Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	henry_n	king_n	william_n	15,710	5	7.2732	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29484	A brief survey (historical and political) of the life and reign of Henry the III, King of England dedicated to His Most Sacred Majesty.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.	1680 (1680)	Wing B4650; ESTC R18954	16,080	30

Favour or Partner in Rule opposeth them all But he found at length in his Ebb of kindness the fortune of others and that the King could with as much ease transfer his Phansie as he had settled his Affections And in truth extraordinary must needs be the Artifice and Address of that man that is able to keep himself aflote in the stream of a Monarchs good Opinion in regard that the change of his Will which for the most part is strongly influenc'd by Phansie and soon cloyed is hardly to be arrested To effect this the Favorite must solely attend the Honour and Service of his Master and abandoning all other Considerations insinuate himself into his inward Inclinations winding into a necessity of Employment by discharging the Offices of most Secrecy in reference either to publick Service or the Princes peculiar Pleasures He must also be careful to suppress Competitors by the hands of others conceal in Publick his own Greatness by counterfeit Affectations of Humility and in his persute of Authority he is to cast a shew as if his Promotions were the work of others or of Conveniency rather than of any great Ambition of his own But now upon this Advantage the Reines of Rule were possess'd by the ambitious Lords and entrusted as Henry Knighton says in the hands of the Kings Half-Brethren Adam Guido Godfrey and William the King contenting himself being left to act his own part as before with the Shadow only and License of a great Fortune And to say the truth he was ever Wyer-drawn when he was so happy as to have about him such worthy Servants as would urge and suggest things that were for his Honour But these Masters on the contrary being puff'd up with the conceit of having no Superiour made it their business by gentle Words and Flatteries to seduce the unsteady mind of the King from the Path of Reason thereby to gain to themselves the privilege of doing what they list So that they fell immediately to filling the Courts of Justice and Places of Trust with their own Country-men exacting of whom how and what they would wasting the Publick Treasure and Crown Lands to the enriching of themselves and dependents setting Prices upon all Offences and squaring the Law according to the Rul● of their own Breasts And upon any Complaint of the Subject the usual Reply of their Servants was How'le ye help your self for the Kings Pleasure 's in my Masters Pocket Nay to so insupportable a degree of Licentiousness did these Strangers proceed that they seem'd rather to have entr'd the Land by Conquest ●han upon Invitation they enforc'd upon the great men not Obedience only but Servitude and reduced the meaner sort to so wretched a degree of Poverty that they might justly say they had nothing Yet lest the Groanes of his People and the wickedness of his Ministers should come to the King's Ear by the means of good and able Men they deny all such the least Access Suspicion being the best preserver of her own Deserts still keeps a strict eye upon those that have a due sense of Honour and Virtue as fearing them most Thus by the Inhability of the Prince the Government becomes a Prey to these Lawless Minions which occasions infinite Corruptions and Disorders in all the Members of the State all presuming upon his weakness do endeavour to grasp at an Arbitrary Authority that they may make Profit of it and easily permit the encreasing of Ill as the ready way to make their own Fortunes These Confusions were usher'd in by a Famine and that so violent an one that the king is forc'd to direct Writs to the several Counties to bury their Dead they were so Numerous The Dearth continues and then fell the Sword to raging so terribly that no man durst walk abroad without Arms all the Villages being left as a Prey to the tumultuous Rabble who raving up and down by the Connivance of such as ought to have suppress'd them it plainly appear'd that the Factious Lords whom the King suspected had fomented and given Life to the Commotion Seditious Peers ever bringing Fewel to such Popular Fires Neither was the Church it self without a busie Part in this Tragical Scene For the Bishops of Worcester and Lincoln being well-wishers to Montford and his Faction were far engaged In such Designs Church-men are never wanting and the distast of the establish'd Government as well Ecclesiastical as Civil will ever be a Knot of Strength for such unquiet Spirits who are as greedy after Innovations in the Church as in the State and ever crying up some new Model of Policy or other such as is most relishing to the giddy Multitude who at this time were mightily offended and not without reason neither at the new Courts of the Clergy their Pomp Rapaciousness and the Extortions of the Pope This was a fair pretext for the factious part of the Clergy so far to persue the Orders Ceremonies and Constitutions of the Church with bitter Speeches and Invectives that some of them incur'd the sentence of Excommunication at Rome and of Treason at Home they enjoyning the Earl of Leicester as he tendered his Salvation to maintain the Cause meaning his Rebellion to the very Death and asserting that the Peace of the English Church was never to be establish'd but by the Material Sword But that could never surely be the soundest Doctrine what ever might be pretended which was only to be propagated by War and Licence seeing the first Church contrarywise grew up by Fasting and Prayer True Piety obliges the Subject to desire a Good Sovereign but to bear with a Bad one and take the Burthen of Princes with a bended Knee so in time to deserve Abatement rather than resist Authority Church-men ought not always therefore to be our Oracles as to matters of Loyalty and Allegeance they may safely inform us of our Duty in difficult Poynts of Religion and where an humble ignorance is a secure knowledge we may rely upon them but they are not to be harken'd to in their clamorous Harangues against Authority Now to remedy all these Confusions and supply the Kings necessities a Parliament was call'd at last much to the liking of those Lords who as little meant to Relieve the King as they did to Heal the State their End at that time being only to lay open at Home the Poverty of their Master lessen his Reputation Abroad and in those times of Privilege to breath out their Passions freely Here they began to twit him with the Wrong he had done to the Publick in engrossing the choyce of the Chief Justice Chancellour and Treasurer who ought not they said to have been Elected but by the Common Counsel of the Realm highly applauding the Resolution of the Bishop of Chichester in refusing to surrender the Great Seal but in Parliament where he receiv'd it Then they charge him with having conferr'd all the places of Trust and Profit in his disposal upon Forreigners and