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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	appear_v	court_n	say_a	1,406	5	7.2307	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01257	Articles devisid by the holle consent of the kynges moste honourable counsayle, his gracis licence opteined therto, not only to exhorte, but also to enfourme his louynge subiectis of the trouthe.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1509-1547 : Henry VIII)	1534 (1534)	STC 9178; ESTC S92136	5,110	26

ARTICLES DEVISID by the holle consent of the kynges moste honourable counsayle his gracis licence opteined therto not only to exhorte but also to enfourme his louynge subiectis of the trouthe ❧ ¶ The kynges moste honourable counseylle to the residue of his louynge subiectes SIns it is the parte of all honourable and elect persons chosen by the prince when they do declare and vtter matters of weighte to obserue an equitie and trouth in vtteryng of them and to shew beneuolence to the people whiche be vnder their prince in admonyshynge them of thynges which are necessary for thē to know We therfore the king our souerayns most faithful counsaylours and subiectes with hole assent and by his licence haue thought most conuenient and necessarie to intimate vnto you the reste of his subiectes these articles folowynge for your better erudition and knowledge and to open vnto you truly the manifold iniuries done vnto our kynge and souerayne whiche we beinge his true and feithful subiectes may in no wyse susteine or suffre But study and endeuoir our selfes by all wayes to vs possible to redoube and requite the same and to take the iniuries and wronges done to his persone in whome is all our wealthe and ioye more ernestly then if it were done to vs alone And so shall we do accordyng to our duties and therby deserue merite of god to whom moste humbly we praye that he wyll vouchesafe to haue support defende and kepe vnder his wynge and tuicyon our moste noble prince the quene now beinge his wyfe with theyr issue and all vs his true and louynge subiectes Quia in te domine speramus FIrste the mere truthe is that no lyuinge creature of what astate degree or dignytie soo euer he be hathe power gyuen hym by god to dispense with goddes lawes or lawe of nature Which thing is confirmed and determyned in our princis case by an infinite nombre of well lerned men straungiers by the most part also of all the most famous vniuersities of Christendome And speciallye and aboue all to our estimations the holle clergie of this realme Whervpon and in discharge also of his conscience beinge auctorysed by acte of parlyament our Metropolytane Archebyshoppe of Canturbury hath adiudged the fyrst matrimonye to be contrarye to goddis lawes therby not laufull this present matrimonie nowe enioyed laufulle and perfyte Wherfore we all that be our princis trewe subiectes oughte in this his iuste true matrimonie to lyue and dye with him and his of this venter come or cōmyng The .ij. Article SEcondly the counsailes of Nyce Melyuence and Aphricane with others also haue determyned that causes of strife or controuersie being ons begon in any region also there and in the sayde region be finally determined and none other where expressely denienge the courtes of beyonde the see to oblige any manne to appere at them for diuers weightie cōsiderations in them expressed whiche not withstandinge the byshop of Rome by some men called Pope the vsurper of goodis lawe and infringer of general counsels hath hitherto wrongfully deteined at Rome and wolde do stylle except otherwise our prince and his parlyament had prouided his gret and weightie cause contrarye to ryghte and conscience to the vtter vndoinge of this realme Whiche thynges the prince and his holle parlyament considerynge and takynge some lyght vpon the forsaid general counsailes and waying also other wyse and politike reasons thinkinge verily this amongest other cōsideratiōs that it were not mete that the inheritance of this realme shulde depende vppon the byshop of Rome or any other straungiers wyll plesure whiche other by affection mede or feare might and wold ordre it after his worldly affections and appetites as it wel appereth this holy byshoppe of Rome wolde haue made a commodious and welthy law lately both for vs him By which good peple liuing within the limites of true matrimonie within this realme shal not by malice or euil wyl be so longe deteyned and interrupted from their righte as in tymes passed they haue bene Nor iniuste matrimonie shall haue his vnlauful and incestuous demoure as by delays to Rome it was wont to haue whiche may euidently appere now by that that our princis weightie and longe protracted cause of Matrimonie hath nowe here his final and prosperous ende with brefe successe of issue all redy hadde and other lyke to folowe laudes be vnto god thonly werker of the same with whiche issue bothe you and we muste bothe lyue and dye accordyng to our allegeance The .iij. Article THirdly it is to be takē for a truth equitie agreing with lernyng that an excusatour in any byshoppes court of the worlde the partie eyther not beinge bounde personally to appere there as bi al lerning our prince is not at Rome or being impedite by any other lauful causes whiche they by theyr own law haue limited shuld be admitted to answere for the parte ageinste whiche equitie the byshop of Rome hath also reiected our princis excusatour whiche iniurie although it be not yet put in execution ageinste any other persone sauyng our prince and kyng yet that example shall remayne for a president in preiudice of al princis and potestates Wherfore we wolde aduyse them briefly to loke vpon it and we and ye the rest of his subiectes so to deteste this great iniurie done to our prince and consequently to vs that the bysshoppe of Rome and all his shall se that excepte it and all other iniuries done to our prince and souerayne be shortly redoubed we wyll reuenge it to the vttermost of our power and in so doinge we do but our duetie yet surely we doubte not but it shall be very acceptably takē bi our prince and king The fourth Article FOurthely the righte beleue of all true Christien people is that the general counsel laufully gatherid is superiour and hath power ouer al by shoppes and spiritualle powers not exceptynge the bysshoppe of Rome In confirmation of whiche opinion the approbate coūsell of Basil seyth these wordes who so euer opponeth him self obstinatli ageinst this truth is to be taken by al true christen people as an heritike Wherfore louing frendes lette vs so handell our selfe bothe in wordis dedes that we be not taken for any fōde scruple in this trap and let not herin our eies be so blynded nor oure eares made so defe with the sayinges or prechinges of any papistes that we rūne heedlonge ageynste the true beleue of all ryght Christen people The fyfte Article FIftly by the lawe of nature it is granted and admitted for lauful that a man beinge greued vexed or troubled iniustely may appele from the bysshop of Rome to the generall counsel whiche so beinge then speciallye suche libertie is moste conuenient for princis and they not to be reiected therfro nor it is not a thynge by them to be neglected or omytted whiche haue but two wayes principally where none other can preuayle to