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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	kingdom_n	parliament_n	5,178	5	6.3666	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48206	A Letter to a noble lord at London from a friend at Oxford upon occasion of the late covenant taken by both Houses.	Friend at Oxford.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1691; ESTC R36362	10,224	15

Papists are will best be found in the Muster-Rolls of both Armies you have had whole Troopes of that Profession and no fault found with their Religion till they have given over being Rebells whilest they are with you they defend the true Reformed Protestant Religion but when they revolt to their Allegiance they are Papists and ought to be disbanded indeed you take the course to compell the King to doe His duty by driving them to Him for Protection which he cannot deny to His Subjects but you keep them from performing their duty in assisting their Prince by stripping Plundring and leaving them naked to the World In good faith I ask pardon of Discretion and Truth for being startled your consident discourses of Popish Armies and Supplies from Papists made me once imagine the King might in truth receive some notable Supplies from the persons of that profession and it was not hard for me to beleeve that that party which felt so much rigour cruelty from you and were sure to suffer an utter extirpation if you prevailed should willingly sacrifice all they had to that Soveraigne Power which might mercifully allay that fury and preserve them still in the number of His Subjects but I find there is a narrownesse a vulgar spiritednesse and a scandalous parsimony in all Religions even these men will have the comfort of being starved with Mony in their Purses for I am assured by those who are conversant with those Accounts that all the Mony His Majesty hath received from all the Papists of England since He hath been put to raise and continue these Forces is not halfe so much as is in truth due to Him by the Law upon those moderate Compositions made with them And for any Assistance He hath by their personall service you have long agoe heared and I have reason enough to beleeve that the Papists in all His Armies will not make one Regiment how many more you have and how many more you would be glad to have your Lordship can better judge then I. Well there hath been a treacherous and horrid design lately discovered to surprize the Cities of London and Westminster and God knowes what and you doe abhorre and detest that wicked and treacherous Designe 'T is well done whether you know it or not but what may this treacherous Designe be that Mr Pym sayes would have destroyed the City and the Kingdome and in their Ruines have buried Religion and Liberty another Gunpowder Treason like that of the Protestation against the first Remonstrance The King hath sent a Commission for now 't is printed all the World knowes what it is to certain persons to use their utmost power to suppresse those who are in Rebellion against Him and assist those who are oppressed by them Is there one Popish or Popishly affected person in that Commission or to be imployed in the whole Design Is there one Clause in it on the behalfe of Papists or against the Liberty of the Subject Indeed it may seem strange that the King should so much consider that Apostate City where the Rage of some and the Tamenesse of others have made up one generall Guilt as to offer them any countenance to releeve themselves but that it should be a horrid treacherous Design when you have in all the Counties of England Commanders of your Militia and Commissioners even at this present to assesse rate and collect Money for the maintenance of your Rebellious Army for the King to be willing to have an Army in London or Middlesex whereby all other Armies and that too might be speedily disbanded will need an Orator no lesse powerfull then M. Pym or his Excellency himselfe who in these nice Arguments is the better Orator to make evident to the World Beleeve it my Lord whilst there is one honest man left in that City there will be alwayes a Plot to reduce it to its Loyalty and to destroy this wicked Rebellion neither will that unparallell'd Act of Inhumanity executed upon the two famous Citizens of Bristoll who will live gloriously in the Annalls of this Nation as the stout Champions and Martyrs of Allegiance when the name of their Murtherer Fiennes shall not be mentioned but with Infamy so farre fright good men from their Duty that your wild fury will rage long uncontrouled Another of your propositions is that you doe beleeve in your Conscience that the Forces raised by the two Houses of Parliament are raised and continued for their just defence and for the defence of the true Protestant Reformed Religion and Liberty of the Subject against the Forces raised by the King does your Lordship in truth beleeve this take it in peeces The two Houses of Parliament being convened by the Kings sole Writ to advise with Him about the great Affaires of the Kingdom formed their Counsells with such successe that in above fifteen Moneths time enough to have reformed and repaired all former mistakes and irregularities in Church and State they never found the least nonconcurrence with them from His Majesty in any particular proposed for the ease or benefit of the Common-wealth what was during that time done by His singular Iustice and excesse of Bounty is so well and so particularly known to all the World that if your Treason and Rebellion were away there would be ingratitude enough left to make you odious to the present and infamous to succeeding Ages When did the first Act of your defence begin not till you came to Edge hill then I must confesse you were put to it for it cannot be denied the King went eight Miles out of His way to find you from thence you took your stile of defensive Armes except you will needs date them from the tenth of Ianuary when you had been overrun by the Law if that defensive Army of the City had not been raised to rescue and preserve the good Lord of Kimbolton his five pretious Members from a legall proceeding In this sense you have I confesse been much upon the defensive part otherwise you never pretended ground or Argument for your taking Armes but Feares and Iealousies no danger of an assault from an active Enemy except some few Papists under ground whom your vigilancy hath kept still there When you first voted your great Generall and raised your wanton Army 't was to fetch up the King to you from Yorke not to defend your selves against Him and you cannot but know you were so farre from being in danger to be assaulted that setting aside your acts of Hostility in your Votes and Ordinances by which you had surprized Forts Townes and the whole Navy when you had a formed Army of Horse and Foot I believe much greater then you have now the King had not so many Muskets as you had Cannon nor so many Swords as you had Companies and on my Conscience I will so farre excuse you from intending it should come to this if you had thought He could have got any your