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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	affair_n	france_n	king_n	2,658	5	3.8049	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63092	Treason in graine that most traiterous, or libel of Fitz-harris, whereby he design'd to raise a rebellion amongst us the better to make way for a French invasion, and our utter destruction, as it was read in both Houses of Parliament at Oxford, and upon which the House of Commons impeached him of high treason. Falsly and malitiously called by him, the true English-man speaking plain English, in a letter from a friend to a friend.	Fitzharris, Edward, 1648?-1681.	1682 (1682)	Wing T2076A; ESTC R222384	4,052	4

Treason in Graine That Most TRAITEROUS OR LIBEL OF FITZ-HARRIS Whereby he design'd to raise a Rebellion amongst us the better to make way for a French Invasion and our utter destruction as it was read in both Houses of Parliament at Oxford and upon which the House of Commons Impeached him of High Treason Falsly and Malitiously called by him The True English-man speaking plain English in a Letter from a Friend to a Friend I thank you for the Character of a Popish Successor which you sent me wherein our Just fears and the grounds of them are justly set out But I am in greater fear of the present Possessor why do we frighten our selves about the Evil that is to come not looking to that which is at hand We would cut off the Budding Weeds and let the Poysonous Root lye still we would stop the Channel of our Evils and let the Fountain still run My meaning is this can Pylades Know and Act all these Bloody Conspiracies and not impart them to his dear Orestes if James be Conscious and Guilty Charles is so too Believe me these two Brethren in Iniquity they are in Confederacy with Pope and French to introduce Popery and Arbitrary Government as all their Actions demonstrate the Parliament Magna Charta and Liberty of the Subject are as heavy Yoaks which they would cast off to be as absolute as their Br. of France and if this can be proved to be their only aim and endeavor why should not every True Britain be a Quaker thus far Let the English rise and move as one Man to self defence to open Action and fling off their intollerable Riders Blow the the Trumpet stand on your Guard and withstand them as Bears and Tygers And since there can be no trust given to this goodly couple of Popish Brethren nor no relief expected from a Parliament Trust to your Swords in defence of your Lives Laws Religion and Properties like the stout Earl of Old who told a King that if he could not be defended by Magna Charta he would be relieved by Longa Spada Yet to convince the World that this Scottish Race is Corrupt Root and Branch and Popish from the very beginning be pleas'd to consider these reasons following The Grand-father of these Men James the Scot was of no Religion at the bottom but entred by a pretence of a Sham-plot of the Papists against his Life whilst really he collogued with the Popish Party under hand h●s Mother his Kindred with great Submission yet afterwards thinking it for h●s purpose to Cajole the Parliament and write against the Pope and Cardinals he sends a Scots Bird to blind the Eyes of the Vatican Keeper with Money and to steal his Letters from off the Roman File and then he crowes as boldly as an unsuspected Harlot for the Protestant Religion and Interest That Man's Son Charles the First held a Secret Correspondency with the Pope calling him his Dear and Holy Father as is to be seen in his Letters recorded in Rushworth's Collections Were not his Wife and Courtiers Papists Did he not countenance and promote the Rebellion in Ireland As the Irish Grandees and his very Commissions testifie and declare was there not a Popish Plot and an Universal Conspiracy of the Papists discovered to him and his Confessor Laud and did they not piously stifle it lest they should have discovered the Nakedness of their Mother Church Whilst that goodly Protestant Prince pretended to relieve the poor besieged Protestants at Roshel by his confident Buckingham did he not hold Correspondency with the French Cardinal how to betray them for a Summ of Money which his obstinacy with his Parliament made him stand in need of But they who so ill approved themselves to be Heads of the Protestant Church Charles and Laud did they not loose their own Heads by a manifest Judgment of God And was not the false heart of their Emissary Buckingham found out by an Assassins Knife But to come nearer to our purpose these two goodly Imps of our days are stark naught arrived at the heigth of Wickedness and of professed Arbitrariness and Popery As for James he was a Papist whilst he had a Regiment in the French and afterwards in the Spanish Service beyond Seas And as for Charles he was reported e're he came into England to have been reconciled to the Church of Rome in one of the French Kings Country Houses and since they came in how have they wheedled and played fast and loose in their profession of Religion as occasion and their Affairs requir'd Have they not all along maintained Secret Correspondency with France and Rome As Colemans Letters may sufficiently instruct such who have not seen more Secret Memories But let us come to Examine their Actions which are a better proof of their hearts were not the Dukes Servants and Confidents all Papists Witness his Talbots Patricks and other Irish Teags were not the Duke and such of his Creatures as were known Papists promoted to all publick Offices of trust both at Sea and Land Witness Bellasis now a Traytor in the Tower did not James by Coleman Throgmorton and others hold open Correspondency with the Pope and Cardinals and could Charles be Ignorant of all this Nay he lik'd all so well that he hardly employed any about him but Papists as Clifford whom he made Treasurer or employed any abroad but Persons of the same stamp Witness Godolphin whom he sent Embassador into Spain as he did others elsewhere what more obvious than that though the Duke's Treachery against the Kingdom and Protestant Religion be fully made out and the People and Parliament seek to bring him to a Legal Tryal yet Charles obstructs Justice and will not suffer it How can this be but that he is joyned in Will and Deed in all the Dukes Villanies and that he is afraid to be discovered and found out to be a Papist and a betrayer of his People and the Protestant Religion If he was heartily concerned for our Religion would he not oppos 〈…〉 cessor who will Infallibly overthrow it Can there be any thing more ●●●●●●t than that he continues the Dukes adherents and those who were advanced by him in all Offices of Trust And hath he not turn'd out of his Councel the most Zealous Protestants such as Shaftesbury Essex and others and introduced in their Rooms other meer Tools or those that are Popishly and Arbitrarily affected Hath he not modell'd all the Sheriffs and Justices throughout England in subserviency to a Popish Design Was not Sir William Waller and Dr. Chamberlain and divers others turn'd out of the Commission in and about London meerly for being Zealous Prosecutors of Priests and Papist● Doth not Charles all he can to hinder the further detection of the Popish Plot And doth he not to his utmost discountenance the Discoverers of it and suffer them to want Bread And doth he not in the mean time plentifully encourage and reward Fitz-Gerald