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	winchester_n	2,904	5	11.9178	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89176	A mis-led King, and a memorable Parliament.		1643 (1643)	Wing M2251; Thomason E90_1; ESTC R16635	15,308	17

A mis-le● King and a memorable PARLIAMENT THis present occasion so opportunely befitting me I am resolved to treat of that which hath been omitted and slipped out of memory long since concerning divers and sundry changes and alterations in England in former times Nor will it be any wayes burthensome to write of that whereby every good and carefull Reader may learne to avoid diversities of miseries and the danger and feare of cruell death I will therefore speake of that which hath laine hid in the darksome shade of forgetfulnesse concerning men who have been led away by the deceitfull path o● Covetousnesse and have come to a most shamefull and ignominious death a famous example to deterre all men from practising those or the like courses ABout the yeare of Christ 1386. at such time as Richard the second of that name then in prime of his youth swayed the Imperiall S●●●●er of our Realme there flourished famous in his Court certaine Peeres though some of them not of any honourable descent yet favoured by fortunes by name Alexander Ne●il Archbishop of Yorke Robert Vee●e D. of Ireland Michael de la Poole Earle of Suffolke then Lord Chancellour Robert Tressilian Lord chiefe Justice of England and Nicholas Brambre sometimes Major of London These men being raised from mean estates by the speciall favour of the King and advanced to the degree of privie Counsellours were the men who had the only rule of the Common-wealth which they under the King governed for some small space with carefull diligence meriting thereby deserved commendations But not long did they thus steere the Ship of the Kingdome for many of them being of inferiour ranke by birth not having their veines dignified with the streames of noble blood they were the sooner enticed with the fibidinous baits of voluptuousnesse and infected with insatiable itch of avarice insomuch that despising the authority of the King and neglecting the commodity of the Realme but onely desiring to keep up the Revenues of the Kingdome so wrought that by their policie the King is impoverished the Treasury exhausted the Commons murmure at the multiplicity of Tenths Levies and Subsidies the Peeres repine to see themselves disgraced and their inferiours honored and in a word the whole Kingdome endures an universall misery The Nobility seeing the miserable estate wherein the Kingdome lay blee●ing as it were to death urged their King to summon a Parliament which was done shortly after In which amongst many other Acts the afore-named Michael de la Poole is dismist of his Chancellorship and being accused of divers and many points of injustice as Bribery Extortion and the like he was soon cast into the Castle of Windsor and all his lands which were of no small Revenue were consiseated to the King Neither did the Parliament here give over but provided further for the whole State by the mutuall consent of the King and Prelates Barons and Commons with an unanimous conjunction they constitute and give plenary and absolute power to certaine Commissioners as well of the Spiritualty as Temporalty for the ordering and disposing of the publique affaires according as shall seem best and most necessary for the desperate estate of the Common-wealth to depresse civill dissentions and to pacisie and appease the grudgings of the people Of the Spiritualty were chosen the Archbishop of Canterbury the aforenamed Bishop of York the Bishop of Ely lately made Chancelor of England the Bishop of Winchester Bishop of Hereford Lord Treasurer Bishop of Exeter Abbot of Waltham and the Lord Iohn of Waltham Of the Laity were elected the Duke of York the Earle of Arundel the Lord Goltham the Lord Scroop and Iohn Devoureux Knight these as men eminent in vertue were chosen by the generall Suffrage and sworn to carry themselves as dutifull and obedient subjects in all their actions And it was further enacted That if any should refuse or disobey the Ordinances so made for publick good the punishment of his first offence should be the cosiscation of his goods and for the second the losse of life Thus disposing of all things for the best the Parliament being dissolved euery man returned to his owne house Soon after the afore-named Chancelor with others of their consederates being moved with implacable fury against the Statute of the late Parliament they buzzed into the Kings eares that the Statutes lately enacted were very prejudiciall to the honour of his Crowne and much derogatory to his Princely Prerogative insomuch that he should not have power without the consent of the new-appointed Commissioners to doe any thing befitting a King no not so much as to bestow a largesse a principall meanes to gain the peoples love upon any though never so well deserving By these and other the like impious instigations with which the Divel as never unmindful of the end of those who by their lives do prove themselves did continually supply them they practised to annihilate and disanull these Acts of the Parliament which seemed any wayes to abbreviate or curb their usurped authority And first by their serpentine tongues ambitious projects flattery painted out with glosing discourses and covered over with the shadow of vigilan●●● for the good of the Kingdome they so be witched the noble inclination of the youthfull King whom they induced to beleeve that all the ill they did was a generall good that he began to distalte and at last to abhorte the last passed Acts as treacherous plots and most wicked devices Next they studied how to ingrosse all or the most part of the wealth and riches of the Kingdome into their own coffers and to the same end dealt so cunningly yet pleasingly with the King that hee gave to the D. of Ireland Iohn of Bloys the heir of the Dutchy of Britaine and his ransome to others Townes to others Cities to others Lands to others Money amounting to the summe of 100000 Markes to the great impoverishment both of King and Kingdome neither did these King-eaters and Realm-devourers any thing regard it but setting unskilfull and insufficient Captaines and Governours over Townes and Forts so obtained gave occasion to the enemies of the Crowne to surprise them and dispossesse the King of them Thirdly vilifying the dignity of the King contrary to their allegeance they drew the King to sweare that with all his power during his life hee should maintain and desend them from all their enemies whether forraigne or domestick Fourthly whereas it was enacted by the last Parliament that the King at certain seasonable times and when his leasure would permit him should sit at Westminster with his Councell there to consult of the publique affaires through the perswasions of the aforesaid Conspirators hee was drawne into the most remotest parts of the Realme to the great disparagement of the fidelity of those honorable grave and faithfull Peeres late made joynt Commissioners in whose hands the whole safety and prosperity of the Common-wealth did recide And when as the Lord Chancelour the