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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	king_n	send_v	3,209	5	5.3905	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93511	Some queries propounded to the Common-Councell, and citizens of London, concerning the armies demand of having the militia of London of the 4th of May changed. Wherein the unreasonablenesse and great danger of that proposall, and the justifiablenesse of the cities refusall both in law and conscience, are fully demonstrated.		1647 (1647)	Wing S4561A; Thomason E400_26; ESTC R201757	10,141	15

again and had any Power ☜ there were so many of the malignant partie in the House of Commons that they joyning with him no honest man should keep his head on his shoulders and without this neither such as belonged to this Army nor any others could be secured Secondly since the Army have gotten the King divers of their partie Members of the House of Commons the Kings most mortall Enemies have been with one Mr. Willingam who keeps all the writings of Windebanks and other Papers of State to look out and peruse them for that end to see what matter they might finde against the King to make a Charge of and this Mr. Willingham hath been sent to and written unto by the Army about these Papers and to come down to the Army Thirdly Mr. Marshall and Mr. Nye coming from the Army too good friends to Cromwell and that party said to divers Members of the Assembly asking them about the Armies Propositions that the King should never have any Power more the Army would look to that he should for his own Family and in his Chappell enjoy the liberty of his Conscience but have never more to do in the Government of the Kingdom And I would ask any reasonable man seeing they have agreed and declared thus much already that the King shall have no more power how long time he thinks when they have gotten all the Power of the Militia into their hands and have new modelled the House of Commons as they have done the Army he shall enjoy his Conscience or his life And therefore O Common Councell and Citizens of London and all who love the King and his Posterity the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom the Priviledges of Parliament the Reformed Protestant Religion part not with your Militia give not such a Sword into the hands of bruitish unreasonable men to destroy your selves and all that 's dear to you with And that you may lawfully and with a good conscience keep your Militia for the yeer and that to part with it at the pleasure of the Army is very unsafe and most dangerous I desire these following Quaeries may be well considered of 1. Whether an Ordinance made by Parliament in a time unquestionably of Freedom and liberty and in full Houses upon mature deliberation and after many dayes debate after answering all objections against the persons and things and after scanning upon every particular person contained in the Ordinance and this done upon the desire of the City to the Parliament and their nomination choice of the persons to be approved by the Parliament be to be judged more valid binding or an Ordinance made after Members driven away by the threats and approaches of an Army and upon the Demand of an Army and in a thin House of Commons and concluded upon on a sudden 2. Whether or no if the Parliament by Ordinance after mature advise and deliberation in full Parliament had given the City of London towards the payment of their debts five hundred thousand pounds and thereupon the City had been in possession of the money in case the Parliament upon another Ordinance made upon the desire of the Army after threatnings and driving away Members should have revoked this money whether would the City hold themselves bound in Law or conscience to part with it and if not as I suppose they would not Then I conceive they are lesse bound to part with their Militia as being much more to them without which they can neither keep their Estates lives or liberties but all they have as the case stands is exposed to ruine 3. Whether it would not have been judged and cried out of in the King as great injustice breach of the liberty of the Subject c. when he had given the grant of any thing for life or for term of yeers under the great Seal he should upon his own will without any fault in the persons have taken it from them before half the time expired And if it would be so in the King what is it in the Parliament to recall the Militia before half the time be out 4. What is any Ordinance of Parliament worth or will be accounted of by any if as soon as t is granted it may be thus recalled And upon what a slender foundation or broken reed will not men say they have built on all this while in lending those vast summes of money to the State and in acting for the Parliament if Ordinances by the Parliament it self be so easily made void and broken will ever men venture their lives and estates upon Ordinances 5. Whether the Armies desire of having the Militia thus changed and putting the Parliament so upon it to take it away against the will of the Common Councell and persons entrusted without any reason at all given or unfaithfulnesse found in them be not to put the Parliament upon exercising a meer Arbitrary Power and to rule by will and so against the Common Rights and liberty of the Subject so much complained of by the Army in all their Representations Remonstrances Declarations Letters and made the ground of their refusing to disband and of all the late differences between them and the Parliament 6. Whether in the judgement of any indifferent men it can stand with the honour Justice Authority and Gravity of the supreme Court of Judicature and the great Councell of a Kingdom when upon mature deliberation and weightie reasons in the most legall way and with the best securitie they have granted a thing to persons highly deserving of them and of known fidelity to them and the publick to take it away of a sudden without giving any reason at all or indeed there being any just cause for so doing but rather much to the contrary 7. Whether or no according to the judgement of the best Reformed Divines both forrain and English 't is not held lawfull for Subjects when by their Princes a Power is given unto them of Cities Forts Castles and Militia for their safety and security against an opposite party in the Land that would destroy them to hold and keep them for their defence against Edicts and Commands of Princes requiring to give them up yea against Armies sent to take them away by force And whether all Divines who allow of any Defensive Arms in any Cases to Subjects yea * See Bishop Abbot De Antichristo and especially Bp. Morton in his Sermon preached in the North before the K. of subjection to the higher Powers and against resisting Authority even then when the King went against the Scots how he excepts that Case of keeping Forts Militia given on purpose for security which I conceive he did on purpose according to the judgement of other Protestant Divines to free the Protestants in France and the Rochellers from R●bellion in standing upon their own defence in those Towns and Cities given them for their security against the bloody Papists Bishops the most tender of Subjects disobeying