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	lord_n	see_v	4,192	5	3.2926	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36790	The antient usage in bearing of such ensigns of honour as are commonly call'd arms with a catalogue of the present nobility of England / by William Dugdale ... ; to which is added, a catalogue of the present nobility of Scotland and Ireland, &c.	Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.	1682 (1682)	Wing D2478; ESTC R231444	71,213	227

his humanity is also by the writing of his holy Evangelists most plainly and sincerely remembred and set down All these things being therefore by the Scriptures of God the decider of all controversiies proved and declared Your Lordships may see that the bearing of Arms raising and advancing of Standards Banners and Ensigns using of Obsequies erecting of Monuments Enroling and regestring of Pedegrees and Descents have joyned to the antient customs and laws both of this Land and all other nations the authority of Gods word being very well accompanied with discretion reason and judgment for God having by his sacred institution ordained Kingdoms Provinces and Seignories and that over them Kings Princes and Magistrates shall command rule and govern his people to the end chiefly that his heavenly Kingdom may be replenished with the blessed souls of his servants for the instructing whereof he hath also ordained his holy Church and the Bishops pastors and ministers of the same which Bishops and other spiritual officers cannot so well enform his Christian people without the aid of the said Kings and temporal Lords neither can they govern their particular Countries either from the invasion of outward tyrants or inward Rebels but through the use of their sword of justice which sword cannot be exercised against unruly persons being of strength wanting men skilful in martial Discipline who cannot manage those affairs but by mean of the aforesaid Arms and Ensigns in manner as before I have more largely expressed And in like sort as Princes great Lords Judges Magistrates and Governours do use to wear sacred Robes of gold purple scarler and other ornaments and apparel not to take pride in or for any vain ostentation or show but only that they may be distinguished from the inferior people to the end that a reverent regard may be had of them in respect of the high office which under God here on earth they bear And as these things no man of any reason will gainsay so I see not but as-well may their just vertues and good government be remembred with Funerals Obsequies and Monuments after their decease whereby such as succeed in government may also be had in more high estimation and a fair example is thereby given them to imitate the regiment of their predecessors Likewise doth the Registring of descents carry with it reason joined to authority and custom for as by Gods law there is commanded a priviledge of enheritance to the first begotten of Israel and so for want of sons to the females and from them to others answerable to the proximity of their blood and kindred which with the laws of this land and of most nations do concur and agree it doth well stand with peaceful government for the avoiding of contentions which may rise for want of records to testify the truth of mens titles to their enheritances that Genealogies and Pedegrees should be enrolled and kept in remembrance I have my good Lords stood the longer upon this point for that of late travelling through some countries of this Land and having a desire to see the Moniments of antiquity which have remained in such places as I passed by for which cause as otherwise I many times resorted to Churches and other houses to satisfy my affection I found that many Moniments both of Burials and in glass were so broken and defaced that vneth may be had any knowledge what the fragments remaining did signify and enquiring of the inhabitants how it came to pass that those things were so blemished they made report that certain persons delighting as may seem in novelty for they can abide no mark of Antiquity had defaced the same These men that take upon them to be reformers whose desires are great through the singularity and pride they have in their own wits and understandings weening themselves to be very wise where indeed they are very simple and only look but into the abuses of things and do not see into the grounds and depth of the reasons and causes for which good ordinances were made go about to find faults where many times none are but if peradventure they hap to find an ordinance well made misused then streight never seek they to reform the abuse but by their wills down goeth ordinance and all such is their insolency rashness and want of judgment It were well done therefore my good Lords and I could wish that your Honours having sometimes access to her Majesty and oftentimes conference with my Lords of her privy Councel should enform her Highness and their Honours of the said abuses committed and to be thereby a mean that these simple fellows taking upon them to be reformers might be reformed themselves and both kept from destroying of good ordinances and be punished for their offences in that behalf committed In the mean time yet shall I desire that Honourable personages will look better to the Moniments of their ancestors by correcting the destroyers thereof and therein to imitate the laudable actions of William Fleetwood Serjeant at the Law and Recorder of the City of London who being commissioner amongst others for the visitation of causes Ecclesiastical by the Princes authority by vertue thereof imprisoned certain wilful persons that had defaced the Moniment of Queen Katherine Dowyger at Preterborough until such time as they had reformed the same which thing was through his good endeavour reedified and perfected again and so remaineth to this day for although some hapily see standing those of their own parents yet it were good they should sorsee that no others be pulled down for that there is not to be looked for but that suffering such injuries to rest unpunished the doers thereof will in time grow more insolent and have a cast to overthrow theirs also And now being in speech of Monuments I cannot but remember their ignorance who make small account of any ancestor except before the Conquest weening that all that lie cross-legged so were and that all antient evidence without date is the like whereas the one was not had in use until after the Palestine wars and the other such as be sealed be also since the Conquest for I could never see nor hear of any that had seen sealed deed but the same was made sithence the Conquest of this Land when the use as I take it of sealing with wax first began in England But these men will not stoop one jot under the Conquest telling many fables of their ancestors then preserving their Houses Honours and Armories forgetting quite that it is much more glorious and honourable to be descended from a most famous nation conquering then such people by plain feat of Arms subjuged for as the Poet saith quis enim sua praelia victus Commemorare velit referam tamen ordine nec tam Turpe fuit vinci quàm contendisse decorum est Magnaque dat nobis tantus solatia victor So that if they have any thing praise-worthy left to brag of it it that they well