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	wales_n	4,736	5	10.7691	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96070	A discourse and defence of arms and armory, shewing the nature and rises of arms and honour in England, from the camp, the court, the city: under the two later of which, are contained universities and inns of court. / By Edward Waterhous Esq;.	Waterhouse, Edward, 1619-1670.	1660 (1660)	Wing W1044; Thomason E1839_1; ESTC R204049	70,136	238

Jonathans whose Lands would not long own them for their Lords did not thy Widows and Daughters portions pay off their encumbrances and clear up those mists which hinder their view of them as their own till they be removed Shew me O ye contemners of Cities and Corporations wherein ye exceed Citizens and the Issues and products of them Is there any part of the World or this Nation more hospitable then London whose Families whose poor are better provided for then Londons where are there any subjects in England that in plenty and variety of entertainments exceed the Maiors and Sheriffs Tables to which all commers that are of fashion and worth though unknown are welcom was not that Table think ye well furnish'd which in one day entertained Edward King of England the Kings of France Scotland Cyprus Edward Prince of Wales with a grand Train of Nobles and was not he a brave subject who then also kept his Hall for welcom of all commers This did Henry Piccard Maior of London in the year 1363. And to make the solemnity more ample his Lady did at the same time maintain a treatment apart for all female Honours of noble degree Are there any charities in England surviving that furious deluge of Hen. the 8th which are more extensive and liberal then those of Londons Fraternities and Hospitalls both in London and other parts of the Nation all which either were founded or augmented by Citizens some few there have bin erected by other persons of great honour charity and worthiness whose devotion therein I doubt not but God has accepted But though I dare not presume to write that the Gleanings of Londons Ephraims are beyond the vintage of those Abiezers yet I may modestly and truly aver that London both in the number and exact care and Government of them according to the Statutes of their foundation is more exact and remarkable then others are and those that trust them shall upon search find them the best executors of trusts mistake me not I am no conjured Creature of Londons wherein truth and Justice Religion and Order defie her I must not justifie her Magna est veritas praevalebit If the faithful City become a harlot if its silver become drosse and its wine be turned to water as once God by his Prophet complained of Jerusalem far be it from me to endeavour her defence But if she when most disfigured and in her least commendable dress has witnesses of Gubernative Honour and Pristine fidelity though she has Apoplectique fits and is under the rigour of storms which role her up and down from Coast to Coast till her Pilots seem to forsake their Compass and her commoners their Sails and Tackle God forbid any Christian any Englishman should wish or hope to see her in ashes God forbid any one that is written man should so indulge the Gourd of his passion and transitory greatness which perhaps came up in a night and may perish in a night as the phrase is Jonah c. 4. v 10. As to repine at Gods merciful sparing of that great City wherein are more then sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right and their left hand and also much Cattle v. 10. O London I wish peace may be within thy Walls and prosperity within thy pallaces that Religion Order Trade Charity may never suffer a finall Eclipse in thee That the riches of thy Citizens which Popes have termed puteus inexhaustus may rather be the delight of Scholars eyes who with Pope Innocent shall desire to see divitias Londini delicias Westmonasterii then of a Ruffians fists who would desire to plunder thee And blessed be God for thy riches and the good provision thy Citizens thrift has made for not onely their Children but for the ample maintenance of the churches and Churchmen in thee for as thou art abundant in sacred edifices so that the great Cambden thy learned Sonne sayes Templis undique aedibus sacris ita fulget ut religio pietas sibi delubrum hic collocasse videatur and those so nobly kept and adorned as little more can be desired to their Ornament unless St. Pauls thy viduated Mother Church might be repaired which in these sad changes by being unchaptred and revenueless is now in a great measure ready to be a colluvies of ruines excepting onely this Venust Monument of Antique Christianities devotion This St. Pauls at London once not inferior to that St. Peters at Rome though now likely to have no long duration but in that paper Monument which a skilful painful and well accomplish'd Antiquary has erected to her perpetuity all the Parish Churches are in a comely dress worthy that orderly Religion the Citizens profess And the Ministers in them maugre all the malice of fanatiques and antiministerial dissenters are better provided for then in most parts of the Nation besides For though some curse the patrimonium Crucifixi and would dip their morsels in potions like that of the Jewes to our Lord yet others more in number weight and worth with holy Moses bless their basket and their store and let their bounties run most fluently to those secondary Apostles as the precious remains of Christ the Churches High Priest which he hath left to negotiate the conversion of souls and to propatage his Gospel till the number of his Elect be accomplished and till he deliver up the Kingdom to God the Father But I return to London which I find of great consequence to her Supremes for when the Lords and great men had her to back the Lord Marshall s words to Walter Alb●net are Bene scitis quam magnum comm●●um est vobis nobis servare civitatem Londoniarum quae est receptaculum nostrum And when King Richard the second favoured her in so unusual a way ●o indulgence as Sir Edw. Cook notes confirming her liberties licet usi non fuerint vel abusi fuerunt it concludes that she has ever been esteemed the darling of her Royal Governour and the Nonsuch of England in supply of accommodations for peace warre So that London so ancient and so magnificent a City so abounding in rich stout grave and well moderated Citizens so dignified with freedoms and franchises of exemption from vassallage so prosperous and contributive to the structure of English Honour being the parental ayre of Princes Prelates Peers Knights Gentlemen and others who in regard of high desert are not unworthy their company must not be omitted in the roll of Honour as she is none of the lowest steps to it For in the Saxons time Estate in Land or money made men pares cum Thayno dignitate And Estates have ever been gainable in London if anywhere And that not onely by ungentle practices such as Mr. Fern termes Doubleness of Tongue violation of faith with the rest of their trumperies and deceits for which saith he they must be contented to stand