Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	richard_n	8,069	5	8.7668	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90250	To the supream authority of England, the representors of the people in Parliament assembled; the humble petition of Richard Overton, late prisoner in Newgate by the House of Lords, in behalf of himself and other Commoners that have suffered under their prerogative jurisdiction.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1649 (1649)	Wing O636; Thomason E546_1; ESTC R206080	4,514	9

TO THE Supream Authority OF ENGLAND THE REPRESENTORS OF THE PEOPLE in PARLIAMENT assembled THE Humble Petition OF Richard Overton late Prisoner in Newgate by the House of Lords in behalf of himself and other Commoners that have suffered under their Prerogative Jurisdiction London Printed in the year 1649. To the supream Authority of England the Representors of the People in Parliament assembled The humble Petition of Richard Overton late Prisoner in Newgate by the House of Lords in behalf of himself and other Commoners c. Sheweth THat whilest the Peoples Soveraignty in their Parliaments was held captive under the Norman Preorgative of the King and Lords your Petitioner expected no right or freedom in any wise to this Nation and in the since thereof hath long groaned under the weight of his sufferings counting it bat as water spilt upon the ground for the Asserters of the Peoples Authority bow suffering soever to make any Address or Petition to this House for any case or relief during the Negative Interposition of that destructive Interest But your late Proceedings in taking off the King the supreamest peece of Justice that ever was in England your rejection of the House of Lords your vindication of the supream Authority of the Nation declaring and avowing it to be originally as of right it is in the People and legally in their Representative clearing the same from all pretences of a Negative Voyce doth animate your Petitioner with lively hopes that now at last after all the blood the sighs and tears of the people the horrid treacheries defections and revokings amongst your selves we shall yet finde a Sanctuary of Refugt in this House to save and deliver us from our oppressions and give us Justice and Right upon our oppressors Many of us even of the ●●●t affected to the Common-wealth have formerly with uncessant importunity cryed out and complained unto this House against the Oppressions of the Land praying for Redress but we have been meniced abused imprisoned our Petitions burnt by the hand of the common hangman although the Votes and Orders to that purpose more deserved the same and all our just Assertions of the supream Authority of the Nation and Endeavors after Foundations of common Right as is evident to the whole world voted treasonable and seditious being branded for the vilest of men bearing the reproach of Levellers Jesuits Hereticks Sectaries Despisers of Government Contenders for nothing but Anarchy and Confusion But now Right Honorable you being in a great measure purged of a trayterous Faction from within your selves we look for better things at your hands free admitrance and access with our Complaints and them not to be slighted or our persons imprisoned or abused for the same for we know none hath more faithfully asserted your Authority and the Freedom of the People then we and that you now stand in the strength of those righteous principles more then in the strength of an Army which we enduring the shock of all changes have held forth unto the people Hence your Petitioner is imboldned humbly to desire exemplary impartial Justice from this House upon the E. of Manchester and the rest of that late prerogative Order of Lords for their treasonable exorbitant practices over and against the common Rights of the people during their late Session with ample and full Repairation out of their Estates unto all good people of England that have illegally contrary to the common Interest of the Nation suffered under their usurped Power hoping that you will not suffer our Laws our Rights our Lives Liberties and Estates by them to be trod under-foot our houses to be plundered our wifes and our servants to be imprisoned our children exposed to the wide world and our selves to be toss'd from Goal unto Goal lay most unreasonable fines upon us ten times beyond our estates disfranchise us from all Right in the Common-wealth damn us to perpetual imprisonment throw us into noisom dungeons tetter us in irons drag us like dead dogs through the dirt and mire of the street deprive us of the benefit of pen ink and paper deny us the comfort and visitation of our friends and not suffer so much as our wifes or servants to be admitted unto us to bring victuals or other necessaries and not allow us bread but leave us to merciless famine execute their cruel Orders upon us in a warlike manner beset our houses with Musquetteers burst open our doors emer the same with drawn Swords and Pistols ready cockd threatning death to him that oppose and that in a place under civil Government which in the Bill of Attainder against the Earl of Strafford was adjudged a levying of War against the Kings Majesty and his leige people of Ireland break open our locks our trunks chests desks c. Rasle rob steal and carry away what they please impose oaths upon servants to betray their Masters examine the free People of this Nation upon Star-Chamber High Commission Interrogatories to ensuare and destroy themselves and neerest relations stop the proceedings at Law by their immediate Orders dis-inherit whom they please conspire and confederate in the treasonable designes of the late King assert themselves the most supream Court of Judicature above the Parliament and People introduce and set up an absolute Arbitrrry Government amongst themselves contrary to the fundamental Laws of this Common-wealth and crush and destroy all that submit not thereunto Acts and Crucities for which the said Earl of Strafford and the Bishop of Canterbury c were adjudged and attainted of high Treason forfeited their Heads their Goods Chattels Lands Tenements Heredaments and Freeholds and such as hath formerly been by this House in your Petition and Ramonst to the King Decemb. 1. 1641. declared to be more the proper issues of Turks Pagans Tyrants and men without any knowledg of God then of those that have the least spark of Christianity Honor or Justice in their brests and which in the case of Lieut. Col. John Lilburn against the Bishops you voted not only illegal and against the Liberty of the Subject but also to be bloody wicked cruel barbarous and tyrannical and voted him 3000 l. repairation for the same And your Petitioner offereth upon the forfeiture of his 〈◊〉 to make good in behalf of the Comoners of England and of himself the said Charge of Treasons Oppressions and Cruelties against them and hopeth that you cannot in reason and conscience hear and behold the same and not do us right upon the Tyrants and Traytors themselves He further hopeth that you are so sensible of your own future preservation that for your own sakes if not for ours you will expire your Session in honor and renown with the people which will not be but is their relief ease our afflictions and state us in perfect freedom and you wil be safe otherwise you have but left us a President of an High Court for our next Representative to call you to an account but in