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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	henry_n	king_n	thomas_n	15,514	5	7.4520	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56136	A brief apologie for all nonsubscribers, and looking-glasse for all apostate perjured prescribers & subscribers of the new engagement wherein they may clearly behold their presidents, sin, horrour, punishment.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P3906; ESTC R33922	10,119	17

BY ALMIGHTY GOD possessing his Crown BY BLOOD AND DESCENT FROM HIS ROYAL FATHER KING HENRY THE EIGHTH You are Our Subjects because We be your King and rule we will because God hath willed It is as great a fault in Vs not to rule as in a Subject not to obey If it be considered they which move this matter of his Non-age if they durst utter themselves would deny Our Kingdom But Our good Subjects know their Prince and will increase ●ot diminish his Honour enlarge not abate his Power knowledge not defer his Kingdom to certain yeers all is one to speak against our Crown and to deny our Kingdom as to require that our Laws may be broken until one and twenty yeers c. Dare then any of you with the name of a Subject stand against an Act of Parliament a Law of the whole Realm What is Our Power if Laws should be thus neglected Yea WHAT IS YOUR SURETY IF LAWS BE NOT KEPT Herein indeed resteth Our Honour herein standeth our Kingdom herein do all Kings knowledge us a King And shall any of you dare breathe or think against our Honour our Kingdom or Crown c. But neither the Pardon nor Reason prevailing these obstinate Rebels were at last twice or thrice vanquished and utterly routed by a small number of the Kings Forces many thousands of them slain others taken prisoners and executed and the rest scattered so that they could never make head again by the avenging hand and just judgement of God And so their expected new Vtopian Republicke and Parliament of Commons without King and Lords came soon to ruine before it received any establishment Let our New Moulders of our English Republike and promoters of the New Engagement●to set up a Republike and Parliament without King and Lords for the future consider this ill success of this designe heretofore with fear and trembling lest it prove their very case in conclusion King * Edward the sixth lying on his death-bed and perceiving his Sister Queen Mary to be an obstinate Papist like to subvert that Religion and Reformation which he had established did by advice of his Counc●l and learned Lawyers by his last Will and Testament endeavour to disinherit her of the Crown appointing the Lady Iane to succeed him● and to establish her Title thereto caused all his Privie Councel most of the chief Nobility the Maior and City of London and all the Iudges except Judge Hales of Kent who refused the subscription and chief Lawyers of the Realm to subscribe thereto against the express Statute of 35 H. 8. c. 1. to which they and the whole Kingdom had sworn taking the Oath for the succession of the Crown therein prescribed Hereupon after King Edwards decease they all proclaimed Iane Queen and rejected Mary against whom they sent the Duke of Northumberland with an Army who departing from London the Lords of the Councel perceiving the generality of the people to adhere to Queen Mary and that she began to gather a considerable strength● and most of the common people and some of the L●rds standing for her thereupon they presently turned their song proclaimed Mary eldest daughter to King Henry Queen according to the Act of Parliament and desert●d Iane to whose Title they had subscribed whereupon the Duke of Northumberland the Duke of Suffolk Sir Iohn Gates three of the Subscribers together with the Lord Gilford Lord Gray Sir Thomas Wyat and sundry others were suddenly apprehended condemned and executed as Traytors together with the new Queen Iane who all confessed their●eaths and condemnation to be just and that they deserved t● die for these their Treasons wishing all others to beware b● their examples and timely to submit to and obey Queen Mary without murmuring or rebelling against her as good Subjects ought to do This was the Tragick end of those Subscribers and Engagers to disinherite this Queen of her Birthright and set up another against the Law and their Oathes of Allegeance Which our present Subscribers and Engagers may do well to ruminate upon their case being far worse and more treasonable against the King then theirs against Queen Mary having King Edwards last Will with all the Kings Councel most Nobles Judges Lawyers and the Citizens of Londons Subscriptions thereto in King Edwards life-time to countenance them herein all which these recant against his clear Title by the Statute of 1 Iac. cap. 1 2. But these Examples perchance may extend onely to such who have been or hereafter shall appear in Arms against the present King to disinherit him of his Crown and Mo●archy or to the chief Contrivers and Promoters of the New Engagement I shall therefore remember all meer Subscribers of it through base fear cowardice covetousness or other unworthy ends against their former Oathes of Supremacie Allegeance Iudges Iustices Sheriffs Officers Clerks and the like their Protestation Vow and Solemn League and Covenaut of three memorable Examples of bare Subscribers onely against their Iudgements and Con●cience meerly to save their lives when in most certain and ●pparent danger the consider●tion whereof may make t●eir souls and joynts to quake and tremble and put them into Belshazzars trembling agony The first is that of M. * Tho. Bilney a pious and famous Martyr in King Henry the 8's Raign who being condemned for Heresie by some Popish Prelates was induced to ●bjure and subscribe his hand to a renounciation of those Truths ●f God which he formerly professed and for maintenance whereof he was con●emned to be burnt Bu● no sooner was he released but he was so extremely troubled and t●rmented i● conscience for neer two yeers space after that his friends ●ere afraid to let him be alone by himself and fain to be with ●im day and night to comfort him as they could but no comfort would serve As for the comfortable places of Scripture to bring them unto him it was as though a man should run him thorow the heart with a sword● He was in such an an●uish that nothing did him good neither eating nor drinking nor any ●ther communication of Gods Word for he thought that all the whole Scriptures were against him and sounded to his condemnation At last● by Gods grace and good counsel coming to some quietness of conscience he fully resolved to give over his life for the confession of that Faith which he had formerly abjured and subscribed against and thereupon preaching and maintaining it publikely was app●ehended burnt and undauntedly sealed it with his blood to make amends for his former cowardly and unworthy subscription having no p●ace of conscience till then The second is that of * Iames Bainham a Lawyer of the middle Temple●who being imprisoned persecuted whipped stocked chained wracked and cruelly tormented by Sir Thomas Moor then Lord Chancellour for his profession of Religion and ready to be condemned and burnt for an Heretick was at last after many denials for fear of death and to preserve his life