Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	allegiance_n	king_n	oath_n	2,942	5	7.6429	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04968	Queries relateing to the present state of England		1689 (1689)	Wing Q173B; ESTC R182315	2,433	4

QUERIES RELATEING to the present state of England I. SINCE every person that takes the oath of allegiance declares that he believes and is resolved in his Conscience that neither the Pope nor any other person whatsoever can absolve him of that oath Quaere vvhether Conventions and even Parliaments are not comprised under those vvords any other person vvhatsoever II. All persons that take it declare that they detest and abjure as impious and Haereticall this damnable doctrine and position That Princes vvhich be excommunicated or de prived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects or any other person vvhatsoever Since it is not to be imagined that the Pope vvill excommunicate or deprive any Princes but such as are contrary to his religion and the interests of it Quaere vvhether it be a doctrine lesse Impious lesse Haereticall or lesse damnable to vest that povver in the People vvhich is justly denyed to the Pope that they may deprive or depose any Prince that is of a different Religion from theirs vvhenever they shall fancy that the interests of their Religion may miscarry in his hands Or to say the same thing in other vvords III. Whether it vvas not a strange confidence in Doctor Burnet in his sermon preach't 23. Decem. before the Prince of Orange after he had vvith a just indignation asked vvhether zeal for Holy Church could vvartant breach of faith yet in the very same discourse to magnify the rebellion of the People and the desertion of the Army as the Lords Doing and one of the vvonders of his Love and Mercy though it vvas a complication of as much treason perjury and breach of faith as ever vvas acted in the vvorld and Expresly acknovvledged by those that vvere Guilty of it that it vvould be so in any other case but Zeal for their Religion IV. Since in all Parliaments as the Interest of the People is sufficiently secured by their free Election of their representatives so the interest of the Crovvn is likevvise secured in that all men are disabled to sit or act in either of the Houses till they have qualified themselves by taking the oaths of allegiance and supremacy if the last of these qualifications be not observed as vvell as the first in any Convention or pretended Parliament that shall be cal'd vvithout the Kings Authority Quaere vvhether all their proceedings may not justly be esteemed as partiall as their very being and Constitution is illegall by all indifferent persons V. Quaere vvhether allegiance be locall or that it may cease as soon as a king is out of his Dominions For since a subject beyond the seas may commit treason against the King being in England vvhy the subjects in England may not commit treason against the King vvhen he is beyond the seas vvill be a hard strain to make the difference But this hath been solemnly adjudged by all the Judges of England in the Case of Sir H. Vane vvho vvas Indicted condemned and executed for High treason committed against King Charles the second at a time vvhen he vvas in France for the same reason that the King is there novv and had no body then in Commission to act for him or by his authority in England VI. If a Kings going out of England even though there had been no force vvere a forfeiture of his Crovvn Quaere vvhether not only all our Kings in their Expeditions into the holy Land France c. but the Emperour vvho in Henry the eights time or the King of Denmark vvho in the Reign of King James the first came into England only for ought appeares to make visits or for their pleasure or at best to transact affaires that might have been done by their ministers vvhether by this they vvere thought to have forfeited their Crovvns by their Subjects or any body els VII Since any force upon the meanest subject makes it impossible for him to barr himself or part vvith any right of his so long as he continues under that force Quaere vvhether a King not only overpovverd but imprisoned by a forraign army can lose or forfeit any thing by using his utmost endeavours to regain his liberty and by continuing in a place of safety till such force is removed VIII Whether that Statute that indemnifies all such as shall fight for a King de facto though he be not a King de Jure vvhich vvas only intended to quiet mens minds in case of a doubtfull title as often hapned in the intricate pedigree betvveen the Houses of Lancaster and York can ever be applyed to one that usurps the Crovvn upon a King vvhose title is so clear and so universally acknovvledged IX Since ignorance of the Lavv excuses no man vvhether all those that shall run into Rebellion hoping for indemnity by that Statute and shall aftervvards come to be executed for it may not iustly lay their blood at the door of those vvho have misled them by disguising the lavv vvith such absurd and malicious interpretations X. Whether an English or a forreign Army be the fitter instrument to sett up Arbitrary povver in England or vvhether a Lavvfull King vvho can have no temptation to it or an usurper vvho can never be safe vvithout it be the likelier person to enslave the nation XI Whether persons that are to be proceded against in Parliament vvere ever heretofore committed prisoners before the Parliament fate XII This being novv done by the Prince of Orange vvhether it be not ane evident sign that vvhenever he shall gett any assembly of men together that he shall think fitt to stile a Parliament he resolves they shall be such as shall fall upon any persons or doe any thing that he shall think fitt to chalk out to them XIII Whether the vvhole Course of his life abroad in the destruction of the liberty of those Provinces vvith vvhose protection he vvas entrusted Or his many violent and illegall actions since his Landing doe give the more certain vvarning to every English man of that oppression and Tyranny they must Ly under during his usurpation XIV If the Prince of Orange find any person honest enough to oppose his unjust dessigns vvhether of destroying or enslaving the People and that he finds no vvay by lavv to remove such persons Quaere if he vvill not let loose the People upon them as he did upon the De Wittes in Holland and Roman Catholicks in England XV. Since the Prince of Orange has shovvn that his oath though never so solemnly given is not to be regarded as it appeares by his having svvorn solemnly to the States generall of the United Provinces upon his admission to the office of their Generall that he never should ask or tho offered accept of the office of State-Holder and yet both asked and is in actuall possession of the same Quaere vvhat security he can give that he vvil not treat England if they make him their master as he has done Holland vvho made him their servant