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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	hold_v	lord_n	rent_n	2,560	5	9.6389	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81510	A discourse concerning the affaires of Ireland.		1650 (1650)	Wing D1583; Thomason E619_7; ESTC R206366	7,163	12

by cutting it into many streams Wise-men once thought that if not the equality and evenness of our justice and Government yet the parity of our condition with the Irish would have brought them to an uniformity in State and greater compliances yet we have found this may be hudled up amongst the many oversights in prosecution of the relative interest of that Nation We all know that for all these forty years of Peace and Plenty their Nobility respected in our Court their Religion not much opprest they were ingrafted into our familyes filled every place but our Churches and had we not bin to deal with acts of cruelty but with nature could our blood have softend this Adamant we had bin secure for by the intermixture of marriages and interlacing privat allegiances we conveyed English bloud into their veins somewhat degenerating into their rudenesses and naturalizing their incivilities yet in the last horrible Rebellion a business of secret causes and secretest contrivance all kindreds tenants wives were design'd not scarcely the greatest courtesie through the extensive body of the whole Nation in all the variety of relation could endear them as to save the lives of any by revealing their complices never had humanity task to recover such minds All the advantage their dissemination had was this that the ruine sooner and more universally overflowed them had the main body bin in the chiefest Towns and Cities they had bin a general terror to the Provinces strength to the Nation and could not possibly have presented to us a spectacle of so much sadness and resentment by exhibiting to us the greatness of what we did possess once by the space that their ruins cover'd It would be good that the undertakers in Plantations be bounded by plots according to exact prescriptions the securer conveniences of the Countrey which must be more severely lookt into because men in such undertakings will prefer the covetousness of their desires before the securing themselves or the Nation It will be necessary to raise a Tribunal of justice In this there are two cases either it may be Marshal according to the Military condition of the Nation which kind of Government as it is necessary it should be put into such hands whose actions are commenced with zeal and severity because it hath something more in it of absoluteness then ordinary forms so is animalis justitia a virid way of domination for an unsetled State and for diffusing greater terrour guarding the majesty and authority of the Laws The other process is by Judges and those relative subordinations as Sheriffs Bayliffs c. as we have in the Counties of England and to which that Nation hath been formerly used and it hath this of endearment in it that as it is of a more moderate and civil Robe and being a long harangue and series of orderly acts and solemn proceedings and containing under it many appellatives that are expresses of subordination and course it will be the most infallible visible and living argument of plenary possession power and protection that our Reason from any Topick can make out The Nobility among them maintayn their Authority over them with cruelty taxations rites of their Countrey barbarousness in their creations and installments into the successions of their predecessors by Genealogies far fetcht and deduced without any light of History through the dark Mazes of Antiquity and other Enchantments which carrying with them the custom and reverence of their Religion do exceedingly bolster up their usurpt pretensions This is a rank of a doubtful usage in the condition of this State where there are not particular persons unlesse by a civill command of Government and generall reverence of the conquering Nation in such a successive heigth of blood and greatness and of these they will bee apt to remember that they were once below them and may be again conquered Nobility living most unwillingly under free States where there is not a Court to entertain them yet for all this the Romans by the Majesty of their Nation gave a Title paramount to the bloud and honour of the greatest Princes of the world by hallowing any person that was intrusted in their service I wish this had been better observed in this State hitherto that course which some Kings of Scotland took towards the Nobility in a case almost paralel may be considered but to destroy their petry Dominion the peeple may be taken under the immediate protection of the State and what Land they hold of their Lords may not be rented according to arbitrary uncertain assessments but certain rents and sums as our Farmes in England But thus by weakning the Nobility the peeple might rise dangerous to a peeple that would not thank us for being disenslaved but think themselves nearer a general Liberty For as God first moving the parts of the Creation infused a quantity of motion in every body and collectively over all the world which in the main body of things is still the same not suffering any imbellishment in its main stock though by particular communication one part now moves in the air another lyes on the ground so there is infused into Kingdoms and the world a main stock of spirit motion activity which although now is in the Nobles and then in the peeple according to the variety of the conjunctions of causes and bandying of contingencies yet in its diffusive issue is still maintain'd invariable entire It may bee wisdom to maintain still a difference of Coynes in both the Kingdomes and that ours may not bee transported thither to the impoverishing the Nation and furnishing the Rebells with money when many occasions bring it into their hands which may further them in their rebellion by procuring things they want for them in other Countries And for further convenience in this business there may bee offices of Exchange according to the distinct proportions in London Chester Bristow Cork Waterford If I knew any vertue they had I would have it encouraged making it if particular to run through the whole object and habit if restrained and provincial to bee general and National or by actuating it if it be but in the power of their nature To conclude Let us not despayre of them but carrying our things with wisdom expect providence which is to acts of wise and politick natures what concourse is to natural powers and tho Hell may seem to plead dereliction with our Maker as to the tenure of that nation yet wee shall presume on God by interpreting his silence into alienation imposing significations upon eternal acts which we do not do in our owne before constitutions Nulla est prescriptio contra Deum because of the infinite right hee hath to any thing that was once his owne if hee does yet take no notice of them no man that speakes worthily of God dares imagine that as hee made them by his word so hee must forfeit them by his silence FINIS