Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	lord_n	send_v	time_n	2,896	5	3.2333	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52747	An answer to a declaration of the Lords and Commons concerning the papers of the Scots commissioners, intituled The answer of the commissioners to both Houses of Parliament upon the new propositions of peace, and the foure bills to be sent to His Majesty / by Mercurius Pragmaticus.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1643 (1643)	Wing N374; ESTC R36609	9,084	16

AN ANSVVER TO A DECLARATION OF The Lords and Commons concerning the Papers of the Scots Commissioners INTITULED The Answer of the Commissioners to both Houses of Parliament upon the new Propositions of Peace and the foure Bills to be sent to his Majesty By Mercurius Pragmaticus Printed for J.S. 1648. AN ANSWER TO THE late Declaration of the Lords and Commons of the Parliament of ENGLAND ALthough we are not ignorant how many obstructions have of late been occasioned by those who pretend a more then ordinary zeale to a speedie settlement and a composure of those unhappy differences which but that the providence of the Highest prevailed had ere this buried the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland in an united ruine yet we shall not waste time now to cite either the Impediments or the parties contenting our selves onely with a free and full answer to the late Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled in the Parliament of England which we looke upon as a meere bundle of invictives and an heepe of Callumnies for throughout the whole booke not one clause but savours of malice rancour and contempt but indeed what else but gall can flow from the quill of that impudent Reviler of his King and notorious Incendiarie between the two Kingdomes Harry Martin who as we are credibly informed was the composer of the said Declaration but we shall hold it altogether beneaneth us to castigate Callumnies of the said Martin in a publick way and shall now proceed to take to pieces the late Declaration to Diffect and anotomize it that so the whole proportion of it being open to the view of the world they may be informed of its imperfect perfectnesse First then they Declare that they were put upon this Declaration in answere to those Papers intituled The answer of the Commissioners of Scotland to both Houses of Parliament upon the new Propositions of peace and four Bills to be sent to his Majestie to undeceive the minds of the people of both Kingdoms as if our fallacies were such that it is high time they were discovered and that we had deceived our trust and by under hand and sinister practises sought our owne and not our Nations welfare but we shall not need to bestow much labour in wiping away the staine since our owne Nation are not the least anxious of our fidelity neither will it be a worke worthy the undertaking to release their constant perfidiousnesse even from their first day of sitting and we should but carry pots to Samos and Owles to Athens if we should tell they have betrayed their trust to God by breaking the Covenant to their King by trampling upon the Oath of Allegiance and to their Country by prostrating their power and suffering themselves to be over-awed by a Sectarian Army who are or ought to be wholy at their disposing but they are not contented to brand us with Apostacie but they also would give the world to thinke that our power is triviall and invallid for they say We desire it may be remembred that when we speake of the Commissioners of Scotland we intend not throughout the whole Declaration the Kingdome of Scotland who we rest confident will not owne their Commissioners in these Papers in their transactions in the Isle of Wight nor in many other of their Papers and proceedings when they shall be truly informed of their carriage but that the Kingdome of Scotland will be ready to doe us and themselves right Here they haue turned their Galls up and spit the worst of Venome for because themselves would not be thought the least guilty as it hath everbeen the manner of persons the most nocent and obnoxious to stand high upon their reputations they cast aspersions upon us and thinke themselves sufficiently vindicated if we are disparaged in regard whereof we have a just occasion to returne to them their owne words according to their owne practises and tell them That all the Rhetorique used in this point to abuse the minds of well minded people and to heighten their fancies against our proceedinge might have been spared but we see their aime and that they have an ardeut desire still to keep themselves in the Saddle had they ability to mannage the Steed and indeed to cause so implacable an hatred between the two Kingdomes as all the Heccatombes of after intreaties may not expiate And that it may be so as soone as may be they proceed to make their and our Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES uncapable of Governing and themselves of obeying and this contrary to all law and reason they will prove with their wild Sophistrie to be both good and requisite when they say We aske what reason we have to respect better satisfaction in the way of a treatie them formerly at Vxbridge or in a personall treaty at Oxford unlesse wee be resolved to Treat away all that we have fought for and to be Treated out of what we could not be fought out of or at least what can we expect of a Treaty but under pretence of satisfying all interests one interest shall be set up against an nother to devide us and that thereby having laid no foundation of safety before hand the King might set up his interest above them all if successe and advantage of the crowne in the Kings esteeme must be the measure of our resolutions or that hereby we must have the way or tearmes of our peace cut out unto us Thus they make themselves no longer fellow subjects with us and that by the right of conquest as having our in pieces with the sword both the Covenant and the Oath of Allegiance and so render themselves to the world as persons who are no better then doubly perjuried have they so soone or else are they wicked as not to remember how we once joyntly Sollemnly protested with lift up hands to the most High God that we had no intention to curtaile his Majestie of any of the least of his lawfull Priviledges but that with our utmost indeavours we would assay to reinstate his Majesties in his Pristine Glory and Dignitie and having instated him to defend Him with our utmost abillities had we apprehended that the least injurie or violence would have been committed against his Majesties Royall Person as it was offered at Holdenby and reported to be Hampton or if we had not received a faithfull assurance of the Houses that their intentions were cordial and Loyall towards him not all the threatnings or allurments in the world should have perswaded us to have parted with his Majesties Person till all Armies had been disbanded and the peace of the Kingdome setled it was our brotherly confidence in the Houses who are or ought to be our fellow subjects that moved us to surrender the King into their hands and therefore all the world cannot but assoile us and acknowledge our innocence and fidellity to the King and that when wee delivered him into the hands of these Commissioners appointed for that