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	great_a	king_n	24,098	5	4.0248	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02403	The causes for vvhich the most high and mighty prince and lo: Lord Gustavus Adolphus of the Swedes, Gothes, and Vandals King great Prince of Finland, Duke of Esthonia and Carelia, and Lord of Ingria, is at length constrained to move with an armie into Germany. Translated out of the Latine copy.		1631 (1631)	STC 12532; ESTC S118985	7,560	16

THE CAVSES FOR VVHICH The most high and mighty Prince and Lo LORD GVSTAVUS ADOLPHUS Of the Swedes Gothes and Vandals King Great Prince of Finland Duke of Esthonia and Carelia and Lord of Ingria Is at length constrained to move with an Armie into Germany Translated out of the Latine Copy LONDON Printed for Nath. Butter and Nicholas Bourne 1631. The Causes for which the most high and mighty Prince and Lord LORD GVSTAVUS ADOLPHUS Of the Swedes Gothes and Vandals King Great Prince of Finland Duke of Esthonia and Carelia and Lord of Ingria Is at length constrained to move with an Armie into Germany T Is an old saying No man has peace longer than he please his enemy How true it is his Majesty of Swedeland these late yeers hath had experience and yet daily has to his great damage For although since his raigne he has not been more carefull of any thing than to conserve love amity with all his neighbours and specially the States of Germany whereby peace and tranquility might flourish every where commerce and other Trades in time of peace be put in use for the benefit of each Nation yet could he not obtaine any thing but that greater treacheries were plotted against him yeare by yeare by those disturbers of the common Peace which had with fire and sword wasted almost all Germany His Majesty indeed was long since advised and that not by a few of the States of Germany that he should looke to himselfe betimes while the fire was yet burning in high Germany and should not expect they would be ere a whit more friendly to him if they came neerer but that he should presently take armes come into Germany and by a joint power help to quench the flame being assured his owne house was in danger if his neighbours were on fire Neither did his Majesty want then either a good occasion the imitation of the inhabitants the instigation of forraigners or a just cause his friends and confederates oppressed who so earnestly required his ayd and succour Yet because he alwaies hoped they would at length be more moderate than so madly to insult on his poore harmlesse neighbourhood measuring their actions by his owne disposition he chose rather to commend his owne welfare awhile to Gods goodnesse and the uprightnesse of his owne conscience than to doe any thing rashly or unadvisedly But when Anno 1626. in those warres between him and the King and Kingdome of Polonia he went into Prusia a province of that Kingdome and beganne more neerely to observe what he might promise himselfe of those Incendiaries of Germany he then found the advice of his friends was true and the neerer his enemies came to the provinces bordering on the Baltique Sea the more and greater every day occasions of quarrell were still pickt against him For first the same yeere against the law of Nations they intercepted and broke open his Majesties packet to the Prince of Transylvania put the Messenger in prison and to get his Majesties ill will publisht his Letters in a forged translation Then when there was good hope of composing those long controversies betweene Sweden and Poland by friendly treaties Commissioners of each Kingdome meeting yeere by yeere yet those turbulent spirits so wrought by their Letters and Messengers againe and againe into Poland that there should be no peace with Swedeland till they had workt their owne ends in the Empire hoping that the Princes of Germany being brought in subjection the Pole would intreat their helpe for the subduing of Swedeland And that they might bee as good as their words and by all meanes possible weaken Swedeland and strengthen the Pole they did not onely hinder his Majesty of bringing men and munition out of Germany and yet gave way to the Pole for the same being his enemy but also when this seem'd too little for elsewhere and out of Germany it selfe in despight of them his Majesty had souldiers enow presently the next yeere 1627. they sent the Duke of Holsteyn with a great Army against him into Prusia and that not under his owne or the Poles but under the Emperours Standard Nor yet were they content with this hostitity but to deprive the Kingdome of Sweden of all commerce with men they not onely unjustly spoild his Majesties poore subjects comming on the German shoare to trade taking away their commodities and confiscating their Shippes but also did the same too by their agents at Lubeck and the other Hans-townes under colour indeed to reserve those commodities for them onely but indeed that they might take them from the subjects of the Kingdome of Swedeland and so by this meanes get a Navy together whereby they might belch out their venome upon the Baltique Sea as the next yeere following they more openly made knowne under those monstrous titles of Generall of the Seas and by possessing themselves as well of the inland places of strength as of the Sea coast and ports of all Mechleburg and Pomerania All which let a man that can thinke should have been put up and to avoid medling in other mens matters might have been past over as long as they kept themselves in the Continent but after that they made choise of the Soundt for harbor of their Pyracy and spread themselves upon the Sea by how much t was a greater prejudice to all States that any way traded in those parts by so much the lesse was it to be endured by the Kings of Swedeland specially since the guard of those Seas have anciently belonged to those Kings Now when his Majesty grew so much the warier aswell by the consideration of these injuries as the former advises of his friends and the next spring againe passed over into Prusia thinking of nothing more than to accommodate these inconveniences in a faire course It happened that there came Ambassadours to his Majesty into Prusia from the Towne of Stralsund who grievously complained that although their poore Towne had committed nothing either against the Emperour or Empire or any State of the Empire for which it was so farre from being ever cited or accused or convicted or condemned that it was declared innocent by the Imperiall decree and assured of the raising of the Army that lay before it notwithstanding such was the villany of the enemies army that in derision of its innocence in despight of the Imperiall constitutions and priviledges in contempt of Arnheimbius truce made with those of Pomerland in neglect of many other treaties of former times by all which they thought they were most safely provided for nor yet considering the unjust exaction and payment of so much money gifts and presents nor the breach of both religious and politick peace notwithstanding all these the said Armie principally wasted the Countrey adjoyning built forts about the Towne surprized the Iland Dehnholm lying over against the harbour without any denouncing of hostility and fortified it to their prejudice blockt up all the passages forward and