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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	king_n	majesty_n	subject_n	2,392	5	6.9229	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89919	A project for an equitable and lasting peace. Designed in the year 1643. when the affairs stood in ballance before the second coming of the Scots into this kingdom, from a desire to have kept them out then. With a disquisition how the said project may now be reduced to fit the present conjuncture of affairs, in a letter sent to divers prudent persons of all sorts. For preventing the Scots bringing an army into England a third time, or making themselves umpires of our affaires. By a cordiall agreement of the King, Parliament, City, Army, and of all the people in this kingdome among our selves.	Nethersole, Francis, Sir, 1587-1659.; England and Wales, Army.	1648 (1648)	Wing N498; Thomason E459_16; ESTC R203019; ESTC R205087	17,014	32

devised for the sure binding them to give their Votes according to their consciences in all things put to the question And that for the further security and comfort of your people your Majesty would be graciously pleased not onely to give free admittance to such Committees of both Houses of Parliament as may be chosen by them humbly to represent the reasons of their Resolutions to your Majesty and to give satisfaction to any doubts your Majesty upon advisement with your Privy or Learned Counsel may have about them before the giving of your conclusive voice but that of your Princely grace you would condescend so farre as to oblige your self likewise by a voluntary Oath not to deny any thing that to the best of your understanding so informed as aforesaid shall be really for the good of your Subjects and that may advance the true Protestant Religion oppose Popery and Superstition secure the Law of the Land upon which is built as well your Majesties just Prerogative as the proprietie and libertie of the Subject confirme all just power and privilege of Parliament and render your Majesty and your people happy by a good understanding which are your Majesties owne gracious words of engagement in two of your Messages from Notingham That because the desires and mindes of the Commons of this kingdome cannot certainely be understood by the Votes of their Representants in any one Parliament upon which and many other prudent considerations it hath been by our wise Ancestors provided that the Parliament ought to be held at least once every year after the making of which provisiō it was long before any Parliament was continued to a greater length That it may be agreed that immediately after the establishment of all things abovesaid in the manner aforesaid this present Parliament shall be dissolved by the free consent of both Houses But that before the dissolution thereof there may be an Act passed for the assurance of an annuall Parliament in the same manner that a trienniall is now assured with these necesary sup plementall additions thereunto 1. One for the regulating of Elections in such a manner that they may be more free and lesse chargeable as well to the Countrey as to the persons in competition and that returnes may not be so wholly in the power of the Sheriffe and of that party he favoureth as hitherto they have bin and that some more ready easie and certaine way may be devised for the judgement of the lawfulnes and truth of returnes then hath beene in use of late to the manifest hazard of the publique liberty if there should be such a conspiracie of Sheriffes as may be imagined 2. Another for the safe conducting of the Members of both Houses of Parliament to the place appointed for the holding of the Parliament and for their like safe return into their Countries by the Sheriffs of the respective Counties through which they are to passe being therunto required But this only as oft as the Parliament may happen to be assembled without any signification of the personall pleasure and command of the King for the time being 3. And a third as well for the prevention of the unseasonable dissolution of Parliaments without the consent of both houses as for the assurance of the dissolution of every Parliament within the space of one yeere and for the making of two Sessions thereof at such times as by the two houses shall be thought most convenient That if it shall be made appeare upon sufficient proofe that your Majesties sacred person was in any apparent danger or hazard by those tumults at Westminster which have been alleaged for the reason of your departure from thence that in that case it may be publiquely declared and recorded that your Majesty was not to blame in withdrawing your selfe from your Parliament there the rather because your Majesty hath since been pleased to make many gracious offers to give a meeting again to your Parliament if they would adjourne to any other place and this as well before as after the beginning of the late unnaturall Warre But if upon due examination it should be found that your Majesties beliefe of the malice of certaine persons against your sacred person which you thought you had too great reason to feare they intended to seize and of the evident danger not your selfe onely but your Royall Consort and the Princes your children were in by the tumults raised and countenanced by the said persons hath been grounded only upon misinformation and that the failer of the timely discovery of the falsehood and maliciousnesse of such information happened also through your Majesties owne default in not having taken the course by Law directed to that end that in this case your Majestie of your owne meere motion may be graciously pleased to acknowledge and command this to be publiquely recorded as an errour for the preventing of the like in future times That if all or any of the Lords Knights Citizens and Burgesses who before or after the beginning of the late Warre withdrew themselves from the Parliament cannot make it evidently appeare that they could not continue there with such safety of their persons and plenary freedome of voting as all members of Parliament of right ought to enjoy that in this case they or such of them as shall faile in full proof of the point abovesaid may for ever be disabled to fit againe in this or any future Parliament in this kingdome and may be further censured in such a manner as to the wisedome of the respective Houses of Parliament shall seeme just and meete And that howsoever no such Member of either House may be readmitted without making a publique acknowledgment of and submission for their faults no danger how great or certaine soever being sufficient to excuse them for having failed in their duty to their King country either by concealing their minds or by deserting their stations before any one of them lost any one drop of his bloud which hath been the occasiō of so much bloudshed of their fellow subjects It being visible that there could have been no breach between your Majesty and your two Houses of Parliament if all their respective Members had continued at Westminster and had there avowed their be●ng of the same judgement which they have since discovered otherwhere That the publique debt contracted by occasion of the charges of the late warre may be borne by the partakers therein on that side which cannot make it appeare that they had just cause to take up armes because they could not obtaine justice by the Law of the Land in some thing that was either of absolute necessity to be maintained for the publique weale or at least of such importance as was worthy to be contended about by arms there being no other sufficient cause for the beginning of a civill Warre even by them that have unquestionable authority to make one And if both parties should chance to faile in the proofe