Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	1,839	5	10.0881	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54682	The antiquity, legality, reason, duty and necessity of præ-emption and prourveyance, for the King, or, Compositions for his pourveyance as they were used and taken for the provisions of the Kings household, the small charge and burthen thereof to the people, and the many for the author, great mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably follow the taking of them away / by Fabian Philipps.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1663 (1663)	Wing P2004; ESTC R10010	306,442	558

with some that have Tables daily furnished at the Kings charge to feed so many as depend upon it and entertain such men of quality as shall come to his Court about his or their affairs and would much advance their private purses and do well in their own families to have the expences of it turned into a yearly Pension in money wherein the King is like to be as much a saver as King Charles the Martyr was when he allowed Mr. Andrew Pitcarne the Master of his Hawks ten shillings per diem to provide Pigeons Hens and other meat for his Hawks and as he and many of his Progenitors have been in converting allowances or provisions into Salaries And that some of those who advise a Sparing not at all becoming the grandeur and honour of a Prince to make themselves the greater gainers by his bounty to be worse imployed upon themselves may suppose that which might be a fit Espargne in their own lesser Orbes and Oeconomies may serve for the Court and Family of an English King and that the Grandeur and Magnificence thereof would be but little or not at all lessened by some thriftie contrivances and abatements calculated only for their own Meridian and that the Power Authority and Virtue of a Prince can well enough subsist without the prop and support of that due Awe and Reverence which are to attend the Majesty of Kings and that some in their short sighted Policies may reckon such or the like good husbandries to be no small part of Prudence and Providence very laudable and fit to be put in practice Yet the Laws of God Nature and Nations and the state and magnificence of Kings and their Princely Families allowed as well as mentioned in the Book of God and Holy Writ as that of Pharaoh Saul David Solomon and Ahashuerus The State and Magnificence of all the Christian and Heathen Kings and Princes Grecian Magistrates Romane Consuls and Dictators Venetian Doges and Dutch Stadtholders and our laudable customs of England can teach every man who hath not abjured his own reason as well as the Laws of God and Nature and the reasonable customes of England how very necessary the honor and State of Princes are to the obedience and good Government of the people how much they conduce to their well-being how the observance honor and reverence due unto Kings are lessened by the meannesse of their Servants and diminishing their State and Port how unsafe and insipid such new found policies and contrivances would be and that the dishonor of the Prince is the unsafety and dishonor of the people who may easily and every where find a necessity of his Pourveyance or Compositions for it and no reason at all to deny it When the total of the charges of it will be so useful to their Soveraign so becomming his Royal Dignity so necessary to the honor and splendor of his house-keeping and that the parts which shall be charged upon particular men to make up that total will be so petit and inconsiderable as our Laws and the Compositions for Pourveyance had ordered it CHAP. VI. The small charge of the Pourveyance or Compositions for it to or upon such of the people as were chargeable with it AS may evidently and undeniably appear by the Compositions for Pourveyance which were agreed to be paid by the several Counties As For the County of Anglisey in Wales which hath eighty three Parishes but five pounds which is for every Parish not one shilling three pence it being commonly in every County charged onely upon the Lands of inheritance of the greater size or quantity not upon Copyholders or small Freeholders and upon those kind of Lands which were most proper for it and could better afford it as Wheat Malt c. upon Errable Lands and Cattel upon Pasture c. For the County of Mountgomery who we●e to provide yearly but twenty Sturks or smaller sized Cattle so called or sixty pounds per annum and had Fifty four Parishes whereof five or six were Borough Towns which made the charge upon every Parish to be little more then twenty shillings per annum All the charge of the Compositions for the Kings provisions being onely of one hundred and eighty Sturks in Wales and its thirteen shires or Counties which costes that Dominion yeerly no more then three hundred and sixty pounds The County of Worcester which hath one hundred and fifty two Parishes paid but four hundred ninety five pounds besides the Kings p●ice or rate allowed for provisions served in kinde which is but three pounds and seven shillings or thereabouts to be assessed upon every Parish Derbyshire having one hundred and six Parishes paid but two hundred fifty four pounds two shillings two pence which is something less then fifty shillings upon every Parish Yorkeshire which hath four hundred fifty nine Parishes besides many large Chapelries was charged with no more then four hundred ninety five pounds which was not two and twenty shillings upon every Parish one with another and would not be six pence a year upon every house one with another if no respect were to be had to the real or personal Estates of the proprietors which admits of large differences or proportions more or less then one another The County of Midlesex having seventy three Parishes besides what are in the London Suburbes paid but nine hundred seventeen pound nineteen shillings which by her great benefits by the Kings constant residence in it is in a better condition with her few but v●ry plentiful and numerous Parishes then the Counties further distant and by the letting and setting of their Lands Houses and Lodgings and the great rates and prices of all the Commodities which they sell to other people gaineth fourty to one at the least of what they loose by the Kings prices for his Pourveyance or houshold provisions the City of Westminster and the Suburb Parishes of London consisting more of houses then Lands or Pasture and being not at all charged or troubled wi●● 〈◊〉 The County of Essex paid for Composition but two thousand nine hundred thirty one pounds two shillings and two p●nce and having many of the benefits which Midlesex enjoyeth far exceeding the charge of the Compositions for Pourveyance hath four hundred and fifteen Parishes which is little more then seven pound five shillings upon every Parish chargeable for the Compositions and provisions served in kinde Bedfordshire which hath one hundred and sixteen Parishes paid but four hundred ninty seven pounds eight shillings four pence which was but four pounds five shillings nine pence upon every Parish The County of Buckingham which hath one hundred eighty five Parishes two thousand fourty pounds sixteen shillings and six pence which was but something more then eleven pounds upon every Parish one with another Berkshire having one hundred and fourty Parishes but one thousand two hundred and fifty five pounds seventeen shillings and eight pence which did not charge every Parish with