Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	james_n	king_n	scot_n	3,888	5	9.6692	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74788	The jovial tinker of England: willing to hammer the Covenant and Scots commissioners into English. And to mend the breaches, and stop the holes of the Crowne of England, (miserably torne and bruised, both within and without) with the best mettle he can get. And at a very reasonable rate. Provided, he be not compelled to take the Scots sense upon the Covenant. He will rather walk about the countries, & cry: Have you any work for a joviall tinker. / By Borialis guard.	Borialis, Guard.	1648 (1648)	Wing J1119; Thomason E424_3; ESTC R204544	10,341	16

THE JOVIALL TINKER OF ENGLAND Willing To Hammer the Covenant and Scots Commissioners into English AND To mend the breaches and stop the holes of the Crowne of England miserably torne and bruised both within and without with the best Mettle he can get And at a very reasonable Rate PROVIDED He be not compelled to take the Scots Sense upon the COVENANT He will rather walk about the Countries cry Have you any work for a Joviall Tinker By BORIALIS Guard LONDON Printed for John Hickman 1648. THE Covenant and Scotch Commissioners translated into English for better understanding ENGLAND is unhappily become the Tennis-ball of mis-fortune betwixt a Scottish King and the Kingdom of Scots Epitomiz'd in those State-Merchants their Commissioners The one striving for an absolute separate interest the other for a joynt A designe in practise ever since King James first set foot over Tweed wherewith he traveld all his life but wanting the Midwisery of a Covenant to bring it to passe but now we are shared out by the Meere-stones of mutuall agreement betwixt His Majesty and His Native Subjects who formerly promised them three Counties but that not contenting them he hath now undertaken for the whole kingdome to let them play the best of their Game and they to him for the Crown to make it Independent wheras the Identity and self-samenesse of interest ought to be 'twixt him and his People as betwixt the head and body naturall and certainly the cards play faire for them by the Cavaliers on the one side and the Londoners on the other the one sworn slaves to Prerogative and the other for the most part to the Scotch glosse upon the English Covenant who long to feast the Mayor of Edenborough at Guild-hall For the Scots finding the waters troubled and humors stirring they think now is the best fishing and the fittest time to work their ends and therefore Print their papers in spite of the Parliament in hope therby to set England on fire that they may come to warme their hands at it a practise never known in use by any Ministers of State but these nor by them in no place in the world but here because their warpe is weaving in our Looms They find the Round heads á stiffe people not easily bent but resolved to the death to maintaine entire both the freedom interest of England without mixture or thraldom therfore Acheronta movebunt they now renounce brotherhood and contrary to Covenant fawne upon the Principles of the Cavaliers face about to the common Enemy towards whom throughout all these wars they carried themselves very inoffensively doing them no more hurt than what necessarily conduced to their owne particular advantage in taking a few northern frontier Garrisons and knowing them to bee mostly prophane Esaus a people not much considerate of their owne concernments they hope to buy out their birth-rights with a messe of pottage and yet the Cavaliers hate a Round head he cannot lightly love a Blew-cap so that they may perchance find it prove the onely stay to part two fighting Mastiffes is to turn a Beare loose upon them both And as for the Londoners they are so confident of them as already they call London where their Papers of the disposall of the Kings person was printed Edenbrough upon the frontispiece therof nor is it improper for the Metropolis to change her name when the Kingdome changes her interest And which is the worst part of machiavell they make religion even The solemn League and Covenant to father all their bastards for my owne part I am one that have taken it and wish all did so that will make conscience to keep it but cursed be that English-man that takes it with the Scotch corrupt paraphrase of a joynt interest which ipso facto renders him perjured as to the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy inhibiting all English-men to betray or communicate their publique interest especially legislative to forraigne States and better it were the Covenant were neither given nor taken then pressed in policy as it is by the Scots to hand-fast English men in a joynt interest and propriety or taken with perjury as it is by the Cavaliers who make no conscience in swearing nor for-swearing But we now plainly see what were our brethrens ends in their first propounding this Covenant not Religion and Conscience but Designe and Incroachment I dare not judge so undivinely of their Divines who I am confident had honester purposes but whatsoever was their divinity in it their equity is starke naught the Commander in cheife whereof in his transactions here in England hath carried himselfe extreame immorally to the scandal of Presbytery and meriting the stoole of repentance and yet it cannot bee denied but that what he hath done hath been equitable for the King raising him by I know not what mystery of State from his deep displeasure to that height of Honour can hee doe too much for such a Master that not onely forgave him but gave him Who is their main pillar of policy and strikes the greatest stroak in this master-piece of transmigration of interest and like Chancery Bills affirms any thing but proves nothing in his papers knowing that a bad cause is better maintained by a brazen face bold assertions than iron arguments Therfore they never offer to reply save with a deaf ear to the House of Commons Answer to their papers touching the disposall of the King in England wherby is made evident that neither as to that particular nor any thing else either in or relating to the Covenant they have any right or interest to order or dispose thereof by any joynt or united property The words of the Covenant being expresse and clear to the contrary in every Article of it engaging both each Nation and each person To endevour both one thing and other in our severall places and callings in our severall Vocations and according to our places and interests So that though the Covenant by these definit expressions purposely provide against confusion of Interests that England and Scotland being severall distinct kingdomes and each one onely to act in his severall place Vocation calling and interest yet without replying to these reasons brought against their indirect quoting the Covenant in abstract Positions thereby to compasse their end of joynt interest they still persist from this Covenant to entitle themselves to the right of exercising a joynt power not onely of disposing the King but the kingdome also though the Covenant be contrary to the exercise of any joynt power which was severall and distinct before the making thereof and although the joynt exercise of such power be a breach of Covenant both of us respectively being therby obliged in our severall Vocations mutually to preserve the rights priviledges and Liberties of each Parliament and kingdom and the exercise of such a joynt power which gives a negative voyce to either Nation towards other is a manifest breach of those Priviledges and Liberties