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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	king_n	prince_n	son_n	10,029	5	5.2752	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91832	Observations upon some particular persons and passages in a book lately make publick; intituled, A compleat history of the lives and reignes of Mary Queen of Scotland, and of her son James, the Sixth of Scotland, and the First of England, France and Ireland. Written by a Lover of the Truth.	Raleigh, Carew, 1605-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing R149; Thomason E490_2; ESTC R206058	10,006	24

OBSERVATIONS UPON Some particular PERSONS and PASSAGES in a Book lately made publick INTITULED A COMPLEAT HISTORY of the LIVES and REIGNES OF MARY Queen of SCOTLAND AND OF HER SON JAMES The Sixth of Scotland and the First of England France and Ireland Written by a Lover of the Truth Mat. 7. 5. First cast out the beame out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye Ecclus. 4. 25 26. In no wise speak against the truth but be abashed of the errour of thine ignorance Be not ashamed to confess thy sins and force not the course of a river LONDON Printed for GA BEDELL and THO. COLLINS at the middle-Temple Gate Fleet-Street 1656. THere is one Mr. Sanderson who hath lately written a booke which he calls a Compleat History of Mary Queen of Scotland and James her son the sixth of Scotland and first of England In which he hath compiled not a History but a Libel against all the good men and good actions of those times and with most servile flattery praised and exalted the bad both men and matters His whole book is a rapsody of notes and scattered papers from other men collected without either order or method being exceedingly defective both in time place and nominations and written in so unseemly and disjoynted a stile that you may easily perceive he hath taken up other mens words without understanding their matter and unlesse it be where he rails on persons of honour which he doth plainly and often though sometimes very falsly his language is dark harsh and unintelligible But that you may the better know what ware you are like to have out of this mans shop I shall give you his character and trace him from his parent His father was a Gentleman though poor but that I take to be no sin though this man doth and how he can clear himself from that offence I know not he was of kin to Sir Walter Raleigh and in the time of his prosperitie and greatnesse was his servant and intrusted with receiving great sums of money for him out of his Office of Wines and other his places by which he became in arrears to Sr. Walter Raleigh in divers great sums which after his troubles being a prisoner in the Tower Sr. Walter sent unto Sanderson for But he was so far from paying them presuming that Raleigh was there friendlesse that he pretended Sr. Walter Raleigh should owe him 2000 li. Whereupon Sir Walter in great anger commenced a suit against Sanderson which was managed by his servant and solicitor John Shelbury And Sanderson being overthrown and found in arrears to Sir Walter Raleigh in very great sums was cast into prison and there dyed a poor contemptible beggar And hence originally sprang all the spleen and malice of this man to Sir Walter Raleigh For this man himself he lived for ought I could ever hear at first very obscurely and as I conjecture by some passages in his book studied Hiraldry for he often brings in many impertinent digressions to shew his skill that way But afterwards he tells us he was servant to the Lord Ross in his Spanish Embassie a fit servant no doubt for such a Master For what that Lord was I shall not need to mention it being so notoriously known to most men yet living After this he tells us he was at the siege of Breda under the Earl of Oxford to whom in his book he was pleased to give the title of a deboyst Lord with many other unhandsome Epithites But I cannot learn that this man had ever any relation to the Court more then at large until he became Secretary to the Earl of Holland when he was Chancellor of Cambridg where he behaved himself so corruptly that he was with great disgrace and scorn turned out of his place for taking Bribes of divers Scholars to make them Doctors and Batchelors of Divinity when the King came to an entertainment at Cambridg So that for a long time after these men were by every boy called Sandersons Doctors A pretty while after this he married the late Queens Landresse and so might perchance creep again into her chamber below stairs but for any other imployment in Court after his Secretary-ship I could never hear he had any And now you may guesse what liquor you are like to draw out of a vessel thus seasoned I shall proceed to examine some particulars in his book wherein I shall absolutely decline saying any thing concerning the Queen of Scots or that part of the Story both the errors and excellencies of that Lady and the inevitable causes of her deplorable destinie being sufficiently known to all Only I shall observe that in some passages of Queen Elizabeths Raigne he gives a harsher censure upon Essex and his offences then any writer heretofore As likewise in fol. 128. he seemes to intimate out of some discourse between Davison the Secretary and Queen Elizabeth That she would have had the Queen of Scots poysoned by Paulet and Drury her keepers which they refused But is it likely Kings should want fit ministers for such mischiefs when common men can hire them daily I think not and if they refused others might easily have bin had But this is a scandal raised upon that excellent Princesse which I never heard or read of before There is no Innocence so clear which this mans pen will not slubber For what need she have gon so fouly to work to take away her life whom the whole Parliament of Eng. petitioned her to execute which this Author confeseth fol. 117. and I hope it is no secret that her death proceeded even frō the Scots themselves yea even from those whom K. James sent to solicit for her Witness that speech of the Master of Gray tua non mordet As for her Son King James truly I believe none will deny him to be a Learned Prince and of great experience which the troubles and vexations he had endured in his youth by his own undutiful and head-strong Scots subjects had well taught him But it cannot be denyed that he failed even in that which he most boasted of his King craft for he never treated with any Prince or State in Christendome that he was not over-reached he spent more in frivilous Embassies then would have raised an army to have setled his Children in their inheritance and being wooed and courted to have been head of all the Protestant Princes in Christendome which would have impowred him to give the Law to all this part of the world he refused and inclined to their enemies whereby as much as in him lay he ruined the one and advanced the other And whereas his accession to this Kingdome hath been thought by some the greatest happinesse that ever befel the Nations it hath proved by what secret predetermination of the allseeing God no man knoweth the greatest misfortune to both For after a miserable and wasting civil war we see his