Selected quad for the lemma: act_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
act_n	king_n	parliament_n	prerogative_n	4,603	5	10.2111	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62416	The Earl of Anglesey's state of the government & kingdom prepared and intended for His Majesty, King Charles II in the year 1682, but the storm inpending growing so high prevented it then : with a short vindication of His Lordship from several aspersions cast upon him, in a pretended letter that carries the title of his memoirs / by Sir John Thompson, Baronet.; State of the government & kingdom	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Haversham, John Thompson, Baron, 1647-1710.	1694 (1694)	Wing T1000; ESTC R1565	19,674	41

other Princes abroad I have spent many hours to do it in the best manner I am able by the following Discourse which is not the result of Melancholy and Discontented Thoughts but of the most Serious and Dutiful Consideration of the present State of your Majesties Affairs and how I might best serve you in contributing to render your Reign Happy and Peaceable Your Majesties discerning Judgment cannot but perceive of what high esteem with all your People the Wise and Prosperous Government of Queen Elizabeth over these Kingdoms is to this Day and by what able Councellors generally the choice of her own Wisdom and Knowledge not private Inclinations or Respects She swayed the Scepter thereof during a long Reign to the universal satisfaction of her Subjects and her great Honour over all the World And how in Her time She made the right use of Parliaments Her great Council delighting in the frequency and faithfulness thereof and in the unanimity of her People whereof that most Honourable Assembly well managed will ever be the surest bond to your Majesty and all your Successors In her time England Flourished Religion the Darling thereof Prospered and was firmly setled none durst attempt Incroachment upon the Rights and Liberties of the Subjects The Laws had their uninterrupted Course and the several Benches were supplied with most able Judges who held it their Honour and Duty to serve that Renowned Queen on the Profits arising Legally by their Places without further charge to the Crown or reward but advancement to higher degrees after long and faithful Service which the Queen was a great Observer and Judge of Your Majesties Royal Grandfather King James as he followed her Steps continued most of her Council built upon the happy Foundations She had laid had a Prosperous and Peaceable Reign without other Interruption then what arose by Heats between his Majesty and some of his Parliaments which 't is some blemish on that time that they were not managed so Dexterously as they had been in his Predecessors times and was an Introduction to succeeding Mischiefs Your Majesties Royal Father was under some Impression from the same cause and by the long discontinuance of Parliaments discontents encreased Jealousies were fomented and Affairs by Ill Ministers and the unhappy accidents and Juncture of the times brought to such a Crisis that when a Parliament was called in the Seventeenth Year of his Majesties Reign and soon dissolved in heat and dissatisfaction the necessity of Affairs and Intervening Misfortunes and unhappy Circumstances soon brought on the great Council of the Peers and by their advice as the only Remedy for growing Evils and to prevent Impending Mischiefs another Parliament was called and Sate the same Year but by an unadvised Act therein Passed Derogatory to the Kings Prerogative relative to Parliaments and temporarily changing the very Constitution thereof a Foundation was laid for those Divisions and Miseries which ensued and ended with the Ruine of that Parliament and the Destruction of that Great Prince to the high Dishonour of the English Nation but were continued by many changes of Hands and Powers till by the wonderful Providence of God and Love and Duty of your Subjects your Majesty was by a Parliament assembled as the Neceslity of the time required by your honest Subjects Usurping that Incommunicable Prerogative of the Crown for the restitution of Monarchy it self called home from your Banishment and restored to the Throne of your Ancestors with the greatest and most unanimous Joy and Acclamation of your People that had been in any Age or Kingdom And your Majesty Reigned many Years since Fond of and in Love with Parliaments and received those marks and effects of their Affection and Freeness to your Majesty by the settlement of a large Revenue and otherwise which all your Predecessors from the very Original of Parliaments put together had not done to the Envy no doubt of all other Kings and Princes especially of the Ancient Enemies of England The unhappy Interruption that seems to be of late to those halcyon days and the occasions thereof are secrets of State which none must presume to be bold with till your Majesties Royal Heart which cannot but be touched with a just and sad sence thereof shall incline to call for serious and free Councils thereupon by which it is not impossible to be informed how the change hath come and by what means your Majesties Reign may continue suitable to those beginnings and former happiness till the aged conclusion thereof which all your good Subjects wish you Towards this nevertheless as far as I may adventure in generals and out of an honest and dutiful mind without being called give me leave to unburthen my Soul to your Majesty as followeth I know nothing more inclines a People to reverence and admire their King then to see his Affairs so governed that he needs not the Supplies of his Subjects and that he lets them find that he is so far from a mind to invade their Liberties or to advance his own Condition and Greatness by the Dimunition of theirs that he counts himself in this happy above the most absolute Monarchs that he is King of a Rich Free Stout and Mighty People and that he takes content Bountifully to expend his whole Royal Revenue as your Majesty doth though it be double to that of any your famous Progenitors for the Honour Greatness and Safety of your Kingdoms and in Bounties to your Subjects wherein if your Majesty hath exceeded to the contracting of a troublesome and dangerous Debt Councils ought to be offered how you may be extricated and Supplies come from your Subjects in Parliament not as the fruits of Practice and Importunity but as grateful returns for beneign and good Government as they were in the time of Queen Elizabeth Towards the accomplishing hereof your Majesty may please to consider and be informed by means that may be offered of all the particular Bounties and Favours that have flown from you since your Restoration And have a Book prepared for you as K. H. 7. a Wise Prince had of all that have Merited from or been Obliged and Rewarded by the Crown which your Majesty may consult as a Guide to you additional to your personal Knowledge of Men which is greater then any your Predecessors had before you resolve on any Grant or Bounty wherein none ought to Importune the King but leave him to his own time and consideration else the condition of Modest Men will be desperate and the boldest Beggars tho perhaps the unfittest Persons will be the surest Speeders Princes through their Bountiful Inclination and uneasiness at Trouble being more subject to be wrought upon by Importunity then other Men but when your Majesty upon deliberation hath said the Word let it be sacred and unchangeable except upon just cause avowed to the Parties shame In my time many are grown to great Estates under your Majesties Royal Father and your self and many are in a