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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	john_n	king_n	pope_n	14,323	5	7.1772	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29953	The white rose, or, A word for the House of York, vindicating the right of succession in a letter from Scotland to a peer of this realm.	W. B.; Brydall, John, b. 1635?	1680 (1680)	Wing B5268; ESTC R2802	9,595	12

THE WHITE ROSE OR A WORD for the House of YORK Vindicating the RIGHT OF SUCCESSION IN A Letter from Scotland TO A Peer of this Realm 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leges sequi Patrias pulchrum est E Clearcho LONDON Printed Anno Dom. MDCLXXX THE White Rose My Lord I NEED not acquaint your Lordship what a general sorrow invaded us upon the departure of His Royal Highness from amongst us when I tell you that we lookt upon and esteem'd his coming hither to be one of the most signal Honours that hath been done Our Nation since the happy Restauration of His Most Sacred Majesty The benign Influence of this generous Prince vouchsaf'd to our cold Clime seem'd like the welcome Approaches of the Sun to the benighted Indians who are said to welcome that glorious Luminary with the Extatick Acclamations of an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If ever Our Nation had any Affinity to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whence Etymologists tell us 't is derived 't was at the departure of this Great Duke I cannot without fresh Reluctancy acquaint your Lordship what a mutual uneasiness and trouble was exprest at parting His Royal Highness assuring us That nothing but the satisfaction of waiting upon the King could ballance the trouble he had to part so soon from us On the other hand we made our humble Acknowledgments for the great happiness we had in his illustrious presence and how much we were obliged to his good Advice and Conduct protesting That as Our Allegiance obliged us to venture our Lives and Fortunes for His Majesty our Affections to His Royal Highness would engage us to do the same for Him if His Occasions should require it This Royal Heroe like the Dove turned out of the Ark took footing here finding the threatning Inundation abated and I hope is some time since returned with Safety and the Olive of Peace having compleated that Imperfect Conquest which left us but too many Instruments of Revenge for I am confident we have now few Male-Contents here but what his Departure hath made Those Mists were dissipated so soon as his Royal Rayes broke out amongst us for 't is this Gracious Prince's Peculiar to subdue the heart whilst Others can only tame the Violence of the Man and make Rebellion lick its own lips and mis-shapen Issue into the beauty and symmetrice of Subjectian and Loyalty From the secret instincts of Nature Birds and Beasts are taught to obey the Eagle and Lyon though several are hardy enough to undertake unequal Matches from any of the Lower Rank especially if edg'd by Keen hunger or Exasperated by bloody Revenge yet the same Wolfe that bristles at a Bear will crouch to the Lyon insomuch that Ethicks seem amputated from the Rational and grafted in the Sensitive Stock We know what Birds with greatest noise proclaim their Encounters as if mighty matters were Atchiev'd when a sew despicable Vermin are the sole Trophies of the scorn'd and derided Victor who mistakes the chattering of the multitude for Ovations and Io Triumphes and the Fights of a Coffe House or the Registry of an Intelligencer sufficient Records to eternize his illegitimate fame and glory Should I recount the Atchievements of His Royal Highness for the Peace and Safety of the Three Kingdoms I should intricate my self in a Labyrinth too tedious for Your Lordship to expect my Regression and possibly offend the Virtue of that Prince which as 't is the blessing of this will be the standing Wonder of future Ages a Prince whose Heroick Spirit glories in great and adequate Actions taking a greater complaisance and satisfaction in doing brave than in hearing of it In short all that can be said upon so glorious a Subject will be so far from Panegyricks that 't will be but telling men when the Sun shines in their Hemisphere 't is Day I proceed therefore to a nearer Observance of Your Lordship's Commands and the Letter you were pleased to send me in which I find so much writ and so well in Vindication of the Right of Succession that the Author hath almost anticipated all further Discourse upon the same Subject However I shall presume to advance the Superstructure a Story higher since the Foundation seems so firm and supportable I must confess you have as much engag'd me out of my Province as if Architecture were the thing to be considered of indeed But yet I shall shew my Obedience as well as Vnskilfulness in the performance of your irresistible Commands I have since the contracting of this weighty Point lookt into such Books of Law and History as I am at present furnisht with which assure me that the Course of Right Succession to the Crown is not to be diverted from its proper Channel Or if you please The Descent of the Crown in the Right Line cannot de Jure be impeded by any Act or Deed whatsoever This Proposition I shall endeavour to evince by Authority and Reason proceeding by an easie Climax or Gradation to the Matter and consider it first in its less questionable Instances And first says an Antient Author Roys ausi ne pourront rien aliener en droit de leur Corone ne de lour Royaltie que il ne soit repealable per lour Successors With which Mr. Lambard in his antient Laws of England concurs in these words Debet de Jure Rex Omnes Terras Honores omnes Dignitates Jura Libertates Coronae hujus Regni in integrum cum Omni integritate sine diminutione servare Defendere So that the Alienations of Kings in the Right of their Crowns are repealable by their Successors and that they are bound by Law to defend and preserve all the Lands Honours Dignities Laws and Liberties of the Crown entire with all integrity and without diminution The Opinion of all the Judges and Doctors both of the Civil and Common Laws assembled in the Exchequer-Chamber upon the Demise of H. 4th was That the said King might make a Will and give Legacies but that he could not bequeath the goods of the Realm vizt the Antient-Crown and Jewels much less can a King dispose of the Soveraignty it self In the time of Ed. the third about the 40th of his Reign the Pope by his Legate demanded of the King Homage for his Kingdoms of England and Ireland and the Arrears of 1000 Marks per Annum granted by King John to Pope Innocent the 3d. and his Successors and threatned that if it were not paid the Pope was resolv'd to proceed against the King by Excommunication c. Whereupon King Ed. called a Parliament in which it was declared by the Unanimous Consent of the Lords and Commons that no King can put Himself his Realm or People under a Foreign Subjection without Assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament and therefore if King John had done it by the Common-Council of his Barons as his Charter purported yet it was altogether invalid for that it was