Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,024	5	6.5132	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37691	A declaration from both Houses of Parliament with the additional reasons last presented to His Majesty, Sabbathi 12 Martii, 1642 : whereunto is annexed, His Majesties speech to the committee the 9 of March, 1642, when they presented the declaration of both Houses of Parliament at Newmarket.	England and Wales. Parliament.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1642 (1642)	Wing E1337A; ESTC R41761	6,599	12

not betrampled in the durt and indeavouring to ingage the Gentlemen of the Innes of Court in the same course the plotting and designing of a perpetuall Guard about your Majesty the labouring to infuse into your Majesties Subjects an evill opinion of the Parliament throughout the whole Kingdome and other symptomes of a disposition of raising Armes and dividing your people by a Civil Warre in which combustion Ireland must needes be lost and this Realme miserably wasted and consumed if not wholly ruined and destroyed That the Lord Digby should presume to counsell your Majesty to declare your self and to retire to a place of strength in this Kingdome and to perswade you that you could not bee safe among your People and yet should have such credit with you as to bee sent away by your warrant to Sir John Pennington to land him beyond the Sea where he took that transcendent boldnesse to vent his own trayterous conceptions in the Letter to the Queen offering to entertaine a correspondencie with her Majesty by Cyphers intimating some service which hee might do in those parts for which he desired your Majesties Instructions whereby in all probability hee intended the procureing of some forreigne forces to strengthen your Majesty in that condition to which hee would have brought which false and malicious counsell and advice we have great cause to doubt made too deep an impression in your Majesty considering the course you are now pleased to take of absenting your selfe from your Parliament and carrying the Prince with you which seemes to expresse a purpose in your Majesty to keep your selfe in a readinesse for the acting of it The manifold advertisements we have had from Rome Venice Paris and other parts that they stil expect that you have some great designe in hand for the altering of Religion the breaking neck of your Parliament that you will yet finde meanes to compasse that designe that the Popes Nuncio hath sollicited the Kings of France and Spain to lend your Majesty 4000. men apiece to help to maintaine your Royaltie against the Parliament and this of forreigne force seemeth to be the most pernicious and malignant designe of all the rest because no man can beleeve you will give up your people and your Kingdome to bee spoiled by Strangers if you did not likewise intend both to change your own profession in Religion and the publicke profession of the Kingdome that so you might still bee more assured of those forreigne states of the popish Religion for your future support and defence but wee hope God will direct your Majesty to better counsels These are some of the grounds of our feares and jealousies which made us so earnestly to implore your royall Authoritie and Protection for our defence and security in all the wayes of humilitie and submission which being denyed by your Maiestie seduced by evill Councells We doe with sorrow for the great and inavoydable miserie which is like to fall upon your own person and your Kingdomes apply ourselves to the use of that Power for the securitie and defence of both which by the fundamentall Laws and Constitutions of this Kingdome resides in Us Yet still resolving to keep our selves within the bounds of Faithfulnesse and Allegeance to your sacred person and your Crownes so as to the Second sort of jealousies and feares of Us exprest by your Majestie We shall give a shorter but as true and as faithfull an Answere Whereas your Majestie is pleased to say that for your residing neere your Parliament you wish it might be so safe and honourable that you had no cause to absent your selfe from White-hall this we take as the greatest breach of the priviledges of Parliament that can be offered the heaviest miserie to your self and injurie to us and Imputation upon us that can be imagined the most mischievous effect of evil Counsells it roots up the foundation of that safety and honour which the Crowne affords it seems as much as may be to cast upon the Parliament such a charge as is inconsistent with the nature of your great Counsel being the body wherof your Majesty is the head it strikes at the very being both of King and Parliament depriving your Majesty in your own apprehension of their fidelity and them of your protection which are the mutuall bonds of Government and subjection We have according to your Majesties desire laid our hands upon our hearts we have asked our selves in the strictest examination of our Consciences we have searcht our affections our thoughts considered our actions and wee find none that can give your Majesty any just occasion to absent your self from White hall and the Parliament but that you may with more honour and safety continue there then in any other place your Majestie laies a generall Taxe upon us if you will be graciously pleased to let us know the particulars we shall give a cleer and satisfactory answer but what hope can we have of ever giving your Majesty satisfaction when the particulars which you have been made beleeve were true yet being produced and made known to us appeared to be false and your Majesty notwithstanding will neither punish nor produce the authors but go on to contract Jealousies and fears upon general uncertain grounds affording us no means or possibility of particular Answer to the cleering of our selves For proof wherof we beseech your Majestie to consider these Instances The speeches alledged to be spoken in a meeting by divers Members of both Houses at Kensington concerning a purpose of restraining the Queene and Prince which after it was denied and disavowed yet your Majesty refused to Name the authors thogh humbly desired to both Houses The report of Articles framed against the Queene given out by some of neere relation unto the Court but when it was publiquely and constantly disclaimed the Credit seemed to be with drawn from it but the Authors being kept safe will alwayes be in readinesse for exploits of the same kind wherewith your Majesty and the Queen will be troubled if this course bee taken to cherish and secure them in such wicked and malicious slanders The heavy Charge and accusation of the Lord Kimbolton and the five Members of the House of Commons who refuse no Triall and examination which may stand with the Priviledge of Parliament yet no Author no witnesses produced against whom they may have reparation for that great injury and infamy cast upon them notwithstanding severall Petitions of both Houses the authority of two acts of Parliament vouched in the last of these petitions We beseech your Majestie to consider in what estate you are how easy and faire a way you have to happinesse honour greatnesse plenty and security If you will joyn with the Parliament and your faithfull Subjects in defence of the Religion and the publique good of the Kingdom This is all we expect from you and for this we shall return to you our lives and fortunes and utmost endeavours to support your