Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	proclaim_v	3,205	5	10.7688	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00271	The copy of a letter lately vvritten by a Spanishe gentleman, to his freind in England in refutation of sundry calumnies, there falsly bruited, and spred emonge the people. The originall vvhereof vvas vvritten in Spanish, since the authors being in England, vvho by reason of a ship of those that miscaried of the late Armado, vvas taken, and there detained prisoner, vntill his deliuery by ransome. Now newly translated into Englishe, for the benefite of those (of that nation) that vnderstand not the Spanishe tounge.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1589 (1589)	STC 1038; ESTC S116630	20,141	40

haue so farr exceeded there faultes afore as the taking of armes in defence of their priuileges as they then vntruly spake is differēt from the denying there soueraigne electing another Yet such grace and fauour do they fynde euē at this day that yeilding thēselues and their cities vnder his obediēce they are not only absolutely pardoned but vvhich is more meruelous they are vvith great summes of mony ritchly revvarded And such subiects of his that as rebells do yet remaine out vnpardoned are themselues the cause thereof because they seeke it not It is further to be considered that there is no Kynge in Europe that hathe more different natiōs of more diuers landes languages to his subiects then his Maiesty hathe The entire Monarchie of Spaine conteyning sundry kyngedomes is gouerned in one moste flourishinge and peaceable estate and the Prouince of Portugall newly anexed there vnto remaineth in more better condition then it was in other tymes afore The nobilitie thereof notwithstanding some resistance at the first after that they had maturely cōsidered the cause together with his maiesties mercyfull disposition lefte of to preferr the pretence of Don Anthonio were not only receiued into his great grace and fauout and confirmed in their owne auncient possessions but were further gratifyed by his Maiesty with sundry great honours and dignities And the comon people eftsoones released of many great taxes and tributes that their former princes had imposed vppon them He hathe of Italians those of the Kyngdomes of Napl●s and Sicilia the duchie of Millan and of diuers Iles of the Mediterraneum sea He hathe Germaines of the Duchie of Luxembourge And Burgundians of the higher prouince beeing all gouerned in great quyet and farr better estate then euer vnder any other their former Princes Hauing found no conquest thraldome mutation or inconuenience whatsoeuer to auoy them but fully enioy the comfortes and comodities of their countries vnder the obedience of such a soueraigne as hathe more better mighte meanes to defend them then any Prince his people in the world moste free and farr from any lykelyhoode of rebellion In which same obedience his subiects of the Netherlandes had doubtlesse longe liued had they not bin situate so neere the noysome infection of their Englishe neighbours whose pernitious venim hathe not only anoyed them but also Fra●●●ce and Scotland the nexte inhabitants on the ●ther sydes And whose malice so exceedeth were th●r● meanes according that they would not leaue neither Europe nor India free from such infection And for a further proof of his Maiesties mylde nature and 〈◊〉 benignitie I shall desire you to con●●der that there is nothing that can possibly more moue and stir vp the indignation of a Prince then the open disloyall and repugnant insolency of his owne people And that no subiects in our dayes haue exceeded his all the vvorld will witnesse Notwithstanding all which looke whether any bloudy cruel or vnchristian desire of reuenge hathe apeered in him and looke whether it be possible that more lenity mighte be shewed vnto such then his Maiesty hathe donne The truthe whereof beeing so apparent plaine manifest I leaue vnto your owne self in cōscyēce to discerne whether thease examples of his Maiesties proceedings will not sufficiently awnswere vnto all the calumnies and lies that his aduersaries can possibly inuent to make him odious Looke whether after such a generall reuolt wherein so many had so iustly deserued to loose bothe their liues liuings whether their lands are deuyded to straungers there wyues violated their Children marcked with hot Irons there goods robbed and taken from them c. Or rather whether they do not liue in all securitie and quiet possession of their owne And yf by reason of the restrainte of their trafique they are not presently in their former aboundance they may wholly impute that vnto you beeing the only cause theerof But of the like compassion had of a Prince on his people yon cannot shevve any examples paste or present in the whole world This Sweete and gratious disposition of his Maiesty beeing so publyke notorious how is it possible that euer such vnchristi● cruelty could more be intended to the Englishe nation then to any others or that any man offence can imagine why he should more hate them then any his owne treacherous and rebellious subiects His great wisdome well seeing and obseruing that the originall of this rancour principally proceedeth from some fewe in present aucthoritie whose vngratious designes are executed by persons neither of honour nor honesty And others of the vulgar sorte of people who with applause of their superiours concurr in thease courses he can well discerne rather to do it of litle discretion then of great malice themselues not beeing of capacitie to consider the equitie or iustnesse of the cause And his Maiesty espetially considereth that great multytudes are ouer borne by the impious tyranny of powrable persons ontwardly to condescend to that which inwardly they contemne sustayning contrary to the nature of so noble a Nation the generall reproche of particuler mens dishonorable actions whose case doubtlesse he dothe rather pittie then desire to punish All the world knoweth that his Maiesty hathe euer had a most singuler affection to the Englishe people and your selues by experience haue perfectly found it There could neuer kynge cōdescēd to cōditions more honorable profitable for you then his Maiesty did at his beeing in England I suppose mōsieur of fraunce in his late mocke mariage neuer offred you the like His Maiesties actiōs were withoute dissimulatiō as the cōsequēce well declared for beeing maried to your Queene and proclaymed Kynge yet soughte not to setle himself in the Crowne nor to possesse any portes townes or castells in the whole countrie But after the deceasse of the moste vertuous Queene Mary his wyf gaue place and quyet entrance vnto the Lady Elizabeth Giuing also vnto her all his said wyues Iewells which himself mighte iustly haue claymed and kepte And presently after her coming to the crowne he then being vpon conditions to cōclude a peace with the frenche kynge vppō the taking of S. Quintines did moste earnestly stick at the rēdringe of the towne of Calis to the Englishe againe she hauing at that present her ambassadors there and as it seemed for the same purpose but after his Maiesty had so earnestly vrged this matter that vnlesse it mighte be graunted there could be no accorde the french then flatly confessed that notwithstanding the Englishe ontwardly solicited for Calis yet they had secretly assured them that their Queene cared not therefore which his Maiesty afterward founde so in dede and perceaued the fraude that it imported But to leaue thease deuyses to other like dooble dealings let vs returne to the tyme when our Kinge remained with you in England and see with what affable curtesy he entreated you what great liberalitie he vsed to all sortes in generall and what honorable pensions