Selected quad for the lemma: opinion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
opinion_n	say_a	sir_n	stapleton_n	235	4	17.1550	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84440	A particular charge or impeachment in the name of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the army under his command against Denzill Hollis Esquire, Sir Phil: Stapleton, Sir William Lewis, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir William Waller, Sir Iohn Maynard, Knights, Major Generall Massie, Iohn Glynne, Esquire, Recorder of London, VValter Long, Esquire, Col. Edward Harley, & Ant: Nicholl, Esquire, Members of the Honourable House of Commons. By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Councell of Warre. Signed, Iohn Rushworth, Secret.	England and Wales. Army. Council.; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1647 (1647)	Wing E741A; ESTC R220515	14,617	16

A Particular Charge OR IMPEACHMENT IN THE NAME OF HIS EXCELLENCY Sir Thomas Fairfax And the ARMY under His COMMAND Against Denzill Hollis Esquire Sir Phil Stapleton Sir William Lewis Sir John Clotworthy Sir William Waller Sir Iohn Maynard Knights Major Generall Massie Iohn Glynne Esquire Recorder of London VValter Long Esquire Col. Edward Harley Ant Nicholl Esquire Members of the Honourable House of Commons By the appointment of his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Councell of Warre Signed Iohn Rushworth Secret London Printed in the Yeare MDCXLVII A PARTICVLAR CHARGE OR IMPEACHMENT In the Name of his Excellency Sir THO FAIRFAX c. VVHereas on the fifteenth day of June last the Heads of a Charge were delivered in the name of the said Army unto the Commissioners of Parliament to be sent up to the Parliament against the Persons above-named Now in prosecution and maintenance thereof and according to the power thereby preserved It is in the Name of the said Army more particularly charged against the said persons as followeth 1. That the said Mr. Denzill Hollis during the late Warre in prosecution of the evill designes expressed in the generall Heads or Articles formerly exhibited contrary to the trust reposed in him contrary to his oath taken in June 1643. and contrary to the Ordinance of Parliament dated in Oct. 1643. hath assisted the King in the late unnaturall Warre and held correspondency and intelligence with the Enemy against the Parliament in manner following viz. He the said Mr. Hollis being one of the speciall Commissioners for the Parliament to present Propositions of both Houses to the King at Oxford did privately and contrary to his instructions at severall times make his addresses unto the Kings party there then in Armes against the Parliament namely unto the Earle of Lyndsey the Earle of Southampton the Lord Savill and others and did secretly plot and advise them against the Parliament and did intimate unto them or one of them that the said propositions then sent unto his Majesty by the Parl. were unreasonable And the said M. Hollis being demanded what answer he would advise the King to make to the said Propopositions he the said Mr. Hollis did advise that the King should demand a Treaty however and then declare how unreasonable the Propositions were and that yet for the peace of the Kingdome His Majesty would treat upon them but withall wished the said Treaty might bee in London whither the King himselfe should come upon security Hee the said Mr. Hollis adding that there was nothing in the world that the violent party meaning the well-affected party to the Parliament against the Enemy did so much feare as His Majesties comming to London which would be a certaine dissolution of their authority and power And the said Mr. Hollis bad those said persons or one of them assure the King that if His Majesty knew as much as he the said Mr. Hollis knew His Majesty would take his horse and be at London the next day or words to that effect And it being againe demanded whether if the King should be willing to come it would be accepted of He the said Mr. Hollis thereto answered that certainly it would be much opposed but yet he the said Mr. Hollis was confident that he and his party meaning some of the Members above-named and others should carry it and wished the King to put it upon that triall And the said Mr. Hollis was desired by the said Earle of Lyndsey Earle of Southampton and Lord Savill or one of them that he would be pleased to draw such an Answer in writing to the said Propositions as hee desired the King should send and the said Earle of Southampton who was that night to lie in the Kings Bedchamber would perswade the King to condiscend unto it and thereupon the said Mr. Hollis withdrew and either the same day or the next day following the said Mr. Hollis accordingly carried in his hand unto the said Lords or one of them a Paper ready written which as he said was such an Answer to the said Propositions as he had drawne for the King to send to the Parliament which was taken by the said Lords or one of them and carried to the King to be considered of and so much thereof as advised the Kings comming to London was laid by the King fearing to adventure himselfe but the rest of the said Paper the Lord Digby who writ the Kings Answer to the said Propositions made use of in the same words as the said M. Hollis had set downe And the said Master Hollis to ingratiate himselfe with the Kings partie did about the same time revile the well-affected Members of the House of Commons declaring unto the said Kings partie at Oxford or some of them that those wel-affected Members which to render them the more odious as he conceived he named the violent Independent partie had ill intentions and great aversnesse to Peace and that nothing would be more pleasing to them then for the King to refuse the Propositions how unreasonable soever the same were and he also then said that the Commissioners of Scotland were very weary of that violent partie and that they being desperate to establish their Presbytery here as in Scotland made their addresses to him the said M. Hollis and his partie All which tended to the protracting of the said late Warre and to the hindrance of an happy Peace and the said M. Hollis did also after that receive from the Earle of Lyndsey a Letter written in white Inke concerning some secret designe and kept it from the knowledge of the House from February till about Iuly after when it was discovered by him that brought it but the Letter it selfe was by the said M. Hollis after hee had read it burnt And the said Earle of Lyndsey moved the King for a Passe for the said M. Hollis to goe to Oxford but the King refused to grant it saying That Hollis did him better service in the Parliament then he could doe him at Oxford 2. That the said Mr Hollis and sir Philip Stapleton during the said late War when the said Earle of Lyndsey went from the Tower of London to Oxford sent severall Messages of intelligence to the Earle of Dorset and Lord Digby thereby assuring them that they the said Mr Hollis and Sir Philip Stapleton did better service for the King here in Parliament then they could doe him if they were at Oxford And the said Sir Philip Stapleton desired that the said E. of Dorset would preserve him and the said Sir Philip and his friends in the good opinion of the party at Oxford which was then the K ngs Garrison and he the said Sir Philip would do as much for his Lordship and his friends here with the Parliament And the said Mr Hollis and Sir Philip Stapleton the more to ingratiate themselves into the favour of the enemy did of their owne accord without any direction of the Parliament draw