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england_n	henry_n	king_n	normandy_n	8,654	5	11.5816	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59269	A sermon preach'd at the chappel royal in the Tower upon the death of Her Sacred Majesty, our Late Gracious Queen Mary / by a true lover of the church, the King, and his country.	True lover of the church, the King, and His country.	1695 (1695)	Wing S2632; ESTC R19634	24,464	39

Edward III. in right of his Mother claimed the Kingdom of France that they made their Salick Law which could however bar only for the future and not for the time past and therefore the King invaded France and was very successful in all the Battels he sought but by reason of several Diversions at home this Success was not pursued by his immediate Successors yet Henry V. a Prince of a Warlike Temper coming to the Crown and considering that not only Normandy Guien Aquitain and A●j●u were the rightful Inheritances of the Kings of England but also his just Title to the whole Kingdom of France derived from Isabella aforesaid after he had first by Ambassadors set forth and demanded his Right he with an English Army invades France and having won several Battels was at last married to Katherine Daughter of Charles VI. and thereupon declared and crowned King of France in Reversion Charles and Isabella his Queen to reign during their Lives and Isabella surviving Charles at her Death made a Will declaring her Son-in-Law Henry V. Heir to all her Goods and to the Crown which gives the Kings of England a farther Right to the Kingdom of France And I am perswaded if the French King had half so much Right to England as the King of England hath to France we should be pestered with his Manifesto's and Scribles alledging his just Pretensions as he calls all that he makes conquered by us and has had such fatal Proofs of the English Valour that she would be sure to take care never more to stand in fear of her Antient Enemies And upon these Grounds we are to expect no Mercy at her Hands but the worst of an Hostile Fury and nothing less perhaps than our total Subversion would serve their turn Nay when we consider how barbarously they use the People whom they subdue tho of their own Religion without regard to Churches or Religious Houses or the very Sepulchres of the Dead tho of Princes themselves we may believe our English Papists hower they may flatter themselves would meet with no better Quarter than others But for those Protestants who tho at ease in their Fortunes and enjoying all the Privileges of their Fellow-Subjects are yet restless and dissatisfied and weary of a Government that 's the only Security of their Religion and Estates surely as they will be the easiest so they will be the most despised Prey of their Enemies who if they have any Manhood or any thing that 's great in them will shew more Favour to the brave Defenders of their Country than to those who have so basely and treacherously deserted and betrayed it But I know if I should discourse at this rate out of this place or where I might expect an Answer I should presently be told that I had used a great many words to little purpose and had run on all along upon a false Ground for that the great King of France hath nothing of Self in all this nor is he further concerned than out of a Principle of Honour and Generosity to espouse an Oppressed and to restore an Exil'd Prince That he was neither opprest nor banished is plain enough and on whose side the Oppression lay we all know and yet we will allow them that that Monarch may seemingly with much Gallantry espouse his Cause till he see a fair opportunity of setting up his Own but to be sure no longer Or suppose he should not do this can we however think that he would not demand so great a Charge as the whole Wealth of the Nation would be too little to answer And were it not better Policy in us tho we had no other Inducement to supply him even to a Moiety of what we have who will preserve the rest by keeping such Enemies out and by cherishing and protecting us in our Religion and other Rights To be sparing in a case of such Necessity is to be wanting and indeed cruel to our selves and our Posterity like the fatal Parsimony of the People of Constantinople who refused to supply their own Emperor tho by way of Loan with a thirtieth part of that Money which the Turkish Emperor depriv'd them of together with the Lives of the Wealthiest of them Whereas by that seasonable Supply they might in all likelihood have preserved their City and their Lives too 'T were easy to shew what a poor thing Money is in respect of our Religion our Lives our Laws and our Liberties and it 's not yet seven Years since all considerate Men and good Protestants amongst us would have given more than this War will cost us to have been under the Circumstances we now are But God be thanked there 's no need to insist upon this Those worthy Patriots who so freely and chearfully find out Ways and Means to support the War are highly sensible of it And all I have to offer upon their Accounts is to pray as David when the People even beyond what he expected offer'd so willingly towards a Publick Good O Lord God of Abraham of Isaac and of Israel our Fathers 2 Chron. 29.18 keep this for ever in the Imagination of the Thoughts of the Heart of thy People But to return that I may leave nothing unsaid to open the Eyes of those who are not wilfully blind I will for their satisfaction suppose that this extravagantly ambitious King upon whom they so much depend had no private Design but would only clear the Way to the Throne and then fairly draw off without any other Consideration than the Satisfaction of his own haughty and ambitious Humour Let us I say suppose this tho indeed it's next to impossible yet even in this Case might not the Prince whom he left repossest I only presume to ask the Question justly write himself James the Conqueror And tho I am not to determine how mercifully he might use us if left to his own Conduct tho we must believe him more than a Saint to forget what is past yet considering how he has been influenced and considering his Princicles how he still must be if ever Divine Judgment as a Punishment for our Sins should suffer this to come to pass The very Thoughts of what we might expect are so full of Horror that I chuse rather to draw a Vail over it and pass it in silence than go about to display it and if any Man be so weak or so short-sighted as to wish or desire it I am perswaded that a short Change with a Subject of France would very effectually cure him of his Malady and Folly too And yet our Case might be much more desperate than some of theirs and no better to be sure than that of the Protestant Subjects under that Crown and how it should be worse is not easy to imagine And now Since those very Men amongst us who seem most fond of the late King's Return do yet pretend they would by no means have him come with a French Power as being aware