers authorized by no Law nor Commission under the great Seale to doe it and contrary to the very Letter of the Petition of right 3. Carols which declares the quartering of Souldiers and Mariners upon the Kings people against their wills in their Houses to be AGAINST THE LAWES and CUSTOMES OF THE REALME and A GREAT GREIVANCE and VEXATION TO THE PEOPLE and enacts That they shall not be burthened therewith in time to come We likewise further remonstrate that King Richard the second in the Parliament held at Westminster Anno 1. H. 4 number 22 was among other things impeached and deprived of his Crowne for raysing a guard of Cheshire Souldiers and quartering them as his Court to over-awe the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament at Westminster in the 21. yeare of his reigne to vote what he prescribed them and to put the power of the whole Parliament into the hands of a few Lords and Commons of his party which b Souldiers did assault and beat the Kings good Subjects and take from them their victualls against their wills and payd therefore little or nothing at their pleasure and not redressing the same upon complaint to their great oppression and discontent That the whole House of Commons this present Parliament in their c Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdome December 15. 1641. published by their speciall Order declared That the charging of the Kingdome with billited Souldiers heretofore complained of in the Petition of Right and the concomitant designe of GERMAN HORSE that the Land might either submit with feare or be enforced with rigour TO SUCH ARBITRARY CONTRIBUTIONS as should be required of them was a product of the Jesuites Councells OF JESUITES Papists corrupt Prelates Courtiers and Counsellors to enslave the Subjects and deprive them of their just Liberties And that both Houses of Parliament and the King himselfe upon the House of Commons impeachment d attainted condemned and executed Thomas late Earle of Strafford Lord Duputy of Ireland for high Treason by a speciall Bill this Parliament for quartering and sessing souldiers upon the Kings Subjects in Ireland and levying forces and moneys on them by Officers and Souldiers of the Army against Law by billeting on them till they were payd declared to be a levying of Warre against the King and his people and so High Treason within the Statute of 25. E 3. for which he lost his head on Tower Hill contrary to the Statute of 18. H. 6 made in Ireland ch. 3. which enacts That no Lord or ANY OTHER of what condition he be shall bring or lead Hoblers Kearnes or horded men nor any other people nor horses to lie on horse back or on foot upon the Kings Subjects without their good wills and consents but upon their owne costs and without hurt doing to the Commons of the Country And if any so doe HE SHALL BE ADJUDGED A TRAYTOR And the Statute of Kilkenny in 3. E. 2. c. 1. 2. which enacts and declares it to be meer felony and open Robery for any Kerne to live idle on the tenants farmers and poore people of the Country or to take any prises lodging or sojourning from them against the consent of the owners or paying and agreeing with them for the same We doe moreover further declare that by the very e Statute and Common Law of the Land every mans house is and ought to be his Castle which he his servants and friends may lawfully defend against all who shall forcibly and illegally attempt to enter it against his will and justify the killing of any who shall violently assault the same or enter it feloniously against the consent which to doe is Burglary and a capitall Offence and that every Subject may by the Common Law defend his goods with force and armes against any who shall illegally offer to take them away against his consent and not paying for them which to take is direct robbery and felony for which the party taking them ought to suffer death and that the owner and his servants may lawfully justify the beating and killing of such theives in defence of their goods and may assemble his Neighbours and friends to defend his house and goods against such violence Which and 〈…〉 Rights and Priviledges of ours both Houses of Parliament in above thirty Remonstrances and by their Solemne League and Covenant have promised and are daily engaged under paine of breach of Faith Honour Trust Oath and the Highest disreputation inviolably to maintaine Yet notwithstanding all the premises the Generall and Officers of the Army have ever since the votes of both Houses for the Armies disbanding in Aprill and May last not only doubly recruited their forces farre above their first establishment when the King had two Armies in the field and many strong Garrisons without the Houses Order or privity but quartered them upon us in our houses against our wills and the Lawes and Statutes aforesaid to the utter undoing of many thousands of us not paying us one farthing for their quarters out of the many months pay they have since received but insteed therof have