Selected quad for the lemma: head_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	body_n	king_n	politic_a	2,735	5	10.6730	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31642	Treason's master-piece, or, A conference held at Whitehall between Oliver, the late usurper, and a committee of the then pretended Parliament who desired him to take upon him the title of King of England ... : wherein many of the leading-men of those times did, by unanswerable arguments, assert and prove monarchy to be the only legal ancient, and necessary form of government in these kingdoms / collected by a faithful hand.; Monarchy asserted to be the best, most ancient and legall form of government	Fiennes, Nathaniel, 1607 or 8-1669.; Whitlocke, Bulstrode, 1605-1675 or 6.	1680 (1680)	Wing C19; ESTC R14983	78,281	128

suffrage you have ever trusted us with all your Votes and we will justifie it but besides we have not done it neither we have but setled it upon the old Foundations then the Kingship however some may pretend a King's Prerogative is so large that we know it not it is not bounded but the Parliament are not of that opinion The Kings Prerogative is known by Law he did expatiate it beyond the duty that 's the evil of the man but in Westminster-Hall the Kings Prerogative was under the Courts of Justice and is bounded as well as any Acre of Land or any thing a man hath as much as any controversie between party and party And therefore the Office being lawful in its nature known to the Nation certain in it self and confined and regulated by the Law and the other Office being not so that was a great ground of the reason why the Parliament did so much insist upon this Office and Title not as circumstantial but as essential yea it is the head from whence all the Nerves and Sinews of the Government do proceed as was well said by the Master of the Rolls If we put a new head it s a question whether those Nerves and Sinews will grow and be nourished and strengthned with that head I had something in my thoughts which I had forgot something of an objection Why are you so pertinacious or insist so much upon this Title you may not apply all the Powers and Authorities unto the Office of Protector and then you will give satisfaction I must needs say he that makes this objection makes it but meerely but a Name If any shall say I am content the Protector shall have the Office but not the Name I think this man is very strait laced then he puts it meerly upon the word and truly if there be no more in it if there be nothing but that word you have in the ballance with it the desires of the Parliament I beseech you do not break with your Parliament for a word Another objection is we have been under the Protector and the Judges have taken their Office under that Government and the Judges have taken their measure by the Authority of the King and have taken it to be the same with that of King and so go on I confess that the Judges have gone very far that way and I may not speak my own opinion of this case in this place but yet it is very well known that there hath been variety of opinions and judgments in this case even from those that have been Judges of the Nation and I do not take the people upon a very good establishment when there shall be no doubtings in those that should be best knowing I would never make a doubt that tends to the shaking of foundations if I should avoid it The taking of this Office will avoid a doubt the continuing of the other Office may be more uncertain I would never make a doubt where it may be dear perhaps the taking of the other would reduce men to satisfaction there is but a perhaps in the one and a certainty in the other 11 Of April Sir Charles Woolesley NOt onely we that are here but many honest hearts in England rejoyce to see this day wherein your Highness and the Parliament are with so much nearness and affection debating the settlement of the Nation One reason why your Highness should take this title offered you by the Parliament is because as you stand in relation to the old Government you are obliged to the Law yet have not the advantage of the Law which the chief Magistrate ought to have The Law knows not a Protector and requires no obedience from the people to him The Parliament desires to settle one so that the people may know your duty to them and they their duty to you The Parliament find the minds of the people of these Nations much set upon this Office and Title God hath by his providence put a general desire of it in the Nation and they think in things not unlawful they ought to hearken and to be much inclined by the desires of them that sent them and in such things as are for their good as this is to be much provoked thereby to the doing of them Truly Sir it hath been much in the thoughts of the Parliament that the reason why things of late have been so unsetled throughout in the Nations hath been because that to the body of this people there hath not been a legal head The well-being of the head is not more necessary to the wholsome constitution of the body natural than a right head is necessary to the body politick I may humbly tell your Highness this Nation hath ever been a lover of Monarchy and of Monarchy under the Title of a King the Name and Office hath for above a thousand years been in this Nation though they have often changed their Princes yet never the Name nor Office 'T is the great Common Law that is the Custome of the Nation approved good by many ages to have the Office and Name of a King no new Law that makes any other can have that validity which the Custom of so many ages hath Sir the Parliament doth judge the safety of your person much concerned to take this Title and 't is not your self they look to though their hearts are full of honour I may say it to your Highness as can be but to you as chief Magistrate representing the people and being head of the Law and all Magistracy the people hath a share and concernment in you We see this hath been the great encouragements of these attempts against your person that the Law did not take notice of you as chief Magistrate and that Juries were generally backward to find any guilty for Treason for attempting against you the Parliament cannot think it fit to have their chief Magistrate in such a condition Your Highness hath been pleased to call your self as when you speak to the Parliament a servant you are so indeed to the people and 't is your greatest honour so to be I hope then Sir you will give the people leave to name their own servant that is a due you cannot you will not certainly deny them their Representatives desire you will serve the People under this Title and were there no other reason therefore it is the best I beseech your Highness consider if you should refuse this Title the Parliament presents you with you do not only deny your self the honour they put upon you but you deny the Nation you deny the people their honour which by right they ought to have 'T is the honour and their just birth-right to have a Supream Magistrate with the Title of a King I know Sir though you can deny your self yet you will not deny the Nation their due when their Representative challenge it from you The Parliament have highly engaged all the good people of this