Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	french_a	king_n	normandy_n	3,816	5	11.5544	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34716	The field of bloud, or, rebellion blazoned in all its colours in a lively representation (grounded upon fact) of the fatal consequences of inhability in a prince, exorbitant ambition in the nobility, and licentious insolence in the Commons.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1681 (1681)	Wing C6491A; ESTC R17249	21,251	38

ensuing Aphorisms and Advisoes calculated for All Ages and not to reflect upon Particular Persons or Societies now in Being are made of less use and significancy to the Present Times then they might perhaps have been to some of the Past. And indeed the Chief Intent of making them thus Publique is First in one Instance out of many to let the World see that as pernicious Confusions happened in the days of Idolatry and Delusion as Protestants have born the blame of tho' the Papists themselves occasion'd of Later years Thereby to wipe off the same scandalous Aspersion by the Jesuits cast upon the Happy Reformation that the Heathens threw upon the Infancy of Christianity it self viz. that it works Disorder where e're it comes And Then from a more remote Distance then betwixt Forty and Sixty a space that I could wish were utterly raced out of Memory and Record to produce a Foyl the better to Illustrate the Felicities of our present State which though our Forefathers labour'd of old and all our Neighbours at this instant groan under the Sword Famine Pestilence and other Marks of the Divine Vengeance yet still furnish out the lushious Fruits of Peace and Plenty even to Satiety and Wantonness so to endeavour a continuance of these Blessings by stirring up in us Thanks and Praises both to the Mediate and Immediate Author of them and Brotherly Love and Charity one toward another P. 13. l. 30. r. deemed p. 27. l. 24. r. backs p. 30. l. 24. after is r. it l. ult r. and t● debates of moment they c. The Field of Bloud OR REBELLION Blazon'd in All its COLOURS c. OPpress'd with the insupportable Calamities of Civil Arms and affrighted at the sudden fall of a Licentious Sovereign who was reported to have been Poyson'd by a Monk all men stood at gaze expecting Peace the Event of their long Desires and Benefit as the Issue of their new Popes Experience telling us that in every Shift of Princes there are very few either so Mean or so Inopinionative as not to please themselves with some probable Object of Preferment To content all October 19. 1216. a Child ascends the Throne Mild and Gracious but Easie of Nature whose Innocency and natural Goodness protected him throughout the various Perils of his Father's Reign Happy was he in his Uncle William Earl of Pembroke the Guide of his Infancy and no less fortunate for thirty years after whilst Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent that Fast Servant of King John's against the French both in Normandy and England together with Bygot Earl of Norfolk and others of like Gravity and Abilities had the management of Affairs Publick Distempers were then very few and such only as are incident to all States the Commons greedy and tenacious of Liberty and the Nobility of Rule One violent Storm 't is true was rais'd by some old constant Followers of his Father as Foulk de Brent who though a Forreigner yet held at one time the Earldoms of Nottingham Oxford Bedford and Buckingham Brian de Lisle and some others These being men of turbulent Spirits and that could only Thrive by the Wars were very ill at ease in those days of Sloth as they term'd that Calm of King Henry's Government Beside that the Justice of Peaceable Times urg'd from them to the lawful owners such Lands and Castles as the fury of War had unjustly given them Now perceiving by the Vprightness of the King that Power of Protection should not be made a wrong-doer they broke forth into such a Rebellion as ended not but with their Lives declaring that those their Swords which had set the Crown upon their Sovereign's Head when neither Law nor Majesty could should now secure those Acquests to their Masters when Majesty or Law would not Thus we see how dangerous are too great Benefits of Subjects to their Princes as rendring the Mind incapable of any other sense than that of Merit This Blast being over the Government felt no other affliction than the Common and Invidious Malevolence to Authority Good and Great Men may preserve themselves from Guilt but not from Envy being still shot at by the Aspiring of those that look upon themselves as less in Employment than they are in Desert These Vapours however did ever vanish without much trouble so long as the Helm was steered by Temperate Spirits and the King squar'd his Actions by the Rule of Good Counsel and not of Young Passionate or single Advice Thirty years being now past and gone and none of the old Guides of the Kings Youth left alive but de Burgh a man in whom nothing of Worth was wanting save Moderation his length of days gave him the advantage of Sole Power his Ambition furnishing Desire and Art to keep out others This drew upon him the implacable malice of a great many which was yet further augmented by the fresh Honours and Offices that the King was then pleas'd to confer upon him Time had now wrought a Revolution as in it self so in the Hearts of the People who had forgotten the late Sufferings of their Fathers and labour'd under the surfeit of a long Peace which having probably let in some Abuses the Commons to whom the Present seems ever worst take the Alarm fall to commending the past Ages they never remembred and condemning the Present though equally ignorant of the Disease of it and of the Remedy With these idle and usual Humours struck in some of the young Nobility that were warm and over weening though altogether as unskilful as the rest these fall to fullying the Wisdom and Integrity of the Court-Officers by magnifying each casual mishap into a Crime and exposing every Blemish in Government and then having their Heads fill'd with certain Ideas and Phantastick Forms of Commonwealths they flatter themselves that they are able to mold any State according to these general Rules which in particular Application do still appear to be but idle and gross Absurdities Being thus puft up in Opinion of their own worth they begin to cast about how to get into Employment a thing they had long desired and now do sue for and probable it is that the farthest of their Aim as yet was to be quiet Instruments in serving the Crown had they then been look'd upon as fit and well deserving But the King having been tutor'd into a just veneration for the Counsels of the Aged States-Men and reflecting that such Green Heads were fitter for disordering than setling Affairs either deny'd or delay'd their Requests for Princes will ever chuse their Ministers Equal to not above their Business Creatures that are only theirs out of meer Election otherwise without Friends or Power Amongst this unequal Medly there were of the Nobility the Earls of Pembroke Glocester and Hertford darlings of the Rabble some of them upon the score of their Fathers Merits whose memories were held Sacred as pretended Pillars of Publick Liberty and opposers of encroaching Monarchy Of