Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	house_n	lord_n	speaker_n	3,396	5	10.9885	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80424	Vox & votum populi Anglicani Shewing how deeply the nation resents the thought of capitulating, now, with his Majestie, and holding him, (as we say) at armes-end, if they could. In a letter to the Right Honorable the Earle of Manchester, Speaker of the House of Lords, pro tempore. By T.C. Esquire.	Cooper, Thomas, Esquire.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6060; ESTC R231637	7,433	16

VOX VOTuM Populi Anglicani SHEWING How deeply the Nation resents the thought of Capitulating now with his MAJESTIE and holding him as we say at Armes-end if they could In a Letter to the Right Honorable the Earle of Manchester Speaker of the House of Lords pro tempore By T. C. Esquire London Printed for Henry Seile over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet 1660. Vox Votum Populi Anglicani SHEWING How deeply the Nation resents the thought of Capitulating with his MAJESTIE c. MY LORD THough I never yet had the honour of Personal Acquaintance with your Lordship yet partly from the Eminency of your Present Station partly from the Character I have received of you as a happy Instrument in our blessed Revolution and no way as I hear engaged in Faction with some who would now put a Reed in stead of a Scepter into His Majesties hand I take this Liberty of addressing my self to your Lordship as to a Person whose Integrity may endure to hear the truth and to whose Candour I suppose plain-dealing will not be offensive It were heartily to be wished That the People of England Especially those whom better Education should oblige to a discretion somewhat above the Vulgar would for the present content themselves with those pregnant hopes of a full and honourable Establishment which God hath wonderfully vouchsafed us That they would consider How little their Inquietude can advance How much it may prejudice or retard our Settlement That they would rest secure in the wisdom of their superiors without judging or forejudging of present or future Affairs But alas My Lord Mysteries of State have of late times been so prostituted we have got such a habit of taking at random under our late Usurpers who rather like true Tyrants than good States-men enslaving our stersons left our tongues at Liberty That nothing can bridle our Extravagancies in a time of Critical concernment and impetuous Longings Hence it is That all our meetings are now become Cabals And in every Tavern matters of the greatest Consequence are debated as it were at the marliament or Counsel Table Now as the Variety and confusion of Arguments is almost Infinite so the Examen and strognostick in what manner the Parliament should or will receive his Majesty whether with any strecapitulations and what hath lately been and still is the great gulf of Discourse to which in effect all our Conversation tends Some very few indeed and those so disrelished that they scarce dare own their Principles would clog their Soveraign with such Fetters that even at Whitehall he might perhaps find himself as ill at case as his Blessed Father did at Carisbrook Others and they likewise in Comparison of the People not many would afford him a little more elbowroom possibly accept of Bayl though still under custodie But I assure your Lordship for the Genius of the Nation though in circumstances it may be misgoverned yet in the main it is loyal enough and scornes the very thought of imposing upon their banished Prince Who we are sensible hath already been but too much wronged Nay more We are now at last convinced That all our Miseries sprang from this bitter Root And like a burnt child dreading the Fire are afraid of any the least approach towards the Brink of that despair from which so lately and wonderfully we have been redeemed Nor can we patiently hear of any Change though never so specious in our good Old Government under which we flourished so long and for the vain Reformation whereof we paid so dear But above all finding how his Majestie even beyond our hopes hath in all things freely cast himself upon our Ingenuity secured us in the enjoyment of our Birthrights we hold our selves sacred obliged not to appear lesse tender of his Concernments but meet him at least half way towards a Settlement upon the Basis of reciprocal Justice and kindnesse My Lord I may not presume you Ignorant what the Citizens discourse in their Shops the Country People at their Fairs and Markets what our very Children Nay what the stones in our streets if they could speak would proclaim But as of late all sorts of people especially Gentlemen from an infinite Anxiety of Concernment as living only in hope have divided themselves into daily Conventicles and Clubs each where he thought he might most confide in his company so have I my Lord whose businesse hath long been News upon the same languishing account interessed my self in such meetings beyond my Genius or perhaps discretion to collect the sense of my Country-men Your Lordship will scarce believe what present delight I took what future hopes I conceived from that harmonious Loyalty which I found in persons formerly of Judgements and Interests very dissonant wherein I thought the hand of God might be seen even by the purblind All as it were by Inspiration crying aloud for the King not for his shadow not for a King in title but in effect a Subject No it must be a King surrounded with Majestick Beams confecrated with holy oyl invested with inviolable Authority and Power limited only by the Justice of ancient Laws such a Prince and nothing else will answer our Expectations A Duke of Venice is now the By word Chief Magistrate is grown a Nick name construed to signifie the same with Bargo-Meester fit only for such Princes as were made to truckle or else for Usurpers who Vayl their real Tyranny with pretended Modesty Coordination of Powers in consideed as a mischievous engine raised by Faction to assault Soveraignty which like a Town or Fortress scituate upon Ascent could not be effectually battered till the Besiegers had from the earth raised a Platform of equal height in design therefore it is most pernicious though in it self a silly shift nay a meer Phantosm a Soloecism in Government and a Paradox in Philosophy It is generally understood and received That the King of England ought not only to hold a Scepter but wear a Sword since Factions will not be awed with a Scabbard As generally it is admitted That the Militia can be no where safer than with his Majestie whilst the Purse is with the People Especially such a Militia as the King pretends to By their Quality I am sure not dangerous to their Country And it is notably observed that the Sword being long in the Kings hand scarce ever cut out fingers But in the Parliaments presently it cut our Throats The Negative Voice is supposed to be the inseparable Property of our English Diadem as natural as heat to fire The word King nay the word Man imports no lesse Except we would have our Prince as a Necessary Agent to move with a Vice to strike like a Clock or at best sign Bills as a Justice of Peace doth warrants such Pretences are now out of Doors such Gentleness is esteemed a Virtue fitter for a King of the Frogs than an English Monarch It is alas but too fresh in