Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	kingdom_n	law_n	parliament_n	3,975	5	6.2994	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91239	The petition of right of the free-holders and free-men of the kingdom of England: humbly presented to the Lords and Commons (their representatives and substitutes) from whom they expect a speedy and satisfactory answer, as their undoubted liberty and birth-right.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1648 (1648)	Wing P4029; Thomason E422_9	14,940	23

practises we declare to be against our Rights Freedom and Liberties and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and of our Members there who represent us and to his Majesties honor and safety in whom we have all a common interest And we do likewise further complain and Remonstrate that the Officers and Agitators in the Army and their confederates in the Houses have contrary to our foresaid Rights and Liberties many ways invaded and infringed the Rights and Priviledges of the City of London the Parliaments chiefest Strength and Magazine and Metropolis of the whole Kingdom which extreamly suffers in and by its sufferings and that by altering and repealing their New Militia established by Ordinances of both Houses when ful and free without any cause assigned against the whole Cities desire in marching up twice against the City in an hostile manner not only without but against the Votes and Commands of both Houses in dividing and exempting the Militia of Westminster and Southwark from their Jurisdiction and Command in seising upon and throwing down their Line and Works raised for the Cities and both Houses securities at a vast expence in a disgraceful and despiteful manner in marching through the City with their whole Army and Train of Artillery in triumph in wresting the Tower of London out of their power and putting it into the Armies and Generals Custody in removing the Cities Lieutenant of it without any reason alledged and placing in a New one of the Armies choyce in committing the Lord Mayor Recorder Aldermen and divers Colonel Captains and Common Councel men and other Citizens of London who have shewed themselves most active and cordial for the Parliament and impeaching them of such grand Misdemeanors and Treasons which all the City and Kingdom and their accusers own consciences inform them they were more guilty of without ever bringing them to a legal Tryal only for doing their du●ies in obeying the Parliament in their just Commands and standing up for their just defence according to their duty and Covenant of purpose to bring in others of their own Faction into their places to inslave the City and commanding two Regiments of Foot to come and quarter in the City and levy some pretended arrears t●●●ein by open force which many by reason of poverty for want of trade and former loans and taxes to the Parliament are ●●●●rly unable to satisfie And when such affronts and violence is offered to London it self by the Army by whose contributions and loans they were first ●●●sed and have been since maintained and that under the Parliaments Notes who are those engaged to them for then supplies and preservation and constant affections since their first ●●tting to this present the Free-holders and Free-subiects in the Country and more remote Counties must necessarily expect Free-quarter affronts pressures and violations of our just Rights and Liberties from them The rather because the Garrison Soldiers of the City of Bristol who not long since refused to receive the Governor appointed them by both Houses of Parliament have lately seised upon one of the wel affected Aldermen of that City as he was sitting on the Bench with his companions and carried him away per force refusing to enlarge or admit any person to see or speak with him or bring any provisions to him til they receive some moneths Arrears in ready money and good security for al their remaining pay and an act of Indempnity for this their insolency and injurious action in particular and all other offences in general from both Houses Of which unparaleld oppression and injustice from Soldiers who pretend themselves the only Saints and Protectors of our Rights and Liberties we cannot but be deeply sensible and crave your speedy redress in our Liberties Rights and Properties But that which most neerly concerns us and which we can no longer endure is this wherin we expect your present redress That this degenerated disobedient and mutinous Army contrary to the Votes and Ordinances for their disbanding and securing their Arrears in March and May last past have traiterously and rebelliously refused to disband and kept themselves together in a body ever since offering such affronts and violence to the Kings own royal person both Houses of Parliament and their Members and the City of London as no age can paralel and yet have forced the Houses when they had impeached and driven away most of their Members and marched up in a body against them and the City in a menacing manner not only to own them for their Army but to pass a new Establishment of sixty thousand pounds a moneth for their future pay to be levyed on the Kingdom who now expect ease from all such Taxes besides the Excise and all other publick payments which now they importune the Houses may be augmented to one hundred thousand pounds each moneth and that they themselves may have the levying thereof which insupportable Tax being procured by force and menaces when the Houses were neither full nor free against former Votes and Ordinances for the Kingdoms ease and not consented to by most of our Knights and Burgesses then driven away by the Army and dissenting thereto when present and being only to maintain a mutinous and seditious Army of Sectaries Antitrinitarians Antiscripturists Seekers Expectants Anabaptists recruited Cavaliers and seditious mutinous Agitators who have offered such insufferable violence and Indignities both to the King whose person and life was indangered among them as he and they confess the Parliament City Country and so earnestly endeavored to subvert all Magistracy Monarchy Ministry all civil Ecclesiastical and Military Government Parliaments Religion and our ancient Laws and Liberties as their late printed Papers evidence that they cannot without apparant danger to the Parliament King and Kingdom be any longer continued together being now so head-strong that their own Officers cannot rule but complain publickly against them And therefore we can neither in point of duty conscience law or prudence subject to pay the said monethly Tax so unduly procured by their violence were we able to do it being contrary to our Solemn League and Covenant for the maintenance of such a mutinous and rebellious Army who endeavor to enslave and destroy both King Parliament City Kingdom and monopolize all their power wealth and treasure into their own Trayterous hands which they have wel nigh effected having gotten the Kings person the Tower of London all Garisons and Forces in the Kingdom by Land and the command of the Navy by Sea into their power and put the City and both Houses under the Wardship of their armed guards attending at their doors and quartering round about them and forced the run-a-way Speakers and Members not only to enter into and subscribe the solemn Engagement to live and dye with them in this cause but likewise to give them a ful moneths pay by way of gratuity for guarding them back to the Houses where they might and ought to have continued without any