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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	king_n	richard_n	10,231	5	8.7282	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60879	A brief history of the succession collected out of the records, and the most authentick historians, written for the satisfaction of the Earl of H.	Somers, John Somers, Baron, 1651-1716.	1681 (1681)	Wing S4638; ESTC R11938	27,921	19

Edward the Fifth who held it not long enough to have it put on him with the usual Solemnity for though he was Proclaimed he was never Crowned King For his Uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester having secured him and his Brother in the Tower did cunningly insinuate the Bastardy of his Nephew and that Edward the Fourth had another Wife living at the time of his Marriage to their Mother and also at the time of their Birth The Report found Credit universally in so much that the Duke of Buckingham coming to him at Baynards-Castle with most of the great Lords and wise men of the Kingdom and the Mayor and Aldermen of London the Duke did in their Names acquaint him that they had unanimously thought fit to elect him King as being Heir to the Royal Blood of Richard Duke of York upon whom the Crown was entail'd by the High Authority of Parliament 'T is very remarkable that in the midst of their highest Flatteries and Courtship to him they tell him only of this great and sure Title by Act of Parliament although if he had been indeed what was pretended the Heir of the House of York his Right by Descent from Edward the Third was unquestionable Richard after some feigned Excuses did at last accept of their Offer and Election and the Parliament being soon after Assembled Cott. Rec. fol. 709. they presented a Bill to this effect Please it your Grace to understand the Consideration Election and Petition under-written of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons c. And thereby they Declare the Children of Edward the Fourth illegitimate Bucks Rich. 3. lib. 1. fol. 22. and that his Brother George Duke of Clarence was attainted of High-Treason by Parliament in the 17th year of Edward the Fourth's Reign by reason whereof all the Issue of the said George were and are disabled and barr'd of all Right and Claim that in any case they might have or challenge by Inheritance to the Crown and Dignity Royal of this Realm by the ancient Laws and Customs of the same After which considering that none of the uncorrupted lineal Blood of Richard Duke of York could be found but in his Person say they We have chosen and do choose you our King and Sovereign Lord. Then the Bill proceeds in reciting that all the Learned in the Laws do approve his Title and declaring him King as well by Right of Consanguinity and Inheritance as by lawful Election and entails the Crown on him and the Heirs of his Body and declares his Son Heir Apparent To which the King gave his Royal Assent in these words 〈◊〉 idem Dominus Rex de Assensu dictorum trium Statuum Regni Authoritate praedicta omnia singula praemissa in Billa praedicta contenta concedit ea pro vero indubio pronunciat decernit declarat But the barbarous Murder of his Nephews did soon beget such an universal Detestation of Richard in the minds of the People that they resolved he should no longer Reign over them and so taking hold of a Pretence which Henry Duke of Richmond set up they joyn'd with him against Richard Though Henry's Title was indeed no more than a meer Pretence for not only the Right of the House of York as far as Blood could give Right was before that of the House of Lancaster but also he had no manner of Interest in that Title which the Lancastrian Line had since his Claim was under a Bastard begotten in Adultery and besides his Mother Margaret Countess of Richmond as Heir to whom he pretended he claim'd was then living Therefore Comines the most judicious Writer of that Age and who knew well what was the sence of Europe concerning his Title says plainly though he wrote in the time of Henry the Seventh Qu'il 〈◊〉 Croix ne Pile ne nul Droit comme Jeo Croy 〈…〉 Nevertheless Henry having slain Richard in Bosworth-field the Crown was there put on his Head by the Lord Stanley with the general Acclamation of the People But he was wise enough to think his Title to it was not very good till it was made so by an Act of Parliament and therefore in the first year of his Reign he procured one to pass in these words For the Wealth Bucks Rich. 3. lib. 5. fol. 145. Prosperity and Surety of this Realm of England and for avoiding of all Ambiguities and Questions The wisest of our Princes you see had no little Opinion of the Authority of a Parliament in this point Be it Ordained c. That the Inheritance of the Crown of the Realms of England and France with all the Preheminences and Dignities Royal to the same appertaining and the Ligeances to the King belonging beyond the Seas c. shall be rest remain and abide in the most Royal Person of our Sovereign Lord Henry the Seventh and in the Heirs of his Body lawfully coming perpetually with the Grace of God and so to endure and no other Thus did the wisest of our Kings establish himself Lord Bacon H. 7. f. 11 12. and the best of our Historians mentions it as one of the greatest Instances of his Wisdom That he did not press to have this as a Declaration or Recognition of Ancient Right but onely as an Establishment of the possession which he then had nor to have the Remainder limited to any person after the determination of his Estate but was content with the Settlement upon himself and the Issue of his own Body leaving it to the Law to decide what was to follow upon the failure of such Heirs Nor can any thing be more clear than that Henry the Seventh depended entirely on this Parliamentary Title without extending any pretences of his or his Wives who was Heir of the House of York beyond this Establishment in as much as the Oaths of Allegiance and other publick Tests and Securities which were required at that time of the Subjects were not in general Terms to the King his Heirs and Successors but only to the King Burnet's Hist of the Reformation Collect ad lib. 2. fol. 3 4. and the Heirs Male of his Body lawfully begotten An Instance of this without going any further may be seen amongst the Records Printed at the end of the late History of the Reformation where Cardinal Adrian when he was promoted by Henry the Seventh to the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells renounces all Clauses in the Popes Bulls which may be prejudicial Domini meo supremo Haeredibus suis corpore suo legitime procreatis Angliae Regibus and he does afterwards swear Allegiance to him in the very same Words without taking any notice of Remoter Heirs Henry the Eighth the Heir to this Entail Succeeded his Father and though he attempted as much for Arbitrary Power and used Parliaments with as little respect as any of his Predecessors Yet even he never doubted of their Power in settling the Succession but valued it much and resorted