Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	england_n	king_n	scot_n	1,440	5	9.6798	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54694	Restauranda, or, The necessity of publick repairs, by setling of a certain and royal yearly revenue for the king or the way to a well-being for the king and his people, proposed by the establishing of a fitting reveue for him, and enacting some necessary and wholesome laws for the people.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1662 (1662)	Wing P2017; ESTC R7102	61,608	114

their Master any more then three hundred thousand pounds sterling in Cash and ready money and that with that and such of the Royall Revenues as they left him and those vast Spoils Rapines Taxes Assessments and pillage of all that were not as bad as himself and his Predecessor Common-wealth Contrivers in the three Kingdomes of England Ireland and Scotland which amounted unto above forty millions he was not able in a few years wars with the Dutch and Spaniards to bring about his expences support the Protection as he called it of the people with it but died above three millions in debt which the debts of our famous King Edward the third and Henry the fifth who conquered France and the most of our indebted Kings never amounted unto When our English Kings and Princes having never received of the people by their Aides and Subsidies the twentieth penny towards their expences in the preservation of them and the honor peace plenty of the Kingdom could never do as the Field Marshals Stadt Holders or Generals in Commonwealths have done or as the late Princes of Orange did for severall successions in Holland and the united Provinces receive great allowances and Sallaries keep and greatly improve and increase their own Revenues and make the Publick bear and defray its vast charges as well in warres as the cares and defence of peace in the absence of it but did bear and sustein the brunt of all that was not extraordinary and the charge of many a warre abroad and suppressing of insurrections and rebellions at home out of their own Estates and Revenues and made many a hard shift even to the pawning of their Jewels and mortgaging of their Lands without an often calling to the People for Subsidies or other Aids or Assistance to preserve them and their Estates and Posterities Nor took to themselves the liberty which many Subjects doe to put into their Accounts and Bills of charges to their Princes their Damnum emergens damage happening by any service done for him or their Country and many times their Lucrum cessans gain or improvement lost though every mans particular in the defence of their King and Country is involved in the generall that the service was not altogether or immediately done or tendred to him or for the preservation of him or his Estate only and Posterity but as much if not more for their own concernments and think themselves to be ill dealt with if they be not speedily and abundantly rewarded To help on which consumption of the Royal Revenues came also the great charges which King Charles the first upon whom the decay of the Royal Revenues occasioned by the necessities and indulgences of his Predecessors at once falling might have made him crie out with King Henry the third as the Monk of St. Albans relates it seducor undique mutilatus sum Rex et abbreviatus was at in leagues and confederacies with forreign Princes maintaining Armies in the Palatinate and Germany aiding the Kings of Bohemia Denmark and Sweden engaging in a warre against Spain and sending a great Fleet and Army to invade him great expences in sending a Navy and Army to the Isle of Rhe and two others to aid the Rochellers to furnish part of which for it amounted to a great deal more he sold at once at too easie rates to the City of London above twelve thousand pounds Land per annum rent of Assize the payment of fifty thousand pounds per annum Pensions aud Annuities out of the Exchequer as it was industriously computed by that factious party of Common woe contrivers to diverse of the Scottish Nation many of whom did afterwards joyn with his enemies to ruine him the great and necessary yearly Pensions and Annuities paid to the King and Queen of Bohemia and their children charges of going with a great Army to the Borders of Scotland against the Covenanting Scots and maintaining another in England with the payment of 120000l principall money borrowed by his Father of divers Citizens of London with interest at 8. per cent Which with the many great cares troubles wants and necessities which compassed him in on every side whilst his great virtues for want of necessary supplies of money and treasure were not able to support or bear him up against the storms of an hideous Rebellion escape the snares and pursuit of a rebellious party or scour and cleanse that Augaean Stable which had ruined and weakned his Revenues made him a glorious Martyr for the Laws and Liberties of England and those that were the causers of it the great Examples of a Divine Justice overtaking them And enforced him to leave his troubles to descend upon his Son our most gratious Soveraign Charls the Second with a small and despoyled Revenue which by its fluidness and the gnawing and deflux of time was as to his Crown Lands brought almost to an Exinanition and his casuall and other receipts bearing no more proportion to his expences and disbursements then a Dwarfe or Pigmey doth to a Giant or Poliphemus could doe no less then bring the remainder of that little which was left into a Tabes and almost incurable consumption when there is so great a difference betwixt the rates of provisions and livelyhood and all manner of things bought or used in the beginning of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth and what is now paid for them when he is at greater expences then any of his Progenitors and a less receiver receives at the old rate and buyes at the new his demeasn Lands besides his Pastures at Cresl●w in Buckinghamshire which were hertofore imployed for the keeping of some Oxen for his household provisions and his parks and some adjacent Grounds to his Houses of residence and all his Land and certain Revenues are not above reprizes one hundred thousand pounds per annum and two parts of three of that consisting in Fee Farm Rents which admit of no improvement when his Customes which should now amount to as much or more then what they were in his late Majesties Reign by the addition of an Excise amounting to one hundred and forty thousand pounds per an now yeilds not near so much as it did formerly the Excise of Ale and Beer ill collected o● so chargeable in the gathering of it as it yeilds little more then the half of what the Parliament estimated and intended it to be great yearly Revenues Inheritances in Lands given to men of high deservings both of him and the Kingdom all the Confiscations of the late Traitors of a great yearly value with the benefit of the Post-Office Wine Lycences and many discoveries of personall Estates due to the King given to his Brother the Duke of York to make him a Princely Revenue When his ordinary expences doe so much exceed his ordinary receipts and his extraordinaries are six or seven to one of his ordinaries is sixteen hundred thousand pounds in debt spends more then as much again