Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	army_n	city_n	london_n	3,465	5	7.2357	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34529	Eye-salve for English-men, and an alarvm to the Londoners wherein is contained the summary of Romes late designes against England, and the present plots and enterprizes in hand against London, so many as hath yet come to the knowledge of the author : together with the opening of an effectual door, to the happiness of this nation : whereunto is annexed a postscript containing reasons and motives to his Highness and the present power in being, to grant us s[u]ch a committee which hath been long promised, and much longer desired and sought for / composed for the view of His Highness, and all the people of England, by Jeffrey Corbet ...	Corbet, Jeffrey.	1654 (1654)	Wing C6244; ESTC R39395	24,070	29

were in the old Parliament that would thus gratifie the peoples sworn enemies hold continual familiarity with th 〈…〉 for Car hath boasted that he could daily speak with them at the Parliamen● door And when Garret Dillon another Irish Priest was appoin●ed to dispose of the Arms Ammunition which the King of Sp●i● had sent ov●r to the Catholicks in England Ireland in the year 1640 he was secured at the Spanish Embassadors house and from thence sent out to the Kings Army where he was s●ain Therefore let all un●erstanding Protestanis judge whether he be fit to have liberty of residence within the City of London or no And for many in the old Parliament who carried on the same design as may appear by their familiarity with the sworn enemies of the Common-wealth and by their releasing of them frequently and protecting of them to go between the King and his Queen all the time of the Wars and when they were app●ehended at any time did suffer them to escape and punished the discoveres and from time to time have used all their art and power to stifle all intelligence and destroy all faithful intelligencers and protecte● S●ies and Agents for the King to fire the City of London and suffered above six score thousand pounds worth of Malignants goods to be conveyed away to preserve it from the fire when the City was to be burned and likewise suffered threescore thousand pounds to be conveyed to the King which was in the hands of a Popish Treasurer and also concealed a List of about 60 considerable persons in the City who with their confederates did constantly contribute to the Kings Army considerable sums of mony All which with many other things doth make it clearly appear that they were resolved to uphold the wars between the King and Parliament until the Protestants were so destroyed that the Papists might have their wills of both And I hope by this time all the rational part of our bret●ren the Cavaliers and also all under all diff●rent forms whatsoever are clearly convinced of their error in taking up Arms for the Pope instead of a King And therefore I do humbly entreat them as they do tender their own lives liberties estates postereties the good of their Native Countrey and the Protestant Religion that they do never offer to stir upon any pretence whatsoever to t●k● up Arms against the higher powers for if they do they will but destroy themselves and make the wound of the Nation the deeper And I am confident that there were thousands of them if they had known of the Papists●esign they would as soon have torn their own flesh off their bones as ever have taken up Arms against their Countrey And truly I am sorry for those that have a hand in this cursed design which is in part discovered and for those of them that are undiscovered if they shall out of conscience come in and submit and make discovery of what they do know I dare engage my life that a hair of their head● shall not perish But some may Query why I do write in this manner My answer is That for almost 10. years after my return from Ireland my employment was as little as my Estate so that I had nothing to hinder me from observing the current of the times amongst which I could not but take notice of the policy of the Priests Jesuites and all the popish faction and there accomplices in playing their game on this manner So long as the people are oppressed they will be discontented and so long as they are disconteuted they will fall into Divisions and so long as they are devided the easier destroyed And to this end was the reins cast upon the neck of all corrupt Committee men to cheat by thousands and hundreds of thousands and then hire Clarks to Coppy out their Books to cover over their cheating but these were of the better sort of them for they had some fear in them but the rest of them hath gone on with as little fear as they had honesty And so for ●ur corrupt Treasurers which of them hath ever been called to account And so for our unjust Judges who have judged for a Reward are they not yet unquestioned And for our Long-winded Lawyers who can run races of 7. 10. 20. nay 40. or 50. years long and make the people dance after their long tayls until they were run so quite out of breath that they had not a groat left in their purse● ●●d many of them gone with sorrow to their graves but I hope to see God making inqu●sition after the blood of these poor souls which were so mercilesly murthered And for the corrupt Members of the first House how did they sit hacking and hewing at the two leggs upon which this Common wealth did stand I do mean Men and Money For Men how have they been betrayed both by Sea and Land And how have they been discouraged some of them by keeping back their just and dearly earned wages and others by long attendance to receive considerable sums which were by them disb●rsed until some had well high perished if not altogether and many of them languish in prison while unworthy 〈…〉 le ts can have good rewards for there pretended good services though indeed they deserved to have their heads taken ●ff for their unfaithfulness And for Money how hath it been consumed not only by the Monsters formerly mentioned and many more of the like nature but I do believe it will be proved that some of the Members hath sent out of the Land divers millions at several times b●sides the vast Estates that some of them hath scrued into their own hands by unjust practises but to add t 〈…〉 this when I do consider the frequent recourse that the Irish Priests and Jesuites had to some of them and how frequently the Priests Jesuites Irish bloody Rebbels were released from time to time though their crimes were never so hainous and knowing how they boasted of their great friends that they had in the House and Councel by which they were extreamly encouraged and upon which their confidence was builded of carrying on of their cursed design of the bloody Massacre and clearly ●escerning that they had more friends there than the Common-Wealth had for when they attempted to make a discovery of it they were betrayed into their hands I could not but conclude that the desolation of the everlasting Parliament was one of the greatest mercies that ever this Nation received from God this many years for if they had sitten a little longer in all probability they had accomplished their desires which if they had accomplished then all mercies which God had ●ouchsafed us since these troubles had been drowned in a Sea of b 〈…〉 And now my Lord I beseech you consider how many parties hath God overthrown since these troubles fell upon us as the Bishops the corrupt House of Lords the late