Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	king_n	parliament_n	prerogative_n	1,812	5	9.9546	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77539	Two speeches spoken at the councell-table at Oxford. The one, by the Right Honourable John Earle of Bristoll, in favour of the continuation of the present warre. The other, by the Right Honourable Edward Earle of Dorset, for a speedy accomodation betwixt His Majestie, and his high court of Parliament.	Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654.; Dorset, Edward Sackville, Earl of, 1591-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4798; Thomason E83_19; ESTC R212815	3,772	8

His Maj●●ty and be the authors of these tumults in the Common-wealth but this Declaration of theirs except such crimes can be proved against them is of ho validity the Parliament will doe nothing unjustly nor condemne the innocent and certainly innocent men need not feare to appeare before any Judges whatsoever And he who shall for any cause preferre his private good before the publicke utility is but an ill sonne of the Common-wealth For my particular in these wars I have suffered as much as any my Houses have been searcht my Armes taken thence and my sonne and heire committed to prison yet I shall wave these discourtesies because I know there ●as a necessity they should be so and as the darling businesse of the kingdome the honour and prosperity of the King study to reconcile all these differences between His Majesty and His Parliament and so to reconcile them that they shall no way prejudice His Royall Prerogative of which I beleeve the Parliament being a Loyall Defendor knowing the Subjects property dependent on it for where Soveraignes cannot enjoy their Rights their Subjects cannot will never endeavour to be an infringer so that if doubts and jealousies were taken away by a faire treaty between His Majesty and the Parliament no doubt a meanes might be devised to rectifie these differences The honour of the King the estates of us his followers and Counsellors the Priviledges of Parliament and property of the Subject being inviolably preserved in safety And neither the King stoop in this to his Subjects nor the Subjects be deprived of their just Liberty by the King And whereas my Lord of Bristoll affirmes that in Spaine very few Civill dissentions arise because the Subjects are truly Subjects and their Soveraigne truly a Soveraigne that is as I understand it the Subjects are scarcely removed a degree from slaves nor the Soveraigne from a Tyrant Here in England the Subjects have by a long and received Liberty granted to their Auncestors from our Kings made their freedome result into a second nature and neither is it safe for our Kings to strive to introduce the Spanish Government upon this free-borne Nation nor just for the people to suffer that Government to be inforced upon them which I am certaine His Majesties goodnesse never intended And whereas my Lord of Bristoll intimates the strength and bravery of our Army as an inducement to the continuation of these warres which he promises himselfe will produce a faire and happy peace in this I am utterly repugnant to his opinion for grant that we have an Army of gallant and able men which indeed cannot be denyed yet have we infinite disadvantages on our side the Parliament having double our number and surely though our enemies persons of as much bravery nay and sure to be daily supplyed when any of their number failes a benefit which we cannot boast they having the most popular part of the kingdom at their devotion all or most of the Cities considerable Townes and Ports together with the mainest pillar of the kingdomes safety the Sea at their command and the Navy and which is most materiall of all an unexhausted Indies of money to pay their souldiers out of the liberall contributions of Coyne and Plate sent in by people of all conditions who account the Parliaments Cause their Cause and so thinke themselves engaged to part with the uttermost penny of their estates in their defence whom they esteeme the Patriots of their Liberty These strengths of theirs and our defects considered I conclude it necessary for all our safeties and the good of the afflicted Common-wealth humbly to beseech His Majesty to take some present order for a treaty of peace betwixt Himselfe and His High Court of Parliament who I beleeve are so loyall and obedient to His sacred Majesty that they will propound nothing that shall be prejudiciall to His Royall Prerogative or repugnant to their fidelity or duty FINIS