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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	law_n	legal_a	2,470	5	10.2354	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05242	A declaration and offer of duty by the kingdom of Scotland, with an annexation of the excise to the crown. Edinburgh, April 28, 1685.	Scotland. Parliament.	1685 (1685)	Wing S1199; ESTC R183978	1,814	1

J R DIEV ET MON DROIT A DECLARATION And Offer of Duty by the Kingdom of Scotland with an Annexation of the Excise to the CROWN Edinburgh April 28. 1685. THE ESTATES of PARLIAMENT now Conveened by His Majesties Soveraign Authority Taking in to their Consideration How this Nation hath now continued upwards of Two thousand Years in the unaltered Form of Our Monarchical Government Under the uninterrupted Line of One Hundred and Eleven Kings whose Sacred Authority and Power hath been upon all signal occasions so owned and assisted by Almighty God That Our Kingdom hath been protected from Conquest our Possessions Defended from Strang●●● Our Civil Commotions brought into wished Events Our Laws vigorously Executed Our Propertie● legally fixed and Our Lives securely preserved So that We and our Ancestors have enjoyed those Securities and Tranquillities which the greater and more flowrishing Kingdoms have frequently wanted Those great Blessings we owe in the first place to Divine Mercy And in Dependance on that To the Sacred Race of our glorious Kings and to the solid absolute Authority wherewith they were Invested by the first and fundamental Law of Our Monarchy Nor can either our Records or our Experience instance our being deprived of those happy Effects but when a Rebellious Party did by Commotions and Seditions Invade the Kings Soveraign Authority which was the Cause of our Prosperity Yet so far hath our primitive Constitution and fundamental Laws prevailed against the Innovations and Seditions of Turbulent Men as that these Interruptions never terminated but either in the Ruine or at least the Suppression of these who at any time did Rebel or Rise in oppo●tion to Our Government And since so many Ages hath assured to Us the great Advantages which flow down to all Ranks of People from ●he happy Constitution of Our Monarchy and that all Our Calamities have ever arisen from Seditious Invasions upon those Sacred Rights 〈◊〉 Therefore the Estates of Parliament for Themselves and in Name of the whole Kingdom Judge themselves obliged to Declare And they Do Declare to the World That they Abhor and Detest not only the Authors and Actors of all preceeding Rebellions against the Soveraign ●ut likewise all Principles and Positions which are contrair● or Derogatory to the Kings Sacred Supream Soveraign absolute Power and Au●●ority which none whether Persons or Collective Bodies can participat of any manner of way or upon any pretext but in Dependance 〈◊〉 him and by Commission from him And as their Duty formerly did bind them to own and assert the just and legal Succession of the Sacred ●ine as unalterable by any humane Jurisdiction So now on this occasion They for Themselves and the whole Nation Represented by Them in most Humble and Dutiful manner Do Renew the hearty and sincere ofter of their Lives and Fortunes To Assert Support Defend ●nd Maintain King JAMES the Seventh their present Glorious Monarch and his Heirs and Lawful Successors in the Possession of their Crowns Soveraignity Prerogatives Authority Dignity Rights and Possessions against all Mortals and therewithal to assure all his Enemies who shall adventure on the Disloyalty of Disobeying his Laws or on the Impiety of Invading his Rights That these shall sooner weary of their Wickedness then they of their Duty and that they firmly resolve to give their intire O●edience to his Majesty without reserve against ●ll His Enemies Forraign or Intestine And they Solemnly Declare That as they are bound by Law so they are voluntarly and firmly Resolved That all of this Nation betwixt sixty and sixteen Armed and Provided according to their Abilities shall be in readiness for His Majesties Service where and as oft as it shall be His Royal Pleasure to require them And since the Excise of In-land and Forraign Commodities granted to King CHARLES the Second of ever Blessed Memory by the 14. Act of the Parliament 1661. during all the Dayes of His Lifetime and Prorogat by the 8. Act of the Parliament 1681. For five Years there●fter will shortly terminat And the Estates of Parliament Considering the usefulness of this Grant to Support the Interest of the Crown Do as the first Evidence of their Sincerity in the foresaid Tender of their Duty humbly and unanimously Offer to His most Sacred Ma●esty King JAMES the Seventh their present Monarch and to His Lawful Heirs and Successors in the Imperial Crown of Scotland The ●aid Excise of In-land and Forraign Commodities exprest in the said 14 Act of Parliament 1661. To be Collected in the manner prescrived by ●he said 8. Act of the Parliament 1681. FOR EVER And His Majesty and Estates of Parliament by force of this Act Have United Annexed ●nd Incorporated and Units Annexes and Incorporates the same to the Crown of this Realm to remain therewith in annexed Property in all ●●me coming And in respect that the alteration in the Method of Collecting the In-land Excise from what it was by the Act 1661. To that pre●●●ived by the 8. Act Parliament 1681. will require some time to Establish it in Collection Therefore His Majesty with Consent of the ●states Continues the Collection prescrived by the 14 Act Parliament 1661. of the In-land Excise for three Moneths from the first of May next ●lenarly Edinburgh Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Sacred Majesty Anno Dom. 1685.