Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	assemble_v	city_n	london_n	3,070	5	7.6466	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94624	To the Right Honourable the knights, citizens, and burgesses, assembled in Parliament the humble petition of the workmen-printers, freemen of the city of London[.]	Hawkins, George, fl. 1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing T1648; Thomason 669.f.21[19]; ESTC R211152	597	1

To the Right Honourable The Knights Citizens and Burgesses assembled IN PARLIAMENT The humble Petition of the Workmen-Printers Freemen of the City of London Sheweth THat in the time of the late generall Liberty of Printing English Bibles and Testaments at London and untill the 6. of March 1655. last past there were above sixty Workmen-Printers imployed in constant work at severall Printing-houses whereby the Books were vended at very moderate rates to the great accommodation and benefit of the Common-wealth and encouragement and comfortable support of your Petitioners but by means of an undue and unlawfull entrance of the late translated Copy of the Bible then made in the Register of the Company of Stationers and other unjust proceedings used by Henry Hills and John Field Printers in reference to their Monopolizing ever since of the sole printing of Bibles and Testaments and suppressing all other Master-Printers in that good work Whereby they themselves imploy not above ten or twelve persons in their service and inhanse the prices of their Books to excessive dear rates The Common-wealth is abused by an unreasonable necessity and your Petitioners are for the generality of them much prejudiced and abridged in their hopes of lively-hood and fortunes and many of them reduced to extream want and poverty to the great grief of themselves and their relations May it therefore most graciously please your Honours to hear and redresse your Petitioners Grievances with all convenience being of such universall influence upon and concernment to the good of the Common-wealth And your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray c. Signed by George Hawkins Iohn Sporier Thomas Webster Iohn Richardson Iohn Dever Bryan Lambert Iames Gray Henry Barrow Roger Vaughan Thomas Milbourne senior For themselves and in the names of 150. Workmen-Printers in London