Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	edward_n	king_n	succeed_v	2,762	5	9.6470	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68723	An epistle or exhortacion, to vnitie [and] peace, sent fro[m] the Lorde Protector, [and] others the kynges moste honorable counsaill of England: to the nobilitie, gentlemen, and commons, and al others the inhabitauntes of the realme of Scotlande	Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of, 1506?-1552.	1548 (1548)	STC 22268; ESTC S110952	9,124	42

¶ An Epistle or exhortacion to vnitie peace sent frō the Lorde Protector others the kynges moste honorable counsaill of England To the Nobilitie Gentlemen and Commons and al others the inhabitauntes of the Realme of Scotlande Edward by the grace of God Duke of Somersett Erle of Hertforde Viscount Beauchamp lorde Seimour vncle to the kynges highnes of Englande Gouernor of his moste royall persone and Protector of all his Realmes dominions and Subiectes Lieuetenaunt generall of all his Maiesties Armies bothe by lande and sea Threasauror and Erle Marshall of Englande Gouernor of the Isles of Gernesey Iersey and Knight of the moste noble ordre of the Garter with others the Counsaill of the saied moste high and noble Prince EDVVARD by the grace of God of Englande Fraunce and Irelande kyng defender of the Faithe and in yearth vnder Christe the supreme hedde of the Churche of Englande Irelande To the nobilitie and counsailors gentlemen and the commons and all others the inhabitauntes of the realme of Scotland Gretyng and Peace CONSIDEryng with our selfes the presēt state of thynges weiyng more depelye the maner and termes wherein we and you do stāde It maketh vs to merueile what euil fatal chaūce doth so disseuer your hartes and maketh theim so blinde and vnmindfull of your profite and to still conciliate and heape to your self mooste extreme mischiefes the whiche we whō you will nedes haue your enemies go aboute to take awaie frō you and perpetually to ease you therof And although by all reasone and ordre of necessitie it should bee rather more conuenient for you to seke and require moderate agrementes of vs whō god hath hetherto accordyng vnto our moste iuste true and Godly meanynges and intētes prospered and set forwarde with youre affliccion and miserie then that we beyng superiours in the feld Masters of a great part of your realme should seke vpon you Yet to thintent that our charitable mynde and brotherly loue should not cease by all meanes possible to prouoke and cal you to youre awne commoditie and profite euen as the father to the sonne or thelder brother would do to the yōger brother And as the louyng Phisicion would do to the mistrustfull and ignoraūt pacient we are cōtent to call and crye vpon you to looke on your state to auoyde the greate calamitie your Countrey is in To haue vs rather brothers then enemies rather Countreymenne then Conquerours And if your Gouernor or Capitaines shall reteigne and kepe from you this oure exhortacion as heretofore thei haue doen our Proclamaciō tendyng to the like effecte for their awne priuate wealth cōmoditie not regardyng though you bee still in miserie so they haue profite and gouernaunce ouer you shall still abuse you with feyned and forged tales Yet this shal bee a witnesse afore God and all Christian people betwixte you and vs that wee professyng the Gospell of Christ accordyng to the doctrine thereof doo not cease to call and prouoke you from theffusiō of your awne blood from the destrucciō of the realme of Scotland from perpetuall enemitie and hatred from the finall eradicacion of your nacion and from seruitude to foreyne nacions to libertie to amitie to equalitie with vs to that whiche your writers hath alwayes wisshed mighte once come to passe VVHO that hathred thistories of tyme paste and doth marke and note the greate battailes fought betwixte Englande and Scotland thincursions roades and spoyles whiche hath been doen on bothe the parties The realme of Scotlande fiue tymes wonne by one kyng of Englande The Scottishe kynges some taken prisoners some slain in battaill some for very sorowe and discomforte vpon losse diyng and departing the world and shall perceiue again that of all nacions in the worlde that nacion onely beside England speaketh thesame language and as you and wee bee annexed and ioyned in one Islande so no people so like in maner forme language and all condicions as we are Shal not he thynke it a thyng verie vnmete vnnaturall and vnchristiā that there should be betwixte vs so mortall warre who in respect of al other nacions be should bee like as twoo brethren of one Islande of greate Britayn And though he were a straungier to bothe what would he thynke more mete then if it wer possible one kyngdome be made in rule whiche is one in language and not to be diuided in rulers whiche is all one in Countrey And for somuche as twoo successions cānot concurre and fal into one by no maner of other meanes then by mariage whereby one bloude one lignage and parentage is made of twoo and an indefecible right geuen of bothe to one without the destruccion and abolishing of either If god should graunt that whatsoeuer you would wish should be doen what could you wish other then that whiche now not by fortune hath chaunced but by his infinite mercie and moste inscrutable prouidence as carefull for you he hath geuē vnto you The whiche thyng that you should also thinke to come of his disposicion and not by blynd fortune how vnlikely hath it been how sodainly hath it turned that the power of God might be shewed Your last Kyng beyng a Prince of muche excellencie and young whō you know after a promise broken contrary to his honour And a misfortune by iust iudgement of GOD folowyng vpon it GOD either by sorowe or by some other wise at his inscrutable pleasure did take away from you had three children Did not almightie GOD as it were to shewe his will and pleasure to be that the long cōtinued warre and ennemitie of bothe the naciōs should be taken awaie and knit in perpetuall loue and amitie take the two men children of those babies beyng distaunt the one frō the other and in diuerse places bothe as it were at one tyme and within the space of xxiiii houres leauyng but one mayden child and Princesse When the moste wise and victorious Prince late our Kyng and Master kyng Hēry theight in other of his mariages not most fortunate had by his most lawful and moste verteous wife Quene Iane his other two wifes before that mariage departed this worlde and neuer surmise nor question made of that mariage fithe that tyme to this daie nor so muche as all her life tyme name or mocion to or of any other wife one Prince of so high expectacion of so greate giftes of God the right and vndoubted heire of the Realme of England and his maiestie onely of male issue left behynd hym to succede the imperial Croune If nothyng els had been dooen what can any wise or any Christian manne that thynketh the worlde to be gouerned by Gods prouidence and not by fortune thinke otherwise but that it was Gods pleasure it should bee so that these twoo realmes should ioyne in mariage and by a godly Sacrament make a Godly perpetuall and moste frendly vnitie and concord wherby suche benefites as of vnitie and concord commeth may