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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	england_n	king_n	1,414	5	3.7575	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25613	An Answer to the pretended speech, said to be spoken off-hand in the House of Commons by one of the members for B-----l, and afterwards burnt by the common hangman, according to the order of the house ...		1694 (1694)	Wing A3436; ESTC R4147	32,398	36

Orphans Money seiz'd that our Treasure and Men were interred at Tangier or buried in the bottom of the Sea by fighting against our Protestant Neighbours the Dutch that we were look'd upon as Effeminate Poltrons abroad and made Slaves at home by the Violation of our Magna Charta and the Seising of all the Charters of Corporations that Protestants were made Tools to destroy one another while the Interest of Rome prevail'd over both that Standing Armies were levied in time of Peace and encamp'd on Hounslow-Heath to shoot Butterflies and their Victuals nor Clothes not yet paid for that our Nobility and Gentry were cut off by Sham-Plots to make way for the stifling of the Plots of the Papists that our Navy rotted in our Havens while the French King increas'd his Strength at Sea had Directions from our Monarch how to build Men of War and was supplied with English Mariners and Stores that Idolatry was maintain'd by the King on the Throne our Colleges in the Hands of Papists and our Bishops in the Tower that a Sham Prince was fobb'd upon the Nation to exclude a Protestant Successor and maintain Popery that Catholick Officers commanded our Armies in Chief and Irish Cut-throats were our Life-Guards Now all this and ten times more being uncontrovertibly true let our Author show us if he can how England was then Happy at home and Glorious and Renown'd abroad and though it 's true that England was Richer then than at present yet those were the Causes that she is now become Poorer and brought on the War which does so much Exhaust her But to make our Author sensible that we can do more than Recriminate let him be pleas'd to tell us if ever England was bless'd before with a Protestant King and Queen or free of suspicion from Q. Elizabeth's time till now that Popery was favoured by the Court When was it that ever England's Monarch was Generalissimo of Europe and not only Arbitrator of her Differences but in a manner her Law-giver We us'd to value our selves mightily that we could turn the ballance and is it nothing now that we are the Champions of Christendom and our King the Head of the Greatest League that ever was made in the Western World Was England's Banner ever so much reverenc'd abroad and not only her Terrour but her Armies spread beyond the Aples Was it ever known till now that the Emperour King of Spain and Electors of the Empire would submit to the Arms and Conduct of an English King and command their Generals to obey his Orders Was there ever such a Congress of Princes and Ambassadors in Europe as assembled to Consult His Majesty at the Hague Was ever the Roaring of our English Lions heard with so much Majesty not only in Ireland and Flanders but in the Bowels of Italy Was there ever a more Glorious Victory obtain'd at Sea than that over the French under King William's Banner which laid Lewis XIV th's Glory in the bottom of the Depths Had we ever a King of England who signaliz'd himself personally in so many Battels though there be more Danger in one now than there was in twenty in former Ages Or had we ever any who undertook so many perillous Voyages by Sea for the Honour of the Nation as he has done Had we ever a Prince who did so gloriously rescue our own Religion and Liberty and not only ours but those of Europe and who is not meerly a Nominal but real Defender of the Faith does not send counterfeit Assistance to Foreign Protestants as K. Charles I. did to those of Rochel and at the same time ruin them by his Men of War but hath actually restored the Antient Church of the Waldenses who under his auspicious Protection have regained their Country and reestablished their desolate Churches Had we ever a Prince before who made it his Business to hinder one Party of our British Protestants to destroy the other and evidences a truly paternal Care over all his Subjects Had we ever a Prince who by an unparallel'd Clemency to his Enemies was almost cruel to himself and his Friends Or had we ever a King before who could command both England and Holland two of the most formidable Powers in Europe Or could boast of an Universal Kindred or Alliance with almost all the Sovereign Princes in Christendom So that for the Point of Glory he hath made England higher than ever and that she is not Richer is none of his Fault but justly chargeable on those of our Author's Principles who betray his Counsels obstruct his Measures prevent his having the united Service of his Protestant Subjects and study more under a Notion of humouring the Church Faction to ruin the Church her self by keeping up of Divisions amongst Protestants and to overturn the Church of Scotland and the Liberty of Old and New-England than either to promote their Countries Good or their Soveraign's Honour by a Cordial Opposition to the French King who is the Common Enemy of Christendom himself and in League with those who have always owned themselves to be such And this I hope is sufficient to demonstrate whether the Choice of B l ought to be a Pattern to the Nation and to enable the Country to distinguish betwixt such as are really Pensioners to the French King and those who are falsly esteemed such to King William because perhaps his Servants or Officers and willing rather to grant him their early Assistance against the Common Enemy than tenaciously to contradict him in such things as some of our Author's Kidney have labour'd to perswade him are his incommunicable Prerogative which he ought not to part with on purpose to make a Rupture betwixt him and his Parliaments that so they may take advantage from our mutual Confusions and like this venomous Libeller endeavour to procure Tumults and betray their Country and Posterity to Popery and Slavery But now Gentlemen Si vobis placet audire fabulam here 's one for you with a couple of Lies in it's Belly spick and span new from the Jacobite Mint Mr. Speaker says my Author I have heard of a Ship in a violent Strom in danger of perishing every Momem It was not such a sham Sterm we were lately entertain'd with in the Gazette which deceives the People that many Ships going for France laden with Corn and several sorts of Provisions for the use of our Dutch Allies to enable them to live Cheap by making the same Dear at Home perhaps some was for the suppert of our half starv'd and unpaid English Souldiers now in Flanders when perish'd likewise more than 700 Sailors who have left thousands of Widows Children and poor Relations to curse our Conduct at Sea the Cause of this Calamity in such a dreadful Storm it was that the foresaid Ship was in when the good Commander seeing the Danger and apprehending Death desir'd his Crew to assist with Resolution and preserve themselves and the Ship which the Sailors refusing to