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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	council_n	lord_n	privy_a	4,231	5	10.1951	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61504	An accompt of Scotlands grievances by reason of the D. of Lauderdales ministrie humbly tendred to His Sacred Majesty.	Stewart, James, Sir, 1635-1713.	1672 (1672)	Wing S5532A; ESTC R17495	39,626	70

19. of Oct r. unto the 23. of Dec r. all done about it was onely the Parliaments answer to his Ma ties letter But the truth is the honour power and profit of the place of Kings Commissioner being once tasted did prove by farr the more tempting and therefore the Par lt must be continued for prosecution of the thing in a second Session which was accordinglie held from the 28. of July unto the 22. of Agust 1670 and therein the Commission for the treatie is in litle more than an hour expedited to such persons as it should please his Ma tie to nominate or rather My L o. Lauderdaill to suggest But allbeit that within a very short space thereafter this whole project was marred and its design dissipated like a vapour yet our Par lt and his Graces Commission were still kept current untill that very happilie the warr which he had helped to bring on gives him a new colour for a third Session in the Year 1672. and thereby occasion to honour us with a third visit At the opening of this Session his Ma ties letters are read intimating the warr to be the cause of their meeting but withall stuffed with such hyperbolicall commendations of My L o. Commissioners Grace that I am charitable to think that neither his presumption vvould have served him to move his Ma tie to such things nor even his modestie have consented that the like should be said of him if it had not been a designed gallantrie for his new amiable Dutchesse who by a novell practice had her place prepared and was there present and certainlie it is to the same reason that we must ascribe his breaking up of this Session in the midle for leading of her Grace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about the Countrey for severall weeks the members of Par lt being left to attend their return so after the close of this Session which did dure from the 12. of June unto the 19. of Septr he goes back again to Court without any mention of a dissolution which neverthelesse in his particular happened well for finding that matters in England begun to frown and that in the summer 1673 the clouds thickned exceedinglie even to the threatning of an inevitable eruption at the ensueing meeting or their Par lt If Scotland formerlie the theatre of his glory had not novv presented as a convenient retreat he might have been in great perplexitie and therefore for a fourth time dovvn he must come onely the pretence vvas not so obvious yet the vvarr not ended and the disorders of the Phanaticks that have served many a turn are judged sufficient matter for a letter wherein his Ma tie recommending first the securitie of the kingdom and next the severe chastisement of non-conforming disorders concludes with many good words in behalf of his Grace in the usuall manner but the 12. of No vr the day of the meeting of Par lt being come after the reading of his Ma ties letter and a short speech made by the Commissioner he is greatly surprized to hear a discourse of grievances begun by Duke Hamiltoun and seconded vehemently from every quarter so that he had no way to extricate himself but by a short adjournment and thus from that day to the 9 th of Dec r keeping only five meetings or Par lt he on the one hand endeavours by redressing the grievances of the Salt Brandy and Tobacco caballing with his few adhaerers and insinuating with some of his opposits to appease matters and on the other he fights and wrestles with pretences of his Ma ties prerogative and abrupt adjournments to stave off more touching complaints untill perceiving all his ground to be lost he is at length necessitated to deliver himselfe by one long adjournment for all and to wait for a more favourable opportunitie from the issue of things then in dependence in England but notwithstanding that all things both at Court and concerning the English Par lt have succeeded to his very wish and that in this interim he hath omitted nothing at home or abroad which might dispose affairs to a more propitious aspect yet when the meeting of our Par lt recurrs on the 3 d. of March he again by his Ma ties expresse command chuses to adjourn it unto the 14. of Oct r. next to the unexpressible surprise and dissatisfaction of both Par lt and people Having thus dispatched the narrative of our Par lt and its Sessions for the better understanding of the causes that have occasioned our discontents and increased them unto the present distemper it may be remembred that after that the Earle of Midleton was laid aside the whole mannagement of our affairs at Court was devolved upon My Lo. Laud. as sole Secretarie for this kingdom neither can it be accounted an imposing by any knowing person to affirm that he did no lesse absolutelie exercise it His Ma ties long absence from our Countrey and his necessarie unacquaintednesse by reason thereof both with persons and the condition of matters amongst us do certainlie extend and raise this employment to the greatest and highest trust But My Lo. Lauderdaill according to his noble selfe confidence apprehending more the controul of other mens officious medlings than the least possibilitie of his own mistaking did further improve the thing by the particular care and caution that he took to have himselfe his Ma ties sole Informer as well as his sole Secretarie and therefore not onely upon the pretence of his Ma ties prerogative were our matters for the most part disposed of above without any previous advice of his Ma ties Councell in Scotland but strict notice was also taken of all Scotchmen coming to Court and to attempt an addresse or accesse to his Ma tie otherwise then by My Lo. Lauderdaill was no lesse than the hazard of his implacable resentment I need not here mention his supine or rather designed neglect of introduceing Scotchmen to offices about Court it is obvious to every one that even those vacancies happening by the death of Scotchmen were there through his fault discontinued from the nation it was also his studie and work as he hath often publicklie boasted to have the Court Councell for Scotch businesse upon pretext that it consisted of Englishmen disused and suppressed But as it is evident that he did draw to himselfe the whole significancie of our Nation in England meerlie for the augmenting of his own value so it is no lesse clear that he ordered all things amongst us at his own pleasure Thus from himselfe alone Privie Councellors are named Lords of Session and Exchecquer placed and removed gifts and pensions granted Armies levied and disbanded Generall Officers appointed this Par lt called and all other matters of importance transacted as he thought good to advise and direct And the truth is that for severall years the thing was quietlie comported with forasmuch as we did not onely consider that the present state and circumstances of