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kingdom_n	king_n	power_n	regal_a	2,103	5	11.1413	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29484	A brief survey (historical and political) of the life and reign of Henry the III, King of England dedicated to His Most Sacred Majesty.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1680 (1680)	Wing B4650; ESTC R18954	16,080	30

themselves as the Patrons of the peoples Liberties press'd the King to give way to the entrusting the Manage of the State in the hands of four and twenty twelve of them to be of their own Election and the rest to be chosen by himself who in all things else was left a meer Cypher Nay and even in this Case either through Fear or Negligence he fill'd up his number with Montford Glocester and Spencer which errour over and above the weakening of his own Party won to those his late Opposites an Opinion of having got a great Interest in his Favour This Parliament it should seem never dreamt of a Perpetuation for otherwise they might probably have had it for the asking But yet they got what served their Turn for by this one Act he parted with his Right of Electing either publick Officer or private Servant and brought himself under a necessity of dispoyling his Half-Brethren and their Followers banishing them the Realm by an Instrument under his own hand and of commanding his Writ pro Transportatione Fratrum suorum to be directed to the Earles of Hartford and Surry to prohibit their carrying on Board with them either Mony Arms or Ornaments other than in the manner prescribed After their departure he ordered the men of Bristol not to suffer any Strangers or Kinsmen of his to land in their Port but so to demean themselves in this particular as they would answer it to his Lords and him Thus we may see how easily mens Estates do change in an Instant and how difficult a thing it is to enjoy quietly what was gotten unjustly And now Richard Earl of Cornwal and King of the Romans King Henrie's own Brother being at this time beyond the Seas is by Letter tamper'd with underhand to make a shew of Ratifying by Oath and voluntary Consent those former Restrictions of Regal Power which though he submitted to yet would not the Lords suffer either the King or him to enter Dover Castle the Key of the Kingdom they having furnish'd it and most of the other Forts of Reputation and Strength in the Nation with Governours of their own Election and Sworn respectively to the State The like assurance did they also exact of all Sheriffs Coroners Bayliffs and other Publick Ministers examining the Behaviour of many by strict Commission upon Oath hereby to curry Favour with the Vulgar who groaned under their late Extortions But their Chief end in all this was no other as it afterwards appear'd than by displacing the faithful Servants of the King upon pretence of their being teinted with Malignancy to open a way for the introducing of their own Dependents Having thus changed the Sole Power into the Rule of many and those by popular Election too they perswaded themselves that by establishing this Form of limited Monarchy they had wholly supprest all thoughts of hankering afresh after the whimsical humours of licentious Soveraignty But it fell out quite otherwise for now every man began to value himself upon his own Abilities and to crack his Skull upon any Design that might probably enlarge the Boundarys of his Authority and Command The Grandees also fell to rending and lopping off from the Revenues and Segniories of the Crown all such Lands and Manours as bordered upon any of their own Seats pressing upon the Kings Subjects and Tenants to a most insupportable degree of Servitude Insomuch that by raising petite Annuities into great Honours and tearing asunder the Royal Prerogative they made themselves of Subjects whilst they kept within the bounds of Duty so many Tyrants upon the loss of their Loyalty involving the people in an extremity of Slavery and Oppression And yet they bore all with Patience for Custom being the only case of Excess of Misery men were contented to lay the foundation of Servitude by the length of Sufferance which found neither End nor Abatement until the quiet part of the Kings Reign Now Montford Glocester and Spencer the Heads of this Conspiracy having by the late Provisions drawn into the hands of the twenty four Tribunes of the People the entire management of all Affairs and finding this Power to be yet too much dispers'd to answer their Expectations compelled the King to call another Parliament where they got the authority of the Twenty four assigned over to themselves and erected a Triumvirate for their own ends only and not for reforming Abuses and settling the Nation as they at first gave out And thus by the Gratification of these Private Interests the Publick was staid for a time But yet all this Juggle and Artifice was only to make the way the smoother for one of them to become perpetual Dictator Ambition is never so high but that it still labours to advance a step further and that Station which lately seemed Inaccessible is now lookt upon but as a Cocks-Stride that which was Great in the Persute seeming Inconsiderable in the Possession These Three Elect nine Counsellours Three of them at least to make a Quorum who were to dispose of and fortifie Castles and transact other Affairs of the Realm But the Chief Justice Chancellour Treasurer and all other Officers greater or less they reserve the Choice of to themselves binding the King so very strictly to this hard Bargain that he submits to pass an Instrument to them under the Great Seal and Oath whereby he actually discharged them from their Allegiance when ever he should attempt to assume to himself the Royal Dignity declaring it to be lawful in such Case for the whole Nation to rise up as one man and having no Obligation to him by force to reduce him into Order And yet not long after this Prodigy of Fortune whom she had made a wretched Example of her Inconstancy finding no part of his Soveraignty left him but the bare Title and even that precarious too craves Aid of Pope Urbane the fourth against his disloyal Subjects who arm'd him with Excommunications against all that should not forthwith return to their Duty and Cancell'd his Oath and Contract in regard that it was made when he could not properly say that he was at Liberty Force having no power to create a just Interest But the Lords having now imp'd their wings with Eagles Feathers and liking no Game but what was rak'd out of the Ashes of Monarchy boldly make head against their Soveraign And that they might be the better able to cope with him call in the French to their Assistance Thus again did the Commonwealth turn her Sword against her own Breast and invite her antient Enemy to the Funeral of her Liberty so that it was a great Providence that she fell not at this time under a Forreign Yoke Now though these men were much more apprehensive of their own Disgrace than of others Miseries yet could they find no better Pretext for private Interest than that of the Publick Wherefore at the entry of this Rebellion they cryed out for Liberty though when it drew near