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city_n	great_a	king_n	son_n	5,910	4	4.8294	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95011	A true copy of a speech made by an English colonel to his regiment, immediately before their late transportation for Flanders at Harwich		1691 (1691)	Wing T2633A; ESTC R185628	11,235	12

upon us insomuch that many of them are necessitated to take up with obscurer Apartments in private Corners for want of larger and freer Houses in the nobler Streets Are not the prizes of Food and Rayment and all the necessaries of a Comfortable Life diminished to almost one half of what we paid in former Reigns Is not Justice administred with Mercy is not the Liberty and Property of the People as Sacred to him as his Prerogative is and ought to be to us Have the Nobility Gentry or Comonalty known or heard of any illegal Imprisonments or excessive Fines Have any Arch Bishops or Bishops been turn'd out of their Chairs for Conscience sake or Fellows of Colleges from their Fellowships and Properties by Mandamus Have there been any Pensioning or Bribing of Parliament Men and buying the Misery and Slavery of the People with that very Mony which they themselves had so largely given Have not the Votes in Parl. been as free and unbiassed as in the blessed time of Mr. Johnson's quandam Calends of May Have any Publik Bills for the common Good and impartial Justice which had past both Houses ever been refus'd by this our just Judge and Father of his Country Hath not the Old Church of England flourished again under him like a green Bay Tree and her younger Sons grown up like fruitful Vines about the House of the Lord And doth it not daily more and more appear how Studious he is to preserve it Have the Spoils of our Native and homeborn Enemies been given to Foreigners or Honors Estates and Employments bestowed upon Strangers Are not our Councils guided by the best among the Nobility in which a Foreigner hath no place and the Cabinet Council by those who most love and are most beloved of the English Nation And approv'd themselves Men of Honour in former Reigns Is not the Trade and English Interest promoted almost to the ruin of Holland and are they not ready to sink to their first poor State for want of Traffick whilst we ride Masters of the Ocean and import to them all Foreign Commodities upon English Bottoms and upon an English account to the Eternal Glory of our King and our own vast inexhaustible Profit Is not the Gold and Silver Coin of his own Native Country imported hither to enrich his English Subjects and not return'd till most of it hath paid the Duties of a Circumcised Toll Are we infested with swarms of French who like Maw-worms in our Bowels eat up the Bread of the poorer Tradesmen and starve the hands of our willing and industrious Natives Or have we any reason to fear the French at home like Wolves lurking in their Dens Are our Pallaces guarded by Frags in Armour to the dishonour of the Loyal English Man Or our English Armies commanded abroad by Hogan Mogan Generals who hate us Have we not the preference abroad both as to Pay and Post of Honour and have not those small inconsiderable Supplies of Money which our Parliaments have presented to the King been first applied to the constant Pay of the English Army Have we not been always led on to certain Victory by the Courage and Conduct of our Invincible Monarch and the Sick and Wounded provided for beyond their Expectations by his Care and Piety Have we not treated the Prisoners of our Enemies with an humanity becoming the English Nation whilst ours have perished among them by a barbarity unexpressible Are we not made welcome by the Dutch as more than half Brothers and nourished supported and trusted by them for more than we shall ever be able to repay Do they not Congratulate our arrival among them with all the demonstrations of wonderful love and honour and lament our departure from them as if they had believed us their Guardian Angels Are not our Admirals Sea Officers Sea Men and our whole Fleet honoured rewarded paid and provided for to that degree that Sea Men abound in every corner of the Nation and have prevented the utmost care and diligence of the Press Masters Are there such Grievances among us as vast Arrears and Debenters Or is there a Debt of Millions due from the Crown to the Fleet and Army the Victuallers Docks Shipyards Transport Ships c. to the ruin of many hundred of industrious English Families and the encrease and multiplying of thousands of poor neglected Widows and Orphans But to conclude for what Pen Pencil or Tongue of Mortal Man can fully represent to you all the inconceivable Graces of our illustrious Hereditary Monarch would I compare him with his immediate unfortunate Predecessor it would raise his Glories to so high a pitch that nothing could blind the Eyes of the whole Universe but by gazing too stedfastly upon his insupportable Lustre Comparisons we say are edious therefore I shall forbear giving that trouble either to my self or you yet least after all I have said any thing material should be neglected I shall first admonish you after what manner the Contagion before mention'd may possibly insinuate it self among us and then conclude with its certain Cure and Antidote Some of our home bred Enemies in order to render ineffectual what I have here affirmed to you might probably suspect the Truth of what I have here proposed to you but till I meet with that bold Man who dares deny me the least Article of it I shall desire all of you to take it for granted as I my self do The other sort of Men are indeed more sober more numerous and more considerable both for Estates and Quality and these under the specious Pretence of Compassion for an unfortunate Exil'd Prince endeavour to Extenuate the Faults and magnify the good Qualities of the late King James They will tell you it may be First That he was the Son and Lawful Successor of our blessed King and Martyr Charles the First but this can be no Argument in his favour since some of our Learned Divines even upon the late Anniversary Fast for his Martyrdom and before the most August Assembly of our great City Governors have deliver'd from the Pulpit that Both might very well deserve the Punishments they underwent and who cannot easily conclude that if they might they did They will tell you again That he was Merciful and Just a true born English Man and as true a Lover of his Country That he was a most indulgent Father to our present Gracious Queen and the Princess her Sister a kind Father in Law and Unkle to our present dear King and so guiltless of ever having done him any Wrong that from his own Innocency he would not be perswaded his Nephew and Son would have attempted any thing against his Crown or Person which they tell you prevented him from taking those reasonable and just Measures for his own Security which otherwise he ought and might have done Some will say That he was a good Pay-master both to his Creditors and Servants and to all poor Tradesmen a very Father to