Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	lancaster_n	5,263	5	11.7365	5	true

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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

now nexte to be expected but by whome when and in what manner resteth in the deuyne disposition of almighty God whose Iustice no earthly power muche lesse any Englishe policie can possibly resist Tyme woorketh alteration in all things and in this world there is nothing that is not subiect to change all estates encrease diminish are tossed turned fall and are destroyed Which consisteth not as Plato the heathen Philosopher saith in the circuyte and limmits of a certaine Period but in the pleasure of the Celestiall Soueraigne Those hauing their beeing moste assured and durable that are founded on religion and iustice All plants saith our sauiour that my heauenly father hathe not planted shalbe plucked vp by the rootes All temporall gouernments throughoute the world notwithstāding all worldly wit power and practises whatsoeuer haue and do daily so alter and change that fewe or none can be founde to haue continued any long course of tyme in one order and rule Only the Catholique Churche of Christe depending vpon the direction of the holy Ghoste hathe still remayned in one same faithe and visible Monarchie almoste sixteene hundreth yeares During which tyme diuers kyngdomes haue bin diuersly trāsposed vpsyde downe and those only found to be least subiect to mutation that moste haue bin directed by the gouuernours of that Churche The aforesaid philosopher saith further that Republiques are neuer happy but when princes are louers of wisdome or louers of wisdome do rule but Salomon speaking by a mouthe more deuyne exhorteth princes to searche true wisdome to the end they may raigne Iustly in earthe and eternally in heauen Would to God the resolution of your rulers had bin laid vppon these groundes then had the most woorthy for wisdome and vertue bin preferred and none for vice and vilany aduaunced to chiefest aucthoritie Then had not his late excelsi obtained the greatest rule of all because of all others he kepte the greatest ill rule himself then had they neuer vpholden there vnstable estate by the only annoyance of their neighbours nor by their great iniustice drawne so many daungers together at the last Then had the begining bin Godly the continuance quiet and the end happy The Realme of England hathe in other tymes bin as often subiect to chaunge as other countries in the world but more comonly carying therewith the blood of the best nobility what great effusion of blood ensued the coronarion of Kynge Henry the fourthe at what tyme the diuision of the two houses of Yorcke and Lancaster began which lasted the lyues and reignes of three Kynges following and was not wholy extyncte vntill the tyme of Kynge Henry the seauenth During which tyme there died in diuers battailes skirmishes and executions foure score of the blood Royall and the very flowre of the Nobility of England with infynite other valiant personages besydes sundry Lords and gentlemen consumed in prisons at home or enforced abroade in banishment miserably to end the rest of their dayes In this great confusion each party as they preuailed condemned the other for traitors that in the end all the whole nobilitie and people were on the one and the other syde so taken and vsed Since which tyme euen of late in our owne age and memory we haue seene sundry chaunges amonge all which our Lord delt moste mercifully when moste daunger was feared at what tyme Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberlaend hauing maryed the Lady Iane to one of his sonnes and proclaymed them Kynge and Queene thereby to exclude and cut of the righte of Queene Mary and pretence of Elizabeth it pleased the deuyne prouydēce so to dispose that with-out battaile or bloudshed of the people the punishment only extēded to the principall parties and some fewe accessaries themselues Thus may sundry examples of your owne changes shewe you that alterations are no newe thinges but that they are bothe comon and generall Neither can any be so sencelesse althoughe suche great iniquity had neuer bin cōmitted as to think your estate were euer stable or that no new gouernment did not euer bringe at the least the change of many mens particuler estates But the case beeing now such as it is that his Catholique Maiesty is not only highly iniuried and continually vrged but the whole repose and quyet of Christendome so disturbed that either his Maiesty or some other prince must of force seeke the reformation of your country not for any particuler comoditie but for a generall good Whereunto in truthe his Maiesty is especially more obligated then any other insomuch that yf there were no cause at all of religion to moue him yet in regard of the comon iniuryes dayly donne vnto him he is euen bounde in righte reason and iustice to do it that yf neither he nor any other should attempte thesame you are notwithstanding assured of ciuill dissention no heire to the Crowne apparently knowne and so many competitiours to make claime at once and the wrathe indignation of God for so great impietie by one meanes or other to be satisfied I cannot see whether the plague of ciuill war will be easier then the inconuenience of foreyne inuasion neither can I see how you can auoyde the leaste of them bothe Neither do you desire with Dauid rather to fall into the handes of God then into the handes of men but persist in the augmentation of your wounted wickednes It may somtymes please God of his great mercy to spare a whole citie for a fewe iust persons therein And the only hope that remayneth for the easy reclayminge of your country is the blood of so many marti●s there powred oute which being so pretious in his sighte may be the meane so to mittigate his highe indignation that the innocent shall not be confounded with the impious but rather that many multitudes by there meanes may be saued It may also stand with his great goodnesse to make his Catholique Maiesty the meane for the recouery thereof not to conquer or make mutation of auncient lawes and liberties which he neuer intended but only to reduce it to the old concorde and communion of christendome This doubtlesse would be the happiest easiest meanes of all other the heroycall endeuours of his Maiesty considered whose proceedings in all mercy myldnes and grace lie open to the vewe of heauen and earthe neither needeth the tounge or pen of any man declare them excepte only to manifest the malice of his aduersaries vnto those whome they so impudently abuse His Maiesty also much relying amonge others of greatest wisdome and vertue of your owne nation vpon the graue counsell and aduise of the Cardinall of England whose exceeding care and naturall affection to his deare country is awnswerable to his great vertue wisdome learning You are not heere to regard the raylings of those that accompte his grace and all the other exyled Englyshe traytors enemies to their countrie falsly saying that they haue sold it to the Pope and Kynge of