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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	year_n	27,286	5	5.3525	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45114	The Lord Hvmes his speech delivered in the presence of the Kings Most Excellent Majesty, to the Honourable Court of Parliament of both Houses then assembled in Scotland, the 16, of this present moneth of August, 1641 : wherein is expressed his loyalty to His Majesty, his love to both nations, and his hearty desire unto that Honourable Assembly, to prevent the inconveniences that might arise between Scotland and England, though himselfe had bin [sic] formerly one of the chiefe covenanters against us.	Home, James Home, Earl of, d. 1666.; Hume, David, 1560?-1630?	1641 (1641)	Wing H3660; ESTC R2524	1,254	7

THE LORD HVMES HIS SPEECH Delivered in the Presence of the Kings most excellent Majesty to the Honourable Court of PARLIAMENT of both Houses then assembled in Scotland the 16. of this present moneth of August 1641. Wherein is expressed his Loyalty to his Majesty his love to both Nations and his hearty desire unto that Honourable Assembly to prevent the inconveniences that might arise between Scotland and England though himselfe had bin formerly one of the chiefe Covenanters against us Printed in the Yeare MDCXLI THE LORD HVMES HIS SPEECH To both Houses of Parliament in SCOTLAND GENTLEMEN and you the Knights and Burgesses of each COVNTY of this KINGDOME wee are here Assembled to doe GODS businesse and the Kings in which our owne is included and we are Christians as wee are Subjects Let us first feare God then shall wee honour the King the more I am afraid wee have beene the lesse prosperous in our affaires because we have preferred other things before him The Kingdome is likewise reduced to great Strait for being locked up from the free course of Trade betweene England and us wherein it were undutifulnesse beyond Inhumanity in the taking of advantage against them I have often thought and said that it must be some extremity that would rectifie this Kingdome and when that extremity did come it would bee a great hazard whether it would prove a remedy or aruine wee are sure that the greatest part of our Country is undone for the want of free Trade and the priviledges which formerly wee had therein by Trading betweene England and us for a better Commerce and Enter-course betweene this Kingdome and England and that it may bee lawfull to Trade and transport Goods and Commodities from this Kingdome into England as formerly we have done and they to use without any let or hinderance by each Kingdome which is our desires I confesse he is no good Subject that will willingly take up Armes against his King and will nor willingly and freely lay downe his life when the end may better the service of his Majesty and the good of the Common-wealth But let us further reflect upon the ill effects what those courses have wrought what by a dissension from us on the one side and a sepatation on the other some imagining what was intended and made haste to turne before hand the better to be accepted of and a great Multitude of them seeing how farre they were gone and fearing how much further they should goe have bin forced to fly the Land When Foundations are shaken it is high time to looke to the Building hee hath no heart no head no soule that is not moved in his whole man to look upon the distresses and the miseries of the Common-wealth that is not forward in all that hee hath to redresse them in a right way But rather let us make it an advantage for them to doe them best service when they have most need not to speake our owne good but in them and with them else we shall commit the same Crimes our selves which we must condemne in others Now we see what the Sores are in generall and when more particulars shall happen to appeare let us bee very carefull to draw out the koares of them and not skimme them over with a slight suppurating fester cure lest they should presently breake out againe into greater mischiefes consider of that Counsels and speake your minds The which I humbly beseech this House that it may be done with as much moderation as the publique safety of the Kingdome can possible admit FINIS