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	paris_n	4,104	5	9.3010	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89083	The fidelity, obedience, and valour of the English-nation, declared, by way of pacification of His Majesty, and desire of a re-union between His Majesty and the Parliament. As also, that the present forces now ready to bicker here in England may be turn'd to revenge the losse of the Protestants blood in Ireland, shed by those babarous Irish rebels. / Written by Walter Meredith. Gent.	Meredith, Walter.	1642 (1642)	Wing M1785; Thomason E109_8; ESTC R7077	6,387	15

THE Fidelity Obedience and Valour Of the ENGLISH-NATION DECLARED By way of Pacification of His Majesty and desire of a re-union between His Majesty and the Parliament As also That the present Forces now ready to bicker here in England may be turn'd to revenge the losse of the Protestants blood in Ireland shed by those barbarous Irish Rebels Written by Walter Meredith Gent. LONDON Printed by E. Griffin 1642. The Fidelity Obedience and Valour of the English NATION I Drew my breath first in the happy raigne of that most famous and unparaleld Queen Elizabeth between whom and her people there was so sweet a harmony of Concord above foure and forty yeers together as well by the peoples obedience to Her in admitting of Her just Prerogatives and she again not trampling on their Liberties and Priviledges that the whole World admired at their unity Out of that heavenly unity the English Nation who were naturally valiant and active and indeed her times produced great and Noble Actions were kept from sloth and idlenesse for what with her Majesties assisting the French King in his Civill warre her releeving the States of Holland against Spaines tyranny Her wrastling in Ireland to civilize and suppresse those notorious and barbarous Rebels and the many voyages made out of this Kingdome to unknowne parts of the world the English were so imployed and so well they managed their imployment that they brought home to their Prince Glory and Honour and to themselves Renown and Riches It pleased God I lived to see the period of Her Raigne after whose death some great change because it was not vulgarly known who should be her Successor was much feared and expected But see the mercy of God a bright Starre from the North appeared that enlghtned this Kingdome and dried up the Teares of sorrow which were shed for Her losse and filled our hearts with joy by sending us a King for a Queen nay a King of the Protestant Religion a Salomon for Wisedome King James the blessed father of our now Royall Soveraigne Lord King Charles He brought with Him another Kingdom Scotland and so had his temples circumferenced with three Crownes and as Henry the seventh His grandfather joyn'd the Roses so this James joyn'd the Kingdomes in union At such time as it pleased God to call Queen Elizabeth to the resignation of Her Crowns here and to receive a Crown of Immortality in Heaven an English Gentleman and friend of mine was then in Paris and accidently happend to be in the French Kings Court when newes was brought of Her Majesties death the King being at dinner one of His Gentle●●●… 〈◊〉 waited at His Table told His Majesty he had received Letters out of England that Queen Elizabeth had finished her daies at which the King 〈◊〉 and demanded who succeeded Her the Gentleman told him that James the sixth King of Scotland was proclaimed King and setled in Her Throane and with that produced the Proclamation which the French King reading and musing thereupon suddenly brake forth into a passion of admiration and clapping his hand on the Table said Is it possible that the King of Scotland should come to the Crown of England and not one box of the eare given for it The Gentleman made him this answer Yes sir His accesse to the Crown was with so sweet and generall applause that it might well have been thought there had never been enmity between the two Kingdomes whereupon the King advancing himselfe from his Chaire swore a great oath That King Iames was the happiest King in the World for that he was become King of a people meaning the English who were the most faithfull and obedient in the time of Peace and the most valiant in time of Warre These vertues Henry the fourth that magnanimous French King was pleased to attribute to the English Nation out of gratitude to them who had assisted him in his warre and had shewen themselves brave men on his part Certainly he himselfe was a valiant man and therefore loved valour in others and as he commended their valour he forgot not their fidelity and obedience to their Prince the Queen in preserving Her under God often from the hands of ●hose bloody ministers whom the Pope and Spaine had appointed and corrupted to destroy Her Great pity it was so brave a Prince as he was had not the like obedience and fidelity in His Subjects the want whereof brought him to an untimely end for he was by that paracide Raviliack murthered by a stab at his heart passing in his Coach through a street in Paris at noon-day Our good King James much lamented his death and so did all good men of the Protestant Religion of which it was thought he was one but for some worldly respects durst not professe it openly which some attribute an errour in him of dessembling with God who therefore suffered him to end his daies by violence King Iames was no dissembler for he professed the true protestant Religion and maintained it with His Pen witnesse His Apologie to all Christian Princes and other excellent bookes of His which are His living Monuments He was a peaceable Prince He kept warre out of His Dominions when all the Princes of the World besides were in Combustion such was His gentle nature that he chose rather to spend a masse of money in Embassies and treaties for peace amongst forraigne Princes to save the effusion of Christian blood then with His Sword to side with any of them This kept him from having enemies abroad and He is to be accounted famous for it but had He drawn His sword in some actions as without scruple of Conscience he might justly have done in that of the Palatinate the English Nation had not so long like blades still kept sheath'd rusted in their scabberds for to say truth they were grown weake and effeminat for lacke of imployment but that was not altogether the peoples fault for had they been permitted as in Queen Elizabeths time they were freely to make voyages into all forraine parts of the World where they list upon discoveries or to trade both they had preserved their vigour and strength and this Iland had been inriched more than it is but they were prevented of this good by a late tricke of binding up the trade and trafique into forraine parts in parchment the free subject cannot trade beyond seas for himselfe unlesse he be free of such and such a Company which hath been a meanes that Noblemen and Gentlemens younger sonnes have kept home liv'd idlely and effeminately and so ruined their fortunes when they might have done their Prince and Countrey good service and gotten to themselves honour knowledge and wealth Queen Elizabeth and King Iames both had the wisdomes and happinesse to keep the Woolfe from their owne doores and to live in great peace and tranquility within themselves Next to the blessing of God I must attribute that happinesse to the Accord of Soveraigne and Subject woe