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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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
A35809	Reasons for His Majesties passing the bill of exclusion in a letter to a friend.	Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1640-1707.	1681 (1681)	Wing D1233; ESTC R253	6,671	10

necessity fall into Confusion if there be not an extraordinary power lodg'd somewhere to provide for its preservation That Power here in England is in a Parliament and has often been made use of but I conceive for the Reasons above mention'd never more justly than upon this occasion And though the Justice of this Bill be very clear I think the next thing yet easier to prove which is That it is His Majesties real Interest to pass it For if this Government be so constituted that the King having the Hearts of his people is one of the most considerable Princes in Europe but without them signifies but little either at home or abroad as I doubt that is the case and if nothing can contribute more to the alienating the peoples Affections from him than his denying this Bill one would think there needed no other Motives to induce His Majesty to pass it But besides I should not think this unworthy of His Majesties Consideration if there are some persons to whom he may have a just prejudice and who if they cannot bring to pass what-ever they propose to themselves will still be endeavouring to make the Breach wider whether the denyal of this Bill may not furnish them with too plausible Arguments with the People to refuse such necessary demands as His Majesty may make for the Safety of the Kingdom or the support of his Alliances and whether on the contrary the passing it may not very much disappoint those Counterfeit Patriots by taking from them the best pretence they have of stirring up the People to Sedition Nay who knows but the refusal of this Bill may exasperate the Nation to that degree that a Title may be set up on pretence of a former Marriage by the help of false Witnesses which though as ridiculous in itself as injurious to His Majesties Reputation may yet put the whole Kingdom into a flame The Expedient of taking away all Regal Power from a Popish Successor and leaving him only the Name of a King can be no satisfactory security to the Nation unless such a Form of Government were setled during the Life of his Predecessor For otherwise the Successor having a right to the Crown which without an Act to exclude him he will have may not only pretend that the Predecessor cannot give away his Prerogative but probably may succeed in opposing it by the difficulty that is always found in the introducing of New Constitutions Now whether this Expedient being put in practice during the Life of the present King be not as good for the people as the Bill I shall not now dispute but as to the King himself I think 't is clear that nothing can be less for his Honour or Interest than to admit of such an Expedient The Objection that this Bill may Disunite Scotland from England seems not very weighty For first we know not but a Free Parliament there may pass a Bill to the same effect but if they do not the Disunion cannot happen unless the Duke outlive the King and in that case will continue but during his Survivance for the next Successor will unite the Kingdoms again This inconvenience therefore if it be at all will be of so short continuance as cannot be of weight to ballance with those present and visible Mischiefs that may fall upon the Nation for want of this Bill Some have fancy'd and I hope 't is but a fancy that the King has made a Solemn promise to his Brother never to pass it I will suppose the worst If His Majesty have made such a promise I conceive with submission it is void in itself For if he have taken an Oath at his Coronation to maintain the Establisht Religion and in order to that it be necessary to pass this Bill I doubt no subsequent promise can absolve him from the performance of that Oath In the next place all promises are understood to be for the advantage of him that makes them or of him they are made to or both But the performing this would not only be ruinous to His Majesty but of no advantage to his Royal Highness for how great soever his Merit and Vertues are acknowledged to be he lyes under a circumstance that makes it impossible for him to come to the Crown though this Bill never pass but by Conquest and that way he may have it notwithstanding all the Acts that can be made to oppose him I shall add no more to the trouble I have given you upon this Subject but that I am for this Bill because I think it just and necessary not because it is contended for by a Party for I hold my self as free to differ with that Party when I think them in the wrong as to agree with them when they have reason of their side This may be an Errour at least may be subject to mis-construction in a time that most things are so but I hope you that have known me long will judge more charitably of SIR Your most Humble Servant FINIS