Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	treasurer_n	6,502	5	10.8931	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71006	The Lord Chancellor's speech upon the Lord Treasurer's taking his oath i[n] the Exchequer, the fifth of December, 1672	Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of, 1621-1683.	1672 (1672)	Wing S2904; ESTC R14882	1,057	4

THE Lord Chancellor's SPEECH UPON THE Lord Treasurer's Taking his OATH IN THE EXCHEQUER The Fifth of December 1672. LONDON Printed in the Year 1672 THE Lord Chancellor's SPEECH Vpon the Lord Treasurer's taking his Oath in the Exchequer the Fifth of December 1672. My Lord Treasurer THe Kings Most Excellent Majesty knowing your Integrity Abilities and Experience in his Affairs and particularly those of His Treasury hath thought fit to make choice of you to be His Lord High Treasurer of England And what necessarily accompanies that Place hath by His Letters Patents under the Great Seal made you also Treasurer of His Exchequer The Lord High Treasurer of England's Office is held by the Kings delivery of the White Staff The Treasurers of the Exchequer hath ever been held by Letters Patents And is that by which your Lordship is more immediately Intitled to be a Chief Judge of this Court It were too nice and tedious and peradventure too Formal to give an account of the several distinct Powers of these two Offices Reason and the length of Time hath now so Woven them together But as they are both in your Lordship I may justly say you are in a Place of the very first Rank as to Dignity Power Trust and Influence of Affaires A Place that requires such a Man as our Great Masters Wisdom hath found for it From whose natural temper we may expect Courage Quickness and Resolution From whose Education Wisdom and Experience And from whose Extraction that Noble and Illustrious House of the Cliffords an Heroick Mind a Large Soul and an Unshaken Fidelity to the Crown My Lord 'T is a great Honour much beyond even the place it self that you are Chosen to it by this King who without flattery I may say is as great a Master in the Knowledge of Men and Things as this or any other Age hath produced And let me say farther it is not only your Honour that you are Chosen by Him but it is your Safety too that you have Him to Serve with whom no subtil Insinuations of any near Him nor the aspiring Interest of a Favorite shall ever prevail against those that serve Him well Nor can His Servants fear to be Sacrific'd to the Malice Fury or Mistake of a more swelling popular greatness A Prince under whom the Unfortunate fall gently A Prince in a word that best of all Mankind deserves the Title of Deliciae Humani generis My Lord I will not hold you long for you have a Journey to go After you have taken your Oath and your Place in this Court you are according to antient Custom to Visit all the Offices in the Upper and Lower Exchequer And therefore let me end with this Wish or rather Prophesie That you may exceed all your Predecessors in this Place The Abilities and Fidelity of the Renowned Lord Burleigh The Sagacity Quickness and great Dispatch of his Son the Lord Salisbury And the Uprightness Integrity and Wisdom of that great Man that went last before you the Earl of Southampton FINIS