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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	kingdom_n	14,965	5	6.1241	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69151	The danger wherein the kingdome now standeth, & the remedie	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1628 (1628)	STC 5863.2; ESTC S108851	5,750	23

THE DANGER wherein the Kingdome now standeth the Remedie Printed 1628. AS soone as the House of Austria had incorporated it selfe with Spaine and by their new Discoveries gotten to themselues the wealth of the Indies they began to affect and haue ever since pursued a first Monarchy The Emperour CHARLES the fift would first lay the foundarion thereof in Italy by surprising Rome from this hee was thrust by the force and respect of Religion HENRY 8. being made Caput foederis against him He then attempted it in high Germany practising by faction and force to reduce them first to Pettie States so to his absolute power Thus HEN 8. againe preuented him by tying the Lutheran Princes under his confederacie and assistance His soone the second PHILIP pursued the same ambition in the Nether Germany by reduction whereof hee intended to make his farther way into the other This the late Queene of England interrupted by siding with the afflicted people on the one part and making her selfe the head of their Protestants league with the Princes on the other drawing in as a secret of State the countenance of France to giue the more reputation and assistance to them and security to it selfe Spaine seeing his hopes fruitlesse by those vnions ands straights began first to breake if hee may the amitie of France and England but finding the common danger to bee a fast tye hee raiseth vp in that Kingdome a faction of his owne by which the French King was distressed that had not the English Counsell and assistance relieved him Spaine had there removed that next and greatest obstacle of his ambition his Counsell now tels him from these Examples that the way to this great worke is impassable so long as England layes a net in his way and the remoue of that must bee the first of his intents This drew on those secret practises often against the Queene and his open furie in 88. against the State which shee seeing by following the advice of a free Counsell would never after admit of Peace winning thereby the hearts of a loving people who ever found hands and money at home and keeping sacredly her Aliances abroad securing to her Confederates all her time freedome from Spanish flattery and so ended her old and happy dayes in glory Spaine then by the wisedome and power of that great Lady dispoiled of his meanes to hurt though not of his desires makes vp with her peacefull Successour of happie Memory that golden League that discerning vs at home by opinion of securitie and giving them a power in our Counsell by believing their friendships pretented mariages gaue them a way to cherish amongst vs a partie of their owne beliefe of power abroad to leade in jealousie and sow division betweene vs and our confederates by which we se they haue swallowed vp the fortune of our Masters brother with the rest of the Imperiall States distressed the K. of Denmarke by that quarrell diverted the Swedens assistance by the warres with the Pole and maining him now with the ofex of the Danish Crowne And now whether from the plot or our fatalitie it hath cast such a bone betweene France and vs as hath made themselues by our quarell of Religion a fast Confederate and vs a dangerous Enemy so that now wee are left no other assurance against their malice and ambition but the Netherlanders where the tie of mutuall safety is weakened by daily discontents bred and fed betweene vs from some ill affected to both our securities that by the doubtfulnes of friendship as we now stand wee may rather suspect from our owne domesticke faction if they grow too furious they will rather follow the example of Rome in her growing that held it equall safetie honorable more easie dare Regem then subiugare Proviciam cōsidering the power they haue in their hands then to giue any friends assistance to serue the present condition of our state You may therefore see in what tearmes wee stand abroad and I feare me at home for resistance in no better state There must be to withstand a forraine invasion a proportion both of Sea and Land forces for to giue an Enemy an easie passage and a Port to relieve him in is no lesse then to hazard all at one stake and it is to be considered that no march of land can be of that speed to make head against the landing of an Enemy nor no such prevention as to bee master of the Sea To this point of necessarie defence there can be no lesse thē 24000. for the Land forces if it were for an offensiue warre the men of lesse liuelihood were the best spared and were vsed formerly to make such warre Purgamento Repub if wee made no farther purchase by it and for a safetie of a Common-wealth the wisedome of all times did neuer interesse the publique cause to any other then such as haue a portion in the publique aduenture and that we saw in 88. when the care of the Queene and Counsell did make the body of that large Army no other then the trayned band with which the auxiliaries of the whole Realme amounted to no lesse then 24000. men neither was any of these drawne from forth their Countries and proper habitations before the end of May that there must bee no long agrievance to the publique such discontentments being euen to vs a more fatall Enemy then any forraine Force the carefull distribution and direction of their sea and land Forces being more fitting for a Counsell of warre then a private man to advise of I passe it over yet willing when I shall bee called humbly to offer vppe such observations as I haue formerly gathered by the former like occasions in this Realme To make vp this preparation there is requisite two things Money and Affections for they cannot be properly seuered It was well and wisely said of the great Counsellor the L. BVRLEIGH in the like case to the Queene win hearts and you haue their hands and purses And I finde that of late diffidence hauing bin a defect in the one it hath unhappily produced the other In gathering then of money for this present need there is requisite three things Speed assurance and satisfaction and the way to gather as others in the like case haue done must be by that paith-way that is called Via Regia being more secure and speedy for by vnknowne and vntrodden wayes it is both rougher and tedious and seldome succeedeth this last way although it tooke place as it were by a supply at first and received no generall deniall yet since it hath drawne many to consult with themselues and others in the consequence and is now conceived as a pressure on their Liberties and against Law I much feare if now againe it bee offered eyther in the same face or by privie Seale it will bee refused wholly neyther finde I it that the restraint of those Recusants haue produced any other effect then a