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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	crown_n	king_n	kingdom_n	10,528	5	5.9108	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60859	Some seasonable queries, on the third head, viz. A general naturalization	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.	1697 (1697)	Wing S4609A; ESTC P6451	6,293	4

do they not thereby give advantage to our Neighbours by cheap Navigating their Ships to carry Commodities to a Market cheaper than we can and consequently can afford to undersell us 12. May not the want of them have a much worse Influence upon us than the lessening or even the loss of our Trade by laying us open to the Invasion of the French which we are no longer secure from than we command at Sea And if they be alone able to contend with Us and the Dutch united What might they not do if assisted by other Allies And therefore is it not highly the Interest of England to make such provision in her Naval Force as if she were left to her own defence against the Power of more than the French at Sea And what one way more likely to compass this than by Naturalizing Foreign Seamen 13. Would not this in some measure ease ours from the Press when Foreigners are made as liable to it as they And should we not be able to Man our Fleet with more ease and speed when we can not only impress our own Native Seamen but our Naturaliz'd Foreigners too As to the second viz. Foreign Merchants 14. Whatever they may be in relation to our Merchants yet who can deny but they are by their Trade and Expence an advantage to all other Societies and Persons in the Nation And ought not a general Good to take place of a private Tho how their being Naturalized could injure our home Merchants themselves is not easie to imagine for that they are allowed to live and Trade and have all the opportunities of improving their Estates without it But this would bring them under the Taxes and Offices of Charge in the Nation which would help to lighten our Burthens and so far be an advantage to our Merchants as well as others 14. If the opposition this Bill meets with or the design to blast it should be chiefly levelled against the Dutch as it is commonly said How unreasonable how ungrateful must that Design be They are the People who under the Auspicious Conduct of the Illustrious House of Nassaw so gallantly struggled with and as gloriously overcame the Power and Pride of the Spaniards who preceded the French in their Enmity to the Protestant Religion and common Liberties of Europe Who under the same Conduct and by their most prudent Administration have raised their Country to a Power and Greatness not to be paralelled A people upon whom Providence hath had a peculiar care not only in preserving them against all the Designs of the French and other Enemies of their Religion and State but in making them the Instruments of doing great things in the World especially in contributing so effectually to the bringing about or rather the effecting our stupendious Revolution by which they gratefully repaid us for the Assistance which they received from our glorious Queen Elizabeth and for which we owe to them and our gracious Sovereign their Illustrious Stadtholder and General the preservation under God of all that is dear to us as Englishmen and Protestants And if those few of them now among us should desire to be Naturalized it is surely what in Gratitude we could scarcely deny that of those who have hazarded their Lives to save our Liberties a small Number at least should partake of them with us 15. Why may we not as well make an Act for a General Naturalization as Naturalize Foreigners by ten twenty or thirty at a time And if no Petition to this purpose was ever yet rejected or denied Does it not look as if the declining to do it all at once proceeded from something else than a real dislike to the Bill or the dictates of a publick Spirit 16. As to what is said or rather prophefied of I know not what ill Consequences or Effects of this Bill How easie were it for the Parliament to provide against them and yet make an Act of Naturalization not only profitable to our selves but advantageous to Foreign Protestants without planting their Factories on us to ruin our Trade or permitting those who raise Estates in this Kingdom to go and spend them elsewhere And if any Inconveniencies should happen hereafter that are not now within view they can never do much harm since the Parliament meets now every Year and will after the War is over meet every three Years and may either alter or quite abrogate the Act if it should prove Inconvenient or hurtful to the Nation 17. Will not all that has been said on this Head hold good and every way true as to Ireland which at this time differs but little from a new Plantation and is now as a Blank in our hands wherein His Majesty may Stamp what he pleases And if such Methods were thought on as might make those that would settle in that Kingdom Freeholders of small Proportions of the Forfeited Lands yet undisposed of at easie Rents it would be a great Inducement to Foreigners to go and fill that Country who would in time by Marrying into English and Scotch Families become British And so those of the Interest of England would be Superior to those of the Irish and Interest of Rome and thereby secure it from future Rebellion It have been told that that Kingdom since its first Conquest has never been much Consulted by England in its Trade but either left to its self or treated like an Enemy The great use that has been made of it was for needy Courtiers to dispose it into Grants Imployments and Offices without any regard to its Conveniencies for Trade and Commerce Tho it may perhaps boast of the greatest Advantages that way of any Country in the World And that which continued it under these bad Circumstances in the Reign of Charles the II. was the groundless Jealousies and Mistakes of England fearing it grew too fast and incroach't upon their Trade whereas it is demonstrable that Ireland neither interfers with nor gains upon England nor can any way hurt her but where she by her own Laws doth force it I have been assur'd her chief Consumption is of the Product and Manufactury of England and would be to her a Mine of Treasure if rightly manag'd And instead of being an Expence to the Crown which hitherto she has been the King might even now in her lowest Ebo save yearly above Seventy thousand Pounds and the Kingdom be as well secur'd and better perhaps Govern'd than ever it has been yet but this by the by 18. What could be a greater mortification to our Grand Enemy at Versailes who by a thousand Barbarities hath declared himself the courge and Plague of Christendom especially the Protestant part thereof than the passing of this Act And to see the strenghth of England augmented by such a considerable Accession of zealous Protestants who by woful Experience know the Principles and Practices of the Papists so well that there would be no danger from any natural respect to their Country of