Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	king_n	send_v	14,315	5	6.2156	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20392	A dialogue or speaking together of two personages of the which, the one is the well willing comminalitie, and the other the noble and moste puyssant prince, my Lorde the Duke of Aniou Our most redoubted lord. [et]c.		1582 (1582)	STC 6804; ESTC S108254	6,084	16

¶ A Dialogue or speaking together of two Personages of the which the one is the Well willing Comminaltie and the other the Noble and moste puyssant Prince my Lorde the Duke of Aniou OVR MOST REDOVBTED LORD c. Jmprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote dwelling in newgate market and are to be sold at his shop ouer against S. Sepulchers Church 1582. The well willing Comminaltie MOst gracious lord considering that the gouernment of countries hath bene alwayes esteemed not onely amongst the Philosophers but also amongst all nations to be a matter of great waight and importance specially when as a Prince and Gouernour doth faythfully attende on the same Therefore now that we haue conceiued suche hope of your highnes we haue bene moued firstly in all reuerence to salute your highnes and thereafter as true subiectes to present and shewe all obedience My Lord the Duke My louing friendes I thanke you hartely for the loue and kindnes which you doe shewe vnto me And also do promise neuer to frustrate you nor make any default of the duetifull good confidence which ye do beare to my person The well willing Comminaltie We looke for nothing else of your highnes but for the office of a good Prince Which is to protect and defend his subiectes from all wrong outrage and violence And to loue them as the father loueth his children and the shepeheard his sheepe which doth venter his lyfe for to defend them My Lord the Duke My friendes you speake very well and I will also feruently endeuour my selfe to the same for I hope euen as you shall find me alwayes a benigne and faythfull Gouernour that I lykewise shall haue you obedient subiects for like as the father is bound to loue his children and the shepheard his sheepe euen so the shepe likewise are bound to follow their shepeheard and shew him obedience The well willing Comminaltie Your highnes shall be hereof ynough assured hauing read ouer our auncient Consequences and Chronicles Wherein euery where is to be founde the greate affection which we naturally do beare to oure lawfull Princes and Lordes But in case your highnes did vouchsafe to heare vs it woulde not seeme vnto vs to be inconuenient because your highnes shoulde haue knowledge of all thinges which is moost needfull for well to administer the gouernement of countries that we nowe speaking togeather might briefly discourse or run ouer the estate of these our lowe countries and the summe of things which theirin be passed since the beginning of the troubles vntill now My Lord the Duke My louing friendes I am very well pleased to heare the same and that more is I thinke it wholy necessary to haue knowledge thereof Bycause we might thereby in all thinges deale the more circūspectly to the welfare of the countrie and the saluation of vs all And therefore I requeste you in no wise to hide from me the knowledge of such thinges The well willing Comminaltie Seeing that your highnes doth requeste this of vs we will gladly do the same thanking the almighty god that it hath pleased him to send vs your highnes hence forward to protect and make vs free from the tyranny intended to be brought vppon vs by our enemyes Your highnes must firstly vnderstand that the king of spayne after the decese of the Emperour Charles the first of worthy memory Of whom he hath receaued all these Lowe countries forgetting the seruices which aswel his Lord and father as also he himself had receaued of these countries and the inhabitants of the same wherby specially the king of Spayne hath obtained so famous victories againste his enemyes that thereby his name and power became famous feared through all the world And forgetting also the admonition which the Emperours maiestie aforesayd had gyuen him at other times to the contrary he hath bent his eare and gyuen credit to those of the counsell of Spaine being neare him which had conceyued in their hartes and enuy against these countries and there freedomes For that they might not haue any charge to gouerne in chefe countries nor to beare the principall estates or offices as they did in the realmes of Naples Sicilia at Millan in India and at other places being vnder the kinges dominion whereof the moste part of them knewe the riches and power Which Counsell of Spayne or some of the principall thereof haue declared to this king at diuers times That it was better for his Maiesties reputation a newe to Conquere these countreys for to commaund thereouer fr●ely and absolutely which is to playe the Tyrante according to his pleasure then to be driuen to gouerne vnder such conditions restrictions as he hath ben fame to swere in the acceptinge of the dominion of these countreys According to the which the king hath euer since sought by all meanes to bring the aforesaid countries from their ancient freedomes and vnder a Tyrrannicall gouernment of the spani●rds intēding firstly vnder the cloke of religion to putte in newe bishops in the cheefeste and moste principall Citties giuing and endewing them with adiunction and incorporation of the moste Richeste Abbyes and adioyning vnto them nine Canonicos or Regulars which should be of his Counsel Whereof the three should haue speciall charg ouer the Inquisition By which incorporation the saide Bishops which might haue beene aswell straungers as Natiue of the Countreys haue had the first places voices in the assemblies of the estates of these countreys And haue bene his creatures ready at his commaundement and deuotion and shoulde haue brought in by the saide adioyned Canonicos or Regulars the spanishe Inquisition Which hath alwayes bene as it is manifeste vnto al men so horrible and odious in these Countreys as the verye bondage it selfe In suche wise that the saide Imperiall Maiestie hauing at other times proponded the same to the countreis he did let it rest again by reason of the remonstrations which were done against it vnto his Maiestie therin shewing the affection which he did beare to his subiects But howbeit diuers remonstrations which be done vnto the King by word of mouth as well by perticuler Prouinces and Cities as also by some of the principall Lordes of the Countrye viz. The Lord of Montingni and the Earle of Egmont being sent to Spayn to that purpose at sundry times by the consent of the Duches of Parma then Gouernant ouer the same countreyes by the aduise of the Counsell of Estates and Generalitie And also that the sayd king of Spayne had giuen vnto them by word of mouth good hope to prouide therein according to their request he notwithstanding to the contrarye thereof shortly thereafter sharpely by Letters vpon his indignation cōmaunded to receiue the Bishops and to place thē in possession of their Bishoprickes and incorporated Abbies To giue the Inquisition her course where it thertofore had bene and to follow the ordinance of the Counsel of Trent Which was in many poyntes contrary to the Priuiledges