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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	servant_n	service_n	3,408	5	7.4851	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51196	Great Britain's just complaint for her late measures, present sufferings, and the future miseries she is exposed to with the best, safest, and most effectual way of securing and establishing her religion, government, liberty, and property upon good and lasting foundations : fully and clearly discovered in answer to two late pamphlets concerning the pretended French invasion.	Montgomery, James, Sir, d. 1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing M2504; ESTC R30525	61,135	64

Disertion will best appear from a true Narrative of Matter of fact which I shall give the Reader And though it may contain several things which are not generally known and yet contribute exceedingly to the clearing of this point I shall deliver nothing but Truths which can be made evident either by Letters or Evidence above all exception No sooner was the Prince of Orange landed but it quickly appeared to the World how strangely successful his Agents had been in their Negotiations The Poyson was universally spread and the Pretences of his Declaration greedily swallowed down without Examination though I shall make it appear before I have done That it was partly forged and nothing of it ever intended to be performed There was nothing sound or untainted in the whole Kingdom His Children run away from him the Clergy juggle with him his domestick and menial Servants betray him his Subjects flock in to the P. of Orange his Army disert and the very Creatures which he had raised from the Dust form Designs to deliver up his Person Was not this a Scene the most wonderful and astonishing that was ever presented upon the Stage of human Affairs What ground had the King to think that his Person could be with any manner of Safety amongst a People who had thrown off all Tyes and Duties which could rationally be depended upon in the like case When that natural Affection which was due from Children to their Parents was quite forgotten when the Love Respect Service and Gratitude which is due from Servants to their Master and Benefactor was entirely thrown off and unheard of Treachery cherished in their places When that Allegiance which is due from Subjects to their Prince was debauched and running into another Channel When that Fidelity which was due from Soldiers both as Subjects and Men who make a particular Profession of Honour to their Prince General and Nursing Father was so generally corrupted that he was advertised by his General Officers That the Army was quite poisoned and would not fight When his own Ministers and Counsellors were in Pay and Correspondence with the Invader and pushing him into Councils and Measures which might encrease the present Ferment and facilitate the Prince's Designs What hopes of Accommodation or Assurance of Safety could remain without renouncing all Reason Sense and Discretion especially if we consider that as soon as the account came that Oxford's and St. Alban's Regiment of Horse commanded by Langston and Cornbury and Heyfort with their Dragoons were deserted and gone into the Prince he called his General Officers and Colonels together at London amongst which were Churchil Kirk Trelauny Grafton and others and acquainted them he had called a free Parliament that he was resolved to secure Religion Liberty and Property at their Sitting He obtested these Officers to let him know if there was any thing farther which they desired for the Security of their Religion and Liberties and he would most willingly grant it and withal desired That if there was any amongst them who could not be satisfied to let him know it and he would frankly grant them Passes for themselves and Equipage to go in to the Prince Upon which they all answer'd chearfully and unanimously That they were fully satisfied and would hazard their Blood to the last drop in his Service And yet how basely and ungratefully some of them afterwards dealt by him is too well known and was enough to give that Prince just Jealousies of his own Safety amongst Men so lost as to all sense of Honour and Integrity And yet so loth was this Monarch to part from a People who had forsaken him first though surrounded with Fears and Distractions under which any other Person would have sunck that he made offers of a Treaty which the Prince accepted not that he designed to come to any Settlement upon it but because he durst not unmask himself so far as to refuse it and was in hopes to find some Pretext or other to break it off Upon this the Commissioners met on both sides but with so little Inclination on the Prince's side to come to an Accommodation which would have bereaved him of that sweet Morsel he had been so long labouring for nay he discovered so firm a Resolution to attain his ends without scrupling any thing how severe soever which could compass them that those noble Lords who were empower'd by the King to treat for him did acquaint his Majesty with the insuperable Difficulties they met with in their Negotiation and that they thought themselves bound in Duty to let him know that his Person was not in Safety under the Power of a Prince who by the haughty and rigid Conditions he proposed or rather imposed and his still marching on notwithstanding the Treaty did visibly enough discover some farther hidden Design This must certainly be thought Warning enough from Persons who were even then leaning to the strongest side and so would not have hazarded such advice unless forced to it by Truth and Horror of the Design or put upon it by the Prince himself to frighten the King away who was sensible his Stay did check his Designs and so was resolved to be rid of his Person some way or other Upon this the King thought fit to withdraw and afterwards sent the E. of Feversham from that place with such ample Concessions and such real discoveries of a sincere Intention to satisfie his People to the full that the Prince was extreamly alarmed upon it and did plainly see the miscarriage and ruin of all his Designs if Feversham's Message should be imparted to the English that were about him for though there were some who upon all occasions were forward enough to advise the utmost Severities against the King's Person yet by far the greatest part for Number Interest and Quality were at the bottom for an Accommodation with the K. which would have setled and bettered the Nation but at the same time would have quite dashed the Prince's Hopes and Expectations and therefore some bold Stroke must be given that so much Patience so great Labour and so many Crimes might not be lost the Publick Faith must be broken and Feversham must be secured without so much as acquainting the Persons of Quality of the English Nation who were about him with it though all a long he had pretended to act by their Advice But in so nice a Conjunction he was afraid to trust to their Affection as knowing very well they would have p●y'd more than was fitting for his Interest into the pretended Cause of the Earl's Confinement and his Message the Goodness of which would certainly have preserved the Publick Faith inviolable in the Earl's Person notwithstanding of the Crime alleg'd against him and continued in the Treaty whereas by this Method the Message was concealed the Treaty was quite broken off and the King would most certainly be frightned to steal away After such a series of Defection amongst all sorts of People