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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	brother_n	king_n	normandy_n	2,913	5	10.9735	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

with the King of Spain in hopes to gain his Indian Mines and sending such a Fleet with so many thousand English Protestants and Souldiers thither upon the bare project of Gage a Iesuited professed Papist and Spainiolized Priest who had lived there sundry years under the Spanish King as a Priest all whose family and relations have been desperate popish enemies to our Religion King Kingdoms with the disasterous successe and fruits thereof to the expence of such vast sums of our own Treasure the loss of so manie thousand protestant Souldiers Mariners and undoing endangering of our other American plantations if rightly weighed was in truth rather a Spanish and Iesuitish plot to ruine us and our religion than to advance them as Mr. Prynne at first reputed them predicting the ill event before it happened 3ly His closing with France and the French Cardinal Mazarine upon the breach with Spain of purpose to banish poor distressed K. Charles whom he drove out his 3 Protestant Kingdoms banished out of Holland deprived of all charitable supplies or hopes of relief from either for his necessarie subsistance and banish his Brother the Duke of York who had a command great repute in the French Army with all their Dependents out of France too that he might the more securely establish himself and his posterity in their hereditarie Kingly power dominions and leave them no place to hide their heads in the effect and chief end of that peace and that in pursuit of Cardinal Richelieus forementioned Instructions to ruine our Monarchy Kingdoms and work his infernal designs against us was such an inhumane unchristian policy as verie ill accords with our Saviours expresse precepts Mat. 5.44 c. Lu. 6.27 c. Rom. 12.20 21. But I say unto you love your Enemies Therefore if thy Enemie hunger feed him if he thirst give him drink Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with goodnesse And a President hardlie paralleld Alas how shall the memorable Heroick charity generosity pietie justice of our Norman Conqueror King William censured by this new Conqueror and his Army Saints as the worst of Tyrants in sundry Pamphlets and of his Sons William Rufus and Henry 1. towards Edgar Atheling Heir to the English Crown after the death of Edward the Confessor when hee took it from him by the Sword under pretext of King Edwards last Will and being next Heir to him in blood not as a Conquerour by war Who though after his Oath of Homage Fealty and Subjection to William twice set up as Heir to the Crown by the English Nobility in opposition to him twice routed by him in the Field driven into Scotland and quite left destitute of forces friends and supplyes to gain the Crown yet upon his repair to him in Normandy without any precedent Articles for his securitie Anno 1069. he not only pardoned his former insurrections but gave him a large gratuity entertained and lodged him in his own Court divers years allowing him a pound of Silver for his honourable maintenance everie day a great sum in that Age After which when he desired to go into Apulia to the holie wars Anno 1089. he furnished him with many Ships and 200 Souldiers whence he returning after the losse of Robert his chief Commander and best men though the Emperours of Greece and Germany whom he visited in his recesse thence honourably received and profered to entertain and maintain him in their Courts according to the greatnesse of his birth all his life time yet he contemning all their proffers out of a desire to enjoy his native Country returned into England where he was courteously entertained by William the Conqueror as before till his death After which Edgar siding with Robert Duke of Normandy his eldest Son against William Rufus the younger he thereupon Anno 1091. deprived him of all the honours conferred on him by Robert and banished him out of Normandy into Scotland But afterwards upon the accord between the 2 Brothers touching the Crown and peace with Scotland he was reconciled to King Rufus and returned into England where he lived securely without the least restraint and was in so great favour with Rufus that in the year 1097. he sent him as General into Scotland with an Army to restore his Nephew Edgar Son of Malcomb who maried Edgars Sister to the Crown which his Uncle Dufnald had invaded after Malcombs death to expell Dufnald and make Edgar King Which having effected he returning again into England lived there quietly without the least danger or restraint all Rufus his reign and some years under King Henry the first betaking himself in his old Age to a retired private Country life and dyed in peace as our Historians then living record Oh that there were the like Charitie Ingenuity Christianitie Piety in the Saints of this Iron Age against whom these 3. first Norman Kings shall rise up and condemn in the day of judgment when Christ himself will pronounce this heavy sentence against them for all their pretended Saint-ship Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Divel and his Angels for I was an hungred and you gave me no meat I was thirsty and you gave me no drink no not out of my large hereditarie Revenues of three Kingdoms you have forcibly invaded against your Oatht I was a Stranger and you took me not in no not into my own Protestant Realm Court out of which you thrust me by violence neither would you permit those of Holland and France where I was a Stranger to take me in but inforced them to banish and cast me out after their former entertainment of me as a stranger I was naked but ye cloathed me not but stripped me and mine stark naked out of our Inheritances Wardrobes and all we had sick and in prison into which you cast both me and mine and you visited me not yea made it High Treason for any to do it or so much as to pray for me in this my distressed condition notwithstanding Gods own Evangelical precepts to the contrary 1 Tim. 2.1 3. 1 Pet. 2.17 Acts 10.5 12. 2 Cor. 1.9 10 11. 2 Thes 3.1 2. Rom. 15.30 31 32. If the most righteous and charitable Saints shall scarcely be saved in this great day O where shall these ungodly unrighteous uncharitable and transcendently malicious Sinners not Saints appear O that they would sadlie consider it and repent thereof as the onlie means to avoid this fatal doom of Christ at the last day This truth they cannot dare not deny with their Tongues but they contradict it by their lives Non contradicunt lingua sed vita Moneo rapit doceo rapit praecipio rapit arguo rapit Quomodo non contradixit Si ergo in ignem aeternum ibit cui dicturus est Christus nudus sui non vestisti me quem locum in igne aeterno habebit cui dicturus est vestitus fui