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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	court_n	king_n	realm_n	1,598	5	9.5501	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56069	A prospect of Hungary, and Transylvania with a catalogue of the kings of the one, and the princes of the other; together with an account of the qualities of the inhabitants, the commodites of the countries, the chiefest cities, towns, and strong-holds, rivers, and mountains. Whereunto is added an historical narrative of the bloody wars amongst themselves, and with the Turks; continued to this present year 1664. As also a brief description of Bohemia, Austria, Bavaria, Steirmark, Croatia, Dalmatia, Moravia, Silesia, Carinthia, Carniola, and some other adjacent countries contained in a mapp affixed hereunto: in which mapp all the places that are in the power of the Turk have a crescent, or half moon over them; and those in the possession of the Christians have a cross.		1664 (1664)	Wing P3808; ESTC R222509	39,973	58

his Realm chiefly by two Magistrates yet in the Upper Hungary there used to be three Magistrates The first Governs the Realm in the Kings Name The chief Magistrate is the Palatine of the Realm who is next unto the King and Judges the King himself if he be accused He is chosen by the People and his Office is not Hereditary There is also the Judge of the Court who is one of the ordinary Judges of the Realm Then the perpetual Chancellor who is the Archbishop of Strigonium the Primate of the Kingdom and the Chief Secretary His Office is to Annoint the King when he is chosen and to Seal all Patents and Priviledges There is also the Master of the Court who must of necessity follow the King and is his neerest Counsellor There is also the Master of the Royal Tavernies who hath the charge of Mines and Saltpits and doth Judge of causes which concern the Kings revenues in Towns Burroughs and Castles The second Magistrate is appointed for matters of Justice and this Magistracy comprehends three Officers of very great authority that is the Vice Palatine of the Realm the Personal Judge of the Presence who holds the Kings place in Judgements and is above all other Judges and the Vice-Judge of the Court The Inferior Officers are those who are rather Executioners of Judgement than Magistrates and there are two Protonotaries of the Personal Judge one of the Vice-Palatine and one of the Vice-Judge of the Court. All these are called Masters and have joyned to them the Archbishop of Strigoniums Secretary who is called Fiscall besides twelve Assistants and certain sworn Notaries Besides all these there are the Kings Officers as the Treasurer the High Chamberlain and other Chamberlains the Lord Steward of the Kings House and other Masters of the Houshold the Chief Cup-Bearer Gentlemen Servants Ushers and many other Inferior Officers This Kingdom of Hungary hath ever been Elective Their Kingdom is Elective and hath had special Priviledges indulged them by their former Kings King Andrew gave Authority to his Prelates Peers and People that without any imputation of disloyalty they might contradict oppose and resist their King if he did any thing in Violation of their Laws and Sanctions as Dr Heylin saith in his Geography p. 189. But since the house of Austria came to possess this Crown of Hungary they have made their Government more absolute and the People more servile having lost much of their former Liberty and Priviledges For in their ancient Government when as their Kings meant to undertake War to conclude a Peace or to alter any thing in the Government of the Commonwealth their manner was to assemble the Barons Bishops and Gentlemen at a certain place where by the consent of the greater part their Kings had power to confirm abrogate or make Laws To denounce War to conclude Peace and to charge their Lands with Impositions and Taxes according as necessity required Which Assemblies are still in use but the freedom thereof is much retrenched and impaired there being now nothing propounded to these Assemblies by their new Governors but to raise a Contribution of Mony to resist the Turk when he threatens any Invasion to which demand the Estates give their resolution by a certain Day They Judge according to Written Laws but they have another kind of deciding controversies which happen amongst them For if the matter be difficult to end Trial by Combate they ordain that it shall be tryed by Combate betwixt the Parties the which is performed in the presence of the King or his Lieutenant and the victory is adjudged to the stronger and he is judged Victorious that doth so amase his enemy at his first approach as that he retires out of the Field or being in combate is so pursued as that he is forced to abandon the place that is limited to them They that fight on Horseback charge first with their Lances and then they fall to it with their Swords and for such as fight on foot they have their privy parts covered and all the rest of their body is naked Only the males as was said before inherit and if they die without Sons the Daughters do not succeed but the Lands of the deceased fall by Escheat to the King Their strength The forces of this Kingdom whilst it was entire may best be Judged of by those great Armies which they have brought into the Field against the Turk But now two parts of three of Hungary being subdued by the Turks that which remains is not able to answer the proportion of former times The foot Souldiers are commonly but meanly armed the defect whereof is rather to be imputed to Prince than to the People who can but bring their Bodies which is all they have for the defence of their Country Their Horsemen which are called Heiducks are maintained in a continual readiness at the charge of the Nobility and principal Gentry These are Cousin-Germans to the Cossacques almost as cruel and mischievous as they Their Revenues The chief Revenues of this Kingdom come from the Silver Mines out of which is yearly raised about a Million and an half of Guilders But Maximilian the second made it up two Millions by seizing on the Lands of the Cathedrall and Collegiat Churches and assigning annual Pensions to the Bishops Canons and other Religious Persons Most of which summes come cleerly to the Emperors Coffers the Presidiary Souldiers being paid with Contribution Money raised out of the Peoples purses and the Lieutenant Generals Salary which comes to thirty thousand Dollars by the year is defrayed out of their purses also Not to speak any thing of the first Inhabitants of this Kingdom of Hungary so many ages since extinct we will come to the Hungarians the last and Principal Actors upon the Stage of this Kingdom and the givers of the present Name to it before whose coming into it Called formerly Pannonia it was called Pannonia These Hungari were a Scythian People first known in Europe by their acts in the time of the Emperor Arnulphus when wandring in Sarmatia Europaea they were by him called into this Country to assist him against Suantobogius King of the Moravians from whom they took Transylvania and so much of Hungary as lies on both sides of the River Tisse inhabited at that time by the Sclaves and some scattered remnants of the Avares whom they killed or forced to seek new habitations planting themselves in those places which they took from them which is now the Upper Hungary after which they passed the Danow and subdued Pannonia Their Goverment at first was under Dukes The first King But Stephen the fourth upon his embracing the Gospel was honored with the title of a King enjoyed by his successors to this very day In the time of Ladislaus surnamed the Saint Dalmatia and Croatia were added to the Crown of Hungary as bequeathed to the King by his Sister Zelomira the Widow of the