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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arm_n	peace_n	war_n	989	5	5.9876	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32788	Persecutio undecima, or, The churches eleventh persecution being a brief of the fanatick persecution of the Protestant clergy of the Church of England, more particularly within the city of London : begun in Parliament, Anno Dom. 1641, and printed in the year 1648.	Chestlin.	1681 (1681)	Wing C3786; ESTC R23249	54,531	40

the City though chargeable and troublesome yet how ambitious were the Faction of those places even to a Constableship And for a Churchwardenship I have known motions made at the Kings-Bench-Bar for a prohibition of a legal and usual choice when the Faction found themselves not strong enough in Votes in their Parish and above a year before any face of War appeared or any Vote to raise Arms was heard of it 's well known scarce a Sectary in London but had stored himself with Arms to furnish each Boy in his house and many Porters loaded with Muskets have been seen carried in the Evenings into the Houses of men notoriously disaffected in Religion who conveyed Arms and Traiterous Libels and Observations printed at a publick charge to their Countrey Chapmen nor durst the Lord Mayor make inquisition for fear of being accounted an Enemy to the peace of the Kingdom then full of fears of Papists trained under ground and other God knoweth what Enemies and before the bloody Votes to kill and slay they sent Scouts into all parts of the Kingdom to sound the people how they stood affected to begin a War one Brumidge a Brasier in Gracious-street in London and a Cook his Neighbour were sent into Gloucestershire and Worcestershire to muster their Forces discovering how each Village stood affected or disaffected Members also of the Faction came to the Elders of the Dutch Church in London to know of the State and Government of their Church telling them that they would follow their pattern though some of those Elders counselled them not to pull down their House till they knew where else to lye dry adding also that the English people were not like the Dutch nor would ever endure their Government These and many other practices in the like kind may shew the world what a free Parliament this was from the beginning and how God had infatuated this Nation that they would not see this jugling nor believe the Clergy who foretold the miseries this Faction would bring to this Church and State but to suffer a small number the little flock of Christ they were wont to call themselves to ride the whole Kingdom to destruction for notwithstanding all this shuffling and packing when this Parliament first met the Fanaricks for number made not above the third part of the House of Commons and I am confident that in the City their Faction was not a fifth part and those of the younger and meaner sort but infinitely busie at an Election of a Common-Councel-man in Langborne-Ward wherein are above three hundred Housholders and from such meetings none of the Faction would be absent yet could they not make up sixty in all that Ward Some years after above 14000 House-keepers in London were listed in the design of Tompkins and Challoner though they wanted ways to communicate their strength one to another And therefore to gain the Vote of Parliament to themselves they tryed the Fox skin to cover for a while their Lyons claw seeking pretences plausible to the Patriotical party also to purge the House of Commons as the phrase was of all undue Elections upon Court-Letters or of men engaged in the late Monopolies whereby they wormed out of the House those whom they suspected of Loyalty but kept in old Sir Henry Vane and Sir Henry Mildmay and others greater Monopolists whom they knew to be of their Faction and to supply those vacancies Mr. Pyms or Mr. Speakers under-hand Letters were enough to make Mr. Pyms Son scarce out of his Nonage be chosen for a Parliament-man but if it chanced that such private Letters miscarried in their desires the new elected Members have been sounded how they stood affected to Bishops and so accordingly never admitted or presently received But this trick made the Faction not yet absolute Masters of the Vote in the House of Commons which put their Members to wonderful pains and trouble by continual attendance sitting in the House till midnight to watch to carry a Vote when other Members wearied out were departed the House that so they might compass by diligence what they could not obtain by their numbers of their persons The first Remonstrance of the House of Commons against the King voted in the House at midnight this made divers of them let out their Houses in their Countries which upon the Act of continuance they afterwards sold and take sequestred houses in London and Westminster that they might be near their work having their Emissaries constantly attending the door of the House of Commons to call in Members of this Faction to vote what they pleased to advance their design upon notice of a small appearance in the House but if any appointed business caused a fuller House their daily sitting had made them expert in discerning the face of the House to know their own strength how the Vote would be at that time the Faction having made Mr. Speaker a Lawyer sure their own by a Fee of 6000 l. voted to him and made Master of the Rolls would either by some pretended Forreign Letters made by themselves in London or by some new discovery of a Plot against the Parliament or else by long Speech-makings defer the business of the day till the absence of the rest of the Members some following their pleasures others their private necessary affairs little dreaming of making a Trade by sitting in Parliaments as in their Shops or Counting-houses whereas Parliaments like Physick purge if seldom used but destroy when continued as food should make way for this vigilant Faction to carry the Vote by the Major part present having embodied themselves in the Parliament and Kingdom for their work and especially in London by daily Tavern-clubs in each Ward communicating intelligence to and from their Table-Juncto's or Sub-Committees sitting in divers private houses in London Brownes house a Grocer neer Cheapside cross also a Drapers house in Watling-street as now the Saracens head in Friday-street c. to prepare Results of each days passages in the City to report to Mr. Pym and his close Committee when they came from the Parliament to be feasted at night in confiding Citizens houses amongst whom Mr. Pym was so idolized that mine eyes saw a Gentleman violently assaulted in the streets and dragged to the Poultry-Compter as a Sanctuary against the Tumults onely for speaking a neglectful word of this Mr. Pym a forerunner of that furious rising in Arms of the whole City to defend Mr. Pym and the five Members from a legal Tryal for High-Treason of which the King had impeached them By these and many other advantages it 's easie to conceive how a combined Faction may overcome a far greater number when single and hood-wink'd from perceiving plots of destroying Religion and the King by those who by Votes and Declarations and Protestations pretended to make the King a glorious King and counted it a great scandal to them that it should be reported they intended to take away the Liturgy