Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	people_n	3,792	5	4.4298	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47993	A letter from a gentleman in Ireland to his friend in London upon occasion of a pamphlet entituled a vindication of the present government of Ireland under His Excellency Richard Earl of Tyrconnel.		1688 (1688)	Wing L1386; ESTC R30938	10,133	15

bear the same Coat of Arms a Name in short which I hope will prove in time Vox praeterea nihil A Second Reason is drawn from his Education We have heard and it has never yet been contradicted that my Lord Tyrconnel from his Youth upwards has constantly born Arms against the British if our Author will assure us of the contrary I am apt to believe his Excellency will give him no thanks who layes the foundation of his Merit upon the Basis of his constant adherence to the Irish Party What use of Consolation can be drawn from this head by the British is beyond my skill to comprehend A third Reason is drawn from his Stake in England the Author would do well to shew us in what County this lies that we may know where to find Reprisals hereafter for since he offers this for Our Security 't is fit we enquire into the Title and Value of the Land before we give so valuable a Consideration Thus this great heap of substantial Reasons together with a large Panegyrick upon his Excellency's fair Face and good Shapes telling us by the by how he was not kill'd at Drogbeda because he run away is enough and more than enough to demonstrate that the British have not the least cause to be dejected because they are sufficiently secure But I will agree with the Author in this That he seems to have been reserved by Heaven against the most critical occasion that should happen in this Age reserv'd as one of the Vials of GOD's Wrath to plague the People 'T is well that Self-preservation is allowed by God and Man and since he tells us we are People of a contrary Interest he gives us right to provide for Our selves and our Families as well as we may 't is like a generous Aggressor first he declares who are his Enemies then gives them warning to put themselves into a posture of defence We are beholding to him for this hint and I hope shall make the right use of it 'T is below me to take notice of the meanness of the expression of an honest Man's losing his Head in a Crowd and the nonsence of the other The most men bite at the stone c. Dogs indeed use to do so with us but this is only to let the World know what Country man our Author is and it may be 't is the custom here for these Men to imitate those more rational Creatures Our Author seems sensible that many hard things have been done which occasioned Clamours against the present Governour tho' I think our Grievances how intollerable soever have been born more silently then any Peoples since the Creation since I do not remember any one Pamphlet has hitherto come out to represent them ours being of that nature as stupifies us and takes away the use of the Tongue and Pen Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent I say he is not willing this load of Calumny should rest on my Lord Tyrconnel but casts it all on His Majesty imagining that the respect we bear and justly to our King ought to render us tongue-ty'd in relation to the Male-Administration of his Minister But I have already shewn how the King's Orders may be stretch'd and perverted The very best and most cautiously penn'd Laws have a double edge and if the executive power be lodged in ill hands have the worst effect even to the punishment of Well-doers and the encouragement of them that do ill and I question not in the least but this is our Case and as little doubt that our Grievances would be redress'd did not one of His Majesties most eminent Virtues interpose between us and His Grace I mean his Constancy to His old Servants and our Condition is so much the more deplorable that His Majesty cannot be a Father of His Country without seeming to desert His Minister but 't is to be hoped that at long running the Groans of a distressed Nation will prevail over all private Considerations Whether the Employment His Majesty has given my Lord Tyrconnel has not prov'd the occasion of the augmentation of his Fortune as our Author insinuates it has not shall neither prove the subject of this Discourse nor object of our Envy I shall onely say if the report be true that my Lord owes all his Estate to the King's bounty 't is ungratefully done to rob His Majesty of the Honour and Thanks due to him by denying it much less is it our business to find fault with the advancement of five Relations In this point Authors differ for some speak of 55 at least if there had not been the greatest partiality in the World shewed we should never have open'd our mouths if in an Army of about 9000 English Officers and Souldiers there be not 200 left in a Country where the English have so much cause to fear and those turn'd out for the most part without any cause assign'd after the most ignominious disgraceful manner imaginable stript naked in the Field their Horses Boots Buff-coats c. taken from them giving them Bills to receive so much Money in Dublin as amounted to half the value of their Equipage and that not paid without Charge and Attendance have they not reason to fear If in a Country whose Government was perfectly in the English hands so sudden an alteration was made that both the Courts of Judicature and Charters of their Corporations were taken from them without any fault of theirs have they not reason to complain and be affraid If those very Arms which are taken from them be put into the hands of their sworn Enemies and their just Debts paid after a new Method by beating or killing the Creditors when they demand their own Have they not reason to fear and desert the Kingdom If these and an hundred other things do not justifie the retreat of several of the British into England I know not what shall be adjudged a sufficient Reason This our Author would insinuate is caused by a sullen Combination as if the Gentry of a Nation could agree together to do a thing so contrary to their visible Interest as desert their Houses and Estates to the loss of one half of them meerly out of spite to the Government But because our Author is so good at his Narratives and would induce the World to believe that there was but two Regiments disbanded by his talking only of two and in another place speaking of some Officers that were Cashiered We shall hereafter give a faithful Account of the Proceedings in the business of Disbanding und in the mean time affirm That his whole Account of the Affair at Molingar is most unsincere The English Soldiers were given to understand that they were all to be turned out and the only Grace his Excellency did them was to declare before a long and tedious March That such as had a mind or had Settlements in that Country might better quit then than hereafter This is plainly shewn by