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
A54689	The mistaken recompense, or, The great damage and very many mischiefs and inconveniences which will inevitably happen to the King and his people by the taking away of the King's præemption and pourveyance or compositions for them by Fabian Phillipps, Esquire.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1664 (1664)	Wing P2011; ESTC R36674	82,806	136

mainteyn it and forsaking the old and good wayes and seeking gain do sacrifice unto their nets and burn incense unto their drags may have that said unto them which the Apostle St. Paul did ●n another case to the Romans what fruit have the intollerable pride and excess of the Nation and the high racking of Rents to mainteyn it brought unto those that have taken pleasure in it And they that have so much delighted in it may now if they please or at one time or another understand whether they will or no that the overmuch raising and stretching of the rents of the Lands and houses in England since an excessive pride and folly of the people is come to be so much in fashion amongst us have been no gain to the Nobility and Gentry but will be a great loss and damage unto them by that time that the wastfull and prodigall part of them have bought and furnished their Houshold provisions at the dear rates of their Tenants and others of whom they do buy them and their apparel and other the Merchandises of their follyes of the Citizens and Trades-men and not only therein bear the burthen of their own but of the intollerable pride and gallantry of the Citizens Tradesmen Mechanicks Artificers and their Wives and Children and in all that they do buy of them do contribute to the costly Pearl Neck-laces Diamond Lockets and other Jewels satten and cloth of silver Peticoats plush Gowns Embroderies Gold-lace Gorgets of threescore pounds a piece and Lace of twenty or forty pounds a yard worn by the Merchants Drapers and Mercers Wives and the Silk-Gowns Hoods Laces and over-costly Apparel of the Mechanick and Artificers Wives in their desires and ambition to live like the Nobility and Gentry when no man can tell they are any or ought to be That the enhance of all provisions of victuals brought to London out of the Countries hath made the Country people pro●der then they should be and the City Wares and Commodities dearer then otherwise they would be and made the Citizens in the pursuit of pride and luxury run out of their wits and estates to purchase it That it was better in former times for the Artificers and Day-labourers whose more moderate expences in their ●●veral conditions and qualities made them heretof●re with a fourth or fifth part of what they do now earn greater gainers by their labours then now they are and better for servants whose far lesser wages then now they will be contented with did amount unto more or as much as they do now gain by reason of their former smaller expences in clothes and apparel The Tenants and farmers lived better when they plowed their Landlords lands mowed reaped and helped in with their Harvests carried home their wood and paid small rents then they have or can do now that they are strained to the highest those labours and services coming far short if they were at the now rates to be hired or paid for of the addition which time and change of manners and customes have since made to their antient and unimproved rents That the people of England if there had been no other ground or reason for it might well have afforded to have given the King so much as they were yearly charged with the Pourveyance or Compositions for them for an acquital of more then twenty years arrears of it by the Act of Oblivion That if an estimate could be made of those Millions or summes of money sterling which the en●hanced prices and rates of victuals and houshold provisions did amount unto yearly since the 24th year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth and what the rise of victuals and houshold provisions have come unto yearly since the Pourveyance and Compositions for them were laid down and what it may more be stretched unto if pride and price not like Castor and Pollux to bring our Ship into the Port but to ruine it should go on in that carreer it is now in and private and particular interests more mighty and prevalent then all those imaginary monsters which Hercules is sa●● to have subdued and of a greater force then that Devil and his heard called Legion which our blessed Saviour did dislodge out of the man possessed with them shall be ayders and abetters of it There is no man that hath not bid defiance to his reason and understanding but will acknowledge that the people of England had better give ten times or more the yearly rate or value of the Pourveyancees or Compositions for them then endure the Impositions which they have or shall put one upon another whilest every man will seek to save himself and make his labour or commodity afford him as much as he can to recompence him for it That the unreasonable rates and prices put upon all the Kings occasions or services by Land and Sea are and will be the cause of Taxations and Assessements in times of peace three to one more then formerly And the Levies of monies to hire Souldiers and raise and maintain mercinary Armies will amount unto and charge the Publick ten or twenty to one or more than when by the help and ready ayds of Tenures in Capite and by Knight service our gallant and well-armed Nobility and Gentry could upon any occasions of warre or distress either at home or abroad be sodainly summoned and made to appear from Ireland as well as from all parts of England and Wales And so readily as King William Rufus sitting at dinner in Westminster Hall and hearing that Mayne a Town in Normandy was much distressed by a sodain Siege laid unto it by the French King and resolving in the greatness of his mind not to turn his back towards it untill he had relieved it could cause the wall to be broken down on the South side and passing towards the sea coast command his Nobility and Knights speedily to follow him That the unparrallel'd pride of almost all rancks and degrees of the people not permitted in France Spain and other Neighbour Nations brings our Forreign Trade almost to nothing by the adulterating of our Commodities and making them false and slight and causing the charges to be much more then formerly in the work and making of them pay of our Mariners and greater rates of victualling so as we being not able to make our manufactures so cheap as other Nations and making them slight and false our Trade must of necessity more and more decay and will never increase or be advanced if the Dutch were banished out of the world or ordered to trade only in the Bottom of the sea and leave all the Surface or Top unto us the cheap diet and clothing of their Common people the neat and frugall diet and the apparel of the Burgers and those that they call the Gentry giving them the advantage of under-selling us For we may be sure that there will never be cheapness of victualls or houshold provisions or good trading