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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	richard_n	15,475	5	9.2713	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34717	The forme of government of the kingdome of England collected out of the fundamental lawes and statutes of this kingdome : wherin is manifested the customary uses of the kings of England upon all occasions, either of marriage, peace or warre, to call their peeres and barons of the realme to be bartners [sic] in treatizes, and to give their judicious advice : the state and security of the whole kingdome depending upon such counsells and determinations : likewise the names of the kings and the times when such Parliaments were called, and the acts that passed upon those and the like occasions : Henry I, Iohn, Henry 3, Edward I, Edward 2, Edward 3, Richard 2, Henry 4, Henry 5, Henry 6, Edward 4, Henry 7, Henry 8 : published for the satisfaction of all those that desire to know the manner and forme of the government of the land, and the fundamentall lawes of the kingdome.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6492; ESTC R21849	10,966	24

THE FORME OF GOVERNEMENT OF THE KINGDOME OF ENGLAND Collected out of the fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome Wherin is manifested the customary uses of the Kings of England upon all occasions either of Marriage Peace or Warre to call their Peeres and Barons of the Realme to be bartners in Treatizes and to give their juditious advice the State and security of the whole Kingdome depending upon such Counsells and determinations Likewise the names of the Kings and the times when such Parliaments were called and the Acts that passed upon those and the like occasions Henry 1 Iohn Henry 3 Edward 1 Edward 2 Edward 3 Richard 2 Henry 4 Henry 5 Henry 6 Edward 4 Henry 7 Henry 8 Published for the satisfaction of all those that desire to know the manner and forme of the Governement of the Land and the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome London Printed for Tho. Bankes 1642. That the Kings of England have beene pleased usually to consult in their great Counsells of Marriage Peace and Warre with their Peeres and Commons in PARLIAMENT TO search so high as the Norman Conquest it is necessary to lay downe the forme of Government of those times wherein the State of affaires led in another forme of publique Councels For the people wrought under the Sword of the first William and his followers to a subjected Vassaladge could not possesse in such Assemblies the Right of their former Liberties Divisions and Power having mastered them and none of their old nobility and Heads being left either of credit or fortunes What he retained not in providence as the Demeasnes of the Crowne or reserved in Piety as the maintenance of the Church he parted to those Strangers that sayled along with him in that Barque of his Adventure leaving the Natives for the most part as it appeares by his Survey in no better condition then villany moulding their Customes to the manner of his owne Countrey and forbore to grant the Lawes of Saint Edward so often called for To supply his occasions of men money and p●o 〈…〉 on hee ordered that all those that enjoyed any fruit of his Conquest should hold their Lands proportionable by so many Knights fees of the Crowne admitted them to enseoffe their followers of such part● as they pleased of their own portions which to ease their charge they did in his and his sonnes time by two Feoffments the one de novo the other de veteri This course provided him of the body of his warre the money and Provision was by headage assested the common people by the co●sent of their Lords who held in all their Seigniories such Right of Regalitie as to their Vassalles so as saith Paris quot Domini tot Tyranni and proved to the King so great a curbe and restraint of power that nothing f●ll into the Care of Maiestie afterward more then ●o retrench the force of this Aristocracy that was in time like to strang●e the Monarchy Though others foresaw the mischiefe betimes yet none attempted the remedy untill King Iohn whose overhastie undertaking brought in those broyles of t●e Barrons warres There needed not before this any ca●e to advise with the Commons in all publique Assembly when every man in England by Tenure held himsel●e ●o his great Lords will whose presence was ever required in those Councells and in whose assent his dependant Tenants consent was ever included Before this Kings time then we seeke in vaine for any Commons called they were called ever for making of Lawes but not to consult touching warre or Peace T●e fi●st as may bee gathered though darkely by the Records that used their Counsells and Assents was t●is King in the sixt yeare of his Raigne here are the first summons on record to the Peeres or Barrons tractaturi de magnis ardius negotiis It was about a warre of defence against the French And that the Commons were admitted at this time may fitly be gathered by the ordinance Provisum est communi assensu Archiepiscoporum Comitam Baronum aliorum fidelium nostrorum Angliae quod nomen milites Angliae invenirent decimum c. And this was directed to all the Shirefs in England The auncient use in publique lawes From this time there is a breach untill 18. Hen. 3. where the next Summons extant is in a Plea Rolle of that year but the ordinances are lost from thence the Records afford us no light untill the 49 of the same King where then the Summons to the Bishops Lords Knights and Burgesses are much in manner though not in matter alike to the use in our times this Parliament was called to advise with the King pro pace assecuranda firmanda they are the words of the writt and where advice is required consultation must be admitted To this King succeeded Edward the first his Sonne a wise just and fortunate Prince In his Raigne we have no light of publique Councell of this kind And so along to the fourth of his Granchild but what we borrow out of the Rolles of Summons wherein the forme stood various according to the occasions untill it grew constant in the forme it is about the entring of Richard the second the Journall Rolles being spoiled by the injury of time or private ends This King in the fift of his Raigne called a Parliament and therein advised with his Lords and Commons for suppressing Llewellin Prince of Wales And hearing that the French King intended to invade some peeces of his inheritance in France summoned a Parliament ad tractandum ordinandum faciendum cum Prelatis Proceris aliis Inco●is Regni quomodo huiusmodi periculis excogitatis militiis sit obviandum inserting in the writt that it was Lex notissima provida circumspectione stabilita that that quod omnes tangit abomnibus approbaretur In the thirty fourth of his Raigne super ordinatione stabilimento Regni Scotie he made the like convention His Sonne the second Edward pro solempnitate Sponsalium Coronationis consulted with his people in his first yeare in his sixth yeare super diversis negotiis statuum Regni expeditione Guerre Scotie specialiter tangentibus he assembled the States to advise the like he did in his eight yeare The French King having invaded Gascoigne in the thirteenth yeare the Parliament was called super arduis negotiis Statuum ducatus Vasconie tangentibus And in the sixteenth to consult ad refraenandum Scotorum obstinantiam malitiam Before Edward the third would resolve in his first year whether Peace or warre with the Scotish King he summoned the Peeres and Commons super praemissis tractare concilium impendere The Chancellour Anno the fifth declareth from the King the cause of that Assemby that it was to consult and resolve whether the King should proceed with