Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	duke_n	king_n	york_n	1,885	5	9.6256	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00559	A treatise declaring, and confirming against all obiections the just title and right of the moste excellent and worthie prince, Iames the sixt, King of Scotland, to the succession of the croun of England. Whereunto is added a discourse shewing how necessarie it is for the realme of England, that he be in due time acknowledged and admitted to the succession of the kingdome.	Philodikaios, Irenicus.	1599 (1599)	STC 19881.5; ESTC S94721	21,845	46

him whereof there wanteth not a great nomber of the moste honorable and best sorte from assisting and furthering him to the Kingdome The example heerof hath bene sene not manie ages past in some of our own Kings as namelie in Edward the fowrth and Henrie the seauenth For albeit Richard Duke of Yorke HOLING an 38. HEN 6. and Edward his sonne were attainted by act of Parliament and both they and their posteritie to the ninth degree therby excluded from succeeding to anie heritage yet Edward the fowrth esteeming himself as also he was accounted by a great part of the realme next to the crowne by right of succession wanted neither courage nor assistance to pursue and win the same HOLING an 2. RICH. 3. Also though Henrie the seauenth was attainted by Parliament in King Richards daies yet at such time as remaining banished in France he had made a solemne oath and promise to espouse Ladie Elizabeth daughter and heire to King Edward the fowrth offered him in mariage by her Mother the Queene hauing then with his own claime to the croune ioyned also the right of the house of York hee was in a maner at the same time saluted honoured as King by the Earle of Oxford and other noble-men who were there present comming sone after into England wanted not assistāce to depriue the vsurper king Richard both of life and kingdome By which examples it is manifest of how little force is the authoritie of Parliament to exclude a Prince from the right due to him by inheritance or to withdraw such as fauour him from giuing him assistance or the people from the dutie and alleageance which they owe him Yea this right of successiō by blood is accounted among al nations subject to this kinde of Monarchie a thing sacred and in no wise to be violated In confirmation whereof I might alledge manie examples of sundrie forraine kingdomes But for auoiding tediousnes I will onlie set doun heere two examples of the frenche nation the one verie auncient the other of our time At such time as the croun of France fell by inheritance to Charles for his dulnesse of wit and want of iudgement surnamed the simple Odo his kinsman PAVL AEMIL hist FR in regno CAR. SIMPL. was declared King and ruled ouer the greatest parte of the Kingdome by consent almost of al the Peeres and principall nobilitie thereof except the Earle of Flanders and the Archebishop of Rhemes who did homage to Charles But Odo neere the time of his death approouing the right of his cousen Charles spake these words to the nobilitie then present as PAVL AEMYL rehearseth them in Latine CAROLVS Balbi filius id quod jus aequumque postulat Rex vocitetur á quo amouere jus regni vniuersus terrarum orbis si conspiret non valeat etiamsi sceptra manu extorqueat That is to say Let CRARLES the sonne of Balbus according right and equitie be called King from whom all the world if it should conspire against him can not remooue the right of the kingdome though it should wrest the scepter out of his hand And as then Odo did acknowledge Charles to be onlie lawfull king so both then and in al ages following was he accounted by the frenche nation whereas Odo is not so much as reckoned in the register of the frenche kings Lately also it hath bene sene that the French king who now reigneth albeit after the death of the laste King his religion was different from the Romane religion publiklie professed in France yet was hee followed and assisted not onelie by the professors of his owne religion but also by al the cheef nobilitie gentlemen and best part of the people called Catholiques notwithstanding that the Cardinal of Bourbon one of the blood Royal and of their owne Religion was called King by the seditious followers of he League And at this time he is by al French-mē of whatsoeuer Religion ackowledged for their onlie lawfull King But in this point our own people hath neuer bene inferiour to the Frenche nation or anie other which is made euident by their faithful dutifull acknowledgement of the next lawfull blood so manie ages past but especiallie by a moste notable proofe which not long since they haue giuen of the same For when Lady Iane was by the deuise procurement of some noble-men and Lordes of the counsell proclaimed Queene in London and other where the towre beeing surprised and sundrie other politick meanes vsed for her establishing and for drawing of the people to her obedience yet was not Queene Marie the lawfull inheretrix of the Kingdome abandoned therfore by the good and faithfull subiects thereof but assisted and furthered by them to the winning and possession of the croune which Ladie Iane lost togeather with her head as also her father the Duke of Suffolk her father in law the Duke of Northumberland the authour principall actour of this Tragedie her husband sonne to the said Duke and sundrie other of her friends were partakers of her miserable end as they had bene of her vnlawfull aduancement By this example may bee euidentlie seene how great is the force of right by inheritance how hard it is to draw away the hearts of the people from the lawfull heire to the acknowledging of anie other Which being vnderstood by some of our kings who deposing or excluding the lawfull successours tooke the croun on themselues judged not anie authoritie of Parliament sufficient to justifie their vsurping and approoue it to the people except they had made some pretence of a title by right and lawfull inheritance King Henrie the fowrth who at the houre of his death speaking to his sonne HOLING an 14. HENR 4. seemed to acknowledge his wrongful vsurping at such time as he took on the croun albeit he was sure not to want the authority of Parliaments to establish him yet thought not that sufficient except he had laid claime to the crowne as being by right of inheritance next to the same that not as heire to his father Iohn of Gant or to his grand-father King Edward the third for hee knewe that both king Richard whome he had deposed and Roger Mortimer Earle of Marche declared alreadie by Parliament heire apparent were neerer than himself to the croun they being heires to his fathers two elder brethren but as right and lawful heire to Henrie the third as the verie wordes of the claime HOLING an 22. RICH. 2. Anno 1 HEN. 4. that he made before a great assemblie of the nobilitie people do plainlie testifie The cause heereof was a report made by some of his fauourers to wit that Edmond sonne to Henrie the third of whome he was descended by his mother Blanche was elder brother to Edward the first but defrauded of his right by the said Edward by reason of the deformitie of his crooked back But this was nothing else but a fable deuised to conueigh to him a