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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	liberty_n	parliament_n	4,708	5	6.3048	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89953	A new-come guest to the tovvne. That is, the descriminant oath which the Earle of Newcastle imposeth upon the countie and citie of Yorke, and all others under his command and power, violently abusing them to the maintaining of this unnaturall warre against the Parliament, to the ruine of the kingdome, and themselves. Written by a Yorke-shire gentleman, for the good (especially) of his countriemen. With a particular list of the names of the most violent papists (men of that qualitie) and others that bare armes, or are ayding and assisting to the Earle of New-castle.	Yorke-shire gentleman.; Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676, attributed name.	1644 (1644)	Wing N600; Thomason E50_14; ESTC R23275	5,406	8

bre●king of this Parliament and consequently of all others ever to succ●ed further then to bee meerely nominall I am bound if a wr●ng a●d unjust Oath could binde a man to any more then to repentance both not to resist and even to assist them therein in the contriving and incompassing their wicked designes Nay nothing in this Oath withstands why the swearer of it should not introduce Iudaisme Mahometanisme Paganisme if the Generalls and Souldiers who have Commission derived from the KING would have it so Thirdly it may well be noted in how broade a difference the Nationall Covenant which is their Cor dolium and whereat they so much storm and this Oath doth run That propounds the defence of the person and just rights of the King the settling of the Protestant Religion the due liberty of the Subject the priviledges of Parliament the extirpation of Popery and Prelacy the union uniformity of two Nations whom God and nature have made one in deviding them from all the world uniting them in one Iland and under one Monarch c. These are heads worthy to bee the theame of an Oath and baites which may catch prudent and good men and even warm and kindle a man by degrees from nutrality to Zeale This Oath leads a man on in a blind obedience sayes not a word of the Cause or reasons of either offensive or defensive armes but thinks to over awe the conscience with persons first the King which indeed is a venerable name and wherein it weighs lesse then ever it did it is principally occasioned by those who pretends to be his friends and supporters then forsooth his Generalls and Souldiers a generation of men whom if we had never known or fel perhaps we might have had some tollerable conceits of them but whilst we k●ow there is nothing lesse then any thing of either a Christian Gentleman or Souldier in very many of them that they have spoyled laid wast the largest and goodliest Country in the Kin●s domminions and behaved themselves as so many Bores in a garden o the infinit and irreparable prejudice of others and even with little or none advantage to their owne side that the generall himselfe however he may pretend to point of honour and Courtship and indeed is a man of more state and difficult accesse then the King is by many degrees can cary himselfe stately keepe distance entertaine a Mistris c. yet in truth is one who never laid any Religion to heart nor hath any thing of a Souldier in him but is wholy steered by Gene all King Sir Thomas Glenham Sir William Widrington Colonell Goring whilst he was there c. men who have not an Acre of land in our County Lastly that the most of the Captaines and Souldiers are Tygers and Beares for cruelty bores for wast and devastations Swine for Drunkenesse Goats and Stallions for Lust c. in so much as Captaine Legg when Iohn Owsman the Post-Master of Yorke did come and tamely enough charge him for violating the Lawes of Hospitality so farre as having the Command of his whole house he had got his daughter with Child the Captaine tooke it very ill that he should complaine and said he had done more then so he had laine with all in his house save him selfe and his Oastler Lastly I desire the grand imposture of all may be detected which indeed hath beene the Master peece of their game and whereby they have gained more prosylites then by all the rest of their play which is the frequent using the name of the King and his sacred Maiesty and the like though in truth the same observations that S. Aug. made of the Pelagians doth heere take the place that they did fill their mouths and with the word Grace grace but it was only frangere invidiam to break the stroke of envy so these men cry Treason Treason Rebellion Reb●llion the King his sacred Person and Crowne when all is but to put some seeming pacification on the minds of the vulgar simple to cover over with some modesty their dangerous designes and uncomly practizes And m●rke I pray you further how twice in this mould of their Oath they joyne together the King his Generalls and Souldiers as if any Yorkshire man who knowes the families of that Country cannot distinguish betwixt the Swerd of King Charles and the Sword of an Howard Dunbarre Evers Falconverg Gascoigne Sayer Bulmer Vavasor Mydulton Menie●l Errington To●stall VVilham Salvi● Fairfax of Gillings Gailes Thuaites Craythorne many more families of that Country who are notorious Hispaniolized and Iesuited Papists and all up in this businesse the yongue men with their Swords middle men with their Councells Committees and the aged with their orizons well non arabis cum bove et a sino it is an unworthy Conjunction to joyne the King these men together and I hope these mens swords shall never fit the Kings Scab●rd but they deale iust as Greg. Nazioanzen in his first Oration against Iulian saith the Pagan Emperors did who stamped together upon the same coynes the Image of Cesar and of the Pagan Gods that if the Christians would not adore those Idolls they might be guilty also of not doing homage to the Emperour so suffer both death confiscation so these conjoyne still the King and his Souldiers that who so disrespects disobeyes such fellowes as Duncombe or Duke Holtby men infamous and stigmatived in their very moralls must be said to reflect upon the King himselfe but do I not know rancide and futile this argument i● did I not see what a strong and cheife influence the Papists had on the Army and Countrie how all painfull and honest Ministers were banished were they never so moderate and cautious in their expressions or retired in their aboades only because they would not rant and curvet in pulpits for their cause did I not see and tell some of the Committee in Yorke that they could not but take notice what a persecution was upon Religion under pretence of being for the King did not the Earle of Newcastle in his Proclamations and edicts give the Papists that soft and oyly terme of those of the Romish Communion and after did hee no weakly and sillily enough God-wot unlesse he would have had all the world to have knowne our synaiocrateia insert in his commands that he did command this and that with the advice and consent of the Queene and though the old Papists were more cautious in their words at first did not such of them as we●e impetuous and forward by reason of drinck or passion or youth declare plainely it was not for the King they drew their Sword● but for th● Queene and for their own Religion and preservation did not young Sayre a family of 1700 l. Per annum and yet must have from the Earle of Newcastle a grant of Sir Mathew Bointons rents and others to say that he hoped by such a day there should not be a Round head in Yorke-shire I meane quoth he not a Protestant but I containe Thus have I a little hunted as a Flea and a Partridge this unreasonable and dangerous Oath composed as I verily think not only for and in behalfe of the Papists but by them or their Priests and Iesuites or at least as they say Mahomet had his Alcoran made up by a Iew and a Nestorian Monke to cull out of both religions what might please most So I doubt I will not affirme it for that were to undervalue my selfe to assert what I am not certaine of that not only some Popish Priests but perhaps Doctor Balcanquall Bish Bramhall Doctor Couzins Master Triplit Master Neale and such have too much countenanced this Oath My advice in a word to my Country men is that those that have not taken it will trust God for protection and not build up matter thereby for they know not how much sorrow afterwards if they belong to God and those that through ignorance or frailty have they would remember that good and safe rule In malis promissis rescinde fidem in turpi voto muta decretum and conclude as the Bish of Winchester Andrewes did in the Star-Chamber in the case of the Count●sse of Shrewsburie who would not speake in a cause wherein she should have given testimony because shee had vowed to bee silent I assure your Ladiship Madam quoth hee you may not onely breake your vow but vow never to make one so rash and foolish againe Printed according to Order