Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	grant_v	king_n	manor_n	2,135	5	9.7649	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75448	An Answer to tvvo Danish papers the one called Jus feciale armatae Daniae, the other, A manifest / faithfully translated out of the Latine original, which was published by the King of Swedens command.		1658 (1658)	Wing A3456A; ESTC R42650	44,468	62

even to this very day Their hasty censure runs in a very quick stream gathering together those things which are of obligation to strangers that make Levies in Germany The application whereof as they make it is incongruous seeing his Majesty as a State and Member of the Empire brought his souldiers into his own Provinces and maintained them there without inconvenience to any one till they were drawn from thence and then obtained no more then a harmless peaceable passage not to be denied to any man by the law of nations and permitted even to forrein forces by the Constitutions of the Empire yet so as he both requested it of his neighbours and they as readily granted it All this while nothing was done but what was agreeable to the ordinance of publick peace and the execution thereof as also to the Instrument of peace But if the insolence of souldiers went a little beyond their bounds that was besides his Majesties intentions and contrary to his command It was alwayes thought fit to appoint some to oversee their march and to provide by orders and Commanders a means to withstand and punish their extravagancies It doth not appear nor will be believed that ever the souldiers past by the Kings command through the King of Denmarks Countries or that they were landed upon his coast It was also against the Kings will if notice thereof were not given Neither was there ever any complaint made or mentioned of such things heretofore Yet how innocent our march hath been through the Danish Countreys their own Papers shew alledging nothing of damages when otherwise they use to omit nothing even of the lightest moment But it imports not much that they past so quietly where there was neither danger nor subject of offense But it looks maliciously to complain of an innocent taking of that which is to be denyed to no man We cannot see by what authority the Danes take upon them to scoff and abuse the Imperial Investiture as not taking effect Neither is it to any purpose to answer their curiosity in a thing wherein they are not concerned Much alike is that clause that touches the laying aside that controversie about the City of Bremen ridiculous for the clawing flattery misbeseeming a King and no lesse unhan from for the prevarication That State which he had formerly impugned with the hostility of his pen and his father by Arms which afterwards he would have had convicted furnishing the Queen with evidences against it he now takes patronage of the same that by soothing allurements he may stir it up to rebellion and breach of covenants Nor is it unknown what more hath been acted in his name to weaken the fidelity and constancie of the City But it is to no purpose to plead that cause with a person that hath no interest at all therein His Majesty showed by the composition he made how much he respected the peace of Germany and the safety of the City when at that time he wanted not strength to decide the controversie another way But the King of Denmark declares how glad he would be to have the difference revived their loyalty corrupted and the City in confusion that what he could not do by right and the power of his arms he may bring about by his subtill arts and treacherous practises Concerning the Mannors of Ralswick and Strew in Rugen the case stands thus Those lands were anciently the Bishop of Roschilds to whose Diocese that Island belonged in the time of Popery but lay within the Territory of the Princes of Rugen and so were situate under and subject to their Territorial Soverainty But afterwards in the Reformation when the Ecclesiastical constitution of Germany had suspended the Churches jurisdiction and translated the care of religion with what appertained thereunto into a right of the States of the Empire from that time the goods of the Church as part of the Territory following the rights thereof the most Illustrious Princes of Pomerania thereupon thought the foresaid Mannors fell to their lot But because the King of Denmark assuming to himself the ancient rights of the Bishop or Roschild opposed their title a controversie arose between them which was at last determined at Kiel in Holstein in the year 1570. (40.) N. 40. after this manner That the propriety and profit of the Mannors and right of conferring them upon others should belong to the Kings of Denmark but the Superiority and Dominion should remain to the Dukes so that being as it were situate in their Territory hey should be subject to their jurisdiction and to Provincial charges Nor had they any particular priviledge of immunity either before or after this agreement but excepting what was left to the Kings of Denmark they were in the same condition with the rest of the inhabitants and lands As long as that Island in the time of the Germane war was held by the Crown of Sweden upon occasion of covenants and right those Mannors continued free from military taxes and that was granted in regard of friendship with the King of Denmark But ever since Rugen became a Fee of the Kingdom of Sweden by the Peace of Osnabrug and all matters were ordered no longer by right of War but of Territory it was reasonable that such provincial duties as are laid upon other Mannors should be performed by those in the same manner as by the rest that are subject to Territorial right and power besides that the inhabitants petitioned more then once that the indulgence of past years might be no longer continued to their oppression Now seeing there appeared neither covenant for nor foundation of any priviledge and seeing a request or protestation ought not to be any longer admitted by way of justice contrary to the tenor of the foresaid agreement to the prejudice of Territorial rights the burdening of other inhabitants of the Province how can justice be said to be denied where there was none at all or an imposition be noised for a grievance where there neither was nor appears any exemption Those things which are afterwards intermingled concerning the breach of liberties and rights of the Swedish subjects and the burdens laid upon them are brought to no other end but that their incitements and provocations of that people to disobedience and rebellion might find the readlier success We neither know nor believe that they have appointed the King of Denmark to be their advocate And it is held a trespass of a high nature amongst Soverain Princes for a man of his own head to negotiate the affairs of another Kings subjects For after the bounds of Dominions and Kingdomes are once set and from thenceforward the care of every Prince confined to his own and restrained from another mans subjects Divine and humane Laws the consent of Nations the common interest of Kings reason custom and the tacite agreements of societies besides the Constitutions of the Empire have condemned such kind of busie sollicitations and sought patronages The

the Danes called Grievances When it was suitable to friendship and mutual confidence that every one should keep what was their own they endeavoured to wrest out of the Swedes hands what they had lawfully gotten in war and held confirmed in peace When they could not say they were offended much lesse wronged in any thing but that way was not given to their intemperate lust joyned with the losse and prejudice not onely of Sweden but of the whole Sea and of those that trade therein yet they would have imposed such a satisfaction as was to be required from conquered people When all friendly and faithfull things were offered they laboured to take away Provinces after an unusuall way under pretense of Security These exactions which use not to be made but upon subdued enemies nor ever granted by any but a conquered Nation are a demonstrative argument of no inclination to peace and of a war long designed for those pretenses But the War was managed with no better skill then it was begun The first step whereof was an invasion of the Lands of the Germane Empire and so a violation of that Peace which had been recovered with so much bloud such tedious labours and difficulties after mortall destructions amidst many millions of prayers and sighs for the same Whether the premises do not render him guilty of breaking the Peace and liable to the punishments due thereupon we leave it to be judged by the tenor of the Imperiall Constitutions and of the late pacification After that one of his principall endeavours was to stir up his Majesties subjects otherwise loyall enough to Treason and Rebellion to call in most cruell and barbarous enemies to the oppression of Christians to bewitch his friends with false suggestions to disturb the peace of so much of the Christian Church as is made up of Protestants and to cut off all the hope comfort assistance and relief which they can onely expect from union and concord amongst the Northern Kings and Kingdoms What mischiefs and dangers by that war hath already happened to and do still threaten not onely him and his territories for which he may thank himself as the authour of his own misfortune deserving no pitty for such a voluntary offense but his neighbours and the common security and quiet of almost all the Northern World yea and the safety of those that professe the Protestant Religion every one sees and many smart for it yet without hope of aid and redresse from him Amongst so many unjust and horrible proceedings of the Danish war there can remain no doubt of the justice of his Majesties defense Onely it will hardly appear with what conscience and piety the Name of God as witnesse and judge is so often called upon in the Danish Papers We leave the Danes to try the severity of Divine judgement not to be deceived like men with corrupt Narrations undoubtedly hoping that God the World and the Sword to which this controversie between Kings is committed will be propitious and favourable to the juster side Their reproaches and bitter invectives so prodigally cast upon us we do not return being better instructed by the example of their confessed unhandsomnesse but we passe by and slight them thinking it fitter to answer them with the Sword then with a railing tongue and the pedantry of a pen and inkhorn Just JEHOVAH Judge and Revenger be so present with our righteous Arms in a bountifull dispensation of prosperous successes as Conscience Confidence Justice and Glory clap their hands in favour of our Defense Note The publick Acts and Records before-mentioned and often cited according to the numbers in the Margin being not yet ready for the Presse shall follow with the first opportunity