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	marquis_n	16,891	5	10.6193	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03865	His Majesties most gratious declaration to all his loving subjects commanding their assistance against the Prince of Orange, and his adherents.	James II, King of England, 1633-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing J216A; ESTC R178847	7,071	4

and will no doubt examin a little better than hitherto he has done what assurance any private Man can have of keeping his Estate if the King himself shall hold His Crown by no better Title But since some Men that could not say one word in defence of the Justice of these proceedings would yet take great pains to shew the necessity of them and to set forth what extraordinary good effects were to be expected from so very bad a Cause We do not doubt but the Nation has by this time cast up the account and when they shall have well consider'd what wonders might have been perform'd with less expence of English Blood than that which has been unnecessarily trifled away in this Quarrel that such a number of Ships of War have been lost and destroy'd in the Three Years last past as might alone have been sufficient to have made a considerable Fleet That more Mony has been drain'd out of the Purses of Our Subjects in the compass of that time than during the whole Reigns of many of Our Predecessors put together and that not as formerly spent again and Circulating amongst them but Transported in Specie into Forreign Parts and for ever lost to the Nation When these and many other particulars of this Nature are cast up it must certainly appear at the foot of the Account how much worse the Remedy is than the fancied Disease and that at least hitherto the Kingdom is no great gainer 〈◊〉 the change The next consideration is what may ●…bly be exp●… 〈…〉 time to come And as to that no better Judgment can be made of an● 〈◊〉 events than 〈…〉 that is past And doubtless from the observation of the Temp●… 〈◊〉 Complection 〈…〉 ●s and the Maxims of the present Usurper from the steps he has already taken when it was most necessary for him to give no distast to the People as well as from the Nature of all Usurpation which can never be supported but by the same ways of fraud and violence by which it was first set up there is all the reason in the World to believe that the beginning of this Tyranny like the Five first Years of Nero is like to prove much the mildest part of it and all they have yet suffer'd is but the beginning of the miseries which those very Men who were the great Promoters of the Revolution may yet live to see and feel as the effect of that Illegal and Tyrannical Goverment which they themselves first impos'd upon the Kingdoms And yet the consideration must not rest here neither For all wise Men ought and all good Men will tkae care of their Posterity and therefore it is to be remembred that if it should please Almighty God as one of his severest Judgments upon these Kingdoms for the many Rebellions 〈◊〉 Perjuries they have been guilty of so far to permit the continuance of the present Usurpation 〈◊〉 We should not be Restor'd during Our own time yet an indisputable Title to the Crown will survive in the ●…n of Our dearest Son the Prince of Wales Our present Heir Apparent and His Issue and for default of that in the Issue of such other Sons as We have great reason to hope the Queen being now with Child We may yet leave behind Us and what the consequence of that is like to be may easily be understood by all that are not Strangers to the long and bloody contentions between the Houses of York and Lancaster and whoever shall Read the Histories of those times and there shall have presented to him as in one view a Scene of all the miseries of an intestine War the perpetual harrassing of the Poor Commons by Plunder and Free-Quarter the ●●●n of so many Noble Families by frequent Executions and Attainders the weakning of the whole Kingdom in general at home and the losing those advantages they might in the mean time have procur'd for themselves abroad cannot but conclude that these are the natural effects of those struglings and convulsions that must necessarily happen in every State where there is a dispute entail'd between an injur'd Right and an unjust Possession There is another consideration that ought to be of weight with all Christians and that is the calamitous condition of Europe now almost universally engag'd in a War amongst themselves at a time when there was the greatest hopes of success against the common Enemie and the fairest prospect of enlarging the bounds of the Christian Empire that ever was in any Age since the declining of the Roman And so far from any hopes of a General Peace before Our Restoration that no rational Project of a Treatie can be form'd in order to it But that once done the thing will be easie and We shall be ready to offer Our Mediation and interpose all the good Offices We can with His Most Christian Majesty for the obtaining of it Since therefore We come with so good purposes and so good a Cause the Justice of which is founded upon the Laws both of God and Man since the Peace of Europe as well as of Our own Kingdoms the prosperity of the present and future Ages is concern'd in the success of it We hope We shall meet with little opposition but that all Our Loving Subjects according to the Duty and the Oath of their Allegiance and as We hereby Command and Require them to do will joyn with Us and assist Us to the utmost of their Power And We do hereby strictly forewarn and prohibit any of Our Subjects whatsoever either by Collecting or Paying any of the illegal Taxes lately impos'd upon the Nation or any part of Our Revenue or by any other wayes to abet or support the present Usurpation And that We may do all that can be thought of to win over all Our Subjects to Our Service that so if it be possible We may have none but the Usurper and his Forreign Troops to deal with and that none may be forc'd to continue in their Rebellion by despair of Our Mercy for what they have alreadie done We do hereby Declare and Promise in the Word of a King that all Persons whatsoever how guilty soever they may have been except the Persons following Viz. The Duke of Ormond Marquess of Winchester Earl of Sunderland Earl of Bath Earl of Danby Earl of Nottingham Lord Newport Bishop of London Bishop of St. Asaph Lord Delamere Lord Wiltshire Lord Colchester Lord Cornbury Lord Dunblane John Lord Churchill Sir Robert Howard Sir John Worden Sir Samuel Grimston Sir Stephen Fox Sir George Treby Sir Basil Dixwell Sir James Oxenden Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury Dr. Gilbert Burnet Francis Russel Richard Levison John Trenchard Esquires Charles Duncomb Citizen of London _____ Edwards _____ Napleton _____ Hunt Fisherman and all others who offer'd Personal Indignities to Us at Feversham except also all Persons who as Judges or Jury-men or otherwise have had a hand in the Barbarous Murther of Mr. John Ashton and of Mr. Cross