Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	prince_n	subject_n	3,995	5	6.4954	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45003	The humble petition of 85. gentlemen and freeholders, and 15. ministers of the county palatine of Chester Preferred to His Majestie at York, the seventh of May, 1642. In behalf of themselves and others. Together with His Majesties gracious answer.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I).	1642 (1642)	Wing H3463A; ESTC R216252	2,259	12

The humble PETITION Of 85. Gentlemen and Free-Holders and 15. Ministers of the County Palatine of CHESTER Preferred to His Majestie at YORK the seventh of May 1642. In behalf of themselves and others Together with His Majesties gracious Answer YORK Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE Humbly sheweth THat though our Fears and Distractions have been many and great and much encreased by your Maiesties absence from your Parliament yet were we never destitute of hope that the Fears and Prayers of your dutifull and truly-affected Subiects might be powerfull with your Royall Brest so far as to imbrace with tendernesse your whole Kingdom in its representative Body your great Councell But now our Sorrows are doubled our Fears multiplied and even the little hope we had fails us hearing the report of your Maiesties Resolution to undertake a dangerous voyage into Ireland whereon we reflect with much terrour and amazement yet we are confident your Maiestie will pardon our love and duty if in our hearts we cannot consent to a Journey wherein your Royall Person is exposed to variety of perill by Land and Sea Winde and Water making no difference betwixt the greatest King and the meanest Subiect and if God the Guardian and Preserver of Princes should safely waft you over yet your Maiesties Person cannot in our apprehension be secure amongst so many Popish Cruell and Barbarous Rebels who have forgot Religion Piety and even Humanity it self murthering your Maiesties innocent Protestant Subiects without respect of Age Sex or Condition thereby rendring themselves unworthy and incapable of any Grace or favour from Your Maiestie their Actions calling for Your exemplary Justice upon them and our hearts affections imploring Your Gracious consideration of these ensuing particulars 1 To comfort our hearts by deserting your iourney into Ireland and by residing where you may with more conveniency and security consult with your great Councell 2 To consider to what danger if your Resolution for Ireland continue You expose us by the Popish Faction when your Maiestie shall leave us naked we not being put into a posture of Defence to repell the rage and attempts of the enemies to our Religion who we have too iust cause to fear but wait for an opportunity to bring to birth their cruell Conceptions and what so great advantage can they hope for as by your Maiesties absence 3 To advise Whether this Journey will not much retard the intended Reliefe for Ireland since upon the first Rumour many who were minded to subscribe demur in their proceedings and others wish they might recall what they have subscribed and not to deprive us at once of that poor remainder of hope we have to reap further good by the endeavours of your Parliament whereof we shall despair when your presence shall be wanting to perfect their Proposalls and Conclusions 4 To consider how David that Religious and Valiant King offering to go in Person against his Rebels was by his people in the tendernesse of his Person humbly disswaded from that Resolution they valuing his Person above ten thousand of their own which gracious and provident Petition David graciously yeelded unto saying What seemeth you best that will I do which we humbly beg may be the effect of your Majesties Answer to your humble Petitioners who forbear to presse your Maiestie with number of Persons or multitude of Hands though plentifully enabled to either knowing your Maiesties disaffection to both And we shall ever pray c. At the Court at YORK .9 May 1642. His Majesty hath given me expresse command to give you this His Answer to your Petition THat Hee sees plainly that this Petition of yours hath been framed without having heard the Answer His Majestie gave to His Parliament upon their Petition to Him for desisting from His Iourney into Ireland for He cannot think that that Countrey from whence He hath received formerly so good expressions of their loyall Intentions by two former Petitions presented long since to Him and the Parliament would have been so much mistaken as to have made this Petition after they had seen and well considered His Majesties said Answer And His Majestie observes very well that this Petition is not like others which by an untimely Zeal have desired Him to return to His Parliament you onely desiring Him there to reside where with more conveniency and security He may consult with His great Councell then by going into Ireland His Majestie being confident That your well weighing of His Answers concerning that subject hath been the cause that you have not imitated some few other Countreys in that particular And that you have well considered the Rebellious Affront offered to Him at Hull by a hostile opposition of His entrance and therefore beleeves that the same Reason which made you at this time expresse your tender care of His Person and the former good expressions you made of your Loyalty and right-set Affections to the good of the whole Kingdom may sooner induce you to petition the Parliament to apply themselves to a right understanding of His Majesties wayes and intentions and to do Him Iustice for that Affront then make you to preferre any such ill-grounded Petition And that you may be the better informed of His Majestiesties proceedings in those particulars He recommends to your view and consideration His Answers to the Declaration presented to Him at New-market to the Petition presented to Him at York the 26. of March last concerning His journey into Ireland His two Messages and Declaration concerning Hull all which when it shall be fully represented to the rest of your County He doubts not but that you will rest very well satisfied of His constant Resolution for the maintaining of and governing you by the Law of the Land His unmoveable Resolutions for the maintenance and defence of the true Protestant Profession and the suppression and chastising of the barbarous Irish Rebellion As for your apprehensions of danger of being left naked and not put into a posture of Defence His Maiestie assures you That He will take care that it shall be done in the true old legall way which hath been used in this Kingdom without bringing in strangers to govern you or admitting new and exorbitant Powers derogating both from His Majesties undoubted Legall Authority and the Liberty of the Subject which as He hath constantly denied so He expects and no wayes doubts but that you will give Obedience to that and that onely which shall proceed from His Majestie in a legall way Subscribed by M. Secretary Nicholas FINIS