Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	earl_n	james_n	20,772	5	8.4483	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06411	Variety of news for all pallats, as certainties, probabilities, &c.	St. Serfe, Thomas, Sir, fl. 1668.	1661 (1661)	Wing V111A; ESTC R185927	5,081	9

Variety of NEWS for all Pallats As Certainties Probabilities c. TO the first There is nothing of greater truth then the blessings that accompanies His Majesties happy Government have already made His Subjects in Great Britain forget their by-past miseries And what a harmony is twixt His Majesty and Parliament of England you may perceive by this ensuing extract from the English Intelligencer Westminster His Majesty was graciously pleased to send a Letter dated the 22. instant to Sir Edward Turner Speaker of the House of Commons to be communicated to the House wherein His Majesty having acquainted them of the great designe He formerly told them He had to make His Progress this Summer to visit Worcester and other places to pay God thanks for His miraculous deliverances doth withall mind them of some Bills which He had told them were prepared for them for confirmation of what was enacted at their last meeting more particularly the high value His Majesty had of the Act of Indempnity for the dispatch of which His Majesty assured them that could He have used stronger expressions for the speedy dispatch of it He would have done it and that He thought what He said would have made an impression in all who professe a desire to serve H●m and that He expected every day it would be presented for another Assent His Majesty farther acquaints them that He hath heard they have already prepared some good Bills for which He heartily thanks them ready for the Royal Assent yet that He hath not a mind to pass them till the Act of Indempnity be likewise presented upon which His Majesty saith if they take His word most of His quiet and good depends and in which He is sure His honour is concern'd His Majesty therefore again conjures them with all earnestness possible to pass the Act in the same termes He hath already pass'd it to which His Majesty takes Himself obliged and that they will at present lay aside all private business to betake themselves to the Publick that they may be ready to adjourn by the middle of the next moneth Whitehall His Majesty taking speciall notice of the prudent managery of affairs by Don Francisco de Mello Comte de Ponte Ambassador extraordinary from the King of Portugall how by his constant care and faithfull applications he hath not onely satisfied the desires of his own Master the King of Portugall who out of a long and naturall affection to the English alwayes wisht for a nearer alliance with this Crown but withall afforded such vast advantages to the people of England as could not be expected from any one Nation besides that incomparable blessing which these Kingdoms will enjoy in that most excellent Princesse Donna Katharina the Infanta of Portugall that such faithfull and eminent services for the mutuall benefit of his own and these Kingdomes might not be pass'd by without some signal mark of His Majesties favour was graciously pleased Himself to give an invitation to the Ambassador to dine with His Royal Person at Whitehall on Thursday the 27. instant And that this Royall invitation might ar farre as could be answered with a fitting solemnity on that day the Right Honourable the Earle of Bedford together with Sir Charles Cotterell Master of the Ceremonies to his Majesty went with his Majesty's and his Royall Highness the Duke of York's Coaches with several other Coaches belonging to the chiefest of the Nobility to the Ambassadors house and thence conducted him with his whole Retinue to Whitehall where being come after the hearty salutes of the whole Court the Ambassador was placed at the same Table with His Majesty Whilest this high honour was given to the Ambassador those worthy Gentlemen of his Retinue were with all respect provided for being treated at the Tables of James Duke of Ormond Lord Steward and Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majestie 's Houshold London July 2. 1661. Yesterday the House of Commons heard witnesse as to such of the late Kings Tryers who are dead and voted that their Estates should be forefeited to His Majesty The Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay and Mr. Robert Wallop were also brought before the House of Commons upon their knees the first confes●ed his fault with much regrate and pleaded that he was drawn into such an horrid Act for which he was very sorry and acknowledged his sitting in the pretended High Court of Justice Sir Henry Mildmay was sorry for his misguiding but said that he fell out with Cromwell about the prosecution against His late Majesty that some Members of the House being going to Dinner he was drawn to go into Westminster-Hall and was a Spectator but did not vote in the Court though his being present was proved Mr. Wallop craved pardon of the the House was sorry that he should be named in such a vile Commission but was an old frail man and did not remember that he sat in the pretended High Court it was also proved he was also present June 23. 1648. Sir James Harrington appeared not but it was proved that he sat in the High Court of Justice upon the whole The House of Commons resolved that the Estates Reall and Personall of the said four Persons should be forefeited to His Majesty that they should be drawn from the Tower to Tyburne upon Hurdles with Ropes about their necks and thence to severall Prisons to remain during life Since my last we understand from Dunkirk that the Countrey have paid in their contributions to that Garrison notwithstanding the orders that were alledged to be given against it Probabilities It is twenty to one but the 75000. Florens which the Religious Hollanders have advanced for reparation of the walls of Geneva chance to miscarry if it be intrusted to such Elders hands as were the contributions of the Protestants of Lucerna It is probable that the Pope may drink his Albano in security since the League and Covenant which our Levites told us should have brought the Vatican about his ears made so solemn a halt over all England on the 29. of May last and its mother the National Covenant had the honour to be burnt at Musleburgh much about the same time in the bosome of Bessy Fouler that renouned Fishwitch It is probable if Caledonius had writ in Anno 1649. the cuff of his Neck might have passed for Bran and his Buttocks for Bacon for his head would been as toothsome to some as the foreskin of a Philistin was to Saul If it be true that is reported of an Island newly discovered fifty Leagues to the west of Ireland and that the Inhabitants be of so large a bulk as ten yards in length and three of breadth It seems not to be that so much mentioned enchanted Island sometimes seen on the west Isles of Scotland named in the Mapp O Brazil and by our Philosophers in the Hebrides Rockcolle But much more probable that it must be some of the Benigne Planets who wearied with the