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	parliament_n	speaker_n	3,357	5	10.8139	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96173	A cat may look upon a king	Weldon, Anthony, Sir, d. 1649?	1652 (1652)	Wing W1271; Thomason E1408_2; ESTC R209518	15,841	118

Parliament for mony not for busines But if the Kingdome presented any grievances he would quarrel by his prerogative and dissolve it One Letter of his to the Parliament I cannot read but with amazement which being but briefe take here from his own hand A Copy of His Majesties Letter To the lower-Lower-House of Parliament Mr. Speaker WE have heard by divers reports to our great grief That the far distance of our person at this time from our High Cou●t of Parliament caused by our want of health hath imboldened some fiery and popular Spirits in our House of Commons to debate and argue publiquely in matters far beyond your reach and capacity and so tending to our high dishonour and trenching upon our Prerogative royal You shall therefore acquaint that House with our pleasure That none therein shall from henceforth presume to meddle with any thing concerning our Government or Mysteries of State namely not to speak of our dearest Sonnes match with the Daughter of Spain nor to touch the honour of that King nor any our friends or confederates and also not to medle with any mans particulars which have their due motions in our ordinary Courts of Justice And whereas we heare they have sent a Messenger to Sr. Edwyn Sands to know the reason of his late restraint you shall in our name resolve them that it was not for any misdemeanour of his in Parliament but to put them out of doubt of any question of that nature that may arise among them hereafter you shall resolve them in our name That wee think our selves very free and able to punish any mans misdemeanours in Parliament as well during their sitting as afterwards which we mean not to spare hereafter upon any occasion of any mans insolent behaviour there that shall be ministred unto us And if they have already touched any of these points which we have forbidden in any Petition of theirs which is to be sent to us It is our pleasure that you shall tell them that except they reform it before it come to our hands we will not dain the hearing or answering of it I leave every Reader to comment upon it according to his own patience and passion But that a Scot from so beggerly a condition to be so peaceably and honorably received to so royal a government over so brave a Nation should use such ungratefull presumptuous and proud language to the Parliament of England is to my understanding monstrous horrible and not good But 't was his humor all his reign with impatience over-ruling with jealousies threatning and at pleasure to dissolve all Parliaments thereby to lay that foundation of tyrannical and arbitrary government which he intended to bring upon us His Favourite Somerset being condemn'd and quietly laid aside he was ready provided of another George Villiers by name a handsom young man lately return'd out of France from an allowance of Threescore pounds a year who comes to Court is admitted to a bearers place presently Knighted and made Gentleman of the Bedchamber and the same day a Thousand pounds a yeare out of the Court of Wards given him and in a breath made Master of the Horse then Knight of the Garter then Baron of Whadon Viscount Villiers Earl of Somerset and a Privy-Councellor Marquesse of Buckingham Lord Admiral of England Chief Justice in Eyre of all the Parks and Forrests on the South-side of Trent Master of the Kings-Bench Office Head Steward of Westminster and Constable of Windsor-Castle and lastly Duke and then he could go no higher in title but by his Masters pleasure and courtesie all the affairs of the Kingdome are steered by his compasse as is at large made known in many mens writings published Yet when he knew his Master notwithstanding his slabbering expressions of affection and extravagant Honours and riches to be weary of him he found a Plaister and a Powder that made him amends for all his favours And here the King-craft met with his match How far King Charles might be privy to this busines I determine not but the private familiarity between them continued so long after and protecting him from being questioned for this very particular in Parliament is no small presumption But what the King denied Justice God sent by the hand of John Felton who stabb'd this Duke at Portsmouth with a ten peny knife that hee instantly gave up the ghost with these words Gods wounds I am slain To write all those actions this Duke did by these two Kings favours in prejudice of this oppressed Nation would make a cholerick man mad and a flegmatick stupid but let him go the King is the thing I intend who made use of him the flattering Prelates the poor-spirited Nobility and corrupt Lawyers to frame such a Government as all the wealth in this kingdome should be at the Kings disposing Which course with such instructions he left to his Son and how his Son managed them hath been so clearly published by Supreme Authority fairely written by sowhite a hand that I intend not here to say much of that Prince Only this I can say He was a man so wilfull obstinate and uxorious that he quite forsook his own interest as a King and the honour and interest of this Nation thorough malice and her counsel and did so farre incline to the interest of France against Spaine and no thankes for his labour that by his meanes alone Rochel and Dunkirk were both lost But that and his Fathers instructions lost him with the losse of more blood and treasure to this Nation then all our wars had spent since the William the Norman It hath been to me the greatest wonder of the world how this King could be so blind as not to prevent that storm that came upon him till it was too late Were all his Counsellors false O unhappy King Or would he be ruled by none but himselfe and his wife O more unhappy man Surely in this was the hand of God most visible Mischief was in his heart against this Nation but it came upon himself all his as the world hath seen There was about the time of his death a Book published which was presented to the world as He the Author which was so gross an imposture that I have much marvail'd the fraud being so plain and easily detected that no course hath been taken to find him out and punish'd that made it For that it was not his is as plainly to be discerned as the Sun at noon But that false perfume lasted but a while the scent was only pleasing to them that could not smell So that I may say that in our dayes we have seen two the most remarkable and most eminent passages of humane affaires that this Nation hath afforded since the Creation The Entrance of King James into this Kingdome with as much pomp and glory as the World could afford And the Exit of his Son with as much shame and misery as could befall a King And