Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	law_n	liberty_n	parliament_n	4,902	5	6.1958	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79021	By the King. His Maiesties proclamation forbidding the tendring or taking of the late vow or covenant, devised by some members of both Houses to engage His Maiesties good subjects in the maintenance of this odious rebellion.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1643 (1643)	Wing C2660; Thomason 669.f.7[24]; ESTC R39149	1,546	1

CR HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE BY THE KING His Maiesties Proclamation forbidding the Tendring or Taking of the late Vow or Covenant devised by some Members of both Houses to engage His Maiesties good Subiects in the maintenance of this odious Rebellion VVHereas We have lately seen a Vow or Covenant pretended to be taken by some Members of both Houses of Parliament whereby after the taking notice of a Popish and Traiterous Plot for the subversion of the true Reformed Protestant Religion and the Liberty of the Subject and to surprize the Cities of London and Westminster They doe promise and covenant according to their utmost power to assist the Forces pretended to be raised and continued by both Houses of Parliament against the Forces raised by Us and to assist all other Persons that shall take the said Oath in what they shall doe in pursuance thereof Which Oath as the same hath been taken without the least colour or ground the contrivers thereof well knowing that there is no Popish Army within this Kingdom that We are so far from giving countenance to that Religion that We have alwayes given and always offered Our consent to any Act for the suppression of Popery and the growth thereof and that the Army raised by Us is in truth for the necessary defence of the true Reformed Protestant Religion established by Law the Liberty and Property of the Subject and Our own just Rights according to Law all which being setled and submitted to or such a free and peaceable convention in Parliament being provided for that the same might be setled We have offered and are still ready to disband Our Armies and as the said Oath was devised only to prevent Peace and to preengage the Votes of the Members of both Houses directly contrary to the Freedom and Liberty of Parliament to engage them and Our good Subjects in the maintenance of this horrid and odious Rebellion so it is directly contrary as well to their naturall Duty as to the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacie established by Law which obliges them to bear to Vs Truth and Faith of Life Members and Earthly Honour and to defend Us to the utmost of their powers against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against Our Person Our Crown and Dignity and to do their best endeavours to disclose and make known to Us all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which shall be against Us and to their power to assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preheminences and Authority belonging to Us or united and annexed to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme And whereas We are informed that some desperate seditious Persons doe endeavour to perswade and seduce others of Our Subjects to take the said Oath thereby to engage them this Kingdom into a continuance of these miserable and bloody distempers We doe therefore out of Grace and Compassion to Our people and that they may not by any craft or violence suffer themselves to be seduced against their Duty and Conscience warne them of their naturall Allegiance and their Obligations by Oathes lawfully administred to them and with them to remember the great blessings of God in peace and plenty which the whole Kingdome hath received whilst that Duty and these Oathes were carefully observed and the unspeakable miseries and calamities they have suffered in the breaking and violation thereof And We doe straitly Charge and Command Our loving Subjects of what degree and quality soever upon their Allegiance that they presume not to take the said seditious and traiterous Vow or Covenant which endeavours to withdraw them from their naturall Allegiance which they owe unto Us and to which they are or ought to be sworn and are bound by the known Laws of the Land albeit they are not sworn and engages them in Acts of High Treason by the expresse letter of the Statute of the 25. year of King Edward the third And We doe likewise hereby forbid and inhibit all our Subjects to impose administer or tender the said Oath or Covenant And if not withstanding this Our gracious Proclamation any person s hall presume to impose tender or take the said Vow or Covenant We shall proceed against him or them with all severit according to the known Laws of the Land Given at our Court at Oxford the one and Twentieth day of Iune in the nineteenth year of our Raigne God save the KING Printed at Oxford by Leonard Lichfield Printer to the University 1643.