Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	call_v	king_n	person_n	2,154	5	4.9521	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69906	A Declaration by direction of the committee at Yorke to their deluded and oppressed countrey-men also the letters with the propositions and articles sent to the Earle of Newcastle upon which he entred this county, and his answer thereunto : with observations thereupon.	Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1645 (1645)	Wing D562; ESTC R21350	6,717	24

faithfully to serve you so to deale clearly and freely with you which I hold a duty The truth is I am very sorry you pleas'd to leave out the Article for the Officers pay or coldly refer'd it to your Committee being the principall thing in all the Articles for you know the Souldier● is encouraged with nothing but money or hopes of it and truely yesternight when I was going to bed there came Collonels and Lievtenant-Col and said they heard you had left it out and for their parts that they must thinke that if you were so cantious not to grant it is paper before we came in they doubted very much of it in money when they were there and that the workman was worthy of his hire and such like discontented words so the truth is rather then not come cheerfully to serve you I will not come at all for I see before-hand I shall either disband with a Mutinie or fall of plundering without distinction either of which would be destructive to me and besides I hold my self free since my Articles are not sign'd for I never understood any of those Articles to be referr'd to the Committee but such things as we could not remember and the present occasion offer'd Could I pay them or his Majesties you should not have had such an Article but since that cannot be ●ou will pardon me in telling you how I am capable to serve you and how not and so I rest in a huge disposition to be really Newcastle Oct. 30. 1642. Your most faithfull Servant W. N. Observation IT is plaine out of the first Letter that these Gentlemen began with a false Insinuation to terme themselves the most of the Gentry of Yorkeshire who are not the fourth part of them In it they call Captaine Hothams coming to Doncaster which was by command of the Parliament of England to assist the Lord Fairfax to set up the Militia an infesting the Country They invite Athists Papists and who ever will to come to joyne with them the better to enable them to oppose the resolutions of the Parliament and call it great Service to the King and preservation of the Country which was the ruine of the Country that bred them and more service to the Pope then the King That Lord so invited yeelds presently to that bait they call Honour but inthralls them with Articles to oppresse the Country by Assessements which no Law warrants by Free-quarter which the knowne Lawes forbid to be taken without Authority of Parliament and they pawne their cred 〈…〉 poore County shall pay for all and 〈…〉 did They are carefull to guard her Majesties person who had no care for the five Members of Parliament They tel that Lord he shall be Master as they hope of a work of Honour c. which was to burn Bradford much of Yorke and numbers of other houses to rob plunder and imprison the well-affected of the County They would have his Lordship beleeve they suffer no distresse but for loyalty to the King which was but a sconce for their own protection from the Justice of Parliament In the second Letter They tell that Lord his favour to them shall oblige the King and promise there is nothing in the County shall not faithfully serve him so he will serve their turns and in a great part they performe it their bodies their estates their wives their daughters were his servants and his servants servants too nay their consciences the Gospell and true Ministers of it were made to serve that Papisticall crew The proud Haman because he had all things but one granted him by their Articles which was his Officers pay that not granted or coldly referred to a Committee without this also hee lightly values all the rest and will not come to their assistance Thus Country-men you see how you and all yours what ever is deare to any of you hath beene bought and sold by these Gentlemen who in stead of peace and preservation to the Countrey have brought in War Bloudshed and ruine upon it and in stead of Honour to his Lordship both he and they like blazing comets are gone out in a stinch which will last for ever It was thought fit to publish in Print one Letter more found in the same place which is the proper hand writing of Cap. John Htham written to the Enemy when he was the profest servant to the Parliament Hear the Letter My Noble Lord I have found out a way to doe his Majesty reall Service and to be your Servant without scandall for I confesse nothing went hard but that I could not come in to your Lordship in such a condition as befitted him that you esteem worthy your friendship I shall desire you would by this Bearer send me a safe conduct for forme sake not that I desire or care for it if you could write me but a word what my L. Fairfax hath done I could make great advantage of it in this businesse for I thinke you will see such a considerable party brought to the King as hath not beene yet all which he is to thank you for I shall add no more because I shall wait on you so soon but to desire the countenance of your good opinion to Lincolne Aprill 15. 1643 Your most affectionate servant John Hotham By this secret contrived treason of his against the Common-wealth and for which he suffered death is more discovered and that righteous sentence cleared and ratified FINIS