Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	lord_n	viscount_n	6,197	5	12.0408	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61941	The coppy of a letter written to the Lower Hovse of Parliament touching divers grievances and inconveniences of the state &c.	Suckling, John, Sir, 1609-1642.	1641 (1641)	Wing S6124; ESTC R318	12,954	26

his conscience with danger to his soule with suite to his children and curse to his heires his desire is to live poore to die rich But as these vices are made vertues even so is hee honoured for them with title of Nobility It is a strange ambition of some of them to purchase the degrees of Earles Viscounts and Barons of other Countries as of Scotland and Ireland onely for the name of a Lord for no other priviledge they can challenge in England if they commit any criminall offences they shall bee tried by an ordinary jury and hanged if they stood in danger of arrest as I thinke they are not much inriched by their title they are subject to catch-pooles and a Dungion in the Counter may be their Sanctuary And seeing their pride makes them covet to divide themselves from you and to become Scots and Irish you can doe no lesse in requitall but make an Act that so long as they hold the titles of Forrainers they be made uncapable to sit in the House of Parliament or to enjoy any freedome more then his Majesties Subjects of Scotland or Ireland Few of you are there that have not seene Nobility highly praised in England and much esteemed abroad and none of you now liveth but to see it abused and liberty with too great familiarity in use the State of the Court and reputation of Lords are much decayed and boldnesse with contempt crept in and no way to bee redressed but by a gentle speech in Parliament that so his Majesty may see the mischiefe of it and reforme it for it rests onely in his power who onely hath power to create honour When Philip the second King of Spaine entred with Armes upon his Kingdome of Portugall and that with his sword hee might have any fitting lawes yet were there foure priviledges which the Portugals besought they might enjoy One whereof was that the King would make no unworthy person noble without their approbation which was granted them And to this day they hold that freedome which keepes that Kingdome in the ancient state honour and dignity That is to say two Dukes one Marquesse and eighteen Earles and thus much for the point of honour The second grievance I will recommend to your viewes is the carriage of our Warres the excessive charges vainely spent therein the unworthinesse of the people imployed the grave experience neglected the designes not warranted by reason and discretion and the executions worse performed with many other circumstances that depend upon it But before I proceede herein I must crave leave to speake to two points The one to declare the property and condition of Impostures and Deceavers of Princes In the other I must cleare the House of Parliament of an imputation cast upon it Abusers of Princes are they that perswade them to Warre to become poore when they may live in peace and become rich when they may be loved causeth them to bee hated when they may enjoy their lives securely put them in hazard of crosse fortune rashly And lastly having necessity to use their Subjects puts them into that necessity as they refuse to doe for him all this is pride of the perswader as Socrates saith In the second I will cleare the Parliament in which I was a member of an ingratefull aspersion cast upon it that is to say that the Parliament was a cause to draw his Majesty into Warre and failed on their part to contribute towards it These have beene often repeated and the Parliament accused the contrary hath beene as often reiterated and the truth expressed how farre the Parliament proceeded therein but to stop the mouths of such false reports and to free the Parliament of such a calumniation I must use this Argument At the assembly at Oxford the Parliament being prorogued thither money was required of us towards the furnishing of his Majesties Fleet then preparing upon many reasons alledged too tedious now to repeat with one consent it was refused whereupon there was offer made by him that next the King seemed to have best authority that if they would but contribute 40000.l they should choose their enemy Whereupon I enferre that before that proposition there was no enemy and therefore no Warres The motion of money being denied the Parliament instantly brake up and seeing no enemy was nominated nor money consented to by us I see not how the house can bee taxed for peace breakers but rather the name cast upon some young men for youth by nature is prone to pride especially where experience wants they are credulous what they heare that pleaseth them and incredulous with what is told them by wise men they are despisers of others Councels and very poore in their owne they are dangerous for Princes to relie on for selfe-will is of greater force then precepts Now to proceede in October following the Fleete put to Sea and what they did is apparant by relation written by their Generall at his returne The voyage being ended another followed the next Summer under the command of that noble Lord the Earle of Linsey which through the weakenesse and dissability of the Ships was not able to performe what he had in charge and what he desired The last and most lamentable was that to the Isle of Rhee which I likewise referre to a man I have seene and to the Bookes printed and extant These with that to Algiers to make up a messe of Island voyages I wish might be referred to examination of choyce and experienced souldiers by land and by Sea to report their opinions of it that so their errours their wastfull expences their negligences their weake designes and want of experience may appeare with the successe that might have proved if advice and councell had had preheminence above will and arrogancy for hee that is ignorant of truth and knowledge and led away with pride of his owne opinions must needs erre After it hath past your approbation it is worth his Majesties view who then shall see the difference of actions well managed and rash and heady enterprises undertaken by ignorance and performed with folly Busines of so great a consequence ought to be considered of Councell and not onely of the necessity profit and honour but of the possibility that was like to follow for an action well begun is halfe ended My experience in Discipline of Warres by Land and Sea can say no more then to referre it to others for it is a course I never was bred to in my youth and now to late in my age to practise onely one thing I observe that in the two vogayes of Cadeze and R●ee in the first a Land souldier commanded at Sea who knew not what belonged thereunto And the other was carried by him that was no souldier neither by Land nor by Sea and the successe proved accordingly in both yet their errours were never questioned but they both highly advanced In my opinion the charge they tooke upon them was as improper as