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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	edward_n	king_n	time_n	14,756	5	3.9665	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01387	Salutem in Christo	R. G., fl. 1571.; Grafton, Richard, d. 1572?, attributed name.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598, attributed name.	1571 (1571)	STC 11505; ESTC S102781	3,803	12

Salutem in Christo GOod men and euill delite in contraryes The good in séeking for trueth and maintenance therof Euyll in hiding of Trueth and oppressing therof And so consequently to publish Trueth is to please the good and to displease the euil Wherfore hearing the amongest the cōmon sortes of men at this time it is not certainly knowen what is the cause that the Duke of Norffolk is newly cōmitted to the Towre and sundrie others And knowynge that good men wil be wel satisfied to vnderstand the truth which euyl men wold coouer and oppresse I could not but in conscience to satisfie the good and bridle or stop the lyeng and open sclaunderous mouthes of the euil and seditious notifie thus much to you wherby you maye also cōmunicate the same to others for that it is likely that false and sclaunderous reportes wil be readily made hereof to serue the appetites of the euyll disposed First it is not vnknowē that the Duke of Norffolke did of late yeares secretly practise to haue maryed with the Scottish quéene without the knowledge of the Quéenes Maiestie our Soueraigne Lady It is not also vn knowen that the said Scottish Quéene hath ben the most dangerous ennemy against the Quéenes Maiestie our Soueraigne Lady that lyued in that shée sought to haue the Crowne of England frō her Maiestie immediatlye after Quéene Maryes death It is also well knowen that whan she could not get it neyther by force nor connyng she solempnly promised to acknowledge her error and to recognise the verye true right to be iustlye in the Quéenes Maiestie our Soueraygne Ladye to whom the same belongeth as lawfull Daughter and Heire to king Henry the eight her Father and so also by the Lawes of the Realme perfectly established to succéede king Edward the sixte her Brother and Quéene Marye her Elder Sister and by the Homage of all her Nobles Prelates and People as duely acknowledged at her Coronation as euer any kyng of England was in any former tyme And in very déede as worthye a Prince for this Realme for her Clemencie and goodnes in gouernmēt as euer raigned It is also knowen that the Scottish Quéene hath not yet perfourmed her promise but with fryuolous answeares hath delayed it Neither is it of any force to be demaūded or worth the hauyng if she would yelde too perfourme it For neither can shée that could not gette this Realme whan she sought it wrongfully nor kéepe her owne whan shée had it quietly amende the Quéenes Maiesties estate whiche is fully parfect nor yet is any thyng that she should promise to be holden firme and durable but as time shall giue her cause to kéepe it or breake it It is also said and credibly avowed that the Scottish Quéene was the greatest cause of the Rebellion lately in the North wherby some noble Houses that had serued this Realme partly by themselues speciallye by their Auncestors valiantlye against the Scottes were now by connyng practise of this Scottish Lady beynge depriued of her Kingdome inticed to ouerthrow them selues and their Houses with a multitude of more English Subiectes than shée coulde haue don by Armes in the Field yf she had bene in possession of her Kingdome It is also knowen notwithstandynge this that the Quéenes Maiestie beynge voyde of a reuengynge Nature as in all Actes hathe soo appeared that some sorte of wyse men haue noated it a faulte for a Prince did labour to haue restored her to her Countrey as in déede the Quéenes Maiestie was the cause of sauinge of her lyfe after the murder of her husband with composition betwixt her and her sonne the kyng and that States people of that Realme therby to put som good end to the Ciuill warres in the same It is also knowen that the Quéene of Scottes did vpon the first apprehension of the Duke of Norffolke by wrytinges to the Quéenes Maiestie vtterly renownce the Duke of Norffolke and his Maryage with some Noate that she did not of her selfe first mooue it nor yet lyke it And so did the Duke him self after his first apprehension by many messages and by special writing directed to the Quéenes Maiestie humbly and penitentlye acknowledge his offence in séeking to mary with the Scottish Quéene and did firmely vnder his hand and Seale promyse neuer to deale therin any further or in any other matter with that Quéene And now it is certainly founde that the former practise betwixte that Quéene and the Duke notwithstandyng their seuerall renunciations and firme promises to the contrarye hath had continuance without interruption by secret meanes of sūdry euil parsons both all the tyme that the Duke was first in Prison in the Tower and also euer since whan he was committed to his owne House vntill he was nowe newlye committed to the Tower. But how dangerous soeuer this attempt may be iudged in them to cōtinue the secret practise and intention to marry agaynst the Quéenes Maiesties wyll and the expectacion of all that be knowen duetyfull Subiectes to her Maiestie and true friendes to the Duke That maye best appeare by the daungerous practises that haue accompanied and folowed this attempte which Almighty God hath maruelously discouered to the safety of her Maiesties person preseruation of the Realme It was deuised determyned that a new Rebellion should be mooued néere London The Cittie should be taken by force and possessed In the meane time a nomber of Strangers men of warre shuld be brought by Sea from the low Countreyes beyond the Seas to a notable Port of this Realme méete for the purpose and so both forces of ennemies and Rebelles should ioyne and than procéede to further thynges than is expedient as I heare to be spoken off at this tyme. These deuises were not onely talked off put in wrytinge and fully concluded but the Messengers were also sent ouer Sea in Lent last with sufficient Authoritie of commission and wrytinges to testifie the determination of them that shuld be the heades and conductors of this Rebellion as the same beynge imparted on the other side the Sea was wel accepted allowed and ther of seuerall Letters were spéedilye written to the said Quéene to the Duke of Norffolke specially to that vngratious Priest named the Bisshop of Rosse the Instrument of all the Dukes calamytie and the Séede man of all Treasons againste this Realme that this enterprise must be kept secret and namely from the Frenche for certaine respectes not of small moment as is said vntill the Messenger should poste to Rome to the Pope for Money to the king of Spayne for order and direction for men and Ships The Messenger had his Letters of Credit from the Scottish Quéene the Duke and others to the Pope and the Kinge of Spayne And so comminge to Rome he retourned Letters from the Popes gratious holynes in the beginnyng of May to the said Quéene and to the Duke and others The Letter to the Duke was in Latin begynning