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	majesty_n	parliament_n	4,862	5	6.6563	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45018	The Humble petition of the commons of Kent, agreed upon at their generall assizes, presented to His Majestie the first of August, 1642 with certaine instructions from the county of Kent, to Mr. Augustine Skinner, whereby the desires of the said county may be presented by him to the honourable House of Commons : with His Majesties answer ... this fourth of August, 1642.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)	1642 (1642)	Wing H3495; ESTC R18106	4,350	18

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE COMMONS OF KENT Agreed upon at their Generall ASSIZES Presented to His MAJESTIE the first of August 1642. With certain Instructions from the County of Kent to Mr. Augustine Skinner whereby the Desires of the said County may be presented by him to the Honourable House of Commons With His MAJESTIES Answer to the aforesaid Petition At the Court at York this fourth of August 1642. YORK Printed by ROBERT BARKER Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And by the Assignes of JOHN BILL 1642. To the Kings most Excellent Majestie The Humble Petition of the Commons of Kent Agreed upon at their Generall ASSIZES Most gracious Soveraign WE do with all thankfulnesse acknowledge Your great Grace and favour towards us and the whole Kingdom In passing many good Laws for the benefit of Your Subjects In promising to ease us of all our grievances And graciously inviting Us by Your Letter directed to the Judge of Our Assize full of Love and Care for Your Peoples good to Petition for redresse of them promising a gracious Answer And we should with all humility have presented them to Your Majesty at this time did not the present great distractions and apprehension of a Civill War which we earnestly pray to God to divert put us beyond all thought of other grievances For prevention whereof we have with all Loyalty of Heart to Your Sacred Majesty with all Love and Faithfulnesse to our Country presented our humble Advice in certain Instructions to one of our Knights of the Shire now here present with a Committee from the House of Commons to be presented by him to that Honourable House The Copy whereof we make bold to annex unto this Petition Most humbly desiring Your Most Excellent Majestie That if it shall please the Houses of Parliament to satisfie Your Majesties just desires in these particular That then Your Majesty would be graciously pleased to lay down Your extraordinary Guards and cheerfully meet Your Parliament in such a place where Your Sacred Majesty and each Member of both Houses may be free from tumultuary Assemblies And as in all Duty bound we shall dayly Pray for Your Majesties long Life and prosperous Reign over us Instructions from the County of Kent to Master Augustine Skinner whereby the desires of the said County may be presented by him to the Honorable House of COMMONS WHereas a Committee from the House of Commons is now sent down to the Assizes upon a credible Information as they say that something should be done to the Disturbance of the Peace of this County We the Commons of Kent require you Master Augustine Skinner as our Servant to certifie to that Honourable House That you found the County in full Peace and that there is no ground for any such Information and that you desire in our Names to know the particulars of that Information of which it seems you are ignorant and the Informer that this County may have full reparations in Honour against so scandalous an aspersion cast upon them and that the Informer of what quality soever may receive condigne punishment And that the House of Commons may understand our desires not only to preserve the Peace of this County which with Gods blessing and the help of the good known Laws of this Kingdome we are confident we shall maintain but also of the whole Kingdome being now in so great a distraction that every Man stands at a gaze to see what the event is likely to be and well weighing what a great fire a small spark may kindle abhorring and detesting the thought of a Civill War We farther require you to offer our humble advice as Faithfull and Loyall Subjects to His Majesty and good Patriots and Lovers of our Countrey for setling the Distractions of these times One principall meanes to effect it we conceive will be to give His Majesty full satisfaction in His Just Desires in these foure Particulars 1. In presently leaving the Town of Hull in the same State it was before Sir John Hothams entrance into it And delivering His Majesty His own Magazine 2. In laying aside the Militia untill a good Law may be framed wherein care may be taken as well for the Liberty of the Subjects as the Defence of the Kingdom 3. That the Parliament be adjourned to an indifferent place where His Sacred Majesty all the Lords and Members of Your House of Commons may meet and treat with Honour Freedom and Safety 4. That His Majesties Navie may be immediately restored to him Our Reasons are these 1. For withdrawing your Garrison out of the Town of Hull we are perswaded your fears and Jealousies of forraign forces of French or Danes or of the Papists at home an inconsiderable Party especially being disarmed are long since vanished the Magazine or a great part of it being removed to London we conceive Master Major of Hull may safely keep the Town as before 2. For laying aside the Militia we are free from Jealousies of Forraign Forces so that you may have time enough to frame a lasting Law which notwithstanding for feare of Inconvenience to the Subjects Liberty you may if you so think fit make the Law a Probationer Besides His Majesty if occasion should be is vested with sufficient power to raise forces for the Defence of the Kingdom for which onely we are confident His Majesty will employ them And we should hold our selves worse then Infidels if after so many Protestations to maintain the True Religion by Law established the Subjects in the Liberty of their Persons and Propriety of their Goods and the Priviledges of Parliament and that He will Govern us by the known Laws of the Land we should not with full assurance beleeve in Him and confide in Him 3. For adjourning the Parliament to another place His Majesty hath expressed the Reasons That He was driven away by tumultuary Assemblies and that he cannot return thither with Honour and Safety And divers of the Lords are absent who promise to return back to the House when they may sit with the Liberty and that condition that the Peerage of England formerly have done secured from all menaces or demanding any Account of their particular Votes which we conceive to be against the Freedom of Parliament which by our Protestation we must maintain and from tumultuarie Assemblies These having been the Occasions as we beleeve that of neer five hundred in the House of Commons there are but about one hundred and forty left to sit there and the greater part of the Lords gone away 4. For the Restitution of the Navie our Reason is That the Neighbour Nations do take notice that His Majesties Navie is detained from him which if not suddenly restored may turn to His Majesties dishonour whose honour by our Protestation we are bound to maintain Another means we conceive to settle the States and Minds of the Subjects is a free generall and large pardon which since His Majesty hath so graciously offered