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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	son_n	18,410	5	5.3117	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45191	A defence of the charter, and municipal rights of the city of London, and the rights of the other municipal cities and towns of England directed to the citizens of London. / By Thomas Hunt.	Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688.	1683 (1683)	Wing H3750; ESTC R16568	22,067	49

Warrant that we hear of yet granted by the Lord Chief Justice But it is not a Duke of Guise to be assassinated a Turbulent wicked and haughty Courtier But an innocent and gentle Prince as well as brave and renowned for noble Atchievements A Prince that hath no fault but that he is the Kings Son and the best too of all his Sons such a Son as would have made the best of Emperors happy Except it be that the People honor him and love him and every where publiquely and lowdly shew it But this they do for that the best People of England have no other way left to shew their Loyalty to the King and love to their Religion and Government in long intervals of Parliament than by prosecuting his Son for the sake of the King and his own merit with all the demonstrations of the highest esteem But he hath not used his Patron Duke much better for he hath put him under a most dismal and unfortunate Character of a Successor excluded from the Crown by Act of State for his Religion who fought his way to the Crown chang'd his Religion and dyed by the Hand of a Roman Assassinate It is enough to make his great Dukes courage quail to find himself under such an unlucky and disastrous representation and thus personated Besides he hath offered a justification of an Act of Exclusion against a Popish Successor in a Protestant Kingdom by remembring what was done against the King of Navar. The Popish Religion in France did de facto by Act of State exclude a Protestant Prince who is under no obligation from his Religion to destroy his Popish Subjects Though a Popish Prince is to destroy his Protestant Subjects A Popish Prince to a Protestant Kingdom without more must be the most insufferable Tyrant and exceed the Character that any story can furnish for that sort of monster And yet all the while to himself a religious and an applauded Prince discharged from the tortures that ordinarily tear and rend the hearts of the most cruel Princes and make them as uneasy to themselves as they are to their Subjects and sometimes prevail so far as to lay some restraints upon their wicked minds But this his Patron will impute to his want of Judgment for this Poets Hero's are commonly such Monsters as Theseus and Hercules are renowned throughout all Ages for destroying But to excuse him this man hath forsaken his post and entered upon an other province To the Observator it belongs to confound truth and falshood and by his false colors and impostures to put out the Eyes of the People and leave them without understanding But our Poet hath not so much art left him as to frame any thing agreeable or very-similar to amuse the People or wherewith to deceive them His Province is to corrupt the manners of the Nation and lay wast their morals his understanding is clapt and his brains are vitiated and he is to rot the Age. His endeavors are more happily applyed to extinguish the little remains of the virtue of the Age by bold impieties and befooling Religion by impious and inept Rhimes to confound virtue and vice good and evil and leave us without consciences And thus we are prepared for destruction But to give the World a tast of his Atheism and Impiety I shall recite two of his Verses as recited upon the Stage viz. For Conscience and Heavens fear Religious rules They are all State bells to toll in pious fools which I have done the rather that some honest Judge or Justice may direct a process against this bold impious man or some honest Surrogate or Official may find leasure to proceed ex officio against him notwithstanding at present they are so incumbered with the Dissenters Such publick Blasphemies against Religion never went unpunished in any Country or Age but this But I have made too long a digression but that it carries with it some instructions towards the preserving of the honor of your August City viz. That you do not hereafter authorize the Stage to expose and revile your great Officers and Offices by the indignities your selves do them whilst the Papists clap their hands and triumph at your publick disgraces and in the hopes they conceive thereby of the ruine of your Government as if that were as sure and certain to them as it is to us without doubt that they once fired it And further for that it was fit to set forth to the World of what Spirit our Enemies are how they intend to attach us As also how bold they are with His Majesty what false and dishonorable representations they make of him and present to the World upon a publick Theatre which I must confess hath moved me with some passion I have now some mistakes to remove that I observe abuse you and make you think that it is in your power to destroy your Franchises I come to defend your Charter against your reason and understanding though against your will there is nothing can be said if it be peremptory and obstinate But that it can have no effect in Law it will be criminal and punishable The mistakes are these That the Excommunication of Dissenters render them uncapable of suffrage and voice in the election of your Officers That by thrusting them from a right of Suffrage a Common Council may be had that will dispose of the Charter And that the Common Council have authority to destroy it Which are both mistakes And I shall likewise make out to you that the Sherifalties of London and Middlesex are in the City by course of Common Law or by Statute Law and are not of the nature of a voluntary grant from the Crown of a meer right nor can they be considered as a property that is alienable for if they were so they might lawfully be regranted by those in whom the right is So that they cannot be displac'd but by Act of Parliament tho the consent of every Citizen were thereunto had And first that excommunicate Dissenters have a right to choose City Officers notwithstanding their excommunication is evident For that excommunication forfeits no private right If a Plaintiff excommunicate sues his excommunication is pleaded in delay only and not in abatement of the writ But outlawry pleaded abates the writ and barrs the Action If a Mayor sues in his incorporate capacity a plea of excommunication is not allowable to stay proceedings for that its a publick right that he pretends to but excommunication of an Executor will stay the Suit tho he sues in another right no excommunication is to be pleaded in delay of the process in judicial writs as in Quare non admist or in a scire facias upon a judgment because the right is ascertained by the judgment and it is not militant as in an original action And tho it be allowed that a person Excommunicate may be challenged if he be returned upon a Jury which is said in some of our old