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
A86719	The humble address of the agitators of the army to His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax. Presented the 14. of August, on behalf of the kingdom and army. Shewing the unexpectedness of the intrusion of those gentlemen into Parliament, who so lately usurped a parliamentary power when the free Parliament was forc'd a way: as also the injustice of their sitting therein. Unto which is annexed their proposals to His Excellency at Hammersmith, on the 5. of this instant August; for the prevention of the said gentlemen, and all other illegal members, sitting in the Parliament.	Hincksman, Daniel.	1647 (1647)	Wing H3377; Thomason E402_8; ESTC R201818	1,519	6

THE HVMBLE ADDRESS of the AGITATORS of the ARMY To His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax Presented the 14. of AUGUST On behalf of the Kingdom and the Army c. May it please your Excellency THe continued destructive designs and dangerous Combinations of perfidious men formerly Members of Parliament which constantly blast the fairest hopes and expectations of Peace and Freedom rendring all our endeavours and hazards of our lives fruitless and at present threatning the ruine and desolation of this poor distracted Kingdome constrains us once more to address our selves to Your Excellency to improve the present opportunity that Providence hath put into your hands of making them incapable of prosecuting their mischievous purposes being fully confident that though their former treacheries were more obscure and intricate yet their late unparalleld proceedings in violating the free legal Parliament and USURPING A PARLIAMENTARY POVVER on purpose to have embroiled this miserable and almost still bleeding Nation again in blood cries aloud to Justice to remove them from their USURPED DESTRUCTIVE POVVER Seeing therefore those Honorable Members of Parliament that discharged their trust have been forced to fly to this Army for refuge that they might endeavour to secure them to sit as a free and legal Parliament and your Excellency with this Army have engaged themselves to improve the utmost of your possibilities to that intent and seeing those worthy Members are now again dis-inabled for discharging their Trust through the UNEXPECTED INTRUSION OF THOSE USURPERS and their assuming to themselves a Power of voting amongst them whereby those desperate enemies to the Kingdoms peace and welfare do again obscure and pervert the true Parliamentary power and imprint the Image of that highest Authority upon their own designes protecting themselves and their Accomplices from justice We cannot but humbly and earnesty implore your Excellency That those Vsurpers of that supream Authority might not be permitted even contrary to the Law of nature to sit judges of their own prodigious Treacheries But that all and every person that have sate in that pretended Parliament or adhered to them or their Votes when the free legal Parliament was by violence suspended might immediatly be declared against as persons uncapable of sitting or voting in this Parliament That so according to our last Declaration and our former Proposals tendred to your Excellency for that end we might secure that free and legal Parliament til the differences of the Kingdom be composed and the Peace and Liberties of the people firmly established THE PROPOSALS of the AGITATORS To His Excellency at Hammersmith the 5. of AUGUST 1647. Before the free Parliaments return to WESTMINSTER FOrasmuch as your Excellency with the Councel of War by their Representations and Declarations have referred the Composure of differences And the Establishment of the Peace and happines of the whole nation to a free Parliament We being very sensible that the ends of all our labours and manifold hazards of our lives are now depending thereupon And of how dangerous a Concernment it may prove if persons dis-affected to the peace and welfare of the Kingdom should retain places therein do humbly offer to your Excellencies Consideration To be by you presented to the Members of Parliament now Resident in the Army FIrst That all those who have sate at Westminster usurping a Parliamentary Authority since the Tumultuous and forcible expulsion of the Parliament of England and choice of new pretended Speakers thereby giving encouragement and assistance to the City of London to raise a new War in this Kingdom may immediatly be excluded the Houses Secondly that all which formerly have been Members of Parliament and have adhered to the pretended Parliament may be also Excluded the Houses And a Penalty agreed upon to be imposed upon such person or persons appearing guilty that shal presume to fit after the said Exclusion Lastly that all former Votes against Members dis-affected may be duly Executed Daniel Hincksman John Blackmore Geo. Tracey Will. Younge Timothy Thornberry Will. Hall Ed. Vaughan John Wells John Wilson Io. Radman Nich. Lockier Geo. Stevenson Sam. Whitmore Richard Clerk Edmond Gurne Consolation Fox Tho. Butterroy Iohn Willoughby Ed. Twigge Will. Pryor J. Reynolts Joseph Wallington Hen. Cannon Rich. Hodden John Perke Fran. Allen. Tho. Robinson Iohn Clerk Tho. Iohnson Geo. Ioyce Ed. Sexby Will. Allen. Rich. Iohnson Ioseph Adams Rich. Flower Edmond Chillington Rich. Colbrand Tim● Whiting Tho. Butler Stephen Shipden Will. Knolles Will. Wilkinson Edw. Tomlint Rich. Salter Robert Stedman Harbert Field Robert Baldwin Tho Ellis Iohn Felpes Will. Symond Iohn Wood. Tho. Sheppard Tobias Box.