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	ormond_n	11,780	5	13.4357	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50580	Memoires of the life of Anthony, late Earl of Shaftsbury with a speech of the English consul at Amsterdam concerning him, and a letter from a burger there about his death.		1683 (1683)	Wing M1671; ESTC R902	11,863	12

Rebels begun after the dear bought Experience of being seduced at the rate of so many Millions of Treasure and whole Seas of Christian blood to grow weary of the pretended Reformation and Reformers of the standing Armies Major Generals Free Quarter and Endless Taxations with which they were oppressed to defend that Freedome and Liberty which they found was in reality a most intolerable slavery and now it was evident that Ship-money and all the Monopolies were but as a little finger of the Kings compared to the Loins or Rump of a Parliament and there seemed to be such an Universal Wish throughout the three Nations for the Restauration of the King our now Gracious Soveraign that wise Men every where now began to see it must be so the best most ardently hoping it and the worst who feared it struck with such a pannick fear and horror that they durst not oppose it and General Monk who with the first perceived the Motion of the Angel in this Troubled Pool was resolved to help the Cripled Kingdoms into the Water that they might be healed And here our Polititian made a most meritorious virtue of Necessity as many others of the Faction did who glory much of their helping to restore his Majesty when in truth they saw if they did not it would be done without their help Sir Anthony finding the wind freshing up thus strongly for the Coast of Loyalty brought all his Tacks aboard and stood in with Monk with all the Sail he could make to bring in the King cunningly foreseeing that this would bring him into Reputation and Play again under Monarchy as he had before been against it but for a parting blow however he was one of those who thought to have broken Monk's neck and thereby have made their own Game by imposing upon him that Arbitrary Order and the greatest affront that was ever done to the City of London by pulling down their Gates Posts and Chains and marching his whole Army into the City These were then no Crimes with Sir A. A. Cooper no Violations of the City Charter though lately the marching of the Royal Guards through it and the Guards themselves have by him and his Party been thought and called a thousand Standing Armies and Illegal Arbitrary Mercenary Popish Guards and motions made not to permit any of them to march through the City of London Well in comes the King and with his August and Sacred Person and Government Law Liberty and the best Reformed Government and Religion in the World Peace and Plenty Crown the Land Joy and Gladness smiles in every Face nay the greatest of his own and his Fathers Enemies the infamous Regicides only excepted drink Brimmers of the Royal Bounty all are pardoned many preferred to places of Honor Trust and Reputation And if you will but draw the Curtain you shall see Sir Anthony sitting as a Judge at the Old Bayley helping to Hang Draw and Quarter his Quondam Masters whose treasonous Commands he had formerly obeyed but had the good luck to keep his hand from Bradshaws Ink. So true it is Ille Crucem sceleris pretium tulit his Diadema For not long after those notorious Villains deservedly got their Necks incircled with a Halter Sir Anthony got his Temples impaled with a Coronet being advanced to the honour of a Baron of England and Chancellor of the Exchequer and indeed running so very hard up the hill of his own Ambition which was to be the Premiere Minister of State very many who then observed it made presages of what hath since fallen out Not long after happened the difference between his Majesty and the States of the United Netherlands and as the Noble and never enough Lamented Earl of Ossory told him upon occasion of his reflecting upon his Grace the Duke of Ormond in the House of Lords to which he was able to make no Reply his little Lordship advised the shutting up of the Checquer breaking the Triple League seizing the Dutch Smyrna Fleet and several other things which since his Lordship and his Faction have so often charged as miscarriages upon his Majesties Government and being now advanced to be Lord Chancellor of England so sollicitous was his Lordship for the Protestant Religion and Interest that he made that famous Speech of Delenda est Carthago animating the great Council of the Nation the Parliament to prosecute the War against the Dutch though Dissenting Protestants with the same animosity as Cato did the Romans to the utter subversion of the Pagan Carthaginians to level the proud and Rebellious City of Amsterdam after the example of that Affrican City which contested with Rome for the Empire of the Universe And here you see his Lordship upon the top of the Hill but it was not long before he fell into the displeasure of the Commons who for some Councels of his tending as they said to the breach of their Priviledges were framing Articles against him of which by his Espials being advertized he immediately makes a short turn and strikes in with those of the Commons House who then called themselves the Country Party against the Court Party as they were invidiously distinguished and having the Purse Seal and Mace taken from him which before hung in his eyes that he could see no such matter those beams were no sooner removed but he pretended to see Popery and Arbitrary Government as plainly coming in upon the Nation as in a clear day a man may see Callis Sands from Dover Cliff The whole Nation being in a violent agitation upon the Dissolution of the Long Parliament and the breaking out of a Popish Plot his Lordship who was admirable at the sport of fishing in troubled Waters was now got into his own Element and resolved at once to be revenged of all his Enemies and who but he to be the head of the United Faction of Dissenters throughout the Nation by way of eminence he had the Title of the Protestant Peer as if all others who did not come under his protection had been Papists All the Applications of the Party all Informations all Counsels and Cabals were at Thanet-House there the Protestant Joyner Colledg and fourteen of the Jury who brought in the Bill against him Ignoramus who were of his Lordships Neighbourhood the Anabaptist Booksellers Smith and Harris Jack Starkey c. the Libellers of the Government Care Ferguson c. found warm Entertainment there was the constant Rendezvous of the Basket-hilted old Olivarian Officers who had lost their Crown and Church-Lands there all those mischiefs were contrived which have given the Government and Nation so much trouble thither the Green Ribbon Club and their Foreman Sir R. P. used to repair constantly to take their Measures for what was to be done in the Commons House there the famous Bill of Exclusion was hatched which was to invade the Prerogative of God Almighty as well as the Kings from thence came the Seditious Addresses and Petitions of the Furious Dissenters