Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	power_n	successor_n	2,893	5	9.1968	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90209	The independent's loyalty. Or, The most barbarous plot (to murther his sacred Majestie) very fully discovered. With a cleere and perfect answer, to the Lord Wharton's evasions.	Osborne, Richard, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing O528; Thomason E452_25; ESTC R203027	16,982	23

fed with his bread such as would have been glad to have fed with the dogs of his Flock Yet he indured all like a Lamb and never that I could heare so much as offended with his Lips in impatient expression when the whole house of Commons is many times in great distemper to use their own expressions upon the wagging of a Straw as it were and the smallest occasions His Fortitude Is almost above a Miracle Hee was never observed to breake one nights rest though his chamber were beset with Armed and spitefull enemies Never to discover any feare when their confused noises might suggest just matter to the best resolution Witnesse those passages at that time of night when Joyce offered that violence upon his person at Holmby and they all confessed did neither daunt nor put him out of the carriage of a King Hee never baulked one dish of meate if hee liked it though it were Cooked by the hands of a mortall enemie and passed through the hands of many more When on the otherside the whole house of Commons startled at the falling of a little Seeling and were likely to stifle one another for feare least the skie should fall Many of them lately at St. Martins did the like nay broake through the windowes upon the fall of a board Nay their Goliah Sir Tho. Fairfax with his other Champions were readie to die for feare of being poysoned Because it hath some mirth in it you shall have the storie at length A Pragmaticall Cooke which had formerly served the Lady Crisp in her prosperitie hearing the Generall wanted one of his Trade presumes to invite him with some other Officers in his Ladies name to her house in Hamersmith where hee might shew his Skill at his owne Charges and what a feast hee could make for fourtie shillings The Generall and his company after they had eaten and discovered that the invitation was not from the Lady fell into a great fright some of them fell verie sick and into vomitings purging for all the Cordialls they could take claps up the poore Cooke by the heeles for his requitall and keepes him there untill many weekes had made it evident there was no danger His Devotions Are more fervent and frequent then those of their best Saints amongst them His Temperance So signall that themselves acknowledge it His Clemencie So great that his finger was never dipt in the blood of his worst enemies more then they drew upon themselves in the field nay when they have beene at his mercy hee hath shewed them favour But this Subject would fill a Volume wee must bee short If his Majestie were a stranger and had not such an undoubted right and inheritance in these Kingdomes and that they were Elective his wisdome and profound virtue would represent him like Saul in that point higher by the head then the rest of the People and most worthie to bee chosen their King 7. That His Majesty ought to bee pittied above all men and deserves to bee rescued from this danger by His Subjects It is Treason by law to imprison the person of the worst King But so good a Prince in so barbarous a way to be in so much hazard of His life is an Act of unparalelld wickednesse in those that doe or allow of it The Oath of Allegiance which was by the Law of the Land before the Conquest to bee taken by every male above 12. yeares old in the Kingdome and hath beene actually by most of us obliegeth us to it Wherein wee sweare That wee will beare faith and true allegiance to the Kings highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successors and to our power shall assist and defend all jurisdictions priviledges preheminences and authorities graunted or belonging to His Majestie His heires and successors or united and anexed to the imperiall Crown of this Relme In the Protestation wee Promise Vow and Protest to maintaine and defend as farre as Lawfully wee may with our lives powers and Estates according to the duty of our Allegiance His Majesties Royall Person Honour and Estate In the Solem League and Covenant wee sweare sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God in our severall vocations to endeavour with our Estates and lives to defend and preserve the Kings Majesties person and authoritie c. and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just Power and greatnesse The Protestation which these verie men contrived took and enjoyned others to take Engageth us The Vow and Covenant exacteth as much from us too And yet wee know in the debate upon the framing thereof the obligation to the King was minced upon these reasons That there were other ties of dutie towards Him and others for the performance that makeing so many and full expressions thereof might harden him against any just complyance History tells us of Subjects nay Slaves that have thrust themselves betwixt the stroake of death and their Princes and Masters who have not beene of eminent desert Nay of bruite Creatures which have at the same cost defended their Owners and shall wee the People of England who are oblieged by duty by so many Oathes and engagements to preserve the person of the King suffer his Life to bee engaged every day by such men who by his Murther would make way to set their feet upon our owne necks and at their Pleasure prey upon our Liberties our Lives and estates Could loyall Uriah say Shall I goe home to my Wife and take my rest or comfort when my Lord Joab the Captaine of the Kings-Host and the Kings-Army are in the sield And shall not every man rather say as much or more Now that my Lord the King is undone and put out of all hee hath Now that my Lord the King is kept from his Wife and Children and scorned and reviled and more Ballads made of him and abuses put upon him then ever King David had Now that my Lord the King is a Prisoner Now that my Lord the King neither sleepes nor wakes nor eates nor drinkes in any manner of safety And now that my Lord the King is in danger every hour to be murthered or poysoned shall wee now give our eye lidds any rest And shall wee not now helpe to save the King Curse yee Meroz nay now Mr Marshall doe you better expound that place of Scripture curse her bitterly for not helping him and if we cannot afford to helpe him for the Oathes wee have made unto him and benefits wee have received from him yet let us rescue our Lawes Liberties and Estates and our own soules which will otherwise altogether must certainly dye and perish with him FINIS