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	robert_n	scotland_n	3,889	5	8.4904	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11718	Charles R. Charles by the grace of God, king of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith. To our lovits [blank] maissars ... greeting. Whereas for the removing of the disorders ...; Proclamations. 1638-12-08	Scotland. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1638 (1638)	STC 22000; ESTC S116902	6,767	18

Imprinted at Edinburgh by Robert Young Printer to the Kings most excellent Majestie CVM PRIVILEGIO Anno 1638. HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE Charles R. CHARLES by the grace of God king of Scotland England France and Ireland defender of the faith To our Lovits Maissars Her aulds Pursevants our Sheriffs in that part conjunctly and severally specially constitute greeting Whereas for the removing of the disorders which had happened of late within this our kingdome and for setling of a perfect peace in the church and common-wealth thereof we were pleased to cause indict a free generall assembly to be holden at Glasgow the xxi of November last And for our subjects their better content and assurance that they should be freed of all such things as by their petitions and supplications given in to the Lords of our privie Councell they seemed to be grieved at We in some sort preveened the assembly by discharging by our proclamation the service book book of canons and high commission freed and liberate our subjects from the practising of the five articles eximed all ministers at their entrie from giving any other oath then that which is contained in the act of parliament made all persons both ecclesiasticall and civill lyable to the censure of Parliament generall Assembly or any other judicatorie competent according to the nature of their offence had declared all by-gone disorders absolutely forgotten and forgiven and last for securing to all posteritie the truth and liberty of religion did command the confession of faith and band for maintenance thereof and of authoritie in defence of the same subscribed by our deare Father and his houshold in anno 1580. to be renued and subscribed again by our subjects here And albeit that this our gracious and pious command in stead of obedience and submission rancountred open and publick opposition and protestation against the same And that they continued their daily and hourely guarding and watching our Castle of Edinburgh suffering nothing to be imported therein but at their discretion stopping and impeding any importation of ammunition or other necessaries whatsoever to any of our houses within this kingdome Denying to us their soveraigne Lord that libertie and freedome which the meanest of them assume to themselves an act without precedent or example in the christian world Like as they spared not boldly and openly to continue their conventions and councell tables of Nobilitie Gentrie Ministers and Burgesses within the city of Edinburgh where not regarding the lawes of the kingdome without warrant of authoritie they conveened assembled and treated upon matters as well ecclesiasticall as civill sent their injunctions and directions throughout the countrey to their subordinate tables and other under ministers appointed by them for that effect And under colour and pretext of religion exercing an unwarranted libertie required obedience to their unlawfull and illegall directions to the seene prejudice of authoritie and lawfull monarchicall government And notwithstanding it was evidently manifest by the illegall and unformall course taken in the election of the commissioners for the assembly whereof some of them were under the censure of this church some under the censure of the church of Ireland some long since banished for open and avowed teaching against monarchie others of them suspended and some admitted to the ministerie contrary to the form prescribed by the lawes of this kingdome others of them rebels and at the horne some of them confined and all of them by oath and subscription bound to the overthrow of episcopall government And by this and other their under-hand working and private informations and perswasions have given just ground of suspicion of their partialitie and so made themselves unfit judges of what concerneth episcopacie And al 's albeit it was sufficiently cleared by the peremptorie and illegall procedures of the presbyteries who at their own hand by order of law and without due forme of processe thrust out moderators lawfully established and placed others whom they found most inclinable to their turbulent humors associate to themselves for choosing of the commissioners to the assembly a laick elder out of each parish who being in most places equall if not moe in number then the ministerie made choice both of the ministers who should be commissioners from the presbyteries as also of a laick elder which in time will prove to be of a dangerous consequence and import a heavie burden to the libertie of church and church men being more directed therein by the warrants of the foresaid pretended tables then by their own judgements as appeared by the severall instructions sent from them far contrary to the lawes of this countrey and lowable custome of this church some whereof were produced and exhibit by our Commissioner and publickly read One whereof direct to the Noblemen and Barons of each presbyterie doth among many other odde passages require diligence lest say they by our own silinesse and treacherie we lose so faire an occasion of our liberty both christian and civill a strange phrase to proceed from dutifull or loyall hearted subjects The other to the moderators of the severall presbyteries under the title of PRIVATE INSTRUCTIONS AUGUST 27. first containeth that these private instructions shall be discovered to none but to brethren well affected to the cause secondly order must be taken that none be chosen ruling elders but covenanters and these well affected to the businesse thirdly that where the minister is not well affected the ruling elder be chosen by the commissioners of the shire and spoken to particularly for that effect fourthly that they be carefull that no chappelmen chaptermen or a minister justice of peace be chosen although covenanters except they have publickly renounced or declared the unlawfulnesse of their places fifthly that the ruling elders come from every church in equall number with the ministers and if the minister oppose to put themselves in possession notwithstanding of any opposition sixthly that the commissioner of the shire cause conveen before him the ruling elder of every kirk chosen before the day of the election and enjoyn them upon their oath that they give vote to none but to those who are named already at the meeting at Edinburgh seventhly that where there is a nobleman in the bounds of the presbytery he be chosen and where there is none there be chosen a barron or one of the best quality and he only a covenanter eighthly that the ablest man in every presbytery be provided to dispute de potestate supremi magistratus in Ecclesiasticis presertim in convocandis consiliis c. Whereby it is most evident what prelimitations indirect and partiall courses and dangerous propositions have been used in the preparations and elections to this pretended assembly By which unlawfull doings although we had sufficient reason to have discharged the meeting of the said assembly yet we were pleased patiently to attend the same still hoping that when they were met together by the presence of our Commissioner